Hi guys,
I am thinking of taking on this game as a speedrun project. Red Alert 2 is my favourite game of all time and I was/am pretty good at it (my best was rank #9 on the 1v1 ladder and in the top 3 on the clan ladder multiple times, all back when the game was competitive).
I'm an Allied player at heart so I'd start with that campaign, and am likely to complete the Soviet campaign too. I'll probably do Yuri's Revenge, too.
Obviously I would play the game on the hardest and fastest settings, but if I recall correctly, you can somehow manually increase the game speed of the campaign so it can then be changed in a similar way to how you can in multiplayer games (the settings are something like slow --> normal --> fast --> faster --> fastest). I assume the campaign is by default on "normal" and was wondering whether I should play at the default speed, or look into altering the game so I can play it at a faster speed. For instance, at the menu screen if you type "HIRES" you can then change your resolution to higher than is allowed by default. I think this is similar to how the campaign speed can be changed. Otherwise, it may require altering the target box of the RA2 file (much like how you add -win to play in windowed mode) to allow one to increase the game speed.
What I'd like to know is whether this would be allowed, or whether such a thing would be refused?
Also, I've had a brief look on youtube for some speedrun videos but haven't found an awful lot with much substance. Anything I do find seems to have pretty sloppy execution, although the tactics themselves may well be solid. I cannot say as I didn't watch them enough to judge critically. If anyone has any info/vids etc I'd be interesting in taking a look. Otherwise I'm more than happy to start from scratch and working on the planning.
Anyway, is there much interest in this?
I am thinking of taking on this game as a speedrun project. Red Alert 2 is my favourite game of all time and I was/am pretty good at it (my best was rank #9 on the 1v1 ladder and in the top 3 on the clan ladder multiple times, all back when the game was competitive).
I'm an Allied player at heart so I'd start with that campaign, and am likely to complete the Soviet campaign too. I'll probably do Yuri's Revenge, too.
Obviously I would play the game on the hardest and fastest settings, but if I recall correctly, you can somehow manually increase the game speed of the campaign so it can then be changed in a similar way to how you can in multiplayer games (the settings are something like slow --> normal --> fast --> faster --> fastest). I assume the campaign is by default on "normal" and was wondering whether I should play at the default speed, or look into altering the game so I can play it at a faster speed. For instance, at the menu screen if you type "HIRES" you can then change your resolution to higher than is allowed by default. I think this is similar to how the campaign speed can be changed. Otherwise, it may require altering the target box of the RA2 file (much like how you add -win to play in windowed mode) to allow one to increase the game speed.
What I'd like to know is whether this would be allowed, or whether such a thing would be refused?
Also, I've had a brief look on youtube for some speedrun videos but haven't found an awful lot with much substance. Anything I do find seems to have pretty sloppy execution, although the tactics themselves may well be solid. I cannot say as I didn't watch them enough to judge critically. If anyone has any info/vids etc I'd be interesting in taking a look. Otherwise I'm more than happy to start from scratch and working on the planning.
Anyway, is there much interest in this?
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