xbat6

Usage

Overview

Xbat is a fast moving action game for X11. Xbat closely resembles the classic arcade game Xevious. While navigating his Solvalou, the player must survive waves of enemy airships, occasionally meeting up with a "boss-ship" at the end of a level.

Options

-h | -help

Print usage summary

-dc

Use default colormap

-g

Auto fire

-hs

High speed mode

-r

Exchange [x] and [z] keys

-mode [0-4]

Set game level 0:easy, 1:normal, 2:difficult, 3:more difficult, 4:abnormal

-wait [0-10]

Set wait 0:no wait - 10:slowest

Gameplay

The aim of the game is to penetrate deep into occupied territory and defeat any enemy troops that are encountered on the way.

Flying a spacecraft onto the enemy base, the player must withstand waves of airborne attack vessels. From the ground, enemy bases fire missiles at the spacecraft.

Enemy airships can be fired at with air-to-air missiles. Ground targets can be engaged using laser guided bombs.

When an enemy base-ship appears, it can only be destroyed by carefully dropping a bomb into one of its exposed exhaust vents.

When the player's spacecraft is hit by another flying object or a missile, the ship is destroyed. If any ships are still left, the game is continued at about the same place on the map.

At the start of the game, the player is equipped with an initial number of spacecrafts. When all of these have been destroyed, the game is over. By exceeding certain score levels, extra ships can be earned during gameplay.

Controls

Game controls

[s] Start or pause [q],[Esc] Quit [c] Setup (at title screen only)

Movement controls

Cursor keys, number keys or [i][j][k][l][m]

Movement keys are assigned as follows:

[Left],[j],[4] Move ship to the left

[Right],[l],[6] Move ship to the right

[Up],[i],[8] Move ship forward

[Down],[k],[m],[5],[2] Move ship backward

Firing controls

[Ctrl],[z] Drop a bomb

[Space],[x] Fire missile