Muff Mode BETA Muff Mode is a server-side mod for QUAKE II Rerelease providing an enhanced multiplayer experience.

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Overview

• Purpose-built for multiplayer server hosts, level designers, and players who want modern conveniences.
• Bundles refined match handling, new game entities and gametypes, and quality-of-life tweaks.
• Ships with configuration, bot, and map overrides ready to go out of the box.

Audience Snapshot

Server Hosts	Level Designers	Players™
Refined match handling, warmups, countdowns, and flexible admin controls.	Expanded map entities/keys and added gametypes to design around.	Enhanced HUD info and configurable settings.

Installation

1. Locate your installation. For Steam, this is normally C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Quake 2\rerelease.
2. Back up your baseq2/game_x64.dll.
3. Download the latest Muff Mode release.
4. Extract the entire zip to your Quake 2 folder (not rerelease); allow file replacements (unless you already have Muff Mode, this should only replace the .dll).
5. Load the game up as normal. A range of configs can be executed to apply settings once a game has been set up.
6. Once a lobby has been set up, execute the included server config via exec muff-sv.cfg.

What's in the Bag?

Muff Mode includes the game logic, a server config, bot files, and map entity overrides all straight out of the bag.

Feature Overview

• HUD & Scoreboard: Frag messages (with position), dynamic miniscores with scorelimit, timers, match state, help texts, message of the day, mini scoreboard.
• Game Menu: Join matches, change or vote on settings, and view mod/server info.
• Admin & Voting Controls: Broad controls for admins plus improved voting workflows.
• Match Handling: Conditional progression with warmups, readying, countdowns, post-match delays, sudden death, overtime, and more.
• Teamplay Enhancements: Auto-balancing, forced balancing rules, improved team handling, team join communication, POIs for major items and weapon drops, friendly-fire warnings.
• Map & Entity Control: Extensive control over map item spawns and entity string overrides.
• Spectating: EyeCam spectating with smooth movement and aim prediction (mostly!).
• Queues & Content: MyMap map queuing inspired by tastyspleen.net and official Muff Maps leveraging enhanced capabilities.
• Fixes & Tweaks: Bug fixes, balance updates, and a variety of new server settings.

Muff Maps

• Almost Lost [Alpha v1] (mm-almostlost-a1): Left out from Quake III: Arena's release, later finished and released as pro-q3tourney7. Streamlined for fast-paced FFAs and Duels.
• Arena of Death [Alpha v3] (mm-arena-a3): A small and simple gem from Quake III: Arena.
• Hidden Fortress [Alpha v4] (mm-fortress-a4): Small-to-medium-sized level connected via two teleporters. Originally created by Raster Productions for Quake III for Dreamcast, offering the revised layout found in Quake Live.
• Longest Yard [Beta v2] (mm-longestyard-b2): The quintessential space map from Quake III: Arena.
• Proving Grounds [Alpha v4] (mm-proving-a4): A small Duel map from Quake III: Arena.
• Vertical Vengeance [Alpha v2] (mm-vengeance-a2): A small Duel map from Quake III: Arena.

New Gametypes

• Horde: Battle waves of monsters; stay on top of the scoreboard while defeating up to 16 waves to be victorious! Note: currently does not handle limited lives.
• Duel: Go head-to-head with an opponent; the victor faces the next opponent in the queue.
• Clan Arena: Rocket Arena's famous round-based team elimination mode—no item spawns, no self-damage, and a full arsenal of weapons.
• CaptureStrike: A Threewave classic combining Clan Arena, CTF, and Counter Strike. Teams alternate attacking/defending and battle until one team is dead or the attackers capture the flag.
• Red Rover: Clan Arena style where teams change on death. When a team is eliminated, the round ends.

New Game Modifications

• Vampiric Damage: Gain health by inflicting damage. No health pickups; a draining health value keeps pressure high.
• Nade Fest: Grenade-only mode.
• Weapons Frenzy: Intensified combat with faster fire rates, faster rockets, regenerating ammo, and faster weapon switching.
• Quad Hog: Find the Quad Damage to become the Quad Hog!

Deathmatch Refinements

• Intermission pre-delay: a one-second intermission pre-delay shows your final frag or capture before scores tally (no damage or additional scoring during this delay).
• Minimum respawn delay: a short delay helps avoid accidental respawns and creates a smoother transition.
• Kill beeps and frag messages highlight your frags and rank.

Offhand Hook

• Added hook and unhook commands to use off-hand hook. Use g_grapple_offhand 1 to enable.
• Players can use alias +hook hook; alias -hook unhook; bind mouse2 +hook to use it as a button command.

Gameplay Tweaks and Fixes

• Instagib and Nade Fest now give players regeneration to recover from environmental damage, falling damage, etc.
• Quad and Protection player color shells no longer change depending on team, avoiding confusion.
• func_rotating: Rotating map entities now explode non-player entities such as dropped items (no more blocked rotator in dm5).
• Player Feedback: Added Fragging Spree award—broadcasted message "x is on a fragging spree with x frags" per every 10 frags achieved without dying or killing a team mate.
• Techs: fixed not being able to pick up your dropped tech.
• Blaster and Grapple are now droppable and can spawn in world.
• Current weapon is now droppable.
• Smart weapon auto-switch now moves to SSG from SG, CG from MG, and never auto-switches to chainfist.
• Instant gametype changing (e.g., from FFA to TDM).
• DuelFire Damage has been changed to Haste: 50% faster movement, 50% faster weapon rate of fire.
• Many more!

Rulesets

Alter the gameplay balance by changing the ruleset.

