Lion's Daily Blurb - Wed., Thurs., March 28-29

[Lion]

I've had a chance to play a bit from the full version of C&C3, and I must say I'm quite impressed with just about everything the game has to offer. I haven't completed any of the campaigns yet, but what I have played of the single player missions are very entertaining and bring back fond memories of old school C&C. Skirmish play against the comp is good, with the exception of some path finding issues I can live with. Those SCRIN...WOW. Now that's a faction to be reckoned with. I've always favored the GDI side, but the Aliens are tempting me to defect, hehe. The online multiplayer end of things does need a bit of work, but EA has heard the call, and from what I understand are addressing the issues at hand. We'll just have to be patient till they get things worked out. So those of you who do have the game now, did ya get your money's worth?

[canman87]

Hell yeah, I definitely got my money's worth. I'm pleased with every aspect of this game. I can't find anything I don't like about it.

I'm actually ok with the current online situation as of right now, since I'm working on completing the campaigns at this time. I'm only about a third of the way through the GDI one, so I hope by the time I've finished up with all of them that the multiplayer issues have been ironed out, or if nothing else, reduced.

And I agree with you, Lion, about the Scrin. :eek:

[General Al Ramsey]

Yeah it was well worth the wait and the price. I haven't seen the Scrin yet but I can't wait bring em on. After all I have always favored GDI too! It will be really worth it when the World Builder comes out next month. (Hee Hee) :hyper:

[Pharseer6]

Friend Lion, I am on my 10th download attempt from EALINK and have gotten no support from EA at all.:( File 1335 error Core.data is corrupt.
I posted in tech section too so maybe someone else will have the same problem and figure out a workaround.

Glad you all are enjoying it.

[Demeuser]

C&C 3 is easily worth every penny. I thought the GDI campaign was going pretty well until I hit Cairo. I got my butt kicked...8 minutes to take out the nuke or you fail. Even the strat. guide suggestions did not work for me (normal difficulty). I like a challenge. This will be fun figuring out how to get into his heavily defended base. The commando sounds a lot like the one from TD...having a blast but need to get some sleep. Way to go EA...this the best C&C title to date!:D

[Major Issues]

Here's my question:

Does anybody understand the crates? This is what I've seen so far in skirmish mode. I've gotten five different things from them.

A: Your unit is promoted.
B: Your unit is repaired.
C: You get 1000 credits.
D: You get... like 70 or 80 credits.
E: Nothing.

Is this something they're patching, or did they just change it up?

[allied129]

Friend Lion, I am on my 10th download attempt from EALINK and have gotten no support from EA at all.:( File 1335 error Core.data is corrupt.
I posted in tech section too so maybe someone else will have the same problem and figure out a workaround.

Glad you all are enjoying it.


Hmm i downloaded from EALink too and didn't have any problems was quite pleased with how smooth it went.

[Neogumbercules]

I'm liking the game a lot. So far I have played through several of the GDI missions and I've played online with my friend. He likes playing as the Scrin.

About that GDI mission where you have to destroy the nuke silo: build up 2 air fields and send 8 orcas around to the left side of the map and attack the nuke silo from the side. That should take it out. If you find this mission hard wait until you get to the next mission...:tantrum:

Right now I am pretty disappointed by the selection of skirmish mode maps, though. They are all pretty standard, boring, tournament style maps. All function no form. I'll be looking to the map making crowd to save me, here.

[Redux0718]

Yeah the Scrin are cool and powerful and all but they are way too fragile for my taste, even with the energy shield upgrade. They are excellent turtles though will all those base defences and they even have an ability to summon a defensive tower anywhere. The Scrin's late game power is ineeded powerful but they cannot do much against wave after wave of Mammoth tanks, those guys still shine brightly, they can take out an Annihilator tripod with shields and still have the lifebar to take down one more! They can even take down those pesky Devastator Warships because those ships only chip away at the Mammoth Tank's health and when they close in, in suffecient numbers they can take them out with one wave of their missiles.

[soldner]

i like the game, its pretty good, but im still having video and audio desynch problems :( and ive tried doing like they said with the demo, doesnt help any.. anybody have an idea how i can fix it?

[warstomp]

I love the game but only hate one thing. The Avatar's suck. They need some beefing up. They are almost pointless to buy. But then again I mostly just use stealth tanks as nod.

[NuclearDreams]

The Avatar's suck. They need some beefing up. They are almost pointless to buy.

The Mammoths are Avatar eaters.

I got my copy today in the mail. I orderd it from Austria to avoid getting the censored German version. The government here has got their heads firmly up their orifices.

[MercZ]

I got the game, and I love it. Only thing I wish they'd done is some unit scaling and making some of the singleplayer maps bigger.

Overall though, I'm pleased.

[Apocalypse]

I have not had a chance to play the demo or the retail version... :( i have dial up so i couldnt download the demo so i had a friend download it and burn it on a cd for me. it didnt work :tantrum:. But alls good im buying the Kane Edition right when i get out of school!!!

