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War Mongrels

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War Mongrels
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Developers
Destructive Creations
Publishers
Destructive Creations
All in! Games
Engines
Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows October 19, 2021
Reception
Metacritic 68
OpenCritic 65
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres Stealth, Strategy
Art styles Realistic
Themes Europe, Historical, World War II
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War Mongrels is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view stealth and strategy game.

General information

Developer Discord server
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
DRM-free after installation through Epic Games Launcher (notes may include more details)
Windows
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Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename movie files[1]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\WM\Content\Movies.
  2. Delete or rename DCLogo.mp4, do_not_power_off_device.mp4, and HistoryInspired.mp4.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\WM\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1101790/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\WM\Savegames[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1101790/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Scales with "Textures" quality setting.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Instead of common terms, it ranges from "lowest" to "ultra".
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Maximum framerate cap is 360; framerate cap can be disabled entirely.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Some options are strictly mapped to certain keys and can not be remapped.
Mouse acceleration
No acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity
Uses system cursor settings. Sensitivity options for in-game camera available.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Inverting X-axis is also available.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Added in the "Polished Edition" update on September 19, 2022.[2]
Controller remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Can be disabled.
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, music, ambient, effects, voiceovers, user interface
Surround sound
Subtitles
Separate in-game and cinematic subtitle controls.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Can also be turned off in audio settings.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Turkish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
Co-op
Online play
2 Co-op

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11, 12
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX 3
Audio Ogg Vorbis

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7 SP1
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-7400
AMD Ryzen 5 1600
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 35 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 950
AMD Radeon R9 270
2 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 11 compatible
Other Broadband Internet connection
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. Verified by User:Plok on 2021-10-20
  2. WAR MONGRELS POLISHED EDITION IS HERE! - last accessed on May 2023