Gunbound

Gunbound is a Worms-like turn-based shooting game, except instead of Worms, it uses tanks, or "mobiles", each with its own three types of shots. Gunbound is an online game, with no single-player option. You can download it for free from Softnyx.net.

Getting started
First you must download the game from softnyx.net (free). To register an account go to softnyx.net and click the register link, or click the register button that pops up when you start Gunbound. Now you are ready to start up Gunbound. After it is installed, start it up by opening the GunboundWC shortcut which should be on your desktop or start menu. Type in your username/password combination, then login. If it was a successful login, you will be at a game-launching page. From here you can start the actual game, or read the announcements or events that are happening for Gunbound. Click Launch Game to start up Gunbound!

Now it will show a server list. There are 12 servers. If you are a beginner (just registered your account), you need to go to one of the first 2 servers. They are beginner servers, so more advanced players aren't allowed in them. Click on a server name to go into it.

After you've clicked on a server, you'll see lots of game rooms at the top of the screen, and a chatroom at the bottom of the screen. Click on a game room to join it. Or click the Create Game to create one that others can join.

Game modes
All game modes require exactly two teams with equal amounts of players on each team. There is the red team and the blue team.


 * Solo: Each player has 1 life, and when everyone on one team dies, the other team wins.
 * Tag: Each player still has 1 life, but they also get 2 mobiles. Their second mobile only has half of it's health, though (about 500). So if you're first mobile is below half of it's health, you'll probably want to switch ("tag") mobiles.
 * Score: Each team has a certain number of lives. The number of lives is the number of people on the team + 1. So if there are 3 people on each team, each team has 4 lives. Every time someone dies, their team loses 1 life. The player can drop down onto the map 4 turns after they die. The first team to lose all their lives loses. You also lose if everyone on your team is dead, even if you have a couple lives left.
 * Jewel: Raons with different numbers on them drop onto the map. The higher the number, the harder the raon is to destroy. The numbers can be either -5, 5, 10, or 25. Every time you destroy a raon, the number it was carrying is added to your team's score (if you destroy the -5 raon, 5 points are taken away from your score). The first team to have 100 points wins. The only way to die in this mode is to fall off the map. After falling off the map, you can drop back down after 2 turns. If everyone on your team has fallen off, your team has lost. If you shoot at a raon, but it doesn't die, its health is restored completely. You can destroy the ground underneath the raon to make it fall off the map to get the points.

Mobiles
Each mobile has 3 different types of shots: Shot 1, Shot 2, and SS (Special Skill or Special Shot). If you can't decide which mobile to choose, try choosing Random. To choose it click Mobile in the the game room and click on the question mark in the lower-right corner of the mobile box.




