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Err, no they didn't. There are selectable camoflages, but not variable heads. This is something we are looking into though.

Look closely at this picture. The flak trooper could be wearing a helmet but it is hard to tell. We may hive him one of those synthetic russian army hats as seen on the left in this picture of Advnced Wars.

Heya guys and girls, welcome to this week's AR Blog. As usual, we have some cool stuff to show you This week's Blog is an all Soviet special! <h3>Terror Drone</h3> I made a few modifications to the terror drone to get the model you see below. The dome is slightly transparent to reveal the inner workings of the drone. I think it looks kinda like a Metroid now, lets see what you think. I just had to put it with the Apocalypse Tank for coolness factor. <h3>Soviet Ore Refinery</h3> Merovingian has nearly completed modelling the interior to the Soviet Ore Refinery. This is going to be a nice structure to walk around because a lot of detail has been put into the features. This structure probably won't have an MCT but a total of three building weakpoints which all have to be destroyed for building destruction. (Two furnaces and a key pipe section). Here are some images of the new conveyer belt with a safety net for catching the ore and funneling it down to the furnaces. <h3>Flak Trooper Reporting</h3> I showed you the conscript last week bu with a few edits we can transform him into a Flak Trooper. Flak Trooper's need the visibility to sight the oncoming air units so they don't use a helmet. However, they are equipped with an eyeglass target system for making those precise shots to strike down Allied air units. Look familiar? <h3>Team Messages</h3> The release of APB Beta was a huge success! There are a few nasty bugs, but that doesn't stop the new version of APB being a lot of fun I've offered to help the Reborn team get their stuff up together. I'm currently doing the string table, so if you see a weapon name that you like, be sure to thank me I also recently got a Bluescreen on my computer, but Eggman891 helped me climb back fro it and I didn't lose anything. Big thanks to him for the advice. APB's texture artist, mjfabian, has come to our aid and has started texturing the Soviet Flak Track. Be sure to stay tuned in for updates on that. dtrngd has started working on a new infantry-only map, RA2_Rocky_Pass.mix. Expect to see some WIP shots of that in the coming weeks. Soviet_Deso is texturing the Allied Chrono Miner and the Allied Grizzly Tank. Expect to see some work from him soon! At the rate things are getting done now, we should have a fully textured set of vehicles for the first release fairly soonish AR is standalone, if you didn't know. Tankmaster is making us up a new website. Expect to see that in action soon. <h3>Home Time</h3> That brings our blog to a close for this week. See you next week for more of this.

Yuri doesn't have an army in Apocalypse Rising.

If Yuri is killed, the bot will probably switch sides. Yuri will also have his mind blast attack and possibly a Makarov pistol.

This is our current idea.

That last picture I posted is what Soviet Conscripts looked like in RA2.

There hasn't been much going on this week unfortunately, but I have a few bits and pieces to show you so we can keep up our "46 Blogs with no break" record going. <h3>For Mother Russia!</h3> I have been working on the Conscript recently. Assassin from CnC Source sent me over the WIP that he had been working on (Originally modelled by me and Ric). I have begun to finish him up so expect to see this mean guy charging round a battlefield near you fairly soon! <h3>Allied Service Depot</h3> Ric is conquering photoshop to bring us the Allied Service Depot! The texture is currently WIP. The service depot will probably work in the same way that APB Beta's does, but with more added animation. Credits will be needed to repair. <h3>Pimp Ma' Ranger</h3> With APB Beta hopefully releasing on Friday, Eggman891, TagDaze and I decided to take some time out and create a short machinima spoof. This production was directed and filmed by me with TagDaze and Eggman as the "actors". We hope that our next production will be much much bigger than this. Lets just say that this is to put you onto what sort of material is to come. Click here to download Pimp Ma' Ranger <object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value=" </param> <embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object> Go here for more infos and some exciting news concerning the Bluehell Group. <h3>Team News</h3> College started, the bus in the morning is crammed like an fat emo in tight jeans. Nameme has been away for ages due to computer troubles, he will ba back with us in a few weeks. drunkill is awesome for showing me The Chaser's War on Everything (Srsly good show, legal download) APB Beta is nearly out! I present you with an awesome screenshot of the new Tesla Tank on Shallow grave You must all download APB Beta when it comes out, fo it will be epic[/plugapb] <h3>End User Agreement</h3> That's it for this week, see you next week!

1. Yes but it will be a Construction Yard, not an MCV. 2. That depends on the server owners.

The plan is to have horrendous prices in a separate "team" fund which is separate from each individual player's revenue. Build cues are impossible to do at this point in time for units, let alone for buildings.

Allied Technicians get a power drill, whilst Soviet Technicians get a beasty backpack gas welder.

More detail on this next week.

Probably RC2. Minor base defences won't be rebuildable without a Conyard.

Rocket IFV + GGI = Super Rocket IFV

Not really. We could have multiple weakpoints in one building if we wanted to and they don't have to be MCTs.

We could introduce fully rebuildable buildings on maps with Construction yards though, to vary the gameplay a bit. That would slap a big "destroy me first" sticker on the construction yard which is basically how every C&C Game rolled, particularly RA2. Without the conyard, the ability to rebuild is lost.

