I remember this. Seemed like it would have been fun if it ever finished, but alas, it's nothing more than a dream. Still has some interesting ideas though.
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Element Broadcast: Currently Livestreaming: Command and Conquer Red Alert 3
- Thread starter Kosjurake
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Kosjurake
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Element Broadcast #77 Red Alert 3 #3
Kosjurake
The Wildest of Ronins
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So, I actually had people in chat this time. Which was awesome. Sadly, because of my connection issues with twitch acting up again, they apparently decided to bail. I can't say I blame them. Especially since during the last ten or so minutes I apparently couldn't maintain a connection for more then 30 seconds to the twitch servers. I really need to figure out what's going on with this. I don't expect my connection to be perfect, but this is just ridiculous. Like is there something wrong with my copy of OBS? Is my firewall interfering somehow? I dunno.
Anyways, I finished up the Soviet Campaign tonight. Felt like a dick during the process but oh well. A false peace treaty followed by finding out the Premier faked an attempt on his own life so Krukov was not in fact responsible for that. Sure Krukov was still a dick, but he wasn't a traitor. Whoops. Then the Premier tries to have me killed so me and my AI buddy showed him whatfor.
Then I get to invade the good old USA, and for some reason instead of hitting Washington DC we go for new York to blow up the Statue of Liberty. Like yeah that's a great symbol and all, but you'd think the advantage of blowing up the pentagon and/or white house would be far more significant. Oh well. Either way the USA surrendered and now the Soviet Union rules the world.
I wonder if the Allied campaign is its own thing or if its a rebellion type thing after the Soviet ending. Guess I'll find out next stream, which will probably happen Sunday.
Anyways, I finished up the Soviet Campaign tonight. Felt like a dick during the process but oh well. A false peace treaty followed by finding out the Premier faked an attempt on his own life so Krukov was not in fact responsible for that. Sure Krukov was still a dick, but he wasn't a traitor. Whoops. Then the Premier tries to have me killed so me and my AI buddy showed him whatfor.
Then I get to invade the good old USA, and for some reason instead of hitting Washington DC we go for new York to blow up the Statue of Liberty. Like yeah that's a great symbol and all, but you'd think the advantage of blowing up the pentagon and/or white house would be far more significant. Oh well. Either way the USA surrendered and now the Soviet Union rules the world.
I wonder if the Allied campaign is its own thing or if its a rebellion type thing after the Soviet ending. Guess I'll find out next stream, which will probably happen Sunday.
Yeah, the soviets, in general, have and always will be the bad guys of Red Alert, ergo they're going to use some of the more underhanded tactics.
Also the only characters you generally trust there is your adjutant/advisor/whatever they're called, and possibly the co-commanders.
Yeah it's a bit weird when you think about it, symbols are more The Empire's thing, but it's not like the Soviets haven't done this before.
Kosjurake
The Wildest of Ronins
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Element Broadcast #78 Red Alert 3 #4
Kosjurake
The Wildest of Ronins
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- Tokyo LOCCENT
So, it took me a lot longer to get back to streaming then I planned. It was a mix of Orisa being released in Overwatch, me just not feeling like it, and me taking a while to get around to investigating the connection issues and trying to fix them. I think I might have managed to fix them. I apparently only had a brief disconnect right at the start but then maintained the stream for the rest without issue.
Admittedly, it was a short stream tonight since I wasn't really feeling it at the moment. The starting missions of the campaigns in this game just aren't very engaging or something. I dunno. RA3 has been kind of a let down to be honest. It's not bad per say but its underwhelming. I remember RA2 being far more engaging. But maybe that's nostalgia. I dunno.
Admittedly, it was a short stream tonight since I wasn't really feeling it at the moment. The starting missions of the campaigns in this game just aren't very engaging or something. I dunno. RA3 has been kind of a let down to be honest. It's not bad per say but its underwhelming. I remember RA2 being far more engaging. But maybe that's nostalgia. I dunno.
Kosjurake
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I appreciate the offer, but like I already have enough connection issues with twitch that I'm still not sure if I managed to fix without trying to also spend bandwidth on co-op.
That, and I just like soloing stuff. Like I'm not adverse to co-op games, but generally speaking I prefer single player. Like in dark souls I won't even summon NPC phantoms to help out.
Kosjurake
The Wildest of Ronins
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Element Broadcast #79 Red Alert 3 #5
Kosjurake
The Wildest of Ronins
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- Tokyo LOCCENT
So turns out I did not in fact manage to fix my connection issues. I don't know why I'm having all these issues. If it was my internet you'd think I'd notice how intermittent it was. I'll try fiddling around with some more settings in OBS before next stream. Maybe drop the bit rate again. Not sure it'll help much. Maybe its my firewall. But if it was my firewall I feel like I wouldn't be able to stream at all instead of the random interruptions.
