[C&C3]Welcome Back, Commander

[phongn]

I keep trying to have my vehicle units face certain directions like in CoH and zoom out all the way like in SupCom

[DarkSilver]

Kane Edition has Kane in it of course!

We each get a small piece of Great Kane's goatee....and his robes as keepsakes.

Honestly, it's just the collectors edition, GDI Strat videos, behind the scenes of the Live Action sequences, etc etc.

and it has Kane's name, that makes it all worththe extra 10 bucks...

[Shroom Man 777]

Hah! Silly American Capitalist Pig Dogs! The Impoverished Fungus from the Third World Shithole has also acquired a glorious copy of the Kane Edition!

VICTORY FOR THE PROLETARIAT!

[Lonestar]

Kane Edition has Kane in it of course!

We each get a small piece of Great Kane's goatee....and his robes as keepsakes.

Honestly, it's just the collectors edition, GDI Strat videos, behind the scenes of the Live Action sequences, etc etc.

and it has Kane's name, that makes it all worththe extra 10 bucks...

It also has the Blooper Reel.

[Ritterin Sophia]

PEACE THROUGH POWER!

Fixed it for you.

[2000AD]

Todays Ctl-Alt-Del is in agreement:

[Chris OFarrell]

Kane Edition has Kane in it of course!

We each get a small piece of Great Kane's goatee....and his robes as keepsakes.

Honestly, it's just the collectors edition, GDI Strat videos, behind the scenes of the Live Action sequences, etc etc.

and it has Kane's name, that makes it all worththe extra 10 bucks...

It also has the Blooper Reel.

It also has Tricia and Park joke making out....












Okay it doesn't, but who cares, the actors are just so frigen awesome!

[PainRack]

It also has Tricia and Park joke making out....
Okay it doesn't, but who cares, the actors are just so frigen awesome!

I almost ripped the CD-ROM apart, trying to replay the disc..........

And funny thing with the damn shirt. I forgot about the no chlorine part, so, when I tested it in the wash, my NOD shirt colour ran..........

For a while there, I thought my hand was bleeding.

[Shroom Man 777]

My major complaints is that I can't run it at full graphics without turning the game into a slug. And its graphics aren't really so hot, Dawn of War looks better. Oh well...if I can, maybe I'll have it traded with something else...like STALKER.

[Resinence]

My major complaints is that I can't run it at full graphics without turning the game into a slug. And its graphics aren't really so hot, Dawn of War looks better. Oh well...if I can, maybe I'll have it traded with something else...like STALKER.

You wont be able to run stalker at max either

[Vympel]

The game is the polar opposite of Supreme Commander- where Supreme Commander is large scale, slow moving battles, C&C3 is down and dirty, super fast, much smaller maps, high speed throw everything you got right the fuck now action. Where Supreme Commander has no soul whatsoever, C&C3 oozes ... sizzle? Whatever, it's awesome.

I'm on the Amazon Desert mission for Nod- where the fuck did my Minimap go? It's frustrating trying to play without it.

Laser Upgraded Scorpion tanks FTW! (until I get my Avatars ..)

[Shroom Man 777]

This game seriously just looks ugly. In my Dual Core PC. What the fuck?

I might as well buy a second copy of Dawn of War or something. Goddamn. I might as well buy Red Alert 2!

EDIT:

For the love of god, if I try and make the graphics high, or, you know, as good as DoW, I end up with utter crap. It ends up like frame-by-frame stop motion. I'm not asking for much, man.

This is bullshit.

Well, I guess I should just suck it up...but seriously, it's disappointing. I was expecting something...you know...good looking.

[Stark]

This game seriously just looks ugly. In my Dual Core PC. What the fuck?

I might as well buy a second copy of Dawn of War or something. Goddamn. I might as well buy Red Alert 2!

Really? The demo looked pretty nice on my PC, and I can't run Stalker for ass. Static lighting = the fail.

[Shroom Man 777]

It's really hideous. I mean, I can run DoW fine, but the second I try to make C&C3's graphics look less like ass, it just slugs.

