It's Dimon as Empire vs Vindies as Allies from the February Ladder Wars Finals in Red Alert 3 hosted by GameReplays.
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Dimon vs Vindies!? This is where the fun begins!
yeah one of them is oplies guess who gets all the fun
My favorite 2 nerds
Please Sybert, never stop casting those games, you and the commanders are making my day!!!11!1
I left the game many years ago and decided to look up some videos on a whim, after a few mins and I'm totally hooked now, amazing broadcast and gameplay
He is a legend
Mate your commentaity is honestly better than a great deal of professional sports commentators. It's sharp, it's informed, it's so well spoken it seems like you have a sqript. You're the first person I've every been bothered to actually set up patreon.
I remember watching that first game, back when it was played. It blew my mind, how Vindies can come back after months and play an almost Hall Of Fame tier game against Dimon, just like that. Also Dimon's play was insane that game.
Cryocopters getting shot down has to be my most favourite moments of this game.
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Tanks should go over their wrecks couple times for a good measure, gosh I hate that super cost efficient unit!
@@DmytroBogdan The player who shot down the copter should get minerals from the wreck even lol. Damn I hate it so much too.
They spawn a random crate, but only when shot by the opponent, no friendly fire.
@@OneSybert Or the unit that shoots it down could receive max veterancy. I might have bad memory but I don't remember ever seeing a maxed out Bullfrog!
Vindies used to beat Dimon before 2016. Dimon has grown much stronger over the years while Vindies has left for the same years. Let Vindies pick up his rusty pace guys :)
The apprentice has become the master.
Does Vindies play any other faction except Allies?
@@Nostalgia_Addict i think yes, he did play empire a few times before
Wow, this matchup feels like 2015, thanks ^^ After game one: OMG, it was breathtaking, seeing so much level from both players was amazing! After game two: It is really surprising so see new strats even after watching RA3 since 2014, and the epicness of the music mixed at the end of the 2nd game was superb
game 3 ?
I saw an harvester get killed the moment it enters ore node. Then the ore node mining arm moves nevertheless, dumping the ore onto the empty harvester rotation pad. 1:30:28
Vindies vs Dimon!? Never clicked that fast on a video
Spectacular. Just FUCKING SPECTACULAR!!!
Yes yes yes two hours of RA3 content
Thanks Sybert! Learned a lot of stuff from your videos. I used to suck at this game. But now I can handle medium difficulty computers pretty easily (not something impressive but feels good to get better at this).
Good job on improving!
Even though it pains me not to see Dimon play Soviets, that was one of the best 1v1s I've ever seen
I have literally never seen empires win a set until now
Back in 2013-2014 there were some Emp players dominating the competitive scene.
@@OneSybert name of player?
YuiYui
@@ucanhvungoc7133 there's a YuiYui in AoM too...
Yo! My favorite duo! Man! Love you big fucking time Sybert!
For for the entire game, it felt like vindies was holding back not to use allied cheese. EvA is one of the most daring matchups for empire players in the modern competitive scene, yet with all the mess-ups, dimon managed to pull it out. Really feels like 2015 and I dont mind it at all, great job!
Vindies has never really had a particularly abusive style, he usually does a lot of cryo-vindicator stuff but he's just always been an inventive player who wins through skill.
@@OneSybert that's kind of what I refer to, he didn't out right abuse things allies are op with, and that really shows on battle base beta for example, big props
@@OneSybert Cryo Rush is still one of the most volatile rush in RTS history. Allies has way too many way to cheese you in early, mid and late game. All of that was because of Cryocopter.
3:49 "but having both.......(boom) Well thats Sucks" XD
KZhead rewind 2021 should just be these games
People would be really confused, but it would get fewer dislikes.
