Modders and map makers have been hard at work with the pre-release SDK and several great maps and mods are already coming together. For a preview of what is to come, check out these three total conversion mods already in production for Red Orchestra 2:

Rising Storm – http://www.risingstormgame.com/
In Country Vietnam – http://www.incountrymod.com/
Iron Europe – http://www.ironeuropegame.com/

And to check out all of the latest custom maps, mods, and content head on over to the modding section of the Tripwire Interactive forums:

http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/forumdisplay.php?f=83

There are also a bunch of updates to the main game – see the discussion thread below:

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We know you have all been waiting to see how Rising Storm has been progressing and, at last we are able to show you our first trailer, brought to you by our good friends over at Gamespy.

This is “The Japanese Trailer” featuring a preview of some maps from the Japanese perspective, with another one due at the end of next month bringing the US side and some of the new weapons to the fore.

Along with the trailer there is an interview with Tripwire VP, Alan Wilson and Tony Gillham, the producer, in which they discuss the history of the mod and what we can expect for the future.

So hop over there now and get up to speed on Rising Storm.

We have now fixed all of the major issues with the stats system and released an update yesterday to address these issues. Due to the problems with stats and players either earning stats and achievements that they didn’t actually earn or earning stats at many times the intended rate, we are going to have to do a global reset of all stats for the game. This means all achievements, stats and player progression will be rolled back as if all players were new. This was not an easy decision for us to make, but one we felt we needed to do to preserve the integrity of the stats and ranking system, and to provide all of the players the best experience with the game over the long term. Knowing that there are people that have been playing the game for a few weeks now and will lose the stats for that time we are going to provide a special bonus to all players. For the next few weeks all players will earn double experience in Red Orchestra 2. This means if a player plays the game during the double experience period they will quickly get their experience up to where they would have been had these issues never existed. Additionally, we are going to give those playing the game during the double experience period a special achievement called “In B4 Reset”. Right now this is just an achievement, but we’re going to be looking at ways to give special rewards to the players that have this achievement in the future.

Thank you to all of the players that have made Red Orchestra 2 a hit so far. We’ve got a lot of exciting things in store with free content coming for the game so stay tuned over the coming weeks for more news on that front!

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As well as the soundtrack, we also have some nice RO2 swag available in the web store, including T-shirts, hoodies, paratrooper bag, boxed copies of the game AND the rather smart hip flask:

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• PC Advisor – 4/5
• Airborne gamer – 83%
• PS3King (in German) – 7/10
• Elder Geek – 4/5
• Games.CZ (in Czech) – 8/10
• Gamestar (in German) – 85/100
• Gamepro – 4/5
• IGN – 8/10
• GrE (Games R Evil) – B+
• Ten Ton Hammer – 80/100
• Front Towards Gamer – 7/10
• Nerd Repository – 8/10

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“Scorched Earth” is a knockout tournament for Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad, played in the Countdown gametype. The tournament will run through rounds of matches, held between clans in a US division and a European division, with the winners of each division playing a Grand Final (USA vs EU) on servers on both sides of the Atlantic. All tournament servers will be provided exclusively by Gaming Deluxe for Europe and NFO Servers for the US.

For the full details and to sign your clan up, head for the Scorched Earth sign-up page at: http://www.forgottenhonor.com/scorchedearth/clan-presignups.html

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• Everyeye has an 8.6 (in Italian)
• Sarcastic Gamer as well
• Gamefront give us 87/100
• Officially not-a-review from Kotaku
• Edge have a review up too
• Rock Paper Shotgun weighing in as well

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