RA2:AR - Update 0.9.0.9

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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:

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Known Issues

The last public version of Apocalypse Rising was on a much earlier build of the game, since then a lot of changes have been made to the engine which have introduced some new bugs.

• The game performance is significantly lower at higher player counts
• Infantry emerge from remote control units like Terror Drones and Robot Tanks
• Points awarded to each team are not being added up correctly in the global scoreboard
• The Tesla Coil and Prism Tower are not particularly fast at targeting moving units

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where killing and damaging certain units was granting negative score and credits
• Fixed a bug where automatically pivoting gun barrels were not working correctly
• Parachutes can now be team-coloured correctly
• Gatling-type units now show a visible charge-up bar on the HUD to show the spin-state

General Changes

Yuri Emerges!

Developers and Moderators can now spawn Yuri's army on any map during the game. Gatling Cannons will spawn in a particular area of the map and anyone on the Yuri team will also spawn there.

Yuri players start as Initiates and can spawn Lasher Tanks, Gatling Tanks and Floating Discs. Yuri's faction is hostile to both Allies and Soviets, but may choose to help the current losing team.

This is our first initial implementation of Yuri (it took us about 3-4 days to make), so it is quite rough, but by doing this we've unlocked a lot of future possibilities for multi-team gameplay. In the future we will expand on these ideas to integrate Yuri properly into the game.

Map Changes

Yuri can now spawn on all maps

Balance Changes

Howitzer

• Range: 210m -> 190m

Prism Tank

• Range: 150m -> 155m
• Charge Up Time: 0.75s -> 0.6s

 

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