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*PLEASE NOTE*
You will need DirectX5 installed on your machine to play this demo
*TEAM APACHE PLAYING GUIDE*
QUICK START
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
FLIGHT CONTROLS
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)
< - 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
A - Turn on autopitot
H - Turn on autohover
Tab - Turn off autopilot or autohover
L+Ctrl - Toggle wing lights
Z - Emergency Hydraulics (lasts for 10 seconds)
WEAPON CONTROLS
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
COMMUNICATING WITH OTHER APACHES
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.
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:-
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
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.
[ - Switch to alternative formation 1
] - Switch to alternative formation 2
Enter - Switch back to standard formation
CAMERA CONTROLS
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
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)
I+Ctrl - Infra red toggle for external camera views
F6+Ctrl - Switch to controllable camera (F6)
To move up and down use Control with the up and down cursor keys.
When in HUD / Cockpit view:
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)
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
NETWORK CONTROLS
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.
S+Shift - Toggle score
M+Shift - Broadcast network message
T+Shift - Broadcast network team message
OTHER CONTROLS
P - Pause
O - Options Screen
Ctrl+G - Screen Grab (writes a pcx in your game directory)
Escape - End mission
*THE OPTIONS SCREEN*
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
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.
The next stting to reduce is the SPECIAL EFFECTS and finally the GRAPHIC
DETAIL.