Games PC MYTH II-SOULBLIGHTER User Manual

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A Production of Bungie Software Products Corporation

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dba RAD Software.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction ..............................................................................................................................................3

Customer Support........................................................................................................................................4

Need A Hint? ..................................................................................................................................................4

System Requirements:Windows ............................................................................................................5

Installation: Windows ..................................................................................................................................5

System Requirements: Mac OS ................................................................................................................6

Installation: Mac OS......................................................................................................................................7

II. Prologue ......................................................................................................................................................8

III. The Story So Far... ............................................................................................................................13

IV. Getting Started ..................................................................................................................................16

Launching Myth II ......................................................................................................................................17

Main Menu....................................................................................................................................................17

Preferences ..................................................................................................................................................18

Playing The Tutorial Map ........................................................................................................................20

V. Playing Myth II: Soulblighter ....................................................................................................21

The Interface ................................................................................................................................................22

Selecting Units ............................................................................................................................................26

U

nit Attributes ............................................................................................................................................27

Commanding Units ..................................................................................................................................28

S

pecial Abilities ..........................................................................................................................................31

W

eather and its Effects on Battle ........................................................................................................32

Saving and Viewing Replays ..................................................................................................................33

VI. Multiplayer ..........................................................................................................................................34

bungie.net ....................................................................................................................................................35

TCP/IP..............................................................................................................................................................45

AppleTalk ......................................................................................................................................................47

Types of Network Games ........................................................................................................................49

Communication During Multiplayer Games ....................................................................................51

Unit Trading..................................................................................................................................................52

Post-game Carnage Statistics ................................................................................................................52

Internet Latency..........................................................................................................................................53

Multiplayer Gameplay Tips ....................................................................................................................53

The Scoring System ..................................................................................................................................54

Orders ............................................................................................................................................................55

bungie.net Code of Conduct ................................................................................................................56

VII. Characters ............................................................................................................................................57

The Light ......................................................................................................................................................58

The Dark ........................................................................................................................................................60

Non-Aligned ................................................................................................................................................63

VIII. Technical Support ........................................................................................................................64

Windows 95/98/NT....................................................................................................................................65

Mac OS ..........................................................................................................................................................66

A Note About Map Making ....................................................................................................................67

IX. Glossary....................................................................................................................................................69

X. Credits ........................................................................................................................................................76

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I. Introduction

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Who Loves Ya, Baby?

Thank you for purchasing Myth II: Soulblighter. It is
because of your support as our customer that we are
able to continue to develop cutting-edge products.

Customer Support

As our customer,you are our most important asset. If you have any questions
about how to use or install this software, please read the Technical Support
section in this manual; many basic issues are covered there. If you still experi­ence problems, please get in touch with us through one of the channels listed
below.We will be more than happy to help you out. If you have a hint ques­tion, please call our dedicated hint line at (900) 740-HINT,or visit our web site
(h

ttp://www.bungie.com) for links to online resources.You can also contact

us by mail or phone:

Bungie Software Products Corporation
Customer Support
PO Box 7877
Chicago, IL 60680-7877
USA

Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
Hint Line: (900) 740-HINT

Internet: [e-mail]
WWW: h

ttp://www.bungie.com

If you’d like to buy stuff from us, dial [phone] or visit our web store at

https://www.bungie.com/store/.

Need A Hint?

Stuck? Can’t figure out the strategy that will get you to the
next level? Just call (900) 740-HINT for tips to help you in your
battle against Soulblighter.It’s just $0.95/minute for automat­ed hints, or $1.35/minute to speak to a live operator from
9:30am - 5:30pm CST,Monday through Friday.You must be 18
years old or have a parent’s permission before calling.A touch­tone phone is required.

If you have Internet access,you may want to search online for tips.A collection
of links can be found on our web page (h

ttp://www.bungie.com).You may

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1-900-740-HINT

BUNGIE HINT LINE

$.95/min recorded, $1.35/min live

Must be 18 or have parental permission.

