presents

- game manual -

Preview release !!
The long awaited second preview release of Panzer Arena...

The intention of this release is to give you
a sense on what Panzer Arena will be about.
Not all game elements are included yet.

For the final release watch the official Panzer Arena homepage at:
http://www.conmeg.de/PanzerArena/

Contents

The Game

The Controls

Technical

The game

The Player Tank
	You're in control of a powerful tank. The tank is easy to navigate and can be armed with many different weapons.

 

The Weapons
	The fireball is a very effective weapon against all kinds of enemies. Thus every tank is weaponed at least with one fireball. Though the fireball is not as powerful as other guns.
	The flamethrower. One of the best weapons if you're near to an enemy. Maybe an enemy can only be hit by the flamethrower, maybe another enemy is immune against fire...
	If it's you against a crowd of enemies this is the right weapon. With the auto-gun you hit the enemy  without aiming. You only have to drive'n shoot!
	The double-shooter. All the advantages of the fireball - TWICE!
	The big one. The immense damage of this weapen is legendary. Every fighter with this gun is feared by his rivals.
	The rockets. Collect as many rockets as you can, because this is the ultimative long distance weapon.
	Use mines to keep your back free.

And now a short overview about a few enemies:

The Enemies
	Ambulance. 300 Points			Squeecher. 100 Points			Wanderer. 450 Points
	Zoomer. 800 Points			Smorch. 300 Points
	Hunter. 600 Points			Missile-station. 400 Points

The controls

Panzer Arena provides you two different steering types. The arcade-style steering (standard) and the special two-chain steering. You can use your keyboard to play the game or you can use any supported gamecontroller like joysticks or gamepads (supported are all controllers with DirectInput support). If you're using a gamecontroller it is recommended that you use the arcade-style steering.

The arcade-style steering

navigate tank				aim and shoot
action	key	joystick		action	key	joystick
accelerate tank forwards	cursor up	up		turn turret left	a	button 1
accelerate tank backwards	cursor down	down		turn turret right	d	button 2
turn tank left	cursor left	left		fire turret	s	button 0
turn tank right	cursor right	right		extra key	space	button 3

The two-chain steering

navigate tank			aim and shoot
action	key		action	key
left tank chain forwards	numpad 4		turn turret left	a
left tank chain backwards	numpad 1		turn turret right	d
right tank chain forwards	numpad 6		fire turret	s
right tank chain backwards	numpad 3		extra key	space
both chains forwards	numpad 5
both chains backwards	numpad 2

General keys

in game keys
action	key
activate game-menu	ESC
pause game	p

Using the game-menu
action	key	joystick
menupointer up	cursor up	up
menupointer down	cursor down	down
select menu entry	s	button 0
previous menu	a	button 1

Technical

Panzer Arena is a game designed for Windows 95 and DirectX. This means you have to install DirectX first if you want to play this game. DirectX is a free enhancement for Windows95/98/NT from Microsoft. You can download the latest DirectX release free from the Microsoft website. You should take a look at the official DirectX page from Microsoft at: http://www.microsoft.com/DirectX/.

If you want to use a gamecontroller (joystick, joypad...) within this game, you can use any controller which is supported by DirectInput ( a part of DirectX). This controller has to be registered in the Windows Controlpanel under Game Controller. For more information refer to your controller documentation.

The game doesn't need to be installed, just doubleclick on PanzerArena.exe to start the game. To remove the game just delete this file and this documentation (including the folder html-gfx).

This is only a preview release, PLEASE send comments and bugreports to conmeg@conmeg.de.

copyright 1998

E-mail: conmeg@conmeg.de
Homepage: http://www.conmeg.de

Conmeg Spielart is a part of the
Oliver Pape, Stefan Spittank, Marc Störzel, Frank Sander GbR

mail to:
Pape Sander Spittank Störzel GbR
Am Huchtert 46
D-58456 Witten
Germany

manual by Stefan Spittank

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