Hey everyone,

Thank you for all the feedback you’ve been sharing with us since the release of WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes. We’d like to use this opportunity to let you know what the next steps are and at the same time answer some of the most frequent questions that arose on Steam after WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes launched.

On August 23, 2023 WARSAW was updated to WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes and became available on Steam as a free game featuring:

• New playable hero
  
• Two new enemy units
  
• New storyline, complete with animated and voiced cutscenes
  
• New, fully voiced Polish narrator (with complete subtitles)
  
• New soundtrack
  
• New location type to interact with on the map
  
• Tons of new entries for the codex including photos, posters and newspapers

Alongside there have been two beta branches with older versions of the game available to all the players. That beta has run its course and will close in 30 days. On April 5th, 2024, we will retire all the beta branches from WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes. Players who had the game in their library before August 23, 2023, will receive an update that adds a special launcher. This launcher will allow you to choose which version of the game you want to play - WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes or the older version of the game (with improved controller support, optimization, balance updates, bug fixes, and other quality-of-life changes).

Those of you who did not purchase the previous version of the game and did not have it in their library prior to the WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes launch will retain access to that version only.

Q: Why did you remove a strategic element from the game, making the gameplay too linear?
A: The removal of the “momentum” system was required to follow for historical accuracy - this means that Rising cannot falter based on the player’s choices that are not true to the historical facts. Currently the linear mission progression requires the player to undertake a mix of both the actual missions that happened in real life, as well as a degree of random missions to make each gameplay that much different but it does not affect the historical milestones of the actual Rising.
The second thing altered was the omission of three missions to choose from - what now remains is a random mission that propels the story forward in linear fashion, although the random missions are still chosen from a pool of available ones.

WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes remains a tactical turn-based RPG with a wide roster of playable characters with their own unique skills, that tells the story of Warsaw Rising - now presented in more accurate chronological order. When playing the game you will experience:

• Tactical turn-based gameplay with rpg elements and resource management
  
• Extensive roster of characters with their own unique skills
  
• Collection of weapons that players can find on different missions
  
• Numerous enemies and enemy vehicles with their own sets of skills and strategies
  
• The events of the Warsaw Rising accompanied by historical characters, places and documents

Q: Game became a visual novel now.
A: WARSAW RISING’S gameplay remains the same as in the older version and now players also have the opportunity to learn more about the events, people, and places of the Warsaw Rising. WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes is a turn-based rpg that has an extensive, tactical combat system where players can develop their characters that have their own playstyle, weapons and story. It portrays the events of the 1944 Warsaw Rising, one of the most tragic chapters in the city’s long history.

Q: Game is not historically accurate.
A: We partnered with Institute of Polish Remembrance to expand on the historical aspect of the game, to enrich WARSAW RISING with the addition of authentic events, characters, missions, cutscenes and Warsaw Rising day by day diary. Warsaw Rising Museum and Institute of Polish Remembrance supplied us with the materials that contributed to the historical accuracy of the game - photos of people and places, notes, and newspaper clippings.

Q: I lost access to the game that I paid for. How do I get it back?
A: Access to the older version of the game was never removed - it required you to access the beta branch to play it. Starting from April 5th 2024 we will introduce a launcher that allows owners of the older version of the game to choose which version they want to play.

We greatly appreciate your support, comments and feedback for WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes.

UPDATE:

We decided to postpone the beta branch deactivation by two weeks into the second half of April.