Player

Player Trees

Dexterity

Aliases: DEX
Category: Offense

Dexterity by level 

Per Level    
   - +10% ammo pickup
   - Less chance to drop a weapon
       Before training any Dex players start off with a 50% chance to hold on to a weapon
       after a Strength Weapon Knock. Each Dex level raises your chances by 2%)
   - +2 cubes after each respawn
   - Decreases chance of being poisoned by 8%
Level 1  
   - Fast weapon switching
Level 2  
   - Stealth
       You make no noise from walking/flying/jumping. Note: you can still hear your own item
       pickup sounds at half normal volume, but no one else can hear them.
Level 3  
   - Grapple Hook
       Costs 8 cubes to fire the grapple, which pulls you to anything it connects to. Base
       speed is 800.
       Commands are kots_hook and kots_unhook or you can use the alias +hook
Level 4  
   - 75% reduction in damage from falling, drowning, and being crushed
   - 25% reduction in damage from Rage Flail
Level 5  
   - Quieter grappling hook
   - Increased hook speed to 1300
   - Increase Weapon Knock recovery from 10/sec to 20/sec
   - Increased player pack ammo pickup
       Normally only 50% of the ammo from a 
       dropped player pack can be picked up. With Dexerity 5, now 100% of the 
       pack ammo can be picked up, up to a max of standard  Quake 2 ammo maxes.
       Also, other players now get 1/2 the ammo pickup they otherwise would when 
       grabbing your packs when you are fragged.
   - Ammo Steal
       Every time a Dexterity 5 character does damage, ammo will be 
       stolen and deposited directly into their inventory. The ammo type stolen is selected
       randomly (If the victim has none of that randomly selected ammo type, 
       none will be stolen.) The amount stolen is 12.5% of the modified damage dealt.
       also, the amount stolen is increased proportional to the ammo type's capacity. 
       (ie., more bullets/cells will be stolen on average than rox/slugs.)
       Note: players that are holding more ammo than their specified
       max will drop packets of ammo till they're below their max. (this could
       happen by stocking up, and then dropping a strength rune, or by Dex Ammo Steal.)
Level 6  
   - 50% reduction in damage from Rage Flail
Level 7  
   - Cost to fire grapple reduced to 2 cubes
   - Extra +10 cubes per respawn
       total of +24 cubes per respawn
   - Quieter grappling hook
   - Faster grappling hook
       Speed is now 1800
   - Ability to attach hook to players dealing 20 damage per second
       Hook will be detatched on teleport, flail, throw, or by getting out of the line of sight.
   - 2x ammo pickup
   - Improved ammo steal
       25% baseline stolen, instead of 12.5%)
   - 25% reduction in damage from ExPacks
   - Mastered player pack ammo pickup
       Normally only 50% of the ammo from a dropped player
       pack can be picked up. With Dexerity 7, now 200% of the pack ammo can be picked up, 
       up to a max of standard Quake 2 ammo maxes. Also, other players now get 1/4 the ammo
       pickup they otherwise would when grabbing your packs when you are fragged.
   - Per level Str Knock resistance changed from 2% to 6%
       That brings the total chance to hold on after a weap knock up to 92%
   - Haste
       Double your out of water movement speed. The cost of haste is 50 cubes for 15 seconds.
       kots_haste
Level 10     
   - Cost to fire Grapple reduced to 1 cube
   - Raise ammo pickup from 2x normal to 3x normal
   - Full immunity to weapon knock
   - 90% reduction in damage from Rage Flail
   - Ability to hook to the sky

