Undocumented secret in "Romanov on the run" mission

[Dzierzan]

Hey there!

Years ago I was playing Yuri's Revenge mission "Romanov on the run". While playing this mission, I noticed a huge pack of polar bears coming off the map from the north direction. I knew I was witnessing a secret. However I was never able to reproduce that secret. Years have passed and I've decided to come back to this topic. My first attempts of trying to produce that secret failed. Untill I finally looked into Final Alert editor and discovered there are special triggers. It appears one unit has to be exactly in a specific spot (in the attached picture, it's the halftrack in the middle of screen), wait there a moment and this will trigger the polar bears! Those teddies will shape the word "HI". It's kinda a funny secret and I am astonished how this one was out of the radar for so long. Yes, I've been trying to search everywhere whether there was any other person who found it, but I had no luck.

Ohh and these teddies are controllable :D.

Edited June 21, 2018 by Dzierzan

[Grant]

Ha! That's pretty cool, thanks for sharing ?

[fir3w0rx]

Haha cool. At first I thought this guy was messing with us , but I can confirm that it's real:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV6rUuggE1o

 

[Tkragon]

Do you guys know any other maps with such secrets? Do any of the multiplayer ones have them?  

 

[Ezer_2000]

There are few, for example in "Head for the hills" map you can build bunkers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq4Xw4x3F9Y

Don't know why this vido got so many dislikes

[ore_truck]

4 hours ago, Tkragon said:

Do you guys know any other maps with such secrets? Do any of the multiplayer ones have them?  

 

I know Operation: Dark Night has Bovine that you can control, but I think most people here already knew about it.

[Dzierzan]

A lot of missions have smaller or bigger secrets, like controlable T-rex in 1st YR Soviet mission (which I only discovered recently just because I watched YR speedrun). However polar bears were undocumented. I wasn't certainly the first person who found that, there was one particular comment on Youtube saying that someone found it too. But it appears I am the first who documented that.

And funny, at first I thought maybe I had the Mandela effect, just because at first I couldn't find any information about this secret, but I remembered that it was too real to be just a false memory ;).

[fir3w0rx]

On 6/20/2018 at 8:38 PM, Ezer_2000 said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq4Xw4x3F9Y

Don't know why this vido got so many dislikes

Probably because I put the words "cheat", "hack" and "trainer" as tags in the title of the video . I'm guessing that the people looking for such things were dissapointed to see that the video didn't actually contain such things, while the other... straighty-180-stick-to-the-rules players thought that I was advertising "illegal" activities .

[Lud0wig]

29 minutes ago, ShowtimeRa2 said:

Cheats/hacks,thats why

Showing a trick = cheats/hacks?

[heldro]

On 6/20/2018 at 12:38 PM, Ezer_2000 said:

There are few, for example in "Head for the hills" map you can build bunkers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq4Xw4x3F9Y

Don't know why this vido got so many dislikes

dident work for me

[[CC] RaVaGe]

On 6/20/2018 at 11:38 AM, Ezer_2000 said:

There are few, for example in "Head for the hills" map you can build bunkers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq4Xw4x3F9Y

Don't know why this vido got so many dislikes

 

6 hours ago, fir3w0rx said:

Probably because I put the words "cheat", "hack" and "trainer" as tags in the title of the video . I'm guessing that the people looking for such things were dissapointed to see that the video didn't actually contain such things, while the other... straighty-180-stick-to-the-rules players thought that I was advertising "illegal" activities .

Map is missing the (2-4) at the end too, looks edited.

[fir3w0rx]

41 minutes ago, ShowtimeRa2 said:

its the title :

cheats,tricks,secrets,hack,trainer

 

Those were my 'click-bait' tags, which I don't do anymore because I know how annoying they are now .

[MapDesigner]

I think yuri cant control them !

[ore_truck]

Polar bears are mind-controllable.