![]() ![]() ![]() The rock-paper-scissors of the first game is still very much in effect. I guess this qualifies as general advice: if you're doing badly in combat, try a different ship. ![]() Uh, why were you fighting with your flagship? The Earthling Cruiser you started with would've been a much better choice with its homing missiles. "The alien ship destroys me in our first encounter." It would be interesting – if you have the time, of course - to compare with the new version “The Ur-Quan masters” available in It is the same game but the graphics are a lot better and it works fine on modern machines. I think that you are playing the version of 1992 (probably patched). But, even so, it will be interesting to read your “travels” across the galaxy and to see if you manage to defeat the evil Ur-Quan. I believe that, as with Staflight 1 and 2, this is not really an RPG but more of an adventure-action game. But even so, because of my studies at the time, I never managed to go very far. I don’t remember what was the solution to overcome this magazines offered disks and I probably got a patch… The second problem was the first combat I've won only after managing to decelerate the computer a lot. The first problem was due because of a bug my ship could not travel up, across an invisible line in the map. This is a game that I’ve always wanted to finish but never did. There's a utility you can use to remap the combat commands, but using it seems to run the risk of breaking the main interface, which I guess is what happened with the first version I downloaded. Flying the ship is easy enough with the numberpad: 4 and 6 to turn, 8 to thrust, 5 to fire, ENTER to use a special weapon. I'd rather be able to just hit a keyboard option for each menu command, but there aren't so many commands that it bothers me. They're much like Starflight, where you arrow through commands and then hit ENTER to select one. The second version I downloaded had controls that worked right plus someone had removed the copy protection (which has you identifying planets by coordinates). I particularly couldn't seem to escape out of sub-menus, which was supposed to happen with the SPACE bar. None of the controls worked right on the first one I tried. At some point during this process, I had to delete the version of the game that I'd downloaded and get a new one. I flew off the Earth screen and back to the main solar system screen. ![]()
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