Scrin Infantry - Command and Conquer - Tiberium Lore 

Yup once again gdi get op upgrades 🙄 they should of had the shrine and stasis chamber do the same

Ah, that makes sense. My initial assumption was that all the Scrin infantry did heal in the Tiberium field, but was surprised when some weren't. It hadn't occurred to me that the health bar was tied directly to the number of units in a single squad.

@@Gaggle_of_gays Well, nod are OP enough with their venoms

@@ForTheBrotherhood how are venoms op? Gdi aa guns shred aircraft

@@Gaggle_of_gays Beam mirrors. Their range allows them to act as artillery units and sit just out of AA range

well it's more the mining force has several security detachments from the actual military with special forces

If they send truly their military forces, GDI pretty much doom.

It's a basically a mining expedition that brought along some guns to deal with remaining wildlife.

40k potential lore evolution 🎉

Well I'd think that Reaper and Traveller's units can't be too far off. The Shard Walker is said to be rather new to replace the old Gun Walker that is not suitable for any thing other then clearing out primitives like us.

Alternatively, we did see actual Scrin troops, but they were more like the equivalent of private military contractors that were hired to escort a mining company operating in a hazardous region (the hazards in this case being mutated wildlife and what remnants of local advanced civilization persist), so their actual problem wasn't so much that they had "civilianized" military gear but rather than they had far more limited numbers than a true Scrin military operation would field. That is to say, if what hit Earth was a fully prepared invasion force, GDI and Nod would've been bled out in a war of attrition at the very least, if not "nuked" into submission by the Scrin's Tiberium-based strategic weaponry (because you *know* that they must have them somewhere). Honestly, the fact that a Scrin mining operation still merits in their eyes the presence of weapons that by GDI and Nod standards are city-killers should make us ask "What the fuck are they expecting to face on a world where Tiberium has left nothing but wastelands filled with itself and mutated wildlife?" Like, were they expecting something like a Tiberium-based version of Dune's sandworms or Mass Effect's thresher maws to be commonplace threats? Or are they at war with one or more spacefaring alien civilizations, and they expect to run into enemy raiders?

@@MarqFJA87 if i remember right scrin are not the scrin its the name of alien civilization gdi managed to learn from the tacitus so they automatically assumed the visitors were the scrin

Scrin is basically a mining term.

@@mkvector9539 or a drug cartel, or a cult.

I've still got a long list of topics to talk about in the Tiberium timeline so I'm not gonna be running out of ideas for it anytime soon.

@@Jethild Dewit.

Tempest Rising which supposed to come out next year is clearly a love letter to Command & Conquer with tempest being very similar to tiberium. If he wants to there is another game coming out he could make videos about.

@@orangesilver4568 I'm with you. I also can't wait for Tempest Rising and see another content from Jethild

@@Jethild What else are you going to bring up???? Temple of NOD??? Spaceborne vehicle? GDI Navy, War Factory??? Come on!!!! Unveil the works in progress!!!!

Red alert is just a different timeline in the universe so maybe a scrin scouted the planet and influenced him or something to cause it. Maybe the ship transmissions are messing with his mind. Either way this is a cool theory.

Well they kinda use the same theme Weird and unorthodox technology ignore the geneva convention and mind control

@@Cracker_Smacker In the original C&C storyline from Westwood, Yuri was created by Kane, so my guess is that Kane must have obtained some of Scrin mind control technology from the Mastermind and cultist to create Yuri.

@@hoangnguyenbui4614 I think you're right. Kane did many experiments and had Tacitus. Also Yuri's technology had similar design to Nod's technology. Or maybe Yuri is a hybrid of human and scrin?

@@Archont_ Probrably. Hell, he could’ve been a trump card for Nod and humanity against Scrin Overlord. If he wasn’t sucked into the Chrono Vortext base from the original material.

That's cause EA isn't the creators of the series and just bought it and tried to cash in as much as possible till it ran the series into the ground with command n conquer 4 and the mobile ap game.

@@TekkaSage Do not cite the deep magic to me. I was there when it was written. (I got an original copy of Tiberium Dawn from 1996 ish, I'm aware of what happened to Westwood)

@@l0rf I recall when the universe was born it was 1995. I was born before the world was and have lived many life times of those within this world.

I remember being a kid and loving C&C 3 and Renegade, then 4 came out and it was the first game I was genuinely disappointed by

@@TekkaSage but they did create the Scrin

You mean "rarely never excited"?

