Easy Red 2 news & patch notes

Hello again soldiers!

Update 2.0.8 is now available, bringing major improvements to infantry and vehicle AI, a new skybox and lighting system, reworked vehicles, interface updates, new content, and important stability and multiplayer fixes across Easy Red 2.

Following the launch of Easy Red 2: Blood on the Danube, our focus has returned to several core systems that affect every campaign. This update makes AI more responsive in combat, significantly improves vehicle navigation and unstuck behavior, refreshes the game’s atmosphere and lighting, and continues our gradual work on the user interface, maps, missions, equipment, performance, and networking.

The Future of Easy Red 2

The Easy Red 2 Community Poll has now provided us with the data we needed.

We have now collected the responses needed to identify a clear overall direction. For some time, a large part of our development focus will move toward AI and other core systems that received strong support from the community.

Several other highly requested additions are also being considered as a result of the poll, but these will be announced later, once our plans are ready to be discussed properly.

As many of you already know, Iwo Jima and the Battles of Khalkhin Gol are currently in development. The poll has also made the community’s preferences for future DLC very clear, and we will give these results significant weight when selecting the next major campaigns to develop.

Thank You for Your Feedback ❤️

Thank you to everyone who took the time to participate and provide us with useful feedback for the future of Easy Red 2.

Update 2.0.8

Update 2.0.8 introduces major AI, vehicle, visual, and interface improvements developed for Easy Red 2 as a whole.

Infantry AI now reacts more deliberately while under fire, uses awareness in a more situational way, and responds faster when receiving new movement orders. Vehicle AI has received extensive pathfinding and obstacle-avoidance changes, together with much stronger behavior for recovering when stuck on rocks, terrain, and other objects.

The update also introduces a new skybox, cloud, fog, and lighting system, a reworked Tiger I family, the new Marder II, improvements to aircraft weapons, new Normandy buildings and interiors, memory-management and netcode improvements, and numerous mission, animation, shader, and stability fixes.

New Features and Content:

• Vehicles and Aircraft

  • Reworked the Tiger I family and added multiple variants, including the Tiger I Ausf. H1, Tiger I Ausf. E, and variants equipped with Zimmerit coating.

  • Added the Marder II.

  • Aircraft-mounted machine guns assigned to different weapon groups can now be fired together.

• Weapons and Historical Equipment

  • Added a new stabilization-on-aim system for weapons that cannot use a conventional aimed stance without deploying a bipod, currently including the MG 42 and MG 34.

  • Added new German tropical-camouflage M42 helmets, including variants with a bread bag and camouflage leaves.

  • Reworked the textures of the German 10.5 cm leFH 18.

• Interface and Settings

  • Began a gradual rework of the main-menu interface, with additional changes planned for future updates.

  • Added a new setting to play Campaign Gamemode missions without AI-count scaling.

• Map and Missions

  • Added a new Normandy train-station building (Normandy DLC).

  • Added interiors to the Normandy City Center house, with a few smaller adjustments still planned (Normandy DLC).

  • Large improvements in balancing in many Budapest missions.

  • Improvements in balancing in many Operation Konrad & Spring Awakening Missions.

  • Added Jagdpanther G1 to various Operation Konrad and Operation Spring Awakening missions.

  • Added Tiger I Ausf. E to post- 1943 campaigns (with the exception to Caen at Normandy, for now). The H1 has replaced the Tigers seen in Tunisia.

  • Bastogne has been converted to the new road system. It now has a black mud road throughout.

  • Kos has been updated to now have accurate unit names.

  • German tanks have been removed from Kos, now all vehicles used on the island are armored cars such as the Sd.Kfz 222 and 250/9.

  • Italians given more vehicle options to spawn as in some Kos missions.

  • M8 "Scott" added to Anzio and Cassino campaigns

  • Marder II replaced Marder I standin in Anzio, with some added to Cassino (still a standin for the Marder III for now).

  • A few more balancing changes to missions.

Fixes and Improvements:

• Infantry AI and Navigation

  • AI units under fire now advance more cautiously, spend more time returning fire instead of continuing to move, and are far less likely to remain standing during active combat.

  • AI awareness is now more situational. Units that have not been alerted may take longer to detect distant enemies and are less likely to immediately notice enemies approaching from behind.

  • When moving away from their squad leader, AI units now attempt to reach nearby cover before continuing toward the assigned marker. This remains an early experimental behavior rather than a complete cover-to-cover system and may receive further adjustments.

  • AI units now discard obsolete movement orders and calculate a path toward newly assigned destinations much faster.

  • Fixed several rare issues that could leave units far behind during a battle or cause them to use incorrectly assigned cover.

• Vehicle AI and Physics

  • Significantly improved vehicle pathfinding and obstacle avoidance, especially when navigating complex environments.

  • Greatly improved AI vehicle unstuck behavior around large rocks, terrain obstacles, and other objects.

  • Fixed an issue that could cause vehicles to jump when the camera rapidly moved close to them.

• Visual Effects and Graphics

  • Introduced a new skybox system with reworked clouds, fog, and lighting across the game.

  • Made additional polish and adjustments to the new skybox system.

  • Fixed and improved various shaders.

• Interface and Animations

  • Improved the size, transparency, and animation of various in-battle interface elements.

  • Made smaller fixes and improvements to various animations.

• Map Editor and Environment Tools

  • Fixed the Road tool on Nintendo Switch. This fix will arrive with the next 2.0.8 console update.

  • Fixed and improved various buildings and environmental assets.

• Performance, Multiplayer and Stability

  • Improved memory management for more stable gameplay on low-end devices and consoles.

  • Improved netcode for more stable multiplayer connections.

  • Fixed a crash affecting landing missions on PlayStation and reduced unnecessary resource usage in the same system on other platforms. The PlayStation fix will arrive with the next 2.0.8 console update.

  • Added various smaller gameplay, graphical, mission, and technical fixes.

What Comes Next?

Update 2.0.8 includes the first public version of several systems that will continue to evolve. We will keep testing and refining the new infantry AI behaviors, vehicle navigation, skybox system, and interface changes based on feedback from the BETA and public versions. Following the results of the Community Poll, AI and other strongly supported core systems will remain a major development focus for some time.

Development is already underway on the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Battles of Khalkhin Gol. Our current goal is to release both before the end of 2026, as part of base game, or free additions to currently existing DLCs.

Additionally, a larger Normandy Rework on the same map will be coming in the next months. It is planned to feature 5 additional missions on top of the existing ones! Can you guess where they will be?

Iwo Jima

Iwo Jima will return Easy Red 2 to the Pacific in 1945 and depict the full battle rather than just ending after the fighting for Mount Suribachi. Expect difficult amphibious landings, close-quarters infantry combat, fortified bunkers, caves, and a dedicated system of underground tunnels forming part of the Japanese defensive network.

Khalkhin Gol

Khalkhin Gol will instead bring the game to the largely overlooked 1939 conflict between Soviet-Mongolian and Japanese-Manchukuoan forces. Its open steppe terrain will support large early-war armored battles, infantry formations, artillery, and aircraft operating together on a large scale.

Work on these campaigns and the wider game will also introduce new mechanics and content, including deployable portable mortars such as the Japanese knee mortar, alongside new vehicles, weapons, equipment, and further reworks of existing content.

Beyond Iwo Jima and Khalkhin Gol, the poll has given us a clear understanding of which settings the community wants to see in future DLC. Those results will be strongly considered when we select the next major campaigns, while other plans suggested by the poll will be announced at a later date.

Hungary 1945

As a reminder, Easy Red 2: Blood on the Danube – Hungary 1945 is still available on Steam and is currently 25% off as part of its launch discount until July 29. This is a good opportunity to join the battles for Budapest and the final major operations fought in Hungary during the closing months of the war. Get in touch!

You can also join the Easy Red 2 community to share feedback, report issues, publish your creations, participate in ongoing tests, and follow future development updates:

Join Easy Red 2 Discord Community

Visit the Easy Red 2 Steam Workshop

Thank you for reading, and we will see you on the battlefield!

Marco and the Easy Red 2 Development Team

Hello Soldiers!

With Blood on the Danube now released, we are already looking ahead to the future of Easy Red 2, and we want the community to help shape it.

Our new poll covers future campaigns, mission structure and balance, infantry and vehicle AI, new factions, weapons, gameplay features, console priorities, and more.

Take the poll now and help shape the future of Easy Red 2.

TAKE THE COMMUNITY POLL

The results will directly influence how we prioritize future updates. The most-voted requests will carry weight when we decide which systems should be improved, which parts of the game should be reworked, and which new campaigns, factions and features should receive attention next.

We will naturally also consider historical suitability, previously released DLC and development requirements considering what can realistically be delivered to a high standard, but this poll is not simply being run out of curiosity, its results will certainly be used as part of our actual development planning going forward.

TWO NEW CAMPAIGNS ARE ALREADY IN DEVELOPMENT

NEITHER WILL BE RELEASED AS A SEPARATE PAID DLC

While the poll will help us decide what comes afterward, we can now confirm that two additional historical campaigns are already being developed for Easy Red 2.

Neither campaign will be sold as a separate DLC

Our current goal is to release both campaigns before the end of 2026. We will share development previews and more information as work progresses.

IWO JIMA

The Battle of Iwo Jima will bring Easy Red 2 back to the Pacific in 1945, following the American amphibious assault against heavily fortified Japanese positions on the volcanic island.

Expect difficult landings, close-quarters infantry combat and defensive networks built around bunkers, caves and underground tunnels.

In Easy Red 2, we intend to depict the entire battle of Iwo Jima, as opposed to just the first 5 days being the fighting for Mt. Suribachi and ending with the raising of the flag, like depicted in most popular media. In reality, the fighting for Iwo Jima continued for 31 more days and included over 26,000 more American casualties.

BATTLES OF KHALKHIN GOL

The Battles of Khalkhin Gol will cover the largely overlooked 1939 border conflict between Soviet-Mongolian and Japanese-Manchukuoan forces.

This campaign will offer a very different early-war battlefield, with open steppe terrain, including large early-war tank battles, mixed with infantry formations, mass use of artillery and aircraft operating together on a large scale while both of these armies were in their very early stages of the war, a far cry from the state we find the Soviet Union in come 1945 as seen in Budapest.

BLOOD ON THE DANUBE — LAUNCH DISCOUNT STILL ACTIVE

In the meantime, Easy Red 2: Blood on the Danube is available now.

Fight through 35 missions across two new maps covering the Siege of Budapest, the Konrad Offensives and Operation Spring Awakening, with the new Hungarian and Romanian factions and dozens of additional vehicles, weapons, aircraft, uniforms and equipment.

The introductory 25% discount remains available until July 29:

Thank you to everyone who has already participated in the poll, supported Blood on the Danube, reported problems and continued sharing ideas with us.

Easy Red 2 has grown enormously thanks to its community, and your feedback will continue to play an important role in deciding what comes next.

Cast your vote, share the poll and tell us which battlefields you want to see in the future.

See you on the battlefield!

Marco and the Easy Red 2 Development Team

Easy Red 2: Blood on the Danube is OUT NOW!

Hello Soldiers!

We are proud to announce that Easy Red 2: Blood on the Danube – Hungary 1945 is now available on Steam!

Steel, snow, and the last breath of a dying Reich.

Blood on the Danube takes Easy Red 2 to Hungary during the final brutal months of the Eastern Front. Fight through vast armored engagements, frozen Hungarian countryside, fortified positions, and intense street-to-street combat inside Budapest.

This is our largest and most content-dense expansion yet, introducing three new campaigns, 35 missions across two new maps, the new Hungarian and Romanian factions, and dozens of new weapons, vehicles, aircraft, uniforms, and equipment.

Blood on the Danube is available now.

Watch the Launch Trailer

Three New Campaigns

Blood on the Danube features three campaigns covering some of the largest and most desperate operations fought in Hungary during 1944 and 1945.

The Siege of Budapest

Fight through the prolonged and devastating battle for the Hungarian capital. German and Hungarian troops, surrounded by the Red Army, must defend the city through increasingly desperate engagements.

Battle across both Buda and Pest in the largest urban environment ever created for Easy Red 2. Fight inside streets, railway stations, industrial districts, residential areas, parks, fortified buildings, and positions overlooking the Danube.

The Konrad Offensives

Take part in the successive Axis attempts to break through the Soviet encirclement and relieve Budapest.

Fight across the frozen Hungarian countryside in large combined-arms operations involving infantry, tanks, assault guns, artillery, and aircraft. Snow-covered fields, villages, forests, hills, and defensive lines create a very different battlefield from the dense streets of the capital.

