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-  * Install and setup DosBox +  - Install and setup DosBox 
-  * Starting the actual game +  - Starting the actual game 
-  * Basic menus +  - Basic menus 
-  * Basic GUI +  - Basic GUI 
-  * Basic controls +  - Basic controls 
-  * Basic Jaguar +  - Basic Jaguar 
-  * Basic 1Player +  - Basic 1Player 
-  * Basic Tournament Mode+  - Basic Tournament Mode
  
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 Once you've watched the very nice intro, and got into the main menu, with the cool looking robot on the left side basking in the spotlight. We have a few options here I'll sum them up, and then go through the useful ones for now: Once you've watched the very nice intro, and got into the main menu, with the cool looking robot on the left side basking in the spotlight. We have a few options here I'll sum them up, and then go through the useful ones for now:
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 +{{https://www.omf2097.com/pub/pic/guide/starter06.png?nolink}}
  
   * One Player Mode   * One Player Mode
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 __** Configuration **__ __** Configuration **__
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 +{{https://www.omf2097.com/pub/pic/guide/starter07.png?nolink}}
  
 Various options, but the most important one for now is: Various options, but the most important one for now is:
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 __** Gameplay **__ __** Gameplay **__
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 Various options that affects gameplay. There's a couple important ones, you can ignore the rest for now. Various options that affects gameplay. There's a couple important ones, you can ignore the rest for now.
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 I'll explain the User Interface in the actual matches before we start one, to avoid surprises. I'll explain the User Interface in the actual matches before we start one, to avoid surprises.
  
-{{https://www.omf2097.com/pub/pic/guide/omf-ui-sample.png?nolink}}+{{https://www.omf2097.com/pub/pic/guide/starter01.png?nolink}}
  
   - Health - Red bar upper left, goes purple as you take damage, lose when all purple.   - Health - Red bar upper left, goes purple as you take damage, lose when all purple.
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   - The opposite side is identical for the opponent.   - The opposite side is identical for the opponent.
  
-> Insert screenshot here +You can hit the ESCAPE button to pause the game and bring up a menu while in a match, these options works similar to the ones I mentioned in the previous section:
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-You can hit the ESCAPE button to pause the game and bring up a menu while in a match, with these options that works similar to the ones I mentioned in the previous section:+
  
   * Return to game (Continues the game)   * Return to game (Continues the game)
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 __** Movement **__ __** Movement **__
  
-  * Left and right will make you move that direction +  * **LEFT** and **RIGHT** will make you move that direction 
-  * Down will make you duck +  * **DOWN** will make you duck 
-  * Up will make you jump, up with a direction jumps diagonally +  * **UP** will make you jump, up with a direction jumps diagonally 
-  * Holding BACK when enemy attacks will make you go into BLOCK HIGH stance. +  * Press **DOWN** first and then **UP** for a super jump 
-  * Holding DOWN+BACK when enemy attacks will make you go into BLOCK LOW stance.+  * Holding **BACK** when enemy attacks will make you go into BLOCK HIGH stance. 
 +  * Holding **DOWN** + **BACK** when enemy attacks will make you go into BLOCK LOW stance.
  
 Regarding blocking, some attacks require specific Block stance. If your opponent uses a jumping attack you need to BLOCK HIGH to stop the attack, if you BLOCK LOW you'll get hit. The same the other way around, if the Opponent uses a Sweep kick you have to BLOCK LOW, and get hit if BLOCK HIGH. Regarding blocking, some attacks require specific Block stance. If your opponent uses a jumping attack you need to BLOCK HIGH to stop the attack, if you BLOCK LOW you'll get hit. The same the other way around, if the Opponent uses a Sweep kick you have to BLOCK LOW, and get hit if BLOCK HIGH.
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 I'll be using Jaguar as example: I'll be using Jaguar as example:
  
-  * Punch + standing still/Forward = a light jab +  * **PUNCH** + **FORWARD** = a light jab 
-  * Punch + Back = a heavy punch/fierce +  * **PUNCH** + **BACK** = a heavy punch/fierce 
-  * punch + down = a crouching punch +  * **PUNCH** + **DOWN** = a crouching punch 
-  * punch + down + forward = a crouching jab +  * **PUNCH** + **DOWN** + **FOREWARD** = a crouching jab 
-  * punch + down + backward = a slow but heavy uppercut+  * **PUNCH** + **DOWN** + **BACK** = a slow but heavy uppercut
  
