Game Types
Gob
0. What is Gob?
Gob is like a cross between Asteroids, Life-Force, and Star Control.
It uses the same data files as TimeWarp.
1. How do I start Gob?
Run twwin.exe or twdos.exe or twlinux or twbeos or whatever.
Click on the "Extended Menu" button. Click on the "Gob" button.
2. What is the goal of Gob?
Avoid dieing.
Try to get as bad-ass a ship as you can.
Kill lots of enemies.
If you survive for long enough and accumulate enough wealth, you will
eventually be able to purchase the "Hyper Dynamo" upgrade. Once you
get that, you can basically consider yourself to have won the game.
Try to win Gob with as many different ships as you can.
3. What are the controls in Gob?
The keyboard controls for config 0 in TimeWarp
4. What can I do in Gob?
You can fly around in a really big map (MUCH larger than a normal melee).
You can kill enemy ships. They appear randomly.
You can visit space stations. They orbit planets.
5. What can I do at space stations?
You can buy upgrades for your ship.
You can buy a new ship. You automatically sell your old ship when you do
so.
You can repair your ship.
6. What starbases are there? What are the differences between them?
There are 4 starbases of 4 types (though there are only 3 different
starbase graphics... the 4th uses a duplicate of one of the other threes
graphics, chosen at random).
They are located at random locations, except for one which starts out next
to you, at 12000x12000.
Each type of starbase sells a specific type of ship, either Supox, Orz,
Kohr-Ah, or Utwig.
Some starbases may also sell unique upgrades only available there.
7. What upgrades are available.
There are a number of generic upgrades that are available for most
types of ships.
Each purchasable ship type has a number of ship specific upgrades
available for it, including at least one special ship specific upgrade.
Most special ship specific upgrades can only be purchased once.
There are also a number of very special upgrades. These can
usually be purchased for any ship type, but only at certain
starbases. Most of these are very expensive. Some can only be
purchased when certain conditions are met.
Most upgrades are lost when your ship is sold (although they add
to the sale value of your ship).
These upgrades are available for all ships:
Crewpod Increases your max. crew by 4. You cannot exceed 42.
Battery Increases your max. battery by 8. You cannot exceed
42.
Thruster Upgrade Increases your max. speed by a lot, and your
acceleration by a little.
Control Jet Upgrade Increases your turn rate by a lot, and your
acceleration by a little.
Dynamo Increases your battery recovery rate.
These upgrades are available for Supoxi only:
Glob Hurler Upgrade Increase your max range by a medium amount, and your
projectile velocity by a little.
Glob Former Upgrade Increase the damage your gun inflicts by 1, and the
battery you require to shoot by a lot. Don't buy
this a second time unless you have tons of dynamos
(5-8), and don't buy it a third time unless you have
gazzillions of dynamos (12-21).
BLADE Upgrade ???
These upgrades are available for Orz only:
Missile Upgrade Improves your missiles, both range and damage. It
also makes them cost more battery to shoot.
Marine Armor Upgrade Improves the max. speed and acceleration of your
space marines.
Absoption ???
These upgrades are available for Kohr-Ah only:
Shuriken Sharpness Increases damage inflicted by blades.
Shuriken Speed Increases the velocity of blades.
FRIED Range Increases the range & velocity of F.R.I.E.D. This
upgrade can only be purchased once.
FRIED Damage Increases the damage dealt by F.R.I.E.D. This
upgrade can only be purchased once.
These upgrades are available for Utwig only:
Bolt Regulator Increase maximum range
Bolt Charger Increase damage inflicted. Also slows your
rate of fire.
Bolt Generator Speeds up your rate of fire
Mask of Honest Demeanor ???
Mask of Elephantine Fortitude ???
(note that you are only allowed to purchase one mask)
These very special upgrades may be available. Some will be hidden,
some will not be available, some may not be available until certain
conditions are met. Most are extremely valuable.
Planet Locator Keeps you from getting lost.
Divine Favor ???
External Defense System ???
Devil Protects His Own ???
Hyper Dynamo ???
Rainbow Abyss ???
8. What enemies are possible in Gob? How much do you get for killing them?
Special
Asteroid 1 buckazoid
Weak
Thraddash Torch 1 starbuck
Zof-Fot-Pik Stinger 1 starbuck
Shofixti Scout 1 starbuck
Drax Griphon 1 starbuck
Moderate
Kterbi Saber 2 starbucks
Kahr Boomerang 2 starbucks
Ilwrath Spider 2 starbucks
Syreen Penetrator 2 starbucks
Urquan Dreadnought 3 starbucks
Lk Sanctorum 3 starbucks
Tough
Mmmrnhrmmm Transformer 3 starbucks, 1 buckazoid
Druuge Mauler 3 starbucks, 1 buckazoid
Yehat Terminator 4 starbucks, 1 buckazoids
Earthling Cruiser 4 starbucks, 1 buckazoids
Herald Exterminator 4 starbucks, 2 buckazoids
Virtao Limb 4 starbucks, 2 buckazoids
Nasty
Ploxis Plunderer 5 starbucks, 3 buckazoids
Narool Lurker 5 starbucks, 3 buckazoids
9. What is the difficulty of the enemies based upon? And the cost of the
upgrades?
The type and frequency of enemy spawning is based upon the time you have
been alive and the number of enemies currently alive. The cost of the
upgrades is based upon what upgrades you already have, and upon what type
of ship you have.
10. What's a good score in Gob?
11. Why is Gob so addictive?
gflmelee
Single player melee between two fleets.
Player and enemy fleets are defined in the ini file. Set -1 there to choose a random fleet from the available possibilities. If you define a new fleet, don't forget to set the values of Nships and Nalliances.
You can toggle certain options. Currently the keys are hard-coded to:
C,V choose next ship in your fleet
A fleet display
S show stats while S is pressed
D healthbars
F ship panel
R radar mode
R+left shift = relocate radar (left/mid/right) on the screen
Use the target keys to select prev/ next/ closest target.
Stats about victims are only kept to a maximum of 32 kills per ship, and for a maximum of 128 different ships.
Vanguard
Presently Vanguard (VG) is just a "Hunt down the enemy team" kinda game.
Far more is planned but no coders are enlisted to the project at this moment..
(For more information on the intended scope of VG contact "Morthotos@dd-tech.org")
How to play VG thus far.. Well to aid you in your hunt you get 2 nice little toys...
-A Primative Hyper Space drive: (Press * when your batt is full and then start driving). It will increase your speed by about 75 velocity units. (at least I think so, also I think it boosts your accel rate)
-You also get an ultra accurate real-time Radar, enabling you to see EVERYTHING from a moons around an orbiting planet, to the shots your opponent fired at you.
Keys:
- Tab = toggle focus map center / focus player (default is map center for some reason)
- Page up and down (not on the keypad) zoom you in and out, (it's a press and press again, not press and hold system, again don't know why.)
That's it.. The key bindings can be found in Vanguard.ini
ENJOY!
Melee in solar system
A normal melee fight inside a complete solar system with sun, planets
and moons!
to play it just enter the extended menu and choose
"Melee in solar system (INI)"
the (INI) for those who wonder symbolize that the game come with an
.ini file for you to change!
Through the ini you can change the number of planets, their radius and
more, explanations are added to the ini file.
Enjoy!
Solar system melee was coded by Corona688 and UAF, all right reserved
to Crimson cooperation(TM).