Crikey! Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, the unforgiving multiplayer shooter from the Red Orchestra devs, has gone down beneath for its first main replace – and are available again with an Australian preventing pressure that’s outfitted with new weapons and autos. The preventing nonetheless takes place in Vietnam – it’s within the title, innit – however the Bushranger replace additionally brings three new maps for the brand new troopers to shoot their approach round, as effectively positional voice chat and extra.
(There received’t be any extra lazy verbal Aussie appropriation on this publish, promise.)
There are 6 new weapons in whole, and seen as their particular fashions don’t inform me something greater than ‘LMG’ or ‘SMG’, I’ll go away these of you which are extra au fait with historic boomsticks than I to look over them in the patch notes.
Continuing our ‘Matt does not know much about the Vietnam war’ theme, let me inform you in regards to the new maps. Operation Forrest is the sport’s “largest Supremacy map to date”, whereas Rung Sac is “an assault on a colonial French fort”. Lastly, Long Tan options “the iconic Australian night battle in heavy rain”. If your curiosity is piqued by the actual historical past behind these maps, there’s a neat thread on the sport’s steam group web page which goes into just that. I’ve heard that the 10 part BBC documentary that’s at the moment airing is fairly good, too.
Jumping again into the online game particulars instantly after linking to that makes me really feel a bit uncomfortable, but when we’re going to play and discuss a sport primarily based on a comparatively latest battle then I don’t suppose the actual world historical past is one thing we should always draw back from.
The replace additionally brings within the Bushranger helicopter, which is supplied with “Dual M60’s for the door gunners, reticulated miniguns and rocket pods”. You’ll additionally see the Canberra Bomber within the skies, within the type of a brand new commander capacity that permits you to ship within the aircraft to carpet-bomb an space.
As effectively as the brand new options, the replace additionally tweaks the steadiness of assorted weapons and squashes a swamp-load of bugs. Here are the patch notes in full.
Samuel Horti gave the sport a glowing evaluation:
“It’s not the most polished shooter but it does shine in all the right places, and it builds on the huge potential of Red Orchestra, which I loved. There are very few games that can match the feeling you get when you watch an artillery strike destroy a treeline and push up with your squad mates under the cover of smoke and deafening explosions. If you’re after a slower-paced shooter with tactical combat and tense moments, then it’s time to enlist.”
You can enlist through the Rising Storm 2’s Steam page, the place the sport is half worth till 6pm GMT on December 1st.
