Command & Conquer C&C News: Update for TUC, Steam release of TA, source codes and archived videos

[Plok 323]

Today has been quite eventful for the Command & Conquer franchise. A lengthy Reddit post (available here) was written by Jim Vessella and CCHyper, which is a recommended read, but for those in a hurry, here is the abbreviated list:

• All games in the C&C: The Ultimate Collection package on Steam and EA App have been updated - this fixes some issues discovered since launch (e.g. broken cutscenes in Red Alert 2), adds missing PDF manual versions, adds bonus content (Tiberium Wars Kane Edition, bonus maps for Red Alert 3, etc.)
• Source codes are now available for Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert 1, Renegade, Generals + Zero Hour, and an additional repository for all 3D titles in the franchise that will help with developing mods (modding guidelines updated accordingly)
• Newer titles got a version bump - 1.09 for Generals, 1.05 for Zero Hour, 1.10 for Tiberium Wars, 1.03 for Kane's Wrath, 1.13 for Red Alert 3, 1.01 for Uprising, 1.04 for Tiberian Twilight.
• Steam Workshop support added for SAGE games
• Archived footage from the development of Renegade and Generals has been digitized and uploaded on YouTube (see above)
• The franchise is on sale on Steam right now!
• oh, and Tiberium Alliances got a Steam release

Big thank you to everyone involved behind the scenes on this update, and making sure the C&C legacy is available in as accessible a package as possible.

[Inferno 22]

I might as well get the games on Steam as well this time, if only to show my support to EA for doing this and my continued interest in the franchise. It's not a new game, but it's something.

[PurpleGaga27 40]

This feels like what C&C's 30th anniversary is about to be.

And oh, I have to update my mods in order to work with these updated C&C3 and RA3 games, if only I have the time.

And best of all, someone's probably already preparing new patches for C&C Generals/Zero Hour and C&C Renegade since both of them still have issues, now that the world has AI to help with coding.

Now all they need left are the missing C&C Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 source codes, which EA claimed they lost it but people thought there's still hope to recover them (and maybe re-create Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 remastered). Not sure if EA would give away the source code for SAGE games from C&C3, RA3 and C&C4 sometime in the future, besides modding support.

Edited March 6 by PurpleGaga27

[Sonic 295]

I enjoyed watching the archive video. Renegade 2..... opportunity lost there, oh well.

[PurpleGaga27 40]

Hey Sonic! back.