Good day, Runners!

Woohoo the 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.

The 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!

Here's the changelog for RWR 1.60:

• visuals: fixed flare particle offset
  
• visuals: fixed looping particle effect lighting color handling
  
• servers: penalty manager cleanup
  
• character: fixed an issue with ending up between wall and ladder when climbing down ladders from a fence or wall
  
• character: added a little bit of rounding when colliding with a box corner for easier steering (mainly for ai)
  
• ai: fixed chat comments related to specific weapons and vehicles
  
• ai: changed separation steering behavior when in ladders and very near to higher rank soldiers
  
• ai: added optional method of steering suitable for tight spaces, only applied to specific areas like the ships in Pacific
  
• ai: tweaked how simulated areas handle squads to preserve vehicle personnel
  
• ai: fixed vehicle weapon "reset" handling
  
• menu: changed load menu savegame sorting
  
• modding: fixed an issue with handling material and shader script overloading
  
• modding: added support for difficulty presets in package_config.xml
  
• modding: fixed various issues with destructible fences
  
• modding: added load=campaign3 style launch parameter for instant savegame loading
  
• modding: added map_config=map_config_test1.xml style launch parameter for picking settings from a different map config file
  
• modding: added update_camera XML command for doing camera runs like Pacific trailer, requires debugmode and free camera mode

RUNNING WITH RIFLES:PACIFIC (DLC) - Steam announcement trailer:

https://youtu.be/KoO4oc_sz64


Happy running,
Osumia Games

Good day, Runners!

Woohoo the 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.

The 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!

Here's the changelog for RWR 1.60:

• visuals: fixed flare particle offset
  
• visuals: fixed looping particle effect lighting color handling
  
• servers: penalty manager cleanup
  
• character: fixed an issue with ending up between wall and ladder when climbing down ladders from a fence or wall
  
• character: added a little bit of rounding when colliding with a box corner for easier steering (mainly for ai)
  
• ai: fixed chat comments related to specific weapons and vehicles
  
• ai: changed separation steering behavior when in ladders and very near to higher rank soldiers
  
• ai: added optional method of steering suitable for tight spaces, only applied to specific areas like the ships in Pacific
  
• ai: tweaked how simulated areas handle squads to preserve vehicle personnel
  
• ai: fixed vehicle weapon "reset" handling
  
• menu: changed load menu savegame sorting
  
• modding: fixed an issue with handling material and shader script overloading
  
• modding: added support for difficulty presets in package_config.xml
  
• modding: fixed various issues with destructible fences
  
• modding: added load=campaign3 style launch parameter for instant savegame loading
  
• modding: added map_config=map_config_test1.xml style launch parameter for picking settings from a different map config file
  
• modding: added update_camera XML command for doing camera runs like Pacific trailer, requires debugmode and free camera mode

RUNNING WITH RIFLES:PACIFIC (DLC) - Steam announcement trailer:

https://youtu.be/KoO4oc_sz64


Happy running,
Osumia Games

Greetings Runners!

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.

We just finished a trailer that we will add to the medias of the Pacific Steam store page. You can also find a version on Youtube and for those who like the theme, we also provided a video of the official RWR:PACIFIC theme to please your ears!

RUNNING WITH RIFLES:PACIFIC (DLC) - Steam announcement trailer:

https://youtu.be/KoO4oc_sz64

RUNNING WITH RIFLES: PACIFIC theme:

https://youtu.be/ocCNjApWVts

Happy running,
Osumia Games

Greetings Runners!

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.

We just finished a trailer that we will add to the medias of the Pacific Steam store page. You can also find a version on Youtube and for those who like the theme, we also provided a video of the official RWR:PACIFIC theme to please your ears!

RUNNING WITH RIFLES:PACIFIC (DLC) - Steam announcement trailer:

https://youtu.be/KoO4oc_sz64

RUNNING WITH RIFLES: PACIFIC theme:

https://youtu.be/ocCNjApWVts

Happy running,
Osumia Games

Konnichiwa Runners!

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



http://store.steampowered.com/app/616850

We have often been asked about the price tag; it will be around 66% of the price of RWR vanilla, which will be e.g. 9.99 USD for the US people.

