I love that the Yuri economy is hilariously broken, yet everyone just laughs and says “oh lol this game!” Really goes to show how much people love it despite the glaring balance issues.
Honestly, I feel the balancing issues add to the game. Sure, the factions are broken, but at the same time; Every faction is broken in their own way, some more then others; but that's kinda what makes it fun. The Allies have the best harassment potential and ridiculous universal units like Rocketeers and Battle Fortresses, as well as Prism Tanks and similar stuff. The Soviets have the Iron Curtain, Siege Copters, Kirovs, Rhinos, and just so many good units to cause a major issue on the frontline battlefield. Terror Drones and Desolators are insane. And Yuri might not have as many units, but they all are extreme cases; and if left alone, Yuri doesn't need an economy like the other factions do. Depending on the map, players and situations; it's possible for any faction to take the win; but ultimately it comes down to who is the most creative with the units they are given. Sometimes it pays to deviate from the expected and build weird units; and sometimes a Tank Rush is the best option possible. ;3
@@Nuuk_Nuke_Nook Well yes. Certain factions unique units are utter trash, we all know this. But even then, those factions still have the basic features of the original faction. It's just the unit that's unique to them is useless. Iraq is undeniably the best of the Soviet options, Allies have a bit more versatility with both Korea and Britain offering some all around uses. But honestly; each faction itself holds it's own well.
@@Nuuk_Nuke_Nook America is good, and their paradrop can undeniably shift the course of a game, no denying that. They are definitely one of the best factions. However, this ability can be instantly shut down if there is a Desolator who can just deploy. The minute the GIs touchdown, they all die. This is kinda what I was getting at, technically; all the factions are designed to counter each other: Paradrop is great, but a Desolator can render it useless; however a Sniper can drop a Desolator from a safe distance, but a Tesla tank can easily roll in and shock the Sniper, but a Tank Destroyer can demolish a Tesla Tank, but then a Grand Cannon makes the Tank Destroyer useless; but a group of black Eagles can trash a Grand Cannon, but the Paradrop can get to the Airfield to destroy it. In this sense, I think the units were designed to counterbalance themselves; but the issue is certain ones are so situational, they just become not worth it, or their upside is so good that you might as well only use that. Things like Cuba's T's, which are so situational and terrible that there is barely a reason to use them.
Allied was like: glhf! Help! Oh a helpful Yuri! Do you want to attack? Hm, I have engineer IFV I can help... what... why? Defend! Shield? Shield? SHIELD???? May I have one of your MCVs? :( Shield it! Shield it!!!! (Defeated) Yuri: insufficient funds
nah... yuri very weak at the start off the game, the rush would be good to counter and better chance with chrome sphere surprise attack and iron curtain also destroy his spawn unit money I see a lot of player don't kill his unit money
@@Dell96killSniping early game works, but still.. Cloning vat = free money, mind control = free money, mutant mutation on free miners = free money. Yuri faction just has too many good options for quick buck.
iron curtain drones, desolators and some other stuff lol. bit like Allies where if u let them set up ur screwed without supers. Byran did mention a few days back he wants to make some how to guides again. but i am not a pro lol. Join discord and ask the pros lol
If you had a Soviet ally you can capture his MCV and build the industrial plant, this way you can build an MCV for 2250 and grind it for 3000 This trick made some ppl very very angry every time i use it
@@tickoman273 Pure flex, that's what he did in the last 5+ minutes. He sent MCVs and set them up right next to the enemy just to have them captured. He let the enemy build back their economy just so he could keep messing with them. Since fog of war is not quite a thing in usual RA2 games he unpacked all his MCVs and sent them to the grinder. He then kept producing MCVs and sent them to the grinder. It had no purpose aside from showing the enemy how screwed they were.
I think if you hit shift left click or control left click while clicking on things like infantry training it'll do it in intervals of 5 instead of one at a time
The worst part of fighting yuri in skirmishes is those annoying ass chaos drones. They always come in through the most poorly defended back door into your base. Which is why you have to be careful where you place any susceptible un-garrisoned units.
