Built-In Mods

OpenRA is a highly moddable RTS game engine for classic Westwood 2D games. In fact Red Alert, Command & Conquer and Dune 2000 are implemented purely as mods on it. Tools are provided that allow you to add new units, maps and tilesets even create your own mod. Have a look at the wiki.

Red Alert

sovietsThe RA mod for OpenRA is a reimagining of Command & Conquer: Red Alert. It is not just a clone of the original but has improved and rebalanced gameplay. The UI is modernised for higher resolutions and better usabiltiy. It has fully working multiplayer support for both internet and local play (via direct connect). A single player campaign is currently being worked on.

Command & Conquer

GDI The CNC mod for OpenRA is a reimagining of the original Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn game. As with Red Alert modern networking and rendering technology is used. Also new features are implemented such as snow terrain, neutral tech buildings and many glitches from the original have been fixed.

Dune 2000

ArrakisThe D2k mod for OpenRA is a reimagining of Dune 2000. A remake of the remake so to speak. The mod tries to optimize balancing and gameplay. Currently in early stages of development, but already playable. The spice must flow!

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Highlights

Some of the highlights in this release include:

  • Significantly improved AI.
  • UI improvements to the menus and lobby.
  • New UI for replays, spectators and defeated players.
  • New construction radius limits for C&C and D2K.
  • Repairable bridges.
  • Desert theater for RA.
  • Left-click mouse controls (beta).
  • 5 new missions for RA.
  • 20 new multiplayer maps across all three mods.
  • Significant balance improvements across all three mods.
  • More bugfixes than you can shake a tesla coil at.

Screenshots

D2k Game Lobby
A composite screenshot showing the new lobby tooltips and player color selector in the Dune 2000 mod.

RA shellmap
The Red Alert mod includes a new main menu and desert-themed shellmap.

Construction Yard radius
C&C and D2K now requires buildings to be constructed near a construction yard, reducing the effectiveness of multiple-building-queue base-walking strategies.

Bridge repairing
Bridges can now be repaired by sending an engineer into the rubble.


Changelog

Click through to see the human-optimized changelog, or the complete commit list.

Download

Grab the latest installer packages from our site. SourceForge.net is also helping us out with an alternative mirror as our webserver is running a little warm (hello reddit).




You can also subscribe to the release channel at Desura:

OpenRA

If you don't already have the Freeware assets at hand click download in-game on first start to grab the minimal files required to play from our community sponsored content servers. Thanks to Project Perfect Mod for providing a new fast mirror for this release.

Thanks

PPM ModDB Desura 

Tournament

To celebrate the new stable release a week long tournament will be held starting at 1st June. See the forums for details and how to sign up. The event will be streamed:


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Scorpion_TS
Scorpion_TS May 25 2013, 9:47am says:

Hello, i downloaded the version 20130514 of OpenRA and right after installing it, i run the game, but nothing happens. I noticed that the openra.game.exe process is shown on task manager, but only for a second. A clean reinstall didn't solve the issue: what is going on? My OS is Windows 7 32bits.

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vol4ok
vol4ok May 24 2013, 7:39am says:

Really stupid question so sorry about it : How to add bots ? :D

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56er
56er May 25 2013, 10:35am replied:

1. create game 2. beneath the player spot, just click the empty bar and add any type of bot you want.

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gblenemy
gblenemy May 23 2013, 1:34pm says:

Pretty cool game! I've left some ideas of improvement in the latest release news. plus, I hope you can help me with my performance issue. (also stated in the article comments).

Great game, keep it up!

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Milanium
Milanium May 25 2013, 11:36am replied:

See Github.com for our general help with performance problems.

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Catatafish
Catatafish May 22 2013, 3:07pm says:

When I saw the picture I thought this allowed combining the sides from dune 2000, Tiberium series, and Red Alert into a mashup in the style of the C&C reloaded mod (Yuri's revenge) and whichever one added Spartans XD

Love me some mash-ups... always like a little taste of Super Smash Bros. for real-time strategy games.

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Milanium
Milanium May 23 2013, 11:57am replied:

See Sleipnirstuff.com for a mixed universe mod.

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hellodean
hellodean May 21 2013, 10:54am says:

thought id meantion this if it helps with improving the game,
just installed the latest version of the game playing a red alert skirmish island A.I. and an enemy managed to build an advanced power plant on my island despite being nowhere near it

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Milanium
Milanium May 21 2013, 1:44pm replied:

Thanks for the report. That is known and fixed in Github.com lately.

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Milanium
Milanium May 19 2013, 9:00am replied:

The balancing has changed completely so you can now play allies vs soviets competitively.

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