OpenRA's progress with the Red Alert 2 mod

Banshee · Last edited by Banshee on Sun Feb 07, 2016 8:46 pm; edited 7 times in total

The OpenRA developpers have been working hard to bring the Red Alert 2 universe to the OpenRA game engine. They've recently shared a couple of videos that shows its progress. Although there are a lot of unfinished features (i.e.: Chrono Miner isn't chrono yet), they already have something playable. In the long soviet gameplay video below the player had to cheat to survive. Check out both videos:

Allied gameplay:

Soviet gameplay:

For more information, head to OpenRA's Website. And remember that you can already play the Dune2k, Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert 1 mods with OpenRA, by downloading it from OpenRA's website.

Key Words: #News #OpenRA #RedAlert2

pd · Laser Commando **Joined**: 19 Jun 2005 **Location**: Gone

Impressive!

Fincer · Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2016 10:48 pm Post subject:

Actually, the videos have not been made by the OpenRA developers.

I compiled OpenRA from source couple of days ago on Arch Linux and just wanted to demonstrate some random Red Alert 2 gaming on Youtube Smile

I'm happy that official OpenRA Facebook channel has shared these video footages. The progress is impressive, indeed.

As you said, many features are still missing but it truly feels like Red Alert 2. And as I understood that the developers do their best with their OpenRA project to bring these nostalgic games to us once again, I can absolutely forgive some missing features right now.

What bothers me the most is some serious unbalancing issues but yeah, this is still not the official "stable" release so no worries. Rolling Eyes

Banshee · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:45 am Post subject:

Fincer wrote:

Actually, the videos have not been made by the OpenRA developers.

I compiled OpenRA from source couple of days ago on Arch Linux and just wanted to demonstrate some random Red Alert 2 gaming on Youtube Smile

I'm happy that official OpenRA Facebook channel has shared these video footages. The progress is impressive, indeed.

Ok, I've fixed the news post.

Quote:

As you said, many features are still missing but it truly feels like Red Alert 2. And as I understood that the developers do their best with their OpenRA project to bring these nostalgic games to us once again, I can absolutely forgive some missing features right now.

What bothers me the most is some serious unbalancing issues but yeah, this is still not the official "stable" release so no worries. Rolling Eyes

Yea, it feels like RA2 and it looks great already. And, of course, there is a lot to be done. Creating a game like RA2 with all its features demands a lot of work. Even Westwood Studios took years to bring all these features to the game.

And something that they couldn't finish in a proper way was to properly ballance RA2. I think it is a way too much complicated mission #Tongue

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Fincer · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2016 8:53 pm Post subject:

Yup

I uploaded a bunch of scripts to help OpenRA compilation with Tiberian Sun & Red Alert 2.

Instructions:
https://github.com/Fincer/openra-tibsunra2/

Zip:
https://github.com/Fincer/openra-tibsunra2/archive/master.zip

I'm aware that Ubuntu script may not be the most elegant about what comes to debian/control & rules files but at least it works.

Windows script also gives some warnings, but the game works anyway. A friend of mine tested it, too.

I consider adding scripts for Fedora/OpenSUSE (and maybe Mac OS X), too.

Please be aware that these scripts may become unusable some day as the OpenRA development process continues.

Matthias M. · Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 10:51 pm Post subject:

Strange, that you need to patch the SDK version out of the Makefile on Arch Linux.

https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/labels/Mod%20Support should improve soon so that these complicated setups aren't necessary in the future.

Fincer · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 9:56 am Post subject:

Matthias M. wrote:

Strange, that you need to patch the SDK version out of the Makefile on Arch Linux.

https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/labels/Mod%20Support should improve soon so that these complicated setups aren't necessary in the future.

Thanks for feedback! Re-tested on Arch Linux & Linux Mint without makefile-mcs.patch (SDK version removal). Works fine without it. Thus the patch will be removed.

Fincer · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 12:49 pm Post subject:

I reworked and cleaned up the whole Github repository (Fincer/openra-tibsunra2).