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Smuft
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
Canada318 Posts
March 17 2010 08:57 GMT
#1


No number groups, no rally points, no path finding, just raw clicking.

Great game.
We Are Here
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Australia1810 Posts
March 17 2010 09:03 GMT
#2
looks fun, there are shortcuts at least =D
He who turns those around him into allies, possesses the most terrifying ability in the world.
GreenManalishi
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada834 Posts
March 17 2010 09:18 GMT
#3
There are hotkeys. I played for a bit, but every game kind of felt like a ZvZ. There just aren't that many tactical options and most games are 8 minutes long.
Kaniol
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Poland5551 Posts
March 17 2010 09:19 GMT
#4
WarCraft 1 was even more pure, you had to issue commands by first clicking order icon. And max selection was 4, not 9
But did seriously warcraft 2 not have control groups? I think it had but i'm too lazy to install just to check
Dataleif
Profile Joined February 2008
Sweden252 Posts
March 17 2010 09:27 GMT
#5
On March 17 2010 18:19 Kaniol wrote:
WarCraft 1 was even more pure, you had to issue commands by first clicking order icon. And max selection was 4, not 9
But did seriously warcraft 2 not have control groups? I think it had but i'm too lazy to install just to check

I think bnet edition had groupds
KinosJourney2
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Sweden1811 Posts
March 17 2010 09:39 GMT
#6
I hate WC2, mainly cause my fav race was Human and the severe imbalances pretty much guaranteed you a loss if you met a Orc.

I do play WC2 with friends from time to time though, so sad that the AIs are retarded
ocho wrote: EDIT: NEVERMIND, THIS THING HAS APM TECHNOLOGY OMG
7mk
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Germany10157 Posts
March 17 2010 09:59 GMT
#7
oh my god, I had so many nerdgasms watching that video, I played that game sooo much when it came out, that was loong before I had internet though and this was the first time I ever saw a mp match of WC2.
Music so epic.
And I love how different the different Tiers of the main building looks, when I used to play it it was like whooooaaaaah now I can build these new units who are soooo badassss.
ahhh being a child was awesome.

Btw. did the addon add any new units at all? Can't really remember any added units
beep boop
Coulthard
Profile Joined September 2005
Greece3359 Posts
March 17 2010 10:28 GMT
#8
Warcraft 2 is my second most favorite rts ever and in my opinion the best blizzard ost so far
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17257 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-17 11:05:07
March 17 2010 10:59 GMT
#9
On March 17 2010 17:57 Smuft wrote:
No number groups, no rally points, no path finding, just raw clicking.

Great game.


There are control groups and rudimentary path finding. Don't remember if there are rally points or not.

Some other awesome things about it you didn't list:
- Only one playable race!
- Perfect balance! (because of the above)

Edit: Seriously, the 2 best RTS's among the oldschool ones would definitely be SC:BW and C&C:RA.

Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
morfyy
Profile Joined May 2007
Romania593 Posts
March 17 2010 11:04 GMT
#10
God I was like 7 when I used to play WC2

oh the memories
SilverSkyLark
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Philippines8437 Posts
March 17 2010 11:20 GMT
#11
oh god, when you need a godly left hand to play properly..
"If i lost an arm, I would play w3." -IntoTheWow || "Member of Hyuk Hyuk Hyuk cafe. He's the next Jaedong, baby!"
MamiyaOtaru
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States1687 Posts
March 17 2010 11:20 GMT
#12
I used to be good at this.. living in a college dorm when it was new and not that many people could mass game on LANs.. that time quickly passed though
RowdierBob
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
Australia13005 Posts
March 17 2010 11:27 GMT
#13
Ogres were way too imba -__-
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Caphe
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Vietnam10817 Posts
March 17 2010 11:32 GMT
#14
Loved the old days... I think its in 1995 or 1996 that I first started to play WC2..man, i m old lol
Terran
FortuneSyn
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
1826 Posts
March 17 2010 11:41 GMT
#15
I didn't have a computer when wc2 came out so.. yeah
fearus
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
China2164 Posts
March 17 2010 11:46 GMT
#16
I rem wc1 days, you would line up all the archers or spearmen in a line and they would 1 shoot every1 the enemy as they walked up in a straight line...
bisu fanboy
valaki
Profile Joined June 2009
Hungary2476 Posts
March 17 2010 11:47 GMT
#17
My first game on comp..and i absolutely loved it. I think the graphics are still better than Wc3's.
ggaemo fan
Bash
Profile Joined August 2007
Finland1533 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-17 11:55:21
March 17 2010 11:52 GMT
#18
All you SC2 nerds will notice a familiar name.

Edit: oh man the guy playing in that video makes so many mistakes. Doesn't his initial hall/rax, gets supplyblocked, late lvl3, didn't cancel the harass rax at 9 o clock.
I can't sing and I can't dance, but still I know how to clap my hands.
Smuft
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
Canada318 Posts
March 17 2010 13:29 GMT
#19
I found a warcraft2 forum that's very active. What a hardcore community they are still active after 15+ years.

They are sickeningly bad manner too lol.

http://war2.warcraft.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15782&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=120

Scroll 1/3 down and see how bad this warcraft2 player gets burned for posting his pic.
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
March 17 2010 13:48 GMT
#20
On March 17 2010 22:29 Smuft wrote:
I found a warcraft2 forum that's very active. What a hardcore community they are still active after 15+ years.

