Release 3.01 Manual Last Updated 11/12/04

Author: MadNad Homepage: http://PlanteQuake.com/Excessive IRC Channel: #ExcessiveUT2k3 |  | Date: 10/09/04 Release: 3.01 (build 3323)
Contents Installation Description FireMode Bind Weapons Fixes & Updates Configuration Dedicated Server Setup Notes Known Issues 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

  Configuration
  Excessive has a lot of variables you can conifgure. Most of which can be configured in the mutator gui configuration. All of the available configuration variables can also be set in the ExcessiveV301Config.ini. To reset to the default ExcessiveV301Config.ini variables, you can delete ExcessiveV301Config.ini and open up the mutator configuration window and clicking the "ok" button will create the ExcessiveV301Config.ini.
  Server Side Configurable Variables

  [ExcessiveV301.Excessive]
  damageScale | The amount of player self damage
  AirControlSetting | The player air control
  GroundSpeedSetting | The player ground speed
  WaterSpeedSetting | The player water speed
  AirSpeedSetting | The player air speed
  JumpZSetting | The amount of Self Damage
  MultiJumpBoostSetting | The jump boost per multijump
  GravityZ | The gravity multiplier
  HealthSetting | The player max health setting
  ShieldSetting | The player max shield setting
  MaxFallSpeedPer | Player speed multiplier at which falling damage occurs
  MaxMultiJumpSetting | Set the number of max multijumps per player
  RegenShieldRate | The rate of shield regeneration
  bKeepAdrenalinePickups | Enable/Disable adrenaline and pickups
  bUseEOHealthSetting | Enable/Disable using Excessives Health setting
  bUseEOShieldSetting | Enable/Disable using Excessives Shield setting
  bKeepUdamagePack | Enable/Disable double damage pickups
  bKeepShieldPickup | Enable/Disable shield pickups
  bKeepTrans | Enable/Disable TransLauncher
  bkeepRedeemer | Enable/Disable redeemer pickups
  bkeepIonCannon | Enable/Disable Painter pickups
  bkeepONSBomber | Enable/Disable ONSPainter pickups
  bKeepSuperHealth | Enable/Disable superhealth pickups
  bUseWeaponDefault | Enable/Disable UT2004 Weapons loadout
  bDisableWeaponPowerup | Enable/Disable weapon upgrades
  bResetDefaults | Set true to reset to default vars
  bDoTransExplosion | Enable/Disable Translocate explosion
  bRegenShield | Enable/Disable regerating armor
  bAdvertiseExcessive | Disables ServerActor MasterServerUplinkEX
  bDisableEOPlayerController | Disables Excessive Playercontroller ( mutator compatability mode )
  bECEPowerup | Optimizes server performance at a ECE bonus pack vehicle cost
  AllowPickupClass[0] | Allow up to 20 specific pickup classes
  ie: AllowPickupClass[0]=RocketLauncherPickup | More Examples
  | TournamentPickup
  | ShieldPickup

  Weapon Setup
  There are settings for most weapons. In this example, you can set many variables for the rocketlauncher.
  RocketLauncher=(bSpawnWith=True, InstantRockets=True, RocketMaxHoldTime=0.000000, RocketJumpMultiplier=1.000000, bRealistic=True, PowerLevel=2)

  bSpawnWith | Enables/Disables starting with this weapon
  | InstantRockets | Set to false to enable semi auto Rocket Launcher

RocketMaxHoldTime Set to 0 for infinite hold time on rocket multi fire RocketJumpMultiplier Set to a value greater than 1 for a rocket jump boost bRealistic Set to use realistic projectiles PowerLevel Sets powerlevel of weapon ( bDisableWeaponPowerup must be set to false ) bAllowInAllGametypes Set to true to allow this weapon in all gametypes
Client Side Configurable Variables

[ExcessiveV301.ExcessivePlayerController]
hitSoundVolume=1.000000 | The hit sound volume
TeamHitSoundVolume=0.500000 | The team hit sound
hitSound= | The currently selected hit sound
CustomHitSound= | The currently selected custom hit sound
TeamHitSound= | The currently selected team hit sound
CustomTeamHitSound= | The currently selected custom team hit sound
bUseCustomHitSounds=False | Enable/Disable custom hit/teamhit sounds ( true = use custom sounds )
bUseClearScope=False | Enable/Disable clear sniper scope

Dedicated Server Setup
Start a server from UT2004 multiplayer menu, or use one of the server.bat files to start your dedicated server. One has been included as an example for deathmatch. Excessive can now only be run as a mutator. .

Notes
Although the weapons and other modifications are configurable in the mutator configuration, it is recommended that you play with the defaults to enjoy the true intent of Mr. Pants Excessive Overkill for UT2004.
Known Issues
Because of the huge number of explosions and projectiles flying around, Excessive can be very bandwidth and video card-intensive. Don't expect glass-smooth gameplay unless you're on a high-end system on a fast connection. It is still more than playable on lower-end systems and connections.

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