Dec 4, 2024

Announcement I PC Global Open Beta Launch Events

Delta Force - DF OPS | QIQI

Dear Operators,
Delta Force PC Global Open Beta Officially Launches on December 5, 2024 at 00:00 (UTC+0)!
Delta Force mobile pre-registration is now live!

● Launch Reward Events
○ Roll Call
Jump start your Delta Force journey with awesome rewards like Melee Weapon - Black Hawk, Operator - Vyron, Advanced Safe Box 3-Day Access Card!

Period: Available upon account creation until all rewards are claimed.
How to claim: Log in to claim rewards!
Rewards: Melee Weapon - Black Hawk, Operator - Vyron, Advanced Safe Box 3-Day Access Card, Elite Gear Ticket, Standard Gear Ticket, Premium Weapon EXP Token.

○ Operator - Hackclaw

Period: December 5, 2024 (UTC+0) - January 13, 2025 (UTC+0)
How to claim: Complete Season milestone missions to claim rewards!
Rewards: Unlock Operator - Hackclaw, CAR-15 - Atlantis, Armament Voucher, Standard Gear Ticket, Daily Challenge Random Pack, Advanced Safe Box 3-Day Access Card, Premium Weapon EXP Token, Warfare 2x EXP Card.

○ Return to Delta

Period: December 5, 2024 (UTC+0) - January 13, 2025 (UTC+0)
How to claim: Complete missions at each stage to receive Return Medals, and exchange for Rewards!
Rewards: Exchange Medals for Epic Weapon Appearances: Mini-14 - Immortal, M4A1 - Zero Degree, SMG-45 - Haavk Guard, M16A4 - Digital Veil, Spray Paint: Starlink, Weapon Charm: Relink, Calling Card: Implant, Avatar: Punk.

○ Tactical Armament

Period: Permanent
How to claim: Participate in daily activities or use Tekniq Alloys to exchange for Armament Vouchers in the event. Armament Vouchers are cleared each season, but the pity progress is retained.
Rewards: QBZ95-1 - Aurora, S12K - Aurora, Desert Eagle - Aurora, and a dozen other high-quality appearances.

● Operations Events
○ Reconstruct Archives

Period: December 5, 2024 (UTC+0) - December 19, 2024 (UTC+0)
How to claim: Special boss adjutants spawn on all maps. During the event, defeat adjutants and bosses to obtain tokens. Submit tokens to complete the mission.
Rewards: Charm - Croc Hunter, Spray Paint - Harried and Battered, Return Medal, Armament Voucher, Operator Special Voice Line, Copy Keycard Random Pack.

○ Ecological Survey

Period: December 5, 2024 (UTC+0) - December 12, 2024 (UTC+0)
How to claim: Complete the missions to investigate Ahsarah's bird nests and claim rewards!
Rewards: Armament Voucher, Standard Gear Ticket, Return Medal, Daily Challenge Random Pack, Tekniq Alloy, etc.

● Warfare Events
○ On the Threshold

Period: December 5, 2024 (UTC+0) - December 19, 2024 (UTC+0)
How to claim: During the event, play the new Threshold map and complete objectives to earn milestone rewards!
Rewards: Tank - Carbon Hive, SVD - Tactical Operation, Return Medal, Premium Weapon EXP Token, Armament Voucher.

○ Arms Courier

Period: December 6, 2024 (UTC+0) - December 12, 2024 (UTC+0)
How to claim: During the event, upgrade specific firearms (SMG-45 Submachine Gun, QBZ95-1 Assault Rifle) to complete objectives and claim rewards!
Rewards: Armament Voucher, Warfare 2x EXP Card, Premium Weapon EXP Token.

● Weekend Events
○ Weekend Supplies

Period: December 6, 2024 (UTC+0) - December 8, 2024 (UTC+0)
How to claim: Complete matches on weekends to claim rewards!
Rewards: Log in to receive Gear Lv.3. Complete matches to obtain Weekend Lucky Supply Packs and 10 Armament Vouchers.

