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  1. Have you patched the game to 1.02 first and could you run it before?
  2. In a second update in a single hour, we have more news on the C&C remasters. Turns out that 20 tracks recorded by Frank Klepacki and The Tiberian Sons (who had their legendary live performance at MAGFest last year) will be available as a bonus in the already announced jukebox feature. Above is a sample of that - including the track Just Do It Up which was not played at the concert. Here's the full update from Jim Vessella: Fellow Command & Conquer fans, Over the past year, we’ve dedicated several posts to provide details on the soundtrack for the Command & Conquer Remaster. But we’ve kept one special surprise up our sleeve, which we’re now ready to reveal today. Last year at MAGfest 2019, there was an amazing Command & Conquer setlist performed live by Frank Klepacki and the Tiberian Sons. The Tiberian Sons are a band who specialize in remixes of video game music, with members Tony Dickinson, Travis Moberg, Connor Engstrom, and Max Noel. For MAGFest 2019, they collaborated with Frank to put together a 90 minute concert of iconic C&C music from across the entire franchise. Like many of you I watched this concert streamed live and was blown away by the performance. And I knew at that moment we needed their talent represented in the Remasters. So the next week I pinged Frank and asked if he and the band would be interested in recording the performance for the Remasters. Frank and the band loved the idea - so we made it happen. Frank and the band re-recorded their entire MAGFest performance in a studio environment, and Frank personally mixed the tracks throughout 2019. What we now have are over 20 high-fidelity tracks performed by Frank and The Tiberian Sons (spanning the entire franchise), which will be included in the Remaster at no extra charge. All tracks from The Tiberian Sons can be listened to via the “Bonus” category in the new Jukebox, and if you so choose, may be seamlessly integrated into campaign missions via the toggleable audio settings. Now, you may remember that around this time last year, I posted a survey here on Reddit asking for the community to vote on their favorite tracks. I can now tell you the goal was to ensure we had the community’s top 10 favorite tracks represented in the studio recording. When the votes were tallied up, it turns out 9 of the top 10 voted tracks were already included in The Tiberian Sons setlist. However, there was one fan-favorite track that slipped through the cracks of the original setlist - Just Do It Up. So to deliver on the community’s top 10 vote, Frank wrote an arrangement of Just Do It Up to have specially recorded by The Tiberian Sons for the Remaster. After keeping this content under wraps for an entire year, we’re ecstatic to finally share a sample of Just Do It Up and other tracks in the video above. We hope you are as excited about the involvement of The Tiberian Sons as we are. A huge thanks to Frank, the band members, and their visual artist, Nate Horsfall, for extending their incredible talent to the Remaster project. We anticipate these recordings will become an icon of C&C history and be listened to for the next 25 years and beyond. But in the here and now, this week is just getting started. Tomorrow is going to be an exciting day for the C&C Remaster, and we want the whole C&C community to be there. Tune in at 7:00am PDT tomorrow (March 10th) to join us for all the details. Cheers, Jim Vessella Jimtern
  3. Within the past week or so, Petroglyph Games' website has been updated for the first time in many years, showing a more modern design showcasing most of the games they've worked on thus far. What's interesting here is that the site features the first look at Red Alert Remastered in-game, as well as an alternate C&C Remastered logo in the video reel at the top: You can see the full resolution of the split screenshot here. Wonder what the official word on this will be.
  4. Plok

    Old Commander reporting for duty

    Hey hey, always nice to see an old member come back!
  5. Recently, two actors who have left their mark on the Command & Conquer universe have passed away: Gene Dynarski and Dimitri Diatchenko. Gene Dynarski is most familiar to us for his portrayal of Joseph Stalin in the original Red Alert. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he died on 27 February 2020 at the age of 86 in a rehabilitation center in Los Angeles. Dimitri Diatchenko, known in the community for his role of Oleg Vodnik in Red Alert 3, was found dead at the age of 52 in his home in Daytona Beach, after his coworkers had not head from him in several days, according to CNN. They will be missed, and our condolences go to their families and friends.
  6. German YouTuber Amars 90 has opened up a contest for a physical edition of Command & Conquer: Remastered Collection that just had its sales closed. He's already purchased it but wants to give it away to a lucky fan. To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment in the embedded video by 28 May 2020, saying why it should be yours. On the next day, he will stream the winner announcement on his Twitch channel, where he will randomly pick a comment. Do note that only European residents can enter due to shipping. CNCNZ.com does not partake in this giveaway, we merely cover it as a piece of news. We are not responsible for any events related to it.
  7. An easy way to do this is to fire up the Worldbuilder and use the sound tool that can be assigned to objects, which has a playback feature for all ingame sounds. You can record it with Audacity or something similar.
  8. Only if you're dim enough not to see that none of this is new. Wars and major diseases have been part of human history since its inception.
  9. Plok

