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Bid For Power (BFP) is a quake 3 total conversion. We have taken quake 3 and used it to create a new game. In order to play BFP, you will need the full retail version of Quake 3 Arena by ID Software, but once you have that installed, our game is a free downloadable add-on. Bid For Power will run on any windows, linux, or mac computer that is capable of running q3 and has both the full q3 version and the 1.31 or more recent point release installed.
Bid For Power attempts to capture the feel of anime style ki fighting. In the first release of BFP, 6 of the strongest fighters in the universe enter the arena in a fight for domination.
Free for All
Free for All is a basic deathmatch game but with use of all the attacks and characters. Players are allowed to perform 20 different attacks as well as overpower opponents by engaging in power struggles.
Capture the Flag
Two teams compete to capture both flags and return them to their bases for points.
Team Last Man Standing
The players in a last man standing game start with all available attacks. Once a player is killed, he must wait until the end of the round before restarting.
Tournament Mode
In this mode, players fight 1 vs 1 battles while others wait as spectators.
Survival Mode
Survival mode is a faster paced tournament-style game. Two players fight. When one player dies, he is removed from the fight and the spectator who has been waiting longest enters the game. The winner does not get healed in between rounds, and the scores of spectators are visible. The first player to reach the fraglimit is the winner, and the map restarts in order to set the spawn power level back to the g_basepl setting.
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Power Level
Power level is how strong you are. Power level determines max health, max ki, movement speed, damage caused by attacks, and what attacks are available. The only way to get more power is to kill someone. When you die (in most game modes), your power level is reset to the average of all current power levels. When the game ends or the server restarts, the power level of the players is reset to the default.
Power Tiers
Power level is divided into tiers. While most power level effects are based on the power level itself, aura color and attacks available is determined by the tier.
- Tier 1: < 100,000 PL. Blue aura, only one ki attack available.
- Tier 2: 100,000 – 250,000 PL. Red aura, two ki attacks selectable.
- Tier 3: 250,000 – 500,000 PL. Red aura, three ki attacks selectable.
- Tier 4: 500,000 – 999,000 PL. Red aura, four ki attacks selectable.
- Ultimate Tier: 1 mil PL. Yellow aura, all attacks selectable.
Transformations
At 1 million power level, the transformation happens. The aura color turns yellow, and if the character has a transformation it occurs. Other than the benefits from increased power level, there is no additional benefit of the transformation.
Ki Energy
Ki is your stamina. Ki is used as ammunition for the ki attacks. Additionally, ki can be used to increase power, speed, jumping height, and special attacks by using the boost key. Ki can be charged in order to replenish it at any time by holding down the charge key. Beware, while charging you cannot move or attack, and are highly visible to other players.
Flight
BFP has a toggle able flight button. The default is "f" but it can be set in the controls menu. To begin flying, simply press f once, and once again to stop flying. While flying, you are able to move to wherever you look. The jump key will make you move up, and the crouch key will make you move down. Your ki drains at a steady rate. At low power levels you will need to limit your flight, while at high power levels you can fly all day. A large speed boost is gained by holding down the boost key.
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Hit Stun
While in hit stun, the player cannot move, attack, block, or charge. 3 seconds of hit stun is added when melee is used in combination with the boost key. 1 second of hit stun is added when the player runs out of ki. After 1 second, hit stun can be cancelled by teleporting. A player can not cause hit-stun directly after being attacked, and a player recovering from hit-stun has a short period where he can not be stunned again.
Teleportation
BFP has short-range teleportation which allows players to escape attacks and cover distance quickly. The teleportation is accomplished by double tapping movement keys.
Blocking
Blocking is performed by holding down the block key. Pressing block once causes the player to block for 2 seconds. Blocking drains ki quickly, but transfers all damage to ki instead of health. The player can not move while blocking, and can not block again immediately after stopping blocking.
Ki Attacks
Each character has 5 attacks. At the lowest power tier, the player only has one selectable attack. Each time the player advances to a new power tier, he gets a new selectable attack. By default, each of the numeric keys, 1-5, choose a different attack. Only one attack can be selected at a time, but switching between attacks is instant.
- Standard attacks: hold down fire and you fire.
- Charge-up attacks: hold down fire to start charging the attack, release fire to fire.
- Minimum charge-up attacks: same as charge-up attacks, but with a minimum
charge-up time. The ball of ki will appear in the player's hands once he is prepared
to fire.
- Beam attacks: a type of charge-up attack. Can only fire one beam at a time. After
firing, the player can aim the attack by moving the mouse.
