Red Alert 2 (Soviet) - SPEEDRUN -

[@ElleRoni]

These tactics are INSANE. Thanks for making my nostalgic evening with something new!

[@L1011Widebody]

I think it took me longer to install Red Alert 2 in 2000 than it took me to watch this video. o.O

[@SergeBones]

L-1011 Widebody That installer... I remember having goosebumps watching it.

[@ahmadyfh6186]

1:25 is why Yuri decided to betray Premier Romanov

[@peacebreak2537]

Good one XD

[@The_Hissing_Fool]

Yep, that was Yuri's breaking point. The man didn't like to be touched, and that pat on the shoulder was the last straw. Nobody ever bothered telling poor Romanov about Yuri's phobia...

[@123TauruZ321]

Lol, turning the Eiffel tower into a giant tesla coil ^^ Very funny. And also funny how almost every mission ends with cheering and your troops being killed ^^

[@bamjam1]

Cinematic graphics where so good back then game companies now could learn something from this :D

[@Hamentsios10]

Very nice and fast, good job nice blitz strategy. I cant believe that after 10+ years after the game release there are vids of it that have 60.000+ views in less than a year. this game is one of my favorite games ever.

[@NeoGamemaster]

Look at how fast you're building those tanks! I didn't know more war factories and barracks made you train units faster!

[@LudwigX100]

That already worked in CnC 1

[@iHeartZigg]

It's a mechanic that's been in all of the CnC games, but never talked about.

[@Edges]

LudwigX100 I was only 9 at the time when it was released, I didn't know that haha.

[@tautologicalrevelations2510]

Hey Neo. Where is that picture of your avatar from?

[@NeoGamemaster]

It's Exar Kun. One of the first Sith Lords in the Old Republic era of Star Wars.

[@JosephS1k]

+xMrGreeneJeansx Mission 7 can't be done any faster with these strats. I didn't try to play it fast except for their last wave. It doesn't matter how fast you kill the units at the north when there are still waves to come. The last wave was annihilated very quickly. Apocalypse tanks are worse than rhino tanks for the last wave (mainly because of the cost and their speed).

[@chungtinlong]

***** Last I checked Mission 7 has no enemy base...? Are you sure we're on the same page? ._.

[@chungtinlong]

BTW, for Mission 7, I just tried it on hard difficulty and completely walled the left side entrance all the way with many layers, extending as far from the base as possible. If done right, apparently all enemies will stop trying to enter from the left entrance and will detour to the bottom entrance instead. Could be the cheapest way to defend left flank.

[@JosephS1k]

***** i don't quite understand, mission 7 is the mission where you protect the lab. what do you mean with navy and construction yard ??

[@JosephS1k]

***** okay that makes more sense, that's mission 4

[@chungtinlong]

JosephS1k btw, to further enhance Mission 6, you could have sent your 2 idle tesla troopers to kill the 3 cows near your base on the top of your island. You get a cash bonus for killing all 3 cows. Maybe you already know but decided to save the trouble, but I find it always better to have spare cash ;)

[@rnkarthik2006]

Dude hats off to you! I love RA2 even now. One of the unknown thing I learnt is to speed things by building more units (Ex more warfactorys)

[@mrshootinputin7251]

Man this bring back memories. I need to play Red Alert 2 again. I have the 17th anniversary edition of C&C on origin.

[@PrincessUndertaker]

Well done on the World Record! :D

[@Indoor_Carrot]

54:37 What must have gone through that poor GI's head as he parachuted on top of all that? (in plane) "USA... USA...(jumps out) US- Oh crap!"

[@JustARandoChannel]

Spy, not a G.I.

[@mosabirosafwan7763]

june 2016 and i still play this game

[@kyouriesan]

Mosabiro Safwan May 2017 i still play Red Alert 2 xd

[@Nuuk_Nuke_Nook]

december 19 2017 and i still play it lol

[@loxionse]

2018 and future i still play this game and i will

[@marksivan5679]

Where you buy this game ? I used to have the CD version and now when I look at steam I can't find the damn thing

[@Gurra88]

I found it on The Pirate Bay (including Yuri's Revenge). To my surprise it worked. Before I kept getting error messages.

