02/08/99 Menace moves the bar higher to 126 frags. How high can he go?

Zeke "Chinageek" Sikelianos turns in his score, 99 frags. What is truly amazing about this score is that Gammathon1 was the first time Zeke every played deathmatch quake in his life. Guess he's been practicing. 

02/03/99 Reaperbot Challenge is up, Frag on. 

Install the ReaperBot (rpbot) modification for Quake1.  You can get it from the Essentail Files section at http://redwood.stomped.com or from http://impact.frag.com .

For those clueless about the ReaperBot mod, it adds computer generated deathmatch opponents to Quake1. They are tough. This challenge puts you in a 10 minute free for all match against 4 wimpy skill 0 bots. Should be no problem except, they are all ganged up against you. 
 

SETTING THINGS UP
 

Install and test the ReaperBot mod to quake. You will probably want to rename the "autoexec.cfg" file created in the rpbot directory. It has the annoying property of taking precedence over the autoexec.cfg file in the quake/id1 directory. The config.cfg file in the rpbot directory is ignored. If you have any tricky aliases or key binding script files that you exec at the Quake console, when you play quake, don't forget to put a copy of these files in the rpbot directory. Otherwise you won't have access to them. These usually are rocketjump macros etc. Once the game starts up, you can quickly type "exec myfile.cfg" to set these up before running reaperbot challenge .cfg file

Download the reaperbot challenge config file into your quake/rpbot directory.
 

gamrb1.cfg
 

Start up Quake1 ReaperBot with one of the following command line (in a dos window or by a windows shortcut)

quake -game rpbot -condebug

glquake -game rpbot -condebug

The -condebug option creates the log file "qconsole.log" in the quake/rpbot directory. New messages are appended to the end of the file so erase this file before you are log your challenge game.

Start the challenge by pulling down the console (~) and typing 

exec gamrb1.cfg

You will find yourself in level E1M7 with 4 reaperbots. At the end of the good game, capture the screen shot (F12) to document your score. If the reaperbots don't appear, try adding extra "wait" lines to the file. It took me several hours to construct a .cfg file that worked right. If you have any problems, let me know.

The demo file "gamrb1.dem" is also recorded in the rpbot directory. It is overwritten each time you run the game. Save the qconsole.log and gamrb1.dem file somewhere after you have logged your challenge entry.

Cheating

I know you guys are clever, can probably hack a fake log file and demo file so it looks like you generated 500 frags, or secretly run cheat codes etc. Don't bother. I don't want to waste my time on looking for this sort of stuff.  Let's keep this fun.

Submit your frag counts by e-mailing me at [email protected]

Please do not send me the qconsole.log or gamrb1.cfg file or the screen shot unless I ask for them. Just hang on to them. You guys will flood my mailbox.