!!!OUR MODDB PAGE HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!!! - Welcome to F[AI]r Mod

[BRCKHAN88]

FINALLY, OUR MODDB PAGE HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!!! 

 

You can download the latest version from our MODPAGE!!!

 

***Summary***

Hello Commanders & Comrades of Red Alert 2 & Yuri's Revenge Universe,

From now on, I will proudly share my unofficial patch-like modification of Red Alert 2 & Yuri's Revenge called F[AI]r Mod. This mod aims to enhance gameplay dynamics and vanilla experience without creating unfair conditions, so do not consider it just an AI patch.

 

This mod aims to improve Red Alert 2 + Yuri's Revenge's gameplay dynamics and vanilla experience without creating unfair conditions by fixing errors, adding Intelligent but Fair AI for extra challenge, making some graphical updates, implementing CnCnet integration with all official campaigns, adding CnCnet Soundtracks, etc. All of these enhancements will blend your Red Alert 2 & Yuri's Revenge experience with current elements, taking your nostalgia experience to the next level.

 

***What is F[AI]r / Why F[AI]r***

 

Let's be honest, most of the Red Alert 2 fans like me are annoyed about how awful the AI of the game is, the bugs that have never been solved, and the old gaming engine that creates a lag in most scenarios. CnCnet brings a more modern engine that slightly fixes performance issues, but other issues still remain. The rebalance configurations are not enough to fix unfair conditions, and also some features completely altered Vanilla Units characteristics.

At this point I began to search for modifications to enhance my gaming experience, trying some AI or improvement mods like other players. I experienced most of the solutions developed by other players, unfortunately, most of them are based on producing and sending bigger task forces by providing most of the power and resources to AI that Human players can't have due to the engine restrictions. In addition to this, some of the AI mods have lots of modded units for AI but players can not produce. That makes the gameplay challenging I agree, but unfair, that's my key motivation for making this mod.

Let me give an example, in most mods, all AI factories act like cloning wat to provide AI more space for foundation and produce their teams agile. This mod improves AI's foundation skills so they can build more factories in the same space to make their productions faster just like human players do, with no more filling areas with power plants unnecessarily. Also, this mod also disables AI factory cloning to make it fairer.

For another example, in most scenarios, AI does not obey the prerequisites when producing teams, like Allied AI House creates a destruction team filled with Prism Tanks and Mirages without Allied Battle Lab. This mod also prevents most of these types of scenarios by using smart triggers for AI.

F[AI]r Mod offers toughful gaming experience in ballanced and fair conditions; No modded units, no cheats, no initial money bonus, no prerequisite violations, equal just like human players. You can read all the changelogs at next section to learn how I did it. 

 

