RUNNING WITH RIFLES News

Running with Summerfeelings Event 2025!

Happy Summertime, Runners!

[p][/p][p]Last year's summer event was a hit among the community, which is why we're bringing back the fun — with some exciting new additions! The community has once more been on fire to make this content possible while the core of the Vanilla development team has shifted to the RWR2 development.[/p][p]The good old off-duty veteran is back as fit as ever to continue causing chaos across the enemy lines! [/p][p]We also added a new Cooling Box 3 as a random soldier drop with pre-existing rare stuff and with brand new equipment and goodies such as 5 new weapons.[/p][p]In this update we added a new unit called the VIP exclusively for online invasion which is a blue helmet war reporter equipped with a ballistic shield and a camera. This pacifist unit needs to be escorted to another base. The commander will inform you on the tactical map where the VIP is and which base he needs to be escorted to. Note that the VIP is not spawning on every map but average on every third map. A successful mission rewards the entire server with a ticket which can recompense you with items from a pool of pretty much every equipment piece the Seasonal Event has to offer![/p][p]The Summer Event will last the entire Summer so there is plenty of time to get the most out of it! Enjoy![/p][p] [/p][p]More about the Summer Event 2025 update in the changelog below:[/p][p][/p][h2]New Features:[/h2][p][/p]

[p]AI: VIP added - escorting him to his destination rewards all players on the server (scripted)[/p]
[p]AI: Banana squad added - summoned by a flare randomly carried by any soldier, they carry water guns[/p]
[p]AI: ODV returns with new toys - now he may drop his gun on any kill method, but stabbing has increased odds. Can carry other rare suppressed weapons than the MK47 Mutant this time[/p]
[p]Weapons: Water gun added, temporarily slows down victims by adding a heavy water balloon in their backpack (scripted)[/p]
[p]Weapons: ASM-VAL silenced AR added, carried by ODVs[/p]
[p]Weapons: P416 silenced AR buffed and added to ODVs[/p]
[p]Weapons: Benelli M3 - speed loader: pump action shotgun, 8 round capacity, reloads 4 rounds at a time[/p]
[p]Weapons: HCAR: 30 rounds low rpm heavy AR[/p]
[p]Weapons: MAG-7 Dragon breath: pump action shotgun, 5 rounds, magazine fed, firery shots[/p]
[p]Weapons: AC556: a full-auto carbine that folds its stock when mounting a bayonet[/p]
[p]Items: Cooler box 3 added[/p]
[p]Items: Beach ball added - carried by banana squad, bounces around when dropped, very heavy to encourage loot sharing, may give cooler boxes when sold at armory[/p]
[p]Items: New event themed tickets that reward player with event boxes added, obtained for escorting the VIP[/p]
[p]Items: Added pyrite crystal, dragon fruit and bananas as loot from cooler box, the latter spawns 1-3 banana peels on death[/p]
[p]Items: Added whoopee cushion, makes funny noises[/p]
[p]Scripts: added player ring color changer - use /color # # # format to change colors[/p][p][/p]

[h2]Tweaks and balancing:[/h2][p][/p]

[p]maps: added an additional armory at the center of the main "island" in the Swan River map[/p]
[p]Weapons: AI may now drop trauma kit, tti combat shield, tracer dart and taser with a low chance[/p]
[p]Weapons: All banners received an addon model of a small flag on the backpack[/p]
[p]Weapons: The Golden knife's ground slam has been replaced with dash function. Stabbing now does a quick burst of 3 swings[/p]
[p]Weapons: The Defibrillator's model and animations has been reworked. On meele kills it causes an electric surge which harms nearby enemies (handled in halloween.as script)[/p]
[p]Weapons: P416 projectile speed increased from 100 to 105, recoil and recovery values are same as XM8[/p]
[p]Weapons: AAC Honey Badger recoil and recovery values are same as AN-94 burst, hud tweaked[/p]
[p]Weapons: MP5-SD and UMP40 got a new reload animation with the iconic H&K slap[/p]
[p]Weapons: Stock rifles with underbarrel grenade launchers now have different stats - previously they were all M79 clones[/p]
[p]Weapons: GL06 (grey grenade launcher) has a slight blast radius increase (4.0 -> 4.2)[/p]
[p]Weapons: The Gilboa Dbr (double barrel assault rifle) can now fire in full auto[/p]
[p]Weapons: SKS received a scope, recoil recovery increased (1.0 -> 1.5), incendiary mode has new bullet trail[/p]
[p]Weapons: The Parasols got new stab animation[/p]
[p]Weapons: QLZ87 prone accurancy increased (0.9 -> 1.0), overheating removed[/p]
[p]Weapons: RG6 - Shrapnel: projectile type changed to "bullet", faster retrigger time, projectile speed reduced[/p]
[p]Weapons: KS23: magazine size increased to 4, kill decay end time is longer, reduced movement speed penalty, reduced volume[/p]
[p]Weapons: KSG: buckshot rounds have longer effective range, slug rounds can now pierce through shields but will disappear at 30 meters[/p]
[p]Weapons: Eggs can't be noticed by ai when thrown[/p]
[p]Weapons: DP64's close range ballistics have been fixed[/p]
[p]Items: Stims max capacity set to 4[/p]
[p]Vests: Reworked EXO vest protection parameters - no longer stun blast and melee immune, slight buff to later layers, enters wounded state on bullet and melee hit on last layer[/p]
[p]Vests: Camo vest 2nd layer's stealth bonus increased to 10% from 5, later layers received a 5% bonus[/p]
[p]Vests: Fancy sunglasses and T-Cap costumes don't drop on death but can respawn with[/p]
[p]Vests: New supporter skins for Ocean talisman, Rabbit suit, fancy sunglasses and Lizard costumes[/p]
[p]Vests: fixed Musketeer general model not showing when player doesn't wear a vest2[/p]
[p]Vests: golden demon, white rabbit girl and sheriff models can only show on supporter_high[/p]
[p]Hud: Vehicle flares now indicate the vehicle's icon on their hud, added disabled variant for map7, map8, map8_2, map11 and map13[/p]
[p]Hud: Banana car received a map icon[/p]
[p]AI: Chickens can no longer be teamkilled by explosives, they enter wounded state and bleed out instantly instead[/p]
[p]AI: Ranger's tracer capacity reduced to 3[/p]
[p]Vehicles: NOXE rocket speed has been reduced, it was near impossible to dodge them[/p]
[p]Vehicles: M551 mg shield fixed
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Happy Running,
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Running with Easter Bunnies Event 2025!