They are sickeningly bad manner too lol.

http://war2.warcraft.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15782&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=120

Scroll 1/3 down and see how bad this warcraft2 player gets burned for posting his pic.

Omg this thread is pure gold.
[image loading]


xD
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
LastWish
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
2013 Posts
March 17 2010 13:58 GMT
#21
Warcraft 2 was really amazing...
Used to play it on my Pentium 166 with like 32mb ram and !!awe64 soundcard!!.
This soundcard had special midi synth support which made those mids like 400% more awesome.
The complete experience - GFX + music + gameplay was mindblowing.

Similiar game experience goes from Heroes2 with all the fairy tale drawn graphics, great gameplay and again ingenious midi music with awe synth made it an out of body experience.

Sadly, since then I've found no sound card that reaches the midi synch experience of AWE cards and ISA slots are like ancient history.
Someone who had experienced this knows what I'm talking about.
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Sad[Panda]
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States458 Posts
March 17 2010 14:24 GMT
#22
I had a hard time reading that thread almost purely for the words "nam mean"
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Rebel_lion
Profile Joined January 2009
United States271 Posts
March 17 2010 14:28 GMT
#23
oh geez i forgot how epic that c&c music was. Awesome. On topic: warcraft 2 was a nightmare, i could never manuever my units but i remember having fun and that counts.
Something witty here....
Smuft
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
Canada318 Posts
March 17 2010 17:06 GMT
#24


Another game; this guys APM seems a lot higher and 1v1 dynamics are interesting with these early grunt walls, farming one of his flanks for vision, and KHB dividing his army early was cute.
Smuft
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
Canada318 Posts
March 17 2010 17:12 GMT
#25


Same guy as last game except he turned bad manner and went forge first randomly scouting 6's gold mine to try and cannon it.

Nice tracks too lol
Bash
Profile Joined August 2007
Finland1533 Posts
March 17 2010 19:24 GMT
#26
The WC2 community was and is notoriously "bad mannered" and downright vicious, there are so many rivalries between people, some of which have lasted over a decade. Probably the only game where you can see people argue tooth and nail about a series they played 5 years ago. Some unbelievable stories there, some of which reach into people's real lives. Frankly I think it's great, I played that game for 7 years non-stop. It's a shame I lost interest in the game and the scene after some forced inactivity (my military service).
I can't sing and I can't dance, but still I know how to clap my hands.
Eatme
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
Switzerland3919 Posts
March 17 2010 20:15 GMT
#27
I played so many great wc2 games on lan with my friends. Had so much fun with that game during my youth. Then I transitioned to sc and well, it was better.
"your sound card works perfectly"
I have the best fucking lawyers in the country including the man they call the Malmis.
Rothbardian
Profile Joined January 2010
United States497 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-17 20:55:36
March 17 2010 20:49 GMT
#28
On March 17 2010 19:59 Manit0u wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 17 2010 17:57 Smuft wrote:
No number groups, no rally points, no path finding, just raw clicking.

Great game.


There are control groups and rudimentary path finding. Don't remember if there are rally points or not.

Some other awesome things about it you didn't list:
- Only one playable race!
- Perfect balance! (because of the above)

Edit: Seriously, the 2 best RTS's among the oldschool ones would definitely be SC:BW and C&C:RA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb-gI_pFog0



HJK6 Best map ever made!

Fucking right CNC RA95!!! Best RTS ever made bar none. That shit was about as pure APM RTS as you will ever get :p Played for 6 years. Boy do I miss Global Dominance ;/



Too bad none of the old Koven/Wegandi matches are on Youtube....If you thought Jaedong was fast...haha.

My Q was beast. :p
"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state." - Isabel Paterson <3
LordWeird
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States3411 Posts
March 17 2010 20:59 GMT
#29
If I had never loved W2 as much as I did I would probably have not given two shits about StarCraft.
Chains none
NonY
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
8748 Posts
March 17 2010 21:01 GMT
#30
Haha C&C:RA was good but not competitive enough. It took me about a month to get good enough to win the ladder. Then Aftermath was equally easy. Then even Dune 2k was somewhat different but still easy. SC:BW took me like 2 years of trying to be the best to finally get to the top.

It looks like WC2 was more competitive but I don't know. I never played it.
"Fucking up is part of it. If you can't fail, you have to always win. And I don't think you can always win." Elliott Smith ---------- Yet no sudden rage darkened his face, and his eyes were calm as they studied her. Then he smiled. 'Witness.'
Rothbardian
Profile Joined January 2010
United States497 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-17 21:10:12
March 17 2010 21:07 GMT
#31
On March 18 2010 06:01 Liquid`NonY wrote:
Haha C&C:RA was good but not competitive enough. It took me about a month to get good enough to win the ladder. Then Aftermath was equally easy. Then even Dune 2k was somewhat different but still easy. SC:BW took me like 2 years of trying to be the best to finally get to the top.

It looks like WC2 was more competitive but I don't know. I never played it.


Tyler, the people who played on the ladder were hilariously bad. All the good players played @ Global Dominance/Cases Ladder/Kali/etc. Koven, Wegandi, Team DK, Nezz, Teslaaaa, Dadogenij, DADO, etc.

You really missed out if you only played WW ladder I went something like 125-1 whenever I fucked around on the ladder lol, and I was barely in the top 10 in the world (Wegandi, Koven, Teslaaaa, etc. raped me so hard lol) in RA95.

