Red Alert 2: [YR] - Random Gameplay Tips #3

[@Cupshadow]

Lol i never know that construction yard will affect the way where the plane will come.

[@RD2rush]

Me either

[@doggo_woo]

@@RD2rush It'd be quite a risky move to deploy a MCV near the enemy base just to allow boris to strike easier

[@cloudheaven8156]

@@doggo_woo It only needs to be closer to the enemy not exactly by them to save time and you can deploy defenses right away if you already selected them in the build menu with Boris you don't need much defenses anyway.

[@KirovReporting]

What if you dont have MCV? Where the planes will come from?

[@doggo_woo]

@@KirovReporting Maybe randomly from any direction? Otherwise, maps involving boris with no MCV's may just have the MCV off-screen.

[@MrPathorn]

Omg the mig and parade ops, after 20 years I now know

[@I_HopeThatNoOneHasThisName]

Lol me too but its 7 years not 10

[@derkatwork33]

That was always frustrating. I never figured out the easy pattern...

[@detaaditya6237]

With that we can also predict the enemy's location

[@m-w-y7325]

Also another fact, if you use Ctrl+Alt with Repair IFV and target any allied unit, it will follow and repair that unit and nearby units continuously.

[@CnCDune]

Not just the repair IFV; any unit, except for JumpJet units like Kirov and Night Hawk. Ctrl+Alt+LMB is guard order (or area-guard, not sure), and JumpJets can only guard cells or stationary units for some reason.

[@liliwinnt6]

4:30 if one certain weapon has the parameter "Tiberium" and its value was equaled as "yes" you can use this weapon to erase ore on the ground

[@bbglas007]

plz pin

[@liliwinnt6]

@@bbglas007 excuse me what?

[@Vito-tn2yn]

@@liliwinnt6 he meant pin this message

[@liliwinnt6]

@@Vito-tn2yn how to?

[@CnCDune]

@@liliwinnt6 Not you, tg should pin it, according to bbglas007. Though your comment is slightly off. It's not the weapon, but the weapon's warhead that should have Tiberium=yes. The default value is no.

[@m-w-y7325]

you should also have shown that destroying and selling a Con yard at the sametime produces double the infantries and an engineer as well.

[@ramadhanisme7]

You said that you almost run out of content from this game but you still give me a new knowledge every time you release a new video 🎊

[@mikerider2014]

You can also order a Repair IFV to guard a stationary vehicle by pressing LMB while CTRL+ALT are held, this is "an impractical but lazy solution" to essentially set up mobile repair facilities since if you give a regular guard order or pick a cell to guard with CTRL+ALT, the Repair IFVs have a tendency to "stray" from the position where the order was initially placed, but if you instead order them to "guard a vehicle" you have parked in your base, then the IFV will return to the vehicle it's supposed to guard after every time it's done reparing everything, and it still tracks for vehicles in the vicinity other than the one being "guarded" so it basically waits for your units to return to heal them up, then returns to his guard-position. You can also set up a Master Repair IFV that is guarded by two additional Repair IFVs in tow, if you move the Master Repair IFV itself, the two Repair IFVs will follow with their guard-oder in-tact and constantly track for nearby injured vehicles to repair, you could also make the Master IFV a Chrono Legionnaire IFV for example, that way you have an IFV battalion that can both intercept enemy fire by freezing the enemy in place so they can't do harm, or possibly even freeze your own unit to make them temporarily impervious to damage. IFVs are probably the most fun vehicle in this game.

[@GoIdLeopard]

2:31 G will even work on neutral and enemy miners

[@Magd-Akarsu]

GoldLeopard Ya, that's right because it takes the command as attack, if we tried this to any vehicle it will nearby enemy, so, the repair IFV will take this as attack to nearby vehicles such enemy or not.

