"Well, I'm new here at TiberianSunCenter.com and I'm proud to be here. I'm not gonna blabber. So on to the subject of this update. Late at night about two days ago, I saw something I never thought I would. A commercial that seemed to be for Westwood Studios. It had Hell March blasting in the background and it also had flashes of different Westwood games such as Red Alert, Lands of Lore III and Command and Conquer. After it did this for about 30 seconds, in big bold bright green letters it said, "Prepare For The Best." Then it faded out and went to the other commercials. I know it's wierd but I swore it was for Westwood. It never said Westwood in the commercial but it had to be for them. It was on the Sci-Fi Channel. NO! I don't watch that channel, I was just surfing the channels and I saw it. Wierd, huh? I would like to see what VT or Rade had to say about this. If you have comments, email me!"

I never said that he didn't exist, simply that he has no business commenting about Tiberian Sun since he isn't on the development team and is not authorized to release information. Furthermore, while I don't doubt that he was only trying to help ease the concerns of the TS fans, doing so by giving out incorrect information is bad for everyone. The recent comments about being able to rotate the map are false and I don't want anyone getting upset when they realize that you cannot do that in the final product. The problem is that most of the fan sites treat what he is saying as factual since works at EA.

Bounty: In multiplayer mode, will the dynamic lighting be 'toned down' or brought to a lower resolution to improve multiplay speed?
Erik: There's a 'Visual Detail' slider that you can set in the options that will improve your game performance and therefore it will help the overall multiplay speed.

Bounty: No doubt you've been asked this already but this just isn't going away in the community. The '4 Legged Unit' that has been rumored to be the Mammoth Mark II and even listed as it under many sites' units page, is this all a cover up trying to hide the MM2 or is it just a voxel test, as said before?
Erik: I don't know what you're talking about. I've said too much already. These aren't the driods you're looking for.

"I just read some TS info from this guy who claims to work at EA, XF-Mulder I believe. If you get any info from this guy it is probably wrong. The only people who really know what is going on with the game are working on the development team."

As the so-called real-time strategy games have grown in popularity, so to have grown the complaints from strategy fans of old, particularly those who prefer turn-based games. Complaints of "they're just click fests!" are often combined with "they have no strategy!" Many times, indeed, these are used interchangeably, such that "click fest" equals "no strategy." I, however, want to present the possibility that such statements are wrong... or at least inaccurate. Instead, many of these games do have strategy elements, or require/allow you to implement "a strategy." Where they fall down, however, is in the implementation of tactics.

• 1st Prize: $100 cash
• 2nd Prize: $60 cash or one copy of the first mission pack add on released by Westwood for each team member. (Still to be decided which one)
• 3rd Prize: 2 TS T-shirts (NOD or GDI logo)

XFMULDER-XF: If TS has not gone gold within the next ten weeks, I doubt will see it in June.
Gladiator: but what exactly does gold mean?
XFMULDER-XF: The product has completed its test stages and passed them.
XFMULDER-XF: The product meets the standards of what the designers wish.
XFMULDER-XF: you can change the angle from which you view what is going on.
XFMULDER-XF: like in Sim City.
CaptZero[CotS]: 90 degree increments?
XFMULDER-XF: I think so.

Goldfish: Many games I've played over the Internet lag a lot. Do you think that Tiberian Sun over Westwood Chat will have a lot of lag? Will it be as fast and clean gaming as over LAN?
VT: It sounds like you should get a better internet provider. Tiberian Sun is like most other games.

Cyclone: Will there be any missions played in a sandy deserts without any sign of vegetation? Rade: Yes, there will be a few.

Thousands of innocent civilians were forced to flee their homes today as Nod forces launched a new savage military offensive.

The Nod forces unleashed assaults on several civilian settlements thought to be harboring key Forgotten leaders driving the entire civilian population deep into heavily infested Tiberium zones.

GDI sources near Belgrade issued reports of highly armed Nod troops masked in red and black, brutally ejecting civilians from their homes in their search for the rebels. Many areas were left deserted and in flames as a result of the raids.

Gdiguy: Actually, could I ask you something? In your opinion, how are the cutscenes in TS, as compared to C&C and RA?
VTed: The cutscenes out of TS look like they're out of a movie. Very cool.