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[Darkstorm]

I dont cheat in skirmish, just the campaigns mainly since there logic games mostly anyhow.

[Speeder]

Camtasia Studio records pixel perfect (literally). I'd also suggest cutting off the sidebar... and maybe just play at a smaller resolution in general if you want the whole game recorded.

I used Camtasia for that video. I'm just wondering what settings and compression should I use to get best results for HD video at youtube. But that one wasn't that bad.

[IconOfEvi]

No it wasn't, but holy crap, resolution was hueg

[Darkstorm]

I found out a way to counter terror drones in Cloak & Dagger. I already posted in beta forums, but mind as well post it here. You can place pairs of a conscript and a terrorist on the edge of your base. When a terror drone comes by it is shot by the conscript and making it attack it. Then it goes for the next nearest thing which happens to be a terrorist packing enough explosives to blow it back straight to Yuri in the Kremlin.

[AntonSlovick]

I found for Yuri 1 that if you garrison the cathedral you get spy sat, so I used the cloak deployer there, walled in my base except for the place with the rail gun tower and set up 2 gattling guns and 2 tank bunkers with gattling guns, terror drones didnt get in and i shot the planes down after promotions came in. Plus sense i kept running out of cash if you garrison the buildings by the oil derrecks and get about 4 harpooners you wont lose them to anything. Then you just gotta wait for the soviets to use up their money, while you stockpile oil derrick money, finish everything off with stealth tanks... hint: Target the power generators in the middle of no where, then take out the right base, ignore base defences and non production structure to keep power off in the bases.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Hi I need some advise on mission "Mental Omega" i just need advice on where to land and start a base, i try to build hiding it with the stealth geneotator, but then they send in hords of Brutes, so anyone have any advice?

[Dreyrugr]

Ok help me please. I am on the first soviet mission. I have checked the entire forum, and yall have been utterly useless. I don't know if its glitching out but i have destroyed EVERYTHING that isnt mine fore sure. I have blown up/killed/shot/destroyed everything on the map. There are no trees no epsilion, no civilians, no houses, no buildings, no units, nothing. (that isn't mine). Also on top of the cliffs are shrouded/black don't know how to discover the tops, there are no flying units on this map. What do I do???

[Allied General]

I'm just wondering what settings and compression should I use to get best results for HD video at youtube.

Heh late reply but

1024x768 as your screen resolution

recording reso at

732x854 (1024x768 ig reso obviously)

Is what I use for my videos and I export as wmv without any edits.

[Darkstorm]

Trust me, if you haven't won, there is something left, even if it is one infantry dude. New version will be out hopefully soon so it shouldn't be too much of a big deal, just skip it and move on.

[dragon1mst]

Trust me, if you haven't won, there is something left, even if it is one infantry dude. New version will be out hopefully soon so it shouldn't be too much of a big deal, just skip it and move on.

What do you mean by soon? I heard that Speeder is taking a loooong holiday and will resume his work is late August - early September.

[Darkstorm]

True, but soon is relative.

[pns666]

First of all I like the campaign very much but have a couple of questions.
I have downloaded the latest mod version and the latest Npatch version, required for playing (the one, given in the main download page of site for the latest version of mod - 2.0psi.

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In the mission Frozen Candles (one of the hardest for me) when my shadows tanks cross the bridge, they must destroy one of the two entering gates to continue (the ones on the front, not the allied gate after that) If I destroy either one of them, the six Mirage tanks from the ore patch next to the 3-4 G.I. come next to me and begin to follow me through the map (the funny part is they follow one of the yuri spies), they don't attack but don't give me the ability to use the shadow tanks to attack any of the defenders (i read a mission guide for solving this particular mission, but its from 2006 so maybe it's outdated). The other problem is the allied gate. The plane that comes just doesn't destroy it. It attacks two times, in theory one time to make it red, and the second to destroy it, but that just doesn't happen. And by now the six Mirage tanks are next to me and if you use the shadow tanks to attack it while red and destroy it, the best thing is they destroy one of the shadow tanks.
After all of this when i come to the part near the two power plants next to the river, from there south it's impossible ( I don't know, maybe I can't figure it out), or maybe it's because I lack the second Shadow tank for a distraction or whatever.
The next question is about the last Allied Mission before the Mental Omega Device. The one with the seals. Firstly my spy doesn't enter the power plants to the west where the Airfields are located. Thats why I had to use a little bit of strategies and could beat the mission with just the army i had (the Mirage tanks, the seals and the Enforcers

[Darkstorm]

That guide is not out of date to my knowledge, the gate should be destroyed by starflares.

[Maximus]

Hello,I am new around here and I love Mental Omega.It's new and extremely innovative.Love to play skirmish yet the missions are just above my head.Can't do them without having money in 100k's sadly.

Speeder,can you please just write a brief walkthrough on each mission.I have read most of the other ones but they didn't really help.I need help in all the missions as even on easy mode they remain kick Butt.Please help me.

[Darkstorm]

Yeah, that's my only problem with the campaign. It just annoys people that aren't horribly good to hell. I say Speeder should use triggers to make the missions more to their difficulty level. (There are settings in FA2 I believe that allow you to tell what difficulty mode the triggers will trigger in. So you can give more money or reinforcements to easy players, where hard players would hardly get any.)

[Black/Brunez]

I admit that you´re right. EASY should be EASY. HARD should be HARD

[Maximus]

I have done the 1st Soviet mission.At first it seemed impossible to even get to the 4-G Base but after extreme caution i was able to complete the mission.I am doing Nuclear Nightmare right now.It is also extremely slow.Have to Save every 10 secs almost.Pesky dogs get the best of the Sabotagurs.

The 1st allied and epsilon are also extremely hard to beat unless i use a specific sneaky tactic.I tried to do the Last Soviet Mission:-Fall of Adam ,i used a money trick to allow heavy funding as first,there is no place to set up a base and expand it properly.Second,the Shadow Tanks are just the biggest pain along with the Mobile Cloaking Devices.Thirdly,why is every mission so extreme?. You should go a bit easy on the first missions man and that's why I was able to complete Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge(without Mental Omega of course) on hard difficulty.

Speeder,just help us out.It is like your product is great but the way to use it is just damn complicated.

[Black/Brunez]

Actually, the first missions are not hard. So you will kill yourself after the first mission of any campaing...

[JaVS_v2.5]

Yuri's final mission was a pain for me... low resource and constantly attack by the MiGs.
Does anyone know a way to finish this final mission?

[Black/Brunez]

Check out the full article and I believe that you will find a solution