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Proelium Info
Overview In Proelium, players run around in a top-down view, trying to hurt and kill each other for experience. Gaining experience is the only way to raise your combat level, which is the only way to gain more weapons and have stats boosted. Proelium's gameplay is very fast paced and more strategic than normal UT2004 death match play. The reason for this is because all projectiles are fully interactive; shoot down incoming rockets, set off a chain reaction of grenades, deflect incoming flak with a well placed rocket; the simple addition of having projectiles be interactive with each other gives rise to more strategic use of weapons as they assume new defensive/offensive roles not available in normal UT2004 death match play. Proelium also sports a powerup system, where powerups will spawn at random locations in the level. Powerups include some mundane things like health regeneration, some more interesting things like projectile deflection, and some negative things like screwing up your scanner. You can find a complete list of the powerups that come with Proelium below. Movement Proelium's top-down view provides a sense of absolute direction to players. To work with this, and provide players a choice, Proelium offers two different control schemes :
The HUD Proelium's HUD makes some major changes to UT2004's HUD by adding some very noticeable elements. In the upper left, where the score normally is, is now the display for your current Combat Level (in the circle) and your accrued experience (next to it). In the upper right appear your powerup slots (if you have any available to you). If you have the ability to use powerups, you will see the number of slots you have listed in the upper left of the HUD. If you have active powerups, you'll see their icons, and their time bar directly beneath them, occupying the slot they fill in your powerup slots. The weapon bar is gone, being replaced by the Weapon Selection Circle, which becomes visible whenever you change weapons, and fades away when you're done switching weapons. Last, but most definitely not least, is your aiming cursor. Comprised of the crosshair and the combat level indicator, it shows both your current aiming point/direction, but if you place the aiming cursor on an enemy, a color fade will appear under the cursor, showing the enemy's combat level relative to yours (color ramped to show degree of difference - solid blue is 5 levels below you, solid green is the same level as you, solid red is 5 levels above you). Weapons The weapons of Proelium fall into two general categories - UT2004 variants and original hardware. UT2004 Variants
Original Hardware
Combat Levels Combat Levels define what weapons, gear, and stat boosting attributes you have. They are the sole reason you kill the guy next to you (other than to make sure he doesn't do it to you). In order to reach the next Combat Level, you have to gain enough experience. You gain experience two ways - by hurting someone (experience gained only for lowering health, not shields, and overkill isn't rewarded, only the health you take away before they hit 0 and die), and by killing them (bonus experience awarded). However, not every kill is the same, not every target as worthy of your wrath. Sure, you could spend some time and stomp on someone at a lower level than you (which you won't really have a choice if you're the highest level player), but the experience you gain is proportional to the level difference between your target and you. Stomping on a lower level player will gain you less and less experience, the lower they are from you. Conversely, scoring a kill on a higher level player will reward you more than the normal experience. When you finally level, you'll notice two out of three things - audible sound, a short visual effect around your player, and the new goodies in your inventory/increased health/boosted shields/etc. Not every level will gain you something, however, and as you get higher up, it becomes increasingly harder to attain the next level. Standard Proelium rules currently map out levels 1 through 20. It's possible to level beyond 20 (you could, with enough time, make it up to 99), and it's encouraged to set the Combat Level Goal to at least 21 or 22. The following is a complete list of what happens at each level (levels not shown have no loadout).
Powerups Powerups provide the spice of change and variety to Proelium. It's important to note that powerups fall into categories, and you will not be able to pick up more than one powerup of a certain category at time, even if you available slots. During play, powerups will spawn randomly throughout the level, if there is a player capable of picking up the powerup. There are five levels of powerups, and only by reaching certain combat levels will new levels of powerups begin spawning in the level. It's noteworthy to mention that any player at any level can pick up a powerup, provided that they have an available slot and aren't already using another powerup of the same category. This is important, because it means that the second the lead player reaches a level that unlocks new powerups, anybody can grab one and use it. The following is a list of the standard Proelium powerups and their properties.
Starting a Game The ultimate goal with Proelium DeathMatch is to be the first to attain a certain Combat Level. When starting a server, or just an instant action game, the Game Rules page has two new options that you can set - Combat Level Goal and Starting Combat Level. The first sets the combat level players must reach in order to win, and the second sets the starting combat level for all players. |