216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 1 TM SPECIAL OPERATIONS MANUAL © 2001 Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. Red Storm and Red Storm Entertainment are trademarks of Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. Red StormEntertainment, Inc. is a Ubi Soft Entertainment company. All Rights Reserved. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon is a trademark of Rubicon, Inc. under license to Ubi Soft Entertainment.
16563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 2 CONTENTS Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Quick Start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Quickstart - Starting a New Campaign . . . . . 5 Quickstart - Joining a Multiplayer Game . . . . 5 Quickstart - Starting a Multiplayer Game . . . 5 Minimum Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Installation . . . . .
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 2 CONTENTS Kit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Right Tools for the Right Job . . . . . . 24 Screen Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Action Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Looking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Walking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Stance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 4 INTRODUCTION The year is 2008, and the world teeters on the brink of war. Radical ultranationalists have seized power in Moscow - their goal, the reestablishment of the old Soviet empire. Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan - one by one the nearby independent republics slip back into the Russian orbit. Russian tanks sit in the Caucasus Mountains and the Baltic forests, poised to strike to the south and east. The world holds its breath, and waits.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 6 MINIMUM SPECIFICATIONS In order to play Ghost Recon on your computer, your system must meet the following criteria: INSTALLATION To Install Ghost Recon, follow these simple steps: 1. Start your computer’s operating system, • Computer: Pentium 2 with 450 MHz processor or the equivalent • Memory: 128 MB of RAM • Operating System: Windows 9X/ME/2000/XP • DirectX: DirectX 8.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 8 MAIN MENU TRAINING MENU When you first start Ghost Recon, you are presented with the Main Menu, which gives you the following 8 options: • Training - This button takes you to the Training Menu, which allows you to practice the skills you’ll need to play Ghost Recon. • Campaign - This button takes you to the single-player game and starts a campaign.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 10 TRAINING MENU Each mission starts you at a different insertion zone within the training complex. As you move from training mission to training mission, your soldier will be re-kitted so that he has the appropriate equipment at all times. T07- Command The Command training teaches you how to use the Command Interface properly and effectively. Don’t Go There Through most of the training missions, you will have just one soldier.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 12 CAMPAIGN Campaign button. A dialog box asking if you wish to continue will appear. If you decide that you’d rather save the campaign after all, click No. If you do in fact want to delete the campaign, click on Yes. This will delete the campaign from your saved campaign list, and remove it from the list at the upper left of the screen. If you delete a campaign, any individual games you’ve saved as part of that campaign are deleted as well.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 14 OPTIONS– GAMEPLAY/INPUT Gameplay There are relatively few Gameplay options, and they must be set before you start a mission. Each has a box next to it which you can click to turn the option on or off. • Blood On - Whether or not you want to see blood when a bullet hits, and pools of blood underneath corpses.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 16 OPTIONS– MULTIPLAYER Each chat message in multiplayer is assigned a key (1 through 9 on the Numpad is the default setting). To send your message out, simply press that key. You can send the same message as many times as you like, though it’s considered impolite to flood other players with chatter while they’re trying to shoot you. To edit the text of the message, select a message and then click on the Edit Chat Message button.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 18 OPTIONS– GRAPHICS OPTIONS– SOUND Maximum Bullet Holes Z-Buffer Depth Master Switch This allows you to set the maximum number of bullet holes that will appear onscreen at any given time. To decrease the current number, which defaults to 100, click on the left arrow. Each click reduces the setting by 1. To increase it, click on the right arrow. 100 is the maximum number you can set this option to, and 0 is the minimum.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 20 QUICK MISSION Next to the list of difficulties is a list of Game Types. These are the sorts of mission types you can set up. They come in three varieties: • Mission - You play the mission as in the campaign game. • Firefight - No objectives, just kill or be killed The Quick Mission Screen lets you pick a single mission to play in a variety of formats, without starting a campaign.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 22 STARTING A GAME Mission Information The right side of the screen shows you the World Map, an image of the region your platoon will be going into. There is also a Command Map, which shows cycling images related to each mission objective. You can switch back and forth between the two by clicking on the named tabs at the top of the map.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 24 STARTING A GAME Statistics Unassigning Combat Points Each soldier has a set of statistics which include his ratings for the following attributes: If you decide you don’t like the way you’ve doled out your soldiers’ Combat Points, simply click the Back button at the lower right of the screen. This will take you back one screen, and when you re-access Platoon Setup, the changes will have vanished.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 26 ACTION SCREEN Walking The Action Screen is where you actually roll up your sleeves and play Ghost Recon. It’s the section of the game where you simulate getting into the field with the Ghosts and going to war. Technically, we call it the Action phase. Hopefully you’ll just call it fun. Gameplay in the action phase consists of several elements: Movement, combat, and command.