Quake II Rerelease (g_ruleset 1)

Everything remains as is.

Muff Mode (g_ruleset 2)

This ruleset tackles several imbalances in the original game:

• Plasma Beam DM damage reduced from 15 to 10; maximum range limited to 768 units (same as LG in Q3).
• Railgun: restored to 150 damage in campaigns; rail knockback equals damage*2 (no difference in DM).
• Slugs/Railgun: reduced slug quantity from 10 to 5 to encourage dynamic gameplay.
• Rockets: removed randomized direct rocket damage (rand 100-120); now a consistent 120.
• Invulnerability powerup replaced by Protection—no splash damage, full protection from slime damage, one-third protection from lava, half direct damage after armor protection.
• Adrenaline: item now also increases max health by 5 during deathmatch.
• Rebreather: increased holding time from 30 to 45 seconds.
• Auto Doc: regen time increased from 500 ms to 1 sec; only regens either health or armor at a time.
• Power Armor: CTF's 1 damage per cell now applies across deathmatch (originally 2 damage per cell in all DM bar CTF)—same protection but roughly twice the cell consumption.
• Powerup spawn rules: 120 sec respawn default, 30–45 (randomized) initial spawn delay, global spawn and pickup sounds, spawn and pickup messages.

Quake III Arena style (g_ruleset 3)

Inspired by Quake III Arena, this ruleset replicates key differences:

• Start with Machinegun and Rip Saw.
• Super Shotgun replaced by Shotgun.
• Weapon stats altered, including projectile velocity, spread, and damage.
• Ammo stats altered; ammo max is 200 for each type.
• Weapon pickup rule: +1 ammo if weapon is already held.
• Armor system: no tiers, +5 shard value, armor always provides 66% protection.
• Health and armor count down to max health.
• Spawning health bonus of 25.
• Removed Mega timer rule; Mega Health respawns after 60 seconds.
• Invulnerability powerup replaced by Protection—no splash damage, full protection from slime damage, one-third protection from lava, half direct damage after armor protection.
• Powerup spawn rules: 120 sec respawn default, 30–45 (randomized) initial spawn delay, global spawn and pickup sounds.

Commands and Variables

Admin Commands

Use [command] [arg] for the commands below:

• startmatch: force the match to start; requires warmup.
• endmatch: force the match to end; requires a match in progress.
• resetmatch: reset to warmup; requires a match in progress.
• lockteam [red/blue]: lock a team from being joined.
• unlockteam [red/blue]: unlock a locked team.
• setteam [clientnum/name]: force a team change for a client.
• shuffle: shuffle and balance teams, then reset the match (requires a team gametype).
• balance: balance teams without a shuffle; switches last-joined players from stacked team (requires a team gametype).
• vote [yes/no]: pass or fail a vote in progress.
• spawn [entity_name] [spawn_args]: spawn an entity (same as normal spawn server command) without requiring cheats.
• map: change the level to a specified map; map must be in the map list.
• nextmap: force level change to the next map.
• map_restart: restart current level and session; applies latched cvar changes.
• gametype [gametype_name]: change gametype, then reset the level.
• ruleset <q2re|mm|q3a>: change gameplay style.
• readyall: force all players to ready status (during readying warmup status).
• unreadyall: force all players to NOT ready status (during readying warmup status).

Client Commands – Player Configuration

Use [command] [arg]:

• announcer: toggle support of QL match announcer events (uses vo_evil set, needs converting to 22KHz PCM WAV).
• fm: toggle frag messages.
• help: toggle help text drawing.
• id: toggle crosshair ID drawing.
• kb: toggle kill beeps.
• timer: toggle match timer drawing.

Client Commands – Gameplay

• hook/unhook: hook/unhook off-hand grapple.
• followkiller: auto-follow killers when spectating (disabled by default).
• followleader: when spectating, auto-follow leading player.
• followpowerup: auto-follow player picking up powerups when spectating (disabled by default).
• forfeit: forfeits a match (currently only in duels, requires g_allow_forfeit 1).
• ready/notready: set ready status.
• readyup: toggle ready status.
• callvote/cv: call a vote (use vote commands).
• vote [yes/no]: vote or veto a callvote.
• maplist: show server map list.
• motd"": print the message of the day.
• mymap: add a map to the queue (must be a valid map from map list).
• team [arg]: select a team. Args:
  • blue/b: select blue team
  • red/r: select red team
  • auto/a: auto-select team
  • free/f: join free team (non-team games)
  • spectator/s: spectate
• time-in: cut a time out short.
• time-out: call a time out; only 1 allowed per player and lasts for value set by g_dm_timeout_length (in seconds). g_dm_timeout_length 0 disables time outs.
• follow [clientname/clientnum]: follow a specific player.

Vote Commands

Use callvote [command] [arg]:

• map: change the level to the specified map; map must be in the map list.
• nextmap: force level change to the next map.
• restart: force the match to reset to warmup; requires a match in progress.
• gametype: change gametype to the specified type (ffa|duel|tdm|ctf|ca|ft|rr|strike|lms|horde).
• timelimit: change timelimit to the minutes specified.
• scorelimit: change scorelimit to the value specified.
• shuffle: shuffle and balance the teams, then reset the match (requires a team gametype).
• balance: balance the teams without a shuffle; switches last-joined players from stacked team (requires a team gametype).
• unlagged: enable or disable lag compensation.
• cointoss: randomly returns either HEADS or TAILS.
• random: randomly returns a number from 2 to argument value, 100 max.
• ruleset <q2re|mm|q3a>: change gameplay style.