Death Match / Quake

Objectives

Players battle it out against their opponents, collecting as many Weapons & Powerups as possible to increase their battle strength and ultimately win the game by scoring as many frags (points) as possible.

There are two variations of this mission: individual and multi-team

Health

Players begin with 100% health and a lowly shotgun. A player loses health each time they are hit and when their health reaches zero they are deactivated for 10 seconds, also losing any Weapons & Powerups they may have collected.

If a player has less than 100% health, their battle-suit lights will become dimmed. The less health a player has, the more the lights are dimmed.

Players slowly heal back to full health over time, as long as they are not shooting. Battle-suits make a blip sound as health is healed.

Weapons & Powerups

A player increases their chances of survival by grabbing some Weapons & Powerups which randomly respawn at all the targets These can be collected by zapping the target twice.

Once a player has taken a Weapons & Powerups from a target they cannot get another Weapons & Powerups from the same target until 20 seconds has elapsed.

Players can obtain Weapons & Powerups from other targets during this time.

A player can determine which Weapons & Powerups is at a target by zapping it once and then pausing briefly, at which stage their battle-suit will announce what is available at that target.

A further single shot will then pick up that Weapons & Powerups.

For a full description of the available Weapons & Powerups are shown below.

A player can pick-up any number of Weapons & Powerups, however there is a maximum limit of 100 points of Armour, 250 Health and 1 Rune.

Weaponry

Weapon Type	When Activated, your pack says	Ammunition	Damage	Comments
Shotgun	Default Weapon	Unlimited	20	This is the gun you start with. It does 20 damage and fires 2 shots per second. Try and upgrade. quickly.
Nail Gun	Rapid Fire Activated	30	25	A very useful weapon. Fires 4 shots per second.
Rocket Launcher	Missiles Activated	10	60-70 Splash 135 for a full missile	This is the only time where pulling a missile early will still do damage to your opponent

Defensive Items

Defensive Item	When Activated, your pack says	It Gives you	Comments
Armor	Shield Activated	50 Armour	The more armour you have, the better. Unfortunately, you can only have 100 armour max.
	Power-boost Activated	100 Health	You can actually have a maximum of 250 Health. However, any health over 100 will slowly drain away until you are back to the 100 mark.

Power-Ups

Power Ups	When Activated, your packs says	Duration	Comments
	Stealth Activated	60 seconds or until fragged	Useful for sneaking around and pretending you're fragged. Also useful in CTF when making flag runs
	Nuke Activated	30 seconds or until fragged	Makes every shot do 4x damage. Also makes your lights blink faster.
	Invulnerability Activated	20 Seconds	You cannot be fragged for 20 seconds. Also makes your lights blink faster

Runes

Runes are advanced powerups, and are only present in DM3. There are four runes, each with different powers.

Once a player picks up a rune, they keep it until they are deactivated.

Only one of each type of rune exists, so they may be difficult to obtain.

The best way to get a rune is to zap an opponent who has one. In addition to obtaining a frag you will also be awarded the rune that the opponent had.

Players can only hold a single rune at a time (runes cannot be pick up if one is already held)

Runes	When Activated, your pack says	Comments
	Special Rapid Fire Activated	Speeds up your shot rate. Very handy with missiles.
	Special Power-boost Activated	An often underrated Rune, this doubles how quickly you recover health. It will also regenerate armour as long as you have at least 1 point of armour left.
	Special Shield Activated	With this rune, you only take half the damage you normally would.
	Special Nuke Activated	With this run, you do double damage. This combined with Quad will do 8x damage.

Skill levels:

Player skill levels are based upon their standard skill level. Handicapping is in operation with players taking additional health from higher skill players when they zap them.

The Navigator/Guardian/Warbot and Beacons are not active.

Mission variations:

DM1, The easiest variation, has only the lower level Weapons & Powerups.

DM2 is intermediate difficulty, with over half of the Weapons & Powerups available.

DM3 has all of the Weapons & Powerups available, and is recommended for experienced players. See the following table.

Mission Type	Available Weapons & Powerups
DM1	Nailgun, Rocket Launcher, Armour, Super Health
DM2	Nailgun, Rocket Launcher, Armour, Super Health, Invisibility, Quad, Invulnerability
DM3	Nailgun, Rocket Launcher, Armour, Super Health, Invisibility, Quad, Invulnerability, Haste, Regeneration, Resistance, Strength

Scoring:

Each time a player deactivates an opponent, they are awarded one frag.

Players are ranked on the scores screen by the number of frags they have achieved.

Down players can be repeatedly zapped while down. However, this does not score a frag and they are only deactivated for 4 seconds.

There is however a limit on the number of times this can be done.

Zapping players on your own team does damage to you! You can frag yourself in this way if you are not careful.

Players who are being missile-locked do not receive a missile warning tone.

A missed rocket counts as a near miss, and does splash damage to the target, roughly equal to half of a normal rocket.

Event	Frags
Zap opponent	1
Zap own team member/self	-1

Scoring time:

15 minutes