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Article #35813Re: a New start?
From: noctrnl
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:22
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:22
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wsmithjr001@yahoo.com (Warren) wrote: >Apocalypse - Tried it the "real" way ... turn based ... it was >unbearable. The levels were too large ... TFTD sometimes suffered >from this but with Apoc it was just too much. On many missions (inside city buildings), level size seems to be determined by squad size. When I started playing with a self-imposed limit of 4 soldiers per mission, I noticed a big difference. TFTD is far worse in this respect, IMO. You *need* lots of soldiers in TFTD because they die so easily, and moving all those soldiers around those monstrous maps is often more tedious than fun.
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