I'm suddenly not able to queue building units. Is this a bug or is it restricted sometimes? I've been able to do it every mission until now. It's the GDI mission after the commando mission.
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It's a bug that happens to me quite a lot. Disable and then enable the option in the menu.
Been playing through the ant missions in RA while going through the original C&C, definitely having more joy with them compared to when I was younger!
Really hope they give Tiberian Sun and RA2 the same treatment. RA2 could just have a digital rerelease and general spit with a polish for modern PCs/monitors and I'd be happy.
Really hope they give Tiberian Sun and RA2 the same treatment. RA2 could just have a digital rerelease and general spit with a polish for modern PCs/monitors and I'd be happy.
Hmm I actually had quite a few slowdowns and some stutters trying Skirmish mode against an AI. But maybe that was pathfinding stalling out again?
Bit of a shame that the Skirmish AI in Red Alert also has no idea whatsoever that water units exist. It will not build any.
You on an SSD? I honestly have almost never tested games not on an SSD for the channel. Probably since every rig I have had since 2010 has had an SSD as the OS and "active game" drive.
Well damn!
Although you can totally tell which elements of their gameplay seem dated nowadays, the games themselves remain insanely addictive. I can't stop playing.
Each mission, especially the hard ones, are like 2D puzzles for which you have to try out different tactics until you find their solution.
The fact that you can jump easily between the games, the campaigns and the expansion maps helps immensely in keeping the experience fresh. There's always something new to try out when you start feeling burnt out. You definitely shouldn't play everything "in order".
The cherry on top is of course the care that went into the remastering process itself. So, even if Starcraft and Warcraft 3 are for most players better *games*, they are not better *remasters*. Going from 320x200 resolution to this, is just astounding.
Although you can totally tell which elements of their gameplay seem dated nowadays, the games themselves remain insanely addictive. I can't stop playing.
Each mission, especially the hard ones, are like 2D puzzles for which you have to try out different tactics until you find their solution.
The fact that you can jump easily between the games, the campaigns and the expansion maps helps immensely in keeping the experience fresh. There's always something new to try out when you start feeling burnt out. You definitely shouldn't play everything "in order".
The cherry on top is of course the care that went into the remastering process itself. So, even if Starcraft and Warcraft 3 are for most players better *games*, they are not better *remasters*. Going from 320x200 resolution to this, is just astounding.
No I thought an old game like that would be fine on my 6TB WD Black. I will try again on an SSD. But it really felt quite ugly at times with the framerate.
I imagine the 4K assets, despite the game being 2D, put a bit of a strain on ye olde hard drives.
What game speed is everyone running this at? Finding I keep adjusting it based on whats happening. Default in the middle of the action, but when I am just building my army, warp speed max.
Normal is all right, but in limited units scenarios I slow stuff down to a crawl, because micro becomes paramount.
I think this is why I love these games so much more compared to other RTS's. Other games you can usually just overwhelm them with units but Tiberium Dawn in particularly is about using your limited resources to defeat the enemy base.
I've just realized that the original didn't have difficulty levels. That explains... a lot lol
You get some nasty nerfs on your units on hard.
Had to sandbag off like half the map to finish GDI 8. No matter what else I tried, it was simply never enough. I still ended up losing enough civilians, that even one more dead would have lost me the mission
You get some nasty nerfs on your units on hard.
Had to sandbag off like half the map to finish GDI 8. No matter what else I tried, it was simply never enough. I still ended up losing enough civilians, that even one more dead would have lost me the mission
I also got stuttering when running the game off my HDD which was fixed by moving the game to my SSD.
I'm a bit surprised by it as that must mean it's continuously unloading and loading data (probably textures). I'd think all of that could be stored in memory without unloading.
Thanks for the reply. Yeah I thought I was going nuts seeing stutter in that skirmish map I played.
On a 9900KS at 5.0GHz and 64GB RAM. It is a bit sad, all that modern hardware and they cannot make the game run stutterfree on "just" a HDD WD Black. I get that it is 4K sprites, but still. It was not even a lot of mayhem on screen, maybe a dozen units in total.
I feel sometimes the art of optimizing is completely lost in modern times vs. the game they remastered. C&C probably was optimized to squeeze the last bit of performance out of a 486 DX2 66 with 4GB RAM.
Side question: why do you have an HDD in a computer with such beefy specs?
Remnant from 2013, for older games I never uninstall. But I guess C&C remaster wants to be on the 970 Evo .
Let me know your strategy for gdi mission 11 on hard if you beat it because It's a real tough one.
I figured out the game can't figure out sandbags. I built a full wall of it on one side of the base with no gaps and the Nod army just gradually appeared there, sitting and doing nothing. Gradually built a line of tanks up the wall and had them all move forward at once then blew his whole army to kingdom come. This was mission 11 I think. Cheap I guess but not my fault their pathfinding is limited.
Enemy infantry is also none too careful about Tiberium fields, I've baited them into running around in circles on it and just dying without a shot fired several times.
Enemy infantry is also none too careful about Tiberium fields, I've baited them into running around in circles on it and just dying without a shot fired several times.
