

QUICK START SINGLE PLAYER
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Starting a New Single Player Game:

To start a New Game of Heretic II, choose Main on the first page of
The Tome of Power, select a skill level for your game, or practice your
skills on the training level by choosing Tutorial, and press Enter.

Corvus's Abilities :

Corvus has learned much during his journeys in the Outer Worlds, and as
such is capable of performing a wide variety of acrobatic and martial
maneuvers with and without the use of his Sword-Staff.

Simple Actions: (Keys Listed are Defaults and may be modified)

      Walk Forward Up Arrow (or Mouse 2)

      Walk Backward Down Arrow (or Mouse 3)

      Run Forward Shift + Forward

      Run Backward Shift + Backward (Handspring)

      Jump      "/" key

      Crouch   "M" key

      Defend   Enter

      Sidestep Left    "," key

      Sidestep Right   "." key

Complex Actions: (Keys Listed are Defaults and may be modified)

      Forward Roll: Walk Forward while Crouched

      Backward Roll: Walk Backward while Crouched

      Forward Flip: Run Forward while Jumping

      Backward Flip: Walk Backward while Jumping

      Backward Handspring: Run Backward 

      Left Flip: Sidestep Left while Jumping

      Right Flip: Sidestep Right while Jumping

      Ledge Grab: Move/Jump up to ledge and use the Action key

      Rope Swing: Jump up on rope and use the Action key

      Pole Vault: With Staff selected, Run Forward while Jumping

      Backflip off Wall: Hold Backward while Jumping toward a wall.

Attacks

      Attack: Mouse 1

      Whirling Staff-Attack: Attack while Running Forward

      Pole-vault Kick: Use the Staff, then Run and Jump into an enemy



QUICK START MULTIPLAYER
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Starting a New Multiplayer Game

Press Esc to open the Tome of Power and choose Multiplayer.

To setup your player for network play, choose Player Config.
Enter the following information:

Name: Enter a Name for yourself. Others will see this name in Multiplayer
games when you either are killed or kill another player.

Skin: Choose a skin for yourself. This is how you will appear to other players.

To join a Multiplayer game started by another player, choose Join Server.
Choose from the following options:

 - Address Book: This is a list where you add the IP addresses of your
   favorite servers. Selecting one and pressing Enter will connect you
   to that server.

 - Refresh Server List: This option will scan your network for any available
   games.  Selecting an available game will connect you to that game.

 - Server List: If a game is shown on the list when you enter this menu,
   simply select it and you will connect to that game.

To start a Multiplayer game, choose Start Server.
This will give you eight further options:

 - Initial Map: This is the map in which your Multiplayer the game will begin.

 - Rules: This is where you set the type of Multiplayer game you wish to start.
   The Heretic II demo only supports Deathmatch games.

 - Time Limit: This is where you set the number of minutes your multiplayer
   game will last. At the end of this time, the game will terminate.

 - Frag Limit: This is where you set the frag limit for a Deathmatch game.
   When this goal is reached by a player, the game will terminate with them
   as the winner.

 - Max. Players: This is where you decide how many players will be allowed
   to participate in your Multiplayer game.

 - Hostname: Enter a hostname here, so other players may recognize your game
   as the one to join. This name is what will appear on their server lists.

 - Deathmatch Flags:
   Where you may further set the conditions for a Deathmatch game.

   Weapons Stay: When weapons stay is turned on, spell and weapon pickups
   arenot removed from the world after they are picked up.

   Allow Shrines: This option set whether any of the shrines are available
   during the game. If turned off, all of the shrines will be disabled for
   the duration of the game.

   Allow Health: When set to off, this option will remove any health pickups
   from the deathmatch level.

   Allow Mana: Use this option to remove all mana pickups from the level.

   Auto Weapon: This option determines whether weapons are equipped
   automatically when they are pickup up. If set to yes, when a player
   picks up a new weapon, if it is a better than the players current weapon,
   the new weapon will automatically become the players current weapon.

   Offensive Ammo: This option enables or disables offensive weapon ammo,
   such as arrows and Hellorbs. 

   Defensive Spells: This particular option, when turned off, disables the
   use of any defensive magic.

   Spawn Farthest: The spawn farthest option tells the server to respawn a
   killed player at the start point the farthest away from any other player.
   This option gives newly reborn players a small amount of breathing room
   before being attacked again.

   Same Map: When enabled, this option causes all new games to start in
   the same map.

   Force Respawn: When this option is enabled, players are automatically
   respawned when they are killed. If disabled, players must manually
   respawn by pressing the fire button.

   Allow Exit: This particular option enables or disables the level exits
   in deathmatch. If this is disabled, players will not be able to end a
   map by moving through an exit.

   Infinite Mana: With infinite mana enabled, players never run out of
   mana for both defensive and offensive magic.

   Dismemberment: Dismemberment allows players to be dismembered as other
   players damage them. If an arm is lost, this could prevent players from
   using spells and weapons until the damage is healed. 

   Start the Slaughter: This option launches the server.  Let the carnage
   commence!

When in the Game:

SERVERINFO: If you pull down the console (hit the ~ key) and type
"serverinfo" you will get back a list of the current settings for
the server you are connected to. This list includes such things as
map name, server name, time and frag limits.


QUICK START DEDICATED SERVERS
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Heretic II has the ability to run in a dedicated server mode.
This provides the best speed and playability for Internet games,
but doesn't allow a player to play on the same machine.

To run Heretic II in dedicated mode, add the string "+set dedicated 1" to
your Heretic II command line. Also, add "+map <mapname>" as well.
Example: "heretic2_demo +set dedicated 1 +map demodmandoria" 

You can modify the deathmatch settings on your server by using the 
"set dmflags <#>" parameter, also.  The deathmatch flags available in
the demo are as follows:

      WEAPONS STAY           1
      NO SHRINE              2    
      NO MANA                4 
      NO HEALTH              8
      AUTO WEAPON           16
      SPAWN FARTHEST        32
      SAME LEVEL            64
      FORCE RESPAWN        128
      ALLOW EXIT          1024
      INFINITE AMMO       2048
      NO OFFENSIVE AMMO   8192
      NO DEFENSIVE SPELL 16384
      DISMEMBER          32768

Simply add the numbers of the options you want, and you'll have the
settings you want.    For example, I usually use the command line
"heretic2_demo +set dedicated 1 +set dmflags 32867 +map demodmclloud"

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