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No. W3D Hub is working on a W3D plugin for newer versions, but until then, 7-9 is all you can use.

Stay classy, Fox Sports Brazil.

It is online, just a tad slower at the moment.

We have some site-related news to post tonight. CNCNZ.com is changing administration, in a way, but not much will actually change. Before you ask, no, we are not in any danger from shutting down again, like we were a year ago. What happens is this - Rabbit (ex-Zee Hypnotist), who took over the site from the hosting and leadership role, is taking a back seat. He is still our host, and he will still be around on our forums and Discord server from time to time, and will help out if something on the site breaks, but he is no longer the leader of the site. As of this moment, I am. This has been a decision that took a lot of discussion for a long period of time, as Rabbit never intended to fully lead the site, just save it from closure, as he leads a busy private life. On the flip side, I have been working hard on networking with core community leaders (which hasn't been done since C&C Webbies went down), communicating with EA staff, and maintaining information, tech, and gallery pages on the site, so this was another part of the reasoning. What will change in the site's direction? Probably not much for a while. There are only 3 staff members currently around, which considering the extent of our activities online and offline, doesn't allow for much in terms of new content, though we are always looking for new staff. What will continue is us bringing you both official and community news on Command & Conquer, and I also hope to bring back some neglected features (I know we kept promising a lot over the past year, but I'm trying to keep it real with the features that will be revived). Thank you all for sticking with us, and we hope that you will do so in the future as well.

Now that the news from the official front are settling down, it's time to pick up on the recent happenings in the C&C community. Joe & Aza, whom we've met with their Hell March cover 3 years ago, are back with a Grinder cover (shown above). Kane Nash, the legendary author of numerous C&C wallpapers, is also back, with an awesome reminder of what the C&C community can do regardless of "official channels" being disappointing. OpenRA developers released a dev blog showcasing upcoming performance updates, the reduction of arbitrary differences from the original Red Alert, and a status update on the Tiberian Sun mod. As of today, the record of most concurrent players on CnCNet is 1082, with about half of those playing Mental Omega! One Vision, the most ambitious mod for Kane's Wrath, got a new release (version 0.90), including unique tier 4 units for most factions, Global Conquest compatibility, skins for ZOCOM, the Black Hand and Reaper-17, balance tweaks, new audio and visual effects, and much more! For its 16th anniversary, the D-Day mod for Yuri's Revenge got a shiny new website. The Mental Omega APYR mod for Yuri's Revenge will be getting patch 3.3.4 some time this summer, with the update on its main website announcing 8 new Covert Ops missions, a new Foehn Origins mission, a new challenge map, 13 new skirmish/multiplayer maps, and the usual range of bugfixes and balance tweaks. Plus, new renders in the style of the classic Red Alert 2 installer! The Nomad Galaxy mod for OpenRA got its first dev blog that goes into detail on how the mod is envisioned. The Evolutions: Real Time Strategy Evolved mod for Tiberium Wars points to its Trello page for following the mod's progress, shows some neat new renders and calls for voice actors in the latest news post. And they say this community is dead. Pff.

The official online servers have been inaccessible since 17 July 2014. This is the replacement, and this is the guide to get on it. Also, unrelated topic.

PATCH v1.06 by the H2 Clan Here at CNCNZ.com, we value community contributions, particularly those which improve existing games. Thus, we support unofficial patches by the community. The Zero Hour 1.06 patch was made and tested by the H2 Clan (Yumi, Sparky, AngryHan, j4m3sb0nd, Tr][ky, lionheart, Star Ocean, ReLaX, bliNd-, ^spAmmAAjA^, spalding; with AngryHan credited for the INI coding and ReLaX for maps). This patch was made in order to fix bugs and resolve balance issues that remained in 1.04 (the last official version) and the 1.05x series of unofficial patches that preceded it. In CNCNZ.com game nights, this will be the selected patch for multiplayer (unless mods are used). Below are the links to the latest build from 22 August 2008, mirrored at our website, as well as the full changelog (verbatim). Mirroring of files and information done with explicit permission given by Sparky. Download links: Original thread CNCNZ.com mirror - ZIP CNCNZ.com mirror - installer Installation procedure: 1. Extract the ZIP/RAR file (containing the Patch1.06.big file) to: Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\My Documents\Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour Data Windows Vista and later: C:\Users\<user>\Documents\Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour Data 2. Create a shortcut to your generals.exe (the one in the Zero Hour folder, not original Generals). If you do have a ZH shotcut already, copy/paste it and rename it. Locate this ZH folder somewhere inside the TFD folder or where you placed it along the "advanced user" installation (in the case of). (Note: One can have as much patches one wants simultaneously, by making an analoge procedure. Just make sure you have the proper .big file and a correspondent shortcut. Each shortcut can point to each of your patches). 3. Open shortcut properties. Add this line to the Target box "-mod Patch1.06.big", without the quotes. The final result should be like "<path to ZH folder>\generals.exe -mod Patch1.06.big". 4. And voilá! Use the shortcut to play ZH 1.06. Make sure to go into options to see if the right version is properly loaded. Play fair and tough.