[@mjc0961]

lol at the first one. I was watching a speedrun of Tiberian Dawn yesterday, and one of the comments was "I bet somebody at Westwood regrets giving an engineer when you sell the Construction Yard!" Looks like that comment was correct! 😂

[@Magd-Akarsu]

tg This game will not end :) it has a lot of mysteries, good job westwood for creating a game like this, the most information that shocked me is boris migs when it comes from the deployed con yard direction.

[@Kolt461]

In the Alien Invasion Mod, the Gap Generator deployment actually did something, it basically Tripled the AoE of the Shroud created by the Gap Generator. Also, in addition to that, the mod made it so that the Gap Generator will not allow superweapons to be fired within its radius. (Actually made it useful against AI lol)

[@MsNero69]

I guess G is for GULAG if you keep doing nothing haha

[@vothuong5495]

u knew too much. Bring this man to GULAG!!!

[@DJRevan]

What is up with the deployment of the Gap generator, I need more info in that!

[@m-w-y7325]

Simple, it was supposed to have a super mode that would require twice the power the gap generator needed and expand the gap radius significantly, this was removed obviously due to balancing reasons and the deploying command was just left with over 9000 power drain so players would avoid deploying it.

[@ZhalgasSubebaev]

By the way, TG's notice about crate power-ups seriously helped me at the original RA2 mission "Destroy Yuri and Kremlin". After 4 hours of hard defence against the endless waves of Yuri's infantry and vehicles, my Anti-Air and Tesla towers were seriously buffed by those crates. Believe or not, Tesla Tower ewpowered by 2 Tesla troopers and few crates destroyed one Apocalypse tank by SINGLE STRIKE! My Kirov's were able to stand against flak vehicles for a long

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

How are you able to generate crates?

[@ZhalgasSubebaev]

@@NostalgicGamerRickOShay luckily, some of them appeared near my tesla coils

[@0xVENx0]

mummy x chrono dude 😳, i didnt know that planes were affected by the MCV position damn, also took me a while to notice the name change nice xD

[@BendixX69]

Holy shit…. This is what make this game so wonderful , 20 years and still has small details

[@Sly88Frye]

That little scene at the end you added in was hilarious

[@nectarwithj]

Excellent as always Comrade TG!

[@NeilRoy]

You messed up at 4:28 no description, just "FEW MINUTES" which seems to be from the end part of the video.

[@tg.Sacred]

Uh. :(

[@starlord360xy24]

I thought that "few minutes" means that we wait for a few mins?? I didnt understand it either xD

[@NeilRoy]

@@tg.Sacred It was a great video none-the-less. We all mess up. ;)

[@andyplaysgundam]

I thought the blurred out description was "You can link up to 9 Prism Towers" again.

[@NeilRoy]

@@andyplaysgundam Ah, I thought you're right!

[@muhammadyudhi1338]

1:21 Damn man i'm just found out now, if the closer primary MCV with Boris target Airstrike, the MiG will be appear at primary MCV closer with Boris target Airstrike

[@GHST-vf4qz]

The ending was too good

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

Why is the final tip censored?

[@stylesrj]

1:55 So what happens if you change the primary ConYard while the MiGs are in flight? Do they go back the way they came after attacking or do they retreat towards the new Yard? 2:25 Well it does stand for "Guard Mode" and it means they'll seek out things they can "attack" in an area around them.

[@deftdawg]

Air support construction yard direction does make using from paratroopers as reinforcements to defend one's base more useful

[@suspicioussnail6173]

Wait... you can deploy the gap generator?? That's so weird

[@zeyadgabr8682]

Yeah that's very old thing actually when you deploy it it will take more power but the gap area will increase a little so it's quite useful if you want to hide a big part of your base

[@CnCDune]

@@zeyadgabr8682 That was the intention, but WW changed the values so deploying Gap Generators doesn't do anything other than wasting 9000 power. Of course, maps and mods can still use the feature and change the values so the Gap Generator can, for example, consume 100 more power and increase GapRadius to 10.

