Contents

1. Installation
2. Enhanced Items
3. Enhanced Relics
4. Compatibility with other mods/mutators

Installation

Requirements

• Unreal Tournament (tested with version 436 only, probably works with earlier versions, too)
• Relics (included in Bonus Pack 1 and in the GOTY edition of UT)

UMOD Installation

Just open the UMOD file and the UT setup program should start.
If this doesn't work you can either try to repair your UMOD file association or download the non-UMOD version.

ZIP installation

The ZIP file contains directory structures, so just extract all files to your Unreal Tournament base directory with the "expand folders" option enabled.
If you want to host multiplayer games you also have to add the following lines to UnrealTournament.ini:

ServerPackages=EnhancedItems
ServerPackages=EIConfigWindow
ServerPackages=EIChallengeHUD
ServerPackages=EIBotpackUpgrade  ; for the Enhanced Items mutator and weapons
ServerPackages=EnhancedRelics    ; for the Enhanced Relics mutator

Enhanced Items

The Enhanced Items package contains new versions of all UT weapons and some items and the Relics mutators.

New / improved features

Weapons:

• Improved death messages for direct hits, splash damage and head shots
• Impact Hammer can do head shots
• Enforcer can be reloadable
• Bio Rifle slime drips down from ceilings
• Shock Rifle laser builds up faster and has a blue light effect
• Pulse gun plasma stream has a green light effect
• Ripper has new death messages for head shots
• Minigun ejects bullet shells for every ammo point used
• Ejected shells from Enforcer, Minigun and Sniper Rifle stay around longer, Minigun ejects shells for every shot fired
• Ammo LEDs of Minigun, Flak Cannon and Rocket Launcher start blinking when low on ammo
• Rocket Launcher has new method for launching its rocket (also works when firing up-/downwards)
• Chainsaw alt fire mode only causes head shot anouncement when head really was hit

Other features:

• Damage Amplifier surrounds the weapon with purple glow (only works with new weapons)
• Shieldbelt surrounds the weapon with the shield glow (only works with new weapons)
• Improved player status icon with better support for the boss model (body armor was not drawn correctly), shows additional items (belts, toxin suits, etc.)
• AntiGrav boots can be turned on and off (see Configuration below)
• Weapons can be affected by more than one item at the same time (they combine their effects), i.e. you can use the Damage Amplifier together with the Relic of Strength
• Inventory items may change the speed of their owner and his/her weapon (again multiple items can combine their effects; this fixes a bug in the original relics, see Enhanced Relics)
• Reactivated select prev/next and activate item keys (see Configuration below)

Configuration

Enhanced Items provides a Weapon Priority menu which can be helpful when you use other weapon mods like Chaos UT or Rockets UT.
To configure Enhanced Items use Mod -> Configure Wormbo's Mods.

Options of the Global tab:

• Auto-Use Holdables
  Holdable powerups will be used automatically when useful.
  These are special inventory items that do not activate on pickup but when you press the Use Holdable key. They do not have to be selected to be activated but you can carry only one Holdable powerup at a time.
  (Holdables are used in some of my other mods. They are not included in this package.)
• Draw effect over weapon
  This allows the shieldbelt and the damage amplifier to surround the weapon with a glowing aura. These effects only work when using the new shieldbelt/amplifier together with the new weapons.
• Display enhanced status icon
  This replaces the default player icon to display additional armor types and items, e.g. the grav belt of Chaos UT. This also fixes the boss model's status icon.
• Drop some visual effects
  This removes some graphically heavy effects or replaces them with simpler ones, e.g. the amount of smoke rockets produce is lowered and certain light effects are disabled.
• Keep lighting effects
  When this option is enabled light effects will NOT be dropped in situations with low frame rate or when Drop some visual effects is enabled. This option might be useful when playing on dark maps or with a Dark Match game or mutator.
• Distance Display, Decimal separator
  Select the format to display distances in. This is used by Rockets UT, the Enhanced Items Redeemer and others.

• Make Enforcer reloadable
  The Enforcer will use clips with 20 rounds of ammo each. After using up a clip it has to be reloaded.
• Bouncing Translocator target
  The target's physics are changed, so it bounces off any surface as long as it is fast enough.
• Claw primary fires shrapnel
  The Claw acts like the Flak Cannon in regular firing mode. (Fire metal chunks instead of flak shells)

The keys for selecting and activating items can be set from Options -> Preferences -> Controls.

• Use Holdable
  This key activates the Holdable powerup you carry. If you don't have any this key acts like the next one.
• Use Item
  This key activates or deactivates the currently selected inventory item.
• Select Next/Prev. Item
  Selects the next/previous item in your inventory list. Only activatable items like the AntiGrav boots or some Unreal items (flares, flashlight, dampener, etc.) can be selected.

Enhanced Relics

Description

The relics coming with the first bonus pack for UT have two annoying bugs: First, when you have the AntiGrav boots and pick up the Relic of Speed, the boots get disabled. You still hear the jumping sound, but you don't jump as high as you should. With Enhanced Items and Enhanced Relics these two items work together properly.
The other bug is the relic hud mutator. This hud mutator does not allow other mutators to draw on the hud, unless these are specially designed to work with the relic hud mutator. But this means that mods using such hud mutators require the relics package to be installed. This behavior of the relic hud mutator is explained easily: The relics package was written to be compatible with UT v400 where there was a poor support for hud mutators so they had to "re-invent the wheel". Enhanced Relics uses the standard UT support for hud mutators and is compatible to other "normal" hud mutators.

Since Enhanced Relics are not selected through separate mutators but added via a special selection menu you can activate remote configuration support to select relics from the web-based remote server administration panel. (see Configuration)

Configuration

Enhanced Relics are configured from Mod -> Configure Wormbo's Mods -> Relics.

• Allow Relic configuration from Remote Server Administration
  This adds the option to select relics to the remote administration console.
• Relic of Speed alters weapon speed
  The Relic of Speed should not only make the player faster but also speed up his/her weapon.
• Relic of Strength combines with Damage Amplifier
  The Relic of Strength may be picked up while using the Damage Amplifier and vice versa.
• Select Relics
  Open the Select Relics window.
  

To use enhanced relics in your game, you have to add the Enhanced Relics mutator to the list. You will now play with the relics you selected in the Mods menu. By default all relics will be used.

Compatibility with other mods / mutators

In general, you should put the Use Enhanced Items mutator behind all other mutators that replace items to avoid problems with those mutators.

Frag*Ball

The new Relic of Redemption is compatible to Frag*Ball. The ball will be dropped when the owner is saved from death.

Lifespan mutator

Using the Lifespan mutator (or the Rockets UT LifeSpan Fun Mode) changes the following aspects of gameplay:

• Biorifle shots will not explode in mid-air and stay on surfaces for up to 10 seconds
• Pulsegun primary range is heavily increased
• Ripper blades may reflect off walls infinite times for 10 seconds
• Flak shapnel stays around 5-7 seconds (adds about twice the range)
• Rockets, Shock Rifle balls and Flak shells detonate on impact only
• Grenades detonate after 9.5 to 11.0 seconds instead of 2.5 to 3.0 seconds

Other Mods

The Enhanced Items Mod also has special support for the following other mods:

• SlaveMaster
• Team Last Man Standing
• Rocket Arena

Please mail me if you have questions or ideas concerning my mods.
Also check my homepage for the latest versions of my mods for UT and UT2003.

Have fun.