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Hello everyone,
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Recently we asked you what campaigns you wanted to see next in Easy Red 2. Here are the results of our latest poll. There are many interesting insights we can draw from these outcomes.
Here is a brief recap of the poll:
Most Requested Campaigns
So to recap, after more than 3000 votes, the most requested campaigns were:
Mid-Late War Chinese Campaign: 29.1%
Non-WW2 Campaign: 24.7% (This includes in order: Korean War, Vietnam War and WW1)
Spanish Civil War: 20%
Berlin Invasion / Seelow: 18.3%
Winter War: 18.1%
Invasion of Poland: 14.9%
Battle of Iwo Jima: 14.6%
Our Considerations
We have carefully analyzed the results, which ultimately turned out to be quite unexpected. Our team is highly excited about the possibilities ahead, and we’d like to speak with you about our considerations going forward.
Quick-to-Implement Campaigns
Campaigns such as the Mid-Late War Chinese and Iwo Jima could require only a few additional elements to be implemented, meaning they may not need to be released as full DLCs. While we are still determining which major DLC campaign to pursue after this year’s reworks and additions, we believe we could possibly release a free Iwo Jima campaign within this year and later on also include a Late-War Chinese campaign as a free addition to the newly released Shanghai-Nanking DLC.
We are continually evolving our techniques and are confident that, in the future, we will be able to offer more free content that leverages existing assets. This approach will allow us to deliver updates more quickly without requiring the entire team to focus exclusively on these projects, all while maintaining high quality. For example, the extensive assets we are developing for Italy (for both the Anzio rework and Italian uniforms reworks that are currently in progress) could enable us to create additional content featuring Italian troops in Italy or the Stalingrad region with minimal extra effort.
Future DLC Campaigns
Besides that, we believe that a DLC should introduce a new scenario with as much fresh content as possible— new vehicles, weapons, uniforms, buildings, and possibly even new factions. Some campaigns that would require this level of effort include the Non-WW2 campaigns (with the Korean War and Vietnam War being among the most requested), the Spanish Civil War, the Winter War, and the Invasion of Poland. We would also include the Berlin Invasion to this list, primarily because it would necessitate various late-war vehicles and very specific German city buildings.
Although we have begun seriously considering non-WW2 campaigns, we believe that our AI needs further development before we can confidently depict battles that introduced new types of vehicles and tactics. Additionally, we still need to work on implementing new WW2 vehicle types—such as tactical long-range bombers—before moving on to more modern ones like helicopters.
We were pleasantly surprised to see the Spanish Civil War achieve such a significant result. It’s a campaign I would personally love to see; however, the guerrilla tactics involved would require further evolution of our AI. For similar reasons, we feel that a WW1 scenario could also benefit from additional AI development time.
Looking Ahead
The Winter War, Invasion of Poland, and the Battle of Berlin were the three campaigns we truly expected to see stand out in the poll, as they have consistently ranked among the most popular in previous polls. As we feel that ER2 should expand with more content, factions, and
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