🚀 go-pugleaf

On Jun 4, 8:32 am, riku <r....@none.invalid.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 22:03:22 -0500, "Jim Vieira"
> <Whipl...@wiDOT.rrDOT.com> wrote:
> >"Ham Pastrami" <nom...@dot.com> wrote in message

> >> You can use a CPU slower like Mo'Slo. Apparently other people have had
> >> success using Fraps vidcapping to choke the system, though this probably
> >> requires that you have a lot of free disk space to hold the dummy video,
> >> since the Fraps codec is not very efficient.
>
> >If something like that works, I can recommend a program called "CPU
> >grabber" which is available on this page:
>
> Thanks for the suggestions, although I presume CPU slowdowns will just
> make the WC3 graphics and controls unplayably jerky, not necessarily
> affecting the actual gamespeed at all? That is my experience when
> running most games on slower PCs, the game runs at the same speed, but
> just more jerkily (ie. frameskip in action).
>
> Anyway, I ended up using "allyourbasearebelongtous" cheat to skip that
> final WC3 mission. I presume the WC3 expansion pack is just as bad,
> ie. chaotic missions where the challenge comes primarily from the
> player's inability to keep up with the pace of the game? I have no
> idea why Blizzard made Warcraft 3 single-player campaign game speed
> run so much faster than Starcraft or Warcraft 2. Apparently that was
> the only way to make the game challenging enough.
>
> I used to like RTS games but if the trend is speeding them up more and
> more, I guess I need to pass them in the future. Maybe concentrate on
> TBS games or something. Too bad, since I really liked e.g. Starcraft
> and the Age of... series (albeit even the first AOE sometimes ran a
> bit too fast for my taste, even in slowest gamespeed).

Sorry if I'm being dim but isn't there a pause function? I used it all
the time in SC - in conjunction with the minimap - to gain enough
thinking time. It's not the actual clicking that takes the time for
me, it's the deciding what to do.

I've not fired up WC3 for a looong time - I played the first campaign
(SPOILER: where the human leader guy ends up turning into a Death
Knight), started the second one (Undead) and gave up. Too samey,
didn't have the ability to draw me in like SC did.

CC