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NIUT 1.24 Mutator for UT (No Item Unreal Tournament)
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Version: 1.24
Created: 03/07/00
Author: Mike Fox (a.k.a. ArtfulDodger)
Contact: mfox@legendent.com
URL: www.planetunreal.com/niu
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Overview
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Everyone plays with the same weapon(s) and has more or less the same items at
all times. This makes the game play focus on combat skills, rather than item
gathering and controlling. Most matchups are very even and the winner is be the
one who makes the best use of the current weapon / items. If you are killed, it
*won't* be because the other guy has a better weapon or the power armor etc.
<g>. Weapons can be cycled (default) or you can have everyone have all the
specified weapons at all times so you can have a Redeemer + Sniper Rifle +
Minigun game, for example.
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Features
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New UI for setting almost all NIUT options in-game.
Everyone plays with the same weapon(s) at all times.
Weapon changes every X seconds.
Weapon is chosen from a configurable list of weapons and this *should* work
with any Weapon-derived classes, even non-UT weapons (including the Unreal
weapons, although this hasn't been tested yet).
Weapons are selected randomly or sequentially.
If weapons are selected randomly can optionally force all weapons to be used
at least once before restarting the selection process.
Plays a warning sound just before weapon is changed.
To have some weapons used more frequently that others, just put these in
ExtraWeaponClassStrings in niut.ini so they are specified more than once.
Can optionally have the server increment everyone's health automatically.
Can specify health that everyone starts out with (e.g. 5 or 1999) and maximum
health that server will increment health to (health vials are still limited to
199).
Can optionally have server give everyone jumpboots, invisibility and/or the
damage amplifier at random times and for random durations.
Can optionally use NIUT to give everyone all specified weapons (ammo increments
automatically and pickups become health vials).
Can optionally have server automatically increment ammo for current weapon
(pickups become health vials).
Replaces all pickup items in the level with ammo for the current weapon. If the
current weapon doesn't require ammo, uses health vials. Flags, runes etc. and
the translocator aren't affected. If weapons aren't being cycled or if ammo is
being given out automatically, pickups are health vials.
Can control rate at which ammo is given out and the amount of ammo that weapons
start out with (e.g. 99 Redeemer warheads <g>).
Should work with most other mutators, including the Fatboy mutator.
Tested and should work with all UT gametypes (CTF, Domination, Assault, Last
Man Standing).
Tested and works with the UT bots.
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Installation
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After installing NIUT, you should end up with the following files in your UT
system folder:
niut.ini NIUT configuration file
niut.int mutator information
niut.u NIUT mutator code
and in your UT help folder:
niut.txt this file
Fire up UT and start a practice session or multiplayer game. Click on the
mutators button and make sure the NIUT mutator is included (in the right-hand
pane) along with any other mutators that you want to use. To configure NIUT,
access the "NIUT123 Mutator Options" dialog through the "Mods" entry at the top
of the main UT screen.
NIUT should work with any of the game types available in the full version of
Unreal Tournament, although it has a few problems with Last Man Standing as
noted below.
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Configuration
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All the main NIUT options can now be set through the in-game UI accessed through
the NIUT123 Mutator Options dialog (under the "Mods" entry at the top of the
main UT screen). Changes to these settings are saved to the file niut.ini and
you can restore the defaults by clicking on the "Defaults" button. There are a
couple of options (mainly sound related) which can be changed by modifying
niut.ini directly.
The NIUT options screen requires a 640x480 or greater resolution to be entirely
visible.
How do I specify the weapons to use?
Just check off the weapons that you want to use on the right. Note that the
Unreal I weapons only work in singleplayer -- they won't fire correctly in
networked games.
How do I make weapons cycle (switch periodically)?
Make sure the "Cycle Weapons" checkbox is checked. When this is checked, the
"Random Weapons" and "Use All Weapons" settings are used.
If "Random Weapons" is set, the next weapon to use is chosen randomly,
otherwise they are cycled in order.
If "Use All Weapons" is set (and "Random Weapons is set), all weapons will
be used at least once each time through the list of weapons.
How do I control how often the weapons switch?
Set the Min and Max "Time Between Weapons Switches Settings". These can be
the same value, otherwise the server will constantly pick a random time
between Min and Max.
I recommend keeping the weapon switch time at 75.0 seconds or greater,
and/or limiting how long a particular level is played to 30 mins or less. It
seems that Unreal Tournament servers can become unstable (more likely to
crash) if many objects are destroyed/created during a game. Since most of
what NIUT does involves destroying and creating objects every time the
weapon changes, following these guidelines may make NIUT servers less likely
to crash.
How can I cycle weapons but also have ammo increment automatically?
Check "Cycle Weapons" and set "Time Between Ammo Increments" to 1.0 or so.
How do I give everyone multiple weapons at all times?
Make sure the "Cycle Weapons" checkbox is *not* checked. Everyone will have
all the specified weapons at all times and ammo will increment automatically
for all the weapons. All pickups will be health vials (depending on the game
type).
How do I control the ammo for weapons?