It look like you know how to do business dude. Respect. Yuri Clone tower will reduce 50%cost for every units. Double profits when you them into brute and grind them for revenue.
The one thing that the Yuri faction lacks is a mass of units and stuctures being added in gameplay per tech level, for examples, I added the Howitzer artillery and General Vladimir as the units for the faction - even when one is not modded to look like a Yuri-assigned unit, with the latter being a commando unit and the former being the conventional vehicle - both being built with the assistance of RADAR. (In that case HOWI as in Howitzer looks like the Artillery vehicle by Nod in the early Command and Conquer games that was released in the same period as the first Red Alert games.) The good thing is that I played the Allies, Korea for ex., as being only contained with Yuri's army while I played the latter's side with only Allied structures and units, thanks to the match between the Chad Yuri EVA and the decision to use only Allied forces and buildings - meaning I'll always use Grand Cannons, Tank Destroyers, Battle Fortresses, Black Eagles - only when you omit the Harrier as the only jet of the GAAIRC/AMRADR in exchange for BEAG, the two GIs, SEALs and etc. while listening to both vanilla RA2 music and Yuri's Chad announcer at the same time...
Of course Yuri is OP. I honestly think he's only fair if you're doing 2v1. The psychic towers bring such insane early defense value....and if you play like France just spamming them, well...a little too easy to control both your opponents forces. Infantry spammers? Virus. robot units? Lasher tank. Get to the point where you can spam yuri clones and yuri prime and just take whole armies. And Yuri Navy is just Boomer...but damn, boomers are all in one fucked up super siege subs with highly capable self defense power. their only weakness is air, and thats not a prob for subs in this game most of the time.
Not sure how I started on this RA2 binge (maybe recent world events had the algorithm pointing me towards soviet warfare or something?), but now I kind of want to hop on back to playing this 20 year old game myself!
Yup, Me and a couple of friends played a while ago, two of them liked allied britts and soviet. I had Yuri. After that game there was no more choosing Yuri xD
@@Zesserie yuri faction huz a unique announcer maybe wiz jonny depp already won over amber t*rd zen ea wud merge wiz ubisoft and zus have ea too remaster ra2 yr liek capcom did wiz resident evil
Oh...Jesus, what sort of Monster have we created. Pausing at 20 seconds...absolute rout 101 Edit: The Gollum/Sméagol impression is my favorite, I grew up doing so many and still do Have you ever ordered take out as Gollum?
Play as Soviet against Yuri, the Soviet war miner is immune to any psi-attack and the MG shreds infantry like butter (I think it does like 4 times the damage against infantry) and Yuris more dangerous land units are infantry-class. After a while, when elite, the war miner gets the light AP cannon, but I prefer the MG one against Yuri. The only thing to watch out for are initiates in a building... :)
Do you have any desire to play other RTS games on your channel? You are my only C&C channel I follow but I think you could also find success with other less popular RTS games. I think your channel has plateaued because it has limited scope/not a large audience who enjoys C&C. Im not saying you would find success in starcraft or warcraft since they are extremely saturated, but a game recently came out called Dungeons 3 and a game like that I think you could find more audience members with. But that game is just an example, I got if from free from the Epic games store and its a fun game. Also another random thought, have you ever tried a campaign speedrun? You might also find new subscribers by being the best C&C speedrunner (although speedrunning probably requires a lot of time to invest).
looks like a giant "BUG" massing cheap infantry, than use the mutant thingy and sell your mutant? for money...WHAT? it's a constant flow of income without mining ...
Are you playing against NPCs ? Why nobody sends you anything other than the superweapons ? And why they dont use long range weapons like V3 or prism tank ?
@@ohlookitisacat7404 I am aware of it being a team game haha. It's just still baffling to see someone building up like that and no one even attempted to go after him
I never thought in 2020 would i see a youtuber playing Red Alert 2 and having consistent videos of pretty much high skill gameplay.
haha SURPRISE BOIIII
I love that the Yuri economy is hilariously broken, yet everyone just laughs and says “oh lol this game!” Really goes to show how much people love it despite the glaring balance issues.
