Major update17 Jul 2026Update 200: Horses - Released!Hello everyone, We are very excited to announce that Update 200: Horses has just been released! Today marks one of the biggest milestones in War of Rights' development as horses officially arrive on the battlefields of the Maryland Campaign. This has been one of our most ambitious undertakings to date. Bringing mounted gameplay to War of Rights required extensive work across animation, networki…
Hello everyone, Today, we are pleased to bring you the preparation update for the annual 1776 event - this year, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence! The event is scheduled to begin today at 3 PM EDT/9PM CEST and will continue to July 6th. We cannot wait to join you all in just a few short hours to, once again, partake in massive 400-player Revolu…
Hello everyone, Today, we are pleased to announce this year’s War of Rights: 1776 event, featuring several new units and weapons, will run from June 12th to July 6th! Celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence by joining our massively immersive 400-player battles set during the Revolutionary War. Fight alongside the Patriots, or go to war for King George I…
Hello everyone, Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of an all-new Alpha update, containing the biggest balance changes in War of Rights history, thanks to our recently introduced statistics tracking feature. Today’s update also includes major visual and audible improvements to the environments of War of Rights. Work on the greatly anticipated Update 200 is still ongoing and we cannot w…
Hello everyone, Today, we’re excited to bring you our final update of 2025: Maryland, My Maryland! As 2025 draws to a close, it’s the perfect time to reflect on what a fantastic year it has been. We pushed our server count up to 400, overhauled ballistics, introduced scoped rifles, and twice broke our concurrent player peak, first with the 1776 Limited Event and later with The Risen Dead, makin…
October 1st, 1862 With Sharpsburg and Harper’s Ferry fallen to the dead, the passes of South Mountain become the next battleground for the living to defend. Longstreet’s Wing arrived after a forced march through the night to be met by the haggard forces that remained of the Union Fifth Corps. Enemies-turned-friends now await the Risen tide together. Risen Dead Event 16/10/2025 Patch notes · Ons…
You have already faced the horrors that consumed Harpers Ferry and the Drill Camp, but now the earliest reports from Antietam have reached your hands. The fields of Sharpsburg lie in shadow, haunted by the first stirrings of the plague. It is time for you to fight in the first major battle, where the undead first rose. Field Report – Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 29, 1862 Sir, It has been sev…
Union and Confederate alike had long struggled to keep the risen dead confined to Harpers Ferry, yet now their plague had seeped into northern Maryland. Quiet farms and scattered army drill camps, once peaceful and orderly, now lay under a fragile dawn. The pale sun rose slowly, casting long, trembling shadows across the fields, as if the land itself sensed the coming horror. A cold, creeping f…
Hello everyone, The bell still tolls for the dead of the Maryland campaign. Blue and gray laid to rest in countless shallow graves across the battle-scared countryside. This night, however, some ancient evil stirs in the wind, rustling the autumn-clad leaves and disturbing the freshly dug dirt. They are here! We’re excited to announce that “The Risen Dead” event is now live! Band together, John…
Hello everyone, “Something wicked stirs in Maryland..” It’s almost spooky season once again and so we are pleased to announce that the start of this year’s “The Risen Dead ” time-limited event is going to be on October 3rd! Get ready to fight back the hordes of the undead in this 150+ player wave survival mode, featuring all-new constructible defences, player abilities, achievements, and more a…
Hello everyone, We’re excited to announce that the anticipated time-limited War of Rights event 1776 is now live! Head into the game, join a game server that is hosting the event and experience colonial line-warfare on a massive 400 player scale in celebration of July 4th! Featuring new regiments, animations, UI elements, weapons and more, today’s initial release of 1776 is bound to be a welcom…
Hello everyone, Today, we have updated the game in preparation for the anticipated time-limited 1776 event starting July 1st . We cannot wait to march and fight alongside you all in this all-new War of Rights event experience, starting in just a few more days! Steam Summer Sale - War of Rights 50% off! As part of the Steam Summer Sale, War of Rights is currently 50% off! Now is the perfect time…
Hello everyone, Today, we’re excited to bring you Update 199: 400 Player Support to War of Rights! As the title suggests, this update increases the official player cap from 350 to 400 players per server. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg in today’s update—there’s much more to announce, explore and enjoy. Before we get into all the excitement of today’s update, we want to take a momen…
Hello everyone, Today we’re happy to be bringing you the first alpha update of 2025 to War of Rights, titled Update 198: Scopes, Sights & Ballistics! The primary focus of today’s update is to overhaul the ballistics of all small arms fire within the game, improve rifle zeroing handling and sight pictures, and introduce highly limited scoped variants of the Whitworth and Sharps rifles to the gam…
