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Yeah, Kane's Wrath had a GDI subfaction that was still active in the yellow and red zones where walkers and hover units were still the name of the game, so they had upgraded Titans and Wolverines and poo poo. It was a neat bit of world building. Also the Titan is cooler than the Predator BUT the Mammoth Mk III owns bones so I'd say it was an even trade.
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I still have a fascination with that late 90s/early 2000s trend of “colored lighting” and still absolutely love the look of TS. Here’s a pro tip regarding the older games and 16x9 resolution: play them in 1280x720. The units aren’t super tiny and you still get the benefit of the wider screen.
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Jun 22, 2020 06:36
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Bloodly posted:It's Spice but more harmful. They wanted to shift the setting but still wanted the single resource to fight over. YoursTruly posted:As a kid, I always assumed Tiberium was a metaphor for fossil fuels and climate change, but I don't know if I've ever actually seen that officially stated anywhere?
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Jun 22, 2020 06:52
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When we were 10 my best friend and I played through Red Alert together on his pc. We each took a turn playing a mission and collaborated on strategies and base planning. The Soviet campaign was our favourite because we'd build 10 mammoth tanks and a dozen V2s to methodically wipe out Allied bases. The Allied campaign was a slog because unlike the Tesla coils, turret and pillbox defences don't outrange the enemy. This weekend I finished the Allied campaign by just spamming out medium tanks en masse and use those to attack instead of waiting for Soviet troops to come to me. What a difference 25 years make.
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C&C3 was a return to the series after a long hiatus (with the interim success of Generals). The developers were quite open that they had a mandate from EA to return to Tiberian Dawn-era designs and unit concepts for "contemporary relevancy" since there are quite a lot of players who refuse to touch anything "too sci-fi". But they were still a total bunch of fanboys so we got fun things like the Nod glider ninjas, GDI Zone Troopers with jump jets, and the gleeful high-budget missions and set pieces. C&C3 still has the best air units of the series, on all sides. There was a backlash against this from sections of the fanbase so Kane's Wrath was perhaps a sop to it, with the Steel Talons subfaction using TibSun walkers, Nod getting cyborgs back, Nod infantry being redesigned from howling mobs in hoodies back to TibSun dudes in black helmets with glowing orange stripes, and so on. I was quite annoyed by some of what KW did to the timeline, especially just handwaving Slaavik's death offscreen and what the final missions implied about Nod generally, but I accept the former may have had more to do with the actor's availability. The latter was just annoying, and then of course C&C4 came along and  Loxbourne fucked around with this message at 11:48 on Jun 22, 2020 |
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Jun 22, 2020 11:46
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I remember at the time being surprised about how respectfully EA had treated C&C when releasing 3, given it wasn't developed by Westwood. Then C&C 4 slapped me in the face for daring to be pleasantly surprised.
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Jun 22, 2020 12:09
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Full patchnotes are out. https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/hdv5tc/patch_launching_today_and_patch_notes/
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Mordja posted:Full patchnotes are out. quote:The “Deploy” hotkey will now apply to all items with the Deploy Cursor, including un-garrisoning troop carriers, laying mines, activating the MAD Tank, and triggering the Chrono TankThe “Deploy” hotkey will now apply to all items with the Deploy Cursor, including un-garrisoning troop carriers, laying mines, activating the MAD Tank, and triggering the Chrono Tank I wonder if you can mass teleport chrono tanks now. quote:Reduced the Hard Difficulty balance in Tiberian Dawn. We’ve effectively split the difference between Normal Mode and the launch version Hard mode. If you happened to already beat missions on Hard mode (Or somehow received the Achievement), then wear that with a badge of honor. Let's see how this goes
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Jun 22, 2020 17:33
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Also apparently you can’t target or shoot down the Nod cargo plane anymore (I don’t think I ever managed to pull that off anyways)
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Jun 22, 2020 17:47
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Mordja posted:Full patchnotes are out. That's an outstanding list of changes Good work Wow way to ruin The Original Experience: quote:Made an adjustment to GDI Mission 8 where Civilians will now avoid Tiberium tiles, and the trigger-happy Civilian has been removed from the map entirely Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Jun 22, 2020 |
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What the gently caress, I don't see a patch fix for the gap Generator invulnerability issue at all in this patch. It's been reported for weeks now and I essentially stopped playing Soviet missions because the bug happens almost every time a gap generator is deployed for me. As reported by reddit user in the patch thread: "-Later Soviet campaign missions (specially Soviet Mission 14 on Hard) have this weird problem where if Aa enemy Gap generator gets close to your base, you end up with all (both friendly and enemy) units becoming invulnerable, this has been reported numerous times on Steam forums. This breaks the game and renders the mission unfinishable." This happened to me multiple times in soviet 12 and 14, the only way to avoid it is save to a different slot every 5 mins.
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Jun 22, 2020 17:56
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quote:Made an adjustment to GDI Mission 8 where Civilians will now avoid Tiberium tiles, and the trigger-happy Civilian has been removed from the map entirely Well it only took 25 years but that mission is finally reasonable.
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Also not fixed apparently: "-Soviet Aftermath Mission "Brothers in Arms" is unbeatable on Hard difficulty. The mission relies on PRECISE unit speed of the soviet spy unit to escape a scripted sequence, the original mission forced Normal difficulty regardless of chosen difficulty to ensure things wouldnt get broken, this is not the case on the Remaster. This causes the player's spy to always die when attempting to flee the chasing enemy attack dogs."
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Jun 22, 2020 18:00
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Trigger Happy Civilian was the hero of C&C
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Trigger Happy Civilian was a cop.
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quote:Fixed an issue where Unit Queueing was getting disabled after loading a saved game This was insanely frustrating and I'm glad it's fixed.