[@osmanlitorunuyuzbizx5525]

i played this game back in the time a lott but never saw a sick player tacktiks like this dude, I really did injoy .. very nice thnx for the sharing

[@abernathydarwindunlap8841]

Great memories, I used to play this game so much when I was 10-12 years old.

[@Chickenworm9394]

Great job on WR!! You made some of the hardest missions a piece of cake!

[@LeonardTavast]

I have been waiting for some RA2 speedrunning. Very good!

[@deathkeys1]

unknown location = canada

[@ninja.saywhat]

that guy had one job

[@Joaosantos22114]

I believe it was a prepared plan to misguide the soviets towards the president's location since you later find him in Texas.

[@Braver-Seven]

thank you for putting in so much effort to do this it's very fun to watch!

[@yoshq6]

Finally someone speed run this game. I might have to do it myself and compete with you

[@Volound]

great job with this run. some great strats in here that i never thought of before. just thought id give you a heads up thats im running this at the moment. ill probably upload a new WR soon. going for sub 1:10:00. not sure if i can do it, but i think i can get pretty close - thanks in part to some of your strats. 57:00 was particularly excellent.

[@JosephS1k]

+Volound I saw your video, well done :D.

[@JosephS1k]

+Volound I saw your video, well done :D.

[@Volound]

+JosephS1k thanks :)

[@ne6totapo]

+JosephS1k wow you still reply to comments, even though its a more than 1 year old video :O

[@JosephS1k]

+niker40 Every so often I look into KZbin I get notifications for my Red Alert Videos. I try to answer most comments if it's a question or an interesting comment :).

[@edd7531]

lol that plane wiggle though 51:25

[@smegmalasagna]

yes it was a weird glitch in RA2 :P

[@jajabami7523]

the pilot was nervous

[@zach11241]

Jesus this was beautiful!

[@CosmiaNebula]

You play with such confidence that's almost funny to watch. No one except one who has full mastery of the game can play so... extremely.

[@smegmalasagna]

well it's quite easily actually because these are campaigns. you just need to know every trigger set into these missions and you can finish them fast. When playing online it's a whole different story

[@stevenwijaya9131]

Thanks for sharing this video, it helped me much that I never knew there is still more way to be quickly done each mission. So nostalgic I always do each mission by defending my base first then gathering much troops to destroy foe's army and base especially in skrimish too so it always took much time.

[@Nox_Lunatera]

mission 2 has a great quote. "i could destroy this navy with a rubber duck!" the mental image is hilarious.

[@Wesker9999999]

Well, this was pretty amazing. Great job! But I never knew you could just destroy the white house. For some reason, I always captured it.

[@JosephS1k]

+Andrejs Zukovs It's meant to be captured, but you can also destroy it to win. Naturally you wouldn't do that (Because it makes no sense, especially with the cutscene afterwards), however I found this out by accident ages ago.

[@hatsjer]

Which misson?

[@MPYarnall]

You destroy the White House, yet find the General hiding in the perfectly intact White House

[@llSuperSnivyll]

Well, what can we say? The Soviets rebuild things very quickly.

[@thelol1759]

This is some fuckin next level play.

[@SKODWARDE253]

Holy fucking shit dude. He's a fucking monster.

[@ninja.saywhat]

The next lebel play

[@Asidders]

Mission 3... like oh, my god. And the engineer turns American for some reason!

[@wandererforlife]

Oh wow that multiple barracks speed up tip was nice! Didn't know that :) thanks!

[@SovietRussianBear]

Terrific gameplay! Spasibo, tovarisch! President Putin would approve your tactics! LOL!

[@Namyh0011]

Yuri is awesome! Fun to see this game with speedrun. The nostalgia..

[@zharakov]

Hory Fuck a ra2 video with 100000 views and its 2014 long live ra2

[@pigman102]

Zharakov ra1 best ra

[@TheNightlord13]

Osomo Bin Laden Good for you you have an opinion.Even though its flawed as ra1 is very clunky and unrefined compared to ra2.That is also an opinion and its mine.Neither of our opinions matters for shit.

