July 2018: please tell your friends and family to get the Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 mod for RO1. The game needs more players! Despite it being almost 10 years old, it still gets new updates somewhat regularly thanks for dedicated modders. The most recent update was published earlier July (that was version 8.0.10). It added a couple new constructable pieces; Dragon's Tooth and Vehicle Pool. There were also quite a few smaller adjustments, like how supply caches must now have longer distance between them to prevent "hax" by those who just build instead of fight (it’s like with those types of persons who hunt for welcome bonuses in different gaming platforms by learning how to search the right thing in a foreign language, like for example googling "Suomalainen casino" could find welcome bonuses offered in Finland).
Rising Storm is an expansion and a modification for Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad. This game will be released to public after Heroes of Stalingrad has been published. Game is focused on Pacific war theatre between years 1942 and 1945. Rising Storm is created by experienced modding team together with Tripwire Interactive, the game developer behind original Red Orchestra and its successor.
Rising Storm is 1st person shooter based on Unreal engine’s technology. Developers at Tripwire Interactive have backed up this project by giving modders a development kit. Development software is somewhat the same that is used to build Heroes of Stalingrad. RS is planned to have wars fought between US and Japanese soldiers. Game will have multiplayer and solo player modes. This mod was launched in May of 2010. Playable public version of Rising Sun is planned to be released after Heroes of Stalingrad.
Rising Storm project will be lead by Tony Gillham, who has previously worked with Darkest Hour and Carpathian Crosses. Mark Dittman of After Hourz / Minion Workz will lead the level desing team.