NodCommander
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I cheered when I heard these news the same day it went public. The payment model was rubbish. The name was an insult to Tiberian Dawn. Origin is DRM that should just go and die. Always-on like Sim City 5 was almost certain.
No, I am glad all this was thrown out of the window. The community is outdoing EA with negative budgets and teams 50 times smaller than EAs staff. Just look at Renegade X.
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The thing about Renegade was that it had a pickup and play draw that made it easy to approach. You weren't penalized for joining a match late, in fact you could jump in and out as you saw fit without much of anything negative happening.
If we had a leveling system, then it would benefit players who play more than players who don't. It is never fair to give more features to players with more experience. It only expands the gap between the haves and the have-nots. It also makes balancing the game a nightmare.
Every character in the game needs to be equal and there should never be any sort of leveling or upgrade system applied. It would completely ruin one of the main draws of the original Renegade.
Not sure how this thread went from a request of beta-footage into a discussion of a leveling-system.
However, I fully agree with you, Razor. A level-system would completely WRECK the balance and consistency of the game. Not to mention it wouldnt make any sort of sense in the C&C universe.
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As for APB's implementations, they are WAY overdoing it. A heavy tank killed in just three hits is by far too much.
However, giving armour-boosts/weakpoints which slightly affects damage input is interesting.
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Awesome let me check this out here.
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Sounds awesome but with only 3months left in this year and how much time we have been waiting it's ridiculous to not give us a release date to look forward to. Well that is if you guys are planning to finish up by the end of the year. Which you guys have said you would have it out this year sometime. It's all cool take your time I just think even if you have to push it on to next year just give us a date seriously...
Giving you a date would mean the Devs putting a deadline on themselves. Meaning they would either be forced to rush the game to that date, or disapoint and lose credibility for their fans.
No, running without stupid release dates until the game is READY for a release is a good thing.
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Happy gaming!
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So, I was (And still am) watching the "Black Dawn - Dev Playthrough & Podcast" video which Fobby posted on YouTube not too long ago. It can be found here:
And one thing I heard the guys talk about around the 30 minute mark is the directional armour on vehicles. So I thought we could perhaps discuss the subject here!
My own first thoughts is that it does sound like a really interesting idea. Directional armour was a great addition to the C&C gameplay in C&C3, and I dont see any reason as of yet why this would be a bad thing Renegade X.
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There is a debate about this in the testing forums.
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Renegade not canon? How so?
C&C Renegade's story was never part of Tiberian Dawn. It did roughly follow the events that happened, but were still diffrent. For example, Dr. Mobius was never really kidnapped in TD. also, the Temple of Nod wasn't destroyed by self-destruction, but by the ion cannon (at least if you did it right in the last mission of TD). TD did have a commando, but that commando isn't Havoc AKA Nick Parker, it was general Shepherd's son, Logan Shepherd.
Although you are right with saying that Renegade was never a part of the TD storyline, EAs excuse here was that Renegade takes place between TD and TS, although this makes no sense at all. (Just consider the laser rifles as one example out of many). They said the Nod temple in Renegade was not the Sarajevo one, but one in Cairo, Egypt.
Renegade's storyline is completely incompatible with the rest of the C&C-lore, atleast the one Westwood built up. I consider Renegade a genious concept for an RTS/FPS game though, and it is a very fun game to play multiplayer on. Thereby I dont care too much for all the lore-error in it.
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For one thing, Renegade X is an online only game. Making a campaign is a whole different story, and would take quite literarly years of hard work.
Secondly. Renegade was never proper canon. Neither is Red Alert 2. Red Alert 2 was never a part of the same universe as Tiberian Dawn. Its merely a spinoff of Red Alert 1, which was EA who pushed it. Westwood themselves never planned to make it originally.
Now as a game (Red Alert 2) in itself it is indeed a true and very fun C&C, but it's again not part of the same universe.
The C&C Wikia doesnt make any mention of this at all.
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There have been talk about airstrikes on official updates on Renegade X.
As for Blue tiberium, I believe there might have been plans to make it explosive like it should be, lore-wise.
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Oh, wow, hahaha. That made me laugh!
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Unless there are hidden options, creating a Win7 theme is just basic stuff. Procure a desktop wallpaper, choose a color, add sounds, and then there's the slightly more complicated screen saver. Easiest job there is.
Im more thinking of things like the start-menu, taskbar and Windows-icons. And of course a full-resolution wallpaper to go with it.
Not easy job for someone who isnt a digital artist.
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There are no plans to use it so far.
Wasnt there some talk about an ingame music player, much like the one found in pre-Renegade Westwood titles?
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Just what the title reads!
I'm searching for any resonably good artists who can create themes for Windows, and more precisely, Windows 7. I'm looking to hopefully strike a deal with said artist and create Windows themes for both Renegade X as well as general C&C themes for the true C&C community.
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Are you going to update the first post in this thread?
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Are you going to update the first post in this thread?
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Neat! Frank K is a very cool guy I have to say.
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New forums!
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One thing I am missing is the option for an Xfire adress to be filled in along with the rest of the IMs on your profile.
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Or preferable just keep it a simple download from ModDB and simillar mirrors and servers being ran privately from anyone who wants to, instead of some shady DRM clients servers which could be shut down at any time in the future.
I do not mind if there is an option to download the game through another client, but there should always be a stand alone option to chose from.
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Renegade does indeed have a completely genius online mode which is extremely underrated, not to mention almost completely unknown for the general game audience.
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The Allied ending is canon for Red Alert 1. The USSR one is just a bonus, just like what Westwood did with Tiberian Dawn and Tiberian Suns Nod-endings.
And that was supposed to be a quote to
_ERROR_.ImperialKaskins, thats never how it worked out. The Nod/Soviet campaign endings in the Westwood era was ALWAYS a "What-if" ending, just to give a perspective view to the player. EAs concept with Generals (Not a real C&C, but yeah) and C&C3s campaigns as they all were to be played in a chronological order just like Blizzard does with StarCraft.
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Origin and Uplay might be worse than Steam, yes but still its a DRM client.
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As the editbutton is broken I appologise for a doublepost and will ask any moderator to merge my two posts, thank you.
Edit to post above: That being said, I do not mind if the game is released on Steam as well, choice (Even though Steam is pointless) is always good. Just make sure the game can run on its own as well, please.
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I would personally really HATE to see Renegade X released on Steam. Why? Because Steam is a DRM client. Why would I want to run an additional program just to play my games? There is absolutely no point in it what so ever.
Please do not make this a Steam-game, as that would be a huge dealbreaker for me.
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What I would say we really could need is a customisable and free to use engine that supports RTS games. Whats managed with Renegade X is awesome, all thanks to the UE3 and its UDK. Something simillar to that but for RTS would really get things going. Sadly at the present time, we are kind of stuck to either using a limited engine such as the one from C&C3, or 'borrow' another game engine and be locked to having to buy said game (Im thinking of Starcraft, which has a powerful map and mod editor, but no mod support outside custom maps) or use something such as OpenRA, which might be awesome for what it is, but it really cant compete with modern 3D RTS games.