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- *PLEASE NOTE*
- You will need DirectX5 installed on your machine to play this demo
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- *TEAM APACHE PLAYING GUIDE*
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- QUICK START
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- Press E to start the engines, set your throttle to high and watch the Apache lift off.
- Press M to arm your weapons
- Press Escape to end the mission
- Press P to pause the game
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- FLIGHT CONTROLS
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- The throttle on the joystick increases your collective.
- To go forward, point your nose down but note that this will decrease your altitude.
- Turning left or right banks the helicopter in that direction.
- Yawing left or right rotates the helicopter in rotorblades axis.
- If you don't have a joystick, use the direction keys on the number pad
- (NumLock must be on)
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- < - Yaw Left
- > - Yaw Right
- = - Increase Throttle (only works if your joystick doesn't have a throttle)
- - - Decrease Throttle (only works if your joystick doesn't have a throttle)
- E - Start Engines Command
- Ctrl+E - Toggle engines when on the ground
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- A - Turn on autopitot
- H - Turn on autohover
- Tab - Turn off autopilot or autohover
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- L+Ctrl - Toggle wing lights
- Z - Emergency Hydraulics (lasts for 10 seconds)
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- WEAPON CONTROLS
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- M - Arm all weapons
- G - Switch between LOAL / LOBL firing modes for Hellfire
- Space - Fire weapon (also fire on joystick)
- Bspace - Toggle weapons (also secondary joystick button)
- J - Increases the burst limit of your current weapon
- K - Decreases the burst limit of your current weapon
- U - Store the ground coordinates of what is in your gunsight
- Shift+U - Order Artillery attack at stored coordinates
- Insert - Co-pilot Gunner cycle to next target
- Delete - Co-pilot gunner fixed to current target
- C - Dispense Chaff
- F - Dispense Flares
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- COMMUNICATING WITH OTHER APACHES
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- The apache team is spilt into lead/wingman pairings, with a maximum of three such
- pairings. These are denoted Pair 1, Pair 2, and Pair 3, with the player always being
- in the lead apache of Pair1.
- The player can issue various commands to the team. This is done over the radio which
- has four channels available. Channel 1 addresses Pair 1 only, Channel 2 addresses Pair
- 2 only, Channel 3 addresses Pair 3, and Channel All addresses all lead/wingman pairs.
- The keys used to switch radio channels are:-
- 1 - Channel 1
- 2 - Channel 2
- 3 - Channel 3
- X - Channel All.
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- With the radio set to the appropriate channel, the player can issue a command by
- pressing one of the command keys. These are as follows:-
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- 1+ctrl - Help Pair 1
- 2+ctrl - Help Pair 2
- 3+ctrl - Help Pair 3
- 4 - Engage your current threats (if appropriate).
- 5 - Engage mission primary targets you can see.
- 6 - Engage any targets of opportunity you can see.
- 7 - Engage all targets you can see.
- 8 - All Apaches, suppress and bypass (retreat while firing).
- 9 - Ignore any non threats you can see.
- 0 - Wingman follow me
- T - Wingman engage my current target (if appropriate).
- B - Follow your briefing (As described in SOPS).
- W - Wait.
- L - You are now the lead pair in the formation.
- Home+Ctl- Cycle to final waypoint
- Home - Cycle to next waypoint
- End - Cycle to previous waypoint
- S - Ask apaches on current radio channel for their status
- R - Ask leader of pair for position
- R+Ctrl - Ask rescue helicopter for position
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- In the the mission planner you can set up 2 alternative formations to which you can
- switch to at any time in the mission using the following keys.
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- [ - Switch to alternative formation 1
- ] - Switch to alternative formation 2
- Enter - Switch back to standard formation
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- CAMERA CONTROLS
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- F1 - HUD view
- F2 - Cycle cockpit when in HUD view
- F3 - Floating camera
- F4 - Wing View camera (cycles between sides)
- F5 - Rotating and zooming camera
- F6 - Drop controllable camera
- F7 - Drop camera that follows your Apache
- F8 - Friendly camera view
- F9 - Enemy camera view
- F11 - Missile chase view
- F12 - In flight map
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- Cursor keys rotate the camera in F5,F6,F8 and F9 views.
