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____ _ __ _ _ _____ _ _ | _ \(_)___ ___ ___ / _| | |_| |__ ___ |_ _| __(_) __ _ __| | | |_) | / __|/ _ \ / _ \| |_ | __| '_ \ / _ \ | || '__| |/ _` |/ _` | | _ <| \__ \ __/ | (_) | _| | |_| | | | __/ | || | | | (_| | (_| | |_| \_\_|___/\___| \___/|_| \__|_| |_|\___| |_||_| |_|\__,_|\__,_| ██ ██ █▐▌█ ▌█ ▌█ ▐█▄ ▌▀▄▌▀▐█▀ █▐▌█ ██████ ▐█▐▌ ▐▌▐▌▌ ▌▐▌▄ ▌▀▐█▀ ▐ ██████ ████████ ▌▌ ▌ ▐▌▌ ▌ ▌▐▌▐▌▌ ▐█ ▌ ████████ ████▐▌████ ▐█▄▄█ ▌▀ ▌ ▌ ▌▄▌▀▀ ▀▀ █▄ ████▐▌████ ████ ████ ▌▌ ▌▌▌ ▀▀ ▄▄▄▄▄▀▀▀▀▀▀▄▀▀▀ ████ ████ ▄▄████▄▄ ▐█ ▄▄▄▄▀▀▀▀▀█▀▀▀ ▐▌ ▄▄████▄▄ █▄██▀▀ ██ ▀▀██▄█ ▌▌▄▀▀███████▀ ▐ █▄██▀▀ ██ ▀▀██▄█ ██████████████████ ██████████████████ Rise of the Triad v1.2 Shareware Manual Copyright (c)1995 Apogee Software, Ltd. P.O. Box 496389 ■ Garland, TX 75049-6389 (214) 278-5655 For Technical Support, please run the ROTTHELP.EXE file in this directory. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌─────┐ │INTRO│ └─────┘ Hi there. You're playing Rise of the Triad. You're probably wondering what the heck all of that stuff in the game is. Well, lucky you're here, because in this document are all the descriptions and tips you need to play Rise of the Triad: The HUNT Begins. Here is a list of the Table of Contents. You can jump to any of these sections quickly, by pressing F7 to bring up a list of them, and then going right to that section! ┌─────────────────┐ │TABLE OF CONTENTS│ └─────────────────┘ 1 STORY 2 OBJECTIVE 3 STUFF IN THE GAME 3.1 HELPFUL ITEMS 3.2 WEAPONS 3.3 DANGERS 3.4 OTHER STUFF 4 ENEMIES 5 CONTROLS AND GAMEPLAY 6 COMM-BAT (multiplayer battles) 7 HINTS & TIPS 8 BEHIND THE SCENES 9 CONCLUSION ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌─────┐ │STORY│ └─────┘ You are a member of the HUNT, the top secret High-risk United Nations Taskforce, sent on extremely covert operations to possible trouble spots outside the three-mile boundary waters of member countries. You are investigating a breakout of cult activity on a small island in the Gulf of Santa Catalina. Little do you know that your battle here is only the beginning of the Dark War about to be waged. Fight bravely and survive the onslaught of hundreds of the evil Oscuridos, because you have to defeat their well-armed and heavily-funded forces to reach their master, El Oscuro, in the next game! I mean--next mission. Oops. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌─────────┐ │OBJECTIVE│ └─────────┘ YOUR "OFFICIAL" OBJECTIVE Vanquish the evil cult forces from the island and secure their stronghold. Use whatever force is necessary to accomplish your objective. WHAT THAT ACTUALLY BOILS DOWN TO Travel through each area, kill everyone you can, and make it through the exit arch to the next area. Enjoy the happy irony of blowing them up with their own weapons. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌─────┐ │STUFF│ └─────┘ There is a lot of stuff in Rise of the Triad. We've boiled it all down into four categories: Helpful Items (keys and health and such), Weapons (bullet weapons and missile weapons), Dangers (things that will fry or slice you to meaty ribbons), and the conveniently ambiguous "Other Stuff" (anything that pertains to the game that isn't just scenery). ┌─────────────┐ │HELPFUL ITEMS│ └─────────────┘ KEYS These are the most helpful items, because most levels have a locked door that requires a key to open it. The doorframe of locked doors has an image of the key needed to open that door. Keys are found spinning on top of brown pedestals. There are different color keys to look for. The color of the key will unlock that color locked door. POWERUPS Triad has a number of powerups and a few powerDOWNs. They change your behavior rather radically. POWERUPS/DOWNS WHAT THEY DO God Mode Invulnerable, 10' tall, fire Godfire. Mercury Mode Fly, be free! You're not an Egg from Ork, but you can fly around. Press PgUp/PgDn to control the height you fly at. Elasto Bounce off walls, have little friction. Shrooms Disorienting, dangerous movement. Rise of the Triad: Dark War also includes Dog Mode and Random powerups. Dog Mode is quite fun, with its abusively-powerful BarkBlast. PROTECTION It's a necessity these days. There are three types of helpful protective devices to find: ARMOR HOW IT PROTECTS YOU Bulletproof Saves you from those inconvenient skin perforations that your job seems to involve. Asbestos Firejets, fireballs, and missiles are a lot more survivable with one of these on. Gas Mask If you flip a switch or step on a touchplate and hear, "Release the gas!" followed by hissing, you'll really wish you were wearing one of these. HEALING You get injured, you need help. Pick up these items for a quick boost. HEALING ITEM