Days of Valor Season 3 News

This week Days of Valor features a Clan Tournament with new prizes, followed by the opening of Season 3!

Season 2 Finale Tournament

From June 22-29, rally your clan and head to the regional map for your chance to be the strongest clan of Season 2!

Tournament ends on June 29th, 2017 at 1700 GMT, at which point winners will be announced, and leaderboards will be reset for the new season.

Tournament Prizes

Clans ranked #1-#3:

  • Top 10 members of each clan will evenly share 10,000 (#1), 5,000 (#2), or 3,000 (#3) Gold.
  • Plus, all clan members will receive 500,000 Hardware each, as long as they earned at least 5 PvP points in battles during the tournament week.

Clans ranked #4-#10:

  • All clan members will receive 500,000 Hardware each, as long as they earned at least 5 PvP points in battles during the tournament week.

Season 3 Opens: June 29

Season 3 will begin immediately after the end of the finale tournament. The following changes are planned for Season 3:

  • A new map Hill 609 will open to all players.
  • Two older maps will be closed: Bardia and Keren.

Good hunting, Commanders!

New Vault Upgrades and Landmine Improvements

New this week in Thunder Run and Days of Valor:

  • The Vault can now be upgraded to Level 16 for increased resource protection.
  • Anti-Infantry Mines now have 5-10% greater splash and trigger range at Level 11 and above.
  • Anti-Armor Mines now deal 30% greater damage at Level 11 and above.
  • Anti-Aircraft Mines now have 5% greater splash and trigger range at Level 11 and above.

The design team will continue to watch the balance of landmine cost vs. power, and may make additional adjustments in the future.

Good hunting, Commanders!

Days of Valor: Hardware Loot Shift

New this week in Days of Valor:

  • In Single-Player bases and AI-controlled camps, 30% of Hardware loot is now shifted from Hardware Depots/Yards into the TOC.

This change is intended to solve the problem where players attack AI camps on the map, destroy Hardware Depots/Yards, but leave the TOC untouched, preventing fresh new camps from spawning.

From now on, players who want to loot all available Hardware must destroy the TOC, which will cause the camp to disappear and be replaced by a fresh new copy elsewhere on the map.

If this change proves successful, we plan to apply it to Thunder Run as well. Good hunting, Commanders!

New Elite Turret Levels

New today in Thunder Run and Days of Valor:

Elite Turrets

  • Blueprints to unlock Levels 21-22 for the FASCAM, HEL Laser, C-RAM, M45 Quadmount, and Artillery turret weapons are now available in the Event Prizes store.

The Counter-Rocket, Artillery, Missile, or C-RAM, gun fires flares during a weapons test at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Jan. 31, 2010. The C-RAM has the ability to fire up to 4,500 rounds per minute to protect the base against incoming projectiles. (Photo: SrA. Brittany Bateman)

Good hunting, Commanders!

Strongpoint Quarry Update

As some players noticed, there was a temporary change to the pattern of strongpoint quarries on the map during the most recent game patches in Thunder Run and Days of Valor.

This post is to clarify that we are not making any major changes to strongpoints, and that strongpoint quarries will return to normal within a couple of days.

  • Above-ground strongpoints will return shortly. During the patch deployment, the quarry system temporarily spawned only under-ground cave strongpoints. This is now fixed, and above-ground strongpoints will return soon.
  • The number of strongpoints on each map will return back to 11. Similar to what happened with the above-ground strongpoints, there was a temporary lowering of the total number of strongpoints, but the number will rise back to normal shortly.
  • Minor changes will remain: turrets inside of strongpoint quarries now have slightly different levels (+/- 1 level) and weapon types, and the layout of buildings in strongpoints has been tweaked. These are balance adjustments to prepare for some upcoming improvements to the quarry system.

    • Check back for more info about new quarry features soon!

Elite Rifleman, HZ-9, BMP-1 Improvements

New this week in Thunder Run and Days of Valor:

  • Elite Rifleman training time is now 20% faster at all levels.
  • HZ-9 training time is now 20% faster at all levels.
  • BMP-1 training time is now 20% faster at all levels.
  • BMP-1 at Level 11 and higher now carries a security team of 6x Rifleman and 1x Combat Engineer, instead of 8x Rifleman.

A team leader and observer coach/trainer from First Army Division East simulates performing halted-convoy security during an OC/T recertification exercise at Fort Knox, Ky. (Photo: SSgt. Darron Salzer)

Good hunting, Commanders!

New Unit: Elite OH-58F

New this week in Thunder Run and Days of Valor:

Elite OH-58F

Starting today, players can obtain blueprints for the newest Thunder Run aircraft, the Elite OH-58F.

This Elite “F” variant of the classic OH-58 is upgraded with much greater HP and damage, making it tough and deadly. The Elite OH-58F is strong enough to go toe-to-toe with other high-end air units.

Good hunting, Commanders!

First flight of the actual OH58-F at Redstone Arsenal. (Photo: Randy Tisor)