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[Aztek985]

Magazines PC Powerplay and PC Jeux released huge details this week about Command & Conquer 4. Here are some details.

From PCJEUX:

- Command & Conquer 4 will be the last C&C Tiberium game ever, after it's 15 year saga. EA is not ruling out the possibility of more games in the C&C franchise however.

- EA promises better videos. No more blue screens, only action. Commanders featured will not be passive. The tone of the videos will be much more serious and mature.

- The gameplay is much closer to an RPG, where in every fight, multiplayer or singleplayer, the experience will be won, and units will be improved. Also, the new unit "The Crawler" will play a very important role, it will be the battlecamp, and all units will be drawn to it. If the Crawler is destroyed, another one will arrive on the map in a safe place, like a FPS. During Crawler respawns, you get to choose it's class: Offensive, defensive, or utilitarian.

- Tiberium is harvested by a facility on a control point. I wonder if that means no more harvesters ... ?


From PC Powerplay:

- Scrin are no longer a playable faction and will not be explored any further. Scrin expansion will be possible however.

- The Forgotten will be present, but will not play a major role in the game. They will be neutral. You will be able to fight them for experience, or team up with them as allies.

- GDI and Nod will be the only playable factions this time around. There will be no less than 80 units per side.

- Support class crawlers can fly (The GDI support crawler is actually that large GDI aircraft from the mag's scanned pictures)

- The game is primarily focused around 5v5 objective based multiplayer.

- EA promises that the C&C world is not finished, C&C4 will just complete the story of Kane. You will learn who he is, where he comes from, and why he cares so much about Tiberium.

- There will be an application for your mobile.

- The Horizontal UI bar is not yet complete.


Also, since I seem to have not posted this yet, EA also announced to be able to play C&C4, you must be online at all times. So if you plan on playing C&C4 without an internet connection you better think again. Also, C&C4 will support DirectX 11!

Here are 11 new screenshots scanned from both of the magazines.






Thanks to 2kool4u526 and his thread for bringing this to my attention!

[CommanderSpartan]

wait so the "crawler" flies? Doesn't that defy some laws of physics? And if EA does go back to poke at prequels or maybe alternative timelines, maybe they can use the story westwood made, or get the petroglyph team to come and help (which I highly doubt)

[2kool4u526]

- Scrin are no longer a playable faction and will not be explored again.

That will really suck, the 3rd campaign was a good idea!!!

- Tiberium is harvested by a facility on a control point. I wonder if that means no more harvesters ... ?

No more harvesters, how dare they, a good strategy WAS to take out the harvester so the other person had to put stuff on hold to make a new one.

The Forgotten will be present, but will not play a major role in the game.

Westwood made The Forgotten awesome, EA has probably turned that concept into sh*t

wait so the "crawler" flies? Doesn't that defy some laws of physics?

How EA managed to screw up westwood's uncorruptable storyline defy's the law of nature.

- The gameplay is much closer to an RPG, where in every fight, multiplayer or singleplayer, the experience will be won, and units will be improved. Also, the new unit "The Crawler" will play a very important role, it will be the battlecamp, and all units will be drawn to it. If the Crawler is destroyed, another one will arrive on the map in a safe place, like a FPS. During Crawler respawns, you get to choose it's class: Offensive, defensive, or utilitarian.

Pic of an offensive crawler in my C&C4 Pics thread, which reminds me
WOW Python put a link to my thread in there, I feel so overjoyed!!!

[Rampastring]

- EA promises better videos. No more blue screens, only action. Commanders featured will not be passive. The tone of the videos will be much more serious and mature.

Sounds better this time.

- The gameplay is much closer to an RPG, where in every fight, multiplayer or singleplayer, the experience will be won, and units will be improved. Also, the new unit "The Crawler" will play a very important role, it will be the battlecamp, and all units will be drawn to it. If the Crawler is destroyed, another one will arrive on the map in a safe place, like a FPS. During Crawler respawns, you get to choose it's class: Offensive, defensive, or utilitarian.

For me a respawning base unit sounds like a bad idea for gameplay (and it also sounds too newb-friendly).

- Tiberium is harvested by a facility on a control point. I wonder if that means no more harvesters ... ?

If there are mobile bases, I think that mobile refineries (...) would've been a better idea than ditching the old system entirely. However I'll see how the resource system turns out before criticizing it too much.

- Scrin are no longer a playable faction and will not be explored again.

I can understand that EA doesn't want to mess with Scrin again (due to communities' criticism), but it would've been better to leave them after TW added them. I hope the story will explain the Scrin' disappearance.

- The Forgotten will be present, but will not play a major role in the game. They will be neutral. You will be able to fight them for experience, or team up with them for their use.

