Subj : Re: Dune 2021
To   : Nightfox
From : Arelor
Date : Sat Dec 04 2021 07:05:14

  Re: Re: Dune 2021
  By: Nightfox to Arelor on Fri Dec 03 2021 11:50 am

 >   Re: Re: Dune 2021
 >   By: Arelor to The Lizard Master on Fri Dec 03 2021 01:07 pm
 > 
 >  Ar> I hope at least the controls were better. The original version¨ main
 >  Ar> issue was having to select and command the units one by one. A lot like the
 >  Ar> original Warcraft.
 > 
 >  Ar> Heck, in Original Warcraft, archers were so powerful because you didn't have t
 >  Ar> micromanage them into attacking things and that freed so much brainpower :-)
 > 
 > I played Warcraft & Warcraft 2 more than the Dune and Command & Conquer games.  Hav
 > to control each character one by one was a bit frustrating.  In Warcraft 2, I don't
 > remember if you could select multiple characters and have them all attack, but I
 > remember when I wanted a bunch of them to walk across the map, I'd have to select e
 > one by one and have them follow the next one, and then have the first one go where 
 > wanted them to go.
 > 
 > Nightfox
 > 

Warcraft 2 was groundbreaking because you could select units in groups of 9, and give
them orders in bunch. You could select your 9 archers and tell them to move to certain
part of the map at once, instead of giving the command 9 times.

Which, in a game in which you were not actually managing big numbers of units most of
the time, was quite sufficient. At least it felt sufficient when I was a kid.

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