Manual

Welcome to Running With Rifles!

Running with Rifles is a top down/isometric shooter where you take on the role of a single soldier in the middle of a massive all out war between the Greenbelts, the Graycollars and the Brownpants. You are insignificant. You are no better than the man next to you. You are no god of war with regenerating health. You are just a soldier.

This handy handbook is the key to victory and success on the battlefield. While at a first glance RWR seems like an easy game to play and understand, there is actually quite a lot of depth and complexity to the gameplay that can easily frustrate or confuse new players. However, after reading this handbook, you should have a much better understanding of RWR.

This guide should help with any questions and issues you have and improves your chance of survival from 0% to at least 5%.



Getting started
When you start up the game, you will find yourself in the lobby/playground area, which is basically a small map without any enemies. You can toggle the menu on and off with the ESC key. Doing so will allow you to use The Playground, which contains some basic tips and allows you to familiarize yourself with the way the game works. To start/resume a quick game/campaign, you need to have the menu opened (ESC).

The lobby has a stash and an armory that you can interact with. There is also a jeep that you can drive. On the top of the main building there are 2 crates. You may want to climb the ladder and smash the crates with your knife (default key "V") and pick up the items inside. Note that you are only a private (see Ranks) so that you might not be able to pick everything up (default key "F") directly as they are rank restricted. So when you are near those grayed out objects, hold the F-key to open your inventory and drag and drop this stuff into the backpack section of the inventory.

The Playground allows you to do some basic tasks that will allow you to gather some xp, which in turn will let you use more of the equipment found in the aforementioned crates and in the armory. You can also read some tips scattered around this area.

You can then go to the armory and sell your stuff. You may also want to go to the stash and pick up a valuable and sell it to the armory in the event that you need more resource points to buy equipment. When you leave a campaign or a quick match, you will automatically come back to the lobby with the Playground loaded.





Campaign
The campaign in RWR is a series of Invasion type maps where you conquer the continent one map at a time. Each map has you starting with only one base and having to advance through either Graycollars or Brownpants resistance, or sometimes even both at the same time.

After defeating a map, you can choose the path to go and so choose your next map from any adjacent map that is logically connected with a dashed line in the worldview (see Mapview). During the campaign, all XP, RP, and equipment are tracked throughout. You can also turn a singleplayer campaign into a campaign online through local hosting at any time by activating a server by pressing ESC>Activate server. Note: Remember to forward the port that is shown when activating your server !

Quick Match
To jump right into a simple single player game, just select “Start new quick match” from the main menu. Unlike the campaign, you can adjust your settings freely, such as maximum numbers of bots, your starting rank, etc. The other point that differs it from the campaign is that once played online, players can join either team they want, which makes it suited for PvP sessions.

Multiplayer Joining
To join an ongoing multiplayer game, simply head to the main menu and hit “Join online game”. You will then be presented with 2 options: “Public server list” or “Manual IP”.

Public Server List
The public server list is a server browser that shows the open servers that are online. Simply double click a server, select a username, faction, enter a password and initial rank, and hit “Start!”. If you can't join a server, it might either run an obsolete version of the game or the host didn't forward the UDP port required (default port: 1234)

Manual IP
To connect via a direct connection using an IP address, select “Manual IP”, enter the address and port of the host server, select a username and password, a faction, initial rank, and hit “Start!”.

The server list is mainly for open games that anyone can join. Therefore, if you wish to play with a few select friends only, when hosting, choose not to advertize the server on the server browser and connect via manual IP.

Multiplayer Hosting
Hosting a multiplayer is as easy as setting up your own quickmatch game or campaign as shown previously, hitting “ESC” to get to the main menu, and then hitting the “Activate server” button.

Once you hit “Start!” the server will be open for connections. If people are having issues connecting with your server, please check to make sure that the port is properly forwarded. We will not go into details about how to do this. To get instructions on port forwarding, please do a Google search or check the manual of your router.

Movement and Shooting
Congratulations! You are now smack dab in the middle of a fight. Now what? The first thing you should learn is how to navigate the open terrain and shoot those damn *insert other color here* soldiers. Please note that all of these key bindings are default. You can change them to your liking in the “Options” menu.

Movement Key Bindings
''The keys shown are the default controls, which can be re-bound. See the controls page for more.''

Maps
The digital land the soldiers run on is called the Map. Click a picture below to get an overview of that map.