NEW BATTLE LOCATION - RUINED CHURCH

A new indoors background that lets you fight amongst the ruins of one of the Warsaw's churches.



NEW NARRATIVE EVENT - "Non-Sequitur"

You find a mysterious red text on the walls of Warsaw. How will you react?

NEW FEATURE - MINIMAP

We listened to your feedback! New mode lets you see the city map from an overhead view. Never again lose the sight of the discovered Encounters!

You can access this view by pressing TAB or by using the scroll wheel.



- Increased the Accuracy of Snipe to 100% and increased its Stamina cost to 2
- Adjusted the range of German Grenadier's skills

- increased the number of save slots to 4
- enabled moving with WSAD keys on the city map
- the intro will auto-skip itself after the first launch of the game
- skills can now be also used by clicking on the character's portrait
- you can now close the loot and interaction menu on the map while next to an encounter. This will allow using consumables without having to move away from the loot.
- added an option to force the launch of the game without playing the intro by adding the -nointro parameter

- added representations of Warsaw's key landmarks when zooming on a district in the Hideout

- fix for the PAK cannon stopping combat in edge cases
- fixed weapon rewards from events sometimes not applying correctly
- fixed Sapper's visual bugs
- fixed Momentum dropping below 0%
- fixed not being able to use Helping Hand on a target with full HP
- fixed not being able to skip the intro
- fixed Cap Off incorrectly calculating its Accuracy (it was half the value the tooltip shows)
- fixed Hack and Blade Rush tooltips
- fixed a bug where the Encounter window wouldn't close if you moved off it very quickly
- localization fixes

Hello everyone!

The first patch has landed so it's time for the promised October Content Roadmap for Warsaw. The whole team is pumped up to fix the lingering issues, add new content and new features.

We are happy to announce that starting tomorrow we are bringing you a large content update EVERY WEEK!

These also add frequently requested features like an option to attack without ammo (stab with the bayonet!), difficulty levels, passing time when in the Hideout, expanded Side Missions, new strategic options, customizable Volunteers and much, much more!

Take a look!



Here it is in the glorious text form:

4.10.2019 UPDATE "RUCZAJ"
- New battle location
- New narrative event

10.10.2019 UPDATE "BASZTA"
- German Reinforcements - 2 new Enemies
- New narrative event
- New feature - passing time in hideout. Wait for a good opportunity before embarking on a mission!
- New feature - customizable Volunteers. Choose a load-out for your new Volunteer instead of relying on the RNG!

17.10.2019 UPDATE "PARASOL"
- Polish Reinforcements - 1 new playable Insurgent
- New narrative event
- 2 new weapons
- New feature - Difficulty levels. Adjust the challenge level of the game to your preference. Tweak combat and strategic difficulty separately!

24.10.2019 UPDATE "ZOŚKA"
- German Reinforcements - 2 new Enemies
- New narrative event
- New feature - Stealth. Avoid and ambush your enemies for additional advantages in combat!

31.10.2019 UPDATE "ŻNIWIARZ"
- Polish Reinforcements - 1 new playable Insurgent
- New narrative event
- 2 new weapons
- New feature - Melee. No ammo? No problem! Fight the Nazis with fists, stocks and bayonets!
- Improved feature - Better Side Missions. Recover Attrition, prevent Morale loss, find loot and send your Insurgents on Excursions!

All five updates are named after military units which took part in the Uprising (for example Żniwiarz Group).

Thank you for sticking with us. The best is yet to come!

Hello everyone!

We are listening to your feedback and are committed to improving Warsaw both in short and long term. We aim to provide you a content roadmap in the very near future.

A patch will be deployed shortly, which addresses a number of issues you have asked about since launch.

DELETING SAVE FILES

Deleting saves from the game now works correctly.

DIFFICULTY ADJUSTMENT

While we want the game to remain difficult it seems clear from the feedback that it was over-tuned. We have reduced the overall difficulty across the board.

- Health of Enemies reduced by 10%. This will also speed up the combat
- Reduced the maximum number of Enemies in battles from 7 to 6
- Ammunition cost of all Skills reduced by 20%
- Decreased the rate of AP consumption when moving around the city by 25%.
- Reduced the rate of Momentum decay by 10%
- Increased the starting amount of Short Ammunition by 10%
- Increased the starting amount of Long Ammunition by 25%
- Increased the starting amount of Heavy Ammunition by 50%
- Slightly increased ammunition gain from looting

RNG ADJUSTMENT

Right now the game increases your hit odds by 10% when you miss. We have increased this to 30%. This should reduce the amount of frustrating missing streaks in combat.

