War of Rights — 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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| Balance & Environmental Pass - Released! | 2026-02-09 | Hello everyone, Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of an all-new Alpha update, containing the biggest balance changes in War of Rights history, thanks to our recently introduced statistics tracking feature. Today’s update also includes major visual and audible improvements to the environments of War of Rights.Work on the greatly anticipated Update 200 is still ongoing and we cannot wait to share more details about it with you in the near future, that being said, let’s dive into the specifics of today’s update below!Skirmish Balance Overhaul A month ago, we introduced stat tracking features to the game via a hotfix and we have now ga |
| Winter Update: Maryland, My Maryland! | 2025-12-15 | Hello everyone,Today, we’re excited to bring you our final update of 2025: Maryland, My Maryland! As 2025 draws to a close, it’s the perfect time to reflect on what a fantastic year it has been. We pushed our server count up to 400, overhauled ballistics, introduced scoped rifles, and twice broke our concurrent player peak, first with the 1776 Limited Event and later with The Risen Dead, making this year truly unforgettable.We want to take a moment to thank our community for its ongoing support. We can’t wait to continue this journey with you all in 2026. The limited-time events this year were a lot of fun and allowed us to explore some uniqu |
| The Harvest of Death: South Mountain Onslaught Available | 2025-10-16 | October 1st, 1862With Sharpsburg and Harper’s Ferry fallen to the dead, the passes of South Mountain become the next battleground for the living to defend. Longstreet’s Wing arrived after a forced march through the night to be met by the haggard forces that remained of the Union Fifth Corps. Enemies-turned-friends now await the Risen tide together.Risen Dead Event 16/10/2025 Patch notesOnslaught is now available on South Mountain.Fixed most of the camera snapping when finishing reloading the Sharps rifle.Players now move in a more realistic (and less foot sliding) way when they are hit in melee.Reduced the volume of the rain in the game.Fixed |
| After Days of Silence: Sharpsburg Reported. Antietam Onslaught Available | 2025-10-11 | You have already faced the horrors that consumed Harpers Ferry and the Drill Camp, but now the earliest reports from Antietam have reached your hands. The fields of Sharpsburg lie in shadow, haunted by the first stirrings of the plague. It is time for you to fight in the first major battle, where the undead first rose.Field Report – Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 29, 1862Sir,It has been several days since the guns fell silent at Antietam, yet the fields show no peace. The dead still carpet the ground, their faces fixed in silence beneath a black sky. The stench of decay grows thicker with each passing hour, carried on a wind that feels colde |
| The Plague Spreads! Drill Camp Onslaught Available | 2025-10-07 | Union and Confederate alike had long struggled to keep the risen dead confined to Harpers Ferry, yet now their plague had seeped into northern Maryland. Quiet farms and scattered army drill camps, once peaceful and orderly, now lay under a fragile dawn. The pale sun rose slowly, casting long, trembling shadows across the fields, as if the land itself sensed the coming horror.A cold, creeping fog rolled in, winding between fences and over crops, thick and almost alive. Within its ghostly veil, the dead stirred — shuffling, moaning, and reaching toward anything that moved. The fog swallowed sound and shape alike, turning the tranquil landscape |
| The Risen Dead Event - Live NOW! | 2025-10-03 | Hello everyone, The bell still tolls for the dead of the Maryland campaign. Blue and gray laid to rest in countless shallow graves across the battle-scared countryside. This night, however, some ancient evil stirs in the wind, rustling the autumn-clad leaves and disturbing the freshly dug dirt. They are here!We’re excited to announce that “The Risen Dead” event is now live! Band together, Johnny Reb and Billy Yank, or die alone to the hordes of the living dead! Supporting 150 players battling up to 800 zombies at once, “The Risen Dead” Halloween event of War of Rights continues to push the boundaries of what is possible in an FPS game while s |