No one on the ladder even knew about Q, and ladder maps absolutely sucked! You had to play on the great custom maps that were made every week. HJK6 was the bomb.
"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state." - Isabel Paterson <3
intrudor
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada446 Posts
March 17 2010 21:14 GMT
#32
is the bNET edition of War2 balanced?

i never saw it because i mostly played single player back in 95 but i know the ogre's bloodlust made it way imbalanced for competitive play
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NonY
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
8748 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-17 21:17:22
March 17 2010 21:16 GMT
#33
On March 18 2010 06:07 Rothbardian wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2010 06:01 Liquid`NonY wrote:
Haha C&C:RA was good but not competitive enough. It took me about a month to get good enough to win the ladder. Then Aftermath was equally easy. Then even Dune 2k was somewhat different but still easy. SC:BW took me like 2 years of trying to be the best to finally get to the top.

It looks like WC2 was more competitive but I don't know. I never played it.


Tyler, the people who played on the ladder were hilariously bad. All the good players played @ Global Dominance/Cases Ladder/Kali/etc. Koven, Wegandi, Team DK, Nezz, Teslaaaa, Dadogenij, DADO, etc.

You really missed out if you only played WW ladder I went something like 125-1 whenever I fucked around on the ladder lol, and I was barely in the top 10 in the world (Wegandi, Koven, Teslaaaa, etc. raped me so hard lol) in RA95.

No one on the ladder even knew about Q, and ladder maps absolutely sucked! You had to play on the great custom maps that were made every week. HJK6 was the bomb.

I see, was there some really good prizes on the other ladders? I mean, what was the incentive to not play the WW ladder? But I was 12 years old at the time and that was my first online game so it really wouldn't have occurred to me that there were other ladders.

Everyone in the top 50 or so used Q when I played the ladder. The game had been out a while when I picked it up though. I mean, I learned about it within the first few weeks of playing online.

That video shows some pretty poor micro though from how I remember it. It looks like he targets the tank that is closest and makes no attempt at figuring out which tank is actually going to stop moving for a moment. Q was never perfect, like many tanks stop moving for moments here and there. Attacking a tank that has a good chance of stopping for a moment, but is out of range of some of your back tanks, was almost always better than attacking an in-range tank that is definitely going to be moving for the next few seconds.
"Fucking up is part of it. If you can't fail, you have to always win. And I don't think you can always win." Elliott Smith ---------- Yet no sudden rage darkened his face, and his eyes were calm as they studied her. Then he smiled. 'Witness.'
Rothbardian
Profile Joined January 2010
United States497 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-17 21:25:23
March 17 2010 21:23 GMT
#34
On March 18 2010 06:16 Liquid`NonY wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2010 06:07 Rothbardian wrote:
On March 18 2010 06:01 Liquid`NonY wrote:
Haha C&C:RA was good but not competitive enough. It took me about a month to get good enough to win the ladder. Then Aftermath was equally easy. Then even Dune 2k was somewhat different but still easy. SC:BW took me like 2 years of trying to be the best to finally get to the top.

It looks like WC2 was more competitive but I don't know. I never played it.


Tyler, the people who played on the ladder were hilariously bad. All the good players played @ Global Dominance/Cases Ladder/Kali/etc. Koven, Wegandi, Team DK, Nezz, Teslaaaa, Dadogenij, DADO, etc.

You really missed out if you only played WW ladder I went something like 125-1 whenever I fucked around on the ladder lol, and I was barely in the top 10 in the world (Wegandi, Koven, Teslaaaa, etc. raped me so hard lol) in RA95.

No one on the ladder even knew about Q, and ladder maps absolutely sucked! You had to play on the great custom maps that were made every week. HJK6 was the bomb.

I see, was there some really good prizes on the other ladders? I mean, what was the incentive to not play the WW ladder? But I was 12 years old at the time and that was my first online game so it really wouldn't have occurred to me that there were other ladders.

Everyone in the top 50 or so used Q when I played the ladder. The game had been out a while when I picked it up though. I mean, I learned about it within the first few weeks of playing online.

That video shows some pretty poor micro though from how I remember it. It looks like he targets the tank that is closest and makes no attempt at figuring out which tank is actually going to stop moving for a moment. Q was never perfect, like many tanks stop moving for moments here and there. Attacking a tank that has a good chance of stopping for a moment, but is out of range of some of your back tanks, was almost always better than attacking an in-range tank that is definitely going to be moving for the next few seconds.


Yeah they aren't the greatest of players, but I'm sure they'd kick my ass if I picked it up again :p

Boy, do I remember those days. Started playing when I was 8. Must have played 20,000 games lol. Q was exhausting.....coupled in with tanks building in .001 seconds, and no rally points.., Turrets building in .1 second and needing manual repairing...I remember three hour long games where at the end I was worn out like you wouldn't believe.

As for prizes? Bragging Rights...This was back in the late 90's..All of the best players just congregated together mostly around Global Dominance, which was the most fun Gaming League ever. You either chose Allied or Soviet, and they had a Military Style system where the more points you won, the higher up the echelon you went. Every win gave your side x points to spend on infantry on the Global Map, and after the MOTW the Generals would make out their battle plans and the fight would be carried out with huge back stories, etc. Whenever one side won most of the world map, a new season would start over. They had medals for like 20 different statistics, and it was very in-depth. Very awesome to play. It was all voluntary, as you had to yourself go in (as the loser) and report the loss..Man, the days of honor...That would never fly today.

