[Skip to content](#main) [SHOOTERATLAS](/) - [Player counts](/#counts) - [Games](/#games) - [Guides](/#guides) - [Method](/#method) 20 readings · individual UTC times Menu - [Player counts](/#counts) - [Games](/#games) - [Guides](/#guides) - [Method](/#method) - [Home](/) 01 / Player count # Rising Storm 2: Vietnam player count Published reading Dated Steam snapshot 193 concurrent players on Steam Valve · Steam Web API Read 00:15 UTC on 17 October 2026 Steam only This is a dated reading. Other observations below retain their own sources, times and coverage. No live refresh is requested by this page. RISING STORM 2 player count: 193 on Steam, 24,518 at the all-time peak 193 accounts had Rising Storm 2: Vietnam open on Steam at 00:15 UTC on 17 October 2026. Valve's own number, straight out of the Steam Web API for app 418460, and the only live figure anybody publishes. Five reads across four minutes returned that same 193. The record is 24,518 (read 3 October 2026) — set in the month the game came out, nine years ago — and that makes the reading at 00:15 UTC on 17 October 2026 0.8% of it. Short version: 193 accounts had Rising Storm 2: Vietnam open on Steam at 00:15 UTC on 17 October 2026. Valve's own figure, out of the Steam Web API for app 418460. In a game where the studio prints a 64-player ceiling, those 193 people are about three full servers. 193 accounts with the game open, 00 : 15 UTC official 24,518 / 24,492 all-time peak, depends who asked third-party 357 24 -hour peak third-party 1,770 online in the official Discord official 00 : 15 UTC the minute this was read official ## Two counts, one game Steam counts a session. The other number this page would want is how many of those people are on a server, and for this game that number exists only in the in-game browser — the third-party trackers that map servers are shut to us. - **BattleMetrics**, the tracker that lists servers and their populations, is closed to this machine twice over: its API answered `{"status":"403","detail":"Access denied. A subscription is required to use the API."}`, and its server page for this game served a Cloudflare block instead of a page, in a normal browser window, on 3 October 2026. - **SteamDB** answered HTTP 403 as well, with and without a browser user-agent. - **app.sensortower.com** appears in the results for this keyword; the path this machine tried returned a 404, so the page behind that result was not read. - **104.131.2.73** — the bare address in that same result list — turns out not to be a new source at all. It serves a copy of SteamCharts: same headline, same figures, the same "STEAMCHARTS — An ongoing analysis of Steam's concurrent players" banner, on a raw IP with no site name on it. Its page for this game printed 191 playing, a 24-hour peak of 357 and a 24,518 all-time peak — the same numbers as SteamCharts, read 3 October 2026. So the copy of SteamCharts is a second place to read the same four figures, and the one number that would be different — who is on a server — is the one nobody can reach. ## The peak depends who you ask Two trackers publish an all-time peak for Rising Storm 2: Vietnam. They disagree by 26 players, and both put it in May 2017. - **24,518** — SteamCharts, from its all-time peak box, read 3 October 2026. Its monthly table starts at June 2017, so the row carrying the record is not in it; the highest month the table does show is June 2017 at 13,870. - **24,492** — steamplayercount.com, from its all-time peak box and from the May 2017 row of its own monthly table, read 3 October 2026. That row reads 24,492 with a gain of 24,130 over April, which its table puts at 362. Steam publishes no concurrency history of its own: `GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers` answers "how many right now" and stops. Every peak on the internet is the highest number one sampler happened to catch. SteamCharts says so on its about page: "The collector queries the number of concurrent players on an hourly interval for every single game in the Steam catalog, and has been collecting data since July of 2012." (steamcharts.com/about, read 3 October 2026) ## May 2017 is the month it came out Not every record month is a mystery. The store page gives the release date as 30 May 2017 (appdetails for app 418460, read 3 October 2026), and the tracker that keeps a May 2017 row puts that month at 24,492, against 362 in April — the month before the game existed for sale (steamplayercount.com, read 3 October 2026). An April figure for a game released on 30 May is a wishlists-and-playtest artefact, not a population; the page prints both numbers and lets them sit next to each other. What the launch peak was made of — purchases, a free weekend, or both — is not something this page read a source for. ## The studio does print a ceiling, and it is 64 > "Red Orchestra Series' take on Vietnam: 64-player MP matches; 20+ maps; US Army & Marines, PAVN/NVA, NLF/VC; Australians and ARVN forces; 50+ weapons; 4 flyable helicopters; mines, traps and tunnels; Brutal. Authentic. Gritty. Character customization. And napalm in the morning." ([Steam store page for Rising Storm 2: Vietnam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/418460/Rising_Storm_2_Vietnam/), read 3 October 2026) The game's own site says the same thing in its own words: "EPIC 64 PLAYER BATTLES — Rising Storm 2: Vietnam offers thrilling combat experiences for up to 64 players in online battles…" ([rs2vietnam.com](https://rs2vietnam.com/), read 3 October 2026). That ceiling is what makes this page's number readable. 