Playing
The objective
Each side has a home bunker with a lift pad and a flag hidden in one of its flag buildings. To win, find the enemy flag, bring it back to your own pad — in the jeep, the only vehicle that can carry it.
- Scout and blast enemy flag buildings until the flag appears (you'll hear the Flag Discovery theme).
- Clear a path, then drive a jeep over the flag to pick it up.
- Bring it home to your pad. The jeep is fragile: if it is destroyed the flag drops where it was.
You lose when you run out of jeeps.
Starting a game
- Watch or skip the intro (any key), then press F2 on the title screen to start the current level, or 1–9 to start the first map of that difficulty level.
- You start inside the bunker lift: pick a vehicle with W/A/S/D and launch it with H. The number shows how many of that vehicle you have left.
- Drive back onto your pad and press H to dock: the vehicle is returned to your stock and you can choose another one.
The dashboard
The status bar shows the radar (centred on your vehicle; your pad, known flag sites and vehicles are marked), the fuel gauge (blinks when low — refuel at a fuel depot or by docking), and your ammo. Drive over an ammo dump to resupply.
Things that will hurt you
- Gun towers wake up when you come into view and track you. Destroy them with the tank.
- Drones hunt any vehicle that stays in one place too long (from level 4 onwards).
- Mines are scattered on later levels.
- Deep water sinks everything except the helicopter and the jeep in boat mode.
- Fly the helicopter off the edge of the map and a submarine will come for you.
Two players
Press F3 on the title screen. The screen splits: player 1 (left) uses the keyboard's letter keys, player 2 (right) the numeric keypad — see Controls. Each side has its own bunker, stock and flag; the first to bring the other's flag home wins. A player who runs out of vehicles watches from the bunker until the game ends. Sound is split too: player 1's world on the left speaker, player 2's on the right.
Levels
The Windows edition ships 100 one-player maps across 9 difficulty levels (and 104 two-player maps). After a win OpenRF starts the next map. See Choose a level.