08-08-2015, 01:48 AM
(08-08-2015, 01:34 AM)SilverOtter Wrote: Dear God, the original Earth 2150 campaigns will absolutely tear you apart if you don't know what you're doing. Starting off on the wrong foot leaves you with little money to research anything, and minimal units to transport to missions. Restarting the mission, or even the campaign might need to happen if you don't save constantly. The enemy is aggressive, you get unforgiving base areas, your AI allies are mediocre and usually are scripted to be fucked over, and you get minimal minerals to finish the level- if you know exactly the most optimal way to finish it. You must save units as much a possible but they die far too easily. If you don't keep research up, you fall behind and get steamrolled. Even worse is the ED campaign: You got tanks and machine guns? They already have rocket launchers, or, if the game hates you, energy weapons. You basically have to zerg rush in hopes of the enemy running out of minerals before you. You have mediocre cash almost all the time and yet you still have a 100,000 credit deadline to meet. Want to actually finish the campaign on time and get an ending other than "Earth has fallen into the sun and you didn't evacuate the civilians"? Hope you like cutting your cash in half for almost every mission!
And that's just on Easy mode.
I remember it being hard. I've never gotten very far.
Also, wasn't it a sun falling into the earth, or was that just the German translation being garbage again?