Hello Runners!
We hope you all started well into 2025! This year is special for the Runner community as it'll mark the 10th anniversary of the 1.0 release of Running with Rifles here on Steam, ːrwromgː!
There are still quite a few of you guys who've been a part of the family for so long. Thank you so much for swearing your loyalty, much appreciated!
First of all, Osumia Games has finally got a new and sexy logo!
Looks pretty sweet on a T-shirt, don't you think? Let us know in the comments!
Follow the RWR2 development
Last Summer, we announced that we are working on RWR2 yet we didn't reveal much since the announcement post and its introduction video. We're changing that for the future as some of you guys are getting really impatient as seen in the video below ːrwrsoldierː ːrwrsoldierː ːrwrsoldierː ːrwrsoldierː
We created social media channels dedicated to the (yet early) development of RWR2.
You can find a channel on the X platform called @rwr2dev as well as on Tiktok called @osumiagames.
As we are just a team of two, we won't spend too much time on the production of fancy video content yet we hope that some regular random and simple screenshots and videos, bloopers and funny visual bugs will be better than just taking another hiatus from posting anything while we move forward with RWR2.
Status of EASTERN FRONT
"Is Eastern Front still coming out? When will it release? Is it dead?"
We have been addressed by these and similar questions. So far our answers have boiled down to, "it will be released but we can't tell yet when", and we haven't discussed or revealed anything about the state of the DLC.
To clarify for anyone who does not know, the DLC is being worked on exclusively by only us four DLC developers: Tremozl, TheSoldier, 577 and Unit G17. We all have full time jobs and we work on the DLC in our free time. The base game's developers, Pasik and JackMayol, have no part in the DLC development, they are busy working on the upcoming RWR2 - check out the trailer if you haven't yet!
With that out of the way, let's discuss the state of the Eastern Front DLC. We already have a functional Soviet faction with well tailored soldier models, new calls and a sizable arsenal. Speaking of which, this DLC will introduce over 40 new weapons, not counting weapon variants. Both the German and Soviet factions feature weapons from the early and late stage of the war.
When it comes to vehicles, the Soviets will have the largest motor pool of any faction at release. The Germans have also receive a few new toys as well, totaling over 20 new vehicles combined.
As with the previous DLC titles, our greatest roadblock is level work. Adding to the challenge is the time-consuming endeavor of several city levels featuring large numbers of damaged or destroyed buildings. In order to make them look authentic and to maintain the quality we have presented so far, we are working with several new level objects at a scale that we haven't achieved before. As such we are still not confident enough yet to set a release date, but we will keep you updated on our progress in future posts!
RWRStats.com login status
RWRStats.com or "RWRS" has been a popular website written by Epoc to track your stats, see who's on the servers, if your friends are online and allowing you to see all the profiles you created and delete them if necessary for both Vanilla as WW2.
The login didn't work for a few months but good news, it had been fixed by now, thanks Epoc for the fix!
Here's a quote from him for those of you who want to go a bit more into details:
Steam allows its users to log-in to third-party sites (like rwrstats.com) using a protocol named "OpenID 2.0", which goal is to prevent users to share any sensitive credentials with such sites. That's great, however this protocol is very old and superseded by another (OpenID Connect) since a long time. As a developer, I'm lazy. I was using what we call a "library" allowing to use this protocol, without writing much code by myself. That library however stopped working months ago for an unknown reason, so I had to implement the protocol by myself to solve the issue.
Don't forget to join the community on the Running with Rifles Discord and we'd be more than happy if you could let us know if you like the game and the WW2 DLCs by leaving a review on Steam, as it helps us a lot!
Thank you and keep on Running,
your Osumia Games
While this Steam post is mainly an informational post, we also added minor fixes for WW2 like listed in the changelog below:
Changelog (WW2):
- maps: fixed an issue which caused mapview objective cards to not show up in Edelweiss
- campaign: the Bergetiger's crane now repairs automaticly if the vehicle has a driver
- misc: fixed an issue which caused soldiers to get stuck in the prone position in most mods when played on the DLC maps