What's your thoughts on Q micro vs SC micro? If you had to compare difficulty, APM requirements, and skill.
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520
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States2822 Posts
March 17 2010 21:29 GMT
#35
On March 18 2010 06:14 intrudor wrote:
is the bNET edition of War2 balanced?

i never saw it because i mostly played single player back in 95 but i know the ogre's bloodlust made it way imbalanced for competitive play

It is if you only play Orc.
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DreaM)XeRO
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Korea (South)4667 Posts
March 17 2010 22:25 GMT
#36
this is what i think sc:bw will be like in 2-5 years
a burned out relic

fuck
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intrudor
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada446 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-17 22:31:30
March 17 2010 22:30 GMT
#37
On March 18 2010 06:29 scintilliaSD wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2010 06:14 intrudor wrote:
is the bNET edition of War2 balanced?

i never saw it because i mostly played single player back in 95 but i know the ogre's bloodlust made it way imbalanced for competitive play

It is if you only play Orc.



damn thats a strike of genius from Blizzard to not even have thought about balancing it when they released that fuckin bnet edition all they needed to do was to bump down bloodlust so that people could actually play human


lame
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ZaplinG
Profile Blog Joined February 2005
United States3818 Posts
March 17 2010 23:02 GMT
#38
does anyone ever play human vs human matches?
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HazMat
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States17077 Posts
March 17 2010 23:25 GMT
#39
On March 17 2010 22:29 Smuft wrote:
I found a warcraft2 forum that's very active. What a hardcore community they are still active after 15+ years.

They are sickeningly bad manner too lol.

http://war2.warcraft.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15782&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=120

Scroll 1/3 down and see how bad this warcraft2 player gets burned for posting his pic.

That Hamster dude is such an amazing troll.
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anotak
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States1537 Posts
March 18 2010 00:06 GMT
#40
rts players overrate balance
Tenryu
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States565 Posts
March 18 2010 00:19 GMT
#41
On March 17 2010 19:59 Manit0u wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 17 2010 17:57 Smuft wrote:
No number groups, no rally points, no path finding, just raw clicking.

Great game.


There are control groups and rudimentary path finding. Don't remember if there are rally points or not.

Some other awesome things about it you didn't list:
- Only one playable race!
- Perfect balance! (because of the above)

Edit: Seriously, the 2 best RTS's among the oldschool ones would definitely be SC:BW and C&C:RA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb-gI_pFog0



Omg i love that music. Red Alert was my first RTS, and the soundtrack was ridicolously good. Used to jam to that shit on my CD Player :D
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flip
Profile Joined March 2010
Portugal5 Posts
March 18 2010 00:20 GMT
#42
On March 18 2010 08:25 HazMat wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 17 2010 22:29 Smuft wrote:
I found a warcraft2 forum that's very active. What a hardcore community they are still active after 15+ years.

They are sickeningly bad manner too lol.

http://war2.warcraft.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15782&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=120

Scroll 1/3 down and see how bad this warcraft2 player gets burned for posting his pic.

That Hamster dude is such an amazing troll.


Yes this is gold indeed, I laughed my ass off, multiple times.
7mk
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Germany10157 Posts
March 19 2010 01:50 GMT
#43
moar WC2 vids plz
beep boop
neobowman
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada3324 Posts
March 19 2010 01:53 GMT
#44
Wow, the difference between WC2 and WC3 looks even bigger than SC and SC2
SilentCrono
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1420 Posts
March 19 2010 02:06 GMT
#45
wow that looks crazy old and awesome at the same time
reminds me of red alert 2
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Disregard
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
China10252 Posts
March 19 2010 03:12 GMT
#46
Loved playing this when I was like 9, still remember that blood lust orges are rape. And also AoE2 is one of the best RTS games ever made, I was addicted to it for awhile.
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EAGER-beaver
Profile Joined March 2004
Canada2799 Posts
March 19 2010 03:36 GMT
#47
I remember trying the bnet edition years after playing the single play version and being amazed people actually played as humans. Silly dumb bastards.
Simon and Garfunkel rock my face off
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
March 19 2010 03:43 GMT
#48
There is a poster that comes and makes a post for wc2 like every month.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
PhilGood2DaY
Profile Joined September 2005
Germany7424 Posts
March 19 2010 07:26 GMT
#49
wasnt it like impossible to play as human vs orc ? Whenever a battle with paladins vs ogres occured the orc player won cause healing every single pala with one another was just not possible to do..
hatred outlives the hateful
gaizka
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States991 Posts
March 19 2010 08:20 GMT
#50
On March 18 2010 09:06 anotak wrote:
rts players overrate balance


Balance is imba.
hammeronetime
Profile Joined June 2008
United States64 Posts
March 19 2010 16:30 GMT
#51
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QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32051 Posts
March 19 2010 16:44 GMT
#52
CC R&A was fun as hell, but certainly not balanced.
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ChApFoU
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
France2982 Posts
March 19 2010 17:20 GMT
#53
Good old memories. I played this game a lot, unfortunately I didn't have an internet access back then :/ I can't brag about being a kali elitist
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Zona
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
40426 Posts
March 19 2010 19:02 GMT
#54
On March 19 2010 12:43 CharlieMurphy wrote:
There is a poster that comes and makes a post for wc2 like every month.

war2combat - he advertises his own site. I was surprised this wc2 thread was not by him when I saw it - but it includes videos mentioning war2combat anyways.
"If you try responding to those absurd posts every day, you become more damaged. So I pay no attention to them at all." Jung Myung Hoon (aka Fantasy), as translated by Kimoleon
War2Combat
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States276 Posts
March 19 2010 19:07 GMT
#55
Great thread!

