Fun fact with number 2, you can also do this in Red Alert 2. As for 9, I suspect this was an oversight on EA's part. Most likely when they were adding the hammerhead in KW they initially copy/pasted the venom and tweaked the copy (stats, weapon, gave it a new model, added a garrison slot, etc) but they forgot about the venom's mirror ability so it remained intact and fully functional.
for the waypoint trick in RA2, you can also use it to send a spy into your own buildings. damage them and use a waypoint together with a spy and an engineer. Both will enter the building. You can get the secret units (chrono commando, yuri prime, etc) that way, or make your troops start from veteran.
I remember that in starcraft 2 while using waypoints I can mix them with putting the tanks in siege mode so no need to wait for them to reach the destination does it work too with apcs?
Great tips! With 1000 or so hours in the game I expected to know these all, but the only one I knew was the commando one. I’ll have to use these when I play
Black hand troops can survive sometimes after getting crushed, they will use the quote "Wake up!" and one or two members will be crawling around (dunno but I saw this happen like 10 years ago when I last played C&C 3)
Most of these I did not know, but I was surprised to hear that the commando jump pack targeting of buildings wasn’t common knowledge! You’re literally shown in the campaign(s) directly that they can jump onto buildings and destroy them, iirc, so I use that ability all the time. It’s particularly handy on the mission to destroy NOD’s Egyptian nuke facility lol
4:00 i'm a little late :D but this thing also works with C&C Generals. The USA have an upgrade for their aircrafts called "laser guided missiles" or something. This feature will also fully refill the Raptor and the Stealth bomber' missiles, even if they're in the air. It also works with the "Black Napalm" upgrade for China, as it will refill MiG's missile complement even when they're flying
damn nice vid ! i only really knew about the using the jetpack skill of the GDI Commando on structures ! my favs are probably the Redeemer crushing the shredder turrets and the Drone -ship "road-killing" the Shadow Teams/ Motherships ! already looking forwards to part 2 !
Ok so I have a major assumption on why the sonic emitter cancel out Ion storms but its not labeled, I think it is to keep the Scrinn a surprise which at the time it was a huge surprise, especially if you play Nod first.
That's cool, thanks for the video! There are some other facts: - Several Avatars could take the same weapon from one unit (bike, flame tank, stealth tank, beam cannon). I managed to upgrade 3 Avatars from one beam cannon. - Avatars can expropriate weapons from enemies - If beam cannon started to fire through venom (or hammerhead ☺) reflectors - it will not stop firing in case if attacked unit left the venom's radius. That means that beam cannons, actually, could fire through entire map! - Mastermind of Scrin could join the Ravager squad, if the last one is missing units. However, after that you will lose abilities of Mastermind, so idk what the point of doing this) - Juggernauts, controlled by AI, could shoot enemy air units, using the ability of sniper aiming - AI player could detonate tiberium vein literally everywhere, not just only at tiberium field - AI player could build tiberium growth accelerator on top of tiberium field, created by Overlord wrath (tiberium meteor)
I know some over the time I have been playing the game - if you actives a PAC's ion storm ability, then save and reload that save, that ion storm will be permanent, even if the PAC move (but disappear if the PAC dies) - if you use Prodigy's Area of Effect Mind ability on an selectable unit while very close to an epic unit, you can mind control the epic unit for a short time. - as a general rule vehicles takes 50% more damage if hit from behind, only 10% more if hit from the sides, but some units do not follow this. attack bike takes no extra damage if hit from the sides or behind, MARV only takes 25% extra from behind takes normal damage from sides (but Redeemer and Hexapod's directional armor is normal), Nod commando takes 50% extra damage from behind and 10% from the sides, but the GDI commando does not have directional armor. -Avatar can use it's ability on other faction's attack bike, flame tank, beam cannon or stealth tank, but none of the avatars cannot use their ability on a MOK attack bike due to an oversight
Did you figure out that you can put 10 to 25 unpacked Reckoners next to your Warfactory and they repair with the drones when being a garrisonable building. You can put 30 to 75 rockets squads per warfactory and they can destroy everything and take very little damage. Takes no power from the base. Works extremely well with multiple warfactories next to each other.
There are more hidden upgrades. Nod confessors and marked of kanes venoms are getting black hand particle beams aswell. Also nood raider buggys, scorpion tanks and all laser turret defenses can get spitefire laser upgrades. Funniest thing, all shredder turrest, no matter the faction, can gain partical beams and charged particle beams. The reason why this is the case is a mix of beta content leftovers and generally leftover code copied around.
Scrin Mothership: I'll obliterate everything in my path... Drone platform:- Oh yeah? Witness me.. (Proceed to ram and obliterate the mothership) BTW, regarding the waypoint method for Engineer, is it applicable to Commandos too, for multiple buildings? Just asking.
