Beyond The Wire — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Save 60% Off Beyond The Wire | 2026-02-09 | Listen up Soldiers! Steam's PvP Fest 2026 starts today and Beyond The Wire is taking part. You'll be able to pick up Beyond The Wire for 60% off from February 9 - February 16. This sale comes at the perfect time for any Soldiers looking to reinforce the front.We'll see you in the trenches! |
| Save 60% Off Beyond The Wire | 2025-12-18 | Listen up Soldiers! Steam's Winter Sale starts today and Beyond The Wire is taking part. You'll be able to pick up Beyond The Wire for 60% off from December 18 - January 5. This sale comes at the perfect time for any Soldiers looking to reinforce the front.We'll see you in the trenches! |
| Get Beyond The Wire for 60% Off | 2025-09-29 | Listen up Soldiers! The Steam Autumn Sale starts today and Beyond The Wire is taking part. You can pick up Beyond The Wire for 60% off from September 29 - October 6. This sale comes at the perfect time for Soldiers looking to reinforce the front. We'll see you in the trenches! |
| Get Beyond The Wire for 50% Off | 2025-07-31 | Listen up Soldiers!The Offworld 10th Anniversary Sale starts today and Beyond The Wire is taking part. You can pick up Beyond The Wire for 50% off from July 31 - August 3. This sale comes at the perfect time for Soldiers looking to reinforce the front. We'll see you in the trenches! |
| Save 60% Off Beyond The Wire | 2025-06-26 | Listen up Soldiers! The Steam Summer Sale starts today and Beyond The Wire is taking part. You'll be able to pick up Beyond The Wire for 60% off from June 26 - July 10. This sale comes at the perfect time for any Soldiers looking to reinforce the front. We'll see you in the trenches! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1058650/Beyond_The_Wire/ |
| Save 75% Off Beyond The Wire | 2025-04-28 | Listen up Soldiers! Steam's Wargames Fest starts today and Beyond The Wire is taking part. You'll be able to pick up Beyond The Wire for 75% off from April 28 - May 5th. This sale comes at the perfect time for any Soldiers looking to reinforce the front. We'll see you in the trenches! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1058650/Beyond_The_Wire/ |
| Save 75% Off Beyond The Wire | 2025-03-13 | Listen up Soldiers! Steam's Spring Sale starts today and Beyond The Wire is taking part. You'll be able to pick up Beyond The Wire for 75% off from March 13 - March 20. This sale comes at the perfect time for any Soldiers looking to reinforce the front. We'll see you in the trenches! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1058650/Beyond_The_Wire/ |
| Save 75% Off Beyond The Wire | 2024-12-19 | Listen up Soldiers! Steam's Winter Sale starts today and Beyond The Wire is taking part. You'll be able to pick up Beyond The Wire for 75% off from December 19 - January 2. This sale comes at the perfect time for any Soldiers looking to reinforce the front. We'll see you in the trenches! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1058650/Beyond_The_Wire/ |
| Save 75% Off Beyond The Wire | 2024-11-27 | Listen up Soldiers! Steam's Autumn Sale starts today and Beyond The Wire is taking part. You'll be able to pick up Beyond The Wire for 75% off from November 27 - December 4. This sale comes at the perfect time for any Soldiers looking to reinforce the front. We'll see you in the trenches! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1058650/Beyond_The_Wire/ |
| Save 50% Off Beyond The Wire | 2024-04-15 | Listen up Soldiers! Steam's FPS Fest starts today and Beyond The Wire is taking part. You'll be able to pick up Beyond The Wire for 50% off from April 15 - 22. This sale comes at the perfect time for any Soldiers looking to reinforce the front. We'll see you in the trenches! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1058650/Beyond_The_Wire/ |
| Beyond The Wire Hotfix 1.1.2 | 2023-07-06 | Hey everyone, in this hotfix we're addressing the issue of team balancing with bots, as well as making some minor adjustments to bot behavior. Optimization / General Fixes Fixed an issue where bots would walk backwards during melee Improved bot navigation on Zonnebeke, Sechault, and Vieil Armand Bots will not be considered as players during team balancing. For server owners: New server config settings: PreserveTeam=True/False - If set to False (default), this setting will disable exceptions to team balancing rules during server join and map transition. If a player was on a team and leaves then rejoins the server, the player will now be auto-b |
| Happy Holidays from OWI | 2022-12-15 | Hey everyone, We at Offworld Industries all want to wish you a wonderful holiday season with your friends, family, and loved ones as we celebrate the end of another year! This year has been a busy one at Offworld Industries, as Beyond the Wire was released into 1.0, and we’ve continued to update the game including the recent update that brought both AI bots, and the new map Passchendaele to the game. We look forward to seeing you on the field of battle in the new year! Please note that the Offworld Industries studio will be closed from December 16th until January 3rd. Please continue to share your thoughts with us via our channels such as our |
