## - User Manual -

### History.

The action of this space opera takes place far from the Earth. The Earth was the initiator of the irrepressible conquest of outer space by neoconquistadores, and now it rules over the enormous Earth Empire. Being almost on the edge of the Empire, the Earth sometimes wasn't able to understand the situation. Recently strange events have occurred in some colonies.

Flying past XS-1743 - recently colonized small planet of terrestrial type - the earth spaceship of geological exploration received SOS signal from the planet's surface. The signal was sent from the planetary base ¹1, and there was no communication with the planet excepting this continuous signal. Sensors of the space ship detected strange biological activity on the surface of the planet and nothing more because of the strange haze which shrouded the. Unsuccessful dispute of two meteorologists about the nature of this haze resulted in fight. According to the regulations of the Fleet the spaceship nearest to the disaster area must immediately communicate with the Fleet's headquarters, report on what happened and try to do what is possible before the arrival of the rescue fleet. The captain of the geologists was acting strictly according to the regulations. He contacted with the base of the fleet, asked for help and sent a shuttle with our hero aboard. This reconnoitering didn't seem to be dangerous: our hero was supposed to make several circuits above the base, take photos of the area and come back to the spaceship.

However the story moved quite the contrary to everybody's expectations. While approaching to the surface, our hero saw that the base activated laser defense and was going to fire. The only chance to survive was to land as soon as possible. Our hero rushed to the surface - he had to make violent efforts to save his life.

### Description of the game.

Kill Deal - arcade shooter with the elements of RPG. The main task of the player is not to become a breakfast for the horde of monsters and to prove them with the help of mighty arsenal of weapons, strengthening bonuses and received skills that you are too tough for them.

### System requirements:

minimum - Athlon (Pentium 3) 1000 MHz, RAM 128 Mb, GeForce 2 Ti or similar in capacity, HDD 200 Mb, DirectX 8 compatible sound card, mouse, keyboard, CD-ROM.

recommended - Athlon (Pentium IV) 1,4 GHz, RAM 256 Mb, GeForce 4 or similar in capacity, HDD 200 Mb, DirectX 8 compatible sound card, mouse, keyboard, CD-ROM.

### Game

- Main menu

New.

New game. By choosing this part of menu you may pass through the whole history as one of the characters, which you choose before beginning the game. Before beginning the new game you choose the number of players and level of difficulty. The maximum number of players is 4. Information about characters is given below.

You do not know the quantity of episodes and included missions until you pass them.

Game is saved after each mission automatically. You can pass any completed mission any time you like.

In order to connect to the game, press "Connect" and enter IP-address of the computer of the player (or name of the computer), which creates the server for the multiplayer game.

In the game the player receives different bonuses, perks and weapon described below.

Survival.

There's no mission in survival. The main task is to withstand as much time as possible. The player receives different bonuses, perks and weapons. You can play multiplayer game in survival.

Continue.

To continue the previous game, choose the name of your game in the list of saved games.

Connect.

Choose this part of menu if you want to connect to the online game. In the opened window enter your name and the name (or IP-address) of the computer you want to connect.

Options.

You may change control keys, screen resolution, volume of sounds and some additional options.

Replays.

If you want to watch the replay of any completed mission and analyze it, choose "Quests" in the right window and find your profile. Click mouse button twice to enter this directory and choose any completed mission you want to see. You may save the video of "Survival". In the statistics window press button "save video". To watch this video choose "Other" and then choose the saved video.

The video of the last completed mission is also in this directory named "last.kdd".

Credits.

If you want to know who created this game, choose this part of menu.

Quit to Windows.

To quit the game.

### Multiplayer game.

The window for Multiplayer game:

Before playing the net game every player must choose a slot for his character - "1", type and color of the character - "2". Then change your status to "Ready" - "4". You can send messages to each other in the chat window - "3". You may go shares in experience gained in combat with every player or every player may get experience by himself. This option can be set only by the player who creates the server.

In order to continue multiplayer game, the player, who created server, must choose "Continue" and then choose the name of his game. Other players must choose "Connect" and options, chosen at the beginning of the game, will be set automatically.

### Interface

Interface of the game is quite simple. There is minimum of its elements in missions, what gives much space for playing and doesn't divert attention from the main game process.

1. Indicator of player's hit-points.

2. Indicator of player's experience.

3. Current level of the player.

4. Type of the player (characters are described below).

5. Current weapon of the player.

6. Quantity of cartridges and available weapon.

7. Quantity of grenades.

8. Indicator of the time of use and recovery of specialization (described below).

9. Indicator of the time of use and recovery of "Adrenalin".

10. Indicator of the time of use of the bonus.

11. Game messages.

### Increase of player's level

Every time you reach new level the indicator of the current level is one point up. If you have unused points this indicator lightens. In order to improve the skill, open Pause window ("space" by default) and find the improvement in the list. Lower in this window you can find the description of the improvement.

### Heroes.

Mercenary Character's icon: | Piro Character's icon:
Shooter Character's icon: | Shaft Character's icon:

There's one hidden character in the game, which becomes available after completing the game at the highest level of difficulty.

### Weapon.

Every character has his own unique weapons excepting submachine gun. Submachine gun is least powerful weapon, it has endless quantity of cartridges, recharging doesn't take much time. Submachine gun is available for every character.

