When the excellent Command & Conquer successor Tempest Rising released last year, it featured three factions battling for supremacy across a war-torn future Earth. But only two of those factions—the GDF and the Tempest Dynasty—were playable with their own singleplayer campaigns. The third faction, the mysterious Veti, were wholly computer controlled.
Developer Slipgate Ironworks has always said the Veti would be made playable at some point. Indeed, it has been testing the faction’s multiplayer integration for some time. But the question of whether the Veti would receive any singleplayer missions has remained unanswered, until now. It turns out the Veti will be getting their own campaign, but you will have to pay extra to play it, as it’s arriving in the form of an expansion.
The Veti’s Wrath sees you play as Tempest Rising’s third faction across 11 new campaign missions—the same size as the campaigns for both the GDF and the Tempest Dynasty. Slipgate doesn’t provide many specifics about how the campaign will pan out, but it does say that the early campaign missions “will serve as a tutorial for the faction” in a similar vein to the campaigns featured in the base game.
The Veti are very different from the other two factions, an ancient race that has slumbered beneath the Earth for centuries, boasting a distinctly Ancient Egyptian aesthetic. This carries through to how they play too. Conversion and sacrifice are two major themes of the Veti’s playstyle, with the faction able to raise dead enemy soldiers as “enlightened”, which can then be spent as a resource to upgrade structures and provide other benefits.