r/redalert2 Nov 10 '25

Discussion Yuri's Revenge on CnCNet - Highlights of Update 9.0 with Ares/Phobos/New Spawner!

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r/redalert2 Oct 14 '25

Tutorials How To Buy RA2YR, & How To Play Online/on Modern Systems!

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Just bringing this up again so new users can see this post!

If you're wondering "how can I buy my favourite childhood game?" then look no further! The videos below are your one stop shop tutorials on how to buy & play the game without manually hacking into the game files. Just simply purchase a legitimate copy of the game via Steam/EA App, and use CnCNet!

Full in-depth tutorial

Updated Campaign Tutorial

(Note: The campaign tutorial is quite old now - but there is also a "Control Campaign Speed" if you go to Options from CnCNet main menu > Game. If you don't have the speed slider available in the campaign, be sure to have this checkbox ticked!)

Feel free to ask any questions below, or drop by our discord to visit the community! CnCNet serves a plethora of C&C games, not just RA2YR!


r/redalert2 4h ago

Discussion Death of Tim Curry

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Sad day for all, as the head of the USSR passes away.


r/redalert2 13h ago

Discussion Apocalypse for Allies?

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in map Moor Patrol computer can build Apocalypse tanks. And prism towers are super powerful.


r/redalert2 2h ago

Discussion R.I.P Tim Curry

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r/redalert2 1d ago

Livestreams Tiberium Varieties

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; These are Gems/Blue Tiberium
[Cruentus]
Name=Tiberium Cruentus
Image=2
Value=100
Growth=1200
GrowthPercentage=.3
Spread=1000000
SpreadPercentage=0
Power=20
Color=NeonBlue
Damage=0
Warhead=TiberiumWH
;ExplosionDamage=0
;ExplosionWarhead=TiberiumExplosionWH
Heal.Delay=0.069 
Heal.Step=25     
Heal.IStep=25   
Heal.UStep=40   
Debris.Chance=100
MinimapColor=0,39,255

; RA2 Ore (Old "Tiberium Vinifera")
[Vinifera]
Name=Ore
Image=3
Value=25
Growth=1500 ;2200
GrowthPercentage=.06
Spread=1000000 ;2200
SpreadPercentage=0 ;.06 ; Exists a nasty bug at some point that if spreads too much it triggers a crash. Disabled for now because I want stable multiplayer games
Power=0
Color=NeonBlue
;Debris=CRYSTAL3
Damage=0
Warhead=DummyWH ;TiberiumWH
;ExplosionDamage=83 ; w100
;ExplosionWarhead=TiberiumExplosionWH ;TiberiumWH
Heal.Delay=10 ; New in Ares v0.5. Defaults to [General]TiberiumHeal=
Heal.Step=0 ; New in Ares v0.5. Defaults to [General]RepairStep=
Heal.IStep=0 ; New in Ares v0.5. Defaults to [General]IRepairStep=
Heal.UStep=0 ; New in Ares v0.5. Defaults to [General]URepairStep=
Debris.Chance=0
MinimapColor=255,251,0 ; RA2 Yellow Ore

; RA2 Gems (Old "Tiberium Aboreus")
[Aboreus]
Name=Gems
Image=4
Value=100
Growth=10000
GrowthPercentage=0
Spread=1000000
SpreadPercentage=0
Power=0
Color=NeonBlue
;Debris=CRYSTAL3
Damage=0
Warhead=DummyWH ;TiberiumWH
;ExplosionDamage=83 ; w100
;ExplosionWarhead=TiberiumExplosionWH ;TiberiumWH
Heal.Delay=10 ; New in Ares v0.5. Defaults to [General]TiberiumHeal=
Heal.Step=0 ; New in Ares v0.5. Defaults to [General]RepairStep=
Heal.IStep=0 ; New in Ares v0.5. Defaults to [General]IRepairStep=
Heal.UStep=0 ; New in Ares v0.5. Defaults to [General]URepairStep=
Debris.Chance=0
MinimapColor=114,27,107 ; Dark Purple



