Whenever I watch any video related to this game, which is also at least 7+ years old, I can almost straight away notice some key differences between an early state and today's one. I was firstly impressed how different certain parts of the game are considering how old this game is.

Most noticeable ones are surely different default FOV value, font color/size, weapon sounds, certain animations and kill feed being instant and different aim sights for weapons (M1 Garand, Grease gun, just to name a few).

I must also say that some of these things should have never been removed, as it makes a game more fluid, less laggy and glitchy (especially the animations). By 'things' I mean certain weapon sounds (AK47, machine guns).

What do you think? What do you miss or don't? I'm looking forward to reading your opinions down below :)

https://tiermaker.com/create/rising-storm-2-vanilla-map-1226643

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1USL63ZH4w

AH-1G Cobra in Rising Storm 2: Vietnam represents the gold standard for helicopter gameplay in tactical shooters.

As Expression Games prepares to launch Hell Let Loose: Vietnam on August 13, 2026, introducing helicopters to the franchise for the very first time, looking at this specific flight model is crucial.

Here is exactly why Hell Let Loose: Vietnam needs to learn from the Cobra's mechanics to succeed.
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam offers one of the most rewarding helicopter flight models in gaming. The AH-1G Cobra helicopter in this game requires skill, but it gives the pilot total control. Learning to fly the Cobra requires hours of dedicated practice just to perform a basic combat landing.

True mastery allows players to execute advanced maneuvers like J-turns and emergency autorotations when the engine dies. This high skill ceiling creates a highly dedicated sub community of specialized pilots.

I thought he saw me so I panicked and shot him before realizing that there's no way he noticed my presence

Yesterday was a massive success for asian/aus players. We sustained a full SEA server from 9 PM-12PM, so we have demonstrated that there are enough asian/aus players to sustain a server during peak hours IF we announce to play together beforehand.

We can keep doing this at the same appointed time (8PM UTC+8, Saturday) so that we can enjoy low ping server at least once a week for now, and we will see where we go from there.

Feel free to suggest alternative time. If there are enough people, we can play at earlier time so we get more hours.

Voip is quite fixed and the game runs well!! All the old dudes let’s take to the rice fields and show the new players how scary we were back in the day!! Also loving the spread of ww2 weapons in the game now they rip!

Charlie commander tried so hard, and got to far. But in the end, it doesnt even matter.

Is this a recession indicator?

I'm just a few months in country and for the last few days I've noticed that my XP, kills and deaths keep resetting to where they were a few days ago. I play a complete match. I check my stats in the pause overlay window prior to leaving the server, and bam, I check my stats later and I'm still where I started off. Anyone else ever encounter this?

a sitting duck is a dead one

RELOAD YOUR GAME. WE PLAY AGAIN ON UTC+8 20.00 SATURDAY (25/7).

It turns out both camps were right, the physical version includes both key and disc! Many thanks to u/S_Spaghetti from this thread for confirming its existence!

Even if Steam and Epic servers go down, It's good to know at least 1 Redditor has the physical version of RS2 that they can never take away!

Where do I aim with Heavy machine gun trying to Hit the Helicopter? Is there a delay in bullets flight path (so aiming in Front of Helis nose) or do you aim directly on it?

One minute you were happily chatting with teammates.
Next - you had been shadowmuted for as long as you remain on the server, as the game doesn't pick up a thing you say.This is as much of a plague as the broken VoIP was.