Strogg Empire mod for Quake 2

Strogg Empire is an mod in development for Quake 2. Currently, aims to make Quake 2 MP more attractive to modern audience which mostly grown on the Quake 3. In addition, we plan to add bots and small SP campaign in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Quake 2.

Version 2016/10/21:

• Added support Variable FPS on clients/servers based on Q2Pro (crucial for Plasma Beam and Chaingun)
• Plasma Beam ported from Ground Zero (Rogue) with the following characteristics (to see the weapon model itself, please, copy pak0.pak from "rogue" folder into the "empire" folder with name pak8.pak):
  • Rate Of Fire: 2400 (per minute)
  • Damage: 4 per shot
  • Ammo Consumption: 0.5 cell per shot
  • Range: 768 units
  • Behavior at Q2 10FPS ordinary server/client: 16 damage per shot, 2 cells per shot consumed
• Health behavior:
  • Initial HP is 125
  • Health reduced by 1 every 1.0s, provided that current HP value is greater then 100
  • Reduction rate is delayed by 1.5s after Stimpack (item_health_small) was picked up
    Reduction rate is delayed by 5.0s after Mega Health (item_health_mega) was picked up
  • Absolute HP maximum is 200, none of health items can be picked up at this value
• Armor behavior:
  • Armor reduced by 1 every 1.5s, provided that armor value is greater then maximum value of current armor type (situation with Armor Shard)
  • Reduction rate is delayed by 1.5s after Armor Shard (item_armor_shard) was picked up
  • Absolute armor maximum is 150% of maximum value of current armor type, Armor Shard can not be picked up after this value
• CG (Chaingun) changes:
  • Damage value per bullet is 7 now (was 6)
  • Spread is reduced by 10%
• MG (Machinegun) changes:
  • Damage value per bullet is 6 now (was 7)
  • Spread is reduced by 60%
• Added auto-jump ability
• For testing purpose (like DM in Warsow, FFA is totally another thing there), all players are spawned with all weapons (except BFG10K) and ammo

Current build is coming with Q2Pro built with Variable FPS and Anti Cheat (Server-Side) support. Both, x86 and x86_64, builds for Windows are provided. To launch game, please, use ".CMD" launchers instead of ".EXE" directly. To install this version, please, delete your previous "empire" folder.

Version 2016/10/11:

• New hit sounds based on damage amount or kill
• Announcer messages

Version 2016/10/07:

• 125 points of initial health
• Lowering the level of health points to 100 if the current level is greater than the maximum, not only when a player has a Mega Health
• Quick weapon switching
• Hit sounds for better feedback to an attacker