The Great War: Western Front
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| Developers | |
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| Petroglyph Games | |
| Publishers | |
| Frontier Foundry | |
| Engines | |
| GlyphX[1] | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | March 30, 2023 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 70 |
| OpenCritic | 67 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
| Controls | Point and select |
| Genres | RTS |
| Art styles | Realistic |
| Themes | Historical, World War I |
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The Great War: Western Front is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RTS game developed by Petroglyph Games and published by Frontier Foundry. It utilizes Petroglyph Games's own GlyphX engine.
The game was released on March 30, 2023 to good reception from users as well as critics with some concerns though regarding possible subpar performance.[2][3]
General information
Availability
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- All versions require Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.
Version differences
- Victory Edition includes the base game, a digital field guide, wallpaper collection and the digital soundtrack.
- Pre-purchase of the game granted users three days early access.
Monetization
| Type | Notes |
|---|---|
| DLC | DLC to upgrade the version of the game to the Victory Edition only. |
| One-time game purchase | The game requires an upfront purchase to access. |
Microtransactions
| Type | Notes |
|---|---|
| No microtransactions | None |
DLC and expansion packs
| Name | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Victory Edition Upgrade Pack | Upgrades the game to the Victory Edition. | |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | <path-to-game>\Data[Note 1][Note 2] HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Petroglyph\TheGreatWar |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2109370/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Petroglyph\TheGreatWar\Save |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2109370/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Epic Games Launcher | ||
| OneDrive | Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. | |
| Steam Cloud |
Video
Video options
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widescreen resolution | |||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | [5][citation needed] | ||
| 4K Ultra HD | [6] | ||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | |||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | Exclusive Fullscreen also supported, named Fullscreen. | ||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Controlled by the Render Passes setting which at maximum equals to around 8x anisotropic filtering.[7] | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | FXAA with no option to disable it.[8] | ||
| High-fidelity upscaling | FSR 1.0 [9] |
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| Vertical sync (Vsync) | On/Off toggle. | ||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. | ||
| Ray tracing (RT) | |||
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | ||
| Mouse acceleration | Option available to enable/disable Hardware Mouse Cursor. | |
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support |
Controls options
Audio
Audio options
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Separate volume controls | Separate volume sliders available for Master, Music, Gameplay SFX, Ambient SFX, UI SFX and Unit response. | |
| Surround sound | Options to adjust channels and their output levels. | |
| Subtitles | On/Off toggles and subtitles themselves only available for Movie Subtitles and in-game Unit Response Subtitles. | |
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | On/Off toggle named Play Audio When Not in Focus. | |
| Royalty free audio | Enabling Streaming mode prevents all licensed music from playing in all gamemodes. |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | ||||
| Simplified Chinese | ||||
| French | ||||
| German | ||||
| Italian | ||||
| Polish | ||||
| Russian | ||||
| Spanish | ||||
| Turkish |
Network
Multiplayer types
| Type | Native | Notes | |
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| Local play | |||
| LAN play | |||
| Online play | Versus 1 vs. 1 |
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Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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| Direct3D | 11 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Middleware
| Middleware | Notes | |
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| Audio | XAudio, Miles Sound System | v2.9 |
| Interface | Scaleform | |
| Cutscenes | Bink Video | v2.7i |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 10 | 11 |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5-4590 AMD FX-8350 |
Intel Core i7-8600K AMD Ryzen 5 2600 |
| System memory (RAM) | 8 GB | 16 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 13 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 AMD Radeon R9 390 DirectX 11 compatible | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 580 |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ All configuration files are encrypted.[4]
- ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%,%PROGRAMDATA%, or%WINDIR%might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 3.0 3.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/2109370/in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (2109370) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-03-31
- Confirmed, noted in in-game credits.
- ↑ Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-03-31
- Hold 83% review score on Steam as of writing.
- ↑ The Great War: Western Front review: alternately compelling and exhausting, which is probably deliberate - Rock Paper Shotgun - last accessed on 2023-03-31
- "An accomplished interplay of tactical and strategic challenges with some dissatisfying but thematically appropriate compromises, and poor performance."
- ↑ Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-03-30
- Confirmed with launch version, all files in the
Dataare encrypted and have the.MEGextension.
- Confirmed with launch version, all files in the
- ↑ Enjoyed the demo but I think I need glasses... - Steam - last accessed on 2023-03-31
- "Screenshot of the demo version clearly shows proper support for ultrawidescreen with the UI-position scaling accordingly."
- ↑ The Great War: Western Front | Official Launch Trailer - Available Now! - last accessed on 2023-03-31
- "This trailer and many other trailers of the game are in native 4K."
- ↑ Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-03-31
- Setting Render Passes to Low equals with game's then default AF is equal regarding texture filtering to when setting render passes to low with AF forced to 0x though the graphics control panel. Though, when setting Render Passes to max shows clear AF, which mostly resembles forced 8x AF. Though, have to remark that the Render Passes setting adjusts a lot of aspects of the game's rendering, thus these results aren't 100% reliable.
- ↑ Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-03-31
- Artifacts in-game totally does not look like TAA softness and in the registry settings "ScreenAA" is mentioned (set to "1", thus enabled); most likely pointing to FXAA as that is often referred to as "screen anti-aliasing" in the world. Also, foliage shows lots of shimmering with all settings to Ultra and FSR 1.0 off, most likely also ruling out any MSAA and TAA.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 LAUNCH DETAILS AND SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS - last accessed on 2023-03-24