Great match, known players, quality casting (thank you Sybert). Although players resilience/stubbornness levels felt kind of mismatched: Vindies: "My position got worse and from this point my opponent just going to snowball me, I better resign." Dimon: "I am clearly losing. Well I guess time to torture my opponent by being as tricky and annoying as possible for the next 30 minutes!" Probably that is why games where Dimon is losing/worse are more interesting and fun. He is just better from behind. Also would be cool (or terrible) to watch them switch factions: Vindies (Empire) vs Dimon (Allies)
Now that you mentioned it, I realized if Dimon decided not to resign, he would try very hard to come back, which is great to watch.
It's more about the factions and their respective playstyles, allies are pretty bad when behind imo, and add to the fact that dimon is a soviet main- that undying resilience is in his blood, you either get cheesed early game by him or he stalls out the game as long as possible... I would even say vindies wouldn't get a win if dimon is playing soviets
Dimon vs Vindies, Casting by Sybert, after a long time.. 1:47:46 Such a great content to eat :D Edit: Just watched the 1st match and wow,
Game 1 was a nice "what if" example if RA3 featured more fast strong harassment units. I don't know unit stats, but Yari subs might be the fastest hard hitting unit, only on water of course. Functioned similar to Tib Wars/KW Bikes where the low econ player could harass well enough and keep the game in an even state for a long time.
The first game was absolutely insane! Props to both players
Christ, Dimon's unit control is disgusting. What a machine. Though one thing bothers me is that Vindies just sorta refuses to take oil on some maps. You really can't let your opponent get eco on both oil derricks.
things you love to see, 2hrs of Sybert!! GJ mate!!
Gotta be the best versus matches I've seen so far.
you know it's going to be a good game when these titans match up
It's 1 a.m and i have to sleep *Nope, let watch Sybert's new video*
The first game alone was almost half the video, what madness it was!
Yes! Great upload!
Those who play RA3 at a lower level know this is some insane unit control from these guys Machines!!!
assault destroyers seem op
You are best RTS caster I have ever heard so far.
definitely! he also can cast a baseball game sucessfully XD
Empire surface to air is just terrible. Defender VX takes a long time to transform and deploy, during which time it's very vulurable. Striker VX cannot move and attack at the same time unless facing forwards, it's need more fund and tech than IFV and bullfrog despite having similar DPS. Sea wing is also have similar issues.... And empire don't have surface to air infantry until uprising..... I think this makes the empire slightly weaker than the other two factions.
Why do you need surface to air when you can span tangues?
@@harelelul464 Tangu do relatively low damage to enemy fighters, so they struggle to deal with enemy fighters in low numbers.
empire units are like a jack of two trades lol but suck at both compared to others, so they need numbers to work at all
@@tickoman273 Not necessary. Striker VX can cause big problems even in small numbers, if enemy anti-air is lacking.... The same with tangu harrassment.
But the Empire has the giga fortress to balance everything out, aaaaand it's banned in pvp
yes thats what I wanted! THANKS
I so wish for Uprising units to become the norm in RA3 online play. People complain about balance. There you go. New units, new meta to discover.
Probably need to remove the epics like Gigafortress, but I would love to see a competitive focused mix of the two games. Archer maiden, mortar cycles, grinder tanks would love to see what people did with those.
@@OneSybert I don't see a problem with the Gigafortress, considering the tech and money requirements for building it. Not to mention that it takes a long time to construct, and can be easily destroyed when it's in the Construction Core state.
I wish tank busters and imperial warriors had a 5% chance for their laser guns to lock onto an air unit just to give some semblance of anti air infantry even if it’s designed to be unreliable and a last resort
That’s a really interesting idea. Not sure if it’d be practical. That’s definitely thinking outside the box.
They shouldve just made the archer maiden a multiplayer unit. I think they were planning to do so, but EA rushed them into releasing a single player only Xpack
Literally love this content so damn much, great for break at work or settling in for bed, im ill right now whatching an amazing set of games from these two, big dimon fan, love the content cybert please never stop ❤️
Glad you're enjoying the videos!
Thank you!
