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I'm playing Receiver RC7 under Ubuntu, using the native 64-bit executable, and I've noticed a couple of issues. First, the 'advanced help' doesn't work: pressing ? (or /, for that matter) brings up help, but holding it down just causes the standard help screen to rapidly display and then disappear over and over again. As a result, I'm damned if I can work out how to put the bullets I've been picking up into my empty magazines - any help?

Second, and this may not be a 'bug', but the graphics engine seems a bit screwy: if I'm looking at anything with coloured lighting from a medium distance away, it's made up of giant squares. As I walk towards it, these squares disappear and the surface looks normal. Back away, and the squares are back. I've captured a mild version of it in a screenshot:


So, my questions: how do I put bullets in magazines, what else am I missing from the advanced help screen, and are the blocks normal?

Reloading bullets into a magazine shouldn't be in the advanced section (although, it's sad you can't reach the advanced section). To reload the magazine, eject the magazine (E), then holster the gun (`)/(~), then place bullets in the magazine (Z) (each bullet manually), un-holster your gun (`)/(~) again, place the magazine in your gun (Z) - you may then need to release the slide lock (T), or cock the gun (R).

Easy one. Open up your command-line and type "setxkbmap us" without quotes, then the holster button should be the one that prints ` (above tab and next to 1 for me) when you type into Xorg apps.
BTW if your desktop environment has an application\systemsetting to add and change mappings it's much easier. Which leads me to another fix for the advanced help screen. Setting repeat of keys to off IIRC the jumping\mantle in System Shock 2 didn't work until I did this. Not sure how to do this through CLI commands but in KDE it's in SystemSettings>Input Devices>Keyboard Repeat with the options On|Off|Leave Untouched Try to set it to off.

But for the future I would prefer if it could be changed to H to holster instead of using tilde, more common to use it for a command console within the games.

dyrvere wrote:BTW if your desktop environment has an application\systemsetting to add and change mappings it's much easier. Which leads me to another fix for the advanced help screen. Setting repeat of keys to off IIRC the jumping\mantle in System Shock 2 didn't work until I did this. Not sure how to do this through CLI commands but in KDE it's in SystemSettings>Input Devices>Keyboard Repeat with the options On|Off|Leave Untouched Try to set it to off.

It is very easy to do this in Ubuntu via System Settings > Keyboard > Key presses repeat when key is held down.