C&C Guild Collected News

Desert Combat - Contra Tournament

predator_bg — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:57:18 +0000

Greetings Generals

Following the growth of the Contra Mod community & the wonderfully balanced fun gameplay it offers, the very first tournament has opened for signups.

Date, Time and Location

Desert Combat will be on Sunday, 28th Feb beginning at 16:00 GMT. We will meet in the Contra Tournaments network on Radmin immediately after you check-in.

One map will be played per round.

Tournament Desert / Map for Round 1
Lagoon Day / Map for Round 2
Barren Badlands / Map for Round 3
Gorge Drought / Map for Finale

**** ALL REPLAYS MUST BE SAVED! ****

Desert Combat will be a SINGLE ELIMINATION. All rounds will be BO3 up to the Semi-Finals which are a Bo5. There is no 3rd place match.

Minimum participants: 8
Maximum participants: 16

Registration

All you need to do to register for this tournament is to post your in-game name & Discord name in the registration topic (also linked below). Only register if you're going to be able to show up on the day of. Registration officially closes on Saturday, 27th Feb at 20:00 GMT.

Check-in

The check-in period will be between 15:00 and 16:00 GMT, at which point the brackets will be drafted and made official. There will be an official check-in thread that will open at 15:00. To check-in: simply post in the check-in thread and include your in-game name if it's different than your forum name. If you check in and you don't participate, you may be banned from any tournaments for 30 days. If you can't play, don't check-in. Only players that are registered will be allowed to check-in. Only checked in players will be in the bracket. If you have a situation that would cause you to not be able to check-in, but you can still participate then message Leikeze.

You will have 15 minutes to begin your games after the brackets are posted. Brackets will likely be posted by 16:05, but this depends on how late players check-in. You must start your games by 16:15 or you will be disqualified.

If you're early then you're on time. If you're on time then you're late. And if you're late you're disqualified!

There is simply no fun in sitting around waiting on people, so the 15 minutes is the maximum grace period allowed in between all rounds. Failure to appear at any stage of the event will result in a forfeit. Extreme circumstances can be discussed with event staff.

If you need to take a break in between games, inform your opponent and the Referee. At most, five minute breaks will be allowed and only if needed. Maximum one break per round. If a player is found to be abusing this freedom or failing to inform the necessary parties or not returning on time, you will be disqualified at Referee discretion.

Streaming

All matches will be streamed. So do not start playing until you and your opponent have arranged with a streamer.

In case the streamer causes bad lag, you may choose to play without one, however, you must then send the replay after each match to a streamer so that they can stream the matches.

Register / Discuss

Contra 009 FINAL Patch 3 Hotfix

predator_bg — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 22:29:09 +0000

Welcome to another update! A small hotfix patch has just been released!

NOTE: This hotfix includes cosmetic and solo play changes only, so it is not required to keep playing online! You will not get a mismatch if some players have the hotfix, but others don't.

Contra Launcher will ask you to download and apply the hotfix, so you don't have to bother doing it manually.

There's not quite too much more to say or show, so here's a straight link to the changelog: https://www.moddb.co...angelog-part-23

Contra 009 FINAL PATCH 3 released!

predator_bg — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 23:12:47 +0000

Happy New Year everyone!

Thank you for voting once again in this year's MOTY!
We made it to honorable mentions, and that's a good sign that people still love and support our work.

As promised, Patch 3 is here!!!!

We've worked hard, especially this month, to make even more content. As usual we worked on all aspects, visuals, balances, voices, bug fixes, everything to improve previous version and to give something new, as we heading towards our final goal = Contra which will have everything in its best!

There are many people who are working with us freely, artists, testers, voice actors, mappers. They are all respectively listed and credited in Credits!

With every update, we also share sneak peak of new stuff. We will respect tradition!

USA Cybernetic Lancer Droid model was not well received by many people as it didn't fit rank 1 drone army. Lancer benefits from AP Bullets upgrade (+25% damage).

We started with GLA structures in past, adding extra objects to each side to make structures even more unique. We continued with all other factions too. You will notice them in game even more.

Please, feel free to use this download button and give yourself a treat!!
And special thanks to people who support us, their names are listed in Credits! It means a lot to us!

C&C: Reloaded 2.2.0

FS-21 — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 17:08:39 +0000

C&C: Reloaded 2.2 released with latest CnCNet support and tons of changes.

The most noticeable changes of this release are:
- Ares upgraded to the latest version 3.0.