Yes Warcraft II is the purest RTS ever.
The best game is War2
Smuft
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
Canada318 Posts
March 19 2010 19:31 GMT
#56
War2Combat why don't you post some more games on youtube? There isn't that many. Link here when they're up please.
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-21 10:02:34
March 21 2010 09:35 GMT
#57
in light of this thread, I was wondering if there is such a thing as any skilled players of warcraft 1 ?
Are there even any strategy sites or anything? Controls are fucking hideous lolol




Wondering if anyone good wants to DL wc1 with me and just try out some basic shit and then we can make some 1v1 videos lol


also



lol

and who remembers DC?




DC was actually pretty freakin good but the problem with it was that it came out the same time as sc did.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
SilverSkyLark
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Philippines8437 Posts
March 21 2010 10:22 GMT
#58
Holy Shit Dune 2!!!
Nostalgia ~

one of the games that I played as a kid....I remember watching that dune worm eat up my harvesters ez mode and I'll be like wtf where are my spices?
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Liquid`Ret
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Netherlands4511 Posts
March 21 2010 10:27 GMT
#59
sc2 is sad compared to most of these games, so unchallenging i have to force myself to play cuz 'everyone else is doing it'.
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kAra
Profile Joined September 2004
Germany1374 Posts
March 21 2010 10:35 GMT
#60
those dark colony videos sure made me feel nostalgic, great game
mada mada dane
Kim_Hyun_Han
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
706 Posts
March 21 2010 10:37 GMT
#61
+1 credibility for op
Bash
Profile Joined August 2007
Finland1533 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-21 11:02:30
March 21 2010 10:53 GMT
#62
Hahahhaa dark colony, I seriously thought I am the only person who remembers that game.

I must have watched this intro like a million time
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ooni
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Australia1498 Posts
March 21 2010 10:57 GMT
#63


To avoid confusion, this isn't analogy of ppl's thoughts between SC1 and SC2; this video was made before SC2.


I really enjoyed Wc2. It was quite fun, I do not miss the old mechanics, it was just bad.
Will we be thinking about SC this way in the future? Guess we will find that out in 15 years time.
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PhilGood2DaY
Profile Joined September 2005
Germany7424 Posts
March 21 2010 12:03 GMT
#64
THis is actually a clear PRO MBS vid ;D
hatred outlives the hateful
JohannesH
Profile Joined September 2009
Finland1364 Posts
March 21 2010 13:19 GMT
#65
On March 21 2010 19:27 ret wrote:
sc2 is sad compared to most of these games, so unchallenging i have to force myself to play cuz 'everyone else is doing it'.

yeah I wish there was big playerbases for non-Blizzard rts's too... Theres some really good ones but if you cant reliably get games vs good players gameplay cant completely make up for that.
If you have to ask, you don't know.
Tracil
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
Australia505 Posts
March 21 2010 13:28 GMT
#66
The oldschool RTS that's dear to my heart is Netstorm.
[image loading]


Pipe dream mixed with tower defence, and a totally awesome win condition- sacrificing an enemy priest to your evil gods! It's totally another APM-dependant game, since the whole thing is about how much better you are at building bridges than your opponent. >.>
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floor exercise
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Canada5847 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-21 13:40:17
March 21 2010 13:39 GMT
#67
On March 21 2010 22:19 JohannesH wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 21 2010 19:27 ret wrote:
sc2 is sad compared to most of these games, so unchallenging i have to force myself to play cuz 'everyone else is doing it'.

yeah I wish there was big playerbases for non-Blizzard rts's too... Theres some really good ones but if you cant reliably get games vs good players gameplay cant completely make up for that.


AoX is what happens to non bliz games (despite being awesome they die abruptly and even the publishers abandon them)

Chrispy
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada5878 Posts
March 22 2010 04:21 GMT
#68
On March 21 2010 19:27 ret wrote:
sc2 is sad compared to most of these games, so unchallenging i have to force myself to play cuz 'everyone else is doing it'.


Screw SC2, stream some Brood war man! :D :D
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CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-22 08:31:43
March 22 2010 08:31 GMT
#69
On March 21 2010 22:28 Tracil wrote:
The oldschool RTS that's dear to my heart is Netstorm.
[image loading]


Pipe dream mixed with tower defence, and a totally awesome win condition- sacrificing an enemy priest to your evil gods! It's totally another APM-dependant game, since the whole thing is about how much better you are at building bridges than your opponent. >.>

woah, is that screenshot the whole map? If so that's pretty cool, reminds me of Rampart which was like a turn based RTS (if that makes sense).
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
Tracil
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
Australia505 Posts
March 22 2010 10:16 GMT
#70
Nah, the maps are huuuuuuge, with a bunch of floating islands that you have to connect together with bridges and build outposts on.
Shooting
BaltA
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
Norway849 Posts
March 22 2010 10:49 GMT
#71
These were good times! WC 2 <3
Navane
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Netherlands2748 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-22 11:50:32
March 22 2010 11:48 GMT
#72
On March 21 2010 19:57 ooni wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mxypu9WC8c

To avoid confusion, this isn't analogy of ppl's thoughts between SC1 and SC2; this video was made before SC2.


I really enjoyed Wc2. It was quite fun, I do not miss the old mechanics, it was just bad.
Will we be thinking about SC this way in the future? Guess we will find that out in 15 years time.


