Hi everyone,

A bit later than planned but excited to say that the new Opium Trail region is coming out 15th April!

Locals in this secluded river valley depend upon opium farming to survive, but so do the insurgents…

We can't wait for you all to play it, and if you want to play the beta a few days before it releases, be sure to join our Discord!

The Ndemic Creations Team

Hi everyone,

We're hard at work on lots of cool and exciting updates for Rebel Inc: Escalation and we wanted to give everyone an idea of what to expect and when! Please note - we are working on multiple different things in parallel so the actual order of release might change a bit if things are easier/harder than expected. Dates are not final!



A brand new region which sees players dealing with rampant opium production. This should be out by the end of March.

See your achievements and career as a governor so far! Giving you a detailed view, how many wins? How much money have you spent? How many refugees have you saved? It's all here. This may end up coming after Co-Op.

Play with your friend and bring about a new golden age of peace to your regions!
This should be out by the end of April.

Who said nation building was hard? Develop your own custom scenarios with unique strategic challenges and narratives then share them with Steam Workshop. What will you make?

Compete against the world, use covert tricks or vicious shock and awe to establish your own agenda!

Once we've completed these, we will continue to support Rebel Inc: Escalation with lots of new regions, governors, scenarios and maybe even a few surprises in future (free!) updates.

Building these updates is a huge challenge, we're working hard on it and can't wait to share what we've got in store!

Be sure to keep in touch with us on Twitter, Discord and Facebook.

The Ndemic Creations Team

• Re-balanced initiative costs for Tank Commander
  
• National Tank Units now move slightly faster
  
• Advisors will no longer appear with Map Features or Player Tactics which conflict with their benefit in Weekly Challenge (e.g. Pilot and No-Fly Zone)
  
• Various minor bug fixes and improvements

We've got an update with a few fixes, improvements and balance changes for Rebel Inc: Escalation:

• Prevented Counter Intelligence player tactic from being selected in Weekly Challenge, will only appear in Campaign now
  
• Slightly boosted tank strength and decreased hostile perception in zones with fighting tanks
  
• Slightly decreased the cost modifier on civilian initiatives for Tank Commander
  
• Boosted specialist unit combat strength, intel collection and support bonus when in the relevant zone type
  
• Fixed achievement titles and descriptions when shown in game.
  
• Minor issue with zone ordering fixed

The Ndemic Creations Team

• Added leaderboard button to Challenge selection screen
  
• Challenge Selection UI now reloads when the weekly challenge reset
  
• Fixed bug when viewing leaderboards for Southern Desert
  
• Weekly Challenge end-screen now shows challenge type
  
• Fixed an issue where flee missions would loop, resetting combat progress each time
  
• Fixed rare issue where challenges would sometimes have less tactics than intended
  
• Tweaks and improvements to UI
  
• Scroll bar on the expanded news view can now be used to scroll through news history
  
• Improved logic for Sniper Support player tactic
  
• Improved zone-selection logic with Social Distancing Rebel Tactic

Weekly Challenge is out now! In this new game mode, you can compete for high scores across two separate challenges in Standard and Brutal difficulties. Each challenge features a region with preset governors, advisors, tactics and features. These unique challenges are refreshed every week and can be replayed as much as you like in that time. We’re looking forward to seeing your scores!

Be sure to discuss best tactics and approaches with the community in the steam forums or on our discord.


Advisor images have been improved and updated. Check them out in all their full-colour glory!

We're hard at work on custom scenarios and multiplayer - Keep your eyes peeled here and on our social feeds, or join our community in Discord

• Added New Challenge Mode
  
• Added Speedrun localisations
  
• Updated advisor art
  
• Fixed issue where Azure Dam peace negotiation chances and progress were much harder than other maps in campaign
  
• Balanced some perks for campaign and challenge mode
  
• New game end-screen art
  
• Various bug fixes and improvements

We wanted to give everyone a little look at the upcoming Weekly Challenges update! In this new game mode, there are two regions with preset governors, tactics, features and more. These unique regions will be refreshed every week - letting everyone in the community work out the best strategies and compete to see who can do them best!



The update will be out very soon but if you can't wait, you can play the beta right now by joining our discord or visiting the beta steam forum.

Seasons Greetings! We come bearing gifts.

Time to prove you’re the best in the world with Speed Run mode!



In Speed Run mode, you will fight against time itself!

Rushing peace deals? Endless corruption? Widespread PR? No tactic is too bold to beat the clock – every second counts.

Challenge yourself to become the best, compete with your friends and take on the world through global leaderboards for each map.

We can't wait to see who's fighting for those number 1 spots!

2021 will be a big year for Rebel Inc: Escalation – we're hard at work on custom scenarios and multiplayer - we can’t wait to share more information with you. Keep your eyes peeled here and on our social feeds, or join our community in Discord https://discord.gg/ndemic

The Ndemic Creations Team

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1088790

It’s been an incredible first year for Rebel Inc: Escalation. Watching the community’s positive response to the various maps, governors and campaign updates has been absolutely fantastic. Seeing the game grow and reach new audiences has been very special.

To celebrate our one year anniversary on Steam, we’re releasing an update today with lots of new player and insurgent tactics as well as a series of new map features adding further variety to your campaigns! On top of this, there’s some tweaks and improvements to gameplay and UI.


Several exciting new tactics are now available to the operation including...

When Coalition soldiers withdraw, they’ll leave a national unit in their place.


