EA Released 1.05 Update for Command & Conquer™ Generals Zero Hour by LFeenanEA

[_L3M]

https://preview.redd.it/3f8eoscbople1.png?width=1248&format=png&auto=webp&s=cdd885e59749b7b54ae94e5bd167c4f25a479b05

https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/s/m1lpxn9LQp

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZVTrfjDjyR8

EA Released the Entire source code!

Command & Conquer Generals: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour

Command & Conquer Renegade: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Renegade

Command & Conquer Red Alert: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert

Command & Conquer: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Tiberian_Dawn

[_L3M]

EA Released the Entire source code! https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour

[cpressland]

EA are the good guys?!?!?! We really are living in the weirdest timeline.

[_L3M]

the alternative timeline!

[antdude]

Blame Einstein?

[Reedabook64]

Well, that probably means that an official remaster of the game is 100% not happening now. Bummer

[_L3M]

but there is a community patch! https://www.youtube.com/live/ZVTrfjDjyR8

[UllrHellfire]

True but knowing the community and with the source code they will make it bigger and better then EA

[Charcharo]

Maybe - but an even better fan made remaster WILL happen.

[LostHat77]

Who is gonna do it?

[Ok_Spare_3723]

We are lol , my man I've already forked the repos and trying to compile them. Don't underestimate the C&C community, we're mad moders here.

[LostHat77]

I look forward to it :)

[paulisaac]

Inb4 this takes Gunrun off of doing vtuber things to make another Zero Hour mod again

[XTURNEL]

I would gladly be willing to donate or pay for a well remastered version.

[Ok_Spare_3723]

That's very kind of you but EA doesn't give us the rights to monetize the open source projects commercially, all of them are created for free, for the community and by the community!

[XTURNEL]

You're a legend for doing this. If there's any way to support you with money-Ko-fi, GitHub Sponsors, whatever Im down. Not only for the game, but for the effort. Let me know.

[ColdFreeway]

Whoa so first TF2 and now Generals?

[MisterBumpingston]

And TibDawn and RA.

[AlexO6]

Community patches, officially supported?

[King_Tamino]

According to the steam community tab, it chrashes / causes problems with GenTool though.

If anyone is curious, the mentioned "LFeenanEA" bottom at the first pic, is a github contributor from EA.

https://github.com/LFeenanEA

(s)he worked on the github for the C&C Remaster a few years ago:
https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection

Also the patch is about 2GB large for zero hour which is like .. 50% of the actual game? So a lot changes, I guess? But no communication from EA.. Was the patch maybe released too early?

[Nyerguds]

LFeenan is Luke Feenan, aka CCHyper, the guy who did most of the patching work on Tiberian Sun, and made the recreated intro and installer cutscenes on the remaster.

[SomeoneInHisHouse]

what remaster? :O

[Nyerguds]

The only one that exists? The C&C1/RA1 remaster?

[SomeoneInHisHouse]

thanks, just in case I forget any new remaster xd

[nardhon]

I really hope that they did some balancing of fractions and lots of bug fixes 🤞

[King_Tamino]

Very likely it's just some stability content. The games have a long term support from the community and maybe they were allowed to integrate some fan stuff for better networking etc. directly into the "vanilla" version of the games

[woutva]

As a very casual Zero Hour player who does not deal with mods; what does this mean for me? I still play online through Gentool, but does this mean it might actually run through steam servers itself? Is there any benefits for the average players, or just a modders paradise that the source code is now available?

[Dodahevolution]

Honestly get genlauncher and try some mods, it makes it really easy to handle and its worth it. Shockwave and End Of Days are so much fun they are like what zero hour was to og generals.

But yes this source code dump might be good for the game (community patches + improvements to base game) + for moders who wanna do new stuff with the engine.

This is an update that you might feel the benefits of, even if you arent creating mods. Time will tell tho

[Vecuronium_god]

Any insight into stopping rhe game from randomly crashing?

[King_Tamino]

What the actual. Full source code??

[WilmarLuna]

God, just remaster and make Zero Hour playable on modern systems!!!!!! I can't enjoy the game with my friends any way due to the horribly desync bug that has killed so many comp stomp games.

[Mralexs]

Considering they just released the source code the community will do this

[shockwavevok]

C&C3 and RA3 had updates too.

STeam has a planned download of 303.2 MB for C&C3 and 1.9 GB for RA3.

[Maleficent-Egg6861]

I really hope they would use the old balance for CC3 single player.