To avoid confusion, this IS analogy of ppl's thoughts between SC1 and SC2; alltough this video was made before SC2 beta came out, it was posted during heated debates over sc2 MBS when nobody had ever played with it.

Netstorm was great. To bad indeed that the real skill needed to win this game was build bridges quickly using only random bridge components
ploy
Profile Joined January 2006
United States416 Posts
April 06 2010 04:14 GMT
#73
On March 21 2010 19:27 ret wrote:
sc2 is sad compared to most of these games, so unchallenging i have to force myself to play cuz 'everyone else is doing it'.


It's so unchallenging... so why haven't you won anything you've entered? I don't really understand people saying this kind of stuff who aren't that great.

More on topic: Does anyone know if KHB is only playing wc2? Is he already done playing sc2?
d_so
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)3262 Posts
April 06 2010 04:22 GMT
#74
On April 06 2010 13:14 ploy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 21 2010 19:27 ret wrote:
sc2 is sad compared to most of these games, so unchallenging i have to force myself to play cuz 'everyone else is doing it'.


It's so unchallenging... so why haven't you won anything you've entered? I don't really understand people saying this kind of stuff who aren't that great.

More on topic: Does anyone know if KHB is only playing wc2? Is he already done playing sc2?


i don't understand people who mock those that fail at the highest level when they themselves are the peons slurping for leftovers at the high-level strategy table.

oooorr in other words stfu
manner
ploy
Profile Joined January 2006
United States416 Posts
April 06 2010 04:28 GMT
#75
Don't get your panties in a bundle man ... you are clearly a great arguer with all the assumptions you make. Ret is much better than me at sc2. However, you don't see me saying it's an easy game.

Wouldn't you think it'd be funny if J.J Reddick said basketball was too easy of a game and only played it for the money? Yea he is in the top 0.01% of all basketball players...but that's not nearly good enough for him to call the game he plays unchallenging.
d_so
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)3262 Posts
April 06 2010 04:57 GMT
#76
On April 06 2010 13:28 ploy wrote:
Don't get your panties in a bundle man ... you are clearly a great arguer with all the assumptions you make. Ret is much better than me at sc2. However, you don't see me saying it's an easy game.

Wouldn't you think it'd be funny if J.J Reddick said basketball was too easy of a game and only played it for the money? Yea he is in the top 0.01% of all basketball players...but that's not nearly good enough for him to call the game he plays unchallenging.


actually, you're the one assuming things by 1.) misconstruing the definition of "challenging" as being depenendant on one's ability compared to his/her peers, and 2.) by saying ret called the game "easy" when he never did (Hint: challenging doesn't always mean difficult -- look it up).
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ploy
Profile Joined January 2006
United States416 Posts
April 06 2010 05:28 GMT
#77
Trying to fall back on semantics huh? You are something else. What was I thinking assuming that by the use of the word 'challenging' he was implying something that was difficult. After all, he could have meant to halt and prove identity of, or to confront or defy boldly, or to demand as due, or all the other definitions that wouldn't have made sense in that context? As to your first point I'll use an example - In high school I thought batting in baseball was pretty easy, but in college it became pretty damn challenging. I don't want to derail this thread any more and you're slowly bringing me down to your level of idiocy so I digress and am done here.
d_so
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)3262 Posts
April 06 2010 06:09 GMT
#78
On April 06 2010 14:28 ploy wrote:
Trying to fall back on semantics huh? You are something else. What was I thinking assuming that by the use of the word 'challenging' he was implying something that was difficult. After all, he could have meant to halt and prove identity of, or to confront or defy boldly, or to demand as due, or all the other definitions that wouldn't have made sense in that context? As to your first point I'll use an example - In high school I thought batting in baseball was pretty easy, but in college it became pretty damn challenging. I don't want to derail this thread any more and you're slowly bringing me down to your level of idiocy so I digress and am done here.


god how blind are you

Main Entry: chal·leng·ing
Pronunciation: \-lən-jiŋ\
Function: adjective
Date: 1842

1 : arousing competitive interest, thought, or action <a challenging course of study>
2 : invitingly provocative : fascinating <a challenging personality>


challenging:

Listen: US - UK

Adapted From: WordNet 2.0 Copyright 2003 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
challenging
A adjective
1 ambitious, challenging
requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake"

2 challenging, intriguing
disturbingly provocative; "an intriguing smile"

3 challenging, thought-provoking
stimulating interest or thought; "a challenging hypothesis"; "a thought-provoking book"


Overview of adj challenging

The adj challenging has 3 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (3) ambitious, challenging

(requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake")
2. challenging, thought-provoking

(stimulating interest or thought; "a challenging hypothesis"; "a thought-provoking book")
3. challenging, intriguing

(disturbingly provocative; "an intriguing smile")


HINT: do you see the word "difficult" anywhere?

Your personal inferences are your own but don't mistake your misplaced notions for the intent of what someone else is saying. There is no correlation between challenging and your ability to beat the competition, and as such your first post is retarded. He never said the game was easy so your second post is equally retarded. You didn't look up the definition like i told you to do so your third post is also retarded, this time due to misinformation.

sorry yo
manner
FarbrorAbavna
Profile Joined July 2009
Sweden4856 Posts
April 06 2010 10:30 GMT
#79
dune 2 is still a great game. Keep on going back to it from time to time.
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Wargizmo
Profile Joined March 2010
Australia1237 Posts
April 06 2010 11:00 GMT
#80

Great to see some love for Dark Colony in this thread... I just loved how the aliens had machine guns.

