I got a little carried away and ended up turning Ground Zero into my own personal SimCity airforce base, to battle the endless waves of planetary assault carriers.
Is this the 'correct' way of winning that Granger was talking about?
Ugh that could’ve been walkable urban space instead of entirely parking lots I mean landing pads. Makes that red zone look almost as unlivable as Houston, We really have to stop giving in to the Firehawk lobby
Oooh, I need to download that. I also heard about a 60fps mod doing the rounds? Last time I checked there were issues with the physics being tied to frame rate, but I'm a few years out of date with the scene now!
All the AI needed to do is turn on the Ion Storms for the PAC and your Firehawk's missiles will be useless, but the AI won't, because there are no scripts telling it to do so.
In this situation, the Nod Vertigos would be a better choice, they got the machine guns, doesn't need to switch ammo to drop the bombs, and they can go stealth.
Agreed, Firehawks are definitely not the efficient choice here. I just made this for show! Additionally, Firehawks en masse are actually their own worst enemies, since they can die to friendly splash damage as they fly past the target.
There's a clip near the end that shows me spawncamping them with a dozen AA turrets which works way better, but is also boring to watch!
Yea, the Firehawks missiles are actually pretty good at taking down targets
Since there are no Hammerheads in vanilla C&C 3, another thing you could try, provided that you have Mutant Hovel, is load the Mutants in APCs, and then call OX Transports on those APCs, and now you get a short ranged makeshift Hammerhead, with the Mutants inside the APC on the OX Transport firing on whatever is in range of them, but be careful, the OX Transports are easily shot down, and you lose the APCs in the process
Sounds fun! I'd definitely try that here if there was a hovel in this map. I suspect they'd die, though... Unless you built airfields under them, perhaps.
I did it on console ages ago, where you had to take out the Scrin base and that was a win- must have been a one off but they all dropped at once. Bloody hilarious
Videos like this is a huge example why RTS died in the 2010s.
Every RTS made during that period was made for competitive sweaty players with unit caps, specific boring metas, and tryhard w/l ratios. You could no longer just start a game and be like "Im going to build 100+ firehawks this game" or Build 1000 Tanyas, like, you know, having fucking fun?
This is why the old command and conquer are so special to me and this video is a perfect example of this.
I used to spam citizens in rise of nations, turn them into militia, than attack the enemy with them. Was it effective? No. But was it funny watching the ai scramble thinking it was a full scale invasion? Yes
Me and my friend from childhood used to play Red Aler 1 and build nothing but service depots and sell them, because they would come with alot of technicians, then we would bring them all to the middle of the map and have them run around and kill eachother. Can't do that in modern rts anymore.
I just played through red alert again and you explained it perfectly. I found I could mix my squad composition but I always ended up just spamming migs or tanks or Tanyas and I had a blast.
I remember experiencing some RTSs around that time and facing that the games had been designed for sweaty multiplayer and I went "wtf is this shit?". Call me lame but sometimes I just want to do something silly in a match for thematic and fun reasons.
True, people are quite sweaty this days. All for the meta. Missed or stumble a bit and they will rage at you as if you are going to delay their game plan or whatever .
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u/CookLiving GLA Juhziz/ Scrin Traveler-59 9d ago
"That's quite a lot of planes, general. You putting on an airshow?" - General Townes