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#1 TX1138

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Posted 30 May 2008 - 06:51 AM

At RA3's new official site, RedAlert3.com, every unit will be receiving it's own profile up until RA3 is launched. Unit profiles contain a detailed background history and a short 'surveillance video'. This thread will be updated with new Soviet unit profiles.

Bullfrog:

The KDB-2 Bullfrog is an unusual all-terrain assault transport with significant anti-aircraft capability. Kiev-based Kazminov Design Bureau all but clinched its monopolistic role as the Soviet Union's favored manufacturer-designer of military vehicles with this particular model, which has proven itself time and again in more than seven years' worth of fierce combat worldwide.


See the full bullfrog article here.


Natasha:

Natasha Volkova is a Russian folk hero, so much so that hers is a household name (her first name, that is) among Soviet citizens who love to show up in throngs to her staged appearances on national holidays and in military parades. Paraphernalia autographed by this highly decorated Leningrad-born sniper is known to sell for many tens of thousands of rubles, though few Soviets would be unconscionable enough to willingly part with such a treasure. After all, the Soviet Union has none other so renowned for her astonishing marksmanship, startling beauty, and complete devotion to the Soviet cause.


See Natasha's full article here.

Edited by TX1138, 30 May 2008 - 11:57 PM.

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Posted 30 May 2008 - 10:01 AM

I have to congratulate it, it's quite easily the ugliest vehicle in a CnC game yet.

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Posted 30 May 2008 - 10:20 AM

Not really. That title already belongs to the RA2 Flak Track, with the Rhino Tank coming a close second.
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Posted 30 May 2008 - 10:32 AM

Having seen it there, I'm a lot happier about how the game might turn out. While a lot of the stuff seems like nonsense, it looks like they have really thought about how they're implementing it into the game.
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Posted 30 May 2008 - 11:24 AM

Year-over-year safety statistics for this unorthodox transportation system continue improving at a rate of 40 percent, which surely would have delighted its inventor, legendary circus ringmaster and patriot Arkady Ilyushin, had he survived the Bullfrog's tragic maiden voyage.

Seriously... what?

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Posted 30 May 2008 - 11:25 AM

Not really. That title already belongs to the RA2 Flak Track, with the Rhino Tank coming a close second.


The flak track looked like a soviet-era flak track, and the Rhino like a chunky soviet-era tank. Or are you complaining about the limitations of voxels :good: ?

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Posted 30 May 2008 - 12:05 PM

I'm not complaining about the limitations of voxels. I used to voxel quite a bit you know, and I found voxels to be quite flexible.

But those two vehicles looked like junk. They were a representation of where Westwood just got lazy. At least EA work hard on what they do.


Either way, I know one unit that eclipses all three of these units: The Devil's Tongue from TS. aka the 'shoebox of death'. That was just uglyness to the extreme.

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Posted 30 May 2008 - 12:50 PM

You are aware that EA took over Westwood after Tiberian Sun, right?

RA2 Flack Track:
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The Devil's Tongue was pretty naff as a voxel, but the design was pretty correct for a subterranean vehicle of it's kind.
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Posted 30 May 2008 - 01:13 PM

the bullfrog unit looks nice imo :)

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Posted 30 May 2008 - 02:28 PM

Yeah,looks nice,wished RA2 could do that*

*I mean the paradroping thingie.

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Posted 30 May 2008 - 04:13 PM

You are aware that EA took over Westwood after Tiberian Sun, right?

Actually EA bought them in 1998, one year before TS was released.

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Posted 30 May 2008 - 04:44 PM

But after it started development, but meh, same difference.

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Posted 30 May 2008 - 10:48 PM

flack track and rihno tank look good! and i like the devils tongue...

anyway, looks pretty good, and the bullfrog is probably made the look a bit "ugly"... its named after a bullfrog, they arn't the most beautiful of creatures...
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Posted 30 May 2008 - 11:52 PM

Updated with Natasha's unit profile.
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Posted 01 June 2008 - 09:02 PM

How come she doesn't have a battle footage :(.




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