Hi all,
I play Red Alert 2 for a bit of fun. Some seem to take it very seriously. I lose lots and win occasionally. I enjoy a longer game as you are getting more into a clever battle with the enemy(Plus I am slow with hotkeys and assigning teams). Picking each other off bit by bit. I find it tricky against someone who's good and its usually over after 3 minutes. What I don't understand then is the 'gg' bit. How was it a good game? A decent game goes on for a little longer surely. A good player vs a good player I 'm sure goes on a bit longer but can you agree this please. There are lots of new people like me who are learning as we go. I started off playing as UK then switched to Iraq now I am back to UK. I have noticed better Sov players always rush. Allies seems a more tactical game but maybe I'm mistaken. I feel guilty when I play someone who is worse than me and I do try and offer some help whilst playing. Simple things like advising where derricks are etc. There appears to be lots of ignorant players too but thats life I suppose.
Any comments welcome.
Pricey
Why do you play RA2?
Started by Pricey, May 07 2006 12:03 AM
38 replies to this topic
#2
Posted 07 May 2006 - 02:21 AM
yes there are far more people who just don't want to loose. too many long games i find that ppl dc or theres some kind of lag but there ok once and a while. if you win the loser just leaves they don't really say gg or anything
#9
Posted 08 May 2006 - 06:56 PM
your sov players are trying to win by not letting you tech up as allies. rushing is a good tactic when you play as sov especially when u r on certain maps .... dc , hammer , urban ect....
#10
Posted 08 May 2006 - 07:02 PM
What so called "noobs" think, is just because a player attacks with 5-6 tanks when u have 2-3 doesn't mean he rushes. He could have gone 2 miners from war factory, and build quite a bit, and maybe he would attack like that vs a good player aswell?
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#12
Posted 08 May 2006 - 07:41 PM
You get to a certain point where a normal 'slow' buildup still gives you 5 tanks where your opponent is still building miners cause he's a noob, it makes little sense not to attack in such a situation, and then the lower skilled player complains that he's being rushed. I sometimes have very fun games while we try to rush the **** out of one another, it's much more exciting to be constantly attacking/defending, caring about every tank, than to have to build up 10 minutes. That's 9 minutes of action wasted 
#15
Posted 09 May 2006 - 03:45 AM
yea u see at start of game if player is ur caliber or not, its not fun to play a long game vs some1 u will beat for sure anyways.If im playing vs a noob i dont have a gg anyway..it's just plain boring so i'd rather rush. =]
#17
Posted 10 May 2006 - 09:51 PM
I play to win as much games as possible. All what matters for me is my rank. I don't care about having GG's, I just want the freakin' points. I use these points to stimulate my ego. Once it's big enough, I try to project my internetskills and ego to my reallife. Unfortunately...
#18
Posted 11 May 2006 - 01:55 AM
lol! , yea alot of noobs complain that u rush with 5 tanks when they have 0 simply because there not fast enough or good enough, then we say gg because its polite even if it wasnt a gg, but why not get better so you have 5 tanks when that other player has 5 tanks that way ul be attacking and defending back and forwards (provided u have decent TC) and it will be a GG + if you're that decent you can aim for a decent rank as well as having fun.
#19
Posted 19 May 2006 - 02:58 PM
I used to play for the sole purpose of stopping a damn rush. Funny how now I try to rush sometimes.
But I play to learn what to do in every single imaginable circumstance the enemy can thrown at me. Like what if he begins to basewalk. Or how's the best way to steal a derrick, or if it's better just to destroy your enemy's derrick. Or how you can better defend an engi rush next time, or how you beat a Yuri. There's so many questions to learn in this game. Sure rushing always works, and I can be beaten by a rusher, but in the long run, I think its the players that try to learn everything that eventually win in the end. Knowing the details of every situation is what seperates the stagnant every time rusher/ engi rusher/ cannon walker from the better players. To learn everything is why I play this game. It's complex... when your opponent is complex as well. That's why I play the game.
And that's why I get mad at rushers. Same thing every time.
But I play to learn what to do in every single imaginable circumstance the enemy can thrown at me. Like what if he begins to basewalk. Or how's the best way to steal a derrick, or if it's better just to destroy your enemy's derrick. Or how you can better defend an engi rush next time, or how you beat a Yuri. There's so many questions to learn in this game. Sure rushing always works, and I can be beaten by a rusher, but in the long run, I think its the players that try to learn everything that eventually win in the end. Knowing the details of every situation is what seperates the stagnant every time rusher/ engi rusher/ cannon walker from the better players. To learn everything is why I play this game. It's complex... when your opponent is complex as well. That's why I play the game.
And that's why I get mad at rushers. Same thing every time.
#20
Posted 26 May 2006 - 01:51 PM
At the one above me:
You shouldn't think that rushers only rush and that's it. Decent to good players can very quickly estimate the quality of their opponents. If they build slow, have strange build order, why waste time on them when you can finish them in 3 minutes?
It's part of the game to build fast, be strong fast. But it's when 2 top players meet the real 'good games' start. That's when both players cannot rush eachother, and other aspects of the games start to appear. With these aspects I mean just about everything u named x 1000
You shouldn't think that rushers only rush and that's it. Decent to good players can very quickly estimate the quality of their opponents. If they build slow, have strange build order, why waste time on them when you can finish them in 3 minutes?
It's part of the game to build fast, be strong fast. But it's when 2 top players meet the real 'good games' start. That's when both players cannot rush eachother, and other aspects of the games start to appear. With these aspects I mean just about everything u named x 1000
#21
Posted 30 May 2006 - 03:30 AM
I know and like I said, I play for the sole purpose of stopping rushes. When I do, I am better then the other player. But it's hard. Wears you down playing w/ Germany every single time. But I love it. Sometimes it's old and i feel like saying hey jackass, let me tech here first.
#22
Posted 02 June 2006 - 03:34 AM
rushing is a way of life in this game, if the soviets dont do rush early then the allies will rush a little later after theyve tech'd up. A rare but really great game is when both players build at same rate with same rate of expansion and have near continuous tank battles, see who wins this one, the guy with the chrono warriors or the guy who can plant a good desolator trap, or the korean gradually picking off buildings or the cubans witth 8 truckloads of terrorists maybe ?
#23
Posted 28 August 2006 - 06:38 PM
as a skilled ra2 player i rarly find some one who matches up to my standerds so its normaly an easy victory im not just boasting or big headed but its true if u want a good game with a skilleed player who never rushes or base walks find me sometime
#25
Posted 01 September 2006 - 09:43 PM
as a skilled ra2 player i rarly find some one who matches up to my standerds so its normaly an easy victory im not just boasting or big headed but its true if u want a good game with a skilleed player who never rushes or base walks find me sometime
Skilled players don't waste their time on mod maps you only play, please try to learn at least 1 official map, and skilled players do rush often ...if you cannot defend yourself against rush, you SUCK
Like whole top 500 in quick match prolly owns your **** on any official map
Edited by Seisse, 01 September 2006 - 09:44 PM.
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