Anyways, as for the actual content of my stream, business as usual I guess. I did enjoy it a bit more then my previous couple of streams, not entirely sure why. It's not like the game felt different, maybe it was just a mood thing. I keep having that annoying as hell issue where the map scroll gets stuck on and takes me a bit to fix that. And some of the click drag unit selects jamming up. I miss the GIs from RA2. I liked being able to have little portable deployable dudes.
Anyways, as for the actual content of my stream, business as usual I guess. I did enjoy it a bit more then my previous couple of streams, not entirely sure why. It's not like the game felt different, maybe it was just a mood thing. I keep having that annoying as hell issue where the map scroll gets stuck on and takes me a bit to fix that. And some of the click drag unit selects jamming up. I miss the GIs from RA2. I liked being able to have little portable deployable dudes.
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Presumably, Washington DC was either next on the list of targets, or there was a simultaneous attack led by someone else (because the Commander can't possibly command two invasions at once)
The real reason the final Soviet mission is set in New York is because it's a supposd to be a cheeky reference to the very first Allied mission of RA2, of course.
Kosjurake
The Wildest of Ronins
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Element Broadcast #80 Red Alert 3 #6
Kosjurake
The Wildest of Ronins
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- Tokyo LOCCENT
Well, it was certainly interesting starting the stream by attacking Mount Rushmore. I'm honestly a bit surprised that America tried to backstab the Soviets before the Soviets would backstab the Allies. The rushmore super weapon was amusing though. We get a giant canon popping out of Lincoln's head, and then we get the other three turning into laser faces.
I had to do this mission twice, I took too long the first time around and despite blowing up the firebase before the president's limo got there, I still lost because I only did so by like five seconds, and he had already started on his little victory spiel. Second time around I ended up accidentally glitching him permafroze, but even then I still went faster then the first time around. I gotta say I was not expecting to kill the President in the Allies campaign. Which makes it all the odder that I didn't kill the president in the Soviet campaign. Oh well.
The next mission was to finish off the Empire of The Rising Sun and it went poorly. I still won my first go, but it took me a long while and I basically gave up on actually blowing up the entire base and just used century bombers to take out all the objectives.
Also, I am still having fucking connection issues. And I'm at a loss to what to do to fix them. Oh well. At least with my recordings and uploads I can still have one continuous video instead of the dozen splinted autouploads. Honestly, I think I might turn those off at this point, the only thing they have going for them is saving the chat too. Which, I think I might be able to smush into my videos anyways.
I had to do this mission twice, I took too long the first time around and despite blowing up the firebase before the president's limo got there, I still lost because I only did so by like five seconds, and he had already started on his little victory spiel. Second time around I ended up accidentally glitching him permafroze, but even then I still went faster then the first time around. I gotta say I was not expecting to kill the President in the Allies campaign. Which makes it all the odder that I didn't kill the president in the Soviet campaign. Oh well.
The next mission was to finish off the Empire of The Rising Sun and it went poorly. I still won my first go, but it took me a long while and I basically gave up on actually blowing up the entire base and just used century bombers to take out all the objectives.
Also, I am still having fucking connection issues. And I'm at a loss to what to do to fix them. Oh well. At least with my recordings and uploads I can still have one continuous video instead of the dozen splinted autouploads. Honestly, I think I might turn those off at this point, the only thing they have going for them is saving the chat too. Which, I think I might be able to smush into my videos anyways.
Kosjurake
The Wildest of Ronins
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Element Broadcast #81 Red Alert 3 #7
Kosjurake
The Wildest of Ronins
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I keep getting hit with this very annoying glitch as allies, where my naval yard won't register I have max clearance, preventing me from making assault destroyers and aircraft carriers. Its infuriating. Mostly because aircraft carriers are amazing, and super useful. But no, I'm not allowed to use them because of this stupid motherfucking glitch. Which fortunately only hit me in the final mission, and not the one before that. But still, for fucks sakes.
Anyways, Allied campaign beat, which for some reason has ended with both Tanya and Eva trying to take the player character out on the date. Which was just weird. Its a very one sided romance (if you can even call it that) given that the commander is never on screen, so its clear they were having the characters try and seduce the actual player, IE me. And that's just awkward. Especially since I've gotten Tanya killed like a dozen times.
Anyways, Allied campaign beat, which for some reason has ended with both Tanya and Eva trying to take the player character out on the date. Which was just weird. Its a very one sided romance (if you can even call it that) given that the commander is never on screen, so its clear they were having the characters try and seduce the actual player, IE me. And that's just awkward. Especially since I've gotten Tanya killed like a dozen times.
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I now make shiity tanks for C&C Generals.
C&C ain't great with romance or even any subtext/plot on that front.
just look at C&C 4, which basically goes: "hey you're married"
Kosjurake
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Haven't played C and C 4 and I haven't exactly been hearing good things about it either. But fair enough. It just really awkward because the PC is basically a non-entity.