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|| E X C E S S I V E U N R E A L - R E A D M E ||
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|| by Waffnuffly ||
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|| -= Excessive Unreal Release Candidate 1 =- ||
|| WARNING: EXU is not suitable for anyone. ||
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C O N T E N T S :
[CREDITS] [STORY] [INSTALLATION] [GAMEPLAY/TECHNICAL] << IMPORTANT!
[WTF IS WRONG WITH WAFF/ABOUT] [COMMUNICATION DETAILS] [CONTESTS?]
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E X U C O N T E N T S (INCLUDED FILES) :
MAPS: EXU-NyLeve through EXU-Endgame
MUSIC: Belated.umx Beyond.umx DiabloFade.umx EndingWaff.umx
FoundWaff.umx Gateways.umx Gauntlet.umx Insomniac.umx
Journey.umx Live-NoVoice-.umx Nemesis.umx Newmca13.umx
Point.umx SpaceMarines.umx Spire.umx Unreal4.umx
Watcher.umx arizona3.umx
NOTE: Other music from UT is used, but by having UT installed,
you should have that already.
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[CREDITS]: These people get added in first, because without them,
========= EXU wouldn't be what it is today. If you think you
should be in here but I left you out, PLEASE email me!
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-=* The Indirect Founder of EXU: Mr. Pants. This guy is a genius.
-------------------------------- He came up with Excessive UT, and
if it weren't for his brilliance,
you wouldn't be wasting your time
reading this damn readme file.
THANK YOU MR. PANTS! YOU ROCK.
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-=* EXU Legionnaires: These two guys were my chief Beta Testers.
--------------------- They checked out all of the maps and made
sure that they all worked and managed to
be as insane and weird as necessary.
*** Sir EBM: aka Eightball Maniac, EBM, 8ball, 8-Balled Maniac
Provided comedic relief, gave me ideas for things
in various maps, came up with the idea of Chef
Fucker, which gave me some stuff to do in Photoshop
one night, sent me Gauntlet.umx, and did a whole
lot more.
*** Sir Gundy: aka one_gundam_war, Gundy, Gundato, Potato, etc.
Provided a different kind of comedic relief, in a
"wtf is wrong with that dude" sort of way, but
in a good way all the same. He also gave me plenty
of genious ideas for EXU... blame him and EBM for
any brain disease you may get.
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-=* Generic / Misc. Credits: These are all the people who gave
---------------------------- me feedback and/or contributed to
EXU somehow. You guys rock!
*** Winged_Unicorn: Registered waff.altervista.org for me (since
he's Italian and I'm not) so I could have a
big, FAST, and reliable mirror for all of you
to download EXU from! And if you didn't get EXU
from my Files site, you still should thank him
for making EXU available right away for others.
*** Hellscrag: I know he'll be pissed to be associated with this
mod, but I had to add him. He's the owner of
UnrealSP.org and is thoroughly against the entire
concept of EXU, but he didn't mind when I posted
informational threads about it on his forums.
Also, kudos to him for running the most asskicking
Unreal SP site out there!
*** Hourences: Showed great enthusiasm in the mod, which motivated
me to actually take it 'seriously' (for lack of a
better word).
*** Mr. Prophet: For being a pussy and not playing very much of EXU,
which made me laugh to myself and boost my ego, for
only a great and powerful Lord could make something
capable of scaring The Prophet. He also sent me a
lot of the most asskicking music used in EXU.
*** Maest: Pimped EXU on a big Excessive news site which brought in
quite a bit of traffic.
*** Beerbaron: aka "Evil Jesus", this crazy guy provided me sounds to
edit. They sure turned out well, too, I must say! :D
*** Chef Fucker: A Fucker Brute who doesn't do jack shit, ever, other
than make himself look really intimidating with that
big cleaver.