- Homing attacks: these attacks will home in on the nearest opponent.
Attack Collisions
BFP attacks have actual dimensions, and will explode on contact with players. Mid-air attack collisions also happen. Two attacks that collide will damage each other, and the stronger attack will cause the other to explode. The exception is any beam attack, which will destroy any other attack that it makes contact with.
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| Characters and Background | |
Ryuujin
Once a man, Ryuujin is now half god. The swords he carries belonged to the dragon god, who cursed them when he was imprisoned by the elders. Ryuujin is driven by the swords to kill those who posess the ki power used to trap the demon. With each victim, Ryuujin becomes more powerfull, and falls further under the control of the swords. It is said that when all power in the world is destroyed, the human Ryuujin will be lost and the full power of the dragon god will emerge.
- Ki Blast: Standard weak ki blast with low cost.
- Tornado Blast: An invisible blast of energy with a
massive knock-back.
- Sky Seeker: A slow spherical homing attack that
accelerates when it finds a target.
- Earth Seeker: Multiple fast-firing homing ki blasts that
skim the ground.
- Heaven's Wrath: A devastating large beam attack.
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Shilo
Shilo's power comes from sheer force of will. He believes his destiny is to become the strongest fighter ever, and will let nothing stand in the way of his training. Shilo has no patience with lesser men, and lives in self-imposed exile in his mountain home waiting for a worthy challenger. His ultimate beam can crumble any mountain to dust.
- Ki Blast: Standard weak ki blast with low cost.
- Ki Cannon: A large blast of ki.
- Ki Storm: Multiple fast-firing ki blasts.
- Impact Beam: A concentrated beam attack that has a
massive explosion.
- Ultimate Beam: A giant and deadly beam attack.
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Tetsedah
Tetsedah has the power to control lightning, but his strongest energy comes from within. When he loses his temper, Tetsedah's rage takes physical form. When this happens anything in range of Tetsedah is instantly crushed into nothing. As a child he lost control and destroyed the temple where he and Shilo trained, resulting in the death of his master. Tetsedah wanders the world with no purpose.
- Ki Blast: Standard weak ki blast with low cost.
- Ball Lightning: A spherical and persistant homing
attack.
- Lightning Storm: Multiple fast-firing homing ki blasts.
- Lightning Blast: A relatively weak, low-cost beam
attack.
- Rage: A massive and continuous explosion around
Tetsedah.
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Pyrate
Pyrate was born with the ability to control seemingly random events. Untrained, Pyrate used his ability to make a living controlling dice games. He was discovered by Tetsedah and taken on as a student when a fight erupted after someone accused Pyrate of cheating. Pyrate was taught how to focus and condense his energy. He makes up for his limited strength through cunning and luck.
- Ki Blast: Standard weak ki blast with low cost.
- Blinding Flash: An attack that blinds players with a
large blast of light.
- Chaos Orb: 3 simultaneous homing attacks that
bounce chaotically.
- Splitting Orb: A missile that spawns multiple homing
balls when detonated.
- Razor Disk: A flat, circular plane of energy that cuts
through walls.
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Gothax
Gothax comes from unknown origins. He and his sister Kyah appeared seemingly out of thin air soon after Ryuujin's swords were uncovered. He is driven by a singleminded sense of purpose, and is seeking out the one who carries the swords. Gothax has incredible control over his ki, and is able to compress it to a pinpoint beam or to make it dance around his opponents.
- Ki Blast: Standard weak ki blast with low cost.
- Eye Beam: A continuous blast of power from the eyes.
- Energy Web: Multiple fast-firing ki blasts that form a
wall of energy.
- Devil Seeker: A fast and powerful homing attack.
- Corkscrew Beam: A highly condensed beam of energy.
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Kyah
Like her brother Gothax, little is known about the strangely cheerful Kyah. She follows her brother wherever he goes, but seems not to be paying attention until it is time for a fight. She has been seen admiring flowers immediately after dispatching an opponent with a piercing beam. Dispite her disposition, Kyah is not to be taken lightly. She can summon up unbelievable energy when she wants something destroyed.
- Ki Blast: Standard weak ki blast with low cost.
- Finger Blast: Fast firing, extremely fast moving ki
blasts from the fingers.
- Finger Beam: An extremely fast and powerful ki attack
fired from the finger.
- Homing Razor Disk: The homing version of the deadly
razor disk.
- Death Ball: A gigantic ball of bouncing ki.
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