Despite these efforts, the game is unstable and prone to crashing in many circumstances, including having to manage large amounts of objects on the map simultaneously, and unfixed pathfinding issues that are partly caused by improper use (or lack thereof) of pathing blockers in and around map obstacles such as hills and lakes. A tool called GenPatcher was created by the community to more easily fix these issues, restore command line support for the Origin/EA app version, add modern resolution support and apply various fixes and improvements. The game was re-released twice as part of multiple compilations of Command & Conquer games: Command & Conquer: The First Decade in February 2006 and for the first time digitally on Origin on Octoas part of Command & Conquer: The Ultimate Collection.Īs of May 2023, the game remains playable on modern Windows versions with some major technical hiccups that can be worked around issues like errors when staring the game, DRM issues and serial key errors. Ī compilation of both the main game and its expansion got released on Octounder the name Command & Conquer: Generals - Deluxe Edition.

While no dedicated modding tools were released (instead, the community uses tools released for The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II or Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, both on the same engine), the game quickly received a sizable modding and mapping community, whose projects remain popular well into the 2020s.

Post-release support included 8 patches for the base game and 4 for Zero Hour, as well as map editors (Worldbuilder) compatible with both titles. The expansion added a new Generals Challenge mode, new campaigns, new units and new maps. The game was re-released for macOS on the Mac App Store on March 12, 2015. The team was subsequently merged with EA Los Angeles as its RTS division, and developed its expansion Zero Hour, which got released on Septemon Windows and later ported to Mac OS X in February 2005. Reception of the game was good, with several post-launch patches being released to fix most bugs, exploits and balancing issues. It was ported on Apto Mac OS X by i5works and published by Aspyr Media, who also maintained the port over the years. The game was initially released on Windows on February 10, 2003. It makes use of the SAGE engine, which was an improved version of the Westwood 3D engine. The game is one of many in the Command & Conquer franchise. It was developed by EA Pacific, published by Electronic Arts and released in 2003. 10.6 Shell map (menu background) is staticĬommand & Conquer: Generals is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RTS game featuring different factions battling against each other on a battlefield.

10.5 'Serial key already in use' error when starting a match.10.3 Technical Difficulties/Serious Error.

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