Introduction

Basic Informations

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Soldat? What is this?

Soldat is a unique side-view multiplayer action game. It takes the best from games like Liero, Worms, Quake and Counter-Strike and gives you fast action gameplay with tons of blood and flesh. Soldiers fight against each other on 2D battle arenas using a deadly military arsenal.

It was made by Michal Marcinkowski back in (need reference). First public beta saw daylight in 09.05.2002 with number 0.9.4b. Michal has promised to release Soldat as open source if he ever stops working on it himself (roughly estimated at around 2008 or later). But after few years of his small activity on Soldat(due to work on other game, KAG) this idea was abandoned, and Soldat was taken over the wings of few community members that work for free to keep this game alive.

Requirements

Minimum requirements

• A PC, a keyboard, a mouse, a brain(but not always)
• 333mhz processor
• Video accelerator that can run Direct3D
• Graphics card compatible with DirectX 8.1
• 32 MB RAM
• Some free MB on disk
• Sound card
• Network card or modem
• Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
• Microsoft DirectX 8.1

Recomended

• 800mhz processor
• Graphic card Ati/Nvidia(you can encounter some problems with build in Intel Graphic)
• 256 MB RAM
• Internet connection(512kbps-1Mbps)
• Microsoft Windows XP

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Story

Long time ago far, far away from all yours problems, a couple of guys decided to kill each other and you can be one of them.

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Gamemodes

There are 7 Main game modes in Soldat:

• Deathmatch
• Pointmatch
• Teammatch
• Rambomatch
• Capture the Flag
• Infiltration
• Hold the Flag

You can find more informations about Game Modes in Game Types section.

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Default Controls

Movement Keys

[A] - Run left

[D] - Run right

[W] - Jump

[S] - Crouch

[X] - Prone

[RMB] - Jet (fly)

Advanced Movement

Flagthrow - [W+S] (Hold jump key + Crouch key)

Backflip - Jump backwards and press the fly button

Late Backflip - If you are making a jump to the left/right side and keep W pressed, then you can make a backflip in air at any time. e.g (D+W) (W+A+Fly Button) - remember to keep the jump button active

Combat

[LMB] - Fire

[E] - Hold down or release after a while to throw grenade

[F] - Throwaway current weapon

[Q] - Change weapon to secondary

[R] - Reload weapon

Misc

[T] - Chat

[Y] - Teamchat

[Tab] - Activate/deactivate weapons menu while waiting for re-spawn

Note: The above keys can be changed in the PLAYER options.

[/] - Command console

[F1] - Scoreboard and players list

[F2] - Show weapon statistic for the current round / [ALT + F2] - show/hide sniper line

[F3] - Toggle minimap / [ALT + F3] - Show performance statistics (FPS, ping, network bandwith)

[F4] - Take screenshot (saves it to Soldat\Screens)

[F5] - Toggle music

[F6] - Previous music track

[F7] - Next music track

[F8] - Record/stop demo / fast forward while playing demo

[F9] - Minimize game

[F10] - Pause game

[ALT] + A,B,C... or 1,2,3...0 keys - Chat taunts or commands

[CTRL+ALT] + [+/-] - Increase mouse sensitivity 5% / Decrease mouse sensitivity 5%

[SHIFT] + [+/-] - Increase volume 10% / Decrease volume 10%

[ESC] - Toggle Game-Menu