I’ve a diseased thoughts that solely desires one factor—a correct remaster of Tiberian Sun, very similar to Red Alert and OG Command and Conquer acquired again in 2020 with the discharge of the Command and Conquer: Remastered Collection.
Well, I have never acquired it but, however I’ve acquired a good second prize: EA’s introduced that it is releasing the supply code for a bunch of previous C&C video games and—this is the bit the place I, as a person who enjoys modding however can be very lazy, will get excited—including Steam Workshop assist to a couple extra.
The video games getting a supply code launch are Command & Conquer (Tiberian Dawn), Red Alert, C&C Renegade, and C&C Generals and Zero Hour. They’re being launched underneath the GPL license, which means of us can combine, match, and redistribute them to their hearts’ content material with out EA legal professionals smashing down the door. You can discover all of them on EA’s Github web page.
As for the Steam Workshop? That’s getting switched on for C&C Renegade, C&C Generals and Zero Hour, C&C 3 Tiberium Wars and Kane’s Wrath, and C&C 4 Tiberium Twilight (they can not all be winners). EA’s additionally gone and “up to date all of the Mission Editor and World Builder instruments so you possibly can publish maps on to the Steam Workshop.”
Plus, it is placing out a modding assist pack that “accommodates the supply Xml, Schema, Script, Shader and Map information for all of the video games that use the SAGE engine.” I lack the helpful abilities to know what that actually means for the modding scene, however I stay up for reaping the advantages down the road.
So it ain’t a full-on remaster of Tiberian Sun and RA2 (though I consider in my intestine we’ll get these some day), however it’s not dangerous, and it is cool to see one thing be executed with C&C after EA all of a sudden dropped the Ultimate Collection on Steam final yr.
Per C&C producer Jim Vessella, EA commissioned C&C group veteran Luke ‘CCHyper’ Feenan to formally analysis enhancements to lots of the video games within the Ultimate Collection,” and that is the fruit of his labour. Say what you want about EA—and I’ll—however it’s nice passionate devs and followers have been given the room and means to maintain classics like C&C alive.
