Rise of the Reds – or ROTR for short – improves upon the C&C Generals formula while also adding its own distinct elements to it. Most notably, the mod adds two completely new factions, the tank-heavy Russian Federation and the defence-oriented European Continental Alliance. In addition, the three original factions China, USA and GLA have been greatly expanded and redesigned in a variety of ways, with several new units, buildings, powers and abilities to explore and combine in your in-game tactics.
Whilst the United States make extensive use of lasers as point defense and anti-aircraft weapons, the nations of Europe have concentrated their research efforts on the civilian utilities of the technology. One of their most promising discoveries was the possibility of using special frequency lasers to slow the motion of atoms to a near standstill, resulting in a focused freezing effect. Ideally, the technology could be used as a more eco-friendly alternative to bulky cooling machinery and aggressive chemicals. A team of Scandinavian scientists even explored the idea of using this remarkable technology to revert the effects of global warming by restoring the Arctic ice. Unfortunately, these so-called 'cryo lasers' also presented a considerable destructive potential which was exploited during the final phase of the Russo-European War: Named after a monstrous wolf from Norse mythology, the Fenris is an elaborate modification of a conventional Lynx APC which has been outfitted with a freezing laser that proved extremely lethal against enemy infantry and even vehicles which not only take damage but also end up immobilised due to deformed machinery and severly reduced crew performance after prolonged cooling. The Fenris can also fire a high energy shot which freezes the vehicle to the point where parts of its armour become so brittle that even its own idle engine vibrations or weapon recoil are enough to shatter it open, thus directly exposing the crew to the freezing ray, killing them instantly and leaving the vehicle empty for recovery. Unlike the dreaded Pandora cannon, the Fenris can be deployed in numbers upon choosing the eponymous protocol, but commanders are advised to treat their expensive and fragile technology with utmost care.
Great work
Will Denmark and Finland make an appearance sometime for the ECA?
How about the Dutch? My li'l brother quite likes Rise of the Reds, but there is something missing. THIS to be exact!
https://www.moddb.com/mods/cnc-holland
Are you kidding, or you simply don't understand what he's asking ? He's not asking for those factions to show up but units from them. There won't be individual nations added like that, that's not how ROTR works. The dutch already have: Rotr.swr-productions.com along with some other contributions.
I just couldn't resist joking around about it! CNC Holland is a good mod and I love the humour in it. But of course that is not what Rise of the Reds is about.
want to have a Dutch faction than play the CNC Holland Mod.
so if infantries freeze do they die with a new freezing animation like in Mental Omega?
Oh wow, and his comment got buried just because he asked a question!
To anwser I am not 100% sure, but I think there will be a new freezeing death animation, since Duke Nukem's cryogun has it.
"Oh wow, and his comment got buried just because he asked a question!"
It was probably because of the comparison to MO. =P
We have some strong 'fanboys' here. They do not allow such blasphemy!
"Can't mention anything other than ROTR, because all things ROTR."
wait, so there are five protocols now with the fenris and the anvil? the text was a little unclear with this, although upon thinking about it i belive that theese will be special things for the pandora and manticore protocols respectively, but still i am asking becaus ethe text gave me the impression that they are new protocols :P
yes, fi you get the Manticore you also unlock the anvil and if you unlock the Pandora you also unlock the fenris.
Manticore protocol: Gives you the Manticore tank, the Anvil and the upgrades for your regular tanks
Pandora protocol: Gives you the Pandora cannon, the Fenris and modifies your support powers
Venom Protocol: Gives you the two Venom variants, Jumpjet infantry and boosts your regular infantry.
America has lasers, and her allies have cryo tech. Remind you of anything? *coughMentalOmegacough*
Great work though.
The concept of cryo tech by allied nations has been around since ra3, most notably their cryo copter and cryo legionaire units.
you guys are genius,i bet you all got high marks in essay
It looks a bit low tech for such a high tech unit. Nice idea though. Reminds me of RA3.
The cold never bothers this tank.
Just by reading the name and description gives me chill.
So this isn't yet another useless freezing unit that is in every RTS ever? It actually kills things? Just trying to see if I read the description right.
Beautiful model!
this is the design btw:
Ingraban.cgsociety.org
Have a cold one.
Lets put this one on ice.
Freeze!
Ice to meet you! I'm surprised no one's made any yet, so I thought I'd break the ice (alright, last one to round them out at five).
There, 5 puns for you all.
AH! A sense of humour! Always good to see. :-D
Seriously though, with the Tesla Coil being such a lightning rod(!) for puns, I'd of thought this would be too.
You know what would be hilarious! If they actually used Arnold's lines from that movie! I'd be laughing every time I clicked the thing! I already do with the Manticore! XD
Correct me if i am wrong, but is the ECA the only faction that can kill the crew of enemy vehicles to then capture them? Why?
Because China no longer has the neutron warheads, and Jarmen Kel can no longer snipe the pilots of vehicles...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I understand SWR wants to limit the amount of stuff that can kill the pilots of vehicles because units that use a code workaround that referred to as "bike logic" to use their abilities(like the crusader tank and pandur) get instantly killed if they get his with a weapon that kill the pilots.
I didn't knew about that
It's probably because defenses by default don't detect Jarmen Kel and he could just sit in a base and snipe pilots. If you think about it the ability that lets him one shot any aircraft is pretty ridiculous to make up for it. You can use it on a raptor (Did this once) And it chased the raptor until it dropped it's payload and didn't hit it until it circled to land. xD
Favorite Lynx APC Quote:
"And here I thought I was sought as a tank..."
i'm preatty sure it was 'assinged to'
or whatever this word is written like...
Awesome design and lore for the most part, but...
"Scandinavian scientists even explored the idea of using this remarkable technology to revert the effects of global warming by restoring the Arctic ice."
*Rolls eyes*
But whatever. It's fiction, I can handle stuff like that, I suppose.
Think what you will about climate change, but it's quite apparent that RL governments and institutions are making decisions based on the notion that it exists, whether true or not, caused by human influence or not. As such, institutions in the fictional reality of our setting would so as well. Fiction imitates reality, including the parts that may or may not be based on misconceptions.
ECA loves spears on their vehicles.. Cold AND spikey.
Maybe its time I joined the Cryo Weapon bandwagon everybody in the CnC Modding Community has been doing...
Fenris howls a chilling breeze.
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Hi guys...No Fernis and I could not find the eponymous protocol. Love the faction though. They are the best in the entire game.