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Celebrating the life of Udo KierLast month we were saddened by the unfortunate news that Udo Kier, who played the psychic mastermind Yuri in Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge, sadly passed away at the age of 81. Udo's performance as Yuri in RA2 became one of those rare moments where an actor doesn’t just play a character—they reshape an entire community’s culture. His eerie performance as Yuri transcended his role as a simple RTS villain, becoming a cult figure in the world of strategy games that players would rally around and quote for decades to come. In memory of the great theatrical performance that Udo gave us in his role as Yuri, we have released a new patch which aims to introduce some of the spirit and flavour of Yuri's forces into Apocalypse Rising in order to carry on the legacy of Udo's impact on the Command & Conquer Community. Credit to @ Battle Dreadnought for the image below. R.I.P Udo Kier - 1944 - 2025 Hail to the great Yuri. [blurb]The latest update for Apocalypse Rising is out, celebrating the life and influence of Udo Kier.[/blurb] Update 0.9.0.9 The changelog for update 0.9.0.9 is below: Yuri is Master! Head over to the discord for all of out latest updates. As ever, feel free to leave your feedback and we'll hopefully address the issues in the next update! We'll hopefully be focusing on performance moving forward whilst working on some new maps (as well as balance updates), so stay tuned in the new year for that! Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! - @ OWA , @ moonsense715 and the AR Dev Team

[blurb]This is just a small update that adds the B-52 Bomber, as well as several fixes and improvements.[/blurb] This is just a small update that adds the B-52 Bomber, as well as several fixes and improvements. New Features B-52 Bomber has been added, enjoy doing bombing runs on unsuspecting targets! Added some new net code to support syncing the B-52’s bombs (yes, they inherit the physics of the plane) Pin System has been reworked a bit to make it more secure: Server now logs players out after 2 minutes if they haven’t successfully entered a pin. Server now logs players out after 5 incorrect pin attempts. Improvements/Bug Fixes Updated taxi paths, taxis will now drop players off at the hospital, closer to the motel, and near the police parking garage instead of dumping them in the middle of the road. Updated the data in the crash dumps file to include a list of players as well as the game running time to assist me in debugging. Civilian cars no longer de-spawn on an empty server (This was originally in place to keep the server from being hammered all day, but the new server is plenty powerful to not suffer from this). Upgraded how serverStatus.txt is updated, during map loading it now is updated to “Loading…” If the server locks up it will now restart within 30 seconds, this originally wasn’t possible as I couldn’t detect when the server was loading, but that feature is now possible with bhs updates. Master of Disguise’s wording no longer implies that the player won’t be detected by home defenses. Code formatting and structure cleanup as usual to help my sanity.