[@pigman102]

I just like r1 cuz thats what i played when i was a little kid

[@TheNightlord13]

Osomo Bin Laden Nostalgia it is then.

[@zahirbakri7048]

ra2 better than ra3.. from gameplay, real cinematic campaigne,..ra3 campagne only office,background and too many talk, unlike ra2 tesla trooper at paris to recharge that tower to gain tesla tower

[@pepelui7893]

the bitches in this game, the hilarious acting the story awww mal old times... this is pure gold

[@exo6desmo8]

At 17:31 when you are "scrolling" through the fog, try to hold down right mouse click, it'll speed up the process.

[@user-eo5bh2zg2]

Bateman makes me feel claustrophobic when people don't right click

[@Pushinkanzu]

I forgot how bonkers this game was

[@foxyr4bbit]

+Joseph Bakerbacker mecha-tengu leporting for duty!

[@Milk6444]

i especially love the FMVs, so fun to watch xD

[@tichuothieu1]

You think of many things others dont dude @@! Like how you find the path or how to use the units at a certain point...Damn great!

[@tenyopark]

this is awesome~it's a pleasure to watch you play~

[@TyrannoWright]

"Our base is under a tack."

[@Damocles178]

Ha Ha love the Apocalypse tanks 57:20. They just casually drive passed as though nothings happening. I didn't know there was a couple of random enemy elite tanks in that mission. Also I find it kinda funny how it's equally valid to just blow up the white house instead of capturing it; victory either way :D

[@llSuperSnivyll]

An MCV, two Apocalypse Tanks and a lot of Conscripts and Desolators? Better go catch that Rhino.

[@spyofgame2009]

lol

[@barat1994]

this is absolutely amazing

[@ciptoabdisetiawan7876]

God damn give this man a medal or something, good job man

[@racelkatyusha403]

give him a AK 47

[@TheNovice12]

Damn respect, you really need to right a tip guide! Questions: - How do you select all the units of one kind? - How do you select the next target to destroy, like at 2.55 Please more game play, i subscribe!

[@JosephS1k]

Be sure to check the controls in the RA2 menu. I think "p" is assigned to select all battle units and I don't know the default key for waypointing, as I have set them to different keys.

[@lordhood117]

I didn't realize until now just how hot the (voice) actress for Lieutenant Zofia is! WOW!

[@Triac81]

Building multiple shipyards makes units build faster, same goes for the barracks, warfactory, ect...

[@StoicNatsoc]

bbruceify it applies to all C&C games since Tib Dawn, until Generals, where you had to build units from separate barracks, factories etc. best thing ever for massive production.

[@NovaCyn]

bbruceify Yes. If i recall correctly it is something like a 1.3x multiplier per extra factory (in RA2 and YR), I believe its capped too. In online play it is very necessary to build multiple factories, and balance your production speed with your income :P

[@PurpleSun8933]

Недавно сам узнал это, когда проходя в очередной раз компанию за альянс, выбрал тактику массированной атаки самолётами. Построив больше 10 штабов, самолёты начали производится очень быстро.

[@ToastyCourier]

Brendan Flanagan don't feel bad. I'm 26 and I just found this out myself

[@zik0v]

0:20 "i have asissted in over 50 sex sex full combat simulations since the great war" you're damn right girl you did :P

[@WitalPirat]

Sometimes you attack with all you units and they block themselves in the pathing. I know you dont get much time by doing it, but if you select smaller groups of units you might gain some time. nice run, I didnt even know this game is runnable. I should give it a try :)

[@JosephS1k]

Haha, yeah you're right, I tried assigning even more hotkeys, but the more I had the more I misclicked, but sometimes having more units is an advantage: for example in the second last mission, you don't want to sacrifice your dogs to the miners because they make the tanks and drones attack them instead of your own tanks.

[@daswed2381]

Such an awesome game. This was way back in the day.