Dune 2 was the first RTS I ever got into and I just loved it. I also used to play the Warhammer table top games and I remember thinking how awesome it would be if they came out with a strategy game like Dune 2 but with Orcs, then soon after a friend gave me a pirated floppy disk of Warcraft 1. I remember I was so keen to play I spent an entire afternoon guessing the secret word from the manual they made you type in in order to launch the installer (back in the days when DRM was fun).

When Warcraft 2 came out, me and one of my friends would play it directly over the modem, we used to have to sneak in games at 4am because his dad wouldn't let him use the computer. Eventually I ended up getting a thing called the internet and discovering Kali, a multiplayer client which emulated a LAN network over the net, at the time it was the single most awesome thing ever created.

Good times, good times.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is best. - Frank Zappa
Latham
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
9560 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-06 11:11:04
April 06 2010 11:04 GMT
#81
Dark Colony, Armies of Exigo are great games. Too bad they weren't competitive enough, because they didn't get enough exposure(the former being released pre 2000 (like 1998?) and the latter competing with DoW IIRC). Hell, even CnC3 vanilla was fun (IMO the Kane expansion did more damage than good)
KKND, Age of Empires I and II were fun as hell. Dune 2000 kicked so much ass.

Warcraft II was fun, but the imba bloodlust sucks the fun out of it, even though invisibility has no counter humans get raped before they get to tier 3. And there are a hell of a lot more fun RTSes out there than WCII
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Judicator
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States7270 Posts
April 06 2010 14:57 GMT
#82
Bloodlust and DKs ruined this game for me. A 3rd faction in this game would have made it golden.
Get it by your hands...
Wargizmo
Profile Joined March 2010
Australia1237 Posts
April 08 2010 08:31 GMT
#83

Some of you may remember that Starcraft was originally based off of the Warcraft 2 engine, and was pretty close to completion. It was only after the backlash from the community - i.e. Blizzard has just gone and made "orcs in space" without any substance - that Blizzard completely redesigned the game to what we have now.

there's some screenshots of what it looked like here:

http://sclegacy.com/editorials/34-general/270-starcraft-evolution
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thezanursic
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
5479 Posts
February 22 2016 10:14 GMT
#84
Necroing this thread because I need help.

Installed Warcraft II and running it via DOSBOX everything except for control groups work fine, on my previous computer I could set up my control groups easily, soo I don't know why it doesn't work on my current computer, any ideas?
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FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-02-22 10:19:41
February 22 2016 10:18 GMT
#85
On March 17 2010 18:19 Kaniol wrote:
WarCraft 1 was even more pure, you had to issue commands by first clicking order icon. And max selection was 4, not 9
But did seriously warcraft 2 not have control groups? I think it had but i'm too lazy to install just to check


There were shortcuts for move and attack as i remember. Dune 2 didn't have shortcuts for exemple and selection was 1 unit only :p

EDIT : Fuck me i quoted a 6year old posts because the new color doesn't show you how old the post is ><

On February 22 2016 19:14 thezanursic wrote:
Necroing this thread because I need help.

Installed Warcraft II and running it via DOSBOX everything except for control groups work fine, on my previous computer I could set up my control groups easily, soo I don't know why it doesn't work on my current computer, any ideas?


It might be a Keyboard layout issue; LIke Control Groups were on 1 instead of & or something like that
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thezanursic
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
5479 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-02-22 10:23:17
February 22 2016 10:21 GMT
#86
On February 22 2016 19:18 FFW_Rude wrote:

Show nested quote +
On February 22 2016 19:14 thezanursic wrote:
Necroing this thread because I need help.

Installed Warcraft II and running it via DOSBOX everything except for control groups work fine, on my previous computer I could set up my control groups easily, soo I don't know why it doesn't work on my current computer, any ideas?


It might be a Keyboard layout issue; LIke Control Groups were on 1 instead of & or something like that

Any chance you could be a bit more specific I don't quite understand.

Also I tried other commands such as alt-M for turning music on and off, all of that works, control groups don't.

I dunno what's up. Did WC2 only have control groups in the latter editions and I accidently downloaded the wrong one?
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FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-02-22 10:27:53
February 22 2016 10:27 GMT
#87
On February 22 2016 19:21 thezanursic wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 22 2016 19:18 FFW_Rude wrote:

On February 22 2016 19:14 thezanursic wrote:
Necroing this thread because I need help.

Installed Warcraft II and running it via DOSBOX everything except for control groups work fine, on my previous computer I could set up my control groups easily, soo I don't know why it doesn't work on my current computer, any ideas?


It might be a Keyboard layout issue; LIke Control Groups were on 1 instead of & or something like that

Any chance you could be a bit more specific I don't quite understand.

Also I tried other commands such as alt-M for turning music on and off, all of that works, control groups don't.

I dunno what's up. Did WC2 only have control groups in the latter editions and I accidently downloaded the wrong one?


I think it's only in the Battle.net edition. Not the vanilla one.
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lestye
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States4163 Posts
February 22 2016 11:57 GMT
#88
On February 22 2016 19:27 FFW_Rude wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 22 2016 19:21 thezanursic wrote:
On February 22 2016 19:18 FFW_Rude wrote:

On February 22 2016 19:14 thezanursic wrote:
Necroing this thread because I need help.

Installed Warcraft II and running it via DOSBOX everything except for control groups work fine, on my previous computer I could set up my control groups easily, soo I don't know why it doesn't work on my current computer, any ideas?


