how to play extra hard mod?

[ahdbaydoun1]

how to play extra hard mod?

[Nyerguds]

What extra hard mod?

[Ritsuka]

Postat inițial de ahdbaydoun1:

how to play extra hard mod?

No such thing

[Speaty]

in skirmish mode there is some mod maps that have extra hard enemies...
but not in campaign

[Revy]

you mean Brutal?
Only in skirmish

[Cat]

Postat inițial de Revy:

you mean Brutal?
Only in skirmish

I think he meant a mod that makes the game "extra hard".

But if he meant skirmish then yeah, the game AI only have 3 difficulties: easy, medium and brutal. It was Red Alert 3 (and C&C3) that gave four AI difficulty: easy, medium, hard and brutal.

[ckay_]

Postat inițial de Cat:

Postat inițial de Revy:

you mean Brutal?
Only in skirmish

I think he meant a mod that makes the game "extra hard".

But if he meant skirmish then yeah, the game AI only have 3 difficulties: easy, medium and brutal. It was Red Alert 3 (and C&C3) that gave four AI difficulty: easy, medium, hard and brutal.

Cncnet have AI brutal.

[Nyerguds]

Postat inițial de ckay_:

Cncnet have AI brutal.

Cat just mentioned that the game contains Brutal anyway

[Schlitzor]

First thing first: There are NO Extra Hard AI settings in the original RA2 and YR copy; the Brutal AI setting you see on CnCNet client is rather a modification to the general AI settings in rules(md).ini and it's triggered with a checkbox. The CnCNet is a third-party client and doesn't go with the original copy of the game, and it has a file named spawn.xdp to overwrite original rulesmd.ini in YR.

In the original game only three difficulties of Skirmish AI are able to choose: Easy, Medium, and Brutal. "Extra Hard AI" doesn't represent any additional difficulty level but rather man-made modifications to rules(md).ini and ai(md).ini.

In rules(md).ini you see general rules for engagement including general AI settings;
in ai(md).ini you see the formation and specific behavior of AI's troops.
All the AI settings are stored in these two files since RA2 AI is scripted rather interactive.

What you see on some maps with modded AI is the work of map trigger and ini editing, which overwrites selected sections in rules and in AI from the base game when the match is played on this exclusive map.

So "how", you can either download other's modded AI and rules from the Internet, activate it via CnCNet checkbox, or make your own Brutal AIs that suite your taste.

[Chrisev]

There's no need to cncnet, you just need to download the campaigns with Brutal IA and put them in place of the original campaigns in the game folder.
You can use cncnet or rambo to play the original campaigns too.