HEALS YOU THIS MUCH Monk meal 10% Priest porridge 20% Priest porridge hot 50% Monk crystal 10% Large monk crystal 50% Healing basin 0-63% 1UP and 3UP (glowing ankhs) Free lives (or full health, then free lives) Life Items (silver/gold ankhs) 100 = 1 free life There are four different types of ankhs (life items) that you can find. Each will add a different amount to your total life item count. If this were a nice printed manual, we could so incredibly show you what they looked like, but we cannot. They're all over the place, so you can see them really easy. They are in denominations of 1, 5, 10, & 25. Three of them look like anhks; the best one has two rotating rings around it. An ankh is an Egyptian symbol of life. It is not some sort of demonic or Satanic symbol. This is only a game anyway. Get a grip. ┌───────┐ │WEAPONS│ └───────┘ There are quite a few weapons in Rise of the Triad. Most are devastatingly powerful. Here they are all in a row, in a format we like to call a "list". BULLET WEAPONS RATE (approx. Rounds Per Minute) Pistol (Walther P38) 136 Dual Pistol 240 MP40 Machine Gun 400 MISSILE WEAPON WHAT IT DOES Bazooka Shoots a missile out. Missile goes boom. Firebomb Shoots a missile out. Explodes in four directions. Very dangerous in close quarters. Heatseeker Missiles seeks out heat sources: guards, fire, etc. Many feel this is THE preferred weapon. Drunk Missile Five missiles leave your weapon and go crazy, flying off any which way (but loose). Flamewall Missile lobs out, hits ground and turns into wall of flame, turning humans into skeletons. Try aiming up and lobbing missiles over things! Aim down to start the flamewall close to you. Great for large crowds. Rise of the Triad: Dark War also features three more weapons that are not available in the shareware version! Split Missile Two missiles fly together until you release button. Then they split and heat-seek separately. Dark Staff Shoots out kinetic energy sphere that severely damages everything in its path until it hits a solid wall. Will go through windows. Excalibat Knocks enemies into the air like Babe Ruth used to do to baseballs! ┌───────┐ │DANGERS│ └───────┘ The Oscuridos don't want intruders and have built lots of "intruder deterrents", which is their term for incredibly dangerous devices designed to impale, slice, incinerate, crush, poison, or melt the flesh off of anyone nearby. Getting the Oscuridos to die on their own traps is one of the more satisfying parts of the game. DANGER THE NASTY THING IT DOES Spinblades Huge three-tiered spinning blades that will damage you a LOT if you touch them. Some move on tracks! Found on ceilings and floors. Firechutes Shoot fireballs out of wall. Firejets Jets that periodically blast a nasty tongue of flame into the air. These sometimes move on paths too! Also found on ceilings and floors. Crushing Cylinders Big round crushing cylinders. Found on ceilings and floors. Makes nice people pancakes. Gas Grates If you see a grate near a switch, be suspicious that you will hear "Release the gas!" when you flip the switch, followed by green, poisonous gas filling the room. Spear Stabbers Racks of sharp spears stab at you. Don't get caught on them, or you will feel quite a bit less healthy. Lava pits Do you walk on lava at home? No? Well, try to avoid it unless you have to. Firewalls Burning hot rock. Touching it will not do much for your complexion. Rise of the Triad: Dark War features all these deadly jobbies: DANGER THE NASTY THING IT DOES Boulders Rolls over anyone and turns them into pulpy bits. Pit traps They look like the floor until you walk over them, then you fall through and hurt yourself. Spinblade Stabbers These are like normal big spinblades, except they are constantly poking out and ducking back in their hole, and we actually expect you to get past them by running quickly across them when they're hidden. Gun emplacements There are two kinds: a gun that rises when you pass, and fires in one direction; and a four-way gun that fires whenever you get near. ┌───────────┐ │OTHER STUFF│ └───────────┘ THING WHAT IT IS FOR GADs Gravitational Anomaly Disks are part technology, part magic. They float disconcertingly in the air. Some travel through the air like bizarre trains. Some rise up and down like elevators (EGADs). They are building blocks the Oscuridos use to make a place they have taken over their own. Jump pads These throw you way up into the air, which allows you to get over barriers, or up into ledges, or to grab stuff floating in the air. Some are timed, and some only work once. Metal walkways Iron catwalks are everywhere, another sign of the Oscuridos modifying the place they are holed out in. (Out in?) High switches You may need to use a jump pad or ride an EGAD up to a high switch. They will activate something, like open a door, move a wall, or release poison gas from nearby grates. It's usually good, unless you're on a level called "Crushing Walls and Choking Gas Pits"--then I'd be a bit more cautious. Bonus Barrels These might hold a weapon, some healing, a life item... They look slightly different than normal barrels. Crates of TNT They explode when you shoot them. So do guards if they are nearby the crate when you shoot them. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌───────┐ │ENEMIES│ └───────┘ GUARD NAME WHAT THEY WEAR & WHAT THEY DO Low Guard Gray uniform. Your basic grunt enemy. Shoot them. Some are sneaky.... High Guard Green uniform, with machine gun. You just can't ignore these guys for very long, unless you let them kill you, when you can ignore them for quite a while if you like. Sometimes when they die, they will drop their machine gun, and you can get it! Lightning Guard Green longcoat, with pistol. These dangerous guys steal your weapon, and sometimes use it on you! Plus they run faster than normal guards do. Some of them carry missile weapons! Strike Team Beige uniform, with pistol. These clever guys roll if they get hit, so you have to re-aim. Plus, they can roll out of the way of missiles! Patrol Robot Built by technical wizard John Darian, these metal threats fire slow-moving, heat-seeking drones at you. Dangerous. Triad Enforcer Black leather uniform with big chain gun. The worst of the shareware enemies, they tear you up with a big chain gun, then throw grenades at you. The following enemies only appear in Rise of the Triad: Dark War Overpatrol Black Uniform with pistol. Fires a net to trap you, then shoots you while you're helpless. Ballistikraft Indestructible robot pillars of death. Death Monk Undead servants of El Oscuro. Some fire deadly magic at you. Big Bad Bosses of Dark War "General" John Darian, the mad pyrotechnics expert. Sebastian "Doyle" Krist, movie studio mogul turned cult pawn. NME: the Nasty Metallic Enforcer, built by Darian to guard the lower reaches. El Oscuro, "the Dark", evil presence awakened by the Oscuridos. To say they are tough to beat would be like saying Everest is a little tough to climb. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌───────────────────┐ │CONTROLS & GAMEPLAY│ └───────────────────┘ Here's a list and brief explanation of the controls in the game. In the menu, use the arrow keys to move around. Press Enter when the choice you desire is highlighted. ESC will back out. In the game, oh, boy, are there keys to learn. Note that these are the Default settings, so if you change them, the text below won't magically change. If you wish to restore them all to defaults, you can delete the file CONFIG.ROT from your game directory. Here are the defaults. WHERE KEY WHAT IT DOES Game Up arrow Move forward Down arrow Move backward Left arrow Turn left Right arrow Turn right Alt+arrow Sidestep left or right (stafe) Spacebar Use objects/open doors/flip switches Ctrl Fire the selected weapon Enter Switch between bullet and missile weapons Backspace Turn 180 degrees (about face or "volte-face") Shift+arrow Run/Turn faster Page Up Look up (view returns to center when you let go) Page Down Look Down (view returns to center when you let go) (When you have mercury mode, Pg Up/Dn control your level of flight) Home Aim up (view stays where you aim it) End Aim down (view stays where you aim it) Pause Pause game (press Pause again to continue) Comma/Period Sidestep left/right (strafe) Delete Drop current missile weapon +/- Change size of game window 1-4 Choose weapon (1-3 are bullet weapons, 4 is missile) A Aim with up and down movement while this is held down Tab Enter Automap F1 Help F2 Save Game F3 Restore Game F4 Sound/Music Menu F5 Low/Medium/High Detail F6 Quick Save F7 Messages on/off F8 End Current Game F9 Quickload Game F10 Quit F11 Gamma Correction F12 Crazy Sandwich Key Automap Page Up Zoom out Page Down Zoom In Tab Exit Automap F Zoom out to full map size Comm-bat F1-F10 Play Remote Ridicule sound F12 Live Remote Ridicule: hold down key and speak through your microphone! Must have compatible card and have microphone set up. Live Remote Ridicule only works in network play. T Type a message to everyone Z Type a directed message Tab See everyone's KillCounts Alt+number Message Macro (set them up in SETUP.EXE) GAMEPLAY Basically, you run around and explore in the game. There are a number of secret areas in each level. Some are found by going up to a wall and pressing Use. Some are opened by stepping on a touchplate (a darkened area on the floor). Some are revealed by flipping a switch. Some