Not much to comment. I liked the Forgotten as a non-playable side in TS, but in TW they were boring, there were no neutral mutants around and the only thing the player could do with them was to buy them from some random civilian structure.

- GDI and Nod will be the only playable factions this time around. There will be no less than 80 units per side.

80 sounds much more than enough. I wonder how they're going to balance all the 160 units (without making many units with similar roles).

- The Crawler unit will be able to fly.

Imagine a flying MCV. There are "air units" for a reason

Although it could be good for some specific Crawler roles (defensive, offensive etc).

- The game is mainly focused on multiplayer, specifically 5 vs. 5 applications.

5v5 sounds good, but while they're concentrating on MP I also want to see a good SP campaign (tbh even the older C&Cs are mainly focused on multiplayer, except for C&C95 & RA1 with their massive amount of single-player missions ("New Missions")).

This post has been edited by ^Rampastein: Jul 24 2009, 09:57 AM

[Orac]

That must be why all the mechs have ugly feet - they must all have rockets in them! *half serious*

EDIT: Actually, if the crawler was replaced with Dropship or some such, that'd make a surprising amount of sense. Yeah... abandon crawlers, use Dropships...

This post has been edited by Orac: Jul 24 2009, 03:58 AM

[FrzStorm]

- GDI and Nod will be the only playable factions this time around. There will be no less than 80 units per side.

I'm unsure as to why you have basically copied and pasted information provided elsewhere, and then edited information to your liking. 80 units per side? yeah no.

-Tyrael

[Team Black]

I like that EA is trying some new stuff, nice post Python!

[CommanderSpartan]

I'm unsure as to why you have basically copied and pasted information provided elsewhere, and then edited information to your liking. 80 units per side? yeah no.

-Tyrael

Hes posting info for us to see since most of us come here for info regarding the C&C universe and seriously common, what was he gonna say then? If you say that, then pretty much everything in the internet is useless, its probably what he found, or maybe he found a longer version of it and he summarized it, so what? It helps us get to know what to expect. Also EA trying new things never amounts to anything good. Usually it just pisses me off and sets me of ranting in my home for the next 2 years, screaming at the game itself and throwing butcher knives at EA logos.

This post has been edited by CommanderSpartan: Jul 25 2009, 06:20 PM

[Aztek985]

I'm unsure as to why you have basically copied and pasted information provided elsewhere, and then edited information to your liking. 80 units per side? yeah no.

-Tyrael

Excuse me? All my news sources are public and legit. EA has many news feeds that allow for public discussion, including Facebook, Twitter, and of course the official C&C forum. Open your eyes and look around.

If all you did was join to criticize a site with over 12 years of history in the community, well there's a red X located at the top right of your browser. K Bud? Keep up the accusations and I will gladly show you the door.

[FrzStorm]

Excuse me? All my news sources are public and legit. EA has many news feeds that allow for public discussion, including Facebook, Twitter, and of course the official C&C forum. Open your eyes and look around.

If all you did was join to criticize a site with over 12 years of history in the community, well there's a red X located at the top right of your browser. K Bud? Keep up the accusations and I will gladly show you the door.

In case you didn't realise. I was the one who provided the information from PC Powerplay to the community. It's a direct copy and paste of what I posted on the official forums and then edited to your liking. So please don't edit what I have provided to the community, it looks as if I'm providing false information. In future just copy and paste, don't change it to your liking, because you have f*cked up the facts.

-Tyreal

[FrzStorm]

Hes posting info for us to see since most of us come here for info regarding the C&C universe and seriously common, what was he gonna say then? If you say that, then pretty much everything in the internet is useless, its probably what he found, or maybe he found a longer version of it and he summarized it, so what? It helps us get to know what to expect. Also EA trying new things never amounts to anything good. Usually it just pisses me off and sets me of ranting in my home for the next 2 years, screaming at the game itself and throwing butcher knives at EA logos.

He's found summarized information that I posted on the official C&C forums, and then edited various bits of the information, which has ended up resulting in incorrect information.

[CommanderSpartan]

He never said the info was from you and how would we know, and if there was any mistake with the information we would gladly fix it but stating that in such a vauge and attacking manner won't help, instead you could have just pointed out the incorrect bits of info without attacking Python.

[Aztek985]

Actually my source was not the C&C Forums for this. Sorry to have gotten your hopes up, bud. Obviously your information is being passed along and getting mangled along the way. Is that my fault? Nope.

Instead you could try being a contributor instead of an asshole about the whole thing, and you'd probably make some better first impressions too.

[Corsair]

Instead you could try being a contributor instead of an asshole about the whole thing, and you'd probably make some better first impressions too.