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- Blade of Darkness DEMO - Readme
- (c) Codemasters 2000
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- Welcome to the Blade of Darkness demo.
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- In this demo there is one level available, in which you play as the Knight, Sargon.
- Sargon's mission is to break out of prison and defeat the treacherous Ragnar.
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- In the full game you can look forward to choosing from 4 characters, all with
- different skills and attributes, as well as many more levels to test your fighting
- and puzzle-solving abilities.
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- Installation notes
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- Please make sure all other applications are closed before proceeding. Run setup.exe
- to install the game on to your hard disk and follow on-screen instructions. The installation
- path may be changed.
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- Once installation is complete, Blade of Darkness will place a shortcut on your
- desktop. Double-click on this to launch the game (or alternatively access the icon via
- the Windows Start Menu).
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- Setup
- Here you can choose your video options (D3D only in this demo), graphics resolution and sound options.
- When you have selected these, choose "Play demo".
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- Default Control Keys:
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- Mouse movement: Look around
- W or Up arrow: Walk forwards
- S or Down arrow: Walk backwards
- A or Left arrow: Turn left (or sidestep when locked on to an enemy)
- D or Right arrow: Turn right (or sidestep when locked on to an enemy)
- Double tap and hold forwards: Run forwards
- Double tap and hold backwards: Run backwards
- Shift + forwards: Sneak forwards
- Left Mouse Button or . (period): Attack/strike
- Right Mouse Button or Forward slash: Jump/climb
- Jump + Left: Dodge left
- Jump + Right: Dodge right
- Jump + backwards: Leap backwards
- Ctrl: Defend/block
- Tab or Number pad 0: Lock on to an enemy, then cycle through all attackers
- Caps Lock or End: Draw/sheathe weapons
- (With weapons on their back, your character will run
- faster and jump further.) This button will also
- disengage enemy lock-on.
- E or Return key: Actions: pick up, open, use or activate
- Space or Page down: Cycle through nearby world objects eg. levers, locks, food
- F or Page Up: Cycle through weapons in inventory
- R or Insert: Cycle through shields in inventory
- C or Home: Cycle through objects in inventory, eg. keys and potions
- (press E or Return to use)
- Hold Q or Delete + tap Attack: Throw item in right hand
- Hold Q or Delete + tap Block: Drop shield in left hand
- Number pad minus: Cycle camera views
- Number pad plus: Cycle camera views
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- On Screen Display
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- Health (red) and Experience (blue) bars.
- These can be found in the top left corner of the screen. The experience bar progressively
- fills up each time you kill an enemy. When the bar reaches its full limit, the player will
- go up an experience level, and the bar will set to zero again. Higher experience levels
- mean that your character has a greater attack power (see below), more health, and that more
- combinations of attack moves become available.
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- Power
- The figure in the bottom right-hand corner of screen represents the total attack strength
- of your character; the amount of damage they are able to do. Note how this changes with
- different weapons.
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- Def
- The figure in the bottom left-hand corner of screen represents the defensive capability of
- your character. This is usually zero, but will go up if they armour on, or down if they are
- using a clumsy weapon such as a halberd. In the full game, a character's "Def" rating will
- increase as they move up through the levels. A weapon's power and defence properties are
- displayed when cycling through the weapons in your inventory.
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- Stamina bar
- This appears at the bottom centre of the screen during an attack. It represents the amount
- of stamina your character has available for a particular attack. For example, if the character
- performs several attacks or combos in quick succession, the bar depletes to zero rendering
- the character too tired to attack for a short amount of time. You must then wait for the bar
- to fill sufficiently to execute another attack. Higher experience levels give your character
- more stamina and therefore greater attack capacity.
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- Combat
- Many different moves are possible. These are achieved by using the Attack button and arrow keys
- in different combinations.
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- Not all weapons can be used immediately; some may require you to reach a higher experience level
- before you can wield them effectively.
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- In the full game, each character has their own weapon speciality. For example: Sargon's speciality
- is the one-handed sword and shield. He will not be able to use the Deathsword as effectively as
- the Combat Sword.
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- Troubleshooting
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- If you encounter any problems, please ensure that you have the latest drivers
- installed for your card. These should be obtained from the card or chipset
- manufacturer.
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- Minimum Requirements
- Windows 95, 98
- Pentium II 350 CPU
- 64MB RAM
- 16 bit DirectX compatible Soundcard
- DirectX 7.0 compatible 3D graphics card with 8Mb RAM
- 4x CD-ROM
- 100Mb Hard Drive space after installation
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- Recommended Specification
- Windows 95, 98
- Pentium III 500 CPU
- 128MB RAM
- 16 bit DirectX compatible Soundcard
- DirectX 7.0 compatible 3D graphics card with 32Mb RAM
- 8x CD-ROM
- 250Mb Hard Drive space after installation
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- Supported 3D chipsets
- 3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo2, Voodoo3, Voodoo5
- 3Dlabs Permedia 3
- ATI
- Matrox G200, G400
- Nvidia Riva TNT, Riva TNT2, GeForce 256,GeForce 2
- S3 Savage 2000
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- Known Issues
- This demo does not work with the Intel i740 graphics card. The game is still in development, and this should
- not be an issue with the final release.
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- Blade of Darkness has been tested with most of the major graphics cards manufacturers,
- and should run perfectly on most machines. However, due to the large variety of machines and configurations
- available, it is inevitable that a few of you may encounter problems running Blade of Darkness.
- If this occurs, please make sure you have DirectX 7.0a installed and the latest drivers for your graphics card,
- sound card etc. Visit your card manufacturer's website for further details. Should installation of the latest
- drivers not work, please e-mail tech support with a detailed description of your problem, and include dxdiag
- results. (To do this, click 'Run' from the Start menu, type 'dxdiag' in the prompt box, and click on 'save all
- information').
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- E-mail tech support custservice@codemasters.com
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- (c) 2000 The Codemasters Software Company Limited ("Codemasters").
- All rights reserved.
- Codemasters is a registered trademark of Codemasters.
- Developed by Rebel Act Studios.
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