This is crazy mate
The best soviet unit imho is Akula, so I don't see that much harm in Dimon picking Empire, since he can do more damage with a Yari minisub than most ppl can do with an Akula :P
Nothing is better than seeing Cryocopters get shot down. This is what daydreams are made of!
Thank you Sybert! Amazing casting. I think you have been asked this question a lot, but what do you use for bgm? They fit very nicely
Some of it is from Artlist (though you can find those tracks elsewhere) and others of it is from music packs made by Triune. Here's the list of what I use right now: i.imgur.com/a8eINLm.png
This has made my week!
Glad you’re enjoying it!
excellent games. enjoyable to watch
These are the best matches ever.
Dimon played as soviet - op. Dimon played as Empire - op. What next? Dimon played as ally?
Dimon has to play using no keyboard. Then it's balanced.
Cheeeeers to Sybert, like u boss
Great great. I always wait for your videos. Plz upload often
OPAllies losing on snow plow and fire island? must be a bug.
Without cryocOPter, Vindies should have loose faster 🤣 Dimon is the best 🥰
So I played this game and not 5 minutes in, I was defeated by the AI 😂 😂 😂 How can they be so good???
It would be nice if we could see total net worth and current net worth while watching the game.
That would be nice. I know CGF was working on a mod like that for KW, but I don't think anyone is doing it for RA 3.
Was there ever a fix for the 30 FPS cap? I know it's related to the engine calculation speed, so it's not easy to adjust, but even 60FPS would be really nice. 165 pls though./... :)
Yea ouchie the econ diff in the first game, Free Trade was part of that for sure Edit: Game 1 and Game 2 was sick
My god DAT NANOSWARM WAS INGENIOUS!
2 HOURS LONG! YES!
2022 i still watch this.🙋🏼♂️
First time I've seen the nano swarm be used in such a way. I never understood the intended purpose, it seems like it's a tweaked Scrin stasis, and then it clicked.
You can use it to block the path. You can hold enemies out. You can protect your self from abilities. Lots and lots of usage. Just really situational
I will teach you one: nano swarm hive + super weapon on same target. Thank me later.
@@aaalvincool No, I will not thank you. I know about it, and I do not apricate people doing it on others in the online community of things. We do not go about sharing bugs. Bugs are promptly fixed as we find them or banned if we cannot fix them.
I think nano swarm is the least clear of all the super weapons. It's not intuitive as to what's a good use vs a great use. Often times it seems useless, but as you say this was a great example of one effective way to use it.
@@OneSybert A fantastic way to use it, is to split the enemy army in half and only face 50% of the strength from the enemy. then clean up the raming 50% after the 20 seconds has passed. Or just deny the enemy army from moving forward as you walk into their base, but getting rid of their army tend to be a bit better, as then you can do what ever you want after that.
Vindiesel? Og player 1940's laptop. What a legend
Amazing first game like wow
What about the specter gunships?
Funny to see shrunken Chopper vx walking
MAN. dam thanks for the anti spoiler . dam more RTS need to use that. take my like and sub for the next vids.
Glad you appreciate the anti-spoiler. It's bad for my KZhead stats, but I really like having it when I watch games.
jeez literally 55 seconds ago lol
just getting into this game is it true allies are op in PVP? (please objective answer)
At various points over the last 10 years each faction has experienced a period of dominance and there are people who claim each faction is the weakest. Allies have certain combinations that are extremely powerful, but it's certainly not a free win. I think it might be the case that Allies are a peak and valley faction. So they have valleys where they're weak, but people focus on the peaks. It may be that their strengths are easier to achieve than the other factions? Also they're an efficiency focused faction so they excel on lower economy where you save every unit.
Best rts commentator!
Do you guys use mods? only bc allies by default in RA3 build mega slow
how to setting the best resolution graphics on its
Go into settings and crank everything to the max, that's what I do. You can also go into the Nvidia control panel (or AMD equivalent) and tweak the settings in there.