Touch tone phone required.

also want to look for tips from fellow players in game-related newsgroups,
such as alt.games.myth, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic and

comp.sys.mac.games.strategic.

How to Register

To register your copy of Myth II, surf to www.bungie.net and click the
“Register Game”link on the main page. In addition to providing us with a
snapshot of who our customers are, filling out this form will also register your
account for online play on our free bungie.net online service,thus bringing
you countless hours of bliss and rapture. All the cool kids are doing it, so regis­ter today!

System Requirements:Windows

In order to play Myth II: Soulblighter, your PC should meet the following criteria:

• 133 MHz Pentium processor (200 MHz or higher recommended)

• Windows 95,Windows 98, or Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 3
installed)

• 32 megabytes of RAM

• A CD-ROM drive (4x or higher)

• DirectX 6.0 or higher installed (DirectX 6 is included on the Myth II
CD-ROM)

• An SVGA monitor

• A DirectX 6-compatible video card

• A DirectX 6-compatible sound card

• Internet play requires Internet connection at 28.8 kbps or faster

Installation: Windows

1. Insert the Myth II: Soulblighter CD into your CD-ROM drive. Autoplay will
launch the installer.

2. Click the Install Myth II button.

3. Choose which installation you would like to perform:

Small: Installs the Myth II application and support files.Everything
else remains on the CD.This saves hard disk space but increases load

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times between levels.

Large: Installs everything but the movies. Substantial disk space
(approximately 500 megabytes) is required,but this is somewhat off­set by speedier load times.

Network-Only: Installs a network-only version of Myth II which will
allow you to play games over a LAN without having the CD-ROM in
the drive.

4. Follow the installer’s directions.You may need to restart your machine when
finished.

5. Launch the game by choosing Myth II: Soulblighter from the Programs sec­tion of the Start menu. Prepare for battle!

INSTALLING DIRECTX

Myth II: Soulblighter requires that you have Microsoft’s DirectX 6.0 or
higher installed under Windows 95 or Windows 98. During installation, the
Myth II installer will ask you whether you want to install DirectX 6.0. If you
have previously installed DirectX 6.0, you can skip this procedure. If you do
not have DirectX 6.0 or are not sure,click “Yes.”The DirectX installer will
then query your system and install any necessary drivers. Once the
installer has finished, it may prompt you to restart your machine.

Some sound and video cards have old drivers which are incompatible
with more recent versions of DirectX. If the DirectX installer complains
that it cannot recognize one of these components, check with the card
manufacturer to see if there is a more recent version of the card’s driver
software. Most card vendors provide driver updates free of charge on their
web sites.

Myth II: Soulblighter will run under Windows NT 4.0, but you must have
Windows NT Service Pack 3 installed in order for Myth II to run properly.

System Requirements: MacOS

To play Myth II: Soulblighter, your Macintosh must meet the following require­ments:

• 100 MHz PowerPC 601 Processor (120 MHz 604 or better recom­mended)

• A monitor capable of 16-bit color and 640x480 resolution

• System 7.5 or higher

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• 32 megabytes of RAM

• A CD-ROM drive (4x or higher)

• Internet play requires Open Transport 1.1.2 or higher and Internet
connection at 28.8 kbps or faster

Installation: MacOS

1. Insert your Myth II:Soulblighter CD-ROM into the Mac’s CD drive.

2. Double-click the Myth II Installer icon.

3. Choose which installation you would like to perform:

Small: Installs the Myth II application and support files.Everything
else remains on the CD.This saves hard disk space but increases load
times between levels.

Large: Installs everything but the movies. Substantial disk space
(approximately 500 megabytes) is required,but this is somewhat off­set by speedier load times.

Network-Only: Installs a network-only version of Myth II which will
allow you to play games over a LAN without the CD-ROM in the drive.

4. Follow the installer’s directions.

5. After installation has finished, find the Myth II: Soulblighter folder on your
hard drive and double-click the Myth II icon to launch the game. Prepare for
battle!

Using 3D Acceleration

Myth II: Soulblighter takes full advantage of the rendering

power of 3D accelerator cards that support

Direct3D, 3Dfx, Rendition, and Rave (Mac only).

