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Designed as a reinstatement of a blade-based melee weapon for the Tournament (and replacing the Impact Hammer), the Liandri Hacker is a durable tarydium-powered mining tool that can cut through tough materials with little to no resistance, including flesh. Primary fire initialises the high-speed circular saw, whereas secondary fire engages the rubble-clearing electrical discharge, which is powerful enough to launch vehicles around and destroy them in two or three hits. The resulting recoil will also propel the user backwards, and so can be used to "hop" across great distances.

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* Secondary fire ragdolls enemies (tip: ragdoll opponents then chop them up with primary fire whilst they're recovering).
* Secondary fire can now knock powerups off players (like the Impact Hammer secondary).
* Primary fire sound altered - it's now a looped cue that fixes the problem with custom music (the music would restart after firing).
* Muzzle flashes added for both fire modes - more eye candy!
* More graphical detail for the hit effects (when hitting walls/players/vehicles).
* Server upk reference bug fixed (servers will now push the HackerResources.upk file as well as the code package).
* Damage values are configurable in UTHacker.ini (in the Config folder).
* Various "under the bonnet" tweaks that have no visual effect.

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* Pickup skin fixed - instead of being red, it is now silver like the weapon itself.
* Ammo pickup tweaked - easier to identify, bigger in size and with a green plasma overlay.
* Vehicle damage fixed/tweaked - primary fire will do more damage than secondary, but secondary is useful to knock vehicles around with.
* Primary fire animation changed - the gun propels backwards instead of upwards, fitting more with the UT Ripper's animations.
* Headshots tweaked - they are easier to attain, especially during online play.
* Secondary fire tweaked - bigger blast radius but does not throw enemies so far up into the air.
* First person model fixes - tweaked for widescreen play, plus more compatible with small weapons option.
* Pinner blade tweaked - the stinger shard no longer shows up when enemies are pinned to walls.

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* Blade speed, damage and ricochet values are identical to their UT counterparts.
* Secondary fire is now the explosive blade, again identical to the UT version.
* Weapon firing speeds are practically the same as the UT Ripper, allowing for corridor-spamming!
* Primary blades can decapitate enemies and pin them to walls.
* Small size footprint: the files together total less than 350KB.
* Hidden melee mode where you can slice enemies up at close range (headshots too!)
* You can kill yourself with the blades...

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Ripper UT3 is a "port" of the original Ripper from Unreal Tournament - a popular weapon that fires sharp blades. The most common uses of this weapon are beheading enemies and spamming corridors with the bouncing blades.

The UT3 Ripper isn't a carbon copy, however - the weapon model (provided by Mode, used in our Fraghouse Invasion mod for the Razorbomb weapon) is chunkier and more detailed than the original. The blade speed for the primary fire is faster to compensate for the game's quick pace, and secondary fire is a payload bomb that, rather than continuing in a straight line, gradually arcs and loses height.

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Primary fire shoots out high velocity blades that cause moderate damage. If you aim at head height and deliver enough damage to kill an enemy, the blade will decapitate him/her! Furthermore, if you don't decapitate your enemies, they will often be "pinned" to walls or ceilings. How would you get them pinned to the ceiling? Use the rebounding trick! Aim at the floor just in front of an enemy and fire your blades, as they will ricochet up into the enemy. Experiment with different angles and tactics to get the most stylish kills!

Secondary fire launches a small bomb that, by itself, does not do very much damage, and uses up 2 ammo points, meaning it should be used in moderation. What the explosion will do, however, if it hits the enemy, is throw them into the air - from there you can either try and nail them mid-air with your primary fire, or see if they end up taking damage from the resultant fall, as you can get points for "pushing" enemies off the playing area...

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