○ Weekend Joy

Period: December 6, 2024 (UTC+0) - December 8, 2024 (UTC+0)
How to claim: Complete matches on weekends to claim rewards!
Rewards: Shafted and Ascension now available in Blitz. Log in to receive a Weapon EXP Token. Complete matches to obtain 10 Armament Vouchers.

○ Genesis Initiative I

Period: December 5, 2024 (UTC+0) - December 12, 2024 (UTC+0)
How to claim: Limited-time Tekniq Alloy Store.
Rewards: Quantum Key, Armament Voucher, and Advanced Safe Box 7-Day Access Card now purchasable with Tekniq Alloys.

○ Genesis Frontline I

Period: December 5, 2024 (UTC+0) - December 12, 2024 (UTC+0)
How to claim: Exchange Warfare points for rewards.
Rewards: Earn Warfare points to obtain Quantum Keys and Armament Vouchers.

● Collab Event
○ Alienware Plunder

Period: December 5, 2024 (UTC+0) - December 31, 2024 (UTC+0)
How to claim: Extract Alienware laptops in Operations or win Warfare matches to complete missions and earn Armament Vouchers.
Rewards: Armament Vouchers.

● MandelBrick - Spectrum Blitz

- Acquisition: Pick up and decode the MandelBrick in Operations / Rank high in Warfare. Purchase Mandel Coins from the market and exchange for MandelBricks listed by other operators (buyers pay with Delta Coins, sellers receive Delta Tickets).
- How to open: Scan with a Quantum Key. Obtain Quantum Keys via free events / Tekniq Alloy / Delta Tickets / Delta Coins.
- MandelBrick Rewards of the current season: Main Reward "M4A1 - Spectrum Blitz" and dozens of other Deluxe Appearances.
- Deluxe Collection Appearance Trade: Deluxe Appearances are available for market trade (buyers pay with Delta Coins, sellers receive Delta Tickets).
- Deluxe Collection Appearance Reconstruction: Deluxe Collection Appearances can now be constructed. 20 Deluxe Collection Appearances can be reconstructed into 1 higher-tier Deluxe Collection Appearance. (Example: 20 Epic Deluxe Appearances can be crafted into 1 Legendary Deluxe Appearance)
- Delta Tickets: The Delta Ticket is an important in-game currency, obtainable for free through Season Pass, selling MandelBricks, and more! Use Delta Tickets to purchase appearances from the store, including Melee Weapon - Fiery Owl, other weapons, and top-tier appearances. Quantum Keys can also be exchanged with Delta Tickets to scan MandelBricks!

● Season Pass and Bundles
○ Season Pass

Season Pass Period: December 5, 2024 (UTC+0) - End of Genesis Season
Main Reward Includes: New Operator - Toxik (free unlock), Shepherd - Urban Monarch, M7 - Viking Spirit, M249 - Viking Spirit, UZI - Contagion, SCAR-H - Contagion, Eagle Strike series Vehicle Appearances, M1A4 Battle Tank - Immaculate, Assault Helicopter - Immaculate, Season Safe Box (2*2/2*3), along with a lot of Tactical Supplies and Weapon EXP Tokens.
About Season Pass: Participate in matches to level up and claim rewards. The pass can be purchased for more rewards.
How to Unlock: Deluxe Edition 720 Delta Coins, Single Mode Edition 520 Delta Coins

○ Fiery Owl Bundle

Period: December 5, 2024 (UTC+0) - February 13, 2025 (UTC+0)
Bundle Includes: Melee Weapon - Fiery Owl, M249 - Fiery Owl, AKM - Fiery Owl, Fiery Owl series Charm / Avatar / Calling Card / Spray Paint.
How to Unlock: 5,200 Delta Tickets / Delta Coins

