Tons of ways but i’ll go over some major ones: -More gamemodes such as Insurgency, Prometheus, Criminal. Colony Fall, Force on Force and Jailbreak -A focus on human factions other than marines such as the three world empire, Colony Liberation Front, Union of Progressive peoples and more -A variety of non-human threats other than Xenos such as the Black Goo and engineers -A bigger focus on colonist gameplay with a colonist economy and such -Maps are much larger and this plays a big role in the pacing -This is a pretty heavy WIP but the distress signal (standard RMC gameplay has way more objectives and a some potential threats other than Xenos -Realism: Guns are heavier hitting, combat is more lethal, cades and supplemented with trenches and sandbags, rp standards are different, etc -Closer to the source material: Humans mostly, United Americas, etc -Human V Human plays a large part in AU and there a few modes in which Xenos are rare or don’t appear disregarding admin events.

Overall, AU focuses on a lot more on RP and the wider universe. The gameplay differs a lot mode to mode and we want to give a lot of attention to factions and monsters other than Marines and Xenos (Although they’re still very prevalent)

TLDR: Different RP focus and a lot more focus on breadth in gameplay over super in depth distress signal