10 Jun 2026Developer post

Get Ironward games BUNDLE!

Hello everyone, a short update! We have just released a new game - Atre: Dominance Wars. A fantasy 4x real time strategy where your goal is to become a God. View game page A side question, would you like that kind of game in The Red Solstice universe one day? Just curious. Games

18 Jun 2025Developer post

Daily Deal and Patch 3.17

Hello everyone! It has been some time since our last update. We are slowly chipping away on bigger patch but in the meantime we wanted to address some of the frustrating issues that our players have been experiencing. The list of fixes are below, We understand it's not a big list

02 Sep 2024Developer post

Red Solstice 2: Survivors - “THE REIGNITION” 3.0 Patch Notes

Marines! It’s time to strap in and get ready for some serious improvements! We’ve made a lot of positive changes to all areas of the game and we are excited to bring them to you on Steam! Highlights include: • A new Horror Mode with stronger and more dangerous monsters. • Increas

Marines!

It’s time to strap in and get ready for some serious improvements!

We’ve made a lot of positive changes to all areas of the game and we are excited to bring them to you on Steam!

Highlights include:

• A new Horror Mode with stronger and more dangerous monsters.
• Increased slots for classes
• Gamepad upgrades
• Improvements to 100+ missions
• New Main Menu interface

And much more! In fact, there’s so much, it won’t fit into a Steam News article. We’ve posted the bulk of the patch notes here, but if you want to see the complete list of changes, please check out the official blog here: https://505.games/RS2Update30

DATADUMP
https://elpida.info/update-300.html

Jump into the game and check it out! These changes make the game better than ever!

And following the patch, Ironward has one more thing to add...

Ironward are proud to announce that they are working on a new game called Atre: Dominance Wars which is a real time fantasy grand strategy game inspired by good old HOMM3 times, wanna find out more? Check out the links and the trailer ;)

Watch on YouTube

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2805850/Atre_Dominance_Wars

Thank you for playing Red Solstice 2: Survivors!

Patch Notes

Red Solstice 2: Survivors Patch 3.0 (2nd September, 2024)

Full Patch Notes:

Horror mode

Monster health increased by 200%.
Monsters have 30% more damage.
Monsters have one additional armor block.
Monsters are overall depending on threat slower by up to 25%.
Speed boost from monster off the map reduced from min 1% to max 5%.
Driveable vehicles are disabled
Biomass matures now and when matured it will explode and spawn a boss

CLASS IMPROVEMENTS

Medic

Support slots increased from 9 to 11.
Offense slots increased from 5 to 6.
Defense slots increased from 5 to 6.

Assault

Offense slots increased from 9 to 10.
Defense slots increased from 6 to 7.

Demolition

Offense slots increased from 7 to 8.

Engineer

Defense slots increased from 5 to 6.

Heavy Support

Defense slots increased from 3 to 4.

Marksman

Offense slots increased from 9 to 11.
Support slots increased from 8 to 9.

Recon

Offense slots increased from 7 to 9.

Psychic

Offense slots increased from 8 to 9.
Support slots increased from 9 to 10.

GAMEPAD IMPROVEMENTS

Fix for gamepad radial not overriding interaction selection widget's controls.
Fix for rare gamepad pointer disappearing on credits/game over screen.
Fix for gamepad pointer disappearing in strategy menu.
Fix for cursor issues during gamepad aim tutorial.
Fix for some interaction issues.

ENGINEERING ITEMS

LEVEL

All Aboard

Fix for an issue with vehicles and their path.

Big City

Fix for an issue where movable vehicles would attack doors even though they were open.

Life Line

Fix for vehicles getting stuck on dead end streets.

Missile Turrets

Various Missile Turrets will no longer destroy explosives.

Under The Surface

Fix for player getting stuck in a particular location using 'WASD' controls.

Whispering Shadows

Added collision on walls and stones, and in a few other locations.

Sam Site

Fix for an issue where client players saw Sam Sites incorrectly on all levels.

Sould Circuitry

Removed unnecessary barricades.
Removed “Defend The Wall” skirmish level.
Reduced cloud speed.

Tharsis skirmish

Fixed issue with pipe network.
Each level will now have limited instead of infinite loot.
Closing one window will close all windows in 1k radius. Interaction time reduced from 1s to 0.5s.
Toxic Barrels will damage Enemy Marines now.
Tornado colour tweaks.
Fix for an issue where Sam Site turrets would spawn at the wrong location.
Fix for various texture, navmesh, destruction, pathfinding issues

MEDALS

New medals have been added: “Aetriden Medal of Honor” and “Commendation for Past Service.”

