PC Gamer 3.3/1997-06_Disc_3.3.iso/kknd/readme.txt

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KKND Demo Quick Reference Guide



THE OBJECT
You set up your forces, find and drill for oil, process it to get more resource
units, then spend the resource units to create more forces.  Keep this up until
you either complete the one-player mission objectives or destroy the other
armies in multiplayer gaming.



THE LEVEL
This demo contains a single freaky Evolved mission.  In terms of both
difficulty and alphabetical order, you might want to play this Evolved mission
before you tackle the Survivor mission.  Or you might want to play on the
intro screen for a few hours instead, and who are we to stop you?



UniVBE
KKND runs best when running a Vesa driver such as UniVBE.  We have included
the shareware version of UniVBE 5.3 with KKND.  Install and run UniVBE before
playing KKND to improve video performance.



OIL & WHAT TO DO WITH IT

  (Note that you could do some of the following simultaneously to save time)

  Send out units to expose areas of the map.  When you've uncovered a black,
bubbling puddle, you've struck oil.

  Select a Mobile Derrick, then send it to the oil tap-in point (the cursor
will change to a drilling cursor while over the oil).  When the Derrick
arrives, it unfolds into an Oil Rig and starts pumping oil.

  Build a Power Station.  A bonus Oil Tanker will pop out of the completed
Power Station.  It'll start shuttling between Rig and Power Station,
transporting oil to be converted into Resource Units.

  Note: Oil seams dry up.  Clicking on an Oil Rig will give a display of how
much oil remains in the seam.  When oil runs out, you'll have to build another
mobile oil derrick (if possible) and send it out to find a new tap in point.



HOW TO INCREASE A BUILDING'S TECH LEVEL

  Increasing the Tech Level of a building allows it to create more complex
units.

  Build a Research Lab (Survivor) or Alchemy Hall (Evolved).

  Left click on the Research Lab/Alchemy Hall.  The cursor changes to the
Research cursor.

  Move the Research cursor over the desired building and left click to begin
research.

  When the icon pulses at full colour, research will be complete and the Tech
Level will increase by one.



CONTROLS: Left Mouse Button

SELECTION:
  Click on unit or click and drag a selection box around a number of units.

STATUS:
  Click on a building/person/vehicle/animal to reveal its status bar.  This
status bar shows health, and depending on what is selected, it can also show
Tech Level, number of defenders, amount of oil contained, etc.

MOVEMENT:
  Click a destination point after selecting a unit/group to give a 'move'
order.

ATTACKING:
  Click an enemy unit/building after selecting a unit/group to give an
'attack' order.



CONTROLS: Right Mouse Button

FAST SCROLL:
  During a game, hold the RMB and move the cursor to 'fast scroll' around the
playing area.

DESELECT:
  Click the RMB to deselect a selection.  Also cancels the 'Information (?)'
command.



CONTROLS:  Keyboard

'A':
  Form Alliance (network play)

ESC:
  Takes you to the in-game menu during a game, and also takes you back one
screen in the options/game setup before the game begins.

TAB/RIGHT ARROW/DOWN ARROW:
  Moves through the options during the pre-game setup stuff, just in case you
don't feel like using your mouse.

SHIFT+TAB/LEFT ARROW/DOWN ARROW :
  Moves back one option during the pre-game setup.

SPACE BAR/ENTER:
  Selects options in the pre-game options screens.

CTRL+1 through to CTRL+0:
  Assigns a unit or group to that number key.

1 through to 0:
  Selects the assigned unit or group (selected with CTRL+number)



CONTROL PANEL
  Not all icons are available at all times.  But here's the full list anyway.

RESOURCE UNITS (Lightning bolt):
  Displays your current Resource Unit total.

RADAR (World globe):
  Toggles a miniature overview of the mission area on and off.  You can move
quickly to areas using this display, but cannot select anything with it.

OPTIONS (The letter 'O'):
  Accesses the Options menu, where you can Save Game, Load Game, get a mission
briefing summary, Restart the current mission, Quit the game entirely, Return
to the Game, or access the Audio preferences menu.

INFORMATION (Question mark):
  Click this, then click the resulting '?' cursor over any building or unit
(friendly or enemy) to find out the name of that unit.  Right click to cancel
the '?' cursor.

