Command & Conquer: EA announces Steam Workshop support; full source code released under GPL for RA1, TD, Renegade and Generals/ZH - RTS bros we are so back

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Which of the open sources are you most hype about?

  • Generals / Zero Hour

    Votes: 45 47.9%

  • Red Alert

    Votes: 30 31.9%

  • Renegade

    Votes: 7 7.4%

  • Tiberian Dawn

    Votes: 12 12.8%
  • Total voters
    94
The dev source code always delivers.
ThingFactory.cpp

// Desc: This is how we go and make our things, we make our things, we make our things!
 
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Chapalapachapa said:
playing red alert 1. there is no way a game like that could be done today.
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No gamedev would open with your leader casually ordering the massacre of an entire rebel village, yes (alongside casual discussion of experiments using gas to "liquidate" prisoners).
 
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reptile baht spaniard rid said:
You can buy the whole collection on Steam for like no dollars right now


You can also find a bunch of them from previous free releases on archive.org


Someone on NH from westwood said that it wasn't so much EA killing the studio as them no longer doing shovelware (they made EDU shovelware, too) which they used to get devs up to speed or something.
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Ooooh thank you, got them. Awesome price, finally something to play on my laptop I only use for taxes and private E-Mails.
 
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Mobster Monitor said:
Is it worth it to play these games in order? Was gonna use remaster for 1&2
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Not really. Later games sometimes reference earlier games but they're self-contained for most part. (Probably the most referential was Tiberium Sun, which featured some old Tiberium Dawn buildings in all its isometric glory, but even that is more an easter egg than anything really substantial.)
 
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Mobster Monitor said:
Is it worth it to play these games in order? Was gonna use remaster for 1&2
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If you are looking to do the series from scratch do them in order, sure. If you go backwards from cc3 or cc2 it will feel primitive and get frustrating. If I was advising myself I'd say watch the lore vids and cutscenes on youtube and just play through CC3.
 
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Agent Abe Caprine said:
This is so goofy I have my card ready to buy the whole series. Not even into RTS games. Find the real time aspect really stressful.
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Yeah, the FMVs are probably one of the best aspects of the Command and Conquer games, especially Red Alert 3 with Tim Curry's fat gut from him constantly eating up the scenery.

Sure as hell wasn't the gameplay that was fun in that game.

(Seriously, just watch the various FMVs instead of the game itself when it comes to RA3. Tim Curry and George Takei outright steal the whole show.)
 
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WULULULULU said:
Tempest Rising looks so lame, just like Stormgate.
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I played the Tempest Rising demo; a huge thing that put me off immediately is the "no base" missions that seem designed to only be winnable if you already know everything thats scripted to happen.

I brought my units to bear against an objective, which triggered a crucial reinforcement wave on the literal opposite end of the map, except all those reinforcements instantly died - because I didn't know to put some squads of units on the spawn point I didn't know about to assist the reinforcements I didn't know would appear against the much larger enemy force I didn't know was there.

That's the kind of red flag so large that I assume it's going to be a core part of the game design. Also didn't like the interactive briefings you have you play through: this isn't what I'm here for, fuck off with your terrible in-engine conversation that tanks my computer.




Also on the topic at hand, I'm mostly keen on C&C Renegade and Zero Hour for this one. Renegade's always been some dumb shit I've mildly enjoyed since I discovered it's existence via the First Decade bundle, and I'd love to replay it with literally just some bugfixing, maybe a lil rebalancing. Zero Hour I barely got to play when I owned it, and I remember constant crashes from the fixes, trying to get it to run on modern systems.
 
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Snekposter said:
Yeah, the FMVs are probably one of the best aspects of the Command and Conquer games, especially Red Alert 3 with Tim Curry's fat gut from him constantly eating up the scenery.

Sure as hell wasn't the gameplay that was fun in that game.

(Seriously, just watch the various FMVs instead of the game itself when it comes to RA3. Tim Curry and George Takei outright steal the whole show.)
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Joe Kucan forever made me a NOD devotee with his Kane performance.
 
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Snekposter said:
Yeah, the FMVs are probably one of the best aspects of the Command and Conquer games, especially Red Alert 3 with Tim Curry's fat gut from him constantly eating up the scenery.

Sure as hell wasn't the gameplay that was fun in that game.

(Seriously, just watch the various FMVs instead of the game itself when it comes to RA3. Tim Curry and George Takei outright steal the whole show.)
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My biggest complaint about RE3 is the amount of water missions. The amount is off putting and makes me not want to play much of the game.
 
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