Kanonball Deathmatch mod for Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption

KanonBall_DeathMatch By Kanon
Informations and Rules

List of the sections contained in these rules:

-General information
-Teams
-Gladiators' description
-Team leader
-Maps descriptiom-arena
-Bio_Skiller
-Spheres
-Game tactics
-Game conditions
-Rules
-Punishments

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General information:

Kanonball deathmatch is definitely a team game. 2 arenas have been created for the 1.0 version of this game and there are 2 opponent teams with their colors(red and blue).
The Kanonball_deathmatch gladiators must be vampires, because during the game, they will be able to use some scrolls (in fact only vampires can use those scrolls) which have been modified in their shape and in their textual description.
These new and modern scrolls are called Bio_Skillers and they're described in their apposite section.

The players of both teams cannot use any kind of skill, included the healing one.

In the rare case that the game finishes in parity, for the contemporary death of the last players in game, the match will be considered null and will be played another time by the same players.

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Teams

Teams could have different compositions: it depends on the number and kind of players(male or female).
Only for this kind of game there are some new skins that all the players must use to participate to the Kanonball_deathmatch.

Skins List:

Red team:

Kanonball_leader_red
Kanonball_leader_red_female
Kanonball_gladiator_red
Kanonball_gladiator_red_female

Blue team:

Kanonball_leader_blue
Kanonball_leader_blue_female
Kanonball_gladiator_blue
Kanonball_gladiator_blue_female

Each team must have a leader.Here are some kind of teams' examples:
Team composed by 3 players: >>> 1 leader and 2 gladiators
Team composed by 2 players: >>> 1 leader and 1 gladiator
Team composed by 1 player: >>> 1 leader

Both leader's and gladiator's female skins have obviously been created for possible female players.

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Gladiators description

Skins models have been created in the robotic style of tekkaman_blade. The characteristics (strength, dexterity,...) have been set to 100. Blood value is 0, and it won't be augmented, because of the rules that don't allow skills use.
Gladiators' life is 150; the leader's is 200. The reasons of this choice are explained in the "team leader"'s section.
Narrator's skin has the same characteristics of the leader's, but only for aesthetic reasons. This skin's name is "Match judge".

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Team leader

The team leader has a very importants role. He can give orders about how to behave in specified situations and about the game tactics. The gladiators should do what their leader tells them to do. The team leader will certainly be object of focus fire, during the game, because every time he dies, his killer can ask,for reward,one kind of BioSkiller or a sphere to the narrator.
The chosen reward will appear in the base of the gladiator that has killed the opponent team's leader.

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-maps descriptiom-arena

-3vs3 arena
-1-2vs1-2 arena

The game's arena is a very wide and dark maze. Players have the possibility to walk on some floating paths that lead to different areas of the maze.
On the opposite corners of the arena there are the 2 teams' bases.
In some points of the map there are 5 triangular pillars, where some spheres and bioskillers can be found.
(2 of these pillars are in the 2 teams' bases.)
On the top of the map there is a little room only for the narrator. Obviously the access is not allowed to other people.
There are also 2 flying platforms where the eliminated players will go, in order to let them watch the game even if they cannot play anymore.
In this map there are also some teleports that lead to a teleport room from which the players will be able to go to the chosen areas of the maze.

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Bio_Skiller

The Bioskillers that will be created durino the kanonball_deathmatch are the following:

-Bioskiller_invisibility
-Bioskiller_speed
-Bioskiller_infravision
-Bioskiller_compression
-Bioskiller_clone

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Spheres

The spheres are the only weapons the gladiators can hit and kill themselves with.
At the beginning of each game, the players will be able to equip themselves with the first sphere(kanonball_base), but there are 15 different spheres with different skills and characteristics.
The Spheres have a limited number of shots. When the sphere has no more shots, it will automatically disappear from the hand of your player.

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Game tactics:

Game tactics will be free chosen by the teams' members.Obviously, characteristics like skill, shrewdness, speed and organisation between al the members will easily lead to the victory.

