User:LoSboccacc/NewbieNoobGuidingGuide

Welcome to your new post-apocalyptic home, Somerset!

First Things First

Dark-Wind is a diffcult game, set into an harsh world of opportunity and perils. Most of the fun within this game is the difficulty of keeping your characters and cars alive against the odd in the places around somerset. Mission can - and will - go bad, people will die, car will be lost. No amount of firepower and skill will guarantee your success on the wastelands of Evan.

You'll need patience and some commitment to get past the initial buildup phase of your team of pilots, gunners, mechanics, mutants and more.

The best resource you'll have to survive on the wasteland is the community of players that will help you, give advise and answer to your doubt within the game client or the web forums. When in doubt, just ask! You'll find that is the more effective way to startup your players.

You'll find a glossary at the end of this manual with the common terms used through the game.

Registering And Installation

Launching the client

You will need to register to the Dark-Wind website, www.dark-wind.com to create your "gang" and start your life on the wasteland. This will also allow you to download and install the game client. As stated from the download page, the game client will self update after each startup so you'll need to run it as an administrator user:

As most of the game logic and data is provided by the server, this game has low system requirements:

• a 64Mb video card capable of 3d opengl accelleration
• a recent version of java for the lobby updater
• a browser for the game management interface
• internet connectivity

By its very nature this game is strongly resilient from connections dropout and doesn't suffer from high latency. A broadband connection is still recommend to reduce loading and updating times.

Welcome to Evan

Largely reverting to desert wastes, battered by radioactive dust storms, and surrounded by a poisonous and lifeless sea, Evan still manages to be largely self-sufficient. The relatively fertile northern regions provide enough food for the small population of the continent, and water treatment facilities both here and on the southern seaboard provide sufficient water. The oil fields that line the east-midland mountain ranges provide fuel and raw materials for the transportation and combat vehicles of those that are brave enough to travel the deserts.

Somerset, one of the town in the rich northern area, is now your home: you'll find here a safe harbor to build up your gang for hitting the wastes in the quest of richness, glory, rare combat cars or just to enjoin the plain old slaughter of pirates and traders.

The Game Interfaces

The web interface toolbar

The web interface is where most of the non driving related activities takes places. The navigation bar represented on top exposes all of the management functions you'll need to maintain you gang up and running.

The Gang Menu

The Gang menu item takes you to your gang page and optionally offer the ability to browse and search for other gangs of registered players and npc; from your gang page you can see a log of your activities, your gang balance sheet, your reputation in the world of evan and the item that you may have stockpiled in the various town.

The finances screen

When browsing the other gang instead the page shows you information about that gang reputation and its assets, be them characters, vehicles or entire camps. Here you have the option of pay them tributes or to take an hit contract.

Game Glossary

* Gang - a group of player and their possessions in the world of Evan, may also be run by NPC (it's stated on the gang page)
* Ganger - one character from a gang