Elvish Pillager's Crazy Mod

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Eli Dupree, Elvish Pillager on the UQM forums, created an extensive mod of The Ur-Quan Masters that changes all Super Melee ships and even some of its rules. The most recent version of the mod can be found here.

Gameplay

Rule changes

• 14 planets at once instead of just one (half of the arena is covered with them, the other half is empty). They are destructible, having 42 hit points.
• 10 asteroids that sometimes home randomly in one of the players, annoying him (they don't home in the AI player).
• 30 ships per team instead of just 14.
• Destroyed ships keep inertia while exploding.

Ship changes

• Androsynth Guardian
  • Primary: Dual white laser, medium range, 1 damage, fast energy consumption
  • Secondary: Blazer mode, can be stopped at will
  • Super Melee cost: 24
• Arilou Wizard (former Skiff)
  • Special notes: Now has inertia
  • Primary + Up: Confusion ray (like the Melnorme Trader one)
  • Primary + Left: Fireball (explodes at impact or range limit, transforming into an explosion of lines that deal damage at impact)
  • Primary + Right: Magic missile (projectile that aims in the general direction of the enemy and deals 2 damage)
  • Secondary + Up: Safe teleport (may end up in the path of a projectile, though)
  • Secondary + Left: Summon Demon (a wall of fire is launched from the Wizard; it replicates up to a certain point. Contact does not deal damage, but stops ships and destroys homing weapons)
  • Secondary + Right: Renders ship invisible to homing weapons (both players may, though, see a marker at the Wizard's location)
  • Super Melee cost: 28
• Chenjesu Broodhome
  • Primary: Now is homing
  • Secondary: Now has point defense
  • Super Melee cost: 23
• Chmmr Avatar
  • Special notes: 9 ZapSats defending half of the ship
  • Primary: Triple focused X-Ray laser
  • Secondary: Faster tractor beam
  • Super Melee cost: 39
• Druuge Mauler
  • Primary: Shoots faster, pushes impacted ship backwards much more violently
  • Secondary: Unchanged
  • Super Melee cost: 15
• Earthling Cruiser
  • Primary: Faster MX missile
  • Secondary: Faster point defense, no energy cost
  • Super Melee cost: 38
• Ilwrath Avenger
  • Special notes: Very fast. Especially adept at gravity whips.
  • Primary: The flamethrower now shoots in five different directions
  • Secondary: Unchanged
  • Super Melee cost: 41
• Kohr-Ah Marauder
  • Primary: Now homes in to the enemy when released (high speed)
  • Secondary: FRIED blasts last much more and destroy planets on touch
  • Super Melee cost: 47
• Melnorme Trader
  • Primary: Starspray — a spray of random Melnorme projectiles of various sizes/colours
  • Secondary: Now is cheaper
  • Super Melee cost: 21
• Mmrnmhrm X-Form
  • Primary: Extremely powerful quadruple laser
  • Secondary: Change to Y-Form (whose primary is unchanged)
  • Super Melee cost: 32
• Mycon Podship
  • Special notes: Automatic, faster regeneration (still costs energy, but less)
  • Primary: Now can be held a-la-Kohr-Ah Marauder before being released (granting it speed and invincibility at the expense of homing), after which it behaves like a normal Mycon plasmoid.
  • Secondary: Consumes energy, but does nothing.
  • Super Melee cost: 37
• Orz Nemesis
  • Special notes: An invincible Space Marine spawns with the Nemesis, attacking the enemy ship.
  • Primary: Double bazooka
  • Secondary: For 7 seconds the Nemesis is indestructible and damages anything it hits. Gulps all energy.
  • Super Melee cost: 43
• Pkunk Fury
  • Special notes:
    • Slows down the game
    • Takes only 1 point of damage from planets
    • Now regenerates energy normally
  • Primary: Unchanged
  • Secondary: Does nothing.
  • Super Melee cost: 36
• Shofixti Carrier
  • Special notes:
    • Now looks like the Vindicator
    • Automatically regenerates crew at a medium pace (unless it has only the captain remaining on board)
  • Primary: Tri-directional Mendokusai machine gun
  • Secondary: Launches a Scout which explodes when the Special button is released (costs 6 crew and half the battery). The Scout destroys planets upon impact.
  • Super Melee cost: 25
• Slylandro Probe
  • Special notes: Now has inertia and normal turning
  • Primary: Launches 8 non-homing nukes forward
  • Secondary: Does nothing.
  • Super Melee cost: 27
• Spathi Eluder
  • Primary: Disperses a very large number of normal Spathi forward bullets. Gulps all energy.
  • Secondary: Faster B.U.T.T. missile with a longer range that kills 3 crew
  • Super Melee cost: 35
• Supox Blade
  • Primary: Shoots with 3 invincible Glob bullets.
  • Secondary: Moves away from the enemy (normal thrust and turn may be applied)
  • Super Melee cost: 26
• Syreen Penetrator
  • Special notes: Has an invincible ZapSat and a "mace" (which uses Blazer graphics) with inertia sticked to the ship via a purple rope. Collision with either the mace or the rope deals damage (note that they are not solid — may be passed through).
  • Primary: Short-range laser that bends towards the enemy
  • Secondary: Forces enemy ship to turn and thrust towards the Penetrator.
  • Super Melee cost: 42
• Thraddash Torch
  • Primary: Non-homing shot with afterburner
  • Secondary: Homing shot with afterburner (costs more energy and reloads slower)
  • Super Melee cost: 30

See Also

• Complete version history of mod
• The Pillager's Den
• "New crazy mod" thread at the UQM forums