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 below.

Changelog v1.54:

• maps: lowered RAM consumption in Moorland trenches
  
• maps: the 2 radio jammers in the map "Misty Heights" (map14) have a significantly longer respawn time (60 instead of 6 minutes)
  
• maps: some fixes here and there
  
• menu: added Pacific link button in the lobby main menu
  
• visuals: added shadow quality options
  
• visuals: reduced character base voxel size a little bit
  
• visuals: fixed destructible static object mesh material handling
  
• visuals: fixed particle emitters starting emitting at an old position in certain case
  
• visuals: added support to use particle emitter script position value as an offset
  
• visuals: changed cord rendering to suit larger shadow texture sizes
  
• visuals: fuel barrels are now destructible
  
• vehicles: spawn point vehicles now show "spawn disabled" if spawning is disabled by movement, enemy proximity or theft
  
• vehicles: fixed an issue with turret aiming when turret is not positioned at vehicle center
  
• campaign: fixed an issue with map and campaign completion achievements for connected clients
  
• campaign: added initial 50 RP to players
  
• dominance: "islet of Eflen" map resources were missing, which caused server crash/restart when the script loaded the map
  
• online: disabling Add to serverlist now also disables master server connection; useful especially for LAN
  
• loading: map files are no longer parsed for header data when loading into a campaign, quickmatch or online, reducing some loading time
  
• ai: a squad leader using a stationary weapon disbands the squad now
  
• ai: fixed ai commander issue with organizing final attack when last base is uncapturable
  
• character: character no longer dies when colliding with a moving vehicle he's entering into
  
• character: character no longer goes prone if trying to shoot while reloading when carrying a weapon that requires prone to shoot
  
• modding: changed how auto-spawning vehicles are removed before respawning to help with a case of having faction specific stationary weapons
  
• modding: added show_target_marker option to calls
  
• modding: added initiation_comment and radio_view_text to calls
  
• modding: added support to tag a call to be used as reinforcements drop call by the bots, even if the call rounds do not spawn soldiers, with a tag named as reinforcements
  
• modding: added support for vehicle health based particle effects with event_key="health" and value attributes
  
• modding: added support to prevent vehicle driving based on health with min_health_to_steer in vehicle control tag
  
• modding: added blast_damage modifier for vehicles, and blast_damage_threshold
  
• modding: extended support for character-vehicle collision handling with vehicle attributes max_character_collision_speed and max_character_collision_speed_on_normal
  
• modding: added ai parameters: force_as_leader, uses_vehicles, max_squad_size_to_pick_static_vehicles
  
• modding: added support to reload particle scripts live with reload.txt method
  
• modding: added make_vehicle_hit_sound keyword to projectile blast results
  
• modding: match end view now adjusts table column size to fit faction names
  
• modding: added support for dock platform walls to use can_go_around_start and can_go_around_end flags for ai navigation, useful when merging platform walls
  
• modding: added projectile parameter can_be_detected_by_footmen

Konnichiwa Runners!

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



http://store.steampowered.com/app/616850

We have often been asked about the price tag; it will be around 66% of the price of RWR vanilla, which will be e.g. 9.99 USD for the US people.

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 below.

Changelog v1.54:

• maps: lowered RAM consumption in Moorland trenches
  
• maps: the 2 radio jammers in the map "Misty Heights" (map14) have a significantly longer respawn time (60 instead of 6 minutes)
  
• maps: some fixes here and there
  
• menu: added Pacific link button in the lobby main menu
  
• visuals: added shadow quality options
  
• visuals: reduced character base voxel size a little bit
  
• visuals: fixed destructible static object mesh material handling
  
• visuals: fixed particle emitters starting emitting at an old position in certain case
  
• visuals: added support to use particle emitter script position value as an offset
  
• visuals: changed cord rendering to suit larger shadow texture sizes
  
• visuals: fuel barrels are now destructible
  
• vehicles: spawn point vehicles now show "spawn disabled" if spawning is disabled by movement, enemy proximity or theft
  
• vehicles: fixed an issue with turret aiming when turret is not positioned at vehicle center
  
