Timer ticks to fast?

[Paperwarrior81]

Hello Guys! It is just me or is the countdowntimer in some missions to fast?

In Red Alert are at least 2 Missions with timer. The first is 15 Minutes (Hunt down a spy) and another one have a timer with 30 Minutes (Reactormission).

But the timer is ticking way to fast. One real seconds seems to be 4-5 seconds in game.

[-|Nur|-]

You can adjust the game speed if you think the clock is ticking too fast. It's fast but not too fast; you're not meant to screw around.

[General Plastro]

The only way to have the timer tick normaly is on normal difficulty, in Hard you actually have less time than displayed due to increased tickrate.

[Do_Be]

I noticed this on the normal mode red alert soviet mission where you are escorting a truck convoy across the map. It started out normal but as I got closer to the endpoint the timer sped up drastically. I figured it was intentional but haven't noticed it with other missions yet.

[The Fifth Horseman]

The timer speed is relative to your gameplay speed. If you maxed out the gameplay speed setting in options, the timer will tick faster accordingly.

[General Plastro]

Originally posted by The Fifth Horseman:

The timer speed is relative to your gameplay speed. If you maxed out the gameplay speed setting in options, the timer will tick faster accordingly.

On further experimentation, this is not the case. The timer seems a big bugged, it doesnt countdown properly depending on game speed, so going on fastest speed actually gives you an advantage on time.

This is odd behavior and not really the way it happened back then. I assume its due to the remaster not having difficulty tied to gamespeed (in the original Hard would do a baseline speed boost to everything, regardless of speed setting).