***List of Change&Additions***

1. Fixes & Additions & Changes I applied in Vanilla Red Alert 2 + YR

* FIXED CnCnet cnc-ddraw freeze on pause.
* FIXED AI task forces stuck in his own base.
* FIXED AI cannot send their task forces to defend their buildings when they are under attack.
* FIXED AI unit freeze randomly. Now all the targeting features are optimized in rules(md).ini.
* FIXED AI Siege Choppers can not regroup.
* FIXED IFV repair turret. Now AI units repair their own units at any angle.
* FIXED Infinite Money glitch on House which has Grinder and Industrial Plant at the same time.
* FIXED Elite Chrono Legionnaire can not shoot through walls.
* FIXED Allied Amphibious Transport can crush infantries when Soviet and Yuri counterparts can not.
* FIXED Patriot Missiles and Flak Cannons can not fire paratroopers.
* FIXED Prism Tower Support Power shots make an instant kill on every unit.
* FIXED Invisible Apocalypse Muzzle Flash.
* FIXED AI Harriers&Beagles dummy hanging state. Now they are flying over enemies more than before.
* FIXED Harvesters stop collecting when no ores remain in a moment. Now AI will trigger their idle miners.
* FIXED San Francisco Misc Building 1 Muzzle Flash.
* FIXED Animations on Allied Battle Labs and Radars. Now their animations are freezing when blackout.(Same as Yuri Tech Buildings.)
* FIXED Prerequisites on all Units and buildings. (For example, Cuban Terrorist production is now dependent on the existence of Soviet Radar.)
* FIXED Flak Units lose too much power on their weapons when promoted to Elite Level. Now their values are balanced with their regular guns.
* FIXED RA2Mode Cloning Vat grinder ability.
+ ADDED CnCnet Support; New UI & New Spawner Engine & Customized features like enabled Campaign Colors etc.
+ ADDED Base defense & patrol teams with intelligent scripts on every faction. Now AI defense teams are more sensitive than before.
+ ADDED MCV Production and Base Expand Priority feature for AI. Also, MCV Production Trigger bonded with their prerequisites for all factions.
+ ADDED Crush feature on all artillery. Now Prism, V3, and Magnetron have little opportunity against small groups of infantries.
+ ADDED MC Technotypes have the ‘Sensors’ feature. They now can detect submerged units to give the Yuri Faction the ability to advance in Navals.
+ ADDED Hero Units (Tanya & Boris) now detect any disguised units. Now they're becoming more functional on the battlefield.
+ ADDED Voicelines of RA2 Tanya on YR Tanya. Now she is more prime than before
+ ADDED AI now defends their strategic Tech Buildings such as Oil Derricks, Airports, Machine Shop etc.
+ ADDED Individual AI Generals feature from Tiberian Sun. (AI.tlb has been applied on rules(md).ini).
+ ADDED Threat Avoidance Coefficient on Engineer-Like & Transport & Ranged units to avoiding from threats on their missions.
& CHANGED ai(md).ini completely optimized; added new Phobos scripts, removed unnecessary task force & scripts.
& CHANGED HarvestersPerRefinery: (2,2,1-->4,3,2). Small Buff applied on AI Economy.
& CHANGED TeamDelays: (2000,2500,3500-->300,400,500). This makes AI attack sooner and constantly. (Below 300 makes AI confused when creating teams.)
& CHANGED Crush distance from 1.8 to 6 so most of AI main battle tanks prefer crush infantries instead of firing.
& CHANGED Allied Power Plant increased to 250 power from 200, so Allied counterpart now gains more foundation areas.
& CHANGED Yuri Bio Reactors reduced to 100 from 150 for supply power balance between factions.
& CHANGED Tank Destroyer weapon attributes; Increased Range:(Green: 5-->6.75; Elite: 6.5-->7.5). In addition of these, Both weapons apply enemy structures more than the original (But their damage is still weaker than the Grizzly does.). Now Tank destroyers become more valuable assets in Tank battles.
& CHANGED Tesla Tanks weapon attributes; Increased Range:(Green: 4-->5; Elite: 6-->6.5). 
& CHANGED All AA Vehicles (IFV, Flak Track) OpportunitiyFire to "yes" from "no". Now all of them shoot on mobile.
& CHANGED Apocalypse & Tesla Tanks OpportunityFire to "yes" from "no". Now Soviet Power Supremes obtain a real "Challenge".
& CHANGED Elite Prism and Magnetron Weapon Range: 10-->12.
& CHANGED Sight of Ranged Units (Prism Tank, Magnetron, V3) is equalized in 10.
& CHANGED The Primary Weapon of Battle Fortress has been changed. Now they are firing PARA instead of 20mmRapid (damage and range increased).
& CHANGED Vehicles Movement zones; Now most of units will cannons tries to destroy obstacles when they got stuck.
& CHANGED Miners size in transport:(Chrono & War Miner:3-->4; Slave Miner:3-->6). (I increased Slave Miner's size more than others because Slave Miner has an embedded refinery. This makes more sense to me.)
& CHANGED Magnetron's and Apocalypse's size in transport:(6-->4) Now Soviet and Yuri counterparts make more efficient naval invasions.
& CHANGED Max Queued Objects to 99 from 29. You can easily manage queued units by a combination of Click+SHIFT.
& CHANGED Threat Values of Every Single Technotype&Buildingtype for AI. Also Threat Calculation coefficients has been tuned for better reaction.
& CHANGED Tiberium Long Scan Radius. Now Miners wandering for new resources on far points.
& CHANGED AI Dissolve Unfilled Delay: 5000-->2400. This will allow AI to pursue a more dynamic production strategy, and not be restricted to producing the current triggered team.
& CHANGED AI Virtual Purifiers amount in order of h;m;e: 4;2;0-->10;6;2 . I know that getting an extra cash bonus on each dumping of enemy harvesters would go against the game's fairness, but I think it's a fair deal considering the limited number of factories the AI can build. I also think that it's the starting conditions that make the game unfair, not the fact that the AI gets more credits per harvester than the player.
& CHANGED All Dog unit's default guard range from 8 to 16. Now dogs have stronger senses against enemy spies than before.
& CHANGED Flak Trooper's prequisite. Now it can trained directly from Soviet Barracks without a Radar Tower for balance.
& CHANGED Yuri Bust skin and aims. Now it has a higher resolution firing with two lasers.
& CHANGED Cloning Vats in YR moved to Tech tab from Combat tab just like in RA2.
- REMOVED AI Money Bonus in Multiplayer. Now AI and Human Players start in the same conditions.
- REMOVED Duplicate or Unnecessary Flags in most of original .ini files.
- REMOVED Herobrine

2. Additions with ARES Extension

* FIXED Factories acting like Cloning Vats for AI. 
+ ADDED AI will build multiple factories (Depending on their difficulty.) This method makes AI fairer than the cloning method in producing bigger task forces.
+ ADDED Allied AI on difficult level may build more than one Robot Control Center.
+ ADDED All AI factions now may build more than one Repair Depot (Grinder for Yuri) to keep MCV production under guarantee.
+ ADDED Team Retaliate feature for every task force. Now AI task forces will act like a group rather than acting individually.
+ ADDED Colorful walls. Looks amazing and also every player may notice their walls for sale.
+ ADDED Tech Structures will by default return to the civilian side when a player is defeated or giving up rather than self-destruct.

