We have to fight against progressively harder missions. Here's what we'll do... (But honestly, it's good to see this bring attention to more games. GGG may have started this with SC2, but there are a lot of other awsome games like this out there waiting to be re-visited. Great work👍)
@@waltermarine324814, if you have the EA origins / EA AppStore version and you forget to sign into your account all your units on the first training mission all die as soon as you start. Thanks EA for making this a 14 mission challenge
7:20 Technically your entire army didn't get killed by the nuke. If you close your eyes and assume they all left the map as quickly as possible... Everyone knows once a unit leaves the map they can't be destroyed.
I never once thought about stealing a nuke to nuke the other silo in the poland mission, that's genius. You think you know a game, but then it turns out you've barely scratched the surface. Love the video.
10:55 The reason that the Engineers are also Elites is due to the game's coding: All your starting units come from the same Plane. The C&C Wiki has this entry explaining it: They're all part of the same team with VeteranLevel=2 so they could be sent with one plane and still drop an elite Tanya. A trigger forces them into Teams which come with a Script to change their House for that "early" MC-thing that doesn't happen to Tanya. Engineers have no VeteranAbilities or EliteAbilities defined, so they receive no veterancy bonuses TL;DR Airdropped units spawning from the same Plane have the same Veterancy.
Heck, while we're at it... if you feel those are too easy, you could also try the Shockwave or Contra mods. Those are awesome mods. They practically make a new game.
@@Psyminette Some advanced warning. In Generals, they remove any form of movable repair units for general powers, I think, but you can also mend at where the unit is made. Also mini drones which can repair the vehicle, but itself can be easily destroyed. Biggest saving grace might be a hospital that gives global (at least infintry) repair. In Zero Hour, I believe at least for USA medical transport makes a return. But beyond that, my memory is foggy.
11:00 I can't remember if it ends the mission, but elite GIs have such ridiculous range and damage that they can - with a bit of careful positioning - wipe out the entire main base before the timer runs out. You might save some more units that way?
14:21 dude was so committed to this run he went back in time to make sure NO UNITS were lost For real though god I don't even want to imagine trying this myself
I remember as a kid I had the hardest time with the Pearl Harbor mission, but nothing compared to Cuba. I always figured Prism Tanks were the best bet, but the Apocalypse tanks kept frustrating me Of course, thanks to you, now I understand the perfect counter to the bastards. Awesome video!
Amazing. Didn't think it's possible to save everyone. Woah, the hacks for the silo mission and pearl harbor mission is just so awesome. Didn't know that those are possible.
The first video game I have ever touched, ever played was red alert😢 2 , back in 2005 or 2004 I was about 4--5 years old , I used to sit in front of my uncle's PC and play it ,It has a special place in my heart , damn when I listened to the tutorial music I felt something strange insdie me
I've played this game since it came out, I've played Mental Omega and I've played the flipped missions.... not one damn time did I know you could cap the Mayan towers in vanilla RA2 and use them like in the flipped missions lol
Great run! I think the most entertaining (and most frustrating) thing about this challenge is all the strategy you need to deal with all the janky scripting. I'm surprised you were able to save so many people in Free Gateway; I always just let them die.
This game was my childhood man I can tell you put a lot of thought into these videos. See if you can ping Bryan Vahey I'd love to see his reaction to this
16:12 - keep in mind that a Dolphin's sonar attack will damage ANY unit along its path (or at least it did last time i checked; granted, that was in Yuri's Revenge, RA2 mightve been "smarter")...so if you have too many Dolphins attempting to free a ship from a Giant Squid, you might end up sinking it anyway
10:55 - Elite Engineers: they can repair things to a Higher Condition percentage, in a Lower amount of Time... ...the thing is, Green Engineers are already set to 100% and 0s, respectively, so the 'improvement' goes unnoticed... (before anyone thinks thats the "real" answer, i have no idea-- though it wouldnt surprise me if i was close-- im just trying to have a bit of fun with it :-P)
I got this game recently, and on the mission dark night I rescued some cows that can trample attack dogs apparently and can go anywhere without being attacked so another valid strategy is to save the cows make them trample the attack dogs and then your spies get free reign over the map, and it's also hilarious
I’m a bit late but if you capture the psychic beacon instead of destroying it you get money crates. Unless of course capturing a building is a unit death. Man did I wish I learned that on my first run.
How the hell does the USSR have Nukes in Poland after the events of RA1? There's no way that Poland would be Soviet, or that the Allies would have allowed the USSR to have nukes. The only way for the USSR to have nukes in Poland would have been to invade and place them there, or have a Government of territory it had previously tried to invade during the previous war allow the Soviets to install the weapons.