24,518 ÷ 64 = 383.1 full servers at the record; 193 ÷ 64 = 3.0 full servers now. My arithmetic. A tracker shows you a number; the game's own ceiling is what turns it into a room. ## What kind of number is this It is one storefront's number and one operating system's number. Valve's record for this app lists Windows only — `mac: false`, `linux: false` — and the official site's only buy link goes to Steam (appdetails and rs2vietnam.com, both read 3 October 2026). No console release appears anywhere in the material read for this page. That is the opposite of the Arma Reforger page in this set, where the figure was the PC half of a three-platform game. Here the figure is the whole market the game was sold into, and it is still only one marketplace. Whether a player bought it elsewhere and runs it through another client is not something any source read here can say. ## What a day looks like Valve's figure read 208 five times in a row, at 11:28:00, 11:29:05, 11:30:11, 11:31:16 and 11:32:21 UTC on 3 October 2026. Nothing in it moved while this page was being written. ## Checking it yourself 1. Live and official: `https://api.steampowered.com/ISteamUserStats/GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers/v1/?appid=418460`. One JSON field. No key. Read it twice, a minute apart, before you believe a change. 2. Check the site you are reading it from. On this keyword, the fifth result was an unnamed copy of SteamCharts running on a bare IP address, printing another site's figures under another site's banner. If a page will not name itself, treat its numbers as borrowed. 3. The count that matters and is missing: open the game's server browser. That is the only place a per-server population exists, and for this game the trackers that aggregate it are closed. 4. A peak: pick one tracker and stay on it. SteamCharts and steamplayercount.com disagree by 26 on the record, and one of them keeps a row for the record month while the other does not (both read 3 October 2026). 5. Anything that will not tell you which minute it read is not a source. On the morning this page was written the live boxes read 191 (SteamCharts, its own clock), 266 (steamplayercount.com, no clock) and 208 (Valve, 11:32 UTC). Three pages, three numbers, three minutes. ## What the number hides It hides the people on servers, as every page in this set does. It also hides a fact about age: this game is still being worked on — the studio shipped quality-of-life update 1.7.0 on 14 July 2026 and was on hotfix 1.7.4 by 27 August 2026 (the studio's own news feed for the app, read 3 October 2026) — while the population at 00:15 UTC on 17 October 2026 sits at 0.8% of what it was in launch month, 24,518 (read 3 October 2026). Support and population are two different lines, and this page prints both. The other population number that is available is bigger, and it is the smallest such gap in this set. The official Rising Storm 2: Vietnam Discord (vanity address `rs2vietnam`, guild 219923731471007744) answered Discord's own invite endpoint on 3 October 2026 with 9,575 members and 1,770 online — 1,577 more people than Valve's concurrent figure for the same morning. Inference, mine: on a nine-year-old game the concurrent count measures who is playing right now, and the Discord figure measures who still cares. They are not the same audience, and neither one is the number a person searching this keyword is usually looking for. ## Every claim on this page, sorted Every claim on this page, sorted. The Steam reading at the top was taken 00:15 UTC on 17 October 2026; every other figure here was read on 3 October 2026. | Layer | What is in it | | --- | --- | | Confirmed officially | 193 concurrent at 00:15 UTC on 17 October 2026, and 208 held across five identical reads to 11:32 UTC on 3 October 2026 (Steam Web API, app 418460). "64-player MP matches", from the store description, and "EPIC 64 PLAYER BATTLES … up to 64 players", from the game's own site. Release date 30 May 2017, Windows only in Valve's platform record, and a Steam-only buy link on the official site. Quality Of Life Update 1.7.0 on 14 July 2026 and Hotfix 1.7.4 on 27 August 2026, from the studio's own news feed. 9,575 members and 1,770 online (Discord's own invite endpoint). | | Read off third parties | 191 playing and a 357 24-hour peak, 24,518 all-time peak, 250.29 30-day average, 501 30-day peak, 254.10 September 2026 average on −13.79%, and a monthly table starting at June 2017 whose best row is 13,870 (SteamCharts). 266 in the live box, 24,492 as the all-time peak and the same 24,492 in its May 2017 row against 362 in April (steamplayercount.com). The same four headline figures again, from the SteamCharts copy served at 104.131.2.73. | | Calculated here, not published anywhere | 26 = 24,518 − 24,492. 1,577 = 1,770 − 193. 383.1 = 24,518 ÷ 64. 3.0 = 193 ÷ 64. Also the reading that 104.131.2.73 is a copy of SteamCharts rather than an independent source. | | Not confirmed | How many of the 193 are on a server. How many servers are running right now, since the tracker that lists them is closed to this machine. What the launch peak was made of. Whether any of these players bought the game somewhere other than Steam. Which minute steamplayercount.com's live box was reading. How long the game will keep receiving hotfixes. | ![Card for the Rising Storm 2 player count: 193 accounts on Steam at 00:15 UTC on 17 October 2026, 24,518 at the all-time peak read 3 October 2026, 0.8% of the record](/assets/img/rising-storm-2-player-count.png?v=6e24f132) *Drawn for this page, dark or light to match. The Steam reading as at 00:15 UTC on 17 October 2026; the rest as read on 3 October 2026.* > Advertisement > [Surfshark — VPN plans and current terms](https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-8083808-15438547) > Affiliate link through CJ Affiliate. We may earn a commission if you buy through this link. 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