EPTShort story even shorter: all of these addons are reported to be awful. I have played Stellar Forces and Insurrection and can confirm this. (Stellar Forces is so awful its often funny.) Anywho, I have obtained a copy of Starcraft: Retribution but I am unable to play it. (I am wondering if anyone knows the requirements for this addon - they weren't included in the readme. (Maybe windows 98?) I can't get the setup.exe to run and figured I was missing something.
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JimBobRay
128 Posts
Short story even shorter: all of these addons are reported to be awful. I have played Stellar Forces and Insurrection and can confirm this. (Stellar Forces is so awful its often funny.) Anywho, I have obtained a copy of Starcraft: Retribution but I am unable to play it. (I am wondering if anyone knows the requirements for this addon - they weren't included in the readme. (Maybe windows 98?) I can't get the setup.exe to run and figured I was missing something. | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
PS- I have actual copy of insurrection. | ||
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niceplayer
United States238 Posts
There are campaigns ten times better from campaigncreations. | ||
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JimBobRay
128 Posts
And Retribution came on a cd with a setup.exe and a data cab. I can't extract the data from the cab file, and the setup file doesn't work for me. | ||
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JimBobRay
128 Posts
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LordofAscension
United States589 Posts
~LoA | ||
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unbanmeasdf
6 Posts
try this one http://download.yousendit.com/79D18A3D42636BE2 if you wont be able to install the addon, someone could send you the maps manually (it's just an installer which puts the maps into maps\scenario\retribution folder (or something similar)) bye bye | ||
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Equinox_kr
United States7395 Posts
On May 02 2007 14:05 niceplayer wrote: They were all made in plain staredit and came in a fucking folder on a cd, you then drop it into the map directory and play it from custom games. There are campaigns ten times better from campaigncreations. I loved Enslavers, although it was fucking hard as hell. It took me cheesing + turtling to get through the last mission (the one with the Warp Gate). | ||
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JimBobRay
128 Posts
On May 04 2007 11:52 unbanmeasdf wrote: maybe your copy is broken try this one http://download.yousendit.com/79D18A3D42636BE2 if you wont be able to install the addon, someone could send you the maps manually (it's just an installer which puts the maps into maps\scenario\retribution folder (or something similar)) bye bye Thanks a lot. I will try this and report back. Yesterday I got a new error while trying to run it akin to this (instead of the setup.exe not working altogether) "Error running 16bit Windows Application Not enough memory to run this application. Quit some programs and try again." Since I have more than enough memory (1.5gigs) I imagine this is referring to that memory of long ago (I forgot the name) EMM memory, or something... the memory you had to free up to run old DOS games in the windows 95/98 era. Does anyone have any information on this? Maybe I am mistaken here in my diagnosis. | ||
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JimBobRay
128 Posts
On May 04 2007 11:52 unbanmeasdf wrote: maybe your copy is broken try this one http://download.yousendit.com/79D18A3D42636BE2 if you wont be able to install the addon, someone could send you the maps manually (it's just an installer which puts the maps into maps\scenario\retribution folder (or something similar)) bye bye Thanks, this copy worked! | ||
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-xpeh-
Ukraine86 Posts
Are there another addons that are worse to play? P.S. Don't use words "Starcraft 2" in this thread! | ||
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mimikami
France77 Posts
If you attack the Zerg in mission 2, you will fight Zerg in mission 3 If you attack the Terran in mission 2, you will fight Terran in mission 3 Since you mentioned hatch and "build Nexus" I suppose you did the Zerg mission. If so when the mission start immediately go to the right and capture 2 Terran bunkers to have a bunch of Terran reinforcement, then continue to go to the right find a Zerg base, destroy them and build your Nexus there and you will be safe (don't forget to capture the Terran building there). After that just build up an army, expand (there is a base to the left), mass goon/zeal/templars/archons and crush the Zerg to pieces. If you want to play safe build a bunch of cannons to defend your base and Zerg cannot do anything against it. | ||
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Arco
United States2090 Posts
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-xpeh-
Ukraine86 Posts
On September 17 2010 12:49 mimikami wrote: I don't know which "3rd mission" you are referring to since there are actually 2 "3rd missions" in Retribution depending on your choice in mission 2 : If you attack the Zerg in mission 2, you will fight Zerg in mission 3 If you attack the Terran in mission 2, you will fight Terran in mission 3 Since you mentioned hatch and "build Nexus" I suppose you did the Zerg mission. If so when the mission start immediately go to the right and capture 2 Terran bunkers to have a bunch of Terran reinforcement, then continue to go to the right find a Zerg base, destroy them and build your Nexus there and you will be safe (don't forget to capture the Terran building there). After that just build up an army, expand (there is a base to the left), mass goon/zeal/templars/archons and crush the Zerg to pieces. If you want to play safe build a bunch of cannons to defend your base and Zerg cannot do anything against