I came across this video by accident and I really dig the content, though your super smooth and chilled out voice is hard to hear over the badass RA2 soundtrack
In Mirage mission 10 why you must abandon your allied border outpost in the middle? Is it because there is a script to have barrels in their base explode without being attacked? If that the case then it made sense. Really good video, very impressive to using a strat that been long unused and hidden ones. I'm happy to see this one popped up in my feed.
You could have captured the psychic beacon in Free Gateway which I think I did a couple times and it just ends the mission as you now control everyone. You can also bypass all of the Last Chance by sailing your destroyers up to the beacon and destroying it without building a base.
I don't think so MO is just designed differently compared to standard RA2 theres a lot of defensive mission that losing a unit is practically impossible even on easy especially on the last mission of every factions
@@benjaminwallace7987 He doesn't have to follow through my idea. I haven't even completed the last two of Act 2's Soviet missions on easiest difficulty.
I wonder if it would be possible to build a building where the nuclear missile silo spawns if you had it cued up and placed right away. On the mission Last Chance.
7:54 Wait, you're telling me this was supposed to be a no build Mission? And Here I thought that the intended way was steal an enemy base the entire time! XD
Not sure how helpful this is but, with a bit of micro you can get the Destroyers to fire their deck guns at the Subs. I have crushed Soviet players who were unaware of this and took the fight thinking they had me, they were not pleased.
Yes, it's possible to go around and straightly destroy Amplifier, but not without casualties. In average only 1-2 Destroyers would survive if you try go for speedrun like that.
The objective of this challenge is super unique:
there are 13 missions that must be beaten without losing a single unit
so, i bunker up
Giantgrantgames!!! Hahahhah
We have to fight against progressively harder missions. Here's what we'll do...
(But honestly, it's good to see this bring attention to more games. GGG may have started this with SC2, but there are a lot of other awsome games like this out there waiting to be re-visited.
Great work👍)
Yas!
@@waltermarine324814, if you have the EA origins / EA AppStore version and you forget to sign into your account all your units on the first training mission all die as soon as you start. Thanks EA for making this a 14 mission challenge
7:20
Technically your entire army didn't get killed by the nuke. If you close your eyes and assume they all left the map as quickly as possible...
Everyone knows once a unit leaves the map they can't be destroyed.
But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?
I never once thought about stealing a nuke to nuke the other silo in the poland mission, that's genius. You think you know a game, but then it turns out you've barely scratched the surface. Love the video.
It's funny how that works sometimes
How do you even do that. You get no engis
@@adonis1168 You can rescue engineers in the mission. He already said this in the video.
@@adonis1168 You can find engineers like he showed on the map then use them to take over a barracks to make more of them.
10:55 The reason that the Engineers are also Elites is due to the game's coding: All your starting units come from the same Plane. The C&C Wiki has this entry explaining it:
They're all part of the same team with VeteranLevel=2 so they could be sent with one plane and still drop an elite Tanya. A trigger forces them into Teams which come with a Script to change their House for that "early" MC-thing that doesn't happen to Tanya. Engineers have no VeteranAbilities or EliteAbilities defined, so they receive no veterancy bonuses
TL;DR
Airdropped units spawning from the same Plane have the same Veterancy.
Over two decades later and I'll still never get tired of listening to this game's soundtrack. Viva la Klepacki!
I'd be interested in seeing the same goal (no units no buildings lost) on the Generals missions & generals challenges (both vanilla and zero hour)
Heck, while we're at it... if you feel those are too easy, you could also try the Shockwave or Contra mods. Those are awesome mods. They practically make a new game.
I regrettably have never actually played generals before but if i do then i certainly will try to make a video about it!
@@Psyminette Some advanced warning. In Generals, they remove any form of movable repair units for general powers, I think, but you can also mend at where the unit is made. Also mini drones which can repair the vehicle, but itself can be easily destroyed. Biggest saving grace might be a hospital that gives global (at least infintry) repair.
In Zero Hour, I believe at least for USA medical transport makes a return. But beyond that, my memory is foggy.
@@SioxGreyWolf it's also important to mention that drones are also kinda units.
@@Sorta8 I was generally gonna leave it to their consideration. But you are probably right on the money. AND if so, I am excited for shenanigans.
11:00 I can't remember if it ends the mission, but elite GIs have such ridiculous range and damage that they can - with a bit of careful positioning - wipe out the entire main base before the timer runs out. You might save some more units that way?
Never thought about that, good idea! Perhaps someone else will improve the run in the future with that in mind.
It's possible. I did try it myself but it was long time ago and include a lot of restart and saves. So might not the best move.
Also yeah an elite deployed GI can out range a lone Tesla coil tower.
@@williamangga6164 Well that seems qite OP for shit, LOL. I would think that if it was true at some time, it should have been fixed in nearest patch.
