Quake addons: Borg - B52 - MD

SOUNDS: I replaced the standard grunt sounds with borg sounds that I stole from star trek.

SKIN: I found a borg skin somewhere on the net (I don't know who made it) and replaced the grunt skin with it, and I made a new skin for the head (the one that can be found after gibbing a grunt).

WEAPON: I replaced the shotgun with a beam weapon. For this I had to do a little quakeC programming and copy the laserbeam from the enforcer and change the color to green.

DEATHSCENE: Normaly when the grunt dies, the body just keeps lying on the ground. But if you've seen the borg in star trek, you know that the borg always beam the dead body's back to their ship, and that is excactly what happens in this addon. I made about 8 new skins for the soldier, ranging in brightness from no change to almost white, and changed the quakeC code for the soldier so that these skins replace eachother quickly after the soldier has died. After the last skin has been showm, the body is removed from the map and if you didn't know better you'd have sworn it was beamed away : ).

These are all simple changes, but the overall effect is pretty cool. Maybe I'll change this mod sometime so the borg are also beamed into the game (if I can figure out a way to do this...).

UPDATE: Over six months after I made this, I added some more things :

• new deathmessage
  
• Borg move 50% faster than Grunts
  
• Sparks instead of blood when a Borg is hit
  
• Borg don't attack Borg (Grunts sometimes attack Grunts).
  
• Borg are resistant to the (super)shotgun or (super)nailgun or explosive weapons (all are resistant to the lightning gun).
  
• A resistant Borg can be recognized by a (temporarily) skin change when hit.

Click here to download the borg addon (626K)