You can specify the Initial, Max and Rate for the ammo for all types of
weapons (the Enforcer and Minigun and most UT and Unreal I equivalents share
the same settings). The Initial and Max amounts should be obvious. The Rate
is the amount of ammo per second that is given to the weapon. A value of 10
means 10 units are given every second, a value of 0.05 means 1/20th of a
unit per second (so you should get a unit every 20 seconds). Most of the
default values are reasonable -- you should have lots of ammo as long as you
don't shoot like a monkey.
By default, when weapons aren't cycled, the server checks on whether to give
everyone ammo every 1.0 seconds. You can change this through the "Time
Between Ammo Increments" setting but 1.0 should be fine in most cases.
The Redeemer shows up then goes away as soon as the game starts. What's up?
By default the initial Redeemer ammo is set to 0. This is so players don't
blow themselves up with it if they hit fire 2x after dying. Also in team
games it can be annoying to take out the other team's base then have
everyone respawn with (armed) Redeemers.
If you are cycling weapons without automatic ammo, or if you really want
people to be able to fire the Redeemer as soon as they spawn you probably
want to change this to 1 or higher.
What are the health options?
By default, NIUT servers will give 5 units of health to all players every
second (so your health will regenerate if you are injured).
You can control the following:
"Time Between Health Increments": change this to increase/decrease the rate
at which the server gives out health.
"Health Increment Amount": controls the amount of health that is given out
each time.
"Initial Health": the amount of health that players start out with when they
spawn into the game.
"Maximum Incremented Health": the maximum that the server will increment
health to.
These settings don't affect health pickups -- these will still increment the
player's health to a max of 199.
Games where players can have their health get up to 5000 or so with Super
Shock Rifles and/or Redeemers are... different.
A game with the initial and max health set to 5 can be fun too (hit = kill).
What are power up options?
If you want you can have the server give everyone one or more power ups (the
damage amplifier, jumpboots and invisibility) periodically. Set the "Min
Delay" to 0.0 if you don't want the power up to be used. Otherwise, set the
Min and Max Delay (these can be the same value otherwise the server will
constantly pick a random time between Min and Max) to the amount of time
that you want the server to wait before giving out the power up.
Similarly, the Min and Max Duration controls how long the power up stays
active (when the time is up, the power up is removed from everyone).
While any power up is active, everyone will have it, even if they die and
respawn.
Tip: the bots tend to see invisible players pretty well...
What is the file sloop.bat available on the NIUT site?
Its a fact of life that most game servers eventually crash. If you use NIUT
with weapon cycling and a low time between weapon switches, the server will
be more likely to crash (see How do I control how often the weapons switch?
above). This "batch" file can be used to run the server so that if it does
crash, the batch file will restart it automatically. If you run an NIUT (or
any) UT server, you might want to check this out.
What's with Last Man Standing games?
The Last Man Standing game type doesn't seem to interact very well with some
types of mutators, including NIUT.
If weapons are being cycled, everything seems to work as expected:
+if auto-incrementing ammo
+pickups are health vials, ammo increments fine
+otherwise pickups are ammo for the current weapon
+only the current weapon is available
If weapons are not being cycled:
+all non-melee weapons are always available
+NIUT can be used to add
+Super Shock Rifle
+Redeemer
+Chainsaw, Impact Hammer
+but other weapons can't be removed (and I pbly won't look at this)
+no health in the level (can always auto-increment health if desired)
+weapons occasionally get tossed by killed players
Settings in niut.ini which can be modified directly (not on the options menu).
WarningSound: controls the switch warning sound
WarningSoundRepeats: controls number of times to play warning sound
HealthIncrementSound: sound to play when incrementing health
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History
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1.24:
+Made NIUT work better with other mutators (no longer an Arena mutator).
+Fix for conflict between Low Gravity and NIUT mutators (Low Gravity was
forcing jumpboots to be stripped out even if NIUT was set up to use these).
Solution: have AlwaysKeep() return true for jumpboots.
+Fix for accessed None warnings in RateSelf (give ammo before putting into
Pawn's inventory etc.).
1.23:
+Added UI support for specifying NIUT settings through Mod menu.
+Changed bAllWeapons to !bCycleWeapons (less confusing?)
+WeaponClassStrings -> ExtraWeaponClassStrings (support for new weapons not
already in UT -- otherwise weapons controlled by individual flags now).
+Can specify max ammo that any weapon can carry (e.g. limit Redeemer to only
carrying 1 warhead at a time).
+Added MaxHealth option for auto-incremented health (199 with Redeemer is fun).
1.21:
Better, more flexible way to specify how quickly ammo regenerates. Can also
specify how much ammo weapons should start out with.
1.20:
Option to have all specified weapons available at all times (ammo increments
automatically for all weapons). This can be used to have Redeemer only or
Sniper Rifle + Redeemer games for example.
Additionally, weapons can be cycled as usual with an option to have ammo
increment automatically ("classic" No Item mode like NIQ for Q2).
Couple of optimizations.
1.10:
Fix for translocator being stripped out of games where it is specified.
1.00:
Initial version for full release of UT including support for random jumpboots,
invisibility and power amplifiers (to all players at once).