OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

Re:OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era by kingo55 on Saturday January 25, 2025 @03:31PM (#42824576)

Based on this open source project, modders have created an expanded universe encapsulating RA, RA2, Tiberian Sun, Tiberian Dawn and other lore into Combined Arms mod:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/command-conquer-combined-arms

Worth a look for a new fan made entry into the C&C universe. The scale of the mod is huge...

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Re:OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era by ozarker on Saturday January 25, 2025 @04:30PM (#42825024)

Woah this looks awesome, thanks for sharing!

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Re:OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era by blackeyeblitzar on Sunday January 26, 2025 @02:04AM (#42828308)

And you don’t need the original game to play this, it appears?

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Re:OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era by veidelis on Sunday January 26, 2025 @04:30AM (#42828973)

That's right.

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Re:OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era by tetha on Sunday January 26, 2025 @06:10AM (#42829357)

Oh that first level caught me off-guard in a good way.

Like, at first they fixed that weird error condition how you could detonate the tech lab Einstein is in, which broke a trigger and failed the mission. Now you just blow it up, Einstein is there and you can go from there.

And then I continued with the normal motions of this mission and... no, not gonna spoil it. That was a great introduction of new content to the mission. And the second mission does it in a similar way. Hah!

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Re:OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era by piyiotisk on Sunday January 26, 2025 @07:55AM (#42829794)

Thanks my favourite is tiberian sun and I was looking to find a way to play it on mac. I think with this I might be able to do it

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Re:OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era by 1727706962 on Sunday January 26, 2025 @03:26PM (#42833728)

I've just finished both campaigns (and moving on to Firestorm!) on my M1 Macbook by running the game through https://www.portingkit.com/ .

It guides you through installation and wraps the game in Wine and other layers as its own .Application for running on arm or intel macs. Porting Kit has bespoke configurations for compatible games.

Also see https://github.com/Kegworks-App/Kegworks (formerly Wineskin, the upstream tech leveraged by Porting Kit without the bespoke angle) which i've used for various modern games to great effect.

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Re:OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era by sandreas on Sunday January 26, 2025 @08:28AM (#42829967)

I wonder if they did implement C&C funpark command line easter egg (Dinosaur levels) and the Shift-Speaker-click Ant missions from C&C 2 mission packs :-)

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Re:OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era by unixhero on Sunday January 26, 2025 @02:22PM (#42833067)

This is huuuge. Thanks a lot for mentioning it.

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