CREATE INFANTRY (a bunch of troops):
  Accesses a fly-out menu of all available infantry.  Left clicking one of
these will begin training that person.  You can left click on an icon multiple
times to buffer up to 9 units which will be created one after the other.

CREATE VEHICLE (Survivor) (a couple of blue vehicles):
  see next entry

CREATE VEHICLE/ANIMAL (Evolved) (a vehicle and a crab):
  These buttons access pop-out menus of buildable vehicles and/or animals.
They work identically to the Infantry button.

CREATE BUILDING (a building):
  Accesses a pop-out menu of buildable buildings. To build, left click and
hold on the desired icon, then drag it onto the map.  See under 'Making
Buildings' for details.

CREATE DEFENSIVE STRUCTURE (Tower):
  Accesses a pop-out menu of available Guard Towers. Create these in the same
way as buildings.

CREATE AIR STRIKE (Plane/Wasp):
  Only available in the last few missions of each side. Click to build one (as
for Infantry), then click on the 'Deploy Air Strike' button, below.

DEPLOY AIR STRIKE (Bomb/Explosion):
  Click this button then click the cursor on the spot you want the Air Strike
to attack.



IN-GAME INTERFACE

SELECTING
  Left click on a unit to select it.  Left click and drag a selection box
around a group of units to select them all.

DESELECTING
  Right click to deselect a unit or group.

PRESETTING & RECALLING GROUPS
  Select a unit or group, then hold CTRL and press a number between 1 and 10
(0).  To quickly select that unit or group in future, simply press the number
to which it was assigned.

ORDERING TO MOVE
  After selecting a unit or group, click on the map where you want them to
go.  You can order them anywhere onto valid land or into the black, unexposed
map.  You'll be shown a No Go cursor for areas of exposed map where units
cannot go (holes in the ground, etc).

ORDERING TO ATTACK
  After selecting a unit or group of units, click on an enemy unit or
building.  Your team will move within attacking range and start causing
damage.

DEPLOYING UNITS
  The Mobile Outpost (S), Mobile Clan Hall (E) and Mobile Derrick (S&E) need
to be 'unpacked' to operate.  To deploy the first two, send the unit to a
clear area.  If it's a suitable spot and you move the cursor over the unit,
you will get a 'deploy' cursor.  Left click on the unit to construct it.  For
the Mobile Derricks, see under OIL AND WHAT TO DO WITH IT.



MAKING BUILDINGS/GUARD TOWERS
  To make buildings or guard towers, left click and hold on the desired icon,
then drag it onto the map.  The cursor will become a full-sized, ghostly image
of the building.  Place it on a valid spot and left click.  The building will
form in stages, and you'll be informed when it's finished.  If the ghostly
'build' image is totally red, it means you are trying to build it too far away
from other buildings.  If the image is partially red, it means something under
that square is preventing a build.  If units/vehicles are the culprits, right
click to cancel building, move the offending units out of the way, and
commence building again.  If a land feature (eg. hole, clump of trees) is
preventing building, then you'll have to build somewhere else.



MAKING INFANTRY/VEHICLES/ANIMALS
  To make these units, you'll need either and Outpost (Survivor)/Clan Hall
(Evolved) for people, a Machine Shop(S)/Blacksmith(E) for vehicles and a Beast
Enclosure (E) for animals.  To build the units, click the relevant icon on the
control panel and a fly-out menu will appear of all available units.  Left
clicking on one of these begins building (a 'build' bar appears on the button,
indicating the progress of the build).  Multiple left clicking on a button
queues a number of units, up to 9 at a time, and the number of queued units is
also displayed on the button.  To cancel creation, right click on the same
button (you might need to do this multiple times if you've queued multiple
units).



REPAIRING BUILDINGS
  To repair buildings, you first need to build a Technician (Survivor) or
Mekanik (Evolved).  Send one of these people into a damaged building and it'll
start the healing process.



REPAIRING VEHICLES/ANIMALS
  (*** Only available in full game! ***)
   To repair vehicles/animals, build a Repair Bay (S) or Menagerie (E).
Select the damaged unit, then left click on the Repair Bay/Menagerie to send
it there.