Operation Spring Awakening

Experience the last major German offensive of World War II, launched near Lake Balaton in March 1945.

Command late-war armored formations through mud, open countryside, fortified settlements, and heavily contested defensive positions as the Axis forces attempt one final advance against the Red Army.

35 New Missions

Across its three campaigns, Blood on the Danube includes more than 30 handcrafted missions taking place on two extensive new maps.

The missions cover large armored offensives, infantry assaults, defensive operations, urban warfare, close-air-support, artillery support, air-to-air combat, and desperate last stands from multiple perspectives.

As with the rest of Easy Red 2, every mission is designed around large-scale combined-arms warfare. Infantry, armored vehicles, aircraft, artillery, and supporting units operate together across dynamic battlefields where destruction, squad command, logistics, and tactical positioning remain essential.

Hungary and Romania Join the Battle

Blood on the Danube introduces Hungary and Romania as fully represented factions, complete with dedicated voice acting, uniforms, weapons, equipment, and vehicles.

These additions allow the campaigns to portray the forces fighting in Hungary with a greater level of visual and historical detail than was previously possible in Easy Red 2 or any videogame on the market prior.

The expansion includes well over 150 new uniform and helmet pieces for Hungarian, Romanian, German, and Soviet troops, including not only new late-war and winter equipment for each side, but also early war equipment for the Hungarians and Romanians for custom scenarios.

New Weapons and Equipment

More than 30 new weapons and grenades have been added, covering the standard infantry and support equipment used by the forces represented in the expansion.

New weapons include:

• 35M and 43M Mannlicher rifles

• Mannlicher 95/30 and 95/31(35M) rifles

• Mannlicher Gewehr 98/40

• 39M and 43M Danuvia submachine guns

• FÉG 37M pistol

• Schwarzlose M.07/12 machine gun

• Orița M1941 submachine gun

• 31M and 43M Solothurn light machine guns

• Madsen 24/43M and ZB-30 light machine guns

• PPS-42 and PPS-43 submachine guns

• Mosin–Nagant M44 carbine

• AVT-40 automatic rifle

• ZB vz. 24 rifle and sniper variant

• ROKS flamethrower

• Panzerfaust 100

• 44M kézi rakétavető anti-tank rocket launcher

• Additional rifles, machine guns, grenades, bayonets, and support equipment

New Vehicles and Aircraft

The expansion adds more than 50 vehicles and variants, greatly expanding the selection of Hungarian, Romanian, German, and Soviet equipment available during the late-war period.

Hungarian armored vehicles include the Toldi, Turán, Zrínyi, and 40M Nimród families, alongside new tanks, assault guns, transport vehicles, logistical vehicles, artillery pieces, and other equipment used by each side.

New and expanded aircraft variants represent the increasingly intense air war over Hungary, including late-war versions of aircraft such as the Messerschmitt Bf 109, Focke-Wulf Fw 190, Ilyushin IL-2, and Yakovlev Yak-9.

Many vehicles and aircraft introduced during the development of this expansion have also contributed to improvements and additions throughout Easy Red 2.

Built for Easy Red 2 and Its Editors

The environments, factions, weapons, uniforms, vehicles, and other assets introduced by Blood on the Danube have been designed to integrate with Easy Red 2’s existing systems.

DLC owners can use the new content inside the Mission Editor and Map Editor, allowing custom missions and scenarios to be created across the new maps and with the new factions and equipment.

Historical Research and the Royal Hungarian Infantry Association

We would like to give special thanks to the Royal Hungarian Infantry Association and the Szent László Hadosztály Honvéd Hagyományőrző Egyesület for sharing reference material and assisting our research as we worked to represent the Royal Hungarian Army as faithfully as possible.

The Royal Hungarian Infantry Association is a historical reenactment organization based in Budapest, Hungary, dedicated to the authentic portrayal of the infantry of the Royal Hungarian Army during the 1940s. Historical accuracy is the cornerstone of its work. Through meticulous research and careful attention to detail, its members faithfully recreate the uniforms, equipment, field procedures, and military training of the period. Its goal is not only to preserve military heritage, but also to present it in an educational and respectful manner. The association traces its origins to its first predecessor group, established in 2017, and has continued to refine its standards of authenticity and historical interpretation ever since.

The Szent László Hadosztály Honvéd Hagyományőrző Egyesület is a historical reenactment organization based in Szolnok, Hungary, dedicated to the authentic portrayal of the Szent László Division—also known as the Saint Ladislaus Division—of the Royal Hungarian Army during the latter stages of World War II. Active since the early 2000s, the association likewise places historical accuracy at the center of its work, carefully reconstructing the division’s uniforms, equipment, field procedures, and military training while preserving and respectfully presenting its history.

The knowledge and assistance provided by both associations offered invaluable references during the development of the Hungarian soldiers, uniforms, equipment, and many other historical details featured in the expansion.

Artwork by Giuseppe Rava

A special thanks to Giuseppe Rava for creating the dedicated key artwork for Blood on the Danube.

Giuseppe Rava is an internationally recognized Italian military-history painter, known for his work on historical publications, miniature ranges, and model-kit artwork. His paintings combine detailed research into uniforms, weapons, and equipment with dynamic battlefield compositions.

The illustration is intended as a visual interpretation of the DLC rather than a literal reconstruction of a single historical moment. It balances close attention to Hungarian uniforms, equipment, and atmosphere with a broader representation of the factions, vehicles, and combat featured throughout the expansion.

Rava’s distinctive military illustration style also perfectly reflects one of Easy Red 2’s central inspirations: the character and immediacy of a tabletop wargame brought to life as a videogame.

Special thanks: KCC

Also a special thanks to our friends at the Kaiser Cat Collective who advised us on marketing. KCC is an alt-history art and worldbuilding studio.

Check out their work at kaisercatcinema.com, and if you want the real flags from this campaign on your wall, their flagmaker project 'Flagmaker & Print' has a WWII Eastern Front collection featuring the Kingdom of Hungary, Soviet Union and Romania flags:  https://flagmaker-print.com/collections/wwii-eastern-front-flags

Blood on the Danube is Available Now

Enter the final battles of the Eastern Front and fight across Hungary during one of the most destructive chapters of the war.

Three campaigns. Two new maps. More than 30 missions. New factions, weapons, vehicles, aircraft, and over 150 new uniform and helmet pieces.

The Danube runs red.

Thank you to everyone who followed the development of this expansion, shared feedback, supported Easy Red 2, and helped us continue bringing new fronts and campaigns to the game.

What Comes Next?

Blood on the Danube represents another major step in the continued development of Easy Red 2, but our work on the game does not end here.

You can read more about our plans for Easy Red 2 in our development roadmap:

You can also join the Easy Red 2 community to share feedback, report issues, publish your creations, and follow future development updates:

Join Easy Red 2 Discord Community

Visit the Easy Red 2 Steam Workshop

Thank you for reading, and we will see you on the battlefield!

Marco and the Easy Red 2 Development Team

Hello Soldiers!

Update 2.0.7 is now available, arriving ahead of tomorrow’s launch of Easy Red 2: Blood on the Danube and bringing new content, extensive reworks, experimental gameplay systems, visual improvements, and stability fixes across Easy Red 2.

Most of our work during this period was naturally dedicated to completing the new Hungary expansion, but development on the base game has continued alongside it. This update includes improvements to aircraft physics, weapon animations, vehicles, AI navigation, graphics, audio, the Map Editor, scripting tools, and much more.

Blood on the Danube Launches Tomorrow!

Easy Red 2: Blood on the Danube – Hungary 1945 launches tomorrow on Steam!

Fight through the final brutal months of the Eastern Front across three new campaigns covering the Siege of Budapest, the Konrad Offensives, and Operation Spring Awakening.

The expansion includes 35 missions across two new maps, the new Hungarian and Romanian factions, and dozens of new weapons, vehicles, aircraft, uniforms, and pieces of equipment.

The complete launch announcement will be released tomorrow.

Watch the Launch Trailer

Update 2.0.7

Ahead of tomorrow’s release of Blood on the Danube, Update 2.0.7 introduces several new systems and improvements developed for Easy Red 2 as a whole.

Aircraft physics have received new experimental changes intended to make flight behavior more convincing, particularly during low-speed and high-angle-of-attack situations. Weapon handling and animations have also been expanded with improved bolt-action synchronization, animated firing mechanisms, updated ammunition models, and more logical partial reloads.

The update also brings several reworked vehicles and aircraft, new weapons and explosives, improvements to indoor AI navigation, expanded Lua scripting functions, and numerous visual, audio, mission, and stability fixes.

New Features and Content:

• Weapons and Explosives

  • Added the Panzerschreck 43. In a future update, using this early unshielded model may also require the operator to wear a gas mask.

  • Added the Nebelhandgranate 42 for a late-war German smoke grenade.

  • Added the Blendkörper 2H for an anti-tank late-war German impact smoke grenade.

  • Added the OF Mle. 1915 grenade (Ardennes DLC).

  • Added the Kaenbin flame grenade for early-war Japanese forces.

  • Added the Type 91 grenade for early-war Japanese forces.

  • Added the RGD-33 anti-tank grenade bundle (Stalingrad DLC).

  • Added a new M37 Satchel Charge for US and supplied allied forces.

  • Added the Geballte Ladung 3KG Charge for German and Axis forces.

• Editor and Scripting

  • Added the new Lua function destroyAll, allowing scripts to destroy all structures within a specified radius without needing to create an explosion or manually locate distant structures.

  • The Lua sleep() function can now be used inside callbacks.

• Map and Missions

  • Most Normandy campaign missions have been reworked, and all have been given mission intros. This is not part of an overall Normandy rework or remake, just mission updates and general minor improvements... Remade Encircling Carentan however!

  • Added Tiger II to Battle of the Bulge.

  • Added Romanian forces to multiple Stalingrad missions.

  • Changed dates and mission order for some Stalingrad missions.

• Additional Content

  • Added new barricade props.

  • Added many new vests and squads.

  • Added new 1-life achievements.

Fixes and Improvements:

• Weapons and Animations

  • Improved bullet ejection animations.

  • Added new animations for the M1 Carbine and its variants.

  • Added new Sten Mk V animations.

  • Reworked the Mosin rifle family and added new variants.

  • Reworked the Mosin PE scope.

  • Added an experimental system for animating the firing pins and other internal mechanisms of certain weapons, currently implemented on Mosin rifles.

  • Added an experimental partial-reload system that removes the appropriate round when manually opening the bolt, keeping weapon animations and ammunition counts logically consistent.

  • Began a gradual rework of ammunition models, currently implemented on the M1 Carbine, Mosin, and SVT weapon families.

  • Improved third-person bolt-action animations to synchronize more accurately with body movement and weapon reloads.

  • Reworked the M43 Stielhandgranate and added a new variant.

  • Improved camera movement while using several weapons in first person.

  • Improved the recoil camera effect on vehicles and static weapons.

  • Improved the PaK 40.

• Vehicles and Aircraft

  • Added experimental improvements to aircraft physics, intended to produce more realistic behavior during low-speed flight, high-angle-of-attack stalls, and other situations where speed and gravity affect controllability.

  • Reworked the Panzer II and added new variants.

  • Reworked the Hetzer.

  • Reworked the Supermarine Spitfire and added several new variants.

  • Reworked the interiors of the Messerschmitt Bf 110.

  • Made small improvements to AI handling of wheeled vehicles.

  • Improved the turret rotation sound system so that movement caused by bumps and uneven terrain no longer incorrectly activates rotation sounds.

• Visual Effects and Graphics

  • Improved tracer visibility at longer distances.

  • Reworked rocket visual effects. Rocket motors now visibly burn out after the first few seconds of flight.

  • Improved post-processing lighting and adjusted the vignette effect.

  • Improved depth and shadow rendering in various shaders.

  • Improved building shaders and fixed several related visual issues.

  • Improved the ground snow shader.

  • Improved terrain textures.

  • Improved various German uniform textures.

  • Reworked the Cliff 8 model and its variants.

  • Made smaller improvements to rock props and other environmental textures.

  • Reworked trash-bin props, which are no longer obsolete.

• Uniforms and Historical Equipment

  • Adjusted German Heer webbing across several campaigns to better reflect equipment distribution by theatre and period. Canvas webbing is now more prevalent in Mediterranean campaigns, while Normandy troops continue to primarily use leather equipment.

  • Updated German squad uniforms in Kos using additional references from the battles of Kos and Leros.

