A lot has been happening on the Italian Front as Isonzo gets closer to release, and we've been chronicling the development with a series of blogs over on the Isonzo Steam Hub! While we'd highly recommend checking them all out, today we'll highlight a few of the most exciting and interesting. You can already wishlist Isonzo!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1556790/Isonzo/

One of the new features in Isonzo is the freebuilding construction available to certain classes - in particular the Engineer. Lay down sandbags and barbed wire to fortify your positions or try and establish some cover for attacking allies. Full blog post here!


An engineer built sandbag position.

Gorizia is the third map in the Sixth Battle of the Isonzo Offensive, featuring urban combat and a river crossing. Read all about it in parts one and two!


Comparison of the in-game train station to historical photo.



In Isonzo the Officer class has access to three areas of support, which are targeted on flares fired by Officers or Mountaineers. Each type of support has a separate cooldown, and you can use weaker call-ins more frequently, or wait to deploy the most powerful abilities. Read more about artillery, gas, and aviation.


A 6x speed version of a creeping barrage in action. These can be truly devastating


Gas spreading after shells land.


Heavy bombers in action!

Mountain warfare as the Italians battle uphill to capture the Sasso di Sesto! Read parts one and two.


Finally, we wanted to share a new competition to celebrate Isonzo's release date announcement! You can win a game key and other Isonzo goodies by entering our raffle - all you have to do is sign up for the WW1 Game Series newsletter on our website to enter the raffle and get all the latest news from the development frontlines! Who knows... maybe one of you’ll be the lucky soldier who’ll be receiving an Isonzo goodie pack, including one of the first Isonzo game keys and a special Isonzo poppy grenade!

You'll also find WW1 inspired Isonzo propaganda posters! You can download them and use them as your wallpaper, banner or even print them out and hang them up!

Hello soldiers,

Today ends the Marines at War campaign which was available for Verdun & Tannenberg.
Thank you all for participating ! The final results of the campaign are here:

• Central Powers: 1,222,643
  
• Entente: 1,181,200

With a difference of 41,443, the Entente win! Thank you for your participation and we hope to see you back on the battlefield for our next campaign.




The game will be released on September 13! Be sure to wishlist the game if you haven't already.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1556790/Isonzo/

While US Marines were fighting to recapture Belleau Wood from German forces on the Western Front, Russia was no longer playing a part in the First World War following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Even while Russia was still fighting, Russian marines would not play a major part in the war. It was late 1916 by the time any dedicated marine divisions were formed, and these mostly conducted defensive operations by the Baltic Sea against the Germans and around the Caspian Sea against Ottoman forces.

This is a stark contrast to the Second World War, where the Soviet Union would raise so many naval infantry units that around 350,000 sailors would take part in land battles.


Imperial Russian battleship Gangut in the Baltic, 1915.

Our latest campaign event will run until June 27.
All casualties in Frontlines and Maneuver game modes in Verdun and Tannenberg will be added to the total losses, and the winning side will be whoever suffers the least killed and wounded. Too many First World War battles essentially became meatgrinders (or were even conceived as such from the start) and so it is for our campaigns.

Read the FAQ for more info!

Hello soldiers!

Be ready for your dispatch to the Italian Front this Summer Our 3rd game Isonzo will be released on September 13 ! This summer, you’ll be able to fight up in the mountains, alongside the Isonzo river, rural areas & more!



Of course, we’ll continue to provide you with Isonzo Intel as well! The upcoming devblog will focus on the new Dolimites map! Be sure to keep an eye out for it!



Ooh and be sure to wishlist Isonzo if you haven't already!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1556790/Isonzo/

• Fix for map voting
  
• Fix for displaying DEV/MOD tags
  
• Fixes for Play Now when there are no active matches

This should be a <50 MB update.

Hello everyone!

We would like to let you know that we have a patch addressing the most recent issues with loss of save game data. In case you've lost some of your data since the update in March where we made changes to the save system, please update and let us know if your data is restored.