MISSION

Updates to 100+ missions can be seen in full on the official blog: https://505.games/RS2Update30

General Fixes

Fix for few Condatis campaign critical strike missions having issues with deployment.
Fix for missions not spawning enemy marine and/or monsters that were a part of a mission objective if the monster cap was reached. They will be force spawned now.
Fix for taunts on Allied Defense and other missions.

MISC

Added sounds while going through language buttons in options.
Achievement fix for Nightfall, Elysium campaign mission.
Train - Navmesh generation around Train doors has been improved.
Fix for an issue where Missile Turrets would damage itself.
Fix for an issue where electric particles were not destroyed after they were done filling up the UBAS.
Fix for Biomass spawning inside of a Whale actor.
Fix for issues with minimap moving camera in WASD/Gamepad mode.
Fix for Range Particle staying forever when mission base terminals were activated.
Fix for missing stats in loadout after changing class.
Fix for clients missing weapons in the garage.
Fix for marine skins sometimes appearing faulty.
Fix for marines sometimes being invisible after exiting a driveable vehicle.
Fix for campaign setup picking wrong difficulty.
Fix for player's profile showing when selecting a bot's name.
Fix for UBAS missiles destroying each other.
Fix for suppression component being able to get stuck at Suppressed if something temporarily reduces it's regen to 0.
Fix for game difficulty causing wrong modifiers on suppression, fixes things like Sonic Grenade not altering the suppression regen correctly.
Fix the tiling on marine shoulder plate.
Fix for various issues with localization.
Poison Barrel will now do 1000 damage to biomass centres for its duration.
Removed invite friend button from showing in single player armory.
Minimap fixes for some pixelated textures and added legend icons that were missing.
Possible fix for marine click to attack getting stuck on dead monster

MONSTERS

Atrocity Boss

Destructive resistance set to 60.
Energy resistance set to 40.

Behemoth

Will now attack players with hellspawn spikes that are in a building.
Slam does kinetic damage and will damage UBAS now.

Creeper

Fix for player being invisible after being ejected from the creeper.

Desecrator

Fix for melee attacks.

Devourer

Fix for Devourer monster sliding in mushroom state.

Fluffy

Animation and charge tweaks.
Kinetic resist reduced from 85 to 75.
Fluffy will do frenzy triple attack when he goes below 35% health.

Hatchling

Kinetic resistance set to 35.
Explosive resistance set to 60.
Energy resistance set to 50.

Hellspawn

Fix where Hellspawn would randomly damage players with foot stomp.
Fix for an issue where Hellspawn wouldn't unburrow.
Grabber monster will now spawn on Biomass creep.
Holer projectile speed reduced to 1500.

Leviathan

Kinetic resist set to 90.
Energy resist set to 65.
Suppression set to 300.
Damage reduced from 300 to 275.
Can not be influenced by skills like harpoon, clinch...

Lyganesh

Kinetic resist set to 80.
Energy resist set to 60.
Damage reduced to 225.
Will now attack players with Hellspawn spikes that are in a building

Mastermind

Will no longer regenerate armor.

Parasite/Womr

Fix for a rare bug that caused the game to crash in rare situations.

Ripjaw

Removed armor regen.

Slasher

Health reduced to 8,000.
Stomp damage increased to 100 and will now slow marines for 3 seconds.

STROL Marine

Destructive resistance set to 75.

Specimen

Destructive resistance set to 60.
Suppression regen increased from 12 to 20.

Thanatos

Destructive resistance set to 55.

General Monster Changes

Zombie marine kinetic resistance buff increased from 20% to 40%.
Monsters will now be able to use their skills after being hit with Bellator Harpoon gun.
Monsters will not be suppressed as long as they have any armor left.
Monsters are unable to destroy windows anymore.
Fix for monsters having wrong skill cooldowns.
Fix for monsters sometimes not aggroing player at all.
Fix for monsters using Burrow when casting a skill.
Fix for a crash that was caused by animsharing.
Biomass max monsters alive now set to 5.
Reworked monster movement behaviour. Monsters should not get stuck anymore and their overall movement should be better.

