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JOIN THIS DISCORD to coordinate Games With Goons™: https://discord.gg/6DthKgN  ShockWave is a mod for the much maligned Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour expansion that makes it a highly accurate simulation of the current geopolitical conflict in the middle east https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E003wSKsYTc It’s a game about big explosions. It’s a game about massing nuclear powered tanks only to have them explode in a chain reaction inside your base. It’s a game about having your infantry spray the other team’s infantry with super soakers filled with anthrax. Forget APM and min/maxing build order, in this game you can play like ISIS yes I do mean playing as a middle eastern militant group and stealing all of the other team’s humvees. Infantry exoskeletons, GLA aircraft, mortar squads, artillery cover fire, upgraded general abilities. The gimmicks are endless. quote:The main goal of this mod is to make Zero Hour a more interesting game with more diversity between the generals, making you think twice before you select a certain general, and overall provide more choices, diversity, and strategic freedom than in Zero Hour - while keeping the spirit and design direction of the original Generals game and storyline. This really doesn't sell it very well, it's like they made another expansion on top of zero hour. There is SO MUCH STUFF and all of it is implemented incredibly well. Shockwave might be a modification to a fifteen year old strategy game left dead in the water by it’s developers but it’s under active development (!) with the latest version having been released less than a year ago (!!)  There is a button to make combat chinooks play ‘rise of the valkyries.’ and oh yeah, there are a whole lot of taunts.  gently caress THE GENEVA CONVENTION  THIS IS A GIANT EARTHQUAKE TANK It’s ridiculous. It’s stupid. It’s gimmicky. it's surprisingly well balanced. And it’s amazingly fun. I thought this game died with gamespy? Even though this game was left to rot by EA and no longer has an official online component, The SWR developers implemented an online lobby called SWR.net that doesn’t require loving around with hamachi. That’s right, this game  still has functional and active online multiplayer it's kind of hacked in with it's own emulated network adapter, kind of like hamachi, but it works pretty drat well. It's not the most populated, but there are people on occasionally. Hopefully we can remedy that Be sure to not use cheat engine or any trainers because they will ban you and then you'll be poo poo out of luck. Doesn’t this game use securom? Yeah, and to play on windows 10 you legitimately need to find a  crack to circumvent the now completely broken securom drivers. Yes, I am seriously telling you that you need to crack this game to get it to run on windows 10. Don’t bother trying to modify your registry to get securom to work, because it won’t. I tried. Just download a crack. I am not going to tell you where to find a crack due to moderator order but it is not difficult. This is not an endorsement of piracy, you still need a CD key to install the game, and the online lobby won’t let you join a game if it detects you have the same CD key as another player. But at least it will run without a CD now! How i do?? Install Generals, then Zero Hour, patch Zero Hour, and the install the mod. if the game 'encounters a serious error' on startup you probably just need to update your options.ini file since modern windows permissions kind of gently caress with the game. If it just doesn't start, you probably need to crack it. See above! Getting online to work is a little finicky, you have to enable swr.net on the launcher and start a multiplayer game, and then if it still isn't routing through the network adapter (you can check in the in-game options menu to see if your IP is a weird 10.x.x.x ip rather than your net IP) it might require disabling and re-enabling it. but once it works, it will stay working. I haven't had any lag issues or disconnects except when playing with idiots who clearly are playing on ancient computers LINKS Where to download the mod: http://www.moddb.com/mods/cc-shockwave an old archived wiki that has pretty extensive information on each general and the units they have: http://web.archive.org/web/20111113213927/http://wiki.falloutstudios.org/wiki/Manual:ShockWave The SWR productions discord full of very annoying people who will usually provide support and sometimes play games: https://discord.gg/2jMfER2 nigga crab pollock fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Feb 8, 2017 |
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Zero Hour owns (best C&C game?), Shockwave owns, ROTR also owns but I'm kind of waiting for generals to get added in. I might hop in on this if enough goons start playing.
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Jan 28, 2017 03:09
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I, Fruit Chewy, endorse this product and/or service. This mod is legit as hell and contains at least 500% more lasers than vanilla or zero hour.
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Jan 28, 2017 03:21
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Fruit Chewy posted:I, Fruit Chewy, endorse this product and/or service. LASERS TAKE A LOT OF POWER.
