Rising Storm 2: Vietnam news & patch notes

This update is currently rolling out now!

In-game VOIP Fixes

• Players can now mute other players microphones

• Players no longer hear opposing team players when joining a new team

• Players will no longer retain a persistent connection to the VIVOX server once disconnecting from a match. This avoids hearing players from the main menu

• Players can now utilize the microphone change UI to allow proper in-engine microphone selection 

Infinite Ammo Exploit

• Dropping and picking-up weapons will no longer lead to infinite ammo scenarios, such as grenades

The team is continuing to work on several other items for a future hotfix.

This update is currently an Opt-In Beta using the "Stability Update" branch on Steam. Both server and client files are available as part of this beta.

In-game VOIP Fixes

• Players can now mute other players microphones

• Players no longer hear opposing team players when joining a new team

• Players will no longer retain a persistent connection to the VIVOX server once disconnecting from a match. This avoids hearing players from the main menu

• Players can now utilize the microphone change UI to allow proper in-engine microphone selection 

Infinite Ammo Exploit

• Dropping and picking-up weapons will no longer lead to infinite ammo scenarios, such as grenades

We have just released a small required update for clients and servers to address the following issue:

• The max player count cap on a server is now adhered to. Players will no longer be able to join a server beyond the intended player cap and instead will be placed in queue until the next open slot becomes available

We hope to share more on other fixes we are working on in the coming days, targeting several community issues around VOIP and more.

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This update is a required update for clients and servers.

• Fixes the Welcome screen behaving incorrectly and taking time to show up for clients

• Fixes a case where player count could display incorrectly over time

• Reduces load on the server

We've been working with the community to target some other items, such as issues around VOIP and will have another round of beta tests in the days ahead.

Heads up, grunts! Rising Storm 2 will be undergoing maintenance. Maintenance will take place tomorrow, June 4th, starting at 7:00 AM ET.

The update is estimated to take a few hours but will happen in stages as the servers are updated. We do not expect it to affect services. We will update players here once maintenance is completed.

This update is a required update for clients and servers.

• This update addresses some issues around sever stability

We have just pushed live a Steam opt in (for client and server) Stability Update. Clients can find it by right click on the game and going to properties: Game Versions and Betas And selecting:

• stabilityupdate

Servers can use the -beta flag to add:

• -beta stabilityupdate

To their install command to opt in.

Bug Fixes

• Addressed issues around unexpected server kicks followed by a reconnect cooldown timer.

Mouse Input Freezing Reports - Troubleshooting PSA:

• If you are still experiencing mouse input freezing issues, we recommend deleting the following folder and relaunching the game to regenerate new ini files to resolve any versioning conflicts with local files.

  • C:\\Users\\\\\Documents\\My Games\\Rising Storm 2

As always, thank you for your continued support!

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Quality of Life Improvements

• Easy Anti-Cheat has been updated
• Server Logs now use the previous user connection formatting showing Unique ID, IP, User Name, and PUID for improved server admin management.
• Steam Workshop libraries and SDK have been updated with the latest DLLs.

• Updated Easy Ant-Cheat to latest version.

Bug Fixes

General

• Addressed stability vulnerabilities when accessing the Server Browser.
• Improved accuracy of server player counts connection status.

General

• Improved server behavior and security.

VoIP

• Fixed general issues around muting other players as intended.
• Addressed issues in which players after exiting a server would still hear players from the server they disconnected.
• Addressed general issues in which players within the same party failed to hear each other.
• Addressed an issue in which Steam Client Headset device settings were not automatically detected leading to the microphone being inactive on the server.
• Addressed issues in which respawning players could hear active spawned players on the Spawn Point selection screen and vice versa.
• Addressed issues in which muted players become automatically unmuted after reconnecting to the same server.
• Addressed issues in which players could still hear players after ending a game session and closing the client.

• Fixed an issue where sprinting and meleeing with weapons that did not have a melee animation would end the user in a bad state and crash
• Fixed an issue that prevented EGS players from accessing the Green Army Men content.