it. Yes, this is it. I got rines/bats, then went up and to the left and destroyed a base on the west end. But then there were 2 waves, first mass hydra (which i hardly held with speed zeals), second with ultra / mass hydra, which i was unable to hold because i can't make storm because of low gas. There is no scouting and no unit production till you capture a location, the map is full of sunkens, the only way to scout is a fight - with limited unit count, if you go to a wrong direction - you lose. Also some maps were just booooring, sometimes i went off minerals after repeated tries to eliminate the opponent. The easiest race was the terran, due to imba 1 pack goliaph + 1 pack tanks - and nobody can come close. The hardest race was the zerg since i can't play zerg in hard missions, especially in original starcraft, and it has not the ultimative power like goliaphs + tanks mentioned above, which is expencive, but after you get it, you hardly lose units. Zerg always lose units, and sometimes they don't kill enough in exchange. Defending against AI attacks also needs your attention - and AI don't get tired, but you do. Btw, are you sure, that there is a choice between terr and zerg? What map is mission vs terran? After map 03 i played map 04 vs terrans. | ||
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-xpeh-
Ukraine86 Posts
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mimikami
France77 Posts
On September 18 2010 05:15 -xpeh- wrote: Lol it was so easy when playing terran tech. I don't know, maybe by capturing the wrong base i activated some kind of insane trigger. Yeah you should have captured the base to the right, not to the left (along with Terran buildings). In mission 2 if you reach the Zerg Cave to the North you play Zerg in mission 3, if you reach the Terran installation to the South you play Terran in mission 3. For a better gaming experience, you can "black sheep wall" to have a general concept of the map, then quit and start the mission again. This may save you from having to restart the mission several times. IMO, the easiest race to play in this campaign is Protoss, because freaking Carriers kill everything, even the Zerg. Making Carriers is the cheapest way to complete the Protoss campaign (a very useful skill toi have lool) | ||
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-xpeh-
Ukraine86 Posts
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-xpeh-
Ukraine86 Posts
On September 18 2010 06:59 mimikami wrote: IMO, the easiest race to play in this campaign is Protoss, because freaking Carriers kill everything, even the Zerg. Making Carriers is the cheapest way to complete the Protoss campaign (a very useful skill toi have lool) Bullshit. Carriers vs Zerg is too much stress, you must always control. I just played bonus mission #3. Carrier + mass goon is the best vs terran, carriers destroy static defence and tanks and tank damage with interceptors, goons defend the carriers. IMO the easiest (with less stress of all) race is terran if you play mech, but 2+ locations are recommended. | ||
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-xpeh-
Ukraine86 Posts
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Ukraine86 Posts
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konadora
Singapore66358 Posts
On September 19 2010 11:42 -xpeh- wrote: So how to play zvt vs comp in original starcraft? hydra/ling | ||
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-xpeh-
Ukraine86 Posts
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mimikami
France77 Posts
Sunkens/Spore is a must in your base, near the mineral lines. They like to surprise attack with massive amount of wraiths/BCs or drop when your army is busy fighting on the other side of the map. In one mission toward the end you will get nuked so beware. | ||
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-xpeh-
Ukraine86 Posts
I just had a huge problem attacking them, sometimes i went off minerals after resultless attacks. How to control this stuff? Doesn't it take too much time to get such an army from 1 base? How many hatcheries and what upgrades do i need? Defiler can be good, but is not invincible as in combo with lurkers, tank splash do its business. | ||
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mimikami
France77 Posts
As konadora said above, hydra/ling will do it. Listen to him, he is 1000 times better than either you or me. For the attack : Never engage the Terran guarding choke points or ramps, in those case find a good location to mass drop and swarm them. The unit composition I used to beat those levels was hydra/ling and occasionally defilers (I suck at defiler control so I used mass drop more often). | ||
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-xpeh-
Ukraine86 Posts
On September 20 2010 01:27 mimikami wrote: As konadora said above, hydra/ling will do it. Listen to him, he is 1000 times better than either you or me. Are there championships in original BW? Also vs comp?  | ||
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Sqq
Norway2023 Posts
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Ukraine86 Posts
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MasterReY
Germany2708 Posts
I hope its not illegal to ask since they are discontinued. Did they sell them in local stores like they were normal games anyway? I really dont see how you can charge someone for custom maps dont with an editor you already bought lol. Anyways if its wrong to ask for them please just delete the post and dont ban ;P | ||
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-xpeh-
Ukraine86 Posts
On November 07 2010 12:36 MasterReY wrote: Can anyone upload all three add-ons for me maybe? :D ... I really dont see how you can charge someone for custom maps dont with an editor you already bought lol. I really dont see how you can charge someone for books dont with a text editor you already bought lol. Search torrents like TPB, i found it there. | ||
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