I saw you were calling for help :P. I can start playing some again and see if I can help you a bit. Have never tried to beat it fast though, but I will try a bit. Are there any specific levels that "you need help with"?
alright, let´s revive this topic ^^ could use help in the following runs: xhuman 12 - i can never make it in less than 3min30sec, i always miss the time by a few seconds. has anyone done it? human 14 - there are so damn many things that can go wrong in the early game... does anyone have an idea how to get to destroy the portal without beating the white orc? it always costs so much time.. xorc 12 - pure luck in my opinion. even if you do everything right you can lose or be to slow. has anyone ran this level in a good time? orc14 - i definatley need to long for this lvl (your life will be better if i don´t tell you the time ^^). could use a samplerun for this one..
Great that you will start running some WC2! The only map I have been running is human4. I figured out a good strat and everything. But I yet haven't timed it or recorded anything. My computer is broken for the moment so there is nothing I can do for the moment... Good luck anyway :D.
human 14 - there are so damn many things that can go wrong in the early game... does anyone have an idea how to get to destroy the portal without beating the white orc? it always costs so much time..
I beat it without ever touching the white orcs. I just sent some gryphons up the left/right side, and came down on the portal from behind.
Think I sent 3 of them, and just kept sending reinforcements. Early on I sent a flying machine to drain death knight mana (they cast whirlwind on it, and hit some demons too). I might have sent the gryphons back for healing when they needed it. Guess you can use an invisible transport to get some paladins up there to ensure no loss. If you sent 5 gryphons up, I don't imagine you'd have trouble keeping them all alive, even without paladins.
I still haven't got my computer yet :(, I will continue on Human 4 when I have. I save a lot of time by not buying a Shipyard, you can destroy all the boats with just the two you starts with, that's nice :P.
I'm sorry but 2:39 is a crappy time. How much time did you spend on this one?
I mean, you missed such an obvious time saver. When watching your run I saw that the main goal was destroying the Castle, since rescuing the stone is quite easy. So of course the primary goal is to destroy the castle as soon as possible, but why did you wait so long before starting the attack? :-/
The video is encoded in what will probably be the new format SDA uses. It's H264 and AAC in an mp4 container, and can also be viewed with Quicktime 7 though I don't recommend it.
Since I'm the only person in the last page that criticized your run, I'll interpret that as you saying to me that I can only criticize and can't do it myself. I apologize if this is not what you meant, and you can disregard what I'm about to say. So.... Grow up. It doesn't matter whether or not someone can perform the run, if you have a bad time anyone should be able to say so. I was justified in criticizing your 2:39 because you missed an obvious time saver. It's not like I was nitpicking.
And second, you did see my 1:28, right? So yeah, I was able to "do" it. Not that it matters anyways if I could or not.
Again, if this is not what you meant to say, I apologize.