I did not play KW over some years but even with that video is still much interesting. Thank you much! 1) Wow, that's new! 2) It's just the same as it's in Red Alert 2 engine so far (: 3) Perfect! 4) This is clearly bug tbh 5) Damn, this big shit is even bigger than expected xD I guess this is made to prevent bodyblocking him too much Upd: Seems to be an oversight, as devs wanted to do that, and then removed, but not from those turrets. 6) Simple and even logical, but is not said anywhere... 7) Lmaaaooo xD Typical EA bug 8) Another oversight / copypaste-caused bug... Damn, they'd better get fast legs, but oook xD 9) Cool! Even better to combo with an allied zocom hammerhead, as they're tough as hell, and also this will be an allied investment. Combing beam cannons with own venoms is usually feels just too expensive. 10) Damn, stupid coding does not save previous shots info for the certain time but deletes when Jugg packs...
I downloaded a cracked version of tiberium wars. And I wanted to add custom maps to the game as I've completed the game. But the tutorials I've watched says that, move the downloaded map into the 'Map' folder which is inside the appdata for C&C3 tiberium war game. But I cannot find the 'Map' folder, therefore unable to install custom maps. Can anyone help me with this please? I downloaded the crack game from IGG games
I wanted to say the same thing. Usually in such videos there are quite well-known things and one really new fact. Here, I only knew about juggernauts, and then only because Masterleaf had already mentioned it. It's great when there are such cool people in the community.
Some others: - The Confessor upgrade on Nod infantry will also benefit from the charged particle beams (the confessors only) - Magnetic mines do most damage as you walk over them, they only do minimal damage "after" they get magnetically stuck on a unit. This can eliminate entire armies, epic units, etc. - not 100% on this, but mines seem to do more damage against heavier units (Mammoths, Epics, etc). Would like to know if this is caused by a "weak against mines" flag or if there's an actual unit weight calculation. - packed up drone ships are not affected by the supersonic air strike - Beam Cannon reflector beam can target air units. Also, beam cannon combine beam bonus is multiplicative, not additive, meaning they scale much faster in damage with each additional beam. - Some things can cause damage after dying. Shown in your video are flame tanks, and another well known example is the Hand of Nod ball that drops when the building is demolished. But, when a flame tank dies, its flame canisters also fly off and do extra damage. - when a Mothership blows up, it will create an EMP effect in its vicinity that affects units (never seen this in a pro game, but it always happens vs cpu). - Snipers have a set of alternate voice clips when one of the members in the squad dies. "Commander, it's just me!", "My partner is dead!", etc. - GDI/Zocom Snipers can spot for Spectre Bombardment, and Nod/MOK Shadow Team Artillery Beacons can be used by Juggernauts. - Scrin harvesters cannot be crushed by Titans, only by tier 3 & above. - Storm Columns have a random chance of deflecting incoming enemy rockets. - when a cloaked walker (Avatar, Juggernaut, etc) dies, the husk retains the cloaking effect. Because of this, the enemy may not be able to re-capture them, not being able to see them without stealth detection or running an infantry point blank into a husk. I had a game before where this helped me out significantly, being able to re-capture cloaked dual beam flame avatars that went down behind enemy lines. - the AI never seems to use GDI orbital bombardment, supersonic air strike, or the Reapers Shock Troop summon ability. They can also use Vein Detonation anywhere on the map, not just near tiberium fields. - Steel Talons Combat Engineers guns will do 0 damage against buildings, even when force fired (do they use sniper damage?). - in campaign missions, you can sell the prebuilt walls around your base. This is a significant money boost in some missions.
*Snipers have a set of alternate voice clips when one of the members in the squad dies* That's the spotter. If the sniper dies, the alternative lines are from the spotter. If the spotter dies... the sniper doesn't say anything. I forgot if the Spotter is also unable to do sniping and thus you need to get him back to an Armoury or if the Sniper Team can work solo either way.
Steel Talon Combat Engineers cannot rank up by killing enemies. Tested it out just for science once by placing one into a harvester and let him gun down enemy infantry. Even after murdering like 7-8 squads of Black Hand and a couple of militant squads he didn't get a promotion.
Cloaked walkers are very interesting, people mostly prefer mammoths or tripods over avatars but if you dont want or cant build a ton of them then upgrades and stealth makes them better than competition imho, especially if husks are invisible.
@@Thylacinus funnily enough, they are also extremely good anti infantry units. They destroy most infantry in 1 shot and fire relatively fast (however they need to reload their weapon after firing 10 shots). If they ranked up, they'd be so broken. Put them in a Repair APC so they don't die instantly, or even a Harv, and you can go to town. Haven't seen this used in many games, however.
