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+				THE MARCHER FORTRESS
+				====================
+			     
+				   By Ben Wooding
+
+
+Description
+===========
+
+Single player level for Quake, with many custom gameplay additions.
+
+Coop and Deathmatch are not supported.
+
+This map was designed primarily for high capacity engines, such as Bengt Jardrup's Win/GLQuake variants, and LordHavoc's DarkPlaces.
+However, I have gone to great lengths to ensure that the map is at least playable in FitzQuake, and the original Win/GlQuake,
+although packet overflow and sound loss may be abundant in the larger battles, and many ambient sounds throughout the level may not appear.
+Other engines are not considered "supported", i.e. I cannot guarantee that the map will appear or function correctly in engines other than those mentioned.
+
+To make things easy, with his permission, I have included Bengt Jardrup's latest Win/GLQuake variants inside the zip file.
+These are the recommend engines for playing The Marcher Fortress. The map is guaranteed to run smoothly in these engines with no problems AFAIK.
+
+Updates to Bengt Jardrup's engines can be found here: http://user.tninet.se/~xir870k/
+
+
+The Story
+=========
+
+After narrowly escaping the great Bastion of the Underworld, you find yourself wandering for days in the desolate uplands of the Marcher Vale,
+a seemingly endless vista of mountainous rock, and labyrinthine caves. An icy wind from the North carries with it flecks of crumbled mortar,
+and the remains of tattered flags. Against all instinct, you find yourself drawn onwards to the the source of this fell wind. As you approach,
+the distant shrieks of elder demons warns you that another Bastion looms, one even older and greater than the last.
+
+
+Installation
+============
+
+Unzip pak0.pak and autoexec.cfg to quake\marcher\
+
+Start your Quake engine of choice with the command line:
+
+-heapsize 48000 -game marcher +map marcher +skill x (where x = 0/1/2/3)
+
+
+The Autoexec File
+=================
+
+For your convenience, an autoexec.cfg file is supplied externally to the pak file.
+This sets important graphics-related cvars.
+
+
+Gameplay Changes
+================
+
+- Ammo-carrying capacity has been increased to 250 for all ammo types.
+
+- Faster axe attack, making it a more useful weapon.
+
+- New monsters: Flak Ogres, Imps, Spiders, Gaurochs.
+
+
+Impulse Commands
+================
+
+Please note that there are many developer-oriented impulse commands which I have not documented, some of which set cvars which are saved
+to the config file on exiting Quake. Accidentally activating these impulses can cause the map to crash on restarting
+- if you encounter this, just type:
+
+"saved1 0"
+
+At the console, and restart the level.
+
+
+Impulse 152:	Toggle Entity Grouping
+		======================
+		Entity grouping is ON by default; this enables a form of edict compression that allows the map to be playable
+		in engines without increased MAX_EDICTS. It should have no visible effect on gameplay. If you turn entity grouping OFF,
+		be warned; the map will only be loadable in high-capacity engines, and you will most likely suffer a performance hit.
+		Requires a map restart.
+
+Impulse 153:	Corpse Remove All
+		=================
+		All corpses in the map will be removed after a short delay. 
+
+Impulse 154:	Corpse Remove Custom
+		====================
+		This is the default (and recommended) corpse removal setting - corpses are removed according to game progression.
+
+Impulse 155:	Corpse Remove None
+		==================
+		For high capacity engines only. No corpses are removed (except those of Gauroch Spawned monsters).
+
+Note that these settings are saved to the config file after exiting Quake.
+
+
+Other Notes
+===========
+
+This map features a monster and item count in excess of what would would normally be possible in Quake. 
+To avoid reaching the max. edict limit, most entities are now spawned mid-game according to player progression.
+ - be warned though - noclipping around the map will probably not fire the correct triggers and has been known to cause a crash.
+
+If you play through the level normally, you'll be fine.
+
+
+
+Compile Tools Used
+==================
+
+TreeQBSP, Light and RVis by Bengt Jardrup.
+
+Known Issues
+============
+
+- A number of bad shadows (dark triangles), mostly on the terrain brushes. I have tried really hard to minimise these,
+but the ones that remain were *really* stubborn.
+
+- Loss of ambient sounds in engines without increased sound capacity.
+
+- There are a couple of bmodels that seem to straddle vis portals. This causes them to dissapear in certain views.
+This issue only manifested itself after the fullvis was completed (which took 140 hours o_O), so I can't really fix it for this release.
+
+- You can't gib spiders, because I felt they looked silly using the standard gibs. I never did get around to making custom spider gibs.
+(oh well, you can't gib fish either ^_~)
+
+
+
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+Thanks to: 	id Software
+		Raven Software
+		Epic Megagames
+
+Thanks to Bengt Jardrup (user.tninet.se/~xir870k) for his compile utils, and all-round help on this project.
+Thanks to Kell (kell.spawnpoint.org) for encouragement, beta-testing, and awesome textures.
+Thanks to necros (www.planetquake.com/necros) for sound support.
+Thanks to Vondur (www.vondur.net) for beta-testing.
+
+
+
+Contact Info
+============
+
+email: (bdwooding -at- gmail -dot- com)
+
+
+Copyright/Permissions
+=====================
+
+You may only distribute this pack in the form of this zip file, with this text file included
+	
+You may NOT include this pack as part of a larger release without my permission.
+
+You may NOT distribute this pack for any commercial purposes.
+
+
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