C&C3 community manager Apoc, executive producer Mike Verdu, and lead designer Jason Bender in their latest podcast talk about the 2007 Tiberium Wars. They talk about gameplay testing of GDI-v-GDI-v-GDI multiplayer, Mike Verdu has a good overview on Tiberium in C&C3’s world, and there’s talk of Silos, Tiberium Storms, well just check out all the news below…
List of the latest C&C3 details:
* Silos are IN, and you can steal enemy money out of them.
* 80% of the world’s population lives in Yellow Zones.
* Zone Troopers (possibly among other infantry units) aren’t vulnerable to Tiberium fields, but others are.
* Red Zones have a lot of Tiberium, so expect higher-money battles with faster powering-up.
* Even totally farmed-out fields of Tiberium will eventually grow back, but you can’t just expect to nurse your “starter” field through a whole match. Tiberium harvesting is faster in the begining of the match when there’s a lot of it on the map.
* Nod plays the “good guys” in the Yellow Zones, where they bring food etc. to the neglected poor folk who live there. Champions of the oppressed and all that.
* EA is trying to make C&C3 a “fast-paced” game
* Multiple refineries and harvesters are absolutely back in, and GDI has “familiar tactics still available”.
* Fan feedback about the initial Tiberium shots showing “big crystals” has been heard and Mike Verdu said they made the (harvestable) crystals smaller.
* Mike Verdu says he “comes across as GDI”, but he’s “subversive at heart”. Jason Bender says, “Peace Through Power – Nod has style”.
* One of the factions will have an “interesting, unique” and “tactical” use of Tiberium – that you’ll want to be “very close to Tiberium when you’re using their units”
PlanetC&C also mentions at Leipzig later this month, EA will be showcasing the first real-time multiplayer GDI versus Nod match, and there will be a “big announcement” that Mike Verdu thinks “will mean a LOT to Command & Conquer fans.” We’re guessing Kane’s original actor might return.