Community News Roundup!
So, it's time to return to cover the news from the community. Luckily, our friends from CnC Relived did most of the 'EA part of the job'. Anyway, here's what matters and what I remember:
:::[Community News]:::
-> Official Command & Conquer Website received a lot of news and material about C&C4. The only news that matter there is that the C&C4 Beta is now public. But don't expect it to play much, since the game will be released next month. So, hurry up and get playing. There are keys for everyone at GameSpot.
-> CNCNZ has released roundtable discussions monthly. The last one, released in the end of january, covered topics like Tiberium collection system, beta and collectors editor for C&C4, mods, Twitter and Facebook for community. The people who answered were Sonic and Nmenth from CNCNZ, chickendippers from CnC World, Ryan from Planet CnC, Mighty Bob! from CnC Source, NODSOLDIERGIRL from CnC 247, Nathancnc from CnC Sector and yours truly.
-> CnC World has announced the results of Guess the Hits contest. And Destructive was the winner, with the closest guess to 13,511 unique hits. The really lucky person of this contest was Adam, who was the second place winning Burnout Paradise for PC. At least, for me, that would the best prize, since I already own all C&C games.
-> ModDB is slowly releasing the results of the Mod of the Year Awards or, should we call it FPS Mod of the Year Awards, since only one non-FPS mod was featured there and that was thanks to the fans. Unforutnately, it is a Company of Heroes mod and not a Command & Conquer one, The only mod related to Command & Conquer that was mentioned as one of the nominees for Best Multiplayer Mod is Renegade X. The 10 most voted Mods of the Year will be displayed in a day. Perhaps Middle East Crisis and Renegade X have chances to be one of them, but certainly not the winner, since that place breaths FPS and Half Life... and anything derived from Half Life.
:::[Modding News]:::
-> CnCMods.Net have some of the original uprising XML files provided by APOC. You can now bring some of the Uprising units to the original Red Alert 3 using the art sources previously provided by EA.
-> Generals Delta, an enhanced mod for Generals led by Gen. Kenobi, received several updates and they've posted a lot of screenshots from new units like this one below:
-> Command & Conquer 2142, TC for C&C3 that brings Battlefield 2142 universe to the game, received a massive update with screenshots from the recently created units.
-> Project Evans's second developper blog is online. This mod brings true nava warfare to Zero Hour. This development blog features new structures, specially shipayrds for the US and GLA and few units.
-> Blitzkrieg II staff released a new mission map called The Great Patriotic War. It's set in 1945, at the battles where the soviets managed to liberate the eastern europe from the nazi.
-> Marshall has updated the Launch Base a lot recently. This program allows you to deal with multiples mods without hassle with Yuri's Revenge. And that includes support for Ares (Rock Patch 2) and Syringe as well.
And I guess that's all for now. I've mainly covered the affiliates from PPM and few other sites, but I already took a long time to write this news. I'll post more news about PPM internal goodies soon. Stay tuned!
