Name:           Yar's Revenge

Author:         Marc "LordDeath" Hanson

Beta Testers:	Joe "Karash" Brown
		Anthony "Nirvana" Galica
		Bueford "Buef" Petty
		Matt "WOLF" Vukovich
		
Date:           July 16, 1998
Build Time:     25 hours
Editor's Used:  Dmb 2.6

Description:    Yar's Revenge is a D1 level I made with a few things in mind.  First of all, I wanted a level that could be played at LAN fests, that could support high-quality multiplayer games, with a target player count of 4-6 players.  The level was designed with the ability to go as high as 8 people if necessary.  Besides LAN multiplayer games, the level was also designed to go well in 1 on 1 matches for the IDL ladder.  There was a delicate balance of weaponry that was planned out for several days, and revamped many times along the way.  The balance is mostly primary dependant, with few secondaries, but just enough to make it interesting.  Weapons were chosen to be plentiful, enough for everyone, but not stifling.  Fusion will be highlighted in this level, as there are 4 sausage slingers supplied.  However no weapon has an advantage in this level, due to the intense mix of dogfighting areas, hit-and-run tunnels for the rat bastids, and mind game traps and cut-off spots.  For example, one room has 4 ways in...a main door and 3 tunnels.  However, the tunnels all pass through a short see-through section, where a person in the room can see any rat bastid sneak in, or out.  Once they are in the room, they could be behind the walls, or up in the ceiling...you won't know where...but that's your problem :)  All I can tell you is if you don't see them leave...and they don't come into the room, they are still lurking there so watch out. 

As far as performance goes...it runs fine on my p1-166 and crappy video card, getting 20-30 fps in the dogfight rooms, 20 fps at the very worst case...and I play full screen, so even if your computer is slow, you should have an ok time with it.  All other areas have 30-60 fps on my system.  Faster PC's will rock here.

 Have fun with this and please if you play it let me know what you think!

Yar's Revenge contains:

6 Quad Lasers
14 Laser Powerups
2 Vulcan Cannons + No Extra Ammo
2 Spreadfires
4 Plasma
4 Fusion

0 Concussions
4 Homing Missiles
4 Smarties
2 Packs of Pbombs
2 Megas (Teasers, not accessible)
1 Cloak (Teaser, not accessible)
1 Invuln (Teaser, not accessible)

I worked very hard at this level, and it is my first real level since learning a mission builder.  If you have any comments please do send them to me at the e-mail addresses below.

**You may not copy any part of this level without the written consent of
myself, Marc Hanson...aka...LordDeath. Copyright, 1998**

mhanson@eng.utoledo.edu
ld@descent-rangers.com
http://www.descent-rangers.com