Maybe I should try doodling.

What do you recommend I set to high, and what graphic details should I ignore (shadows?)?

[Ace Pace]

It's really hideous. I mean, I can run DoW fine, but the second I try to make C&C3's graphics look less like ass, it just slugs.

Maybe I should try doodling.

What do you recommend I set to high, and what graphic details should I ignore (shadows?)?

It might help if you told us your graphics card name.

[Stark]

I've got quite used to instantly turning shadows off. My 6600GT just goes into the corner and cry if I try to use anything better than the most basic shadows in modern games. C&C3 with no shadows and 1280x1024 and some ansio looks pretty schmick.

[Xon]

I keep trying to have my vehicle units face certain directions like in CoH and zoom out all the way like in SupCom

I keep trying to queue movement commands to get around to horrible pathfinding, and that not working is pissing me right off.

And playing hunt the cloaked unit without any spotters...

[phongn]

Holy shit. That was a big boom.

[Covenant]

It's really hideous. I mean, I can run DoW fine, but the second I try to make C&C3's graphics look less like ass, it just slugs.

Maybe I should try doodling.

What do you recommend I set to high, and what graphic details should I ignore (shadows?)?

If you're getting about zero performance, set everything to low and then start working your way up. Things I love to have are a little AA, some weakass shadows, and a low resolution. The high rez are fine, but low is easier for the compy and you can find a good happy medium between ginormous and tiny rez that looks nice.

Seriously though, your dual core PC must suck ass, as mine is not dual core whatsoever and it's playing just fine. We can help you troubleshoot though. Can you get us a screenshot so we can see the settings you're playing at?

[Chris OFarrell]

My PC is running it smooth as silk with everything maxed and its hardly an amazing rig, its sure as heck not duel core.


And DAMN this thing is insane.

I've been playing on hard because I thought Easy and Medium didn't offer enough of a challange, but I just got upto the first Balkens mission on GDI...JESUS CHRIST.

I'm having to defend this GDI fire base against constant attacks.
But wait, there's more!

I don't have an MCV, so I can't rebuild destroyed structures.
But wait, there's more!

I don't have enough power to run the base defenses all at the same time, so I have to shut down certain sides of the base defenses with NOD attacking almost non stop, so I can power the other side.
But wait, there's more!

The defenses outside are not layered like they should be! You either have two AT guns or two AP guns, never both, so you have to micromanage your meagre forces to cover when NOD occasionally throws grunts at your AT towers or tanks at your AP towers. And of course aircraft occasionally drop in to blow shit up and you have to shut down your front line defenses to knock them down quick.
But wait, there's more!

So I finally get a roving patrol of APC's with rocket troopers inside who are doing a pretty decent job of patrolling and knocking back the attacks, supplementing the defenses which I have to constantly repair and remember to power down and up, while hoards of NOD Jhiadists try their damnedest to run at high speed past the defenses and blow my powerplants, leaving my base wide open, while NOD tanks and rocket buggies jump at the chance to blow up my poor harvester whenever its outside my base trying to bring in money to keep the cycle going.
But wait, there's more!

The convoy with the MCV arrives with an absolutely pathetic escort. I mean we are trying to setup a base in NOD's backyard, to stage an assault on the Sarajevo temple (AGAIN, Jesus GDI why don't you just Nuke the place already!) and the MCV arrives with a couple of pitbals and a couple of tanks. They of course promptly stop because NOD have a trio of laser guns sitting at the next corner and instead of having some balls and fighting their way through with their sufficient firepower, calling for reinforcements, an air strike, whatever, they tell me to go and escort them in!
But wait, there's more!

NOD of course are not nice people and don't halt their assaults on my poor base while go and escort the convoy into position. So I have to split my razor thin defensive force. I decide 5 APC's with solid rocket troops inside should have enough speed and firepower to blast across the bridge to the city, run through anything NOD has and blast the defences. Then with control of the guard force, I should be able to blast back the other way.