• campaign: fixed an issue with map and campaign completion achievements for connected clients
  
• campaign: added initial 50 RP to players
  
• dominance: "islet of Eflen" map resources were missing, which caused server crash/restart when the script loaded the map
  
• online: disabling Add to serverlist now also disables master server connection; useful especially for LAN
  
• loading: map files are no longer parsed for header data when loading into a campaign, quickmatch or online, reducing some loading time
  
• ai: a squad leader using a stationary weapon disbands the squad now
  
• ai: fixed ai commander issue with organizing final attack when last base is uncapturable
  
• character: character no longer dies when colliding with a moving vehicle he's entering into
  
• character: character no longer goes prone if trying to shoot while reloading when carrying a weapon that requires prone to shoot
  
• modding: changed how auto-spawning vehicles are removed before respawning to help with a case of having faction specific stationary weapons
  
• modding: added show_target_marker option to calls
  
• modding: added initiation_comment and radio_view_text to calls
  
• modding: added support to tag a call to be used as reinforcements drop call by the bots, even if the call rounds do not spawn soldiers, with a tag named as reinforcements
  
• modding: added support for vehicle health based particle effects with event_key="health" and value attributes
  
• modding: added support to prevent vehicle driving based on health with min_health_to_steer in vehicle control tag
  
• modding: added blast_damage modifier for vehicles, and blast_damage_threshold
  
• modding: extended support for character-vehicle collision handling with vehicle attributes max_character_collision_speed and max_character_collision_speed_on_normal
  
• modding: added ai parameters: force_as_leader, uses_vehicles, max_squad_size_to_pick_static_vehicles
  
• modding: added support to reload particle scripts live with reload.txt method
  
• modding: added make_vehicle_hit_sound keyword to projectile blast results
  
• modding: match end view now adjusts table column size to fit faction names
  
• modding: added support for dock platform walls to use can_go_around_start and can_go_around_end flags for ai navigation, useful when merging platform walls
  
• modding: added projectile parameter can_be_detected_by_footmen

Hey fellow Runners!

Here's a quick bug splat update! The new FoV visualization introduced two weeks ago had some occasional but drastic performance issues and random white blinking happening from time to time, those should be in a better shape now.

During the Summer Sales, plenty of new faces appeared on Discord (more than 200!). We got some great feedback and community interactions, keep 'em coming!

To celebrate the growth of our Discord channel, we’re organizing a PVP event this Thursday evening European time. The game mode will be announced later!

Here’s the change log for 1.53’s tweaks and fixes:



Changelog v1.53:

• maps: minor changes here and there
  
• invasion: player faction swapped to Greenbelts
  
• dominance: "Islet of Eflen" (known from team elimination) map added to the map rotator as capture and king of the hill mode
  
• dominance: default PLAYER_AI_REDUCTION changed from 2 to 3.
  
• dominance: added mobile armory to the "Copehill Down" map
  
• dominance: fixed the deploy_gl resource to not deploy anything
  
• dominance: adding TOW in armory
  
• dominance: adapting the price of deploy_gl, deploy_minig and TOW resources
  
• deathmatch: FoV enabled on default
  
• deathmatch: minor resources tweaks
  
• fix: vulcan and mortar tank now don't spawn on a reserved slot anymore
  
• fix: fixed several item specific backwards crouch and walk animations
  
• fov: adjusted claymore detection offset in FoV mode
  
• fov: optimized FoV visualization some bit
  
• fov: fixed FoV visualization causing white blinking occasionally
  
• AI: fixed regression with boats travelling on ground occasionally when simulated i.e. far away from players
  
• HUD: changed how vehicle hover-over info works: now shows "stolen" when operated by other faction than owner, and spawnpoint vehicles show "disabled" when spawnpoint not usable
  
• modding: added USABLE_FOR_COVER for vehicles
  
• modding: added VISIBLE_HEIGHT for items, goes to the main tag weapon, carry_item, etc.
  
• modding: added PLAYER_AIM_TO_CROSSHAIR character parameter, 0 or 1

Hey fellow Runners!

Here's a quick bug splat update! The new FoV visualization introduced two weeks ago had some occasional but drastic performance issues and random white blinking happening from time to time, those should be in a better shape now.