  • Made various additional improvements to uniforms and equipment textures.

• Map Editor and Environment Tools

  • Improved the Map Editor grass-painting tool so that it more reliably avoids roads and placed props.

  • Improved texture mapping on roads created with the Road tool.

  • Added new thin sidewalk textures for use with the Road tool.

  • Fixed issues affecting various buildings.

• AI and Navigation

  • Improved AI pathfinding inside large buildings and underground cave environments.

  • Made smaller improvements to AI driving behavior for wheeled vehicles.

  • Improved plane AI behaviors

• Audio

  • Improved large explosion sounds.

  • Added and improved sounds for various weapons and menus.

  • Made smaller adjustments to the legacy faction anthems.

• Missions and Stability

  • Fixed issues in various missions.

  • Added various stability improvements.

  • Fixed several smaller gameplay, graphical, and technical issues.

What Comes Next?

With Blood on the Danube launching tomorrow, Easy Red 2 is about to take another major step forward—but our work on the game does not end here.

You can read more about our plans for Easy Red 2 in our development roadmap:

You can also join the Easy Red 2 community to share feedback, report issues, publish your creations, and follow future development updates:

Join Easy Red 2 Discord Community

Visit the Easy Red 2 Steam Workshop

Thank you for reading, and we will see you on the battlefield!

Marco and the Easy Red 2 Development Team

Hello Soldiers!

This update includes a large amount of new content, technical improvements, visual upgrades, and stability fixes across Easy Red 2.

Our next major DLC release is also just around the corner — look out for it and all of its additions soon!

New Features:

• Vehicles

  • Added the Yak-9 (Stalingrad). Other Yak variants (Yak-3, Yak-9t, Yak-9k) will be included in Blood on The Danube.

  • Reworked IL-2 ground-attack plane with new variants (Stalingrad and Hungary DLC).

  • Added the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fight plane and several variants, distributed across the base game and different DLCs depending on their historical time period. It has replaced the Stuka in most missions taking place after 1943 (Normandy, Ardennes and Hungary DLC).

  • Added standalone M-13 rocket launcher (Stalingrad).

  • Added the BM-13 Katyusha, based on the ZiS-5 truck with the M-13 launcher (Stalingrad).

  • Added randomized scrim camouflage on the M10, M36, and Sherman Firefly.

  • Added the P-40E. Also converted P-40 Warhawk to new camo system.

• Map Editor

  • Added a new Road & River tool to the Map Editor. This allows for much more dynamic and easier to place roads on the map, as well as sidewalks in cities.

  • Overall, allows for:

    • Road junctions (up to 4 roads)

    • On/off sidewalks on each side

    • Auto terrain deform below road

    • Custom road and sidewalk width

    • River placement

• UI Improvements

  • Added a setting to disable sun and moon lens flares.

  • Added a new end battle UI. There is now an animated flag for the country you're playing as, a new layout for the victory/defeat statistics, as well as new music that changes based on if your faction was victorious or not.

  • Added a new High Quality Blur setting, improving Depth of Field and blurred gun sights on high-end PCs.

• Audio Improvements

  • Added DP-27 looping fire sounds

  • Added new grass footstep sounds

  • Added new plane distance sounds, differentiated bomber and fighter

  • Added new incoming artillery sounds.

  • Added BESA data and sound effects for British tanks.

  • Replaced the campaign menu mission appear sound with new audio.

  • Added new end battle victory and defeat anthems, currently available for UK, USA, Germany, and Japan. This system can be disabled in favor of the old “Gramophone style” anthems.

• Performance

  • Added new experimental settings to limit squad sizes on very low-end devices.

  • Added an experimental system to make vehicle physics less performance-heavy.

• Miscellaneous

  • Added a new camera tilt effect when walking sideways and leaning. This is tied to the camera animation toggle.

  • Added new furniture props, currently mostly used inside Normandy buildings.

  • Added new Modding SDK features, including a useful framework to test sounds such as loopable gunfire, distance sounds, directional sounds, and more.

  • Added new SS Tanker caps, including M40, M42, and M43 variants.

  • Various soviet clothing additions & reworks.

Fixes and Improvements:

• Reworked BA-10 armored car.

• Reworked the ZiS-5 truck (Stalingrad).

• Reworked the P-40C.

• Reworked plane bomb model.

• Made smaller improvements to the Spitfire and Beaufighter.

  • Temporarily replaced the M1919 on the Bristol Beaufighter with a modified Bren to better resemble a Vickers K.

• Improved and reworked several German aircraft and camouflage variants.

• Fixed issues in the new furniture props.

• Fixed LODs on some vehicles.

• Improved TPS aim animation system.

• Improved the far-vehicle physics system to look more convincing while also being less performance-heavy.

• Improved general vehicle handling and fixed several vehicle-related issues.

• Improved the vehicle sound system.

• Changes in the volume of vehicle reload sounds.

• Graphics

  • Improved shader performance.

  • Reworked SSAO / Post-Processing Ambient Occlusion. The system is now technically based on GTAO.

  • Improved Screen Space Reflections.

  • Improved the water shader.

  • Improved water foam and waves close to the shore.

  • Improved overall lighting and colors.

  • Improved grass rendering.

• Improved scope stability for picture-in-picture scope rendering and crosshair movement. Floating point precision issues on very large maps are not fully solved yet, but aiming with scoped rifles should now feel much better.

• Improved rigging and body shapes for Asian soldier models.

• Improved soldier face proportions to reduce clipping with headgear.

• Improved ragdoll physics. Ragdolls now maintain momentum in the direction the character was moving.

• Improved footstep volume balancing across different stances.

• Improved third-person animations.

• Fixed and improved several animations.

• Reworked Soviet railway station models with interiors and destruction.

• Improved performance of setTimeOfDay and setTimeAndWeather in the scripting system.

• Changed Steam API integration to help address cases where some Chinese clients could not properly connect Steam with Easy Red 2.

• Downgraded the Steam SDK version in an attempt to improve compatibility with older Steam clients that cannot update, especially some Chinese Steam client versions.

• Improved localizations.

• Fixed various clothing issues.

• General code cleanup and stability improvements.

• Various smaller bug fixes.

Wishlist Easy Red 2: Blood on the Danube!

Our next DLC, Easy Red 2: Blood on the Danube, is now available to wishlist on Steam!

Fight through the final brutal months of the Eastern Front in Hungary, from the Siege of Budapest to the Konrad Offensives and Operation Spring Awakening. Expect harsh winter battles, late-war armored warfare, and intense street-to-street combat, new Hungarian and Romanian factions, new weapons, vehicles, aircraft, and more than 30 missions across two new maps in the most content-dense DLC we have ever made!

A special thanks to Giuseppe Rava for creating the dedicated artwork for this DLC and bringing this chapter of Easy Red 2 to life with his incredible historical illustration style! Wishlist it now and get notified when it releases!

Additional Blood on The Danube Teasers

Vehicles

Here are Some of the Hungarian tanks that will be in the DLC. Pictured here is the Turan I, Turan II, Zrinyi I, and Zrinyi II. Also planned to come in the DLC will be the Toldi I and Toldi II as well as the 40M Nimród.

While many new planes were added recently for the Germans and Soviets, some variants of these planes will be locked behind the new DLC, as they only appear that late in the war: Examples include the Bf-109G14/U4, the Fw 190 F-8/R3, the IL-2 1943 and 1943 NS-37, as well as the aformentioned Yak-9K and Yak-9T variants.

Weapons

Many new weapons are being added within and alongside this DLC. Among these additions includes the Hungarian Solothurn S2-200 light machine gun, a derivative of the MG-30 as well as its derivatives, (31.M and 43.M). Besides this, 4 other LMGs are being added in this DLC. Look forward to it!

Uniforms

German M43 uniforms for the Heer and Waffen-SS are being added, among over 100 new other clothing pieces to be used in the DLC for the German, Hungarian, Soviet, and Romanian factions alike, some seen in previous update posts.

Maps and Missions: Budapest

Budapest is nearing completion, such with the completion of this DLC. Spanning 5x5 a kilometer map, the urban areas of the city (including both Buda and Pest) themselves make up approximately 2.3-2.5 square kilometers total. This will be the largest scale map in Easy Red 2 history.

Features and content planned to come over the current year!

You can read about all of our plans on our Roadmap here:

Thanks for reading and sticking with us all this time... see you July 15th!

Marco and the Easy Red 2 Development Team

Hello again!

This update has tons of important fixes, as well as many important improvements to the game on all fronts!

Brace yourselves for these changelogs — a lot has been accomplished over the past two months.

New update development took slightly longer than usual, mainly due to ongoing work on the upcoming Hungary DLC, but the result is a very substantial update!

New Features:

• Vehicles:

  • Reworked M3 Half-Track and added multiple new M3 Half-Tracks variants (including existing ones):

    • M3 Half-Track

    • M3 Half-Track (Cover)

    • M3 7.5cm GMC

    • M15 Half-Track CGMC AA Gun

    • M35 Quad-mount AA Gun

    • M3A1 Half-Track

    • M3A1 Half-Track (Cover)

    • 3xM2 Browning

  • Reworked Bf-109 and added many time period-appropriate variants (E1, E3, E4, F4, G2, G2/R2, G6, G6/R6, G14, G14/R6)

  • Added Renault R-35 and various variants:

    • R-35

    • R-35 (SA38 Gun)

    • Panzer 35R 731(f) (German Version)

    • Panzerjäger 35R(f) Tank Destroyer

  • Reworked SU-76: Now SU-76M (Stalingrad)

  • New system to make disconnected mechanical parts of some vehicles to move with vehicle main gun/turret, such as AA sights of M3 Half Tracks and StuG III periscope

  • New vehicle engine shake effect when driving vehicles in FPS

  • Converted FT-17 and Char B1 Bis to new camo system

  • Added OT-34-76 (Flamethrower T-34)

• Weapons & Attachments:

  • Reworked SVT-40 (Stalingrad DLC)

  • New SVT-38 (Stalingrad DLC)

  • Reworked PU scope mount, added PE scope compatibility with Mosin Nagant

  • Reworked Thompson firing sounds & fire rates

  • New system to differentiate similar weapon sounds based on variant

  • Added M43 Stielhandgranate

• Animations:

  • New StG-44 animations

  • New MP-28 animations

  • New MP-41 animations

  • New AT emplacement gunner animations

  • New SVT reload animations & sounds

  • New DP-27 animations

  • New reload sounds on Bren and DP-27

• Uniforms:

  • Reworked Soviet tanker and pilot headgear (Stalingrad)

  • Reworked parachutes + added faction variants

• General Gameplay, Graphics & Main Menu:

  • Damage system reworked, overall resulting in making many bullets more lethal

    • Increased falloff of damage and penetration over distance

    • Added new feature to display Kinetic Energy in shooting range

    • Shooting range now displays penetration based on target distance rather than at muzzle velocity.

  • New system to have star icons on campaign list. 1 star = campaign completed, 2 stars = campaign completed as both factions, gold star(s) = completed with 1 life.

  • Reworked DogTags statistics menu

  • Improved skybox, fog, and lighting effects

  • Reworked stochastic texturing effect

  • Improved water bodies sound system so the water sound changes depending on the distance from the water and the size of the water body. The system also now doesn't play water sound anymore when there is not an exposed water body nearby even when the terrain level is very low.

  • Improved parallax effect, which might now start getting used on props too now and not just terrain. The first kind of props that will start having this feature for testing are rubble props

• AI Additions:

  • AI now reacts to fog, which now limits their visibility proportionally to the fog amount, and in case of extreme fog makes them shoot less often, similarly to night with dark settings.

  • When a single AI soldier is left alive on a vehicle, he can now swap between driver and main gun in order to keep fighting without the need of a dedicated gunner

• Mission & Map Editor Additions:

  • Water reworked: the new water configuration is not compatible with the previous one, so all map water data on custom maps must be adjusted to accommodate the new system

  • Added a new toggle setting on Mission Editor spawns to set a spawn as "persistent", allowing it it be present in every mission phase (except phases previous to the one in which it was placed).

  • New system for loading props in vanilla buildings (can be extended to the modding system later on). This allows for furniture in buildings, and the density can be lowered and raised with graphics settings.

  • Changed configurations in maps to control new water. The new configuration is not compatible with previous one so map water data will need to be adjusted over the new water system.