You have to destroy the temple of Nod with the Ion Cannon. You get a unique ending cutscene if you pull it off.
What's the trick to beating submarines in Red Alert? I see people saying that the Allies have naval superiority, and insofar as they can sit off the coast and fire into bases that's true, but subs seem to chew through my naval units without a ton of constant micro-management to dodge the torpedoes (and the cruisers, which are "strong against submarines," can take out maybe 1.5 subs before succumbing).
I finally beat mission 7 after a few false starts where I ran out of money (don't start fights on the ore fields, you'll blow up all your future funding). Taking out the main base was actually fairly easy after I pushed past that damned Tesla coil and got to the power plants, but mopping up the off-screen submarine pens was a right pain. Is there a strat for this mission that doesn't involve taking out the big base? The Tesla coils seem positioned such that you can't really sustain a naval-only assault.
I finally beat mission 7 after a few false starts where I ran out of money (don't start fights on the ore fields, you'll blow up all your future funding). Taking out the main base was actually fairly easy after I pushed past that damned Tesla coil and got to the power plants, but mopping up the off-screen submarine pens was a right pain. Is there a strat for this mission that doesn't involve taking out the big base? The Tesla coils seem positioned such that you can't really sustain a naval-only assault.
I think the main answer is almost always power through and take out the base. Set up an economy boom and 20 medium tanks will handle most of the base building missions (last mission will involve softening the main base with 3 sets of 20 until you're able to power through their Tesla coils and tanks). Run about 10 destroyers to clear a landing zone and help clear the seas once the Tesla coils are down.
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As far as I can tell, the Allied side is just completely inferior to the Soviet side in Red Alert. Even their advantages (the Navy) aren't that great because the Soviet submarines are so much more cost effective. The only true counter to the Soviet sub is the Longbow helicopter. I know it's an old game but it kinda baffles me how Red Alert became so popular back in the day when it's so terribly balanced for multiplayer. The Allies are inferior to the Soviets in every facet of the game except for Infantry and Navy. Infantry is pretty useless in the original Red Alert and the Navy is only an advantage on maps with lots of water.
They should have at least swapped the bunkers for the flame thrower defense points and the heavy tank for the medium tank. I don't really understand why they made the allies so weak.
I had a weird bug online where my tanks couldn't leave the factories even though I didn't block them anymore. Ended up having to sell all of them (was red alert) and build again for it to work again. Got the same bug later in the match but I didn't have a constructions yard at that point so I couldn't sell them and rebuild at that time. Match ended a while after that in a disconnect. Super weird.
Anyways, remember to check out the c&c era discord. Bot can assign you factions and we're working on leader boards so you can keep track of your online progress. Also a good place to get some ERA games going.
Anyways, remember to check out the c&c era discord. Bot can assign you factions and we're working on leader boards so you can keep track of your online progress. Also a good place to get some ERA games going.
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The factions were basically designed around the lore first. Allies were meant to be the scrappy underdog defying the Soviet war machine.
Both TD and RA1 came out years before competitive RTS gaming had really taken off, and within the genre Westwood were one of the only developers who made actually asymmetric factions at the time instead of having mostly mirrored units with a different coat of paint.
Is there a way to disable the "unit ready" voices ? But just that ? Because if I disable the annoucer voice, it won't tell me when I'm attacked, right ?
Correct. That's the only way, unfortunately. I did it because my announcer voice became bugged (delayed), and honestly the only announcement I miss is "silos needed". You can usually still tell when you're being attacked by the sound of firearms (if it's fairly close to your POV).
TBH I don't think I ever contemplated not blowing it up with the Ion Cannon. It's meant to be.
They sort of work like Nod. You're supposed to be tricky instead of just overpowering your opponent. Too bad that the pathing is so terrible that any time you try to be tricky you have a chance of just falling flat on your face as the units do something stupid.
Go back to main menu and choose Select mission.
You can change it there.
Frank does some of the best video game music. The universe at war soundtrack is full of bangers too ! I'm still sad we never got a sequel to that game.
Ah, excellent, that works. Had not expected to be able to continue the campaign that way.
Good to know, was wondering what was going on yesterday
When replaying the Tiberian Dawn campaigns through a modern lens it's hard not to fantasize about what a modern reboot of the C&C universe would be like. The broader geopolitical predictions turned out to be fairly accurate. You can easily see Nod running massive troll farms and misinformation campaigns to sow disruption across the world, and GDI being superficially presented as the more familiar and cozy good guys but when you really get down to it, it's just the post-WW2 order staggering about trying to assert the status quo in a rapidly destabilizing world.
For some reason I was thinking of this game one of these days, but I couldn't remember it's name. Is it good?
I set up my base north of the starting point, and closed up the passage further north with sandbags, so I was safe from attacks.
Then I saw that there's a shitload of tiberium in the south-east corner ... I feel like setting up camp there right from the beginning would have made this a lot easier lol
I remember it being pretty great actually. Only issue with it was that it had gfwl. Actually just had a talk about it the other day on discord. I'm thinking of going to look for the disc in the basement.