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Off-Topic => Games => Existing Games => Topic started by: G.K. on January 20, 2010, 04:01:55 PM

Title: Command & Conquer
Post by: G.K. on January 20, 2010, 04:01:55 PM: I know SSG made a thread about Zero Hour in '08, but this can talk about the whole series. If you just want to talk about HM2, that's fine.

I need to sleep soon, so I'll be posting later.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: somestrangeguy on January 20, 2010, 04:27:27 PM: RA2 and RA3 are my favourites. RA3 with the C&C Reatarded: Red Cocaine (http://www.moddb.com/mods/cc-retarded-red-cocaine) mod. As the creator of that mod said: Its so unbalanced that its actually balanced! Just look at the cids on that page and you will see what I mean.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: G.K. on January 21, 2010, 12:18:24 AM: I've never gotten round to buying RA3 for whatever reason. I love RA2, Firestorm and Renegade though.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Naryar on January 21, 2010, 05:23:40 AM: Generals ftw.

Edit: Yeah you're right Pwn :P
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Pwnator on January 21, 2010, 05:38:45 AM: Hehehe. What I always do is strategically place Dragon Tanks around my base and constantly apply flames around it, with 3 Gatling tanks, a bunker and a Radar Tower supporting it. Then I buy enough hackers and spam Gatling Tanks and win. XD
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Naryar on January 21, 2010, 05:42:23 AM: CHINAAAAAAAA <3
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: somestrangeguy on January 21, 2010, 08:57:59 AM: My favourite in Generals was the Laz0r General, because the lasers are effective against everything.
Then second would be China Tank General, Emperor spam FTW!
3rd is normal GLA, Rocket Buggies GO!
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: G.K. on January 21, 2010, 10:22:53 AM: I don't play Generals much, but I spam dragons and emperors, add in a few portable nukes and attack.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Reier on January 21, 2010, 02:30:44 PM: What is CnC exactly? Like the Civilization series?
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: G.K. on January 21, 2010, 02:42:07 PM: It's Real time, not Turn based.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Reier on January 21, 2010, 02:45:08 PM: So like a MMOLG Civilization? Kewl.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: somestrangeguy on January 21, 2010, 03:11:51 PM: Not really MMO, there is a max amout of players that can be on at a time in a server. Generals and RA2 have 8 and RA3 has 6, this includes spectators too.

Tough I think I would enjoy a game of RA2 with some people, thats one game I havent played in years and the only one I have been able to play in LAN agaisnt is my closest freind.

Not really fun matches because he always wanted to first exhaust the map resouces, then he allowed both to commit attack, this always caused some serious lag. 50 Kirovs and a whole lot of everything else anyone?
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: G.K. on January 21, 2010, 03:54:17 PM: Spamming Kirovs FTW!

For some reason I always found myself playing as Yuri. Perhaps it was the mind control.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Clickbeetle on January 23, 2010, 01:14:38 AM: I've played Red Alert, Tiberian Sun+Firestorm, RA2+Yuri's Revenge, and Tiberium Wars. Wish I could play RA3 but there are more games in existence that I want to play than I have time for.

Have to say I liked Tiberian Sun the best, on account of how much replay value I got out of that game. Plus it had a really easy-to-use level editor, and you could use either of the two CD's it came with to play, so me and Firebeetle could do LAN battles (we couldn't do that with any of the newer games without buying a second copy, plus one of the two computers we used would always be too slow to run the game). Good times.

Not too much focus on superweapons in Tiberian Sun either. You have to worry about multi-missiles and ion cannons and that's it, and multi-missiles could be blocked by Firestorm walls.

Just don't forget to pave your base and build walls around your important buildings! (dang subterranean engineer squads)

Heheh, I remember a custom level I made that had a huge field of blue tiberium in the middle that you had to cross in order to reach your opponent's base. One stray shot out there, and the whole thing goes up in an unstoppable chain reaction. I was disappointed when blue tiberium wasn't explosive in Tiberium Wars.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Jack Daniels on January 23, 2010, 09:59:31 AM: Apparently I am the only one that gives love to the first one. Man I loved that game, it was the only C&C game I played. It was so challenging and innovative when it came out. I had to balance my time between that and Myth. Both of them were insanely addictive.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: G.K. on January 23, 2010, 10:04:30 AM: I've never played it.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Doomkiller on January 24, 2010, 03:47:00 AM: I remeber playing one on this PS1. Forget which one it was though, all I can remeber is dunes :P
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: G.K. on January 24, 2010, 03:48:06 AM: Dune Buggies? Probably Tiberian Sun then.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Doomkiller on January 24, 2010, 11:14:49 PM: No, I mean another game like command and conquer on the ps1 called dunes.