| The Risen Dead Event Announcement | 2025-09-26 | Hello everyone,“Something wicked stirs in Maryland..” It’s almost spooky season once again and so we are pleased to announce that the start of this year’s “The Risen Dead” time-limited event is going to be on October 3rd! Get ready to fight back the hordes of the undead in this 150+ player wave survival mode, featuring all-new constructible defences, player abilities, achievements, and more as the unnatural plague spreads throughout Maryland during the event!The Campfire Games Team |
| War of Rights: 1776 Time-Limited Event Now Live! | 2025-07-01 | Hello everyone,We’re excited to announce that the anticipated time-limited War of Rights event 1776 is now live! Head into the game, join a game server that is hosting the event and experience colonial line-warfare on a massive 400 player scale in celebration of July 4th!Featuring new regiments, animations, UI elements, weapons and more, today’s initial release of 1776 is bound to be a welcome addition to the yearly event roster of War of Rights.Steam Summer Sale - War of Rights 50% off!As part of the Steam Summer Sale, War of Rights is currently 50% off! Now is the perfect time to pick up a copy for yourself or your friends to shore up the l |
| 1776 Preparation Update - Released! | 2025-06-28 | Hello everyone,Today, we have updated the game in preparation for the anticipated time-limited 1776 event starting July 1st.We cannot wait to march and fight alongside you all in this all-new War of Rights event experience, starting in just a few more days!Steam Summer Sale - War of Rights 50% off!As part of the Steam Summer Sale, War of Rights is currently 50% off! Now is the perfect time to pick up a copy for yourself or your comrades to shore up the line on the fields of glory in preparation for the Independence Day celebration that is the 1776 event!You can purchase the game here: |
| Update 199: 400 Player Support - Released! | 2025-05-28 | Hello everyone, Today, we’re excited to bring you Update 199: 400 Player Support to War of Rights! As the title suggests, this update increases the official player cap from 350 to 400 players per server. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg in today’s update—there’s much more to announce, explore and enjoy. Before we get into all the excitement of today’s update, we want to take a moment to celebrate three amazing people who have risen from the ranks in our incredible community to become valuable contributors at Campfire Games. Where Passion Meets Profession: Players Become Developers With today’s update, we’re proud to highlight both |
| Update 198: Scopes, Sights & Ballistics - Released! | 2025-03-13 | Hello everyone, Today we’re happy to be bringing you the first alpha update of 2025 to War of Rights, titled Update 198: Scopes, Sights & Ballistics! The primary focus of today’s update is to overhaul the ballistics of all small arms fire within the game, improve rifle zeroing handling and sight pictures, and introduce highly limited scoped variants of the Whitworth and Sharps rifles to the game. Let’s dive into the details below! Scoped Sharpshooting Rifles Although they will be exceedingly rare, rifles with mounted scopes make their debut in War of Rights with the introduction of the four-powered scoped Whitworth and six-powered Sharps rifl |
| Update 197: Drill Camp Skirmishes - Released! | 2024-12-19 | Hello everyone, As the year draws to an end, we’re excited to be bringing you the 197th alpha update to War of Rights titled Drill Camp Skirmishes today! The last major update of 2024 includes several new additions that are bound to shake up the game and a fair few improvements, as well. Let’s dive into the content of Update 197: Drill Camp Skirmishes below! 13 New Drill Camp Skirmishes Today’s update expands the ever popular Skirmish game mode by introducing 13 additional Skirmish areas situated on the Drill Camp level. Each of the 13 new Skirmish areas are roughly the same size as that of the Dunker Church Skirmish (one of the 3 very first |
| Autumn Sale! War of Rights is now 50% off | 2024-11-27 | Hello Everyone, For the next week, War of Rights is 50% off as part of Steam's Autumn Sale. Now is a great time to pick up the game and join the ranks, partaking in massive 350 player first person 19th century warfare! https://store.steampowered.com/app/424030/War_of_Rights/ We look forward to be welcoming all of the new recruits on the fields of glory! - The Campfire Games Team |
| Update 196: Decaying Autumn - Released! | 2024-10-30 | Hello everyone, We’re excited to be bringing you the 196th alpha update titled Decaying Autumn to War of Rights today! Today’s update includes several major visual overhauls to the game, a completion of the infantry unit customization, additional musician tunes, the return of autumn as well as a few spooky treats just in time for Halloween.. Let’s dive into the content of Update 196: Decaying Autumn below! ATTENTION: Harpers Ferry To Be Quarantined! Attention! A mysterious sickness has been reported to have been spreading throughout the town of Harpers Ferry in recent weeks and as such we expect the governor to issue a two-week long town-wide |
