About

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AfterShock is an open source mod (GPLv2) for OpenArena, which is a FPS based on GPL idTech3 technology. The game delivers many game types known from Quake 3 such as deathmatch, capture the flag, clan arena and team deathmatch. The goal of this mod is to increase the usability of OpenArena regarding competive gaming.

Quickstart

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To play AfterShock you will need OpenArena version 0.81 and the latest AfterShock revisions. Easiest way is to install OpenArena and download the mod by autodownloading from one of our servers.

Please notice that you have to enable autodownload first: setup->game setup->autodownload on.

A manual installations requires the following files:

• OpenArena 0.81
• zzzz-aftershock-revision-155.pk3
• zzzz-aftershock-textures-v1.pk3
• zzzz-aftershock-z_textures-v1.01-1.02.pk3

Link: SVN download section

Features

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Significant enhancements from OpenArena include:

• An enhanced Clan Arena game type (Elimination) with bugfixes, damage counter, tweaked ammo count and a spectator view lock.
• New gametype: Capture Strike
• Central statistic system
• Warm up including a ready/unready system.
• Referee system with (among other things) team lock, timeout, kick and start options.
• Various options of customizing weapon and model colors:
  • model brightskins using hex colors
  • weapon brightskins
  • different weapon trails for lightning gun (lightning gun styles), rocket launcher and grenade launcher
  • forcing projectile trail colors (f.e. colorizable grenade projectiles (hex colors))
• An enhanced weapon damage balance: railgun damage decreased from 100 to 80, lightning gun damage from 8 to 7.
• Custom huds
• Accuracy display
• Picmip support: cg_nomip disables picmip on many shaders (e.g weapon shaders)
• Item timers for spectators
• Chat tokens
• New textures
• Map cycle support
• Map configs
• New scoreboards
• New rewards: Air rocket, air grenade, spawn killing, weapon combo rewards, ...
• Green armor
• Scaleable simple items
• Float values for friendly fire
• Item drop: dropweapon <weapon>, dropammo <weapon>, dropflag, droparmor <quantitiy>, drophealth <quantitiy>
• Per weapon crosshairs and fov

For detailed informations about new client and server settings please refer to our Wiki: Main page.