Onward News

Contest submissions are closed! With over FORTY(40) submissions for the contest alone we’re super excited to share the competing entries made by the community! The submitted maps will now be played and rated by the community through the Onward Workshop menu. After this the team at Downpour Interactive will review the submissions from May 18th to May 27th.

Winners will be announced on May 29th and prizes will be shipped to the winning map creators as soon as possible after confirmation of address from winners through email. Map creators participating in this contest will be competing for one of six(6) prized care packages that contain a selection of unique and valuable prizes worth a combined total of over $9,000USD!

May the best win!
You can find all submissions in the link below.
https://www.downpourinteractive.com/devblog/2020/2/20/contest-closed

Heads up!

Onward is on a weeklong sale! So strap on your helmet, tell your battle buddies, ready your motion controllers and join the battle!
Get Onward on Steam or Oculus Home now for 50% off!

Buy Onward on Steam here.

See you on the battlefield!

To celebrate the integration of custom maps support to Onward, we are going to hold a map making contest where creators will compete by making new and interesting maps for the Onward Workshop!

Map creators participating in this contest will be competing for one of six(6) identical care packages. All six prize packages combined are worth over $9,000USD!


Each of the 6 care packages contains these prizes below:

• Steam gift card worth $60USD
  
• Collectible helmet as seen used by the Marsoc faction in the game
  
• Tactical Backpack
  
• An Nvidia RTX 2080TI Graphics Card
  
• Tactical Waistband
  
• Onward Dogtags
  
• Onward patches with velcro backing that can be affixed to your gear
  
• Protube’s MagTubeVR gunstock
  
• An Onward shirt in your size of choice
  
• A very unique flashy purple-colored in-game marker that only they can use on the planning board!

You have until April 24th to submit your map, More info on the contest in the link below!
https://www.downpourinteractive.com/devblog/2020/2/20/community-contest-2020

Hey guys,
this will be our last sitrep… until we are ready to unveil the Quest Port!

This sitrep will contain Info on the Quest Port status and future sitreps, We'll be announcing a new member of the Downpour team and we'll show some of the recent videos made by the community!

Click HERE to go to the sitrep post!

See you on the battlefield… Untethered!

We are hard at work on fixing commonly reported bugs, improving client and server security, optimizing performance, fixing map collisions and inconsistencies, and developing the Quest port of Onward. We don’t have any major news just yet, but stay tuned for future Sit Reps; we will slowly start unraveling what we’ve been working on ;)
2020 will be a great year for Onward! See you on the battlefield.


Welcome to our Eighteenth sitrep!

In this months sitrep we’ll discuss the recent v1.7.7 hotfix containing the new Volk Ground Drone, Head Orientated Locomotion option, and other features. We’ll also share some of the latest custom maps made by players within the Onward Community, and show some of the latest community gameplay videos!

Click here to read the sitrep!

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