!!!NOTE: You can also read all fixes ARES made on Vanilla YR Engine from this webpage: https://ares-developers.github.io/Ares-docs/bugfixes/

3. Additions with Phobos Extension

* FIXED AA Only Weapons now target AA units effectively like ground targetting. (by Starkku)
* FIXED AI naval vehicle production. Now AI produce naval units independently from ground units. (by Starkku)
* FIXED Wounded AI Units were massing around of Service Deport. Now they send their units one by one like human players do.
* FIXED The bug that parasite will vanish if it misses its target when its previous cell is occupied (by TaranDahl/航味麻酱)
* FIXED Units are now unable to be kicked out from a factory that is in the construction process, and will not always stuck in the factory (by CrimRecya & TaranDahl)
* FIXED Drive/Jumpjet/Ship/Teleport locomotor did not power on when it is un-piggybacked bugfix. (by Tyuah8)
* FIXED New Attack scripts directly target any disguised units. Now AI using a "DetectDisguise" ratio before targetting (by FS-21)
+ ADDED Placement Preview on every building.
+ ADDED New intelligent attack script on AI Taskforces. Now AI will hunt down every single unit smarter than regular. (You can find it here: https://phobos.readthedocs.io/en/latest/AI-Scripting-and-Mapping.html)
+ ADDED Efficient bridge repair operation scripts for AI engineers. (by FS-21 )
+ ADDED Building placing and deploying logic enhancement, now all human or AI units inside the foundation area will scatter automatically outer the region. (by CrimRecya)
& CHANGED AI Gather at Deployed MCV behavior has been disabled. (This feature will be switchable on Rules(md).ini) (by TaranDahl/航味麻酱)
& CHANGED AI Defeat Hunt behavior is now able to be customized. (by TaranDahl/航味麻酱)
& CHANGED Jumpjet Climbing Logic Enhancement. Now they level their height before reaching the obstacle like a cliff, highrise, etc. (by CrimRecya) 

!!!NOTE: You can also read all fixes Phobos made on Vanilla YR Engine from this webpage: https://phobos.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Fixed-or-Improved-Logics.html

 

***Credits to All Contributers***

Thanks to all the developers of Ares & Phobos extensions I was able to overcome some of the limitations of the game engine and make the game simpler, smoother, and fairer. I would also like to thank @TK3600 for inspiring me to make this improvement.

If you are also satisfied with the experience I have created, you can follow the progress of the projects and support the developers on the pages I will leave below:

 

Link of Official ARES Extension Webpage

Link of Official Phobos Extension Webpage

 

PS:I'll be grateful If you share your feedback and suggestions with me after you get experienced so I can continue to develop my work.

 

 

 

Edited Saturday at 12:16 PM by BRCKHAN88
Added list of changes of My work.

[Pyrite]

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* FIXED Infinite Money glitch on House who has Grinder and Industrial Plant at the same time.

Good thinking, and I like how you did that. The Industrial Plant only improves production efficiency, leading to less waste of time and resources, but a unit can still contain a set amount of a material (steel, copper or whatever). But realistically some of the material is always lost when recycling because it can never be perfect, so you reduced the unit soylents to 75% of the unit's original price to prevent the exploit.

I also noticed that you reduced the brute soylent too.

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* FIXED Elite Chrono Legionnaire can not shoot through walls.

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& CHANGED Flak Trooper's Elite AA weapon damage:8-->20. Now they earn "Real Promotion" consider as at least they have a job.

Yup, these were pretty blatant oversights. Especially the latter because you can realistically have a lot more elite FTs.

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+ ADDED Inactive Service Deports for Allied&Soviet AI. This will trigger it's MCV Production.

Nice. The AI should always have been smart enough to have Service Depots and build MCVs.

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& CHANGED Crush distance from 1.8 to 6 so most of AI battle tanks prefer crush infantries instead of firing.

Yup, low-tech combat tanks and pre-elite Apocs are ineffective against infantry, so they're better off crushing them (maybe not Apocs because they're too plodding to actually get infantry under their treads). And Mirages are too fragile and effective against infantry to feel the need to crush inf (Prisms too, but they don't quite fit the "battle tank" category).

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& CHANGED Allied Power Plant increased to 250 power from 200, so Allied counterpart now gain more foundation areas.

& CHANGED Yuri Bio Reactors reduced to 100 from 150 for supply power ballance between factions.

These things needed a balance. The Allied PPs are good in a vacuum, but the other factions have ways to get even more power.

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& CHANGED Tank Destroyer weapon attributes; Increased Range:(Green: 5-->6.75; Elite: 6.5-->7.5). In addition of these, Both of weapons apply enemy structures more than original (But their damage still weaker than the Grizzly does.). Now Tank destroyers become more valuable assets in Tank battles.

They always needed a buff, but no one quite agrees on how much or in which way. Rhinos can just dodge them, Grizzlies do so even better, and you just deal with artillery using other stuff. Yes, the range should be better (Traditional German tank destroyers had long range). But they should still be worse than Mirages because they're lower tech.

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& CHANGED Tesla Tanks weapon attributes; Increased Range:(Green: 4-->5; Elite: 6-->6.5). 

