#Command and conquer Red Alert 2: Yuri's revenge

[flowery-laser-blasts]

Finally finished a drawing I started ages ago aaaa!!! My boyfriend made me listen to 'Militant Force (Remastered)' and 'Brain Freeze (Remastered)' by Frank Klepacki and The Tiberian Sons and these two songs SCREAM Kim vs Shego!!! Militant force is Kim and Ron's theme and Brain Freeze is Shego and Drakken's theme, especially with that evil laugh. I'm really, really bad at playing Command and Conquer though...

[commodorez]

Once again, my collection of Command & Conquer games has grown. The boxed copy of Red Alert 2's expansion "Yuri's Revenge" is the latest addition in the yellow big box on the left, courtesy of @ms-dos5

[derxwnakapsyla]

So! I finally managed to get Satori working for the War of the Rice rework. Before, she was an interesting unit which could lock onto one individual unit and "track it" across the battlefield (Think like the Limpet Drone from Firestorm, except you didn't need to build a Limpet Drone.), or she could convert animals to her side (which was kinda pointless, considering the only faction that used animals was the ADC, which she was part of...). Her kit was kinda... not worth it, especially not for a hero unit. So I decided to try and come up with a new system for her.

Enter the Recollection system.

As Touhou fans may know, Satori is capable of peering into the memories of people, accessing their trauma, and using it against them in battle, with the spell cards she used being called "Recollection: [Spell Name]". I wanted to try and capture this idea.

The idea I came up with was that she would defeat an enemy infantry, and then acquire their weapon after beating them. This idea, unfortunately, never got off the ground, because the only way to make it work was by making Satori be treated as a "Unit" (Uppercase U) and not an "Infantry"; Through the use of Ares' Abductor Logic, you can basically steal any unit off the battlefield and store it away somewhere. Mental Omega does this with the Scavenger, a Unit that defeats enemy Units and "scavenges" (Read: Abducts) the defeated foe and incorperates their weapon system into itself - It's literally a Vehicle version of the Allied IFV. This was how I would make Satori work intially- However, Units are the only TechnoType in Red Alert 2 that have access to "Passenger" logic. Which means that I would have had to make Satori be a Unit so she could have Passenger logic. That didn't really sit right with me, and proposing the idea of "Hey can we expand InfantryTypes to have access to Passenger logic" was not really well received lol. So, the idea sat idle for 10 years while I tried to think of something else for her.

Ten years later (roughly a month or so ago), I decided to pick back up War of the Rice to mess around- build it from scratch, so I had full working knowledge of the interior of the mod. I got to Satori, and I looked around to see what was possible. Fortunately, technology evolved in these past ten years. Back then, all we had was Ares. Nowadays, we have two other extensions- Phobos and Kratos. They expand further upon what Ares was doing and implement a ton of new logic, and improved upon some of Ares's existing logics. This was the necessary thing to get Satori working.

Phobos introduced a system called "RevengeWeapon"- a weapon that fires off of the defeated unit back to the attacker that killed it. Kratos introduced a system called "OverrideWeapon"- a system that allows you to override a unit's existing weapon with another one. Through the help of the modding community, I was informed that I could utilize RevengeWeapon and OverrideWeapon, alongside the AttachEffect system implemented by Ares (and further enhanced by Phobos and Kratos) to make the first half of Satori's kit work. And work, it did.

When Satori defeats an enemy infantry, the infantry fires off a RevengeWeapon that only affects Satori due to her unique armor class (I know there's other ways I can make this work, but this works for the time being.). This RevengeWeapon applies an AttachEffect to Satori that has the OverrideWeapon effect on it, which changes it to... some weapon system (See: The post I made before this). This weapon is locked onto Satori, and cannot be replaced, even if she defeats another infantry with it active. As I said, this is the first half of the system. Enter the second half: Resetting the weapon.

It's a simple process: Satori utilizes the deploy mechanic to reset her weapon system back to what it was initially. Getting it to work, however... That was the hard part. I tried several different things to get it to work, but they all failed. I did stumble upon the solution I needed though- Through the use of Kratos's enhancements of the Techno-to-Techno Conversion System, I was able to make it so that Satori could use the deploy functionality... to "convert" into herself. This process wipes clean the attached effect on her, and allows her to acquire a new weapon.

