Anomaly 2004 Beta 0.5
Unreal Tournament 2004 mod by RS team
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http://www.anomaly-faction.com

Installation
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	For Win32, we recomend downloading the Win32 Installer, it will first clean up uneccesary old files from the previous version if it exist. Then it will also add Start Menu Program Shortcut to run as Client, or Dedicated Servers after the Installation completed.
	The Zip package contains full installation, using a group batchfile to launch either Client and Dedicated Servers. The Batch file is located in the UT2004\Anomaly folder. It is necessary to uninstall the previous Installation of Anomaly alpha 0.4 first, if you have it installed, if uninstallation doesnt work, you can manually delete the mod files listed at the end of this readme file.

About the game
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	Anomaly 2004 is a hi-speed futuristic hovercraft racing game. Currently the game supports Single Player mode, LAN play,internet play against players, and internet play against players and bots. This version comes with 6 hovercrafts, 8 maps, 3 single slot weapons, 3 dual-slot weapons, and Mines. Configure your hovercraft in the Vehicle Configuration Tab before hosting a server / Joining a game.
	Gameplay is very simple, you can shoot at other hovercraft to inflict damage which ultimately will break down the opponent if they are severely damaged. Once the opponent breaks down, it will require some time to recover its health and ammo.


Controller input
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** IMPORTANT NOTE : PLEASE CONFIGURE YOUR BUTTON SETTINGS BEFORE RUNNING THE GAME FOR THE FIRST TIME **
** CONFIGURATION CAN BE FOUND IN SETTINGS MENU -> INPUT -> CONFIGURE CONTROLS **
Anoamly 2004 controller input comes with default configuration as follow :
	W 		=	Throttle
	S		=	Reverse / Brake
	A,D		=	Turn Left / Right
	C		=	Switch Camera View
	R		=	Toggle Rear View Mirror
	Space Bar	=	Turbo Boost
	Shift 		=	Drop Mines
	Mouse Scroll	=	Switch Weapon
	Left Mouse Click  = Fire
	Right Mouse Click = Alternate Fire 

Go to the player settings to configure your keys for turbo boost, mines and other Anomaly related keys if you wish to customise your own settings. 



Beta Patch 0.51 Release Notes
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- Begin Button bug for Single Player qualification rounds
- Log files Accessing none log comes from HUD bug
- Non-transparent Speed and Health Bar
- Turbo boost for multiplayer games
- Money bug when player forfeit a game


Anomaly Beta 0.5 Release Notes
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- Find out why this game is called Anomaly!
- New SINGLE PLAYER Campaign with 120 races, and 70 different bots!!! Earn credits to buy upgrades or new crafts. Possible to     upgrade your craft, and customize its performace to your preferences. 
- New Weapons - Laser Gun, and Mines added
- New Crafts - Firebird, Phantom, Neutron, Electron, Blueshift, Lightwave, Assailant and Aggressor added!
- New Tracks added - Nature Trails, Volcanic, Last Forest, Dark City
- New Feature, Field Cams,  added to old tracks and with new look. 
- Bots added and playable online with multiplayer
- Field Cams added to tracks, when spectating, right click to see the races from special field cameras added to the tracks! Makes it     look like a ANOMALY RACE telecast LIVE on your computer!!!
- Possible to host maps for bot match only. Players will not be able to join a bot match, but would be able to spectate a race running     if he wishes to. Field Cam mode is still available in this mode.
- Watch a match in full screen mode, or in wide screen format!
- 16 players can now race online together in the tracks of Anomaly, if there are not enough players, bots can be added to the online     game to make up the number.
- Tons of new stuff not mentioned inside this text file :P



Anomaly Alpha 0.4 Release Notes 
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- New Outskirts dessert map
- Made the Unearthed a bit brighter
- Spectator support with number of spectator limit adjustable from the host page, number of player limit support now also working
- Fixed bug for new players joining an ongoing racing match, now when players tries join an ongoing race, they will become spectator and will automaticaly try to join the game as the race ended.
- Fixed a nasty bug with player start screen which sometimes will hinder players from starting the game
- Improved custom user map support, by localizing minimap and map preview resource inside the map package itself
- Fixed bug with displaying special effects for clients (fire damage, speedlines)
- Fixed alot of 'Accessing None' problems
- Custom HUD for spectators


Anomaly Alpha 0.3 Release Notes 
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- Fixed spacing problem in UT2K4Mod.ini which cause the Community mod list dissapear from UT2004. The dissapearing anomaly.ucl files problem also seem to be gone after this bug fixed.
- Moved all anomaly content to Local Anomaly Folders, this will left your other UT2004 files clean from the mod files.
- Replaced the old Anomaly.ini and AnomalyUser.ini with proper settings inside, and now using Default.ini and DefaultUser.ini. With the 3236 patch version, this will properly create Anomaly.ini and AnomalyUser.ini in the Anomaly\System folder.
- Added some server settings in the initialization files, to temporarily kill Speed hack detection since its still got problems with the game
- Added Internet Server Browser and fixed some bugs with Gameplay stuff
- Server Info now displays useful info about the game in progress in the server browser.
- Fixed some collision problems in ANO-SpeedCity2
- Added frame for the Rear View Mirror


Linux / Mac user (Zipped version) : 
It is recomended to delete the existing anomaly installation first if you have version alpha 0.2.
File list if you need to to manual remove (UT2004 is your UT2004 main folder):
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UT2004\Anomaly	( Remove whole folder )
UT2004\System\Anomaly.ini
UT2004\System\AnomalyUser.ini
UT2004\System\Anomaly.ucl
UT2004\System\Anomaly.upl
UT2004\System\Anomaly.log
UT2004\System\ANO-*.ucl
