Lol, I just sent a nearly identical message to this one.
- Original Message -
From: Dakotah Rickard dakotah.rick...@gmail.com
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] ErnCon
Right. The controls are actually pretty simple, but you do need to fly
with voiceover off. I hope you chose to start with a fighter, as a
mech is a little more difficult to fly.
Here is every control, as well as I can remember, having not played
for about a month and a half.
Starting from the bottom of your screen:
on the bottom left, in what is about a half inch wide and half inch
tall circle, is your flight stick. You can hear enemies firing, so you
will know when you are moving. You don't move at all unless you are
touching the stick, which is the blinking cursor mensioned in the
tutorial. When you touch the stick, your fighter faces the direction
indicated, so for example, if you're touching the bottom left of the
circle, you face southwest, top left, northwest, etc. When you remove
your finger, you come to a stop over time, depending on what ship you
have, and when you replace your finger, you accellerate at a given
rate, depending, again, on your ship. Experiment with this one,
preferably with a little bit of sighted monitoring, as it's a little
tricky to get the hang of, but once you've got it, you've got it.
The bottom right of the screen is your firing button on a fighter,
firing stick on a mech. If I remember, the stick on the right is a
little bigger than the one on the left, but you'll have to experient,
or maybe I'll dust off the game myself, to find out. It's in the
bottom right corner, however, basically making that part of the screen
symmetrical. Fighters shoot straight out in front, off into the
distance. You aim by aiming your ship. Mechs fire a little
differently. You can move your ship normally, but depending on what
part of the firing stick circle you press, your gun will fire in that
direction. You can't hit yourself, though, so don't worry. just be
aware that you can't simply touch and hear firing and definitely be
firing where you're going, as with a fighter. I've successfully flown
a mech before, and it can really work to your advantage, once you get
familiar with the game.
The only other controls to worry about are on the right side of the
screen, either flush with the edge or a little in. The first control
to get the hang of is your secondary weapons and tirtiary weapons.
These are rectangles, about an inch high, and maybe an inch and a half
or two inches wide, above the firing controls and above one another. I
suggest that, while you're getting the hang of it, you go into the
store and equip weapons which sound different from each other, say
homing missiles and mines, once you have some mines.
The other control is the booster, which has no limit on the amount
which it is used and gives you a temporary boost in movement speed.
This control seems to be sort of hanging off the bottom left corner of
your secondary weapons rectangle, above and to the left of your
primary firing control. It makes a definite sound, and you need to be
touching your flight stick to make the booster really do anything, but
you can usually hear the sound pan in the direction away from which
you are traveling, so if you're heading west, it'll pan right, or
east.
Other than that, if you stray too high on the right, you'll hit the
Quit Mission button. Somewhere in the vicinity of your flight stick is
the No button, or you can turn on Voiceover, mid-mission, and press
the button. The yes button, coincidentally, si near your firing
control, so be careful.
I'm not going to bother with giving the layout for the non-mission
screen, thoguh I will often use it without Voiceover, simply because
you can easily discover that for yourself.
Best of luck, and don't get too frustrated. Also, be sure you're
playing the game with headphones, at least until you get a feel for
your ship, because the stereo helps.
Signed:
Dakotah Rickard
On 2/6/13, Kelly Sapergia ksaper...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
After reading about the ErnCon multiplayer arcade shooter game on this
list,
I downloaded it onto my iPod Touch. Quite honestly, I'm finding this game
to
be more of a frustration than anything. I know there were some messages
on
this list that basically said this game was playable with Voiceover. That
may be true, but I quickly got frustrated with the tutorial, as I
couldn't
get past the screen where it says to touch the blinking cursor (or
whatever
it is) to move the ship. I double-tapped the button a few times, but
nothing
happened. Turning VO off didn't help as I couldn't tell where the thing
was
on the screen. Finally, I got so frustrated that I quit the tutorial, and
was prompted to go on a mission. I found out how to fire, but other than
that I really don't know what I'm doing. Does anyone have any
suggestions?
I'll say one thing about
