The Party in Rio update has just gone live in the UK App Store and we expect it to pop up in the rest of the world shortly. Post here if you’re grabbing it and share your first impressions of RAD Soldiers’ biggest update yet!
For reference, here’s the changelog from the App Store:
RAD Soldiers invade Rio! New maps, missions, soldiers, weapons, and abilities await you!
- NEW COUNTRY: Take the fight to sunny Rio de Janeiro in Brazil!
- NEW SINGLE PLAYER: See your friends’ progress and try to beat their scores!
- NEW, FREE MISSIONS: Tackle 9 new missions with a total reward of 13,500 coins!
- NEW, FREE MULTIPLAYER MAPS: Battle your friends in Beach, Favela, and Old Town!
- NEW SOLDIERS: Recruit Tito Tesla and Tree Mendez to your squad!
- NEW WEAPONS: Equip your soldiers with the Electri-fryer sniper rifle and Spray’n’Pray SMG!
- IMPROVED AI: Enemy squads make smarter decisions and use their abilities properly!
- RICHER REWARDS: Inactive games now award coins upon expiration!
- BETTER BALANCE: Extensive tweaks for existing soldiers and weapons (see below)!
- Hundreds of fixes and improvements throughout!
- Hungry for even more Rio? Buy the After-Party expansion! Unlock the Lapa, Centro, and - - Construction areas and tackle 9 new missions with a total reward of 29,700 coins!
- Missing London? Buy the Challenge Pack 2 expansion! 9 new missions with a total reward of 29,700 coins await - includes the Westminster, Embankment, and Suburbs areas!
BALANCE TWEAKS
General
- Damage over Time attacks no longer stack - only the most recent DoT effect is applied
- Reduced Energy cost of all melee attacks by 1
- Reduced duration of Ghost ability to 2 turns
Captain Abilities
- Less-Harma Pharma now reduces damage by 50% for 2 turns
- Team Spirit ability now replenishes 50% of a unit’s AP points
- Reduced duration of Bee Bomb to 5 turns
- Increased tick damage of Bee Bomb to 15
Archie Fletcher
- Reduced Energy required to fire Explosive Crossbow to 5
Gus Marx
- Reduced number of uses of the Sqhurter to 3
Juan DaCova
- Reduced splash damage of Molotov to 2 tiles
Megan McNick
- Increased throw range of mines to 2
Specialist Suds
- Significantly increased C4’s damage
- Significantly increased C4’s splash damage
- Soldiers can now attack and destroy detected C4 charges
Textbook Kate
- Reduced splash damage of Gas Grenade to 2 tiles
- Increased Energy cost of Gas Grenade to 4
Check out full details and celebratory launch trailer in our blog post here: http://www.warchest.com/news/103/get-massive-party-rio-update-rad-soldiers-now-it's-free