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Jan 28, 2017 05:10
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Hells yes I used to play the poo poo out of Shockwave. Did they ever fix it to work on the Origin version of Zero Hour? That's the only one I can dig up these days 
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Jan 28, 2017 07:49
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Hells yes I used to play the poo poo out of Shockwave. I think there's a mod loader or something you can use with the origin one? I'm not sure honestly. I've had the same generals install for like 7 years or something.
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Jan 28, 2017 08:28
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I've had good luck playing games with randos in the online lobby, so don't be afraid that there'll be nobody to play with. Plus me and chewy have been playing and we're loving terrible
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Jan 29, 2017 01:58
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"Wow! Where can I possibly get this game?!" https://www.origin.com/usa/en-us/store/command-and-conquer/command-and-conquer-the-ultimate-collection/ultimate-collection $20 for every Command and Conquer game.
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Jan 30, 2017 01:09
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lol if you don't have this game in a box somewhere with the discs unreadably scratched and/or lost
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Jan 30, 2017 05:41
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I own "The First Decade" somewhere and honestly following second decade of command and conquer games are all garbage.
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Jan 30, 2017 06:47
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nigga crab pollock posted:lol if you don't have this game in a box somewhere with the discs unreadably scratched and/or lost 
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We did a couple 1v1v1s tonight and everything went great! If you're having any issues getting things setup, check out the pins in our discord. I went ahead and pinned the solutions to every error I've encountered in the process of setting this up on a few different installs. All of this poorly cut together nonsense could be yours to enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3nPEXValNY Fruit Chewy fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Jan 30, 2017 |
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Jan 30, 2017 11:30
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nigga crab pollock posted:lol if you don't have this game in a box somewhere with the discs unreadably scratched and/or lost my household had 3 copies when I was growing up but the boxes have long since disappeared
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Hells yes I used to play the poo poo out of Shockwave. apparently you need to download updated launchers but it should work with the origin version http://bibber.eu/downloads/cnc-ultimate-collection-launchers/
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Jan 31, 2017 06:04
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Goddamn do I not know how to play GLA. Who has time for stealth and trickery when you could be building more tanks?
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Mordja posted:Goddamn do I not know how to play GLA. Who has time for stealth and trickery when you could be building more tanks? Back in the day, I played GLA Juhziz by spamming Scorpions, Quad Cannons, and Bike Terrorists at every enemy, using Tunnel Networks to get my forces into the poo poo. Just endless macroing of building Black Markets, Arms Dealers, and vehicles in a tide of explosive death.
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nigga crab pollock posted:Yeah, and to play on windows 10 you legitimately need to find a Securom was pretty broken even in those days. I love love LOVE the irony that so much money was put into a means of preventing piracy, which didn't work at all and in fact this game was released to the Internet like days or weeks before the official release, and that their securom thing caused a lot of games to not work and in some cases caused computers to erase their hard drives or some weird poo poo, and in the end a lot of people need to download the pirated game just so they can play their legitimately bought game. Anyway, more on topic, I've always been a Generals apologist. This looks awesome. What is Discord? Someone told me it's just Teamspeak.
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credburn posted:Securom was pretty broken even in those days. I love love LOVE the irony that so much money was put into a means of preventing piracy, which didn't work at all and in fact this game was released to the Internet like days or weeks before the official release, and that their securom thing caused a lot of games to not work and in some cases caused computers to erase their hard drives or some weird poo poo, and in the end a lot of people need to download the pirated game just so they can play their legitimately bought game. it's a game centered text + voice chat app that's more about convenience and joining groups. it's more like slack than teamspeak. as for gla i have no clue how to play toxin general since there really don't seem to be many massable units that are effective against other vehicles. except buggies, but those are made of wet paper and any artillery will gently caress an entire blob before they have a chance to do anything
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Still unironically playing this dead gay game almost nightly. It's a huge pain to install and set up. You should 100% do it anyway.
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Mordja posted:Goddamn do I not know how to play GLA. Who has time for stealth and trickery when you could be building more tanks? salvage general's marauders get three cannons and let me tell you how i won a game with like six of them
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nigga crab pollock posted:salvage general's marauders get three cannons and let me tell you how i won a game with like six of them salvage general is the only acceptable gla general because he's basically poverty china
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Feb 14, 2017 00:32
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Does the expansion invalidate quadcannon rushing?
