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Article #23025Re: RA vs. Warcraft 2 [Was Re: RA update (fwd)]
From: ach... Alex Chacha
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 00:00
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Ok, you guys have to read the manual. Select units, then at a later time if you press ALT and left click you will get all units in the lastselection of that unit... ...ecaeP_Alex... ryo....@mpgs.tiga.com.au wrote: : DA>On 14 Apr 1997 21:50:50 GMT, "Mark Dobie" <do...@csbs.csbs.uni.edu> : DA>wrote: : DA>>> I think this was a consious choice on Blizzard's part. They did not want : DA>>> you to be able to select 42 lusted ogres and just go destroy a town. They : DA>>> purposely made it so you had to control small groups. : DA>>> : DA>>> -- : DA>>> Marc Fuller : DA>>> : DA>> : DA>>Good point Marc, why should you be able to hit E on RA and select 100 units : DA>>to go and attack someone. It's stupid, instead of just using brute force : DA>>in RA you have to use strategy in W2. : DA>I like Warcraft 2 better than RA also. But I don't like the 9 units : DA>at a time thing. I'd rather have the ability the select all my ogres : DA>at once because, well, I'm supposed to be the master of these guys so : DA>if I want them all to run as one big group then I should be able to do : DA>that. Being able to select all your guys does not take away from : DA>strategy and doesn't suggest "brute force" and less strategy like you : DA>mentioned. I think it adds to your strategy since it gives you a : DA>greater ability to carry out your strategic idea. A strategy game : DA>should be a battle of minds, not hand-eye coordination. : YEA MAN, that 9 units at a timw thing really gets up my ass. : btw RA RULEZZZZZZZZ. : anyway the 9 units thing is not exaclty "Stragic" attackin a ORC base : full of towers and shit with ONLY 9 footman ain't exactly nice. : now C&C had got that right we dhould be able to press "E" and get 100 : mother fuckin war units. HEY LOok AT REAL WARS!!! you can't expect 9 : allie soldiers to attack a the german army. It's plain stupid, : anyway my summary "RA RULEZZ and WAR2..well doesn't suck but less better : than the C&C serious" : TIGA-ONLINE : Sydneys largest and fastest dedicated Multiplayer Games Server : For LOW Latency games call SYDNEY AUSTRALIA +612 99295800 : www.tiga.com.au
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From: ach...@panix.com (Alex Chacha) Subject: Re: RA vs. Warcraft 2 [Was Re: RA update (fwd)] Date: 1997/04/24 Message-ID: <5jnvng$gnb@panix2.panix.com> X-Deja-AN: 237063355 References: <33559136.0@scipio.cyberstore.ca> <tcpnntpd.17.4.19.16.2.18.2177412763.215205@mpgs.tiga.com.au> Organization: http://www.panix.com/~achacha Newsgroups: alt.games.command-n-conq MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit