@@totallynotai7131 Me: The last? What about Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, that was a last C&C game... (a man in black suit appears with a strange device that hits me with a blinding flash) Me: Ugh... Im sorry, what was i talking about? I cant remember.
It's sad the game is often broken depending on which faction you use such as harvester errors or auto winning with certain units in the risk style game.
Traverler-59 is yuri army in C&C3 , wit the mind-control units , or compare Scrin wit Xen Alien Controller of half life , the Cultist look like Headcrabs of half life .
Yeah the art team probably took inspiration from Half Life for the Cultists. The spawns are actually just the Prodigy unit connected upside down on the humans.
You know, I just had a thought. The goals of the Reaper and Traveler cults seem like they are often opposed. In a human society this would lead to conflict between cults, but I wonder if the Traveler cult’s emphasis on subterfuge means that they manipulate other Scrin cults to avoid conflict among their own kind.
Weird, considering that they have the same aircraft as normal scrins. The only differnce is that the normal scrin got the shield Upgrade will traveler got a speed Upgrade.
It's also weird that the Hexapod is associated with Travel-59 when for them it's a strong unit but kind of cumbersome to go with their mobility focused playstyle. Reaper-17 by contrast relies heavily on it as they are build for outgrinding their enemy and their shard launchers are the perfect escort. They also lack the devastator warships which means they rely on the Hexapod for artillery support. The main units of Reaper-17 like the Devourer tank and reaper tripod are also fairly slow so for them the low speed of the Hexapod is not a problem.
@@MrMarinus18 I mean to be fair, the Hexapod is built on the battlefield rather than brought but if you must rationalize it, they want to have an anvil for their hammer :)
I think the second Scrin invasion of Earth can go in many ways. If Nod and/or GDI found a way to destroy the threshold tower, this will prevent the invasion from ever happening all together. But if they weren't able to destroy the threshold tower then the invasion will happen, so: If before the time of the invasion, GDI succeeded in defeating Nod and using their sonic weapons to purify Earth of Tiberium, then the Scrin invaders will have to deal with a unified Earth devoid of Tiberium which they may just leave and never decide to invade in the first place. If Nod won before the Scrin invasion and succeeded in 'embracing' Tiberium, then the Scrin will have to deal with a unified Earth that has full control of its massive Tiberium supply and Tiberium-based arsenal and is ready to use it. But if the Tiberium wars just kept going and nor Nod or GDI were able to decisively win, then the Scrin will have to deal with both Nod and GDI which probably will unite temporarily against them (from past experience). But if they didn't, the Scrin will have a much easier time taking over with their full might that didn't exist in the first invasion.
Well the first invasion was by a mining group not a proper army. I suspect if series continued I'd be a twist Kane was some type of alien and went to get some reinforcements at the end
Wouldn't be much of a twist. Maybe the final mission would be to deploy an unconventional tiberium weapon on the tower to cut off their invasion. They did specify it was immune to conventional weaponry.
@@codyarcher3263 The other issue is that Kane is interested in the Scrin. The Scrin were also interested in Kane because he saw Tiberium as the future for humanity which meant he was willing to aid the Scrin Indirectly in tera forming Earth. He also used the threshold tower with some his followers to take the Tiberium off world to presumably to Scrin territory. This might also prevent a second invasion of earth as Kane return all the Tiberium to the Scrin basically and hypothetically could meet with the Scrin Overlord and Learn from each other and possibilities they could use for Tiberium. But this could also forge an alliance that would end in both factions getting even at GDI with a new invasion force and with kanes experience he could give the scrin a road map on to effectively conquer humanity and turn earth in tiberium rich wasteland again. Or Kane along with scrin ended up being some strange test to see humanities resolve and that humanity is needed help to against so other unknown threat that even the Scrin need help with. And that Kane if some how was an other worldly being. Making his Terrorist Organization a sorta psuedo threat test how resilient humanity is and that he wanted the scrin to come to earth with its mining force as a final test for humanity. Once Humanity succeeded he would later than use the tower to remove the infestation of tiberium back to scrin occupied space. But this was all done with out the Scrin or GDI knowing. The First theory and second theory seems more plausible. But it just seems weird that Kane was fanatical about Tiberium as humanities future. But then decides eventually to take all the Tiberium off earth via a portal and allow Earth to revive itself and return to its formal and natural carbon based state. Seems odd to me lol.
[[[***NON CANON***]]] This is just a game theory but with Nod and Kane in control of Threshold 19, doesn't that mean they have access to a massive teleportation network? The Scrin Threshold towers are designed for harvesting vast quantities of Tiberium (ichor) from a planet and act as interstellar gateways. With Nod in control of the last tower on Earth they have an enormous edge over GDI. Technically speaking they could already be attempting to infiltrate through the portals. Maybe Nod tried but reached an impassable obstacle. They needed the Tacitus in order to successfully operate the portal network, and understand the Scrin as a whole. In 2052 they attacked the Cheyenne Mountain Tacitus Facility and reacquired the Tacitus Data Matrix. In 2052 Kane is able to achieve ascension. The problem now is ''How does Nod get past the Scrin?''. They could probably be attempting to invade through the Threshold 19 portal network with the Marked of Kane. Through that, The Brotherhood Of Nod are probably becoming an interstellar society, whilst GDI is stuck trying to clean up Earth and prepare for a massive Scrin Invasion. We only have cancelled games to go by but in the Tiberium FPS; the Scrin invade in 2058. The war was apparently going to be on a galactic scale. Westwoods Tiberium Incursion allegedly has Nod as a background faction where GDI, Mutants, and Scrin are the main factions with CABAL returning in an Expansion Pack. Also at the time of Tiberium Incursion, the world is mostly cleaned up of Tiberium. If CNC3 is anything to go by then EALA's storyline and setting is not too disimilar from what Westwood originally had in mind... But take into consideration: EALA's lack of creativity and love for CNC... The Tacitus apparently enables one to control Tiberium itself. What if Nod or GDI create their own mock up of the Tiberium concept, therein no longer having to rely on the substance as a resource?
