Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2022 3:36 pm Post subject:
Cloning vats reverse engineer infantry in vanilla RA2?
The Ares guide makes the following statement:
Ares 3.0 Documentation wrote:
In Red Alert 2, the Cloning Vats reverse-engineered any infantry it was sent into.
I don't remember this feature at all. The C&C wiki also doesn't offer a documentation of it, but instead describes the CV as grinding infantry for cash refund, which is in line with what I remember it to be doing in vanilla:
Command and Conquer Wiki wrote:
Infantry units could be sent into the Soviet cloning vats to be "recycled", giving credits to the owner.
Am I misunderstanding what "reverse engineering" means? Did the CV do something like Ares' Reverse Engineering in any version of RA2? QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2022 5:39 pm Post subject:
Yes, the CV does revengineer the infantry one sends into it. I've only checked it out once though. It's fairly situational afterall. _________________ "If you didn't get angry and mad and frustrated, that means you don't care about the end result, and are doing something wrong." - Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 11:13 pm Post subject:
Re: Cloning vats reverse engineer infantry in vanilla RA2?
NCoder wrote:
The Ares guide makes the following statement:
Ares 3.0 Documentation wrote:
In Red Alert 2, the Cloning Vats reverse-engineered any infantry it was sent into.
I don't remember this feature at all. The C&C wiki also doesn't offer a documentation of it, but instead describes the CV as grinding infantry for cash refund, which is in line with what I remember it to be doing in vanilla:
Yes, the rumour way back when was that in RA2 V1.0 the cloning vats would reverse-engineer infantry, supported by unused cursors in mouse.sha, a rumour I repeated without checking when I requested said feature.
Long and short is the Wiki is correct, the vats grind infantry for moneys, I checked not long ago.
Regardless, it's a cool feature, so yay rumours. _________________ MIdAS - Turning wages into beer since 2002 QUICK_EDIT
Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2022 5:40 pm Post subject:
Re: Cloning vats reverse engineer infantry in vanilla RA2?
NCoder wrote:
Graion Dilach wrote:
Yes, the CV does revengineer the infantry one sends into it. I've only checked it out once though. It's fairly situational afterall.
MRMIdAS wrote:
Long and short is the Wiki is correct, the vats grind infantry for moneys, I checked not long ago.
Well, these are two very different statements. Maybe different builds of vanilla RA2 had this differently?
It's possible, but I don't know how "Situational" MCing a GI with aYuri, sending him to the clone vats, and receiving cash, but no buildable GI, is.
I very much doubt there are multiple different RA2 V1.0's, but as always, will gladly be proven wrong. _________________ MIdAS - Turning wages into beer since 2002 QUICK_EDIT
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Cloning vats reverse engineer infantry in vanilla RA2?