There are four levels of weapons. First level: the least powerful - as mentioned above - submachine gun, which is available for every character. Weapons of the second, third and forth level are unique for every character, their capacity and destructing powers can be upgraded. Weapons of the forth level are most powerful, have the most destructing power and best characteristics. Grenades are available for every character, but they differ in the type of damaging action. Besides, submachine gun can be upgraded - its destructive power will become considerably higher and it will be as powerful as weapons of the forth level.

### Rules of the game

Perks

The upgrade of the destructing power:

- Fire specialization.

- Freeze specialization.

- Poison specialization.

Every monster is inflicted additional damage if the weapon has some additional specialization. Fire specialization: if this specialization isn't upgraded the cartridges only cause burns; if it is upgraded the cartridge burn the monster through and burn other monsters on its way. If this specialization is much upgraded monsters are set on fire. Freeze specialization: monsters are slowed down and may completely lose ability to move: they become frozen. Poison specialization: monsters are poisoned and receive additional damage. At the best level of this specialization the poisoned monster poisons monsters nearby or even fights with them.

If you choose one specialization, you will not be able to take one more specialization. The grenades have the same type of damaging action as the specialization you've chosen. To use this specialization press the proper key ("Q", by default, but it can be changed in the main menu). You have to wait until the specialization is restored before use it again.

Other perks:

- Adrenaline

It is one of the most important perks - with every new level the player gets additional type of upgrade. For example, the first level of adrenaline increases the speed of the player; on the second level the player has the ability to regenerate when the perk is on (your health is restored and you may receive additional health points); on the third level you recharge quicker; on the forth - you fire more rapidly; on the fifth level you receive additional 50 points of health.

This perk must be activated by the player (by default ,) and you have to wait until the specialization is restored before use it again.

All other perks are always activated and act continuously.

- Regeneration

You feel that your health is restoring. When the maximum is reached regeneration is stopped.

This perk has three degrees of restoration. The higher degree the quicker is the speed of regeneration.

- Rapid recharging

Now it takes less time to reload and you can spend more time for killing monsters. There are three degrees of upgrading of the speed of recharging.

- Maximum health

When hundreds of monsters surround you, it is very difficult to survive. You must be incredibly healthy. This perk gives you the possibility to increase you health. There are three degrees of upgrading of health. On the fifth level your health will be 100% higher.

- Sharpness.

You become more self-reliant in fighting with monsters. You are more confident in use of weapons and therefore shoot more precisely. There are three degrees of upgrading.

- Firerate.

You become more skilled as a warrior and use weapons more effectively.

- Economist.

Now you know how to use more effectively things taken by monsters on the base. There are three degrees of upgrading.

- Sprinter.

You move faster. Now it became more difficult for monsters to run you down. There are three degrees of upgrading.

- Strength

You become stronger. You can take more ammunition; you are stronger in fighting with monsters. There are three degrees of upgrading.

- Night vision

You are getting used to this planet. You can see better in the dark and monsters cannot approach you stealthily. There are three degrees of upgrading.

> ### Bonuses

1. Motion detector.

Motion detector helps the player during the night missions: every monster is indicated (blinking) when the bonuses are activated.

2. Stimpack.

Stimpack increases speed of player's movement; it is some kind of doping.

3. Aid

Momentary recovery of certain amount of health.

4. Barrel with poison.

Barrel with toxic waste products. If you fire at it, it will blow up and poison the nearby monsters. When the monster is poisoned it receives additional injuries.

5. Barrel with fuel.

If you fire at the barrel with fuel, it will blow up and set on fire the nearby monsters. The monster receives additional damage while burning.

6. Barrel with nitrogen.

Barrel with liquid nitrogen. When it blows up, the nearby monsters become frozen. After some time the frozen monsters will thaw and become able to move.

7. Invisibility.

The player becomes temporarily invisible for the monsters.

8. Energy shield.

By using this bonus you can push monsters aside. But remember there are very heavy monsters and energy shield will act weakly upon them.

9. Slowing down.

It looks like undercranking around you. But you are moving with normal speed and react quickly.

### Control keys

ÓBy default the control keys are:

Movement
Move forward | W
Move back | S
Move to the left | A
Move to the left | D
Actions
Attack | Right mouse button
Grenade | Left mouse button
Flashlight | F
Specialization | Q
Adrenaline | E
Previous weapon | Scroll up
Next weapon | Scroll down
Weapon ¹1 | 1
Weapon ¹2 | 2
Weapon ¹3 | 3
Weapon ¹4 | 4
Other
Pause | Space
Quit | F10
Screenshot | F11

However you may change the control keys at your discretion. In order to do it, choose "Options" and then choose "Controls".

### Additional information

On some built-in audio-codec NVidia the device for sound files cannot be opened. It concerns only one codec NVidia and this problem can be solved by reinstallation of the drivers for system board. The latest version of these drivers from the sites of NVidia is on the game disc in the directory "Drivers".

### Technical support

If you have problems while passing the game, visit our site www.crazyhouse.ru (upgrades, most frequent questions) or forum of this game (http://forum.crazyhouse.ru) on this site and look for solving of your problems.

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