I've only ever played single player campaign mode, and now that my kids are old enough, I'm trying to get them into the game.
I've tried running the dos version in dosbox and also the latest War2Combat version I found here, but in both cases, as soon as we start saving/loading the game, the AI keeps breaking and enemy units stop attacking, stop researching, etc. Reloading or restarting the game doesn't fix anything. We're on a level now with our base built, resources collected, ready to attack and defend but the AI is just idle. Just takes most of the fun out of the game when there's not much of a fight
We're all just very, very casual players (and not even very good ones at that!) and as much as possible would like to recreate the same gameplay experience that was originally available
I've downloaded and tried playing Danny's DAIFE and while I think it's much better in many ways with various enhancements and fixes, the difficulty is just far too difficult for casual warriors like ourselves. (shoutout to Danny for all the hard work!)
Is there a mod or a patch available that addresses JUST the known save/load AI feature? Or even a mod with some enhancements and fixes with no increase in difficulty?
I realize many of you more experienced players are looking for a more challenging gameplay experience (and maybe someday we'll get there), but for now I'd be content with just being able to play the game as I used to play it with the original, much easier level of difficulty
any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thx!
https://gamebanana.com/mods/535863Hey buddies, danny here.
This mod is intended to showcase the actual original computer difficulty being set up by Blizzard in 1995. Just attempted to get ride of as many bugs as possible that could find in the 52 original campaign maps.
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Accuracy Edition from now attempts to showcase every single original attack and AI orders that were originally written by Blizzard Entertainment.
The experience all people have out there have about warcraft 2 campaigns is wrong, since most of the original maps have one or several bugs that will never allow the player to have an actual chance to fight an enemy(...) Most of the original campaign maps are just an attempt to destroy an obstacle. Mostly a dead oponnent, since in original maps the AIs just either get bugged out, stucked or never manage to launch all of their intended unit upgrades or attacks.
If you ever thought for a second that the original Warcraft 2 campaigns are either too easy, too bugged up or that they weren't actually tested up, this is the Mod for you.
This Mod eventually will be a harder challenge for you, in case you wanted something harder than the original Warcraft 2 campaign maps difficulty, in case you're either a casual level player or someone experienced in Real Strategy Games.
I did NOT test up all the maps, even though they were minimally tweaked, to either showcase the full potential from original and completed AI scripts (...)
Most noticeable fixes (...)
-Not anymore a lack of workers (...)
-Attempted to fix as many situations as possible where computer units would get stucked around shorelines, around barracks or town/great halls.
-Showcasing all the intended upgrades (...)
-Improved unit pathing around most of computer bases (...)
-Fixed as many situations as possible where ships could get stucked near to their shipyard/refineries.
-(...) player could complete missions real quick with either Cheeses or Rushes (...)
