Dark Colony 1 vs 7 AI (grays)

[@c64cosmin]

I am half way through this, gosh you're good, and I love this so much, thank you for uploading wow! Also you can press space to build the current queue faster :D

[@llVIU]

thanks but I don't use space, I use the arrow keys to move the camera instead. alt/ctrl to select only ground/air units, or F1 F2 F3 etc keys to select certain unit types. It would, however, be possible to use a software like "keytweak" to reassign your keyboard keys to something easier to use, for example WASD to move the camera.

[@c64cosmin]

@@llVIU didn't know about the alt/ctrl, nor I did know you can set waypoints for units to perform patrol around two points, will continue watching the video shortly

[@llVIU]

@@c64cosmin here's another thing that you won't learn from the videos, the AI can actually semi-see the entire map. He always peridically patrols the shortest paths between petra 7 points. So you could potentially hide your unit nearby, which is what I sometimes try to do with a brozar. Move him away from the petra 7 when I can't guard him, and wait about 10-30 seconds, then his unit will go to some other petra 7. The AI also has high priority for the broozar, and he can sort of see where you click your units. So sometimes you can send a distraction broozar in one area so that the dumb AI sends his entire army after him, while you move your army. The AI can easily intercept your clicks and go to wherever you're trying to attack before you reach there. This whole deal is especially bad on the "circle of friends" desert map, that 6 hour video fight from earlier, hence why I try not to put expoilers on the petra 7. The AI quickly knows and sends his armies to destroy them. I try to minimize the defence points, as few as possible, and use my base for defence, since the base has very high hitpoints compared to a broozar, and the enemy tends to get distracted and prioritize hitting my base instead of my units. Hence why I prefer on "hole in the middle" map to quickly send my broozars in the middle, before the enemy has lots of units that can intercept my broozars and kill them, and also the broozar near my base is left very vulnerable. Those few minute that the AI spends trying to destroy my base are extremely precious, and buys me enough time to get some efficient units like groms or xenoworts. My weakness are the siege/artillery units, barrager/atril, they have high range and EXTREMELY high damage. The fact that the enemy can just constantly send units to soak damage and scout, makes the artillery very hard to get to and kill. My defence against ai is the xenoworts+healers for defence, and artillery with upgrade 2 for extra range (the weapon upgrade 1 and 2 increase their range) with 1-2 squares space between your artillery unit and the xenoworts. I try to leave 1 square space between my xenoworts to minimize the damage from the enemy artillery.

[@c64cosmin]

@@llVIU that is supee insightful, the only thing that I can share, is that an ortu/osprey can destroy the main base (the one to the left) if you approach it from the left, I remeber using that as a kid all the time, dunno if it got patched, but approaching a base from the left will render that one unit invisible, you will be able to camp it there until that base is destroyed

[@llVIU]

@@c64cosmin I didn't knew about that bug before, maybe make a video to demonstrate it. I use "free cam 8" to record, set to resolution 640x480. I wouldn't use that bug abuse myself though.

[@c64cosmin]

Great victory, thank you for the upload

[@llVIU]

thanks for the challenge, dark colony is a timeless forgotten gem.

[@TheKamraten]

How do I play this on todays OS? I have the old game in an ISO-file so I can install but it wont start.

[@llVIU]

iso files were back in the day when you had to "mount" them as fictional drives, with software such as "daemon tools" I uploaded on www.mediafire.com/file/a5a11ofss2natxo/Dark+Colony+(with+Council+Wars+addon).rar or if it doesn't work, I can upload again. You shouldn't need to mount any iso files or such. And it should work on windows 10.

[@linkedx]

I wish they made a remaster for this game

[@llVIU]

I asked a dev or 2 for the source code to make the resolution better but as per typical autistic dev, they said no. 1000 years from now they'll cling to the source code in their grave. But I don't know about you, but the graphics are perfect for me. Don't need all of that 2024s glitter in my eyes

[@linkedx]

@@llVIU I also love the graphics, but I would not mind a remaster and some QOL changes, like what they did with diablo 2. too bad they didnt let you work with the code man, someone should make a copy-paste of this game, lol, but I dont know how much this would cost and shit