 * Armour
 * Shot 1: A single heavy missile which makes a big explosion when it hits something.
 * Shot 2: Like shot 1, but has an outer shell. If it hits a small piece of land, the outer shell will explode the land, and the missile inside will continue going. It will do more damage if both the outer shell and the inner missile hit your opponent.
 * SS: Shoots a small missile very similar to shot 1, but after a couple seconds grows into a big complicated missile and does way more damage. You need to shoot long distances or high angles for it to get to your opponent after it grows into the bigger missile.
 * Mage
 * Shot 1: Shoots 1 laser-type shot that explodes when it hits something.
 * Shot 2: 2 laser shots spinning around each other very closely. Sometimes one of them will hit a piece of land or a player and the other one will keep going.
 * SS: The SS will remove a players blue health (shield) and do lots of damage if hit directly with it.
 * Nakmachine
 * Shot 1: A heavy brown ball that hits your opponent with lots of power.
 * Shot 2: This shot can do lots of damage. When it hits the ground, it goes right into the ground and starts coming up, like it's going underwater and then floating back up. If you shoot it and it's going right towards a player, it will just go through them and enter into the ground below them, and start coming up. After it has gone through the ground, it explodes as soon as it comes out of the ground. You want to hit right under your opponent.
 * SS: Shoots a mini-nak that ignores the land, going right through it. It explodes only when it hits a player, which includes dead players (corpses). It doesn't do much damage.
 * Trico
 * Shot 1: A heavy green ball that explodes when it hits something.
 * Shot 2: 3 heavy green balls, 1 is in the center and the other 2 revolve around the center. It can be difficult to get all three balls to hit the opponent.
 * SS: A fireball the removes lots of land and does pretty good damage to the opponent.
 * Bigfoot
 * Shot 1: 4 missiles, which can be pretty weak, and spread out a lot over long distances.
 * Shot 2: 6 small missiles, which can only really do much damage if you shotgun your opponent. Shotgunning means aiming straight at them and using full or almost full power.
 * SS: 6 powerful missiles that are very similar to shot 1 but do a little more damage.
 * Boomerlauncher
 * Shot 1: A very light shot that can "hook" depending on the wind. Very hard to control.
 * Shot 2: Like shot 1, but shoots 4 of them instead of 1.
 * SS: Like shot 1, except after a couple seconds of it being in the air, it turns orange and does a lot more damage.
 * Raonlauncher
 * Shot 1: 3 shots spinning around each other. They remove a lot of land, so it can be good for bunging.
 * Shot 2: Shoots 2 raons. Raons look like the Raonlauncher, except a lot smaller. If they are close to a player, their antenna will turn red and start spinning. This means that when it comes the persons's turn who shot the raon, that raon will start walking towards the nearest player. If it walks into a player, it will explode. Raons seem to be attracted to metal mobiles more than life-forms like turtle or frog. It is best that when you shoot the 2 raons, they land on both sides of your opponent, so your opponent is trapped.
 * SS: A big raon. When it lands on the ground, it'll start walking the direction it was shot at. When it bumps into a wall, it'll turn around the other way. After about 5-7 seconds, it will explode automatically. If it walks into a player, it will explode on them.
 * Lightning
 * Shot 1: A ball of electricity that sends a lightning bolt straight down on it wherever it lands. If it lands right on a player, but there is land above the player, the lightning will hit the land but not the player.
 * Shot 2: Like shot 1, but 2 lightning bolts come diagonally from both sides of where it lands.
 * SS: An electric bird-like thing that doesn't do much damage.
 * J.D.
 * Shot 1: An electric blue orb.
 * Shot 2: Also an electric blue orb, but it pulls mobiles towards wherever it lands. It is good for getting someone trapped in a hole. If you have 2 opponents near each other, fire a dual shot 2 right inbetween them, and they will both be stuck in the same hole. Then you and the other players can do lots of damage to them. Shot 2 can also drag people off the map.
 * SS: A green spinning pyramid that doesn't do much damage but pushes players away from where it lands. It can push people off a map.
 * A.Sate
 * Shot 1: A guide that, wherever it lands, a floating satellite which is above the A.Sate shoots a laser directly at the guide. If there is land or a player directly inbetween the satellite and where the guide landed, the laser will hit the land.
