Red Alert 3 Multiplayer

Anyone else dissapointed? Every match seems to be another zerg rush.. I hate that. That's not a real strategy game to me. Am I the only one frustrated by that??

 

Is the game even out ?

 

Multiplayer Beta test. Just played last night for the first time. The graphics are great though!

 

Meh, just boot up COH!

Red Alert 2 was awesome, until real strategy games started coming. Hence, Company of Heroes.

 

True. COH really is a good game. You know, I think I will pull that back out. Never did finish it!

Oh, I also got into that Red Faction beta on Xbox. Sweet game! The destructuble buildings are cool to mess around with.

 

WiC is great too!

 

Dude.

I would LOVE to take that beta key off your hands If you don't like the game.
I'm literally buying a notebook for RA3.

And I don't have a key...

 

I've got no problem with that. Can beta keys be used more than once? Never tried it.

 

You series???

I'm in the beta too and I am thinking the other way around... The gameplay is better than CnC3 Tiberium Wars for sure however the graphics wasn't that good... CnC3 has better graphics imo. Everything has a hard counter so you just can't spam tanks alone anymore. In order to win you need to scout at multiple places, then use combine arms and attack his weakest point. And oh of course you need to expand and grab more cash first. Empire of the Rising Sun FTW!!!

 

What kind of computers are you guys running this on? I'm buying a laptop soon for school in the fall and this and starcraft 2 are the only games i care about running on it. Thanks.

 

I'm playing on an M1730 with dual 8800's. No problems at all on high with a 1920x1200 res. Have not tried the ultra high option yet.

 

Hmmm. Im trying to get a more portable laptop so dual 8800's is out of the question ~_~ any idea how this would do on a single 8600?

 

look in the gateway forum for a new FX serries laptop that is coming out in just over 2 weeks. 1500 bucks or so with a 1900x1200 screen and a 9800M gts

 

yea i saw that post, im not sure that gateway would be very portable though, 17inch and all that equipment would probably have a ****ty battery life

 

I hope its better than a mash tank rush like CnC3.

Is there micro involved in this game? (i.e. do units attacks miss moving targets based on a %? [like warcraft 3?])

 

It IS better than CnC3 and gosh I hated those tank spam rush. As I said earlier everything has hard counters in this game so spamming tanks alone will not get you far... From what I see rushing is harder to do in this game and I think there is more micro involved in this game than in CnC3 coz every single unit has a second special ability in this game and scouting is extremely important but I'm not sure about the attacks %...

By the way I running it on my notebook (specs below) ultra high settings with no AA at 1680x1050 with 30fps all the time. Last time I played CnC3 I have to set shadows to medium (everything else maxed at 1680x1050) in order to get 30fps...

 

are you kidding me about Cnc3? i could run it maxed 1440x900 everything Ultra high and 8xaa forced in CP o_0
anyways, if someone has a beta Key and he doesnt want, please give it to me xD me wanna preview it and do CnC3 VS RA3 comparison guide

 

I remember in those 4 player maps when there are LOTs of buildings & units all shooting and explosions everywhere it actually drops down to 22fps if I use max shadows, which isn't good...

 

well my FPS used to drop to 25-26 on 8 Player maps, btw is RA3 limited @ 30FPS aswell?

 

Yea RA3 is capped at 30fps as well. hmm... maybe my cpu isn't fast enough for it?

 

we have the same one ^^ even yours is a bit newer

 

>_< You OC'd yours though.

 

i dont play with it OCed only in 3dmark06 tests because its the only way to jump above 9100

 

I run Command And Conquer 3 on the lowest settings possible with an average of 10 frames per second...

And that is why I'm here.