Star Fighter 3000 Pilot's Manual

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- Controls & Information -

Note that most key controls and the action of mouse or joystick buttons may be redefined from the defaults listed here.

Flight Controls

Keyboard

Z - Roll left
X - Roll right
' - Dive
/ - Climb
'Return' - Fire selected weapon
'Right Alt' - Thrust

Mouse

Mouse Left - Roll left
Mouse Right - Roll right
Mouse Up - Dive
Mouse Down - Climb
Left Button - Thrust
Middle Button - Cycle weapons:
  1. Lasers
  2. Air to ground missiles
  3. Air to air missiles
... and any super weapons
Right Button - Fire selected weapon

Joystick

Joystick Left - Roll left
Joystick Right - Roll right
Joystick Up - Dive
Joystick Down - Climb
Button 1 - Fire selected weapon
Button 2 - Thrust
Button 3 - Cycle weapons (as above)

In Game Controls

S - View ship status
M - View map
E - Release ECM
P - Pause game
R - Re-group your formation
A - Break formation for attack
T - Toggle head-up display
'Escape' - Quit game and return to the main menu
f12 - Return to desktop or lose input focus

Weapon Selection

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f1 - Lasers
f2 - Air to ground missiles
f3 - Air to air missiles
f4 - Cycle super weapons

Camera Select

f5 - Reset normal view
f6 - Tracking camera

Spacecraft Views

f9 - Reset view to player
f10 - Cycle through view types:
  1. Player
  2. Friendly spacecraft
  3. Enemy spacecraft
  4. Player weapons
f11 - View next instance of type

Camera Control

'Up Arrow' - Forward view
- (+ Right Ctrl for up)
'Down Arrow' - Rear view
- (+ Right Ctrl for down)
'Left Arrow' - Camera left
'Right Arrow' - Camera right
'Page Up' - Zoom camera in
'Page Down' - Zoom camera out

Head - Up Display Information.

During gameplay, the following information is shown on screen:

Score
Shown on top left.
Shields
- Green Shows shields power out of total (red).
- Orange Shows ship is under attack.
- Flashing Ship is damaged and repairing.
Speed
Sliding speed indicator shown over shields:
Current Weapon
Shown on top right + quantity:
Laser
A-T-G missile
A-T-A missile
Freefall cluster bomb
Wide area laser
Multiple A-T-A missile
Aerial mine
E-C-M
Shown on top middle, if present:
Direction + Grid Ref:
Shown on top right:
Formation Grid
Only displayed when friendly troops are in formation. This displays all ships and their relative positions:
Distant ships
Shown as a cross, colour indicates type:
- Red Enemy ship
- Green Friendly ship
- White Missile / Unclassified
- Orange Credit

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