 * Shot 2: The satellite moves 3 times as high as shot 1, and shoots 3 lasers wherever the guide lands.
 * SS: Shoots another guide. Wherever the guide lands, the satellite moves right above wherever the guide landed, and shoots multiple lasers straight down.
 * Ice
 * Shot 1: A pointy large icicle that breaks when it hits land or a player. It removes a lot of land, so it can be good for bunging sometimes.
 * Shot 2: A round piece of ice that, if it hits a player, removes 5% of their defense while still doing damage. You can remove up to 50% of a player's defense.
 * SS: Exactly like shot 2, except it is a snowflake that does a little more damage. It also removes 5% of a player's defense.
 * Turtle
 * Shot 1: A stream of water.
 * Shot 2: 2 streams of water revolving around each other. It is very hard to get both streams of water to hit the opponent, unless you use a high angle or shotgun them. After about 3 seconds after shooting, the 2 streams of water will come together so they will both hit the opponent.
 * SS: A ball of water that after a few seconds breaks into around 7 or 8 smaller balls of water, which spread out as they go through the air. To get all of them to hit one opponent, usually you need a strong wind against you.
 * Grub
 * Shot 1: A purple orb.
 * Shot 2: 4 orbs that explode about 5-8 seconds after you shoot them. They bounce around on the ground, and explode when they hit a player. They bounce off of the sides, bottom, and top of the map.
 * SS: A ball that explodes after about 5-8 seconds after you shoot it. For the entire time that it touches a player, it will do damage to them. This works best if they are in a small deep hole.
 * Aduka
 * Shot 1: An electrical purple ball.
 * Shot 2: 3 mini-adukas. Wherever they land, Thor immediately fires 3 beams directly at where the mini-adukas landed. If there is land or another player inbetween the mini-adukas and Thor, Thor will hit the land or other player instead. Thor is a big purple/red/blue satellite-looking thing that is way up in the sky on each map.
 * SS: Just like Nak's SS -- It is a mini-aduka that ignores all land. It is different from Nak's SS because it doesn't explode as soon as it hits someone. Instead, whenever it hits a player on the opposite team, Thor shoots a beam right at it, and it continues to fly through the map. It doesn't do much damage, but it can hit many opponents at the same time, and is good for double kills.
 * Kalsiddon
 * Shot 1: A missile that splits open after a second of being shot. It splits into 2 missiles and a guide. After another second, the 2 missiles start following the guide and hit wherever the guide lands. Since it takes so long for this to happen, you usually have to use a very high angle to hit someone.
 * Shot 2: Same as shot 1, except with 4, more advanced missiles.
 * SS: 1 huge missile, that splits into 4 missiles. Then those 4 missiles split into 8 missiles, each with their own guide, each guide following the main guide.
 * J.Frog
 * Shot 1: A green ball. When it hits land (it goes through players), it starts rolling to the left for a while and then explodes.
 * Shot 2: Same as shot 1 but rolls to the right.
 * SS: Rolls in the direction it was shot, and is like the grub's SS because the entire time it is touching a player, it does damage to that player. It is best to shoot a tiny piece of land that your opponent is on, because then it will be touching your opponent the entire time and do lots of damage.
 * Knight
 * Note: The only way to get the knight is to choose random mobile. You will have about a 5% chance of getting it.
 * Shot 1: Just like A.Sate. Instead of a satellite floating above, it is a sword that shoots several red things at the guide, wherever it lands.
 * Shot 2: Shoots a lot more of the red things at the guide.
 * SS: Just like A.Sate SS, the sword moves right above where the guide lands and shoots many red things straight down.
 * Dragon
 * Note: The only way to get the dragon is to choose random mobile. You will have about a 5% chance of getting it.
 * Shot 1: A single fireball.
 * Shot 2: 4 fireballs that each do around 100 damage, for a total of 400 or more damage if all fireballs hit the same person. A dual shot with the Thor moondisk will usually kill a player with full health in one turn. To get all 4 to hit, you need to either shotgun them, or get really close and shoot a low-power shot at somewhere around 0 degree angle.
 * SS: A red orb that, wherever it lands, 5 mini-dragons will appear in a semi-circle around where the red orb landed, and start to move towards the center.

