Index
Visual Features
New menu 'NETPLAY OPTIONS'
New mini-hud
In-game clock
Player name on HUD
Death Notifications
Player Colors
Target Names
Command line Features
Starting weapon
Frag and Time limits
Security Features
Blocked speed abuse tricks
Blocked custom .art files
BUG Fixes
Known bugs
Stuff planned for the future
More info on the Team Modes subsection.
New menu 'NETPLAY OPTIONS'
Inside the menu 'OPTIONS'.
This lets you set most of nDuke's new features without having to mess with console commands.
New mini-hud
Display key cards if in Single Player / COOP
Display all inventory
Display all weapons and ammo
Switch with +/- keys to display new huds
| Color | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 |
Normal | Current weapon |
 |
Blue | Has weapon AND ammo |
 |
Red | Has weapon but no ammo |
 |
Black | Doesn't have weapon |
In-game clock
A simple counter for game time
Console command CLOCK #, where # is the mode (1 = ON, 0 = OFF)
Player name on HUD
The name of the current player being spyed is shown at the bottom-left corner of the screen, right above the HUD
If not watching a demo or spying someone on Coop/Team modes then nothing is shown, to avoid confusion
Death notifications
Death notifications just like Counter-Strike or Team-Fortress
It shows who killed who and the weapon used
Can be set on the 'NETPLAY OPTIONS'
Console command FRAGMESSAGES #, where # is as follows (0 = Old style, 1~10 = Amount of frag messages to show)
Player colors
Can be set on the 'NETPLAY OPTIONS'
Console command COLOR #, where # is the color number
Command line -color #, to start the game already using a color
NFLAG bit 2 to disable in game color changes
| Number | Color | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | - | Auto |
| 1 |  |
Blue |
| 2 |  |
Red |
| 3 |  |
Green |
| 4 |  |
Gray |
| 5 |  |
Dark Gray |
| 6 |  |
Dark Green |
| 7 |  |
Brown |
| 8 |  |
Dark Blue |
| 9 |  |
Bright Red |
| 10 |  |
Yellow |
Target Names
Displays the opponent's name when aiming at them.
Can be set on the 'NETPLAY OPTIONS'
NFLAG bit 8 to disable it from the current session (balance measure)
Starting weapon
The start weapon can now be changed, so at every respawn duke will start with that weapon instead of spawning with a pistol
Command line /startweapon#, where # is the weapon number
| Number | Weapon | Name | Ammo |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Kick | - |
| 2 |  |
Pistol | 48 |
| 3 |  |
Shotgun | 10 |
| 4 |  |
Chaingun | 50 |
| 5 |  |
RPG | 5 |
| 6 |  |
Pipebomb | 5 |
| 7 |  |
Shrinker | 10 |
| 8 |  |
Devastator | 15 |
| 9 |  |
Tripbomb | 5 |
| 10 |  |
Freezer | 25 |
| 11 |  |
Expander | 20 |
Frag/Score and Time limit
Displays a banner and plays duke music when a player reaches the defined frag/score ammount or when the time limit is hit
When the banner is displayed, all players scores are blocked and the Flag on CTF Modes can't be captured
Command line /y##, where ## is the frag/score ammount (1~99)
Command line /k###, where ### is a number in minutes, max of 960 (16 hours)
Blocked speed abuse tricks
In DOS Duke, the movement limiter is set at 90 units for both forward and strafe axes of movement.
But playing normally with keyboard and mouse, you can only get 80 units on both forward and strafe axis.
You could also get the 90 units on strafe axis only by using an advanced (yet limited) technique called strafe50.
Only joystick users could abuse the maximum of 90 units of movement on both forward and strafe axes so they had an advantage.
The default limit on nDuke is 80 so players that use keyboard and mouse won't be at disadvantage.
For more info on that, go to: http://www.multi-players-zone.com/playerspeeds.htm
Command line /oldspeedlimit enables the old speed limit (90 units)
So you cheaters can be happy again.
Every player must accept this or the match wont start
Blocked custom .art files
In DOS Duke, it's possible to edit the game graphics and play online normally.
Some players would abuse this by editing certain graphics.
For example, the player sprites, by replacing the transparent color with a fullbright color so they can see their opponents from far away very easily.
This gives them a lot of advantage.
This is blocked by default in nDuke.
Command line /allowtiles enables the usage of custom .art files
So you cheaters can be happy again.
Every player must accept this or the match wont start
- [xDuke] Expander's auto-aim now works properly on the bullets only auto aim mode (now renamed to hitscan only)
- [DOS Duke]If the player dies drowning and respawns on an underwater area, he wont spawn drowning (the air_left counter is reseted)
- [DOS Duke]When a player dies from an expander explosion, the frag doesnt go anymore for the player that was expanded, but instead goes to the player with the expander
- The current demo format doesn't save name/color/team changes. Changing name/color while recording is harmless, but team changes can cause serious desyncs... Dunno if i'll ever tweak the demo format, but for the time being make sure to use NFLAGS 2+4 to block color/team changes if you want to record a demo.
- Save demos on a /demos folder, with dynamic names (date, map, etc)
- Save the chat on demos (not sure if viable)
- Fix COOP's friendly fire OFF feature (so you can kill yourself normally) and then put support for it on team modes
- Automatic screenshots when quitting the game or when the frag/time limit is hit
- Some sort of option to disable draw games when using time limit