RWR: PACIFIC

**RUNNING WITH RIFLES: PACIFIC**, also known as *RWR: PACIFIC*, *PACIFIC DLC* or simply *PACIFIC*, is the first official DLC for *RUNNING WITH RIFLES*, released on october 26, 2017.

RWR: PACIFIC brings the real-life World War II Pacific War theater into RWR by adding new weapons, equipment, vehicles as well as an authentic campaign - including 8 maps - and two new factions.

Not to be confused with RWR: EDELWEISS.

Features

## Factions

RWR: PACIFIC introduce two brand new factions:

* The United States Marine Corps, a branch of the United States Armed Forces (USAF)
* The Imperial Japanese Army
	+ Since 1.70, regular IJA troops are replaced by the Special Naval Landing Forces, a branch of the Imperial Japanese Navy, on Tarawa and Operation Downfall

## Maps

RWR: PACIFIC features 8 new maps (one of which were added later), each one representing an island on which the Pacific War found its way.

## Weapons and equipment

**General notes**

* An asterisk(\*) next to a weapon name indicates it has a bayonet version as well. The bayonet may be swapped to by using the "weapon mode switch" keybind, "X" by default. Any differences between the two version of the weapon are shown with parenthesis () which indicates a difference on the bayoneted variant.
* The commonness of a certain weapon depends on their xp requirement too. The ANM2 Stinger for example, despite having a relatively high 0.15 commonness value, may only spawn if the wielding soldier has more than 10000 xp.
* Certain weapons, such as the flamethrowers, mobile machine guns and the katana, don't always drop when the wielding soldier is killed.
* Numbers in accuracy for specific stances are modifiers, to get actual accuracy of the weapon in a specific stance multiply base accuracy by a corresponding modifier. If figure for prone modifier is missing, treat it as 1.

### Armor / Special Gear

**Notes:**

* The sentry gear worn by AI Sentry soldiers provides more protection than the one available to players.
* AI flamethrower operators are equipped with a special vest that grants them strong protection against bullets, but they die instantly to explosives and knifing.
* The banzai gear worn by AIs provides less protection, but grants a greater speed bonus compared to the one available to players.

## Vehicles and emplacements

Vehicles will spawn in the same place every time, except special vehicles which spawns in one of several random locations (to avoid predictable matches).

Destroyed vehicles will **respawn** (reappear undamaged) in their original location (except some special vehicles, which gets a new random location).

You can hijack a vehicle by entering at the driver's door. You will drag him out! Don't forget to stab him, before he stabs you!

Some vehicles allow passengers to shoot from their seats, which allows various weapons to be used on otherwise unarmed vehicles.

Vehicles can only be damaged by **explosives**: mines, grenades, bazookas.

## History and development

RWR: PACIFIC was first announced on March 25, 2017. On May 30, 2017 the release date was officially announced for August 4, 2017 but was ultimately delayed to October 26, 2017.

On March 16, 2018, a new PACIFIC map named Peleliu were announced to be released one week later along new assets, usual bug fixes and improvements. On March 23, 2018 18:00 PM GMT+1 the 1.64 update was finally released.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.runningwithrifles.com/wp/?p=1672
2. ↑ http://steamcommunity.com/app/270150/discussions/0/2949168687312864351/
3. ↑ http://www.runningwithrifles.com/wp/?p=1592
4. ↑ http://www.runningwithrifles.com/wp/?p=1610
5. ↑ http://steamcommunity.com/app/270150/discussions/0/1471967529575667381/
6. ↑ http://www.runningwithrifles.com/wp/?p=1665
7. ↑ http://steamcommunity.com/app/270150/discussions/0/2949168687312864351/
8. ↑ http://steamcommunity.com/games/270150/announcements/detail/1660013740954124958