Myth II: Soulblighter will automatically detect

installed cards when the game is launched.You

can switch between the various rendering
options in the Preferences dialog.

Important: 3D accelerated cards differ greatly

and results may vary based on the 3D accelerated

card you have– especially if you have an older gen-

eration 3D card (over one year old).

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II. Prologue

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Andir set out that evening in search of a monster.

He had learned, as all children must, that adults are capricious with the truth.
His parents seemed to believe that Andir’s age precluded any serious disclo­sure of why the world worked as it did.His persistent questions were most
often met with a sigh and a tired "because." If he caught them in a particularly
dark mood, they would answer his question with a wry story invented on the
spot and see how long it took Andir to get the joke. For the bulk of his ten
years, Andir had believed his father’s tale of the uncharacteristically kind Ghôl
who delivered presents to obedient children on winter’s longest night.Their
jokes grew increasingly bitter as the boy grew older; his parents were simple
people who believed that an active mind led to nothing but laziness. Far bet­ter to bring honor to the King through hard work.

Over the years Andir began to wonder how much of what he knew was true.
Age was not a guarantee of wisdom, honesty or kindness. If adults could lie or
joke about some things, what was to stop them from lying about the rest? So
many things he took for granted might be half-truths,or even preposterous
fantasies. A precocious child in many respects, Andir found this notion
depressing.

He considered what he knew - or thought he knew - of recent history. Some of
the people in his village were veterans of the Great War, and the rest spoke of
it so often one might be forgiven for thinking it had ended sixty days ago
rather than sixty years. In light of Andir’s developing skepticism, many of the
tales told about the war seemed suspect. Hordes of reanimated dead defeated
by small, ragged groups of mercenaries and volunteers? A severed head that
spoke, lies slipping through its lips to an audience that would soon be dead?
Alric, then simply a wizard of immense power and not a King, plotting and
fighting against the walking dead without so much as a scratch on his chin
from Balor’s rotting armies? Balor himself, with a legion of creatures bound to
him through sorcery and intimidation, unable to stop Alric from lopping off his
head? And Soulblighter - the towering,mad thing who cut off his own face
and tore out his own heart as part of a ritual too dark to speak of?

None of it seemed especially believable, although the adults still spoke of
Soulblighter in hushed tones; according to the stories, no one had ever discov­ered what became of him. Andir was now inclined to dismiss this as supersti­tion, but chose to reserve judgment until he could learn more about the war.
So he set his sights on a goal closer to home: learning the truth about the
caves in the forest near his village.

The forest was full of dead trees which had a habit of falling over and killing
things. Knowing this, his mother told stories of a terrifying blur of claws and
fangs that lurked in caves and fed on young boys.Andir suspected the story

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was false and planned to disprove it by examining the caves;he felt certain
that he would find them as harmless and empty as his parents’ words of cau­tion. Armed with this knowledge, he might return home and convince his par­ents that he was mature enough to learn the truth about the world, and to
have his questions treated with respect. If they must tell him stories, he want­ed only to hear true stories. And stories of monsters weren’t true.

He slipped quietly from his family’s cottage late one evening, darting between
houses and trees, trying not to be seen by other villagers who might order
him back home. Once he cleared the village he had a straight run across a jade
plain that ended about a mile from the edge of the forest. He could no longer
see the sun, but enough light penetrated the tightly-clustered tree trunks to
keep him moving.

He picked his way carefully between trees in the forest. It seemed that every
other trunk was whitened and papery; one fell over when he leaned on it to
catch his breath. Andir remembered stories of the Fallen Lord Shiver killing any
tree she brushed as she and her army marched toward Madrigal. Again he
wondered how true that tale was.

He ripped large strips of
bark off the living trees
to mark his passage and
kept moving towards
the heart of the forest.
By the time he found
the first cave, night had
crept up behind him,
obliterating even the
silhouettes of the trees.
Steeling himself, he
stepped inside and
shuffled forward.

