Matt

There is a fan organized mini sub-event called CommandCOM at GamesCom in Germany http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24736 and I think at one time they actually invited Brett Sperry to it and recorded the speech he gave about the history of Westwood and the C&C franchise up until EA took over. It seems to be professionalized by now http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35826

I think Microsoft did the same. They basically say screenshots of our application are copyright by us and we need to approve anything you write about it. You are granted permission if it is in our favor. And they also have very strict rules for pre-release stuff they send to magazines. One popular German magazine said that they can't guarantee the objectiveness their reader want and declined all pre-release CDs and instead published the contracts the Microsoft press and legal department sent them. It was a good move, because all those magazines advertising new "upcoming M$ office reviewed" were exposed to be blatant propaganda which started a debate about the publishers. I think it is actually worse for gaming magazines which boil things down to a % rating where almost everything is 80-90% approval rating and everything below is total crap and if a successor is superior it has to be >90% to match the ridiculous scale however as 100 is the limit gives little room for expressing the value.

Interesting, I always wondered how that global mix database.dat from XCC Mixer was filled with values. Great work with your reverse engineering and decrypting efforts. What are the names of the water sound effects in Tiberian Dawn?

Can I add the hospital icon to OpenRA? A long term goal is to have an icon for everything and use it in tooltips or a command bar.

See http://content.open-ra.org/index.php?p=detail&table=units&id=51 for an existing sprite.

I think that is the reason those those remakes are cheaply done. Like just replacing some water terrain tiles with something that looks slightly better and leaving the rest as is.

Wow. THAT one must've been a ton of work I bet that they tweaked their network protocol beforehand. This is actually impressive if you think about modem speeds at that time. See 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond which can be applied to C&C, too.

Sorry, I thought this was actually helpful to get your game/mod/mission going.

We have a game mode called King of the Hill that does just that in OpenRA, see https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/tree/bleed/mods/ra/maps/koth-island-hoppers for an example.

Is there a timeline for Dune II or Tiberian Dawn?

If I was in charge at EA, I would probably create a cheap Tiberian Sun / Yuris Revenge HD version with slightly better graphics and proper high-resolution without hacks. Then integrate some match-making, add something like the Steam workshop to distribute mods in a streamlined way and force people to install Origin. I bet you could make loads of money with it.

Note: OpenRA has a dead mod TORA -- the Empire of Japan comes to RA with some units of interest.

You can seek some inspiration from the newborn, but growing OpenRA standard Lua library https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/tree/bleed/mods/common/lua for new triggers.

Happy holidays from the OpenRA team! Download from open-ra.org or grab it via Desura

I was told Happy Holidays is the politically correct thing to say then.

Not sure if modding is something developers really intended players to do. I guess Westwood wanted to make balancing changes quick without having to recompile the whole code again.

Do you have a public list of exclusive files you found in the demo so we can see if we still miss one?

Yes, https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues?labels=cnc you can even post your own ideas there.

Is it something OpenRA can join?

Enter E7: -AutoTarget: in a map.yaml file under the Rules: section if you want the RA95 Tanya that does only manual attacks. Note that bots won't know how to work with her then.

Looks like you might want to have a bug tracker.

Is that players online chatting or players in-game? Looks like there are many christmas grumps out there. I am not alone!

What is the voice chat button for?

Congratulations!

The https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/blob/bleed/mods/cnc/bits/demo.mix also contains other interesting files missing in the full version such as the grenade throwing sound or "enemy planes approaching" we extracted and added to the OpenRA cnc mod.