RA2 is best for me. YR DLC just made the balance worse. RA2 is a lot better.
@@Nuuk_Nuke_Nook ra3 still has its balance issues *stares at cryocoptors*
Honestly, I feel the balancing issues add to the game. Sure, the factions are broken, but at the same time; Every faction is broken in their own way, some more then others; but that's kinda what makes it fun.
The Allies have the best harassment potential and ridiculous universal units like Rocketeers and Battle Fortresses, as well as Prism Tanks and similar stuff.
The Soviets have the Iron Curtain, Siege Copters, Kirovs, Rhinos, and just so many good units to cause a major issue on the frontline battlefield. Terror Drones and Desolators are insane.
And Yuri might not have as many units, but they all are extreme cases; and if left alone, Yuri doesn't need an economy like the other factions do.
Depending on the map, players and situations; it's possible for any faction to take the win; but ultimately it comes down to who is the most creative with the units they are given. Sometimes it pays to deviate from the expected and build weird units; and sometimes a Tank Rush is the best option possible. ;3
@@Nuuk_Nuke_Nook Well yes. Certain factions unique units are utter trash, we all know this. But even then, those factions still have the basic features of the original faction. It's just the unit that's unique to them is useless.
Iraq is undeniably the best of the Soviet options, Allies have a bit more versatility with both Korea and Britain offering some all around uses. But honestly; each faction itself holds it's own well.
@@Nuuk_Nuke_Nook America is good, and their paradrop can undeniably shift the course of a game, no denying that. They are definitely one of the best factions. However, this ability can be instantly shut down if there is a Desolator who can just deploy. The minute the GIs touchdown, they all die.
This is kinda what I was getting at, technically; all the factions are designed to counter each other: Paradrop is great, but a Desolator can render it useless; however a Sniper can drop a Desolator from a safe distance, but a Tesla tank can easily roll in and shock the Sniper, but a Tank Destroyer can demolish a Tesla Tank, but then a Grand Cannon makes the Tank Destroyer useless; but a group of black Eagles can trash a Grand Cannon, but the Paradrop can get to the Airfield to destroy it.
In this sense, I think the units were designed to counterbalance themselves; but the issue is certain ones are so situational, they just become not worth it, or their upside is so good that you might as well only use that. Things like Cuba's T's, which are so situational and terrible that there is barely a reason to use them.
Initiates fresh from barrack: "We're going to the battlefield right?"
*build Grinder*
Initiates: "Right?"
*Genetic Mutator ready*
Initiates: "rig... READY TO CRUSH!"
Your poor ally. You just left him to die while you played sim city. I'm surprised he didn't rage at you at all the whole game for trolling.
I like simcity dude
@@BryanVahey Most civilized people do
To be fair, he had an IFV with an engineer in it, so he could have taken over one of the Yuri con yard
@@Nabopolasszar can you force an engineer into an ally con yard?
@@assaku he should have set Brian as an enemy, capture his con yard, and change Brian back to ally
When yuri laughs at both Communism and Capitalism when it comes to economic stability.
Slavery
Based?
well Yuri is a genius that turned a small pacific island into a super power.
8 billion people.. simply grind them for the gold in their bones. ez
Capitalism: Work them to death.
Communism: Starve them to death.
Yuri: Grind them to death. **laughs calmly**
Allied was like: glhf! Help! Oh a helpful Yuri! Do you want to attack? Hm, I have engineer IFV I can help... what... why? Defend! Shield? Shield? SHIELD???? May I have one of your MCVs? :( Shield it! Shield it!!!! (Defeated)
Yuri: insufficient funds
"Our base is under attack"
"Oh? which one?"
Looks like a survival map for your enemy 😆😆
yuri be like: being broke? whats that?
nah... yuri very weak at the start off the game, the rush would be good to counter and better chance with chrome sphere surprise attack and iron curtain also destroy his spawn unit money I see a lot of player don't kill his unit money
@@Dell96kill yuri is still rich most of the time
@@Dell96killSniping early game works, but still.. Cloning vat = free money, mind control = free money, mutant mutation on free miners = free money. Yuri faction just has too many good options for quick buck.
