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Re: RA PATCH NEWS - Multiplayer's everything

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From: Mark Asher
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 00:00
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> Tim McKillican <bmck...@lon.hookup.net> wrote in article
<334311...@lon.hookup.net>...

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> How can you say that tank rushing is not really a problem when you've
> never tried multiplayer RA?  For most of us, that's all that we do, so
> RA really *does* require a patch to fix the massive tank rush problem. 
> You can't play a ladder game without having just a tank-fest (And don't
> reply and say that you can defend it because you can't if it is done
> properly).  Westwood is going to lose major money on Counterstrike
> because it doesn't have any extra multiplayer units or options.  I would
> buy it for sure if you could use the new units in multiplayer, but now
> you can't so what's the point in buying it?  Once you have tried
> multiplayer you hardly ever go back to doing single player missions
> because they're so boring compared to multiplayer.

What he said and double it. After C&C came out I thought Westwood was tops.
Now I think they are the pits.

Mark Asher
 
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From: "Mark Asher" <ma...@impacttech.com>
Subject: Re: RA PATCH NEWS - Multiplayer's everything
Date: 1997/04/03
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