Let's Play Command & Conquer: The Dinosaur Missions

[TaxOwlbear]

You are probably all aware of this bonus campaign, so I can't really surprise you with it.  :heady: Needless to say, C&C was developed shortly after Jurassic Park kicked off another dinosaur craze which I'm sure contributed to this bonus campaign. Back in the day, this blew my mind!

 

Anyway, the first mission is here:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANodV-wAjUE

[Nyerguds]

Unfortunately, people found the internal files a lot faster than the official way to unlock it, meaning most people back in the day played this with glitchy dinosaur graphics, since the way to make them visible was to disable their walker logic, which totally messes up their frame usage

[TaxOwlbear]

How WERE you supposed to find that out, anyway? Did the game give you any hints? Back then, a friend of mine showed me how to access the dinosaur campaign, but I don't how he found out.

[Nyerguds]

lol, I have no idea. I think I just found it in some fan-made FAQ or something.

 

I remember Westwood people mentioning it in a couple of interviews, but I have no idea if those interviews were from back then or years later.

 

It's completely impossible to find in the actual game, anyway; it's hashed with the one-way hashing algorithm they also used for all of those nifty conquer.ini options I unlocked (for disabling bibs, enabling MCV undeploy, showing true names for civilians, etc), meaning it's just an integer (11CA05BB) in the game code.

[TaxOwlbear]

Looks like the dinosaurs have infested the desert too. We solve this issue with no less than four commandos! That's a lot of presents.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAZyEFa1R8c

 

 

[TaxOwlbear]

Talking about dinosaurs: I noticed that the unofficial patch added a fifth mission to the dinosaur campaign where you play as the dinosaurs. Has that always been there? I don't recall playing that back in the 90s.

[Nyerguds]

I never added anything to that. That mission has always been there. The final mission has been fixed up a bit though, because the original had trouble getting units reinforced.

[sgtmyers88]

haha I just replayed these the other day.

[TaxOwlbear]

We have to clear out velociraptor-infested woods in what may be the hardest dinosaur mission.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joN17vmMZTg

[Nyerguds]

Hee. That's a tough one, yes. Easiest way to beat that one is to make a "corridor of death" at the south-eastern bridge and lure everything through it.

[TaxOwlbear]

I did a poor man's version of that.

[Kilkakon]

I remember playing that as a kid. I was convinced that burning the trees would actually stop them moving and allow me to attack them safely. Strangely from memory it kinda worked too, although this is going on 10 years or so ago now :|

[TaxOwlbear]

We will finally stop an end to the flood of dinosaurs... with tanks. And attack helicopters. Lots of attack helicopters.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNZXJQ9B2ck

[Nyerguds]

I'm wondering about the final thumbnail - you already used all four of the game's dino's :3

 

How do you set those custom thumbnails anyway?

[TaxOwlbear]

I just took a couple of random dinosaurs that looked cool and scary. And are probably biologically inaccurate.  I could have taken the aerial dinosaur from the first cut scene. It doesn't appear as a unit, but its appearance in the cut scene makes it semi-official, I guess.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU6YcX09xsQ

 

Custom thumbnails can be chosen in the upload menu or later in the video manager. I think you need to have your channel verified for that, though.