Our current plan is to allow existing RO2 owners to upgrade to Rising Storm at a significant discount compared to someone that just buys Rising Storm outright. Additionally, we will not be splintering the community by keeping players separated. Servers will be able to run RO2 and Rising Storm maps back to back on the same server. Finally, while we're not quite ready to release the details of exactly how it will work, RO2 players that don't own Rising Storm won't just get booted off the server when a Rising Storm map comes up. Rather RO2 owners will be able to play Rising Storm even if they haven't purchased the add-on, likely with some limitations on weapon/class selection. So to summarize, RO2 owners will get a discount on Rising Storm, and everybody will be able to play together on the same servers!
I truly applaud all the decisions regarding RS. The possibility to play a RS map right after a regular RO2 map on the same server is much better than having to launch RS separately as is the case with many mods/expansion packs. The possibility to play RS maps when it loads up even if one does not own RS also sounds great and shows the generosity of the TWI/RS team.
Although I would prefer to leave this post solely on the positive side, I have to chime in that I'm not too happy about a Barashka remake. I expected a brand new map after reading the previous WWAUT post. Barashka is definitely not one of my favorites and I would rather qualify it as one of my repressed memories from RO1. If there will be more maps remade from RO1 then I would strongly suggest that you guys give Leningrad a consideration. Nonetheless, I won't be so quick to judge the remake without having yet tried it out, maybe it will be better than the original.
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