[M2M]

i like the game, its pretty good, but im still having video and audio desynch problems :( and ive tried doing like they said with the demo, doesnt help any.. anybody have an idea how i can fix it?

try uninstalling any codec packs and uninstalling the demo, then install the demo again and apply the fixes described elsewhere


if that doesn't work, I'm quite sorry....

[Apolo]

Hay yhe sorry for being a complete noob,but what did Lion mean when he said a couple of "path finding problems" ?

And besides the other problems that have been encounterd have you found any others ?

Getting my copy of Kane addition tommoro lol yhe.:color2::color2::color2::color2::color2::color3::color3::color3::color3::color3::color2::color2::color2::color2::color2:

[soldner]

try uninstalling any codec packs and uninstalling the demo, then install the demo again and apply the fixes described elsewhere


if that doesn't work, I'm quite sorry....

im talking about the full game. im having the same problems as with the demo, and its quite annoying trying to do the campaigns and have crap all chopped up

[JJprozak]

It is so great to play this game..It rules..

I am about ready to hit the online scene very soon..

It really has a very completed feel to it.. I can't wait to get home and fire it up..

JJ

[Gaucho8788]

I'm ready to receive my copy but it has yet to arrive. Though from all of the good comments about it I can tell the wait is going to be worth it.

[Scoot]

So far I am enjoying it. The mouse settings still get me. When I switch back to Yuri's revenge I get messed up by right clicking on tanks or infantry.

[MercZ]

Hay yhe sorry for being a complete noob,but what did Lion mean when he said a couple of "path finding problems" ?

Pathfinding is the term for the AI when they try to find the most easy path to a target. At times, they'll bunch up and not move. It's not as bad in C&C as in some other games, but it is there, especially in tight areas.

[ajsarge]

Got the game day before yesterday, played untill late late both nights. Tried to get back onto multi today when I woke up, but no dice. Spent a while just getting the darn thing to patch. Haven't had a chance to get at it yet, but I think I'll go play now.

PS: I <3 my new C&C3 cursor in windows with green tib background. Just go to control panel -> mouse, click pointers at top of mouse window, and then browse to (disk drive):/program files/electronic arts/c&c3/RetailExe/1.0/Data/Cursors and select your pointer. Anything in there works great, except the commandeer, capture, and garrison kind of pointers where the point is off a bit. That and maybe the scroll arrows.

[zgtrman97]

im talking about the full game. im having the same problems as with the demo, and its quite annoying trying to do the campaigns and have crap all chopped up

I am assumming that you are using Windows XP as your O/S..if that is the case then open cnc3..when it has started up do a Control Shift Escape on your keyboard and click on the Processes tab and look for:

CNC3.exe
cnc3game.dat

right click each one and set the priority to Above Normal then go back to the game and the audio and video should be synced...if not then set the priority to High.
You may have to go through one of the missions for the sync to happen..if after doing all of this and it still doesn't sync then start dropping background programs.

[Wow Your Ugly]

Great timing, right when whatever free time I had evaporated, CNC 3 comes out.

It's going to be awhile before I find enough time to play it. Life is busy for me. :\

[soadfan1]

Well I got the game today and I am having a serious issue. I get about 3 minutes in game and during a video uplink the game crashes to the blue screne of death and I register a crash dump, then I have reboot pc.

Is this a problem with Vista or something else does anyone know?

-Rob

[Redux0718]

Well I got the game today and I am having a serious issue. I get about 3 minutes in game and during a video uplink the game crashes to the blue screne of death and I register a crash dump, then I have reboot pc.

Is this a problem with Vista or something else does anyone know?

-Rob

I have been reading instability errors with using Vista on games. That leads me to think that Vista is still not yet recommended for gaming.

[Ace]

had some hands on time last night with cnc 3 and omg omg its incredible good. :D only thing is i cant figure out how to beat the gdi mission where base has very low power and attacks come from 4 directions and i have to rescue the reinforcement team :p c'mon i was supposed to get rescuedc by you guys! :D
tried some on the nod campaign and that was much easier somehow but pretty fun too. The scrin was really a force to be reconned with , but they also make my fps go down hill when i got like 20 carriers or somehting. mammoth tanks got to be one of the most powerfull units in the game btw they really pack a punch on my scrin defenses and halt my carrier offenses.

[General Al Ramsey]

had some hands on time last night with cnc 3 and omg omg its incredible good. :D only thing is i cant figure out how to beat the gdi mission where base has very low power and attacks come from 4 directions and i have to rescue the reinforcement team :p c'mon i was supposed to get rescuedc by you guys! :D
tried some on the nod campaign and that was much easier somehow but pretty fun too. The scrin was really a force to be reconned with , but they also make my fps go down hill when i got like 20 carriers or somehting. mammoth tanks got to be one of the most powerfull units in the game btw they really pack a punch on my scrin defenses and halt my carrier offenses.

Ace first take the wrench to all your power plants and guns. Start building predators, a couple of harvesters, and APC's. Put the Apc's on the South and west side 2 ea. Shut down one gun on those sides to conserve power.
If you want build a couple of the little buggy's to take care of the avatars then you can shut down the AA guns. Then build as many units as you can to go get the reinforcements! (You will need a lot there is a base to the South west.) Good luck!