News - Red Alert 3 Entropy mod for C&C: Red Alert 3

Introduced by player's request as a test run during this update. The further preservation of this system depends on the feedback of Entropy players.

A versatile commando whose sword is capable of cutting through even the toughest armor. Homing kunai are capable of killing multiple soldiers at once.

Experimental units are extremely powerful and are perfect when attacking heavily defended opponents. However, they are limited in number and require special production facilities such as this.

Experimental war factories allow you to upgrade your experimental units.

Redesigned Allied Anti-Infantry aircrafts. Multipurpose attack helicopters shred enemy infantry and light vehicles with their 'Peppermill' 20-mm chain guns. Now capable of dropping napalm bombs to knock enemies out of buildings and destroy covers.

Significantly redesigned Soviet commando.

This strongest soldier of his kind unleashes the most powerful lightning bolts on the enemy. When activating the additional mode, turns into a walking thunderstorm, destroying everything around.

• Mjolnirs and Ace fighters now gain experience
• Tesla Trooper's pre-attack time increased, takes longer before the attack. HP increased from 200 to 250
• Rocket Angel's damage per rocket increased from 20 to 25
• Most of the commandos now able to survive at least one tesla attack, toxin weaponry resistance increased by 50%
• Terror drone AI improved, now can't be healed by medics but gets repaired from repair drones
• ...and many other changes

This update is dedicated to a new faction - the army of "new crusaders" called Asgard.

Formed by a group of unknown individuals, Asgard possesses an unidentified amount of military resources. According to the scant information received from the few agents returning from the mission, it is believed that the goal of Asgard is to establish a new world order. In achieving this goal, they use an army of experienced mercenaries and special agents, as well as the latest examples of military equipment, among which a suspiciously large number of Future Tech equipment has been noticed.

In order to maintain secrecy until the last moment, Asgard severely limited the number of military personnel, preferring to select the best of the best. In practice, this means that their troops are extremely small, which is compensated for by the increased combat power of each individual unit and wide opportunities for their modification

Asgard is the catalyst for the Entropy events - it bears the responsibility for unleashing the new world conflict. Their gameplay side matches their background: they are true aggressors that prefer decisive action and do not encourage turtling.

Key Features of the Asgard are:

• Mobility:

Asgard uses multiple ways of movement across the battlefield to deploy small groups of units to any location. They have the largest selection of the best transports in the game.

• Disarming:

Many of their units have a tendency to immobilize, disarm, and weaken enemy units. In their armament - from pinpoint immobilizing attacks to special weapons created to disable groups of tanks or even large sectors of the enemy base.

• High damage output:

Most of their units are "glass cannons", unable to withstand a lot of damage, but destroying the enemy from a long distance with deadly attacks.

Asgard starts with a construction yard, like the rest of the factions of the original Red Alert 3. As an alternative, "darker" version of GDI in the Red Alert universe, they adopted their way of building a base - buildings are assembled into a construction yard, placed on the battlefield, creating a building placement zone around them.

All buildings are deployed on the battlefield from chrono portals, which means that buildings are invulnerable during deployment. If necessary, the player can put any building into a chronoshift state, which will protect the building from any damage for a while, but also disable the building itself.

Upgrades that allow you to move to a higher tier of troops are bought for each building separately.

Cryodrone - a reconnaissance drone, also capable of performing infantry support functions.

Mercenary - seasoned close combat troopers who form the vanguard of the Asgard infantry force. Wear heavy armor and are capable of knocking enemy soldiers to the ground with their kinetic shotguns.

Cutter - high-tech anti-armor specialists. Their laser cannons burn through the heaviest armor with ease.

Chrono engineer - unarmed military specialists able to navigate the battlefield using handheld teleportation devices.

Ghost - long-ranged, cold-blooded hitmen, excellently prepared for dueling.

Paladin heavy tank - the heavy tank is relatively slow, but has tough armor that can absorb a huge amount of damage. The 'teasing ray' system disrupts the enemy's targeting systems, forcing them to attack the Paladin, forgetting about other orders.

Archer tank destroyer - tank hunter avoids close combat to burn enemy armor from afar using a laser cannon. If necessary, gun operator can fire an aimed shot at the vulnerable spots of enemy vehicle, thereby one-shot most of the tanks.

Kampfjet - high-tech air superiority fighter, the 'Sniper Jet', is capable of eliminating enemy aircraft without engaging in close combat, in which it is not very effective.

Mjolnir - stealth bomber is the workhorse of Asgard air forces. It is able to perform pinpoint strikes, reaching the target undetected. However, light armor does not allow it to stay under enemy fire.

In order to make the faction more playable, you will have access to some units of the Allied Nations until the Asgard gets its own counterparts.

• Honor Guard as Japanese elite infantry
• Top-Secret protocols for Spetsnaz
• Increased all commandos toxin protection by 50%
• Removed armor penalty from imperial warriors when they use their ability
• Increased Tanya's and Pathfinder's damage against Tesla Troopers, Spetsnaz, and Desolators
• Lowered HP of Apocalypse and King Oni, which was too much inflated in the previous updates
• Fixes Japanese EVA bug (it used Soviet voice lines before)
• Many UI changes
• And more...

