Originally developed by
Avalanche Studios
Developed for Mac by
Feral Interactive Limited
Published for Mac by
Feral Interactive Limited
This document is intended to help you answer any questions that you may have about Mad Max
Signing up to WBPlay grants you access to the Battle Brands decal, which you can use to customize the Magnum Opus.
To sign up to WBPlay, select WBPlay from the Main Menu.
Once you've signed up, you can apply the decal by selecting Garage → Decals → Battle Brands from the in-game Pause menu.
To adjust your age when signing up to WBPlay, use the Arrow keys on your keyboard. You cannot use the mouse to adjust your age.
To access the Log, press the Escape (esc) key to access the in-game Pause menu, then select the Pause tab. The menus under the Log heading on the left-hand side of the screen contain information about your current missions and any intel you've collected.
Shortly after you enter the Underdune, an enemy raises a drawbridge, preventing you from continuing in your vehicle. You must proceed on foot and break the wheel securing the drawbridge to lower it, before you can continue.
Due to a bug in this section of the game, you will be unable to continue if you kill the enemy before he has raised the bridge, or if you break the wheel before the bridge has been raised.
Unfortunately, there is no solution to this problem at present. If you find yourself unable to continue, you should load a saved game from a point before you entered the Underdune.
To record video from the game, you must use video capture software on your Mac.
QuickTime Player is a piece of video capture software that is installed on Macs by default.
To record video footage using QuickTime Player, follow the steps below:
Open QuickTime Player. By default, you can find the QuickTime Player application icon in the Applications folder on your Mac.
Select the File menu at the top of the screen.
Select New Screen Recording.
The Screen Recording dialog will appear. When you're ready to begin recording, click on the red button. To stop recording, right-click on the QuickTime Player icon in the Dock, then select Stop Screen Recording.
NOTE: Recording using QuickTime Player may cause a significant reduction in the game's performance.
Yes, achievements are supported by Mad Max.
If you are signed in to Steam, your achievements will be visible to you in-game and also to other players through the Steam application.
Yes.
The gamepads in the following list have been tested and are supported by Mad Max:
If your gamepad is not on the list, email padsupport@feralinteractive.com and our support team will reply to you with a request for information about your device. Once we have this information, a gamepad support file will be created and emailed to you.
Once created, this gamepad support file will be used in all future games and updates - so you will not only be helping us get your device working; you will also help all other owners of the same device who play Feral games!
Yes.
The following gamepads will be recognized by the game, but do not have enough buttons or analog controls to support all the possible in-game controls, meaning some in-game tasks will require the keyboard or mouse:
Some gamepads support both DirectInput and XInput modes. These gamepads can be identified by a switch on them that has two options, “D” (DirectInput) and “X” (XInput).
To play Mad Max a gamepad must be supported and set to DirectInput mode.
Currently supported devices that have this switch are:
If your gamepad has the switch and is not on this list, you will not be able to use it to play Mad Max without a pad support file. To obtain one, email padsupport@feralinteractive.com and our support team will reply to you with a request for information about your device. Once we have this information, we can usually create a gamepad support file and email it to you.
To switch the gamepad to DirectInput mode, follow these instructions:
If the Mad Max application is running, close it.
Unplug the gamepad (or wireless receiver, if the gamepad is wireless).
Turn the switch on the pad to “D”.
Plug the pad or wireless receiver back in.
Restart the Mad Max application.
You will now be able to play Mad Max with the gamepad.
Yes.
However, you must first enable the secondary click function on your mouse or trackpad. This will enable you to perform a right-click by clicking the right-hand side of your mouse or trackpad.
To do this, follow these instructions:
Open System Preferences ( Menu → System Preferences).
Select Mouse or Trackpad (depending on which you are using).
Select the Point & Click tab.
Check the Secondary Click checkbox.
If you are using a Magic Mouse or Trackpad, you cannot click the Left Mouse button while holding down the Right Mouse button. This means that you cannot aim and fire using only your mouse.
Instead, you can aim by holding down the Alt (⌥) key. You'll then be able to fire using the Left Mouse button as normal.
If you prefer, you can change the key bindings for aiming and firing. You can customize your keyboard configuration by selecting Settings → Keymapping from the Main Menu.
Finger "gestures", which are used by Magic Mice and Trackpads to switch between windows and applications, can disrupt your game if used inadvertently.
To disable them, follow these instructions:
Open System Preferences ( Menu → System Preferences).
Click on Mouse or Trackpad (depending on which you are using).
Select the More Gestures tab.
Uncheck all the checkboxes.
Recent versions of OS X include a feature that makes the mouse pointer larger when you shake it quickly from side to side, helping you to locate its position on screen.