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 28 ACTION SCREEN ACTION SCREEN Switching Fireteams Doors Firing You can move between fireteams instantly by pressing the fireteam’s hotkey. These default to 1 for Fireteam Alpha, 2 for Fireteam Bravo, and 3 for Fireteam Charlie. Hitting a fireteam’s hotkey instantly selects the leader of that fireteam and gives you control of that soldier. If the leader of the fireteam is down, you’ll be given control of the next ranking team member, and so forth.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 30 ACTION SCREEN However, instead of skipping up levels of zoom, it provides a smooth zoom in and zoom out. Binoculars Binoculars are best described as working like “a sniper rifle that doesn’t fire.” They provide a much better long-distance view than most weapons, but have no impact on the enemy. Binoculars are used by making them the active weapon, then pressing the Use Item key. Your view will then change to reflect the use of the binoculars.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 32 THE ON-SCREEN INTERFACE THE ON-SCREEN INTERFACE Interface Elements Threat Indicator Weapon Panel There are several additional elements to the on-screen interface besides a view of the 3-D world. These other elements give you additional information that is crucial to playing Ghost Recon, including details of your weapon, your currently selected soldier, and whether or not any hostile troops are in the vicinity.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 34 THE ON-SCREEN INTERFACE fire is. Any firing you do will hit somewhere within the area market off by the reticle pips. Each time you move, the pips go back out to the edge of their range and your accuracy decreases accordingly. If your reticle sweeps over a friendly soldier, the soldier’s name will appear onscreen for as long as he is targeted. Hostiles’ names do not appear when the reticle passes over them.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 36 THE COMMAND INTERFACE For Combat, the RoEs are: • Assault - Tells your fireteams to shoot on sight. This is the default setting, and is signified by the silhouette of a pistol. • Suppress - Tells you fireteam to shoot on the suspicion that hostiles are nearby. They’ll lay down a great deal of fire, but not very accurately. Suppress is signified by the silhouette of a pistol above a plus sign.
6563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 38 THE COMMAND INTERFACE THE COMMAND INTERFACE Soldier Cards Nothing to See Here End Mission The Soldier Cards allow you to switch between soldiers. It also shows you your entire platoon’s current status, including ammunition, current health and statistics. Soldier Cards are broken down by fireteams. As in the Command Map, there are tabs for each fireteam with buttons for each team’s RoE.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 40 FINISHING A MISSION A mission is considered finished if either you have completed all of the mission objectives or your entire platoon has been killed. When the mission is over, you will be taken to the AAR screen. In some cases, you’ll be shown a brief cut scene before you go to the AAR screen, but not in all cases. After Action Review (AAR) Screen The AAR Screen shows you how you did on the just-completed mission.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 42 MULTIPLAYER Multiplayer gaming allows you to play with others, either on a local network or via the Internet. You can either set up your own server and host a game, or join someone else’s game. Clicking on the Multiplayer button on the Main Menu takes you to the Multiplayer Setup Screen. Multiplayer Setup LAN Game List The LAN tab on the Game List shows you games on your local area network.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 44 MULTIPLAYER Soldier/Roster At the left of the screen is an area with two tabs: Soldier and Roster. This allows you to choose what sort of soldier you’re going to play, join a unit and decide whether you’re going to play or just observe. Roster Clicking on the Roster tab brings up a list of fireteams for the currently selected platoon, as well as a series of four tabs. Each of the tabs corresponds to one platoon in the game.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 46 MULTIPLAYER window closes the window without a vote being cast. It is possible to go back into the Eject Player window and change your vote, simply by re-selecting the name of the player in question and re-voting. Voting is done against the total number of players in the game. If more than half the players voting elect to eject the player in question, he receives a text message informing him of this just before he is booted from the server.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 48 MULTIPLAYER While in Team mode, you cannot change the game Difficulty. Also, a player in a Team game who has not selected a team to join by the time play starts will be automatically assigned to one. Mission List The game type you select determines whether your mission list gives you the names of individual maps or individual missions. • Difficulty - How hard the game is.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 50 MULTIPLAYER Multiplayer Gameplay Gameplay in multiplayer is almost identical to gameplay in single player mode. However, rather than going through a briefing and selection phase, you start immediately in the Action phase. Gameplay then continues until either the preset objectives are met or the time allotted for the mission expires. There are two other major differences from single player gameplay: Respawning and Command Map access.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 52 WEAPONS There are a wide variety of weapons available for use - or in the hands of hostiles - in Ghost Recon. Below is some real-world information on how these weapons work, what they do, and why you might find them useful in the game. Hand-Held M18 Claymore The M18 Claymore anti-personnel mine consists of a curved rectangular plastic shell with a layer of 3/4 of a pound of composition C3 explosive.
216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 54 WEAPONS Light Machineguns M9SD M249 SAW The M9SD is the standard M9 pistol, equipped with a silencer for quieter operation. In addition, the SD variant uses subsonic ammunition to keep the firing even quieter. It sacrifices power for the silence, but the quietness of the weapon makes it an ideal backup weapon in those situations where the noise of an assault rifle is not acceptable.
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216563 GHOST RECON MANUAL.qxd 2/11/02 10:37 AM Page 60 CREDITS Ubi Soft U.S. U.S. Marketing Helene Juguet Ubi.com Engineering Team Guillaume Plante Sarah Ohring Philippe Lalande Creative Services Melissa Wilks David Herman David Gene Oh Mari Sakai Marc Fortier Kevin Lalli Ubisoft.
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