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I don't have any experience with contra so I cannot yet make this comparison myself unfortunately.

Hahaha, may well be.

What?

I'm glad you enjoyed it, I myself particularly dislike tactics of cheesing the AI like baiting the A10 airstrike or similar. General Alexander definitely took more tries than the other generals (excluding the Boss general), she is difficult. Watching these videos back, I however see that I don't seem to use hotkeys as much as I might do now, but I guess that also makes for a more "easy-to-follow" style of play where I use the mouse cursor to do everything, select which buildings to build etc.

The link to this particular one is in the description. I sometimes go to cnclabs.com to check out zero hour mission maps. Alternatively I just google for zero hour maps/missions every so often and sometimes find map-packs or single maps that seem interesting enough. Also, if you get gentool (which I don't have anymore), it will download a bunch of maps automatically.

And if I'm not mistaken, I believe Legi's GenPatcher also offers to download some maps. I don't know if those are the same ones that Gentool downloads.

thankyou for your reply! :)

No I don't have any mods. This is strange, and I've seen others describe similar things where my matches seem to be "easier" than what they are tackling. Can you tell me one thing, how are you loading into the match, do you do it from the campaign savefile, or do you make a new one once the game starts to be able to skip the intro on additional tries?

Yeah I've heard that before. I don't remember if it is different in skirmish vs. challenge/mission mode, or it is different between the vanilla Generals and Zero Hour. I do remember that in vanilla Generals I have to destroy all buildings, even defensive ones.

@@clowngeneral You must destroy all buildings except " Demo Trap " , probably because it is only building in " Command & Conquer : Generals " that is stealth .

@@XEJTEP Ahh makes sense that the demo trap is excluded in the vanilla mechanic, I didn't realize about the demo trap. Although if I recall correctly the vanilla GLA faction can camo-net their defensive structures (stingers and tunnel networks).

@@clowngeneral No , only in " Command & Conquer : Generals - Zero Hour " that is possible .

Glad you enjoyed it.

No, I believe the plane comes from the closest edge of the map, so I tend to not rotate them (or my other buildings) since they fit so nicely together with the preset angle.

She is definitely the general that requires me to have the clearest "opening plan". I have to find some build order that works, I feel like there is little freedom. And I don't like baiting the A10 airstrike like speedrunners do to avoid it destroying your buildings.

Sure, I'm interested to talk and hear your ideas. Do you have a discord handle?

Thanks

It's such a good game, and a shame that it is so unfinished with all its bugs.

Thanks

Hello, If you check the description of the video I lay out a few links that I read up on and used in an effort to make my game run smoother. I believe I might have also used some information from the following: www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?showtopic=972572 where I probably searched and found a tool to do this patching, something like this I believe: ntcore.com/?page_id=371 . If these things don´t work, then something else to try is just to have a clean install of the game and use Legionnaire's Genpatcher: legi.cc/downloads/genpatcher/ , which is really quite handy. This may work, however, I believe I still encounter matches that are more prone to crashing, for example when I play against 7 infantry armies or something. And if a match is prone to crashing, I try to play differently, I try to use support powers and auroras to take out large groups of units to reduce the unit count on the map, and I even try to build my defences less dense than I otherwise would (in an effort to maybe make pathfinding of units easier for the game).

thankful@@clowngeneral

I definately had to retake this mission several times. If I recall correctly, I really found it helpful to take out their outmost base from outside the wall before charging in.

I'm curious, did you use the angry mob in your success?

Yeah defensively to get rid of the emperor tanks :) for the attack I mostly used tons of RPG troopers and quad cannons, the game did take around 45 minutes to complete @@clowngeneral

The reason I built a few EMP patriot missile systems there was to take the hits from the particle cannons, and the EMP to the right was handy as it clearly took out a few comanches. But I agree with the sentiment that this is not optimal play, and I should be able to do this much better now (and with better quality recording if I decide to record these Challenge matches again).

Maybe so, I didn't really try this with a mindset of attack-centric. I guess it might work as GLA has access to bounty, I might try it sometime.

Haha, yeah it almost always takes me quite a few tries to beat her.

Its not my favorite to increase the normal speed of the game, it feels like increasing the difficulty artificially somehow (I'm not a huge fan of excessive micro-management).

@@clowngeneral true words from the gentlemen

I found it a bit difficult when I first encountered it. It might be fun to try again to see if it would even be difficult now.

Yeah for some reason I've also encountered a load of "serious errors" while competing with Townes.

This map is called Death Valley, and it is an official map, so it should be included with the game or some of its patches. If you are looking for other maps however, I suggest finding maps on sites like cnclabs.com or on discord servers of some larger Zero Hour communities.

Thank you.

Compared to tackling 1v7 Hard, then yes I agree, beating the campaign/challenge on hard isn't that difficult.

Regular Auroras are definitely OP as well, allowing you to "Point & Click" your way through the enemies as you put it. But the Alpha variant is even better, only requiring 3 to take out a superweapon, and with their insanely powerful fuel air bomb they easily wipe large armies at once. I haven't tried the unofficial v1.6 or any AI mod to make the AI harder. I still can't beat some matchups of 1v7 with the "current" hard difficulty, so making them even harder might make it a bit closer to impossible.

@@clowngeneral Have you noticed on 1.4 that Medium Army will surrender after like 2 minutes on Starting Cash $5000?

@@AdmiralKhafre Hahaha, no I have not. Wow, that just goes to show how unfinished this game is, I don't even feel like I need to verify that, I just believe it.

Yeah I agree, this definitely could have been executed better.

No problem. I hope you had a fun time trying to beat him again.

Yeah, I also feel like it is a bit cheap to just spam superweapons. If memory serves me correctly, I think I only built a particle cannon because it "felt right" as I was superweapon general. But I also feel like the Alpha Auroras are a bit cheat-y and thus I mostly use them when necessary and otherwise sparingly.

@@clowngeneral respect

Yeah the game is infamous for its crashes, after all it is written by EA.

Yeah, beating her often took me quite a few tries. Just redoing the same thing with a little improvement each time and a varying factor of luck.