Yuri is not broke, Yuri is broken.
@@fishyfinthing8854 that is also correct
"Dude, how am I low power?!" 10s of silent construction yard noises in the background
i thought construction yards don't take up power o.O
@@tickoman273 they don't, it's a joke :)
lol
We really need a cohesive "How to play against Yuri" guide Bryan XD Great video :D
iron curtain drones, desolators and some other stuff lol. bit like Allies where if u let them set up ur screwed without supers. Byran did mention a few days back he wants to make some how to guides again. but i am not a pro lol. Join discord and ask the pros lol
Agreed, that would be a great watch!
prism tank spaaammm!! also snipers
the strat is kill him....before he outlasts you....i think....
@@kinuy0024 lol yeah
If you had a Soviet ally you can capture his MCV and build the industrial plant, this way you can build an MCV for 2250 and grind it for 3000
This trick made some ppl very very angry every time i use it
doesn't a grinded unit return only 50% its cost? if mcv is 3000, grinding gives 1500? or is it different with mcv?
@@tickoman273
No, it returns full amount no matter the health or unite
Man, this should be a WARCRIME combo. Yuri got so many dirty tricks despite played this game long time ago.
@@almaddany that's sick lol
I still don't know why he grinded his mcvs and then made more..
@@tickoman273 Pure flex, that's what he did in the last 5+ minutes. He sent MCVs and set them up right next to the enemy just to have them captured. He let the enemy build back their economy just so he could keep messing with them. Since fog of war is not quite a thing in usual RA2 games he unpacked all his MCVs and sent them to the grinder. He then kept producing MCVs and sent them to the grinder. It had no purpose aside from showing the enemy how screwed they were.
Insane how you were able to pop out battle labs like conscripts towards the end there
haha yeah it gets ridiculous if it goes this far
"I'm playing sim city right now" 😂😂😂
You have to send super mutants into the bio reactors to increase power.
Oh shit I had no idea you could do that
@@smokingcrab2290 Also other units or mind controlled units work in bio reactors to up power out from bio reactors.
A Yuri player can be the definition of a “Vietnam flashback” if you leave the alone long enough
had Bryan simply sent the first wave of mutated brutes at either soviet... it wouldve been G-Gimme your lunch money..
well that's boring lol
I think if you hit shift left click or control left click while clicking on things like infantry training it'll do it in intervals of 5 instead of one at a time
I remember putting Yuri in the grinder cause I thought it was some sort of upgrade station back then lol
The worst part of fighting yuri in skirmishes is those annoying ass chaos drones. They always come in through the most poorly defended back door into your base. Which is why you have to be careful where you place any susceptible un-garrisoned units.
9:50 wow that is a good smeagol voice
5:15 Bryan so confident he's going to win that combat that he casually micros his base after sending in the troops
This map looks very similar to that other desert one.
its the same thing, just grass version!
Holy shit that smeagol voice was on point
This must nearly be how it feels to play against a cheater
Dr. T: "Haha! You'll never defeat me!"
Yuri: ...
Dr. T: ...
Yuri: "I USE THE BASE TO DESTROY THE BASE!"
Dr. T: D8
I laughed at how they destroyed your Psychic Dominator, only for you to rebuild it back in like ten seconds.
They were playing like Brutal AI
don't disrespect the brutal AI like that bro
God I hope this gets a remake
well I don't considering what giant fuckups remakes have been recently
Its okay as it is.
Just play Mental Omega
rofl these economy exploits are so broken, it's glorious
‘They took my battle labs, I built like six of them.’ Man I know the feeling 😂😂
Ok that's an insane smeagol impression
Haha haven’t done that one in a minute
That was the most dirty expression of Yuri I have ever seen. Absolutely filthy gameplay there.
It look like you know how to do business dude. Respect. Yuri Clone tower will reduce 50%cost for every units. Double profits when you them into brute and grind them for revenue.