IKR, vanilla Teslas are terrible even ignoring the country-exclusive unit competition from Desolators due to having the range of a battering ram (heck, they look like one to boot!). They're also pretty squishy even with "heavy" armor, so they can't ever hit any units before taking damage and getting destroyed easily, to the point that even slow fragile prisms have them beaten in terms of survivability because at least they can outrange stuff. They have amazing firepower against units, and the mod Yuri Rebalanced dropped the ball by making them OP with almost a prism-level range, so they don't need THAT much, they just need average range to be balanced. A nice compromise there.

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& CHANGED All AA Vehicles (IFV,Flak Track) OpportunitiyFire to "yes" from "no". Now all of them shoot in mobile.

I can understand giving IFVs that (the Allies have worse AA so you can compensate), but Flak Tracks are already good enough without that IMHO.

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& CHANGED Apocalypse & Tesla Tanks OpportunityFire to "yes" from "no". Now Soviet Power Supremes obtain a real "Challenge".

ITA on Teslas because they're fast nippy glass cannons meant to mainly deal with mobile units, but not sure about Apocs. It doesn't fit their flavor. They're supposed to be slow and powerful juggernauts. Maybe give them +1 extra range instead. Also, their acceleration issue seems to be hardcoded, so you can only fix that by making an identical new unit. Without acceleration, they'd be still slow, but only as slow as BFs and prisms, which would be fair.

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& CHANGED Patriot Missiles and Flak Cannons weapon attribute: Now they will also fire at Paratroopers.

Just makes sense.

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& CHANGED Elite Prism and Magnetron Weapon Range: 10-->12.

& CHANGED Sight of Ranged Units (Prism Tank, Magnetron, V3) is equalized in 10.

In the earlier builds, elite mags had their range worsen against vehicles (from 12 to 10). According to the cnc wiki, it supposedly got fixed, but when I check the original ini, it still has a range of 10. 😖

Elite prisms will be even more nasty now. Killing desos with impunity, not getting outranged by deployed choppers or mags anymore, 14 (!) range in tank bunkers in FFG style games and/or ones with promo crates... The only problem would be actually reaching the elite status.

Also yup, artillery units should have great vision. You can't shoot very far if you can't see the target after all. No more getting melted by towers or bunkers you normally outrange just because you didn't clear the shroud yet.

I also noticed you gave artillery the flag ToProtect. The AI won't be dumb enough to send them alone to destroy buildings.

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& CHANGED Primary Weapon of Battle Fortress has been changed. Now they are firing PARA instead of 20mmRapid (damage and range increased).

BFs are micro-heavy because they can behave pretty erratically at times, moving towards a bunch of mind control units, using the built-in machine gun instead of the better weapons from the infantry inside it among other things, so making the built-in weapon better will make it less erratic. Good thinking doing so without really buffing them even more at all otherwise.

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& CHANGED Vehicles Movement zones. Now all tanks with turret will destroy the obstacles on their road rather than moving around.

Depends on the obstacle, but most tanks aren't very good against structures.

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& CHANGED Miners size in transport:(Chrono & War Miner:3-->4; Slave Miner:3-->6). I increased Slave Miner's size more than other because Slave Miner has embeded refinery. This makes more sense to me.
& CHANGED Magnetron's and Apocalypse's size in transport:(6-->4) Now Soviet and Yuri counterparts make more efficient naval invasions.

Miners carry ore, and Yuri's carries even more.

And never understood why mags and Apocs take up 6 slots. They should be smaller than a freaking MCV at least. Especially mags because there's no reason why they should be larger than most other vehicles.

[BRCKHAN88]

Thank you for your valuable comments, I plan to share the CnCNet-compatible version with additional arrangements in a couple of days. However, I'm going to make this project more comprehensive than just a few .ini modifications, because most of the changes I want to make are structural. My future goal is to implement this as an update to the game if we can get the concept to a majority in this thread.

It would be useful for me to clarify a couple of points you made in your comment, because I think the goal is not quite clear at that point:

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I can understand giving IFVs that (the Allies have worse AA so you can compensate), but Flak Tracks are already good enough without that IMHO.

Flak weapons are effective in multiple targets because of it's spreading projectile but when the distance increases with target, it can easily loose it's impact and the accuracy gets unstable . On the other hand Flak track has an special ability to crush fences and sandbags so it's spreading projectile becomes an advantage only if it can shoot on mobile to maintain it's optimal distance IMHO. 

 

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ITA on Teslas because they're fast nippy glass cannons meant to mainly deal with mobile units, but not sure about Apocs. It doesn't fit their flavor. They're supposed to be slow and powerful juggernauts. Maybe give them +1 extra range instead. Also, their acceleration issue seems to be hardcoded, so you can only fix that by making an identical new unit. Without acceleration, they'd be still slow, but only as slow as BFs and prisms, which would be fair.

