Sonic Technology - Command and Conquer - Tiberium Lore

Looking at the origins and development of GDI's sonic technology in the Command and Conquer Tiberium timeline/universe. Timestamps, corrections and/or clarifications posted below.
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I forgot to mention that GDI's Shockwave Artillery from C&C 3 also utilizes sonic artillery shells.
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Music used:
What Lurks (C&C TS) - Frank Klepacki and Jarrid Mendelson
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Recon (C&C TD) - Frank Klepacki
#commandandconquer

[@astraea.vt1]

Just scream at Tiberium and it'll go away

[@popolives]

Yoooooo now everyone in the Tiberius universe feels stupid

[@chrisdaly9863]

@@popolives How do you think Janemba feels :'(

[@Prozerge]

"BREAK!!!!" - Dune 1984

[@CBRN-115]

Local old man yells at Tiberium. More on page 11

[@FunkyBaconArts]

Heavy Metal bands unite! Especially the ones that use a lot of screaming and roaring.

[@popolives]

Man the Tiberium universe has one of the best lore in gaming for me. So much potential. It’s sad EA butchered it and hung it dry. Here’s hoping they bring it back

[@patrik9328]

EA butchered Generals 2 too.

[@That80sGuy1972]

EA had lots of bad habits since the 80s, they tend to reel them back when they go full moron but that trend is never permanent... they listen to their executives disconnected but great pitch meeting people far more often than their grounded people.

[@walkir2662]

I wouldn't hope anything gets redone... they only do it "for a modern audience" and ruin it.

[@DavisJ-ln6fw]

@@walkir2662 Yeah because only nostalgia crazed fanboys should be appealed too ....😆

[@Lordbobomb]

One crystal to destroy another. Almost poetic in a sense.

[@ThomasMurch]

[Starts writing a Tiberium / Final Fantasy crossover fan-fic]

[@Noah-zz8uw]

I used the crystals to destroy the crystals.

[@mbos14]

If im remember correctly its even stated in the game that the later versions run on tiberium and might have otherwise not worked.

[@PorktatoesSSRB]

*I used the Tiberium to destroy the Tiberium*

[@thatguynamedgabestyfy8348]

Wait I thought it was powered by tiberium which just makes it more poetic

[@tigartar]

I still find it funny how lore from cnc 4 is skipped so many content creators just leave 4 out as a big "fu" to ea its funny

[@Janshevik]

I noticed that too

[@Del_S]

C&C4? Don't talk crazy, there's no such thing....

[@acedianihil8208]

4? there was never a 4

[@demonking86420]

C&C4 don't exist

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

Most fans don't count whit cnc4, it's treated as if not cannon, I happen to agree with them

[@iskoconquers]

I never question where Sonic gems come from.... I guess this might be another form of Tiberium

[@Paerigos]

no but no other powersourse is compact enough for it to work...

[@TurKlack]

...Kinda silly if you ask me....

[@nichsulol4844]

very usefully crystal

[@lich.possum]

Maybe spent tiberium crystals? Two objects tuned to the same frequency will both resonate if one is struck

[@barrybend7189]

Or the crystal is just the focus point not the power source.

[@rustyshackle8000]

If we ever get a proper sequel to 3, I'd love for ZOCOM to be changed to essentially be an anti-Scrin faction. After the invasion, they adapted their arsenal specifically to combat the Scrin if they ever came back, meaning nearly every unit has access to sonic weapons of some kind.

[@rowbot5555]

They'd need it too, especially if the scrin actually send a proper attack force!

[@louievelayo4100]

Uh... Kinda forgot that one reason for the phase out of the Disruptor is because it's one of the most common causes of Friendly Fire... That would also be the reason for the shortened range... If it has an acquired target and any friendly unit or structure is just casually standing in the tank's line of fire, it'll get damaged from the stream of sound waves if not outright killed or destroyed... Ugh... Death by dubstep, such a grim fate indeed...

[@andreasottohansen7338]

This stuff is immensely well made and high quality for such a small channel. How could i not subscribe?

[@3arooshy465]

Damn man gdi really could’ve saved the world from tiberium... like literally as u said they reclaimed a WHOLE yellow zone and turned it into a blue zone due to sonic technology... but man after the scrin invasion gdi lost most of there blue zone... poor gdi

[@vladiverse7516]

I would want to see C&C 4 officially decanonized and made it so after third Tiberium war GDI after years of hardships actually succeded with controlling Tiberium outbreaks worldvide. Also NOD succeded with their "ascension". That way both factions got what they wanted and with mysteries of Screen Portals revealed fight could move to other planets. I would imagine portals to barren worlds that Scrin succeded to seed with Tiberium and strip out of all valuable minerals with some ruins of long lost civilizations present. Maybe GDI finding information about Kane and that before he made "Brootherhoods" on different planets among different species but all other times he had lost and had to try somwhere else untill he succeded with humans. We could find out more about Scrin, how do they work. What's their connection to Kane. So much potential in this frenchise yet. Too bad We may not see it realized.