[@jacekiburz8390]

This brings me back to childhood and playing this game until the wee hours of the morning. Would've loved to hear you talk through this though to hear your strategies.

[@mncpoops4005]

17:01 I remember as a kid playing this game and this part of the cutscene came up right when my mom walked in. She asked what this was rated, and I said "T", and she said I couldn't ever play rated T games again :( Good thing she never checks the ratings though ;)

[@jackiechan5815]

The whole cutscene at 1:17:34 is perfect. From seeing a VHS for the first time in years to "Ho Mother russia."

[@ecxploreratlazcrew2779]

CRAZY!! He's tactics was so brilliant!!! I love you, Master!!! #badass !!!

[@samoconnor-stewart7229]

Dude love the vids man Keep it up

[@brosquito7483]

1:20:53 Not giving a fuck is an art

[@danny_cookie]

I wish they allowed you the option to side with Yuri.

[@shadowknight9145]

+NGN-000 "Technic Suit" I think you can do that in Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge

[@danny_cookie]

Jakob Ogan That was a multiplayer exclusive thing. It featured missions with no voice or transmissions.

[@danny_cookie]

Arexsis Like I said, this campaign features no extra voices or transmissions.

[@smegmalasagna]

they were planning on making a Yuri campaign but they didn't have enough time left for that :/ would be quite intresting

[@NaSurE2209]

Holy shit, this is great! Hat off to you sire :)

[@liyandhidalgo9092]

Just a tip you can hold down right click for fast Screen/map movement, Btw Nice Speed run :D

[@joel66666]

Good stuff, i was working on a run a while back on RA2 but never got round to recording anything

[@rusiky7091]

15:40 VICTORY TO THE SOVIET UNION!

[@88Freshhh]

Nice work general!

[@MyOrangeString]

That's amazing, thanks! I think I remember you can queue 5 units with only one click, something like... ctrl + left click or something like this?

[@Arti128]

Zajebisty pomysł z posłaniem tych rocketerów! Ja rozwiązałem to w ten sposób że oczyściłem sobie całą mapę statkami z wyrzutniami rakiet i potem wysłałem piątkę Tesla Trooperów pod Scholar i w momencie odpalenia pocisku nuklearnego reszta była formalnością ;)

[@StanawalkaWorld]

wiesz, że tu się pisze po angielsku XD W sumie po co pisze do komentarza z przed 7 miesięcy :D

[@Arti128]

Spoko, Cenny jest każdy komentarz ;o Greetings!

[@StanawalkaWorld]

***** :D

[@brians4656]

Arti128 did you literally drag your face on the key board

[@zwilso1]

i cant believe it only took you 4 minutes to finish that 11th mission ... that mission caused me great angst in my formative years.

[@foxyr4bbit]

MY GOD i loved these live action videos

[@Sandact6]

I'd love to see an allied speedrun myself! Amazing job!

[@hpmc7426]

Not many people use hotkeys familiarly nowadays. It's refreshing seeing even some qwernd usage.

[@xMrGreeneJeansx]

Another great run. One criticism, though. While I understand your reasoning for using a big group of tesla troops to guard the northern entrance to your base on the Ural Mountains mission (vehicles can't steamroller them), I think a more effective defense would have been to line up apocalypse tanks. It would cost less money in the long run, would be able to attack air units if necessary, and would probably be *faster* because it they could kill off allied vehicles much more quickly.

[@Uid767]

Bro this is awesome

[@zihaoliu605]

+JosephS1k For the mission in Ura mountain to defend the Soviet battle lab. I use the same trick to get extra money, but not on the oil fields, took too much effort to protect in my point of view. I usually build sentry gun to seal three sides and build 2 extra war miner. In the same time I would build only one war factory to make 10 flak track and 5 apocalypse tank. 5 flack track at construction yard side, 5 on the battle lab side, each entrance (where the sentry guns are deployed) I will put one apocalypse tank, rest of two will be ordered to where the ore are with few dogs to prevent allied spies and prism tank. This build ensures minimum effort and works well.