I think you may have gotten that information from somewhere else because I went through all the Intel Database entries related to the Scrin and none of them give any details about dissecting Disintegrators. It sounds like something that may have been in that Tiberium Wars spin off novel that was released around the same time as the game.

@@Jethild I will try to dig it up, because I am very sure it was mentioned in the intel database. If I find it, I will drop you the name of the entry.

Upon a quick glance, you are right. It's still something I remember quite clearly, so I have no idea where it came from. I recall it being more of a side remark attached to the later part of something, more than anything. Though, this could very well just be a case of the Mandela effect. I checked the manual just to be sure, and it wasn't mentioned there either. Either this is really me remembering things ala Mandela effect, or it's some really obscure and forgotten stuff. I have not read said spin off novel, though I could have gotten the lore given to me via a third party if it is in there somewhere. As I recall relating to the mention, it confused me at the time greatly, because the Disintegrators blow up when you run them over with a tank, rather than melt them via some corrosive compound. A potential explanation for my memory pulling a stunt here is that a younger mind may have confused the disintegrators "bleeding" with the explosion, until I re-read the manual...but I have no idea how the heck I would also then go onto tag GDI trying to dissect one of em and ending up with a melted test bench for their troubles. All I can think of for a source would be a potential mention of it somewhere on the old websites Command and Conquer had at the time, which spoke about some of the units. That, or it was a very old game magazine that had an article about Command and Conquer 3 with a lot of things changed. I recall said article (which was in Finnish, so I am suspecting translation errors/bad games journalism might have happened too) talking about how Command and Conquer 3 would feature some features clearly not in the game, such as needing to decontaminate vehicles from Tiberium if they drove over some/ that some sort of orbital superiority battlefield aspect would be a part of the game. Sadly, I do not have any such magazine on hand to offer up as proof.

Canon or not, that's not a fun thought.

@@videocrowsnest5251 I actually know where this came from. The C&C wikia had the lore you are describing written on their disintigrator page for while. I remember not being able to find a source and suspecting it was fanfiction. Later I learned the C&C wikia had issues with people adding fanfiction, especially to the TW pages. It's been cleaned up since.

I'd like a new C&C game that only concerns the Scrin, sort of like KW only concerned Kane and Nod. The GDI vs Nod is fun and all but it would be cool to expand the lore.

(Another dubious source warning) Per the intelligence database, GDI scientists speculated that the effect of bullets/explosives passing through/hitting the buzzer hive somehow messed/interfered with the limited central intelligence controlling them all. So basically, they don't so much hit the individual buzzers, but disrupt the limited central intelligence which controls them, thus causing the swarm to lose cohesion and for em to dissipate.

I imagine it as in the middle of a buzzer squad there's something like a core, like a small mobile buzzer hive, needed because the buzzers themselves can't live outside a hive since they cannot absorb tiberium radiation well enough individually. When infantry shoots a buzzer hive it targets the core but the buzzers block the incoming fire until there's none left to do so. This also makes sense why snipers can one-shot them, using high velocity AP ammo it goes through the buzzers straight into the core. Obviously this is all made up by me but I like it.

@@CharlieTuna8 Another alternative is that due to the bioengineered nature of the Buzzers (much as most Scrin infantry), they are on their own incapable of functioning. Think them being receivers, and whatever it is at the core keeping them all in a swarm formation, the sender/transmiter. Then when shooting it, this central point gets damaged/disabled, thus causing the swarm to dissipate and die.

@@CharlieTuna8 That's some Evangelion like shenaningans right there, holy shit. O__O But it makes sense. The only way to stop the damn swarm is to destroy its core, just like the Core of an Angel or an EVA.

Imagine if the Scrin and Combine started fighting. Wouldn't that be awesome? We ALMOST got a Half-Life rts game, and on the switch too! It would have taken place during the Seven Hour War.

lol

I have bad news about you shitty non canon fanfiction...

The lore itself seems too confusing, the only thing interested me was that tower.

Bro you on heavy crack theres no cnc 4

Yep, I'll eventually get to those.

Starcraft cel jocul?

tibwar released months before portal, so i would say it isn´t.

@@falcon121989 good point. Turning 12 in 2008, most games that were out around that time I've kind of internalized as "been around for quite a while" and it's only now that I realize that they are era-mates

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