It was heaps fun :)
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: G.K. on March 23, 2010, 11:41:21 AM: Quote from: Clickbeetle on January 23, 2010, 01:14:38 AM
(dang subterranean engineer squads)

Dear god, I hate those.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Condor33 on March 24, 2010, 09:21:14 PM: I was going to try buying Red Alert 3, but then I found out about how many DRMs the series comes with. :dead: Has this been a problem for anyone else?
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: G.K. on March 25, 2010, 01:59:23 AM: That put me off buying RA3. I'm looking to get The First Decade and that's about it.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: somestrangeguy on March 25, 2010, 04:18:21 AM: I havent had any problems with the DRM. Btw, I just recently got myself CnC4, it really does look awesome but its hard to get used to.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Naryar on March 25, 2010, 06:27:18 AM: My comp isn't powerful enough for any of these that is more graphic than Generals. That i should download with Zero Hour since i lost the CD and all copies of it.

The older ones are still great :D
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Stagfish on July 23, 2010, 10:14:53 AM: Bump

I bought Command and counquer 4 today.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Hydro on July 23, 2010, 10:29:55 AM: I have Red Alert. It's awesome. My strategy relies on getting my base surrounded by Mammoth Tanks for defense and not attacking until I have 10 or so airfields with MiG's. Then I systematically dismantle the enemy's ability to acquire resources. But then, I've only ever played against the computer.

*hehehe*
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: G.K. on August 10, 2010, 08:40:18 AM: BUMP

Started a game of Renegade on hard the other day. Keep dying in the power plant in the mission with the dam, and then I lose motivation.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Little lost bot on August 11, 2010, 11:57:09 PM: Quote from: Hydro on July 23, 2010, 10:29:55 AM
I have Red Alert. It's awesome. My strategy relies on getting my base surrounded by Mammoth Tanks for defense and not attacking until I have 10 or so airfields with MiG's. Then I systematically dismantle the enemy's ability to acquire resources. But then, I've only ever played against the computer.

*hehehe*

Don't worry your not the only one. I use a single mammoth and get its rank up then take the enemy by hit and run attacks.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Alterer of Reality on December 10, 2010, 06:18:43 AM: BUMP

I'm getting Red Alert 3 sometime in the near future and I'm confused about Uprising. D'you have to buy them both or what? Because I want to be able to play both sets of campaigns...
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: somestrangeguy on December 10, 2010, 09:45:14 AM: Uprising is a standalone addon, so you dont need to have the origional in order for it to work.

Also, you bst be good at multiplayer, this game does go very old with only 7 missions for each faction IIRC.

I fail at multiplayer in this game so its not on my favourites anymore.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Alterer of Reality on December 10, 2010, 04:01:48 PM: I know you don't have to have the original, but do you need both in order to play all missions?
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: somestrangeguy on December 10, 2010, 05:05:51 PM: Yes you do, Uprising has its own missions.

The learning curve of Uprising is way steeper than the origional and has the Commanders challenge mode wich you will need to play in order to be able to fare better since you dont have all tech unlocked right away.

So if you want to know the story and get the hang of things get origional and play it trough. Then get Uprising if you want additional challenge.
Also IIRC Uprising has no multiplayer, so take that into account too.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: G.K. on December 15, 2010, 02:09:17 PM: Just play Red Alert 2 which is better :P
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Alterer of Reality on December 20, 2010, 05:14:40 PM: Does anyone know if you can play Red Alert 3 or Uprising without the CD in?
Generals/Zero Hour?
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Little lost bot on December 20, 2010, 05:16:49 PM: Generals/Zero Hour? yes I have.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Alterer of Reality on December 20, 2010, 05:22:14 PM: Good. The idea is I'll purchase them and then me and Xile can play each other over internet. Resulting in the premature demise of his army.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: G.K. on December 20, 2010, 05:22:58 PM: CHINA
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: somestrangeguy on December 20, 2010, 05:29:17 PM: Quote from: Alterer of Reality on December 20, 2010, 05:22:14 PM
Good. The idea is I'll purchase them and then me and Xile can play each other over internet. Resulting in the premature demise of his army.
Using a nocd crack, yes you can also you will need to use hamachi and lan play since Generals does not allow 2 of the same CD key online at the same time, and if you do that, make sure to pop me a message too, I have not played this game in such a looong while im basically at newbie level.

