when it first came out?

It wasn't except for units-only missions, which were a save-reload operation.

Z was brutal in comparison, it came out same year or earlier I think.

it actually was. if you were a tank fighting two grenadiers you'd never be able to run them over without dying.

>>2045765
Use APCs to run over infantry since they have higher movement speed.

>>2045596 (OP)
Remember how people thought C&C was back?

>no attack move
man those were the days

>>2045596 (OP)
>impossibly hard
That's just you getting old and slow (like me). I think other than AI air strike targeting getting buffed (which only affects Nod missions), the game was pretty much as hard as it was before.

>>2045596 (OP)
Still issue.

>>2045706
This. The missions where you got 2 regular units and had to sneak across a map were such trial by error shit shows.

>>2045596 (OP)
It wasn't. You were just too young to understand strategy games

>>2045596 (OP)
picrel

>>2045706
>>2047355
>>2047364
>>2051150
Read the pic carefully you clueless retards

>>2045596 (OP)
wasn't it essentially the same difficulaty as the original game, except for Slovakia?

>>2056654
It's easier because of the gamplay changes like letting you quoue unit production.

>>2045854
i 'member, shit was deader than concord on arrival

>>2058363
it mostly failed because they completely neglected the SP mode, didn't provide any new campaigns or challenges.
On a second thought I have to admit that it was also kind of a bad timing. Only a few years later with all the AI hype they probably would manage to ship a tool with AI generated missions/campaigns which would be awesome.

btw, does anyone which mission this is? ignore the crap at the start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITqaw8eLIDM

>>2045596 (OP)
I never finished it back in the day, but I was just a clueless kid. I'm replaying Stacraft as an adult and steamrolling the whole thing. I'm not expecting to struggle much with this one

>>2059828
SC1 lets you comfortably turtle up in one base with maybe a single expansion until you amass a fleet of the latest and greatest power unit you've unlocked.
C&C has a lot of trial and error bullshit where you can risk flat out running out of resources and not realize it until about 30 minutes later.

>>2045803
APCs need a buff

Yeah, but mostly because I played it with a controller on PSX.

>>2045596 (OP)
kid me beat C&C Nod campaign four times just to see funny space laser obliterate eifel tower and other targets
Red Alert didn't felt particularly difficult until I got to the covert operations (some of them were pure bullshit)
Ant meme campaign was forgettable

>>2045596 (OP)
No.

>>2066825
nah, comeon man, you're meming. the penultimate mission in the RA allied campaign (the one where you're in a bunker racing against the clock) was pretty difficult when playing on hard. Probably the hardest in of any campaign missions so far and considering videogames singleplayer campaigns became more and more retard proof, it's probably to date the hardest mission in any official campaign.

>>2045596 (OP)
I struggled a bit but got through it eventually on N64