Release 3.02l

Author: MadNad
Homepage: http://PlanteQuake.com/Excessive
IRC Channel: #ExcessiveUT2k3
02/11/06
Release: 3.02 (build 3369)

Contents
Installation
Description
FireMode Bind
Weapons
Fixes & Updates
Thanks / Credits



Installation
Unzip to the UT2004 root directory or run the *.ut4mod


Description
This is an Excessive mutator for UT2004. Excessive is an over-the-top mod that makes all the weapons super-powerful, turns off self-damage, gives all the players regenerating health and ammo, and makes every game into a wild and crazy frag-fest! In the fast and furious bloodfest that is Excessive, it's not about staying alive; it's about taking as many people as possible out with you.


Toggle Firemode

This is an added feature for Excessive. With the translocator selected, you can toggle between a LOCATE and a LAUNCH beacon. The locate is similar to the standard locator. The launch gives the player the velocity of the flying puck. With the Dual Assault Rifles selected, you can toggle between BOUNCY and EXPLODE on impact grenades. With a classic sniper rifle, or in a raptor rear turret, toggle firemode while zoomed toggles night vision. You can bind this key in the standard UT2004 contol settings menu. You can also bind the firemode toggle by editing your user.ini :

    Aliases[x]=(Command="button bSwitchFireMode| ExcessiveFireMode",Alias="ExcessiveFireMode")

x being the next available unassigned alias in your user.ini. For me, it was 30. Make sure you do not have 2 instances of one alias, otherwise the bind will not work. After adding this alias, you will need to bind the alias to a key, for instance, scrolling down from that line in the user.ini, I decided to bind it to my middle mouse button

    MiddleMouse=ExcessiveFireMode



Weapons
TransLauncher
  • Toggle between TransLAUNCHER and TransLOCATOR
  • TransLOCATOR
            - Uses this for precise translocating
            - Translocate to the beacon and start falling
            - Beacon launches further and faster. Teleporting out leaves behind a shock explosion
  • TransLAUNCHER
            - Uses this to catapault yourelf
            - Translocate to the beacon and receive the bacon's velocity
            - Beacon launches further and faster. Teleporting out leaves behind a shock explosion

    Shield Gun
  • Primary:
            - Instant Death, and Jumping increased
  • Secondary:
            - Full bodied shield which reflects/blocks almost all weapons
            - Sprint mode with 10 or more ammo

    Assault Rifle
  • Toggle between bouncy and explode on impact grenades
  • Primary:
            - Accuracy, rate of fire, and damage increased
  • Secondary:
            - Increased rate of fire and damage

    Bio Rifle
  • Primary:
            - Rate of fire, damage, and damage radius increased
            - Spread fires 3 globs/shot which can collect and spawn more globs
  • Secondary:
            - Charges much faster, and will launch a huge regenerating glob

    Mine Layer
  • Primary:
            - Launches spider mines that will grow once landed, and use cloaking to hide from enemy
            - Spider Mines have health and move much faster than before.

    Shock Rifle
  • Primary:
            - Rate of fire, damage, and momentum transfer increased
  • Secondary:
            - Rate of Fire, speed, damage, and damage radius increased
            - ShockBalls can be caused to chain react.

    Link Gun
  • Primary: Was secondary for UT2004
            - Link beam explosions on the beam tip
            - Linking up causes more powerful beam and projectile fire
  • Secondary: Was primary fire UT2004
            - Shoots up to 3 projectiles in spread or twirl formation

    Flak Cannon
  • Primary:
            - Larger projectiles, rate of fire and damage increased but wider spread (results in instant death from point blank)
  • Secondary:
            - Each projectile now spawns 3 shells randomly on impact

    Grenade Launcher
  • Primary:
            - Launches trip mines that can be attached to walls
  • Secondary:
            - Detonates mines

    Minigun
  • Primary:
            - Rate of fire and damage increased
  • Secondary:
            - Fires larger exploding bullets
            - Added momentum push

    Rocket Launcher
  • Primary:
            - Semi auto Rocket Launcher
            - Fire accelerating rockets
            - Rate of fire and damage increased
  • Secondary:
            - Fires 5 accelerating rockets
            - rate of fire increased

    Avril
    Increased max speed and added explosion effects which cause damage to more than vehicles

    Sniper Rifle
  • Primary:
            - Rate of fire increased, and causes 5 arcs.
  • Secondary:
            - Faster zoom.
            - Clear Scope option in ExcessiveV301Config.ini

    Classic Sniper Rifle
  • Primary:
            - Rate of fire increased with explosive rounds.
  • Secondary:
            - Faster zoom.
            - Use togglefiremode to enable night vision

    Redeemer (Pickup)
  • Primary:
            - Redeemer speed & damage increased
            - Spawns 30 rockets on impact that seek players
  • Secondary:
            - Warhead speed & control increased
            - Fire 30 rockets from warhead, remaining spawn on impact

    Painter (Pickup)
  • Primary:
            - Paint time decreased
  • Secondary:
            - Faster zoom.

