User manual GAMES PC GULF WAR-OPERATION DESERT HAMMER

[. . . ] TM Customer Support: www. 3do. com/support, 650-261-3454, customer­support@3do. com Monday-Friday: 9am-12pm; 2pm-5pm Pacific Standard Time © 1999 The 3DO Company. Plastic Men. , Toys in Space, Gulf War Operation Desert Hammer, and their respective logos, are trademarks and/or service marks of The 3DO Company in the U. S. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. TM TM PMN-5047-001 TABLE OF CONTENTS WELCOME TO THE WAR . [. . . ] Use on the numpad to get help from your friends. The appropriate Air or Artillery assets available for that mission will be automatically called in an effort to take out that target. Jet Fighter-Bombers: These missile carrying aircraft are called in against enemy units. They will launch and leave. -1 2- -13- KEYBOARD REFERENCE GUIDE D E FA U LT K E Y B O A R D C ONFIGUR AT ION ESC: ESC M: RETURN: DEL: END: PAGE DOWN: LEFT ARROW: In-Game Menu Replay last audio message In-Game Chat (multi-player) Unlock/Lock Turret (advanced control) DEL END PgDn Overhead Surveillance System On/Off Weapon Select Turn Left (advanced control mode only) RETURN M O/Ins UP ARROW: Forward DOWN ARROW: Reverse RIGHT ARROW: Turn Right (advanced control mode only) O/Ins: Call in Strike -14- -15- TAKING A BREAK Once you start a mission, you can access the game menu at any time by pressing Esc. This menu holds the following options: BRIEFING Brings up the mission briefing text that was displayed before the start of the mission. You can also use Esc to return to game play. EXIT THE MISSION Exits the scenario and returns to the DEBRIEFING screen. EXIT THE GAME Exits the scenarios and returns to your Windows Desktop. NEW Begins a new campaign. LOAD You can load a previously saved campaign game by left-clicking on LOAD from the single player menu options panel. Choose a saved campaign from the list; you can scroll the list by using the up and down buttons on the right side of the box. When you have selected a game; left-click on LAUNCH to start GULF WAR. Erase previously saved games by selecting a game on the list and left-clicking on DELETE. Note: You can not load or save multi-player games. STARTING A MULTI-PLAYER GAME GULF WAR supports up to eight players over a Local Area Network (LAN) and the Internet, as well as two player games via modem or serial connection. To begin a multi-player game, left-click on the MULTI option from the MAIN MENU screen. At the top of the panel is a box listing the available connections. Once you have selected a connection type by left-clicking on it, the options to either CREATE or JOIN a game appear. At the top of the screen your PLAYER NAME is given. You can change this name by left-clicking inside the box, backspacing over the name and typing in a new one. Below your name is a box for the name to identify the game you are creating as the host. This name is seen by prospective players, so it can be helpful to give a descriptive name, such as RATTRAP-8 (an eight player game using the Mission 18 map), rather than simply JOE'S GAME. -17- STARTING A SINGLE PLAYER GAME To start a single player campaign, left-click on CAMPAIGN from the GULF WAR MAIN MENU screen. This brings up the single player menu Options panel, which will allow you to load a previously saved campaign or start a new one. -16- M U LT I - P L AY E R S E T U P S C R E E N Next, left-click inside the MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PLAYERS box and select a number between two and eight. Finally, to screen players you can left-click inside the PASSWORD box and type in a password of up to sixteen characters in length. [. . . ] Type "c:\Program Files\directx\setup\dxdiag. exe" then click on the `OK' button. This will run the DirectX Diagnostics Tool. -24- -25- LAUNCHING THE GAME II Problem: You try to start the game and the screen flashes briefly, and you are returned to the desktop without an error message. Answer: There are probably miscellaneous programs running in the background that are interfering with the game and causing it to crash. You may obtain a list of Microsoft-certified video and audio drivers for your hardware by going to <http://www. microsoft. com/hwtest/hcl/>. [. . . ]