Thor_Hammerschlag

If you want to relax play other C&C.

Exactly what i do when i want to play missions.

 

Nevertheless i felt like sharing my experience, because its not a good thing for a mod to be not beginner-friendly.

To be honest, the missions were a huge letdown for me.

 

Way to hard, gernerally by the devs a hard missions seems to be considered a good mission.

 

Cant agree less at that point. Additionally you cant save in the current ARES release.

You generally have to RETRY RETRY and RETRY again. But i dont have time for that in gernal besides work.

 

 

I play cnc to relax. Relaxing is not possible when you cant save especially when you dont have a base. The ability to save, and more maps with bases for the easiest level would be a good addition.

To be honest, i see a significant problem here.

I didnt play this game for ten year (yet i still Play cnc1 tiberian dawn for almost 20 years now lol) - i just got that cnc collection and started playing. Then i remembered RA 2 as a great game - imo best cnc Game after cnc1 - and started playing it als well. First thing i did was taking the soviets and steamrolled the enemy with Apokalypse tanks. Fuck, that was awesome.

After some games i thought that the game could be much better with some adjustments. Went to moddb - checked all mods - and mentalomega seems to be the real Deal.

Downloaded it, started playing - chose the soviets and wanted to try the new Units - that was not really possible because the KI rushed me quickly. Okay i got stomped and tried to make it better next time - i wanted to bulit some awesome Apokalypse and steamroll them. However, there was no Apokalypse. Not even for russia, which i especially chose to built them. I was like "what the hell is that, its RA2 and these modders removed the most awesome RA invention ever". So i rage-uninstalled the Mod.

After some vanilla RA2 i went LUCKILY to the homepage of your Mod. What i saw there is the following thing: Apokalypse Tank. What the hell, reinstalled the mod because there seemingly is the possibility to build an Apokalypse.

But then again how unlikely is it to get such a tank (the fucking most relevant, significant and awesome Tank of any RA). Invading TWO buildings - that is still OK but here comes the bad thing - the Enemy has to be Soviet!! This is far to specific and unlikely, with 3 or in the future even 4 factions in the game. Apart from that it doesnt make sense to capture your own technology and get a reward therefore.


After playing some games (and about 5 more well rated mods on moddb) i am sure that this is the best Mod out there. But two really frustrating things whichs really bother me with this mod. I created an account only to tell you them, because that mod can be really awesome otherwise, and would be even much better with then (usually i never do such things because i am lazy and dont have time):

1) this mod is not beginner friendly (or in my case: not cnc-grandpa friendly). Mainly because the AI rushes you apart before you can try the actually new content. How do you what to recrut new players for the mod with such an huge issue? Not everybody is a pro gamer and many want to try new content of the mods first before they want to play competitive.

2) The most awesome and iconic RA Tank - Apokalypse - doesnt seem to be available in the mod. New players will never find out how to get one without checking the homepage, which is really unlikely. Some ppl just gonna rage-uninstall, just like i did.
Solution: give at least russia the classic Apokalypse Tank from RA2 besides the Tesla Tank or make it easier to get the one you implemented for all subfactions.


Have a good day and keep up the really great work!

Regards

Hammerschlag