Strength

Aliases: STR
Category: Offense

Strength by level 

Per level
   - Armor knock resistance 5% per level
Level 1  
   - 2x ammo and cube capacity
Level 2  
   - Double jumping
       This will let you double jump at any time by pressing jump twice fast to gain extra height
       or you can use the extra jump to jump at any point while you're in the air.
       kots_jump [on/off]
Level 3  
   - 3x ammo/cubes capacity
   - 20% reduction in damage from Spirit Empathy Shield
Level 4  
   - Grenade blast resist - Take 25% less damage from grenade blasts
Level 5  
   - 4x ammo/cubes capacity
   - Weapon knock
       Do enough damage to someone quickly enough and they might
       drop their current weapon onto the ground. If you drop a weapon because of weapon
       knock, it automatically pulls out the Sabre. Anyone can pick up the weapon that was
       dropped. Knock damage accumulates until it hits 280, at which point your victim's
       knock damage resets  to 0, and they may drop their weapon. Every second that goes by,
       your victim's knock damage decreases, so you must do damage quickly to succeed in
       knocking their weapon. (The Sabre and Hand Grenade weapons cannot be knocked.) Also,
       note that a single hit only ever gets at most 1 chance to knock. ie., if a Strength
       attacker has Quad RL and does 1200 damage, that results in just 1 chance to knock, and
       the victim's knock damage counter is back at 0 after the attack. Finally, at most, 1
       knock attempt can happen every 2 seconds for a given victim.
Level 6  
   - 40% reduction in damage from Spirit Empathy Shield
Level 7  
   - 5x ammo/cubes capacity
       Regen ammo every 3 secs. (For all weapons trained level 2 or above, recieve minipack
       of ammo. 5 cells/bullets. 2 shells/slugs. 1 rocket/grenade. If you use chaingun, for 
       instance, and want to recieve 10 bullets every 3 seconds, then you should also upgrade
       your machinegun to level 2, just to get the extra ammo regen bonus.)
       Half duration of effects from level 10 weapons
       Improved weapon knock (160 damage instead of 280)
       60% reduction in damage from Spirit Empathy Shield
       Increased per level armor knock resistance to 6%
Level 10 
   - Immune to EMP Shockwave, Neural Disruptor, and Flashbombs
   - Increase ammo regeneration from once every 3 sec to once every 2 sec
   - 80% reduction in damage from Spirit Empathy Shield

Karma

Aliases: KAR
Category: Defense

Karma by level 

Per Level    
   - +1 health pickups
   - 5% reduction in ammo stolen by Dexterity ammo steal
   - Up to Karma level cube pickup from backpacks
       When a player dies, they drop a backpack with credits and cubes. There are always the same
       number of credits and cubes in any particular backback. However, if you have no Karma, you
       cannot grab any of the cubes. Training Karma allows you to pick up some of these cubes.)
Level 1  
   - Karma sight
      Looking towards someone displays their name and health, even while cloaked using Wisdom 5
Level 2  
   - Pickup health above max at your pickup bonus
Level 3  
   - Health Regen (2 per second)
Level 4  
   - Create Megahealth
       Costs 25 cubes to create a megahealth item worth 50 health rather than the usual 100. However
       these megahealths do not cause your health to slowly rot away back down to your normal max.
       kots_health
Level 5  
   - Double Health Regen (4 per second)
Level 6  
   - Doubles normal health regen whenever the player has less than 50 health
   - Stims dropped from a fragged player can now cure poison
Level 7  
   - Super Health Regen (9 per second)
   - All cubes can now be picked up from backpacks, not just Karma level worth of cubes.
   - +3 health pickups
   - No health rot
   - Reduce cost of creating megahealths from 25 cubes down to 20 cubes
   - Create Fake Health and Fake Stim, doing 200 damage, for 50 cubes
      Max of 1 per second. Lasts 2 minutes before vanishing. Maximum of 5 out at a time.
      kots_fakemega
      kots_fakestim
   - Cloaked Wisdom masters no longer immune to Karma sight
   - Regenerate ABOVE your normal health max at a rate of 1/second
   - Doubles per-level Dexterity ammo steal reduction
       to 10% per level of karma, 
       for total of 70% reduction.
Level 10 
   - Massive Health Regen (12 per second)
   - +13 (total) to all health pickups
   - Regenerate ABOVE your normal health max at a rate of 2/second