Welcome to this weeks AR blog. I have approached this in a differant way this week because it has been written by the team! Enjoy! <h3>Internals Update</h3> The Mighty Merovingian has been working hard over the past few days and whipped up a fantastic internals to the Soviet Refinery. Check them out! <h3>Rebuildable buildings</h3> We can now officially announce that we are able to do rebuildable buildings! This breakthrough in level edit mastery by BogdanV has enabled us to make any structure rebuildable. We will probably implement this into the Construction yard so you are only able to rebuild things if a Construction yard is present. If you budding modders want to know how we are acheiving this, check below for BogdanV's statement on the mechanics of this logic. Demo Video below! RebuildableStuff.wmv <h3>Iceland (not the frozen food shop or that place up north)</h3> dtrngd has made two nice new WIP shots of Iceland for your enjoyment. <h3>Unwrap Attack!</h3> Chevy787 has completed unwrapping the IFV's apart from the sniper (it needs remodelling). <h3>Bluehell Productions T-Shirts</h3> Aidoneus has proposed the idea of Bluehell Productions T-Shirts, featuring both the Bluehell Productions logo, along with that of one of the projects (Apocalypse/A Path Beyond). However, this does need substantial interest to happen; at the moment he is likely to do it, but the more people who register their interest, the cheaper it will be for all involved. If you want to get a piece of collectable memorablia for your favourite mods, and simultainiously spread the word, then head on over to this thread, and show your interest! <h3>Team Updates</h3> I recently got engaged to TagDaze! (just kidding, but he is great around the house and he is the solution to the problem that is door to door salesmen) Me and cfehunter came back from camping! Food and drink was plentiful and we toasted marshmallows whilst quoting various flash cartoons from http://www.newgrounds.com My college friend Dave (DJS5590 on the forums), has started to have a go at the allied drill texture for us as a trial to see whether or not he can texture well or not. Lets hope that he can do the buisness for us Files are coming soon from TheKGBspy, this will push us forward a fair few months in development Ric is learning photoshop! Expect sweet textures from him soon! <h3>Teh Edn</h3> Thats all for now, tune in next week for more coolstuff

Oh yes we are all teh s3x. We could make him fire snowballs or something Yeah, not sure how a flamethrower would work on the moon :emot-shobon: Ah well, good job the cosmonauts carry lasers instead of weapons from the sixties

Every unit that doesn't use breathing aparatus will be cut from the moon maps. A few may gain breathing aparatus on the moon map for balancing issues though.

Map decoration with an animation.

It's neither.

Then post something other than "lol"

Welcome to this week's blog. Just the usual stuff to get through <h3>RA2_Iceland</h3> dtrngd's new map is shaping up to be good as he hits on into the texturing phase. We have two new screenshots to show you along with a video of our friend, Sergei the Frostcript. WIP shots are taken in APB. <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src=" http://i153.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid153.photobucket.com/albums/s206/dtrngd/Sergei.flv"></embed> <h3>Model Updates</h3> rm5248 has finished model work on the Portable Flak Cannon for the Flak Trooper. This operates as follows: Primary fire will be a lobbed ball of flak that will tear through infantry and have some minor splash damage to go with it. Secondary fire will be a straight shot that will only be able to hurt aircraft armour and the special armour type we are giving to rocketeers. Killa recently contacted me and asked if he could do some freelance work for us. I agreed and got him working on the Iron Curtain as a first model for us. The first WIP is below. <h3>Input required</h3> We would like your input on something concerning Apocalypse Rising and the Soviet Side. Should we give the Soviets the Cosmonaught infantry in the normal game modes as well as a special moon map (if we do one)? The Cosmonaught was basically a rocketeer with a high powered laser that cost around 1000 credits to build. He was only on the penultimate soviet mission in Yuri's Revenge. Concept 1 Concept 2 We'd like to hear your thoughts on this matter. <h3>Team News</h3> Me and cfehunter are off camping with friends on friday until sunday I had friends camping at my place on Sunday til Monday. Here is a picture. AMG I'm in my dressing gown We have a new team member. Alex has joined us as a texture artist, he has experience in making HUD graphics so expect to see some cool HUD textures soon Merovingian reinstalled windows XP and will be working on the Soviet Refinery once he gets the model from lazy OWA. I've been rigging things for APB and have now started working on a load of fun extras for you to find. My girlfriend also got a new computer so I'll make sure to get her playing APB soon danpaul88 has been working on the standalone build, but it has hit a dead end whilst waiting for assets. The Vengeance files will fill up that gap and we should have a build to the testers soon afterwards. TheKGBspy is an awesome guy We are looking into some crossovers with APB. I won't give the game away but I'll give on example. When you capture a Tech Lab you may get an APB unit/infantry as your bonus unit. Apocalypse Rising is going really well and it's not only thanks to us, but it is thanks to you, the fans, for supporting us and making all this worth doing. We have found our niche in the Renegade Mod Market and we will make it spectacular. <h3>!gameover NOW</h3> Thats all for this week, se you next week for more Apocalypse Rising funfunjoyjoys™!

drunkill immortalises this glorious moment, thus sealing his soul to work for us forever! :emot-shobon: