C&C Labs News Wire

• CNC Shockwave, a mod at CNCRenEclips has released two new renders, one of the redone toxin tractor and one of a redone SCUD Launcher.
  
• CNC Files has some new Tiberian Sun and RA2 maps.
• CNC World has some new Zero Hour maps.
• CNC DEN has a new Generals map called Enough Dead Heroes.

• Cold War Crisis has new renders of the UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopter.
• Game Overdrive is a new gaming website. Check 'em out.
• CNC Unleashed has a new render from Red Alert: Chrono Device.
• CNC DEN has a new Movie Map.
• Covert Operations is a new mod that adds a few things to the game. It's small, only 4MB.

Well we promised you all an update to All-Stars and here it is. For our first release, we've got two screens for you all. The Reds Battle Lab, and the Reds Flame Tower. Both are on our screenshots page, and are even available on our ModDB profile. Feel free to check either place, as any updates here will also be made there. Keep checking back as we continue to release stuff in the upcoming weeks.

In retrospect, what is your all time favorite CnC game?
Generals/Zero Hour	68
RA2/Yuri's Revenge	43
Tiberian Sun	25
Red Alert 1	19
C&C (Tiberian Dawn)	17
I've only played Generals	13
Total Votes: 185

• Renegade: A New Hope has released a model of the Imperial Electrobinoculars.
• CNC Reborn has 4 new models from this week, as well as a new team member, DarkAngel.
• Battletech: The Capellan Solution has a whole host of screens showcasing the mechs in their mod.
• Planet CNC has opened their CNC 3 and Red Alert 3 sections. I'm surprised at the CNC 3 one, as that game was never annouced or confirmed. They also have a new fan art drawing by Enomosiki showing the AH-64D Longbow.
• Imperial Assault has version .71 of their Alpha.
• Aircraftkiller has made a Nod-themed desktop background. Get it here.
• CNC World has some new Gen and ZH maps.
• CNC DEN has a new poll, two new maps, as well as a new ZH mission, Operation: Irene II.
• An Act of War has released a render of the USA MRLS. Mod leader PCTeen1 has also changed his nickname to EvilViking.

What is it like to be part of a modding community as big as Derelict Studios?

Great! A year ago, we could count the modellers and texture artists on one hand! Now I have trouble keeping track of everything and everyone! Derelict Studios has grown enormously in the past year, sometimes too fast. We now have the limit for the number of projects we can work on, and plan to finish mods first, get Call to Arms, Iron Curtain and True War 2 out of the door and done. Then, we can focus on the other projects. Other tasks include trying to get Blitzkrieg 2 fully polished and completed, including maybe Naval and Japan. Getting Halogen done (and mark my words, Halogen will grow bigger then any other Generals mod out there!). Polishing An Act of War up so shiny it will hurt your eyes. Getting Imperial Assault bought by Petroglyph as EAW expansion. Making everyone who thought Blitzkrieg 2 was the best ever WW2 RTS mod change their mind when they first play Blitzkrieg 3. With the people we currently have, it's possible. And it's great to be a part of that.

• Cold War Crisis has an in-game screen and a render of the B52 Strato Fortress.
• Red Alert: A Path Beyond has a 'concept sketch' of the V2, as well as a remix of the famous Hell March track.
• CNC DEN has 10 new Zero Hour replays.

• Star-Wars-to-Renegade mod Renegade: A new Hope has 5 new screens showing their Imperial Barracks.
• Battletech: The Capellan Solution has released some in-game pics of the League's MR-5M Cerberus assault mech.
• Blitzkrieg 2: The Finest Hour has released 10 screens over the battle for Eastern Europe, as well as an essay by Biohazard on American tank and tank-destroyer design in WWII.
• C&C World Rebellion has a screen of the RAC Hitfist tank.
• Renegade legend Crimson is hosting a WOL-based server for the popular Renegade Mod Renegade Alert.
• Restore Justice has finished their timeline on the mod's story. Also, Sarge6754 has finished a complete reskinning of the Generals terrain files.
• True War 2 has released some screens of the famous T-90 tank.
• Only War is available for download, or will be shortly, as it is being reuploaded after problems with the installer. The new version will not have an installer, and will be about 100MB.
• Noticeably absent from this roundup (and the news) for quite a while has been our resident mod CNC: All-Stars. While I sadly don't have anything to show now, I can affirm that we are making very good progress, and that we will have something to show soon enough. ;)

hey all, yeah, we're super glad to be comin' back and all, but u know, there's more to runnin' tha BEST CNC SITE EVAR than just having a single re-launch; even though we've brought on new talent like CptJohnny and KillianThaKometKatcher (KTKK) and have a pile of stuff planned for the launch like another great CoolCammZ09 article and sponsoring a special old-skool style TS tourney, we know it's not enough.

so here's the scoop, y'all. after re-launchinininatin' to da MAX next week, we're gonna close up and re-launch again next month, and the next month after, and the next month, and the one after dat.

Open Map Competition Organization is pleased to announce the opening of the Open Map Competition today. The OMC is a world-wide mapping contest for Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2, and Generals and is being organized by prominent C&C sites. The OMC will serve to foster new mapping talent and to recognize and reward the community's best mappers.

The Open Map Competition judges will be accepting maps for 3 games: Tiberian Sun with Firestorm, Red Alert 2 with Yuri's Revenge, and Generals with Zero Hour. We will also be accepting Yuri's Revenge maps that use the Terrain Expansion 3rd-party graphical enhancement package. The OMC will run for three months, with a maximum of one entry per mapper per game.

Top maps in each game category will be published and publicized across the community and will be in the running to earn prizes including software. Note that the prizes list has not been finalized at the time. Each category will have at least 5 judges selected from amongst the C&C fansite and mapping community. Judging will be blind, with judges being unaware of the author of a particular map.

We invite everyone to visit the Open Map Competition section at CnCCommunity.net to read the complete list of rules and obtain information about prizes. Also available are winning maps from previous Open Map Competitions as well as tutorial information for new mappers.

The Open Map Competition - a perfect opportunity for everyone to improve their maping skills, to show off our community's talent, and to crown the best C&C mappers of the year!

To your map editors, gentle C&C fans! May the best mapper win!
- The Open Map Competition Organization

• CNC DEN has a new ZH map, and two new Generals ones.
• Halogen has released a teaser video that comes in many different codecs and sizes for you.

Of course, fellow C&C-ers, you realise what this means, don't you? The DOOM-heads have shown more support than you have. I appear to have understated your general patheticnessicity in my opening article. You'd best show the DOOM-ites how Photoshoppage is done by true PCNCers.

• Red Alert: Regeneration continues their torrent of renders with two more today, one of the Soviet Missile Silo and one of the Allied turret. They both look very well done!
• HeXetic, famed file director at PlanetCNC, has uploaded three new RA2/YR maps. He also sends word that PlanetCNC is happy to mirror your mod.
• AtProject Perfect Mod, Stucuk has uploaded a revision to their Open Source HVA Builder, updating it to version 2.0c. The following bugs have been fixed.

  * Saves HVA's based on which voxels are open (Body, Turret, Barrel) instead of which HVA is open
  * Animation bar is now enabled/disabled based on amount of frames
  * HVA's are now forced on the rendering
  

  Get it from Project Perfect Mod.
• Only War,a Warhammer 40k based Zero Hour mod, will be celebrating their second birthday on April 19th, only two days away. As part of the celebration, they will be releasing their first public Beta, as well as launching a new website.

• Blitzkrieg 2: The Finest Hour has a new render of the M-26 Pershing Tank.
• RA: Regeneration has two new renders up, one of the Allied Missile Silo, and one of the Soviet Radar Dome.
• Cold War Crisis has released a render and a screen of the F-4G Advanced Wild Weasel.
• Lion, from CNC DEN reports that his network may be experiencing some server trouble, which could explain some slow loading times. Still, it loads fine for me.

* GLA WORKER - Slow supply gather rate problem fixed.
* Online lobby sorts alphabetically instead of by rank.
* Mountain Fox - Missing bridge bug has been fixed.

• CNC DEN has a new ZH Featured Map.
• Planet CNC has a number of new screens up from the CNC Reborn mod for Renegade.
• CNC World is having their relaunch celebration this weekend, with prizes!
• Red Alert: A Path Beyond (for Battlefield 2) has an 'artistic rendering' of a SAM site taking down a Longbow.

• Planet CNC has a new version of their Photoshop THIS! series, as well as a new poll.
• CNC DEN has two new ZH maps.
• Red Alert: Regeneration has two new renders--one of the Soviet Rocket Launcher, and one of the Soviet Barracks.

• Road to Moscow has two new renders. They also need skinners.
• Red Alert: Regeneration has a slew of new renders.
• Another RA-ZH mod, Red Alert: Chrono Device has some renders.
• CNC Holland has finished their staff-only DVD and has a new teaser trailer.
• CNC DEN has a great deal (about 200MB) of stuff from Generals Build 98. Useful for modders...Also, Lion has a new ZH map.
• An Act of War has a new trailer and renders. Also, a belated happy birthday goes out to its leader, PCTeen1.

We are dedicated to Command & Conquer products, and with each one we will look to make sure and match the most appropriate fiction to the gameplay benefits we feel the market will be most excited about. We are currently working on something new -- it's in the early stages of concept development -- and we are currently considering our many options. It's not unusual during the genesis of a game to start leaning towards one concept but then find that the gameplay lends itself to something else -- we've already taken the concept in a new and exciting direction that is vastly different than what we initially proposed. Whatever we do, though, I can promise that we will be faithful to the story presentation set in previous products and we hope to build upon that fiction.

Patch 1.03 for C&C: Zero Hour was a massive patch, but unfortunately it brought about some unintended technical issues with it. While you won’t find the latest C&C: Zero Hour patch 1.04 to be hardly as massive, we were able to address some of the top critical issues that the patch brought to the community. It is going to be a very small patch, but based upon your community feedback, these were the top issues which warranted the most critical fixing:

1. GLA WORKER – Slow supply gather rate problem fixed.
2. Online lobby sorts alphabetically instead of by rank.
3. Mountain Fox – Missing bridge bug has been fixed.

We will release Patch 1.04 for C&C: Zero Hour this Wednesday, April 13th.

For example, we are releasing a minor patch for Zero Hour within the next week that addresses the few bugs which the last patch did not address or tweaked in the wrong way. GLA bug, have you heard of that one? It's a very small patch in comparison to the previous, but alas, it still must be 100% clean and sent through CQC. It's a drawn out process, but the reason being is it assures anything coming from our studio goes through many testing phases, instead of just one.

• Red Alert: Regeneration has released some new renders today. They have one of the Soviet Missile Sub, and of the Yak.
• Vietnam Reborn has released a bunch of USA cameos, which look quite nice. They also have annouced the winners of their map making contest. Finally, they are looking for a graphics artist to do more cameos, and to do the command bar.
• Project Perfect Mod has the latest public beta version (1.9) of Robot Storm for Yuri's Revenge. Get it at the Robot Storm website.
• CNC Reactor (a Polish site) conducted an interview with 2312222 and Widowmaker from Zero Hour mod Cold War Crisis. Read it here.

• Frank Klepacki, former CNC musician, now at Petroglyph Games has his April update and newsletter up.
• Planet CNC has a new edition of Photoshop THIS! as well as an update to their CNC Encyclopedia, and an update to their Mailbag. Sadly, no April Fool's joke from them this year.
• Red Alert: Regeneration has some new renders up, as well as an April Fool's joke stating that the mod was no longer being worked on.
• An Act of War has some new screens, as well as their April Fool's joke stating that they had been contacted by Atari to work with them on game development.
• Road to Moscow has two new renders.
• Derelict Studios April Fool's Day joke consisted of a new mod developed with EA about Carmen Sandiago.
• CNC Unleashed has some renders from their hosted mod CNC Under Siege.
• Star Wars: Imperial Assault has pictures of their improved AT-AT.
• Pirated Studios, developer of CNC Pirates (a ZH mod) has a new site layout.
• CNC DEN has a new ZH map.
• Iron Curtain's April Fool's Day hoax was a fake switch to the RA2 engine.
• Halogen, a ZH mod, got a mention on the very popular RedVsBlue website. Congrats to the team!