That was very silly haha. I've never seen so many Construction Yards!
Only thing ra2 is missing is a yuri campaign, they did that in mental omega but still, in the actual game
The one thing that the Yuri faction lacks is a mass of units and stuctures being added in gameplay per tech level, for examples, I added the Howitzer artillery and General Vladimir as the units for the faction - even when one is not modded to look like a Yuri-assigned unit, with the latter being a commando unit and the former being the conventional vehicle - both being built with the assistance of RADAR. (In that case HOWI as in Howitzer looks like the Artillery vehicle by Nod in the early Command and Conquer games that was released in the same period as the first Red Alert games.)
The good thing is that I played the Allies, Korea for ex., as being only contained with Yuri's army while I played the latter's side with only Allied structures and units, thanks to the match between the Chad Yuri EVA and the decision to use only Allied forces and buildings - meaning I'll always use Grand Cannons, Tank Destroyers, Battle Fortresses, Black Eagles - only when you omit the Harrier as the only jet of the GAAIRC/AMRADR in exchange for BEAG, the two GIs, SEALs and etc. while listening to both vanilla RA2 music and Yuri's Chad announcer at the same time...
Of course Yuri is OP. I honestly think he's only fair if you're doing 2v1. The psychic towers bring such insane early defense value....and if you play like France just spamming them, well...a little too easy to control both your opponents forces. Infantry spammers? Virus. robot units? Lasher tank. Get to the point where you can spam yuri clones and yuri prime and just take whole armies.
And Yuri Navy is just Boomer...but damn, boomers are all in one fucked up super siege subs with highly capable self defense power. their only weakness is air, and thats not a prob for subs in this game most of the time.
Boomers are a siege ship available immediately from building the naval yard, a little op
ah yes 1 sec production flying disk XD
Did you ever tried snowballing brutes to make one giant flood? i think you could pull it off :)
Not sure how I started on this RA2 binge (maybe recent world events had the algorithm pointing me towards soviet warfare or something?), but now I kind of want to hop on back to playing this 20 year old game myself!
ua-cam.com/video/69Zq6Re42k4/v-deo.html
18:44 good timing
Seems a pretty good idea for rw biofuel
Feels like Yuri wins from pure annoyance and persistence xD
Yup, Me and a couple of friends played a while ago, two of them liked allied britts and soviet. I had Yuri.
After that game there was no more choosing Yuri xD
@@Zesserie yuri faction huz a unique announcer maybe wiz jonny depp already won over amber t*rd zen ea wud merge wiz ubisoft and zus have ea too remaster ra2 yr liek capcom did wiz resident evil
9:18 Absolute genetic terror. Red's reactions are kind of funny...
Warning: Iron Curtain activated.
Mastermind on the move.
keto is based, bro, the most fun i had doing diet
i found out about your channel earlier. You can't imagine how happy i am i have seen all of your videos in very short time love it
i see you have a couple of money
just a little
I love this game, was ranked #3 player at some point under CaTaRRo79 tag. Could never beat ToEGoD who was #1… still want my revenge 20 years later!
lmaooooo
After selling MCV : stonk
And they just left you alone and let you do all that. 🤣
LOL
SIMCITY FAM
Oh...Jesus, what sort of Monster have we created. Pausing at 20 seconds...absolute rout 101
Edit: The Gollum/Sméagol impression is my favorite, I grew up doing so many and still do Have you ever ordered take out as Gollum?
I have not lol
Play as Soviet against Yuri, the Soviet war miner is immune to any psi-attack and the MG shreds infantry like butter (I think it does like 4 times the damage against infantry) and Yuris more dangerous land units are infantry-class. After a while, when elite, the war miner gets the light AP cannon, but I prefer the MG one against Yuri. The only thing to watch out for are initiates in a building... :)
I remember that God awful map that looked like an atolon and was impossible to beat normally and I just massed soviet miners and steamrolled Yuri.