    Ion Cannon:
  • Three Ion cannons replace one, which triangulate on fire and cause an breif unstable ionic field before the blast

    ONS Bomber:
  • Three bombers make a devistating bombing run on your painted target

    Flame Thrower
  • A custom Excessive Weapon added to Version 2 of Excessive.
  • Primary:
            - Unleashes a stream of flames that can light anyone and just about everything on fire.
  • Secondary:
            - Fires a napalm shell that leaves a fiery trail in its path and spawns 3 flame globs that spread on impact



    Fixes & Updates

    Game
  • Bots use excessive weapons much more effectively
  • Bots taught how to rocket jump ( based on skill level )
  • Double Damage dropped for other players to pick up if the carrier is killed
  • Excessive uses the default weapon loadout. ie no translocator in ONS ( most weapons can be overridden by mutator settings )
  • Added mutator configuration settings with improved configuration menu
            - Select from 1 of 3 powerlevel settings on weapons, or use the upgrade system
            - Allow up to 20 pickup classes to remain in excessive ( ie other mutator picups )
            - Enable/Disable the excessive health and shield initial settings ( ie other mutator controls settings )
            - Disable any weapon
            - Options to use realistic dynamics on various projectiles
            - Disable the replacement of the playercontroller ( for added mutator support at some feature loss )
            - Fixed Raptor rear turret crash
            - Fixed massive camera shake which caused respawning camera issues
            - Fixed Powercore / Powernode health incdicators in netplay
            - Removed bug that allowed players to recharge powercore         - Removed accessed none log spam


    Weapons
  • Translauncher
            - You can only fire once per 1.25 seconds with the Launch Mode
            - FireRate for Locate mode set to vanilla 2k4 setting

  • Shield Gun
            - Bug fixed where shield would not always protect you
            - Sprinting bug fixed

  • Assault Rifle
            - Grenaded Toggle Indicator bug fixed
            - Grenaded Toggle remembers last setting
            - Grenade physics optimized
            - Assault alt fire fires alternating grenades that were more like the second minigun alt fire
            - Primary firemode momentum transfer reduced on vehicles

  • Mine Layer
            - Mines Health reduced
            - Mine Jump height reduced

  • Link Gun
            - Replaced Link Primary beam tip explosion effects
            - Link Primary beam triad travel radius decreased
            - Fixed LinkGun muzzle flashes when linking
            - Added Scorch marks for primary and secondary fire

  • Mine Layer
            - Mines Health reduced
            - Mine Jump height reduced

  • Flak Cannon
            - Increase ROF for primary firemode

  • AVRiL
            - Decrease ROF for primary firemode

  • Flame Thrower
            - Optimized flame effects
            - Added effects on napalm shell

  • SniperRifle ( Lighting Gun )
            - Increased number and lenght of impact arcs


    Vehicles
  • Raptor
            - Rear turret crash fixed
            - Rear turret fires homing missles
            - Rear turret given night vision

  • Scorpion
            - Adjusted Daredevil settings
            - Driver Weapon fires a ring of web projectiles
            - Fixed first person scorpion weapon fire bug
            - Fixed location of web launcher projectile spawning
            - Weblauncher projectile speed increased
            - Passenger weapon fires a mounted tank side turret

  • Manta
            - Manta stomp sound fixed
            - Manta plasma gun increased ROF

  • HellBender
            - Rear gunner decreased required charge time

  • Tank
            - Improved tank shell hit effects
            - Reduced side turret damage amount
            - Increased speed

  • Leviathon
            - Side turrets home onto all vehicles

  • Bomber
            - A formation of 3 bombers drop a s#%T load of bombs

  • ECE Vehicles
            - These vehicles were given a slight boost without making them dependant for excessive


    Art
  • Updated Excessive UT2004 Logo
  • Updated Link projectile scorch marks
  • Updated Link beam effects



    Thanks
    Epic
    MrPants

    Code
    Wormbo
    Bart

    Flame Thrower
    Jonathan “Ghost Enigma” Swenson - Models
    Chadrick “ShroomDuck” Rode - Textures
    Andrew “Dru” Morris - Textures
    Jeffrey “Ezeikeil” Giles - Concept

    Music
    El Revengo - “The Game”

    Beta Team
    AeXStrider
    Atticbat
    BoneZ
    Blueberry
    DFA_Jelo
    FragBitch
    Kyllian
    LoveFest
    MAEST
    MentalAbyss
    Mr. SlackPants
    NaMaNaX
    Plumb_Drumb
    Pressure
    SpazzTic
    Techbota
    |AeX|X.O.X.VII
    |AEX|[KK]Cynterkym

    Retired Beta Members
    |AeX|[KK]Lance
    Bean
    DFA_Demon
    |EMC|Clark Kent
    {GU}Opcode
    {NaMaNaX}
    Swag
    Stryker
    Tranzcoder
    ws6fire
    Yoshiro