are hidden behind doors that only open after a certain time has passed. While the game will automatically aim your bullet weapons, you must aim your own missile weapons (at least the bazooka). Make sure you're on target, then let 'er rip. Most experienced players use the mouse and keyboard simultaneously. Run and turn with the arrow keys, then strafe (sidestep), fire, and look around with the mouse. Some like to run, others like to open with the mouse, too. Those with a good command of the keys will have a great advantage over those who don't. Turning around on your own takes a while--all of which you are getting shot. If you know the Volte-face (or 180-degree turn) key, you suddenly face your attacker! If you see a big X light on the wall, that means that area is not necessary to finish the game, and is in fact very dangerous. Often switches will have Triad walls with 1 to 4 lights in them. The lights usually are also found near what the switch activates. So, if a switch has a two-light Triad wall next to it, look around for another two-light Triad wall and watch what happens to it or near it when the switch is flipped. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌────────┐ │COMM-BAT│ └────────┘ NOTE: This section gives only the basics on how to set up and play Comm-Bat games of Triad. For more detailed information, and info on how to solve problems in Comm-BAT, please see ROTTHELP.EXE. Comm-bat means multiplayer battle over some type of communications port. There are three types of multiplayer Comm-bat: serial (when two computers are connected by a serial cable), modem (two people playing across the phone lines), and network (playing with up to 11 people on a network--the shareware version only allows five people at a time). Here's how to get started in each. SERIAL SETUP Hook a serial cable up to each of your computers. Your serial port is a wide connector that your printer is probably hooked up to. If you can get two computers together, connect them with a serial cable, then run SETUP, set up your port settings, then choose Serial game. MODEM SETUP This is a bit tougher, as you have to choose what modem you have, and dial up another person who is waiting with Triad running. Since there are many versions of the same modem, sometimes the initialization strings we provide won't work. Refer to your manual on how to initialize your modem if the string doesn't work. Once you get the right string, you'll be set. Setup your COM port settings and so on. Right now, if your comm card is an older one, the UART will come up as 8250. 8250's are quite slow and some hitching may occur. All internal modems and most new systems have the 16550 card, which is very speedy and only like $30. It is worth it to upgrade for all the different communication duties of your computer, as well as Triad. A 16450 is extremely similar to an 8250, and some diagnostic programs will report an 8250 and a 16450 as the same port. NETWORK SETUP Make sure you are all connected to the network. Choose Network Game in SETUP. Triad runs much better with one computer being a dedicated Server. On that computer, choose how many people are playing. All the other computers choose Client. If you don't have an extra computer, you can choose Server/Client, but that person may experience occasional hitches from doing two jobs at once. Keeping track of 11 players is quite a task! Once you get into the game, choose Comm-bat game, and the Master (whoever got in the game first) will choose all the battle options and so on. You can quit out of a Comm-bat game by pressing ESC and then Y. If the Master quits, the current game will end and you will see everyone's scores in three tables. You can play six more Comm-Bat games once you get Rise of the Triad: Dark War, and you can still load in the shareware levels and play them there. Plus, some of the levels will have neat new stuff in them when you run them from the registered version! ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌────────────┐ │HINTS & TIPS│ └────────────┘ We all need help from time to time. Here is help for you, if you need help in figuring out Rise of the Triad. If you don't, well, this is just wasted space on your hard drive. o Patrol Robots aren't hurt by bullets. o All Life Items are gettable. o Often there's a much easier way to get somewhere. Look for ways to use a jump pad in the other direction and so on. o After you drink from a fountain or get a key, you can destroy the basin or pedestal! o 1Ups and 3Ups, if you are hurt, will heal you with the first extra life. So if you want the whole set of lives, heal up full before getting them. There are some of these and tons more hints in the Dark War