BUG FIXES

- Fixed a rare bug where battles failed to load
- Fixed tooltips in the battle screen being clipped by the screen edge
- Fixed a bug that allowed to infinity sell weapons equipped by a character
- Fixed vanishing ammunition when the game was closed during the loading screen
- Fixed Mortar visuals when hit
- Added a new cursor
- Achievement fixes
- Audio fixes
- Visual fixes

To close the circle of trailers starting with WARSAW's announcement back in February and ending with the launch trailer seven months later we'd like you to check out WARSAW's newest video. Full two days before the game is available on Steam this coming Wednesday.

We will be adding the trailer to the official Steam page tomorrow, but for now you can check it out exclusively @ GameSpot.

https://www.gamespot.com/videos/warsaw-exclusive-gameplay-launch-trailer/2300-6451144/

The work on the trailer with the very talented and very patient Radikal Studio lasted a little over two months and resulted in a mere 41-email chain that lead to less than 10 versions of the video.

You could say this was a breeze.

Enjoy!

Literally hundreds of emails labeled WARSAW REVIEW CODES went out yesterday to the gaming media, streamers and youtubers around the world. So that on Wednesday of October 2nd, from 1pm GMT / 6am PDT you could check out the reviews, streams and videos to see what the industry’s professionals make of it.

What we made of it is over two years and tens of thousands working hours put into development, localization, QA, and communication. It felt fantastic to share the game’s screenshots, trailers and details and see how they resonate with you. And your support, enthusiasm and inputs in all the comments and forums sections every time a new story on WARSAW surfaced were extremely humbling and rewarding.

Next week from the day of the launch onwards we set out on a new journey with two clear goals. To listen to you and incorporate your input into the game and work on the content that will allow you to enjoy the game way, way post launch on PC. With other platforms to follow.

WARSAW’s steam keys will be active from 3pm GMT / 8am PDT on October 2nd. The game will be available for 23.99 USD or equivalent in local currency. With one exception: the game`s home country. Thanks to retail and publishing partners in Poland, the price for the version in the local distribution, supporting only Polish language will be approx. 50% lower. We wanted to make sure it will allow more people in Poland to experience the events that had profound impact on their capital city, and their country. To paraphrase IGN’s Joe Skrebel’s quote from his WARSAW story: This feels right to us.

Hey everyone,

We’re postponing the WARSAW launch to October 2nd.

For the last two months we took part in WARSAW's preview tour around Europe culminating in last week’s Gamescom. The goal? Showing the game to the media. The reception? So far it would seem that we have something special in our hands.

At the same time we had a growing concern that we might not be able to provide you with the game as polished as we would have wanted it to be.

Therefore – after two weeks of weighing in all the pros and cons a final decision was reached yesterday: to delay the launch of WARSAW to 2nd of October.

Please do note that we didn’t wish to postpone the game indefinitely and only commit to the date once closer to it. So let’s call the 2nd of October a first and last delay for WARSAW at the same time.

Next week we will be dropping a new trailer. Until this week it was actually “an announcement trailer”, but the decision to postpone the launch will actually turn it into a “before the announcement trailer”. But we will not stop there. We will make sure to provide a steady stream of behind the scenes info on the road to launch here on the Steam page.

For now – apologies for making you wait that one month longer to play the game. But we are confident this is a decision that will be beneficial for everyone who will want to explore WARSAW.

(this is a still from the PAX East'19 WARSAW coverage reel we were showing at our booth)

The 7-part coverage of WARSAW’s Announcement comes to closing today. And what better way to round it up than with a handful of excerpts taken from various publications that covered the game’s announcement. Reading the past six parts you should have a pretty good idea of what we were going for. Now you can see how it worked out.

Tomorrow (or – depending on your time zone – still today) we will be starting a new 7-part piece. This one will focus on… Just check back here and see for yourself.

The order of the below excerpts is as they show in the google search. Some edits to the helpful google translate were in order to make things a bit more clear. And these are just a selected few of the stories than sprang after the GameSpot announcement.

US
https://screenrant.com/warsaw-reveal-trailer-emotional-tactical-rpg/
“(WARSAW) does show is the kind of horrors and heartbreaks associated with World War 2, and it doesn't shy away from emotional reveals.”

US
https://www.indiegamewebsite.com/2019/02/28/the-warsaw-announcement-trailer-will-give-you-chills/
“The Warsaw announcement trailer will give you chills”

US
https://pureplaystation.com/warsaw-unites-an-rpg-tactics-and-strong-emotions-in-announcement-trailer/2019/02/
“I’m always telling you (bullying really) to watch the trailers I post, but you would be cheating yourself if you ignored the announcement trailer for WARSAW. It’s heavy, but it’s really effective. (…). Announced today, WARSAW is a tactical RPG set in 1944 as a group of people tries to oust the Nazis from their homeland of Poland.”