Please inform us in our Discord #techsupport channel if this update has fixed the issue, and of course, if you run into any problems.

Thank you for patience and playing our game!

Hello soldiers!

Today marks the 7 year anniversary of Verdun! The first game in the WW1 Game Series. To celebrate this, we have multiple things going on!
To start of with, Verdun is playable for free starting today until May 2nd! Join the Verdun battlefield once more and bring in that fresh new recruit! We can always use more soldiers!



Furthermore, Verdun is on sale with an 80% discount! Alongside the 4-pack 75% and the soundtrack also has an 50% off!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/242860/Verdun/


It doesn't stop here! We prepared a quiz to test your Verdun knowledge! If you're amongst the people who answered all the questions correctly, you might win a WW1 Game Series goodiebag! Be sure to participate here.


More reason to celebrate, as the news surrounding Isonzo keeps coming! We're sharing more news about the Gorizia map! We can hear you thinking, " but wait, wasn't last dev blog about Gorizia already?" Yes but there's more! It's a big map so be sure to not miss out on any intel!

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1556790/view/3199254625398454172

Thank you and good luck soldiers

WW1 Game Series Team

We have a new patch for Verdun and Tannenberg for you today! This will improve the save system and additional connection improvements. You might have heard of the patch to the "opentesting" branch that we did earlier this month. This required all players who wanted to test our changes to the save system, as well as improvements for the connection issues, to opt-in by switching branches.

We really wanted to be sure that there would be no longer term issues, so we are very happy that many of you switched. We received positive feedback, so today we are rolling out the changes to the main versions of Verdun and Tannenberg.


If this update works as intended, you should not notice anything. This update is meant to stop the progression loss and progression inflation (suddenly having billions of XP/level/prestige) from happening again.

If you are currently suffering from this "Billions Bug", this might revert your stats to the correct ones, but we can’t guarantee anything. If you have suffered from progression loss (data getting set to an earlier state, or nothing at all), this update will sadly not bring back your stats. We made a rigorous reimplementation of our saving and loading structure so that we hopefully never have these issues again.

In the unlikely case that there are still issues with this, your old data will stay in place for now. This means that you would still have access to your old data if we need to revert anything, so you won't lose all your data by updating.

This should mark an improvement across the board, please let us know if this is better after the update! We don't expect it to be fully solved yet, and again, we have improved our diagnostics, so if you send us your logs we will be able to track the issues more closely. Best case scenario it will make a big difference right off the bat, and otherwise it will give us more information to continue our efforts.

If any of you do experience any issues, please be sure to share your logs with us in the #techsupport channel in our Discord. These will help us address and fix the problems you might come across.

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For everyone on the opentesting branch, thank you again for helping us make sure these changes were safe. You can stay on the opentesting branch if you want, but you will have the same version as everyone. We don't plan on keeping it in active use, unless we have something experimental to test.

Hello soldiers!

The Dual Spring Offensive has ended yesterday! At first, the Entente were ahead with almost 40.000 casualties, and this is the end results..

• Central Powers casualties: 1,402,259
  
• Entente casualties: 1,330,804

Once again, the Entente wins another campaign! Will the Central Powers win the next campaign? It's up to you to decide!




Have you read our latest Isonzo Intel? In our 11th dev blog, we discuss different mortars! We provide some historical background, combined with in-game footage. Be sure to read it if you havent already!

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1556790/view/3109179464630950184

Until the next campaign soldiers!

So far Entente are ahead by almost 40,000 casualties, with almost a million total losses across both sides. The campaign ends on March 27, which means about three days where things could change.

Read the event FAQ here!



A new Isonzo Intel is out, and this time we're talking about mortars! Learn about how the mortars will work in our upcoming game, and take a closer look at the Italian Bettica and the Austro-Hungarian M14!

Read the dev blog here!

The unusual Italian Bettica mortar.


Austro-Hungarian M14 mortar firing.

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