Rise of the Reds Update: The Reboot Options

[The_Hunter]

Today's update marks a milestone in the history of our project and we're coming to you with an announcement that's going to rock your world. After many hours of discussion and design work, we have retooled Rise Of The Reds from the ground up in order to give you a mod that is unlike anything you have ever seen in this game. Today, we are proud to present you the first renders for 'Elevation Of Red', our all-new mod with a completely revised setting, overhauled game mechanics and realistic unit models. Everything we've done before pales in comparison to this. Enjoy!

The Global Liberation Army has always been a very implausible and needlessly controversial element of the game. This was largely due to the fact that the faction always felt like a stale throwback to the popcultural zeitgeist of the Bush era, which makes the game feel dated and obsolete from today's perspective. It is for this reason that the GLA will be replaced by a faction that is a lot more appropriate and topical: The Middle Eastern Coalition, an aspiring alliance of nations led by Saudi-Arabia and Iran, complete with a full arsenal of new top-of-the-range weapon systems. Those of you who enjoyed the GLA's unique playstyle can rest assured however that their game mechanics will remain completely unchanged. What you see above is the Iranian-designed Shafaq aircraft, which is going to replace the old, outdated GLA Interceptor. The MEC will feature three distinct sub-factions: General Hassan, who is secretly an assassin, General Bosaso of the Somali pirate armada and General Saladin who specialises in desert cavalry tactics.

After an exhausting series of balance tests, we have concluded that Russia and China are basically the same gameplay-wise and that they both seem to like the colour red. As a result, we have decided to merge the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China into one faction: The Soviet Dragon Alliance. The SDA will use a variety of realistic weapons of Russian and Chinese design to replace the goofy elements that marred the Chinese faction since the original Generals. What you see above is the first manifestation of this shift: The new Red Guard, complete with a professional, modern-era uniform and a proper QBZ-95 assault rifle which can be upgraded to the more advanced QBZ-95-1 for a mere 2000 credits. However, since we cannot realistically depict the benefits of improved ergonomics in-game, the upgrade is purely cosmetic. The Soviet Dragon Alliance has three unique sub-factions: General Nikita Putinsky of the Russian Cosmonaut Corps, General Chi-Po who can produce masses of units at an unbeatable price and General Kim Jong Un who is basically a god.

Another major change in ROTR 2.0 will be the ECA. After many heated discussions and a number of protest resignations among our dev-team, we have decided to turn the European Continental Alliance back into the European Union. The story will be revised accordingly: In 2014, the EU discovered an untapped deposit of unobtainium off the coast of Luxembourg which boosted its economy by tenfold, allowing the Union to absorb the Balkans, Turkey, Ukraine, Georgia and Belarus within a fortnight. This sudden shift towards greater realism will be represented in-game as well: The Pandora will be replaced with the much more iconic French Pluton missile. However, due to political sensitivities, the EU will not actually be able to fire nuclear missiles in-game, but the Pluton's carrier vehicle will still be able to run over infantry units as a last resort. Like the others, the European Union comes with three exclusive sub-factions: General Merkel who can impose crippling austerity measures on an opposing player's economy, General Ruetli of the elite Swiss Guard special forces and General Alfons Hatler who specialises in Blitzkrieg tactics.

Now, we are aware that many of you did not like our new direction for the United States: Many of the drones we had originally planned were either highly unrealistic or downright bizarre, like the Transformers-inspired mecha we originally wanted to showcase in a future update. It is for this reason that we are going to shift the focus of the US faction towards special forces instead. As a result, their new main infantry will be the SWAT Operator. Clocking in at a mere 1500 credits per unit, the SWAT Operators are the single most elite infantry in the game now that we've removed the Shock Troopers for the sake of realism. They are armed with a powerful automatic assault rifle with an underslung 40mm grenade launcher. Additional upgrades can be purchased individually for every SWAT and include an ACOG scope, a grip, a laser sight, a suppressor and an infrared illuminator. Finally, the USA will also have three new sub-factions: General Bruce McClane who fights all by himself, General Motors who is a vehicle expert and General Shepherd of Taskforce 141.

We hope that you like what you just saw. Just in case it didn't come across from the renders: These will be our actual in-game graphics. Stay tuned for EoR's next update in approximately six months. This is SWR, signing out.

[Jester]

"Kim Jong Un...who is basically a god" Good update guys.

[Shiro]

Hm, so no more Tesla Technology, makes me sad. Oh well, at least new visuals for the GLA. Will the SDA still have an equivalent to the Overlord and Sentinel? I also like the overhauled Red Guard, looks much more realistic now. How did you make the detail of the face mask and shoulder sections?

This post has been edited by SorataZ: 1 Apr 2013, 1:19

[RocketMan]

Aprils Fools anyone? x]

[Claine]

AWESOME! nice EPIC update

i will hate you SWR_team if this is only for Aprils Fools

[piratep2r]

One of the beta testers told me that General Motor's secondary economy will periodically crash, erasing all of your financial reserves every once in a while. I am concerned about this.

Also, I heard that for a lot a general Saladin's units you will have to force attack your own cavalry units if they throw a shoe or break a leg, or face the prospect of significantly reduced unit mobility. I applaud this realism, but am worried about the micro. But still, the realism is to be commended, and sacrifices must be made for the sake of art. So few ZH mods let you put your own horses out of their misery, and in addition I also appreciate the entire equine vaccination upgrade tree for this general.