Great matches from both players! Always fun to watch Dimon, though I wish he played Soviets, nevertheless great victory for him, Vindies is an excellent pro player and beating him was no simple task.
He probably played empire because he's not taking chances against someone as experienced as vinds
@@goldman1115 I understand how powerful dimon is with sov. Maybe he just feels like playing empire in this game alongside the empire benefits. Who knows
@@goldman1115 a man like dimon? He ain't gonna play allies. With most of his competitors playing as one, he's just gonna pick sov or emp because he ain't a fan of mirror faction. And even if his enemy is non allies, he's still not gonna touch the damn faction
Soviet isn't underpower . It's just Allied being overpower .
Round 5 is wild So many things happened at once, I can't even keep up
Going to watch that now. So you say it's GGs and Empire actually wins? Let's see... Upd: 19:39 Lol. Fucking loved that. 32:10 I can't really believe he did let his PC get destroyed like that... even with all the ongoing distraction. Did he even watch on the minimap?.. Alright, the first game was decent enough, I give Dimon my credit for his Imperial performance, it was great. Still lacking micro at some moments but I can't really blame him for that much, I really can't. As for the match outcome : yet again, I wasn't really impressed... But the game itself was definitely worth watching. Going to pause for now, but will come back and resume watching later. Saved to my Watch Later playlist. Alright, so I'm back for the game 2. Fucking GG, Empire. Say goodbye, Allies... was 100% worth watching. Keep that quality coming, damn, I like it! Time to watch the 3rd game now, let's go. Whoa, mirrorly aggressive match. Empire gets the idea of not letting Allies feel themselves comfortable, that's right. Alright, can't really avoid a trashy allied chopper win at least once (game 4), so guess it balances out with the bad quality... Also for the Sybert's speech : an Airfield costs only 1k, even cheaper than a Vindicator (1,2k) and same as Apollo (1k), so yes - the Allied play is cheap as fuck. Even though choppers need t2 (1,5k) and cost 1,6k/ea, their almost tank-type armor and actually infinite utility just make up for all of that. 1:35:44 - 1:35:50 Man, that Vindicator blowing part looked badass asf. 1:40:22 Gotta say I felt great joy to see those Tsunamies unfreezing safely, not getting claimed by Javs in the end. Alright! Concluding, Sybert... Man, that was #worth watching overall. I'm actually going to Like the vod and ofc /salute to my fellow compatriot Dimon, even though I don't know him. Also, gotta say the game looks pretty on Ultras in general. Always played on Med myself so had a real aesthetic orgasm there, lol.
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for your extensive thoughts, it was fun to live this video through your eyes.
@@OneSybert Yeah, don't get me wrong, man : I bitch alot about games themselves, but your casting is of really high quality ; honestly, I always thought so. Your duo with Synapse for those C&C4 VoDs was good, too. Shame that game was thrown in the toilet by EA, eh... but it's a story of the past now, anyway. Actually, I'd subscribe to your channel, since I periodically watch RA3 VoD videos at this time.
what's the reason why they dont play with uprising expansion units?
Uprising doesn't have multiplayer and the mod Upheveal which adds Uprising units into vanilla RA 3 isn't played much online.
@@OneSybert how do I play RA 3 online in 2021? Seriously thinking about redownloading the game
I have not seen a gardian tank from vindie.
It feels like striker VX's air to groud DPS is a bit too high and their groud to air DPS is a bit too low.
@@goldman1115 I say that if their air to groud DPS is reduced by 20% and their groud to air DPS is increased by 25%, they will become more balanced in general.
waited long time
Every time I see cryocopter, I puke. Other than that, epic games by Dimon vs Vindies.
So i've been watching a bunch of these vids, and I haven't noticed any Uprising units, is there not games including those units? I noticed you have modded games, but no Uprising stuff? Weird that no-one really plays them...
