karlos-quake

Vanilla Quake C modification

This is an old QuakeC mod written around 1998-2000 that was built on, and for, the Amiga version of Quake.

Features

Player modifications

• Male and female player option, affecting model and sounds.
• Skin selection.
• Centre, left and right handedness first person views.
• First and third person views with a configurable camera.
• Options are encoded into the temp1 console variable.
• Named player confugrations, where the above options can be set by player name that define the value of temp1 to set the options for the corresponding player name.

Inventory system

• Powerups are collected and stored for later activation at the player's choosing.
• Immediate use or store can be toggled.
• Weapons can be dropped.

Weapon changes

• Grenades can be thrown by hand while usign a different weapon.
• In-world aim target that can optionally be used as a realtime target paint for rockets.
• Optional torch (turns target point into a lightsource).
• Alternative fire mode for rocket launches a grappling hook that can be lengthened and shortened
• Alternative fire mode for thunderbolt sends a high energy particle beam.

Gameplay changes

Many of the following options can be enabled or disabled for the server. These options are encoded into the registered console variable.

• More challenging enemies:
  • Grunts can attack with a machine gun at longer range.
  • Enforcers can sometimes attack with a particle beam shot.
  • Ogres understand ballistic trajectories and have much better aim as a result.
  • Fiends can make more intelligent jumps.
  • Most enemies that fire projectiles are able to project enemy movement and aim at the location they expect a moving enemy to be, rather than where they were, when the projectile arrives.
  • Many enemies have secondary attack modes, e.g. the grunt can use a machine gun at longer ranges.
• Fire damage:
  • Torches can damage player and enemies, including setting them on fire.
  • Lava balls bounce,
• Pushable objects:
  • Some objects, e.g. explosive boxes can be pushed.
• Explosion shrapnel:
  • Explosions can send out a
• Weapon damage (optional):
  • Called "mike rules" after the AB3D2 Xenium Core author that suggested it, when enabled, weapons become damaged over time which causes them to jam.
  • Weapons in the inventory are not automatically collected, the selected weapon needs to be dropped to exchange it with one.
• Violence options:
  • Blood can be toggled.
  • Gibs can be toggled.
  • Solid (damageable) corpses can be toggled. Solid bodies can be pushed.
• Team AI:
  • Monsters can be assigned to teams based on cooperating classes, e.g. Grunts, Dogs and Enforcers.
  • Team members share information and coordinate attacks.
  • There are up to three different teams even for the same class group.
  • Monsters in the same team will cooperate when attacking the player or another enemy.
  • Each team has a leader. When the team leader is killed, the remaining members can regroup around a new leader or go it alone.

Other changes

There are numerous other changes, e.g. additional sound effects, etc.

Commands

The following console commands are defined and can be bound to keys.

Inventory

Command	Description
inventory	Lists the current inventory
use_inventory	Toggles the use immediately / store for later inventory mode
use_axe	Switch to the axe
use_shotgun	Switch to the shotgun
use_supershot	Switch to the super shotgun
use_nailgun	Switch to the nailgun
use_supernail	Switch to the super nailgun
use_grenade	Switch to the grenade launcher
use_rocket	Switch to the rocket launcher
use_bolt	Switch to the thunderbolt
use_next	Switch to the next available weapon
use_prev	Switch to the previous available weapon
use_grapple	Switch to the grappling hook
release_grap	Detach the grappling hook
extend_grap	Lengthen the grapple chain
shorten_grap	Wind the grapple chain. Consumes cells
use_torch	Toggles on the torch. Consumes cells
use_target	Toggles the in-world target
use_guidance	Turns on missile guidance if the target is enabled. Be careful!
drop	Drop the current weapon
use_suit	Equip a previously collected environment suit
use_quad	Equip a previously collected quad damage
use_ring	Equip a previously collected ring of shadows
use_protect	Equip a previously collected pentagram of protection

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