Tatakau- An HL2 Modification for Half-Life 2

Game Overview

What is the Tatakau Mod?

The Tatakau Mod is designed to ensure fast, furious, skillful, and fun gameplay.

Tatakau will offer the player the ability to choose the type of character and fighting style best suited to the player’s preferred individual attacking, or defensive style.

The Tatakau Mod will give players an opportunity to display their speed, coordination, and skill, in a visually stimulating and stylish environment designed specifically to benefit the game’s mechanics and gameplay.

With so many combinations of characters, styles, features, combos, and weapons, it is our hope that the learning curve will be high enough (but not too high) to ensure replayability.

The Environment

The Tatakau Mod will have many different environments from which to choose. The dark shadowed alleyways of London, a Shaolin Temple in Nepal, a giant suspended bridge covering the Orinoco river in Venezuela. These are just a few examples of the many different environments that players will be able to choose from using an in game voting system.

All of the different environments will demand different skills and strategies in order to prevail over your opponent(s).

Modes of Play

TEAMPLAY (TP)

TP is a 2 vs 2, 3 vs 3, or a maximum 4 vs 4 format. Each team will begin at various points in the map and be forced to either work together (Teamplay benefits are described in the Fighting section below) in defeating their opponents or fight each opponent independently.
Players that have already been defeated may spectate other players until the next round begins. The last team with player(s) left standing at the end of each round will win the round.

FREE FOR ALL (FFA)

FFA is exactly is exactly what the name implies, every man or woman for themselves. Try to stay alive so that you may be the last one standing at the end of each round. For this style of play it is important to use strategy in order to win the round. Stealth, surprise attacks, and defense are particularly important in order to survive as long as you can. Players that have already been defeated may spectate any remaining players until the next round begins.

MANO A MANO (MAM)

The default Tatakau mode, MAM is a 1 vs 1 format. Each player spawns somewhere in the map, their goal is to find their opponent and beat them in a duel Mano a Mano. The winner spawns anew against the next challenger while the loser waits for his turn at revenge!

Possible Future Fighting Modes:

Capture the Buddha (CTB)
Assassination
Penetration

Character Fighting Styles

-Striking Martial Arts: Kung Fu, Drunken Boxing, Tae Kwon Do, Muay Thai, etc…

-Grappling Martial Arts: Ju Jitsu, Judo, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), Sambo

-Streetfighting: A combination of Striking and Grappling Martial Arts with some unconventional "dirty" tactics thrown in for a good time. :)

-Weapon Mastery: Kenpo, Naginata, Kobudo, Escrima

List of possible weapons:(will be narrowed down to a maximum of 15)

Broad Sword, Black Dragon Spear, Throwing Dagger(s), Samurai Katana, Pickaxe, Battle Axe, Blowgun, Slingshot, Sword Cane, Battle Mace (spiked ball on chain and stick), Throwing Axe(s), Throwing Stars, Nunchaku, Claws, Oriental Sais, Boomerang, Wind and Fire Wheels, Rapier, Machete, Whip, Staff, Hooked Single Spearhead Staff

Special Features:

The “Locked On” position:

The biggest advantage of the “Locked On” position is that the camera is “Locked On” to their opponent, and the strafing will circle a character around their target. When “Locked On” to one opponent, all other characters will essentially disappear, allowing you to focus on your target and be free to use all of your available options. When you’ve defeated your “locked on” opponent OR you toggle to the “Unbridled” position, the remaining opponents around you will become visible once again.

Teamplay

The Tatakau Mod is designed to be fun, challenging, and as interesting as possible, using diverse skills, consequently there will be added benefits to working as a team in the TEAMPLAY (TP) mode of play. Use your teammate to help you reach a ledge or the top of a box, work together holding the opponent down while your teammate beats on them, clothesline your opponent(s) while locking arms, and of course various “Team Lovin’ Combos” (TLC), specially designed to encourage teamplay.

Types of Stunts and Combos:

There will be dives, rolls, flips, dodges, spins, wall/ceiling moves, and combat-related stunts. Each stunt and combo is triggered by a key or combination of keys in association with the mouse movement. Attack combos are triggered by going forward, backward, strafing left or right, or jumping. Defensive maneuvers and evasion stunts are triggered by hitting the appropriate key or combination of keys while not moving.

To see the entire design document go to the downloads section at Tatakau.pl4tinum.com