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-=* Music Credits: All the people who made the amazingly cool music
------------------ included in EXU. I should have asked permission,
but I didn't have much time... and I don't think
they'd really mind me using their stuff with proper
credit and all. I LOVE YOU GUYS! EVEN THOUGH I
DON'T KNOW SOME OF YOU! PLEASE DON'T KILL ME :(
-NOTE!- You can see all of these credits within each .umx file using
ModPlug player and clicking on Details. :)
*** Belated by the lurking Shdaows (Belated.umx) - by Ari Manninen
for Funeral Pyre
*** Beyond Life (Beyond.umx) - by IceLizard for Funeral Pyre
*** Fading to Lies (DiabloFade.umx) - by Surreal for Funeral Pyre
*** Gateways II (Gateways.umx) - by Nitro/Trauma for some demo
*** Gauntlet (Gauntlet.umx) - by Andreas Hedlund for "Team Orbit" group
*** Insomniac (Insomniac.umx) - by DJ Uri
*** I Live, Therefore I Die (Live-NoVoice-.umx) - by IceLizard for
Funeral Pyre. Note: I
manually removed voice
samples from this track.
*** Nemesis (Nemesis.umx) - by UNKNOWN, taken from Xidia Gold
*** Point of Departure (Point.umx) - by Necros for the musicdisk "Progression"
*** Arizona 3 (arizona3.umx) - by UNKNOWN, taken from CTF-RedneckWars
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[STORY]: Every SP campaign has to have some sort of story. Here's
======== the story of EXU....
"One day, a little girl was taking a stroll through the deep
dark woods. Then, suddenly, she was murdered and eaten by
Mutant Radioactive Cyborg Vampire Pirates."
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[INSTALLATION]: For more detailed instructions with pictures, see
=============== http://exu.netfirms.com/Installation.html -=-
Otherwise, look no further:
1) Checklist. Make sure you have all the shit you need:
A) UT Patch 436 installed (not included)
B) ALL UT Bonus Packs installed (not included)
C) Usaar33's Oldskool Amp'd v2.39
D) Mr. Pants' Excessive UT installed (EXU is built with v1.0)
E) Maps and Music in their appropriate folders
F) Paramedics nearby
2) INSTALL THE DAMN THING.
A) Install Oldskool to access the SP Mutators menu.
B) Click Options >> Oldskool Configuration >> Options (tab) >>
SP Mutators (button) >> Yes
C) Select the mutators you want by double-clicking them. Be
SURE you have ExcessiveTime at the bare minimum, which gives
you recharging health / ammo. Then, select the Weapon Upgrades,
and, for Comedic Value, I reccomend HitSound as well.
D) Go to Game >> New Singleplayer Game >> Custom Maps (dropdown menu)
E) Select any EXU map you want. NyLeve is the first map chronologically.
F) Set the Difficulty you want. This makes no difference: all pawns
appear in all difficulty levels. I'm such a bastard. >:D
G) Click Start and KICK SOME ASS. OR A LOT OF ASS. YAY. Have fun.
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[GAMEPLAY TIPS / TECHNICAL NOTES]: If you want to know a thing or
================================== two about what EXU is like
before you jump in, or if you're here to see the Known Bugs list
and read up on tips to keep EXU running smoothly on your rig,
read this section:
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-=* GAMEPLAY TIPS: Clueless? Well, this won't help you much, but
------------------ it's better than nothing.
- EXU is nothing like any other SP game out there. Or at least, as far
as I know it isn't. There are a lot more enemies per map than you're
likely used to, these enemies behave differently, shoot different shit,
often look different, and often sound really really different.
- Know your weapons. Unlike in Excessive UT, your guns do inflict self-
damage. At least, on my end they do, and I can't turn it off. But either
way, know your guns. Use them wisely, even though your ammo recharges.
- When you see a Fucker Brute, put that damn Rocket Launcher away.
- You can unlock bonus maps by shooting certain things. When you find
one, you'll hear a loud sound and will see some random message. The
first portal is in NyLeve. Shoot the waterfall. See what I mean? Not
all maps have a bonus map, and it's usually pretty hard to find the
portal unlocker. Just shoot shit a lot and you'll find more than you
think. Not all bonus maps are easy. Keep your eyes peeled.
- You can kill anything with the translocator by telefragging it, but
don't be a lameass. Have fun as much as you want, but cheating makes
the fun harder to come by.
- When you see a message that says "Grab the 'Deemer and run", by all
means, GRAB THE FUCKING DEEMER AND RUN! LIKE, R E A L L Y RUN!
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-=* KNOWN BUGS: This is IMPORTANT! READ IT DAMNIT. Please?
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- Many maps, especially the bonus maps, *MAY* have massive HOMs in
them for reasons unknown. I think I've fixed them with another full
rebuild for each afflicted map, but, alas, some maps wouldn't correct
themselves (EXU-QueenEnd: the Queen Arena has an invisible colission
hull that's not supposed to be there. This is after multiple rebuild
attempts). Fucking things. They just popped out of nowhere. Honestly...
