Crash Squad beta 0.4 for Kingpin 
Readme File, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and Other Documentation

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NOTE: READ DOCUMENTATION.CHM FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PLAY.

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Contents
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(1) History of Updates
(2) Credits
(3) Your Friendly Mod Team
(4) Rights

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(2) History of Updates

Beta 0.4
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Anti-lag system added to compensate for ping when shooting
Map timer added to HUD
The map timer doesn't start until the 1st round does
The map won't end mid-round (it will wait for the current round to finish)
"Pre-match mode" notice added to HUD
Scope view replaced with simple zoom-in (scope didn't work with custom resolutions)
Notification of connecting players
Players become spectators if their connection goes dead for 5 seconds
Chat between players and spectators enabled but not team-talk between alive and dead players
Weapon reloading is disabled when the player has no more ammo for it
Chasecam switches to another target when the target dies or becomes a spectator
Logged-in rconx users can use the "admin" command without a password to take admin
Downloading enabled
Maps moved out of the client PAK file

Beta 0.3
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1. New weapons added - Dragunov, M4A1, Concussion Grenade, Molotov Cocktail
2. Vip_greenline, vip_inglewood, vip_landing, bom_550hope, bom_lockstor, bom_shortstop, bom_mcarthur, bom_warehouse updated
3. Addition of vip_harboros and bom_subwayod
4. Addition of free-look chase cam
5. Vip animations updated
6. Dropped weapons now retain proper ammo count
7. Dropped items and grenades now break windows
8. New accuracy system for automatic weapons
9. Admin commands added
10. Server uptime now shown
11. Cleaned up server code
12. Fixed grenade after round issues

Beta 0.2
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New weapons added - H&K MSG90 and AI AWSM sniper rifles
vip_sanpedro and vip_rooftop updated
Scoreboard modified - pressing F1 first shows you your teams scores, then the opposing teams scores, then clears
Zooming feature enabled for sniper rifles
Scope added for sniper rifles
New player skins added for each team
Game font changed back to original

Beta 0.1d
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Spawn amount detection - detects amount of spawns in a map and won't let players join displaying a message to them if there are too many
If you join a team more than 15 seconds after the game starts, you now get a message saying so.
Rocket launcher removed
FOV above 90 enabled - FOV below 90 is disabled with exception to using scopes (for sniper rifles, not implemented until beta 0.2)

Beta 0.1c
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Flame Thrower removed due to Tunn not liking it (ok, so some other people complained too :Þ )
Spawn issue fixed (where two players spawned in the same spot, causing a co-exist kill)
Spawn fix for spectators - Should no long use up player spawn points

Beta 0.1b
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Scoreboard issue was fixed
Grenades decreased to one per person
Bomb planting time cut in half

Beta 0.1a
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Added VIP Rescue Scenario
Added Bomb Defusion Scenario
Added new VIP player model
Added new weapons - Desert Eagle, MP5, Uzi
Added Team Radio
New Maps - vip_greenline, vip_inglewood, vip_landing, vip_rooftop, vip_sanpedro, bom_550hope, bom_lockstor, bom_shortstop, bom_mcarthur, bom_warehouse
Removed tommy gun
HMG firing mode altered
Team Radar Added

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(3) Credits

During the making of this mod, we've used files, maps, prefabs etc from various other games and sources, and various people who are no longer on the team have contributed to the mod. In this section, we'll attempt to name and shame them all ;)

For Maps:

Title: Metro Green Line, Los Angeles by AI_Tunnleram
filename: vip_greenline
Parts and prefabs from Xatrix single player maps. The army type
truck is a prefab from Half Life called cargotruckY1 created by
Yak_Fighter - YakFighter@aol.com

Title: Inglewood, Crenshaw District, L.A. by AI_Tunnleram
filename: vip_inglewood
Underground system is based on a Counter-Strike map called cs_militia
Militia - Hostage Rescue by Andrew Aumann (andrewja@home.com)

Title: Landing, Crenshaw District by AI_Tunnleram
filename: vip_landing
Parts and prefabs from Xatrix single player maps. Base of helicopter 
prefab from Hogie's Jungle Assault map (heavily modified, found out 
Hogie got it from somewhere so I'm unsure of origin)

Title: Rooftops, South Central, L.A. by AI_Tunnleram
filename: vip_rooftop
Prefabs from Xatrix single player maps. Base of helicopter 
prefab from Hogie's Jungle Assault map (heavily modified, found out 
Hogie got it from somewhere so I'm unsure of origin)

Title: San Pedro Bay, Los Angeles by AI_Tunnleram
filename: vip_sanpedro
Parts and prefabs from Xiatrix single player maps.

Title: 550 South Hope, Los Angeles by AI_Tunnleram
filename: bom_550hope
This map was converted from Counter-Strike and was originally called de_vertigo
Vertigo - Defusion by Chris Auty (Barney) (fragged101@yahoo.com) 
Texture builds by Telnets and J0esm0e

Title: Lockaway Storage, Los Angeles by AI_Tunnleram
filename: bom_lockstor
Prefabs from Xatrix single player maps.

Title: Shorts Stop Bar, Los Angeles by AI_Tunnleram
filename: bom_shortstop
Parts from Xatrix single player maps.

Title: MacArthur Park, Los Angeles by AI_Tunnleram
filename: bom_mcarthur
Prefabs from Xatrix single player maps.

Title: Lexington Warehouse, Los Angeles by AI_Tunnleram
filename: bom_warehouse
Prefabs from Xatrix single player maps.

For models and skins:

- Slat Software from which we obtained most of our models;
- Team Havoc (SRT Alpha MOMD) for giving us the Slat Software models and some that they made;
- Thanks to Team Havoc modellers/skinners: CrazyButcher, DesertFox, Sgt.ROck, Gux, NimitZ and GaNjAmAn for material used from SRT Alpha;
- Special thanks also goes to Valve Software, Goosman (aka Mihn Le), Ben Irwin, Christian Øelund and Ross Thelen for the use of their 3D creations.
- {NK}Titleist for the vip skins
- DirtyDog{WC} for making the CRASH Squad and Crenshaw Mafia skins
- Millymog for various skins

For code:

- Sedonium. He might be damn difficult to work with, but he did some good work before moving on.
- For help with the chase cam credits to Cail, Gooseman, Pietro from the Action Quake 2 team.


Thanks also go out to everyone and anyone who helped with the creation of or testing of this mod at any point.

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(4) Your Friendly Mod Team

And last, but certainly not least...

This mod was bought to you by the friendly bunch of misfits working under the name of Tram Design [oh, we're going to have a discussion about that and get it changed ;) - RichieH]. The team is:

AI_Tunnleram: Project Leader, Mapper, Public Relations
[YFS]Tical: Modeller, Skinner, Graphic Artist
Snap: Coder, Sound
RichieH/[69]TheRock: Documentation, Tester
ALMost: Mapper
Mr Damage: Public Relations, Tester

0.4 update by Monkey Harris

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(5) Rights

CRASH Squad copyright 2001 under TRAM Design. All rights are reserved for any and all files included in this mod by either the TRAM Design MOD team or the original authors. Please ask our permission before using anything from CRASH Squad.

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