Try Mental Omega

[Killer0pro]

Since Red Alert 2 amd YR finally hit steam store, i think its great time to tell people who came here to play their childhood games or returning players etc. to get this great mod called Mental Omega https://mentalomega.com/

Am sure there will be some people who never tried it.

[bruh]

Unfortunately, this here Steam Version is not compatible with Mental Omega...

[Shadow_Actual]

Mental Omega is indeed a very impressive technical achievement. Pity, then, that it's also mostly unplayable to scrubs like me because the devs designed it to be hard for them.

[darkblade]

Originally posted by Shadow_Actual:

Mental Omega is indeed a very impressive technical achievement. Pity, then, that it's also mostly unplayable to scrubs like me because the devs designed it to be hard for them.

I only played the story on normal mode, if you get a little familiar with the mod it's not that difficult, you can also skip missions if you can't manage them, or just set the difficulty to casual.

90% of the time the solution was to simply spam air units because the AI doesn't handle it very well

[GreyViper]

Yeah Mental Omega does not get enough praise. Id say its like a unofficial sequel to 2nd game.

[jonoliveira12]

Mental Omega, Twisted Insurrection, and Shockwave are basically mandatory mods to play, if you like modded C&C.

[Chairic]

If anyone gets this steam version working with any of the major mods out there like Omega, I'd love to know. As far as I can tell you can't downgrade the version or anything...

[Killer0pro]

Originally posted by Shadow_Actual:

Mental Omega is indeed a very impressive technical achievement. Pity, then, that it's also mostly unplayable to scrubs like me because the devs designed it to be hard for them.

Afaik they eased difficulty on easy mode a lot and also with save/load feature returned, its ain't that hard anymore, idk when you last played it tho.

[Shadow_Actual]

Originally posted by Killer0pro:

Afaik they eased difficulty on easy mode a lot and also with save/load feature returned, its ain't that hard anymore, idk when you last played it tho.

Never. Watching the official walkthroughs is plenty for me.

[Debosy]

I found something like this:
https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/13426699/

No sure if it is related.
It was described as: "Curated patch notes for Command & Conquer™: Mental Omega on Steam for build id 13426699."

I am not familiar with steamdb so i dont know how to intrpret this but my best guess that patch was prepared some time ago for this C&C release but is not released yet.

[Killer0pro]

Ye they differently cooking something up https://steamdb.info/app/893970/

[Ｔｅｎｓｅｎｕｍａ]

still waiting for an update from that steamdb page there's nothing so far lol

[Euchale]

Originally posted by Shadow_Actual:

Originally posted by Killer0pro:

Afaik they eased difficulty on easy mode a lot and also with save/load feature returned, its ain't that hard anymore, idk when you last played it tho.

Never. Watching the official walkthroughs is plenty for me.

I´d also consider myself in the scrub category, but on easy with save/load its doable, you should totally give it a try once it it works with Steam.

[Shadow_Actual]

Originally posted by Euchale:

I´d also consider myself in the scrub category, but on easy with save/load its doable, you should totally give it a try once it it works with Steam.

Thanks but no thanks. The walkthroughs look, well, really tedious. Every level where you have a base is a massive slog against infinite enemy units, massively fortified bases, and a heavily cheating AI. It's not to my taste.

[Cat]

What's unique about Mental omega that the other mods don't have? Curious I never played that mod.

[Killer0pro]

Originally posted by Cat:

What's unique about Mental omega that the other mods don't have? Curious I never played that mod.

:summercat2023:

For me its Mental Omegas enchanted RA2 and YR story but on steroids, its just gets better and better. You should differently give it a shot and try for yourself if you like it or not.