RA3 can also be ran without CD trough nocd crack, but it has even more advanced online protection, you can only connect 1 cd key to 1 online profile, wich makes playing co-op impossible if you both use the same CD since that requires you to go online and I dont actually remember if there was a lan option or not, if there is then the hamachi is a good solution.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Alterer of Reality on December 20, 2010, 06:12:10 PM: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Goddammit, why does it all have to be so complicated....*Copies down for use*
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Naryar on December 20, 2010, 11:05:58 PM: Quote from: G.K. on December 20, 2010, 05:22:58 PM
CHINA
IS AWESOME
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Pwnator on December 20, 2010, 11:07:00 PM: Quote from: Naryar on December 20, 2010, 11:05:58 PM
Quote from: G.K. on December 20, 2010, 05:22:58 PM
CHINA
IS AWESOME

PURPLE FLAMES
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: G.K. on December 21, 2010, 03:19:44 AM: wat
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Pwnator on December 21, 2010, 03:29:13 AM: Quote from: G.K. on December 21, 2010, 03:19:44 AM
wat

DRAGON TANKS ARE AWESOME
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: G.K. on December 21, 2010, 03:41:49 AM: Aye, yes.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Pwnator on December 21, 2010, 03:48:59 AM: Back then I was confused at how Rocket Buggies were effective against infantry, until I controlled a single buggy and ran over an entire army of Tank Hunters. lawl
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: G.K. on December 21, 2010, 04:00:11 AM: I feel like playing Zero Hour now.

*looks for disc*
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Little lost bot on December 21, 2010, 11:10:30 AM: I played Zero Hour on a friends com. Its much funner than the first one but it refuses to run on my com. It gets to the opening title screen then reverts back to desktop. Help?
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: GoldenFox93 on December 21, 2010, 11:11:12 AM: A Little Lost Bot commands and conquers?

Now I've seen everything ;P
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Little lost bot on December 21, 2010, 11:21:36 AM: Quote from: GoldenFox93 on December 21, 2010, 11:11:12 AM
A Little Lost Bot commands and conquers?

Yes I have. I held the line against 5 Redeemers on Kane's Wrath. I defeated many opponents and most of survived many nukes black holes and ion cannons.

This Little lost bot may be lost, but can fight.

lol sorry I just had to. The redeemers one I have the replay and can give it if you guys want proof.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: somestrangeguy on December 21, 2010, 04:02:50 PM: LLB, try going to My Documents and loacte Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour Data folder and find Options.ini
Its should be clear enough for anyone to change the settings.
Start by setting a lower resolution.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Little lost bot on December 21, 2010, 04:11:20 PM: Will do hold on...

All thats in it is

IdealStaticGameLOD = Low
StaticGameLOD = Low
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: somestrangeguy on December 21, 2010, 04:20:48 PM: Mine has this (removed IPs tough)

AntiAliasing = 2
DrawScrollAnchor =
GameSpyIPAddress =
Gamma = 50
IPAddress =
IdealStaticGameLOD = High
LanguageFilter = false
MoveScrollAnchor =
MusicVolume = 55
Resolution = 1152 864
Retaliation = yes
SFX3DVolume = 79
SFXVolume = 71
ScrollFactor = 50
SendDelay = no
StaticGameLOD = High
UseAlternateMouse = no
UseDoubleClickAttackMove = no
VoiceVolume = 70
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Little lost bot on December 21, 2010, 04:22:39 PM: Ok trying something here.

