Rising Storm is a mod for the soon-to-be-released title from Tripwire Interactive, Heroes of Stalingrad. It will bring the intense and realistic firefighting of 'Heroes of Stalingrad' to the Pacific Theater, 1942-45, pitting the US Army and Marine Corps against the Imperial Japanese Army and Special Naval Landing Forces. The bloody multiplayer battles will be fought out across the Pacific from the Philippines through to Okinawa and will feature all the innovations of 'HoS' and a few more of its own. The development team features some of the leading lights of the Red Orchestra modders along with some very strong candidates from the various CG communities that can be found across the world. There are over 20 of the top 'stars of the future' on the team, thanks to the support of Tripwire. The mod team team have been given advance access to the development tools to bring all the latest features of the Unreal engine to bear on this project, promising a superlative gaming experience.
42 comments by Henley on Jan 11th, 2012
Tripwire Interactive are pleased to announce the release of the modding and map making tools for Red Orchestra 2, available free to everyone that owns Red Orchestra 2. While the limited functionality preview versions of the SDK have been available to select modders for a while, this release now makes the full capabilities of the Mod SDK available to everyone. Users can now make and publish everything from simple mods and mutators, through custom maps and on to full total conversion mods.
Modders and map makers have been hard at work with the pre-release SDK and several great maps and mods are already coming together. For a preview of what is to come, check out these three total conversion mods already in production for Red Orchestra 2:
Rising Storm - Risingstormgame.com
In Country Vietnam - Incountrymod.com
Iron Europe - Ironeuropegame.com
And to check out all of the latest custom maps, mods, and content head on over to the modding section of the Tripwire Interactive forums:
Forums.tripwireinteractive.com
The Mod SDK is available to download from Steam, completely free to anyone that owns Red Orchestra 2. Just go to the tools tab in Steam and install the SDK. And if you don't already own Red Orchestra 2 head on over to the store page now (Store.steampowered.com/app/35450/) and get it so you can join the fun and make the level, mod, or game mode of your dreams!
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Some new screenshots here: Facebook.com
This is getting better and better :)
I hope its free
"Rising Storm is a total conversion modification for the eagerly awaited WWII First-person Shooter, Heroes of Stalingrad: Red Orchestra; based on the Pacific campaign of 1941-45. It is unique in that it is a mod in which there is financial compensation for the development team from the backing studio."
From the development team's "About" page on their website.
tripwire said before the release of RO2 that
"You are not only paying the game, you are paying the game and mods and all patchs and free dlcs(YES FREE) that we´ll be releasing for the game"
now dont **** me off and make me shove the youtube link on your face
just look for it.
Rising Storm is an expansion pack, not an DLC.
Tripwire actually always lies and later on changes the facts. And if Rising Storm costs anything I won't be getting it.
I have only followed the development since July 2010, but I never ever ever heard TWI say that RS would be free for sure. If RS will be worth a decent amount of money, it might cost some.
paid expansion?!
what happened to the love!?
i wont be buying this.
they lied about the relese date they said this was gonna be released right after the main game -.-
When did they say that? I only recall hearing that we should not expect it to be released until perhaps 1 year after RO2 release.