    Missing/Lack of Model

    If I knew, I'd have already replied. No need to ping me in several different places. Also, join the Discord server Madin linked.
  10. Plok

    Good Day, Everybody!

    Nah, he's due in 2023. You gotta admire the dedication.
  11. If that were the case, he wouldn't have wounds under his mask nor a limp throughout TS, FS and KW Act 1.
  12. It goes both with the EALA story of him being an alien and the biblical theme of Cain from Genesis (who was condemned to a life of wandering in the Land of Nod after killing his own brother, Abel). However, a particular line in the Bible makes things all the more interesting (Genesis 4:15): It's in everyone's best interest not to kill him
  13. You'll need to run the CnCNet YR client to go to the options and choose a different graphics renderer, which will be applied to both RA2 and YR. Then exit the client and run both RA2 and YR as usual to see if it worked. Repeat until you find one that works best.
  14. Try a custom one, like C:\Games\Red Alert 2
  15. @BruteForce you've installed the game in your Documents folder, which may be the cause of the game application's inability to load certain files. Try installing in a folder that is neither Documents nor Program Files, since newer Windows systems are touchy with that. @Whiteboy https://cncnz.com/features/technical-support-help-guides/installing-command-conquer-red-alert-2/
  16. Did you make sure you copied maps01.mix, maps02.mix and maps03md.mix in the game's directory and NOT a subfolder of some sort?
  17. In EA's official quarterly earnings call for Q3 of the current fiscal year that was released two days ago, the company touched on the performance of Command & Conquer: Rivals. EA seems to lament every single release as "below expectations" and try to hunt for a scapegoat for that outside the company (e.g. the same earnings call blamed the "poor" performance of Battlefield V on the "competition" of Fortnite and Red Dead Redemption II) instead of their own shortcomings. It would appear that the level of attention given to Rivals from its own separate fanbase, which surprised in size even myself as someone who immediately prepared a casket for it as soon as I heard about it, is not enough for the once overconfident publisher whose stocks have taken an insane dive in the past several months, and which fell even further on the day the earnings call was released alongside the stocks of many other publishers. On a personal note, I'd just like to share my disbelief at the lack of self-reflection executives and select developers within major companies have, taking absolutely no responsibility of their own and blaming everyone and everything else for their own failures. If EA manages to survive the year without major blows, we are looking at an upcoming C&C remaster release which brings hope that at least someone (you know who you are) recognizes that their own customers matter more than shareholders in the long run, but time will tell sooner rather than later whether that will be properly put in deeds and not just words.
  18. Plok

    Command & Conquer Board Game

    Please don't resurrect very old threads.
  19. The C&C Remastered Collection reveal trailer has finally premiered, showing all the key features the game will have, most of which have already been announced in previous updates. The game is available for pre-ordering here, and will be available on Origin and Steam, as well as in unique physical collector's editions. It launches on 5th June 2020.
  20. Less than an hour ago, EA producer Jim Vessella posted this first piece of art that will be used in Command & Conquer: Remastered - a faithfully recreated Construction Yard in GDI gold colours, along with a development update. He had this to say on the C&C subreddit:
  21. The AMA time was pushed forward 30 minutes, so 9:30 AM Pacific time (16:30 GMT), and is planned to last 2 hours.
  22. Tomorrow (11 March 2020), Jim Vessella will be having an AMA at 10:00 Pacific Time (17:00 GMT) https://twitter.com/OfficialCnC/status/1237531186634752001
  23. However it does seem the shipping is that high for me because it includes the customs: https://limitedrungames.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/22000236142-international-customs-fees The list basically covers Canada, Australia, and the EU (plus UK).
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