[@5000boys]

the player is professional to the extreme i like you

[@zxqwy9092]

39:31 Rubber shoes in motion! There is no full tesla troper quotes. So i opened this video and search untile i heard this awesome quote !

[@mrshootinputin7251]

Man for your tactics you really think outside the box.

[@katepriest346]

Oh my god the strategy for mission 3 was so good

[@koolandthegang3024]

I have been playing Ra1 and gold alot lately, i forgot how great Ra2 was. It's installing as we speak :)

[@pomurain]

i remember playing mission 12 like 10 times before, in every way. my favorite way to end it was via kirovs scattered then hell march :D

[@Sidecutt3]

Awesome run!

[@TheObeyWeegee]

You're doing stuff I haven't seen before (which is good). Also, are the timings at the end of each mission and the rankings are the best there are? example of the corporal ranking at the first mission, could you get any better ranking than that? and were the other missions achieved with highest ranking?

[@JosephS1k]

none of these missions are my gold splits, however the run is pretty good, i'm not sure what the best mission times are, there's no (reliable) archive for RA2 speedruns sadly... my golds are: 1: 2:46 2: 4:19 3: 4:18 4: 7:27 5: 1:48 6: 4:42 7: 21:29 (however i didn't practise this much, because it's not very skillful and i doubt you can save much more than that with these strats) 8: 1:59 9: 1:11 10: 9:59 11: 3:59 12: 7:34 (that's a yolo time, i wouldn't go that mode on last mission, so maybe if i did a very good mission 12 i could do a close sub 8 maybe) having said this, the run isn't perfect ofc, but overall close to my gold splits (except mission 12) i think there are only ranking depending if you either beat or don't beat the PAR time and that's easy to do in a speedrun ofc, so i assume the ranks are the best

[@muzahir92]

in Mission 7: Chrono Defense, I stood faster than you, by 22 Seconds lol. you did it in 23:34 minutes while I did it in 23:12 minutes today :D Having a screen shot though unable to post here :P Someone could go faster than this atleast haha

[@Volound]

fastest possible is 23:25 in that mission. i got it for my current WR.

[@MartinozYT]

Proof or gtfo.

[@inigosebastiandomo4295]

I was crazy that i recruited many tanks and boats and soldiers

[@ciepy5993]

these runs are very good professional job.

[@1996jsmith]

Can confirm found my new hero.

[@redphoenix5558]

ahhhhh memories i remember playing this game when i was a kid I had no idea what i was doing the whole game

[@SammyHartman]

I am quite impressed.

[@yazanabbadi4247]

Great job! Really Amazing!! A big like from me to your work, I learnt a lot from you. But I have a question: How can you build the ready buildings quickly using keyboard in RA2? I can do it only in yuri's revenge by pressing q or w where the building is ready, but it didn't work in RA2 😕 can you help me out? 😉

[@thibvp778]

it was so funny when you got to the "Paris tower"

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

lols XD...dident know the beacon in the biggle apple mision acted as a CY ^^ ....thats some beforehand knowledge one snap over knowing the layout of a map or such. and a bit dissepointing :/ not for the speed runer guy ,but the map desinger I mean...it reduces the threat of the second mision half by a fat amount.

[@user-uq3iw2nf6x]

this is insane... i can't believe it

[@kamalm.mounir1212]

I can't deny that I will never enjoy taking New York like that, I would rather take it piece by piece, building by building.. However, I admit that this was impressive.

[@SlimShady.1990]

Very well done!

[@lingboyang7860]

@JosephS1k Destroy enemy's nuclear electric factory to stop their anti-aircraft cannon from functioning... YOU ARE A REAL LIGHTENING STRIKE EXPERT!

[@skywantsanacc]

i love those spammable tanks that every cnc has. in tiberium wars its the scorpion tanks, in this its the rhinos and in ra3 its arguably the hammer tanks

[@skywantsanacc]

but i think my fav spams are the plane spams, like in cnc 3 with the nod venoms with the laser upgrade

[@gariMatori]

First of all this is amazing! You kicked ass :D One question: the last mission I always made kirovs and sent them to the down left corner and then upwards to chronosphere. It is pretty quick but I dont know how quick it can be done. Have you tried that maybe?? Instead of rocketeers. I know they are expensive and slow but they are much tougher than rocketeers so i dont think you would need a lot of them.