 > Note: I'll be using these terms for the Starter Guide, but the rest of the website uses numbers instead of directions, as that's what most OMF fans are used to and it reads easier when used to it. (Example Backward + Punch = 4P per the direction on the numerical pad on the keyboard). > Note: I'll be using these terms for the Starter Guide, but the rest of the website uses numbers instead of directions, as that's what most OMF fans are used to and it reads easier when used to it. (Example Backward + Punch = 4P per the direction on the numerical pad on the keyboard).
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 ==== Basic Jaguar ==== ==== Basic Jaguar ====
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 +The jaguar is often called the beginner bot of the game, for being easy to learn and master, but it's also the most popular bot by far and there are more players maining Jaguar than any other bot in the game. I'll be using it as example for a couple of reasons:
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 +  * Easy to learn
 +  * Easy and good strategies against the AI
 +  * It's the bot you start with in tournament mode
 +
 +To start with lets pick a couple of useful attacks to start with, with some simple explanations of why they're good. Start practising using these to get a feel for the bot:
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 +  * Down+Forward+Punch - Crouching Jab is fast and can combo into itself
 +  * Punch - Standing Jab is fast and can combo into itself
 +  * Down+Kick - Good low attack to force Low Block, can combo to other moves
 +  * Down+Back+Kick - Sweep kick, knocks down if hits, don't use very close
 +  * Back+Kick - Roundhouse kick is very fast, good damage, use to push enemies away from you
 +  * Jump+Kick - Good range and angle to hit with, great for starting an attack
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 +Each bot also has some special moves, these use special input commands to activate, similar to many other fighting games but thankfully the input commands are generally very forgiving. Special attacks can be very useful, but they're not a replacement for normal attacks. Here are Jaguars special attacks:
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 +  * Over-Head Throw = While in the air press Down+Punch
 +  * Jaguar Leap = Down -> Down+Forward -> Forward+Punch
 +  * Concussion Cannon = Down -> Down+Back -> Back+Punch
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 +__** Combos **__
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 +A combo is any two or more moves that hit the enemy fast enough that they don't have time to recover control between. Combos generally do more damage and gives more points. It can seem quite weird to start with, so I'll keep it simple and just give a couple of useful basic combos for Jaguar:
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 +The easy kick 3 hit combo:
 +  * Jump toward the enemy and use air Kick
 +  * Then Down+Kick
 +  * Then Back+Kick
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 +You can also replace the last attack with a Jaguar leap if you want to be fancy.
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 +Special attack 3 hit combo:
 +  * Jump Kick
 +  * Concussion Cannon
 +  * Jaguar Leap
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 +You need to hit with the Jump Kick a little away from the opponent, if you hit too close then the concussion cannon will actually miss. So try to just clip the opponent with the toe on the jump kick. Looks really fancy, and since it uses lots of special attacks gives lots of points.
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 +__** Strategy **__
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 +First of all, the Jaguar has a couple of moves that the AI struggles to block, which makes it much easier to deal with it:
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 +  * Jump+Kick
 +  * Back+Kick
 +  * Over-Head Throw
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 +So you'll almost always want to start attacking the opponent with a Jump+Kick, they'll rarely if ever block it, letting you setup some easy combos. After hitting with Jump+Kick you can combo into any move.
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 +The Back+Kick makes the AI do some weird things, if you use it at max range, the opponent will often just walk into it, you can often win games on just setting up this and let the AI walk into your heavy kicks. It's also useful to spam if the opponent got you cornered, it will often get you out of a stick spot!
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 +The AI also struggles to figure out how to block the Over-Head Throw, so if you're in a pinch you can just try to use it against them over and over, it will usually work.
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 ==== Basic 1Player ==== ==== Basic 1Player ====
 +
 +Also known as Story Mode. You pick a Pilot, and a Bot, and fight against all the other pilots in other bots.
 +
 +Each Pilot has different stats, they're mostly self explanatory so not going to go into detail here, generally you want to match up certain stats to certain bots but it also depends on playstyle. For now let's start with picking Angel, she has a very versatile stat set to learn any new bot with.
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 +And obviously we'll pick Jaguar for robot. Again it's pretty versatile in regards to stats, and can work with most combinations of stats, just avoid characters with very low stats anywhere.
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 +If you follow the strategies in the Basic Jaguar section, you should be able to tear through the AI at "Punching Bag" difficulty with little difficulty. And then meet the last boss who will say that he won't fight you until you raise the Difficulty Setting first.
