On 20 July 2018, community manager referred to only as 'dance210' announced that the progress made by people who participated in the pre-alpha phase will not be wiped. Subsequent patches were released on an approximately weekly basis. On 14 June 2018, Black revealed the focus points of the first patch for the pre-alpha version. In a 10-minute gameplay overview for IGN that same day, it was stated that the game had already been in development for 2 years by the time of the announcement.

The game was officially unveiled on 9 June 2018, during the first day of EA Play. Īpart from a few teases on Greg Black's Twitter account, the only mentions of the game before the official announcement were an anonymous email sent to the Giant Bomb podcast on and a leak of information on Reddit's /r/commandandconquer subreddit on. On 7 November 2017, the Command & Conquer community noticed that Greg Black, until then a Blizzard Entertainment employee and former key Electronic Arts Los Angeles staff member, had returned to Electronic Arts a short while before, and immediately assumed through his earlier work that he was working on a real-time strategy game there.

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