📢 Attention Thunder Run, Days of Valor, Mars Frontier, War Star Empire, Battlefront Mars, and Firestrike Commanders:

Welcome to the 11th installment of the Battlehouse Dev Blog, a place where fans of all Battlehouse games can enjoy regular behind the scenes peaks into the minds of Battlehouse Developers. Without further adieu, here’s bh-nirgal to talk about some updates coming down the road for all Battlehouse games:

Improvements to All Games!

Your dev team took a little break for the American Thanksgiving holiday, but came back refreshed and delivered a whirlwind of content. 🦃🌪

As discussed in the last developer blog, content patches were completed for all of the games:

Firestrike Updates

  • Starting on December 12, players will be able to build HESCO Barriers. All tiers have access to this new defensive building.
  • Tier 16 goes live on December 26, bringing new levels for all buildings, new levels for all turrets, new levels for all landmines, and new levels for the top-tier units.
  • A new minesweeper unit, the Sapper (not quite the same as the suicide unit in Thunder Run, as it doesn’t kill itself), is mostly complete. We need to fine-tune its ability to reveal landmine positions before releasing it into the wild, so stay tuned for that update, probably next month.

Mars Frontier Updates

  • You asked, we delivered. The Central Computer level 7 build time is now 14 days (down from 30).
  • Starting on December 26, players will be able to upgrade the Central Computer to level 8. All production, storage, and research buildings get new levels.
  • The Mining Droid, Heavy Miner, Blaster Droid, and Excavator Droid level cap has been raised to level 13. It requires new Robotics Lab levels to research level 11 and up. More units will get an increased level cap later.
  • The turret conversion system is now in place. Currently only the Light Rail Gun, Defensive Cannon, and LRAT Cannon are enabled, but we’ll enable the Radiation Tower and EMP Cannon at a later date.

Battlefront Mars Updates

  • Starting on December 26, players will be able to upgrade the Central Computer to level 9. All production, storage, and research buildings get new levels.
  • The Marine’s level cap has been raised by two.
  • The Elite Rainmaker has been introduced into the game. This spiffed up version of the Rainmaker does more damage and does splash damage.
    • Astute players may have noticed the presence of Elite Rainmakers on some single player maps. These have all been replaced with Mercenary Rainmakers with their original stats to avoid changing the balance of gameplay. The new Elite Rainmaker is more powerful than the one the AI was using.
  • The turret conversion system is now in place. Currently only the Auto-Cannon, Thunder Cannon, and Devastator are enabled, but we’ll enable the Radiation Tower, EMP Cannon, and LRAT at a later date.

War Star Empire Updates

  • Starting on December 26, players will be able to upgrade the Central Computer to level 9. All production, storage, and research buildings get new levels.
  • The Shock Trooper, Tracker, Avenger, and Gun Runner have had their level cap raised by three. This change goes live on December 12.  More increased level caps are in the pipeline.

Thunder Run/Days of Valor Updates

  • The Elite AH-1Z has some (we hope) fun new mechanics. It will be on sale tomorrow, so if you don’t already have it, now’s the time to grab it and check it out.
  • We’ll be returning to Quality of Life improvements now. The Player Preferences interface has been next on the list, so expect to see some updates for that soon. Other than small contents patches, like new levels for existing units and buildings, expect mostly UI improvements for the next several months. We’ll be fixing quite a bit of under-the-hood tech before the next round of brand new content.

Stay up to date every day on what’s being developed on the dev-tracker channel here.

Looking for an update on where the Dev Team currently stands regarding various recent community suggestions? Check out our “Voice of the Commander” trackers here:

Like what you see in this Dev Blog, or have suggestions on things you’d like to see addressed in our “Voice of the Commander” trackers? Let us know over on our Thunder Run Discord Server!


Battlehouse Dev Blog, Issue #11: Improvements to All Games!