
A full set of 10 maps configured for this new game mode
New Search & Destroy gameplay mode - a single life game-type in which teams take turns attempting to destroy one of multiple objectives by planting an explosive. New map - Maggot Hill, featuring Merrill's Marauders at Nhpum Ga, April 1944. 3 existing maps updated for the transports (Arad 2, Barashka and Rakowice. 2 transport vehicles for the RO2 factions - Universal Carrier for the Russians and SdKfz-251 halftrack for the Germans. This already includes all the previous content updates (Island Assault and the Counterattack mapping contest maps) and now adds in the following: As of 2018, Red Orchestra 2 and Rising Storm still have separate Steam pages despite providing the same game and content.May 2014: To celebrate the award of PC Gamer's "Multiplayer Game of the Year 2013", we have update Rising Storm to the Game of the Year edition. If you purchased it before September 2014 you can pay a small upgrade fee to unlock all the Rising Storm content, otherwise you can only play as a rifleman.
Rising Storm includes all of Red Orchestra 2's content and is available free for owners of the original RO2 who purchased it after September 2014 (in fact it's included in all the latest updates so you don't really have a choice).
Playing Rising Storm/Pacific Theater content is as simple as joining a server hosting it (both games share the same server browser) they will have the letters RS at the beginning of the map name. It adds the American and Imperial Japan factions, a new armament of weapons and 4 new maps: Saipan, Betio, Hanto, and Iwo Jima. Despite being advertised as a new game or "stand alone expansion", Rising Storm is more or less an enhanced version of Red Orchestra 2 with the Pacific Theater added.