08-08-2015, 03:02 AM
(08-08-2015, 01:48 AM)Jim_Clonk Wrote:The Earth is falling into the sun because the ED used to many nukes in one area in Earth 2140.(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?
How did they manage that and still have a half-livable planet, you ask? They're space Russians, that's why!
Oh, and even though all campaigns start out with 183 days, they're all at different parts of the story. The UCS is earliest point, since they start off before the ED's invasion of the arctic (which you do immediately in the ED campaign), and before the Alliance with the LC (which is already underway in the LC campaign). Even the expansion packs are time screwy: the entirety of The Moon Project happens midway through those 183 days, and Lost Souls happens near the end of it.
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