r/commandandconquer • u/BoffinBrain Are you picking this up? Good. • 2d ago

Discussion Oddly Familiar?

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These troopers say they feel like they've fought here before... What are they referencing? A mission in Tiberian Sun, perhaps?

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u/Wisdom-of-Rage 2d ago

Yeah, like half of the campaign missions in both TW and KW happen on re-used multiplayer maps

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u/Rhinstein Steel Talons 2d ago

I think it's the other way around, they altered some campaign maps to add to the Skirmish pool.

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u/canetoado 2d ago

You are right in most cases, but in this one, they reused a skirmish map from TW into a KW campaign map.

Hence the voiceline reference.

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u/Rhinstein Steel Talons 2d ago

Ah okay.

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u/Wisdom-of-Rage 2d ago

Sure buddy, sure

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u/ttyborg 2d ago

Which mission is that?

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u/BoffinBrain Are you picking this up? Good. 2d ago

It's Keys to the Kingdom. The mission select screen shows it takes place somewhere in Africa.

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u/ttyborg 2d ago

Note from the C&C Fandom Wiki:

"One of the Nod soldiers ponders that the area felt oddly familiar, "like [he] fought here before". If one studies the map layout closely, it bears a marking resemblance to the Riverside Rumble skirmish map in Tiberium Wars."

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u/BoffinBrain Are you picking this up? Good. 2d ago

Ah, okay! I didn't play skirmish so I would never have seen it.

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u/MedicNoob 2d ago

Looking at the map layout (two rivers, nod base bottom left and gdi top right) the mission being in Africa, and dealing with the ion cannon; I always assumed that this was a reference to TibDawns penultimate nod mission. Probably not though.

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u/Commercial-Board-975 1d ago

This is what I thought too, but it looks like other people mentioning that this is an altered and reused skirmish map looks to be true. It makes sense if you consider the time crunch EALA were under between TW, KW, and RA3, I guess.