What is Reliquary?
Reliquary is a challenging set of levels featuring new weapons and weapon balance. It is built off of the Copper mod as a base so expect all features from Copper to carry over as well. The current build is an alpha, released mainly to test the waters and see how players react to the new weapon balance and level of challenge.Reliquary Start (start.bsp)
What is New?
In this alpha version of Reliquary, all of the weapons have been improved across the board over their vanilla counter parts in some way:- Axe does double damage and has knockback
- Shotgun is now the Pistol, same damage but much higher rate of fire and less spread
- Supershotgun is now the Runic Shotgun, firing a huge 3 shot blast, but now with a longer reload cycle.
- Nailgun rate of fire increased
- Supernailgun rate of fire increased (Will be the Impaler in future versions)
- Grenade Launcher and Rocket Launcher have had a tiny damage boost so ogres always die in 2 shots.
- Inherits Copper's Lightning Gun pierce effect, lined up targets will all be zapped.
Otsegolation (reliq_otsego.bsp)
Difficulty
The goal of Reliquary was to push expectations of difficulty in Quake. Thus, all of the difficulties have been shifted ahead. Easy no longer exists, Skill 0 is now Normal. Skill 1 has become Hard and Skill 2 has become Very Hard. Copper's Nightmare returns in Reliquary, with the game being identical to Skill 2 (Very Hard), but now your health caps at 50 instead of 100. Finding secrets while playing on Nightmare is a borderline necessity to complete some maps.Majestic Miasma (reliq_miasma.bsp)
What's to come!
At the present, Reliquary is a side-project of mine and thus development isn't an active priority. In the future I hope to add:- More Maps
- New Monsters
- New original weapons
Installation
- Unzip the reliq folder into your base Quake directory (should be alongside your id1 folder)
- Launch your source port of choice. (Quakespasm or any forks of it are recommended. I like Iron Wail )
- Open the console, type
game reliq
into the field and press enter. You'll know it worked if the console background changed. - Start a new game!