

This was in parts inspired by the unearthing of some beta versions of the game. In January of 2022, Sole Survivor multiplayer functionality was resurrected by CCHyper, OmniBlade, and tomsons26, along with a select group of testers. 18 of them are regular units available in Tiberian Dawn multiplayer gameplay, while the other five are nonhuman units. Ion cannon (the player gets shot with an Ion cannon).Global reshroud (resets the shroud for all players).In addition to increasing the stats of units, crates can have other positive and negative effects. These bonuses stack until a certain limit shown as shown by green bars at the top of the screen. Crates increase your health, rate of fire, armour and range. To increase the power of your unit you need to acquire creates. Once a player spawns they start with a limited cloak to let them get started and avoid players who are more powerful than them. Other modes include football, capture the flag and team deathmatch. The basic free-for-all mode supported up to 50 players, where the last person standing or the person with the most points won the game.

The gameplay of Sole Survivor was often compared to the deathmatches of the first-person and top-down shooters games of the era.

Sole Survivor was omitted from inclusion in compilation packs such as Worldwide Warfare, The First Decade or The Ultimate Collection. The official servers went offline on January 1, 2002, leaving the game only playable in its offline practice mode. This was the first Command & Conquer game that did not have a DOS version. It featured no singleplayer mode aside from an offline and limited practice mode and the multiplayer had no hints of a storyline. Sole Survivor was often compared to a third-person shooter, however played with a top-down perspective of the arena.

It featured a deathmatch-style game in which each player controls any unit of the original Command & Conquer, including the dinosaurs, and travels around the game arena collecting crates to increase this unit's firepower, armour, speed, attack range and reloading speed. Keyboard, mouse Command & Conquer: Sole Survivor, tag-lined Command & Conquer: Sole Survivor Online, is a multiplayer spin-off of the original Command & Conquer game.