  • New system to sort spawn list in mission editor

  • New cemetery prop assets

  • Reworked wooden fences + new texture variants

  • Reworked trenches, fox holes and craters + new variants: full dirt trenches, log trenches, and light versions of trenches for sandy environments

  • Added new Railway Bridge prop in Map Editor

  • Added French grenade box

  • Added a new "Dead Branch" terrain grass type

  • Reworked Stone Pine (now Maritime pines)

• Existing Campaign Additions:

  • Added DogTags fully to Shanghai, Nanking, and Makin campaigns

  • Added new trenches to most maps

  • Added new buildings to Stalingrad suburbs

  • France campaign missions reworked (not remade): More info below

• Modding

  • Reworked Modding SDK to include new features, better UIs and to ensure it can receive updates more often. (Modding SDK update is being tested right now and will be available in a few days)

Fixes and Improvements:

• Improved windows on some buildings, including stalinkas and the Italian villa

• Improved terrain PBR

• Improved ground blending effect for props like trenches, foxholes and craters

• Improved gun sound system in order to be more stable, better in synch, and to avoid weird sound cuts that used to happen at times

• Increased snow threshold to only have winter camo appearing from after 50% snow, now regular camos will spawn in "light" snow conditions

• Improved German plane camos

• Improved stability with map prop spawn and collisions

• Some other stability improvements

• Improved Italian Continental camo

• Added dynamic camo system for all French tanks.

• Improved sound fx and music compression system for faster loading and less memory usage

• Reworked on-screen blood splash effect

• Fixed vehicles using charred destroyed texture on any vehicle component destruction

• Fixes in animations on most static/vehicle MG42 and MG34

• Various missions across multiple campaigns tweaked for balance purposes

• French F1 Grenade has been painted in blue

• Fixes with localizations

• Fixed issue with AI script folders on Linux

• Fixes with weapons and vehicle textures

• Fixed bug causing map editor to get stuck when selected paint props tool with certain props

• Fixed a bug likely introduced in 2.0.1 preventing non-turret vehicles to rotate toward targets when out of gun range

• Fixed a bug causing radio calls not to be visible on screen under certain conditions when operating artillery

• Fixed an issue causing props to stop spawning in certain occasions.

• Fixed issue with 3d icons displaying in pause menu

• Fixed issue with Change Camera View button press triggering during button holding as well

• Various map and mission fixes and improvements, in particular to use the new trench variants

• Fixed a bug causing African Sherman camo to appear in the Pacific

• Fixed exhaust VFX position in several vehicles

• Fixed shotgun pump animation in TPS

• Improvements with swap sticks function for planes

• New option to swap Left/Right stick for aircraft control

• Added more rebind options on gamepad

France Campaign Rework

While working on the upcoming Hungary campaign, we were adding the Renault R-35 and its Romanian variant for the DLC and figured the France campaign itself could use some love.

Don't confuse this with being remade such as with Kwajalein, Anzio, and Cassino, but rather a traditional re-work: Some new stuff added here and there, missions rebalanced, in general it should be much better.

Summary of Changes and Fixes:

• Map lightly touched up on (new roads, some new detail, refined detail)

• All missions balanced more appropriately: Some with phases added, some with phase defenses reworked

• France given Pak-36 on defense as a stand-in AT emplacement

• Renault R-35 tank added to multiple missions

• More armor in general added to multiple missions, on both Allied and Axis sides.

• ZB-26 added to German 1940 AT squads

• German 1940 AT squads reworked composition

• German 1940 "Pioneer" squad created and added to multiple missions

• France AT squad given more responses to armor

• France standard infantry squad given a sapper

• France Chasseur squads now have 2 support gunners

• France Reservist squads added (Seen on Sedan Blitz)

• French squads are now called "Combat Groups" (the French military equivalent of "squad" during WW2).

Blood on The Danube: Hungary 1945

We've been non-stop on Hungary DLC development, and we've decided upon its full name: "Blood on The Danube: Hungary 1945".

Here are some screenshots from the upcoming Lake Balaton campaigns, Operation Konrad and Operation Spring Awakening! The Siege of Budapest development is well underway now.

The Steam store page for ‘Blood on the Danube: Hungary 1945’ will be going live very soon, so get ready to wishlist it!

New and Reworked Vehicles

The vehicle roster has been significantly expanded and refined, with a full rework of several existing platforms alongside the addition of multiple new vehicles and variants.

Below are some screenshots showcasing the updated SU-76M, the reworked M3 Half-Tracks, and the new Bf 109G variants.

Check out the Shanghai-Nanking DLC if you haven’t yet!

In Easy Red 2: Shanghai-Nanking, you fight for control of Shanghai, and the conflict will spread to locations such as: Luodian, Baoshan, Wusong, Jinshanwei, Hongkou, Suzhou creek, Chunhua, the Yuhuatai hills and the city of Nanjing.

Features and content planned to come over the next year!

Hungarian campaign, dynamically deployable MGs and mortars, the ability to reconstruct destroyed defenses and sandbag walls, and much more.

You can read about all of our plans on our Roadmap here:

Thanks for reading as always... see you next time!

Marco and the Easy Red 2 Development Team

Hello again!

This update is primarily spent polishing a ton of game features and fixing some of the most commonly reported issues.

New Features:

• Improved terrain snow shader

• General UI and icon updates

  • Improved UI text hint style

  • Added new “Final Phase” warning

• New ammo pickup system allowing squadmates to share compatible ammunition. This allows for example British infantry to carry ammo for the Bren gunner, just like it was in WW2

• Reworked hit registration system with more accurate hitmarker and penetration feedback

• Reworked medical treatment system: now requires analysis of injury to know how to save patient

• Improved various cannon firing animations

• Added QF 6-pounder L50 and M1 57mm gun

• Camo Additions

  • Added Sherman “Sheik” camo (late 1943 / early 1944 – Italy)

  • New German mid-war bicolor and late-war tricolor camouflages

  • Improved Soviet camouflages to resemble whitewash over green base

  • Added additional Soviet camouflages for Sherman tanks

  • New yellow star and stripe Stuart camo (seen in Tunisia)

  • New system to visually represent vehicles as burned after internal component explosions (for vehicles supporting camo system)

  • Scrim on M10 Wolverine

• New German uniforms:

  • German M40 Coat with SS Smock

  • German M40 Coat with Zeltbahn

  • German M40 coat with Tablecloth

• Animations

  • New transport vehicle TPS animations

  • New Bren gun animations (synced sounds pending)

  • New Lebel 1886 animations (synced sounds pending)

  • New plane enter, idle, and exit animations

• Radio operator overhaul:

  • Radio operators can now independently call artillery and tank support without requiring leader requests

  • Reworked coordinate system converting inputs into real in-game world coordinates

  • Dedicated minimap UI for pinpointing artillery strikes

  • Ability to select artillery shell type during radio call interaction

  • Additional polishing and improvements to the radio system

• Quick press L1/LB reassigned to switch camera mode (FPS/TPS) for improved gamepad usability

• Support for the Hungarian alphabet

• Localization improvements and upgrades

• Improvements to various squad loadouts

• New fence model for the style of "Cattle Fence 02"

• New map editor mass replace / rotate / scale feature

Fixes and Improvements:

• Camouflage:

  • Improved German camouflage schemes for higher consistency and more authentic patterns

  • Fixed Saharan camo issues

  • Corrected Chinese tank camos and decals

• Added new camo system to various vehicles:

  • Macchi MC. 200

  • Macchi MC. 202

  • Grumman F4F Wildcat

  • Douglas SBD Dauntless

  • Horsa Glider

  • IL-2

• Fixed a bug causing AI vehicles moving to the direct center of objectives instead of random positions around them. Expect an increase in AI vehicle competency with this fix!

• Fixed bayonet installation system issues

• Corrected Stuart Honey periscope functionality

• Resolved rare crash issues on Nintendo Switch (Update pending approval for the Nintendo console)

• Fixed retreat retreat order triggering when entering a destroyed vehicle as infantry squad

• Adjusted and refined cannon explosion effects

• Fixed prop collision issues and improved map prop loading performance

• Resolved ammo refill incorrectly adding a dummy Panzerfaust rocket

• Fixed Carcano M91/38 bolt model

• Corrected Sherman meshes and materials

• Adjusted Panther armor values

• Resolved issues in squad loadouts and missions

• Fixed Italian building collision problems

• Corrected TPS camera setting not applying when taking control of already spawned vehicles

• Fixed localization errors

• More customizable violence settings

• Various missions across multiple campaigns tweaked for balance purposes

Coming Soon...

We're now on full-speed-ahead on the upcoming Hungarian DLC, centered on the Siege of Budapest and the battles around Lake Balaton in January-March 1945. In the coming months, we will continue sharing previews as development progresses. Those who want earlier insights can follow the work-in-progress updates on our official Discord Server.

Several vehicle additions are coming to the base game as well very soon. The M3 Half-track family has been reworked and expanded with multiple new variants, including mortar carriers, artillery support versions, and anti-aircraft configurations.

Hungary DLC Previews

For the upcoming DLC we can finally reveal the long-awaited Tiger II / King Tiger tank!

Other than already displayed Hungarian uniforms, new Soviet and Romanian uniforms are in development to accurately represent the forces involved in the campaign. Soviet uniforms include naval infantry / Morpekh units!

In addition, many new Hungarian buildings are being created specifically for the Budapest and Lake Balaton maps. With these assets, we are experimenting with new production techniques aimed at achieving a noticeably higher level of visual quality and structural detail compared to previous environment sets.

Finally, some screenshots from within the Lake Balaton map!

There is no estimated release date for the Hungary DLC just yet. When we get one, we'll let you know!

Check out the Shanghai-Nanking DLC if you haven’t yet!

In Easy Red 2: Shanghai-Nanking, you fight for control of Shanghai, and the conflict will spread to locations such as: Luodian, Baoshan, Wusong, Jinshanwei, Hongkou, Suzhou creek, Chunhua, the Yuhuatai hills and the city of Nanjing.

Features and content planned to come over the next year!

Hungarian campaign, dynamically deployable MGs and mortars, the ability to reconstruct destroyed defenses and sandbag walls, and much more.

You can read about all of our plans on our Roadmap here:

Thanks for reading as always... see you next time!

Marco and the Easy Red 2 Development Team

Hello again everyone!

This is a very important patch introducing a whole new full-length campaign, adding new content, and fixing various issues of previous patches.

New Features:

• New campaign - Tunisia: Southern Operations.

  • Expanded on in its own section below.

• Vehicle Additions

  • Added Anti Air Crusader Tanks:

    • Crusader III AA Mk. I

    • Crusader III AA Mk. II

  • Added SPA-Viberti AS-42 and Variants (each comes with an armed variant):

    • AS42 Metropolitana

    • AS42 Sahariana

• Weapon Additions:

  • Added Browning M1919A4 with iprovized carrying handle for early-to-late war US campaigns.

  • Added yellow American Mk. II grenade for early war US campaigns.

  • Added many new bayonets, as well as reworking old ones.

    • Bayonets Added:

      • SVT Bayonet (M1940 Bayonet)

      • M1905 Bayonet

      • American early-war bayonet (M1917)

      • American late-war bayonet (M1 Bakelite)

      • English spike bayonet (No.4 Mk II)

      • German late-war bayonet (S84/98 III Bakelite))

      • German mid-war bayonet (S84/98 III)

      • Carcano bayonet (M1891)

      • Carcano folding bayonet (M1938)

      • Carcano bayonet (M1938)

      • Late-war Type 30 Japanese Bayonet

    • Bayonets Reworked:

      • Hanyang Bayonet (S71/84)

      • Mosin Bayonet (M91/30)

      • MAS 36 Bayonet (Mle. 1936)

      • Lebel Bayonet (Mle. 1886)

      • M1 Bayonet

      • K98 Bayonet (S84/98)

      • FG-42 Spike Bayonet

      • Type 30 Bayonet

• Added a system to both refill Gewehr 43 with magazines and stripper clips. Now Gewehr 43 wielding riflemen will carry 2 spare magazines and the rest as individual rounds.

• Added a new system to make open top vehicle crew animations more organic, making units react to acceleration, deceleration and obstacle collision.

• Added new Tunisia Mosque building.

• Added UK grenade refill box.

• Added Japanese rifle attachment flag.

• Added a certain new squad type to specific Bastogne missions.

• New car enter / idle / exit animations, now available for modders as well.

• New modding UI tools to preview animation placement on open top vehicles.

Fixes and Improvements:

• Various map and mission improvements in North Tunisia map with the goal of bringing it closer to the new North African standard set by South Tunisia.

• Greatly improved game performance on low end devices and consoles: Loading screen times might become a bit longer in order to achieve a much more stable framerate during gameplay.

