and cannot be bought separately as "Rising Storm/Red Orchestra 2 GOTY" on Steam. The game has had many gameplay and feature updates from 2011 to 2015. The last update released for both games was on October 20, 2015.Rising Storm features content based on the Pacific war between the US and Japan. Both sides have distinct weaponry and abilities so as to create an asymmetric gameplay. The Americans have access to high firepower weapons such as semi-automatic rifles, machineguns and flamethrowers. The Japanese are instead equipped with bolt-action rifles, hand-held mortars, mines, katanas and the ability to banzai charge: causing the enemy to be suppressed and have it difficult to fire back to simulate fear, for the duration of the charge. A sequel, Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, was released on May 30, 2017. Mods Some mod teams were given early access to the Steam Development Kit (SDK) and have been developing mods. These mods include In Country Vietnam and Rising Storm, which later went commercial as an agreement between Tripwire Interactive and Rising Storm Team to push the product commercially in case of successful mod development. Another mod called Vehicle Expansion was supposed to be released as an official update for Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Tripwire Interactive Vice President John Gibson offering to help with programming, however due to modding team owning student licences of 3D Software, it was never released and all work scrapped. Modifications to come out after Rising Storm release are Heroes of the West, set in Western Europe during the campaigns of 1944 and 1945, which also could've been sold as a DLC, however at a time due to it being released in 2016, was only released as a free mod on Steam and Aufmarsch: The Great War 1914-1918, which includes maps set on both the Eastern and Western Fronts of World War I. There is also the CGT mod that adds classic gametypes such as Capture The Flag and Search & Destroy to the game. The full SDK was made available in January 2012. The SDK has allowed modders to create many custom maps for the base game, for Rising Storm, and for the game's mods. These maps expand the variety of locations represented in game, adding battles in places like Ukraine, the Caucasus, and various Pacific islands. Music Composer Sam Hulick, one of the principal composers for the Mass Effect series, was