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From: bh505@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Arthur Sankey)

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Subject: Sick and twisted ideas for id: urine in Quake

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Date: 20 Mar 1996 21:22:29 -0000

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I'm writing this to suggest to id how urinating (like in Duke3d) would add

to quake's gameplay. Urine would not be hard to make in Quake, just take

the blood effect and turn it yellow. Add a drip sound and an "aaaahhh" for

sound effects and it's done. Of couse, nobody has an unlimited bladder, so

the amount you can piss in each level would have to be limited (without

using god mode, gods can pee forever.)

In Duke3d the player can urinate, but there's no point. It adds nothing to

the gameplay. Nowever, I have several ideas as to how a urinate key or

code (sv_pee?) would add to the quake experience:

(For single player/coop)

1) Pee to mark your terretory (dogs do this). Maybe if you peed in one

area a puddle would form, and it would be like a wall to monsters. This

would be very

useful, mainly if there's a huge monster that keeps respawning in one spot.

2) Pee on bodies to keep them from respawning.

3) Pee on a switch. If some switches just don't seem to work in normal

ways, maybe it's chemically activated!

4) Maybe the whole reason you're in a single player level is because your

mission is to run into a castle, piss on something, then get out alive.

Maybe you'd piss on a bible...Naaaa...

(For deathmatch)

5) Get an extra frag point for peeing on a body of your opponent. This

would not be easy, considering that you might get ambushed in the middle.

(Maybe an extra frag point for eating part of your opponent could work

here also.)

6) Just for the hell of it. Especially with "sv_gravity 0" or "sv_gravity

-10".

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