New Visitor's Tour
You will spawn (join the game) in onw of two places. Most of the time you will spawn in the green ready room. Rarely you will also spawn in the northwest room. The green ready room is only accessible by green tanks through spawning. Since you are on the green team, you are relatively safe from attack while you are in the room. The only exception is the SW shockwave flag which can kill at a range of about 50 units even through walls. Keep an eye out for players with SW after their player name.
- The Green ready room has three features:
- It has 4 teleporters that go to tubular structures in the big field. When you materialize you immediately drop to the field. The teleporters are more or less in the northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest of the field as designated above the teleporter in the ready room.
- It has a slot in the ceiling. The slot is one-way. Green tanks can jump out of the ready room but nobody can come back in that way.
- The third feature is hidden. There is a large teleporter behind the black south wall of the ready room. It goes to the green trap condo. Don't go there. It is there to trap bots that won't recognize that the teleporter is hidden. They'll just go plowing on through.
Once you leave the ready room you are likely to become a target. Let's move quickly and stay off the big field to optimize our capabilities while minimizing our exposure. Check the area around the roof above the ready room. That area is called the North Zone. If nobody is there jump up and drive toward the center of the north zone and look for a translucent green and blue structure in the middle. This is the north zone monorail station. Drive around the south of the U shaped object and jump up into it. Now jump up onto the flat platform. Tourn south and drive your tank over the monorail toward the barrier wall. Passing through the wall onto the green platform you have now arrived at The Bridge.
The bridge is the center of the GMWAR map (even though it is somewhat north of center). From here you can jump down into the north zone or the big field, you can shoot into either of these, or you can take a drop tube conveyor to the gallery. Turn right (west) and drive slowly down the bridge. See the translucent green and blue drop tubes labelled G1 and G2. Turn into the G2 tube and ride the conveyor to the G2 gallery. If you are stuck or not moving very fast (watch your radar) you can turn your tank around 360 degrees and that will usually make things move.
When you pop up you will be in the gallery. If you have a wings flag the pop up operation may need some help since wings has more gravity than normal.