Running with Rifles Beta 0.79

ai: guarding behaviorai: attempts to drive on certain side of the road to avoid colliding with other vehicles coming their wayai: a few fixes made to obstacle collision avoidance and navigationai: designated radar truck driver behaviorai: squad members will now stab enemies when near them in unalerted environmentai: being still, and moving crouched or prone makes a soldier less detectable nowai: spends a bit longer time investigating last known enemy positions and alertsai: concentrates bazookas and grenades against important vehicles in alerted environmentai: no longer forgets to avoid vehicles when moving to enter another vehiclecrash: bullet trails running out fix attempt #1opengl: blocky soldier fixedcontrols: prone and crouch toggle buttons not longer become unassigned when re-launching gameaiming: if aiming at ground is blocked by terrain, aiming will happen to the blocked position + the usual random offset upwards on vague target -- helps shooting uphillvehicles: radar truck added; destroying enemy truck causes their map data to become disabled, commander to become ineffective and capacity to reduce, temporarily until vehicle again spawnsvehicles: sounds changed, ignition sounds addedappearance: grass decorations are now created on platform objects marked as terrainweapons: Mossberg, PKM, AK47 and G36 voxel models remade, thank you ComJak!weapons: shotgun range nerfed once againmodding: vehicle parameters exposedrocks: huge rocks disabled by default; controllable by the map maker of coursemap-making: randomness in objects is now tied to object id -- mostly means rocks, buildings and trees will the stay same regardless of order

performance: terrain tilesize reduced, saves plenty of polygons with expense of slighty increasing batch countperformance: terrain height and normal querying improvedperformance: maps with max 5 terrain layers can utilize single pass terrain renderingappearance: alpha blended meshes use correct texture for shadows nowappearance: shadow biasing adjusted, shadow casting now effective on models on groundoptions: voxel shading control addedkey-config: map, stats, squad size control keys addedcrosshair: crosshair functions correctly with vehicle weapon accuracyaudio-free: game again runnable without audioapc-hmg: ends with a small blast, delivers damage to other vehiclesm72-law: new particle effectuniforms: new green soldier uniform variantonline: support for live map change addedai: minor vehicle handling adjustments, bigger improvements coming soonmodding: extended projectile parameters added, configure between line/sphere-physics model, hit/blast result, time/impact trigger, attach trail, particle effects and regular/voxel meshes to any projectile

“Keep your head down SOLDIER – you’ll need it!”Pick up your rifle and join the Green or Grey army in their mission to send the enemy home in a box! RWR is an open world, top-down, tactical shooter for single player and multiplayer online, that puts you right in the middle of chaos in towns, trenches and forests turned into ruthless battlefields, controlling just one soldier in an army of several hundreds. 

In a war where men die like flies and endless streams of reinforcements run to fill the void, it takes tactics and marksmanship to capture territories effectively. The open world nature of the game enables you to use a multitude of approaches to help the front line move – it’s up to you to shape your role. Experience the complete arc starting as a private hardening into a high ranking officer with a squad under command, arming yourself with a variety of weapons and vehicles on your way to glory!

Key features, so far Windows and Linux supported 24/7 servers in Europe and USA supporting 30+ players 4x 1 km^2 maps with total of 35 bases 1x PvP (no AI) map with 7 bases hundreds of simultaneous AI soldiers open world: it’s up to you how you play, the war goes on without you not your usual “I’m the hero”-shooter: one bullet kills more often than not use cover, crouch and prone, move with others to increase your odds to stay alive emergent AI that tries hard: they too use cover and rooftops, attempt outflanking gain experience to get promotions to lead your own squad, unlock abilities a variety of modern weapons, and thus, roles grenades, bazookas and mortar strikes vehicles: jeeps, mobile spawn point trucks and APC’s, with AI driving too