This will be an update about RA2
October 17, 2001
Red Alert 2 that is. Sorry Dennis, as much as I would like to get my ass kicked in Rocket Arena by you, I’m hooked on Red Alert right now. Man it’s so damn fun.
(I know I have a midterm tomorrow, but I deserved a break. I studied 5 hours straight today. I’m very sick and tired of debiting interest expenses and finding gains and losses on debt extinguishment and all that other jargon.)
When I started playing on the 15th, I think I was ranked maybe 30,000+ something. I played about 10 games in total so far – I only lost once! Woohoo. I think I’m doing pretty well for a newbie. The game keeps track of your stats for you and assigns you a number ranking based on points and what rank your opponent was. After these 10 games, I’m ranked 8900+. I think that’s a pretty big jump (for a newbie that is). I don’t know what ranks the people I played were but I think half of them are crappy people because the server automatically matches players around the same ranking in a Quick Game.
What’s great about the game is that it’s not micro-management biased. Sure it helps, but the benefits of micro’ing are minimal (maybe the top rankers will beg to differ). But for me, it’s all about strategy. After my first game/loss, I learned to somewhat mix different units up for a better attack. I even managed to fend off different kinds of rushes too (I’m especially proud of that because in starcraft 2, I still get pissed off thinking about the time when one of my friends sent 4 zealots and killed me and I had to wait 45 minutes before they played another game. I had to play stupid Rainbow Six while I waited.)
And I’m surprised that the other players are nice. In Quake 3, when you waste people, many of them start acting nasty and call you a cheat and start stupid flame wars. I’ve played tonnes of really nice people who didn’t care that I was a newbie that beat them. Heh heh heh.
I know I’ll eventually get bored of it, but since time is limited right now due to midterms, each game will be so much fun. After the midterms though, I give it a week before I quit.
Ok, my resting hour is up. Back to the books. Bye bye bye.
