Red Orchestra January Teaser & more...

The Rising Storm team are proud to present you with a little something to whet your appetites for the forthcoming Rising Storm expansion to Red Orchestra 2: a teaser video showcasing the Iwo Jima level. This map features the beaches and tunnels of the heavily defended 'home island' with its iconic landmark, Mt Suribachi. This is the first map-specific material to be seen and hints at some of the goodies and new features coming in Rising Storm.

You can see the video on the Rising Storm Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/risingstormgame/videos and there are translated versions in Spanish, French, Russian, Polish, German, Italian and Czech over with our good friends at 1C publishing.

It’s been a busy few months for the Rising Storm team, integrating our work with the public version of the recently released Red Orchestra 2 SDK and getting on board some top talent. New additions include the composer, Ben Hollway, who has worked on the music promoting this year’s Oscar ceremonies and with recording artists such as Devlin, and Harlan Glenn, who has worked in a research capacity for HBO’s ‘The Pacific’ and ‘Band of Brothers’ and as Pacific theatre researcher for both the Medal of Honor and Call of Duty franchises. The trailer itself features the special effects work of Richard Dawson, another new member of the team.

As you can see, with TWI’s support, this is a mod that is able to punch above its weight in terms of the quality of its crew. This is particularly so as RS has long been recruiting from the fertile gounds of the modding communities which grew up around TWI’s previous hits, Red Orchestra: Ostfront 1941-45 and Killing Floor. We do, however, still have openings for a couple more talented modellers to round off the ranks and applications can be made here.

And, as a little extra, we are now inviting applications for beta testers, so we have a team ready for when the beta testing starts in March: http://www.risingstormgame.com/beta-tester-application - so head on over!

Links for more information:

Twitter - @risingstormgame
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rising-Storm-Game/209266979155254?v=wall
RS on the RO2 forums - http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/forumdisplay.php?f=91

Alliance of Valiant Arms Update Released

Update for Alliance of Valiant Arms Cheats have been released. This update contains an all new game mode INFECTION. The update contents will patch automatically through the Alliance of Valiant Arms Loader when initiated. Updates include:

New Game Mode:
INFECTION

New Map:
Burning Temple [Infection]

New Capsule Weapons:
Galil MAR (Pre-Release Capsule)

New Weapon Shop Item:
K1A1 Rail (Point Man)

New Backpack Items:
[Infection] Increased Health (Backpack A)
[Infection] Special Weapon I (Backpack B)
[Infection] Special Weapon II (Backpack B)
[Infection] Increased Attack (Backpack C)
[Infection] Increased Jumping (Backpack D)

Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updates Released

Dec 15, 2011
Updates to Team Fortress 2 Cheats, Counter-Strike: Source Cheats, Day of Defeat: Source Cheats  and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Source Engine Changes (TF2, DoD:S, HL2:DM)

    Fixed a bug which caused Windows Aero Extensions video option to always be enabled, regardless of setting. Disabling this can improve compatibility with third-party programs and overlays, but may also affect performance.
    Fixed SourceTV showing player counts for the game server instead of the number of clients connected to the SourceTV server


Team Fortress 2

    Australian Christmas has begun!
        Added community-contributed winter event items
        Added new Grordbort Pyro and Engineer item sets
        Added the "Valve Gift Grab 2011 – TF2" achievement
        Added Naughty and Nice winter keys to the Mann Co. store
    Added a new Valve-authored control point map: Foundry
        added 12 achievements for Foundry
        added achievement reward milestone reward for Foundry achievement
    Added UGC Highlander medals
    Relaxed some restrictions on what misc items can be equipped simultaneously
    Additional improvements for client stability
    Updated the localization files


Day of Defeat: Source

    Added the "Valve Gift Grab 2011 – DoD:S" achievement
    Updated the localization files


Counter-Strike: Source

    Added the "Valve Gift Grab 2011 – CS:S" achievement
    Added rate limiting for connections and added the following ConVars to support that:
        sv_max_connects_sec
        sv_max_connects_window
        sv_max_connects_sec_global
    Dramatically improved the dynamic model loading system's memory usage, performance, and stability
    Reduced memory usage on systems running Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
    Improved alt-tab handling under Windows Vista and Windows 7
    Fixed a client crash during demo playback
    Updated the localization files