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Yeah the menu bug appeared for me the other night on the final NOD mission. I already had put a good dent in them so I played it out.

Yep that was another difficult one. Like I said, you have no time to waste in this game or you are finished. I ended up losing everything but 2 engineers and had to build up my defenses before I could consider any assault on their base. Those carpet bombing attacks did not help the situation. If you need some different taste in TD let me know ... Glad to see the original game still supported. After I finish the vanilla games I will definitely check this out! I am not sure what you mean? You have to beat the missions in order to continue on to the next, unless you have some mod? I know in the Covert-Ops expansion you could choose any mission you please but those were not campaign based. I loved Red Alert. Maybe my opinion will change when I play it again, but I doubt it. I thought Tib Sun had the best atmosphere of any of the games; kind of a post-apocalyptic Tiberium infestation. Red Alert 2 was one of the best LAN games, but the campaign started getting really cheesy at that point in the series. I also love Tiberian Dawn's graphics. Great models, animations (commando tossing a cig), great voice acting, and perfect soundtrack. One of the best games of all time!

Just want to report some bugs and crashes on C&C 95: Tiberian Dawn. If it helps, I did my entire playthrough on Windows XP SP3. I was using the most up to date game version - 1.06c v3. I had plenty of random crashes throughout. Sometimes they happened once a mission, sometimes not at all. On one GDI mission it crashed to the desktop 5 times in a row. I was basically saving everytime I made a big move, worried the game could crash at any moment. Another bug I noticed, albeit minor, was with alt-tabbing. Anytime I alt-tabbed and then returned to the game, the start menu would cut off an inch off the game. It was still playable, but if I was at the bottom or top of a map some enemy units could be not be targeted. Another bug, which only happened maybe 3 times, was with the menu. I would hit escape to save my game and I could not click or move my mouse at all. I also could not navigate with the arrow keys. Alt-tabbing did not fix this issue... The only way to resolve this was ctrl+alt+del and I would lose my mission progress if I didn't save.

I just played Tiberian Dawn for the second time in 19 years. I remember it being very difficult when it came out in '95, but I kept going until I beat it. I just did my second playthrough and finished it in 3 days, putting in around 6-7 hours each day. What a great game and still as difficult as I remember. I'd say it's equally as hard as Starcraft 2 brutal which I beat 1.5 years ago. In my opinion GDI was the hardest. Slovika took me a good while because those civilians either died from flamethrowers exploding or friendly fire. Another pain in the butt was Greece where you land on the beach and your guys are getting pounded immediately. The last mission was tough in the beginning when I had no defenses, then the trick was manually moving my harvesters to the bottom right field. Until I dealt with the 2 construction yards, the NOD AI would rebuild that turret and the 2 tank patrols instantly! For NOD, I would say either Ivory Coast or Egypt #2 were the toughest mission. On Ivory Coast, I made it out to the extraction with a sliver of red on my light tank while two GDI grenadiers and an APC chased me. There was really no room for error on that mission. The first time I made it to the extraction it bugged and my last guy died and I lost. On Egypt #2 this mission basically showcases the fast-pace gameplay of Tiberian Dawn. If your too slow, you lose your engineers to grenadiers. If your even slower than that, you will miss out the crate and your commando will get bombed by planes. This mission took me 4 tries to get my timing down to minimize casualties. It then it took me a good while to build up my base defenses and army. Last mission was tough until you had a good defense of Obelisks up. Stealth tanks made the rest a breeze. So TLDR: Hardest game in the series? I plan to play Tib Sun next to continue the story. I played RA1-RA2 and Generals, but never C&C 3 and beyond. After Tib Sun I'll go to Red Alert 1 which may have been my favorite C&C.