Being enough of an RTS player to know that not having something building is BAD, I began clicking randomly on units that looked reasonable, and started looking around for the ways I could unlock tech. Looking around the UI, I found a place to start building units, with a number of options blocked off (requiring a tech unlock, apparently). I decided to unpack it right there I had no idea what the hell was going on. The MCV starts out mobile, ready to wander off to wherever you send it to plunk down and unpack. For old players, you’ll recognize the MCV as the core of your base in the old games the place you’d set up first and build everything else around. It turned out I’d deployed a ‘crawler’, which is the in-game slang term for the new MCVs of C&C. I then had to choose a spot on the map to deploy…well, something, I didn’t know what, and we were off. Well, maybe this is like the old C&C: Generals commander selection, of the factions introduced with the C&C 3 expansion, and didn’t really consider it again after choosing “defense”. “Well,” I thought, “I’d intended this to be a learning match anyway, so I’ll just plow on through.” When the match started, and as my team was disintegrating, I was given a choice of three classes: offense, defense, or support. Everyone loaded up, the game started…and my entire team dropped, along with a good portion of the opposing team. After an interminable wait, where I got to really appreciate the bombastic orchestral theme music they had looping every couple minutes, I got into a game. Sadly, EA opted to not allow that, demanding I supply at least one other real human before it would let me play.ĭefeated, I hopped in the automatch queue. Knowing that some changes were inevitable, I figured I’d attempt my tried-and-true approach to a rough tutorial in C&C multiplayer betas: start a private custom game all by myself, and just futz around for a while. I logged in, faced with a selection of single-player and multiplayer options, of which two were available: automatch and custom game. I expected C&C 4 to simply be an iteration on that, probably hearkening back to C&C 3 for aesthetic feel and resource gathering motif, while using the more streamlined power system from Red Alert 3. I thought I’d give a rundown of my initial impressions, as the game turned out to be a surprise.įirst, I came into it off enjoying Red Alert 3 and Command and Conquer 3 immensely, and both of those were pretty standard games for the franchise.
Command and Conquer 4 has a multiplayer open beta, if you were unaware.
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