Quake Deathmatch Level: The Iron Fortress v1.1 (ironfort.bsp) Author: B.Birke, Email: donut@prima.ruhr.de Editor: Worldcraft --------------------------- Content of this text file: (1) Features (2) About The Level (3) Playing With ReaperBots --------------------------- (1) Features: - Players: Designed for 4 to 16 players, but a one-on-one duel is possible as well. - 8 Deathmatch start points (and one single player start). - Weapons: 2 Super Shotguns, no Nailguns, 4 Super Nailguns, 2 Grenade Launchers, 2 Rocket Launchers, 2 Lightning Guns. - Quad Damage, Ring of Shadows, Pentagram (in the lava pool, right of the Runebridge, when you look towards the crusher); one of each. - 2 Red, 2 Yellow (1 secret) and 2 Green Armors. - 2 Mega Health Packs. - no underwater areas. - no acid slime; lava mainly as a light source and decoration (it's really difficult to fall into it). - Secrets: Two secrets, for which you have to make either rocket jumps or other dangerous steps. The secrets don't give a real great advantage in a deathmatch game, because knowing the secrets shouldn't be the reason for good deathmatch scores. If you use a newer version of Quakeworld, turn off the glow (if possible) from Quad and Pentagram, so that a player who wants the 666 can't see if it's there and has to make a riskful jump into the lava ! -------- (2) About The Level: The Iron Fortress has got the following main areas: - Starting box: Small, cube-like room with three runegates, Mega Health, Thunderbolt and the "Single" starting point (for those who have to noclip to the secrets :). - The Jesus Stairs: Big Hall with stairs showing a Jesus face on the central pillar. - Red Armor House: Hall with a red armor in a small house. - Runebridge: Room around the big blue bridge with runic ornaments. - Crusher: Doesn't it look nice ? ;) Framerates are a little lower than those in id's DM levels. On my P133 at 320x200, it takes an average of 30 to 40 ms per frame when running around and not shooting. This can go up to an extreme of about 50 ms/frame when looking over wide areas from certain places. Nearly all starting points and teleport exits have got the proper ground plates, except the top of the Jesus Stairs' central pillar and the teleport connection between Crusher and Startbox. The level is designed to take full advantage of Quake's true 3D environment, which means that you often have to deal with opponents straight above or below you. Because of this, NOBODY should play this level with a joystick or keyboard-only control. Use mouse or trackball to look up and down quickly! All areas and platforms in this level are connected by elevators and teleporters to make you reach every place in the map within a short time. Some of the edges in the game have invisible ("clip" texture) walls to keep you from getting stuck on them. I did this to elevator rails, some edges on the Red Armor House, and the stairs beside of it. Here are some tips from the Ghost Of The Iron Fortress: "On the burning runestone, take a rocket to fly into the sky!" "See the thing which can be your certain death from above!" -------- (3) Playing With ReaperBots ReaperBots are good to play with in The Iron Fortress. However, they have problems to reach certain places in the game, such as the Crusher (in and out again), the Ring of Shadows (bridge switch) or the pentagram. They don't "like" elevators, teleporters or jumps. This is why their behavior is very different from that of human opponents. ReaperBots can detect and attack enemies above or below them much easier and faster than humans. Because of their perfect aiming and almost-zero reaction time on Skill 2 or 3, a greater number of these bots will not give you any chance. They fire at you with shotguns, and you can't evade their shots anyway. Furthermore, you have the known problems with ReaperBots: New bots will telefrag you when you're at the starting point (even in Quake 1.06), and some weapons are picked up, even if there is nobody going over them.