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This is the manual text that accompanies Sword of the Stars: The Pit. You can download a copy from the Steam store page for The Pit, but being able to add a living copy to the community hub seems like an awesome opportunity, so here it is! This item has been added to your Favorites. Created by. Category: Gameplay Basics. Guide Index. Welcome to The Pit! It is recommended that you play through the tutorial first before you head into The Pit, but since you've taken it upon yourself to be a rebel and actually read the manual, here is a basic overview of the game.

The Pit is a Roguelike game, which refers to a genre that began back in the day with the game… Rogue. Roguelikes are about the journey rather than the destination. Which is good, because The Pit will do its best to keep you from your destination. The Pit has an end, but make no mistake — The Pit is out to get you. So take heart should you fall. The Pit is a turn-based RPG, which means that whichever of the three character types you can choose to play will have a different set of Stats and Skills p.

These Stats and Skills dictate how well you are able to carry out a wide variety of actions in the game, from fighting a monster to repairing equipment and so on. These actions take time, which is measured in Moments p. As Moments pass in the game you will get hungrier, so moving through and exploring The Pit is all about finding food to stave off hunger as well as Items to help stave off the creatures that will attempt to kill you.

You can watch your Health and Hunger in the bottom left of the screen p. You move through the world using the WASD keys p. This represents the Line of Sight, what you can and can't see p.

Throughout the levels of The Pit are a variety of equipment, storage lockers, and other miscellanea. By walking up to them, or mousing over them, you will automatically see what they are, and depending on what they are, you can interact with them by standing next to them and pressing the SPACE bar p.

What the interaction is can be as simple as rifling a pile of garbage to prying open a damaged locker, or as complex as opening up a Crafting Table or picking the lock on a door. As you explore and search the levels, you will find Items. Lots of Items. And Items do lots of different things that we won't cover here in a quick start. You can even combine items to craft them into a new item p. So, play that tutorial or dig deeper into the manual.

Each character starts with some basic supplies - weapons, food, perhaps a lock pick set or toolkit. Should you find yourself in a fight and who are we kidding - you are going to get into a lot of fights PRESS F to attack the nearest target your weapon can reach.

If you want to attack a specific target, use the arrow keys to move a targeting reticule over the monster this doesn't take up any of your action turns, don't worry , then PRESS F p. Completing actions successfully gains you experience and eventually that experience will add up until you have enough to level. Your experience is displayed in a yellow bar at the bottom of the screen.

When you're ready to level, PRESS C, and you will see all your Stats and Skills, how much it will take to improve them, and how many points you have available to spend on those improvements p. When you level, you're health will return to full - your hunger however will stay the same.

You will see a marker for where you entered. When you find the exit to the next level, it will also get a marker, in case you want to keep exploring the level a bit more. Since the game is turn-based, you can easily walk away from the computer for a sandwich and not have to worry about anything attacking you.

Heck, you can walk away in the middle of a fight if you want. Risky, if you come back and can't remember what your strategy for the fight was, but kind of a thrill. The next time you come back to the game, you can load up your last game and continue p. Good luck! It's extremely easy to get into trouble in The Pit. One might think we've done this on purpose, that we take some evil joy in helping you face off against 30 levels of horrors and starvation.

One would be right. When you start the game, the Main Menu gives you two options - Start or Exit. Exit is for cowards or a brave few who have been playing the game, but need to shut it down and go have dinner.

Selecting Start presents you with the option to start a new game, load up your last game again, play the tutorial, check your high scores, or return back to the main menu you just came from. Tutorial - The tutorial is an excellent introduction to playing the game, going somewhat beyond the Quick Play you just read, but still not as detailed as this full manual.

It is worth it to play through it at least once. You will get to make things and shoot things and blow a few things up, so it's not boring. At the end of the tutorial level you will leave and begin a full, new game. Load Game - Once you start a game, you can shut the game down, then return later and pick up where you left off using Load Game.

You can stop and start the game as much as you want, but you only have the one game - if you start a new game at any time, your last game will be lost, replaced by the new one. So, if you have a kid brother, buy him his own copy, lest he sneak into your room and ruin your awesome run. New Game - When you start a game, you will be asked to set the difficulty level for the game. Don't be a hero, choose Normal.