The cave was damp
with a roof that sloped
gently downward to its
end. After ten feet he

had to bend down; after
twenty he had to sit down. He smiled. If there were any beasts in the cave, they
were so small as to be harmless - even to a child.Andir knew that his mother
had concocted a story to keep him out of harm’s way; he could understand
and appreciate her concern but also felt certain that his mother was jumping
at shadows. He had learned the truth and it had not hurt him.

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Andir crawled out into the night air and began walking back home. He could
not seem to find the last tree he had marked. He stumbled through brush and
over thick roots for perhaps thirty minutes before he saw the crow.

Although in perfect darkness, the black bird somehow stood out.Its feathers
were a glistening, oily black that seemed to pulse with some inner turbulence.
The bird seemed to look past him rather than at him. Curious, Andir stepped
toward it.

The bird hopped away. Andir followed. He tripped on a root and fell against a
fallen willow branch.The noise he made must have drowned out the rustle of
another bird’s wings, for when he picked himself up there were two crows
before him. Both stared directly at him. Their eyes moved with the same sinu­ous, smoky motion as their feathers.

Andir understood that these were no ordinary birds, but had a sudden urge to
go home and wait until daylight before returning to study them. He stepped
backwards, eyes on the two crows. They remained motionless. He turned
around, intending to go back to the clearing he’d passed about twenty feet
back and choose another path. He stopped.

Andir stood within a group of crows arranged in a perfect circle.

He felt sweat run down the side of his face.The crows took baby-steps for­ward, closing in almost imperceptibly. Andir squatted low and ran his hand
over the ground,trying to find a fallen branch with which to shoo them away.
A crow pecked at his hand and he swung his arm aloft in self-defense. Andir
felt an ugly numbness spill down from his upraised arm into the rest of his
body,and then his muscles gave way and he fell to the floor of the forest.
Andir felt as though all the skin on his body was crumbling like paper con­sumed by fire.

Andir saw a tall man, smiling so hard it almost seemed as though he had no
lips.There was a grotesque scar running down his bare chest. Andir knew his
name from the stories, and might have said it aloud had his tongue still
worked.

And ... something else, behind him. Something nameless for a thousand years.

Andir’s final insight was that all stories contained little truths.Larger truths, like
that of the scarred presence towering over him,could never be adequately
conveyed in a tale.

He blinked and the monster was gone. And the crows were on him.

He might have eventually seen the ceiling of the night dissolve into daylight
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malevolent angel with far too many wings.

Except his eyes were long gone by that point.

The other things, creatures Andir had no name for, dashed through the coun­tryside for the first time in centuries, toward a village alive with the sounds of
roosters and two parents wondering where their child had gone off to at such
an early hour.

Andir had learned, as all children eventually must, that there was a little
hideous truth in every monster story. And the horde that followed the crows
knew that the best stories deserve a second telling.

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III. The Story So Far…

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It's now over 100 years since Balor first appeared at the eastern edge of the
civilized lands. His arrival was heralded by a great comet that grew in the sky
and signaled doom to all life.With dark arts he raised up the Fallen Lords,sor­cerer-generals like himself,bent to his will and desiring nothing but to lay
waste to the living and rule over the blasted lands.Among their number were
Shiver,the Deceiver, the Watcher and, most vicious and cunning of all,
Soulblighter.

Leading a grim army of beasts, spirit creatures and the reanimated dead, the
Fallen swept through Eastern villages and cities, destroying the great capital at
Muirthemne and scattering the survivors. They passed the great continental
range of the Cloudspine and flooded into the rich lands of the West. Only two
of the great cities of the West still stood when our armies rallied.

Pursuing a plan of retaking strategic points and exploiting the weaknesses of
the Fallen, Alric, last of the Nine protectors of the West,led a strike through the
Fallen lines and directly for Balor himself. In a desperate gamble, Alric tricked
Balor into exposing himself and cut off his head. Eluding Soulblighter, he
brought it to the Great Devoid,a vast pit in the heart of the world, and threw it
in to seal Balor’s fate.