Delay
Delay is the number you see beside your and the other players names in the player list in the game. Delay determines the order which players get their turn. Shot 1 has the least delay. Shot 2 has more delay, and SS has lots of delay. Every second it takes to take your turn, 10 is added to your delay. If your opponent uses SS, and then you use shot 1, you will get another turn before your opponent goes again. Items can use lots of delay, sometimes more than SS. You need to know how to use delay in order to win, especially in 1 vs. 1 fights where you are very close to the other player.

Items
Items let you do extra damage to your opponent, or help you win in some way. Each item has a certain amount of delay (one of them doesn't) added to your shot. To select your items, click on the items button in the game room. There you can fill 6 item slots. Some items fill 2 slots, some of them fill 1 slot. Some of them might be grayed out, which means you cannot select them. The host decides which ones can and can't be used. If you are the host, just right-click on the items to turn them on or off.




 * Dual
 * What it does: Shoots two shots, either shot one or two (not SS).
 * Delay: 600
 * Blood
 * What it does: Takes away 8% of your health, but adds 33% damage to your shot.
 * Delay: None
 * Energy Up 2
 * What it does: Gives 25% of your life back. Life forms get 30% back.
 * Delay: 300
 * Energy Up 1
 * What it does: Gives a small amount of life back. Life forms get an extra 5% back.
 * Delay: 100
 * Dual+
 * What it does: Fires the selected shot first, and the other shot second. So if you have shot 1 selected, it will fire shot 1, then shot 2. (No SS)
 * Delay: 250
 * Change Wind
 * What it does: Reverses the direction of the wind.
 * Delay: 150
 * Team Teleport
 * What it does: Teleport to exactly where the player on your team who has the lowest health is, and he will teleport to where you were. It takes a turn to use.
 * Delay: 50
 * Bunge Shot
 * What it does: 25% more splash, to destroy more land.
 * Delay: 50
 * Power Up
 * What it does: Adds 33% more damage.
 * Delay: 150
 * Thunder
 * What it does: A lightning bolt strikes where your shot lands.
 * Delay: 200
 * Teleport
 * What it does: Teleports the player to where the shot lands. (Does no damage)
 * Delay: 100

Moondisk
The moondisk changes every round of turns. It is located around the bottom-right of the screen in-game.




 * Force - Adds damage to the shot, the longer the shot stays inside the force, the more damage is added to it.
 * Hurricane - A spinning thing that when a shot enters it, the shot will go around it then exit out. A.Sate and Knight's shots fired through a hurricane will also circle around it before going on.
 * Electricity - A lightning bolt will strike wherever the shot hits.
 * Wind - Changes the wind speed and direction.
 * Land - Destroys 15% more land. Not used in any of the current maps.
 * Protection - Increases the life of all mobiles.
 * Ignorance - Items are locked, and shield mobiles stop regaining their shield.
 * Thor - Thor shoots a beam wherever the shot hits.

Gold & GP Bonuses
Certain shots will give you extra gold and/or GP, and sometimes take them away.


 * Double Kill Bonus (Killing 2 or more players at the same time. They have to both be on the opposing team.) - 500G 4GP
 * Bunge Shot Bonus (Causing someone to fall off the map.) - 100G 1GP
 * Ending Bonus (Killing someone on the opposing team.) - 100G 1GP
 * Excellent Shot Bonus (500 or more damage to the opposing team.) - 50G
 * Good Shot Bonus (250 or more damage to the opposing team.) - 20G
 * Shot Bonus (150 or more damage to the opposing team.) - 10G
 * Hurricane Bonus (The shot goes through a hurricane and does 50 or more damage.) - 20G
 * High Angle Bonus (Use a 70 degree or more shot, the shot lasts 2.5 seconds or more, and it does at least 50 damage to the opposing team.) - 15G
 * Ultra High Angle Bonus (Use a 70 degree angle or more shot, the shot lasts 4 seconds or more, and it does at least 50 damage to the opposing team.) - 30G
 * Boomer Shot Bonus (The shot goes past the opponent, comes back, and does at least 50 damage.) - 20G
 * Back Shot Bonus (Shoot backwards, then it goes back forward to do at least 50 damage.) - 25G
 * 3000 Damage Achieved (Do a total of 3000 damage in one game.) - 100G 4GP
 * 2000 Damage Achieved (Do a total of 2000 damage in one game.) - 100G 2GP
 * 1000 Damage Achieved (Do a total of 1000 damage in one game.) - 100G 1GP
 * Team Kill Penalty (Kill yourself or a teammate.) - -50G -1GP
 * Team Damage Penalty (Do over 50 damage to a teammate without killing them.) - -25G -1GP
 * Winning Award (Winning a 2-player match.) - 20G 3GP
 * Winning Award (Winning a 4-player match.) - 150G 6GP
 * Winning Award (Winning a 6-player match.) - 200G 9GP
 * Winning Award (Winning an 8-player match.) - 300G 12GP

If you leave the game while it is still going, you will automatically give each player on your team 100 gold.