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 +{{https://www.omf2097.com/pub/pic/guide/starter02.png?nolink}}
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 +Congratulations, you've beaten 1Player mode on lowest difficulty! You should now understand enough about the game that you can try other difficulties, and try out different bots, and start figuring things out for yourself. Good luck and have fun!
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 +At this point I'd recommend playing around with testing different pilots and bot, and see which ones you like. 1Player is very good for testing out bots to try them and learn them.
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 ==== Basic Tournament Mode ==== ==== Basic Tournament Mode ====
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 +Tournament mode is the other single player mode, and the most popular one. You create your own custom pilot, enter tournaments, fight to earn money/points, and then use those money to buy upgrades to your bot or buy other bots. to eventually become the World Champion with a fully upgraded bot that will destroy almost anything it touches.
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 +First off, you navigate the menus here by moving the hand with the pointy finger around to the different buttons. Some will be greyed out and can't be clicked. Take a few seconds to just move the pointer around and get used to it, it's a bit awkward the first time.
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 +Now let's get started:
 +
 +You start with creating a new Pilot, use the arrow keys to navigate the hand/finger pointer to the "NEW" button to create a new Pilot.
 +
 +  * Select a name
 +  * Select a portrait
 +  * Select a difficulty (Easy)
 +  * Select a Tournament to enter (North American Open, is the cheapest)
 +
 +Now you've created your first pilot, and you should have a screen like this, so let's go through and explain them:
 +
 +{{https://www.omf2097.com/pub/pic/guide/starter03.png?nolink}}
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 +  * Quit - Does what it says on the tin, exits back to the main menu
 +  * New Tournament - To join new tournaments, ignore for now
 +  * Arena - This is the button to fight the next fight! Be ready
 +  * Sim - This lets you look at opponents, their upgrades, and play mock fights against them. Can be useful, but for now let's ignore it.
 +  * Training Courses - For buying stats, we'll be back to this in a bit
 +  * Buy - Buys parts/upgrades to bot, we'll get back to this as well
 +  * Sell - Sells parts/upgrades to bot, let's ignore this for now
 +  * New - Make new pilot, ignore for now
 +  * Load - Pick another pilot if you have one, ignore for now
 +  * Delete - Delete a pilot, ignore for now
 +
 +Besides the buttons, you'll have a bunch of green numbers and dots on the screen above. Most are pretty self explanatory, like Rank, Wins and Loses are just statistics. Money is naturally how much you have to upgrade for. On the right side there's a list of which special moves your Bot have. And the bottom section with all the dots is a list of how much upgrades you have, which is going to look very empty right now.
 +
 +Let's start with looking at "Training Courses":
 +
 +{{https://www.omf2097.com/pub/pic/guide/starter04.png?nolink}}
 +
 +Pretty simple, you can pay money to train to gain more stats, each time you buy one the next one of the same stat gets more expensive. To start with buy a few of each until you run out of money, balanced stats are generally pretty good in tournament mode. Exit by clicking DONE when you're out of money.
 +
 +Next let's go to the "Buy" menu:
 +
 +{{https://www.omf2097.com/pub/pic/guide/starter05.png?nolink}}
 +
 +Bit more options here, but you can't afford any of them yet. But I'll explain them quickly for later on:
 +
 +  * Trade Robot - You can't afford any yet, but later on you can trade your bot and cash for another one. Tip for when you do that, make sure you have a good amount of cash spare when you do, as the new bot will have no upgrades. Can seriously cripple you if you trade in the middle of a tournament and don't have enough cash to get some upgrades.
 +  * The other 6 greyed out buttons are used to buy upgrades for your bot, they're pretty self explanatory, more power for either Punch or Kick attacks, more speed for either Punch or Kick attacks, more Armour to take less damage, or more Stun Resistance so you're harder to stun.
 +  * The 3 coloured buttons lets you change colours on your bot, and it's free! so go ahead and make something.
 +
 +Now let's go back to the main Menu. Click on "Arena" to fight your first opponent (probably Cossette), and beat her up real good.
 +
 +After the match you'll get the News reporter telling you how great you are or how lousy you are depending on how well you did.
 +
 +And then you get to the Repair screen, where you get a bunch of numbers, like how much you won, bonuses, how much it cost to repair you etc. Also statistics for how many attacks hit etc. None of them are very important, you'll get your money back in the main screen anyway. And at the bottom is your mechanic telling you how much you rock or suck.
 +
 +Back at the main menu again, you'll have more money to play with. Go to "Buy" and pick an upgrade you like, and spend the rest on more training.
 +
 +If you lose a match you get no winnings, and have to pay for repairs. So you don't want to lose too many times, or you might start having to sell parts to afford repair bills. But usually the lowest ranked opponents are bad enough you should be able to bully them for more lunch money if needed.
 +
 +Now you're set to try the rest of tournament mode for yourself!
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