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   /  _   \                                      | |
  /  / \__/                                      | |  
 /  /_____   ___          ___  ___  __  _  ___   | | __  __      __
 \______  \  \  \        /  / / _ \/ / | |/   \  | |/ /  \ \    / /
  / \   \  \  \  \  __  /  / / / \  /  |   /\  | |   /    \ \  / /
  \  \___\  \  \  \/  \/  /  \ \_/  \  |  |  | | |   \     \ \/ /
   \________/   \___/\___/    \___/\_\ |__|  |_| |_|\_\     \  /
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                                                           /_/
  presents:
  
   - DM-FoT-Styx -
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   - Styx Reactor -
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title:            DM-FoT-Styx
map title:	  Styx Reactor
file:             DM-FoT-Styx.zip / Frags Of Time Package
author:           Swanky
email address:    ch.ahlborn@t-online.de or chunky@surfeu.de
homepage:	  www.swanky.de.vu
         
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story


"It's been years now. 50 years to be exact. They bombed our cities, our homes, our planet,
out of the blue. Then they came and took the rest of us, making them to their servants,
lower Necris, as they said. I was one of the last survivors.
By setting up Nuclear Power Plants to detonate, the small group of resistance fighters hoped
to wipe out the Necris, but their plan failed. Then the others came. Huge spaceships like
the Hyperfrag dropped bombs again and invaded the dead planet. Nearly nothing is able to
live here. By writing this last lines, I hope that someone will find them, to understand
what is going on. The radioactivity lets the few rest of us mutate, we call it IT, is has
no name, and is shall never have one, this disgusting reddish pink mass that covers up the
once beautiful planet. As far as I know the Styx Reactor is one of the save remaining places,
but God knows for how long? I found out that the reactor is growing unstable, no wonder.
It must have been centuries when it was checked.
I also heard the Liandri is coming. Maybe they can help me, and the very few survivors."

This article was found by Liandri scouts. But they didn't rescue anybody, as they claimed
in the news: "There were no survivors left that we could have saved." Then again, they found
Styx.
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play information

Bots:             Full bot support
new sounds:       no
new graphics:     yupp, mostly made by rorshach (HH3_Vendetta (converted by milb) and HH3_SingleMalt(converted
		  by milb / XepptizZ), I took Hourences' brick texture used in DM-Ochre and a stone texture, the 
		  weapon base texture from the ORM-Mappack, which has been edited by Doc.
new music:        yupp, Zan_Met.umx

how to play       Place DM-FoT-Styx.unr in your UT-Maps dir, the umx-file goes into your music folder,
		  and the utx files have to be placed in your Textures dir. The u file has to be in the system dir.
			 Now the map can be played.
                                                            
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construction

base:           from the scratch, theme idea by rorshach, edited by me
editor:         unreal ed 2.0
other progs:    none              
known bugs:     The statue in south yard doesn't support Skeletal Mesh pawns, like the playermodels from BP4.
build time:     about half a month + bug killing + render time

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Is this the FoT Version?

 -	Kinda. I revamped the lighting and killed one or two lighting bugs along the way.
	The rest remains unchanged.


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misc

 - Larger than your average DM-Map
 - Try to shoot your foes into the reactor (relatively easy using Shock Rifle or RL, but 
	also possible with Ripper and Flak, tho harder)
 - The Map makes use of dynamic lighting. If the map does not run smooth enough, try turning
	off dynamic lighting to gain a big fps boost in some places.
 - You may look to the statue that shows the leader (Note: Skeletal Meshes pawns like BP4-Pawns
	aren't displayed). The statue is located on the upper floor of the South Yard.
 - There are spots with excessive Polycounts above 500, but I only noticed one or two
	so far.
 - Getting SuperItems alarms all players that the item has been gotten with triggered special sounds.
 - Styx - that is the Greek River of Hate, that separates the world of the living and the 
	world of the dead. I found it fitting because that facility has become a special place
	of hate, just like a river flows and changes itself and sometimes people visiting it,
	Styx Reactor has changed from a power plant of the peaceful worlds into a sanctuary	
	of the Insane, a last resort of hope that was lost, a place of hate.
 - StyxReactor.u was scripted by Wolf. Without him, the small trap would have been impossible to create.
 - This map was made for milb's FragsOfTime Package.

 - However, this release has some minor lighting bugs hopefully
	killed (I didn't do as much betatesting as I did when originally creating the map)
 - I also revamped the lighting as the old one looked horrible with all its sharp cuts.

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thanx to ...

Rorshach (the textures are great!!!)
Hourences (a few textures I borrowed from one of the Hour texpax for a small tunnel)
Wolf (some extra scripts)
Doc (scripted statue)
all betatesters at UP... you're great, guys...! :)
...and to all I have forgotten...
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Distribution / Copyright / Permissions 

Copyright (c) 2004 Christian "Swanky" Ahlborn
All rights reserved.

Unreal tournament is a registered trademark of 
Epic Megagames and Digital Extremes

This level may be electronically distributed only at 
NO CHARGE to the recipient in its current state, MUST 
include this .txt file, and may NOT be modified IN 
ANY WAY. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THIS LEVEL TO BE 
DISTRIBUTED ON CD-ROM WITHOUT PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISSION.

You are not allowed to submit this Zip (DM-FoT-Styx zip file)
and especially this Map alone to any Internetsite without my WRITTEN PERMISSION.

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