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Their leadership broken, most
of the Fallen Lords were soon
hunted down and destroyed
by Alric’s armies. With Balor’s
destruction, Soulblighter
found himself defeated,but
alive and free from Balor’s ser­vice. He escaped into the
wilderness, to bide his time
and look for an opportunity to
return to his former power, to
achieve the ambition that was
denied his master.

Now sixty years have passed

since the end of the Great War
against the Fallen.Alric sits on the throne in the rebuilt city of Madrigal.
Warriors have returned to their villages, and allies like the fir’bolg to their
homelands. Peace reigns and the land prospers.

History proves there is always a lull before the storm....

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IV. Getting Started

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Launching Myth II: Soulblighter

WINDOWS

1. Put the Myth II: Soulblighter CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.

2. Click your Start menu, and highlight the Programs menu.

3. Highlight the Myth II:Soulblighter menu.

4. Highlight the Myth II executable and click it to launch the game.

Alternately,you may simply open the Myth II folder on your hard drive,
and double-click the Myth II executable file.

MACINTOSH

1. Put the Myth II: Soulblighter CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.

2. Open the Myth II:Soulblighter folder on your hard drive.

3. Double-click the Myth II application icon.

MAIN MENU

After launching the game,
the Myth II title screen and
main menu will appear.To
choose an option from the
menu, move the cursor
over it and click the mouse
button.

New Game

Launches a new single
player game.

Multiplayer Game

Allows you to play com­petitively or cooperatively with other people via the Internet or a
local-area network. If your machine is unable to network with other
computers, this option will not appear.

Tutorial

Launches the Myth II Tutorial.

Saved Games

Allows you to return to a previously saved game, if any are available.

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Saved Films

Allows you to view saved films of previous games,if you have any in
your recordings folder.

Preferences

Allows you to modify various game settings and functions.

Replay Intro

Replay the intro animation.

Quit

Quit Myth II: Soulblighter,and return to your desktop.

PREFERENCES

Before you begin a game,
you’ll probably want to
make sure the Preferences
are set the way you like
them. At the Preferences
screen you can change the
following options:

Vol ume

This bar controls how
loud the game sound is. Drag the slide bar to the left to lower the vol­ume, or to the right to increase the volume.

The maximum range of the volume control is determined by your comput-

er's volume setting.If the sounds in the game are too quiet even after

boosting the volume in the game preferences,exit the program and

increase your computer's master volume.

3D Audio

If this box is checked, Myth II will take advantage of any compatible
3D audio.This option works best with stereo speakers (four speakers
are especially cool) or headphones. Myth II supports Aureal’s A3D and
Creative Labs’EAX.

Please note that 3D Audio can slow your game down significantly if
you have an old sound card.

Ambient Sounds

If this box is checked, you will hear ambient sounds to enhance the
game’s atmosphere.

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In-Game Subtitles

Check this box to see the dialog spoken by your characters at the bot­tom of the screen during gameplay.

Difficulty Level

This allows you to select between five levels of difficulty:Timid,
Simple, Normal, Heroic and Legendary. It’s generally better to start on
Normal. If you find the game too difficult, drop down to Simple or
Timid to make things a little easier on yourself.Conversely, if you’re a
masochist, you can turn up the heat by jumping to Legendary.

High Res

With this box checked, the graphics will appear more detailed and
distinct. If you have a slower machine, you may want to uncheck this
box for faster gameplay.

Landscape Filtering

With this box checked, the game will smooth out the textures of the
landscape.This makes the game prettier but slightly slower.For best
performance, leave this box unchecked.

Rendering

This window allows you to choose whether the Myth II landscape will
be rendered entirely in software or using the added power of a 3D
accelerator card. If you do not have a compatible 3D accelerator
installed, you will only be able to see the Software
Rendering option.

Resolution

Here you can change the screen resolution of
the game. Resolutions that are detected as
"preferred" by your machine are listed in
italics.

Gamma

This controls the brightness of the pic­ture. Only available if you have a 3D
accelerator card based on the 3Dfx
Voodoo chipset.