○ Power Surge Bundle

Period: December 5, 2024 (UTC+0) - January 1, 2025 (UTC+0)
Bundle Includes: AS Val - Power Surge, AKM - Power Surge, G18 - Power Surge, Power Surge series Charm / Avatar / Calling Card / Spray Paint.
How to Unlock: 2,400 Delta Tickets / Delta Coins

○ Haavk Inds. Bundle

Period: December 6, 2024 (UTC+0) - January 2, 2025 (UTC+0)
Bundle Includes: P90 - Haavk Inds., AUG - Haavk Inds., ASh-12 - Haavk Inds., Haavk Inds. series Charm / Avatar / Calling Card / Spray Paint.
How to Unlock: 2,400 Delta Tickets / Delta Coins

● Launch Official Livestream Events
○ Twitch Drops

We have introduced Drops on Twitch. Viewers can earn different gifts based on their view time.
Rewards: Get Twitch Drops by watching official Delta Force streams on Twitch!
Link: https://www.twitch.tv/directory/category/delta-force-hawk-ops

○ Launch Day Warfare Battle

North American Streamer Showdown, featuring popular FPS streamers like Tenz, Nadeshot, Lvndmark, and their friends, along with our community creators, in a BO3 A/D match. Some matches will introduce special rules to make it more fun.
Period: December 5, 2024, 19:00 - 21:00 (UTC+0)
Rewards: Get Twitch Drops by watching official Delta Force streams on Twitch!
Official Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/deltaforcegameofficial

○ Launch Day Extraction Event

A 4-hour launch day Operations event, open for registration to all official Operations content creators. Players must extract and complete additional challenges within the designated time to earn points. Who will gather the most resources? Who will complete the special challenges?
Period: December 5, 2024, 19:00 - 21:00 (UTC+0)
Rewards: Get Twitch Drops by watching official Delta Force streams on Twitch!
Official Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/deltaforcegameofficial

○ FPS All-Star Operations

Most popular FPS streamers in North America are invited for an Operations showdown. Who will prevail among Shroud, LVNMARK, and TenZ? A total of three Operations matches with various scoring criteria will allow a variety of tactics.
Period: December 7, 2024, 21:00 (UTC+0) - December 8, 00:00 (UTC+0)
How to claim: Get Twitch Drops by watching any Delta Force streams on Twitch! The champion squad will win a ROG desktop PC.
Official Stream:
https://www.twitch.tv/deltaforcegameofficial

https://www.twitch.tv/shroud

https://www.twitch.tv/tarik

https://www.twitch.tv/nadeshot

https://www.twitch.tv/lvndmark

Suggestions & Feedback
You can share your thoughts and suggestions on our Discord.
Discord: https://discord.gg/deltaforcegame

We also recommend following our social media accounts to stay updated with the latest news.
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DeltaForceGameHQ/

X: https://x.com/DeltaForce_Game

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deltaforcegame

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DeltaForceGame

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deltaforcegameglobal/

That concludes the announcement!
Thank you again for joining Delta Force, and welcome to Ahsarah!
Happy gaming!

The Delta Force Team

Dec 4, 2024

The December Update! New features + first major balance patch!

Beastieball - Greg Lobanov

Today's update brings a bunch of new features, changes and fixes to the game!

New Stuff

Updated Art

Daredillo clean poses added
Noizard clean poses added
Opposur poses added
9 new hairstyles added to player customization
9 new options added for player face feature customization
11 new hats added to player customization (some are not available by default and can be found in shops)
11 new tops added to player customization (some are not available by default and can be found in shops)
Riley character art cleaned up
We'll continue adding more art and animation throughout Early Access. Lots more stuff is actively in progress and on its way for future updates!

Level Cap Setting
This is available in settings menu at any time, from the beginning of a new game or even in the middle of any match. This setting will artificially reduce the levels of your Beasties when they exceed the level of your opponents. They'll still receive EXP as usual.