SOLDIERS/BOTS

Basic AI Marine - Tweaks regarding roam to player behavior
Follower skill Reconaissance will now add ammo to bots.
Fix for Follow me command sometimes not working. They now have 9 formations.
Fix for drop pod marines hovering in air after they deploy.
Fix for Followers not being able to use teleport and strong signal beacon.
Fix for Followers not always detecting monsters.
Fix for Followers where they were being teleported to vehicles that are nota part of the assigned hero.
Dead Followers will no longer be teleported when player exits vehicle
Recon bot tactical scout item should work properly now.

STRATAGEMS

Fix for Condatis assault class not being able to equip stratagems.
Fix for stratagem engineering buffs counting towards campaign HasNotViewedItem checks

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WEAPONS

Ajax - Fix for Ajax missiles endless flying.
Ajax - Fix for targeting indicator not working properly.
Grenade Launcher - Increased swapping speed between primary weapon and Grenade Launcher
Launcher type weapon projectiles wont be blocked by Tentacle collision anymore
Stinger - Swapped initial and final spread on Stinger so that it would function correctly

WEAPON MODIFICATIONS

Infrared Scope

Should now properly reduce overwatch range.

Player modules

Damage module increased damage from 10 to 12%

REQUISITION
Banner - reduced pip to 2 and power to 75

SOUNDS/MUSIC

Fix for some tabs in main menu not playing sounds.

UI

Changed match summary to display a player's stats as red if they did not evac
Moved Health Bar and name widgets on characters from the capsule to the mesh to avoid jitter on client.
Removed "Online/Offline" buttons from main menu.
Removed "Add Friend" button, as it was redundant to the "Profile" button.
Fix for clients not always having a correct mission displayed in the armory.
Fix for "Add Soldier" button
Fix for utility slot tooltip in armory.
Fix for pickup items sometimes leaving widgets on the screen for too long.
Fix for NetworkSettings screen remaining when map travelling.
Fix for some issues with mission waypoint arrows.
Fix for workbench sometimes having blank dropdown name.
Fix for non pickup explosives showing an interactible widget when marine walks over it.
Fix for player name sizing in armory.
Hid "Mod Weapon" button for some weapons to reduce confusion.
Mission location markers box tweaks.

QOL

Added a "Return To Main Menu" button on the Game Over screen. Now clients will be able to return to Main Menu after the game, instead of going to the armory first.
Added an autosave after returning to strategy from a campaign mission, after the dropship is returned to hq and the last mission is cleaned up.
Added Offline game call when leaving campaign setup.
Added cancel buttons to some notification popups.
Armory widget optimization.
Complete fix up and overhaul to the optimization system.
Damage display, dissolve component, damage numbers and weapon shot firing improvements and optimizations.
UI optimizations.
Game performance optimization.
Enabled stratagem button in offline skirmish mode.
Friendly skills will now have a blue radius instead of a red one.
Major overhaul of Campaign's save system to use Unreal's default save style.
Major overhaul of all saved data. Majorly user profile, saved loadouts, saved weapons and saved vehicles.
Major overhaul of UI gamepad navigation handling.
Fix for various translation issues.
Fix for various issues regarding invites, join via friend, private and public sessions.
Fixes for session joining, player block list, player friend list.
Fix for campaign save/delete confirmation not always showing.
Fix for infinite loading screen if session fails to create.
Fix for campaign session initial data.
Fixed and optimized FOW Hide component
Reworked platform save manager's loadout delete to not remove the cached version unless it successfully deletes the file. Also added a safety check and some logging.
Vaulting - Updated vault detect locations.

NEW FEATURES

Added new marine skin
Added skin patterns that can be equipped and dyed.
Added vibration for gamepads.
Added horror mode.
New Main Menu interface.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/768520/Red_Solstice_2_Survivors/

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27 Aug 2024Developer post

New massive update incoming - The REIGNITION

Marines! A new update for Red Solstice 2 is coming soon! This new update has many significant changes to improve the game. Changes include increased slots for multiple classes, gamepad improvements, weapon stat updates, UI fixes and other “Quality of Life” improvements for the ga

18 Mar 2024Developer post

SAVE IN THE STEAM SPRING SALE

Spring is here, Executor! To celebrate the Steam Spring Sale, we've discounted Red Solstice 2: Survivors, along with a wide range of additional content for a limited time! Go on, treat yourself. Red Solstice 2: Survivors -60% Red Solstice 2: Survivors - CONDATIS GROUP -30% Red So

