RtCW - Single Player
Map series Alone At War - Offlag, (Final) levels 1, 2, 3 and 4
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Important info: --------------- "Offlag" series are rather
hard maps to fight your way through. If you are new baby to RTCW I advise you
play retail game first before trying this maps. In "Offlag" you
will be required to use different tactics, ... and choose your weapons wisely,
depending on situation. Each drop of your blood will be precious so running on
the enemies hoping they will miss you will be stupid. You will have to think...
and plan your strategies! I scripted enemies so they can have much freedom
to make its own decisions. Levels are now even more "independent" and
you can play them several times and each time you will encounter different configuration
and strategies of enemy. This is specially enforced in level 3 and 4. Reach
in natural environment scenarios and detailed maps and are very important to me.
This is why you may find "Offlag" series to have heavy toe on your
computer if your processor is under 800Mhz and you have not the best video card.
Computers evolve very fast but mapping takes long time. This is why I try rather
make more complex maps instead of maps low in detail that may be nice played on
some old systems now, but in one year will be too odd and empty. I will
recommend minimum processor of 800Mzh. with full multimedia support. Your video
card MUST be AGP, OpenGL compatible and should have minimum 32Mb Ram. Personally
I love GeForse cards. My GeForce2 Titanium card although a bit old has 6.4GB/sec
memory bandwidth 64Mb DDR memory and handles 31M triangles/sec. This is far more
that you need to play those maps. Because 3 of 4 maps are outdoor maps you
may encounter height polys. "Top" visual places can have as much as
38.000 polys. Official map "forests" I believe have about 24.000 at
maximum. -------------- Installation: -------------- Put sp_offlag_levels_1-4_final.pk3
and aaw.bat file into "AAW" directory under your "Return to Castle
Wolfenstein" directory. Not under "main" directory. C:\yourdir\Return
to Castle Wolfenstein\aaw Or C:\program files\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\aaw Depends
where you have installed RtCW Start the game by batch file "aaw.bat" (If
you have more questions about installation or map will not start read at the end
of this document). ----------- Thanks to: ----------- www.rtcwfiles.com
forum special thanks to: Gregeff, DesmondMorris, GHAST MANOR, pizpot (aka philby),
Techman. Thanks to Tram Design mapping forum for helping me so much: Tunnleram,
OSIAS, DACROW, Fargo_NL, B0ltyB0y, Rummie, GHAST MANOR, BrockTree, omnix32w, nib,
and many others. Sorry if I forget to mention you. ----------------------
Resources and credits: ---------------------- Additional wonderful textures
(thx man for doing this): - Surface Texture Pack 1 All textures made
by eyeronik copyright 2002 http://www.planetwolfenstein.com/surface RtCW
prefabs: - Military shelf by mike hartwig Aka Grunt (mike.hartwig@attbi.com)
- Barrel by mike hartwig Aka Grunt - Hanging clouds by Grunt Q3/RtCW
Models: - Celtic Cross by Oak - Oak@abonados.cplus.es http://www.planetquake.com/OakShiro/
- Skeletons Model Add-on for Quake 3: Arena by Kevin Kolk aka Cyber kkolk@accn.org,
http://www.accn.org/~kkolk/ Sounds: - Leaves1, leaves2, leaves3,
leaves4 by Todd gentler - toddg@slip.net --------------------- Know
bugs, problems: --------------------- Level 2 - Light in large room
is not the best. Need some more work to fix it. Level 3 - Unknown bug, problem,
issue where at some times models of MG gun and other small arms guns can blink.
However this will not happen often if at all. I don't know how to fix it yet. Level
3 - After many "quick" save/load's the screen can go very light and
game performance bad. I don't know why this happens? Maybe 4 pivot lights are
too much for the engine? If this will happen to you, you must start level 3 from
beginning. If you don't have "normal" savings take down console and
write: \spmap aaw3 Thank you for downloading and playing those maps KoS
kos@vestlandet.com http://www.nem3d.net/kos http://kos.nem3d.net ------------------------------
Installation additional info: ------------------------------ Some get
confused with installation so I will explain it again: You just make directory
"aaw" under Return to Castle Wolfenstein" directory and put
there file: sp_offlag_levels_1-4_final.pk3 and aaw.bat file. Start
game with aaw.bat file It's important that directory "aaw" will
be under your "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" directory. Such directory
you get if you don't modify paths when you install original RTCW. On
my comp I have RtCW in: c:\Program files\Return to Castle Wolfenstein just
add directory "aaw" to it c:\Program files\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\aaw and
put sp_Offlag_levels_1-4_final.pk3 + aaw.bat file there and start with aaw.bat -----------------------
Why such installation?? ----------------------- This is Single Player
map. SP mapping lays under different engine "rules" that Multiplayer
maps. 1. Placing *.pk3 file along with start-up *.bat file in separate directory
under \Return to Castle Wolfenstein\aaw is necessary evil. SP engine seems to
be programmed in such way that number of options like mission briefing, notebook,
clipboards hanging on walls along with other thinks don't work if not placed in
separate directory. If I would like to place pk3 file under \Return to Castle
Wolfenstein\main folder, as this is case for Multiplayer then I will have to edit
and include with my map main pak0.pk3 file (308Mb.), which is of course not possible.
More easy is to place my *.pk3 file is separate folder. 2. All user quick
saving and saving in general along with screenshots and custom config of the game
will be save in separate directories under "aaw" directory. This is
very comfortable for the player. His/her savings of game will not be mess up with
retail version. 3. This type of sp map installation is applied by other
mappers, which cares to bring to public fully utilized sp mapping experience IMPORTANT: If
you installed those maps as I instructed you to do and still they don't work that
means your game is screw-up. RtCW is quickly screw-up if you downloaded different
files to main directory from Internet. You should reinstall entire game and apply
latest patch. After that everything will work fine. Latest patch: http://www.rtcwfiles.com/file.info?ID=3230 You
can find forum discussion about my previous SP maps "Along At War - Offlag
levels 1,2,3 BETA and installation here: http://www.rtcwfiles.com/file.info?2897#18117 Return
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