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The Classes

Arctic marine (Light attack)

The Arctic Marine is the perfect class if you want to be fast and like to get points to your team by capturing the flag. His special ability is a speed burst, which you can use to fire a lot faster for a short amount of time.

Ice Gun (Short/Medium range)

Remember the old Nailgun from Quake 1? The ice gun is similar to it, with the difference that this weapon fires ice instead of nails. With other words, it's a really fast weapon for a really fast class, Arctic Marine.

Ice Rail (Medium/Long range)
If you are an Arctic Marine, you should have the ability to freeze people, don't you think? Well, here it is, the Ice Rail. If you hit somebody with this, he/she will be instantly frozen for 10 seconds, and can't move. But, as always with the railgun, it isn't the easiest weapon to aim with, so it requires some skills (or a good connection) to master this.

Snowball gun (Short range) 
Have you ever thrown snowballs at your friends or enemies? If not, you're going to do that now. This is a special version of the classic snowball, with some explosives in the ball. When it hits something, it'll explode. So, you have to aim at your emenies with this too.

Flame soldier (Medium attack) 

The Flame Soldier can be used together with the Arctic Marine in an attack. With the flamethrower can she set people on fire so they'll take damage for some time. Her special is anti-gravity boots, which she can use to go to places you normally can't reach.

Flamethrower (Short range)

There is a flamethrower in almost every mod I think, so is it in Elite Squad Arena :). The flamethrower fires deadly flames, which will set your enemy on fire for a short amount of time. It's a short range weapon, so you have to stand pretty close to the one you're shooting at.

Flame Rocket (Medium/Long range) 
A normal rocket launcher with flame rockets... fire this on someone, and they'll start to burn.

Heavy marine (Heavy attack/defence) 


The Heavy Marine can be used as almost anything. He has heavy weapons, for example the RPG, and has also IR-goggles. With the IR-vision turned on, he'll see any player better than usual, and he'll also see people who are cloaked.

MP5 (Short/Medium range)  

The MP5 is a great machinegun, and fires really fast. Deadly at close/medium range.

Shotgun (Short/Medium range)  
This is almost the same as the original Q3 shotgun.

RPG (Medium/Long range)  
This Rocket Launcher fires a rocket that you will fly where you aim. So you can say it's some kind of a guided missile.

Sniper (Light defence) 

The Sniper, who has the sniper rifle is the perfect class for all campers, or if you call yourselves snipers =). The sniper rifle is the only weapon you can zoom with, and it does a lot of damage, especially if you hit in the head.

Shotgun (Short/Medium range)  

This is almost the same as the original Q3 shotgun.

Sniper Rifle (Long range) 

This is the weapon for every sniper out there. Find a good place to hide, zoom in and kill all enemies you see! The rifle isn't very good as a attack weapon, it's mostly for defence.

Scientist (Medium defence) 

The Scientist is mostly a defence class, he's got the nuclear gun and the gluon gun, which both are defence weapons, and also the ability of throwing health packs.

Gluon Gun (Short/Medium range) 
This is almost the same as the lightning gun, but with a cooler effect :). No, seriously, the gluon gun is a very dangerous weapon, which can kill many people in a short amount of time.

Nuclear Gun (Short/Medium range)
This deadly weapon fires a nuclear grenade which will blow up almost everything in it's way. But, as always, you'll have to pay for what you get, the grenade will explode after 6 seconds.

Mercenary (Medium defence) 

The Mercenary is a pure defence class, with weapons like the grenade launcher and remote mines. The remote mines are very good for defence, since the're not very visible, and you can blow them up when you want.

MP5 (Short/Medium range)  
The MP5 machinegun is a great machinegun, and fires really fast. Deadly at close/medium range.

Grenade Launcher (Short/Medium range) 
This is the same as in Quake 3.

Remote Mine (Short range) 
I don't think you can actually call this a short range weapon, becasue you can blow up your mines from any spot on the map. The mines will stick to walls, and will blow up when you press the special button.

Assasin (Light attack) 

The assassin is a class for all people who like to walk slow, if you press the walk key while you're running you will walk instead, and the footstep sounds will not be heard. Since the assassin also has the ability to cloak, it's the perfect class for people who don't want to be seen. The primary weapon for him is the silenced pistol.

Shotgun (Short/Medium range)  
This is almost the same as the original Q3 shotgun.

Silenced Pistol (Short range) 
An assassin gotta have a silenced pistol, I think. This is the perfect weapon, as you also have the ability to cloak as the assassin. Sneak up to your enemies and kill them with a well-placed headshot.  

The HUD

To provide all the information you need to play Elite Squad Arena, we've redesigned the Heads-Up Display (HUD). It looks like this:

 

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