Tripwire says it's 'leaving no game behind' as it releases a surprise update for the 7-year-old Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam launched in 2017, and it was last updated more than three years ago, in June 2021. Or so it was until yesterday, when developer Tripwire Interactive dropped a surprise update aimed at improving server behavior and security, and fixing a number of VOIP-related bugs.
Updates to Rising Storm 2: Vietnam flowed reasonably regularly until the small 1.6.1 patch in June 2021; after that, it was pretty much dead silence but for a «community game night» in July 2021 and a double XP event for Halloween in 2023. Which is understandable: It's a seven year old game, after all, and concurrent player numbers haven't broken the four-digit surface since early 2023. Under the circumstances, a quiet fade-away is to be expected.
So why this new update? The short version is that people are still playing, and Tripwire apparently had some free time on its hands.
«Rising Storm 2: Vietnam still has an active community and we always monitor the feedback from our players,» Tripwire marketing director Mike Schmitt told PC Gamer. «This new quality-of-life update addresses issues that were continually being raised by the fan base, and we were able to allocate bandwidth over the past few months to address them.»
Here's the full list of changes:
It's great to see older games get continued support like this, and it's sparked a notable uptick in player numbers, which SteamDB indicates recently hit 1,390 concurrents—not huge, but a big jump from the few hundred who have been playing over the last few months. Still, fans probably shouldn't get too excited about a hoped-for Rising Storm 2: Vietnam resurgence.
«Given Rising Storm 2: Vietnam is a longer running game, updates may become less frequent,» Schmitt said. «But we want to be sure our existing community, and new players alike, have the best possible experience with the game.»
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