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[Jazzie Spurs]

Allies. They look so cool. :O

[Rich19]

Allies. I loved using spies to unlock the extra infantry, then owning a brutal AI's base with a few chrono commandos/ivans/legionnaires.

[CommanderJB]

Regarding the nuke thing, I just downloaded the HD version of the 15-minute gameplay trailer and this is the superweapon Chris Corry builds before unleashing the Vacuum Bomb:

As you can see, it's not conclusive as to it's nuclear status in and of itself, but it is definitely the other superweapon aside from the Iron Curtain and it is the one he uses at the end, which he specifically says is the Vacuum Bomb. So, I would certainly say it looks like no nukes other than possible campaign appearances.
Edit: Here's the deployment tooltip.

Edited by CommanderJB, 11 June 2008 - 10:45.

[Archon]

Thats nuke missile.
Just that name is changed.Im sure.

[Kichō]

Ancient soho, on 11 Jun 2008, 11:40, said:

Thats nuke missile.
Just that name is changed.Im sure.

wat?

(That's a serious post btw...)

[Jazzie Spurs]

I see walls... something like a flame tower too and an AA gun...

[CommanderJB]

The options in the Support build-tab are the walls, a Sentry Gun (machine-gun bunker manned by Conscripts relegated to guard duty), a flak tower (same gun as on the Bullfrog by the looks of it), a Tesla Coil, the Iron Curtain, and the Red Giant Launch Bay. No real surprises - in fact there are no real surprises throughout the whole video, though I didn't know that the Stingray Tesla boats are amphibious.

[Destiny]

Guess EA is tired of Russians having Nukes, eh? Though I'd still like a nuke...

[Lizzie]

Destiny, on 11 Jun 2008, 7:08, said:

Guess EA is tired of Russians having Nukes, eh? Though I'd still like a nuke...

I believe (This is only a theory) that theres no nukes in the game because Japan is involved and because Einstein was killed. The former because the Japanese have always been sore on the issue of nukes. The latter because Einstein was one of the contributing factors towards the creation of nukes I believe.

[CommanderJB]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if that's completely spot-on, actually - I hadn't even thought of the Einstein dimension, but as you say nuclear weapons or reactors wouldn't even exist without the famous old E=MC^2, and also as you say having tens of thousands of your population killed makes a country rather sensitive toward nuclear weapons (our Australian PM is currently visiting, and has agreed to start a nuclear disarmament forum with the Japanese PM even now, something the Japanese have long been pushing for) so yes that makes a huge amount of sense.

[AZZKIKR]

well, then. it's awfully weak though

[Kichō]

AZZKIKR, on 12 Jun 2008, 1:06, said:

well, then. it's awfully weak though

Wait for the game or the beta at least before making judgements.

[Stinger]

The icon depicts a nuke.

Anyway, if you don't like it just pretend it's a nuke.

[Archon]

BTW in Soviets unit list I didnt see terrorists and demo trucks.Too bad.
Maybe they will add them later?

[Kichō]

Ancient soho, on 12 Jun 2008, 13:10, said:

BTW in Soviets unit list I didnt see terrorists and demo trucks.Too bad.
Maybe they will add them later?

Probably the expansion, Russia isn't really a terrorist type...

Edited by Zhen Ji, 12 June 2008 - 12:29.

[Archon]

I thought that will be subfactions like in RA2.
Soviets with Cuba, Lybia and Iraq.
Allies with GBR, France and Germany.
And for Empire dont know.

[Kichō]

This is EA now not Westwood.

It'll probs be like the CNC3/Generals system where as Generals and CNC3 had only Vfactions but in the expansion they had subfactions.

[Overdose]

The Empire will likely have sub-factions like Kane's wrath. With groups within the Empire, rather than countries.

[Shirou]

No, that's for the milk cow expansion.

[Lord Atlantis]

I don't care if they are milking the cow - if the game is good/excellent and the expansion is just as good, I'm willing to fork out the money to buy it.

[CommanderJB]

I ever so much hope Yuri makes a comeback. But properly implemented. That's all I can say.

Edited by CommanderJB, 15 June 2008 - 02:05.

[Archon]

CommanderJB, on 15 Jun 2008, 2:03, said:

I ever so much hope Yuri makes a comeback. But properly implemented. That's all I can say.

:drunk: for that.Even he is not coming back.
And how you mean properly implemented?
In RA2 Yuri wasn't OP.He just requires more skill to play.
Not like Allies and Soviets where you needed one type of unit to finish battle.

[CommanderJB]

Ever run up against British Snipers while playing as Yuri? Congrats, one unit can shut down your entire forward supply operations by taking out all the slaves used by Slave Miners as soon as they spawn. Psychic Towers were probably the most OP defence ever, and generally the upshot of his faction's eccentricities was that he was banned from most online matches. I don't think that the Yuri side is quite so unbalanced as people tend make him out to be, and as you say the playstyle is mostly different rather than useless, but he was still something of a rushed addition to the game, and really needed to be implemented from the ground up rather than tacked on as I think happened somewhat with Yuri's Revenge.

[Archon]

Psy tower just needed fire rate decreasing and would be fine.
Most of people dont like Yuri because they get use of Allies and Soviets and thats why didnt accept new side.
I think that will be similiar case with Empire.(look at votes for Empire)

[Stinger]

I would attribute it to the fact that most of the Empire's tech-tree and units remain undisclosed.