Cant believe the depth of some of these given the Devs only had like 8 months to make the game. And some are also an oversight cause of the same reason but the jumpjet one and the sonic tower one. Damn, feels like we've waited ages for this video and wow, was it worth it! Thanks once again leaf.
You should mention awakened getting from resurection nod power have twice the health of marked of kane produced awakened. And they still benefit from charged particle beams.
Those cross faction upgrades are indeed new info since rarely happens in multi. And the ion shield.. many or perhaps no one ever know it until opening the game files. Btw, what is the radius for the ion shield ? EDIT : I've just checked it, the radius is the same with its attack range. Also, it also works with storm column but the ion storm will always be reactivated.
i knew all of them as i always engineer rush the other factions bases closest to mine and take as much as i can then move the con yard back to my main base and use the former enemy base as the starting point of an ever extending frontline defence line that ends up covering and entire map from on end to the other allowing me to build and gather needed funds in peace
Very interesting. The commando jump jet trick I knew the first time I played the game (Hampton roads mission - so I thought that was a normal thing that everyone knew). The Scrin mothership crushing and being crushed is WILD. Did not have any clue regarding that. Maybe a bug, or at least likely not an intended interaction.
You can negate Redeemer's skill by switching your troops to passive stance. For some reason, units will ALWAYS attack harvesters, unless you set units to passive stance even when they're supposed to "only attack back".
Leaf could you enlighten us as to why sometimes when a mothership is fired and the chain effect is happening occasionally a unit or structure will glow white but NOT get destroyed. I do not believe this has to do with a time out on the effect because sometimes the unit will be hit pretty early in the chain (like an epic unit) but somehow survive. On a side note is it possible to teleport an affected unit (glowing white from a mothership blast) via prodigy/mastermind to another spot and have it continue the link. Or does the effect stop as soon as you teleport the unit.
@@abood8858 the wormbug mothership bug was patched out of the 1.02+ patches years ago i think. But teleporting a unit under such conditions I'm not sure.
The effect of the Crate also works on an air unit, if it is placed exactly above the Crate, and then picked up by a ground unit. +Since the effect of the Crate acts on the area, and the infantry does not have a collision; you can teleport an infinite number of infantry or up to four Annihilator tripods to random Crate using Mastermind. 100 heroic Disintegrators attack lol)
Kanes wrath 600+ hours player, il be completly honest. As soon as I saw this on reddit and went to watch it I expected it to a bunch of common known stuff. But about half of this I didn't know so yeah, pretty cool to know. Keep it up I say.
Fantastic! Thanks for explaining about the PAC storms, I use them for base defense and it is infuriating sometimes when their storms wont work. I didnt know it was because they were over sonic emitters. There must be something else that has that property too because I have had the storms refuse to work when out in the field too, not near any bases. Also, you didnt mention the nasty bug where the storms glitch and the storms stay (stuck on) in the last location of the PAC. The PAC cant cast a new storm and there are just permanent storms stuck in the sky where you last were set up. I think it happens after save and load. Standard Scrin.
@@chuckyra3240 .. i tested this the other day, in kanes wrath if you save a game when scrin or trav PACs have storms going, then when you load the game those PACs have all lost the ability to storm up, and the storm is now a permanent fixture on the map. It appears that the storm is somehow saved at a fixed map location, you can never move it or turn it off after that, and that PAC has lost its storm ability... 😥 Only way to save the game properly without breaking your PACs is to select all your PACs using WW then turn all storms off, then save it. 🙄
I'm curious if thr sonic emmiter trick works on storm columns, because depending on the range it might be worth setting up with a surveyor before an attack
I didn't realize not many people knew about the commando's jet pack into C4 thing. I am fairly certain the game tells you its a thing in the GDI mission at temple prime. I may be wrong but there isn't any other way I would have known about it.
Apart from the Master Computer thingie, which isn't much of a mystery (I think it's even described in the game's manual), the other things were indeed new and unfamiliar to me. Thanks for the video :)
Something I learned as a casual Hammerhead player. You may want to test this in your modern patches since I made this discovery on vanilla KW and against bots (Human players using ion storms make my discovery pointless) PAC interceptors have trouble hitting aircraft that are constantly doing circles around them. They will fire at them, but will deal no damage as the shot does not land accurately. By manually commanding your Heads to fly in basic Figure-8's, their missiles will whittle down interceptors without fail while taking minimal to no damage. It may be tedious of course, but it's very amusing to see such an advanced warship be incapable of destroying a squadron of jinking aircraft.
