Gunship 2000
Feel free to comment and discuss this game here. Also, if you have any useful tips or tricks don't hesitate to share them with the others! Thanks!
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One of the best early chopter sims you can get, still worth playing even if the graphics/sounds are completely outdated.
Whilst Comanche was more 'arcade' -(not 'really really' but yeah)- oriented Gunship also will get your brains to do some work. Highly recommended are the quick ref card and manual, game is complex, but not thàt complex its ruins the fun. Quick ref card: (print this one!) http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?view.7291 Manual: http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?view.7290 Also: there are still a lot of fan made missions and even complete scenarios floating around on the internet, some of those are excellent. |
Thanks for the docs, dosraider. As usual with MicroProse sims, not only they are essential for playing, but also make a great read by themselves.
I bought this game many years ago, by mail order. It's probably one of the few games I bought at full price, but I never regreted the move. For years I kept it installed in my harddrive and played it obssesively. It's one of those games that are easy to play but hard to master, and you'll constantly be discobering new features and strategies to succeed. One good tip is to use an inferior chopter than the one you're given by default to complete your missions: your superiors will be impressed if you succeed and promotions will become available sooner. Oh, and the "intercept" missions are a bit annoying. You'll usually be given the starting location of the enemy and the direction they're following. But at least on the easier levels, the enemy tends to use the roads available, so following them is always a good strategy. |
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Gunship 2000 was probably the DOS game I've spent most of my time with. I was so bad at it, that they never gave me a wingman as promotion, so I had to use a savegame of a friend. :whistling: But hey, once I got promoted the action really goes off. To carefully hatch your wingmen and see how they get better and better.. ah those were the days. I remember when I was like Lt.Colonel and my best wingman just 1 rank below me, I would let him do entire missions all by himself. He would wipe out enemy tanks left and right, refill his ammo at depots, evade enemies who were too strong for him.
Some wingmen are not so good, and to watch carefully who gets promoted, so they don't learn "stupid" things, like for example: If some wingman goes on a kamikaze attack run, and you promote him, he will think this is a good thing to do, then will repeat doing kamikaze in the next mission (until he dies) Thanks for uploading this! |
this game is ace. my father cut out the keyboard shortcuts and put them on a plexiglas that we lay over our keyboard :D i was bad at it, but played it some years back and was much more successful.
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A quick keyboard summary.
Remember to use "keyb us" to fire up the american keyboard layout, it will not work otherwise in Dosbox. Part I - Navigation =============== 9 ... engage rotor the two keys between 0 and "backspace" control the rotor power. (hold shift for faster rotor power increase/decline) 3 .. raise/lower landing gear (d'oh) c, v ... adjust minimum altitude warning level. Also tells wingmen at which altitude they must fly. F10 ... open map -> F ... assign waypoints in map, confirm with <enter> -> B ... assign route back to base -> <space> ... toggle map zoom F1 ... exit map and cockpit view cursor keys ... forward/back/left/right obviously Part II - Your Chopper ================== 5 ... Autopilot engage, to next waypoint (the waypoint disappears when flying over it with autopilot) 6, 7 ... cycle waypoints 0 ... Autohover, works only at low speed (for landing) y, x ... toggle the big display mode in the center (aka MFD) ü, + ... time acceleration up to x16 Part III - Combat ============== 8 ... open/close weapon bays (only the stealth Comanche has those) backspace ... cycle targets space ... cycle weapon hardpoints 1,2,4 ... salvo mode x1, x2 and x4 for hydra missiles enter ... fire current weapon. n ... engage radar jammer to make it harder for radar guided to lock you on. m ... once it fails, drop chaff to confuse radar missiles, and make a hard turn! . ... engage IR jammer same as above - ... drop flare to quickly confuse a heat seeking missile, same as above (the jammers generally work good, but also alert farther enemies to your presence) Good luck, warrant officer candidates! Permission to publish these quick instructions on our game page granted :) |
How do you do those recon missions? Perhaps all enemies in an area must be spotted, but I always get shot down. Can you attack them?
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YOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW SON, DO AS YOU'RE TOLD. If they tell you in the briefing: recon and avoid engagement, now f*cking do recon and avoid engagement by keeping a low profile, hide and be sneaky. Retreat, hide and wait long enough after any enemy contact. Bring back the data, that's how to complete those missions. |
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So I have been wanting to play this game again for a long time...I installed it once and my machine was way too fast (I didn't know about DosBOX). Now that most machines don't have floppy drives my disks are obsolete. Yes, I have my original floppies along with the book, strategy guide, and keyboard layout. BTW, one of the things I loved about this game....the screen shots are from the movie Firebirds... |
Doesnt work!
It simply does not work!
It crashes on the mission briefing screens either with: a) A "missing file" error or b) corrupt graphics and music going all funny. |
Just to check them off the list of suspects
- Have you tried re-dowloading it? It could be a corrupt download. - Have you tried different control configurations? |
First game I hacked
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It definately doesn't work!
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I cannot see how "different control configurations" would make any difference at all. So, if it's only just me - and the guy have trouble 2 years ago - that can't run it then can those you that can run it reveal the secret? PS/ Please also get rid of "reCAPTCHA" - it is screwing up the ability to post without the rigmarole of registering! |
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Downloaded the game from Abandonia, extracted the archive in my DOSBox C-drive, started the game and... everything seems to be fine. I can access the briefing and start a mission. I'm using DOSBox 0.74 with the default configuration. |
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That's kind of the REASON we had to install it in the first place and there is no way in hell it's going away as long as spambots exist. :sucks: |
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My DosBox is the old 0.70. Maybe thats why GS2000 isn't happy. I'll try 0.74.
BTW I am indeed an advance spambot designed to use advanced AI to fool forums into thinking I'm human, and attempt to get them to remove ReCaptcha by just asking them. Damn you for not falling for it!!!! Now whose for some little blue tablets? |
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