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Play it every weekend with my dad.", "excerpt": "I love OpenRA! Play it every weekend with my dad.", "context": "", "use_case": "playing RTS game", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenRA"}, {"id": 779236336, "item_id": 48702271, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702271", "by": "relex", "date": "2026-06-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I Love this project, works on Mac, Linux & Windows!", "excerpt": "I Love this project, works on Mac, Linux & Windows!", "context": "", "use_case": "playing RTS game", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenRA"}, {"id": 779176432, "item_id": 48698527, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698527", "by": "patentlyze", "date": "2026-06-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "OpenRA is awesome.", "excerpt": "OpenRA is awesome. Whoever runs it, you're awesome! The player base is only slightly lower than when I used to play RA2 on dial-up like 20 years ago. I've boycotted EA ever since they ruined the franchise.", "context": "", "use_case": "playing Red Alert", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenRA"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["playing rts game", "playing large strategy games", "playing red alert", "playing classic rts games"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697560", "title": "OpenRA", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991853", "title": "Red Alert 2 in web browser", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 1}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 779243552, "item_id": 48702722, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702722", "by": "GalaxyNova", "date": "2026-06-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love OpenRA! 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For context, I love huge, massive maps with loads of players. OpenRA replays the entire game to restore, it doesn't have a save-current-state routine. So 20 hours of massive map + 8 players means 2 hours of pegged CPU to reload the save. Heartbreaking.", "context": "", "use_case": "playing large strategy games", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenRA"}, {"id": 779176432, "item_id": 48698527, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698527", "by": "patentlyze", "date": "2026-06-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "OpenRA is awesome.", "excerpt": "OpenRA is awesome. Whoever runs it, you're awesome! The player base is only slightly lower than when I used to play RA2 on dial-up like 20 years ago. I've boycotted EA ever since they ruined the franchise.", "context": "", "use_case": "playing Red Alert", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenRA"}, {"id": 735886112, "item_id": 45992882, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45992882", "by": "bennyp101", "date": "2025-11-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I swear last time I used it, it was all online", "excerpt": "How does OpenRA[0] do it? Is it just a X has expired thing? Edit: Oh maybe you do have to have the assets now? I swear last time I used it, it was all online :/ [0] https://www.openra.net", "context": "", "use_case": "playing classic RTS games", "switched_from": "", "story": "Red Alert 2 in web browser"}]}