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Title                 : Antartica: Outpost #31
Filename              : Outpost31 (including this readme file,thing.con,thing.voc,thing.wav,thing.bat and outpost.map)
Author                : Stphane Mganck better known as Stef at AMC
E-mail                : stephmeganck@hotmail.com
Web Page              : none but main reviewer at www.planetduke.com/amc
Misc. Author Info     : FPS lover and especially Duke fan for a long time and finally decided to build something 
Other Levels          : None this is my first one but more than 300 reviews at AMC 

Description           : This is a snowy map slightly base on the Movie The thing. After there was no more news coming from 
			a North Study base where people wanted to know a little bit more about the behaviour of the earth 
			the general governement send some troups and scientist to see if anything was wrong. After two days...
			one message was recieve: Guys don't try to do anything include sending troops, you have to stay aways
			from here i'm the only survivor but i don't know for how long...it seems that the research team has
			bring back to live a alien entity that mutated all living bodies into a kind of pig/human alien... 
			perhaps evenmore...there is nothing to do against them I have perhaps the solution but don't thing 
			it's a good idea to tell you...So stay away from this mess.
			Duke has been asking to find back the scientist and do what is needed to come back and tell us the
			truth.

Additional Credits To : First of all build tips and learning from the bug team page frensh is my mother language thanks 
			also for the caterpillar prefab (Asteroid episode) from Ray Tracer
			Also official Map faq from J Bishop.
			The AMC forum which help me asking some questions
			Dukeweb for some tips (not more available)
			C3PO,Jason Bradhauer,Mike Baulieu for some prefabs use and for their awasome snowmap
			My wife for letting me play duke instead of watcing TV with her
			Quentin Bollens ,my Chief, who 'close his eyes' during Lunch time
			To Claus 'Claudius' Hansen for the 'The Thing' midi theme
			To Mike Shaw for the barmusic voc used in The Final Frontier and the bat launcher 
			To Stephano Lessa for the wind sound he used in JT3 (thanks Mikko)
			Finally Big thanks go to Beta maping tester
			Stephano Lessa, Mikko Sandt, Chris Colleman (never reply)
			and to the Beta gaming/mapping tester
			Aymeric Nocus, Mikko Sandt, Cedric Hageman who did a great job
                        and last but not Olivier Dupont that gave me a copy of Duke3d 			
			
                          
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* Play Information *

Episode and Level #    : E1L1
Single Player          : Yes
DukeMatch 2-8 Player   : No (but if you would like e-mail me)
Cooperative 2-8 Player : No
Difficulty Settings    : Yes (I also recommanded to play this one not too bright)
Plutonium Pak Required : Yes
New Art                : No
New Music              : Yes (movie midi from The Thing) 
New Sound Effects      : Yes (A sound clip of "My Own Worst Enemy" by Lit) and a new wind sound
New .CON Files         : Yes (it's better for using with Jonof's port but there is no new effects)
Demos Replaced         : No

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* Construction *

Base                   : New level from scratch
Level Editor(s) Used   : BUILD 1.4+
Art Editor(s) Used     : None
Construction Time      : about 8 month on and on learning and applying so about 90 hours
			 and addition of 10 hours to correct all the bugs.
Known Bugs/Problems    : none? 

* Where to get this MAP file *

File location          : www.planetduke.com/amc
			 www.planetduke.com/msdn

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*Important Information*

Installation           : Unzip the files to your duke reportory and simply launch thing.bat
			 select new game and first Episode The thing  

Important Notes        : I hope you will enjoy this map as much as I enjoy making it.
			 I don't thing that there is any self mad stuff here but if I don't care
			 Please give credits, if you use something from this zip, to their respective authors

			 Finally all the files are noted thing so they are easy to remove!


If you like or hate this map give me your comment about. I thaught this would be a one shot map but
I may try something else for duke or another build game... 

just in case : stephmeganck@hotmail.com


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