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Re: How do I get a surveyor in C&C3 demo?

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From: Lol
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:40
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"Iguana" <Iguana^MGT@email.t-com.hr> wrote in message 
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> Lol wrote:
>> "Ant" <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote in message <snip>
>>
>>> Click on a building and then left click I think on the area. Older C&C
>>> games was right click IIRC.
> >
>> thanks for that - should have been able to work it out meself.
>
> It's right click in my demo, I think.
> LMB on building then RMB on terrain.
>
> BTW, are you able to beat Medium AI?
> It seems to me that computer plays rather strangely in this demo.
>
> Once I manage to beat it in 40 minutes without much sweat, then it beats 
> me 2 times in 10 minutes or so... walking in my base with his robots...
>
> When I forced him to play "turtle style" he agressively spread all over 
> the map, wherever ther's a Tiberium, it seems. He built his base right 
> near my own, on the other side of the Tiberium field in my base. It seems 
> a bit strange, he should be bunkering up ant turtling in his base(s), 
> shouldn't he? Maybe that part of skirmish options doesn't work or maybe 
> the names of the styles are mixed up and mismatched to the actual styles. 
> Either way, I'm not touching it again, and play only against "balanced" 
> style AI.
>
> What's your experience with the gameplay in the demo?

Find it very tough.
But then I've been playing C&C since about 1985 and am getting old and slow! 
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