Alternate Reality - Hints
Last modified on February 23rd, 2005
- Save your character often to a separate backup disk!
- Have (or get) a fast copy utility. Do NOT use the backup utility that
comes with the game (perhaps applies to the C64 version only).
- Copy your character to several disks when you have many potions or you're about to increase a level. Enter the game with each of these disks, keeping notes on what potions you found or what stats were increased. Use the best of the ones you tried, or recopy and try again!
- Avoid Brown Molds, Black Slimes, and Giant Rats as often as possible until you are either rich and can afford trips to the healers, or can defeat these monsters. Tricking them is a successful means of defeating these disease giving creatures IF you have high enough intelligence (Imps also poison you, and the undead may paralyze you with fear. Any monster can cause infected wounds or even gangrene.
- Do not carry more food, water, gold and gems then you really need to. Excess weight will cause your character to become weary sooner and reduce your adventuring time between stops at the inns.
- Do not bother to examine or taste potions, just sip. Avoid too many protection potions as this will cause your character to crash.
- While still a lower level character, avoid being out at night or in the rain.
- When finding a weapon, always equip it as a secondary weapon in case it is cursed.