If I'm not the red player in the game, I always ask red to do red mode. People often ask me what's the mysterious "-red mode", I was asked to explain so I'll do so. Only pubs need to continue reading, pros know (or should know) red mode already. Ok, here it goes:
red (red) n., adj. <red-der, red-dest> n.
1. any of various colors resembling the
color of blood; the primary color at one
extreme end of the visible spectrum, an
effect of light with a wavelength
between 610 and 780 nm.
2. something red.
3. (often cap.) a radical leftist in
politics, esp. a communist.
4. Informal. RED LIGHT (DEF. 1).
5. Informal. red wine.
6. Slang. a red capsule containing
secobarbital.
adj.
7. of the color red.
8. having distinctive areas or markings of
red: a red robin.
9. of or indicating a state of financial
loss or indebtedness: the red column in
the ledger.
10. politically radical or leftist.
11. (often cap.) communist.
Idiom
12. <in the red> operating at a loss or being
in debt (opposed to in the black).
[bef. 900; ME red, OE read; c. OFris rad, OS rod,
OHG rot, ON raudhr, Go rauths, L ruber, Gk erythrós]
mode [1] (mohd) n.
1. a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
modern modes of transportation.
2. a particular type or form of something:
Heat is a mode of motion.
3. a designated condition or status, as for
performing a task or responding to a
problem: a machine in the automatic mode.
4. Philos.
a. appearance, form, or disposition
taken by a thing, or by one of its
essential properties or attributes.
5. a. MODALITY (def. 3).
b. any of the forms of categorical
syllogisms according to the
quantity and quality of their
constituent propositions.
6. any of various arrangements of the
diatonic tones of an octave, differing
from one another in the order of the
whole steps and half steps; scale.
7. MOOD 2 (def. 1).
8. Statistics. the value of the variate at
which a relative or absolute maximum
occurs in the frequency distribution of
the variate.
9. the actual mineral composition of a rock,
expressed in percentages by weight.
[1250-1300; ME mod (e) (< OF) < L modus measured
amount, limit, manner, kind, tone]
^^^ TAKEN FROM WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY ^^^
This is red (red's base, to be exact):
Red types in the following command:
After that, all hell breaks loose; Three (3) minutes after mass two (2) Granite Golems appear at every team entrance ( Eight (8) GGs (Granite Golems) overall). Golems will attack units, if there are no units then golems attack bases. Real pros know how to defend against GGs of course, so the fun continues.
Six (6) minutes after mass, a base gets destroyed every minute; it's sorta like Russian roulette because a base (any of the 12 bases, or what remains after the golem onslaught) just blows up at random but 60% of the time red's base goes down first. And so a base gets destroyed for no reason every minute. If you still don't understand, here's some visual help:
Three (3) times out of five (5), this happens first:
Some popular facts about red mode:
- red mode is hard
- red mode is fun
- red mode is the best mode
- red mode is not blue mode
- contrary to popular belief, red mode is...
- red mode is the only mode better than john mode
- red mode has nothing to do with green mode
- red mode is red mode
Now even after this thorough explanation of red mode, if you encounter the all too familiar question of "what is red mode?" in the future, refer those ignorant bastards here.
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Thank you for your time. Any questions?
P.S. no, I'm not explaining john mode; that mode is above top secret