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From: Werner Spahl

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Subject: *** Quake Plus Patch 1.4 *** released!

Date: 22 Sep 1996 10:41:52 +0100

Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne

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A week has gone and a new version of the Quake Plus Patch is on

ftp.cdrom.com in the newstuff directory! Slowly I am adding all the

features to Quake I was missing in the first place. See below...

Werner Spahl (a1619195@smail.rrz.uni-koeln.de)

"The meaning of my life is to make me crazy"

Version history:

1.4: - added local observer mode

- removed nails in thin air bug

- removed monsters not drowning bugs

- added server news and object teleporting

- added height fall damage of players and monsters

1.3: - removed head leaving map bug

- increased flamethrower range

- modified zombies to be killable with the axe

- added player speed depending on health and weight

- added weapon backkick and flashlight waking monster

1.2: - added new frag count

- added water aware monsters

- added bullet marks and nail sticking

- changed thunderbolt into a flamethrower

- changed nails and rockets to look always the same

1.1: - removed player gibbing bug

- added solid and gibbable player corpses

- added flashlight, motion tracker and audible footsteps

- modified powerups to add spacesuit, hologram and teleport

- modified powerups to be turned on/off and taken to next level

1.0: - removed seperate get and drop keys

- added dropping of keys, health and armor

- added solid and destroyable objects and heads

- added kicking and generating of friendly grunts

- modified death backpack drop of players and monsters

0.9: - first version featuring use, get, drop and solid monsters