I have created my first C&C Generals Zero Hour Mod!

Please don’t hate me for this, I know there are some CNC ZH purists out there that are not going to like this … but there are definitely a lot of people that will appreciate it.

The “Problem”

I see people asking all the time on the CNC ZH forums over the last decade, if superweapons and general abilities can be disabled , and generally, they get the usual unhelpful answer NO NO THIS CANNEE BE DONE. Perhaps folks who want this feature are asking because they want to play casually and or just want to alter the experience of the game to build up a nice turtle base, or perhaps they just wanna play mano a mano, without the general abilities. To me this seems like a reasonable desire.

The Mod

This mod gives the game a more Red Alert feel, and, it’s pretty nice. The game is actually in some respects harder, because people can’t trample eachothers bases with superweapons or special general abilities like MOAB.

And trust me, when I play against 7 Hard AI’s it’s a pretty painful lashing, when they are teamed up against you, lets face it, you are probably going to lose your base in the first 20 minutes!

They said it couldnt be done

Well, they said it couldn’t be done for years but I had a little dig around the variables the game uses in FinalBig and exported the science and specialpower init configuration files, and I could see that this was achievable via two ways:

1. Increase the time for a superweapon reload to exceed 4 hours (i.e. the charge time for all superweapons is greater than an entire match).
2. Increase the number of points required to upgrade, effectively graying out all special abilities, for all players, permanently.

Sure, there might be a few things I missed, potentially, but as far as I can see, people who want to play turtle, and, effectively completely change the way this game works to play base builders, well now they can.

No thanks necessary, just sent me a comment if you enjoy the game mod.

Installing the MOD

You can Download the mod here, simply place the two ini files in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Command & Conquer Generals – Zero Hour\Data\INI and you are good to go.

Lets give it a goooo

Best,
Adam