06 Feb 2024Developer post

SAVE IN THE 505 GAMES STEAM LUNAR NEW YEAR SALE

Welcome Executor! To celebrate the Lunar New Year, we've discounted Red Solstice 2: Survivors, along with a wide range of additional content for a limited time! Go on, treat yourself. Red Solstice 2: Survivors -60% Red Solstice 2: Survivors - CONDATIS GROUP -30% Red Solstice 2: S

14 Dec 2023Developer post

Get the RED SOLSTICE 2: SURVIVORS & MIASMA Bundle

Marines! It is a momentous occasion. Not only did I win 3rd place in the Sergeant of the Year Awards. I actually made a new friend. I KNOW RIGHT! I now have two! This guy is called Diggs - he really does have some swagger. Honestly, I have NEVER met a more boisterous mining bot.

22 Nov 2023Developer post

A Labor of Love To Win The Labor Of Love Award!

Attention Marines! Stop what you are doing and look at me for a moment! That's right look right at me, right in the eyes! Can you see that fire burning within those retinas! If you can't, you are looking into the wrong eyes. Those glassy grey eyes over there belong to Doris, war

29 Jun 2023Developer post

The Steam Summer Sale IS BACK!

MARINES!!! It's that time again! It's time to tell all of your friends and grannies about the Red Solstice 2: Survivors Steam Summer Sale discounts that are happening RIGHT NOW! So to stop you from 'crying at the discounteque' - we have marked it all down for you below! 🔻 SAVE 6

16 Jun 2023Developer post

It's Our 2 Year Anniversary! NEW CLASS GIFT!

MARINES!!! Get that ass of yours up from whatever it is you're doing and stop. That's right, you heard me, stop whatever it is you are doing. Whether that's in the middle of washing the dishes, whilst feeding a starving possum or if you are attending a mars peace conference. It i

MARINES!!!

Get that ass of yours up from whatever it is you're doing and stop.

That's right, you heard me, stop whatever it is you are doing.
Whether that's in the middle of washing the dishes, whilst feeding a starving possum or if you are attending a mars peace conference.

It is that time once again... TO CELEBRATE!

You have been with us for another year! That's right, it is Red Solstice 2: Survivors 2nd Anniversary! yep. I know that's is longer that some celebrity marriages.

So of course we want to have a party, and how better to celebrate than to bring in the party people themselves - the Condatis Soldiers aka the Condatis Assault Class!
This lot KNOW how to party and you will now be able to 'party' with them in Skirmish mode.

Now some would say Condatis Soldiers are a liability - always running away, hoarding supplies, cracking jokes in the face of danger (sounds like me) - but honestly, this just sounds like my best buddy Rory after a night out on the town.
So think of it as having your own best buddy named Rory too!

Now the Condatis Soldiers come with the... well, most ABSOLUTE basics of military training. They can hold their breath when it rains a little, they can hold objects with just one hand and they can understand the simplest of instructions. Just for the love of Dog, do not give them a microwave meal to cook - that will be game over for all of us...

The frontline survival rates for these folk are around 20 minutes, but please don't go telling them that to their face. But if they do ask (sometimes they can start to think things), just tell them it's at least 47 to 49 years, but for some reason your friend Bob all of a sudden decided to retire to the countryside... yesterday. Rinse and repeat, insert new name. They never ask for their address...

So in a nutshell, this is what you lucky lucky people are getting!
Class: Condatis Assault
Suit: Modified Solstice Mark II
Pros: Light armor, large inventory of 8 slots, hybrid class
Cons: low life expectancy, basically target practice for those cheeky Howell-Barrex

SO HAPPY SECOND ANNIVERSARY MARINES!!
Enjoy the gift! Keep doing us proud and keep fighting the good fight... AND NOW GET BACK TO MAIMING STROL!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/768520/Red_Solstice_2_Survivors/

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17 May 2023Developer post

Red Solstice 2: Survivors 2.98 Patch Notes

Marines! We all know the term "shop till you drop"? Well we would like to slightly rephrase the saying so it says "STROL is shot till it drops". In the new patch, you can now earn points which can be turned into prizes! Wait sorry, wrong tag line. You can now earn points and spen

27 Apr 2023Developer post

NEW UPDATE COMING SOON

COMING SOON to the next Red Solstice 2: Survivors update! Points Shop! Gain Requisition by playing skirmish and finishing missions. Use that to buy items in the new Points Shop. The amount of Requisition gained depends on the difficulty. Stay tuned for more details on the next pa

22 Dec 2022Developer post

Red Solstice 2: Survivors Patch 2.9

Well a merry HO HO HO festive holidays to you, Marines. It's that time again, where I allow you to have half a day shore leave - and you better make the most of it! Those STROLS don't believe in the holidays. Feliz naviDON'T is what the STROL would say! The only thing jolly about

22 Nov 2022Developer post

MARINES! I GOT A REQUEST!

