diff --git a/players/README.txt b/players/README.txt index 162ded8..8a635fa 100644 --- a/players/README.txt +++ b/players/README.txt @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ to the 'content' and 'build' folders. UPGRADING from an older version? Extract the new zip OVER your existing game folder and say YES TO OVERWRITE. Do NOT delete the -folder first -- your personal files (contentindings.txt with your -key/joystick setup, content olume.cfg with your volume) are not in +folder first -- your personal files (content\bindings.txt with your +key/joystick setup, content\volume.cfg with your volume) are not in the zip and survive an extract-over-top, but a delete wipes them. If you prefer a clean delete anyway, copy those two files out first and put them back after. @@ -73,10 +73,26 @@ CONTROLS (keyboard): jammed round (weapon reloads and returns to service), HOLD ~3s to jettison the whole bay before it cooks off. Watch the TEMP strip and pace salvos. + NEW: on a jam or a bay fire, that system's ENG-page buttons now FLASH + to catch your eye -- the pod's own annunciator, restored. + NEW AND DANGEROUS: an AMMO BAY FIRE is now genuinely lethal. You get + a fire icon by the ammo counter, the flashing buttons, and about TEN + SECONDS -- then the bay detonates for (rounds x per-round damage), + which can and will kill you. HOLD the EJECT button on that weapon to + dump the bay and put the fire out. Previously these fires were + harmless; they are not any more, so treat one as an emergency. G (hold) + fire key .. regroup a weapon onto that trigger -- or hold a weapon panel's red PROGRAM button with the mouse and tap a fire key; the joystick diagram on the panel shows the binding live. +KNOWN ISSUE THIS BUILD -- a weapon that goes dark after you press ENG-page +buttons: the BUS MODE button detaches that weapon from its generator on +its second press, and the automatic re-attach is not working yet. The +symptom is a weapon whose recharge arc and ready dot are BOTH blank and +which will not fire, while its panel still shows normal data. THE FIX: +press one of the GENERATOR SELECT buttons (A/B/C/D) on that weapon's +panel and it comes straight back. Not a lost mech -- just that button. + An Xbox controller works out of the box. FLIGHT STICKS / HOTAS / pedals: run joyconfig.bat ONCE -- a wizard asks you to move each control (stick, twist, throttle, fire buttons), writes the bindings,