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: https://www.warofrights.com/ you’ll be able to login to your all-new Service Records profile using your Steam account in order to dive deep into your War of Rights stats, match history, rewards, seasonal leaderboards, units and more. Let’s take a closer look at how!
Profiles, Stat Tracking, Match History and Rewards
Service Records are the central hub for showcasing your involvement in War of Rights. They provide a detailed history of your achievements, participation, and connection to the community.
Service Records will be available to view in-game and on our website.
All official matches will be recorded, with replays accessible to all. Your profile will keep a comprehensive history of your matches, enabling you to review statistics, analyze replays, and see details about participating players and units. To ensure fairness and prevent team swapping, you will be marked on whichever team you spent the most time on during the match. Additionally, a minimum playtime is required to be recognized as a match participant.
With Service Records, we will also be gradually rolling out new kinds of unlockables. This could be anything from Service Record specific rewards, such as profile pictures, borders and banners, to in-game rewards like additional character customization options, emotes, and more.
Leaderboards & Seasons
With the introduction of Service Records, we are also rolling out leaderboards to enable players to compare progress and statistics. To ensure fairness and provide opportunities for all players, including newcomers, we will track progress across different seasons. This seasonal approach allows everyone a chance to compete effectively.
Top performers will receive end of season rewards to commend their commitment and accomplishments.
Units
Units are the evolution of the Company Tool and serve as the central hub for each War of Rights regiment, company, or clan.
This feature allows your group to be managed effectively and tracks your collective progress as a unit in Service Records. By playing and collaborating as a unit, you can unlock additional rewards and content. Your unit will also be placed together on the leaderboards, allowing you to compare your teamwork skills against others.
Like your personal Service Record, the unit hub can also be customized by your unit leader with unlockables earned together as a unit.
Units have a range of new features compared to the Company Tool:
- Level: Just like players, Units can play qualifying matches together to earn experience and increase in level signified by a special unit green wreath.
- Automatic Tags: Customize your unit tags to automatically display on unit members' names in-game, with options to include their rank and unit number.
- Ranks: Manage your unit members effectively by assigning ranks or groups within the unit. During events, you can configure settings to restrict members to their respective ranks.
- Match History: Games played with a sufficient number of unit members will be recorded in your unit's match history. This will impact your unit’s statistics and position in the unit leaderboards. Passworded matches will also be recorded and marked specially as event games.
- Unit Achievements: Collaborate within your unit to unlock achievements together.
- Challenges: Your unit leader will be able to select from a pool of bi-weekly challenges which if completed collaboratively will reward both the unit and the participating players with service record and in-game unlockables.
- And more…
Toxicity
We are committed to improving the gaming experience in War of Rights and addressing the ongoing issue of disruptive players. To achieve this, we are introducing a global ban system and an offense tracking mechanism.
Key changes will include:
- Global Bans: Bans exclusively issued by developers will now apply across all servers, not just specific ones. Each ban will be permanently recorded on the player's profile and will impact their standing within the community. A record of when they were banned, for what reason and who by will be stored.
- Offense System: After accumulating five bans (serious offenses), a player will face a permanent ban from the game, and will not be permitted on any server official or otherwise. Minor offenses can also be issued which are for minor infractions that don’t constitute a strike on your profile and while recorded won’t affect your profile standing. Community server admins are not able to issue any serious or minor offenses to anyone. Those are strictly developer issued strikes to the Service Records profile of the offender. Community server admins can continue to kick and ban on their server as they have been able to do up until now without any of those penalties showing up as any kind of offenses on the offender's Service Records profile.
- Report Mechanism: We recognize that we can't be everywhere at once, so players will now have the ability to report others for inappropriate conduct. Our team will review these reports thoroughly.
Additionally, community server administrators will continue to have the authority to manage their own ban lists as they see fit.
Crowdfunding Rewards
We recognize that our crowdfunding backers are eagerly awaiting their rewards. While all rewards won’t be fully available until we exit early access, we are taking steps now to begin fulfilling our commitments.
If you are one of our 14.414 crowdfunding backers (first off; thank you for supporting the development of the game at such an early point in time!), using the game key you received during the crowdfunding campaign you will soon be able to redeem rewards and link your pledge tier to your Service Records account.
Crowdfunder Cockades
During the secession crisis and into the early months of the American Civil War, enthusiastic citizens in both the north and the south made a public display of their unwavering patriotism by fashioning cockades to adorn their jackets and caps. Cockades worn by the rank-and-file had likely become exceedingly rare by the Maryland Campaign of 1862, but we believe the cockade is the perfect icon to represent our player base’s “early volunteers,” the players of War of Rights who have been with us from the very beginning phases of development.
Additional rewards for your Service Record, which are yet to be announced, will also be provided.
Thank you for your patience and support as we work towards delivering all promised rewards.
Server Tokens
As part of the service record update will come the previously announced introduction of self-hosting and community server tools. Alongside these developments, we are also introducing a new system known as server tokens.
Here's a quick refresher:
Server owners who wish to maintain standard Campfire Games content and balancing can request a token. Servers with these authorized tokens will have access to Service Records, match recording, progression systems, and will be officially listed in the server browser.
On the other hand, servers without tokens will have the flexibility to customize the game experience, including mods, balancing changes, and broader access to console variables. However, please note that matches on these servers will not be recorded under Service Records, nor will stats be progressed. They will also be marked as unofficial servers in the server browser.
Campfire Games will exercise its discretion in token distribution, and access may be revoked at any time for violations.
These changes are designed to provide both structure and freedom within our community, catering to a variety of player preferences.
Community Feedback
We are excited to announce that Service Records represent our largest community-focused update yet. To ensure it meets the needs of both individual players and our larger communities, we are inviting community chosen representatives and regiment leaders to join us for a discussion and to hear your thoughts. This will help us tailor the update to provide the best possible experience.
Details about the discussion, including the date and how to receive an invitation, will be announced on the War of Rights Discord. In the meantime, we encourage you to continue sharing your ideas and suggestions in the designated channel on our community Discord.
Furthermore, to make sure every voice is heard you are also invited to fill out our survey on the upcoming Service Records HERE. We are not ready to announce an exact release date as we want to tailor this update to the community’s preferences, but you can expect it to release later this year.
Thank you for helping us make War of Rights even better!