• Reworked Willys Jeep.

• Added dynamic camo system to various vehicles:

  • Supermarine Spitfire

  • Bristol Beaufighter

  • C-47 Skytrain

  • DFS 230 Glider

  • Bf-109

  • Bf-110

  • Ju-87 Stuka

  • Vickers E Type B 6-Ton

  • Vickers Carden Lloyd

  • Panzer I Ausf. A

• Reworks to the German Afrika Korps helmets, including now separate M35 and M42 variants.

• Reworked animations of several weapons.

• Fixed rifles bolt placement in Carcano rifles.

• Various Audio Reworks:

  • Reworked reload sounds for Gewehr 43, C96, PPSh 41, MAB 38, TT-33, Mas 36 and Wz-35.

  • Reworked low caliber bullet whizzing sounds to be shorter and more "direct".

  • Shortened shell whizzing sounds to sync better with shell flying by the player.

  • New Tree falling/breaking sound for better audio clarity and to give importance for other sounds.

  • Updated smoke artillery explosion sounds.

  • Reworked Rubble footstep sounds.

• Various changes and additions in map props.

  • Finalized rework of Tunisian buildings for better visual/aesthetic fidelity.

• Improved stability of Map Editor when using Vulkan API.

• Improved stability of the automatic camo system.

• Fixed some bugs with animations while leaving specific vehicles.

• Fixed a bug causing maps not to load all grass types.

• Fixed a bug causing AI having difficulties on getting inside vehicles.

• Changes in Panzer III armor plates.

• Changes in Panzer III decals (all variants).

• Improved camera lock on melee target (no longer flings camera upward, just towards center mass).

• Fixed an issue preventing Nintendo switch from creating cross-play matches.

• Finalized main British uniform rework.

• Fixed issue causing map props collision not refreshing correctly sometimes.

• Small improvements in net code.

Below are a selection of images highlighting some of the new content, changes, and improvements introduced with this update. In order of appearance: New Stuka camos, new AS-42 Metropolitana and Sahariana, Willys Jeep reworked models, a showcase of some of the various aircraft given a new dynamic camo system, two slides of some of the bayonets added/reworked, and finally the new Tunisian Mosque.

South Tunisia

The long-awaited Southern Tunisia campaign is finally here. Experience the semi-arid deserts of Tunisia and experience possibly the most iconic American defeat in the early stages of world war 2— the Battle of Kasserine Pass.

Southern Tunisia features harsh landscapes not seen before in Easy Red 2. Here, various desert towns, coastal cities, open terrain and specific key defensive points host the locations of some of the most intense operations of the North African campaign. Here you'll act in engagement dynamics not officially depicted in Easy Red 2 before, including mass scale armored combat and two wave defense missions, all inspired by historical engagements that occurred.

The new Tunisia: Southern Operations campaign follows the final Axis offensive of North Africa, hosting a prologue of the American paratrooper raid on Gafsa in 1942, but truly beginning with Operation Frühlingswind, where German forces assaulted unprepared and inexperienced Allied defenses in effort to dislodge their rising presence in the region. The earliest stages of the in-game campaign features the Axis assaults on Faid Pass, Sidi Bou Zid, Kasserine Pass, Sbeitla, Sbiba, Tebessa, and decisive hold-of-the-line at Thala.

After this, experience the Axis attempt to delay an assault on the Mareth Line to the south, encompassing the Battle of Medenine and the later Operation Pugilist and Supercharge II where English, New Zealander, French, and other Commonwealth forces encircled the historic line. Shortly after this encirclement, Allied forces retake lost ground, and with the hard-fought Battle of Wadi Akarit they force Axis forces an all-out-retreat along the coast to Northern Tunisia and the Enfidaville line, leading the events of the Northern Tunisia campaign.

Set across the desert plains, mountain passes, fortified lines, and strategic towns in whatever contraption of war of your choice. This campaign emphasizes mobile warfare, combined arms combat, and harsh environmental conditions that defined the North African theater.

Performance and Stability Fixes

This update includes a broad set of optimizations aimed at improving overall stability, editor reliability, and gameplay smoothness across all platforms — with special attention to low-end devices and consoles.

• Game performance has been greatly improved on low-end hardware and consoles, resulting in a noticeably more stable framerate during gameplay. To achieve this, some data processing has been shifted to the loading phase, which may cause slightly longer loading screens, but this significantly reduces stutters, frame drops, and performance spikes once in-game.

• The Map Editor has been made more stable when using the Vulkan API, reducing crashes and unexpected behavior during editing sessions, especially on complex maps or long workflows.

• The automatic camouflage system has received stability improvements, addressing rare errors and inconsistencies that could previously affect vehicle visuals or cause unexpected camo selections.

• A bug that caused maps to not load all grass types correctly has been fixed, improving both visual consistency and performance predictability on larger maps.

Overall, these changes result in smoother gameplay, fewer interruptions, improved editor reliability, and better performance consistency, especially on lower-end systems and consoles.

Coming Up...

Now we're full-speed ahead on the upcoming Hungarian DLC, featuring the siege of Budapest and battles at Lake Balaton in March of 1945. You'll be sure to get further previews of it here in the coming months as we develop it further, and you get get ahead of these Steam posts by being up-to-date with the work in progress page in our official Discord Server!

Check out the Shanghai-Nanking DLC if you haven’t yet!

In Easy Red 2: Shanghai-Nanking, you fight for control of Shanghai, and the conflict will spread to locations such as: Luodian, Baoshan, Wusong, Jinshanwei, Hongkou, Suzhou creek, Chunhua, the Yuhuatai hills and the city of Nanjing.

We also have many new features and content planned to come in next many months!

Hungarian campaign, dynamically deployable MGs and mortars, the ability to reconstruct destroyed defenses and sandbag walls, and much more.

You can read about all of our plans on our new Roadmap here:

Thank you for reading... see you next update!

Marco and the Easy Red 2 Development Team

Hi everyone!

This is a small but important patch to fix some issues raised with 2.0.1 update.

New Features:

• Now custom squads uses the first magazine in the inventory as loaded magazine on spawn.

• Reworked Universal Carrier + added multiple new variants.

  • New Variants:

    • Bren Carrier (100rnd) - Equipped with 100 round drum magazine.

    • Universal Carrier (Vickers) - Equipped with Vickers MG.

    • Universal Carrier 'Wasp' Flamethrower - Equipped with flamethrower.

• Added Crusader III AA Mk. II \

• Added new "doubled" sandbag models. \

• Uniforms and Gear Added:

  • German Afrika Korps uniform w/Zeltbahn (2 variants: one with gaiters and one without).

  • Radio variants of various brodies:

    • Mk.2 Brodie (Net, Radio) Helmet

    • Mk. 2 Brodies (Radio) Helmet

    • Mk.3 Brodie (Radio) Helmet)

  • English Tanker Gear (2 variants)

Fixes and Improvements:

• Squad Improvements

  • Various squads using English/Commonwealth gear reworked for more accurate composition.

    • English Normandy squads now using P44 webbing with more appropriate headgear such as scrimmed and netted helmets as well as their radioman wearing headphones.

    • Canadian Normandy squads now have a more unique distribution of P44 webbing variants, as well as having scrim in their helmets and radiomen wearing headphones.

    • British Paratrooper squads now use P44 (Landing) Webbing, have increased use of HSAT helmets with scrim

    • British Paratroopers (Africa) squad seen on Medjez-el-Bab now has totally unique cosmetic appearance, utilizing new British KD Wool (Trousers) uniform.

• Many uniform and vest name changes for accuracy.

• MP44 now renamed StG44, as any official appearances of it currently are after the new name designation ordered in mid-late 1944.

• Improved Tunisia building models (With more improvements to come).

• Fixed issue where it was not possible to spawn with custom dog tags under specific conditions.

• Improved netcode for more stable multiplayer.

• Fixed LODs of various uniforms.

• Fixed issue where it was not possible to add scripting to custom squad spawns on Mac OSX.

• Fixed issues with weapons flying around on some animations.

• Fixes on P40, Panzer IV (Snow) and Panzer V Panther vehicle models.

• Improved collisions with sandbags. Now destroyed variants will not impede movement.

• Improved animation system.

• Fixes with scripting APIs.

Check out the Shanghai-Nanking DLC if you haven’t yet!

Our most recent DLC was released earlier this year! In Easy Red 2: Shanghai-Nanking, you fight for control of Shanghai, and the conflict will spread to locations such as: Luodian, Baoshan, Wusong, Jinshanwei, Hongkou, Suzhou creek, Chunhua, the Yuhuatai hills and the city of Nanjing.

We also have many new features and content planned to come in next many months!

South Tunisia campaign, dynamically deployable MGs and mortars, the ability to reconstruct destroyed defenses and sandbag walls, and much more.

You can read about all of our plans our new Roadmap here:

This was just a quick patch, but we'll see you next time for Southern Tunisia's release!

Marco and the Easy Red 2 Development Team

Hi everyone!

The holiday season is coming to an end, and we hope yours was great. While we're nearing the release of the Southern Tunisia Campaign, here's an update packed with a ton of quality of life updates, reworks, and brand new additions to polish the Easy Red experience as we go into 2026!

New Features:

• Uniforms and Gear:

  • Fully reworked British infantry uniforms and vests along with many new variants.

  • Uniforms added:

    • UK Austerity Uniform (closed, open, scarf variants).

    • UK Battledress Uniform (closed, open, scarf, jerkin).

    • UK KD (Khaki Drill) Uniform (Used in North Africa).

      • Intermixed variants with battledress top, KD shorts, KD pants, KD top.

    • Mk. 3 Turtle Helmet (medic variant)

  • Gear added:

    • English/CW P37 Webbing with RFL, MG, SMG variants.

    • English/CW P37 Webbing Landing gear with RFL, MG, SMG variants.

    • English/CW P37 Webbing 1944 (Green) with RFL, MG, SMG variants.

    • English/CW P37 Webbing 1944 (Green) Landing gear with RFL, MG, SMG variants.

    • P37 Webbing Gurkha Gear (with Kukri knives).

  • Added new US airborne vests for early war.

• Vehicle/Emplacement Additions

  • Added Crusader MKI, MKII and MKIII.

  • Reworked old M3/M5 Stuart tanks, adding many new variants for different years.

    • New Stuart variants:

      • M3 1941 Stuart

      • M3A3 1943 Stuart

      • M3A3 Recce

      • M3A1 Satan (flamethrower tank)

      • M5 1943 Stuart

      • M5 1944 Stuart

  • Fully reworked T-34 tanks along with various new variants (Stalingrad DLC).

    • New T-34 variants:

      • T-34 1940

      • T-34 1941

      • T-34 1942 STZ

      • T-34 1943

  • Added SU-85 and SU-122 tanks (Stalingrad DLC).

  • Added 37mm M3 Anti-Tank Gun.

• Added many new Map Editor props.

  • Reworked Haystack props with many new variants.

  • Reworked Stone wall props, with new desert version.

  • Added 2 Prickly Pear Cactus props

  • Added new mud road props: Mud Road Tan and Red

  • Eastern Europe buildings (Stalingrad DLC)

    • 20+ new Eastern Europe buildings, from sheds to huts as well as churches and windmills.

• Added camo variants to many new tanks, including Italian tanks, Panzer I and P40.

• Added a new system to switch between scope and iron sight without removing the scope attachment. (Press the ranging keys or use scroll wheel!)

• Added ability to adjust FPS viewmodel position. Currently located in graphics settings --> "Gun Position X, Y, Z".

• Fully reworked Map Editor UI with various new tools (more info in next section).

• Reworked main menu scene.

• TPS camera toggle is now separated between infantry, ground vehicles and aircrafts.

Fixes and Improvements:

• Vehicle Reworks

  • Reworked Panther tank (now Panzer V Panther D).

  • T-34/76 reworked (now T-34 1942).

  • T-34/85 reworked.

  • M3 Stuart reworked (now M3 1942 Stuart).

  • M5 Stuart reworked (now M5 1942 Stuart).

  • M5 E7-7 flamethrower tank reworked (now M5A1 E7-7).

  • M8 Scott reworked (now M8 "Scott").

• Vehicle Improvements

  • Added dynamic camo system to LCVP landing craft, LCA landing craft, LVT landing craft, LVT(a) tanks, Panzer I, and all Italian vehicles.

  • Added new texture variants to P40 Warhawk according to year.

  • Improved treads on KV series tanks.

  • Reworked most of the camo patterns.

• Map Editor

  • All ground textures in map editor renamed for clarity.