| Update 195: 350 Player Support - Released! | 2024-06-27 | Hello everyone, Today, we’re pleased to be bringing you the 195th alpha update to War of Rights! After more than 2 years of testing player counts at 400 on the Official War of Rights Test Server and countless of optimization focused updates brought to you, we are now - at long last - at a point where we feel confident about raising the officially supported max player count on a server from 300 to 350. We opted to go with an incremental increase of an additional 50 players for this update because, as it stands, client performance for the last 50 players from 350 to 400 takes too big a toll, especially when not using the latest and greatest of |
| Field Report 48: Service Records Announcement | 2024-05-31 | Service Records In today’s field report, we are introducing a new upcoming community focused feature: Service Records. Service Records are the successor to the Company Tool and the next stage of the “Veterancy” update. In the soon-to-be overhauled War of Rights website at: https://www.warofrights.com/ you’ll be able to login to your all-new Service Records profile using your Steam account in order to dive deep into your War of Rights stats, match history, rewards, seasonal leaderboards, units and more. Let’s take a closer look at how! Profiles, Stat Tracking, Match History and Rewards Service Records are the central hub for showcasing your in |
| Update 194: Networking Overhaul - Released! | 2024-03-13 | Hello everyone, We're thrilled to announce the release of the 194th update for War of Rights today, with a major focus on enhancing overall server performance to future-proof the game. Additionally, we aim to broaden the selection and scope of available game server hosting options. War of Rights truly shines when immersing you in massive battles with hundreds of players on-screen. Therefore, we consistently strive to push boundaries, improving both client and server performance to increase the server player cap. The networking overhaul in Update 194 is another crucial step in our ongoing quest to support even larger battles. Traversal : Phase |
| Update 193: The Dead of Autumn - Released! | 2023-10-30 | Hello everyone, Today, we’re happy to introduce base update 193 to the game as well as detail two soon to be released Autumn time limited events for War of Rights! It’s been a few months since the last game update was released, and so this one contains many fixes and additions to the game - as well as a few surprises. Let’s start off by detailing the upcoming time limited events and then continue to dive into what is included in today’s update. Autumnal Splendor - Limited Time Environment Just two days from now, come November 1st, Maryland will undergo a mesmerizing autumnal transformation for the fall season. The trees are shedding their lea |
| Update 192: Optimizations & Fixes - Released! | 2023-08-09 | Hello everyone, Today’s War of Rights alpha update is a relatively small one but we thought it best to get it to you all as soon as possible as it contains a few rather nice improvements, fixes and additions to the game. Update 192 Patch Notes Further optimized the game code, this time focusing on instancing the character attachments such as hats and bayonets as well as improved the river renderer efficiency, resulting in upwards of 30% performance improvements at isolated moments in the game such as when looking at the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers of Harpers Ferry. Recapturing the point in skirmishes while overtime and counter attack is act |
| Update 191: Optimizations, Hair Overhauls & Anti Troll Measures - Released! | 2023-07-20 | Hello everyone, Today, we’re happy to be bringing you another alpha update to War of Rights! Update 191 primarily features a sizable processor usage optimization pass within the game, resulting in up to a 20% overall FPS gain between update 190 and update 191 if you happen to be bottlenecked by your CPU in your setup. Other notable features of update 191 include a complete hair and facial hair overhaul for much improved character-details, especially up close. This addition also paves the way for future character specific updates. Lastly, we’d like to highlight a few new anti troll measures making their way into the game; carried flags and art |