Beginner guide: Discover Interface
Your character is created. It's now time to discover the world of Ashes of Phoenix so let's click on "Play".
You character spwan in a safe place so take the time to discover the interface and the shortcut before facing the dangers.
At any time in the game, press F1 to show the HELP screen.
Contents |
Discover the Interface:
1. Log and chat:
- In this area you will see the log ; information about what happen in the game
- In green you will have general information ( what you see, what your friends do )
- In yellow you will see combat event when you give a shoot
- In orange you will see combat event when you take a shoot
- This area also contains the chat system allowing you to talk with others players. Press "Enter" key to enter chat mode.
2. Injuries:
This section show you if you have serious injuries. Serious injuries appears in red and give you big disadvantage ( you can't no more shoot if arms are injured, no more run for legs, .. ). You should use the doctor competence to heal them.
3. Active bonus:
- In some situation you can have bonus from external factors ; you are under cover, you take advise from your leader, ... If one of the bonus is active it will shows up an icon :
- If you receive a bonus from your squad leader ( Need to be in squad and near the leader )
-
- If your weapon is deployed ( Need a deployable weapon )
-
- If you have a good cover from your environment
4. Hit point (HP):
- Define the amount of damage your character can take before dying. When your hit points reach 0 or below, you fall on the ground knocked down, which means you can only whisper. While knocked down you are unable to do anything. When your HP goes to -100 you will die. Your HP will regenerate every 15 seconds, allowing your character to stand back up when it reaches 1 or above
5. Active malus:
- In some situation you will suffer from malus ; you take a bad shoot, you feel weak or poisoned. If one malus is active it will shows up an icon :
- If you suffer from poisoning and loosing HP with time. You can use antidote to cure.
- Lowers your sight range and hit chance resulting in a temporary blind.
- Knocks the wind out of you, making you unable to run for a short amount of time.
- Suppression makes you keep your head down, making you unable to run.
6. Action point (AP):
- Every character has a maximum of 100 AP that regenerates with time. Each action you make (reload, shoot, use a competence, ... ) require an amount of AP. If you do not have these AP you can't do that action. The top right light shows you when you AP regenerates.
7. Weapon:
- All the information about the weapon you are currently using. You can switch from weapon 1 to weapon 2 using the "B" key.
- A picture of your weapon
- The number of ammo in the loader
- The cost in AP to shoot
- The shoot mode, use "N" to loop
- The aim mode, press this to aim
8. Bleed & Radiation:
- This shows your level of bleed and radiation. When you are affected by one of this the corresponding icon is blinking. Bleed means you are loosing blood with time ( so HP ) and you should take care of this using bandages. Radiations means you have been irradied you should use radaway or speak with the doctor of your factions as radiation's can affect your S.P.E.C.I.A.L.
The Cheapboy
Every adventures receive it's own cheapboy. This mobile electronic device allow you to access a lot of usefull information. Press "P" to view the cheapboy and use the button at the bottom to navigate ( you can also use keyboard shortcut to navigate )
- Squad : View the members of your squad, if there are online or not and their positions
- Leadership : Allow squad leader to select the leaderships modules to use.
- Status: A quick look to all the cooldown applied to your character. You can also view the bonus receive from your squad leader if you have one.
- Map : View the map of Phoenix. At start this map is empty.. .. and will auto-complete during your discover of Phoenix. Use "tab" to have a quick access to the map.
Other usefull interface screen
Press C to open your character sheet. You will see a panel similar to the one use to create your character with the same informations.
Press I to open your inventory sheet and manage your gears. You can equip armors, weapons, utilities and all items you scavenge.
Next page : First steps