Tractor Rumble

Help file

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. How to play
3. What is CT?
4. How to register?
5. Troubleshooting


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1. Introduction
Tractor Rumble is a two player game with two tractors trying to blow each other up and to harvest gold faster than the other player. Recommended arsenal:
486/100+
16-bit colors
16-bit soundcard
Win95+
 

2. How to play
The keys can be changed from the menu (F8)

The default keys are:
Red Tractor
A,S,D,W + [TAB] + [§]

Yellow Tractor
Arrow keys + [Shift] + [-]
 

FIRST OF ALL, SORRY to those who expected the capture the flag mode, i didn't have the time.
There is also a level editor available in the address below:
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~demoni/ct/trleved.zip
 

Tractors can move forwards and backwards, turn left & right, shoot, change weapon & buy (hold key#1 and press key#2).
 

The gold doesn't have to be touched by the front of the tractor, try moving backwards over gold!

Tractors can damage boxes, guardians and each other by colliding into them.

When the pot is full, there will be a countdown (which means how much more gold is needed).
After the countdown reaches zero, the player wins (in the hoard mode).
 

There are two game modes:

Hoard
In this mode you must fill the gold pot to win.

War
In this mode your mission is to kill the enemy as many times as you've set from the start menu.
 

Bases & turrets

Bases are basically boxes that have a blinking light in the middle. The light of the base blinks with
the color of the player that owns it.
The yellow and red bases are useful in one way: When a player stops on the depot, he gets repaired.
The more you have bases, the more you are repaired.

The guardian's bases load the guardians turrets' energy. The energy of the turrets determines their fire rate and
their speed of regeneration (repair).

A turret fires a very powerful concentration of plasma, stay far from them.
 

Weapons:
 

Missile launcher
The weapon used to destroy tractors is now used by the tractors.
Suggested range to target: Close - Far
Effect: Medium

Vulcan 2088 AP
This weapon should be in every tractor.
Range: Close - Medium
Effect: Light

AP Mine
This weapon totally redefines the word Goldmine.
The weapon looks like gold, but once picked - BOOM!
This weapon was originally a guardian weapon.
Range: -
Effect: Very heavy

Kamikaze
This weapon is simple: The driver loads the tractor full of explosives,
drives close to the target and presses the red button.
Range: Very Close
Effect: Very heavy

Repair Kit
The tractors were rusty and full of holes, so the governments had to send a repair
system for both of the sides instead of giving them new tractor parts.
Range: -
Effect: Repairs damage

Driller cannon
This cannon shoots a 4 inch shell that has an AM drill in it. So it can
go through walls and obviously it is quite AP.
Range: Very Close - Very Far
Effect: Extreme

Pellet gun
This tiny weapon is a miners dream: it wastes no gold at all! A pellet
is basically a steel ball that is filled with extremely hot plasma.
Range: Mediun - Far
Effect: Light
 

Yellow tractor



The Spikeball
The Spikeball wasn't originally a weapon. At first it was used in
the goldmines to dig the tunnels.
Range: Close - Medium
Effect: Heavy

Paarma 107
This heat seeking missile was the first weapon invented on the surface
of the planet. The government asked the blueprints for this weapon
immediately after they got informed of it.
Range: Medium - Very Far
Effect: Very heavy

Gold magnet
This weapon was just invented by the scientists working on the planet.
They also found that the planet's gold isn't just gold. Every Kg of gold
has 10g of very explosive lichen in it.
Range: Extreme
Effect: Pulls the gold towards the tractor

Frag Grenade
This is an extremely powerful grenade that throws fragmentation to every
direction. The weapon is very deadly especially when it explodes right next
to the guardian. It also bounces from the walls.
Range: Undeterminable
Effect: Close: Very heavy - Far: Light


Red Tractor



The Rumbler
This weapon was originally a normal missile used by the tractors...
Until a scientist found that when you extract the lichen from the gold
and put it into a weapon, the weapon becomes extremely deadly.
Range: Medium - Far
Effect: Extreme

Multibarrel machinegun (mbmg) [AP]
The MBMG was recently built by the guards of an army camp.
It was supposed to be used against people stealing gold in the night.
Range: Close - Far
Effect: Light at great distances, heavy from close

EMP blast
The Emp blast was created by pacifist gold thieves. They used it
against gold trucks to disable their electric systems before stealing
the gold.
Range: Close - Far
Effect: Disables your control to the tractor

Gold bat
This small unmanned glider picks up gold and drops it back to the depot.
Remember that you have only one of these and if someone destroys it, you'll
have to buy a new one.
Range: Medium
Effect: Delivers the gold back for you



 

To get new weapons:
Select the weapon you want to buy.
Press the firing key #1 and hold it.
While holding the firing key #1 down, press firing key #2.
Buying a weapon costs 50 gold pieces.

Big cold piece is worth five small pieces.
Medium gold piece is worth three small pieces.

Watch out the guardian! It tries to kill the one who last shot him (or got into his sight).
 

Bonuses

R for FireRate-bonus, this bonus doubles your rate of firing until it's logo disappears from the side of the screen.

First aid kit-bonus heals the tractor (the same logo system as the one above)

?-bonus gives you (for now) one of the following:
- Any weapon
- Gold Bandit, steals all your gold
 

What is CT?

CT is our group's name
It is short for CycloTron. We prefer to use the name CT, because of it's simplicity.
 

How to register?

If you've registered an early version of Tractor Rumble, the next version you install will be automatically registered to your name.
The game can be registered by sending a letter to:

Mika Isomaa
vehkatie 2a3
33470 Ylöjärvi
Suomi/Finland
 

containing the following items:
 

- A proof (bank receipt) that you've paid 10 FIM or 2 USD to the following account:

553701-5216357
Ylöjärvi's osuuspankki.

or...

You can send 10 FIM or 2 USD in a letter instead

- A paper containing the version number and your FULL NAME with your e-mail address.
(so that i can send you the code to that address.)

If you wish, you can ask me about alternative paying methods via e-mail.
 

REMEMBER!!!

The future versions can be registered by uninstalling the old version and installing the new version after that.
The game won't ask the code anymore.
 

If you have any problems with the registration, send email:
Mika.Isomaa@lukio.ylojarvi.fi
 

Troubleshooting
q: The game is slow, what should i do?
a: Get rich and buy a better machine.
a: Press ctrl+s to disable sounds.
a: Upgrade your machine.

q: The screen is black!
a: Turn the monitor back on.
a: Press any key.
a: Get a better machine! The game should work on all machines. (except win 3.11)
 

If you'll have any problems, questions, ideas, comments: send me e-mail and we'll try to solve it.
Mika.Isomaa@lukio.ylojarvi.fi