If insurgents are adjacent to a garrison, they will always attack it. As such, insurgents become more predictable and easier to defend against. Combine with Trip Wires for an explosive surprise!

It’s not just your operation that’s got a range of new tactics. There’s a series of updates for the Insurgents too, including...

A new type of fighter has entered the battlefield with significantly increased strength. However, their fanatical nature means that they will never retreat!


The insurgents have learned some new tricks! Now when hit by airstrikes they’ll scatter and run to neighbouring regions.

On top of the tactics there’s a series of new map features to mix up play, including...


The soldiers are here to stay! Especially when there’s all this oil laying around unguarded... This feature allows your troops to remain indefinitely in a region.

Insurgents have discovered a network of abandoned Soviet bunkers and dug in. They are much more resilient than before, needing multiple airstrikes to be destroyed.

New equipment now lets your soldiers support their comrades across rivers.

All this and much more is available now in the Anniversary Update! (see the full change log below)

Thank you for your continued support throughout our first year on Steam. With the big campaign update released - we are now hard at work designing multiplayer and custom scenarios for Rebel Inc: Escalation. These are very big, complex updates so we don’t have a release date yet but will share more information as soon as we can.

The Ndemic Team

• Propaganda Team - Gain reputation when insurgent camps are destroyed
  
• Fiscal Windfall - Gain funds when urban zones stabilise for the first time
  
• Overwatch - If insurgents are adjacent to a garrison, they can only attack the garrison
  
• Advanced Warfare - Significantly increase soldier combat strength
  
• Private Military Contractors - Coalition unit deployment time is extended with funds instead of reputation
  
• Personal Teleporters - Soldiers instantly travel across regions
  
• On The Job Training - Coalition soldiers leave a national unit when they are withdrawn
  
• Development Roadmap - No concerns
  
• Government Takeover - Insurgent camps become garrisons when destroyed
  
• Coordinated Fireteams - Soldiers can support while fighting
  
• Committed Coalition - Coalition soldiers never withdraw

• Violent Ambushes - Deployment of coalition soldiers costs significantly more reputation to extend
  
• Social Distancing - Small groups of insurgents run to neighbouring regions when hit by airstrikes
  
• Fanatical Fighters - Insurgents have significantly increased strength, but cannot flee

• Unreliable Funding - Income is significantly more inconsistent
  
• Concrete Shortage - Garrison initiatives are unavailable
  
• Budget Deadline - Income stops after 10 years
  
• Catacombs - Caves are located in some urban zones
  
• Amphibious Support - Soldiers can support across rivers
  
• Advance Development - Some civilian initiatives already funded
  
• Scouts - Soldiers scout intel in neighbouring zones
  
• Soviet Bunkers - Insurgent camps take multiple airstrikes before being destroyed
  
• Inaccessible Terrain - Garrisons cannot be built in remote zones
  
• Oil Survey - Coalition soldiers never withdraw

• Fixed some popups so the "confirm" option is now correctly positioned on the left side button
  
• Various minor gameplay tweaks
  
• UI tweaks
  
  Known Issues
  
• Combat reset bug (we’re working on it).

Time for another update, more Map Features, Player and Insurgent tactics coming to Campaign mode!

To the victor, goes the spoils! With the Windfall Tax, Stable zones will provide significantly more income.


Time to upgrade to modern equipment! New vests, weapons and vehicles all increase soldier combat strength.


Corruption has been a problem here for decades but recent efforts to stamp it out are showing signs of success.. These regions already have anti-corruption teams present.

The Coalition has decided to take a step back from direct combat operations and focus on providing support to the National Military. Coalition soldiers are significantly weaker in combat, but provide much stronger support to National soldiers.

Intelligence reports suggest that Insurgents are now prioritising attacks on key Operation targets such as HQs and Embassies.

Suggested by Gary


The insurgents have noticed that the Operation doesn't respond well to constant and frequent attacks and changed their tactics accordingly. Insurgents will attack more frequently.

In addition to these new Map Features and Tactics, there's more fixes and improvements;

• Added New Map Features and Tactics: Windfall Tax, Modern Warfare, Regional Watchdog, Advisory Role, Soft Target and Relentless Assault to Campaign mode
  
• Player Tactic: Deficit Funding: Fixed issue where the buy button was disabled when the player did not have the funds to buy it
  
• Insurgent Tactic: Recruitment Drive: Fixed issue where insurgents would only attack stable zones with this tactic
  
• Improved the Campaign progress display to show the number of the map you are about to play, rather than the number of maps completed
  
• Fixed issue where losing the final map in Campaign mode would still result in player being awarded the relevant shield for winning a Campaign on the selected difficulty
  
• Removed reputation check when selecting “Subtle Pressure” from the "Foreign rival supporting insurgents" decision
  
• Prevented a slow peace progress warning from showing after a peace deal is signed
  
• Fixed text issues where they would overflow on some lines in certain languages, text now auto scales appropriately
  
• Changed the names of pages and speeds in keybinds menu to be consistent
  
• Improved uniformity of screen names in a few places (eg.. statistics -> stats screen)
  
• Special outcomes of <0.5% chance will now say their probability is ‘<1%’ rather than ‘0%’

We hope you enjoy these new additions, and there are lots of Map Features, Player and Insurgent tactics still to come!

The Ndemic Creations Team

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1088790/Rebel_Inc_Escalation/