V1.5.5: Pacific campaign reworks, new vehicles, new customization options and..

Hi everyone!

There has been a very big update today. Three campaigns have been majorly remade, and another campaign reworked, with tons of other additions and improvements! First, let's run over the changelogs.

New Features:

• Fully remade Kwajalein campaign. (Now Operation Flintlock)

• Fully remade Roi-Namur campaign. (Now Operation Flintlock)

• Fully reworked Makin campaign.

• Reworked Stalingrad campaign.

• Fully reworked Soviet uniforms. Added much more variation and historical accuracy, with variants ranging from OBR35 to OBR41 along with winter coat variants.

• Added new system to customize gameplay parameters and difficulty values in campaign menu (more in this post).

• Fully reworked Arisaka rifles, also adding an early war version of the Type 38 for the Shanghai-Nanking DLC as well as adding the Type 38 carbine.

• New SDB Dauntless plane.

• New crosshair options.

• Added multplie new US marine uniforms-- all uniforms now have a version with bloused pants for extra variation in squads.

• Added many new props for Map Editor.

• Added many new tree props.

• Reworked C96 animations (all variants)

• Reworked Tokarev pistol animations.

• Reworked Mas36 animations.

Fixes and Improvements:

• Reworked various Japanese tanks. Also added amphibious variant for the Ka-Mi tank.

• Improvements in UI and menus.

• Improved various sounds.

• Reworked soviet rural buildings + added 3 variants for each.

• Improvements in scripted "siege" missions.

• Fixes and improvements on AI.

• Updated localization.

• Fixes in rigging on multiple vests.

• Many other smaller fixes

Let's get right into the headliners of this update-- major and extensive pacific campaign remakes, new vehicles, and various enhanced customization options!

Kwajalein, Roi-Namur & Makin Remakes

The pacific campaigns of Easy Red 2 (Kwajalein, Roi-Namur, and Makin) have been totally remade from the ground up. Most missions have a completely different look and feel-- with much more content in general: new squad types, more interesting and historically accurate detailed maps, many brand new missions, and a higher level of uniqueness between each of the 3 campaigns.

Some of the biggest additions to the campaigns besides the islands themselves would certainly be the iconic LVT landing craft and tank variants (LVTa) previously showcased in earlier posts. Now, most of the landing missions in the campaigns revolve around these new vehicles! Japanese tanks have also been totally reworked, with all of them brought up to a proper standard we find appropriate. The Ha-Go as well as the Ka-Mi have been redone, with the Ka-Mi getting an extra variant to accompany the amphibious flotation device attachment, allowing it to swim in water. Also, the beloved US divebomber, the SBD Dauntless, has been added.

New Marine and Army HBT uniforms have been added, including the 7th Infantry Division's checkerboard identifier panels as well as Kwajalein's 7th ID unique camo helmets. Additionally, all USMC uniforms now have a bloused variant, where the soldiers pants are not tucked all the way into his boots: an iconic look for marines in the pacific theater.

Kwajalein and Roi-Namur are now much more accurate to the real terrain and devastation that occurred in real life, where the island had been described by a marine as if "it had been picked up 20,000 feet and then dropped". In contrast to this, Makin island looks more like your typical "tropical paradise".

We're more than happy to share with you these campaign remakes, and feel now they're truly up to a great standard for Easy Red 2 in 2025, and hope you enjoy them.

Here's a fan-made trailer for the pacific campaign rework by Tracid FM.