During the Summer Sales, plenty of new faces appeared on Discord (more than 200!). We got some great feedback and community interactions, keep 'em coming!

To celebrate the growth of our Discord channel, we’re organizing a PVP event this Thursday evening European time. The game mode will be announced later!

Here’s the change log for 1.53’s tweaks and fixes:



Changelog v1.53:

• maps: minor changes here and there
  
• invasion: player faction swapped to Greenbelts
  
• dominance: "Islet of Eflen" (known from team elimination) map added to the map rotator as capture and king of the hill mode
  
• dominance: default PLAYER_AI_REDUCTION changed from 2 to 3.
  
• dominance: added mobile armory to the "Copehill Down" map
  
• dominance: fixed the deploy_gl resource to not deploy anything
  
• dominance: adding TOW in armory
  
• dominance: adapting the price of deploy_gl, deploy_minig and TOW resources
  
• deathmatch: FoV enabled on default
  
• deathmatch: minor resources tweaks
  
• fix: vulcan and mortar tank now don't spawn on a reserved slot anymore
  
• fix: fixed several item specific backwards crouch and walk animations
  
• fov: adjusted claymore detection offset in FoV mode
  
• fov: optimized FoV visualization some bit
  
• fov: fixed FoV visualization causing white blinking occasionally
  
• AI: fixed regression with boats travelling on ground occasionally when simulated i.e. far away from players
  
• HUD: changed how vehicle hover-over info works: now shows "stolen" when operated by other faction than owner, and spawnpoint vehicles show "disabled" when spawnpoint not usable
  
• modding: added USABLE_FOR_COVER for vehicles
  
• modding: added VISIBLE_HEIGHT for items, goes to the main tag weapon, carry_item, etc.
  
• modding: added PLAYER_AIM_TO_CROSSHAIR character parameter, 0 or 1

Hello everyone!

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 the Summer Sale, we've got an exciting update for you guys.

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 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 running,
Osumia Games


Changelog v1.52:

• characters: added live aiming, changes character behavior in various ways
  
• visuals: added optional FOV/LOS field visualization, by default on for gamemodes with fov rules, can also be useful in regular gameplay; not recommended for slower PC's
  
• vehicles: mobile armory respawn time decreased from 5 to 3 minutes
  
• weapons: ARES Shrike rate of fire increased by 6%
  
• weapons: PAW-20 projectile blast radius increased by 20%
  
• maps: minor fixes
  
• dominance: modified version of Moorland Trenches added to the map rotator with 3 new sub-stages
  
• dominance: some balancing tweaks
  
• misc: social media buttons (Discord, Facebook, Twitter) added to the game menu
  
• modding: fixed free cam in debugmode so that roll doesn't occur
  
• modding: added a vehicle flag for non-destructible on collision with terrain (destroy_on_top_hit in physics tag, by default 1, destroy_on_top_hit_time in physics tag, by default -1.0 meaning insta, top_hit_tracking_time in physics tag, by default 2.0)

Hello everyone!

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 the Summer Sale, we've got an exciting update for you guys.

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 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 running,
Osumia Games


Changelog v1.52:

• characters: added live aiming, changes character behavior in various ways
  
• visuals: added optional FOV/LOS field visualization, by default on for gamemodes with fov rules, can also be useful in regular gameplay; not recommended for slower PC's
  
• vehicles: mobile armory respawn time decreased from 5 to 3 minutes
  
• weapons: ARES Shrike rate of fire increased by 6%
  
• weapons: PAW-20 projectile blast radius increased by 20%
  
• maps: minor fixes
  
• dominance: modified version of Moorland Trenches added to the map rotator with 3 new sub-stages
  
• dominance: some balancing tweaks
  
• misc: social media buttons (Discord, Facebook, Twitter) added to the game menu
  
• modding: fixed free cam in debugmode so that roll doesn't occur
  
• modding: added a vehicle flag for non-destructible on collision with terrain (destroy_on_top_hit in physics tag, by default 1, destroy_on_top_hit_time in physics tag, by default -1.0 meaning insta, top_hit_tracking_time in physics tag, by default 2.0)