Comments - Concolor1

by simply following the instructions in the read-me file or reading this thread from post one.

Many thanks once again to McPawny and EggRollz. Both contributed to this campaign McPawny knowing all the fixes and work arounds, and EggRollz with his archival history of the RA2 universe and his endless playtests. You have my gratitude and respect. -  Concolor1 Over and Out

Awe inspiring, reminds me of Stargate, fits very nicely with the Allied Chrono theme. Wonder if it would replace the standard WF or act as a second only available if the allies own a Chrono Sphere, it could have a faster build time.

That's really handy to know great2542. Very much appreciated. Lets see how you do on the next campaign, out in a few weeks.

In a couple of weeks there will be a fix fir those few players that have encountered this bug. Its caused by some players having a version of the game that doesn't match the original disc release.

No the airport can be captured anytime during the mission, it makes no difference. It might be that the Ai recaptured it and you never realised, but then the mission would simply wait for its recapture. It doesn't explain why the game restarts....that's more of a file issue.
Almost like its missing the mapselmd.ini or you already have one in your folder that's over-riding it.

Many thanks, as I may well of hinted there is another campaign due before the year ends. This time for the Allies and Soviet factions. It will all fit in with the Resurgence campaign too.

So do I, it shouldn't happen. Ive never heard of anyone doing that. Mission 3 leads to Mission 4 Recovery. I can't think of a reason for it, unless you failed?

Yet again very impressive.

Dude it works fine, over 3,000 ppl have played it, across three download sites. You must be installing it wrong.

Mirage tanks will be sorted. There are around 14 working crate types, two of those are actually explosive. I use them all no point in having them otherwise. That's the risk not every crate is a bonus. Maybe its American humour...........maybe it is, but im not American.
Very much appreciate your opinion thanks.

Yes i'll re-write mission 8 and pack it with the next campaign. Im aware of the problem some players experience with this, and will change the win condition to help them out. So Einstein simply needs to exist at the end of the game, rather than move to a waypoint.

Your welcome ;)

Hello guest, might I suggest you just install the contents of part 1 only before you install part 2. This is because Part 1 contains missions 1-6. And part 2 should not be installed until you have played those missions.
From what your describing it sounds like you didn't read the read-me and installed both folder contents, causing one to overwrite the other, this led to the mess your describing. Your quite right, this game is not Red Alert3, its Red Alert2 as clearly stated.

This map may feel familiar, that's because it is, --- well a small piece of it is. I painstakingly copied the layout of the allied base from Polar Storm. Just the base layout, the rest is a new map.

Yarik777 - Thanks very much, more on the way, check out Moddb.com for updates.

Next campaign is for the Allies and Soviet factions.

rizqi.priatna Is it possible you had a rouge all01umd.map in your RA2 directory? There are two versions of Initiation test. If you had the first single release version still in your RA2 folder it may of done that.
Check you placed all the files from Folder 1 into your RA2 directory. If your missing 'mapselmd' it may of caused this as its the file that controls what mission follows next.

There will be an alternate fix for two of the issues encountered by a small handful of players in the next campaign, currently being written.
Fix 1: I will write an alternate win condition for 'Tesla Troubles'. (This should fix the issue of the game not ending when some players trigger all of the variables).
Fix 2: I will change the win conditions on 'Reset', so players no longer have to hunt down all units ie mirage tanks, to get a win.
Any other issues, please let me know so I can look at them before the next campaign comes out.

These look amazing and professionally made too.

Ok what medium is your game? Original 2001 disc versions or Origin download? And you are running YR V1.01? with the official Westwood patch?

Even the vanilla game use to crash on the occasional save, but Ive not heard of this before, three times is excessive.

Do you want me to report you...lol Looks very impressive, sometimes you have to take time out from studies and reward yourself. It's going to fit in nicely with your other projects.

Ummm thats a new one on me. Guess that's where the issue could be.

I'll consider anything if it improves it for the players. Yes a moddb page would be great. At the time I uploaded this I had no idea how well it would be received so simply uploaded the file.

No your not describing it well.
Download the file. Open the file, in the file are two files part1 and part2.
Open part one. It contains ecachemd97.mix, expandmd97.mix and an ra2md.csf file. Copy these files into your RA2 folder.
Now launch the game. Select new campaign.
You will see the Yuri Icon in place of the Soviet Icon, select that.
Providing youve done this right it should work.
Reasons for it not working are you have another expand.mix file in your folder from another mod, or you have a sov01umd.map file in there. Removing those will solve it.

Yes, ok I'll take on board what your saying if I decided to do something in the future. There's still plenty of opportunities remaining.

Thanks Mol4, appreciate your opinion. Please understand that everyone has a different view on how a campaign should go. Someone for example purely enjoys base building only, whilst others like yourself enjoy the accumulation of tech with a steady build rate. So its hard to please everyone. That considered I went for the middle of the road approach. The first half of the campaign based on a acquiring an MCV and recovering the Prime, the second half full on tech and battles. I'll certainly consider the mind control aspect for future projects, but as all the player has in that second mission is engineers ect mind control was out of the equation, otherwise id be doing what you say you don't want to see in your second response and giving out Yuri mind control units before reaching that tech level.

Not an expert with Origin, but I do have it, and it works with it. If I recall I think you have to copy the RA2 folder to another location, like the desktop and place it in there, and then launch it from there. I also seen to recall I needed bibbers origin launcher available here. Bibber.eu
Im sure there's someone with Origin that could help you as it does work. The guy that runs StarTube on YouTube recorded the game and he uses Origin, maybe he could help you further. YosefAnan at cncnet.org Ive messaged him to see if he can remember how its done.

And the nice thing there is you can actually turn off the random lightning strikes. It's another one of those hidden triggers I put into the map, all you have to do is garrison both of the crypts. It turns of the lightning strikes after the current cycle. thanks glad you liked it.

Thanks Patrik, it's not a Mod though its vanilla. Ok Tesla Trouble, there's a few ways to complete this mission. Theres a few youtube videos out there too. I generally capture Apoc Tanks with my Yuri units, then the barracks with an engineer, war-factory, con yard, and build battle bunkers. Stopping the IC attacks requires placing units beyond your base to get those units before they become curtained. either by Apoc tanks on an overlooking cliff or siege choppers which work well in that mission. Cash can be hard to get, so i'll tell you theres a cash crate close to the south base WF,which appears if you destroy the flag, ammo crate and V3 racks around the Soviet battle lab.