How Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Solved Pathfinding | War Stories | Ars Technica

Tiberian Sun is definitely my favorite C&C. REALLY hoping for a remastered version at some point.

Story stuff is very important, i agree.

It's why relative to its era C&C was a meaty game and also had units that responded the best. I also love SC but...Dragoons on a ramp/stairs, need I say more? Going up a ramp requires a bloody masters degree!

Every unit in the game was amazing except (limpet drone) it still scares me.

Back then the games are so high quality in my opinion

Westwood studios best game developer , C & C Best RTS Ever , With the exception of Dune . Kane was a great baddy . Was never the same with EA taking it over , Westwood fan all the way , I used to play the game for a full day very often , Also love Bladerunner game that came out in 1997 . Brilliant ! Cheers Louis and the team . Welcome back commander !

Westwood was always inferior to Blizzard. Pathfinding was difficult... in 1994. It's been solved for 25 years. But in CNC it's still considered quantum computing level difficulty.

Oh so the game was actually influenced by Wargames(movie of a kid battling AI almost causing Nuclear WW3)! I didn't know that. Thats so cool and really makes sense.

Command HQ was years before Command and Conquer.

to live is to serve

Pinnacle of RTS

"things started to work pretty reasonable", that's developer talk. Because he knew how much better things could work.

Reminds me of halo wars. I love games like this.

Man I miss Westwood and games like Dune 2000

We need these games remastered with online play in current gen consoles

What he said is true.... Building lots of units and mowing down the enemies in the map IS A LOT OF FUN!

OUR LIVES FOR KANE!

We need a Red Alert 2 definitive edition or remasterd. Like Starcraft and AOE2. So the trinity is complete. RA2 Definitive Remaster Collection

Came back to suggest a Tiberius Sun tv show or series

The 1st time I saw C&C 1 Tiberian Dawn was with my brother in the gaming section of a store (Vilan Aarau xD) on the Playstation 1, probably in 1995/96.
I was like 8 and he 10 and we were totally blown away!
We started drawing those bases, units and stuff which got burnt into our minds.
I don't remember when, but we finally got our very own copy and didn't have to go to the market anymore. It was a blast!
When Tiberian Sun got released I was once again mindblown! I got the game even before having a PC to play it 🤣Sometimes I could go with my mom to her friend's apartment and played on her PC, it was special, because rare, since she didn't live nearby. So, I would play the whole night and had to be careful not to open the internet browser (expensive haha). When at home I read the manual tons of times and stared at the beautiful box's artstyle so much... Happy times!
I still have all original copies of the games and the PS 1 from back then :D

Now my mom's friend is not doing so well anymore and I help her out sometimes. It keeps bringing back the memories and occasionally I still play the games. Now even with the remastered edition and stunning mods^^
Thanks goes out to the devs! Cheers!

You should have leave the date this was uploaded.

They weren't using A* for the path finding?
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It's interesting to learn about some of the details that went on behind-the-scenes, years later.

I remember playing this as a teen and not really thinking too much nor too in-depth in terms of how the dev team accomplished this, but as someone who is much older now, I can definitely appreciate it a lot more.

bought this game when released before i even had a pc, bought a pc 4 month's later. It was awesome on a 17" crt. Now make a remastered version please . thanks for this nice game

Unable to comply, building in progress. Unable to comply building in progress. Unable to comply building in progress. Construction complete. Building....construction complete.

Man I played THEEE FVCK out of this game

I have to write this here that tiberian sun was peak of tiberium story and setting. The new studio ruined the mood and completely forgot the style of the game with c&c3. Futuristic mechs and tech were disrecarded for that middle east hooah market by ea los angles.

Bring Westwood back full time! We need a tiberian sun 2! Not the crap EA ruined either!

Westwood games are so well made that even up to this day, there are players still playing it and modders making their own spin-offs to expand the tiberium and red alert universe.

Another great video in the War Stories series. It's so interesting to hear these stories being told by the game devs themselves.

"Make sure pathfinding doesn't do something stupid" .... So did this guy actually play their first game Tiberium Dawn? As much as I like the first one, it has to have the worst pathfinding I remember.

My heart belongs to Nintendo games and Zero Hour is the only RTS I got into, but this was super fascinating. I appreciated the effort in the visual examples of pathfinding issues!

One of the best games I ever played was Dune II, from Westwood!

This was my favorite, even though it got the worst ratings of the series. Westwood, you were giants!

Please for the love of god create more C&C games like this…

I want my Tiberian Sun remastered

Remember how the path finding in the original Command and Conquer was bugged so that the computer would never attack walls? It became super easy to beat a level by boxing the enemy into their base.

as a huge fan of C&C since day one, Tiberian sun said me nada

What a legend. The golden era of innovation

Using state of the art 14" CRT monitor rocking MS-DOS6 installed this game via Floppy drives navigating to A:> using Norton Commander and loved every bit of this game, played many many many hours and that is without a single update, patch, DLC or internet connection.

RA2 is my best too. still play it today online thank you for an amazing game

I loved all these games

Hit it good

It's so sad that Westwood studio and Red Alert had been destroyed by EA games. Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 was pure masterpiece.

Red Alert 2, and yuris revenge are still my favourite of all of the games but still love playing the c&c games, apart from C&c 4.

I still play Yuri's Revenge nearly every day. ..... Best. Game. Ever. Hands down.