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Title                   : The DarkSide Collection of Epic map conversions
Version                 : 1
Release Date            : March 31, 1999
Filename                : various
Converted by            : various Epic maps, converted by NarkyBark, see maps for authors
Email Address           : psarris@cesium.clock.org
Web Page                : http://www.clock.org/~psarris
Description             : A Deathmatch level thats floating in the ether... don't ask.
Where to get this map   : Umm... hopefully everywhere... but don't you have it already?
Other levels by author  : DmChessboard, DmDeity, DmEther, and DmCenobite
Additional Credits to   : Myscha, CliffyB, Alan and all of the original authors of the Epic
			: maps
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--- Play Information ---
Game                    : Unreal 
                                 
Level Name              : DarkCurse
			: DarkCybrosis
			: DarkDeck16
			: DarkElsinore
			: DarkFITH
			: DarkHealPod
			: DarkLoxi
			: DarkMojo
			: DarkMorbias
			: DarkRadikus
			: DarkSchrapnel
			: DarkTundra             

Single Player           : No
Cooperative             : No
Deathmatch              : Possible, although they were meant for Darkmatch...
Dark Match              : Yes!
Difficulty Settings     : No
New Sounds              : No
New Graphics            : No
Known bugs              : None known

--- Construction ---
Editor(s) used          : UnrealEd Beta
Base                    : The original Epic DM maps and Fusion map pack
Construction Time       : A few days


Installation
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   Unzip the the files.  Place them into your  directories under the unreal
   directory: the .unr file goes into the MAPS folder.

Author's Notes
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	A thread on the MegaBoard came up on how some people loved DarkMatch, yet there
were practically no levels for it.  I love stealth games myself, and upon searching for
DarkMatch maps, I found very very few of them.  I thought someone would have at least
converted the Epic maps to darkmatch, but no one had!  I only found 2 maps converted.
So... I thought I'd just convert them myself, and the result is what you have here.
	I didn't just remove all the lights, I took my time to take out all the torches
and lightsources, leaving all the slime, lava, skylights, etc. to give their own natural
glow and make nice effects.  The maps themselves are unchanged; the ONLY change I made
was to remove the invisibility in Cybrosis and replace it with an amplifier.  (I feel that
invisibility is unfair enough as it is, never mind in the dark!)  Any other changes I made
were purely for the light effect (changing Tundra to nighttime, changing the few lights
that remain in Morbias, adding light to the skylights in Mojo, etc.)  Because the maps
are the same, I decided not to give the levels a low ambient light (such as NightOp)
because since everyone now knows the levels by heart anyway, there would be no point in
making them DarkMatch if you still know where everything is anyway.  So, in areas without
a natural light source, it's now pitch black.  Fire up those searchlights and weapons!
	This isn't an attempt to rip off Epic maps, I hope it's not taken that way, this
is merely an attempt to get more DarkMatch action happening fast.  I would imagine that
everyone knows that these are the Epic maps anyway :)

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