INFILTRATION & DEFENSE
  (*** Only available in full game! ***)
   Each building contains a number of defenders, as represented on the
building's status bar by red parralelograms.  Saboteurs (S) and Vandals (E)
have two roles in dealing with buildings.  If they enter an enemy building,
they neutralise one defender.  If the number of defenders is reduced to zero,
and then one more Saboteur/Vandal is sent in to do the dirty work, the
building will explode and the value of the building will be added to the
destroyers resource units.  Note that sending Saboteurs/Vandals into their own
side's buildings turns them into defenders, and the defender count goes up by
one.



VETERAN UNITS
   A normal unit's health bar has a grey border.  When a unit has engaged in
enough combat, it becomes a veteran unit.  The two stages of veteran units are
distinguishable from normal plebbs by their blue and red health bar borders
respectively.  Veteran units are more accurate and have a higher fire rate.
Veteran infantry (of both sides) can also heal themselves, regaining lost hit
points, if they stay still.





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(** Note:  Multiplayer gaming is only available in the full version of KKND! **)



MULTIPLAYER GAMING

ACCESSING MULTIPLAYER GAMES
   Click 'Multiplayer Game' from the main menu.  You'll then have to choose
between IPX (for an IPX network game of 2-6 players), Modem (2 players over a
phone line) or Serial (2 players over a serial cable).



IPX : NETWORK GAMING
   This screen lists all the games currently active on the network.  You have
two choices here: Join Game and New Game.  Join Game is only active if you
click on a game you  wish to join.  If you do so, you'll be taken to the
'Client Screen'.  Clicking 'New' tags you as the 'Server'.  You'll have more
to configure, and this is all listed under the 'Server Screen' below.



MODEM GAME
   You select from here whether you'll call someone to play or await their
call.  You can edit the information to make future connections simpler.  NEW
FRIEND: Takes you to the New Friend Entry screen, where you enter your
friend's name (press Enter when you're done), cycle through your friend's
Modem Baud Rate and enter their phone number.  Press 'Add This Friend' when
you're done.  EDIT FRIEND:  Edits the Friend information.  DELETE FRIEND:
Removes a friend from the list.  DIAL: If you are to be the Server, click this
when you've finalised everything and wait for your friend to connect.  When
this happens, you'll end up at the Server screen (see below).  WAIT FOR CALL:
If you're to be a client, not the server, click this to let the Server know
you're ready to connect.  You'll be taken to the Client screen (see below).



SERIAL GAME
   Only 2 choices here.  If you are to be the Server, click 'Connect' and wait
for your buddy.  If you're to be Client, click 'Wait for Connection'.  When
you're both in, you'll go to your relevant screens (see below).



THE CLIENT SCREEN
   As a client (ie. not the server), you have a few options.  Enter your name
in the 'Name' box and press Enter when you're done.  Click the 'Side' button
to choose the 'race' of the army you want to control.  Then choose 'Colour' to
pick what colour you want your army to wear.  Then just wait for the Server to
start the game.



THE SERVER SCREEN
   The Name, Side and Colour options are the same as for Client setup (above).
The Server has some extra options too.   STARTING RU'S: Select how many
Resource Units everyone will have when they begin (from 4000 to 15000).  MAX.
TECH LEVEL:  Choose from 1 to 5 to decide how high everyone will be permitted
to advance.  TECH BUNKERS: If set to 'on', then Tech Bunkers, containing
strange, old-world technology, will be accessible to whoever finds them first.
SELECT MAP:  Choose a map to play on which you want to play.



START GAME
   When everyone is locked in, the Server clicks on 'Start Game'.  Everyone
then must set up their forces and try to destroy all enemy units to win the
game.



ALLIANCES
   Available to Network players is the ability to ally your army with others.
To form an alliance, place your cursor over the soon-not-to-be enemy and press
the 'A' key.  Allied armies will not attack allied units or buildings, unless
you order them to do so.  As soon as they fire upon allied units, the alliance
is broken.  To fire on an allied unit, place your cursor over the unit and then
hold down [ALT], your cursor will then turn into a target cursor.




If you have continuing problems installing, contact:

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