Ant Queen Bug in Red Alert

[Phazon]

Wondering if anyone knows about the Ant Queen bug/glitch from Red Alert back in the day, and if it is still in the remastered version. I have found surprisingly little about it. (The glitch is being able to build the Ant Queen using a glitched Barracks option for $300. The queen uses no energy, cannot be sold, but can be destroyed and repaired.)

Either way, does anyone understand how to re-create the bug? I know someone with an older copy who accidentally came across it, and wants to have some clean fun with re-creating it (they don't play online).

[Dr. Übermann]

Unfortunately it seems not to work in the remastered edition. If I remember correctly, you had to load a savegame in the 4th level of the ant missions and from there you had to load the desired savegame in a normal mission. Now you had the option to build the queen ant. If anyone knows how to rebuild the antqueen in the remastered edition, then let us know.

[Gummiel]

I mean I am sure you could mod it in if nothing else, not sure exactly how to do that though

[Cat]

Originally posted by Blade:

It wasn't a bug or glitch, they were Easter egg missions added with the aftermath. Hold left shift at the main screen and click the speaker icon in the top right corner. Yes it is in the remaster version.

1. It was added in the Counterstrike expansion.
2. We're not talking about how to unlock the easter egg campaign (which everybody here already knows), it's about the bug where you build the Ant Queen.

[Blade]

Originally posted by Cat:

Originally posted by Blade:

It wasn't a bug or glitch, they were Easter egg missions added with the aftermath. Hold left shift at the main screen and click the speaker icon in the top right corner. Yes it is in the remaster version.

1. It was added in the Counterstrike expansion.
2. We're not talking about how to unlock the easter egg campaign (which everybody here already knows), it's about the bug where you build the Ant Queen.

Accidentally deleted my last comment. There was a mod for it but the rumor of a glitch never worked for myself or anyone I knew irl or online. There's probably a reason you're only getting that answer and you can't find anything online, have a bit of an open mind and don't use people trying to help as martyrs. Grow up a little bit and have some respect. lol

This wouldn't be complete without my own face palm emote.

[Phazon]

Thank you all for your help!

[blitzile]

The way it originally worked was that you save during Ants 4. Then you load up any Allied Counterstrike Mission and save that. Go back and complete Ants 4 to the end - no end cutscene, no bug literally - then load up your Allied mission. From there, you need to be able to scroll your structures. Scrolling will generate the glitched Queen.

[Nyerguds]

Really? That sounds more like how the glitched dinosaur campaign acted in TD. I don't think RA had such end-of-campaign glitches though.

The ants are actually all modded into the mission itself to get their proper health and weapon stats; since they don't appear in rules.ini, they have no "default" stats at all. From what I heard, the bug was that Skirmish didn't properly clear such mission-specific rules, so loading up ant mission 4, then exiting it, and then starting a skirmish, would allow you to build the queen.

But I think the remaster does a fresh start of the entire game engine whenever it starts an actual mission or skirmish, so this kind of bugs can't work here.