Re: Command & Conquer Ultimate Collection

On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:48:59 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
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candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

rms <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote at 17:22 this Sunday (GMT):

C&C remastered collection is $7 on EA shop also.  Various other deals too

But then you have to buy (and launch) from EA's app. Bleh. ;-)

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   My understanding is buying on steam still requires running the EA
launcher?  Or is that wrong
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rms

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Apparently, this collection doesn't.

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I installed and ran the following games in the bundle from Steam:
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    Command & Conquer (original); Command & Conquer:
    Tiberian Sun; Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Wars,
    Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath; Command & Conquer:
    Generals, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising;
    Command & Conquer: Renegade
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None of them launched EA/Origin. As mentioned in an earlier post, C&C4
did demand I create an account to run the game but it did this without
the EA App. This was a restriction of the original game when it
released in 2010.
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Can it still play online for multiplayers?

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From what I can tell, no, you can't.
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Specifically, I can attest that neither C&C2, C&C Generals, C&C
Renegade, nor Red Alert 3: Uprising have working multiplayer. Some
require services no longer available (such as Gamespot); others just
don't work. Attempting to utilize multiplayer in RA3: Uprising, for
instance, just crashes the game.
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(Although some games do have LAN multiplayer modes, and those may
still work. However, I haven't tested to see if any of them are
actually functional. But I wouldn't count on any of these working over
the Internet)
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There are a number of fan patches which re-enable multiplayer support,
but a) they aren't included in the bundle, and b) I haven't tested the
patches, so I've no idea how well they work. If playing these games
online is the most important thing to you, I'd recommend you research
the issue first. Myself, I'm more interested in revisiting the
single-player campaigns.

With these releases, EA largely limited themselves  to just making
sure the games will run on Win10/11, and work through Steam. In this,
it looks like they succeeded admirably. But these are in no way
remasters; they're the same clunky early 2000s games you probably
already own on CD-ROM. They just are easier to install and won't bitch
about running on an OS newer than WindowsXP anymore. Still, at only a
couple bucks a game (or $10 USD for the lot) I think that's a fair
price for what you get.
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Although maybe they could have knocked off an extra few dollars for
making us take C&C4. That was /such/ an awful game. ;-)