- Added a new Yuri naval unit: Mini-Submarine. Early game unit for Yuri wich is capable to do Kamikaze attacks if emerges to the surface (deploy mode):

- Added a new secret unit for the civilian Tech Lab: Nod Reckoner. Is based from the unit in TW: Kane's Wrath but with small changes: It is a vehicle that deploys permanently into an infantry bunker. In vehicle mode it can't carry soldiers:

- Another secret unit for the civilian Tech Lab: Redeemer. A massive mech that shoot a powerful laser that split in multiple lasers when hits enemy vehicles. It has a pair of anti-air missile pods:

- Bounty game option (not game mode). When you kill enemies you receive money.
- Meteors game option. Every few minutes meteors fall randomly in the map. Can be combined with the Ion Storms game option.
- Helipads can be used to sell aircrafts like the Service Depots.
- Now 5 units can be queued at once when shift-clicking the sidebar icon.

It can be downloaded in the downloads section:
http://reloaded.cncg...downloads&t=001

If somebody is interested to read the full changelog, please visit here:
https://forums.revor...ures-changelog/

Contra 009 work in progress - News Update 17

predator_bg — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 07:30:30 +0000

Hello everyone!!!

A lot of time passed since our last update, but this doesn't mean we stopped working on the mod.

This year was weird and strange for all of us, we can agree on that.

Current situation caused unpredicted stuff in our real life, but still we try to find time and inspiration for continued work, even though most of the times it doesn't turn out as we wanted.

All of you were kind to us, supported us, and once again you voted for us and helped us achieve TOP 100 in MOTY.

Please, throw a vote for us one more time, so we might have a good score in top 100 too -> https://www.moddb.co...he-year-awards/

This means a lot for us, and in order to return a favor we decided to post an article about progress.

Besides dozens of balance changes, there are also many visual updates and improvements.

Here are some of them....

- All USA factions (besides Cybernetic general) got new Machine gun defense structure. Patriot turret was universal defense, effective vs all types of units (infantry, vehicles, aircraft, structures) and often it was used and abused for early rush, in combination with cheap structures like Barracks with upgraded Security Systems. This often lead to early game deciding moments with building Patriot near enemy supplies (mostly vs China). In order to change this, and make game more fair, Patriot defense is now barely effective vs infantry units (such as RPG-s), and none of the USA structures benefit from Security Systems, except Supply Center (Security Systems damage is increased since it can be only used on Supply Center). New Machinegun defense is cheap and does not consume power. It is effective only vs. infantry and light vehicles. Can be upgraded with Flashbangs to stay effective in the later stages. Rushing with USA dozers is harder now, since you need to combine both Patriot and Machinegun defense to cover all targets.

- Most of the visual changes were focused towards Laser general, and his unique way of playing. Unlike all other generals (except Cybernetic general), Laser general favors gaining experience the most. Basic laser powered units, with each veterancy state change too. We saw it in patch 2 already, but now laser colors are corrected, experience gaining through destroying targets is harder (currently you need 20% more EXP pts for rank up). Laser powered units do have help gaining veterancy, and it is through 3 generals powers. Veterancy generals powers are linked and accessible at rank1, rank3, and rank5 game phases by the cost of 2pts each.

Biggest change is their visual update, which helps you determine which laser damage currently they have (red, green, blue, violet).

- Besides laser visuals, Microwave tank got a makeover too, since he was using Avenger's basis.

- Many changes were done to Super Weapon general as well. We are very proud of Saturn's makeover. Besides just a visual update, he has a new weapon. He fires a new beam which has huge potential to freeze targeted vehicles, so in general he fires Ice beam.

- But we didn't forget other generals too. China infantry general was mostly changed in order to be more balanced, and more appealing to player. Helix is replaced with new helicopter, Harbin.

Harbin has speed and cost of Thor, but health of Helix. His basic weapon is a small machine gun, but his main characteristic are the bunker slots (currently 2).

Some in-game screenshots. New Saturn:

Updated Sturm-S model and skin: https://media.moddb...._comparison.jpg

Redone Phobos chassis. As the chassis suggests, Phobos is now a hovering unit, thus can traverse water: https://media.moddb...._comparison.jpg

In the end of this update, we want to answer you on the most asked question:

"when patch 3 will be released"

The answer is:

"we are hoping, and we are targeting upcoming holidays (during or shortly after) to be perfect for patch 3 release"

There is still work left to be done, but we will try to make these holidays a bit better for all of us. We all deserved this.

If you still wish to support us, and help us, feel free. We are grateful, and supporters will be credited in upcoming release.