Today marks the anniversary of The Battle of Tannenberg, which took place in 1914 on the Eastern front. To commemorate its memory, Tannenberg will be free to play starting today, August 26, for an entire week!
Furthermore, Tannenberg will be on sale as well with an 80% discount! Be sure to grab your copy so you can continue to play after the free trial!
Hello soldiers! The start of the Great War is nearing soon: July 28. Alongside that, we've got quite a series of release anniversaries in the upcoming days. To commemorate this, we've enabled the Film Memoir mode for you all to experience for free, even if you don't own a Supporter Pack DLC! This provides a new experience in the game, so be sure to check it out!
Maybe you could even unlock the photographer and filmmaker inside of you and try your hand at recreating some classic images? Here’s an example from us!
You can share your screenshots and videos with us by tagging us on Twitter or share them in our Discord .
Good luck on the battlefield soldiers!
Don't forget to wishlist our upcoming Italian Front game Isonzo!
Preparations for war on the Italian Front... plus Verdun & Tannenberg sales!
Verdun and Tannenberg 75% off!
The WW1 Game Series is on sale this week, to celebrate multiple game launch anniversaries! Both Verdun and Tannenberg are 75% off, and you can even get the Verdun 4 Pack for a 70% discount.
A lot has been happening on the Italian Front as Isonzo gets closer to release, and we've been chronicling the development with a series of blogs over on the Isonzo Steam Hub! While we'd highly recommend checking them all out, today we'll highlight a few of the most exciting and interesting. You can already wishlist Isonzo!
One of the new features in Isonzo is the freebuilding construction options available to certain classes - in particular the Engineer. Lay down sandbags and barbed wire to fortify your positions or try and establish some cover for attacking allies. Full blog post here!
An engineer built sandbag position.
The Gorizia Map
Gorizia is the third map in the Sixth Battle of the Isonzo Offensive, featuring urban combat and a river crossing. Read all about it in parts one and two!
Comparison of the in-game train station to historical photo.
Officer Call-ins - Artillery, Gas, and Aviation
In Isonzo the Officer class has access to three areas of support, which are targeted on flares fired by Officers or Mountaineers. Each type of support has a separate cooldown: you can use weaker call-ins more frequently, or wait to deploy the most powerful abilities. Read more about the three support branches: artillery,gas, and aviation.
A 6x speed version of a creeping barrage in action. These can be truly devastating
Gas spreading after shells land.
Heavy bombers in action!
The Dolomites Map
You'll be engaging in extreme mountain warfare on this map as the Italians battle uphill to capture the Sasso di Sesto! With very steep slopes and action focused on two key points, the fighting will be intense. Read parts one and two.
Enlist to fight on the Italian Front!
Finally, we wanted to share a new competition to celebrate Isonzo's release date announcement! You can win a game key and other Isonzo goodies by entering our raffle - all you have to do is sign up for the WW1 Game Series newsletter on our website to enter the raffle and get all the latest news from the development frontlines! Who knows... maybe one of you’ll be the lucky soldier who’ll be receiving an Isonzo goodie pack, including one of the first Isonzo game keys and a special Isonzo poppy grenade!
You'll also find WW1 inspired Isonzo propaganda posters! You can download them and use them as your wallpaper, banner or even print them out and hang them up!
Marines at War campaign has ended
Hello soldiers!
A week has passed since the start of the our Marines at War campaign, which came to an end today! Thank you all for participating ! The final results of the campaign are here:
Central Powers: 1,222,643
Entente: 1,181,200
With a difference of 41,443, the Entente win! Thank you for your participation and we hope to see you back on the battlefield for our next campaign.
Wishlist Isonzo
In case you've missed it, we've announced the release date for our upcoming game Isonzo! The game will be released on September 13! Be sure to wishlist the game if you haven't already
The German spring offensive was underway in June 1918, and they had captured Belleau Wood and nearby territory as part of a plan to force a crossing of the Marne river. French and US forces opposed them, with the 5th and 6th Marine Regiments ordered to retake Belleau Wood. The first attack went in on June 6.
More than 1000 Marines were killed in that first day of fighting, more than had been killed in all the time since it was first formed in 1775. The Germans repulsed the Americans that time, and in four subsequent attacks as well. But the Marines didn’t give up, and their sixth attack finally cleared the woods, with the battle ending on June 26.
