Rail Arena
For updated versions and additional information, please see http://www.planetquake.com/rail

Table of Contents

Introduction
About the Bonus'
The Bonus'
Scoring

Introduction

Rail Arena is a new breed of deathmatch mod for Quake II that focuses on drawing blood.  The only hitch is, you can only draw blood from you opponents by using the railgun...

Don’t worry, there’s plenty of railguns to go around. At all the places on a map where you’d normally find the weapons – there will be a railgun sitting there. And in place of bullets, shells, rockets and cells? You guessed it... slugs instead.

You will find the railgun is not quite as powerful though – it inflicts a paltry 25 points of damage (instead of the usual 100 points). So you’ll need to be deadly calm and accurate in this game.

About the Bonus'

We decided to throw in some bonuses to encourage you to focus on Railgun accuracy (and to spice things up a little...). If you score 5 hits in a row, you will be awarded a random bonus. See below for descriptions of the bonuses. If you score one, you will flash with a yellow shell for a short while. Your friends will be able to see that you rule and they suck.

Rail Arena house rule #1 : If someone is flashing yellow... everyone try to kill them. Note that some of the bonuses can give players 'non-railgun' weapons. Don't worry, once they run out of ammo the weapon will be useless. One of the bonuses also reduces the health of everyone on the level - watch out for that one.

The Bonus'

QUAD FURY
Railgun in Rail Arena : 25 damage. Quad Railgun in Rail Arena : 100 damage. Any questions ?

INVINCIBLE
You flash red for 30 seconds. (Oh, and everyone else tends to run in the opposite direction...)

THREESOME
Menage-a-trois with the RailGun, yourself, and some poor chump. Get close up with this baby (you may not be able to fire 3 shots at long ranges).

SPEEED
Just like the haste rune in ctf. (Did I steal this code from Zoid ? Oh, thanks Zoid !)

NO SOUP FOR YOU
Like the soup nazi says. "Come back, one year !"

HEALTHY LIVING
Take a handy health transfusion. Mmmm. (What, you already had 199 health ? Bad luck...)

HEALTH JINX
Everyone ELSE on the level is reduced to one health. Try to chase them off a ledge and watch them splat.

20 FRAGS
Yerp, rocket to the top of the scoreboard.

ROCKET JOCKEY
Totally against the vibe of Rail Arena, you'll get a nice juicy RL to play with. Better explain this one to newbies when you blast em...

BFG WANKER
You find a BFG10k with enough cells for 3 shots in your hot little hands. Whether you use it is up to you. :)

SHOTTY SLUT
15 shots of 'up close and personal' pleasure with a super-shotgun.

GRENADE SPAMMER
Bounce bounce bounce boom *run*.

POWER SHIELD PANDA
Find yourself charged up with a nice juicy power shield. Consider your next death to be a long way off...

Scoring

Since it can take 4, 6 or even 10 rails to kill an opponent in Rail Arena, we changed the scoring system a little. You get one point for EACH AND EVERY HIT that you score with the Railgun. When you frag someone, you also get a point for killing them. We suggest you play with a fraglimit on the server of at least 100 or higher.

You also get a % accuracy rating. You need to fire at least 10 shots to get a rating...

The server also records the longest railing streak (hits-in-a-row). If you score 10 hits in a row you're either a God or you're playing against a bunch of idle players.

So at the end of each level the rail arena server shows three winners for SCORE, ACCURACY and STREAK. It's up to you which prize you consider the most prestigious... if you can win all three prizes in a 32 player game of q2dm1, well it's time for you to join the PGL and take on Thresh.

Credits

Many thanks to:
- PLANETQUAKE for hosting the mod.
- Elvis for the kick ass html and art.
- Ridah for the EraserBot.
- Clan [MD] (More Dick) for testing it out... Hicks, Blade, Buster, Sinister.