Hello everyone, As the year draws to an end, we’re excited to be bringing you the 197th alpha update to War of Rights titled Drill Camp Skirmishes today! The last major update of 2024 includes several new additions that are bound to shake up the game and a fair few improvements, as well. Let’s dive into the content of Update 197: Drill Camp Skirmishes below! 13 New Drill Camp Skirmishes Today’s…
Hello Everyone, For the next week, War of Rights is 50% off as part of Steam's Autumn Sale. Now is a great time to pick up the game and join the ranks, partaking in massive 350 player first person 19th century warfare! We look forward to be welcoming all of the new recruits on the fields of glory! - The Campfire Games Team
Hello everyone, We’re excited to be bringing you the 196th alpha update titled Decaying Autumn to War of Rights today! Today’s update includes several major visual overhauls to the game, a completion of the infantry unit customization, additional musician tunes, the return of autumn as well as a few spooky treats just in time for Halloween.. Let’s dive into the content of Update 196: Decaying A…
Hello everyone, Today, we’re pleased to be bringing you the 195th alpha update to War of Rights! After more than 2 years of testing player counts at 400 on the Official War of Rights Test Server and countless of optimization focused updates brought to you, we are now - at long last - at a point where we feel confident about raising the officially supported max player count on a server from 300…
Service Records In today’s field report, we are introducing a new upcoming community focused feature: Service Records. Service Records are the successor to the Company Tool and the next stage of the “Veterancy” update. In the soon-to-be overhauled War of Rights website at: you’ll be able to login to your all-new Service Records profile using your Steam account in order to dive deep into your Wa…
Hello everyone, We're thrilled to announce the release of the 194th update for War of Rights today, with a major focus on enhancing overall server performance to future-proof the game. Additionally, we aim to broaden the selection and scope of available game server hosting options. War of Rights truly shines when immersing you in massive battles with hundreds of players on-screen. Therefore, we…
Hello everyone, Today, we’re happy to introduce base update 193 to the game as well as detail two soon to be released Autumn time limited events for War of Rights! It’s been a few months since the last game update was released, and so this one contains many fixes and additions to the game - as well as a few surprises. Let’s start off by detailing the upcoming time limited events and then contin…
Hello everyone, Today’s War of Rights alpha update is a relatively small one but we thought it best to get it to you all as soon as possible as it contains a few rather nice improvements, fixes and additions to the game. Update 192 Patch Notes · Further optimized the game code, this time focusing on instancing the character attachments such as hats and bayonets as well as improved the river ren…
Hello everyone, Today, we’re happy to be bringing you another alpha update to War of Rights! Update 191 primarily features a sizable processor usage optimization pass within the game, resulting in up to a 20% overall FPS gain between update 190 and update 191 if you happen to be bottlenecked by your CPU in your setup. Other notable features of update 191 include a complete hair and facial hair…
Hello everyone, We’re excited to bring you the 190th alpha update to War of Rights today! With the update comes the end of the grace period of class and rank unlocks tied to the experience level system debuted recently. We’d also like to remind you all that the time to redeem your loyalty bonus is nearing its end, the feature is being removed on the 31st of May . If you are in doubt as to how t…
Hello everyone, Today, we’re happy to be releasing Update 189 featuring a loyalty bonus for every player that has logged playtime hours in War of Rights! Due to several technical restrictions, the loyalty bonus is redeemable for a limited amount of time. It can be redeemed starting today, the 21st of April and until the 31st of May. The loyalty bonus can be redeemed via the in-game menu (access…
Hello everyone, We received a lot of strong feedback from the community regarding the level system after we rolled out Update 188. Most of the negative feedback we received was about the lack of a reward for hours previously played. While we thought that starting all players on a level playing field with a grace period would be more enjoyable, we now understand that this is not how the communit…
UPDATE: Thank you all for your highly vocal feedback, we have taken your suggestions into consideration and will be implementing the following soon: -Fix the experience-saving issue. - Give veteran players with a long history a proportionate amount of initial experience by backdating. - Increase the base rate of experience gain by 90%. - Reduce the formation bonus from 50% to 25% to make it mor…
Hello everyone, As part of our continued efforts in pushing the boundaries of what is possible in terms of visuals, immersion and performance in a game with hundreds of players partaking in battle, we're pleased to be releasing War of Rights Alpha Update 187: DLSS today! The main feature of the update, as the name would suggest, is the implementation of Nvidia’s nifty DLSS and DLAA offerings fo…
Hello everyone, We’re excited to be releasing Update 186: Contention for War of Rights today! The update features a new, work in progress, game mode named Contention as well as a host of performance improvements and quality of life additions to the alpha. Let’s dive into the details below. New Game Mode: Contention A new game mode, "Contention" is now available for testing. The mode is centered…
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