Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars™

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars™

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How to restore campaign difficulty
By VIDEOS SALADOS
Latest patches for C&C 3: Tiberium Wars modified the game balance in favor of the multiplayer. Such balances screwed up the campaign missions and made them next to impossible to complete. This guide will teach you how to restore the original game balance to play the campaign as it was intended.
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How to download & install
1. Open the browser and download the file below this step (this is a mod restoration made by u/PontifexIudaeacus and his original post can be found here).

Download through ModDB (recommended)
Download through OneDrive[onedrive.live.com]

2. Extract the file with the Windows 10 decompressor or 7-Zip.

3. Move the CNC3Original folder to the Mods folder (located in C:/Users/[YOUR USERNAME]/Documents/Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars folder, if you don't have it, create it).

4. Go to your Library, right click on Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars, select Properties, select the bar located under the Launch Options text and type -ui on it.

5. Next time you open the game, a launcher will prompt, click on Game Browser, click on Mods tab and load the CNC3Original mod.

6. Enjoy the campaign!
72 Comments
Captain WeebM@ster 11 Jul @ 8:24pm 
I finished all missions + all the side objectives on hard, get good scrubs
Escanes 7 Jun @ 7:15pm 
Nice guide! We don't have to suffer unintended broken design of campaign.
As some people says, even on latest version, all missions are still solvable with more dense control and some different strategy. Still, why not play that hardcore version of it after we have some fun with original balancing? ;)
Dart 5 May @ 5:43am 
oh and another thing, make LOTS of apcs. Stuff them with infantry so they can tackle on tanks or infantry effectively (depending on the infantry ofc), in general do not underestimate light vehicles. i'd dare to say you need half of your army to be APCs, at least in the start. Even Predators are good as they soak up damage instead of Mammoths (which arent as tanky as they look). You can make juggernaughts to snipe buildings but good luck defending them. Anyway it's either juggernaughts or (lots of) airplanes, you can snipe SAM batteries one by one with them (the opponent will try to do the same to you so build at least 3 in range of each other, or have lots of APCs around). In the end it's fun to pass a hard mission with your own plan, even if it's frustrating as this one (and it is).
Dart 5 May @ 5:39am 
well, "massing troops" isn't really strategy so let's say you need to make appropriate troops: lots of snipers for the north gate, from where comes a lot of infantry, especially those pesky self-bombers. Mammoth tanks for the south gate, where you get pushed with all vehicles Nod can muster. Make an airfield and bomb those Obelisks at each gate, secure the tib fields (I built another MCV to settle north and moved my main one at the south gate) and THEN you mass troops to push gates. Ion cannon is a noob trap, you can't use it until you push inside so just build it in the end.
Dart 5 May @ 5:34am 
welp, I just wanted to post a brief guide on how to do Sarajevo mission but character limit is way too strict, so i'll say just this: the mission is a hassle but is doable in easy mode (and there arent reasons not to play easy if you don't want a challenge). You have to secure all 3 tiberium fields, mass troops and push either/both north and south (that's what I did, I replayed the mission right after seeing this post to see if it was that hard). In the end it's good that the patch fix exists as everyone should play however the hell they want. Peace out. :ageivmarket:
Krieger 4 May @ 5:49pm 
maybe its just me but single player is too easy even with the updated ddifficulty
Desert Fox 28 Mar @ 10:33am 
life saver gdi campaign is impossible
Lexile 27 Mar @ 7:58am 
theHostileNegotiator Made a better mod that restores more then just tiberium nerf.
Zeroman95 22 Mar @ 6:26pm 
Don't listen to the fools in the comments that say it is not impossible and require different strategies. This Patch was made for Multiplayer, not Singleplayer. Yet it fully affected the Singleplayer Campaign and made it super difficult. If you want to play Singleplayer properly definitely download this to bring it back to it's Former Glory.
Frumpynation 7 Mar @ 7:32pm 
Holy shit, thank you so much. Sarajevo is impossible on EASY and i beat this game when I was a kid.