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Article #27741Re: How do I get a surveyor in C&C3 demo?
From: Ant
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:13
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:13
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Lol <xguilmer@blueblunder.co.uk> wrote:
> "Iguana" <Iguana^MGT@email.t-com.hr> wrote in message
> news:ethm9b$s71$1@ss408.t-com.hr...
> > 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.
Same here with the new controls even on easy! EA said it would add the
old controls in a patch in the full game. I hope so!
> But then I've been playing C&C since about 1985 and am getting old and slow!
1985? Dude, C&C didn't exist back then! Not even Dune 2 (remember that
great RTS game?). You mean 1995, right? :D
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