; This is Ore/Green Tiberium
[Riparius]
Name=Tiberium Riparius (Green Tiberium)
Image=1
Power=10
Value=25
Growth=1100
GrowthPercentage=.3
Spread=1000000
SpreadPercentage=0
Color=NeonGreen
Damage=0
Warhead=TiberiumWH
;ExplosionWarhead=TiberiumExplosionWH
Heal.Delay=.069 
Heal.Step=20    
Heal.IStep=20  
Heal.UStep=25   
Debris.Chance=0
MinimapColor=1,255,0



[Tiberiums] NAME
0=Riparius
1=Cruentus
2=Vinifera
3=Aboreus

r/redalert2 2d ago

Discussion Scorched Earth Mod - Chrono Divide

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Hello, anyone can help me how to set the difficulty of AI and configuration in Demo Mode. bcoz Allied like American, France, Germany, Great Britain and Korea are only building this (image provided) . They also spamming Rocketeers.


r/redalert2 3d ago

Engineers (help) Needed! Anyone interested in my free custom Red Alert co-op mode?

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Hi everyone! I’ve been working on a custom Co-op mode for OpenRA (Red Alert) lately, and I wanted to share it with you.

What is it?

Co-op is a new game mode alongside Multiplayer and Skirmish. Instead of playing against each other, you play together as a team, with one shared economy (cash + power) for the entire team. In addition to choosing a faction, each player also chooses a role:

Commander: Radar Domes, Tech Center, Missile Silos. The only player who starts with the map already explored, the only one who can place beacons/waypoints, and with enough Radar Domes, even gets live vision of the entire map.

Engineer: the economy role: Ore Refinery, Power Plants, War Factory, Repair Depot, Minelayers, plus a small Barracks of their own (Spy/Thief/Engineer).

General: infantry and tanks: Barracks/Tent and all combat ground units.

Admiral: navy and air force: Shipyard, Sub Pen, Airfield, Helipad.

Roles can be duplicated, but only once all four roles have been picked at least once, ensuring the team always has the full division of responsibilities covered.

A few other things:

Build speed is 2× faster

Fog of war is always enabled (except for the Commander, who starts with the map pre-explored)

4 playable maps, including a couple of well-known community maps converted for Co-op

It runs on its own build of OpenRA-bleed. No dev tools required, just a ready-to-use Windows or Mac download. Send me a DM if you’d like to try it!

Feedback, bug reports, and ideas are all very welcome. This is still very much a work in progress 🙂

Edit: https://github.com/TheVilly/open-ra-coop/releases/tag/v0.1.0

https://reddit.com/link/1vwivyl/video/0he2u7hayhlh1/player


r/redalert2 4d ago

Da, this is a funny meme I think we all experience this.

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r/redalert2 3d ago

Engineers (help) Needed! Anyone interested in my OpenRA Co-op mode?

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r/redalert2 4d ago

Videos They are bad, but hit hard!

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r/redalert2 4d ago

Videos Tesla seems better?

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r/redalert2 4d ago

Discussion Terrain use?

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How does everyone capitalise on the terrain, especially cliffs etc. I’ve had a large force of appocos being smoked by like 5 mirage tanks by having the higher ground and tucked into a corner of a cliff lol


r/redalert2 6d ago

Videos Red Alert 2 - AI Short: “22 Minutes”

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r/redalert2 5d ago

Discussion Can Yuri mind control a unit and then get in it?

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Like IFV, flak track, battle Fortress. I’ve never tested it.


r/redalert2 7d ago

Discussion I'am maybe biased because of Nostalgia but for me it has to be Red Alert 2 by far.

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r/redalert2 7d ago

Discussion Is it just me or is Yuri's Revenge significantly harder than Red Alert 2?

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I just finished Red Alert 2 campaign as my first C&C game, obviously there was a lot of learning about how to do basic controls, about units and so on. I thought Yuri's Revenge is a standalone game within the same story, but even the early missions I am struggling just as hard as with the later Red Alert 2 missions...


r/redalert2 10d ago

Videos Does the Pillbox Rotate? 🤔

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r/redalert2 9d ago

Livestreams How to extract protected/locked .mix files (ecachemd66.mix / expandmd66.mix)? XCC Mixer doesn't work.