  • Map editor now features various new tools and improvements:

    • Ocean: Add waves (directional or random), change depth coloring, and change depth height (depth where you stop being able to see through water).

    • Solar Elevation, North Direction, and Weather is now all under the "weather" tab.

    • Map Locations is now its own tab.

    • Terrain Editor now has increased brush sizes.

    • New Paint Props Tool (formerly tree tool):

      • Multiple prop may now be selected.

      • You can change the average height, as well as the variance at random between the props being placed with the tool.

      • Random tilt degrees for props being placed for more natural appearing formations

      • "Align with ground" tool for making props automatically rotate and adjust to the angle of the ground (avoids floating props)

      • Minimum clip distance, so props cannot overlap with each other when using the tool.

    • New grass editor ability to create natural open spaces between grass clusters, for less dense areas.

• Uniforms and Gear:

  • Texture improvements for standard German uniforms.

  • Major texture improvements for British Brodie helmets (standard and African versions)

  • Texture improvements for British P40 Battledress uniform, as well as Khaki Drill uniform seen in North Africa

  • Texture improvements for British greatcoat.

  • British berets reworked (model and textures)

• Improved multiplayer security.

• Reworked vanilla crosshair.

• Improved various FPS animations, including for the Garand, Springfield, Type 24, MP40, WZ35 and locomotion animations.

• Fixed various issues with tank textures.

• Fixed a bug that was causing Normandy Map props to stop spawning after some time in the battle.

• Various bug fixes and corrections in missions.

• Upgraded modding SDK to include new features and better UI.

Reworked uniforms & vehicles

Fully reworked T-34s with some new variants. (Stalingrad DLC)

Reworked M3/M5 Stuart tanks along with adding some new variants, including the RECCE scout variant.

Reworked Panther tank (now Panther D)-- A and G variant also being currently worked on.

Some examples of the latest reworked Commonwealth uniforms and equipment. British loadouts now includes over 80 different clothing pieces.

South Tunisia coming soon!

Southern Tunisia is very close to nearing completion, with what's seeming to be 14 brand new missions.

Here's what to expect:

• Gafsa Airfield Raid by US Paratroopers in November 1942

• Operation Frühlingswind and the battles of Faid Pass, Sidi-Bou-Zid, and Kasserine Pass--known as one of the most major losses by the United States in World War 2.

• German stalemates at Sbiba Gap, Tebessa and Thala

• English/Commonwealth advance on the Mareth Line in the South

• Final phase of the battle of El Guettar where American forces retake the valley region.

• Final German defense at the Tebaga Gap in April 1943 (leading to the events of the Northern Tunisia campaign)

There are multiple tank-focused battles, featuring the involvement of many different factions! The allies featuring those seen previously in North Tunisia such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, but now accompanying them are New Zealander forces, Indian forces, and Gurkha forces, much like we saw in the Battle of Monte Cassino released a couple months back. With the heavy involvement of Italy in southern Tunisian operations, this brings the grand total of factions involved in this campaign to 8!

To distinguish it from the currently existing Tunisia North, we are likely to release it as its own campaign-- likely titled "Southern Tunisia Operations", with the northern campaign renamed to "Northern Tunisia Operations".

Southern Tunisia is coming next update, and PC beta users can expect it in the coming weeks for testing! We sincerely hope you'll enjoy it.

Hungary DLC Progress

What would a Hungarian DLC be without the Hungarian Army?

A wide range of uniforms, weapons, vehicles, and voice acting is currently being produced for the upcoming Hungary DLC, introducing the new Hungarian faction.

Here is a very early sneak peek at what is currently being worked on. As always, we aim to be as historically accurate as we can with our uniforms. We are aware that this early showcase still contains a few elements that need adjustment to achieve a truly authentic representation of the Hungarian Army, but we are excited to share the progress made so far and hope you enjoy.

As announced we have plenty late war weapons and vehicles being worked on for the Hungary DLC. Here's some of the ones recently finalized, of course with multiple camo variations:

We are also working on the Romanian Army. Below is a work-in-progress look at their uniform and loadout.

In addition, significant progress is being made on buildings, props, and map development. Later, we will get to weapons and even more vehicles. We will be showing more on everything in the coming months... stay tuned!

Letter from Corvostudio: Easy Red 2 in 2025

2025 marked a huge year for Easy Red 2. The Shanghai-Nanking DLC released with major support, and 7 campaigns were reworked in effort to bring ER2 up to a new, higher standard-- also with huge support from you the community.

Our community has grown so much this year, and we at Corvostudio couldn't be more grateful for all of you. Whether you're on PC or console, new or old, we hope you love what we've done this year and we hope you're gonna love what we have in store for 2026. Easy Red 2 has been an ever-improving journey, and we hope you'll stick around as we strive to be even better.

If you're not in it already, we love to hear your thoughts on the game and give suggestions and feedback in our official Discord Server. There you can also see work-in-progress content before these Steam posts!

Check out the Shanghai-Nanking DLC if you haven’t yet!

Our most recent DLC was released earlier this year! In Easy Red 2: Shanghai-Nanking, you fight for control of Shanghai, and the conflict will spread to locations such as: Luodian, Baoshan, Wusong, Jinshanwei, Hongkou, Suzhou creek, Chunhua, the Yuhuatai hills and the city of Nanjing.

We also have many new features and content planned to come in next many months!

South Tunisia campaign, dynamically deployable MGs and mortars, the ability to reconstruct destroyed defenses and sandbag walls, and much more.

You can read about all of our plans our new Roadmap here:

As always, thanks for your support, and thanks for reading!

Marco and the Easy Red 2 Development Team

Hello again, Easy Red 2 army!

It's that time of year again—the time of year where we share our newest roadmap, laying out the planned path ahead for Easy Red 2 from late 2025 to mid-late 2026.

As you know, this year we practically re-made most of the game to be bigger and better than ever, and unfortunately because of that we missed out on Southern Tunisia this go-around. Don't worry, it's still coming!

As always, going into 2026 we're looking to make the game even bigger and even better than ever!

New roadmap:

Starting from today, here's what we plan to work on!

✨ Major Planned New Features ✨

• South Tunisia: Mareth Line and Kasserine Pass

• 1944/45 Hungarian DLC: Siege of Budapest and Operation Spring Awakening

• We are considering other free additional maps for some time in 2026, including the Battle of Iwo Jima and Battles of Khalkhin Gol.

• Deployable MGs onto carried tripods and deployable portable mortars (such as Japanese knee mortar)

• Reconstruct broken sandbags and other defensive props

• New Eastern Europe buildings coming to Stalingrad DLC

• New vehicles and weapons for base game

• Major reworks on many old vehicles and weapons

• Multi-charge artillery system for modular artillery range and trajectory

• New patch/insignia system for more accurate iconography on uniforms

• Automatic cinematic camera system for nice shots and battle spectating

• Infrared night vision technology for Panther and other sights

🔧 Major Planned Improvements 🔧

• More map editor quality features to simplify prop placing, finding, and automatized behaviors.

• Possibility to switch between scope and sights without removing scopes (where accurate)

• Continuing adding and upgrading weapons, vehicles, sounds and animations

🌍 Upcoming Campaigns 🌍

Hungary Campaign

Early 2026, Mid 2026

We are finally ready to announce the next DLC!

Our goal with this expansion is to bring new factions, many new weapons, and above all, a lineup of late-war vehicles to play on one of the bloodiest battles that Europe has ever seen!

The Battle for Hungary offers a great, unique setting for this criteria.

It features two factions totally new to Easy Red: Hungary alongside Germany, and Romania alongside the Soviet Union (after switching sides in 1944).

It also potentially includes a wide variety of authentic unique weapons such as the Mannlicher rifles, Mauser VZ.24, Danuvia submachine guns, Steyr-Solothurn MG30, PPS-42/43 and much more.

You’ll also see powerful late-war vehicles like the late war Panther variants, Tiger II, Zrínyi II, late war T-34 and T34/85, IS-2 and more — including rare wartime technology such as infrared night vision on Panther tanks, one of the most advanced innovations of the era. Here's a WIP photo of the Panther rework currently underway, along with the night vision system!

One Of Europe's Bloodiest City Battles

The DLC will include key operations such as the Siege of Budapest, Operation Konrad, and Operation Spring Awakening, offering a mix of rural, urban, and suburban combat during the final months of the war in Europe.

Operation Spring Awakening is known as the last major offensive launched by the Third Reich during World War II, a final effort by German forces to halt the Soviet advance through Hungary.

More information to come in the coming weeks and months on our official discord server.

Southern Tunisia — Late 2025, Early 2026

While Northern Tunisia and the "Run for Tunis" would mark the end of Axis forces in North Africa, Southern Tunisia and the Mareth Line would be a very important stepping stone on the way, being a heavily fortified position that Axis forces used to try and halt the Allied advance after their retreat from El Alamein.

Just northwest of the Mareth Line lay the Atlas mountains, holding Kasserine and Kasserine pass. It is here in which occurred the first major engagement between American and German ground forces in WWII, and one of the largest losses for western allied forces early in the war. The rugged mountains of Kasserine and the surrounding area will prove in stark contrast to the wide open dunes of Mareth. Expect large tank battles over huge spaces, with a mix of both allies and axis on the defense! Also likely to come with this will be the British Crusader tank. The release of Southern Tunisia should be a great cap-off to the North African theater we plan to represent in base-game Easy Red 2, and we hope you'll love it too!

The Southern Tunisia campaign is likely to release at the very beginning of 2026 if not the final weeks of 2025.

🔄 Ongoing Upgrades Across the Whole Game

While the roadmap highlights our biggest goals, a huge part of our daily development is the constant improvement of existing content. Throughout 2025 and 2026, we’ll continue upgrading weapons, vehicles, uniforms, gear and historical details across all factions.

Right now we're already working on a large batch of improvements—here’s a small preview:

• A full range of new and reworked British vests and equipment, improving historical accuracy and visual detail.

• A lineup of the new updated Soviet T-34, including new variants, models, textures, and functional improvements.

These upgrades will roll out steadily with our regular updates, just like you've seen over the past years. Our goal is to make every single piece of equipment in Easy Red 2 feel authentic, polished, and satisfying to use.

🔍 A Note from the Team 🔍

This roadmap only outlines the major features and changes coming in the next several months.

As always, we'll be working on smaller updates, bug fixes, and polishing regularly—just like we have for the past five years with monthly public updates. You can view our full history of changelogs here.

We owe our continued success to you, our dedicated community. Your feedback and suggestions have been invaluable, and your enthusiasm for Easy Red 2 motivates us to keep pushing the game forward. Thank you for spreading the word and being part of this journey.

We keep improving all features of the base game and as always we will be going on listening to suggestions from people inside the Steam Discussions, Reddit and the Discord server.

Stay tuned, and see you on the battlefield!

Marco and the Easy Red 2 Team

Hello again everyone!

Today marks the 5th anniversary of Easy Red 2 on Steam, and to celebrate, we’re releasing a massive update! This update concludes a series of improvements that have pushed the game forward in a big way over the past few months.

We’re also introducing a brand-new campaign — a complete remake of the old Cassino, previously set as a segment in the old Anzio campaign.

New Features:

• Complete FPS animation system rework.

• Reworked TPS vehicle driving camera for smoother gameplay.

• Added Cassino campaign, with 15 missions total.

• Added Gebirgsjäger units with uniforms and strapless gear.

• Added Gewehr 33/40 rifle.

• Added India and Gurkha factions, along with relevant uniforms, gear, and headgear.

• Added QF 25-Pounder howitzer.

• Added Vickers MG emplaced gun.

• Major rework for M10 Wolverine, 17-Pounder SP Achilles, and M36 Jackson.

• Major rework for StuGs + many variants added.

• Reworked Thompson submachine guns, along with adding 4 new variants: M1921, M1928A1 Early, M1928A1 UK, and M1928A1 Early UK

• Reworked shooting range map visuals.

• Added Difficulty setting for Mission Editor testing.

• Added selectable "visible breath" option in mission editor for cold weather environments.

• New official font for menus and UI elements.

• Various props added.

Fixes and Improvements:

• Reworked camo system on nearly every vehicle.

• Huge improvements in camera motion.

• Improved cinematic camera controls.

• Improvements in various uniforms rigging.

• Reworked Polish VAs.

• important improvements in lighting and colors.

• Various animation improvements.

• Improvements in destruction transitions.

• Minor improvements in infantry and vehicle AI.

• Minor improvements in artillery system.

• Adjusted many vehicle and weapon names for accuracy.

• Minor performance improvements.