It might be a Keyboard layout issue; LIke Control Groups were on 1 instead of & or something like that

Any chance you could be a bit more specific I don't quite understand.

Also I tried other commands such as alt-M for turning music on and off, all of that works, control groups don't.

I dunno what's up. Did WC2 only have control groups in the latter editions and I accidently downloaded the wrong one?


I think it's only in the Battle.net edition. Not the vanilla one.

How did that work? Did you have to REBUY the game/expansion to get on battle.net back in the day?
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FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-02-22 12:20:23
February 22 2016 12:19 GMT
#89
On February 22 2016 20:57 lestye wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 22 2016 19:27 FFW_Rude wrote:
On February 22 2016 19:21 thezanursic wrote:
On February 22 2016 19:18 FFW_Rude wrote:

On February 22 2016 19:14 thezanursic wrote:
Necroing this thread because I need help.

Installed Warcraft II and running it via DOSBOX everything except for control groups work fine, on my previous computer I could set up my control groups easily, soo I don't know why it doesn't work on my current computer, any ideas?


It might be a Keyboard layout issue; LIke Control Groups were on 1 instead of & or something like that

Any chance you could be a bit more specific I don't quite understand.

Also I tried other commands such as alt-M for turning music on and off, all of that works, control groups don't.

I dunno what's up. Did WC2 only have control groups in the latter editions and I accidently downloaded the wrong one?


I think it's only in the Battle.net edition. Not the vanilla one.

How did that work? Did you have to REBUY the game/expansion to get on battle.net back in the day?


Yes. Warcraft II got two editions. One is Warcraft II : Tides of Darkness and the other is Warcraft II : Tides of Darkness Battle.net edition (iirc). I think the Battle.net edition includes "Beyond the dark portal"
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thezanursic
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
5479 Posts
February 24 2016 07:54 GMT
#90
On February 22 2016 21:19 FFW_Rude wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 22 2016 20:57 lestye wrote:
On February 22 2016 19:27 FFW_Rude wrote:
On February 22 2016 19:21 thezanursic wrote:
On February 22 2016 19:18 FFW_Rude wrote:

On February 22 2016 19:14 thezanursic wrote:
Necroing this thread because I need help.

Installed Warcraft II and running it via DOSBOX everything except for control groups work fine, on my previous computer I could set up my control groups easily, soo I don't know why it doesn't work on my current computer, any ideas?


It might be a Keyboard layout issue; LIke Control Groups were on 1 instead of & or something like that

Any chance you could be a bit more specific I don't quite understand.

Also I tried other commands such as alt-M for turning music on and off, all of that works, control groups don't.

I dunno what's up. Did WC2 only have control groups in the latter editions and I accidently downloaded the wrong one?


I think it's only in the Battle.net edition. Not the vanilla one.

How did that work? Did you have to REBUY the game/expansion to get on battle.net back in the day?


Yes. Warcraft II got two editions. One is Warcraft II : Tides of Darkness and the other is Warcraft II : Tides of Darkness Battle.net edition (iirc). I think the Battle.net edition includes "Beyond the dark portal"


I downloaded the Warcombat version, and the hotkeys work perfectly now.
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ishmoks
Profile Joined November 2010
Philippines50 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-03-16 06:30:14
March 16 2016 06:28 GMT
#91
Anyone here playing at the war2? I recently started playing and learning some "cookbooks" from veteran players.

Haven't been playing sc2 , War2 really got my attention and I wanna get good.

For those interested, you guys should give it a go its still an amazing game

you can download Warcraft 2 combat edition here: http://en.war2.ru/
I play Type 1
azmarco
Profile Joined January 2016
France5 Posts
March 18 2016 09:00 GMT
#92
On March 17 2010 19:28 Coulthard wrote:
Warcraft 2 is my second most favorite rts ever and in my opinion the best blizzard ost so far


Same here.
rotta
Profile Joined December 2011
5586 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-03-18 13:59:09
March 18 2016 13:58 GMT
#93
WC2 started it all for me but I feel like actually playing it now would just ruin the precious memories. I never touched the multiplayer (no internets back then) though, so that might be worth a try.
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B-royal
Profile Joined May 2015
Belgium1330 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-03-18 17:48:52
March 18 2016 17:48 GMT
#94
I gave it a try recently and honestly, compared to brood war it's quite a dull game. As far as I understood, there's only one playable race, a single competitive map (gardens of war) that has imbalanced spawns, limited micro, too few viable units (grunts => ogres + some deathknights) and the list goes on.

It's still one of the classic RTS games out there, but once you've played brood war all the others tend to become stale (aside from wc3 tft).
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Goolpsy
Profile Joined November 2010
Denmark301 Posts
March 18 2016 19:05 GMT
#95
Limited control groups and bad pathing makes it very broodwar-esque in the sense that it requires insane mechanics. Economy keeps scaling as long as you can keep your expansion safe.

And getting from Grunts to Ogres without getting killed or getting them later than your opponent is quite the challenge.

Building placement matters a lot! they can help create chokes or concaves (buildings have relatively high hp, and not many units can attack them at the same time)

game is not dead at all
ishmoks
Profile Joined November 2010
Philippines50 Posts
March 21 2016 03:39 GMT
#96
Yes there is a small active player base. For a 21 year old game that's pretty good.

I play war2 more than sc2 now haha
I play Type 1
Probemicro
Profile Joined February 2014
3708 Posts
March 21 2016 04:53 GMT
#97
yeah who doesn't love bloodlustcraft?
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