Ugh dam only getting to the black screen now before reverting to desktop. I did some copy and pasting so here it is now with some edits

AntiAliasing = 2
DrawScrollAnchor =
GameSpyIPAddress =
Gamma = 50
IPAddress =
IdealStaticGameLOD = low
LanguageFilter = false
MoveScrollAnchor =
MusicVolume = 55
Resolution = 800 600
Retaliation = yes
SFX3DVolume = 79
SFXVolume = 71
ScrollFactor = 50
SendDelay = no
StaticGameLOD = low
UseAlternateMouse = no
UseDoubleClickAttackMove = no
VoiceVolume = 30
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: somestrangeguy on December 21, 2010, 06:27:19 PM: Try this in direct copypaste, I set everything ingame to lowest possible trough custom options.
It seems that after going to custom options all these new lines appeared.
AntiAliasing = 0
BuildingOcclusion = yes
DrawScrollAnchor =
DynamicLOD = yes
ExtraAnimations = no
FirewallBehavior = 0
GameSpyIPAddress =
Gamma = 50
HeatEffects = yes
IPAddress =
IdealStaticGameLOD = Low
LanguageFilter = true
MaxParticleCount = 100
MoveScrollAnchor =
MusicVolume = 55
Resolution = 800 600
Retaliation = yes
SFX3DVolume = 79
SFXVolume = 71
ScrollFactor = 50
SendDelay = no
ShowSoftWaterEdge = no
ShowTrees = yes
StaticGameLOD = Custom
TextureReduction = 2
UseAlternateMouse = no
UseCloudMap = no
UseDoubleClickAttackMove = no
UseLightMap = no
UseShadowDecals = no
UseShadowVolumes = no
VoiceVolume = 70
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Little lost bot on December 21, 2010, 06:40:37 PM: No effect. "sigh" Stupid com why won't work with this?
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: somestrangeguy on December 22, 2010, 03:05:01 PM: Then it maybe a good idea to check this site out
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/ (http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/)
If this shows that it should work on your computer, reinstall. After that im out of ideas.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Little lost bot on December 22, 2010, 03:25:06 PM: Ok checking.

Edit Site don't like my browser. Thanks for the help anyway.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: GoldenFox93 on December 22, 2010, 03:26:14 PM: Quote from: Little lost bot on December 21, 2010, 11:21:36 AM
Quote from: GoldenFox93 on December 21, 2010, 11:11:12 AM
A Little Lost Bot commands and conquers?

Yes I have. I held the line against 5 Redeemers on Kane's Wrath. I defeated many opponents and most of survived many nukes black holes and ion cannons.

This Little lost bot may be lost, but can fight.

lol sorry I just had to. The redeemers one I have the replay and can give it if you guys want proof.
And maybe this third-person Little Lost Bot would be more successful at Commanding and Conquering if he becomes found ;D
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Little lost bot on December 22, 2010, 03:42:39 PM: Quote from: GoldenFox93 on December 22, 2010, 03:26:14 PM
Quote from: Little lost bot on December 21, 2010, 11:21:36 AM
Quote from: GoldenFox93 on December 21, 2010, 11:11:12 AM
A Little Lost Bot commands and conquers?

Yes I have. I held the line against 5 Redeemers on Kane's Wrath. I defeated many opponents and most of survived many nukes black holes and ion cannons.

This Little lost bot may be lost, but can fight.

lol sorry I just had to. The redeemers one I have the replay and can give it if you guys want proof.
And maybe this third-person Little Lost Bot would be more successful at Commanding and Conquering if he becomes found ;D

Thing is on my last battle my command center got nuked by nod (those bastards) and I went flying. So now I'm lost with a computer that runs on nothing. Those if you do find me I would like my command back.

Lol

Mainly its Nod and scrin I do best with. Nod: My Avatars and redeemer partnered with 10 venoms = death for opponents. Scrin 4 tripods and there super unit with 3 planet assault carriers = death for opponents
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: somestrangeguy on December 23, 2010, 06:45:39 AM: Quote from: Little lost bot on December 22, 2010, 03:25:06 PM
Ok checking.

Edit Site don't like my browser. Thanks for the help anyway.
What browser are you on? It works on Firefox and IE atleast.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Little lost bot on December 23, 2010, 10:34:03 AM: I'm on chrome. Don't worry I got it to work and I'm missing prossecer power some how (yet my friends has less...... go fig :S)
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: somestrangeguy on December 23, 2010, 02:09:13 PM: Well, if reinstalling and installing patches does not work, then I quess you just need a better processor.
Title: Re: Command & Conquer
Post by: Little lost bot on December 23, 2010, 03:35:08 PM: Ya...... or locate the file that scans the computer for its stats and rid of it. Then it will run.... did with others and worked like a charm..... now were is that file (goes looking through game files.)