It’s a big day today. The newest DLC is out, the PlayStation 4/5 version is out, and the poll to decide the next campaign is now live! Let’s go over everything now.


Our newest DLC, Easy Red 2: Shanghai-Nanking, is live right now to be purchased and played on Steam! It will take a few weeks to be released to Xbox and Nintendo Switch, and a few more weeks to be approved and released for PlayStation.

Shanghai - Nanking takes you to China in 1937 during the beginning months of the Second Sino-Japanese War, from the war-torn streets of downtown Shanghai to the cold, dead fields of the former Chinese capital city, Nanking.

It includes:

• Shanghai (5x5 km) and Nanking (4x4 km) maps with 23 new missions total
  
• New Chinese faction
  
• New Chinese and Japanese uniforms and kits, totaling more than 70 new clothing items
  
• New vehicles and aircraft, such as the Nakajima A4N, the Hawk-3, the Type 89 tank, the Vickers 6-ton tank, and the
• Type 24 HMG. Also, the Chinese versions of the P40 Warhawk, Polikarpov I-16, T-26, Panzer 1, SdKfz 222, Vickers Crossley, and more…
  
• New weapons: Type 24 Rifle, Hanyang 88, ZB-26, Chinese MP-18, Sig20, FN Model D and more…
  
• Over 100 new beautiful map props and buildings to be used in the Mission and Map Editor

You can wishlist the DLC now here!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3499380/Easy_Red_2_Shanghai__Nanking/

Thank to EndoSkull Gaming for the pre-release interview & gamplay!

Easy Red 2 will also be released on PlayStation Store at 10 AM of your local time!

Currently, the build is cross-generation for both PlayStation 4 and 5, with improvements for PS5 over PS4 for the extra hardware. A dedicated PlayStation 5 may come in the future for additional features.

Check out ER2 on the PlayStation store here! [store.playstation.com]


The newest DLC is now out, and it’s been a while since our last big poll– it’s time to hear the community’s thoughts on what the next big campaign for Easy Red 2 will be!

With this poll, we’re using it to gauge community interest– not just the winner is taken into consideration. We will be considering all votes, and basing what we do in the future off of what your interest is in!

Already planned this year are the Kwajalein and Roi Namur Reworks, the Anzio Rework, and the new Southern Tunisia map to conclude the Tunisia campaign. After that… who knows! We’re very excited to see what you as the community have to say and we will follow up with the poll results in about a week on our official community discord server. You get up to three choices: pick your favorite!

Vote in the new poll here [docs.google.com]

In case you didn't know we have defined a precise roadmap for the next months of development and you can read it here.

We keep improving all features of the base game and as always we will be going on listening to suggestions from people inside the Steam Discussions and the Discord server[discord.com].


Marco + Corvostudio

We finally have a release date for the Shanghai-Nanking DLC and the PlayStation 4 / PlayStation 5 version, but first let's see what changes since last major update.

• Added A5M-2 Japanese fighter plane.
• Added SDKFZ 222 armored car with 7 camo variants.
• Added 3,7cm Pak 36.
• Added M1937 1-K AT gun.
• Added M1937 19-K AT gun.
• Added M1937 53-K AT gun.
• Reworked C96 models.
• Enfield rifles animations reworked.
• M1911 animations reworked.
• Reworked most of the radios
• Added some new Face models.
• Started reworking Fallschirmjäger uniforms.
• New system to add locations in custom maps.
• Finalized Shanghai-Nanking DLC for the upcoming release.
• New system to add into text for vanilla and custom missions.
• New system to localize custom missions.
• New system to set Campaign-tree order of custom missions.
• New system to localize custom missions.
• Added many new functionalities to Scripting System.
• Reworked rain effect.
• Released coming soon Shanghai-Nanking DLC page.

• Removed "Take control of spawned vehicle" button; To take control of a spawned vehicle pressing on the vehicle label is now enough.
• Some fixes in uniform textures.
• Improved memory management to reduce potential memory leak issues.
• Fixed bug with I-16 rockets.
• Improved bots pathfinding for maps with very steep hills.
• Fixed Panzer I seat slot count.
• Improved performance of some FPS animations.
• Fixed bug with M1 helmet.
• Fixed bug with Paratroopers M1 Carbine.
• Changed the way ticket system works, by counting dead units instead of respawns now.
• Improvements in riggings.
• Improved AI to calculate longer paths when they can't find a good one.
• General bug fixes, especially around the new scripting system.
• Improved camera reload animation system.
• Addressed various smaller bugs reported via Discord[discord.com].


Shanghai Nanking will launch on Steam the 28th of March (2025)!
This DLC will bring 2 maps (with around 100 new map props) and 23 missions on them, various vehicles and weapons, more than 70 clothing pieces and the new China faction!

You can wishlist the DLC now here!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3499380/Easy_Red_2_Shanghai__Nanking/

The DLC will take a few extra weeks to be released on console as well, but we are doing our best to bring it ASAP!



The same day, 28th of March, the game will also become available on the PlayStation store for both PS4 and PS5!
The game will launch with all DLCs except for Shanghai Nanking, that might take a few extra weeks to be approved and released on this console as well.


While we plan to add even more functionalities, the scripting system expanded a lot with functionalities such as callbacks[easyred2.com].
We managed to make the first fully scripted mission in Easy Red 2: The Sihang Warehouse defense mission for the upcoming Shanghai-Nanking DLC.

More missions will feature scripting, including base game missions, and we are planning to run a scripting contest along with Workshop creators in order to promote the new system and help with it's usage.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/2617770/Easy_Red_2_Ardennes_1940__1944/


https://store.steampowered.com/app/2317930/Easy_Red_2_Normandy/

In case you didn't know we have defined a precise roadmap for the next months of development and you can read it here.

We keep improving all features of the base game and as always we will be going on listening to suggestions from people inside the Steam Discussions and the Discord server[discord.com].


Thank you all,
Marco