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Author Topic: WWI Medic: Can the game be won?  (Read 4127 times)

BorkBorkGoesTheCode

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WWI Medic: Can the game be won?
« on: August 19, 2016, 02:52:15 am »

Can my side overrun the enemy trench?
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Re: WWI Medic: Can the game be won?
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2016, 03:10:50 am »

Yes. It doesn't win you the game though, you just go to the next (identical) level.

I have no idea if your actions actually help your dudes advance though, I feel like they might, but I think they might (maybe even probably) not.
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Re: WWI Medic: Can the game be won?
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2016, 03:15:22 am »

Yes. It doesn't win you the game though, you just go to the next (identical) level.

I have no idea if your actions actually help your dudes advance though, I feel like they might, but I think they might (maybe even probably) not.

They do help. If I remember correctly saving people makes the enemies spawn less guys, and avoids you having less (or makes you spawn more?).
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Re: WWI Medic: Can the game be won?
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2016, 08:51:59 am »

War. War never changes.
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Re: WWI Medic: Can the game be won?
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2016, 12:34:48 pm »

It has been a long time, but if I remember, the only exploity thing that really affects it is bandaging enemy soldiers -- they'll stay alive on the battlefield longer, so they won't be respawned as healthy soldiers until they are rescued by the enemy medic or get killed or expire on the (now longer) timer.  Your healthy people will also fill back to the cap if you rescue your wounded ones that are out there, of course, which helps your side get to the trench.  There's still a huge random element, especially in which machine gun emplacements get destroyed first.
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Re: WWI Medic: Can the game be won?
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2016, 05:04:05 pm »

War. War never changes.
War... has changed.
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Re: WWI Medic: Can the game be won?
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2016, 05:21:39 pm »

It has been a long time, but if I remember, the only exploity thing that really affects it is bandaging enemy soldiers -- they'll stay alive on the battlefield longer, so they won't be respawned as healthy soldiers until they are rescued by the enemy medic or get killed or expire on the (now longer) timer.  Your healthy people will also fill back to the cap if you rescue your wounded ones that are out there, of course, which helps your side get to the trench.  There's still a huge random element, especially in which machine gun emplacements get destroyed first.
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Re: WWI Medic: Can the game be won?
« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2016, 05:36:00 pm »

Thank you for the answer, Toady One!
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Re: WWI Medic: Can the game be won?
« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2016, 08:40:09 pm »

War. War never changes.
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Re: WWI Medic: Can the game be won?
« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2016, 09:21:05 pm »

(The fun part is that both statements could apply to either game. War evolves/war will never end.)
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Re: WWI Medic: Can the game be won?
« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2016, 12:48:03 am »

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Re: WWI Medic: Can the game be won?
« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2016, 10:06:30 am »

Just want to mention, that actually Other Games is for games Toady didn't make. Curses is for games he did make(other than the Armoks), although it's mostly for Liberal Crime Squad.
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Re: WWI Medic: Can the game be won?
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2016, 10:48:10 am »

Just want to mention, that actually Other Games is for games Toady didn't make. Curses is for games he did make(other than the Armoks), although it's mostly for Liberal Crime Squad.
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Re: WWI Medic: Can the game be won?
« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2016, 10:57:24 am »

is WWI Medic not ASCII?
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« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2016, 10:59:00 am »

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