Hell yeaaaaaa
I hope the Corona mod comes out great and increases games popularity so we can see many more great matches commentated by you
Corona has a lot of hype, so maybe there will be some interest in multiplayer matches. A lot of mods are built more for power fantasy than competitive matches.
Laptop from 1941 LOL First time i see apollo ground crash
Great game by these two legendary fiery rivals. Dimon has been exceptionally my favorite Soviet player but never had I thought that he is surprisingly good in playing as the Empire O___o. *And perhaps the only reason Vindies lost is because he was only using 10% of his power* 😂 xD XD
Vindies was fucking loose but your right his at
I can tell that vindies is trying to hold back from doing allies cheese, otherwise vindies would win, allies are just too op
Epic
He wouldn't build allied tanks that's why he lost
53:30 "haha commentary goes brrr"
Dimoooooooooooon
Why didn't Vindies use Riptides against subs. Destroyer is borderline useless as escort vs subs as they are slow and can't engage subs until they surface. Riptides are fast, have torpedoes and can do some nice harrasing maneuver with hydrofoil as well
Assault Destroyers can attack subs when they're under water. Also Assault Destroyers can cause a lot more havoc on land than riptides.
@@OneSybert Maybe they can. But I still believe that Riptides is still more cost effective in this situation, especially since Yari subs can suicide to take out a much more expensive Destroyer. Riptides are amphibious and while don't do lots of damage to structures, can do very good job as harvester hunter. But thank you for the lovely commentaries, been a while since I last went to a football match but your contents very much makes up for
what a pro gamers
While the game feels close I think that Dimon is playing so much better than Vindies. The only play that Vindies played that worked in both game 1 and game 4 is try to fast airfield into cryocopter - vindicator combo and cripple Dimon before he has enough anti-air to respond. If Dimon survive that point he can just plays guerrila warfare and win small trades with his superior macro and micro, eventually come ahead and ending the game with superior eco.
Отличная игра от Винди и потрясающий микроконтроль Димона в 1м матче. Жаль не вывез Димчик... Слишком поздно выходил в 3й рефайндери, и слишком сильно его харасил Винди. Крутые бои! Димон лучший! Потрясающее микро. Винди молодец, хорошо играет. Надеюсь эти два игрока встретится снова 🤗🤔🙃
Honest question, why are these mostly ra3 games and not uprising? Is Uprising not favoured in the competative scene?
No multiplayer support in Uprising, and the mod that adds Uprising into RA3 never caught on for competitive play.
Please buff Rocket Angels 💞
wait finals?
From the February ladder wars. Didn't cast the semis.
Oohhh I'm in
this is profesionally tournament or what? honestly asking
No, not in the normal sense of "professional" There is a cash prize for winning and these are top competitors (Dimon is currently the best, Vindies was the best years ago and is rusty here), but no one makes a living playing C&C. Sometimes in the C&C community we use the term "pro" to mean a top player. Often you'll see people break down the skill of someone into: noob, good/mid, and pro. I think we mostly just adopted "pro" as a comparative term, for us it's the equivalent of a professional player in another game. They play the game the most, they're among the best competitively, and they have consistency.
@@OneSybert okeyy i get it thank you for the explanation 😁
Isn't allies too strong in this game? they have so many game-changing abilities
Probably a little strong. They have a few units and abilities that almost certainly need to be tweaked, but as you can see here it's not hugely imbalanced.
@@OneSybert do u think 3rd tier of Imperial should been buffed (lower cost/time on 2nd purchase after the 1st building destroyed) ? Upgrade the building to 3rd only to be shooted down by anything is a bit heartbreaking.
watching this feeling better than watch LOL or CSGO
Miss you king dimon
Dimon was playing in April Ladder Wars a couple weeks ago. I don't think he's gone.
always good to see an allied player loses
Brrrr Brrrrr
It's a shame this game didn't catch on because it's WAY funner to watch than Starcraft 2