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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sandwich on April 07, 2005, 05:52:12 pm
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Yeah, I got the idea from the HW thread. Anyway, Ground Control and Ground Control 2: Operation Exodus - discuss. :)
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Ground Control 1 is now free from Vivendi and Sierra. You can download it from Gamespy.
Edit: Timewarp. How come this only happens to me in this one forum. Seriously, the admins are messin' with me...
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Hehe.
Well great games. Potentially fantastic.
The first lacked a skirmish mode.
The second is alright I guess. It just lacks that element of... fun, that you get when you replay a game.
It's only worth it for the campaign IMO.
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Both of them mighty fine games, but I think that GC1 is a better game, since the control zones and LZ's in GC 2 make it more like a normal RTS. And thats what GC1 was trying to get away from was the whole resource and massive armies thing. Still, both real good games and I suggest that you people who havent tried them, go do so. Hell, their free now, what better price for two top-notch RTS games?
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They're free? Huh?
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GC1 is free, but i could only get it to run in software mode.
GC2.... I didn't like atall; I think I played the tutorial and then shoved it back on my shelf, never to be touched again (so far). One thing I noticed was an apparent lack of squad-level, rather than individual - control, which is what I'd actually been looking forward to.
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Well, aldo, using the ctrl 1-9 buttons you can make squads.
And i liked GC1 alot better because of the limited units, and the action in 2 is a bit faster than id like, with waves of enemys constantly pouring onto you, and the rushing to capture strategic points as fast as possible kind of gets old after a bit.
1 gave you more time to plan your routes of attack or your defenses.
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Because of this thread, i went and digged up my copy of GC2, and started playing it. I had only played until the second mission.
So, i began playing and everything was ok untill i reached mission 10 or something. And all hell broke loose...
First, the mission is friggin impossible. They have like 3 dropships, and a ton of money. I can´t even take a breather between attacks. There´s just too many of them.
And second, the game started freezing on me. It would just freeze up, i could still hear the sound alright, but the image was frozen, and i had to reset to get out of it. According to the support page, i might be having overheating problems, wich is consistent with other problems i´ve been having.
Anyone knows where i can monitor the temperature of my graphics card? The CPU never gets too hot, so it has to be the AGP card. How do i check the temperature of it?
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I was very impressed by the graphics of GC2 - they rival anything else of the RTS genre on the market, even today.
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Originally posted by Swamp_Thing
The CPU never gets too hot, so it has to be the AGP card. How do i check the temperature of it?
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If you can, it should be in the control panel for your card (right click desktop > properties > settings > advanced > tab with name of your card on it). At least it is for GeForce cards, where I find mine under Temperature settings.
If you cant find it (or if your card doesnt have a temp. sensor), you can always take the case off your PC, and if you have a fan, point it into your open PC. If it no longer crashes, you can safely conclude somthing is overheating.
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Originally posted by Krackers87
Well, aldo, using the ctrl 1-9 buttons you can make squads.
Yeah, but that's not squad level control, it's just unit grouping. It's not like - for example - RTW, where you can set one unit against another as a whole group vs another whole group. IMO that level of micromanagement is fiddly and, IIRC, the opposite of what GC1 had.
Oh, and the GC2 graphics are indeed very nice.