Satori is fully functional, 100% like I want her to be. There's a few things that need balancing, sure, but. This is the vision I had for her ten years ago. And it is so, so fulfilling to finally see it come to fruition. I cannot thank the C&C Modding Community enough for helping point me in the right direction here.

[there-isnofate-but-whatwemake]

[hellman55]

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 YURI'S REVENGE All Cutscenes (Allied Campaign) Full Game Movie

[drklemson]

My favorite soundtrack

[feybeasts]

Historical wargames and alternative history wargames are old and tired, the best wargames are so far from established history that they’re all but a different world

[THIS POST IS ABOUT THE HIT WESTWOOD RTS COMMAND AND CONQUER RED ALERT 2 AND ITS EXPANSION YURI’S REVENGE]

[theabigailthorn]

opinions on the rts genre of video games please

I'm passing the time in my trailer with Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2, Yuri's Revenge so, I'd say my opinions are pretty positive

[z-raven]

So, here is a alternate timeline of what my cannon of events of what occurs after Red Alert 2/ Yuri's Revenge ends.

Ok, so the Allies win the war and The Commander and Tanya liberate Zofia from Russia and they bring her back to America and all three of them get married and move to Seattle Washington.

They live peacefully in Seattle, until one day they get brought back into military service to help the Allies fight a new threat, an extraterrestrial threat now tries to conquer the Earth and it is up to the 3 of them to unite the world and fight against the invaders.

[mogsk]

Health just dropped a music video that is literally just the intro cinematic to Command & Conquer Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge

[nixmcretro]

OpenRA – Command & Conquer – Red Alert

Silos needed. I used to love Command & Conquer as a teenager. My Athlon 500 MHz sure did clock a few hours as did Andrew’s PC. Then came Red Alert 2 and the Yuri’s Revenge expansion. Such great game play.

[derxwnakapsyla]

Thinking about this low effort shitpost i made again

[anyab]

No Mega i am not violating copyright infringement by uploading and sharing the link of a file called "command and conquer red alert 2 + yuri's revenge" dont even worry about it

[hellman55]

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 ALL ENDINGS (Yuri's Revenge, Allied, Soviet) Ultra HD

[raivokasmagma]

Christmas presents for siblings 2022

Let's go back to 2022 for a moment.

I decided to get few albums for my siblings. I knew what would I buy for my sister the moment I started shopping, but brother's gift took some thinking. Sister had birthday near Christmas, so she got two albums.

But enough talk, here they are!

Birthday gift

Christmas presents

Mesh albums were for my sister. She got me into Mesh, so wanted to thank her by getting these two. Bit of a continuation to 2021 birthday gift, which was Who Watches Over Me album :D Hints were "Do you want older or newer?" when I handed birthday present.

The Point which it Falls Apart is harsher album, to the point of being quite edgy. We Collide feels oddly nostalgic, very mid 2000's pop sound. Which is weird, because I didn't listened pop back then. Or radio XD I think it's in my mind the best Mesh album now.

The Music of Command & Conquer: Red Alert. At first I was thinking about getting Flesh Field's remix album to complete the collection of physical Flesh Field releases. But that would be boring. I don't what light bulb lit up, when I thought of Red Alert soundtrack.

Was lucky to find it in good condition, thank you person from Greece! This is the British release, from 1996. I teased this present quite a bit. "You listened this when you were young" XD Wasn't what he thought, but he was super happy. Following night he walked around the house, listening the soundtrack, feeling lots of nostalgia.

Personally my favourite Command & Conquer series soundtrack is Red Alert 2 and especially Yuri's Revenge. Tiberian Sun is also great one. Frank Klepacki sure is a legend in my mind. Both in video game music world and industrial metal too.

I wonder what albums I should get as present in 2023?

[drklemson]

Name a better resource gathering unit in any RTS game than the slave miner. I’ll wait.