Some of these features have become more or less standard in Unreal through the mods that nearly every server runs, but they are still features nonetheless as they provide things that the original game of Unreal does not.

• Score Recovery - If an admin has enabled it, when you leave the game, if the map has not changed the next time you enter, your score will be given back to you.


• Lag/Frags Per Minute Graph - You can make a graph on the bottom right corner of your HUD display your lag patterns or Frags Per Minute. If a value gets too high to be drawn on the graph, a "+" is drawn instead. Likewise, if it gets too low (such as negative frags per minute), a "-" is drawn instead.


• Idle Times - If a player has gone idle, their idle time (in seconds) will be displayed next to their name on the scoreboard (idle times are client-side configurable).


• Private Messaging - ID #'s are displayed to the left of players' pings. You can send them private messages by this #.


• Hiding Chat - Do constant chatters bother you? Simply enable this option and their text will be hidden from your view.


• Hiding Spectator Chat - Want to see normal chat but not spectator's chat? You can choose to hide only chat from spectators (Note: This includes specsay)


• Hiding Death Messages - Tired of a screen full of big red death messages? Enable this to hide them from your view.


• Killing Sprees/Multi Kills - You can receive multi-kill messages when you kill multiple people at a rapid pace, and if you kill enough people without dying, you will be on a "killing spree." Just like the messages above, if you do not wish to see killing spree/multi-kill messages, their display can be hidden as well.


• Statuses - Players can set statuses that will make a symbol appear to the left of their name on the scoreboard. The available statuses are: Present, Away, Sleeping, Eating


• Colored Text - By use of color tags, players can put colors inside of their names or in the text they type. Text can also be put into bold, underline, or flash.


• Smilies - Smiley faces are displayed in place of the normal chat text smiles. ":)" turns into an actual round, yellow, happy face :)


• UGold/UT Type Console - Tired of getting VM errors when you hit tilde to read someone's long message? The typical, crash-prone console has been replaced with another console that uses the same style as Unreal Gold and UT. This console will not cause the same crashes and is also capable of displaying text colors and smilies. Optionally, normal messages are separated from chat messages to make reading conversation easy. An option in the console can be changed to merge the console and chat tabs into one.


• Downloader Information - When someone downloads from the server, if the admin has downloader detection enabled, the downloader's information will be put into a downloader window which can be accessed from the Client Options tab of the Console.


• Detailed Spec HUD - Spectators can now see a player through their own eyes. The spec HUD reports Armor, Ammo, Kills, and a few other tidbits of information about a player that is being watched.


• MapVote - When enabled, players can vote for what map they want to play on. The mapvote reads all the maps from the internal maplist included with EDM.


• Scoreboard information display for admins - Players' IP, Computer Name, and Engine Version can be checked right from the scoreboard.


• An IPLOG of all players who have connected - Whenever a player connects, if their player name or IP has never been logged before, they will be added to EDMIPLOG.ini. This log can hold up to 1500 entries.


• Admins can connect to the server even if it is full.


• You will no longer crash from throwing your weapons too fast! (unless you do it for an EXCESSIVELY long amount of time, but this should never occur during normal gameplay.)


• Voice pack support! (if enabled on the server) Players can enter with voicepacks to make text sounds turn into REAL sounds during gameplay ;)


• Dynamic team scoreboard - The team scoreboard will adjust its display based on what teams are present and how many players are on each team


• Right click capabilities inside the Main Chat console tab for admins - allows for easy command execution on players


• Right click capabilities inside the mapvote window for admins - allows for insanely easy maplist configuration


• Your most used weapon statistic (for those who care :P) is calculated and displayed on the lower right hand corner of the Client Options console tab


• NeverSwitchOnPickup is now a configurable option in the game that will stay in all EDM servers that run EDM3 and later

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