MARINES! Your old pal Sarg here. Yeah, I am not going to shout at you today. I am not going to tell you to sit up straight, or brush your hair or stop watching the Mars Cup. I just want to tell you how I do appreciate you. No, no I've not been taken over by some hideous brain eat

22 Nov 2022Developer post

50% OFF Red Solstice 2: Survivors in the Steam Autumn Sale!

Good day marines! What have I told you about training on a full stomach of granny's goulash? I understand you want to go into battle with a bang, but granny's goulash will give you the kind of explosive fire power that will take out your whole squad if there's a naked flame nearb

26 Oct 2022Developer post

Special Halloween In-Game Event

MARINES! STAND UP STRAIGHT! You're not on parade now! You can't get away with that posture with me! Listen up! There comes a time in every marines life where they just need to grab life by the Pumpkins. Yes, you heard me right, it's that time of year again, where Brutes go bump i

06 Oct 2022Developer post

The Road Ahead - Red Solstice 2: Survivors Roadmap

Hello Marines! Now that all the DLCs have released we have been extensively gathering all the feedback and suggestions from both discord and steam forums. GOOD JOB! Your words can make a difference! Here are some changes we plan to introduce in the following months. Point Shop -

Hello Marines!
Now that all the DLCs have released we have been extensively gathering all the feedback and suggestions from both discord and steam forums. GOOD JOB! Your words can make a difference!
Here are some changes we plan to introduce in the following months.

Point Shop
- playing the game and wining missions will award you with points which you can use to "buy" engineering items from campaign and use them in your skirmish matches

More modes for skirmish
- reduce number of monsters, but increase their hp, etc.

More types of special designed fixed waves
- currently there is only one fixed wave option. The idea is that each map gets a designed fixed wave focused on a certain playstyle or theme

Better communication and fireteam control
- we all know that in-game pinging, mini-map control drawing and communication could be on a higher level, so we plan to address that

Potential redesign of some existing boss mechanics and improvement of the same ones
- some monsters and some bosses have bugs or are not impactful in the way we want it to be. We would like them to define the gameplay a bit more

Defend the wall map in skirmish
- a lot of reports have been mentioned that players want to hold the wall against numerous hordes - this might be possible soon

Additional campaign options and potentially New Game+
- ability to define your campaign starting conditions

Infinite waves mode
- ability to play ...well indefinitely if you think u can survive! This will include finishing all primary missions in the game in the gauntlet mode. We are still thinking of the best way to do it and how we should do it

Prestige
- a long time awaited prestige system will arrive

More medals
- more medals, such as Aetriden Medal of Honor will be planned

Rebalancing of skills
- certain skills and classes will get rebalanced over time, using the feedback we have collected

Optimization
- plan is to further optimize the game and reduce loading times - so we will be actively working on it

Bugfixes
- we are actively resolving reported bugs with each patch

It’s possible that these updates are subject to change – but we want to thank the community for all the suggestions and feedback, and we appreciate your continued support.

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Updates & announcements

Patch Notes

Red Solstice 2: Survivors Patch 3.0 (2nd September, 2024)

Full Patch Notes:

Horror mode

CLASS IMPROVEMENTS

GAMEPAD IMPROVEMENTS

ENGINEERING ITEMS

LEVEL

MEDALS

MISSION

MISC

MONSTERS

WEAPON MODIFICATIONS

SOUNDS/MUSIC

UI

QOL

NEW FEATURES

Nominate for Red Solstice 2: Survivors for the Labor of Love Steam awards.

🔻50% off Base Game 🔻20% off Season Pass 🔻20% off DLCs - HOWELL-BARREX, CONDATIS GROUP, INSURGENTS and M.E.R.C.S.

Red Solstice 2: Survivors

Part 2 of the 2.8 Patch Notes available here

🔻 50% OFF Red Solstice 2: Survivors 🔻 20%OFF All four DLCs 🔻 30% OFF Executor armor 🔻 20% OFF Season pass

It’s possible that these updates are subject to change – but we want to thank the community for all the suggestions and feedback, and we appreciate your continued support.