RUNNING WITH RIFLES — 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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| Running with Easter Bunnies Event 2026! | 2026-04-02 | Happy Easter, Runners! The Cheeky Bunny is back in action for this year's Easter event. You'll be able to come across those dudes in online Invasion during this 3 weeks long Easter event and collect some goodies, where some of them have been exclusively added for this Easter. Once again, special thanks to the modding community for their contribution! Happy Running, your Osumia Games |
| RWR 2 store is up! RWR with huge discount! | 2026-03-11 | Hello Runners,First of all, RUNNING WITH RIFLES is available for a limited time at the steepest discount ever! Grab it while it's hot if you didn't already! Second, and this might catch you off-guard but the RWR Vanilla family will grow soon, more about this topic later.Last but not least - we know a lot of you Runners were waiting for this - we are excited to share the news that we have reached a new milestone by publishing the store presence of RWR 2 here on Steam.RWR2 will be bigger, smarter, and more tactical than ever and offering a whole bunch of new possibilities without losing the flow and the charm that characterized RUNNING WITH RIF |
| Merry Xmas and Happy New Year 2026! | 2025-12-21 | Hey Runners! Osumia Games wish you all Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year 2026! Every year, we are having seasonal events and while we are a bit late in schedule for this year's X-MAS event, it's finally here for you to enjoy! 2025 was particularly rich in seasonal community events, adding an Easter event for the first time to the party and drastically extended the content of Summer and Halloween events by adding new soldier groups, bosses, VIP, various scripted events, etc. This X-MAS event won't be any exception to this, as along the usual BAD SANTA who is up to no good, we have some other new fellas joining the party, such as elves, nutcracke |
| Running with Halloween Event 2025! | 2025-10-27 | Trick or Treat Runners! BOOH! The traditional RWR Halloween event is knocking at your door! The deadly Rippers are back in Online Invasion during this 20 days long event. Last year, the Demon Sniper joined the party but this enemy has been slightly reworked and turned into the Fire Demon as she now throws fireballs at the enemy. Of course, she still summons her Skeleton minions to spread the usual panic, but hey, they want to join the party as well! This year, we also added a new dude, a heavy spell casting Evil Commander who can randomly spawn once every few maps. There is also the Pumpkin Knight, a pumpkin head weirdo who is infesting other |
| Running with Summerfeelings Event 2025 - EXTENDED! | 2025-08-29 | Hey Runners! We hope you had a nice Summer time! We don't want the Summer to be over, hence why we will extend the Summer Event for another 10 days until Monday September 8! Some media of RWR2! As some of you might know, the core team of Osumia Games is working on RWR2 and we try to provide regular screenshots/videos to showcase our work. We just posted our next weekly media. We'd appreciate if you'd have a look at it and follow the development! Here are the links on TIKTOK and X Happy Running, your Osumia Games |
| Summer Event Hotfix | 2025-07-02 | script: fixed the VIP spawn rate which resulted in the VIP to always spawn on the designated maps, now set at 40% script: only players escorting the VIP within a generous radius receive a reward ticket script: The VIP will be bombarded by artillery if he's away from the frontline for too long script: item delivery configurator adjusted script: player marker color changer refresh time limited to one color change every 5 minutes script: player marker color changer now also useable in WW2 AI: tweaked the VIP behavior vest: VIP vest melee hit results set to none instead of stun but still consumes the vest layer animations: the VIP has a shorter s |
| Running with Summerfeelings Event 2025! | 2025-06-19 | Happy Summertime, Runners! 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.The good old off-duty veteran is back as fit as ever to continue causing chaos across the enemy lines! 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.In this update we added a new unit called the VIP exclusively for online invasion |
| Running with Easter Bunnies Event 2025! | 2025-04-17 | 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 t |
| News time! Eastern Front, RWR2, Logo, etc | 2025-02-27 | 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 introductio |
| Update 1.98.1 Content Patch 1 | 2025-01-09 | 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 |
| Merry Xmas and Happy New Year 2025! | 2024-12-19 | 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. Year 2024 recap 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 |
| Running with Halloween Event 2024! | 2024-10-25 | Trick or Treat Runners! Watch out! The deadly Rippers are back in Online Invasion during this 17 days long event but this time they're not alone - a Demon Sniper and his skeleton minions have made their apparition to make your life tougher! Also, the Halloween Box partially mutated over the years to have a sibling box, the Halloween Box 2! This new magenta Pumpkin Box contains similar goodies as the classic orange Pumpkin Box, but with some unique item replacement, such as 9 unique new weapons, new costumes and some more crazy stuff! Once again, special thanks to the modding community for their contribution! Changelog Halloween update: items: |