[@ZhalgasSubebaev]

WHAT?! ORE FIELD CAN BE DESTROYED?! OMG, THIS TIP CAN CHANGE SITUATION TO YOUR BEST, IF YOU ARE PLAYING ON SPECIFIC MAPS. IMAGINE, YOU HAVE SPOTTED A MEDIUM FIELD OF HIGH VALUABLE BLUE ORE IN ONE OR ANOTHER SPOT OF THE MAP. BUT WHEN YOUR ORE COLLECTORS REACH IT... IT WILL BE TOTALLY EMPTY. ANOTHER INTERSTING TIPS I LEARNED FROM YOU. THANK YOU, TG. KEEP IT UP!👍

[@tickoman273]

about the gap generator, it could have been intended to just have 1 of them, that's probably why it should have been possible to extend its function

[@liliwinnt6]

0:19 wow, two engineers!

[@MoondropSimulacra]

I once saw 4 engineers deployed... when I attacc enemy AI mcv. No conscript tho.

[@liliwinnt6]

@@MoondropSimulacra that's so rare!

[@zipobob1]

Wow I didnt know a lot of these, specially the primary Con Yard. Thanks tg, always fun watching your vids.

[@jasohavents]

He's still got it.

[@NorthNecro232]

2:13 thx for that information

[@sineupp]

G is hotkey for "guard" function. It makes the unit attack any valid targets within certain range. Engi IFVs "attack" allied units by repairing them, miners "attack" ore to harvest it. Another hotkey that's not much used is x which causes a group of units to disperse. Its main function is to reduce effect of splash damage, and if timed correctly it can help avoid a missile from a jet. Also, the spacing helps IFVs stagger their attacks so that not all of them target the same V3/rocketeer/jet/etc.

[@tg.Sacred]

I've added most of the hotkeys on this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hp7PXpiIid1rg9k

[@_aquamarina9308]

what the censor things after Gap generator???

[@reimuliascarlett774]

When Soviet CY gets destroyed, it's actually an Allied Engineer that is being evacuated

[@MoondropSimulacra]

Huh? Even when I play as soviet/yuri?

[@CnCDune]

@@MoondropSimulacra Yes. In rules.ini and rulesmd.ini there's a flag called "Engineer=" in the [General] section. It only supports one entry, and is from the RA1 days where all factions actually shared the Engineers, among other things. "Engineer=ENGINEER ; special (limited supply) infantry survivor from construction yards [probably engineer type]"

[@IhabZein]

Selling MCV sometimes gives me engineer.. done it a lot.. maybe if it’s a second mcv or the first time selling a building..

[@DownRainDrop]

Same. I've just tested it several times with different fractures. Sometimes engineer does evacuate and sometimes doesn't

[@heartorange3365]

Wow red alert 2 still has some suprise we even don't know

[@RyadMax]

Did you watch the video before posting it? 4:25

[@racer927]

The "Guard" function also works in other games; the Allied Medic, Allied Mechanic, GDI Medic, and Nod Mobile Repair Vehicle from their respective games also do this when ordered to Guard and man is it useful in those facility missions in Red Alert 1.

[@Magd-Akarsu]

Excellent commander tg 👏👏👏😁

[@alexbodea8956]

What's the purpose of Gap Generator of using 9000 🔋 and not doing anything 🤔. The black gap is not increasing. I wonder if you lose a nuclear reactor you will be without power? Then when you unuse Gap Generator power level goes back to normal?

[@StriKe_jk]

From the amount of energy required I would assume a gap generator deployment was supposed to act like the crates that hide the entire map so you have to re-explore it.

[@youmukonpaku3168]

it was intended to be possible to deploy a Gap Generator to overload it and increase the area it blacks out. However, the code is unfinished and the feature doesn't actually work in RA2 or YR, but for some reason the deployment part still does, and was not commented out of the Gap Generator...they just increased the power demand for it to 9000 instead.

[@treqdubu6065]

Thanks for the video, before this, i think paradrop plane was in random direction.