Also Also, it's hard to tell from the SWAT picture, but I believe that you all have mistyped; the description implies that you get the 40mm grenade launcher standard, yet the picture shows what looks like a 40 mm grenade launcher underneath and on the side as well. I think you need to add that you can get a further 40 mm grenade launcher as an upgrade. This makes sense to me, since if I were in charge of the everything I would make this weapon configuration standard. However, I think the picture is really stupid; in real life everyone knows that the US Army's SEAL SWAT teams would not have SWAT printed on their hats like that. It too obvious and they wouldn't be able to go undercover effectively. Also they should have a bayonet upgrade. And a tazer upgrade. Or maybe just an electrified bayonet upgrade? It is the near future and that sort of thing is pretty much inevitable, I think, so you better just add it in.

Also Also Also, you guys are the very best. So many things made me laugh out loud!

Thanks for making my day,

P

[TheCeLL]

I laughed my ass off

great update, SWR, and I look forward to playing as General Motors

[Comr4de]

Prepare to be sieged!!

[mr.koffing]

best update yet XD

I'm concerned General Merkel will be way over-powered though.. seriously, the ability to take away 60% of your opponent's money?!

Probably only General "Chea-po" will be able to stand a chance against her.. as well as McClane he's a one man siege army hahaha

[Panzer4life]

Argh, why must everyone do a April Fools joke? But still, pretty good effort. Can we have some actual information to look forward to future patches?

[DoctorMaxis]

Great job SWR Team, you never stop amazing me, even if its a joke.

[Casojin]

Almost choking on this joke....haha...

[Xofolez]

hey bruce, sounds like your going in all on your own like your optimus in jet form or something. lol i love this, Kim [hunter] do it again! XD

[BLGMGL]

I protest that update!

Especially SDA. As I mentioned many times before I want to see US & Russia united and creating a new single faction and new units. BuriTOWs for example.

Also I want to see China and ECA uniting and creating a new ChiECAN alliance!

I guess I made an offer the DevTeam can't refuse.

[Talonek]

*Tacticool SWAG

Can the Pathfinder get an aimbot upgrage? Or maybe do 360 no-scopes at Veteran 3?


This post has been edited by Talonek: 1 Apr 2013, 5:28

[Mr.Kim]

[Talonek]

Can we have some actual information to look forward to future patches?

Why would they post info on future patches when they're working on this patch?

[Mr.Kim]

Nope.avi

This post has been edited by MR.Kim: 1 Apr 2013, 5:37

[Massey]

one word: cute!

[SpiralSpectre]

lmao love this update. I could really use a laugh.

[X1Destroy]

General Kim Jong Un with God's fart Power

Great April Fools update

[MARS]

As for some of your questions...

Hm, so no more Tesla Technology, makes me sad. Oh well, at least new visuals for the GLA. Will the SDA still have an equivalent to the Overlord and Sentinel? I also like the overhauled Red Guard, looks much more realistic now. How did you make the detail of the face mask and shoulder sections?

The SDA's designs will be mostly on the realistic side but they're still a tank-heavy faction. They get the ZTZ-99 as well as the ZTZ-99G as an upgrade and their main battle tank is a T-72 which they can upgrade into a T-72SIM1, a T-90 - which can be further upgraded to a T-90MS - and the most iconic of all, the T-72BM "Rogatka" obr.2006g (Ob'yekt 184M). We did expect that the fans would ask for something -slightly- goofy however, which is why we made one exception to the realism rule: The SDA's late-game super-heavy is Sentilord, which has a dual 220mm gun, Arena and all three Overlord upgrades installed by default.

Also Also, it's hard to tell from the SWAT picture, but I believe that you all have mistyped; the description implies that you get the 40mm grenade launcher standard, yet the picture shows what looks like a 40 mm grenade launcher underneath and on the side as well. I think you need to add that you can get a further 40 mm grenade launcher as an upgrade. This makes sense to me, since if I were in charge of the everything I would make this weapon configuration standard. However, I think the picture is really stupid; in real life everyone knows that the US Army's SEAL SWAT teams would not have SWAT printed on their hats like that. It too obvious and they wouldn't be able to go undercover effectively. Also they should have a bayonet upgrade. And a tazer upgrade. Or maybe just an electrified bayonet upgrade? It is the near future and that sort of thing is pretty much inevitable, I think, so you better just add it in.

We may have to play some clever tricks with upgrade slots in order to make all the SWAT weapon upgrades possible at all but needless to say, we haven't revealed all of them yet. They can also choose between three types of red dot sights, an EOTech holo scope and different ammo types.

[Anubis]

and General Kim Jong Un who is basically a god

and General Alfons Hatler who specialises in Blitzkrieg tactics

This. Everything else pales to this. Epic april's fool. But the kim jong part just made my morning And that subliminal name =_=.

This post has been edited by Anubis: 1 Apr 2013, 8:22

[MARS]

So, which faction/General are you guys looking forward to? I hope you like the new lore too.

[wb21]

That made my day.
General Motors , Pluton missiles and Kim Jong Un are the best parts (Elevation of Red kinda reminds me of Backstroke of the West )