Strife

Strife

Also known as: Strife: Quest for the Sigil
Developers: Rogue Entertainment (original),
Night Dive Studios (Veteran Edition)
Publishers: Velocity (original),
Night Dive Studios (Veteran Edition)
Platforms: DOS, Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Nintendo Switch
Released internationally: December 12, 2014 (Veteran Edition)
Released in US: May 31, 1996
Released in EU: 1996

This game has unused graphics.
This game has unused abilities.
This game has unused sounds.
This game has unused text.
This game has revisional differences.

This game has a prototype article

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Strife is an early FPS/RPG hybrid game created by Rogue Entertainment, using a modified version of the Doom engine.

An updated release featuring additional content and based on a reverse-engineered fan-made source port, The Original Strife: Veteran Edition, was released by Night Dive Studios in 2014. Since it includes the unaltered WAD files from the original release and merely patches over them with an add-on WAD at run-time, this page also applies to that version.

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Prototype Info

Unused Text

COPYRITE: A text lump containing a copyright notice.

copyright 1995 ROGUE Entertainment

SERIAL: A text lump containing a serial number, only checked by an unused beta version time bomb routine.

LOG75: Unused "Judgment Call time" log which has a matching BlackBird voice.

JUDGMENT CALL TIME... THE ORACLE WANTED US BACK FOR ANOTHER VISIT, BUT NOW THAT WE'VE
GOT TWO PIECES, WE MIGHT WANT TO RETURN TO BASE.

LOG88: Unused "Up to my hips in blood" log which has a matching BlackBird voice.

I'M SORRY, AFTER BEING UP TO MY HIPS IN BLOOD I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING WITTY TO SAY RIGHT NOW. LET'S JUST GET BACK TO MACIL.

T1TEXT: Text for ending of demo version, unused by retail.

Congratulations!  
You have completed the Strife demo.

C1TEXT: Text for an unused intermission after defeating the Programmer. This is used in the v1.1 Beta.

A FLASH OF METAL CALLS YOU TO THE CORPSE OF THE PROGRAMMER. LYING ON THE GROUND BEFORE HIM, IS A PIECE OF THE SIGIL OF THE ONE GOD.
AS YOU REACH DOWN TO RETRIEVE IT, A CHARGE COURSES THROUGH YOUR BODY.  BEFORE YOU CAN QUESTION THIS REACTION, THE TEMPLE BEGINS TO
COLLAPSE.  NARROWLY ESCAPING THE DESTRUCTION, YOU ARE GREETED BY THE GRIM FACES OF YOUR FELLOW SOLDIERS.  THRUSTING THE SIGIL PIECE
IN THE AIR DRAWS A DEAFENING CHEER THAT FOLLOWS YOU INTO UNCONSCIOUSNESS.

Unused Graphics

STARTUP0

The logos at the bottom are never visible in-game. The image is cropped to LOGO portion for display during startup.

VELLOGO

Velocity nag screen which only appears in the demo version.

M_PRISNR

Unused and unfinished prisoner dialogue character portrait.

I_BKPK

An inventory/ammo screen icon for the backpack.

I_CHST

Inventory icon for gold chest.

I_REPT

"Report" icon.

I_GASG

Ammo icon for gas grenades.

I_BOAT

Unknown.

I_CRYS

Possibly an inventory icon for a Power Station Power Crystal object.

I_EPI1

"Episode 1" key ring.

I_EPI2

"Episode 2" key ring.

I_RATT

Inventory icon for "Rat Buddy", not a collectible in any known version of the game.

TRAYA0

"Tray" object.

GASGA0

Pickup sprite for gas grenades.

BOATA0

Unknown.

GRENG0-I0

Idle and attack frames for gas grenade weapon.

GREFE0-F0

Firing frames for gas grenade weapon.

RBPYA0-D0

Unused HUD for torpedo weapon.

GASGB0-C0

Projectile states for gas grenades.

GASCA0-H0

"Death" (damaging) states for gas grenades.

DIE1A0/DIE2A0/DEADA0

Unused bloody gibs.

SHRDA0-C0

Unused green glass shard sprites.

SPIDM1-SPIDM8

8 rotations for a bullet attack for the Stalker (only has melee in-game).

FLGRA0/FLGGA0/FLGBA0

Unused objects, given their names, it may have been a flag for an intended Capture the Flag mode. In Strife: Veteran Edition it finds a home as three talismans, which grant the player a berserk power-up when all three are collected, which is present albeit unobtainable without using a cheat code in the original version.