Wisdom

Aliases: WIS
Category: Defense

Wisdom by level 

Per Level    
   - +3% Damage Reduction (HEALTH loss reduced by this amount)
Level 1  
   - Vampirism
       Your health increased by 25% of inflicted HEALTH damage
       to your enemies. (Only health damage counts - damage done to
       enemies' armor cannot be vampired.)
Level 2  
   - Rocket Blast Resist
       Take 25% less damage from the radius damage from rocket attacks.
Level 3  
   - Flying
       costs 5 cubes/sec
       kots_fly and kots_land or you can use the alias +fly
Level 4  
   - Extra Toughness
       -2 all damage taken (before calculating wisdom health resistance)
       NOTE: This will not make you immune to any damage even if only 2 damage was
       done you will receive 1 damage still.
Level 5  
   - Cloaking
     costs 5 cubes/sec)
     kots_cloak
Level 6  
   - Nothing
Level 7  
   - Damage Reduction*1.5
       take only 69% health damage
   - Power Cube Regen
       1 per 2 seconds
   - Improved cloaking
       invisible to lev 1 Karma sight
Level 10 
   - Take only 55% health damage

Technical

Aliases: TECH, TEC
Category: Defense

Technical by level  

Per Level    
   - +1 armor pickup
Level 1  
   - Slime Immunity
Level 2  
   - Lava Resist (25%)
Level 3  
   - Armor resist
       amount of armor lost due to damage is divided by 1.5
Level 4  
   - Lava Immunity
Level 5  
   - Armor regen
       Create 2 armor per second up to (antiweapon*10 + 5*(char level) + 50)
    -Fake armor shard - uses 50 armor to create a fake armor shard that
       Cuts through an enemies armor dealing 100 damage directly to their armor ignoring armor
       resistance and the remaining damage goes to health. Maximum of 5 fake shards can be out at a time
       and only 1 can be dropped per second.
       kots_fakeshard
Level 6  
   - Nothing
Level 7  
   - Super armor resist
       amount of armor lost due to damage is divided by 2.25
   - Super armor regen
       4 armor per second
   - Extra +1 armor pickup
      for a combined +8 armor pickup, totaling 10 armor per shard
   - Lasersite
      kots_laser creates a long visible laser site shining out from your weapon.
      kots_laser ball creates a point laser-reflection site off of walls/players.
   - Improved fake shard now does 200 damage
Level 10 
   - Combined +11 armor pickup, for a total of 13 armor per shard
       Note: tech rune also boosts antiweapon by 3 points, increasing max regen value