- The Brute in Ceremony shoots pupae at you, but the pupae don't
bounce and explode (they're grenades). They just stick to the floor.
I left this because it looks kinda funny to see pupae rolling around
on the floor.
- Sometimes Fucker Brutes lose their motivation to kill you, and just
walk instead of zoom. Can't fix this... but they're really easy to kill
when they aren't zooming. :D
- Some of the traps may detonate before you trip them. Don't know wtf
goes wrong, but hell, saves you from being killed later on in the map.
- Pawns often pick fights with each other, despite my orders that they
ally together and kick YOUR ass. Can't really fix this; it's an engine
issue.
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-=* TECHNICAL NOTES: This is also EXTREMELY important, especially
-------------------- if you have a slower rig. Please read!
- Oldskool has the option to enable permanent decals and/or carcasses.
While this is really cool, it can make maps crash UT with a General
Protection Fault if you are too busy and there are too many gibs/decals
on screen at once (especially on older rigs with weaker video cards).
Too many decals can seriously degrade game speed and cause some maps to
become nearly unplayable.
*** To fix this, either disable permanent decals and/or carcasses, or
shoot carcasses and gibs frequently to get rid of them.
- I've had problems with bonus maps crashing. I think I've fixed all
of this by now, but if you have a bonus map crash (and there aren't
that many carcasses in each, so the carcasses/decals shouldn't be a
problem), please email me and let me know about it.
- If / when you encounter huge BSP holes, just move slowly and shoot
a lot. Usually, pawns will disappear inside BSP holes and will keep
shooting at you, but if you keep firing at them and dodge a lot, you'll
be ok.
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[WTF IS WRONG WITH WAFF/ABOUT]: If you want to know more about what
------------------------------- drove me (insane) to make this, and
just what the hell my problem is.
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-=* WELL? WTF?: (long read for those afflicted with boredom)
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One day, after playing through Unreal 1 again and finishing it, I
was sad. It was too easy for me, even on Unreal (not to brag or
anything, it's just that I know where all the dudes are and stuff).
I thought, "Damn, Unreal needs like another difficulty level or
something. Or just more... action. More enemies." It all went
downhill from there.
Later on, I was playing Zero Black, which had just been released.
I finished it, and thought it was pretty damn good for a first map,
so I decided to go mess around in it. I looked around at my oldskool
settings and noticed the SP Mutators bar. I had never used it before,
so I thought what the hell and clicked it. There I saw all the mutators
at my disposal, and then, ExcessiveTime. "Oh, Excessive shit is in
here. Cool. I wonder if I can play SP maps with excessive guns?"
So I grabbed the Weapon Upgrades once I realized what they were
and loaded Zero Black back up. Playing with excessive weapons was
a blast! Soon, I was playing Unreal, Xidia, and ONP with Excessive
weapons. But it got boring... too easy.
"I wonder if i took Unreal and just added a shitload more pawns
to it... for my own use... would it kick ass with Excessive?"
Sure enough, I tried it. NyLeve was Excessified. And shitty.
I went back and edited some more until I had a LOT of enemies.
Then I went and edited some brutes, and made them all fire UT
rockets instead of their shitty Brute Projectiles. Then it hit
me: I should modify all these guys!
All hell broke loose. I went adding in swarms of Skaarj Warriors
and tentacles, giving them all sorts of weird projectiles and
shit, until NyLeve was thoroughly ransacked. I played it:
it was fun as hell. Excessive Unreal was born.
The more I worked on it, the more and more my mind began melting
away. Before long, EXU was not only a package with MORE, but with
WEIRD. I changed the appearances and behaviors of most of the pawns,
giving them all kinds of unusual properties. Then came the sounds.
I gave brutes weird sound effects from packages in the game, gave
Skaarj Warriors sounds that Mercenaries used, etc. But then I
realized: I have a whole slew of .wav files sitting on my hard drive
from other games. I decided to import a few sounds to see how they
fit into EXU. They rocked. they added flavor and increased the WTF
Factor exponentially, which pleased me. My mind was really fucked up
by now. EXU was growing.
I started taking songs and cutting out clips of them and putting
them in. Oldies songs especially, for they often had this totally
random pertinence to what was going on, and randomness increased
the WTF Factor. I was having a hell of a time working on this little
project.