Lock/Unlock No Blood

To eliminate blood and gore from the game,
click this button; a dialog will come up with
two password fields. If you select OK
without entering a password, blood will
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body parts by scraps of armor.If you enter a password in both fields
and then select OK you can enforce this option– only by entering the
correct password will you be able to unlock the no blood option.

Configure Controls

Clicking this button takes you to a screen where you can change the
keys associated with the game’s commands.To change a key for a
given command, click in the text box next to the name of the com­mand, then press the key you would like to use. Note that you cannot
have the same key assigned to more than one command.

Current Set

In Myth II you can have multiple sets of keyboard preferences.This is
especially useful if more than one person plays Myth II on your
machine. Simply click the set you want to edit or use. The Revert Set
button allows you to return the keyboard settings for a given set to
the default values.

Enable Mouse Movement

This allows you to move the camera by moving your pointer to the
top, bottom and sides of the screen.

Top Corners Rotate Camera

This lets you rotate the camera by placing your pointer in the upper
left and right corners of the screen.

Bottom Corners Orbit Camera

This lets you rotate the camera by placing your pointer in the lower
left and right corners of the screen.

Reverse Axis

This reverses the direction your camera will move when you place
your pointer in the corners or sides of the screen.

PLAYING THE TUTORIAL MAP

We have included an extensive tutorial which will teach you how to play
the game without the tension of a normal Myth II game.We strongly rec­ommend that you play this map in order to familiarize yourself with the
controls and gameplay.To play it, click the Tutorial button on the main
screen. From that point on, all you need to do is follow the spoken and
written instructions.

Note that the instructions in the tutorial map are based on the default key
settings. If you change these settings you will need to use the keys you
have chosen, not the ones mentioned in the Training Map instructions.

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To begin playing a single-player game of Myth II, click the New Game button
in the main menu. As you progress through the game and more levels become
available to you,you will be able to choose your starting level and difficulty
setting from a dialog box that pops up.

When the level begins, a brief message describing the objective(s) of the level
appears in the middle of the screen.

The Interface

STATUS BAR

At the top of your screen is the status bar.When you select a single unit,
the name and type of that unit are displayed in the Status bar, along with
some background information on that unit.When multiple units are
selected, the names, types,and quantity of units will appear in the status
bar.The brief paragraph of descriptive text will not appear.

On the right edge of the status bar is a large square button, often called
the “pause”button. If you click this button, you will be given a chance to
revert to a saved game, restart the current level or quit the game entirely.
You can access this same menu by pressing the Escape key.

You can jump to a selected unit by clicking on the unit's portrait in the

status bar.

Also at the right edge of the Status bar is a small triangular button.This
controls the overhead map.For more information about the overhead
map, see below.

ACTION WINDOW

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Status Bar

A portrait
of the unit

Unit's name Unit's type

Text describing something

about the unit

Unit's total

number of kills

Unit's carried item and

number remaining

Mission

objectives

Unit is a veteran

from previous levels

Show/hide overhead map

Pause/Quit/Save (esc)

Draw and erase

on map (net only)

window to the battlefield, and you can look at different parts of the battle­field by moving the camera.The action window is where all the actual
combat takes place.

OVERHEAD MAP

To the right of the “pause” button in the
status bar is a small triangular wedge.
Clicking this wedge toggles the overhead
map on and off.You can also toggle the
map by hitting your Tab key.

The overhead map appears in the upper
right corner of the action window. It is a
semi-transparent, top-down view of the
entire battlefield.Your units appear as
green dots. Enemy units appear as red
dots. Friendly units (non-player characters
like villagers, or teammates in network games) appear as blue dots. A yel­low trapezoid denotes your current camera position.The arrow in the
trapezoid denotes the direction your camera is facing.

Clicking a spot on the overhead map will instantly move your camera to
that spot in the Action window.Clicking the right mouse button (Option­click on the Mac) on the overhead map will send your troops to that loca­tion. Pressing F9 will display team colors for units on the map.

