Magnum Lite Scaled down version of Magnum, take less ammo. Portal Gun It can open a portal on walls to let you get through. You'll like it in action.ĭisc A bouncing disc that can lop someone's head off.Īuto-shotgun 5 continuous shots at a time. Morning Star Finally, the morning star you've all been waiting for. Vampire axe Suck up enemy's health, and give it back to you. The weapons are the focus here, and I want to take the time to list each of them, direct from the mod's README: Super axe Super damage, but will hurt yourself as well. KQP had been polished to a lovely shine - something you couldn't say about other weapon compilation mods available at the time. That way you can't flee combat if you're about to die. For example, there's a short-range teleporter but it doesn't work if you have under 50 health. Then he went a step further, integrating them and balancing them for multiplayer in a way that made each one useful and powerful and interesting.
The dev, Howard Roy, collected nearly thirty weapon mods into one megapack. KQP, also known as Killer Quake Pack was and maybe still is the Mother Of All Quake Weapon Mods. Chris went from computer to computer with a Zip drive and a serial cable, transferring the mod files to each of us. Chris had an idea - we could play this Quake mod he'd found that he knew we'd love. After that first big stretch, we slept on couches and under the pool table and woke up ready for something new. Once we got rolling, we all stayed awake for 24 hours in a row. There was always someone who needed to reinstall Windows. Chris's mom made us all macaroni and cheese. Then together we played through most of the campaign in co-op. And then he spent an hour inducting the rest of us into the Temple of Inverted Mouse Aiming. First up was deathmatch, where one of the guys destroyed all of us so thoroughly we had to ask him what his secret was - he said it was mouselook. I was fifteen years old and this was my very first LAN party. The sounds were tantalizing - the rumble and bang of Quake, the crack of pop cans being opened, and the trash talk and laughter of my best and nerdiest friends. As I turned the corner at the bottom of the stairs, fifty pounds of leaded glass and electronics in my arms, I saw the bluish glow of half a dozen PCs set up around a ping pong table. I'd been invited to spend a few days at my friend Chris's house, and I was instructed to bring my computer and monitor and haul it down into his basement. It was winter break, between Christmas and New Years 1996-1997. Required soundtrack for this Cortex article: Heaven at 10BASE-T
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