Spirit

Aliases: SPI
Category: Mixed

Spirit by level 

Per Level    
   - +1 Cube on Cube pickups (up to your max)
Level 1  
   - Flashlight
       no cube cost. Creates a bright spot light. When shined directly
       on a cloaker, makes them partially visible. Also, when shined directly on
       someone that isn't cloaked, it prevents their cloak from activating.
       kots_flashlight
Level 2  
   - Super fast swimming in water and lava
       Speed is 3x normal movement speed underwater and 2x at the top of
       the water. You can also swim to the surface to leap out and get extra momentum.
       kots_swim [on/off]
Level 3  
   - Empathy Shield
       Returns 18% damage inflicted on you to the attacker. 
       Costs 5 cubes to start, and then 5 cubes/sec.
       Note: Empathy damage cannot cause Ammo Steal, Weapon Knock, Poisoning, Quad Rage,  
       or Armor Knock to your opponent. Ie, if you have Strength 5,
       and turn your Empathy Shield on, and someone shoots you with a rocket launcher, they cannot get their Rocket 
       Launcher knocked away by the Empathy damage.
       Also the damage from your Empathy Shield cannot be reflected back to you by your opponent's Empathy Shield. 
       For a given attack, the damage done from Empathy Shield is not dependant upon how much health or
       armor you have. For instance if you are hit with a Quad Rail with only 1 health left and Spirit 3
       Empathy Shield, you will do just as much Empathy Shield damage as you would if you had 
       1000 health / 1000 armor and were able to survive the attack.
       The damage dealt out from Empathy Shield is normal damage, no matter what the original 
       attacker's damage type was. Also, the Wisdom damage reduction of your enemies is ignored when the Empathy
       damage is returned to them. Finally, while your Empathy Shield is up, the Wisdom Vampirism of your enemies is disabled. 
       kots_empathy
Level 4  
   - Replenish armor
       Creates 50 armor over a 10 second period for 30 cubes. You may hit kots_armor twice in a row, using 60 cubes, so that
       once your 50 armor is created, it will immediately begin attempting to create another 50
       kots_armor
Level 5  
   - Power Cube convert
       Turns 50 cells into 15 cubes. You may also type the kots_power on or off commands to toggle automatic
       conversion. While on, all cells you collect will be quickly converted into cubes.
       kots_pconvert [on/off]
   - Improved Empathy Shield
       27% damage returned
   - Improved flashlight
       Cloakers slightly more visible
Level 6  
   - Cuts damage from Karma Fake Health in half
Level 7  
   - Advanced Spirit Swim
       Allows players to swim quickly through even the stickiest slime and sludge
   - Rail Deflection
       Every time you're hit by a rail, there's a 25% change the rail will deflect off you 
       and bounce off in another direction. Only one deflection can take place every 3 seconds.
   - +2 Cube pickup
   - Improved flashlight
       Cloakers slightly more visible
   - Double respawn ammo
   - Packs from YOUR player kills are "auto-lifted" to you
   - Empathy Shield Mark III
       40% damage returned
Level 10 
   - Lethal Empathy Shield
       55% damage returned
   - Advanced Rail Deflection
       Rail deflection increased to 40%

Rage

Aliases: RAG
Category: Offense

Rage by level 

Per Level   
   - Quad Rage
       +4% chance at getting 2 seconds of quad, for every 800 damage dealt. This is 
       cumulative damage against all opponents, and can be racked up over the course of the 
       map. Your damage counter is cut in half (up to 100) whenever you die. Quad Rage will 
       not occur when a player already has more than 6 seconds of quad.
Level 1  
   - Spite
       Typing spite cuts your health in half then removes an extra 10
       health on top of that, but gives you 2 packets of ammo to fire your
       respawn weapon. Spiting gives you exactly the specified amount of
       ammo. Which means you may recieve less than 2 packets of ammo in
       order to bring your ammo level up to 2 packets. For example, if you
       already have 7 rockets, and execute spite, you you will recieve an
       additional 3 rockets, bringing you up to a total of 2 packets of rockets.
       Spite can only be used once every .5 seconds.
       kots_spite
Level 2  
   - Mine Creation
       Creates a land mine that looks like ammo and explodes on contact, or explodes
       after 30 seconds untouched - requires 10 rox and 10 grenades for creation - does 200
       dmg - can only create one every 5 seconds.
       kots_mine
   - Poison
       Every damage point dealt has a .05% chance of poisoning the
       victim, causing a loss of 10 health/second until the victim picks up any
       type of health (health box, stimpack, adrenaline, megahealth, etc). (The
       chance of poisoning is capped at 30% per attack.) Poison damage ignores Wisdom
       resistance and ignores armor.
Level 3   
   - Conflagration
       Detonates all your rockets/grenades, probably killing you, but spewing grenades and
       rockets in every direction, each doing 120 direct damage and 120 splash damage. These
       damages are affected by munition and quad, but not weapon level. Your health is
       immediately cut by 1/3 and an extra 10 health on top and all your armor
       is taken. A combined total of 20 rockets and/or grenades is required.
       Rockets and grenades are fired at a rate of 50 per second. Grenades
       have a shorter fuse of just 1 second. Only 2 players can conflagrate at a time
       kots_conflag
Level 4  
   - Advanced Spite
       Gives you 3 packets of ammo to fire your respawn weapon
   - Flail
       Does 100 dmg to everyone standing right next to you,
       and knocks them backwards quite a bit. Costs 20 cubes. Can only be
       done once per second. If you Flail and hit nothing, you do 1/5th normal
       Flail damage to yourself. Flail will also break a grappling hook that is attached to you
       kots_flail
Level 5  
   - Armor Knock
       For every 200 damage done, there is a 25% chance to
       knock off a large armor shard. The shard contains 50 armor from the
       victim, and may be picked up by anyone. If the victim has less than 50
       armor, all the victim's armor will be knocked. One large armor shard may
       be knocked from a victim at most once every 5 seconds.
   - Advanced Poison
       Every damage point dealt has a .1% chance of poisoning the victim
Level 6  
   Nothing
Level 7  
   - Per level Quad Rage percentage raised to 6%
       For a total of 6%*7 = 42% chance for Quad Rage
   - Mastered Mine Creation
       50% more damage from mines
   - Mastered Spite
       Gives you 4 packets of ammo to fire your respawn
       weapon, and gives you the respawn weapon itself if you've lost it
   - Mastered Armor Knock
       For every 200 dmg done, there is a 50% chance to knock off a large armor shard
Level 10 
   - Lethal Armor Knock
       100% to knock a large shard for every 200 dmg done
   - Total Quad Rage up to 6%*10 = 60%