| Update 1.98.1 | 2024-07-26 | Changelog 1.98.1 maps: few fixes here and there invasion: Vigil Island map can now be started on the north leg invasion: balancing of Warsalt Legacy, Swan Lake and Elk Island - now easier especially with a lower amount of players invasion: DarkCat tank can now spawn on every map in invasion vehicles: Scorpion AXN tank physics tweaked and broken turret model fixed misc: Scorpion Tank AI now prioritizes free shooting turret slot over sitting at the rear slots misc: areas around ladders are now denied for deployment WW2: fixed all the stationary HMGs to be HMG42 instead of the factions' custom HMG modding: weapon specification parameter "deny_la |
| Update 1.98 Content Patch 2 | 2024-06-27 | Changelog (Vanilla): 08/06/2024 (1.98 patch 1) balancing: MK47 droprate of the stabbed offduty veteran reduced from 33 to 15% balancing: Spawn rate of the offduty veteran reduced by 50% balancing: Summer boxes drop rate doubled balancing: increased the chances getting a weapon from the Summer boxes by an average of 40% fix: hovercraft and M551 not being properly repairable with wrenches fix: Supershorty shotgun to be missing in the Summer box fixed fix: increased the selling price of the MRL launcher kit from 0RP to 500RP fix: new weapon flares being available in the armory in some maps fixed fix: fancy sunglasses costume costs reduced to 1RP |
| Update 1.98 released! Summer box and BIG announcement! | 2024-06-06 | Hello Runners! First of all, happy 80th Anniversary of D-Day!. We hope you will join us in the celebration of this day! For this event, we're releasing a D-Day themed map for Edelweiss complete with various new vehicle assets for both Western Front and Pacific campaigns. A good portion of the new content has been produced by community members - the D-Day map itself by NetherCrow and DiLing(YISIC), and the Churchill Mk VII and its Flamethrower variant by Anzac Joe. We also feel it's necessary to mention that we were in a bit of a time-crunch to get this published for D-Day itself, so please bear with us if there are issues with its release, an |
| Merry Xmas and Happy New Year 2024! | 2023-12-21 | Hey Runners! Osumia Games wish you all Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year 2024! The year is coming to an end with a quick annual recap of what happened this year at Osumia Games and what is coming for the (near) future. 2023 recap 2024 will mark the 10th year since the Early Access release of RWR here on Steam. How time flies! 2023 has been similar successful as 2022 where the RUNNING WITH RIFLES family has grown by another 99.000 members (projection until the end of the year) and on top of that, over 73.000 DLC units have been sold. Some other insights about the year 2023's review include 9 updates with 2 major ones including 2 new maps, a comm |
| Update 1.97 Content Patch 1 | 2023-12-08 | maps: few fixes here and there vehicles: experimental scripted vehicles from community boxes such as the repair crane and the ZJX-19/XE repair tank are now also working in the campaign and not just in invasion projectiles: experimental scripted EMP grenades from community boxes now also working in the campaign and not just in invasion projectiles: fixed a bug where some CB7 flares disappeared when throwing in the Tropical Blizzard map instead of spawning the flare object itself again man vs world: added a "Nightmare" difficulty man vs Zombies: added a "Nightmare" difficulty misc: added content of the Community Box #7 in the lottery modding: a |
| Running with Halloween Event 2023! | 2023-10-26 | Trick or Treat Runners! Watch out, the deadly Rippers are back in online invasion during this 11 days long event, but also the Halloween Box which makes its return with the beloved pumpkin goodies! The Halloween Boxes are also active in single player campaign so that you can enjoy it online and offline! Happy Running, your Osumia Games |
| Update 1.97 released! | 2023-08-22 | Hello Runners! Today, we have a "new" map for you. It's basically a conversion of the Edelweiss map "Hell's Highway". While it looks very similar, it has been extended and has its own twists to better match Vanilla gameplay. The map "Route 666" has been added to the invasion rotator but can also be played as quick match, as well as in Dominance PvP where the city part is being used for a conquest and a king of the hill substage. Some of you might find some use with the "CAMERA MOD" we did a while back, mainly to make scenery screenshots and videos. The "camera_mod" package can be found at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Running |
| Update 1.96.1 | 2023-05-26 | Hello Runners, As most in the Chinese online RWR community probably figured out, we've had some ongoing issues with our former server provider in China which has locked the RWR servers for unclear reasons. After trying to keep an open discussion with the provider on how to remedy the situation to no avail, we currently have no other choice than to accept it and retire the servers in Mainland China to avoid such issues in the future. We are simply put not welcome anymore to continue hosting servers there. While the exact cause is still unclear, we got enough clues to guess but won't go into details at this point. RWR is just a game which conne |