Command & Conquer 3, World Cyber Games U.S. Open woes continue unabated

Posted May 24, 2007 at 9:00PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Xbox 360, PC Gaming Tags: Blizzard, Command & Conquer, Electronic Arts, THQ, World Cyber Games, Xfire
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An interview by 1UP with Community Manager Aaron Kaufman had revealed that Electronic Arts and the Command & Conquer online community were still waging a constant battle revolving around the three things: the 1 vs. 1 ladder system, the disconnect issues, and gameplay balances.

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Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is currently the most played RTS over the PC platform. Xfire's Xstatics placed C&C3 on top of the RTS gaming list, even while contested by more the strategic and unfortunately overlooked Supreme Commander from Gas Powered Games and THQ.

In fact, the game has become so popular that the World Cyber Games has listed this game as one of their flagship titles for the RTS competitive leg, along with Blizzard's Warcraft III: Frozen Throne and original Starcraft. This is where all the troubles began.

Because of the World Cyber Games U.S. Open invitational announcement and the apparent influence it has had on the American Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars online community, there has been a flurry of "did toos" and "did nots" over at the official forums that certain gamers listed on top of the 1 vs. 1 Ladder list are actually cheating.

Gamers who disconnect from a game in order to avert tagging a loss to their stats are now considered as cheaters. Kaufman, better known around the forums as Apoc, explained fixes going to be introduced with patch 1.05 will not only change the current lineup of top performers, but will also establish serious consequences for disconnectors.

But more often than not, gamers have complained that they wouldn't need to disconnect early from a game if the balance issues were addressed in the first place. Instead, they reasoned out that their disconnects are often morale-based, because of one-sided tank rushing power that instantly lop-sides any competition.

Apparently, balance changes will be introduced in the coming 1.05 patch, where Apoc believes that should completely stir up the top 100 players in the ladder rankings. Although it gives aspiring competitors little time to straighten out the rankings and weed out the real top RTS players in the list, Apoc believes the best ones can easily adapt to balance changes and still win in competitive matches.

 
 
 

Comments [refresh]

by Slain - 2007-05-24 18:36
» All is fair in love and war

C&C 3 is ment to be a fast passed strategy game. One of the cool things of the game is the ability to rush. If you are good at strategy you can stop any form of rush and retaliate with your own counter attack.



btw



First..




by tyuytu - 2007-05-24 21:41
» Great game on 360

This game Looks and plays works amazingly well on the 360 joypad so thankfully everyone is on an equal playing field all using the pad, mind you I havent tried plugging in my USB keyboard to see if you can select whole units etc from a keyboard press....



And dont forget NOT available for PS3 :)

by tyutyu - 2007-05-24 21:46
» PC is riddled with downloadable cheats

Thankfully on the 360 they cant download cheats,MS has taken the best approach, on the PC you have to cheat to have a chance, if you dont have a fullmap cheat you know you almost have no chance to win as you can guarantee that 99% of the people you play are using one..

by Nick - 2007-05-25 03:55
» WTF

I wish people would stop posting pictures of *****ing naval units THERE ARE NO NAVAL BASES IN THIS GAME SINCE EA TOOK OVER STOP SHOWING THEM GODDAMNIT.



People always gotta rub it in.

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