To turn this feature off, follow the steps below:
Open System Preferences ( Menu → System Preferences).
Select Accessibility.
Select Display.
Disable the Shake Mouse Pointer to Locate checkbox.
The dock or notifications may occasionally appear while you are playing Mad Max, or the desktop cursor may replace the game cursor. This can disrupt a game.
You can prevent them from occurring by checking the Hide the Dock (disables notifications) checkbox in the Mad Max pre-game Options window. To do so, follow these steps:
From the Mad Max pre-game Options window, select the Display tab.
Check the Hide the Dock (disables notifications) checkbox.
Yes.
To run Mad Max in windowed mode, follow these instructions:
From the Mad Max pre-game Options window, select the Display tab.
Check the Run in a window checkbox.
Click the Play button. The game will start in windowed mode.
NOTE: Enabling windowed mode may decrease the game's performance.
Yes.
If you have a Retina display, you will be able to take advantage of the extra pixels by running Mad Max in native resolution. This means that the game will display one pixel for every pixel on your display.
To do this, follow these instructions:
From the Mad Max pre-game Options window, select the Display tab.
Select the largest resolution from the Resolution drop-down menu to play the game in native Retina resolution.
Click the Play button. The game will start in native Retina resolution.
NOTE: In many cases, increasing your game's resolution will impact upon its performance. For tips on improving performance, read the Performance Tips point in the ReadMe.
Short Apple keyboards do not have Home (↖), End (↘), Page Up (⇞), Page Down (⇟) or Delete (⌦) keys.
In order to use game commands that are mapped to these keys, you will need to use the Function (fn) key as follows:
Home (↖) = Function (fn) key + Left Arrow (◀) key
End (↘) = Function (fn) key + Right Arrow (▶) key
Page Up (⇞) = Function (fn) key + Up Arrow (▲) key
Page Down (⇟) = Function (fn) key + Down Arrow (▼) key
Delete (⌦) = Function (fn) key + Backspace (←) key
By default, music playing in iTunes will be paused when you start playing Mad Max.
To turn this feature off, follow the steps below:
Double-click on the Mad Max application icon. The pre-game Options window will appear.
Select the Extras tab.
Uncheck the Pause iTunes while playing Mad Max checkbox.
Select the Play button to start playing.
To turn this feature back on at a later date, simply check the Pause iTunes while playing Mad Max checkbox and then select the Play button.
Your saved games are stored in your game's preferences folder.
To open this folder, click the Open Preferences Folder button in the Support tab of the pre-game Options window.
You can also navigate to the preferences folder manually. It is stored in the Feral Interactive folder in your computer's ~/Library/Application Support folder (where the "~" symbol refers to your home directory).
By default, the Library folder is hidden from your Finder. To open it, follow these instructions:
Open the Finder.
Open the Go menu from the main toolbar.
Hold down the Alt (⌥) key. The Library option will appear.
Click on the Library option. The Library folder will open in your Finder.
To take screenshots while playing Mad Max you should use the following key command:
Command (⌘) + Shift (⇧) + P
When you press all three keys at once, a single image of the on-screen contents will be saved in the Feral Interactive folder in your computer's ~/Pictures folder (the "~" symbol refers to your home directory).
The JPEG image contains metadata in a string in the following format.
GameName/Version Number (OS Version; CPU Speed; Installed RAM; Video RAM; Current Graphics Card)
For example in Mad Max the string might look a little like this:
Mad Max/1.0 (macOS 10.13.4; 3.0; 8.0; 4.0; AMD Radeon R9 M395X)
This information can be easily removed by exporting the screenshot into a different format using Preview or another image editing tool.
NOTE: None of the metadata stored can be used to identify the user.
No. Mad Max has been tested with the basic formatting option for Mac OS X, which is HFS+. This system is not case-sensitive and identifies files by name without checking capitalization.
The capitalization of filenames is not consistent throughout the game. While this will not always prevent the game from running on case-sensitive file systems, it may lead to crashes and other unpredictable behaviour.
If you have to run a case-sensitive setup and you experience problems with Mad Max, please install the game on a standard formatted partition or read/write disk image. In most cases this will allow you to play the game on your machine.
Feral games use a number of open-source software libraries. These libraries are the property of their respective owners, and are used under license.
To see a list of the libraries used in Mad Max, and view their license files, select Software Licenses from the Support tab of the pre-game Options window.
There are several factors which have an impact on the speed at which Mad Max runs. Please see the Mad Max Performance Tips section in the ReadMe for ways to increase the speed at which the game runs on your computer.
Please read the technical support information in the ReadMe; this tells you what to check and if necessary, how to contact Feral Technical Support with your issue.