A week has passed since the previous Beta update. Time to summarize all the bugs found since then. Some bugs are expected to be fixed in a week or more, depending on their complexity.

Bug: two of the new factions are empty and have no units, or get Soviet/Imperial units instead of what they are supposed to get.

Answer: I warned you about this in the mod description, I warned you about this in the "change list" article. However, people keep saying this, and I thought I had explained the reason pretty well, but apparently not. I'll try again:

Adding new factions imply a change of specific game files, which, as conceived by the developers, it’s better not to touch at all. Modifying these files may lead to numerous errors. In particular, old saves and profiles may stop working, as some of you have noticed yourself. Two of the new factions were not supposed to get their units and bases in this update. The only reason that I let you play these "empty" factions is to make the game "remember" these factions, and you do not lose all your progress every update. Perhaps this bug has a solution, but it has not yet been found, so hard-coded it is.

Bug: I cannot start a Skirmish game at all, maps are not visible.

Answer: This problem has the same reason as the previous one. Not all players are faced with this problem, but for those who have faced it, this means that you will have to create new profiles. It is possible that this problem has a different solution, and I'm in search of it. I advised you to complete all your games before updating, so please do it.

Bug: something strange happens to my interface textures when I create a new profile:

Answer: Most often, restarting the game helps. if not, try changing the resolution in the graphics settings until the textures come to their normal position. This is a mistake of the vanilla game, so I don’t know what causes it, but I will try to find a solution.

Thank you again for helping to find these bugs. After about a week I’ll try to release a patch dedicated only to fixing these errors. Remember that bug reports may help me in development, follow the news, and thank you for support!

The Entropy project got a new major update - 0.4.0. I am glad to say that we have become even closer to the release of the full version of the mod.

This is the biggest update since the start of development. It contains massive changes in gameplay and plenty of bug fixes.

Important: due to changes made in game schema files, players may have trouble loading old saves. I recommend that you complete all started games before updating.

New factions have no dedicated AI commanders yet. It means that i do not recommend you choose a random opponent in a skirmish to avoid crashes.

Over the next two weeks, i will actively fix the bugs you found.

Get rid of production waste by using it as a weapon! It causes every Soviet explosion to leave an irradiated area and increases the effect duration of all toxins.

• Black Ops HQ
• Jammer Turret
• Perseus ADS

• Crusader MCV
• Power Plant
• Ore Refinery
• Barracks
• War Factory
• Airfield
• Cryodrone
• Mercenary
• Cutter

• Elite Dojo
• Trauma Station
• Holo Drone

• Spetsnaz HQ
• Siege Tower
• Desolator Tower
• Spetsnaz

• New FX for Tesla charging effect
• New models for the units such as: Terminator, Chrono Tank, and etc
• Added cut out of the game Peacekeeper's animations
• Added dust and dirt effect for the Soviet tanks
• New area of effect decals
• And more

• Increased attack range of MiG, Apollo and Tengu in flying mode
• Reduced Pacifier's machineguns damage from 18 to 15, HP from 1300 to 1000
• Increased Dreadnought's damage
• Oblivion's new behaviour
• Desolator's new behaviour
• Tesla plane's new behaviour
• All commandos improve the combat capabilities of the friendly infantry
• Pathfinder's and Archer maiden's HP to 150 from 100
• Sunburst drone build time to 4 from 5
• Increased Siege trooper's rate of fire
• Oblivion is buildable in Imperial Naval Yard
• Rebalanced armor of the Tesla Troopers
• Increased Tanya's damage against basic infantry to 150 from 90
• Reduced shinobi's rate of fire under the effect of the ability
• Added suppression effect to Commissar's machinegun
• Commissar's machinegun rate of fire and attack range increased
• Reduced Commissar's speed to 55 from 60
• Pathfinder's damage to 175 from 150
• Commissar's effect makes infantry immune to suppression
• Desolation rework
• Pathfinder can attack mortar cycles
• Increased speed of Pathfinder's bullets
• Attack dog now can attack dolphins
• Commissar effect is not stackable anymore
• Commissar detects spies
• And more

Starting with Entropy few months ago, i have not expected so much attention and support from the community. As a result, the development speeded up, and today - 1st April, 2020 - i present to you the Entropy 2.0!

In vanilla Red Alert 3, you are allowed to build your base not only on the land, but on the water too. I decided to go deeper.

In secret laboratories of northern Siberia, by special order of Soviet Ministry of Experimental Sciences, a beast was created.

Giant Rocket War Bear joins the battlefield!

Enormous size and mass allow these monsters to crush enemy vehicles by simply stepping over it.

As if it wasn't enough, their super amplified roar explodes everything that was unlucky enough to meet Giant War Bear on the battlefield.

I was looking for the way to force players play actively, because i hate turtling.

So now, if you are not moving or attacking any unit for 5 seconds, your minimap gets rickrolled:

Vanilla Red Alert 3 lacks original and memorable characters, do you agree?

Commander Monika is here to fix this problem:

She is commander of Top Secret Protocols, which means that she doesn't need to wait for any protocol to be recharged. She loves scheming tactics to surprise you on the battlefield - thus, playing againist her will be a challenge even to experienced players. Warning: she can literally read your mind!

• Power of Communism gives Conscript additional damage. Now, every single shot deals 9999 damage instead of 5.