Once you have started r0x0r, begin a new game by pressing the space bar. Players 1 through 4 can enter or leave the game by pressing the F1 through F4 keys respectively.

To use the in-game menu, press Escape. While in the menu, use the up/down keys to select a menu item, and enter to activate that menu item. The second and third items on the menu are your Control Settings and Game Style. You can cycle through these by using the right and left arrow keys. When you are done in the menu, press Escape to exit the menu again, or select Resume and hit enter.

To Pause the game, press the pause key. To exit the program, you can use the menu, or hit Alt+F4. (note: while the game is running, all Windows hotkeys (alt-tab, ctrl-esc, ctrl-alt-del) are disabled)

Ships are piloted by controlling the facing direction, and using the thrusters to move. The thrusters apply forward momentum to the ship. To speed up, hit thrust. To slow down, turn your ship around and thrust. It may take some getting used to for those who are new to this type of flying, but it is very fun once you learn how to do it. (see Controls for default control settings)

Your ship has two weapon slots, plus a powerup slot. Weapons and powerups can be picked up and installed on your ship by simply running into them. When you do this, your cargo autoloader arms will automatically install the new weapon on your ship. Once the weapon is installed, which takes the same amount of time as reloading the weapon, it will be ready to fire as soon as it loads up the next round of ammo. For many weapons this time delay is not even noticable. But some weapons have a long reload time, such as the Nova Bomb which takes ten seconds to fire once you have picked it up.

To fire your weapons, press the fire button for that weapon. Primary weapons and secondary weapons use separate slots, separate buttons, and separate ammo. Powerups are all automatically activated when you pick them up, so there is no need to worry about controlling them.

If you need to make a quick escape from danger, you can use the Warp feature on your ship. Just hit the Warp button and you will be zapped into subspace for half a second and reappear in a second at a different place on the screen. Beware that the warp drive is a new technology. As a result, your ship will sometimes re-enter realspace inside some debris, and sometimes it will pass through undetectable anomolies in subspace and be destroyed.

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