Important: The communication with the narrator in extremely important, and because of the wideness of the map, sometimes it will be necessary to "cry" to the narrator with the "!" symbol before the sentence you'd like to write, so that the narrator could hear you.

Important:the communication between team members is foundamental in some situations; for this reason, write "," before the sentences you want to tell to your team: in this way, only your ally will hear you, and the enemies won't discover your tactics.

Important: Avoid face to face fights: remember that during the fight you could lose your life, because you cannot know which kind of sphere the enemy will use.He could have a sphere more powerful than yours.

Important: be careful and always control the number of shots you have in your sphere.
Each Sphere has a different number of shots; so don't make the mistake of remaining without munitions.
In this way you'll also avoid to be punished for having hit an enemy with a punch, because it's not allowed.

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Game conditions

At the moment there is only a typology of game for the 1.0 version of the Kanonball_deathmatch:

SURVIVOR>>> The aim of the game is to eliminate all the members of the opponent team.
But the work for the kanonball's upgrade, with other arenas and other game typologies, is in progress.

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RULES

-Rule n.1- Bifore the beginning of the game, the players should create a team an decide who will be the team leader.

-Rule n.2- At the beginning of the match, the players should go to their base, that will be indicated by the narrator.

-Rule n.3- You can use ONLY the weapons and the other objects that you find in your base and somewhere in the maze.Remember that The kanonball deathmatch spheres are the only allowed weapons.

-Rule n.4- The players cannot use any kind of skill, obviously included the healing one.

-Rule n.5- The gladiators will found in their base all the equipment necessary to their defence (armours,gauntlets,shields,helms) and the basic sphere.

-Rule n.6 - as soon as the gladiators are ready(with armour and weapons), they should confirm their "ready status" to the narrator, before the beginning of the game. When all the players are ready , the narrator says "GO" , and the game starts.

-Rule n-7- there isn't a limit for the number of bioskillers or spheres to carry.

-Rule n.8- it is possibile to exchange the spheres between team members, or give some spheres to a member of the same team.

-Rule n.9 - Both gladiators and leaders can resurrect for 3 times, when they die. After the third death it isn't possible to play anymore and the player will be sent on the flying platform in order to let him watch the game. The players who have been eliminated in this way cannot give suggestions to the other members of their team that are still playing.

-Rule n.10 - When a gladiator dies, he has to inform the narrator of his death. In this way, the player will be respawn and sent in his base, to continue the game.It isn' allowed to click on "resurrect": the player must be respawn only by the narrator.

-Rule n.11- The gladiators cannot shot to the enemies when they're in their base.In the same way, the gladiators that are in their base cannot shot on the opponent players who are outside.

-Rule n.12- The gladiators of a team cannot siege the opponent base while the enemies are in. They must stay far from the other team's base, in order to let the other players go out without problems. After this, the opponent players will be able to fight again.

-Rule n. 13- it isn't allowed to go in the enemy's base to steal evrey kind of object.

-Rule n.14- it isn't possibile to shot to the enemies in the teleport room. It's possible only in the arena. The players cannot stay for a long time in the teleport room: they can stay in,only for the time necessary to use a teleport and go back to the arena.

-Rule n.15- In the 1-2 vs 1-2 arena, the gladiators can stay on the service corridor only for the time necessary to come back to another area of the arena. Instead of the teleport room, here the players can shot to the enemies.

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Punisments:

-Every unfairness,incorrectness or every offence of the rules will be punished by the narrator on the basis of the gravity:

1)The team which endures the incorrectness, can ask a bioskiller or a sphere to the narrator.
2)The gladiator will be deprived of all the spheres he carried in his inventory.
3)2 minutes of suspension+inventory deprived of all the spheres carried.
4)The gladiator will be eliminated from the game and sent to the flying platform to watch the game.

Every time that it will be necessary to punish a player for an incorrectness,the narrator could suspend the game for a while, in order to give him the time to apply the right punishment.
After that,the game will be restart without problems.

By Kanon of Gemini
(VampireItalia_Staff)