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Welcome to Unreal here you will find a small close-knit community of die-hard Unreal players who have been playing for many years. As you will see when playing these players are respectable and will help you with the game, all you have to do is ask and in some cases help will be offered without asking. Take a moment to read the page I believe you will find it helpful in playing the game.

Unreal is the first game in the Unreal series and was the first 3D venture by Epic Games and Digital Extremes. The game was approved by GT Interactive in 1996 and released on May 22, 1998 to the world, however by several accounts work on the engine actually started sometime around 1994. Unreal provided a single player experience along with a multiplayer mode that allowed for up to 16 players. It was rated 'M' for Mature by the ESRB for intense violence.

History

Work on Unreal began in 1994 when James Schmalz, founder of Digital Extremes, showed Cliff Bleszinski a side project he had been working on. At the time, Schmalz was creating all of his own content, and programming the game all by himself. The game had not yet been fully realized, and Schmalz was creating all of his levels on paper.

A short time later, Schmalz showed what he had been working on to Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic MegaGames (later renamed to Epic Games). Tim was impressed and began working on a level editor for Schmalz to use to build his engine. As time went on, many people became involved in the process. Mark Rein was brought in to do PR, Steve Polge was hired to work on the AI. For a time, many of the people working for Epic were doing so remotely.

Originally the game was scheduled to come out in April 1997. A few months after this date slipped, pressure started mounting from GT Interactive to get the project completed. Epic moved all of its remote employees to Digital Extremes Waterloo, Toronto, Canada offices to complete the final push of the game. Roughly one year later, the game was released and its level of detail put video game publishers on notice: a new age of gaming had arrived.

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Game Content

Weapons Profile

Dispersion Pistol

The first weapon you acquire, fires small energy bolts or can charge up a larger bolt. Automatically recharging energy pistol which fires relatively weak energy bolts. Its secondary fire stores up a charge in the capacitor before releasing it, resulting in a much more powerful bolt. Damage Rating: Low to High (depends on upgrade). With a fully upgraded Dispersion Pistol, used with an energy amplifier (inventory item), it is the most powerful weapon in the game. It will kill anything.

Primary Fire: Initially, low-power, high-illumination energy projectile (can be useful for lighting up dark areas). Very destructive when supercharged with powerups..

Secondary Fire: Charges itself up over a period of time for a more powerful and deadly shot.

Automag

The Automag is the first hitscan weapon that you come across in Unreal. In unreal, the Automag has a clip of only 20 rounds and can hold a maximum of 200 rounds. The automag can shoot 20 rounds consecutively, after which it has to be reloaded. If the player so desires, he/she can reload the weapon simply by switching to another weapon and switching back. Damage Rating: Low to Medium

Primary Fire: Traditional carriage, fires very accurate shots at a slow rate.

Secondary Fire: "Gangsta"-style sideways carriage, less accurate, but a much faster rate of fire.

Stinger

The Stinger was originally a mining tool, but was converted to a weapon by the inhabitants of the Unreal world. Damage Rating: Low

Primary Fire: Fast, narrow stream of Tarydium shards.

Secondary Fire: Secondary Fire: Spurt of five shards at once, slow reload.

A.S.M.D.

The ASMD is an energy-based weapon that fires an instant hit beam, or a small moving core (an "orb" of energy which travels across the map until it strikes a solid mass). In addition, you can shoot a bolt at a core to cause a "shock combo", a massive explosion which does considerable damage to anything within its blast radius. Using the Damage Amplifier could inflict 1200+ damage with one shock combo.

Primary Fire: Lightning fast burst of focused energy.

Secondary Fire: Very unstable ball of energy which can be shot with primary fire to create combo attack, a devastating blast.

8ball Launcher

The rocket launcher that can charge up 6 rockets horizontally or in a tight circular group. Alternatively, up to 6 grenades can be fired. The Rocket Launcher is equipped with a locking crosshair, to lock, hold the crosshairs over another player for a brief moment causing the Rocket Launcher to "lock on." While locked on to a player, rockets will follow that player. However, this lock-on attack can usually be easily avoided. Damage Rating: High (it makes things EXPLODE!)