Painting of US Marines fighting at Belleau Wood.
Marines at War in-game
Our latest campaign event will run until June 27. All casualties in Frontlines and Maneuver game modes in Verdun and Tannenberg will be added to the total losses, and the winning side will be whoever suffers the least killed and wounded. Too many First World War battles essentially became meatgrinders (or were even conceived as such from the start) and so it is for our campaigns.
We got some big news for you all. We’re happy to tell you that our 3rd game, Isonzo will be released on September 13 ! This summer, you’ll be able to fight up in the mountains, alongside the Isonzo river, rural areas & more!
Along with the release date, we’re revealing a 4th map you’ll be able to play on in Isonzo; the Dolomites! Will you be able to conquer the mountain along with your fellow Italians? Or will you stand high and mighty on the top as an Austro-Hungarian?
Keep the next Isonzo devblog will focus on the recently revealed Dolomites Map! Be sure to keep an eye out!
Fixes for Play Now when there are no active matches
This should be a <50 MB update.
Fix for save data issues
Hello everyone!
We would like to let you know that we have a patch addressing the most recent issues with loss of save game data. In case you've lost some of your data since the update in March where we made changes to the save system, please update and let us know if your data is restored.
Please inform us in our Discord #techsupport channel if this update has fixed the issue, and of course, if you run into any problems.
Thank you for patience and playing our game!
Verdun turns 8 years! Time to celebrate!
Hello soldiers!
Today is the release anniversary of Verdun! It's already been 8 years since the first game in the WW1 Game Series was officially released and we thank you all for your continuous love and feedback for our games! We're glad we can share this passion for WW1 and videogames with you all! To celebrate this special occasion, we got several things going on!
Starting today, April 28th, until May 2nd, Verdun will be available to play for free on Steam! This is a great opportunity to finally get that one friend to play the game with you or introduce new recruits who might've found us during our Isonzo expo booths to the game where it all started!
But that's not all! Furthemore, you'll be able to get Verdun with an 80% discount! Additionally, a 4-pack for you and your friends is available with a 75% discount and the soundtrack also has 80% off.
As we say here in The Netherlands, 'the one who celebrates, treats others!'. We prepared a special Verdun quiz you all can take! Amongst the people who got all the questions right, we'll select one winner who will receive a special goodiebag full of WW1 Game Series merch! You can find the link here.
Note that we ask for your email address to be able to contact you in case you're the winner! We're not using your email address for other purposes.
Isonzo Intel
More Isonzo Intel for you all! You thought we were done with highlighting the Gorizia map? No, there's more! Be sure to read up here!
We have a new patch for Verdun and Tannenberg for you today! This will improve the save system and additional connection improvements. You might have heard of the patch to the "opentesting" branch that we did earlier this month. This required all players who wanted to test our changes to the save system, as well as improvements for the connection issues, to opt-in by switching branches.
We really wanted to be sure that there would be no longer term issues, so we are very happy that many of you switched. We received positive feedback, so today we are rolling out the changes to the main versions of Verdun and Tannenberg.
The update affects two major systems:
Save System
If this update works as intended, you should not notice anything. This update is meant to stop the progression loss and progression inflation (suddenly having billions of XP/level/prestige) from happening again.
If you are currently suffering from this "Billions Bug", this might revert your stats to the correct ones, but we can’t guarantee anything. If you have suffered from progression loss (data getting set to an earlier state, or nothing at all), this update will sadly not bring back your stats. We made a rigorous reimplementation of our saving and loading structure so that we hopefully never have these issues again.
In the unlikely case that there are still issues with this, your old data will stay in place for now. This means that you would still have access to your old data if we need to revert anything, so you won't lose all your data by updating.
Connection issues
This should mark an improvement across the board, please let us know if this is better after the update! We don't expect it to be fully solved yet, and again, we have improved our diagnostics, so if you send us your logs we will be able to track the issues more closely. Best case scenario it will make a big difference right off the bat, and otherwise it will give us more information to continue our efforts.
If any of you do experience any issues, please be sure to share your logs with us in the #techsupport channel in our Discord. These will help us address and fix the problems you might come across.
For everyone on the opentesting branch, thank you again for helping us make sure these changes were safe. You can stay on the opentesting branch if you want, but you will have the same version as everyone. We don't plan on keeping it in active use, unless we have something experimental to test.