VitHealth

Aliases: VITH
Category: Defense
No Training Limit

Per Level    
   +35 Max health
   +35 Spawn health

VitArmor

Aliases: VITA
Category: Defense
No Training Limit

Per Level    
   +75 Max armor
   +10 Spawn armor

Munition

Aliases: MUN
Category: Offense
No Training Limit

Per Level    
   4.75% damage per level
   NOTE: This stacks with weapon levels above 6 so when using a level 10
   weapon with 1 munition you would have a bonus of 14.75%. Damage
   from Bide, Empathy Shield, Rage Mines, Rage Poison, and Karma 7
   Fake Health are not affected by Munition. Also, while blast damage from
   the various weapons is increased by Munition, the blast radii are not increased.

Notes

Damage Notes

Special note on damage - Several abilities in KOTS2007 do things based on damage dealt. These include Ammo Steal, Weapon Knock, Poisoning, Quad Rage, Armor Knock and Empathy Shield.

All of these damage calculations are done AFTER

• Player upgrade resistances (like Strength 4 and Wisdom 2)
• Weapon resistances (the "resist" command)
• Team mode (you cannot steal ammo from teammates in CTF/teamplay/spreewar)
• Spiritual Rail Deflection (if a rail is deflected, then no ammo is stolen from the Spirit 7 player)

but BEFORE

• Wisdom health damage reduction
• Technical armor damage reduction
• Loss of armor by the victim

ie., if your player has done "resist grenade launcher" and has upgraded Strength 4, then together your player will take 43.75% less damage from a grenade blast. Similarly, any ammo stolen, for instance, would be 43.75% less than normal. However, for the other example, if your player has, for instance, Tech 5, then damage done to your armor would make it seem as though 55.6% less damage was being done. However, any ammo stolen would still be the full 100%.

Other

• BE CAREFUL WHEN USING THE MENU TO UPGRADE BECAUSE THERE IS LAG!
• You receive 1 player point per character level gained.
• You cannot train a player tree to level 10. Unless there is no training limit then you must hold a rune to reach level 10.
• Training past level 5 in more than one tree requires extra points. The first two past level 5 only require one point, the third requires 2 points and each subsequent training requires an extra 2 points more (1, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, etc.).
• Categories don't really have any meaning there just there so some of the newer players can quickly look for something they want. Some defensive abilities have some offensive use to them and vice versa for offensive player upgrades.