Beastieball was intentionally designed with peaks and valleys of difficulty; we think there's great joy in venturing to difficult areas, growing stronger, and then returning to easier areas where you can win matches easily. But some players would prefer an experience that's more difficult, slow and consistent. By enabling this setting you can ensure that you're never "overlevelled" and always have an interesting strategic match whenever you encounter any opponent at any time in your adventure.

Random Team
In Team Setup (available in Sportnet or during certain post-game challenges), you can save pre-set teams or download teams created by other players. There's now a "Random Team" option on this menu, which will generate a new random team for you at the beginning of every match you play. You can use this new option to quickly jump into high-level PvP matches without building your own team!

Mountain Expedition Redux
This Roguelike post-game challenge has been particularly popular among players, and we thought it could use a little more TLC, so we spent some time adjusting it. In particular our goal was to enable a greater diversity of playstyles and better reward careful planning. The original version was great fun but pushed players towards using only a small handful of Beasties to succeed. The new version is completely reworked and a lot more strategic! We hope you enjoy it.

Note that records set in previous versions will have to be wiped if you want to continue playing Expeditions. We don't intend to wipe progress like this with every update we make, but in this case we felt it was necessary since we've changed how the mode plays and also how it scores a "win" for some Beasties.

Other Little Things
After completing the story, players earn significantly more Social Battery from defeating Away Teams or their own reserve Beasties.
Tower Tourney and Draft Challenge now yield much more SP, especially after defeating bosses
You can now preview opponent Beasties' Free Ball

Balance Changes
This is the first of what will be many adjustments to balance.

In general, our goal with these changes was to reduce the effectiveness of some combinations which could consistently create 1-turn 50/50 or no-win scenarios regardless of matchup. Combinations which were strong in the previous patch should still be strong, but slightly easier to play against, allowing for more diverse match dynamics. These changes are subtle and will only impact players deep in postgame or PvP, such as those competing in the upcoming fan-organized Bring the Heat! tournament.

We also aimed to better distinguish some Beasties' roles by adjusting their plays/traits/stats. Kassaleet and Broslidon now have clearer separate specialties, while other Beasties like Armantis and Musselbound have been given more options to expand their playstyles.

Core Mechanics
Rival Combos: The power of some rival combos was mistakenly higher than intended. They’ve been adjusted to match their intended values. Some have also been made a touch stronger.
Across the board, text has been updated in Trait descriptions to better distinguish how damage is calculated by different factors. This goes hand-in-hand with the following damage calculation changes.
Jazzed: Now adds +50% to your POW instead of multiplying the resulting damage by 1.5. This change keeps Jazzed in-line with other similar buffs.
Rally: Now adds +50% to your Spirit attack POW instead of multiplying the resulting damage by 1.5. This change keeps Rally in-line with other similar buffs. Note: Mind attacks under Rally still have their damage multiplied x3/4

The difference between "+50%" and "x1.5" is subtle but meaningful. For example, in previous versions, if a Beastie was at the net (+50%) and jazzed (x1.5), their power bonus would be 100% + 50% x 1.5 = 225%. Under new balance change, where jazzed is +50%, the same state would yield a power level of 100% + 50% + 50% = 200%.

Effectively this means that power growth will be more linear rather than exponential when stacking certain effects.

Traits
Avenger: Attacks are now 1.2x stronger when an ally is Wiped (from 1.3x)
Determination: Attacks are now 1.3x stronger when user has a bad feeling (from 1.5x)
Blocker: Name has been changed to “Power Forward”.
Performer: Defense is now increased 1.3x during Rally (from 1.25x)
(New for Armantis!) Monster Block: Using “Block” also makes the target feel 2 Shook.