I'd wager that the Scrin would just bring their full forces to bare first, the first invasion failed because they tried starting out small and trying to weaken their enemies from the inside of their own bases, since that didn't work their likely going to play it a bit safer and blast the major bases around the world from orbit then swoop in to mop up any survivors followed up by setting up their own base of operations.
When your figure out the scrin you fight were only a harvesting unit. That's fucking terrifying. We weren't fighting their military but their workforce. Yet they still almost had us on our knees.
They were actually getting clapped as soon as GDI and NOD were back on their feet after the initial invasion. After fighting them for some time, the learned how to combat them
When I played C & C Kane's Wrath for the first time and saw the Prodigy my first thought was: "That's one big ass tick." and it almost function as the same as ticks. Latches on to things(mind control), has offsprings who also latches on to things(Cultist bugs), and the ticks nature of randomly appearing out of nowhere(blink).
When I first got the game, I usually just played solo skirmish games and immediately fell in love with traveler-59. I only play them They’re the faction I’m best at Too bad I still suck at playing multiplayer lmao
@@dataexpunged3914 no, what you are talking about is the heroic rank (veterancy ranks are veteran, elite and heroic), unit rank doesn't make a difference for the cultists. Epic units are the MARV, Redeemer and Hexapod.
The things ive done with a teleporting Hexapod supported by those little puking insects that would restore its health in seconds cant be put into words...
Honestly sad that i only discovered your channel so recently. Ra2 was my first computer game, so i always had some shallow interest in the main command & conquer games. However, i could not get into them. Your presentation really makes the videos for me. I might try playing cnc3 again.
@Aiman Maraidi i only got to finish Red Alert 2 but not Yuri’s Revenge. Haven’t liked RA3 enough to commit to finishing it. Generals is great though, so I understand lol. Too bad I lost my copy before finishing Zero Hour
Traveler 59 "Cult Of Traveler" The Scrin "The Fifty-Ninth Sect" Specialty: Covert Operations, Subterfuge, Infiltration, Destabilization And Enslavement Operations
They probably havent encountered any other advanced race, and when the liquid tib bomb blew up they thought that earth was 100% tiberium and that only a small percentage remained
They might never have encountered an alien race capable of adapting like we do, maybe they evolved on a planet filled with Tiberium and thus are barely able to adapt to other environments like how we can Oh also they probably didn’t expevt us to have a massive array of ion cannons
Steel Talon Harvesters make the juiciest targets for Cultists. Mind control the Harvester, then garrison the Cultists IN the Harvester, ship is home and use it for yourself lol Also, why bother worrying about singular units with a Hexapod? Just stomp on them. You can even smash the mighty Mammoth beneath it's feet.
It says "Nod Weaponry" because that's the category that it falls under in the in-game database of Kane's Wrath. Which is what I'm quoting from for those parts of the video.
I wonder what would happen if the scrin met the imperium of man. Would they get their ass kicked by guardsmen? Or would they draw the attention of the adeptus astartes, and later the inquisition? That would be a pretty cool thing to see.
Imperium fought and won against Rangandans and Yu'vat, who were like traveller sect on steroids. Imperium would have won through war of attrition alone.
so... Traveler-59 would be the kind of Scrin cult to be more about to spare the natives if they (the natives) were willing to serve them (Traveler-59) ? because from what i've listened, they didn't seemed to be bloodthirsty or destructive unlike their brethen from Reaper-17, so could Traveler-59 been the dominant cult if they gained members from both the GDI and the NOD?
They want to enslave the natives, but as far as I know it's not specified how, beyond "subterfuge and infiltration." Plus, their technology is still so vastly superior to all of humanity's that I doubt having "members" from GDI and/or NOD would give them any significant advantage over any other sects or cults. Maybe if they managed to enslave all of the Earth, and then kick reaper-17 out with sonic weaponry, they could become the strongest Scrin cult on Earth. Probably not in the grand scheme of things though.
Great videos but slight correction the third Tiberium War was already over, it ended with the destruction of temple prime and the Liquid Tiberium blast.
The war ain't over until it's over and Nod and GDI were still fighting each other during the Scrin invasion. The destruction of Temple Prime was more of a cease-fire and very temporary considering how it was part of Kane's plan...
For earlier videos like this one I relied on it. However, ever since my Stealth Technology video, I try not to use the C&C wiki at all since it's a secondary source and not a primary source. There are also some things on the wiki that are questionable in terms of the lore. So I mainly use primary/first party sources for my videos which includes information in the games themselves, the manuals, and whatever the original developers of the games have said.
@@Jethild its ok man haha i love these videos i havent played kanes wrath in over a decade and im obsessed over it to the point where im making my own niche strategy videos under the name steeltalonsrule
Traveler is more of a guirilla by the use of fast capital aircraft and mind control unliked faction Reaper which the tactic brute force by using tiberium which is also why Reaper is much fun to play with