To be honest, I don't agree with this point, because Apocs are juggernaut units, they need to be heavy and effective offensively, whereas, with a fixed turret, it is more advantageous to position them only defensively because as you say they are too slow to make an effective attack and this makes them an open target. So providing mobile firing capability doesn't make them more agile, but it makes them an effective offensive unit. Because I think Apoc should have enough endurance to take at least 4-5 units with it until it is destroyed, and it is difficult to achieve this without mobility. If I increase the range, Apoc will stop being an offensive unit and become a defensive artillery and this will take the unit away from its original purpose.

Edited June 10 by BRCKHAN88

[BRCKHAN88]

On 6/7/2024 at 6:17 PM, BRCKHAN88 said:

!!!DISCLAIMER - THIS AI NEEDS ARES & PHOBOS EXTENSIONS TO WORK PROPERLY. !!!

The main aim of this project is improve Red Alert 2 + Yuri's Revenge is improving gameplay dynamics and experience without creating unfair conditions. As we know how awful and out of intelligence RA2 YR AI is, I wanted to develop a new AI that acts more responsive and more effective depends on momentary circumstances. I experienced most of  solutions developed by other players, unfortunately most of them based on producing and sending bigger taskforces by provide most of power and resource to AI that Human players can't have (like all factories acting like Clonning Wats) because of the game rules and dynamics. That makes the gameplay challenging I agree, but unfair. In addition to this , some of the AI mods have lot's of modded units for AI but player can not produce. This destroys the pure vanilla gaming experience.

For now on, I am proudly share my AI and Reballance modification, named F[AI]r Mod. It provides AI acting agile and responsive depend on the momentary conditions like create more intelligent taskforces applying flexible scripts with original units in fair conditions. I also made some minor modifications in game that does not affect the real game experience. Thanks to developers of ARES and Phobos Extension for contributing my modifications.

Here is the list of additions and changes I made in game:

1. Fixes & Additions & Changes I applied in Vanilla Red Alert 2 + YR
* FIXED AI taskforces stuck in his own base.
* FIXED Yuri Tank Bunker can not populate in every angle. Now all bunkerable tanks get into the bunker in any direction.
* FIXED AI cannot send their taskforces to defend their buildings when they under attack.
* FIXED AI unit freeze randomly.
* FIXED Siege Choppers can not apply any of Regroup scripts.
* FIXED IFV repair turret. Now AI unit repair his own units in any angle.
* FIXED Infinite Money glitch on House who has Grinder and Industrial Plant at the same time.
* FIXED Elite Chrono Legionnaire can not shoot through walls.
* FIXED Allied Amphibious Transport can crush infantries when Soviet and Yuri counterparts can not.
* FIXED Prism Tower Support Power shots make instant kill on every units.
* FIXED Invisible Apocalypse Muzzle Flash.
+ ADDED Inactive Service Deports for Allied&Soviet AI. This will trigger it's MCV Production.
& CHANGED Crush distance from 1.8 to 6 so most of AI battle tanks prefer crush infantries instead of firing.
& CHANGED Allied Power Plant increased to 250 power from 200, so Allied counterpart now gain more foundation areas.
& CHANGED Yuri Bio Reactors reduced to 100 from 150 for supply power ballance between factions.
& CHANGED Tank Destroyer weapon attributes; Increased Range:(Green: 5-->6.75; Elite: 6.5-->7.5). In addition of these, Both of weapons apply enemy structures more than original (But their damage still weaker than the Grizzly does.). Now Tank destroyers become more valuable assets in Tank battles.
& CHANGED Tesla Tanks weapon attributes; Increased Range:(Green: 4-->5; Elite: 6-->6.5). 
& CHANGED All AA Vehicles (IFV,Flak Track) OpportunitiyFire to "yes" from "no". Now all of them shoot in mobile.
& CHANGED Apocalypse & Tesla Tanks OpportunityFire to "yes" from "no". Now Soviet Power Supremes obtain a real "Challenge".
& CHANGED Flak Trooper's Elite AA weapon damage:8-->20. Now they earn "Real Promotion" consider as at least they have a job.
& CHANGED Patriot Missiles and Flak Cannons weapon attribute: Now they will also fire at Paratroopers.
& CHANGED Elite Prism and Magnetron Weapon Range: 10-->12.
& CHANGED Sight of Ranged Units (Prism Tank, Magnetron, V3) is equalized in 10.
& CHANGED Primary Weapon of Battle Fortress has been changed. Now they are firing PARA instead of 20mmRapid (damage and range increased).
& CHANGED Vehicles Movement zones. Now all tanks with turret will destroy the obstacles on their road rather than moving around.
& CHANGED Miners size in transport:(Chrono & War Miner:3-->4; Slave Miner:3-->6). I increased Slave Miner's size more than other because Slave Miner has embeded refinery. This makes more sense to me.
& CHANGED Magnetron's and Apocalypse's size in transport:(6-->4) Now Soviet and Yuri counterparts make more efficient naval invasions.
& CHANGED Max Queued Objects to 99 from 29. You can easily manage queued units by combination of Click+SHIFT.
& CHANGED Threat Values of every Single Unit for AI.
& CHANGED Tiberium Long Scan Radius. Now Miners wandering for new resources on far points.
- REMOVED AI Money Bonus in Multiplayer. Now AI and Human Players start in the same conditions.