• VNTE-CuaViet:
  • Fixed an issue where the Rifleman role was not available for the US forces in campaign.
  • Lowered the US Aerial Recon as it was too high up to be shot.
  • Fixed an issue where overtime would not activate on Objective H.
• VNTE-KheSanh:
  • Fixed an issue where the Rifleman role was not available for the US forces in campaign.

• VNTE-CuaViet has been added to the official roster

• Da Nang Air Base: Various gameplay adjustments to support the attackers
  • Add 8 minutes to the round time
  • Reduce Aerial Recon timer from 5 minutes to 2 minutes
  • Lower the Enhanced Logistics cooldown timer to match those of other maps
  • Lower the VC artillery cooldown slightly
  • Lower capture times for the first 2 objectives
  • Enabled lockdown on all objectives missing it except final
  • Increase Machine Gun role from 2 to 5 for Attacker, and 5 to 3 for Defender
  • Increase Scout Attacker role from 4 to 5
  • Increase Attacker sniper role from 2 to 3
• Khe Sanh: Rebalancing of reinforcements to improve gameplay
  • Attackers now have 680 reinforcement tickets and 15 second respawn time.
  • Defenders have 580 reinforcement tickets and 20 second respawn time.
  • Adjusted attackers to have 5 scout, 5 MGs and 3 snipers roles.
  • Adjusted defenders to have 3 MGs and 2 snipers.
  • Rebalanced the commander abilities, bringing them inline with other official maps
  • Roles can now be reversed in campaign

• VNTE-Asau:
  • Multiple collision volumes adjusted to improve map play and address exploit spots
• VNTE/VNSU-HueCity:
  • Multiple collision volumes adjusted to improve map play and address exploit spots
• VNTE-Hill937:
  • Multiple collision volumes adjusted to improve map play and address exploit spots
• VNTE-NinhPu:
  • Multiple collision volumes adjusted to improve map play and address exploit spots
• VNTE-Saigon:
  • Multiple collision volumes adjusted to improve map play and address exploit spots
• VNTE-CuChi:
  • Multiple collision volumes adjusted to improve map play and address exploit spots
• VNTE-DaNangAirBase:
  • Multiple collision volumes adjusted to improve map play and address exploit spots
• VNTE-KheSanh:
  • Multiple collision volumes adjusted to improve map play and address exploit spots

• Fixed an issue where voice chat would cease to function for players.
• Fixed an issue where voice chat was not contained within the proper team channels.

• VNTE-CuaViet has been added to the official roster

• Da Nang Air Base: Various gameplay adjustments to support the attackers
  • Add 8 minutes to the round time
  • Reduce Aerial Recon timer from 5 minutes to 2 minutes
  • Lower the Enhanced Logistics cooldown timer to match those of other maps
  • Lower the VC artillery cooldown slightly
  • Lower capture times for the first 2 objectives
  • Enabled lockdown on all objectives missing it except final
  • Increase Machine Gun role from 2 to 5 for Attacker, and 5 to 3 for Defender
  • Increase Scout Attacker role from 4 to 5
  • Increase Attacker sniper role from 2 to 3
• Khe Sanh: Rebalancing of reinforcements to improve gameplay
  • Attackers now have 680 reinforcement tickets and 15 second respawn time.
  • Defenders have 580 reinforcement tickets and 20 second respawn time.
  • Adjusted attackers to have 5 scout, 5 MGs and 3 snipers roles.
  • Adjusted defenders to have 3 MGs and 2 snipers.
  • Rebalanced the commander abilities, bringing them inline with other official maps
  • Roles can now be reversed in campaign

• VNTE-Asau:
  • Multiple collision volumes adjusted to improve map play and address exploit spots
• VNTE/VNSU-HueCity:
  • Multiple collision volumes adjusted to improve map play and address exploit spots
• VNTE-Hill937:
  • Multiple collision volumes adjusted to improve map play and address exploit spots
• VNTE-NinhPu:
  • Multiple collision volumes adjusted to improve map play and address exploit spots
• VNTE-Saigon:
  • Multiple collision volumes adjusted to improve map play and address exploit spots
• VNTE-CuChi:
  • Multiple collision volumes adjusted to improve map play and address exploit spots
• VNTE-DaNangAirBase:
  • Multiple collision volumes adjusted to improve map play and address exploit spots
• VNTE-KheSanh:
  • Multiple collision volumes adjusted to improve map play and address exploit spots

• Fixed an issue where voice chat would cease to function for players.
• Fixed an issue where voice chat was not contained within the proper team channels.

