First post, by Jed118
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Has anyone played Scorched Earth? I played this game a lot when I was a kid in the early 90s, and I installed version 1.5 of this game on my 386 I built in 1999 or so. Now, I don't seem to recall the game acting this way when I was a kid (and I do remember playing long games with friends for hours), but early on in the game, the tanks stop firing properly (sounds of turrets moving and shots being fired, but nothing comes out and no damage occurs when firing various weapons) or suddenly, the game seems to shift to sequential mode and everyone starts firing at once. I've tried different in-game settings, I've tried different hardware (386SX16, 386DX40,486DX/25 (Compaq LTE), 486DLC40, Pentium 166) and eventually the game gets "corrupted". I've even tried prior versions of the game (1.0, 1.23) and different download sources.
Is there a particular setting that I missed, or has my memory failed me and nostalgia wiped over the actual fact that the game always behaved this way?
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