Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!decwrl!hookup!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.funet.fi!ngw!news.funet.fi!not-for-mail From: "Scott A. May" Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: How to better control REBEL ASSAULT? Date: 27 Feb 1994 00:54:24 +0200 Organization: FUNET-NGW Lines: 28 Sender: daemon@news.funet.fi Distribution: alt Message-ID: Reply-To: "Scott A. May" NNTP-Posting-Host: news.funet.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-Path: <@UCCVMA.UCOP.EDU,@CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU:smay01@BIGCAT.MISSOURI.EDU> Comments: To: Rob Schaaf <3RES1@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA> Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list CDROM-L To: CDROM-L Redistribution In-Reply-To: <9402261930.AA29129@bigcat.missouri.edu> On Sat, 26 Feb 1994, Rob Schaaf wrote: > can be done. What you can do to make it a bit easier is to go into the > Advanced configuration menu after you run REBEL and change the framing rate. > If you reduce the framing rate (basically the speed at which the graphics run) > you will have more time to respond to your fighter going off course. > As I got better I slowly increased the framing rate so that this problem was > eliminated. As the previous poster said however, if you really can't do it > you had better sell the game because you will need that skill in later scenes. What most people don't realize is that Rebel Assault only -simulates- arcade action. Rather than having direct control of your craft, you are merely providing on-the-fly instructions for the graphics to branch this way (turn left) or that way (dive, turn right, etc.). In other words, every action you take has already been plotted and drawn, you're merely telling the computer which direction to take. I realize this is a pretty odd concept, but this is coming direct from the programmers of the game. It's basically a high-speed, extremely sophisticated, action-oriented variation on the old Dragons Lair and Space Ace laser disc games. So, even those the game has been called simplistic and difficult to control, once you realize what's really going on, it's pretty remarkable. S/ /M