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[OmegaBolt]

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About the Mod
Simply put Red-Resurrection is a light hearted, fun expansion modification for Yuri's Revenged following in the games footsteps with some goofy units, unrealistic game world and overall jolly colourful demeanour. If you are looking for fast paced explosive gameplay set in an apocalyptic wasteland dominated by sadistic super-computers and corrupt insidious inter-continental empires then this is probably not the mod for you. It is simple- there are two factions, the blue Allies fighting for justice, liberty and a free market and the red Soviet Union forging an evil scheme to bring down capitalism forever in a horde of conscripted infantry, tank battalions and nuclear warheads.

What Does Beta Mean?
Yes, as you noticed this is a multiplayer beta. Beta means the mod is essentially incomplete, with some minor details missing or unfinished such as unit voices. Since last october I have been in education and no longer have time to develop the mod continually, so I am now releasing it for you all to play, discover incomplete features and balance mistakes and report them to me. When I have time I will definately continue development, expanding the mod with new features including a full campaign for both factions.

Beta means there will be mistakes, some minor missing features etc but I personally believe the mod to be very stable and playable otherwise I would not have released it. Furthermore the Ares version required by the mod is also in beta phase. Note that Ares does not alter your Yuri's Revenge game in any way.

Installation Instructions
Step 1: Download the rar(s) to any directory you like.

Step 2: Unzip the mod files into your Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge directory (default is C:\Westwood\Red Alert 2\ with the original game discs or C:\Program Files\EA Games\Command & Conquer The First Decade\Red Alert 2\ with The First Decade compilation)

Step 3: To activate the mod correctly launch via the red-res.bat file included in the rar. This will activate Ares (necessary for the new game logics) and launch Yuri's Revenge with the mod. If you do not activate run.bat I cannot guarantee game stability and the mod will not function as expected.

To delete the mod simply remove expandmd98.mix, ecachemd98.mix, ares.mix, ares.dll, ares.dll.inj, syringe.exe and red-res.bat

Recommended Game Settings
There are a few game settings I would recommend. Red-Resurrection has been rebalanced around game speed 4, making it suitable for campaign play. This means game speed 5 may be way too fast to play on. Game speed 4 is recommended even for online play.

Online Play
Regarding online play I would very much recommend using CnCNet, a service created by C&C fans allowing people to get together and play providing a much stabler and faster connection than the default XWIS service. To play via CNCNet, download it from the website, extract to your YR directory and launch cncnet.exe. When the window pops up hit Settings and change the Executable setting to red-res.bat (you can also type it in), then relaunch and choose LAN/CNCNet ingame to view the lobby!

If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Edited by OmegaBolt, 11 August 2012 - 02:07 PM.

[Hogo]

I downloaded the soundtrack to have a listen and its an awesome score you have here, Keep going OBolt this mod does look promising

[OmegaBolt]

With regards to step 3 of installation instruction, the game refuses to open even after double clicking red-res.bat file. Help please.

Ok, does anything happen at all? Does the command prompt box pop up briefly? What operating system are you using? Do you use Comodo firewall?

Also make sure that gamemd.exe and syringe.exe are both in the same compatibility mode if you use it.

[OmegaBolt]

Is your gamemd.exe modified at all and is it the latest version (1.001)? If you've played any other mods that require NPatch or use a NoCD crack then they need to be uninstalled first (or just keep a clean version 1.001 copy to swap it with). Ares itself has a NoCD option, just open red-res.bat in Notepad and add -CD to end the of line and make sure mapsmd03.mix, multimd.mix and thememd.mix are in the game folder.

YR 1.001 patch can be downloaded from here if you need it (The First Decade is already patched btw).

[Commodus]

Ah now you mentioned it. I have Npatch installed together with Mental Omega. I will reinstall my yr and try again. If it doesn't work, I will get back to you. Thank you for your help.

Regards.
Wofty.

Edited by Commodus, 12 August 2012 - 02:45 PM.

[OmegaBolt]

Well you don't need to reinstall (I might be too late now ) you can simply uninstall NPatch by rerunning it's installer (there's an uninstall option in there) or just copy the exe from the disc and repatch to 1.001.

[Commodus]

If I recalled correctly, when I copied the mental omega files into the ra directory, one of the mod files replaced the original game file.

Edited by Commodus, 12 August 2012 - 03:25 PM.

[OmegaBolt]

MO should use a launcher so it doesn't actually effect the original files (besides obviously installing NPatch but that's separate). There was an MO patch released, an xmlf file, that is actually copied into the directory but that won't effect Red-Resurrection.

Unless you forced the launcher not to remove MO files in order to have a permanent install they should've been removed when quitting the game.

[OmegaBolt]

Not sure what you mean by tanker but make sure you've copied all of those files to your game directory and that you have no other mods installed. YR should be patched to 1.001 (comes with The First Decade) and run the mod via red-res.bat. You should be able to tell instantly whether the mod is active as there is a new load screen, main menu graphics etc.