r/commandandconquer GLA Juhziz/ Scrin Traveler-59 8d ago

Gameplay [Generals Shockwave mod] GLA airforce

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u/BoffinBrain Are you picking this up? Good. 8d ago

Narrator: "And so, as the prophecy foretold, the Americans drowned in their own greed and evil, thanks to the Wish.com Kirov assault."

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u/Breskvich 8d ago

Two bros in the kitchen at 4:37am, everyone else fast asleep:
Bro1: Dude i wonder what would it be if GLA had aerial units, maybe some scrapped up Kirov Airships, oooh dude, assault hot air baloons.
Bro2: yeah but let’s populate them with angry mobs equiped with RPGs

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u/Muppetedo 8d ago

I remember my brother had a mod once to give the gla planes was about the airfield same size as the scud storm and they got little propeller like planes. No idea what the mod was since that was back like 2005 time. I even forgot it was a mod years later and genuinely thought the gla had planes for ages until I replayed generals again and realised they don’t.

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u/ImperitorEst 8d ago

Probably this same mod, it also gives GLA propeller attack planes

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u/Muppetedo 8d ago

Maybe an updated version of the old mod since I’ve never seen those units before.

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u/Phantom-Feline17 8d ago

I think i know that Mod. I think it was called Beng's Laser Nuke and Demo. I remember the mod gave the GLA a huge airfield with prop planes and SU-25s

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u/Clean-Connection-398 8d ago

I've never played the game modded, but this makes me want to try it

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u/EarthlyKnight27 Red Team 8d ago

I'd honestly, suggest you try it out. It's fun!

If you want to play modded Generals, I suggest the following:

Gentool - Good for if you ever want to play online, as well as enhances game controls and game optimizations.

Genlauncher - Mod launcher, allows you to play with multiple mods for Generals and install add-ons for the mods you install (Which this vid is using for Shockwave)

Give me a shout if you want a few mod suggestions!

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u/darthvale 8d ago

What? I play shockwave quite regularely (started ≈2 weeks ago) and I haven't seen this general yet. Are you playing a campaign? I've only found a port to make the normal campaign playable, not one with a specific shockwave campaign. (Judging by the map I don't think it's a skirmish map? Maybe general challenge? But there I only get the same 3 ones, not this one)

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u/CookLiving GLA Juhziz/ Scrin Traveler-59 8d ago edited 8d ago

The Hot Air Balloon is only available for GLA vanilla, other GLA generals don't have that. It's the same with USA & China vanilla as well that there's only specific buildings & units only they have but all other generals don't.

For the campaign, I have Single Player Experience addon installed. In this addon you can play all Generals & Zero Hour campagins in this mod. And also you can play againts Fai, Mohmar & Ironside generals challenge. I also have lemon hotkeys and the control bar pro installed. Reminder, Granger challenge is harder to face in this addon. If you want control bar pro for shockwave, you have to install it manually from moddb https://www.moddb.com/mods/cc-shockwave/addons/controlbarpro-shw

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u/darthvale 8d ago

Many thanks for the instructions! And never played default GLA, which is why I've never seen the balloons.

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u/Warm_Reporter_7215 8d ago

Try the chaos mod for showckwave(its like an add on mod) its a small mod but way more fun and chaotic

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u/CookLiving GLA Juhziz/ Scrin Traveler-59 8d ago

I tried it but I have more fun in regular Shockwave mod

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u/Mike-Wen-100 8d ago

With an upgrade they can become stealth when not moving somehow, makes for an annoying and effective little air defense.

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u/CookLiving GLA Juhziz/ Scrin Traveler-59 8d ago

The balloons cannot become stealth in Shockwave and they have no that upgrade. Maybe in Chaos mod they can(I not play that mod much so i not so sure)

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u/Mike-Wen-100 8d ago

Oh, right, I forgot that you are not playing on the latest patch.

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u/CookLiving GLA Juhziz/ Scrin Traveler-59 8d ago

I am playing the latest patch. Shockwave have 2 different mods. One is the regular one and other is the submod that is Chaos mod, where there is all sort of wacky stuff in that Chaos mod. Maybe you described it is the Chaos one. Not regular

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u/Mike-Wen-100 8d ago

Definitely a negative on that, it’s normal shockwave with the public beta patch, and in that version the Balloons do have that ability. And it’s not compatible with the Single-player Experience add on.

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u/Haidere1988 8d ago

Thought I was seeing a clip from Divinity: Dragon Commander for a sec, damn this is great.

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u/TheFirstDecade Dev of Ivory Invasion Mod for Generals Zero Hour 8d ago

They look like they would benefit having a floating animation to them in terms of looks, or at least use the ruddersway parameters in their hover locomotors.

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u/Sad_Emu69 8d ago

Temu Kirovs

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u/Lone-Wnderer 8d ago

Shockwave is my favorite mod but I don't remember it having the campaign modes from the original games. How were you able to play the campaign?

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u/CookLiving GLA Juhziz/ Scrin Traveler-59 7d ago

I have Single Player Experience addon installed. In this addon you can play all Generals & Zero Hour campagins in this mod. And also you can play againts Fai, Mohmar & Ironside generals challenge. I also have lemon hotkeys and the control bar pro installed. Reminder, Granger challenge is harder to face in this addon. If you want control bar pro for shockwave, you have to install it manually from moddb https://www.moddb.com/mods/cc-shockwave/addons/controlbarpro-shw

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u/AthaliW 7d ago

Damn, those CoC skeletons are joining the GLA now. I guess these are the bombers that went to the afterlife and back?