[@sarvark5900]

4:30 why did you blured the text

[@Adden1345]

4:30 why is it blurred

[@josephwhitehall3821]

Yeah, at least I knew that at 4:50 . Only the shells can destroy the ore, mirage, prizm and tesla are equipped with different kind of weapon. 3:01 Although the chance of this to happen is 1 : 1,000,000,000 but if there's a gift crate in your base you can always build something near it and take it after that hoping its gonna be exactly what you need like armour for your battle lab (cause battle labs are weak AF) or fire power to guard towers or defence structures

[@tornedoX26]

4:00 I think that'd work in an online game? Like it'd reset the enemies radars or something? I think that'd make a good use for such a thing

[@ahmedosama21]

I have a question what if there were enemies' units around the war miner and u pressed (G) will it attack them or just search for ore

[@shawndavis8576]

I knew about the gap generator, and since I never played multi-player I assumed that it would create a fog of war for non-AI players.

[@88Freshhh]

You had to work in Westwood as a tester!

[@civilsecuritylite12054]

What's with the blurred out message on 4:25

[@aljonmahinay4639]

How many seconds can terror drone to destroy rank 3 apocalypse tank with mechanic shop?

[@chenrayen]

Awesome. If you already tested battle fortresses, I need to review bc those are my new obsession

[@tg.Sacred]

Yes, I have!

[@SingaporeLyfe]

Gap Generator: It's over 9000!!!

[@ljpalorcruz1147]

When you press G on AI’s miner they will also start mining. Idk if that also works on other human player’s miners

[@SalveASMR]

These are some 9000 iq ideas and tips :D

[@benedictcontawe3355]

Can't see words in 4:27

[@ulughanergin305]

Pleaae, feed us with more information and tips, whether they are absolutely useless or very much useful, I wish to learn them all!

[@anonnimoose7987]

By erasing your buildings, you can protect yourself from a nuke

[@AtrumNoxProductions]

I'm still learning things hahaha I always thought "G" was Guard. What was the last one?

[@ファン百合]

Why 4:29 censored

[@xeroxcopy8183]

wait what, what was censored at 4:26?

[@jinroh516]

Have you evet thought of Yuri units in HOMM3

[@caelestigladii]

Hotkeys tutorial would be nice. I only know a few. Lol. G for guard, X for scatter, C for cheer.

[@tg.Sacred]

Have you seen this one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/hp7PXpiIid1rg9k

[@caelestigladii]

@@tg.Sacred The f. I already liked it so I must have seen it. Sorry for the goldfish memory. :) Good job as always.

[@vytautasvaicys8745]

Yes!!! Thank you!

[@medicgaming7958]

I have questions in red alert 2 you can put unit in cloning vat what will happened?

[@roguechest743]

What happens if you have no conyard? Where will the aircrafts come from?

[@thedarkdragon1437]

04:08 Actually, you can make the radius increase by up to 15 cells. by editing rules.ini files more than that, it will not work.

[@enemymoon]

@tg Did you know you made it onto cnc.community website?

[@tg.Sacred]

Didn’t know that. 😮 I made a search but didn’t find anything related to me. What exactly was posted?

[@enemymoon]

@@tg.Sacred if you go under Red Alert 2 under GAMES, and scroll down middle of the page under RED ALERT 2 NEWS.

[@tg.Sacred]

@@enemymoon Interesting, found it. Thanks!

[@Jomster777]

What was stated at 4:27?

[@tg.Sacred]

STER Gaming that ore disappears if you attack it

[@XRTxWolf]

nice tricks, Thank you "Tg - Sacred"

[@sprescav]

Nice!

[@badegg4909]

Deploying the gap generator makes it so that the blackout fog Still works when you have super weapons in the area, I think.

[@danielt.9611]

Interesting theory, should be tested.

[@FXNUKE]

How do you park a kirov and an Rocketeer

[@FXNUKE]

Can anyone tell me please

[@tg.Sacred]

@@FXNUKE It's from the editor before you launch the map.

[@FXNUKE]

How you do that?

