RUNNING WITH RIFLES

Beta 0.65 is out!

pasik — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:35:24 +0000

It’s update time! Beta 0.65 includes mostly minor but important bug fixes and balance improvements here and there. New features are this time limited to automatic game reactivation on online servers after the game’s over, crouch & prone toggling and controls for the isolines to help understanding the terrain elevation better. Map3 has gone through some very nice progress, but will still require more work to be called complete.

Log of changes can be found on the forum.

If you’ve pre-purchased the game already, remember that you can download the latest version by re-using your download link which you got from BMTMicro. If you’ve lost the receipt/download link, don’t hesitate to contact orders@bmtmicro.com or pasi.kainiemi@modulaatio.com so that we can re-send you the information.

Also, don’t forget the big multiplayer match on Saturday 12th – that’s today – at 7 pm UTC! The server’s in Europe so prepare yourself accordingly

RWR in media

pasik — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:11:50 +0000

Well look at that! RUNNING WITH RIFLES has got some press coverage recently, since a while actually. Adam Smith from Rock, Paper, Shotgun wrote a few impressions based on the latest videos, while Space-Biff went hands-on and played some heavy battles in the latest beta — just look at this screenshot — and found 5 more reasons to play RWR.

Edit (May 3rd 2012):
VIDEO: Indie Games Bonanza goes BETA with RWR by Jefmajor!
(Thanks Foksuh!)

Modulaatio Games thanks these guys for making an effort to keep RWR known out there!

Beta 0.63 has been released!

pasik — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:46:37 +0000

Beta 0.63 comes with a lot of new small things. Most importantly, there’s a fix for the seemingly random client side crash that’s been bugging everyone lately. There’s some new visual stuff like rank icons, a victory image and rank progression (XP if you will) indicators. The soldiers are now also able to move and turn while on prone, weapon reload times have been adjusted and there are new car props in map2! See the change log for detailed list of changes.

The work on the drivable jeep is progressing nicely, I’ll make a teaser video about it soonish once I reach a certain level with it. Plenty of work to be done there though, but I’m hoping we can start testing it online in a couple of weeks!

Enjoy the video below of JackMayol showcasing some of the new features.

That was fast; beta 0.62 is out!

pasik — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:24:53 +0000

A big unfortunate last minute bug had found its way into beta 0.61 making the life of multiplayers miserable – beta 0.62 makes it right again and is available for download right now. For completeness sake, enjoy the change log.

Beta 0.61 is out!

pasik — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:36:05 +0000

Hey there!

This time, the new version introduces a sniper rifle with extended sight range, third map (although very much work-in-progress), and a revamped base capture logic with a new HUD indicator. Other than that, there are some minor bug fixes and slight optimizations, sorted out in detail here.

Major multiplayer updates in beta 0.60!

pasik — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:48:23 +0000

Beta 0.60 is available starting now! RWR now features client side prediction and it works wonders for online gaming I must say. As long as the lag stays below 200ms the online game sessions seem very playable, highly much more than before beta 0.60.

The in-game server browser makes its debut appearance as well, it should make it more straightforward to find people to play with online. Other very welcome updates include squad member markers, better squad forming, corpse bug fixes, controllable corpse clean up threshold, re-balanced shotgun, new high ranks, some new textures, the usual bug fixes.. and last but not least, new signs and parasols (indeed!) generously provided by JackMayol!

For the modders out there, there’s some new stuff in the weapon system which allows e.g. bolt-action weapons with magazines, and there’s now basic support for external 3D meshes to be imported in the game. Also, don’t forget the RWR voxel editor which was released a small while ago!

..and here’s the obligatory change log for details about beta 0.60.

Beta 0.59 is out!

pasik — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:58:37 +0000

After a long wait RUNNING WITH RIFLES beta 0.59 sees the light of day bringing along new features such as adding a server to a public list at http://serverlist.modulaatio.com, squad commands and the shotgun. Check out the full change log on the forum.

The development is now getting back to full throttle again after a few obstacles experienced in the last few weeks (moving in new home and all the mess with it, main dev PC PSU blowing up). Next up in beta 0.60, expect to see the in-game server browser and the client side prediction!

Also, starting the work with vehicles and the third map should not be that far away now..

Beta 0.582 is out, yet another critical fix release

pasik — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:56:26 +0000

A problem with map loading was found in beta 0.58 which occurred on certain PCs, causing map2 loading to abort. 0.582 fixes it by setting the floating point precision to something specific when initializing the game, rather than relying on the default setting which might be different on different PCs causing slightly different calculation results causing huge differences while loading a map and eventually crashes.

Another important fix is for the online gaming, where a crash would happen on the client(s) when an area became occupied by a new faction IF the clients didn’t have the exact same sequence of maps loaded during a single run of RWR as the server. Simple stuff but seemingly awkward to explain, anyway, the area ids just became off-sync due to lack of id reset when changing the map. Fixed!

See the change log for the rest of minor fixes and additions, not much of those this time though.

Beta 0.58 released, now with 100% more water

pasik — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:43:30 +0000

Yay, finally some water for those beaches and docks in the second map!

Beta 0.58 also brings clipboard paste functionality, better falling motion, global (just online session wide really) chat, and a bunch of minor fixes. See the change log for details.

Beta 0.572 released, including a critical fix for map2, for some

pasik — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:22:32 +0000

As it says in the topic, map2 refused to load up on some people’s computers, resulting in a crash every time. Map1 seemingly loaded up ok without crashing, but a lot of objects were misplaced in the map. Beta 0.572 fixes that; big thanks to those who helped to locate the issue!

Other tiny changes in the release include a greater radius for spawn zone safety, and the collectible weapons and grenades exist for a little longer now.