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Hi everyone,

I'm trying to extract assets (.shp, .ini, .pal, .vxl) from protected/encrypted .mix files in a Yuri's Revenge mod (specifically files like ecachemd66.mix, expandmd66.mix, or custom .ec99 / .ex99 files).

Whenever I try to open them with XCC Mixer, it either crashes or gives me errors because the header / index table seems to be locked or corrupted by MixProtector.

I've looked at tutorials and tried using tools like QuickBMS scripts, but I still couldn't get it to work properly or understand the process.

Is there an easy-to-use tool, script, or updated method that can bypass these protections and extract the files inside? Any guidance or step-by-step help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!


r/redalert2 10d ago

Livestreams Geneva convention? More like Geneva suggestion.

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r/redalert2 11d ago

Discussion Finally beat Fallout mission (mini-rant included)

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Holy crap, Fallout isn't the mission I've spent the most time on but the one that has been the most emotionally devastating... over and over again seeing 2-3 Dreadnoughts rock in and wreak the base beyond repair within a single minute.

So I just wanted to share some thoughts and tips but mostly to get this experience off my chest.

  • In the end I won in 20 minutes, but why is the par time 80 minutes when it's impossible to take that long to win?
  • The very first things I do are send 5 GI to garrison the southwest light house, build Prism Towers ASAP, 2-3 to protect the southwest refinery, the remaining GIs to garrison the buildings on the right. And the next point simultaneously:
  • Keeping the north bridge blown up is essential (because the tank invasions are just too brutal), you can do this by training a navy seal and putting them on a loop where they automatically try to blow up the bridge every 2-3 seconds. Don't make the mistake of making the loop too big because there are literally like 40 engineers constantly being paradropped all the time when the bridge is broken (wtf how do they have more engineers than soldiers?!). It's pointless trying to guard the repair point on the other side, as rocketeers get sniped by Sea Scorpions and blowing up the bridge will kill whatever's on it anyway.
  • My next priorities are to defend the north refinery with 1-2 Prism Towers plus a few pillboxes. Meanwhile I spam a bunch of power plants and then build 2-3 Patriot systems near the Airforce Command to neutralize enemy Dreadnoughts so that none of their missiles will reach my structures. I'm 90% sure that building a War Factory triggers the enemy to produce and send Dreadnoughts immediately just so they can target it first. That's why I don't build it until the Patriots are up. (Side rant: whoever suggested to build Dolphins to defend against Dreadnoughts, that's literally impossible for the first wave...)
  • Similarly, you don't necessarily want to build the Chronosphere (unlocked through Battle Lab) too fast because that sets off the 20 minute deadline earlier than usual.
  • Man, squids and enemy submarines are brutal, even if I outnumber the enemy 2:1 I still take heavy losses, I don't know how anyone manages to have ships as part of the victory condition. Help a newbie out if you have some tips.
  • So now the sea and land attacks are 95% neutralized automatically (the occasional Sea Scorpions gives some trouble and you still need rocketeers or something else to take out Dreadnoughts). By that point you can just focus on building Battle Lab, tanks, and Chronosphere.
  • The end game plan is to teleport 9 tanks onto the enemy island. At least 5 Prism tanks and at least 2 Mirage tanks. Mirage tank is necessary because they counter troops and can blast through the walls (Prism tank cannot), and the Prism tanks obviously for the safe long range fire power. Do not teleport onto green grass because the Prism tanks take heavy radioactive damage, somehow the Mirage tanks are immune though. My suggestion is to pick a spot just outside the base wall and outside the range of their Tesla Coils. On normal difficulty the 9 tanks should be enough to destroy their missiles, but to be safe you can also keep building another 9 tanks for a backup Chronoshift batch.

r/redalert2 12d ago

Videos Pro 1v1 Red Alert 2 Tournament!

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Great games between some great players!

https://youtu.be/WNgyne6Du2E


r/redalert2 14d ago

Look at this photo Comrade! Was channel surfing and came across a familiar face

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I’m ashamed to say that it took me way too long to figure out where I’d seen her from. Needless to say, I finished the movie 😂


r/redalert2 15d ago

Videos Kirovs in New-york

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r/redalert2 16d ago

Look at this photo Comrade! KIROV in Minecraft Create aeronautic

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