You can choose Easy - nobody will judge you - but it will still be a challenge. If you manage to make it to the bottom of The Pit on Normal, then maybe think about trying Hard. Just forget about Insane. Insane will just kill you quickly, quietly, then roam your computer looking for other things to destroy.

After setting the difficulty level, you will get to choose one of three SolForce character classes - Marine, Engineer, and Scout. Each has their own specific set of stats and special equipment load-outs. Marine - A good starting character. While not great at scavenging for Items or picking locks or opening damaged storage lockers compared to the others, Travis Hudson is tough and comes prepared for a fight.

His key starting skills are all weapons-based. Engineer - Tougher than the Scout, but not as tough as the Marine, Themba Mbale is more adept at cracking open things that are locked, from computer terminals to food freezers, particularly as he starts with a lock-pick set.

He's not bad in a fight, but pick your battles carefully. His key starting skills are all geared towards conquering the various systems found in The Pit.

Scout — Toshiko Hoshinara is fast to make up for not being as tough as the others. Getting good armor on her is a priority and always think twice before getting her into a scrap. But never fear - avoid trouble as much as you can and in return her scavenging skills will help get her better equipped and fed faster than the other two. Her key skills allow her to better fight when guns and ammo are absent, as well as glean important information from the computer systems in The Pit.

Everything in the game can be controlled with just a keyboard. A mouse can also be used if you prefer. Handy in most situations, but when you have a plan, you may want to pick your shots. You can select your weapon using the Inventory, but that's slow. In a fight, this is faster. Faster still is assigning weapons to item shortcuts in the Inventory p.

Eventually you will have to do a little house cleaning when your Inventory gets full. Your selected weapon is displayed in the bottom right of the screen, where you can see how many shots the weapon has as well as ammo available for reloading p. You can also unload a weapon's ammo in the Inventory. Trust us, it can come in handy. MAP - M Opens and closes a map of the level, showing you everything you've explored, as well as displaying entrances, exits, and other critical spots of note.

Zooming out becomes particularly handy the deeper you go, and the levels get larger. You can check at any time, but it is mostly used when your character is ready to be leveled up p. So pressing X allows you to cycle a turn Moment without moving or doing any other action. As well, you can find yourself blind, poisoned, or stunned, and rather than wandering around in these states, you may want to find a safe place to hole up and rest.

This is handy for fast switching between favorite weapons, but also for slapping on a quick heal, poison anti-serums, and so on. You won't see it all in one game. Probably not in several games. So when that particularly crazy situation arises, rare creature appears, or especially awesome weapon falls into your hands, you'll want to record it posterity, which is Latin for "shoving it in your friends faces".

You can always pop a shot into your Steam account with F12! Good luck little guy! Also says Level of your character. As a turn-based game, The Pit is measured in Moments, a set increment of time that passes as you carry out your actions. Walk two steps and a moment will pass. Take a shot at a monster and another will pass. Step into a trap that slows you down, and now you can't walk as far in a moment.

Once you've done everything you can within your turn, the game will then move the rest of the world around you, bringing monsters closer, or have a nearby monster attack you, or perhaps even have an injured monster flee from you.

It might not seem important, but it can be. Some actions will take more Moments than you can carry out in a single turn, which means they'll carry over to your next turn automatically. For example, you start to pick the lock of a door. You get a third of the way through picking that lock when your turn is up - the world moves around you, and then you pick some more to complete another third of the task. And so on.

This means then that tasks like this - picking locks, prying open freezers, hacking security terminals - should only be done when you think you're safe. But after a failed mission, now, you are alone in the installation without any hope of being rescued. Will you be able to be alive until someone finds you? Have you found what you were looking for? You will never get to know it because it is more probable that you die and do it once and again in this game rogue-like where difficulty does not give a chance and where death is permanent.

Do not look for any kind of saving here. The mechanic of this game is the same that we find in a role game based on turns in which the traditional mechanics of the medieval rpg let space to a world of Si-fi inspirited in the franchise Dead Space.

You have 3 characters amongst which you can choose: the marine, the pilot or the engineer. Maybe they do not seem a lot now, but possibility you will never get to see the final of it and the levels are generated in a random way. The best you can do it to feel great to be able to go further every time in the well where you will be able to improve your skills, characteristics and equipment.

You will also be able to fabricate your own arms and shields as well as craft items and discover the different pieces that tell you the story behind Sword of the Stars.