[@CnCDune]

@@FXNUKE You use the map editor to place the units on the map; they will stay on the ground until they're given a move-order (this happens after getting hit and the unit trying to scatter if it's controlled by AI; not sure how player-controlled units react)

[@excrist1274]

Primary mainbase can affect paratroopers too iirc Please try it

[@tg.Sacred]

Yes it does, and it's shown in the video.

[@excrist1274]

@@tg.Sacred It's not about direction man. It's about how troop change inside paratroops. For example : allied as primary got GI as paratroops If switch to soviet as primary the troop would change from GI to conscript or not? That's I talking about

[@tg.Sacred]

@@excrist1274 Ah, interesting. I will check it out.

[@MoondropSimulacra]

Lmao... I died at that last part And... You show that force attack to ore, it disappear. Mine trying to nuke it. Didn't work

[@CnCDune]

Nuke's warhead doesn't have Tiberium=yes If it did, it'd destroy ore and gems in its range. It was probably done out of fairness. Imagine a whole field of ore and gems vanishing 'cause of a nuke...

[@MoondropSimulacra]

@@CnCDune -_- bruh... no more ore for me

[@RealMadMed]

Man you should show about the secret units such as the myan pyramid Or lunar tanks or even Vladimir ship

[@tg.Sacred]

For the mayan pyramid you can check here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6W3qoVug9WYg7c&t Vladimir's Dreadnought has been shown in the testing your questions video. Which is the lunar tank though?

[@Stock1897]

so THAT'S what setting primary con yard does...

[@Ghost_Sulfur]

The allied engineer from soviet ConYard... well, okay.

[@jeriesmshaal]

Do red alert 3 + uprising video

[@H4ck3r_9uy]

1:16 And that so it was possible to chtoli? Meme from Russia

[@mhylesfrost356]

It's funny they have the Allied Engis once the Conyard is destroyed, lmao

[@Magd-Akarsu]

tg There's a question I asked myself about it since the first time I played this game for 6 years, IFV what means ? 😕

[@mkaska8647]

Infantry Fighting Vehicle, if I remember correctly

[@Magd-Akarsu]

@@mkaska8647 Where did you get this information ? 😕 and thanks 😁

[@mkaska8647]

@@Magd-Akarsu I'd like to rember where I got it, too lol

[@Magd-Akarsu]

@@mkaska8647 Lol 😂😂😂 good job 😂👏

[@dracmeister]

Infantry Fighting Vehicle, that's literally the what the military acronym is.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

9000? Is that a DBZ reference?

[@everlastingauraX]

Test out mod units. There is a mod I play in which you got a brute named Thanatos no kidding. It would be fine to make a video of.

[@angry_zergling]

It will soon be a WASTELUND.

[@diavolouna5230]

4:26 what

[@jadHalabi]

the more you know

[@I_HopeThatNoOneHasThisName]

"The more useless of you will be im yuri obey me"

[@hohotinhk]

4:27 have bug

[@thuongthuong3739]

thanks for video , i can know more to play game easier @@

[@khaledzaki11]

This game has a lot

[@patricksusulin9335]

you could. you could destroy ores. buy why?

[@dracmeister]

It's totally legit strategy online if you can't mine the area because it's too dangerous or if you want to deny your enemy their gems.

[@TheValentineEnemy]

It is not that bad if you compare it to like Tiberian sun where blue tiberium fields can literally explode completely. In here you just loose some ore. And yeah it can be fun when you have a fight with opponents over THEIR ore fields and tanks and missiles are involved.

[@arkkladen3205]

New friend here

[@aragornii507]

I wasted so much time waiting for those migs!

[@feboro3612]

DAMN!

[@DomesticatedCantaloupe]

*Few minutes*

[@kedarunzi9139]

Hello

[@Dell96kill]

new mate boris with MCV

[@cyberneticdex69]

joke at the end: 2/10

[@mabelwest5669]

4:30 if one certain weapon has the parameter "Tiberium" and its value was equaled as "yes" you can use this weapon to erase ore on the ground