Happy Easter, Runners!

After the Elite Rippers, the Bad Santa, the Evil Demon, we now have a new baddie for the newly created seasonal event, the Cheeky Bunny!
You'll be able to come across those dudes in online Invasion during this 20 days long Easter event and collect some goodies going from Easter eggs to shiny new weapons.

Once again, special thanks to the modding community for their contribution!

Changelog Easter event:

items: Easter goodies added
enemy: Cheeky Bunny (and friends) added
weapon: RPK-16 reload animation changed
weapon: AR15 bullet speed increased
weapon: Chinalake blast radius and ballistics improved
weapon: DP28 renamed to DPM, both modes are easier to use
weapon: M14EBR support mode can fire crouching
weapon: RPD bipod mode accuracy improved
weapon: Crossbow crouch accuracy improved
weapons: Galil ARM, MK47 Mutant, OTs-14 and M14EBR volume adjusted
ai: Grenadiers can no longer cause friendly fire
items: Rabbit suit and Sunglasses costume no longer disappear instantly when dropped

Happy Running,
your Osumia Games

News time! Eastern Front, RWR2, Logo, etc

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!

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[h3]Follow the RWR2 development[/h3]

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.

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[h3]Status of EASTERN FRONT[/h3]

"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!

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[h3]RWRStats.com login status[/h3]

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.

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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

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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

Update 1.98.1 Content Patch 1

event: Xmas event ended - no Bad Santa spawn in invasion anymore
vehicles: Mk20 Wiesel - fixed the excentric position of the turret
vehicles: Guntruck - changed the AI slot priority, so that the passenger seat will be used last
vehicles: ZJX-19/XE - repair behavior modified, so that the repair crane is static and can be operated solely by the driver
vehicles: Flamer tank - fixed UV issues
wearables: Demon vest - stun result on healthy vest will be a stun instead of wound to avoid revive exloit
calls: A10 gun run - spawn time reduced by 20%, 25% more projectiles, new sound and fixed the shadow which was not being cast
maps: Dry Enclave - fixed ice cream van spawn locations. No more spawns outside of the safe zones
invasion: removed obsolete projectile resources

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year 2025!

Hey Runners!

Osumia Games wish you all Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year 2025!

The year is coming to an end with the usual quick annual recap of what happened this year at Osumia Games and what is coming for the (near) future.

[h2]Year 2024 recap[/h2]

2025 will be a special year to us as it will mark the 10th anniversary of the release of RWR here on Steam.
2024 has been a rather successful year for Osumia Games once again. While the sales dropped by around 15%, the RUNNING WITH RIFLES family has still grown by another 80.000 members and on top of that, over 57.000 DLC units have find new owners.

Some other insights about the year 2024's review include 8 updates with 2 major ones including 2 new Summer boxes and a second Halloween Boxes, 3 new vehicles, several new weapons and other goodies!

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[h2]Osumia Games in 2025[/h2]

[h3]RWR2 is in development![/h3]

The past Summer, we've been super excited to make the work on RWR2 finally public. RWR2 will be a whole lot different from RWR1 as already stated in the June Steam News post.
We've continued to experiment some more and we now have a rather solid backbone to work on. Right after the new year, we'll start to post some regular images, short videos and bloopers of the development of RWR2. We'll inform you where to find them, but our Discord would be the first place to go.

Here is the Teaser video of RWR2 again, in case you missed it:
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[h3]Eastern Front WW2 DLC[/h3]

As you might have read it already in the Steam forum, Eastern Front will be delayed again. This time we will not mention any new release date and take the "it's done when it's done" path. Sorry for all of you who are waiting impatiently!

Here's a recent post by one of the WW2 dev :

Originally posted by Unit G17:
Eastern Front will be released, but at this time we are unable to estimate a release date. All four of us DLC developers (Trem, TheSoldier, 577, and me) have full time jobs outside game development, and we had a rather busy year which has slowed down our progress. Rest assured we have the full intention of eventually releasing it!

Don't forget to join the fun on 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!

Keep on running,
Your Osumia Games

Event log (Vanilla):

invasion: Bad Santa enemy added over the xmas event
invasion: Xmas box added
scripts: added content of of the Halloween Boxes to the lottery
vehicles: VFS combat vehicle driving abilities improved
weapons: M249 can now be shot in crouched stance
weapons: M551 tank MG now has a protection hull for the MG gunner
weapons: MRL rocket dmg and radius slightly increased
weapons: QLZ87 grenade blast radius increased by 19%
weapons: Supershorty shotgun now has 2 more pellets per round
weapons: SV-98 sniper rifle has slightly better recoil recovery
weapons: Welding Torch ammo increased from 100 to 200
weapons: Shovel sandbags now last 8 minutes instead of 6