Conquest Earth, install, loader, intro, menu system and crash ...

[TheBearlydeloved]

This RTS was kind of cool, AFAIK you could individually control units as if it were a top down shooter.

[fisk0]

@TheBearlydeloved Yes, you could, the problem was that it was THE ONLY way you could control your units, as the pathfinding and AI was beyond horrible. Your soldiers wouldn't automatically fire back when fired upon, and wouldn't target the enemies you clicked at, but rather at the specific point on the map you pointed at, and would shoot in the general direction before they were in range, hitting absolutely nothing. :) It had some great ideas, but the implementation was terrible in every way.

[21innocentbystander]

I remember this game as the the first over hyped game that bombed. Maybe I'm wrong, but in my mind it is.

[fisk0]

@21innocentbystander Ion Storm's Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3 was released the same year, and it was overhyped and bombed as well, but there certainly have been very notable critical bombs long before that. Arguably E.T. on the Atari 2600 was one (and not only did it bomb, it took the entire U.S. video game industry down with it), as well as Imagine Software's Bandersnatch (vaporware for a long time, finally released as Brattacas in 1986) and Battlecruiser 3000AD (1996).

[21innocentbystander]

@fisk0 Thanks.

[xthuanho]

can play already, how come very laggy but in-game smooth

[fisk0]

@xthuanho I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but the menus run a lot slower than the actual game because there are a ridiculous amount of full screen animations going on the entire time, while the in-game stuff is just a standard 2D RTS, which is a lot less resource intensive.

[xthuanho]

how do i solve the 'INSERT CD 2' ??

[fisk0]

@xthuanho have you tried inserting (mounting) CD 2? I haven't encountered any problems with that, but if you're using DOSBox it's best to either use physical CD's (originals or burnt) or using an external image mounting program, like Daemon tools or so, I don't think DOSbox supports switching a mounted image while a program is running - and this game uses a lot of CD swapping.

[hsanafad]

@xthuanho

I had the same problem and I got it to work!

All I did was put the FLIC03.WAD and the CD2 files from disc 2 into the conquest folder and it ran.

[KaiXi333]

I remembered that this game fuckin sucked.

[fisk0]

@KaiXi333 yeah, it had a lot of promise, great graphics and cutscenes for the time as well as some new ideas (mainly split screen, allowing you to look at different points of the map at once), but in the end it was a really terrible game.

There was no pathfinding at all in the game, and that is kind of the most important thing in an RTS, after mouse recognition and unit balancing - which the game also failed at.

[horgus]

I got a pc back then that could run the game. Guess I was lucky. The game indeed had awesome GFX for it's time. The setting was great but I found it too hard for me. I was 9 years old though.

Too bad I threw the game away :<

[005pereira]

where download conquest earth ????

[fisk0]

look around torrent sites and you'll probably find it. I suppose you'll have more luck in finding the playstation version since there are more playstation preservation projects than late-90s-rts-preservation projects. I know there are several collections of almost all playstation games ever made, and this should probably be among them. I have no idea which version is better, or if both the psx and pc versions are equally bad. Either version will contain the Eat Static music as CD Audio I'm sure.

[005pereira]

not to worry me already to discover right now thank you

[ZeD3k]

The intro reminds me a lot of the TV-series "Bablyon 5": The space station, the small fighters, the aliens (like the shadows from B5).

[fisk0]

Yes, the human ships and the way the laser beams are shown are clearly inspired by B5, but I think Eat Static had used those alien ship designs on album covers since they started in 1993. That's the same year B5 started, but the shadow ships were not introduced until late season 2 if I remember correctly.