[@3arooshy465]

Vladi verse thats too creative for EA lol... pretty smart idea

[@KoishYea]

"Years of academy training wasted." Even if it's not because of the Scrin. Nod would find any advantages to stop and sabotage GDI from restoring earth.

[@mho...]

Since Dune2's "Atreides Sonic Tank", this is my favorit weapon/unit design ever!

[@henryheavy8044]

can you do a lore video on walker technology used by nod and gdi ? I like to know why do they make those when they already have things like mammoth tanks and so on.

[@Jethild]

Yes I plan on covering other technology related videos in the future.

[@QalOrt]

House Atreides must have found GDI's research papers

[@TristianD]

Because of your videos, I have redownloaded TS on my computer

[@RC-qv9in]

Nice

[@godfatherofbloedniss]

congrats for passing the 1k subs. you make real high quality content. i am a real big fan of C&C (all three kinds) sadly the C&C francise is dead :( there is so much potential still left -.-

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

It's not dead yet... look at all the people playing it online, the mods, KZbinrs, and oh yeah C&C Remastered too.

[@godfatherofbloedniss]

@@GreenBlueWalkthrough yes i know this. I meant the Story driven forward. All new games planned where cancelled by EA....

[@Mobysimo]

I hope that if there ever is a proper Command and Conquer 4, they go more into GDI's Sonic tech. I always found that a lot cooler than just mechs. Sonic grenades, rifles, bombs

[@kedarunzi9139]

I mean it would be the most logical choice. It's what helped them reclaim the yellow zones after all

[@tomobryant2070]

I love that you make these.

[@andyblargextra]

Who else really wants a Remaster of Tiberian Sun?

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Me. Game has so many flaws, it truly deserves one, all while RA2 needs to wait a long while.

[@Janshevik]

I remember loving Disruptors in Tiberian sun when I first played the game, since they were only of the few wheeled/tracked vehicles for GDI and I always disliked mechs (and to some extent hover vehicles).

[@cleeiii357]

Lucky for you, GDI Abandoned most of them by the third war in favor of tracked and more conventional vehicles. Such as favoring Predators over Titans and Tracked Mammoth Mk 3 units over Mammoth Mk 2's. With only an obscure but loud combat division (Steel Talons) still primarily using walkers. Granted, some hover and walker vehicles are still used by mainline GDI forces such as shatterers, slingshots, and juggernauts. But they're mostly relegated specialty roles and are typically not frontline combat vehicles.

[@starwraithspacemarine8605]

I thought the disrupter tank was an ion tank when I first saw it.

[@grimmshredsanguinus2915]

i thought it was a tank which took the suns heat and divirged it at the enemy

[@ancientgamer3645]

The original sonic tanks also damaged other friendly units if they fired thru them. Making some good lore videos here. Two thumbs up!

[@Vampir3xfr]

You forgot the disruptor friendly fire killing each other everytime XD

[@Gloria-victrix99857]

I'm loving this channel so much, you really do give true insight into the lore of this amazing game, love it. Keep it up!

[@hujiaming6151]

Wow, really nice tech, would be nice to see they offer that as main weapon upgrade like rail gun to tanks and other vehicles.

[@FrankCastle-tq9bz]

I never liked disrupter tanks - too fragile to use against enemy vehicles and the damage they do to structures can be easily matched by titan walkers. In short, they were redundant in the role they were supposed to play...

[@thedarkknightdeltakx-4756]

My love for this game is eternal

[@heatherhutchinson3625]

So the plot of Eagle Eye actually makes sense.

[@Nnneemo]

GDI new sound system.

[@Mamorufumio]

well you need some way to get those sick beats across the battlefield

[@ekarata.361]

This should be made into a movie.

[@maelstrumyes3595]

"Do the roar!" *SHREK EMITTERS SHREKING TIBERIUM*

[@TycoonTitian01]

The ai in Tiberian Sun skirmish mode are way too OP

[@angry_zergling]

It's interesting that in the Tiberium Sun cutscenes NOD is the only one that has any infrastructure (extensive underground tunnels and maglev rails) and it's always GDI blowing it up. Are we the baddies, GDI?

[@crawford4140]

watching an anime called Takt Op and how the "D2" monsters are structurally connected to black night siderite which is in fact a crystal. a trait which both the D2's and the Scrin share made me wonder if GDI's sonic weapon technology would work against the D2's as well since they appear immune to convention weapons and the fact that if the sonic weapon frequencies are calibrated to the frequency of the D2's or by extension the black night siderite could break them down/shatter them at a molecular level. no more need for musicarts/human guinea pigs a win-win! =3

[@JeanLucCaptain]

who else is bingewatching this lore?

