Just got C&C 3

[HarryB]

While I wait for my bud to finish burning STALKER, I'll give the Scrin a spin.

[Maddog]

jesus dude are you even done with stalker yet?

[DumbGrunt]

Damn. I don't get paid for two more weeks. It's just another example of the man trying to keep a brother down.

[HarryB]

jesus dude are you even done with stalker yet?

I'm about to enter the labs. But my bud wants to burn it, so I thought I'd put it up for awhile. If I don't, I'll get completely sick of it and not want to play it again.

[HarryB]

Or maybe not. The fucking game locks up the computer when you try to start it.

[Milkman Dan]

I got this morning.

Pretty fuckin' awesome, if I may say.

[Kak]

I hear the hot CNN reporter Shannon Cook is in it.

[Pltcl Sniper]

six days till i get it GRRR

[Cloneboy]

Does this game require pixel shaders? Vertex shaders, whatever the fuck? Because I could play the tutorial in the demo just fine, but an actual level would crash on me.

[HarryB]

I really like how fast this game is. It's a lot like the first C&C games. My only problem is that you can blow through the missions is like no time flat.

[Milkman Dan]

The latter GDI missions really remind me why I got really pissed off at C&C 1 & 2.

They're so freaking hard. I really hate missions where they give you a finite supply of units, and you have to assault a bunch of bases.

[Dashdar]

Just got it last night and on GDI mission 4.

Love the movie scenes! Sort of miss my individual units, but I have no problem with the squads. Really miss adding an engineer to na APC and getting a mobile repair vehicle. :(

Currently I love APCs and grenades.

[Pltcl Sniper]

omg the 3 star general for GDI is SAM FISHER!!!!

[Cloneboy]

Really miss adding an engineer to na APC and getting a mobile repair vehicle. :(

That only happened in RA2 with the Allies IFV.

[Pltcl Sniper]

oh man... the ion cannon is acctually worth building...and the APC's dont suck this time around.... throw in a squad of grenadiers and while the APC cuts down infintry your grendiers can handel light to medium armor, and clear buildings!

[Dashdar]

That only happened in RA2 with the Allies IFV.

Yup and I miss it.

[HarryB]

The latter GDI missions really remind me why I got really pissed off at C&C 1 & 2.

They're so freaking hard. I really hate missions where they give you a finite supply of units, and you have to assault a bunch of bases.

Yeah I'm on that mission right now. It's really starting to piss me off.

[BlindSite]

I played this yesterday at a mates house and I couldnt see it being superior to supcomm at all.

[HarryB]

Like I said, they're different games in the same genre. Supcom is more like football (ie, slow, methodical, spend most of the game trying to break though and scoring big if you do), where as C&C3 is more like hockey (ie, fast, rough, many small victories but there's always a good chance for the other guy to come back). You have to play them differently and treat them differently.

[Scraps]

How would you compare the game play to Zero Hour?(I've only played Generals+Zero Hour)

[Milkman Dan]

I played this yesterday at a mates house and I couldnt see it being superior to supcomm at all.
Nobody even mentioned anything about it being superior to Supreme Commander at all. :arr:

[LSky]

Played it multiplayer, doesnt seem too interesting.
RA2 is better.

[Pltcl Sniper]

better generles is good, but it doesnt really have that feeling command and conquer feeling, and C&C 3 goes back to its roots but all so throws some new stuff in there like now when you go to give a move order push both mouse buttons down at the same time on the spot you want them to move thereto set up a formation, and the grphx in generles was just down right horrifying.

[Maddog]

so the aliens, yay or nay?

[Ch33zy]

Nay, Massively disappointing after all the buildup in the last games. I also think the game really lacks a futuristic feel. Tiberian Sun was alot cooler and darker.

[Dashdar]

Nay, Massively disappointing after all the buildup in the last games. I also think the game really lacks a futuristic feel. Tiberian Sun was alot cooler and darker.

You are the first person I have met who used the words Tiberian Sun and cool in the same sentence (w/o the word not in between).

I think that is why they went back to the classic feel though. Because most people seemed to not like C&C2 and then Generals was a big hit.

[PsychoMantis]

I frankly do not know why C&C2 was considered such a failure by gamers. I loved it and played it for quite some time.

[Scraps]

You are the first person I have met who used the words Tiberian Sun and cool in the same sentence (w/o the word not in between).

I think that is why they went back to the classic feel though. Because most people seemed to not like C&C2 and then Generals was a big hit.

Generals had General Juhziz. He was a known organizer of the current sectarian violence in Iraq.

[Bone_Vulture]

What, no mention of Cameron yet? :menkey:

I just realized - has it been about decade since the first C&C game? The construction system really is a flash from the past, personally I favored Generals' warcraftish construction better. Ah well, guess buildings popping out of nowhere is possible with the nanotechnology of the future.

And yeah, I lost my cool with that GDI mission... "Yes please I'd like to spend my scarce units on escorting a fragile and slow metal turd while my base is getting raped from three sides simultaneously!" :o

[Milkman Dan]

And yeah, I lost my cool with that GDI mission... "Yes please I'd like to spend my scarce units on escorting a fragile and slow metal turd while my base is getting raped from three sides simultaneously!" :o
That mission is really easy. You can switch the power of your turrets on and off. I made riflemen dig in on the sides that were ambushed by infantry, and put rocket soldiers on the sides with armor.

[Bone_Vulture]

You can switch the power of your turrets on and off.

Look! Up in the sky! Is it... CAPTAIN OBVIOUS?! :o

[Milkman Dan]

Look! Up in the sky! Is it... CAPTAIN OBVIOUS?! :o
If you figured that out, then you should be able to win the map. :)

[HarryB]

Hell, on that map, I lost my southern towers and replaced them with two apcs. They never made it more than 100 feet to the door.

[Bone_Vulture]

If you figured that out, then you should be able to win the map. :)

I did win the map, after plenty of cursing. And I even managed to escort the MCV home without a scratch.

[neko]

I think it'd be fun to play this game but the .dat always crashes for no reason :/

[Ch33zy]

I think it'd be fun to play this game but the .dat always crashes for no reason :/

Man, I'm in one of the last nod missions and I'm suddenly having the same issue.

[neko]

Man, I'm in one of the last nod missions and I'm suddenly having the same issue.

It's been doing it to me since the demo came out. All the time it'll just crash for no reason. It's really starting to bug me. I honestly can't finish a single mission or play skirmish without it crashing abruptly. And it's not like it happens just once, it happens all the time. I am only on the Langley Air Base GDI mission and I haven't been able to get half way through it without having it crash.

[Pltcl Sniper]

which patch are you using?

[neko]

I just upgraded to 1.04 today. It was doing it for 1.0 AND it did it on the demo too.

[Bone_Vulture]

I think it'd be fun to play this game but the .dat always crashes for no reason :/

Likewise, for me it's the.. second alien mission, I think.

[Ch33zy]

If you have xfire running, turn it off. Fixed mine.

[Bone_Vulture]

If you have xfire running, turn it off. Fixed mine.

Installing the 1.4 patch fixed mine.

[neko]

Shit I don't have X-Fire running and I have 1.4 and it still happens all the time :(