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Incubation - Time is Running Out

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This is the place to talk about Incubation.

Don't be shy (:

My first post...

Incubation is a great game. One should consider it almost as a puzzle game because there aren't that many ways to win some battles. Of course the chance plays a big part in Incubation making it challenging and varying. But why my gun always jams when its needed the most...

At it's time Incubation was a first one to give a real 3D environment to turn based combat; although very limited if you compare it to one of my favorite game of the genre; Silent Storm (2004).

That didn't hurt... maybe I'll post second time... perhaps next year...

Cheers

It's a great game but it gets very tough later on. A lot of it is luck based, too. My friend at the time, wasn't quite the brightest guy, yet he got ahead of me. So I said, okay, you play on my game and I'll watch but he got his ass kicked anyway while his game had been full of lucky shots.

Sure, the same goes for most turn based games (in Fallout 2, luck even plays a ridiculously big role) but this game can be very frustrating because of it. Any good strategy gets wiped out because you miss three good shots in a row that should all three have hit.

Well put red_avatar.

Luck, chance, randomness makes some games worth playing. I recently played old Taipan. Because of randomness of the game, you'll be on your toes all the time and you can easily lose everything in a sec (well maybe I'm bit nostalgic, but I like the game anyway).

Back to Incubation. It is also excellent when played with a friend. I don't remember if it has any other options than hot seat, but that was fun.

btw.
One can play Taipan in browser in it's "original" form in www.taipangame.com. Good and greatly evolved variation of the game is Smugglers IV.

Second post this year.. I'm on fire.

Cheers

Havent personally played it, but from what I've heard, its pretty underrated. It came and went without much of fireworks, but critics liked it.

Though I've been owning this game nearly from the release, just managed to finish this few months ago. :)

In my opinion the first half of the game is more puzzle-like where you do the hardest thinking. Last half is more like blasting your way through, albeit often with a serious hurry like in the whole game.

The game is fairly challenging in the beginning missions when you don't have much ammo or melee options in your assaulters/sewer guards. Then it gets a bit easier untill around after the robot levels and gets harder and harder all the way through the factory assault and when you start to encounter spiders.

The end game wasn't as hard as it could be - I had acquired experience on all my guys and hadn't used commendations, so when jetpacks came into play I equipped my team with them and after that it went rather easy. I'm not sure if the game was balaced around that.

Tip: Trying to examine all chests in every level results in usually MUCH harder runs, but meh, reward is a reward.

Tip: Don't conserve on commendations too much. I had plenty of them left in the last mission, so it seemed like a waste to save them.

I have windows vista and windows 7. Will it work correctly on one of those if I use the right compatibility mode?

Try and see, propably depends on your hardware. I have installed and played this game on both Vista and Win7 (32-bit).

i cant get it to run, though i downloaded a complete iso from a sharesite.
even with the patch 1.02 it still says "copy protection".

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Originally Posted by DeadSomething (Post 409812)

i cant get it to run, though i downloaded a complete iso from a sharesite.
even with the patch 1.02 it still says "copy protection".

Look for the 1.03 patch. I applied it (right after applying the 1.02 patch), then the crack, and it worked fine on XP.

You can find it in the ISO Cellar Incubation thread.

Incidentally, Incubation supports Glide graphics acceleration.
Get a glide wrapper (like this one: http://zeckensack.de/glide/index.html) to take advantage of that. :)

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Originally Posted by DeadSomething (Post 409812)

i cant get it to run, though i downloaded a complete iso from a sharesite.
even with the patch 1.02 it still says "copy protection".

there's a crack for the image version

but yeah, bejelith said it..

great game!

I have spent many hours on this over the years - especially on the hotseat multiplayer mode, which is great. Me and my brother used to enjoy naming all our squad on the multiplayer mode after our mates, and they would be equipped with weapons that suited their character (ie: big fat guys would have the grenade launcher, little guys would be snipers, etc)

The campaign mode is hard. There are a few bits I got stuck on and had to look on the net for a walkthrough, as it's not clear exactly what you are supposed to do.

What an oldie! First I got its demo on a PC magazine's promo CD. The one which had Armored Fist 2 and Lords of Magic on it... Had great time with all three of them later on. I still have the original CD for the game with a bonus of some rather crappy soundtrack CD and the expansion aswell. Gonna look it up...