This is really an amazing challenge and I enjoyed watching the Soviets part haha
14:21 dude was so committed to this run he went back in time to make sure NO UNITS were lost
For real though god I don't even want to imagine trying this myself
I remember as a kid I had the hardest time with the Pearl Harbor mission, but nothing compared to Cuba. I always figured Prism Tanks were the best bet, but the Apocalypse tanks kept frustrating me
Of course, thanks to you, now I understand the perfect counter to the bastards. Awesome video!
14:13 The reason Carville packs weapons for the trip is because he's a Texan, simple as.
Amazing. Didn't think it's possible to save everyone.
Woah, the hacks for the silo mission and pearl harbor mission is just so awesome. Didn't know that those are possible.
The first video game I have ever touched, ever played was red alert😢 2 , back in 2005 or 2004 I was about 4--5 years old , I used to sit in front of my uncle's PC and play it ,It has a special place in my heart , damn when I listened to the tutorial music I felt something strange insdie me
I've played this game since it came out, I've played Mental Omega and I've played the flipped missions.... not one damn time did I know you could cap the Mayan towers in vanilla RA2 and use them like in the flipped missions lol
Hah, good stuff. You struck a nice balance between explaining things and throwing in the occasional joke. Great work!
I've wanted to see this idea come into play and now its real. You are pretty good!
Great video man, keep it up! Looking forward to the expansion videos.
Great run! I think the most entertaining (and most frustrating) thing about this challenge is all the strategy you need to deal with all the janky scripting.
I'm surprised you were able to save so many people in Free Gateway; I always just let them die.
This game was my childhood man I can tell you put a lot of thought into these videos. See if you can ping Bryan Vahey I'd love to see his reaction to this
16:12 - keep in mind that a Dolphin's sonar attack will damage ANY unit along its path (or at least it did last time i checked; granted, that was in Yuri's Revenge, RA2 mightve been "smarter")...so if you have too many Dolphins attempting to free a ship from a Giant Squid, you might end up sinking it anyway
Your explanations are perfect.
Liked and subbed.
10:55 - Elite Engineers: they can repair things to a Higher Condition percentage, in a Lower amount of Time...
...the thing is, Green Engineers are already set to 100% and 0s, respectively, so the 'improvement' goes unnoticed...
(before anyone thinks thats the "real" answer, i have no idea-- though it wouldnt surprise me if i was close-- im just trying to have a bit of fun with it :-P)
dude you got me with the metal gear meme at the end
Eva and Tanya sure were an unexpected bonus for the almost-pubescent me lol
Lieutenant Eva and Tanya at the ending scene of Yuri's Revenge are smokin' 🔥
I would love to see you attempt this with the expansion campaigns and other command and conquer games!
What a commander you are, nice gameplay tho, the 7th Mission speedrun was not expected.
the guy is packing grenades like they are snacks for the trip
This game brings back memories. Good video
19:26 didn't expect that
I got this game recently, and on the mission dark night I rescued some cows that can trample attack dogs apparently and can go anywhere without being attacked so another valid strategy is to save the cows make them trample the attack dogs and then your spies get free reign over the map, and it's also hilarious
I'm glad the Senator is always here to save me from losing my 'units'
I had no idea about the Mayan temple towers. Really cool!
19:26
You just got a subscriber.
19:26 He made the mother of all runs by fretting over every unit.
That takes me back. I played the original C&C without losing a unit or structure.
Why are the Pearl Harbor memorials in Pearl Harbor when the timeline got altered and the version of WWII that we remember didn't happen?
Idk perhaps it got attacked during the Great War with the soviets
I’m a bit late but if you capture the psychic beacon instead of destroying it you get money crates. Unless of course capturing a building is a unit death. Man did I wish I learned that on my first run.
Giant Grant Games vibes
Amen to that brother! ~~~
Nice
This was a Lovely series!
i love the ending. thumbs up from me!
The allied korean gi in mission 7:
“Holy crap i saw lot of missiles coming across me”
9.30 that last marine 🤣🤣🤣
How the hell does the USSR have Nukes in Poland after the events of RA1? There's no way that Poland would be Soviet, or that the Allies would have allowed the USSR to have nukes. The only way for the USSR to have nukes in Poland would have been to invade and place them there, or have a Government of territory it had previously tried to invade during the previous war allow the Soviets to install the weapons.
Hey, why are the Pearl Harbor memorials in Pearl Harbor when the timeline got altered and the version of WWII that we remember didn't happen?
@@NostalgicGamerRickOShay
Maybe Japan still did their Pacific Campaign stuff without the help of the Axis?
I came across this video by accident and I really dig the content, though your super smooth and chilled out voice is hard to hear over the badass RA2 soundtrack
In Mirage mission 10 why you must abandon your allied border outpost in the middle? Is it because there is a script to have barrels in their base explode without being attacked? If that the case then it made sense.
