Title:           No Stuns v1.0
Author:        Stefan Xenos
Email:          sxenos@gmail.com
Website:      http://www.theturingmachine.com/UT3/


About:
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This mutator removes most effects that knock the player down and cause
them to become unable to move for any period of time. All such effects 
have been replaced with other similarly-balanced effects.


Hoverboard:

The stun effect has been removed when the player is knocked off the 
hoverboard. Instead, the player takes falling damage for double their
forward velocity and is unable to use the hoverboard again for several
seconds. 


Redeemer:

Players in range of a redeemer that are not killed by its blast are normally
knocked prone for several seconds. This effect has been removed, which 
makes redeemers closer to the way the redeemer behaved in previous versions 
of UT.


Dark Walker:

The alt-fire on the dark walker is a stun with a 7 second recharge. This has 
been replaced by an damage-dealing attack with the same area of effect. 
The recharge has been reduced to 4 seconds and the knockback has
been increased significantly.


Installation:
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Extract the contents of the archive to 
My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame.

You should see "No Stuns" in the game's mutators menu.

If you find the new effects to be over or under-balanced, you can adjust 
their damage in the server's UTMutator_NoStuns.ini file.

This mutator will conflict with other mutators that do weapon replacement
(such as the No Redeemer mutator). If you want to use this mutator at the
same time as a redeemer replacement mutator, change ReplaceRedeemer to 
false in UTMutator_NoStuns.ini. 


Why did I write this mutator?
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When I play a game, I want to immerse myself in it from the time I sit
down at the keyboard until the time I get up. Stuns, respawn timers, 
unskippable cutscenes, and loading screens all break the immersion
by making the game non-interactive.

The Unreal Tournament series has generally been free of such 
annoyances, which is why I enjoy it so much. This mutator is my effort 
to make a great game better by removing some of the few frustrating 
elements that crept into UT3.

Please run this mutator on your server and encourage others to do so.


Copyright:
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You can use and redistribute this mutator in any way you see fit, 
provided you give me credit as the original author and leave this notice 
intact.