US
https://www.dualshockers.com/warsaw-announcement-trailer/
“(…) we do get to see a wonderful looking animation that was created by Human Ark and features a song by Polish singer Brodka. The trailer introduces the setting as the 28th day of the uprising and shows a battle breaking out as a female character runs through beaten down streets amongst gunfire.”


RUSSIA
https://www.igromania.ru/news/81109/Avtory_Regalia_anonsirovali_Warsaw_igru_o_Varshavskom_vosstanii.html
“We are waiting for participation in the events of 1944, in the legendary Warsaw Uprising. This is one of the most tragic pages of the history of World War II for Poland(…)”


CZECH REPUBLIC
https://www.idnes.cz/hry/novinky/warsaw-hra-pixelated-milk.A190228_075220_bw-novinky_srp
“As commander of the guerrilla group, you have the task of liberating Warsaw from the Nazi occupiers.”

GERMANY
https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/warsaw-darkest-dungeon-zweiter-weltkrieg,3341206.html
“Warsaw is an artfully designed role-playing game with an unusual theme: In Nazi-occupied Warsaw you fight as a Polish resistance for freedom.”

FRANCE
http://www.jeuxvideo.com/videos/1009299/warsaw-un-tactical-rpg-dans-la-veine-de-darkest-dungeon.htm
“WARSAW will immerse us in the context of the Second World War alongside a group of Polish resistance fighters (…)”

SPAIN
https://areajugones.sport.es/videojuegos/anunciado-warsaw-un-juego-que-mezcla-rpg-y-estrategia-en-la-segunda-guerra-mundial/
“(…) a city devastated by World War II and where real events of the conflict will be told in 1944, with the mechanics of RPG and strategy. It seems that he will want to tell a fairly adult and mature story about the drama of war”

ITALY
https://www.thegamesmachine.it/news-videogiochi-pc-ps4-xbox-wii-u-app/127393/warsaw-rpg-tattico-pc-ps4-switch/
“(…) a fascinating and heartbreaking Warsaw trailer, a new tactical role-playing game (…).Set during the famous Warsaw Uprising, the rebellion of the Polish people bloodily suppressed by the Nazis in 1944 which led to the complete destruction of the city(...)”

FINLAND
https://pelaaja.fi/uutiset/toiseen-maailmansotaan-sijoittuva-taktinen-roolipeli-warsaw-julkistettiin-nayttavan
“(…) combines beautiful visuals with the ugliness of war. Set in the uprising of Poland in 1944, the game tells the story of love, loyalty, friendship and adversity as the protagonists try to conquer their country from the Nazis.”

JAPAN
https://www.4gamer.net/games/451/G045129/20190228040/
“(…)the theme of Warsaw invasion by German troops in World War II”

When a major gaming website announces your game and for 24 hours it’s the only carrier of that information different things might happen.

For example quite a few of other media outlets from all over the world can republish that story. And if it’s helped by a proper media blast delivered by a specialized PR agency as well as your own channels it might turn out that when you type do a google search of your game you find there’s almost 300 mentions across more than 20 countries in the first 72 hours alone. Countries from Australia to Vietnam (sadly, nothing in Yemen and Zanzibar, and unless you tried Catalan – Xina also doesn’t count). All covering WARSAW.

I believe a certain admission is owed here. When we set out to make a game based around Warsaw Rising we knew that we can’t push that out to the front of the messaging. As mentioned before – Warsaw Rising isn’t a story many people are familiar with. And we never felt this should be something we constantly bring up.

The way we communicated WARSAW outside of Poland from the start was: “a tactical rpg set in WWII”.

We felt if the game has arresting visuals, compelling gameplay, engaging mechanics and an interesting tactical layer combined with historical setting – we will have gamers interest. And then – and only then do we uncover the facts. That the length of the Rising is actually the imposed time limit on the player. That all the characters are based on people or groups of people who actually took part in the Rising. That all the weapons you wield in game were used in the Rising. That uniforms and equipment were all consulted with a historian dealing with Warsaw Rising. That a dialogist made sure that the lines spoken during the battle by the combatants would be true to the era. That you move on a map based on the maps from Warsaw ’44. That the names of the streets are factual.

And we hoped that when WARSAW was being covered by whatever medium decided to run the story – once the genre, the visuals and all surface level qualities are mentioned – there will just be no way around mentioning what Warsaw Rising actually was.

Near total destruction of the city. Hundreds of thousands people killed. Even more relocated from the capital. Which until that point might not have featured in

Months later there’s more than 400 publications on WARSAW across major gaming media all around the world, and all of these mention Warsaw Rising. Sometimes in media that never touched upon that subject. All of these refer to the game first – as was intended. WARSAW is not a performance project but a game and needs to be one if it is to succeed commercially.

But at the same we’re extremely proud with what we achieved. In bringing a piece of Polish history to the forefront for hundreds of gaming media outlets.