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[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago (5 children)
[–] richmondez@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

OpenRA is a game engine and the games built on it are mostly fan C&C like games that are skinned to look like the early actual C&C games. The engine can't even play the original missions and mp maps.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Indeed, but someone has recreated the original Red Alert and that’s really all I need.

[–] richmondez@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

You mean Vanilla Conquer which is a proper cross platform source port?

[–] Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Custom maps abound! Combined arms is great too.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't like a few of the changes they make to gameplay. In particular, I don't like being able to build more than one structure at a time. I know RA2 started it, but I didn't like it in RA2, either. Being able to build a power-hungry defensive structure and the power plant to run it at the same time takes out some of the strategy, in my opinion.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Fair enough, but I believe there may be a toggle for that.

[–] rdri@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Is better than Red Alert? But is it better than Renegade?