- PgUp - Zoom in (only works in when in F5,F8 & F9 cameras)
- PgDn - Zoom out (only works in when in F5,F8 & F9 cameras)
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- I+Ctrl - Infra red toggle for external camera views
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- F6+Ctrl - Switch to controllable camera (F6)
- To move up and down use Control with the up and down cursor keys.
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- When in HUD / Cockpit view:
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- D - Toggle look down cockpit
- I - Infra red
- V - Cockpit light toggle
- V+Shift - Increase cockpit light intensity
- V+Ctrl - Decrease cockpit light intensity
- H+Shift - Darken IHADSS color
- H+Ctrl - Lighten IHADSS color
- Pg Dn - Increase IHADSS Radar range (when on)
- Pg Up - Decrease IHADSS Radar range (when on)
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- Numpad0 - Centres your head in IHADSS view
- Shift + left cursor key snaps head to the left.
- Shift + right cursor key snaps head to the right.
- Cursor keys (or POV hat on joystick) move your head around
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- NETWORK CONTROLS
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- Pressing Shift+0 to Shift+9 on the normal keyboard will send a preset
- network message. The file netmsg.txt in the game directory holds the
- 10 messages and these can be edited in a text editor. Only the first
- 32 charchters of each line are used and if there are more than 10 lines
- they will be ignored.
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- S+Shift - Toggle score
- M+Shift - Broadcast network message
- T+Shift - Broadcast network team message
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- OTHER CONTROLS
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- P - Pause
- O - Options Screen
- Ctrl+G - Screen Grab (writes a pcx in your game directory)
- Escape - End mission
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- *THE OPTIONS SCREEN*
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- Z-BUFFERING
- This is an option which will improve the in game graphics but should only
- be turned on if you have a 3D Harware accelerator that supports it such as
- a 3DFX based card. If you switch this on the game runs very slowly, you do
- not have this support and this option should be turned of immediately
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- RENDER TO VIDEO MEMORY
- This option is only available if you don't have a 3D Accelerator, and will
- improve your performance depending on your video card. You should try the
- game both ways and select the one that gives the best performance.
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- SPECIAL EFFECTS / GRAPHIC DETAIL
- Turning these down will improve the game's frame rate but will give you a
- lower graphical quality.
- If you are running without a 3D Accelerator card, this should be set to a
- low level.
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- TERRAIN DETAIL
- Turning this down will improve the games frame rate but will give you a
- lower graphical quality.
- If you are running without a 3D Accelerator card, this should be set to the
- lowest possible level.
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- GRAPHICS PROBLEMS
- If you are running with a 3D Accelerator and you are getting a lack of
- textures in some areas, try lowering your GRAPHIC DETAIL setting.
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- If you have an S3 Virge based card you should always run with fog set to
- off. If you don't do this you will get graphical problems
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- SOUND PROBLEMS
- If you run in 800x600 resolution and notice sound distortion, this is due
- to a limitation of D3D sound implementation. Switching to 640x480 should
- fix this problem.
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- If you are getting sounds skipping and distorting in normal play, try reducing
- the number of sound effects being played by lowering your Sound Effects
- Setting (not the volume) and your Radio Messages Setting (not the volume)
- in the options screen.
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- SPEEDING UP THE FRAME RATE
- If your frame rate is still inadequate, try lowering your Sound Effects
- Setting (not the volume) and your Radio Messages Setting (not the volume)
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- If you have not already done this, lower your TERRAIN DETAIL setting to the
- minimum. This gives a very small loss in graphic quality and a substantial
- increase in frame rate.
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- The next stting to reduce is the SPECIAL EFFECTS and finally the GRAPHIC
- DETAIL.
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