Am I right here with a question on updating the mission pack?

Speaking of the disc images, the story is: I installed the main game along with all patches. Works great.

I installed the mission pack (wilderness) and on with the patches. The first updater tells me it couldn't update a (some?) file (update to 1.51e). The second one too (update to 1.52uk).

After installing the mission pack the main screen menu says that the game is still on 1.50. Have I missed something?

BTW: There is no way back to the main game campaign after installing the missions, right?

did you try to update the rip? (the version from the website or the iso cellar one?)

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Originally Posted by _r.u.s.s. (Post 411449)

did you try to update the rip? (the version from the website or the iso cellar one?)

I installed the iso cellar ones and I tryed to update these with the included patch files. That is: the whole package form iso cellar.

edit

Ok, I solved it! It has something to with the copy protection of the mission pack cd.

If you have problems patching the program too, you need to look for wilderness fix by "FAVORiT". I downloaded it form http://scayra.free.fr/incubation/patchs_02.htm

Here's what the readme.txt says:

Code:

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐

│                            · ─ FAVORiT Presents ─ ·                        │

├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤

│   Incubation: The Wilderness Missions v1.52e *FULL* Update (c) Blue Byte   │

├───────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┤

│   Protection...: CD-Checks + Custom   │   Release Date......: 22/02/2005   │

│   Cracker......: FAVORiT              │   Packager..........: FAVORiT      │

└───────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────┘



· ─ ─·[RELEASE NOTES]──────────────────────────────────────────────────-·─ ─ ·



    I love this game, because its very unique and classic.

    Unfortunately the mission CD has a modified protection.

    I said its a classic game... So, very hard to buy it. :(

    If you have the same "warez" version just like me,

    you cant update it to the latest version...

    But now, thanks God and ps47 of course :D, anybody can!

    He sent me the latest original Incubation.exe file.

    I made a full update package and an universal loader.

    This loader - called Wilderness.exe - removes protection

    from the latest (UK) iDesigner.exe and Incubation.exe.

    And what is more you can play without CD!!!

    So, if you insert either CD, the game recognise it

    and choose automatically. Its normal.

    But without CD, the game start as Time Is Running Out by default.

    If you want to play ITWM  just execute Wilderness.exe.

    If you want to play ITIRO just execute Incubation.exe.

    I hope you find it useful.

    

· ─ ─·[INSTALL NOTES]──────────────────────────────────────────────────-·─ ─ ·   



    1) Install Incubation: Time Is Running Out (FULL INSTALL)

    2) Install Incubation: The Wilderness Missions

    3) Extract ITWMv152eFULL.zip into gamedir and owerwrite all files

    4) Copy Wilderness.exe into gamedir

    5) Run Wilderness.exe at least one to remove protection!!!

    6) Thats all :P



· ─ ─·[NFO UPDATED 22/FEB/2005]────────────────────────────────────────-·─ ─ ·

Have fun

ok i got the winrar format of the game. it lanchs fine and everything but the mouse moves every 2 secs or so its hard to do anything.:wall:
any help?
:sniper: :lynch:

try this

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Originally Posted by the review

The game is compatible with Windows, from 95 to 32 bit-XP. However, if you play this on a newer windows like XP you must set the compatibility mode of incubation.exe to Windows 95, otherwise the game willbe very choppy and practically unplayable.

If the game gives you error about improper file path, then run start.bat instead of incubation.exe.

Hi,
is there any way to hear voices during cut scenes and briefings?

get the image from the cellar

I went to cellar and there is none game under I....:-(

Because it's sold now, duh.

I found some pretty nifty artwork of this game...

http://i.imgur.com/SWvnH08.jpg

I'm pretty sure that's the Wilderness missions expansion box art, although it does look like the sort of thing that would be generated by the Region 1 Department of confused, macho and oversexed box art tragedies.

In hindsight, this might actually be one of the wallpaper extras GOG gives with the purchase, lol.

I found it in a game magazine PDF file of the German "PC Action". Since they actualy released it as pdf themselves (meaning, it's not a scan), all internal assets they didn't edit themselves are completely undamaged, and usually really hi-res. There were tons of nifty hi-res and beta images in there.