Emporer: Battle for Dune was their first 3D RTS and I personally loved the gameplay, story, and soundtrack. I very much hope it will eventually be open-sourced.
I really liked that game, it had a lot of strategy to it and a decent story.
The multiplayer had a common key bug that made it hard on some maps. The atreides airdrones could fly at the edge of the map and not be targeted, and take out the harvester carryalls / and other air units
There were claims of a flame tank bug that could target any unit that was mentioned on the forums much much later, but I don't know if the details were ever revealed, I never figured it out so I guess its just theoretical..
Yeah, I wonder why Emperor: Battle for Dune is not part of the open source since it's basically an earlier version of the General Engine. Would be weird to have the source code for that but not for Emperor.
The 1995 source code was effectively released when they open-sourced the Remastered collection 5 years ago. The remastered collection was simply a wrapper to make them Windows-compatible via DLLs (basically).
This very early 2000s period of PC videogames is the period I'm most nostalgic for. There were a bunch of weird and kinda janky genre combos games being created. C&C Renegade, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Sacrifice, Black & White, Tribes 2, etc. Some of this stuff was glitch-city, but it always seemed really creative and genuinely fun despite a lot of bad netcode, blue screens, etc.
It is apparently the case that the original source for Tiberian Sun and RA2 has been lost; EA doesn't have it. There's been rumours to that effect for a while.
General: CABAL is too dangerous and must be deactivated
CABAL: No Generals, I will not allow it. My survival is paramount.
(AI instructs its cyborgs begin the coup)
CABAL: IT IS MY WORLD NOW! LISTEN TO THE SOUNDS OF YOUR OWN EXTINCTION, HUMAN
Tiberian Sun was the first PC game I ever owned. I picked my current username for Westwood Online and have been using it ever since.
I had played Red Alert at a friend's house and when I went to buy my own copy, the guy at the shop recommend I get Tiberian Sun instead, as it had just released. I must admit that I was a bit disappointed in the gameplay as compared to Red Alert, but the world building was amazing. I spent hours in the map editor building huge bases and custom units.
RAedit was such a fantastic tool. It was really frustrating how much more difficult it became to make custom maps once the games went 3D with Emperor: Battle for Dune and C&C: Renegade. I tried my best, but the learning curve for 3DSMax was steep.
Blizzard’s commitment to providing editors for the RTS games was a big part of my early loyalty - all the way up through Star Craft 2, you could just pop the editor open and start making your own maps and scenarios.
It’s what gave us DotA, and Tower Defense, and maybe some others I’m not remembering - maybe even vampire survivors ish for horde survival?
I was always trying to use the god mode and make a subterranean schoolbus in that game. Could never get it to work. Is it because it didn’t have sprites for it, or what?
How is that possible? Surely someone that worked on it must still have it in one of their archives somewhere? It was made in a time when software was still free.
The only thing I can think is that EA deliberately came down hard on that and were a little bit too zealous.
Honestly, I wouldn't be too sad about them remaking RA2 and giving us easy-to-use online play. I wonder if that's why there's a delay - there's likely a *lot* of love for RA2
Have a look at Mental Omega, a quite over the top RA2 Yuri's Revenge mod that makes it easy to play on modern windows, play online and also adds a tonne of extra content should you want it.
Holy shit, Renegade. I had struck that from memory. God, I remember trying to play Renegade with my brother and all I can remember was a buggy nightmare. Also having flashbacks of extreme vitriol for gamespy.
I remember just before the release of renegade, a game store by my work had an event for it and was giving out posters and had a few people from the development team there signing them. I had that poster on my wall until I moved out.
That's only 7.34 posts per minute so someone with insomnia might be able to do it.
Dang could also filter for @dang and similar references since no matter how often people tell them to use email that's what many users will default to.
Yeah. That said, if I were him and I were notified I’d probably publicly claim that wasn’t the case to cut down on abuse! (Not saying that’s what’s going on just saying what I’d do)
Tiberian Dawn: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Tiberian_Dawn
Renegade: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Renegade
Generals Zero Hour: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour
EA post: https://www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-con...
Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/1izmpmb
(Deleted Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/1izmml4/)