When Command & Conquer: Remastered Collection launches subsequent month, it’ll arrive with a stunning little present for the modding neighborhood. This week, EA introduced that the total supply code for each Command & Conquer and Red Alert can be freely accessible at launch, giving modders the groundwork to go wild creating no matter they’d like – as much as and together with big tanks that punt nukes out of their large ol’ weapons.
Posting on Reddit and the Command & Conquer site this week, producer Jim Vessella laid out plans for Remaster’s modded future. There’ll be a pleasant new map editor, certain, however Vessella additionally revealed that each TiberianDawn.dll and RedAlert.dll (and the supply code for his or her respective games) can be absolutely accessible to budding modders on launch.
“It’s worth noting this initiative is the direct result of a collaboration between some of the community council members and our teams at EA,” mentioned Vessella. “After discussing with the council members, we made the decision to go with the GPL license to ensure compatibility with projects like CnCNet and Open RA. Our goal was to deliver the source code in a way that would be truly beneficial for the community, and we hope this will enable amazing community projects for years to come.”
It’s a considerably unprecedented transfer for EA, an organization that’s lengthy been each immune to the mod scene and actively hostile in direction of efforts geared toward preserving their on-line games – such because the now-scrapped Battlefield Revive Network.
Yup. There is actually a nuke popping out of that tank. Subtle, it isn’t.
To display the device’s performance, Petroglyph bashed out a brand new unit within the type of the Nuke Tank, a Brotherhood Of Nod tackle the Mammoth tank that (spoiler alert) fires large ol’ nukes out of its big cannon. The Steam model of C&C:R may also characteristic full Workshop assist for downloading and putting in mods – Origin gamers can have simply as a lot entry to mods, however they’ll should go trying to find them exterior EA’s ecosystem.
It’s not all excellent news on the battlefield, sadly. Despite plans to launch C&C:R with full LAN assist, Vessella notes that the characteristic gained’t make it into the game in time for launch. See, it’s a bit arduous to check LAN performance, what with the Covid-19 pandemic and all happening.
“We understand this feature is vital as both an avenue to play mods in multiplayer, and also to serve as a backup in case the online systems are ever down,” Vessella clarified. “We’re bummed this one got away, and will continue to keep this on our priority list going forward.”
Probably for the very best, thoughts – now’s not the time to be hauling your large beige CRT throughout city for some technique antics.
Command & Conquer Remastered hits Steam and Origin on June fifth for £18/€20/$20.. For extra on EA’s remastering job, our Nate Crowley had a right old gab with Vessella last month on the challenges of bringing a beloved RTS traditional screaming into modernity.
