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Rising Storm 2: Vietnam launched in 2017, and it was last updated over three years ago, in June 2021. At least that was the case until yesterday, when developer Tripwire Interactive released a surprise update aimed at improving server behavior and security, and correcting a number of VOIP-related bugs.

Rising Storm 2: Vietnam updates were updated fairly regularly until the small patch 1.6.1 of June 2021; after that, it was pretty much dead silence, except for a “community game night” in July 2021 and a double XP event for Halloween in 2023. Which is understandable: it’s a seven-year-old game, after everything, and the number of simultaneous players has not increased. has not exceeded the four-digit surface since the beginning of 2023. Under these circumstances, a discreet disappearance must be expected.

So why this new update? The short version is that people are still playing and Tripwire apparently had some time on their hands.

“Rising Storm 2: Vietnam still has an active community and we are still monitoring feedback from our players,” Tripwire marketing director Mike Schmitt told PC Gamer. “This new quality of life update addresses issues that were continually raised by fans, and we were able to allocate bandwidth over the past few months to resolve them.”

Here is the full list of changes:

General

• Improved server behavior and security.

VoIP

• Fixed general issues with muting other players as intended.

• Fixed issues where players, after leaving a server, would still hear players from the server they disconnected.

• Fixed general issues where players of the same party were unable to get along.

• Fixed an issue where Steam client headset device settings were not automatically detected, causing the microphone to become inactive on the server.

• Fixed issues where respawning players could hear active spawned players on the spawn point selection screen and vice versa.

• Fixed issues where muted players would automatically become unmuted again after reconnecting to the same server.

• Fixed issues where players could still hear players after finishing a game session and closing the client.

It’s great to see older games getting continued support like this, and it’s sparked a noticeable increase in players, which Steam Database reports that it recently reached 1,390 competitors, which isn’t huge, but a considerable jump from the few hundred that have played over the past few months. Still, fans probably shouldn’t get too excited about a hoped-for resurgence of Rising Storm 2: Vietnam.

“Since Rising Storm 2: Vietnam is a longer-lasting game, updates may become less frequent,” Schmitt said. “But we want to make sure that our existing community, as well as new players, have the best possible experience with the game.”

If you don’t have Rising Storm 2: Vietnam in your library yet, now is the perfect time to get it. The base game is on sale at Steam for $1.24, or you can spend the big bucks ($1.49) for the Digital Deluxe Edition, which includes a bunch of cosmetics and the soundtrack. Either way, it’s 95% off the regular price, and short of a freebie on the Epic Store (where it’s also for salebut for a little more) I doubt you’ll get it cheaper than that.