Really good video, very impressive to using a strat that been long unused and hidden ones. I'm happy to see this one popped up in my feed.
Even if there is no script, controlling 2 difficult battles at the same time is extremely defficult.
was not expecting that ending.
6:20 you can go the other side without attacking grand cannons
6:18 I played many versions of RA2 and these cannons never fired at my ships as if they didn't have enough power.
You could have captured the psychic beacon in Free Gateway which I think I did a couple times and it just ends the mission as you now control everyone. You can also bypass all of the Last Chance by sailing your destroyers up to the beacon and destroying it without building a base.
When I see the title IMPOSSIBLE!
You don't happen to plan the same thing with Mental Omega on Mental difficulty, do you?
Because I support the idea and very intrigued to see it happen
Lmao. The guy would go "mental" if he tried that.
I don't think so MO is just designed differently compared to standard RA2 theres a lot of defensive mission that losing a unit is practically impossible even on easy especially on the last mission of every factions
Damn man, you're a sadist. I genuinely don't think that would be possible.
@@benjaminwallace7987 He doesn't have to follow through my idea. I haven't even completed the last two of Act 2's Soviet missions on easiest difficulty.
Carville is a Texan, of course he packs grenades and pistols
is there a reason why you are playing it in chinese? is it in any way different to the european / american version?
That Colorado senator really, *really* want to win the next election that he shows up here.
There are total 14 missions on Allied Campaign (2 missions Tutorial + 12 regular allied missions)
I wonder if it would be possible to build a building where the nuclear missile silo spawns if you had it cued up and placed right away. On the mission Last Chance.
5:18 Oh, the Promotion Crates do it in an area. Interesting.
7:54
Wait, you're telling me this was supposed to be a no build Mission? And Here I thought that the intended way was steal an enemy base the entire time! XD
No death Mental omega when
I used to love RA2. I might check out the remaster.
how do you get this game to run? When I install it, the game just goes to black and forces me back to the desktop over and over again :(
7:06 Unexpected Max0r meme
I guess after the second time of watching I owe you a comment :) Keep it up
Honestly, I could play Episode 7:Sun Power ALL DAY!!!
Wonderful video, I enjoyed it. Small problem is your audio (mic) needs some improvement to reach acceptable quality.
Cool! Now make it in Mental Omega 😈😈
6:08 Um. You don't get Rocketeers at the start to destroy the cannons?
Only on easy and normal mode.
General zhang
can you post the full unedited stream?
subbing for moar C&C content
Was that Mental Omega blurred at the end?
What song is it that is playing over the final mission that goes hard af?
Command & Conquer from C&C Renegade
VERY NICE
Not sure how helpful this is but, with a bit of micro you can get the Destroyers to fire their deck guns at the Subs. I have crushed Soviet players who were unaware of this and took the fight thinking they had me, they were not pleased.
Also, technically... don't you lose Engineers and Spies when you send them into buildings?
Or does it only count as a loss if the enemy kills them?
Nah. They "stay in buildings"
gonna be very hard to do Chicago from a realistic standpoint, the game doesn't count those as losses though
Nostalgia
Did you do it left handed tho? :P
Very well played and nicely edited too, I'm looking forward for Yuri's Revenge too. ;)
quite nice
Your channel will never blow up if GiantGrantGames didn't release his first UA-cam video.
Wait a second, engineers cannot capture superweapons, what version of the game are running on?
I think I use the 1.06, the last patch version, and the engineers CAN capture superweapons.
Very cool video
Amazing rly
"why are you packing pistols and grenades to germany"
isnt this game based on the cold war just after the second world war
Do you have a video of the full uncut run? That could even become a speedrun challenge
I still can’t get this game to run on my laptop so annoying.
where do you play this it look so nice
These are clips of other peoples game play u can see the languages change in the build menu.
Okay.... Now try doing this on Mental Omega.
Why do you use Chinese version?
Fun content, subscribed, however, why are the first missions in Chinese version? 你也是中国玩家么？
是滴 :3 It’s a language patcher for when my dad wants to have some quality ra2 time, I just forgot to turn it back lol. Thanks for subscribing!
Great video, but just make the audio a touch louder
On 6:07 you can easily avoid these cannons, just go a little upper.
Yes, it's possible to go around and straightly destroy Amplifier, but not without casualties. In average only 1-2 Destroyers would survive if you try go for speedrun like that.
why is your red alert chinese?....
Why is it sometimes the game is in Chinese, and others it is in English?
yes
+1 subscribe
i really like your video now do the yuri's revenge compagne !!!!!!
Cool
president dugin took me off guard. dugin being a russian """intellectual""" who is a rabid z-person.