• Overall performance improvements
• Intermittent ‘hitching’ reduced. This was commonly experienced when players would join a game ultimately causing hitches for everyone in the game session
• Players will no longer crash when running the SDK
• Fixed players lifetime class stats not being recorded
• Fixed issues where servers can be dropped from Server Browser when timed out
• VoiP - players will no longer hear VoiP when the game is minimized
• QoL: Fixed and updated whitelist - Gameplay Overhaul Mutator version 3.3 is now properly whitelisted

• Easy Anti-Cheat has been re-enabled for clients and servers
• Players will no longer see logs being spammed to them upon login
• VoiP - voice chat will no longer fail when a player has been invited to a game.

• Re-enabled missing config option to reduce max connections allowed.

• Fixed The Green Army Men Upgrade in game from launching a Steam window
• The maps ‘Sandbox’ and ‘Thanksgiving’ have been added. Happy turkey day!

• SDK
  • Working SDK for modders/mappers
• Server
  • Reduced hitch caused by players joining larger population servers
  • Renabled missing config option to reduce max connections allowed
• General
  • Fixed Player filters and mic settings not correctly saving
  • Fixed players lifetime class stats not being recorded
  • Added persistent authorization for Steam/EGS account linking
• Green Army Men
  • Added 2 missing maps from launch
    • Sandbox
    • Thanksgiving
    • Security Improvements

• Fixed The Green Army Men Upgrade in game from launching a Steam window.
• Fixed Invite Friends not translated in Russian.
• Fixed Invite Friends tooltip is displaying an incorrect message. Before the fix it was referring to "choosing a next map" in Russian.
• Fixed an issue causing a disparity of servers visible between Steam and EGS clients. Epic Client could sometimes not see all servers.
• Fixed issues where servers can be dropped from Server Browser when time out.
• Maintenance was done on backend machines to improve performance.

• Epic Online Services (EOS) integrated into dedicated server framework to enable Cross-Play capability between Steam and EGS players
• New In-Game Invite UI system that will enable Steam users to link an associated EGS account you own so that they can send their EGS friends invites to parties and server lobbies. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/11536098/3dfeb594644101a4f6211a2d19830c89b76aee4b.jpg
• Replaced VOIP services for in-game chat to Vivox in order to enable Steam-EGS cross-platform VOIP within multiplayer matches and lobbies.

• In server Green Army Men upgrade on the EGS client is redirecting to the Steam store
• Steam SDK has the opportunity to fail to load properly on launch.
• There is a case where servers can fail to become ranked
• No new mods have been whitelisted as part of this update

• Fixed an issue where the HMG’s could fail to properly spawn
• Fixed an issue where valid ranked servers could switch to unranked on map change

• Fixed an issue with the client potentially crashing by quickly refreshing the server browser.
• Fixed an issue with the client potentially crashing when quickly moving through tabs and menus.
• Server Names can now be changed using Web Admin.
• Custom Maps are able to be downloaded for EGS clients if admins have set up a redirect

• Fixed issues with the Find Match functionality which prevented users from finding active matches.
• Fixed various matchmaking issues for both EGS and Steam.

• Fixed an issue where the number of players on a server was not displaying correctly after connecting to the server.
• Fixed an issue where the Loudness scale UI elements were not reflecting the actual changes made.
• Fixed an issue with long nicknames displaying incorrectly within invite popups.
• Fixed an issue where the local voice channel was not displaying correctly after changing teams.
• Fixed an issue where entering and then leaving a server would remove the server from the Server Browser.
• Fixed an issue where clients would get stuck in an invite loop due to UI overlays while in a server.

• Fixed an issue with Cyrillic symbols not decoding correctly in the server players list.
• Fixed an issue with Cyrilic nicknames not displaying correctly in Invite popups.

• Fixed an issue where spectators were able to hear local voice chat.
• Fixed an issue where Mute was not working correctly.