Primary Fire

Can load up to six Eightball rockets and fire them in a straight line or a spiral configuration by holding down the alternate fire button while the rockets are being loaded.

Secondary Fire

Can load up to six Eightball rockets as grenades. The rockets will bounce around before they detonate.

Flak Cannon

Solid ammo projection weapon. Unloads a barrage of jagged shards of metal at opponent. Damage Rating: Medium to High (lethal at close range)

Primary Fire:

Extremely fast spray of shrapnel which richoet off walls, ceilings and floors.

Secondary Fire:

Large shrapnel-filled shell explodes on impact, spraying shrapnel in all directions. Close range fire and head shots can be fatal.

Razorjack

The RazorJack was a Skaarj hunting weapon, cut players up effectively when you know how to use it. Damage Rating: Medium to High (lethal with a well placed shot)

Primary Fire:

Razor sharp titanium discs are launched at a medium rate of speed. Shots will ricochet off any surfaces for 6 times before disappearing.

Secondary Fire:

Razor blades are launched at a slower rate of fire and can be guided by your crosshairs.

GES BioRifle

This weapon uses a volatile Tarydium waste for ammunition. The highly unstable nature of this waste makes the GESBioRifle very powerful by launching powerful blobs that will explode when touched. Damage Rating: Medium

Primary Fire

Fires little toxic blobs rapidly. Tarydium sludge projectiles explode on contact with living tissue and adhere to most other surfaces for a short time before exploding.

Secondary Fire

Hold down the secondary fire button to launch a larger, more powerful glob of sludge. The longer you hold down the secondary fire button, the bigger the glob (up to 500% sludge). Unlike the later versions, the first GES Bio rifle can not hold sludge in the barrel until it is needed, therefore making the weapon hard to use as it needs precise timing. Completely useless against Slith, as they are immune to slime.

Assault Rifle

This weapon is well suited for long range attacks, one hit in the head will decapitate an unarmored opponent instantly. Damage Rating: High to Lethal (one shot, one kill)

Primary Fire:

A long range, very powerful, accurate shot.

Secondary Fire:

Zoom the rifle in, up to eight times normal vision. Allows for extreme precision from hundreds of yards away.

Minigun

A rapid fire machine gun that features two tri-barrels that spin with each other. Primary fire shoots out a fast stream of inaccurate bullets that do light damage, while secondary fire shoots out more accurate and damaging bullets, but the rate of fire is severely dropped. Damage Rating: Low to Medium

Primary Fire:

Bullets are sprayed forth at a medium to fast rate of fire and good accuracy.

Secondary Fire:

Starts off as primary mode but then fires at an even faster rate, slightly losing accuracy.

Unreal Pickups!

Pickup Profile: Translator

Use this to read info off computer consoles and foreign languages on walls.

Pickup Profile: Amplifier

Use this to dramatically amplify the damage of energy weapons such as the Dispersion Pistol and the ASMD Shock Rifle.

Pickup Profile: Dampener

Deadens the sound emitted from your weapons, making it much easier to launch sneak attacks.

Pickup Profile: Flare

Use this as a temporary light source, you cant actually hold the flare for light so just toss it on the floor.

Pickup Profile: Flash Light

A carriable light source, although it's batteries are very quick to deplete

Pickup Profile: Force Field

Creates a temporary impenetrable barrier. Useful for blocking entryways and narrow corridors, and for use as a protective shield.

Pickup Profile: Invisibility

Makes you temporarily invisible. But remember, if you start on an enemy then the invisibility is useless as they will know about where you are.

Pickup Profile: Jump Boots

Activating the boots enables you to jump much higher than normal. Once picked up, the Boots only last for a short period of time, so take advantage of them while you can.

Pickup Profile: Scuba Gear

Gives you the ability to breathe while underwater.

Pickup Profile: Search Light

Heavy duty version of the flash light, lasts much longer and gives off more light.

Pickup Profile: Nali Fruit Seed

Plant one of these to grow a Nali Healing Fruit. Once the plant grows to full size, it can give you a 29-unit health boost. If you eat the plant before it is fully grown, your health gain will be less substantial.

