User Guide

Taunting the Enemy. When you have an enemy ship targeted, you can activate Communications to
bring up a menu of taunts. Select one of these and your insult is sent to the target. You can send a
random taunt by pressing
aT
.
Tactical Tip: Taunts sometimes attract enemy ships to you, drawing fire away from a ship you are protect-
ing, or perhaps saving a wingman whose ship has been damaged.
Weapons
Depending upon which ship you’re flying, you may have blasters, chaff pods, missiles and/or tor-
pedoes available to you. In larger ships, like the Broadsword and the Sabre, you can switch from the
front viewscreen to turrets positioned at the sides and rear of the ship. Each weapon type serves a dif-
ferent purpose and is used in a somewhat different manner than the others.
Blasters. These are the basic spacecraft weapons. To fire your blasters, line the target up in the green
crosshairs on your viewscreen and press joystick button #1, the left mouse button or
z
.
Chaff Pods . To use a chaff pod, press
W
until the pod is selected. Then press
e
or both fire but-
tons to drop the pod, as if it were a missile. The pod falls behind your ship, and all enemy missiles
targeted on your ship fly toward the chaff pod instead of toward you.
Tactical Tip: Be sure to drop the pod at the last possible instant and kick in your afterburners. Don’t wait
too long, or you’ll be in the missile’s blast radius anyway. Use chaff near the beginning of a large dogfight,
when there are several missiles targeted on you—it works on every enemy missile at once! When there’s just
one missile coming in, you’re usually better off dodging, or just taking the hit, than using up one of your
precious chaff pods.
Missiles . There are four missile types—Dumb Fire, Heat-Seeking, Image Recognition and Friend or
Foe. Press
W
until the missile you want is selected. Then fire by pressing both joystick or mouse but-
tons simultaneously or by pressing
e
on the keyboard.
• With the Dumb Fire missile, you line up a target by eye, then fire.
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RadarMissile Lock
Eject Warning
Set Speed
Shields and Armor
Blaster Indicator
Fuel
Right VDU
Current Speed
Autopilot Light
Left VDU
Broadsword Cockpit