Did they change the difficulty of campaign missions since release?

[PhamTrinli]

I played this back when it was first released in box form without steam in 2007 and now it seems like some maps are way harder than I remember..

Did they up the difficulty of the campaign missions with an update or something?

[S1nnur_]

Basically, yes. They changed stats like damage, stopped cranes from building turrets etc for the online play to balance the game, which applied to the campaign as well.

You can work around the changes in the game, but certain units won't be as powerful so you've been nerfed in some places.

[Shrinkshooter]

Yes. My story is the same as yours, I still have the black and green plastic CD box with the commando on the front.

The short version is that at some point, the game was patched to adjust it for multiplayer, but it wound up making singleplayer really unbalanced. I had to restart Alexandria over a dozen times before I started to suspect something was very off (the first few times I thought maybe it's me, I'm 20 years older and maybe my reaction and short term memory is worse).

There is a mod to reset the game to pre-1.09 patch, look around on these forums for other threads with your same complaint or go look up CnC3 on ModDB, you should find it.

[Nyerguds]

See this topic. It has long, detailed explanations of the problem, and a link to the mod that fixes it.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/24790/discussions/0/6874265117953966662/