Woohoo the PACIFIC DLC is finally there, waiting for you!

The idea for Pacific initially rose before the release of Running with Rifles on Steam, thus in the beta phase of the game. 3 modders and fans of military history games who all made solid mods for RWR (Overlord, Running with Trench Foot, Running in the Trenches…) decided around 2 years ago to work together to bundle their talents in a common project, that’s when the Pacific project started. Some time later, after we at Osumia Games got informed about the ongoing project, we decided to develop it together to make it a DLC-worthy project.

Pacific DLC has been translated to all the same languages as RWR except for Russian which is still under work at the moment. It should follow in the next few days!

We’ve got some great news to share with you guys today! After having to postpone the release date of the DLC, we now have better news for you; the release of the PACIFIC DLC is right around the corner, just a bit more than a week to wait and you will be able to play as the United States Marine Corps or the Imperial Japanese Army in 2 brand new campaigns set in the WW2 Pacific theater.

For screenshots and more info, check out Pacific Steam page at http://pacific.runningwithrifles.com.

The Steam page for RUNNING WITH RIFLES: PACIFIC DLC is now up and open!

In the two campaigns included in the DLC, you jump back in time to the Pacific theater of World War II,
to witness the epic clash between the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and the United States Marine Corps (USMC).

The DLC features 7 brand new maps, tons of weapons and a number of unique vehicles all created based on actual WWII events and equipment.

The DLC will be released during September, safe to say we’re on the finish line here with development now. The exact release date will be announced during the following weeks.

Today we also have a vanilla update coming out. The shadow rendering has been revamped for higher quality options, most other changes are various minor but nice tweaks here and there or added support for features required by Pacific which could also turn out useful for mods; see the changelog on the forum.

Good to see that you guys are still out there and running, and for those who aren’t yet, make sure you grab the game while the price is hot. Right now, we indeed have the highest discount we’ve ever had on Steam!

Also right on time for Steam Summer Sale, we’ve got an exciting update for you guys. See the changelog for 1.52 here.

First of all, we took another look at the field of view (FOV or line of sight, if you will) feature, and added a new field visualization aid for it as the PvP mode Dominance confused some players with its suddenly disappearing and reappearing enemies and items. It’ll still do that, obviously, but now you’ll have a much better idea where the seen and unseen regions are thanks to the visualization. You can enable/disable it in Options > Quality and performance options; by default it’ll activate for Dominance only. The effect is rather taxing in terms of performance, so players with an older system might want to skip this one.

Speaking of Dominance PvP, we’ve updated the RWR Demo in Steam with the ability to play online by joining official Dominance servers! It’s just like full version, apart from XP and RP limits.

With the FOV visualization in place, it made a lot of sense to also change the character behavior so that it’ll turn to face the direction of aim and sight – previously you basically saw the character turn only when actively shooting or moving. It doesn’t change gameplay too much in other modes but for Dominance it can help you understand where the enemy players are looking at and thus tell you if they see you or not – that’s pretty important!

Hope you started well in the Summer! Keep on running,

Osumia Games

RWR version 1.51 is out! See the full change log here. Along the bug fixes, we’ve made some re-balancing by raising the importance of the support player role by adding, besides the already existing repair wrench, a new wrench type into the supply quad resources. Also C4 has been added in the supply quad to further increase the impact of this fun vehicle.

Kill combo has gone through another look, too. Recently it was decreased all too much after giving cosmic rewards for big artillery combos, so we came up with a formula to reach a new golden mean. Higher than ever rewards are given for smaller combos, but also big combos still give substantial rewards. This should hopefully make everyone happy and encourage vets once again to use those important strikes in Online Invasion!

As by popular request, two new rare weapons have also been added to the already huge collection of over 70 firearms!

An important note for the next version is an RP cap that will be implemented into vanilla when the Pacific DLC will be released. We decided to inform you properly several weeks prior so that you have time to burn your RP in case you have more than the cap of 600.000 RP. The RP limit is being added because some higher ranked players are collecting RP without spending them for cooperative purposes – just use the RP, guys

And now to the part most of you were eagerly waiting for since the announcement of a DLC:

WW2 Pacific war themed “RUNNING WITH RIFLES: PACIFIC” DLC will be available on AUGUST, 4 2017.

Today we have some tasty announcements for you guys!

We initially expected 1.47 to be a quick and small update but we ended up adding much much more in it and release this update as v1.50.

Besides the fixes, we added a new map in online Invasion where you assault a well defended beach fortification and village. Additionally we made some balancing efforts, added new weapons, added some new game mechanics, and a method for NAT punch-through which should allow most players to host a game without having to bother about port forwarding!

For a complete list of changes, check the changelog on the forum.

In a news post earlier this year we talked about an exciting announcement related to RWR, so here we go then!

