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Ant wrote:
>>>>>>> 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
> 
>> '95 I meant, yes - actually have the original box up on the shelf here, had 
>> to go and check!!
> 
>> Reason I'm finding it  tough is that defenses are weak.
>> Technique I always liked best was to use sandbags to funnel the opposition 
>> into my missile towers and chain guns - can't do that here. And keep getting 
>> very confused about left / right click, and missing the Ctrl F5 etc location 
>> bookmarks.
> 
> Yeah, and you can cheat with those sandbag!!! :O
> 
> 
>> Still, Dune 2 was even worse... left click to select, left click to choose a 
>> goto or attack command, then left click to select target. Unplayable, 
>> right? -  yet somehow we managed and enjoyed it.
> 
> I don't even remember. I remember I had a blast on that game with my IBM 
> PS/2 30 286 machine. I remember how cool the cutscenes, voices!!!, etc. 
> Here you go: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22dune+2%22 ;)

DUNE2! Now that's going back! What a great game it was for its time! 6 
or 7 1.4 floppies if I remember.
I went & bought DUNE 2000 when it came out, Looked good, but just wasn't 
the same.
Now have C&C3 & loving it.

Aido. :)>