Mystical twist

[Jarzka 1]

Me and my friend were playing Red Alert on LAN and noticed this, unprecedented effect. Do you have any idea what would it be?

 

Edited June 16, 2010 by Jarzka

[Nmenth 291]

That would be the legendary Chrono Vortex. There's a 20% of it appearing every time you use the Chronosphere I believe.

[CCHyper 3]

Aye, the Chrono Vortex, and surprisingly for the WW programmers, its quite advanced

[Luk3us 63]

Then what is that big lighting cloud thingey that pops up in Red Alert called then?

[BioBen 3]

What lightning cloud?

[Jarzka 1]

Ah, Chrono Vortex. Maybe it wasn't so mystical at all

 

[Luk3us 63]

What lightning cloud?

 

I played Red Alert on the PSX back in the day, and it had a big lighting like cloud, but apparently its the same thing.

[BioBen 3]

Maybe the PSX couldn't handle the vortex graphical script and so they just replaced it with a cloud.

[Luk3us 63]

Probably, I prefer the cloud though.

 

Ahh the good old days.

[CCHyper 3]

Its pretty much that the PSX visual palette is smaller and more limited than the Windows PC. So in the PSX version they used the same logic as the shroud drawing and added a random seed routine.

[CraftManiac 1]

It once appeared in my base... lost my army...

 

And I had the quake thingy too...

[Malovolpe 3]

Chrono Vortex's may be pretty to look at but if one gets into your base then its no longer pretty and it becomes a menace x.x

[recover 2]

Interesting. I can't believe I haven't seen this myself. I assume it does not appear in singleplayer?

[dbjs2009 25]

Chrono Vortex's may be pretty to look at but if one gets into your base then its no longer pretty and it becomes a menace x.x

 

I'm happy because i haven't seen this thing before..

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Interesting. I can't believe I haven't seen this myself. I assume it does not appear in singleplayer?

Missions, no. But in skirmish, you bet.

[CraftManiac 1]

Interesting. I can't believe I haven't seen this myself. I assume it does not appear in singleplayer?

 

 

How could it appear in my game...

(I always play skrimish)

[Nmenth 291]

I'm pretty sure he just meant campaigns with 'singleplayer'.

 

(Benefit of the doubt, and all that)

[Inferno 22]

I'm pretty sure he just meant campaigns with 'singleplayer'.

 

(Benefit of the doubt, and all that)

Same.

[recover 2]

I'm pretty sure he just meant campaigns with 'singleplayer'.

Yep, that's what I meant.

[Nyerguds 102]

I remember it being a glass ball effect in DOS RA, rather than the swirly thing...

[Chronojam 3]

They'd also disappear sometimes, but reappear if anything got close.

 

If I'm not mistaken they also eat a set number of things, so you could march a few infantry at it to get rid of the thing.

Edited July 6, 2010 by Chronojam

[Roadkill 0]

What I find strange is how chronal vortex is rare in the PC version compared to PS1 one. Honestly, on the PC the only way I could see it is by editing rules.ini and making it appear as a silver crate "bonus". On PS1 it apeared almost every my skirmish game.