Aces High Help V1.00
General Suggestions:
FAQ: New entry "How do I speak on the radio?" with a brief explanation.
Contents
"Commom Acronyms" replace with "Common Acronyms"
"FAQ's" replace with "FAQs"
Location->in contents menu->hierarchy
"Original Text"
change to
"Suggested Improvement"
Aces High II->Getting Started->Flight Basics
"Clicking on one of the small gray buttons in the Fly box on the lower left corner of the clipboard will put you into the plane, vehicle or boat."
Change "Fly" to "DEPLOY"
Aces High II->Common Acronyms
Useful acronyms and abbreviations to add
alt-f4 - exits the game
brt - be right there
buff - bomber aircraft
Dora - Fw 190D aircraft
Emil - Bf 109E aircraft
George - N1K aircraft
Gustav - Bf 109G aircraft
GV - ground vehicle
Havoc - A-20 aircraft
Hog - F4U aircraft
Jug - P-47 aircraft
Kate - B5N aircraft
Komet - Me 163 aircraft
Mossie - Mosquito aircraft
omw - on my way
Peggy - Ki-67 aircraft
Pony - P-51 aircraft
roger - understood, will comply
rtfm - read the fine manual, please
Stuka - Ju 87 aircraft
Tony - Ki-61 aircraft
Val - D3A aircraft
yw - you're welcome
Aces High II->FAQs->I'm spinning around and can't get the aircraft off the ground.
Add list of planes with opposite torque
"...than if you were looking at the runway trying to perceive the changes in heading. And, since most of the AH fields are on cardinal headings, and the DG turns the "right" way, this is real easy, and takeoffs are easy to keep on the runway with this method.
These aircraft have counter-clockwise rotating propellers and require left rudder on takeoff:
La-7
Typhoon
etc"
Aces High II->FAQs->What is the autopilot key?
"Press X on your keyboard to toggle autopilot level, Ctrl-X to toggle autopilot angle, and Alt-X to toggle autopilot climb. When autopilot level is on, the cockpit beacon will be yellow, and autopilot angle and autopilot climb will display a red beacon. The beacon light is off if no autopilot is engaged."
Change to
"Press X on your keyboard to toggle autopilot level, Ctrl-X to toggle autopilot angle, and Alt-X to toggle autopilot climb. When autopilot level is on, the cockpit beacon will be yellow. When autopilot angle is on, the cockpit beacon will be green. Autopilot climb will display a red beacon. The beacon light is off if no autopilot is engaged."
Aces High II->FAQs->How can I improve my framerates?
"Use the latest version of DirectX.
Add more RAM to your system, 64MB is really the minimum you should consider having.
Upgrade your processor.
Get the newest drivers for your video and sound cards."
Change to
"Use the latest version of (a href = "
http://www.microsoft.com/directx")DirectX.(/a)
Add more RAM to your system, (AH2 MIN RAM)MB is really the minimum you should consider having.
Upgrade your processor.
Get the newest drivers for your video and sound cards.
ATI drivers
http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html NVidia drivers
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp Creative sound drivers:
http://www.creative.com/support"
Aces High II->FAQs->How do I turn off mouse view control when I'm in flight?
"Select Setup->Preferences->View Options from the clipboard menu, and uncheck Default to Instant View."
Change to
"Select Setup->Preferences->View Options from the clipboard menu, and uncheck Start in Mouse Look. Press Shift-M to toggle Mouse Look on and off."
Aces High II->Gameplay
"HQ Status
Enemy and Friendly Cnt refers to sector counters, or the red or green squares in the map sectors, for friendlies and enemies. If a country's HQ is destroyed, then all radar and sector counters for that country are disabled. As the HQ becomes damaged the radar components are destroyed in this order: friendly counters, enemy counter, friendly radar and enemy radar. "
Change to
"... this order: enemy radar, friendly radar, enemy counters, friendly counters. "
Aces High II->General Information->Cockpit Instrumentation
Some items don't match the numbered instruments in the picture.
"...
2. Compass
...
21. Artifical Horizon
...
23. Compass"
Change to
"...
2. Directional Gyro
...
21. Magnetic Compass
...
23. Artifical Horizon"
Aces High II->Setup->Preferences->View Options
"Default to Instant View will automatically switch you to mouse view when taking off in an aircraft, vehicle or boat. Shift-M toggles the mouse view on and off, but if you've made any changes to your key maps, you'll have to use the Key Mapping utility in Aces High II to map Shift-M before trying to toggle the mouse view while in flight.
Start in Mouse Look is the initial state when you enter a plane or vehicle."
Change to
"Default to Instant View sets the default view mode to Instant (F9). When this is unchecked, the default view mode is Snap (F7).
Start in Mouse Look will automatically switch you to mouse view when taking off in an aircraft, vehicle or boat. Shift-M toggles the mouse view on and off, but if you've made any changes to your key maps, you'll have to use the Key Mapping utility in Aces High II to map Shift-M before trying to toggle the mouse view while in flight."
Aces High II->Special Features->Squads
"The transparency color to use in order to make your noseart blend into the plane is {127, 127, 127}."
Change to
"The transparency color to use in order to make your noseart blend into the plane is R176, G176, B176. (Hex triplet: b0b0b0)"