Then I was playing maps with huge armies of pupae. I was obsessed
with my own map; Dark Arena kicked serious ass. I loved blasting
apart 20+ pupae with one shock combo. Gibs were flying in all
directions, blood stains littered all surfaces, blast marks were
everywhere. Chaos had ensued, and I liked it.
I went back and changed the music. I still had some sanity left
in me at this point, and I instinctively knew that desecrating
the original Unreal music by using it in something like EXU was
blasphemous. I decided to plug in UT tracks and other files
that Mr. Prophet sent me.
At this point, I had Beta 1 up and ready on a shitty Tripod site
for my close friends to play (EBM and Gundy). They liked it, and
Hourences started taking an interest in me voicing my ideas for
future EXU maps. I had a project to work on. EXU became the vent
for me to unleash my Stupid Energy (TM), while The Year is 4037
story at my fiction site ( http://waffnuffly3.netfirms.com ) was
the vent for my serious thoughts. Having a place to vent my Stupid
Energy was great, since I don't have very many friends at school
to hang out with and be totally stupid with.
Over the next three months, I worked on maps after school and on
weekends, always making sure I had the right balance of WTF and
fun, along with the right sounds and music. I released Beta 2,
and a beta of the ISV-Kran maps. I released individual maps
privately to EBM and Gundy, who had become what i call my
Legionnaires (despite the fact that they aren't Roman). Today, I
completed the last map for EXU and took feedback I had received
from previous betas and results from the final full beta sent to
my Legionnaires and performed the final finishing touches.
The end result of EXU RC1 is what you have downloaded and installed.
I honestly and sincerely hope that you have a great time playing
EXU; I know I did! Even when stuff didn't work, the end result was
often hilarious. I've never had so much fun MAKING a map pack like
this, and I don't think anyone else has made anything as messed up
as this, aside from maybe Expert Visuals. But that's different. EV
is designed to simulate weed, while I have been told that EXU is a
great LSD simulator. Well, I wouldn't know either way, I'm naturally
weird. But anyway, now you kinda have an idea what went wrong and
why EXU was dumped out of my brain.
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[COMMUNICATION DETAILS]: How to contact me, if you dare. Or if you
------------------------ just want to flame me.
- Email: waffnuffly@australia.edu -OR-
waffnuffly@hotmail.com (as a backup)
- I frequent IRC. Join me on irc.enterthegame.com in #unrealsp or
in #EXU.
- I also frequent various message boards. Check out Unrealsp.org
and forums.beyondunreal.com .
So there you have it. EXU is yours. Got any questions or comments?
Drop me a line somehow. I can always use feedback... there may be
an EXU RC2 sometime, but definitely there will be an EXU Platinum.
I've already started on EXU(PL)-MarMar... which some people may
already know wtf I'm talking about. >:D So if you think EXU needs
work, give me suggestions on what to do for RC2 and/or EXU Platinum
AND/OR Excessive Xidia Gold. >;D
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[CONTESTS?]: There may be some EXU-related contests coming up in
------------ the future. Be sure to keep an eye on the EXU site,
http://exu.netfirms.com , for a while. My sig on the
message board also is updated whenever I update that
site, so if anything happens, you'll know about it!
-=* Contest Idea 1: Suggested by Sir Gundy, there could be a co-op
Co-op Game extravaganza involving players who have
submitted high scores to me or perhaps Sir Gundy,
and then the top four or so players with the
highest scores play a specialty EXU xo-op with
me and the legionnaires. Yeah, it's a shit-tastic
prize, but this idea is still under construction.
In addition, I doubt that even NASA could run an
EXU coop with seven people without getting
General Protection Faults left and right.
-=* Contest Idea 2: This one is a bit more likely to happen, is easier
Battle Footage to accomplish, and doesn't exclude anyone who wants
to take part. See a funny thing while playing?
TAKE A PICTURE AND SEND IT TO ME! Any screenshots
that I really like (which will be most of them,
knowing me) will be put on an EXU Battle Footage
Hall-of-Fame web page along with other sumbitted
screenshots. i think this could be a lot of fun
if it turns out! I'll probably post rules for
image submission on my site later.
Anyway, that just about covers this file. HAVE FUN AND KICK A LOT OF ASS!
Cheers,
-Waffnuffly
