1.12.10.12 - OWPatch_1.12.10.12.rar

Thank you very much.

OWN (Community Fansite) now hosts most of the Language Packs which can be obtained from Here. Language Packs are just the localized sound files and you can have multiple language packs installed.

At the time of writing this post they have:
Czech
English
French
German
Polish
Spanish

They are missing:
Italian
Japanese
Russian

If anyone has an Original copy of OW (From a CD) which contains one of the missing languages please contact Antitheus from OWN.

Thank you very much, again.

An Issue (Non-Existant Steam Achievements causing Lag) has been identified which causes lag on ow (It affects all, not just steam users).

You can download 1.12.10.14 and place on top of 1.12.10.12 or 1.12.10.13:
- OwarFull_1.12.10.14_2014-06-12.rar

Thanks for all of the hard work! It is great that somebody still cares about this game! :)

Can't the Steam Workshop support being optional for the patch? (so the game sure won't lag, per example)
Maybe the game has even become Steam only if we want your patch?
Death to these DRMs threatening the games..

Patches:
- Latest Released Patches
- Work In Progress Builds (Requires 2.0.3.5 minimum. Manual Installation) A DRM is a system that prevents unauthorised distribution or copying. GOG its self is a soft drm as it prevents people who are not logged in and who don't own a game from downloading games they do not own. Steam does the same.

The difference between GOG and Steam is that games on GOG don't contain any DRMs in themselves. Steam allows both DRM and non-DRM (Its up to the developers). Games which require steam to be running when launched for example, literally add code to their game to cause it to close if Steam isn't running or the user doesn't own the game on steam, this is added by Developers. By default Steam only does what GOG does (Login system for downloading the game).

Steam's features are disabled in OW if steam isn't detected or if you don't own the game on steam. Which includes contacting steam each frame (SteamAPI_RunCallbacks() is called so callbacks work when steam is enabled). What this means is that other than an extremely small amount of time it takes for the game to work out steam is not running(Done once at the start) it won't "lag" the game.

The "Non-Existant Steam Achievements causing Lag" post above had nothing to do with Steam. The bug was caused by the Achievement System in Original War.

Original War has had no DRM since 2006 (With the exception of Bohemia's Sprocket which used its own for a few years). Patches have never been tied to a platform and have worked for everything.

TLDR: Patches always work no matter if used on GOG, Retail, Steam, Etc (And are generally released a month or 6 before its released on steam). Steam features are disabled fully if you don't have steam running.

P.S Death to posts like yours who blame DRM for life but where you don't realise that Steam has DRM Free games in its catalogue (Like Original War). Original War went DRM Free in 2006, which is two years before GOG even existed.

Steam sure does not the same. Already you must install it.
And a DRM which is not always enforced is still a DRM. An opened lock is still a lock, threatening being locked. Thanks at last, but with all your Steam fanboy propaganda you didn't answer about SteamWorkshop. I guess you omited.

Galaxy has not to be installed, it is never mendatory for the solo part of games intended to be played solo.
Steam may be needed for solo games, even it's less often now, there are Steam solo games that use the Steam DRM.
And you have to install Steam to download your Steam games, you don't have to install Galaxy to download a GOG game. With GOG a store 3rd party program is not mendatory.
Steam had chosen security for the devs and editors through its DRM, GOG has chosen freedom for the players.

Yes, if games are DRMed on GOG, they have to be removed. If not it will begin to be the end of GOG, as there will be no longer strategic difference between GOG and Steam.

You can thank me for this. It is for all DRM-free players that GOG went the bigger competitor of Steam, and that's why there are more games on Steam that you can play even without the Steam DRM.

Okay, so Steam is again a DRM here, preventing Workshop mods from working if Steam is not running.

This comment alone shows you have no clue. It doesn't prevent any mods from working. Workshop is a system for downloading mods from Steams servers. Without steam running you can't know if a user has subscribed to any mods and steam can't download the subscribed mods from steams severs. This however doesn't stop people getting the mod from a website. Workshop is just a simpler way for people to get modded content.

You keep talking about Steam as some Evil thing and yet you know nothing about it. Your posts are full of accusations and no facts.

Your not getting what i said. You stated that because steam allows developers to do what they want games could in the future have DRM (Which is a load of rubbish as once a game is released without a DRM you can't then pack it with a DRM as its already out there). But as i stated developers can put DRM's on there game and remove it from GOG. a Game being on GOG can be removed at any time by a developer. They still have choice.

What happened is that people were fed up with horrible DRM's on Retail CD/DVD's invading their systems with security risks. Steam came along and changed the landscape. Before steam SecuRom like systems were used, but once steam was popular most AAA games switched to using Steam's "login only" DRM which didn't contain root kits like traditional DRM did. GOG came onto the scene in 2008 as a way for CD Projekt to sell its older games in a DRM Free way (As they found DRM increased piracy and thus less sales).

Steam DRM as you keep calling it in its most basic form is exactly the same as GOG DRM. Having to download stuff through a client rather than a webbrowser is not a DRM or your Browser would be classed as a DRM (Webbrowser clients are applications which have to be installed so that GOG.com works. Without the webbrowser application installed you can't access GOG).

P.S It would be good if you could stop the Steam is evil rubbish. Your just spreading misinformation. You clearly have no clue as to what Steam is. This thread is meant to be a discussion about Original War, not a discussion about Steam. Discussions on Features of Original War which use Steam is one thing but if your posts are just attacks on Steam then it should be in a completely different forum.

The bottom line is that Original War is completely 100% DRM free, no matter if you own it on GOG or Steam.

I had ask some questions.
So, Steam would be no longer a DRM? What a wonderfull world.
And, as I don't see what changed about Steam software, despite added features as vaseline: Even, Steam has never been a drm?

But, okay, thanks, so, for Original War, Steam is not needed, even for all the mods.