[@JosephS1k]

Thanks. I did try some routing with Kirovs, but from the base you are definately slower from what I've tried, perhaps if you build your war factory near the chronosphere and then send your Kirovs from there. I'll try something. Perhaps you can get a war factory so close to the Chronosphere that you can use an iron curtain on your Kirov just after it pops out of the war factory, so it can be iron curtain'd and finish the chronosphere from there. There are a lot of patriot missles surrounding the chronosphere, which makes it pretty hard to finish off with Kirovs. Another maybe you can even get your seal to destroy the chronosphere somehow with an iron curtain. Capturing a battle lab won't allow you to build spies sadly, because then the mission would be done extremely quickly.

[@gariMatori]

JosephS1k Yeah i guess once you're on their island its quicker to make a bunch of rocketeers with cloning. And from your base its a pretty long way. but kirov with iron curtain i didnt even know it was possible. i know yuri can capture kirov at the exact same moment its coming out so i guess iron curtain can be activated on it too. by the way i loved the one with the weather storm when you sent a million units to the lab and in the end only one engineer survived to take the lab :D btw why are you not on speed demos archive??

[@JosephS1k]

Petar MIlic I'm no speedrunner.. well you could say this series was my first speedrunning. I was pm'd and asked once to do SDA timing if I wanted to, but I just see no other games I feel like speedrunning and only if I have a ton of free time (which I only having during my holidays) I will go and improve these speedruns. If I get ambitious I will most certainly register and participate on SDA. As for that mission 10, it got so close because they killed one of my transporters, which only happened because I moved them up 2much, usually this shouldn't look so "optimized" ;).

[@gariMatori]

JosephS1k Well last time I checked there was no speed run for RA2 on SDA so there is no official record to beat. I've only seen yours and yoshq6 here on YT. You should do this man! :D

[@jonmustache8051]

JosephS1k I liked that you still included the cutscenes! Most speedruns don't.Either way it's a nice addition to the speedrun! I liek!(Purposely misspelled.)

[@Whitedoorsareblack]

Man this was ridiculous!

[@Kodasa_Sinclair]

Random turtle is random. XD I like Alexi in this game. "I thought you might like to play rough ~pause~ In battle" Ahahahaha the marketing at teenage boys. It's even worse in RA3. Also, I love the little terror drone video they show, if only terror drones were that effective. That awkward moment when you realise that the "Supreme General" you play as in this game, is the same coward who has "already fled" at the start of Red Alert 3.

[@BVasquezp]

In Yuri's Revenge, thanks to the time travel used to prevent Yuri's takeover Romanov is saved and remains in power through the campaign. It's him who flees in previous to RA3 (to avoid hiring the actor again).

[@Kodasa_Sinclair]

***** Hrm... I've never watched it right through to completion. I always had RA2 but I never had YR when I was younger... I didn't think Romanov survived because in the events of YR you only time travelled back to before he finished building the PsyDom, but I always just assumed that was after Romanov was already dead. I did like that they got tim curry in on Ra3 though, he was great in the role of Cherdenko.

[@KephetS]

what software did u use to record this game?

[@yapjingyi91]

when I was small I confused why can get so many Yuri and Tanya

[@ЮраБеспредел]

ну ты красава мужик!)

[@masonsmith5478]

Translation :Conscript reporting 😂

[@lembreX]

Big part of my youth this game!

[@K0ko1108]

Highly impressed!!!!! Are u also going to make Ra2 Yori's Revenge? Looking foreword to find it. Have fun!

[@JosephS1k]

Maybe in summer, when I have more time on my hands than now. From what I've experienced by playing through YR is that only the Soviet campaign of YR is speedrunable, however, maybe I didn't pay enough attention during the Allied campaign ;).