Alien Craft Prototype (Banshee): Developed by Nod using information from the Tacitus and parts from alien craft wreckage the Banshee is an aerial heavy hitter. The alien craft is sleek, fast and heavily armored. It fires a plasma ball capable of rendering most units and buildings to ash. The Banshee when used for aerial support can assure victory even in the most dire situations.

"We recently got our chance to head on over to Westwood's headquarters in Las Vegas and take a look at the continuing progress on the sequel to Command & Conquer, Tiberian Sun. Even though the title has been delayed, things are looking pretty solid now and it seems obvious that the developers will make their July ship date this time around. While it's still far too early to tell how well the game will play, we did make it out with a heaping helping of art, screenshots and even a couple of movies. More importantly, we had the developers sit down with us and detail the units and buildings that will be included in the finished game."

"The 'Weed Eater' is a smaller version of the Tiberium Harvester with a reinforced blade mechanism attached to the front of the vehicle. This blade mechanism is what allow the 'Weed Eater' to mulch the very tough Tiberium veins. Once the vehicle passes through an area the veins are mulched into a fine pulp. This pulp is sucked up into a containment tank. When full the 'Weed Eater' the returns to the waste facility where it drops off this pulp. It's to Nod's advantage to utilize these as the pulp is needed to create the devastating Chemical Missile."

"Hi Lionel, I've just come up with an idea that could solve the tank rush once and for all! How about this; when there are a large number of vehicles travelling close together, a feature in the game could make this cause deep mud from the churned up ground! this could slow all the units to a snails pace, which would leave them open to being easily picked off, thereby discouraging people from using the tank rush. what do you think? I would appreciate it if you could forward this to Westwood if you think it might work, or post it on your TS site."

Interviewer: Now, everybody loves internet play these days. Will the game support it?
Rade: Yeah, 6 player internet is what we're at now. We were originally looking at 4 but we got it up to 6, so we'll have that with Westwood Online... Plus you could build battle clans with a bunch of your friends, choose like a little flag that you guys will have and you'll be ranked as a clan... you're collective ranking will listed on our(Westwood's) website...

• Nox
• Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
• Command & Conquer: Commando (possibly)
• Swords & Sorcery
• Dune 2000 (PSX)
• Command & Conquer 64 (N64)

Warmaker: Do you have any plans to add extra "features" to the game, that say wouldn't have appeared in TS if Erik hadn't left? Or won't their be a difference?
Adam: The only thing that I've done is to move existing abilities to other structures/units or change the basic attributes of the untis, or the build order, etc. I don't think there's anything in the game that wouldn't have been there if Erik had stayed. There's no time for any new features at this point, so we're going to save all of the ones we've had recently for the add-on.

Warmaker: I'm guessing that you guys at the Westwood offices occasionally bring out a RTS game, just to see what their like, see what's fun and what's not etc. I was wondering if there's a current favorite at the moment, or is it just a bit of everything?
Adam: We play just about every RTS game that comes out. I found that Starcraft and the Brood-war add-on are the best (imo) of the newer RTS's out. Our current favorite at the office is... Tiberian Sun! As the game balance becomes tighter, we're having a tremendous amount of fun with it. We know it's getting good when people from other projects just start "showing up" to watch us as we play.

Encoded: I have gota ask this less andreas kill me.... Are the recently announced names for the light mech ('Wolverine') and the medium mech (Titan) correct?
Erik: They were when I left. :) I especially like "Wolverine". It's really fitting for how the unit works.

Encoded: cool. About the mammoth m2, is it a four legged mech, just not the 4 legged mech from the side bar (the voxel test...)?
Erik: I'll leave that to WW to determine whether or not they want to talk about it.

CaptIgor: Is there going to be bases off mode, capture the flag (ctf) mode, what will the difficulty settings be, and what about allieing in multiplay?
Adam: Difficult will affect the AI and the cost / build rate of your units. The AI will have many levels of difficulty. God help you if you put it on the hardest. Two AIs destroyed me in multi last night -- I had no chance.

Coming Up On Friday (04/23/99)
Get ready for Tiberian Sun -- On Friday we'll be talking with Westwood about the game, and the recent departures of Erik Yeo and Lewis Peterson. Yet, mostly importantly, about the game!

There will be about one hour of Full Motion Video in the game.

There will be another last game in the C&C Trilogy, Tiberian Twilight

The game will be released on two CDs, from which only one is required per network player so you have to buy it only once to play with one friend, and on DVD.

Adam is taking over what is left in finishing the game: Balancing units and Multiplayer. He would not change much compared to what Erik Yeo did.

"So far, it looks good." That's what Adam said about the going gold in May and release in June.

When buildings explode, the parts will be flying around.