DeeperThought
04-30-2008, 01:38 AM
EARTHQUAKE MADNESS is a micro-mini-mod that I cooked up tonight. It's regular Duke 3D, except that there is a constant earthquake which is randomly (but slowly) changing the heights of the sector floors and ceilings. You can cope with this by pressing a key that restores the heights to normal (costs health), and you can enter the sector control mode which allows you to select sector floors and manually change their heights.
All you need to play is this attachment:
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Here are the contents of the readme:
EARTHQUAKE MADNESS MICRO-MINI-MOD
by Dan Gaskill
a.k.a. "DeeperThought"
4-29-08
To install and play:
Place MADNESS.bat and MADNESS.CON in your EDuke32 folder and click on MADNESS.bat to start a game.
Description:
The aliens are destroying the earth (and everywhere else!) with a perpetual earthquake! The very fabric of the universe is becoming unravelled! Or at any rate, things are getting very screwy. The earthquake will cause the heights of floors and ceilings to shift. This may make it impossible to proceed through the level normally and can even get you stuck or squished. Luckily, Duke has been granted some new abilities to cope with this menace...
Power #1 -- Press the REPAIR key (replaces the TURN AROUND key) to restore the floor and ceiling heights throughout the map at any time. This costs 5 health each time you do it.
Power #2 -- If you switch to the Mighty Boot weapon, you enter Sector Control Mode (SCM). This allows you to select a sector and then raise or lower the height of a sector floor. This ability can be used to get out of tight spots, cheat your way to an otherwise inaccesible area, or even squish enemies. When in SCM, the sector floor you are currently viewing will be colored blue. To select that sector, press fire. The selected sector floor will now be red. At this point, pressing JUMP will cause the selected floor to rise, while pressing CROUCH will cause it to lower (you cannot jump or crouch while a floor is selected). Deselect the floor either by pressing fire again or by switching away from the Mighty Boot.
The controls are displayed on screen in game, so you don't have to memorize them. Good luck!
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/9991/eqmadnessly8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/9991/eqmadnessly8.b90389bf41.jpg (http://g.imageshack.us/g.php?h=143&i=eqmadnessly8.jpg)
EDIT: Oh, and for the love of Duke, use the latest snapshot for this! If you don't, you will get errors because it uses the new gamearray commands.
EDIT2: I recommend playing on PIECE OF CAKE, because the game is much more difficult with with floors and ceilings moving and you'll have to use health to periodically restore them.
All you need to play is this attachment:
8931
Here are the contents of the readme:
EARTHQUAKE MADNESS MICRO-MINI-MOD
by Dan Gaskill
a.k.a. "DeeperThought"
4-29-08
To install and play:
Place MADNESS.bat and MADNESS.CON in your EDuke32 folder and click on MADNESS.bat to start a game.
Description:
The aliens are destroying the earth (and everywhere else!) with a perpetual earthquake! The very fabric of the universe is becoming unravelled! Or at any rate, things are getting very screwy. The earthquake will cause the heights of floors and ceilings to shift. This may make it impossible to proceed through the level normally and can even get you stuck or squished. Luckily, Duke has been granted some new abilities to cope with this menace...
Power #1 -- Press the REPAIR key (replaces the TURN AROUND key) to restore the floor and ceiling heights throughout the map at any time. This costs 5 health each time you do it.
Power #2 -- If you switch to the Mighty Boot weapon, you enter Sector Control Mode (SCM). This allows you to select a sector and then raise or lower the height of a sector floor. This ability can be used to get out of tight spots, cheat your way to an otherwise inaccesible area, or even squish enemies. When in SCM, the sector floor you are currently viewing will be colored blue. To select that sector, press fire. The selected sector floor will now be red. At this point, pressing JUMP will cause the selected floor to rise, while pressing CROUCH will cause it to lower (you cannot jump or crouch while a floor is selected). Deselect the floor either by pressing fire again or by switching away from the Mighty Boot.
The controls are displayed on screen in game, so you don't have to memorize them. Good luck!
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/9991/eqmadnessly8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/9991/eqmadnessly8.b90389bf41.jpg (http://g.imageshack.us/g.php?h=143&i=eqmadnessly8.jpg)
EDIT: Oh, and for the love of Duke, use the latest snapshot for this! If you don't, you will get errors because it uses the new gamearray commands.
EDIT2: I recommend playing on PIECE OF CAKE, because the game is much more difficult with with floors and ceilings moving and you'll have to use health to periodically restore them.