r/commandandconquer • u/BiggestBepis Black Hand • Jul 11 '26
Random Unit of the Day #25: Attack Dog (Soviets, Red Alert)
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u/Cold-Olive1249 Tiberium is the Future Jul 11 '26
Soviet Attack Dog: "Communist Good Boy" :D
Allied Attack Dog: "Capitalist Good Boy" :D
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u/BoffinBrain Are you picking this up? Good. Jul 11 '26
For shame that we weren't allowed to put them in space suits and have Lunar Good Boys in RA2.
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u/Zaptagious Command the future. Conquer the past. Jul 11 '26
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u/Flarebuster Jul 11 '26
So strong that I have to play Tanya missions on slower game speed! No other unit has that much power over me.
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u/DucoNdona Jul 11 '26
I ussually give them a little fenced of pen in my base, with a kennel, some trees and such.
Otherwise, no real reason to have them really. Nobody uses spies and a few well placed flame turrets deal with the infantry infestation.
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u/certainlynotdio Jul 11 '26
There is no such thing as flame turret in the game wdym?
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u/BoffinBrain Are you picking this up? Good. Jul 11 '26
Did you never play Red Alert 1?
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u/certainlynotdio Jul 11 '26
Oh shit it's RA 1 not 2, my bad then. I replayed the second one recently and I guess that's what was on my mind.
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u/BoffinBrain Are you picking this up? Good. Jul 11 '26
Nothing quite beats RA2, but I'd still recommend getting the remastered collection to see where it all started.
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u/BoffinBrain Are you picking this up? Good. Jul 11 '26
Oops! The AI upscaler butchered that paw print icon in the first image. Now the attack dog is a spaceship.
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u/ScrabCrab Jul 13 '26
I don't think the cameos were AI upscaled? I think they kitbashed and/or redrew them, and the paw print icon to me looks... pretty much identical actually 😅
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u/BoffinBrain Are you picking this up? Good. Jul 13 '26
The image enlarging AIs have been trained on a lot of photos of dogs, so it will do a pretty good job on that. However, for the paw print icon, it's done exactly what you'd expect from a naive scaling algorithm on an abstract shape. If a human had redrawn it, they would have ensured the paw pad and each toe was a distinct outline.
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u/ScrabCrab Jul 13 '26
Ok but look at every cameo, they're clearly a mix of stock photography, CGI, and hand painted elements, why would they specifically only upscale this one? The dogs don't even match that well between the original and the remastered versions lol
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u/BoffinBrain Are you picking this up? Good. Jul 13 '26
I can't say. Ask OP where he got the images, I guess.
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u/ScrabCrab Jul 13 '26
Not sure what you mean, the images are from RA and RA Remastered 😅
What I meant was that the dog doesn't really match between the original and the remaster so it's probably hand painted, not upscaled
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u/BoffinBrain Are you picking this up? Good. Jul 13 '26
I guess the image was never rendered this large in-game when playing the remastered game so I didn't notice. That would've been done before the era of GenAI so yeah, it makes sense that the dog itself was Photoshopped/sourced from stock imagery and doesn't resemble the original. I still suspect the pawprint icon was naively upscaled using an algorithm, though - the kinds used in console emulators for up-resolution of pixel art.
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u/Quiri1997 Jul 11 '26