With the release of patch 2.5, the mod acquired the long-awaited multiplayer, new maps and missions, new factions, vehicles and equipment items. Everything will now be discussed:
5 years have passed since the epidemic. All this time, the US Armed Forces were pulling units to the border and strengthening it, while a large community of survivors calling themselves the Renegades emerged and developed inside the red zone. They built a whole network of their camps, partially restored the supply of water and electricity in their camps, produced their own food through farms and continued to develop in multiple directions.
The renegades believed that soldiers would one day return with orders to completely clear the red zone, and so they were initially determined to confront government forces. The renegades quickly armed themselves, repaired equipment abandoned by soldiers and modernized it, collected all the resources for the war that were available.
In 1999, the US Armed Forces received orders to advance deep into the yellow and red zones to return territories to US control. Complete cleansing was not the goal of the soldiers, however, despite this, the first battles between government troops and renegades happened very soon.