- Update 201: Melee, Trail Arms & Horse Leading - Released! - 14 September 2026
Hello everyone,Today, we’re pleased to bring you the 201st War of Rights update, with a focus on improving the overall responsiveness and feel of the game.Update 201 brings a number of changes to infantry gameplay, including improvements to melee combat, movement and weapon handling, as well as the introduction of personal hit notification sounds. We’ve also continued our work on the recently introduced horses, with players now able to lead them on foot by the reins.These changes, alongside a number of smaller improvements and fixes, make up Update 201. Let’s dive into the specifics below! Trail Arms & Movement ChangesOne of the most consistent pieces of feedback we’ve received, particularly from newer players, has been frustration with how the character transitions between the marching and at-the-ready states. We’ve also found the existing behaviour to be somewhat unintuitive, as certa…
- Update 200: Horses - Released! - 17 July 2026
Hello everyone,We are very excited to announce that Update 200: Horses has just been released! Today marks one of the biggest milestones in War of Rights' development as horses officially arrive on the battlefields of the Maryland Campaign. This has been one of our most ambitious undertakings to date. Bringing mounted gameplay to War of Rights required extensive work across animation, networking, gameplay systems, AI, audio, and countless technical improvements behind the scenes. From the very beginning, our goal has been to ensure that horses feel like a natural extension of the battlefield while maintaining the authenticity and immersion that define the game.Over the past two weeks, thousands of you joined our public tests, helping us identify issues, refine mechanics, and prepare the update for release. We'd like to extend a sincere thank you to everyone who took the time to particip…
- Update 200: Horses - Pre-Release Public Testing Begins Today! - 4 July 2026
Hello everyone,Today, four years after the development of horses for War of Rights began, we are immensely proud and excited to host the very first public tests of the addition of horses to the game, later to be fully released on July 17th!Horse pre-release testing will run on the War of Rights Official Test Server between now and July 17. The dates and times of each session will be announced in advance. The very first horse test is expected to go live within the next few hours from the time of this posting! Slots are limited for this test, so join the public test server now for your place in todays test. We will be announcing whenever horses are available for testing on our Discord at: https://discord.gg/warofrights so please keep an eye out in the Announcements channel there if you wish to partake in multiple tests as we approach the July 17 release date of Update 200. Let’s dive into…
- 1776: 250th Anniversary - Preparation Update - 12 June 2026
Hello everyone, Today, we are pleased to bring you the preparation update for the annual 1776 event - this year, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence! The event is scheduled to begin today at 3 PM EDT/9PM CEST and will continue to July 6th. We cannot wait to join you all in just a few short hours to, once again, partake in massive 400-player Revolutionary War battles, now featuring even more playable units and weapons.Below is what today’s preparation update includes for the base (non-event) game!Patch NotesUpdated the army branch selection screen in the game.Recreated the M1855 Springfield using 3D scans of originals.Recreated the M1861 Springfield, using 3D scans of originals.Added a Springfield Bayonet model, using 3D scans of originals.Updated the cartridge models in the game, using 3D scans of replicas. The game now features visually d…
- 1776: 250th Anniversary Event Announcement - 8 June 2026
Hello everyone, Today, we are pleased to announce this year’s War of Rights: 1776 event, featuring several new units and weapons, will run from June 12th to July 6th! Celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence by joining our massively immersive 400-player battles set during the Revolutionary War. Fight alongside the Patriots, or go to war for King George III as an English loyalist or Hessian mercenary!The Campfire Games Team
- Balance & Environmental Pass - Released! - 9 February 2026
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 gathered enough of a pool of matches, allowing us to take the first steps towards a more equal and competitive War of Rights. Today’s initial balance overhaul is built on the collected data of 959 recorded Skirmish matches from the past month, all con…
- Winter Update: Maryland, My Maryland! - 15 December 2025
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 unique experiences, but we feel they’re in a great place now, and in 2026, our focus is back on the Civil War, delivering the core battles and experiences that make War of Rights so special. This update also lays a lot of important groundwork for our nex…
- The Harvest of Death: South Mountain Onslaught Available - 16 October 2025
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 an issue causing the undead to not despawn in the prepare stage.Fixed a client crash issue.
- After Days of Silence: Sharpsburg Reported. Antietam Onslaught Available - 11 October 2025
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 colder than it should for this season.Men speak in hushed tones of something unholy moving among the fallen, a black rot that crawls across the earth as though the very soil were poisoned by all the blood spilled here. Even the crows have begun to fall f…
- The Plague Spreads! Drill Camp Onslaught Available - 7 October 2025
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 into a waking nightmare where each step forward might bring the living face to face with the relentless dead. Risen Dead Event 07/10/2025 Patch notesThe Drill Camp level is now available in Onslaught.The XP screen is now shown at the end of the narr…
- The Risen Dead Event - Live NOW! - 3 October 2025
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 still maintaining a focus on teamwork at a massive scale. Use the all-new buildable fortifications, player abilities and upgradeable weapons to defend against the endless hordes, but keep an eye out for the spread of the risen dead! Fortifications &…
- The Risen Dead Event Announcement - 26 September 2025
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! - 1 July 2025
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 line on the fields of glory and fight with your comrades in the American Civil War or partake in our time-limited 1776 event! You can purchase the game here: While today’s launch of 1776 surely is the main event, we have also updated War of Rights wi…
- 1776 Preparation Update - Released! - 28 June 2025
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! - 28 May 2025
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 new and long-standing developers who began as members of our community. Their passion and deep connection to War of Rights brings valuable insight as they help us continue to improve and expand the game. At its core, War of Rights is a game with a…
- Update 198: Scopes, Sights & Ballistics - Released! - 13 March 2025
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 rifles. These technological marvels of their day are currently limited to the NCO ranks of 1st Sergeant and Sergeant Major of the regiments deployed with either Whitworth or Sharps rifles; CSA 1st North Carolina Sharpshooters 5th Alabama Battalion Palme…
- Update 197: Drill Camp Skirmishes - Released! - 19 December 2024
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 Skirmish areas ever released). When playing the new Skirmish areas, players can expect the same attention to detail as found throughout the rest of War of Rights thanks to the diverse nature of the Drill Camp level; Farms, roads, fields, forests, ar…
- Autumn Sale! War of Rights is now 50% off - 27 November 2024
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! - 30 October 2024
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 quarantine beginning on Thursday, 31st of October in order to evacuate the area. We hear reports of an unparalleled emergency requiring the aid of blue, brown and butternut clad soldiers alike! Due to popular demand, the undead return to War of Rig…
- Update 195: 350 Player Support - Released! - 27 June 2024
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 hardware. However, fear not if you long for additional increases in the future: Our march towards a bigger and better performing digital battle will continue on throughout the lifetime of the game. The new 350 player cap is now live and accessible v…
