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You could always target a string of consecutive units and send the leader to (x) and the rest would follow. And get picked off 1 by 1 if you forgot about them l

by tunap 6y ago

You could always target a string of consecutive units and send the leader to (x) and the rest would follow. And get picked off 1 by 1 if you forgot about them long enough.

jandrese 6y ago
However, if the leader stopped when he got in weapons range the rest of the units would just sit back there and watch him fight. Westwood learned some lessons from Dune 2 that made Command and Conquer much better to play. I'm a bit surprised there isn't a remake of Dune 2 out there that fixes the UI quibbles and updates the graphics. There was a lot of neat stuff in the game (it was surprisingly feature rich for being basically the first of its genre) but few people these days remember it. Maybe someone will get the rights for a remake when the new movie comes out? Sadly Westwood is buried out back in the EA studio graveyard.
- tunap 6y ago
  IDK about Dune 2, but Dune 2000 has a ton of expansions/mods on the moddb. On that note, there was an official reboot to C&C released last month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer_Remastered_Collection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer_Remastered...
  - MayeulC 6y ago
    More importantly, Dune2000 can be played using the open source engine OpenRA, see my sibling comment: EA announced it would release some old source code to help with the project.
- MayeulC 6y ago
  Well, I found this within one minute of searching: https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE/blob/master/enhancement.txt https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE/blob/master/enhancement... Engine or full reimplementation are common for previously widely popular games, some are even supported by the developers: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/05/ea-to-open-source-part-of-tiberian-dawn-red-alert https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/05/ea-to-open-source-part... Also: http://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/ http://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/ > It tries to be as similar as possible to the original gameplay but to integrate user interface features most modern realtime-strategy games have like selecting multiple units

by tunap 6y ago

You could always target a string of consecutive units and send the leader to (x) and the rest would follow. And get picked off 1 by 1 if you forgot about them long enough.

jandrese 6y ago

However, if the leader stopped when he got in weapons range the rest of the units would just sit back there and watch him fight. Westwood learned some lessons from Dune 2 that made Command and Conquer much better to play. I'm a bit surprised there isn't a remake of Dune 2 out there that fixes the UI quibbles and updates the graphics. There was a lot of neat stuff in the game (it was surprisingly feature rich for being basically the first of its genre) but few people these days remember it. Maybe someone will get the rights for a remake when the new movie comes out? Sadly Westwood is buried out back in the EA studio graveyard.

tunap 6y ago
IDK about Dune 2, but Dune 2000 has a ton of expansions/mods on the moddb. On that note, there was an official reboot to C&C released last month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer_Remastered_Collection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer_Remastered...
- MayeulC 6y ago
  More importantly, Dune2000 can be played using the open source engine OpenRA, see my sibling comment: EA announced it would release some old source code to help with the project.
MayeulC 6y ago
Well, I found this within one minute of searching: https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE/blob/master/enhancement.txt https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE/blob/master/enhancement... Engine or full reimplementation are common for previously widely popular games, some are even supported by the developers: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/05/ea-to-open-source-part-of-tiberian-dawn-red-alert https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/05/ea-to-open-source-part... Also: http://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/ http://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/ > It tries to be as similar as possible to the original gameplay but to integrate user interface features most modern realtime-strategy games have like selecting multiple units