| Beyond The Wire Hotfix 1.1.1 | 2022-12-09 | Hey everyone, We've been monitoring your feedback and have made some improvements to bot implementation and addressed a variety of other issues we've been seeing in this hotfix! AI New Added bot combat distance settings for server owners - Aim precision at 100 meter distance - Forward visual detection range - Bot proximity detection range Changes & Fixes Improved bot navigation around deep water areas Maps Changes & Fixes Passchendaele Optimized Passchendaele spawns Fixed an issue where bots would become inactive during last phase on Passchendaele Assault CEF vs GER & ANZ vs GER Added vehicle spawns for the CEF Autocar to Passchendaele Assaul |
| Update: 1.1 Released! | 2022-12-05 | Welcome back soldiers! The addition of bots has been the most highly requested feature from our community. It's taken some time, but the wait is finally over! Bots are now live in Beyond The Wire! This update also includes the long-awaited Passchendaele map and five new layers to go along with it. Gameplay New Bot Behaviours: Bots cannot be controlled or guided by players. Bots cannot create sections, but will attempt to spawn with all available roles. They will not block players from accessing said roles. Bots will not spawn with 'universal roles' (Tank roles, Flamethrower, etc.). Bots will capture active objectives during the respective gam |
| Bots and Passchendaele release next week! | 2022-12-03 | Hey everyone! Community Manager Gray here. We know it's been a while since we released a proper update for Beyond The Wire, and we all appreciate your passion and your patience on that front. The wait is almost over! The highly requested addition of bots and the Passchendaele map are releasing THIS MONDAY! We'll be going into more detail on both when the update is released, but in the meantime we'll leave you all with some screenshots of the new map and some GIFs of bots in action! Passchendaele Bots All other soldiers you see in these GIFs are AI! Thank you again to everyone who continues to support Beyond The Wire! We can't wait for you all |
| Beyond The Wire Hotfix 1.0.4 | 2022-11-24 | Hey everyone, We've seen your reports that the fire propagation system is heavily impacting performance. We've opted to disable the system again and will be investigating the issue further before re-enabling. Optimization / General Fixes Fire propagation system was disabled |
| Beyond The Wire Hotfix 1.0.3 | 2022-10-26 | Hey Soldiers, New Community Manager Gray here! We’re back with another small Hotfix update to address some of the performance issues we’ve been seeing, fix a variety of vehicle/player spawns and environment bugs, and more. Read the full list of changes made in Hotfix 1.0.3 below. Thank you again to everyone who has continued to share your feedback on Beyond The Wire since our 1.0 launch. We see all of it and we’re hard at work addressing your most frequent requests and concerns. We’ll have more information to share at a later date on the larger updates we’re currently working on for Beyond The Wire! Until then, share your feedback in the offi |
| Beyond The Wire Hotfix 1.0.2 | 2022-09-07 | Welcome Soldiers, We are pushing an update to fix some issues with the newly added autocar, and flamethrowers. We have also worked on addressing a few bugs for the customization system, the HUD, and some stability issues. You can find the full list of changes below. Thank you all for your patience and continuously reporting the issues you find in game, this is invaluable help to perfect Beyond The Wire. Please keep sending your reports our way! (URL LINK) Gameplay - Fixed Flamethrower sensitivity after switching weapon - Fixed Flamethrower damage in close proximity - Slowed down the armored autocar Customization - The CHA will no longer borro |
| Beyond The Wire Hotfix 1.0.1 | 2022-09-01 | Welcome Soldiers, Thanks to your reports we have been able to identify a couple of key issues that were causing performance issues. We are aiming at solving some of these issues with this hotfix and will keep investigating the reports that we received to further improve stability and performance down the line. Thank you to all of you for accompanying us in our launch of Beyond The Wire and your patience as we work to resolve these issues. If you have further issues please report them in our dedicated thread. (URL LINK) Progression - Fixed a case where a player could be stuck in an infinite loading screen after activating a progression task - |
| Beyond The Wire 1.0 Launch | 2022-08-31 | WELCOME SOLDIERS, TO 1.0 OF BEYOND THE WIRE! Offworld Industries is excited to announce that Beyond The Wire has now launched and is available in English, French, German, and Simplified Chinese! With 10 factions to play from the Allied Forces and Central Powers, Beyond The Wire offers 50 vs 50 historical engagements with era-authentic weaponry and vehicles, with maps from the western front of the Great war that span up to two kilometres. Launch brings many new additions to Beyond The Wire, including a new customization system featuring historical equipment and clothing with a variety of 440 different items to start, a melee combat system invo |