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Jun 22, 2020 18:29
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FrickenMoron posted:Trigger Happy Civilian was a cop. I retract my statement of support
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Sheen Sheen posted:Also apparently you can’t target or shoot down the Nod cargo plane anymore (I don’t think I ever managed to pull that off anyways) You used to be able to yes, it was great on a lot of maps once you got rocket soldiers/mlrs with western NOD bases
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Jun 22, 2020 20:43
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The new harvesting priority seems to leave a few spots behind when moving on to another field. Which is rather annoying when actually want to clear that spot so you can build on it.
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drat, I'm too young to have enjoyed the OG C&C games. Started with Red Alert 2 and C&C Renegade. That being said, if they remaster RA2 I'm preordering the collector's edition of that poo poo. I'm dying to see a HD sprite of this: 
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The update also fixed the crash where you played with more than 5 AI in skirmish on a custom map you made in the editor. Great!
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Sample_text posted:I'm dying to see a HD sprite of this:
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Come chill in this discord in case forums vanish https://discord.gg/nNGeQnb
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So other than the secret dinosaur/ant missions and the production videos, are there any other secrets or unlockable content in this?
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Narmer posted:So other than the secret dinosaur/ant missions and the production videos, are there any other secrets or unlockable content in this? I think that's it
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Yeah, C&C doesn't really have much else in the way of unlockable stuff. Once you beat the dino/ant missions and unlock all the bonus gallery stuff that's it.
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Is there a way, maybe using rules.ini, to remove the cap on build time bonus for having multiple structures? I remember from the original game that one of the add-ons capped this at one reduction only, after that you were just creating spawn points.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Is there a way, maybe using rules.ini, to remove the cap on build time bonus for having multiple structures? I remember from the original game that one of the add-ons capped this at one reduction only, after that you were just creating spawn points. You'd need to edit the .dll
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGAxSf31U6U The ending is perfect
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So I got to the last mission of the Allied Campaign in RA. (BTW I'm so grateful that I don't have to do all the add on missions in hard to get the Achievement. I'll be doing all of them on Casual once I have the Soviet campaign finished on Hard.) Man with the changes from Hard mode the start of the mission is next to impossible. Basically you spawn in Tanya and 2 Thieves. You are surrounded by explosive barrels. Almost immediately a single soviet trooper runs up, shoots the barrels and you die. Under the old difficulty you could shoot the trooper before he got to the barrels. But with the changes to units on hard, you can reach him to shoot him before he gets where he needs to go to shoot the barrels. The only way to survive is to put the game on slowest speed and immediately run to the south (counter intuitively towards another grouping of explosive barrels) because those barrels don't explode when the northern ones blow up. Took me ten tries to figure out that you couldn't shoot the trooper before he gets to you.
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The Question IRL posted:So I got to the last mission of the Allied Campaign in RA. (BTW I'm so grateful that I don't have to do all the add on missions in hard to get the Achievement. I'll be doing all of them on Casual once I have the Soviet campaign finished on Hard.) I thought RA Remastered hard mode was unchanged from the original game? Anyway, it was still annoying on normal, I also had to turn the speed down and immediately gun him down. Do enemies move faster on hard or something?
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The Question IRL posted:So I got to the last mission of the Allied Campaign in RA. (BTW I'm so grateful that I don't have to do all the add on missions in hard to get the Achievement. I'll be doing all of them on Casual once I have the Soviet campaign finished on Hard.) What mordja said is right: RA hard mode was unchanged from the original. It wasn't a new addition like for Tib Dawn. Running south was always the "correct" strategy.
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Spookydonut posted:You'd need to edit the .dll Ah well. Not a problem, I'm still thrilled to be playing this again
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I loving hated the start of that mission so much. I had forgotten C&C and RA were still at the tail end of when games would just go "you want to play me and have fun? gently caress you."
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Soundtrack is up on spotify https://twitter.com/OfficialCnC/status/1276546157397725184 CNC: https://open.spotify.com/album/6diK51gAlxp4pbpmoe8Ahc?si=1kfYlMuyQq2RM4Ac7Wg6YQ Red Alert: https://open.spotify.com/album/0PVfiTe7jFoMIcKr4yvkEk?si=02goBOWgRDSltdrqVKWCOA Tiberian Sons: https://t.co/xzX9Hjdc0v?amp=1 drunkill fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Jun 26, 2020 |
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Grand Fromage posted:I loving hated the start of that mission so much. I had forgotten C&C and RA were still at the tail end of when games would just go "you want to play me and have fun? gently caress you." The worst thing in RA is the dreaded just-barely-offscreen attack dog. It's so easy to accidentally aggro them, then you've got about a 0.5 second window to click the tiny pixel dog before it gets its leaping attack invincibility frames and murders Tanya.  
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Am I wrong or is TD stealth tank just kinda not worth it, at least against the AI. It doesn't do the sheer burst damage that TS/C&C3's does and seems to get detected almost at random. I feel better served just reverting to light and flame tanks.
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Jun 26, 2020 18:04
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The tragic fact of C&C and honestly most RTS games is that the exotic toys are rarely as good as the cheaply mass produced mundane tank.
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Mordja posted:Am I wrong or is TD stealth tank just kinda not worth it, at least against the AI. It doesn't do the sheer burst damage that TS/C&C3's does and seems to get detected almost at random. I feel better served just reverting to light and flame tanks. You are not wrong. Their attack is decent but their health is too low to be useful in any but the hugest of multiplayer rushes. There is a logic to their detection - it's simply being within one square of an infantry unit. I don't know what the detection range of base defences is.
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I know about infantry, but this sometimes happened when I drove by some medium tanks too.
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