Of course, 3 out of the 5 APC's are destroyed forcing the bridge crossing. Another is lost running the gauntlet of buildings garrisoned with nod troops (and no ability to build grenadiers to counter them of course) and the final one dies when he gets close to the laser pack to the troops who of course were guarding it and lurking just inside the 'Fog' so I didn't know they were there.

In the meantime because I havn't been paying attention to my base, one side of my base has lost its defences and rocket buggies are happily shooting up my precious two power stations, with the two tanks I have there busy holding back a vehicle swarm and my rocket troops cut down in seconds by those thrice cursed NOD buggies.


If I ever get my hands on the person who designed this level.











*hand twitches*









*hand twitches again*










GOD DAMNIT.
*loads up C&C 3*
This is more addictive then Crack...

[phongn]

My PC is running it smooth as silk with everything maxed and its hardly an amazing rig, its sure as heck not duel core.


And DAMN this thing is insane.

I've been playing on hard because I thought Easy and Medium didn't offer enough of a challange, but I just got upto the first Balkens mission on GDI...JESUS CHRIST.

Hehehehe. There are harder missions coming your way.

[LaserRifleofDoom]

Was there any noticeable rebalancing? I heard it mentioned that Nod was nerfed in the demo.

[Covenant]

Was there any noticeable rebalancing? I heard it mentioned that Nod was nerfed in the demo.

Several units feel more impressive and more useful on Nod's side, and I think I notice new "strong vs." texts in a few places. Like, the raider buggies are now strong vs. aircraft. Combine the raider buggies with the scout bikes and you have a fast fast force that is not only good at whacking both infantry and armor, but both of which utterly manhandle aircraft.

It may be in this game that Nod has air supremacy. Pretty crazy, eh? I haven't checked their Helicopter yet to see if they changed it's strong vs. to something besides infantry and aircraft, but if they didn't, then Nod has easy access to a ton of Orca-killers and really should have complete airborne dominance. That, combined with their fairly impressive bombers, is really pretty unusual for them. It's an interesting dynamic.

Also, the walkers are a bit better, and the Stealth Tanks are just brutal. I was playing vs. a Scrin and my 3 stealth tanks almost blew away one of his fully shielded Assault Carriers in a single missile barrage. If I had a fourth Stealth Tank, I bet it would have crashed right then. That's impressive.

Nod's little tank is also okay. Not great by any definition, but it's alright. I'm not sure what the point of all Nod's infantry is though, it's not like their infantry does squat versus a tank, and tanks just run them over. GDI's infantry are fewer and tougher and more useful. Nod should theoretically be able to comandeer buildings more quickly and fight in the cities to bog people down, but that's all I can figure their basic infantry are good for.

Scrin just butcher infantry anyway, so it seems pointless to even build infies against them.

[Xon]

My PC is running it smooth as silk with everything maxed and its hardly an amazing rig, its sure as heck not duel core.


And DAMN this thing is insane.

I've been playing on hard because I thought Easy and Medium didn't offer enough of a challange, but I just got upto the first Balkens mission on GDI...JESUS CHRIST.

I'm having to defend this GDI fire base against constant attacks.
But wait, there's more!

I don't have an MCV, so I can't rebuild destroyed structures.
But wait, there's more!

I don't have enough power to run the base defenses all at the same time, so I have to shut down certain sides of the base defenses with NOD attacking almost non stop, so I can power the other side.
But wait, there's more!

Infantry only come from the southwest(+ handfull of air), tanks only from the northeast. Build a bunch of infantry and build thier bunkers. Evict the infantry and put rocket guys inside instead.

Mass those in the north and you have a line which will slap down tanks. And you only need 4-5 on the bridges to annihilate the infantrywaves. Just make sure there is enough AA down there.

[Vympel]

Pfft. GDI scum.

I remember back when Nod's cherished weapon was the Stealth Tank swarm- you know, park enough of them in the GDI Tiberium field to destroy their harvester in one go, and then keep blowing up their harvesters until they've got no money.

Now ... I have Avatars. All hail the Avatar!