Marine Express
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| Marine Express | |
|---|---|
| Author | Marcus Koller, James Sethorn |
| Port | ZDoom |
| Status | Released Monday, August 07, 2006 |
| Link | Download from official site |
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About
Marine Express was released on August 07, 2006 to resolve an ancient issue of smarter cooperative bots in the game. There was not initial request for this solution, however, more or else, extreme trolling and flaming to have cooperative supported in most doom engines.
SkullTag was a source port based on ZDoom, and yet completely based on ZDoom with Client/Server features as well parted with GZDoom’s OpenGL mode. Skulltag had scripted its own deathmatch bots to give players a good place to fight. The bots can range from new player skills to kill-on-sight skills.
ZDoom was the original flaming centralized community asking for cooperative bots, as ZDoom had already included bots configuration file known as CajunBots. The bots were as dumb as a new player. Completely aimless with a chance of hitting a monster one out of ten shots, if at all.
GZDoom, which is completely based off of ZDoom with only the new feature of 3D Floors and OpenGL has the same issue as above, that is why the wad is compatible with both ZDoom and GZDoom. There are issues if you are trying to run this wad under SkullTag as it may start acting up with invalid parameters and unknown decorate commands that have not been supported yet by SkullTag.
Expansion Pack 1
The StarCraft expansion pack was announced on March 29, 2008 after hard development of adding Video game characterized marines from. The first release contains StarCraft marines with sound packs included. The expansion pack uses a new skin to resemble the StarCraft marines along with the correct sounds. This expansion pack was finally released on April 14, 2008 with all Terran infantry units. This includes, but is limited to: Terran Marine, Terran Firebat, and Terran Ghost.
Expansion Pack 2
The Skulltag Expansion Pack was announced on April 17, 2008 and was released on April 21, 2008. This expansion pack includes four extra marines compatible with Skulltag only. It utilizes the Skulltag weapons and gives these new marines those weapons for an extra variety of cooperative bots. The final editing of this expansion pack was suppose to be short with no new features added, however, due to the nature of skulltag not recognizing various sound effects, the expansion has sound files added.
Marine Zeta Leaked
Marine Zeta is the sequel to the first release of Marine Express. Was suppose to be release in May 2008, but due various other work-arounds the project was held untill the end of July. The project will be officially released on July 25, 2008; however, it is available to other players via Doom Connector for the Special Edition which will be limited before the final released date.