We are proud to introduce RUNNING WITH RIFLES: PACIFIC, which is an Expansion-DLC for Running with Rifles. Set in World War 2, players will be able to engage in an authentic campaign, choosing to play as either the United States Marine Corps, or the Imperial Japanese Army. Playing as either faction, you will conquer a series of real islands located in the Pacific, with maps based on the general outlines of the actual locations! The full-length campaign features two completely new factions, a huge assortment of historical weapons and items, loads of new maps, and several new vehicles.

RWR: Pacific has been developed in co-ordination between the RWR dev team and several big community modders, namely The Soldier, Tremozl, MasterBlaster, with additional contributions by ChippedChap, Remlly, and Sturmfuhrer. The Expansion-DLC will include loads of new content, and using a more historically-rooted setting, it is complete with realistic soldier uniforms and authentic map designs.

More information coming up in the future!

Don’t forget the Dominance PvP meet up this evening! More info here!

RWR version 1.46 has been released, it’s mostly a minor fix and tweak release. Check out the changelog below.

maps: fixed several glitches in the Iron Enclave map
maps: fixed a bug with platform wall creation
invasion: wrenches now available at the supply quads AND (mobile) armory
equipment: black ops vest now doesn’t get damaged from stun projectile
equipment: raised the encumbrancy of vests to 4.0 (was 3.0)
equipment: added a 5% speed penalty to riot shields
campaign: unlocked black ops vest and MK23 SOCOM are also available in supply quad inventory
campaign: “Man vs. World” campaign stage 3 crash fixed
vehicles: added small gravity offset for all light vehicles
vehicles: Mortar Tank leave request enabled
vehicles: Quads health points raised to sustain a frag grenade
balancing: elite soldiers don’t suffer from the recently added speed penalty of the vest-III, they now even get a slight speed boost
fix: camouflage suits in winter theme maps now showing properly
ui: stash item number indication added

First of all, we at Osumia Games (yes, there’s a rename process going on in Modulaatio Games, mostly just a simplification) hope you all started well in the new year!

With today’s 1.45 update we’re introducing 3 new vehicles, a new radio call, a couple of new weapons and something called “gift boxes”!

This is the last major update before we make an exciting announcement in the upcoming weeks! Stay tuned and never stop running!

Below you can find a complete list of changes for version 1.45:

weapons: M240 replaced with M60 in the “Man vs. World” campaign. Rambo intimidated us so we had to…
weapons: added Claymores to dominance pvp mode
weapons: Humvee GL range lowered from 1.3 to 1.0 and rate of fire decreased by 20%
weapons: XM-25 projectile blast radius lowered by 15%
weapons: HK MK23 SOCOM burst stealth pistol added as a laptop unlockable
weapons: Honey Badger suppressed burst SMG added – only available from “gift boxes” in invasion/campaign
weapons: M60 MG with Rambo-style hipfire added – only available from “gift boxes” in invasion/campaign
weapons: overall buff of the stock machine pistols
weapons: added retrigger time after the burst shots of the FAMAS and L85A2
weapons: Deployable GL rate of fire increased by 25%
vehicles: Mortar tank added
vehicles: very fast Quad vehicle added
vehicles: supply Quad added – fast armory vehicle with restricted armory
vehicles: terrain friction/drag offset parameters added for most wheeled vehicles
valuables: laptop item added – unlocks custom stealth weapons
valuables: “gift boxes” added – sell them for a surprise!
items: black ops stealth armor added as a laptop unlockable – has a night detectability bonus
items: vests Type III now have a 8% speed penalty
maps: several fixes here and there
balance: Vigil Island and Iron Enclave map difficulty in coop lowered (especially with a high amount of players)
campaign: repair wrench now also added in the campaign as a Supply Quad resource
campaign: renaming “less hard” difficulty to “casual”
fix: custom costume not showing in winter maps fixed
fix: patrol ship’s physics now less affected by low water levels
fix: fixed some alt-tab loading screen crashes
fix: fixed Russian & Chinese language UTF8 crashes
modding: added last_burst_retrigger_time for hand weapons with burst shots
modding: added night_detectability parameter for carry items
modding: added y_offset_parameter1 and 2 for scene.xml camera settings
modding: added friction_offset as vehicle physics offset parameter
modding: added drag_offset as vehicle physics offset parameter

thanks to ThinkTank, warbrand2 and tremozl for their contributions and ideas.

In RWR, you have been told that you are just one among thousands.

That may have been true until today with the Man vs. World mode! This time you’re completely on your own, with nothing but your wits and tenacity to win you through. You’ve got only one life, no respawning – yes, that’s permadeath! The enemies follow the same rule, so at least there’s a hypothetical chance for you to make it…

There is also a “Veteran” difficulty with FoV activated for those who want to push the challenge to an extreme!

Find the mode in the campaign start menu, check it out and see how far you can get!

And that’s not all, Runners! The update features a new 3-faction map called Iron Enclave in Online Invasion!
You’ll find a lot of vehicles, flanking enemies and other interesting surprises in this brand new map!

See the forum post for the complete list of changes!

RWR 1.30 with Steam Workshop support and a few other nice updates was released some days wow, two weeks ago; check out this news post in Steam for details!