2. Additions with ARES 3.0
* FIXED Factories acting like Clonning Vats for AI. 
+ ADDED AI will build multiple factories (Depends on their diffculty.) This metod makes AI fairer than the clonning method in producing bigger taskforces.
+ ADDED Team Retaliate feature for every Taskforces. Now AI taskforces will act like a group rather than acting individual.
+ ADDED colorful walls. Looks amazing and also every players may notice their own walls for sell.

!!!NOTE: You can also read all fixes ARES made on Vanilla YR Engine from this webpage: https://ares-developers.github.io/Ares-docs/bugfixes/

3. Additions with Phobos Extension 0.3.0.1
* FIXED AA Only Weapons now targetting AA units effective like ground targetting.
+ ADDED Placement Preview on every building.
+ ADDED New intelligent attack script on AI Taskforces. Now AI will hunt down every single unit smarter than regular. (You can find it here: https://phobos.readthedocs.io/en/v0.3.0.1/AI-Scripting-and-Mapping.html)

!!!NOTE: You can also read all fixes Phobos made on Vanilla YR Engine from this webpage: https://phobos.readthedocs.io/en/v0.3.0.1/Fixed-or-Improved-Logics.html

 

I'll be grateful If you share your feedback and suggestions with me after you get experienced so I can continue to develop my work.

 

Stay tuned for next updates. Have a good battle, comrades

 

!!!THE FIRST INITIAL RELEASE IS JUST COMPLETED. GET READY FOR THE TEST!!!

WARNING: This mod is a comprehensive enhancement in the vanilla game dynamics, No significant alterations and modifications occurred "ex: Another Boomer Sub unit but modified for only fire on the land or building Yuri Statue as a defensive structure, etc."

Known Error: The current mod always keeps crashing with the new spawner (gamemd_spawn.exe), so it runs on classic gamemd.exe. I would appreciate if you could let me know where I need to edit ClientDefinitions.ini or any other configuration file.

1. New Fixes & Additions & Changes I applied in Vanilla Red Alert 2 + YR

* FIXED AI Defensive Units Stop Approaching any attacker, stuck on its latest cell and locked on their latest attacker in If they took any damage...

* FIXED Harvesters stop collecting when no ores remain in a moment. Now AI will trigger their idle miners.

+ ADDED MCV Production Priority feature.

2. New Additions with Phobos Extension 0.3.0.1

+ ADDED Efficient Bridge Repairing operation by AI. (Not intelligent, just a bit more efficient than Vanilla, because AI does not detect which bridges are destroyed in the map & Which side of Repair Hut is available to reach.

 

Installation of Mod:

+Drag and drop all the files in the .zip into the main directory as they are. You don't need to make any backups. 

Uninstallation of Mod:

+Run "un[AI]nstaller.bat" in admin mode to remove it. After that, you must reinstall the latest CnCnet patch from the Update Center. It will restore the whole game.

 

Edited July 22 by BRCKHAN88

[BRCKHAN88]

!!!HOTFIX & LATEST PHOBOS EXTENSION HAVE BEEN APPLIED ON V1.1!!!

Edited July 22 by BRCKHAN88

[BRCKHAN88]

!!! A COMPREHENSIVE UPDATE (VERSION 1.2) HAS BEEN RELEASED !!! 

 

UPDATE NOTES:

1. Fixes I applied:

- Yuri Bust skin and animations updated. Now it has a higher resolution and it's firing with two lasers.

- San Francisco misc building 1 (CASANF17) occupation muzzle Fire positions have been fixed on artmd.ini.

- Large task forces sometimes get stuck on gathering commands. The pathfinding algorithm of the game is totally crap but I make it much better for AI.

 

2. Additions & Changes:

- The whole aimd.ini has been edited for optimization (trigger weights, taskforces, scripts, etc.). Clean coding has been applied for developers interested in developing this project.

- Brutal AI making more constant attacks with small task forces.

- Flak troopers can now be trained directly from Soviet Barracks without Radar Tower for balance.

 

I will be releasing a more comprehensive structural update with campaign support for those interested in the near future. Stay tuned for further updates😎🤘

 

Edited July 31 by BRCKHAN88

[Bobble]

Forget wanting to get it applies to cncnet, it'll never happen. People have been wanting basic things for years, and it's never happened (e.g. a few extra cameos for MOD maps which literally take a few seconds to add-in and some people made a few generic cameos already).

If you are able to make your AI a simple copy-paste add-in for MOD maps, without needing Ares etc, it's probably the best way for now. Get people adding it in to their maps to build traction. 

[Bobble]

Another example, I been asking for a year now for cncnet to bind usernames (to an email etc) or stop instant name changes.

Around 500 active players worldwide, and a lot of them are toxic AHoles on a 20 year old game, behaving as if they were still 9 lol.

Many change thier game name literally daily to bash noobs, or continue thier toxic behavior (general abusive chat etc).

If cncnet is able to tell you when the user was last on (!seen command) and thier previous names (!whois command), then a few lines of code can fix this toxicity by simply limiting name changes to 1 per month. Literally 1 line of code to ensure current user name is <30 days old.