Plays
Juggle: Although its type is still "Volley," this play no longer counts as a "volley" for most calculations. This impacts many areas including relationship building, as well as interactions with certain plays such as Zigzag, which will no longer be strengthened by juggling.
Airblast: POW reduced to 115 (from 130)
Blaze: Spirit POW Boost reduced to +2 (from +3)
Hex: Tired inflicted increased to 8 (from 4)
Hyperspike: Tired inflicted on self increased to 3 (from 2)
Patience: Now grants +1 to user's DEF stats after clearing stat changes
Pump Up: Body POW boost reduced to +1 (from +2). The move now also advances the user toward the net.
(NEW!) Ricochet: Mind Attack with 80 POW. Used from net. POW x1.5 if user received the ball.
Shake Off: Stamina recovery increased to +20 (from +15)
Toppler: Damage multiplier increased to +100% POW for every boost on the target (from +50%)
Ultimate Attack: POW increased to 220 (from 200)

Movesets
Armantis:
- Added: Ricochet, Spike, Quick Set, Distraction (now learned by level up)
- Removed: Mighty Yell, Roll Shot, Shake Off
Skibble / Skarmok / Boldlur:
- Added: Ricochet
Leobro / Broslidon:
- Removed: Quick Breath
Calcroach / Debugly:
- Added: Numbshot
- Removed: Telekinesis
Kichik / Ostrisigh / Kasaleet:
- Added: Smack
Sefren / Zefyre:
- Added: Net Rush (now learned via level-up)
- Removed: Cut Shot
Musselbound:
- Added: Patience, Grit
- Removed: High Five, Pump Up

Stats
Broslidon:
- Body POW: Reduced to 100 (from 105)
- Spirit POW: Increased to 50 (from 45)
- Spirit DEF: Increased to 58 (from 53)
- Mind DEF: Reduced to 75 (from 80)
Armantis:
- Spirit POW: Reduced to 23 (from 27)
- Body DEF: Reduced to 75 (from 85)
- Mind DEF: Increased to 75 (from 60)

Other Fixes
Fixed crashes that occurred for some players visiting the Team Setup menu or attempting to download a team
Fixed an issue with trash cans not appearing in Geo City on some operating systems
Beasties that come from trash cans don't float anymore
Fixed an issue preventing some Beasties from metamorphing via special conditions if their metamorph was rejected previously
Away Teams server logic has been updated to correct a few issues that caused incorrect teams to be distributed in some cases (spoiler Beasties, wrong level, etc).
Fix for issue where away teams would appear on the map before spawning in the game world
Away Teams that have been waiting for longer to find an opponent now get a boost in priority for spawning. This means lower-level teams may sometimes appear for players, but in general Away Teams should spend less time waiting to find opponents.
Fixed an issue/crash with loading/unloading Beastiepedia field sketches. This fix might have also fixed several other seemingly-unrelated issues with broken models appearing in some places and other random issues/crashes.
Fixed a softlock that was possible during an endgame story sequence
Fixed some control description UI not updating correctly to custom controls
Fixed an issue with mixing keyboard/mouse input on the name entry in the character creator, which would close the menu when a player typed a letter corresponding to a "back" button
Fix for render order on the crown of captain Beasties in captains mode
Fix for player face frozen on a concerned expression if they talk to certain NPCs in Rutile after getting their first jerseys
Fix to Riley being uninteractable during a particular hangout if it's initiated after registering for the Crown Series
On the file select, Beasties now render behind important labels noting ironman/randomizer settings
Beasties establishing a new close bond and breaking an old one are now ~500,000x more likely to break a relationship with a Beastie that isn't on your active lineup
The player can no longer clap while hugging
When booting up on Steamdeck, the game always sets itself to fullscreen regardless of ingame settings. This is to correct a potential issue with switching between devices; on a console like Steamdeck we expect players would never want to play windowed.
Stopped away teams from spawning in Cordia Lake as this is inconvenient
Enforced scenes that should be skippable which sometimes weren't. This was mainly impacting speed runs.
Adjusted/updated many Beastie encounter movesets to reflect the new balance changes
Added safety checks to prevent various other common crashes
Many typos and area adjustments

Thanks!
These first few weeks have been exhilarating for the team! Working on the game and adding all these things feels extra amazing thanks to the enthusiasm and encouragement of players. More to come!!!