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Orv posted:Does the expansion invalidate quadcannon rushing? pretty sure you can get around that with like a single well placed artillery unit. or like, tanks. quad cannons are poo poo against armor or base defense artillery 
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So, what is the most efficient way to get a working copy of Zero Hour online? My friends and I have wanted to play this forever, even taken to reinstalling our CDs, but it's always one problem after another. I'll rebuy whatever I have to, I just want the easiest path from getting it -> being online. Orv posted:Does the expansion invalidate quadcannon rushing? That was never very good against most generals. My concern actually is if it fixes the hilarious imbalance with USA Laser vs USA Air, where Air could crank out an aurora and autokill the only AA unit USA Laser could make. Fruit Chewy posted:Still unironically playing this dead gay game almost nightly. It's a huge pain to install and set up. You should 100% do it anyway. Please share your pitfalls and pain so we may know how to set this up.
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Blazing Ownager posted:So, what is the most efficient way to get a working copy of Zero Hour online? Pretty sure it's part of a bundle on Origin.
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Mordja posted:Pretty sure it's part of a bundle on Origin. I have the Origin version but was under the impression that the multiplayer no longer worked without an extra program, and that modding it had different challenges to run Shockwave. Was this is in error? If all I have to do is install my Origin version and patch this in, I'll be doing it tonight! ED: If this is the case does this mean anyone running the disc version needs to rebuy the Origin version?
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Goddamn Shockwave owns. Partially goon-made too, I'm not going to doxx anybody but I know for a fact that some of the creators still post here.
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Just dropping by to say Generals was an ownage game and it's amazing to me that so many people shat all over it back when it was new.
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It would have got 99% less criticism if it had been called "Strategic Warfare Generals" or "RTS Action Generals" or something. Calling it "Command and Conquer" created expectations that weren't met. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bBubOqJxZs Personally I was satisfied with this. I coulda swore there was a version of the intro that ended with "nuclear weapons" but I can't find it.
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Yodzilla posted:Just dropping by to say Generals was an ownage game and it's amazing to me that so many people shat all over it back when it was new. Still the best RTS ever made IMO. gently caress StarCraft.
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Blazing Ownager posted:Still the best RTS ever made IMO. gently caress StarCraft. Mechnically I would say Starcraft is far superior to C&C. That being said, the C&C fanbase actually has fun with the game, as opposed to the SC2 fanbase which treat theirs like a cross between a religion and the most cutthroat business ever.
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Goddamn the Laser General challenge is bashing my balls in so hard I'm pretty sure my dickhead is sticking out of my rear end in a top hat. Trying to play on Medium, mind you, not Hard, I'm not some RTS god of million APM micromanagement. Playing as Leang by the way. Anybody beat the Generals' Challenge in the latest Shockwave version? (LOL like anybody else in the entire world still plays this game)
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Blazing Ownager posted:I have the Origin version but was under the impression that the multiplayer no longer worked without an extra program, and that modding it had different challenges to run Shockwave. no i'm playing on an old disc version i bought over a decade ago you just need to find a crack to get past the securom. it's in the OP the shockwave package has an online multiplayer VPN thing. i think there's probably ways to do it without shockwave but shockwave is basically an expansion for zero hour so  me and fruit chewy haven't been playing much but if more people are on im sure that will change
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Backhand posted:Mechnically I would say Starcraft is far superior to C&C. That being said, the C&C fanbase actually has fun with the game, as opposed to the SC2 fanbase which treat theirs like a cross between a religion and the most cutthroat business ever. yeah this is why it's good because in this game losing is fun rather than a purely functional exercise in damage control scuba school sucks posted:Goddamn the Laser General challenge is bashing my balls in so hard I'm pretty sure my dickhead is sticking out of my rear end in a top hat. Trying to play on Medium, mind you, not Hard, I'm not some RTS god of million APM micromanagement. Playing as Leang by the way. Anybody beat the Generals' Challenge in the latest Shockwave version? the shockwave ai has been improved from base and there is a decent sized compstomp compunity online. so the AI is definitely tuned towards poopsockers who have been playing this game for the last ten years and also that on top of the fact that all RTS AI cheats hellas
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