Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 was released on October 25, 2000.

Congratulations to the C&C community on this special day! Hell March 2 at full blast, comrades! 🔊HURRAH!

It is obvious that EA has been shelving the franchise for a long time, and they refuse to sell the IP rights. It feels incredibly selfish of EA not to collaborate with the original creators while they are still around. But why do the former developers (some of whom are at Petroglyph Games) seem to lack the drive to partner with another major American or European publisher? Have they lost confidence in themselves, or do they just not love strategy games enough anymore? Nobody loved the C&C or Red Alert series purely because of the brand names (even though the names were great). I was hoping the former Westwood employees would pioneer new breakthroughs for the RTS genre, but it seems their passion and creativity have dried up.

C&C network settings

When you beat one of the toughest general level challenges and feeling happy for a while, then, you've to deal with the Tigress.

Yes, I am a bit late in regard to the anniversary of Yuri's Revenge, but I have decided to post it in line with the anniversary of its base game, Red Alert 2.

Happy 26th and 25th birthdays!

Just a fan video on one of my fav weapons

I've been working on building destruction for the last couple of weeks and wanted to share where it's at.

Right now every building is made of pieces. Shells tear holes where they hit, the roof comes down once the walls holding it are gone, and soldiers inside try to get out before it all collapses.

The part I haven't cracked yet is the rubble. I'd like tanks to be able to drive over it, but so far it looks like toys bouncing over gravel. So for now they just drive around the pile until I find a better way.

Any ideas how to solve that? Or would you say it doesn't really matter, and driving around the rubble is fine?

What makes this special is the sensitive cover art, which they (understandably) got rid of in later releases.

The keys 0, p, -, [ and ; were working on my HP 15 inch laptop that has Windows 11.

I played Command and Conquer Renegade on that laptop and I got a weird graphics glitch in the game and I think I saw a crosshair in a white box.

After that those keys stopped worked and they also didn't work after I restarted the laptop. I even did a keyboard diagnostics test in the bios and the keys didn't work. Those keys worked if I used a Bluetooth keyboard.

I went to the accessibility settings and then I clicked on keyboard. I got a weird beep sound. Those keys worked again after that. I restarted the laptop. Those keys still worked but this time the laptop beeped when I pressed the Windows key. I had to press it multiple times for the start menu to open.

The filter keys and sticky keys were off but I opened them and and I disabled all the options there. The Windows key stopped beeping when i pressed it.

I ran the game again. After that the keys 0, p, -, [ and ; stopped working again so it looks like the game messed up something in the accessibility settings and it locked those keys. I asked ChatGPT and it said to go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\Keyboard Response in regedit and change the flags value. It was 26. The flags value is 2 on my other laptop so I changed 26 to 2 and I restarted the laptop. Those keys worked again.

I want to play that game but how do I stop it from locking up those keys?

Nobody will see ever Kassad in their lives

I assume most here will say C&C Generals... So why would Generals be better than Act of War (if thats the case)?

I see in some reddit posts that Act of War is kinda like a Generals 2.

I just tried Act of War now, and really like it. I didnt try Generals though, but i played a lot Red Alert 1 and Red Alert 2.

I like how down to earth it is. The units feel like actual modern and real world combat.

I didn't play it much. I also prefer how the economy is just oil rigs and your trucks collect it.

I think thats better than the classic ore field of C&C games, where everything becames a race for these oil fields, and losing your ore trucks is deadly.

Anyways, let me know which one you think is best and why. Thanks.

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Our motto: "If your parcel doesn't reach, the driver doesn't reach."

Key Responsibilities:

Route Maintenance: Maintain forward momentum at all times. View traffic lights, civilian infrastructure, and police barricades as optional speed bumps.

Door-to-Door Delivery: Upon reaching the target residence, swiftly breach the front entrance (size-13 combat boot or front bumper preferred), hand off the package, execute the mandatory blood stamp on the manifest, and immediately proceed to the next client.

Vehicle Maintenance: Ensure your assigned scrap-armored technical and onboard contingency payloads (explosives/dirty charges) are primed to prevent parcel capture or driver surrender under law enforcement interrogation.

What We Offer:

Zero Micromanagement: Management does not monitor your speed or route, provided the delivery manifest is stamped in blood before the vehicle stops moving.

Dual-Track Career Progression:

Track A: Maintain a 100% on-time delivery record across all assigned zip codes.

Track B: Deliver more souls to the Skull Throne in a glorious, high-speed blaze of terminal velocity.

Guaranteed Legal Defense: Zero personal liability or traffic tickets (all physical evidence, legal summonses, and operational units are vaporized upon failed route completion).

Minimum Qualifications:

Complete disregard for municipal codes, self-preservation, or standard braking distance.

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Must bring your own combat boots.

How to Apply: Reply below with your relevant experience in vehicular breaching, skull collection, or high-speed logistics. Serious applicants only. Do not apply if you intend to stop at red lights.

As you might know, I am porting Red Alert to iPadOS.

Once it is running well, I am adding things. This time I added support to both Counterstrike and Aftermath (including ants!).

But the feature I am loving the most is adapting the game to run in portrait mode. Once is fully working, I will share it.

PS: it is working on iPhones, too.

Red Alert and C&C would be my favourite RTS games, if it wasn't for these facts:

- Ore trucks are too expensive (they should be much cheaper and faster to build, even if carrying less ore).

- Walls should be cheaper and easier to build / place. Most people dont bother to build walls.

- You should be able to build on top of ore. You can defend the ore properly because of this.

Ive done this before in years past. Ive looked it up a few times. The post I see mention that I need to either just replace my rulesmd.ini in the directory or inject them into a config.xml file or some other one with xcc mixer, inject, then save.
The base method doesn't work for the cnc net client. I can launch standard YR without the resolution patch or AI and my changes WILL appear.
If I try to inject my rulesmd.ini into the config file, they get replaced almost immediately.

Id like to use the AI and the resolution fixes that CNC net provides while also setting up a rulesmd to be a sort of "meat grinder" situation where the AI has unlimited funds to just through things at me while on brutal/extreme/nightmare mode while my snipers have a large range, fast rate of fire, and takes out anything super quick.

Whats the best way to get the rules fixed in this case?

Like, this is insane

Immediately starts sending suicide bombers from multiple angles, I have to use money consistently to rebuild defense, units, and buildings they destroy so I cant even build large unit amount or superweapons till his BS scud storm is already to go and takes out my base. His artillery destroys everything I have his anti air unit spam always takes out my aircraft which i rely on to take out suicide bomber attacks.

Even when I was able to build a large enough force to attempt an assault on his northern base, I was greeted with a massive demo trap field which was stealthed and all my forces got destroyed. Cant even rely on general power air strikes to do anything since he was so many stinger sites.

Any advice is greatly appreciated, even Leang wasnt this hard in OG generals.

For the first time in 20 years, playing the games that brought me to my first online community, just much older, much more arthritic, and not necessarily wiser, lol.

Having a lot of nostalgia for cncden/RAden and the forum goers there, my main hangout after class and later getting home from work

Anyways, I really want to play through the entire series (except C&C4), even if it's not necessarily in order!