About the Game:
The Witching Hour is a horror/survival game. You're either a human who has chosen to spend the night in the wrong house or a spirit that returns from hell to haunt that house between midnight (the start of the witching hour) and 6 AM. The goal of either team is to be among the living when dawn breaks - those who are not will return to Hell for an eternity of torment.
The Teams:
Humans:
Being trapped in this house your only goal is to stay alive. As the haunting spirits are already dead you cannot really hurt them, so you must rely on speed, evasion and flight to remain among the living until dawn.
Fortunately you have come in possession of one of Dr. Graf von Altenberg-Ehrenstein's mercury dischargers, a highly experimental weapon created with spirit hunting in mind. As mentioned spirits cannot be killed, but launching a mercury projectile [left mouse] at them will slow them down for a while. Firing a large charge of scattered mercury [right mouse] will also push a spirit away from you. A treacherous human might even turn the gun on his fellows, to slow them or push them towards attacking spirits. Note that your remaining ammo is shown as the mercury level in the three vials on the side of your weapon.
Spirits:
As a spirit you'll hold most of the cards. You might not be as fast as the living but you're nearly invisible, so people will not know which direction to flee from you. You will also be able to see much better in the dark and ... well ... there is no way the living can kill you.
Once you get close enough to one of the living you will see a soul link between the two of you - this means that you can start tearing the soul from the body of the human before you by holding down either mouse button. Once you have ripped the soul from the body of your victim you will automatically take over their body. You then have a chance of staying among the living - if no one else rips your soul from the body.
Controls:
Navigate using the WASD keys and the mouse. Interact with doors and light switches using the "E" key. A hand icon showing up on screen means that you are aiming at something that you can interact with.
Note: whenever spirits interact with anything in the physical world they will temporarily become visible. Not interacting with the world of the living for a while will make a spirit near invisible once more.
Humans can sprint by using the "Q" key. This will give a burst of speed for a short time, but afterwards you will be exhausted and unable to sprint for a while.
Sound:
Sound might save your life in TWH. You can keep track of time by paying attention to the sounds of the grandfather clock. As a human you will also be able to hear the sound of nearby spirits and make your escape before they find you.
Lights:
Light switches are important in a number of ways. First of all, keeping lights lit will make it much easier to see approaching spirits. A brightly lit room might even blind the light-sensitive spirits, so spirits will want to keep the lights off.
Also, a night in a haunted mansion passes significantly faster with the lights on. If you keep the lights lit you will find that dawn comes earlier, which might just mean that you can escape with your body.
Because the interplay of light and dark plays a key role in the game, we recommend keeping Unreal Tournament’s in-game brightness setting set to 5.
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Chipmunk Sweatshop is proud to announce that The Witching Hour is available at ModDB. Feel free to check it out at the Downloads section.
Submitting to Make Something Unreal finals! Done and done!
The Witching Hour unveiled: The first info on the mysterious gun.
Even though it was our first submission for the contest, we were selected for the phase 4 finalists for the FPS category.
The Witching Hour is a multiplayer survival-horror game with a team-switching mechanic that completely reverses traditional gameplay. Players are split...
Hello,
we tried to get "The Witching Hour" running on our LAN party with a current UT3 release (all other mods work fine with it) - unfortunately without success.
When connecting to the listen server, the client apparently tries to download the TWH content from the server and then aborts immediately with an error message.
We would be very happy if we could get help in this regard.
Kind regards
Add me my account: Waran22 ( Velkan) if you want to play this mod or The Haunted, Black Sierra, whatever.
This just looks like a crapy rip off of Bioshock
never any servers
lol another that is unmotivated to make a server
my steam name is Boomer!!
ill play on this mode just message me on steam
are there ever going to be bots
Unfortunately, the significant gameplay changes introduced in this mod (such as team switching, near-invisibility and materialization, tactics of betrayal among mortals and lack of any reason to co-operate among spirits) would require us to rewrite a very large part of the default Unreal AI. Since the game is more suited for multiplayer fun in any case, I don't see bot support happening, I'm afraid.
Why doesnt this mod have any servers? This mod looks great fun to play!