WrathEd can't stand xi:include tags. You need to copy the data that those tags refer to. That makes editing/creating XMLs for KW quite tedious.

You're actually supposed to start with the official Tiberium Wars Mod SDK and start modding that, since that has better documentation. Kane's Wrath XMLs are here.

It isn't hard to be the best among players who are even worse Also, did you notice how the CFA selection didn't do many remarkable things until the Argentinian goalkeeper tried to lob Rebić instead of clearing the ball like anyone sane would? Goes back to my point on them only having and celebrating easy victories, though I'm surprised this happened against Argentina.

Messi has always been garbage outside Barçelona.

That only affects the unit behaviour, not the fundamental gameplay.

I need to port the save files from my old laptop to try and reproduce this. This sounds like an awesome find!

A game being in alpha doesn't change what it's like in its core, as the core is pretty much set in stone.

Ah, a pic of a fan in Russia wearing Modrić's jersey number with the words "I don't remember" from the trial, for which Modrić has become a laughing stock.

Because this is not a Croatian national selection. For over a decade, it's just been a sales pitch for GNK Dinamo Zagreb players to sell in Europe. They haven't played a relevant match here in Split (second largest city and home to the older and internationally more successful HNK Hajduk Split) in many years apart from a friendly against Brazil just prior to the 2006 World Cup and a qualifier match for the previous Euro (IIRC?) that was already under sanctions for prior "fan" hooliganism and wasn't open to the public. They tried to assign a match for another qualifier against some irrelevant selection like Wales, so we declined from principle. The leader of the corruption in Croatian football, GNK Dinamo Zagreb's "former" executive vice-president Zdravko Mamić, is a fugitive with an international arrest warrant, and fled to Bosnia and Herzegovina a day before he was to be sentenced (on June 6th this year) for a mere 6 and a half years in jail for that. The current chief of the Croatian Football Association (CFA / locally known as HNS) is Davor Šuker, who used to be our hero as a footballer, but now he is treated like a piece of shit that he is, as he's not only Mamić's puppet, but also an incredibly smug turd. The executive president of the Association, Damir Vrbanović, was convicted alongside Mamić, but for 4 years. Two of the active selection players, Luka Modrić (Real Madrid) and Dejan Lovren (Liverpool) were on record for lying during the trial and are currently under investigation for that on top of being involved in sending Dinamo/Mamić money from their transfers. Hilarity ensued when Mamić, in the late stages of the trial, brought two bags, one with some documents he wanted to give to the judge, and another containing Lovren's exact lines that he ordered him to say while testifying - he accidentally switched the two. What's more, where I live, we hate the selection for all of that and more. In general, Hajduk and its supporters (Torcida) are known for their spite. If entire Croatia is not represented by the "national" selection, then it is not the Croatian selection, but the selection of the CFA/HNS. EDIT: Almost forgot, they celebrate meaningless victories like 10-0 against the likes of San Marino but pussy out whenever there's a remote challenge, yet the majority of the players are in major European teams. Also, after Slaven Bilić left, all coaches have been politically chosen.

If the standard for amazing is an overpaid whiner, then yes. Also best of luck to Nigeria tonight.

I'm going to cry.

The two starting teams were the most laughable in this tournament. Even if Saudi Arabia didn't suck, there's an unwritten rule that the host must pass the group stage with the help of referees (if two countries host the tournament, only one is required to pass).

Moments ago, the new C&C game was announced. It is Command & Conquer: Rivals, and is a mobile game in the Tiberium universe. It is a 1v1 game where each player builds decks of units and goes against the other. The center of the map holds a nuclear missile silo which is controlled by the owner of the majority of control points on the map. More info and descriptions coming soon, but for now, here is the official gameplay overview. The official site is here https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-conquer-rivals. The game was announced to be available for testing on the Google Play store for Android users.

Go Iceland!

If EA knew anything, they would have anticipated that these past two days would have happened, and would not have gone with the C&C brand.

Then explain the millions upon millions of worldwide RTS players since 1992. If something as complex as RPGs and TBSes can be popular to this day, so can RTSes, but the only fact that it isn't already is that 10 years ago every corporation abandoned it because brain-absent managers told their studios that it wasn't profitable based on jack shit.

Not the point here.