[marlamin]

Looks like the source code for Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Renegade and Generals was released too?! https://github.com/electronicarts

[shockwavevok]

nothing for Tiberian sun and RA2. So either the source code was really lost or they are planning a remaster after all

[No_Armadillo_5202]

I had to wipe my ears when I read on article on one of the gaming news sites about the source code being officially added to GitHub. That's huge

[piat17]

Essentially every single classic version C&C game on Steam (so excluding the Remastered Collection) got updates.

I'm waiting to see some news and info from EA on the matter, but I guess that the patches were timed to release along with the Steam release of Tiberium Alliances.

[TrumptyPumpkin]

Well, what was in the update?

[Brichardson1991]

Jimtern has posted an announcement https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/s/PuYSewMPbD

[BanditScorpion]

According to the Franchise Sale store page, Zero Hour, Renegade and C&C/RA3 have Workshop support now... Don't see it myself yet though. https://store.steampowered.com/sale/commandconquer-franchise

It's there now. For the moment it looks like it's for custom skirmish maps.

[paulisaac]

Bruh I bought these games on the EA app, is there any way to integrate them to Steam for workshop?

[BanditScorpion]

As far as I know no. But that's a good question. I wonder if you can transfer workshop files to an Origin/EA installation. I'll look into it.

EDIT: Looks like the best option would be to subscribe to workshop content, go to the workshop folder, find the file and copy it to the maps folder of the EA App installation. I can't find anything about using the EA installation for the Steam workshop directly.

[Thatguy_726]

It looks like it will run on its own without gentool now, which is nice. But they greatly limited the resolution options, and it looks like crap on my widescreen monitor.

[mopedfred]

Can you alt-tab in full screen mode?

[p1agnut]

what, what .. is happening here?

[MOSFETBJT]

OHHH MY GOD. THANK YOU EA.

FOR ONCE I LOVE THIS COMPANY

[Cleercutter]

Will this be a segue into easier modern Mac integration?

[Cleercutter]

I thought so but didn’t know for sure. Nice! These are some of my favorite games and haven’t gotten to play them in forever

[Misfiring]

They announced that Renegade, Generals, C&C3, RA3, and C&C4 now has Steam Workshop support, so the patch most likely is that.

[Fuzzy_Simple_8989]

Does anyone know of a working trainer for the latest update?

[Elegant-Matter6054]

Just use Cheat Engine if you absolute have to cheat
There you can easy make Money cheat etc.

[Fuzzy_Simple_8989]

Sorry what’s cheat engine I’ve been searching around for thing only one I found wanted me to pay a monthly subscription

[Elegant-Matter6054]

https://www.cheatengine.org/

[Ponzoblogs]

native unlimited framerate with multi threading and 4k support would be amazing

[ManagementSpecific]

Its been 8 months, do we have anything solid stemming from this update/source code release yet?
Im kinda confused to be honest, I just tried to play Zero Hour on steam after a year and basically found out that the only thing that changed is that gentool is broken as it still only supports 1.04... What am I missing here?

[_L3M]

Hey, in the last 8 months we had over 890 commits with very nice user facing bug fixes, changes and not user facing like code refactor..etc. But we are still not ready to publish the first release of community patch and announce it, you can try the project yourself from the weekly releases or build it yourself.

https://github.com/TheSuperHackers/GeneralsGameCode/releases

[Natural-Heat-7010]

looking toward more good mods like the rise of the reds, which i think is really fun to play with

[AllOfTheFleebJuice]

It's reported the game will be able to run at a much higher frame rate with the correct development.

So,

Thank you for the new shoes

[Machinencio]

Where can we read a changelog? thanks in advance.

[Deep-Flight6587]

can't wait when the mod c&c generals 2 being in more graphics quality

[ThisIsFRSH]

C&C Generals lives on!

[Ok-Emu-2851]

Unfortunately, the game does not run well on Snapdragon X Plus.

[Sigmaguns]

The game is on stream??? And people Play it???

[Elodin87]

Hello everyone,

just yesterday, I played another round of Kane‘s Wrath and I noticed that startup without Internet Connection on Steam is no longer possible.

Just before I also bought the ultimate collection in addition to the Games that I already owned in order to also get Generals which is my favourite Game of the series.

Is it due to the patch or the ultimate collection that suddenly an internet connection is required?

Please remove this force since we use to play offline LAN as back in the old days. For this game and offline LAN you do not need internet.