Hospitals in TD

[Lockhart]

They have any use or they are just for decoration?

[Volkov]

what u mean

[Lockhart]

Originally posted by Volkov:

what u mean

There are hospitals that you can capture on Tiberian Dawn...But I don't know if they can be used for something.

[Cat]

Originally posted by Lockhart™:

Originally posted by Volkov:

what u mean

There are hospitals that you can capture on Tiberian Dawn...But I don't know if they can be used for something.

They can used to provide build expansions. Other than that, I don't see them being in any use.

[Raptor]

Originally posted by Lockhart™:

They have any use or they are just for decoration?

They do nothing.
Sometimes they are used as mission objectives, but they provide no benefit.
I think they were originally going to be in the game to heal troops, but it got cut.

[Nyerguds]

They are generally in missions as mission objective, just like the Tech Center / Prison and the Bio-Research Laboratory; a target to protect, capture or destroy. In one of the variants of the final Nod mission, there is a Hospital that's purely there to give an expansion point on the other side of the river; you can capture GDI's Chinooks and use those to drop off Engineers on the other side, then you can capture the Hospital to start a new base there.

The only actual practical purpose it has, since it is technically a research center for tiberium related illnesses, is that it can store 100 credits of tiberium. The bio lab can do this too.

As for what might have been intended, well, the devs likely intended buildings to be upgradeable like in Dune II, but, unlike in Dune II, this would result in a visually distinctive Advanced version. This concept can still clearly be seen on the similarities of the Communications Center and Power Plant and their Advanced variants. Similarly, the Hospital shares its basic design with the Bio-Research Laboratory, and was most likely meant to be upgraded to it. Though for what purpose, we will most likely never know.

I believe the Playstation Sega Saturn version has a cheat that allows you to build the bio lab, and it then allows you to produce visceroids from your vehicle factories, but that was just a bit of fun.

[Neverbeing]

Originally posted by Nyerguds:

I believe the Playstation version has a cheat that allows you to build the bio lab, and it then allows you to produce visceroids from your vehicle factories, but that was just a bit of fun.

That cheat is for the Saturn version of the game. It would have been great to see it on the PS1 too.

[Nyerguds]

Ah. Haven't played the console versions that extensively.

[Mortarch Of Blood]

Originally posted by Nyerguds:

The only actual practical purpose it has, since it is technically a research center for tiberium related illnesses, is that it can store 100 credits of tiberium. The bio lab can do this too.

As for what might have been intended, well, the devs likely intended buildings to be upgradeable like in Dune II, but, unlike in Dune II, this would result in a visually distinctive Advanced version. This concept can still clearly be seen on the similarities of the Communications Center and Power Plant and their Advanced variants. Similarly, the Hospital shares its basic design with the Bio-Research Laboratory, and was most likely meant to be upgraded to it. Though for what purpose, we will most likely never know.

I believe the Playstation version has a cheat that allows you to build the bio lab, and it then allows you to produce visceroids from your vehicle factories, but that was just a bit of fun.

Never knew about the Tiberium storage. But I do remember seeing something about hospitals being intended to heal troops but it got cut.
Never saw that on Playstation either!! Wish I knew >:D

[Mortarch Of Blood]

Originally posted by Neverbeing:

Originally posted by Nyerguds:

I believe the Playstation version has a cheat that allows you to build the bio lab, and it then allows you to produce visceroids from your vehicle factories, but that was just a bit of fun.

That cheat is for the Saturn version of the game. It would have been great to see it on the PS1 too.

ah explains why I never saw that on PS version...

[Neverbeing]

I only found out years later. I grew up with the PlayStation/Windows versions.