Command and Conquer Generals 2 Thread

DJammyRasta · 12 Dec 2011 at 13:11

Yes the story has to be cheesy, the acting has to be shockingly bad and the multiplayer has to be crazy!

Oh and i agree it should have sub factions with upgrades like zero hour, was a big fan of the air and nuke generals

SheepBeast · 12 Dec 2011 at 13:16

DJammyRasta said:
Yes the story has to be cheesy, the acting has to be shockingly bad and the multiplayer has to be crazy!

Oh and i agree it should have sub factions with upgrades like zero hour, was a big fan of the air and nuke generals

Nuke general and laser general ***. Nuke migs were so much fun!!

And it was awesome getting a load of nuke cannons force firing in sequence at choke points outside your base. The AI were so retarded they just drove straight into the explosions

kieves1 · 12 Dec 2011 at 13:38

SheepBeast said:
I agree with this, that was really annoying. The USA was kinda OP too, if you let them get too many supply drops and turtle up. Laser turrets = inpenetrable. That weird thing where they sometimes shoot at like twice their normal range rendered rocket buggies etc useless.

Lol, yeah... I dunno. I think they suit RA and Tib but generals seems like it might be better trying to be more serious.

The laser thing was a glitch you could do to give the turret twice the range.i loved ZH but the support from ea was terrible for it.there Are that many glitches and cheats it became a very poor community.hopefully they will support it properly this time.

phatboy · 12 Dec 2011 at 13:46

so say i am happy about this......doesnt even come close!

physichull · 12 Dec 2011 at 13:53

Aurora MOAB's were brilliant. The planes always hit the target but always got shot down on return but they caused devastation. So you just rebuilt some more jets and score. Great game.

CrispyOtter · 12 Dec 2011 at 14:23

AWESOME!

ben90 · 12 Dec 2011 at 14:24

feedtheram said:
What is the fascination with inventing some crazy new technology to 'spice' things up a bit. Just make a C&C game with modernish tanks and units - they don't have to be 100% realistic but i don't want to see the tank flip upside down and start flying through the air as a secondary function. One or two crazy units/structures like the flame tank or Obelisk of Light is fine but they took it way too far in the end for me.

Hopefully this will do that as Generals was probably the least silly C&C game from that point of view aside from maybe Red Alert 1.

This. I hate the way they are making every unit so futuristic looking, I much prefer the original looks of units in CNC 3. RA3 I literally played for an hour and havn't touched it since, it was a complete hash of the CNC name and made me lose confidence in it. I am excited about the thought of a new generals, but I can't help but think in the end it will just suck

Generals was one of my favourites, I still remember hearing it come through the letter box and opening it and getting excited reading about suicide bombers and nukes - let's just hope it delivers.

titaniumx3 · 12 Dec 2011 at 14:25

I loved the humvee's on the US side, you could pack them out with different types of infantry units that could fire from within the vehicle, upgrade them with a tow and even have a missle/machine gun equipped UAV guarding it, plus you could switch between different modes on your centre (for better firepower, range etc). I used to have small groups of these humvees, fully upgraded, packed with rocket infantry and snipers and using the range mode on the strategy centre. With a bit of micro management they are absolutely devastating.

The game was basically packed out with cool little features like this, which is what made it so awesome.

SheepBeast · 12 Dec 2011 at 14:27

kieves1 said:
The laser thing was a glitch you could do to give the turret twice the range.i loved ZH but the support from ea was terrible for it.there Are that many glitches and cheats it became a very poor community.hopefully they will support it properly this time.

Every time enemy units came towards my laser turrets (or when I moved towards an enemy's) the turrets would shoot normally, and then after a pause they would shoot a few bursts at much longer range. It didn't require me to "do" anything, it just happened. I figured it was the same for everyone?

kieves1 · 12 Dec 2011 at 15:08

SheepBeast said:
Every time enemy units came towards my laser turrets (or when I moved towards an enemy's) the turrets would shoot normally, and then after a pause they would shoot a few bursts at much longer range. It didn't require me to "do" anything, it just happened. I figured it was the same for everyone?

It did do it occasionally like that .its down to bad coding.you can however make it do it permanently which was ultra annoying when you came up against someone doing it as you couldn't get anywhere near them.also scud storms without the 5 min counter was rather annoying.just many exploits in the game and sage engine.

Strife212 · 12 Dec 2011 at 15:16

My best generals moment was when I was playing against a friend. He was laser general, I was superweapon general.

He had won basically. He was in my base destroying absolutely everything with laser tanks. My power was offline with particle uplink cannons a few seconds away from being ready.

Then suddenly he destroyed some structure of mine which meant I had enough power left to run my base, my ion cannons came online and I destroyed his power plants so all his laser tanks shut down in the middle of my base.

I won in the end

opstrat · 12 Dec 2011 at 15:25

my worst moment was when my mate kept raping me with the Chinese tanks.

oxygene · 12 Dec 2011 at 15:27

opstrat said:
my worst moment was when my mate kept raping me with the Chinese tanks.

China will grow stronger.

Vulcan · 12 Dec 2011 at 15:54

I wish they would stick with more modern units rather than the futuristic stuff.

StriderX · 12 Dec 2011 at 15:57

Considering the last games, i have little hope in C&C nowadays. ;_;

SheepBeast · 12 Dec 2011 at 16:09

I think my finest moment was in a game against a mate (1v1). He basically confined me to an island in the middle of the map, and had all the chokes covered. He was just messing with me, gonna mass up terrorists or something like that. But unknown to him, I chinooked out a dozer and built a secret base in the corner of the map. He didn't realise. So when he moved in and finally destroyed my island fortress, he was like "wtf how are you still in the game", then I rolled over his base with tanks.

I was literally in hysterics. One of the best moments in any game ever, for me.

Strife212 · 12 Dec 2011 at 16:32

StriderX said:
Considering the last games, i have little hope in C&C nowadays. ;_;

C&C 3 wasn't bad, RA3 and C&C4 were shocking though yes.

Muzza1875 · 12 Dec 2011 at 16:42

Bald-Eagle22 said:
So thats my next three years of PC gaming sorted then BF3 until Generals gets released . For anyone who did not play Generals or Zero hour you missed out on PC gaming history , it was that good in my book .

Pc gaming is back where it should be again , leave the consoles to the kiddies.

P.s Obligatory cheesy story line again please .

What was the difference between zero hour and generals?I really want to buy generals and download it but cant find anywhere that does.

opstrat · 12 Dec 2011 at 16:52

how do u use a fps engine in an rts?

SheepBeast · 12 Dec 2011 at 17:18

Muzza1875 said:
What was the difference between zero hour and generals?I really want to buy generals and download it but cant find anywhere that does.

Zero Hour is the expansion pack to Generals. If you mean, what's the difference in terms of gameplay, Zero Hour added quite a lot of improvements. I never played the original generals after I bought ZH because it just seemed so crap in comparison.