• Other minor improvements.

Trailer 2.0

Over the last year, the game has had nearly every single base-game map remade from the ground up, and among various improvements in animations, uniforms, and vehicles it looks entirely different to just a year ago today. Considering this, we've put together a brand-new trailer that now showcases its current state (which is sure to only get even better)—Enjoy!

Cassino Campaign

Cassino previously was 2 missions within the Anzio campaign. In reality, the campaign around Monte Cassino and Anzio were two different major campaigns, and for that reason we remade Cassino as its own!

Now included are 15 original missions, beginning with the American advance to the Gustav line and key points from all 4 battles of Monte Cassino ranging from January to May 1944. Battle up and down the steeps of the Italian Apennine and flush Axis defenders out from the Gustav line, with the historical involvement of 7 different Allied factions partaking in the battle in game.

New Roadmap - Hungary, South Tunisia & More!

We are finally ready to announce the next DLC!

Our goal with this expansion is to bring new factions, many new weapons, and above all, a lineup of late-war vehicles to play on one of the bloodiest battles that Europe has ever seen!

The Battle of Hungary offers a great, unique setting for this criteria.

It features two factions totally new to Easy Red 2: Hungary alongside Germany, and Romania alongside Soviet Union (after switching sides in 1944).

It also potentially includes a wide variety of authentic weapons such as the Mannlicher rifles, Mauser VZ.24, Danuvia submachine guns, Steyr-Solothurn MG30, PPS-42/43 and much more.

You’ll also see powerful late-war vehicles like the late war Panther variants, Tiger II, the Hungarian Zrínyi II, late war T-34 and T34/85, IS-2 and more — including rare wartime technology such as infrared night vision on Panther tanks, one of the most advanced innovations of the era, and the only instance of night vision technology being used by tank commanders in WW2 for combat.

Below is a photo of the WIP Panther tank rework currently underway along with the night vision modification on top!

One of Europe's Bloodiest City Battles

The DLC will include key operations such as the Siege of Budapest, Operation Konrad, and Operation Spring Awakening, offering a mix of rural, urban, and suburban combat during the final months of the war in Europe.

Operation Spring Awakening is known as the last major offensive launched by the Third Reich during World War II, a final effort by German forces to halt the Soviet advance through Hungary.

We also have many new features and content planned to come in next many months!

South Tunisia campaign, dynamically deployable MGs and mortars, the ability to reconstruct destroyed defenses and sandbag walls, and much more.

You can read about our new Roadmap here:

Another WW2 Project Worth Checking Out!

Our friends at De Generals Studio are also preparing a new update for their World War II game Tank Squad, releasing around the same time as this anniversary patch!

If you enjoy tactical tank gameplay and crew management in realistic battlefields, it’s definitely worth a look.

You can find Tank Squad on Steam here:

Check out the Shanghai-Nanking DLC if you haven’t yet!

Our most recent DLC was released just earlier this year! In Easy Red 2: Shanghai-Nanking, you will fight for control of Shanghai, and the conflict will spread to locations such as: Luodian, Baoshan, Wusong, Jinshanwei, Hongkou, Suzhou creek, Chunhua, the Yuhuatai hills and the city of Nanjing.

That's all for now!

Thank you for all of your continued support, and we'll see you again next time!

Marco and the Easy Red 2 Development Team

Hi everyone!

On the way to the November 10th Update, we fixed some urgent bugs, and took the opportunity to add the newly reworked Sherman models.

New Features:

• Added over 24 reworked Sherman models, each with 10+ camo and marking variants.

• Reworked M10 Wolverine/Achilles textures & camo (full rework coming soon)

Fixes and Improvements:

• Improved Cinematic Camera controls.

• Fixed a bug with DUKW and other floating vehicles when driving them in Multiplayer.

• Various other smaller bug fixes

Reworked Sherman tanks

Here's a look into most reworked Sherman tank models, and some of the camos that are now available. Each one has many different camo variations, allowing over 200 different possibilities!

Next Update Target: November 10

We’re aiming to release the next update by November 10. For that date we’re preparing:

• The Cassino campaign remake

• The new camo system to be working on every vehicle in the game

• A brand-new base game trailer

• An updated roadmap

• An announcement outlining upcoming campaigns and features planned for later this year and into next year

Stay tuned for more details as we get closer to launch!

🏆 Easy Red 2 Community Campaign Contest

During last update post we launched the Easy Red 2 Custom Campaign Contest — your chance to show off your mapping, mission design, and scripting skills, earn some swag, bragging rights, and maybe even get your work integrated into Easy Red 2! It's still got one month left, so don't be afraid to start!

👉 Get all the details on Discord: https://discord.com/channels/778000642932211752/1401949490151161886 Full rules, prizes, submission guidelines, and everything you need to dominate this contest awaits in our Discord server, where it will be much easier to submit and review missions thanks to the dedicated channels and threads.

Let's see what you can create! 💪

Check out the Shanghai-Nanking DLC if you haven’t yet!

Our most recent DLC was released just earlier this year! In Easy Red 2: Shanghai-Nanking, you will fight for control of Shanghai, and the conflict will spread to locations such as: Luodian, Baoshan, Wusong, Jinshanwei, Hongkou, Suzhou creek, Chunhua, the Yuhuatai hills and the city of Nanjing.

Extra Information

As per your anticipation we are announcing the next Roadmap for the game in future updates so stay tuned for that! We will continue to improve all features of the base game, and as always we will be going on listening to suggestions from people inside the Steam Discussions forums and the official Discord server. Thank you for all of your continued support, and we'll see you again next time! Marco and the Easy Red 2 Development Team

Hi everyone!

One of the biggest updates of the year is finally here! This update—and the next—will mark the start of a new level of quality for Easy Red 2.

New Features:

• Added new overhauled Anzio campaign along with 15 missions (Cassino map will come in next update)

• Added new Polish & British Voice Actors/voicelines

• Added new Uniforms for the British forces (Pattern 1937 Greatcoat and Leather Jerkin for cold weather environments.)

• Added new grenades for UK and USSR (RPG 40, Gammon No.82, No.74 Sticky Bomb, Eihandgranate Mod.39, etc. )

• Added new map and vegetation assets (tree stump variants, more electrical poles, Italian wall variants and all the new props used in Anzio campaign.)

• Reworked Panzerfaust variants, reworked panzerfaust equip & added new throw away animations

• Added MAB 38-42

• Added new complex camouflage system with automatic environment adaptation system

• Fully reworked German helmets along with adding the M42 version of Luftwaffe helmet (single decal, just the eagle) with breadbag, wires, net, winter cover and many other variants for M35 and M42

• Added many new German SPG, Panzer crew and Luftwaffe uniforms

• New US wool, paratrooper, and tank crew uniforms & more with various combinations

• New Fiat 626 civilian textures

• Added DUKW amphibious vehicle

• Reworked Panzer III models & new variants added

Fixes and Improvements:

• Various fixes in many uniforms.

• Reworked MAB 38A

• New Winchester & Gewehr 43 animations

• Various TPS & FPS animation reworks.

• Reworked textures on every German vehicles

• Improved Panzerfaust textures

• Reworked various buildings and props

• Added an "Ultra" animation quality settings for even smoother animations at distance on high end hardware.

• Improved LUT, colors, shadows, sky, reflections, lighting and overall graphics

New Anzio campaign is out!

Anzio is now live with 15 missions, and the Cassino campaign will arrive in the very next update.

In our previous post we mentioned our full focus on reworking the Anzio campaign. The original map has been split into two distinct campaigns and maps: Anzio and Cassino, including the surrounding Gustav Line area. Anzio launches today with 15 missions, while Cassino is planned to include around 14 missions—though that number may change as development continues.

The new Anzio campaign covers three key operations:

• Operation Shingle – The Allied landings at Anzio and the establishment of the beachhead in January.

• Operation Fischfang – Multiple missions highlighting the German counteroffensive launched in February and the intense clashes that followed.

• Operation Diadem – The Allied breakout of the stalemate at Anzio, culminating in the capture of Cisterna and Campoleone.

This remake delivers a stronger narrative connection, a more accurate recreation of the region, and a major visual upgrade.

Cassino will be released in early November, but it’s likely to appear in beta branches during mid-October. We’ll keep sharing progress updates and work-in-progress screenshots on our Discord, so stay tuned!

Reworks in vehicles & new camouflage system

Our armored forces just received a major upgrade. The Panzer III has been fully reworked, and every historically significant variant is now available: E, F, G, H, J, J1, M, N, L and the fearsome Flammpanzer. Each model comes with refined visuals and performance tweaks to better reflect their real-world counterparts.

But the tanks themselves are only part of the story. All German vehicles now feature a brand-new dynamic camouflage system that supports a wide range of historically accurate patterns. For mission creators, this system is a game-changer: camouflage can auto-adapt to the environment based on region (latitude/longitude), time period (month and year), and seasonal weather such as snow.

This means vehicles will naturally wear the right look for a North African desert in 1941 or a wintry Eastern Front in 1944—without any extra setup. Of course, creators can still hand-pick a specific pattern if they want full control.

This approach doesn’t just add dozens of new camo variants; it dramatically elevates the visual fidelity of every battlefield. And we’re not stopping here: in the next update, this adaptive system will roll out to all remaining vehicles, ensuring that the entire roster meets this new quality standard.

Meet the Luftwaffe Field Division!

In the Anzio campaign many of the troops allocated were that of the Luftwaffe Field Division, famously known for their iconic blue uniforms and splinter smocks they now have their place in our latest update-- Anzio now features the famed "Hermann Goering" Division.

Alongside the Luftwaffe units, we’ve expanded the wardrobe across all factions. The German army receives the biggest boost, with over 60 new clothing pieces, including a wide variety of helmets and Panzer uniforms.

The Allies aren’t left out: the British now sport new greatcoats and leather jerkins, and U.S. troops have several new gear additions as well.

These updates bring even more historical variety and authenticity to every battlefield encounter.

Next Update Target: November 10

We’re aiming to release the next update by November 10. For that date we’re preparing:

• The Cassino campaign remake

• The new camo system to be working on every vehicle in the game

• A brand-new base game trailer

• An updated roadmap

• An announcement outlining upcoming campaigns and features planned for later this year and into next year

Stay tuned for more details as we get closer to launch!

🏆 Easy Red 2 Community Campaign Contest

During last update post we launched the Easy Red 2 Custom Campaign Contest — your chance to show off your mapping, mission design, and scripting skills, earn some swag, bragging rights, and maybe even get your work integrated into Easy Red 2!

👉 Get all the details on Discord: https://discord.com/channels/778000642932211752/1401949490151161886 Full rules, prizes, submission guidelines, and everything you need to dominate this contest awaits in our Discord server, where it will be much easier to submit and review missions thanks to the dedicated channels and threads.

Let's see what you can create! 💪

Check out the Shanghai-Nanking DLC if you haven’t yet!

Our most recent DLC was released just earlier this year! In Easy Red 2: Shanghai-Nanking, you will fight for control of Shanghai, and the conflict will spread to locations such as: Luodian, Baoshan, Wusong, Jinshanwei, Hongkou, Suzhou creek, Chunhua, the Yuhuatai hills and the city of Nanjing.

Extra Information

As per your anticipation we are announcing the next Roadmap for the game in future updates so stay tuned for that! We will continue to improve all features of the base game, and as always we will be going on listening to suggestions from people inside the Steam Discussions forums and the official Discord server. Thank you for all of your continued support, and we'll see you again next time! Marco and the Easy Red 2 Development Team

Hi everyone!

New Features:

• Added Bren MK1.
• Reworked Bren MK2.
• Added feature to cancel artillery fire radio call. AI will also cancel Artillery fire when necessary.
• Added new magnetic/sticky grenade system (for the moment used on the Japanese Type 99 Mine)
• Added crosshair size setting.
• Changes with vehicle MGs accuracy system.

Fixes and Improvements:

• Important performance improvements.
• Improvements in TPS animations.
• Fixes with various weapons.
• Improvements with some textures.
• Improvements in map & mission balancing.
• Major fixes with localizations.
• Fixes with SBD Dauntless.
• Fixes with some props.
• Fixes with uniforms.
• Fixes with turret rotation sound.
• Many other smaller fixes

Upcoming Reworks & Future plans

🏆 Easy Red 2 Community Campaign Contest

Check out the Shanghai-Nanking DLC if you haven’t yet!

Extra Information

Hi everyone!