CONTROL BAR

The control bar appears at the bottom of the screen. It can be toggled on
and off by pressing shift + F6.

On the left of the control bar is the Whisper button, which you can use to
type private messages to your teammates during network games. The

Stop button will halt a moving unit; the Hold button will cause selected

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Stops all of the
selected unit's

actions (space bar)

Control Bar

Talk to your team

in a net game (y)

(To yell to every

team use shift + y)

Defend current

ground position (g)

Selected units flee in

all directions away
from the center (b)

Selected units reverse
away from enemy (r)

Perform unit's

special ability (t)

direction and move

Move selected units

into a formation

units to stand guard.The Scatter button sends selected units scurrying
away from their current location; the Retreat button will cause them to
run from the nearest enemy.The Special button will allow the unit to use
its Special Ability,if it has one.

To the right of these keys are formation buttons. Clicking one of these
buttons and then clicking on the ground will assemble selected units in
the appropriate formation.

A melee unit set to Hold it will maintain it's position. A projectile unit set to

Hold will fire at anything in range,but will move around if attacked.

Note that all of these commands have keyboard equivalents,which are
discussed in detail later in this manual.

KEYS

Please note that you can change the commands assigned to the keyboard
in the Preferences menu.The keyboard commands mentioned in this sec­tion are just the default settings; we like them, but you’re free to change
them.

CAMERA

Myth II’s advanced 3D engine allows you to move the camera indepen­dently of your units. Clever players will exploit this feature to see as much
of the landscape - and the enemy’s forces - as possible.

Forward/Back

These keys move your camera back and forth in a straight line.The
default Forward key is W.The default Back key is S.

Left/Right

These keys move your camera sideways while keeping it pointed
straight ahead.The default Left key is Z.The default Right key is X.

Orbit Left/Orbit Right

These keys keep your camera trained on a sin­gle spot while making a full 360-degree circle
around it.The default Orbit Left key is Q.The
default Orbit Right key is E.

Rotate Left/Rotate Right

When using these keys, your camera remains in
the same spot but your point of view moves

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sideways across the landscape. (Stand in one spot and turn your head
from side to side for an idea of how this looks.) The default Rotate Left
key is A.The default Rotate Right key is D.

Zoom In/Zoom Out

You can zoom the camera in to get a better look at the bloody
remains of your enemies, and zoom back out to get a look at the bat­tlefield around you.The default Zoom In key is C.The default Zoom
Out key is V.

Center
You can center the camera over a selected group of units by hitting H.

MOUSE

You can also use the mouse to move the camera back, forward, left and
right. Using the mouse, move your cursor to one of the four edges of the
screen; the camera will move in that direction.You can also orbit the cam­era by pushing the mouse to the
lower left/right corners of the
action window, or rotate it by mov­ing the mouse to the upper
left/right corners.

If you're accustomed to the mouse
controls in Myth: The Fallen Lords
and don't want the corners to
rotate the camera, go to the
preferences and turn off mouse
controlled camera rotation.

FUNCTION KEYS

The function keys at the top of your keyboard have the ability to modify
some of Myth’s preferences on the fly, while you are playing the game.

F1 - Slows the game to half-speed, in case you’re feeling over­whelmed (this only works in the single player game and while view­ing films).

F2 - Increases game speed to a maximum of 16 times normal speed.

F3 - Turns the sound volume up.

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MOUSE CONTROLS

Selecting Units: Single click to select a unit; click and
drag to select multiple units; double click to select a unit
and all nearby units of the same type;
shift click to add or subtract a
unit from your selection.

Unit Facing: Click on a unit
and drag in the direction it
should face.

Formation Facing: Click

on the ground with the
right mouse button

(PC) or option + click
(Mac) and drag in the direction
you want the formation to face.

Pause/

Save/Quit

esc

esc F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F12

Game

Slower

Game
Faster

Volume

Down

Volume

Up

Low/High

Status Bar

Resolution

On/Off*

Network
Statistics

Key

Map

Map

Colors

F9

Highlight
All Units

F10 F11

Landscape

Filtering

Auto

Camera