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[Scatty]

Originally Posted by red_avatar

you could only select one unit at a time

That's actually not true, you can select up to 4, I think, units as a group by pressing and holding Shift and clicking on each individually, or by pressing and holding CTRL and drawing a rectangle around some of the units, if there're more than 4 they'll be randomly selected I think.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Scatty is correct.

[red_avatar]

Originally Posted by Scatty

That's actually not true, you can select up to 4, I think, units as a group by pressing and holding Shift and clicking on each individually, or by pressing and holding CTRL and drawing a rectangle around some of the units, if there're more than 4 they'll be randomly selected I think.

You SURE that the original version allowed for this? I'll need to check but it's the first time I heard about that. Or maybe I just never tried holding CTRL .

[Scatty]

Originally Posted by red_avatar

You SURE that the original version allowed for this? I'll need to check but it's the first time I heard about that. Or maybe I just never tried holding CTRL .

Well I don't know if the earliest versions, and what versions there were, didn't have this feature included yet, but the version that I have allows to select the units in such a way, same if I apply a patch on the game's CD to upgrade it to a newer version.

[Japo]

Originally Posted by red_avatar

Or maybe I just never tried holding CTRL .

LOL

[red_avatar]

There was no manual with the Demo and I never played the full game that much either. I only bought it 5 years later and it was just to have. Pizza Tycoon, which I bought at the same time, was far more fun.

[another_guest]

Originally Posted by red_avatar

... In any case, Warcraft is a good game but it still had all the weaknesses Dune 2 had: where Dune 2 used slabs, Warcraft used roads. Warcaft's interface was rigid and slow too, you could only select one unit at a time, the story was rather simple and only divulged between missions, etc. In fact, in several places, it was a step backwards.

True, and yet so addictive. Come to think of it, most of the later RTS games are nearly clones from Dune 2, Warcraft and the likes. The major reason why I preferred more recent games is the improved interface; other than that there was often little evolution.
By the way, hello from Brugge (though I'm leaving on holiday as of tomorrow)

[red_avatar]

Originally Posted by another_guest

True, and yet so addictive. Come to think of it, most of the later RTS games are nearly clones from Dune 2, Warcraft and the likes. The major reason why I preferred more recent games is the improved interface; other than that there was often little evolution.
By the way, hello from Brugge (though I'm leaving on holiday as of tomorrow)

Aah a fellow Belgian Welcome!

And there's more than that in terms of evolution:

- grouping of units
- defense stances (very important tactically)
- unit specials
- terrain height advantages
- different resources to gather
- interactive stories during the mission

Most of that may not seem that big but combined it means a lot more depth to the game.

[FarSeerPT]

Still i prefer Warcraft lll : The frozen throne.

Online is just... godlike

Thanks alot for the upload, great game!

However, I seam to have some problems that either is the games fault (?) or mine.

First of all, it seams like the "voicing" during the campain text isin't working. All the other sounds music, units cinematics ect work. But for some reason each senario intro doesn't have any "speech" wich is pretty dull

Second problem. My keyboard "scroll" is ultrafast, even on slow it's extremly hard not to fly over the map. While the mouse scroll doesn't work att all unless I got something unusable (like a goldmine) selected.