[@RC-qv9in]

👍🏻

[@reecechapman7286]

The alien said he already exists in the data core could kane be an alien?

[@kodan7879]

Tiberium: *Exists* GDI: *Autistic screaching*

[@diabetichamm3776]

Idk why youtuve recommend dedicated this but here i am and welp im addicted amd sub ed

[@shadows.82]

Mammoth Mk II please.

[@johnalogue9832]

"The travel speed of the sonic wave itself" is slow?! ... Yeah, not like it moves at the speed of sound or anything.

[@mammutMK2]

Compared with a laser (lightspeed), charged particle beam (let's estimate half lightspeed) , projectile (3-4 times speed of sound) , missles (2-5 times speed of sound)...yes, speed of sound is slow

[@teresarigoni5082]

Just imagine screaming children powering it

[@randomargument972]

"Sonic" is fancy word for sound Sound is difference in pressure in air

[@madcat789]

What is or was Command and Conquer; Firestorm? The one where you play as a soldier - I've only ever played Red Alert, never any of the others.

[@Jethild]

The one where you "play as the soldier" is Command and Conquer Renegade which is set in the Tiberium timeline. Firestorm was the expansion to Tiberian Sun. Both of which are also in the Tiberium timeline.

[@madcat789]

@@Jethild I see. Was Renegade any good as far as shooters were concerned based on your experience? It looks fun but the A.I. seems questionable.

[@Jethild]

@@madcat789 It's basically an arena shooter. Similar to Unreal Tournament. Personally I never really got into arena shooters, so to me the game in that aspect is alright but not great. I've only played the game on easy and normal mode, and the only real difference I noticed with the AI is that they just do more damage to you and more of them are brought in as reinforcements via the helicopters.

[@madcat789]

@@Jethild Hmm. At the very least, its something to look into if only to look at the very high detailed renditions of our favorite tanks, weapons, and structures. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I hope to see more from you in the future. You're going to be big.

[@EazyThaBone]

You can play a fanmade Unreal Tournament 3 mod, which has all the gameplay aspects of Renegade and more. It's called Renegade X

[@Mernom]

What happened to Firestorm technology? Why was it phased out?

[@cleeiii357]

They were still used defending the Tacitus from the Marked of Kane in 2052. But its sad that its campaign-only in that game (Kane's Wrath). Though, I have a theory that the Adaptive Armor technology used by Steel Talons is based on the Firestorm technology but on a much smaller scale protecting individual vehicles, Coz what else would that tech be based on? GDI certainly hasn't reverse engineered scrin shielding technology when Steel Talons begun fielding them in 2034. Buut thats just my headcanon with no written evidence/source backing it up.

[@chrisdufresne9359]

Likely, it was too expensive to keep developing when the budget cuts hit. Firestorm was mainly useful for military purposes, after all.

[@Hriskataaa]

sonic tanks -> so good, they wreck your own units as well!

[@ianwong411]

i learned a lot from you rather than the game

[@Raechel11]

Harmonic crystals like in quartz watches 😅 I wonder if that's where they got the idea or perhaps it's just a coincidence.

[@Elyseon]

For the Duke!

[@DickPenisecki]

Wasn't the armored vehicle they mounted the sonic disruptor to a modified MCV chassis?

[@bluenicholasbf2142]

The sonic emitters in c&c3 don't really seem to work as per its lore, the gameplay footage shows the sonic emitter shooting at tiberium for a long period of time but nothings happening! 6:40

[@randomargument972]

Do a lore on Tacitus :))

[@Samuel-jn2oc]

Do the zocom sonic weapons still use the same crystal used by gdi in the first tiberium war? If yes,then why they still use such an expensive material abd even using it in disposable weapons like sonic grenades?

[@rowbot5555]

Probably not, you can synthesize almost any frequency digitally

[@clarkisaac6372]

The only sonic weapon is GDI can deploy countermeasures with effective kills on a massive swarm of NOD infantries on the battlefield.

[@Noah-zz8uw]

I'm pretty sure that the Disruptor actually has a very long range. In Rivals, it is one of the few units to have 2 range, while tanks, shatterers, APCs, etc. all only have 1 tile of range.

[@danielkennedy5602]

I'd love to see another first person shooter, maybe take place between firestorm and cnc 3.

[@TFAWhiteWolf]

GDI just upgraded the Russian mammoth tank aka super tank

[@EazyThaBone]

Awesome videos man keep it up But Bremen is not pronounced Bern. Other than that, this video is a solid 5/7

[@Jethild]

Bern, as in the capital city of Switzerland. I mistook this for another small town in Germany that was also called Berne, that was right next to the larger city of Bremen.

