COMMANDS ACTION --------------------------------------------------------------------------- P or Joystick Right Rotate Clockwise O or Joystick Left Rotate Counter-Clockwise Q or Joystick Up Move Forward A or Joystick Down Move Backward Enter & Q Look Up or Joystick Up and Fire Enter & A Look Down or Joystick Down and Fire PgUp/PgDn or Keypad 9/3 Changes the Secondary System Mode (1 - 3) Home/End or Keypad 7/1 Changes the Secondary System Selection Enter or Joystick Fire Uses the selected Secondary System or play the keycode loaded into the Sonic Key F1-F4 Toggles Energy Banks on/off F8 Pause F9 Interrogate (open door) F10 Jump Cursor Keys Left/Right Selects Primary Management System Cursor Key Up Toggles selected PMS system on/off < or > Slides the icon strip left or right to select backpack item or Sonic Key icon Space Bar Pick Up or Drop an object Shift + F1-F10 Saves current PA setup Ctrl + F1-F10 Restores PA setup Esc Exit Saving a Game To save a game you must enter a save game room (identified by the code wheel logo on the door). Once in the room, you will see a communications console - walk up to this console and it will self activate requesting a disk on which to save a game (the disk need not be formatted as this is done automatically). Once you have inserted the disk, use the sonic key to interrogate and then operate the console - this will actually save the game (only one saved game per disk). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Primary Management Systems are as follows (use Cursor Left/Right to switch): 1 - Power Armor assist (easier to control armor and jumps) 2 - Shield (defense field) 3 - Secondary (controls status of secondary systems and weapons) 4 - Auto-Repair 5 - Sensors (minimal power consumption - activates sensors and cameras) (outer ring around secondary system display becomes Doppler Detector, with 360ø sweep) Green light indicates system is online. Bars beneath indicate Auto-Repair status (green = on). Secondary Systems (press PgUp/PgDn to switch modes) Mode 1 (right top light green) Weapons are as follows (Home/End to activate): 1 - Plasma Projector 2 - vacant 3 - Energy Transfer Probe (if brought online, will flash when in proximity of a system with which it can interact) 4 - Sonic Key. Green = online Flashing = proximity to related item Mode 2 (right middle light green) Remote Cameras 1 - 4 - Green light indicates Reception only mode Mode 3 (right bottom light green) Remote Cameras 1 - 4 - Green light indicates Reception and Move mode (zoom in/out, pan left/right) If the Sensory Array PMS is online, pictures from a camera which has been placed and activated can be viewed. Parrot camera (camera 1) is mobile. By pressing Keypad 5, the camera will "fly" back to you, if you are in the same room. Icon View Except when used for the Sonic Key, the icon view shows contents of Cellular Backpack. You can pick up an item by placing the icon strip (by using < and >) on a vacant slot (the hourglass type symbol). Approach the object, and when it flashes in the window, it can be picked up by pressing space. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Helpful Hints * After passing through the first door, activate your weapons (press Home or Keypad 7 three times) and power up your energy banks (press the F1 and F2 keys) to be ready for enemies. * The more energy available, the better your Power Armor will function, and the more powerful your Plasma weapon will be. No energy banks online - Black plasma ball - useless 1 energy bank - Blue or Red plasma balls 2 energy banks - Red or Green plasma balls 3 energy banks - Green plasma balls 4 energy banks - White plasma balls - the most powerful * The more systems activated while firing the quicker your energy will deplete, and hence, your plasma weaponry will lose effectiveness. * If a power source is used to fuel more than one system, the energy is shared and will deplete more rapidly based on the power requirements of that system. Final notes... * Fuel is your lifeline. You must find additional sources of energy quickly, to provide more power for the PA. The most readily-available source are the robots; these will eject Fuel Cells or Energy Banks if critically damaged (and some of the larger robots have self-sustaining nuclear power, which would reduct your dependence). For that reason alone, it is important not to waste firepower in destroying robots - use the minimum amount of force. Create stores of cells in safe parts of the Complex. It is also conceivable that the central energy sources of the Complex might be tapped. * You can husband your limited power supply through switching Primary systems off. However, it is not recommended that the Shield or Sensors be left off when entering a potentially 'hot' area. Finding a safe place to hide allows you to turn off all other systems while repairs take place. Always repair the Auto-Repair first; it will then service the other systems more efficiently. * Field Generators in their unattached (cuboid) form have a variety of potential uses. Certainly, they can provide a shield from hostile fire, or to block a doorway. Think creatively. Your PA's Jump capability means you could shelter behind a field, and pop up to fire at hostile forces. Remember to keep the Field Generator replenished with fuel for as long as it is useful to you, and turn it off (with the Sonic Key) when it is not. * The Parrot camera is an invaluable tool. If used carefully, it makes an excellent scout (although it has no means to open locked dorrs or to operate elevators). It can also provide a remote means to plan to ambush, or to keep watch while you power down the shield and weapons to make repairs. * Observation is the key! The Complex's original makers and the technicians who served it were only human - there are many places where they left mnemonics and other memory-jogging devices to remind them how to activate systems or bypass destructive equipment. There may be a schematic map of the Complex somewhere. You must also keep searching for additional Sonic Key codes; for every obstacle, there is a solution, somewhere. * Communications Rooms are your only means of contact with the outside world. Use them whenever you can - you never know when you might run into something lethal round the next corner. Treat them just like a Save Game option in one of those 20th Century computer games - we might be able to pick up from where you left off. * Watch out for blast damage from explosions. Watch out for your own weapons if you fire them in an enclosed space. Watch out for fixed plasma generators. Watch out for any energy-carrying devices. In fact, just watch out for everything! * Use the SHIFT+F1-10 to record your PA settings for certain actions, such as combat, auto-repair, jump, etc. Recall stored settings with CNTL+F1-10. * Press F5 for a full screen view of camera while camera is active. * Map! Pressing F8 gives you the ID number for the room you are in. That might make it easier to keep a record of the Complex.