Pickup Profile: Voice Box

Creates a sound diversion to distract your enemies.

Pickup Profile: Bandage

These provide limited healing (+5 units of health), but do little to reverse the effects of major damage.

Pickup Profile: Health Pack

These provide a +20 units increase to you, only up to 100 units.

Pickup Profile: Nali Fruits

This native plant has natural healing properties. When eaten, it can give you a 29-unit health boost. In multiplayer games, Nali Healing Fruits regrow soon after they are picked.

Pickup Profile: Super Health

Boosts your health by 100 units. Don't waste Superhealth by using it when you are close to full health (200 units). Wait until you need a big health boost before you pick it up. (Note: you can not exceed 100 health without one of these.)

Pickup Profile: Armor

Armor will increase your resistance to damage from weapons and impact. Certain types of armor provide better protection from certain forms of attack. The more damage your armor absorbs the weaker it becomes.

Pickup Profile: Asbestos Suit

Provides resistance to fire and heat damage.

Pickup Profile: Kevlar Suit

Works in conjunction with Armor to provide even greater protection from damage.

Pickup Profile: Anti-Toxin Suit

Prevents damage from Tarydium waste pools, and other toxic areas.

[SP]Weapons

[SP] Weapons are custom weapons used on the [SP] servers. Read more about the Weapons and how they work

Items

Inventory Items can be picked up and then used during the course of the singleplayer game and a few are available in multiplayer levels. By default, use the bracket keys [ ] on your keyboard to select an item visible in your inventory icon bar. The currently selected item is bounded by a white box. Use the Enter key to activate an item. Activated items are highlighted in red. Press Enter a second time to deactivate an item.

Pickup Items are activated or put into use as soon as you pick them up. For this reason, it is often wise to leave a Pickup Item on the ground and come back to pick it up when you need to use it.

Gametypes

Deathmatch is a game type, in which the point is to either reach a certain number of frags (or kills), or to highest number of frags at the time limit for the match. This game type also has a counter-part, Team Deathmatch. Deathmatch is a difficult game type, that requires a lot of training, if one is playing against other players that is. Deathmatch may be played against a mix of human or computer ('Bot') opponents.

Team Deathmatch, or TDM, is a gametype which is exactly the same as Deathmatch except that players are on a team (usually Blue vs. Red). This concept of a team, combined with the rules of deathmatch, are the core of all other gametypes; the difference being added objectives like Capture the Flag."

In TDM, the primary objective is to amass more frags than the opposing team. To determine the winning team, the total frags (kills minus suicides) of each player on a team are added together and compared to the other team's frags; the team with the higher fragcount wins. This method means that a single awesome player can often carry a team, or conversely if teams are fairly even, a single weak player can drag the rest down.

Coop Game is a multiplayer gametype featured in Unreal, which can only be played online, not with bots. Coop game allows online players to make it trough the Single player campaign with their online friends. In a Coop Game, you are able to choose in which level you want the game to start, so you aren't forced to start at the first level. When a group of players play Coop Game, every player is considered as a Vortex Rikers prisoner, so everyone starts in the prison room and needs to escape the ship in order to fight in group against the monsters and bosses.

In a Coop Game, there is always a kill limit. So if the players want to finish the level, they will always need the kill the fixed amount of monsters if they want the exit to open.

King of the Hill starts as in Deathmatch, but the first player that scored the first kill becomes the King of the Hill. He gets a red glow around him, exactly how the Energy Amplifier looks like, and all of his weapons do double damage. All other players try to kill the King of the Hill and take the crown. The points are counted like this:

The first kill is an ordinary 1 frag.
If a player kills the King of the Hill, he gets awarded by 5 frags.
The King of the Hill gets an ordinary frag for killing an enemy, but as he has double damage, he can kill enemies twice as fast.
Other players can kill each other for ordinary frags.

DarkMatch is an alternate version of the DeathMatch in Unreal. What makes DarkMatch unique is its maps, as they are all in darkness. The players are all equipped with SearchLights, to give players limited visibility.

Unreal only includes one DarkMatch map, DKNightOp. All other rules are identical to Deathmatch.

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