[@EazyThaBone]

@@Jethild that's right! Just wanted to mention it, since you made the same mistake in the ZOCOM episode. It's actually not a big deal, but as a German I have to mention it lol. Please keep up the good work, love watching these while eating and getting so hyped, that I start one of the games right after!

[@RC-qv9in]

@@EazyThaBone Did you know that the Reaper-17 video German subtitles?

[@fr_dae5548]

you don't have speak about sonic wall in c&c2 and elite commando :/

[@choongweijie5851]

What about the Supersonic fighter? It is also equipped with sonic weapons.

[@Jethild]

Hmm..that's a complicated one. I agree that because it uses a sonic boom for it's attack that it is a sonic weapon. But the sonic boom is not attuned to the resonant frequency of Tiberium specifically, which was the primary focus of this video. I probably still should have given it a mention though. I plan to do a whole video on GDI aircraft in the future, so it will certainly get a spotlight there.

[@rvh1999]

Wait, Repulsor fields around GDI buildings in Tiberium Essence?

[@cleeiii357]

That's in Kane's Wrath. GDI only has basic walls in Tiberium Essence.

[@JayCeee509]

Do red alert factions next please

[@3arooshy465]

JECee816 red alert factions purposes are clear... both just wants to dominate the world :)

[@heirofrohan7865]

Yup, do it according to the Eras they appear in.

[@JeyVGaming]

Red Alert series didn't had much deep lore as the Tiberium series but I still would love to see how their technologies works and how it was made.

[@j.t2548]

BE ONE WITH YURI

[@RESURRECT2]

This is from Fremens got their pistols.

[@DJNicShogun]

Atriedes Sonic Tank

[@paltimpotampkin7647]

So sad that they never made another game after CnC 3

[@cleeiii357]

They still made Red Alert 3 Uprising and Command and Conquer Remastered though. And nothing else.

[@dataexpunged3914]

Why do the sonic weapons no damage on tiberium crystals when playing the game, if any weapon should be able to destroy the crystal it's those yet they are the only ones that cant

[@JoacinoDaGona]

Personally, I think the sonic tech was derived from the bits and pieces they could recover from the downed UFO, since the tech is so unusual.

[@johnalogue9832]

Wouldn't the Scrin be better prepared against sonic attacks had they developed and deployed the technology themselves?

[@kedarunzi9139]

Do the scrin use sonic weaponry tho?

[@HobbesDan]

Bern isn't a German city :P

[@stylesrj]

It's funny how that it's said that sonic weapons can be used to destroy and shatter Tiberium crystals, yet in-game it seems the Sonic Emitters and Shatterers, etc. don't do anything to destroy a Tiberium Field. Talk about gameplay and story segregation :D

[@thatguynamedgabestyfy8348]

Shatterers maybe but sonic emitters?does things cut through Tib fields like a plasma knife through poly butter

[@wolfieinu]

Given that they work on the principle of harmonics, I'm guessing you need to tune it differently when using it against Tiberium, versus using it against enemies. We only ever see it being used in combat environments in-game, so we're not seeing what it does in its non-combat anti-Tiberium setting.

[@stylesrj]

@@wolfieinu But apparently it works really well against the Scrin because they share the same harmonics with Tiberium...

[@wolfieinu]

@@stylesrj Oh true. I'm out of excuses then lol

[@rvh1999]

10:08 So how do you actually build those firestorm fences around the buildings? This is Tiberium Essence right?

[@EazyThaBone]

It's a support power. You select it and then the target building. Has a cool down of 30 sek I think and costs around 300 credits if I'm not mistaking.

[@cleeiii357]

No, GDI in Tiberium Essence only has basic walls. Those barriers around buildings are in Kane's Wrath.

[@SuperiorAmericanGuy]

Now do nod nuclear weapons.

[@lastaid]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKLUZ6ajnreYgdk is this ryzen gen 2?

[@snakeretard532]

guys c&C is coming back 2023

[@samueleveleigh2767]

as an outsider i do have some questions about c&c, like why doesnt the gdi just say fuck it and move everyone to civilian space stations or mars (or at very least have them as a backup...) since we know that they have the ability to make fairly decent space stations as well as access to space. you would also think that blue zone cities would be build on stilts so that when tiberium erupts it doesnt effect the city proper while making it easier for clean up to happen.

[@kedarunzi9139]

Well the station thing.. the destruction of Philadelphia probably answers that question

[@CrashHeadroom]

....Did my comment about Sgt. Bilko really need to be deleted?

[@eagle7757]

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 KJV, Jesus Christ is the only way.................