No. The Black Disiple only applies to BH rocket militants and the Confessor o ly applies to Nod/MoK militants. Using combined BH and Nod/MoK militant armies is very good tho, as the Confessors from the upgrade are slighlty vetter than the ones from the cabal and they throw the hallunades automatically
The only time I've seen cross-faction upgrades, etc. being used or could be potentially used is in the last level of Kane's Wrath where all hands are on deck to take back the Tacitus. But I never played that level for long or experimented because EA in all their wisdom put a timer on the level even on Easy so one couldn't have fun with testing the cross faction support...
The juggernaut cancelling shot is interesting but...not practical in pvp. Putting aside the hectic, there are usually many juggernauts shooting at big groups. Focusing fifre is not necessary and would reduce the amount of splash damage those do. Instead of covering a wide area you target down a single unit at a time. Plus enemy players keep wiggling units so its even easier to dodge that small area. Thats why nobody does it. This seems only useful for small scale situations when both ran out of money or so and each unit counts
If you have the error "exception in exception handler": - choose in your graphics driver your dedicatd graphics card - or deactivate the integrated graphics in the BIOS. AsRock for example: advanced mode => advanced => chipset => deactivate integrated graphics It worked for me after years of searching for a solution. System: Win 10 64, 4080, 13600k, 2x16 GB 32oo RAM
I think the crossfaction upgrade is significant proof that the Nod minor factions were supposed to be the same faction when they were developped, and only split off late into development.
There was something you can put in part 2 Did you know that if Traveller and some scrin and reaper units can garrison GDI foxholes? Try it I kid you not, Traveller 59 Disints, shock troopers and ravagers can garrison GDI foxholes and do really good damage Its no wonder scrin units cannot normally garrison structures it would've been broken
They can also garrison hammerheads and APC/MRT. (Same with flame troopers) the death from above you get by having Ox's carry APC/MRT's with flames or disints is... Well just imagine a flying flame tank.
@@dozer1323 I think it technically follows the same rules as the APC and MRT's which is why I brought them up. Either way. Its crazy what they can do in garrison.
ZOCOM's perfect combo is the Zone Raider in Hammerhead. If managed correctly, ONE, yes, I said one, ZR in a fully upgraded Hammerhead, can take down an entire army consist of many units, and an entire base.
no? You should check the full idle animation of juggernauts, they're arguably the best in the game (engineer, grenadiers and gdi commando are close seconds) and alternate between acting like chickens and dogs!
I use the 1.02+ R19 map packs (which contain the mod changes in each one). The -95% handicap setting on those maps increases production by 4000% which made it into a sandbox mode with instant production and massive resources. here is like to it and the 4k remaster mod i did, which also works with that: tinyurl.com/getr19 It works just on KW, just run the installers and done.
Holy cow. I haven't played CnC for 15 years++. I never got to KW. Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 were the last games I played, but I practically lived in CnC since the first CnC released on PS1 up until the time of RA2 & TS. Good old times, especially in TS when the laggy 56K internet crashed in the very end of an 8 player FFA. I got a YT suggestion of CnC 1 remastered, then checked Tiberian Sun, found Sybert and KW, and I've looked through hours and hours of tournaments now. GZ, Bikerush, Futurama, Drive, Shoktrepit, Dune Tiger, and you @masterleafcnc . Those Sybert tournament videos caused a YT suggestion of this video, so here I am, some 10+ years late to the party, lol. The level of detail in your games is impressive. It's never boring, you're one of few that actually make use of the factions' small perks and edges. You have an eye for details. It really makes it fun to watch. And creds for developing the 4K texture, I can't believe that's not getting more praise. I mean, it changes the whole visual aspect of the game, and it looks awesome. Although I don't even have a PC at this point, running PS and Mac, it is indeed tempting to play. Also, a tangent: I'm working alot with human rights, and particular the extensive persecution, killing and organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners and prisoners of conscience in China. Do think it would be possible to put on a 2v2 tournament (I love watching them, perfect combo of team play and strong single play) and me donating a cash pool, for you guys hosting the tournament in the name of bringing awareness to that cause? And perhaps get @OneSybert on board as well? Unorthodox, I know, but it just hit me, and I'd love to hear your thoughts.
7:24 Also the arm's model changes from their chaingun to a beam weapon so maybe at some point it was intended for MoK to have that upgrade which ontop of Supercharged Particle Beams seems like they would counter Steel Talons a bit to much, given it would make their Rocket squads practically obsolete since it'd make Awakened the objectively better Anti-Vehicle unit given their EMPs and the Nod factions from my experience don't exactly have issues with killing Aircraft.
As someone whose strategy depends a lot on Spamming PACs and activating its Ion Storm Ability, now i can sleep peacefully knowing why it couldn't turn on the Ion Storm lol