They haven't fixed basic things like this, so adding a new AI has ZERO chance. Sorry, but it's reality.

[BRCKHAN88]

1 hour ago, Bobble said:

Forget wanting to get it applies to cncnet, it'll never happen. People have been wanting basic things for years, and it's never happened (e.g. a few extra cameos for MOD maps which literally take a few seconds to add-in and some people made a few generic cameos already).

If you are able to make your AI a simple copy-paste add-in for MOD maps, without needing Ares etc, it's probably the best way for now. Get people adding it in to their maps to build traction. 

Unfortunately you're right about this. As for me, persuade all C&C community applying my modification to improve their gaming experience from 23 years old game is an utopia, considering there are a few people left who plays c&c games, and also this is not my direct motivation. I'm just a simple RA2 player who wants to take care of it's faults and shortcomings just obtain more fun from that.

 

Cncnet just provide us more modern and stable platform to play it together. That's why I am sharing my modification from here, hope to find some people having similar expectations. Nothing more.

Edited July 25 by BRCKHAN88

[Bobble]

Your AI is a good idea. It's a shame to waste effort without it reaching an audience.  Hence if you are able to make your AI a simple copy-paste for that works without Ares etc, then people who make MOD maps can use.

 

I would certainly add it into maps I make. Thanks.

 

p.s. I always wanted to make/get a fair AI that plays mass-army maps like redzone and rekool (makes many MCV/warfactory/barracks and does coordinated attacks with a big army), if nothing else your work could be a good starting point. 

[BRCKHAN88]

VERSION 1.3 HAS BEEN RELEASED!..

 

What's New Compared From V1.2:

+RA2Classic mode support with AI scripts has been added.

+AI now builds multiple MCV, Now AI Base will spread all over the map like a cancer.

+AI Alternate Production Cutoff value has been decreased to 750 from 1000. Now AI will recover their resources or lost conyard before sell their building and change it's production strategy.

+You tell me

Edited October 13 by BRCKHAN88

[BRCKHAN88]

On 7/29/2024 at 12:21 PM, Bobble said:

Your AI is a good idea. It's a shame to waste effort without it reaching an audience.  Hence if you are able to make your AI a simple copy-paste for that works without Ares etc, then people who make MOD maps can use.

 

I would certainly add it into maps I make. Thanks.

 

p.s. I always wanted to make/get a fair AI that plays mass-army maps like redzone and rekool (makes many MCV/warfactory/barracks and does coordinated attacks with a big army), if nothing else your work could be a good starting point. 

Thnx for ur support 🙏

 

Unfortunately some features are broken in the original .exe even if they are defined and hardcoded, like the team retaliation feature, which requires reverse engineering to rework. That's why I use the Ares modification to patch the .exe launcher easily. Also, Mental Omega uses the Ares modification and I can say that it has almost no bad impact on the game's stabilization and performance.

Edited July 31 by BRCKHAN88

[[CC] RaVaGe]

All been done before... See attachment.

yrr_20082024.ini

Edited August 29 by [CC] RaVaGe

[BRCKHAN88]

VERSION 1.4 HAS BEEN RELEASED!..

 

What's New Compared From V1.3:

1. Vanilla : Fixed Logics and Improvements:

* AI Miner spawns like a cancer cell. Now all Miner production triggers bonded on the presence of a refinery that belongs to AI's House.

* "Red Alert 2" mode, "Wrong Rules Applied" issue has been fixed.

+ MC Technotypes now have the ‘Sensors’ feature to detect submerged units. This will give the Yuri Faction the ability to advance in Navals. (It seemed ridiculous that the MC units that detected spies and Mirages could not detect submarines.)

& AIProductionCutoff feature now return back to the original value: 1500 (Decreasing this amount caused AI selling its buildings quickly to kick out attack teams quickly when it had a chance to restore its production.)

& Tuned general scripts to perform better in "ai.ini" and "aimd.ini" (Engineer Capture Scripts&Naval Transport Scripts, Guard Scripts, Hunt Scripts, etc.)

& AI Virtual Purifiers amount raised a bit for maps having limited resources in order of h;m;e: 8;4;2-->10;6;2. This will maintain AI Production.

2. ARES Additions & Changes:

+ Tech Structures will by default return to the civilian side when a player is defeated or giving up rather than self-destruct.

& All AI factions now may build more than one Repair Depot (Grinder for Yuri) to keep MCV production under guarantee.