manual. ┌────────────────┐ │SECRETS REVEALED│ └────────────────┘ BONUSES You can get a lot of crazy bonuses in Rise of the Triad. It's fun to discover them on your own, but here are how you get them if you must know. BONUS WHAT IT MEANS Supercharge Bonus Got all powerups on level Adrenaline Bonus 100% Kills Bleeder Bonus used all health items on level Skin of Teeth ended level with 1 dot of health Republican Bonus 1 Got all missile weapons on level Republican Bonus 2 Destroyed all plants on level Democrat Bonus 1 Never used a handgun on level Democrat Bonus 2 All shrooms & healing basins used on level Ground Zero Bonus Hit with your own missile (hint: FW) Bull in China Shop Destroyed all life items on level Curiosity Bonus Every switch, pushwall, pillar, sound area pushed, messed with, or whatever Bonus Bonus Got all bonuses It is REALLY hard to get the Bonus Bonus. There are more bonuses at the end of the whole game in Dark War. They are pretty tough to get, too. Genocide Bonus Kill every one of the same type of actor in the game. This can be gotten multiple times depending on how many different types of actors you can wipe out. DIP Bonus Collect all three developer balls (Hmmmmm....) LEVELS There are secret levels in the game. One you can get to through a secret arch. The others require cheat codes to get to them. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────┐ │BEHIND THE SCENES│ └─────────────────┘ Who are the strange people who assembled this collection of data that they have the temerity to call "entertaining"? Read on! THE DEVELOPERS OF INCREDIBLE POWER We got our name from a memo of Tom's about work hours. At the end, it read: [some text about working together well, and if we do...] We will be... The Developers of Incredible Power! It kind of stuck after that. We don't mean it to be bragging--we mean it to have a sense of humor about ourselves. So many companies take themselves so bloody seriously all the time. Anyway, here we are.... WHO TITLE WHAT THEY REALLY DID Tom Hall Creative Director Designed game. Did most of levels. Drank lemonless, spoonless iced tea. Mark Dochtermann Head Programmer Wrote engine, comm code. Ate a lot of Chinese food, and looked weirdly into the air at times. Flew many sad (sometimes leaky) airplanes. William Scarboro Programmer Wrote actor code. A lot of it. Also has this thing for buddah and pushing buttons in elevators with heads. Jim Dose' Programmer Wrote sound code, some menu code. Also locks keys inside his running car when outside of liquour stores. Stephen Hornback Artist Did most of the wall textures, most of the actors, the cool explosions, most of the items in the game, & the Apogee earth background. Dreams of working on Cosmo 6D with a Pink Floyd soundtrack. Chuck "D9" Jones Artist Did the snake door, tech door, some cinematics, and the Game Over picture. Wishes to draw Dopefish tattoos on all people on the face of the Earth! ASSOCIATE DEVELOPERS These people helped us out a lot Lee Jackson Our master musician won a world-championship pun-off. Twice. Also spent a lot of time pining for the fjords. (Not fields or fiords.) Joe Selinske He did a bunch of battle levels and some game levels, also spent too much time eating sushi and watching Japanimation. Joe Siegler He did some game levels, like Ride 'em Cowboy and Wall to Wall in The HUNT Begins. Drinks Diet Coke like most people inhale air. Robert Atkins He did the awesome printed manual for Dark War, and admired Princess Leia in a "special" way. Marianna Vayntrub She did some game levels in Dark War, Krist's chair, Mark. FORMER DEVELOPERS These folks have left the Developers of Incredible Power, but left their mark on the game Tim Neveu He drew many cinematic screens, the weapons, and the menu pictures. Dreams of working for the Moon Pie people. Nolan Martin He programmed most of the menus and the setup program, and loved donuts. Susan J. Singer A former Artist who did many side textures, above textures, the female modem players, the five characters' faces. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────┐ │CONCLUSION│ └──────────┘ See the ORDER.FRM file if you'd like to place an order for Rise of the Triad: Dark War. It's got over thirty levels of action, plus thirty Comm-bat levels (or FIFTY levels on the CD). Don't miss all the new weapons, new enemies, and the insane Dog Mode! Call 1-800-APOGEE1 to order. Check out the ORDERING INFO Main Menu Option in the game for more information. The registered version(s) of this game come with a really nice 32 page manual with all kinds of really nice and pretty pictures, and not just this text. Thanks for reading this. Hopefully, some of these 500 lines or so were helpful. See ya.