Equipment

With "autofire" ticked, you should be able to just pick things up and see what they do to learn about equipment, but here are a few hints.

You have seven lives, shown by green hearts in a row in your character information on the right of the screen. Moving onto a green heart on the battlefield will replenish all seven of your lives. If you pick up a medkit you will be able to throw hearts to other members of your team when they need them. Stand still to give yourself one.

When you fire a weapon it will need to reload. Reloading progress is shown by a shrinking red line above your character. Once it is out of ammo you will see a yellow line to the right of your character. You can't replenish ammo, but if you pick up another weapon it will replace the empty one.

A gold ring can make you invisible. A cyan ring gives you an energy shield.

Weapons you find will include the following:-
The small blaster handgun fires one zap between reloads.
The autogun fires zaps continuously without pausing to reload.
The blunderbuss fires a group of zaps in a pattern, then takes some time to reload.
The rocket launcher takes time to reload but does great damage over a 3x3 area.
The plasma gun can penetrate an energy shield.
The stunner has a range of only 5 squares.
Throwing a bomb will light the fuse.

During the game there will be energy barriers advancing from the right. You can only pass through these to unlock more map area if your team has collected the required number of crystals (white diamonds).


Installing

The most recent version of Mayhem is v1.2. Check back for new versions and please let me know of any bugs.