3. Phobos Additions & Changes:

* The bug that parasite will vanish if it missed its target when its previous cell is occupied (by TaranDahl/航味麻酱)

* Units are now unable to kick out from a factory that is in construction process, and will not always stuck in the factory (by CrimRecya & TaranDahl)

+ Building placing and deploying logic enhancement, now all human or AI units inside the foundation area will scatter automatically outer the region.(by CrimRecya)

+ Efficient Bridge Repairing operation scripts has been applied. (by FS-21 )

- AI Gather at Deployed MCV behavior has been disabled to prevent any potential stuck with AI Teams. This will prevent AI Teams abandoned their current tasks. (by TaranDahl/航味麻酱)

 

INFO: Legend of items=

*: Fixes

+: Additions

&: Changes

-: Subtractions

Edited October 28 by BRCKHAN88

[YosefAnan]

I got this msg:

[BRCKHAN88]

On 10/21/2024 at 4:48 PM, YosefAnan said:

I got this msg:

My friend, I'll publish a hotfix for the most general errors and miscalculated features I observed in a couple of days. For instance, do you have an error log that specifies the missing file or the root cause of this error, etc.? This may make solving these issues easier for me. Thanks for your collaboration

[BRCKHAN88]

HUGE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT UPDATE (VERSION 1.5) HAS BEEN RELEASED !..

Finally, a new launcher implementation (gamemd-spawn.exe) for CnCnet has been applied. This update brings mostly hot fixes and performance improvements.

What's New Compared To V1.4:

1. Fixes & Additions & Changes I applied in Vanilla Red Alert 2 + YR

* Animations on Allied Battle Labs and Radars. Now their animations are freezing when blackout. 
* Prerequisites on all Units & Buildings. (For ex: Now Cuban Terrorist production now depended on the existence of Soviet Radar.)
* Flak Units lose too much power on their weapons when promoted at Elite Level. Now their values are balanced with their regular guns.
+ AI now defends their strategic Tech Buildings such as Oil Derricks, Airports, Machine Shop etc.
+ Voicelines of RA2 Tanya on YR Tanya. Now she is more prime than before 
& Hero Units (Tanya & Boris) now detect any disguised units. Now they're becoming more functional on the battlefield.
& Threat values of independent aircrafts (like Rocketeer, Choppers, Kirov, Disk etc.) to numerical from special. Now AI defensive teams that have AA features react to aircraft attacks.
& Cloning Vats in YR moved to Tech tab from  Combat tab just like in RA2.
- Duplicated or Unnecessary Flags in original .ini files.

2. Additions with Phobos Extension

* Drive/Jumpjet/Ship/Teleport locomotor did not power on when it is un-piggybacked bugfix. (by Tyuah8)
* New Attack scripts directly target any disguised units. Now AI uses a "DetectDisguise" ratio before targetting (by FS-21)
& Jumpjet Climbing Logic Enhancement. Now they level their height before reaching an obstacle like a cliff, highrise, etc. (by CrimRecya) 

INFO: Legend of items=

*: Fixes

+: Additions

&: Changes

-: Subtractions

Edited November 4 by BRCKHAN88

[BRCKHAN88]

HOTFIX (VERSION 1.6) RELEASED !!!

After releasing and testing V1.5, I encountered an infrequent but critical bug by chance in 2 of the 100 games I played for trial. This hotfix removes all of the crashing issues, so please update your version if you're already using V1.5.

 

What's New Compared To V1.5:

1. Fixes & Additions & Changes I applied in Vanilla Red Alert 2 + YR

 

* General Bridge Repair Script creates a random crash if Repair Teams jump directly at the line Fix a Random Pick feature. The faulty line has been removed for a Fix.

& Gattling Warhead is not powerful enough against buildings after some small changes I made for balance. I refined it back to return to its origins.

& Flak weapons have been generally strengthened for the sake of balance (their place in the hierarchy is still the same. You don't feel to much difference in the game).

& For effective attacks, decreased TeamDelays:(450,600,750--->300,400,500). (As a result of my observations, when this value is lower than 300, the AI tries to spam multiple units simultaneously, so it often cannot send a team out and attack, causing a pile-up in the bases. In addition, it also prevents the AI from producing defensive and Backup troops like an MCV Production.)

& For enhanced economy for Allied & Soviet AI, increased HarvestersPerRefinery: (2,2,1--->4,3,2).

+ Activate AI.tlb to gain AI some individual characteristics. (AIGenerals Enabled in Rules(MD).ini)

 

 

INFO: Legend of items=

*: Fixes

+: Additions

&: Changes

-: Subtractions

Edited Saturday at 12:19 PM by BRCKHAN88

[YosefAnan]

Very nice!

I will try it soon. 👍☺️

[BRCKHAN88]

2 hours ago, YosefAnan said:

Very nice!

I will try it soon. 👍☺️

I look forward to your feedback, mate.

Would u make a YT video if u like it😅

[BRCKHAN88]

Finally, our ModDB page has been published!!!

 

I will give brief information about our modpage. As you know, the first time I published this modification as an AI Enhancement patch on this forum. I will expand my project and make it an unofficial structural RA2&YR update so in near future, I'll rework every campaign and Co-op maps to enhance the whole experience. For now, you will see 3 options for download: 

 

1. F[AI]r Lite: My Rebalance+AI Enhancement patch that you have already experienced, just renamed for classification.

2-3. F[AI]r Mod: My initial versions of the unofficial update pack; one of them is in a setup format, another one is in a loose format. Both of them contain the same.

 

PS: You can obtain detailed information like instructions to install from their summaries.

 

INSTALL LINKS OF THE LATEST VERSION

Edited Saturday at 12:39 PM by BRCKHAN88