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#commandandconquer

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There’s something timeless about Command & Conquer.

The mix of fast-paced #strategy, iconic sound design, and that unmistakable visual style hooked me from the start.

It’s not just #nostalgia, C&C still plays like a charm. Every match feels like a miniature war #story, and the rhythm of base building, rushing, and countering never gets old.

The series shaped how I see real-time strategy games. It’s a #classic for a reason.

Command & Conquer is a foundational 1995 real-time strategy game by Westwood Studios, pitting the Global Defense Initiative against the Brotherhood of Nod in a global conflict over the alien substance Tiberium. You build bases, manage resources, and deploy unique factional units in engaging campaigns. The critically acclaimed soundtrack was composed by Frank Klepacki.

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@fedibikes (W)LAN-Party beim Kumpel 😁

Habe ihm in #tempestrising die Fraktionen und Einheiten erklärt und wir haben zusammen #commandandconquer Generals gezockt.

Zum ersten Mal seit 13 Jahren 😁

Allerdings ist C&C immer mit einem Mismatch Error abgestürzt, wenn unsere Einheiten sich angegriffen haben 🤔

Offenbar gibt es irgendwo Probleme in der Netzwerkkonfiguration zwischen Fedora und Windows 11.

Wir verwenden beide die #Steam Version.

Vermutlich kann man die Timeouts und Keepalives über die GameData.ini einstellen, aber dafür war heute keine Zeit...

Jetzt wo C&C Generals #opensource ist, gibt es vielleicht bald eine Integration in Steam Multiplayer. Das wäre awesome 😊

Der LAN-Modus von Tempest Rising ist pflegeleicht 👍

Und morgen geht's mit dem #fahrrad nach #bonn 🚲

I'm listening to the latest Watch out for Fireballs episode about Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge and now I want to play some C&C.
I've never been much into RTS games, but something about C&C was different. Maybe it's just simpler than other RTS games. Where I quickly ran out of steam with things like Age of Empires and StarCraft, C&C got it's hooks into me. One of the few games that I actually ended up "training" for and playing multiplayer online.
My favorite remains C&C 3: Tiberium Wars together with Kane's Wrath. 🤩
I didn't play all of them by far, but I do remember playing the first one, Tiberian Dawn. I still remember how I beat the final GDI mission in that. It was brutally hard.
The enemy had two bases, one of which was located in an agressive forwards position, with assaults battering your base almost from the start. And of course the enemy was cheating and quickly outpaced my resource gathering.
I eventually managed to build up a massive army of tanks to roll into the enemy's forwards base. I took out all defenses and units to quiet things down. But whenever I destroyed any of the buildings, the enemy put a replacement there within seconds. But... the CPU always put the buildings in the exact some spot. 🤔
So whenever I took out a building, I moved one of my tanks into the spot where it stood to prevent the CPU from rebuilding. 😅
Once I had replaced my lost units, it was easy to wear down the enemy's main base. They had "infinite" money, but nothing left to put it into. They ran into the max unit cap and once I rolled into the main base I was powerful enough to take out units and buildings quicker than they could be replaced.