RB THINK TANK VENOM - RBTHINKTANK.COM
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About
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The Venom is new monster for UT2004 that combines strategy with detailed visuals and sounds to enhance the over all invasion experience. All important properties of the monster are configurable via a simple mutator (RBThinkTankVenom.MutVenomConfig). The monster has many attacks and goes through three stages of life. Whenever an adult venom is spawned, it has the ability to lay an egg. That egg can then spawn many more baby venom monsters. Kill the egg, and you will have won half the battle. The baby venom can jump on your face and begin munching on your nose. To get them off, tap left three times and right three times in any order. Baby venom eventually grow up and become medium sized venom. These teenagers are pesky creatures with the ability to infect you with a deadly neurotoxin. If you do not kill the monster that infected you, your head will explode and more baby venom will spawn out of it. The adult venom is extremely dangerous. It doesn't have a primary attack; instead it uses multiple attacks at once to destroy all players it can see. If you come to close, it will grab you and begin eating you. If you go too far, it will shoot web at you. If you try to kill it, it will begin shooting you with its laser cannon. Fortunately for you, its cannon can only shoot you if you more than about 4 hellbender lengths away from it. Good luck.



Installation
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Copy all of the files to their designated folders in your UT2004 directory. 

Don't worry about adding the monster to your server packages. If you run the mutator, it will be added automagically. Since many of you will discontinue reading this file from here on out, I would like to warn you:

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THE MUTATOR FOR THIS MONSTER SHOULD ALWAYS BE RUN IN ANY GAME YOU WISH TO SPAWN THE MONSTER. Reason? Smoother game play. If you don't launch the mutator with the game and use a monster manager to spawn the Venom, the monster will actually go ahead and spawn the mutator in the middle of the game. This is not good, but it is necessary to guarantee that the settings you configure are the ones that are actually in game.
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If you need more help than this, please post on our forums at rbthinktank.com.


Configuration
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There are many properties of the monster that can be edited by opening up the venom mutator config inside the UT2004 mutator configuration menu. If you run a server or don't feel like opening up UT to configure your venom, simply open up RBThinkTankVenom.ini and edit the variables directly.

The first set of variables in the .ini handles the wave configurator. By default, the configurator is disabled. To turn it on, set bUseVenomWaveConfig to true.





The following variables are fairly easy to understand.
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MicroSpiderFaceDamagePercent=0.100000 <--- between 0 and 1.0
MicroSpiderMaxHealth=10 <-- Integer 
MidSizeSpiderMaxHealth=1000 <-- Integer
VenomMaxHealth=100000 <-- Integer
HeadDamagePerFifthOfASecond=100.000000 <-- float
NumberOfMicroSpidersToSpawnWhenHeadExplodes=5 <-- Integer
EggMaxNumberOfALLMonstersInLevel=20 <-- Integer
EggLifeSpanInSeconds=300.000000 <-- float
EggHealthRandMin=1000 <-- Integer
EggHealthRandMax=5000 <-- Integer

HeadDamagePerFifthOfASecond is the amount of damage being infected takes away every fifth of a second. Note - it takes about 20 seconds of being infected before you start taking damage. If you kill the spider that infected you, the infection goes away.



bListOnRBTTWebsite=True
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This variable lets our server know if you want your server listed on our website. If you start a dedicated server and have this set to true, your server will be added to the Venom Server List on our website. For more info visit RBThinkTank.com




bCheezyPrecache=True
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This variable sets up a crummy version of caching. I think it is a bunch of bollocks. The mutator also uses static precaching (which actually works). I would leave this set to true, just incase it does do something.



bUseVenomWaveConfig=False
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This variable allows you to enable the venom wave configurator. If you do not have another wave configurator like Satore Monster Pack or Monster Manager, you must use the Venom Wave config to spawn the venom monster. It will not overwrite any of Satore Monster Packs tables so it is perfectly okay to use it in conjunction with satore if you would like. For more control I would suggest using satore monster pack config only (or something similar).


Class names for SatoreMonsterPack
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AddonMonsters=(MonsterName="VenomMicro",MonsterClassName="RBThinkTankVenom.VenomMicro")
AddonMonsters=(MonsterName="VenomMidSize",MonsterClassName="RBThinkTankVenom.VenomMidSize")
AddonMonsters=(MonsterName="Venom",MonsterClassName="RBThinkTankVenom.Venom")



