The Command & Conquer Remaster will be released in early June. And how the publisher EA has now announced, is still available for the release a little surprise plus: The entire source code of the first two games.
In order to publish the code together with the TiberianDawn.dll and RedAlert.dll under the GPL version 3.0 license, they worked with members of the Community Council. The goal is that Community of the game benefits from this. That is why the license was chosen so that projects like CnCNet and Open RA can use the source code.
What are the advantages?
These utensils should make it easier for modders to create maps with the new map editor. Also creating your own units or Changes in graphics and gameplay mechanics are possible with it.
To demonstrate the possibilities, the developer has create your own new entity. She wants to answer the question of what the Brotherhood of NOD would do with a captured Mammuth tank.
The result is the Nuke Tank: A tank that replaces the two cannons with an artillery that fires tactical atomic bombs. It is available together with the release of the collection as an official mod, which you can activate if necessary.
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How to get mods: You will be able to download new maps and mods yourself via a menu in the game. However, you still have to install it yourself. If you buy the game on Steam, you can skip this step thanks to the Steam Workshop and install all fan content with one click.
This is what C&C Remastered wants to offer
Command & Conquer is remastered released on June 5, 2020 and should appear completely uncut in Germany – in contrast to the original. The most striking difference to the classics is likely to be the 4K look and revised speech. In addition, various bugs have been fixed and there are new convenience functions.
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If you don’t want to wait until the new edition is released, fans are already delivering it a mini remaster in the form of OpenRA. You can use it not only to play The Tiberium Conflict and Red Alert, but also Dune 2000. In the future, they also want to enable compatibility with Tiberian Sun.