New Features:

• Fully remade Kwajalein campaign. (Now Operation Flintlock)
• Fully remade Roi-Namur campaign. (Now Operation Flintlock)
• Fully reworked Makin campaign.
• Reworked Stalingrad campaign.
• Fully reworked Soviet uniforms. Added much more variation and historical accuracy, with variants ranging from OBR35 to OBR41 along with winter coat variants.
• Added new system to customize gameplay parameters and difficulty values in campaign menu (more in this post).
• Fully reworked Arisaka rifles, also adding an early war version of the Type 38 for the Shanghai-Nanking DLC as well as adding the Type 38 carbine.
• New SDB Dauntless plane.
• New crosshair options.
• Added multplie new US marine uniforms-- all uniforms now have a version with bloused pants for extra variation in squads.
• Added many new props for Map Editor.
• Added many new tree props.
• Reworked C96 animations (all variants)
• Reworked Tokarev pistol animations.
• Reworked Mas36 animations.

Fixes and Improvements:

• Reworked various Japanese tanks. Also added amphibious variant for the Ka-Mi tank.
• Improvements in UI and menus.
• Improved various sounds.
• Reworked soviet rural buildings + added 3 variants for each.
• Improvements in scripted "siege" missions.
• Fixes and improvements on AI.
• Updated localization.
• Fixes in rigging on multiple vests.
• Many other smaller fixes

Kwajalein, Roi-Namur & Makin Remakes

Stalingrad Rework

New Gameplay Options

Upcoming Reworks & Future plans

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Extra Information

Hello all and happy July!

Added Features:

• Fully reworked Battle of the Bulge campaign. The map has been given greater detail, all missions rebalanced, and 3 new missions added for the German offensive. Historically accurate vehicles have been added, such as the M8 Greyhound, M36 Jackson, Sd.Kfz 250, Sd.Kfz 222, and more!
• Added a new Vote Kick system.
• Type 95 Ha-Go and Type 4 Ke-Nu tanks reworked.
• Reworked Italian tanks with many new variants.
• Added CV33, CV35 and AB41 Italian vehicles with variants. Most can be found on Kos and in Tunisia now!
• Added new Japanese Type 3 AT grenade.
• Reworked explosion damage system.
• Reworked Carcano (all variants), Type 96, Sig20, Smith & Wesson revolver animations.
• Reworked idle relaxed animations.
• Added new equip and unequip sound fx.

Fixes/Improvements:

• Improvements with vehicle AI.
• Fixed T26 tracks texture issue.
• Fixed some uniforms missing wounded effect.
• Fixed issue where some achievements couldn't be unlocked.
• Improved bullet cracks effect.
• Improved network stability.
• Improved cheating detection.
• Improved SSR (Screen-Spaced-Reflections).
• Improvements with various props and vegetation assets.
• Fixed issue with flamethrower units setting themselves on fire.
• Fixed issue with occasional crashes.

Battle of the Bulge Rework

Upcoming Remakes and Reworks

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Extra Information

Hello again everyone,

Added Features:

• Heavy changes in AI in order to make them spread out more, advance more tactically, spend more time prone when under suppression, react more intelligently to nearby enemies, better choose their target, and better handle close quarter combat situations. While most of those changes apply to infantry units, some also applies to vehicle AI.
• Added new Amphibious system to multiple vehicles in game.
• Added LVT2, LVT4, LVTa1 and LVTa4.
• Added new Strategic Bomber system, with dedicated AI, bomb sight and gameplay.
• Added Japanese G3M bomber (but we will also include more bombers later on).
• Added long range time-fuse AA Flak shells to target high altitude bombers.
• Added a new Easy Red 2 custom Anti Cheat system.
• Added scripting API to sync weather in custom online missions.
• Reworked death screen.
• Reworked vehicles gun sights completely.
• Added option to disable team-kill in MP.
• Added 4 new music tracks.
• Reworked Italian uniforms with many additions. Still to be correctly distributed in missions.
• Reworked many US uniforms with many additions. Still to be correctly distributed in missions.
• Added many new Japanese huts, bunkers and props. Will be used in upcoming Pacific reworks.
• Added a new system to manually roll sleeves in uniforms that supports it.
• Updated Tunisia map and Missions.
• Added Dog Tags to Tunisia campaign.
• Added mission intro text to many missions.
• Added new adjustable sharpness setting.
• Reworked many road decals.
• Reworked many grass types.
• Many new TPS animations, in particular for landing craft.
• Added ability to crouch in landing craft.

Fixes/Improvements:

• Reworked LST.
• New PPsH-41 and C96 firing sound.
• Reworked many other gun sounds.
• Reworked mini-map shaders.
• Fixed missing fire sound on German 150mm coastal gun.
• Fixed physics bug when pausing the game for long time.
• Player now doesn't surrender automatically anymore when heavily suppressed and losing defended capture point at Easy and Normal difficulty.
• Fixed a bug causing multiple destruction vehicle parts sound being played together.
• Improved vision-blocking system of many vegetation assets.
• Updated SDK to support Bombers, amphibious vehicles and flak rounds.
• Fixed Broken Hull indicator in Kos.
• Fixes in various uniforms.
• Improvements with gamepad navigation.
• Small fixes in UI.
• Changes and adjustments in various squads.
• Fixed issues with Dog Tags.
• Fix with bug in achievements.
• Fixed shadow with some cliffs.
• Upgraded game engine and all SDKs to latest version.

The A.I.

Campaign Information

Kwajalein and Roi Namur Remakes

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Extra Information

Hello again everyone,

Added Features:

• Early War Fallschirmjäger squad for Kos.
• Added a new early model FG-42 – the “FG-42/I” for early war scenarios.
• Reworked US helmets and added new variants.
• Added new US vest types.
• Added new US winter uniforms and reworked old coats.
• Added many new Fallschirmjäger uniforms with various variants based on location (Mediterranean, Africa, Europe).
• Reworked many Pacific palm trees and added destroyed variants.
• Added a few new vehicle variants.
• Added many new map editor props, including multiple new Japanese bunkers, cattle wire fences, and wooden cattle fences.
• Added new grass and terrain textures.
• Added new Japanese voice lines.
• Added a new ground tessellation setting for more detailed terrain.
• Reworked Thompson animations.
• Various UI element reworks.
• Added a new map editor tool to change North direction and solar elevation angle.
• Reworked German optics and added the iconic Zf. 39 scope.

Fixes/Improvements:

• Fixes to the ticket system in multiplayer.
• Improved existing grass and terrain textures.
• Balance changes to the Sihang Warehouse Defense mission for attackers.
• Improved mission editor UI.
• Improved various existing maps, particularly Kos, France 1940, and Tunisia – with new props, better terrain, and enhanced visual detail.
• Rebalanced many missions in Kos, France 1940, and Tunisia, including new vehicles such as the P-40 Warhawk in Tunisia and the Panzer I in France. Objectives were expanded, and unit spawns made more dynamic and balanced.
• Fixed Lanchester animations.
• Fixed rigging issues.
• Fixed various squad configurations.
• Improved rain visuals.
• Minor performance optimizations.

So What’s Next?

The A.I.

Pacific Overhaul: Kwajalein and Roi-Namur Remakes

Makin Rework

Anzio Remake

Unannounced Campaign Rework

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Easy Red 2 x Tank Squad x Unity of Command

Extra Information

Most Requested Campaigns

• Mid-Late War Chinese Campaign: 29.1%
• Non-WW2 Campaign: 24.7% (This includes in order: Korean War, Vietnam War and WW1)
• Spanish Civil War: 20%
• Berlin Invasion / Seelow: 18.3%
• Winter War: 18.1%
• Invasion of Poland: 14.9%
• Battle of Iwo Jima: 14.6%

Our Considerations

Quick-to-Implement Campaigns

Future DLC Campaigns

Looking Ahead

Final Thoughts

Hello all!

Shanghai - Nanking Campaign

• Shanghai (5x5 km) and Nanking (4x4 km) maps with 23 new missions total
• New Chinese faction
• New Chinese and Japanese uniforms and kits, totaling more than 70 new clothing items
• New vehicles and aircraft, such as the Nakajima A4N, the Hawk-3, the Type 89 tank, the Vickers 6-ton tank, and the
• Type 24 HMG. Also, the Chinese versions of the P40 Warhawk, Polikarpov I-16, T-26, Panzer 1, SdKfz 222, Vickers Crossley, and more…
• New weapons: Type 24 Rifle, Hanyang 88, ZB-26, Chinese MP-18, Sig20, FN Model D and more…
• Over 100 new beautiful map props and buildings to be used in the Mission and Map Editor

Check out the new DLC here!

Playstation 4/5 Release

Future Campaign Poll

Extra informations

Thanks for reading, we’re looking forward to seeing the results of the poll!

Hi everyone,

Recent Changes

New Features:

Fixes:

Shanghai - Nanking Campaign

PlayStation Release

Scripting system

Available content

You can get Battle of the Bulge and France Invasion here

You can get Normandy campaign here

Extra informations

Hi everyone,

Recent Changes

New Features:

Fixes:

Scripting system

Shanghai - Nanking Campaign

PlayStation Release

Available content

You can get Battle of the Bulge and France Invasion here

You can get Normandy campaign here

Extra informations

Hi everyone,

Recent Changes

New Features:

Fixes:

Progress with New Uniforms

Progress on the Gore System

Shanghai - Nanking Campaign

PlayStation Release

Available content

You can get Battle of the Bulge and France Invasion here

You can get Normandy campaign here

Extra informations

Hi everyone,

Recent Changes

New Features

Fixes

New campaign menu

Performance improvements

Second Sino-Japanese War

PlayStation release & Console Updates

Available content

You can get Battle of the Bulge and France Invasion here

You can get Normandy campaign here

Extra informations

New Features

Fixes

Tunisia Campaign

Second Sino-Japanese War

PlayStation Release & Console Updates

Available Content

You can get Battle of the Bulge and France Invasion here

You can get the Normandy campaign here

Extra Information

New Features

Fixes

New Roadmap!

Other recently released features

New destructible tank tracks system

Tunisia and the Second Sino-Japanese War

Playstation release & Console Updates

Available content

You can get Battle of the Bulge and France Invasion here

You can get Normandy campaign here

Extra informations

Greetings, soldiers of Easy Red 2!

New roadmap coming soon!

✨ Major New Features ✨

• New Body & Face Mesh System: We're bringing in more realistic body proportions and facial animations, including eye blinking! New skin effects and improved faces are coming in future updates too.
• Enhanced Sound System for autmatic weapons: Expect a significant overhaul of automatic weapon sounds, covering everything from SMGs to turrets and plane MGs. This new sound system will create a much more immersive experience.
• Vehicle Destructibility: With destructible static vehicles already in, we’re adding destructible tank tracks and wheels next. This will include new effects for destroyed tank tracks, and make anti-tank rifles more useful in battle.
• Crouching in Open-Top Vehicles: To help protect from enemy fire, you'll soon be able to crouch inside open-top vehicles like the LCVP or when using mounted MGs.
• Modding Scripting Support: We'll try to expand modding capabilities by adding scripting options. This will eventually allow scripting for AI behavior and mission creation!
• PlayStation 4 & PlayStation 5 Releases: Console players, we're coming your way soon!
• Kwajalein & Anzio Campaign Reworks: We’ll be upgrading both these campaigns to bring them in line with the latest Easy Red 2 content quality.
• Constant Free Content: More vehicles, weapons, uniforms, buildings, and props! While it’s tough to predict every addition, upcoming campaigns like Tunisia and the Sino-Japanese War will bring loads of exciting new content.
• Nintendo Switch & Xbox: As always we'll keep releasing every update on all systems!

🔧 Major Improvements 🔧

• Vehicle Animation Reworks: We're revamping animations for characters in vehicles to make them more natural and fluid.
• Vehicle Model Updates: Many older vehicle models are being upgraded to match the quality of our latest creations.
• Sound Overhauls: Expect enhanced audio quality across the board, from weapons to environmental sounds.
• Menu & UI Improvements: The mission selection and loading screens will be reworked for a cleaner and more consistent experience. We’re also adding small UI features to improve overall usability.
• AI Enhancements: We've made great strides in AI this year, but there's still room for improvement. Expect more updates to make battles feel even more realistic.
• Uniform Updates: We’re continuing to refine the look of uniforms. As you know British uniforms have been reworked recently, and next up are the German ones.
• Gore System Improvements: We know many of you have requested improvements to the gore system. We’re experimenting with new ways to implement this.

🌍 Upcoming Campaigns 🌍

Tunisia Campaign

Sino-Japanese War DLC

🔍 A Note from the Team 🔍