Do you have any desire to play other RTS games on your channel? You are my only C&C channel I follow but I think you could also find success with other less popular RTS games. I think your channel has plateaued because it has limited scope/not a large audience who enjoys C&C. Im not saying you would find success in starcraft or warcraft since they are extremely saturated, but a game recently came out called Dungeons 3 and a game like that I think you could find more audience members with. But that game is just an example, I got if from free from the Epic games store and its a fun game.
Also another random thought, have you ever tried a campaign speedrun? You might also find new subscribers by being the best C&C speedrunner (although speedrunning probably requires a lot of time to invest).
shift+click queues 5 units btw, you don't have to mash like that
Doesn't work on CnC online, do you not think he would have been doing that otherwise
@@EdwardMalus ah i didn't know that
I started watching the stream in the late game and had no idea wtf was going on
Lol
when i play i only use the siege brutes and the flip disks also i foresaw this in life from the beginning
Makes you even wonder why Yuri bothered with taking over MS :D
this is how yuri AI work on campaign work, it's nightmare keep rebuild
The lag would kill me
I die every stream.
your title is misleading should be why eveyone loves Yuri.
9:58 Elijah Wood making Gollum voice lol =))
Pay to win mode RA2 version.
Gosh. One of my favorite strategy games.
its golden for sure
Where and how do I play? Miss this game so much
looks like a giant "BUG" massing cheap infantry, than use the mutant thingy and sell your mutant? for money...WHAT? it's a constant flow of income without mining ...
Whats up with all the infantry getting transformed or somethin,what does it do,what is the purpose?
I see that zoom has a new challenger.
Idk what that means 👀
@@BryanVahey zoom is another RA2 youtuber.
Omg....that build speed is disgusting!!
lol
So does the MCV give more money than it costs to build or was it just a troll?
Good question
unless you get industrial plant as yuri building units and scarping them is useless
only speed up build speed.
He has taught us well
No live today?
what app did you record your screen
All I hear in the voicelines is grunting and "Yuri.."
Ah, nostalgia.
damn, didn't know RA2 still looks so good. is this a texture mod?
Nope! Just cncnet. ua-cam.com/video/69Zq6Re42k4/v-deo.html
how were you able to make this run please?
Hello, is there any way to play this game in MP?
I honestly can't seem to understand how yuri works so I just stick to other countries ;-;
lol. Maybe I should do a beginner's guide
Why are the brutes going into the building? Is this a certain strategy? I haven’t played the game in 15 years so I don’t remember much.
Grinder destroys units in exchange for funds. Brutes worth lots of funds. Higher brain functions cease when playing as Yuri. Give all to master Yuri
How did you capture this game at full screen?
where can i buy RA2 and play online?
Where can i download yuri's revenge and play using windows 10? Steam?
BE ONE WITH YURI 🧠 Hi where do find the soundtrack near the end video ? It is the not the old sound C&C mental Omega ?
Are you playing against NPCs ? Why nobody sends you anything other than the superweapons ? And why they dont use long range weapons like V3 or prism tank ?
Yuri is way unbalanced in this game.
I *love* Yuri’s faction - there’s not much reason to play anything else!
I thought I was good at this game when I was 10 playing it on my grandpas pc 😂 glad I never played online I’d get demolished
they did not push you at all
exactly. made em pay lol
Best game ever made
I know this is almost fully a year old but like
How did they let you get away with this?
I know this is 2 years late but here your answer: this is a team game. Yuri's weakness is gone in a team game.
@@ohlookitisacat7404 I am aware of it being a team game haha. It's just still baffling to see someone building up like that and no one even attempted to go after him
Also, why build so many of the same buildings?
That was funny....wrong on so many levels , but funny. just had to give red a glimmer of hope before you stole it from him huh?
Oh, oh no...
THIS GOT OUT OF HAND FAST!
since when the soviet helicopters work as morters?
Were you aware there was a 3rd expansion pack for red alert 2?
It was called Montezuma's revenge it was staged in Mexico
I like your video alot the game play everything you earned my SUB
Why some many war factors do that do something
Red Alert 2 is the Third Strike of RTS games.
....the war of attrition....every time...