Patch Notes: Thunder Run

New this week in Thunder Run:

Voice of the Commander Updates

Greetings, Commanders!

The recent patches, include the TOC13 release have, admittedly, been a little rocky, and we do apologize for that. We are thankful for those who keep on providing feedback so we can continue to try and make these last few months as fun and memorable as we can for everyone. Please rest assured our teams are working really hard to address a few of the issues and suggestions that you’ve brought forth to us. But first, we’d like to address a recent issue that you may have already heard of.

Unrequested Refunds

It appears that the issue of unrequested refunds issue from back in July through August, which happened to other games on Facebook as well, has affected some players once again. We believe Facebook is working on it, so if you have a negative gold balance, just sit tight and don’t worry about it.

Tweaks of the Week

• TOC 13 didn’t ship properly, but has been since manually deployed.
• Power consumption issues upon TOC 13 release, causing generators to have lower output levels instantly. This has been fixed.
• A base upgraded to the max now produces slightly more power than it consumes, with minor exceptions at TOC levels 1, 4, and 5, which you can quickly build past.
• Build time has been obliterated for earlier tier buildings.
• Build time is 30 minutes for support buildings at TOC 3-5, 60 minutes at TOC 6-8, and 4 hours at TOC 9-11. It stays at 5 days for TOC12 and 13. This should allow everyone to get their storage, harvesters, and power levels optimized very quickly.
• Hardware Factory is now available
• More Hardware can be found in Logistics Dispatch
• Snipers, who have been reported to be OP, gets a range nerf, damage to buildings removed, reduce damage to vehicles and aircraft. Basically, no longer a guaranteed turret killer.
• Snipers have been set to ignore barriers and treat buildings as their lowest priority target, and treat infantry as double priority.
• TOW range has been slightly reduced, but gets a huge damage boost in return at max level.
• Turret damage is now scaled on the same progression as units. Units are scaled against their consumed space. Turrets are scaled based on the number of total turrets available compared to the total unit space available at a tier, then modified based on their overall rarity.
• Units get an HP and DPS boost across the board to make equips and mods more meaningful.
• Vehicles get a speed boost across the board.
• Heavy vehicles get an additional HP boost. Tanks get a further additional HP boost.|
• The “weight” of a unit’s space when calculating its DPS and HP is now also weighed against the proportion of total space available. This means small, cheap early units have a shallower power growth curve, and more expensive big units get a steeper curve at higher levels.
• For example:
  • Elite M1Abrams prepatch: HP 7719 min, 12431 max, speed 2.16 min, 2.16 max, range 229 min, 249 max, damage 560 min, 1756 max
  • Elite M1Abrams patched HP 5250 min, 14668 max, speed 2.5 min, 2.78 max, range 229 min, 249 max, damage 360 min, 1961 max
• Bunker Buster gets 20% damage boost across the board, plus a further 20% boost against turrets. Other missiles will be looked at in the future
• Generator grid size requirements were reduced from 14×14 to 10×10. The graphic was the size of a supply building, and the grid is now too. Players now have an extra 4×4 total map cells freed up per generator.
• Stinger and eStinger now have the designation “Anti-Air” with an appropriate tooltip
• New “Staging” button in Battalion management screen that acts as a temporary storage area so you can swap them in and out of a batt more easily. Swap mode and swap space persists through sessions by being saved in player preferences, but it does not affect actual batts in any way. It’s just an organizational tool.
• More power issues affecting all harvesters and storage buildings are fixed.
• TOC leader issue where it did not affect Hardware Factories is fixed
• Issues with Ambush Points triggering a message despite them being empty is fixed.

One thing we would like to highlight: units are not supposed to be able to destroy towers without taking any damage. This was never were supposed to happen, but range inflation unfortunately made this possible. Use “Tanks” to soak up turret damage.

More tweaks incoming! Please do share your feedback over on our Thunder Run Discord Server as it helps a lot in speeding up the adjustment process.

Good hunting, Commanders!

New this week in Thunder Run:

Level 13 Tactical Ops Center

Your architects have been hard at work, Commander. In addition to a sharply-worded requisition order for more coffee, they’ve delivered the upgrade plans for the next Tactical Ops Center expansion. It seems like only yesterday we were huddled together in tents.

Tick-Tock! The TOC now upgrades to Level 13, unlocking a variety of new upgrades for your military forces!

We’ll be sure to caffeinate your architects for you, Commander. That requisition order was just shy of a death threat.

The Elephant in the Room

As you all have noticed, there has been a lot of changes happening since last week. We do apologize for the delay in our communications, but we’d now like to address and explain what, why, and how things have changed.

Hopefully, in addition to dispelling some weird rumors and theories, we can clear the air and give you a little more insight as to how to utilize the new systems put in place. For simplicity’s sake we will categorize the main changes into two: economy and buildings, and unit rebalance and strategy.

Economy and Buildings

• Previously, levels per tier are wildly inconsistent. They are now consistent
• Economy buildings now have two levels per tier.
• All unit research/production buildings have two levels per tier.
• Non-elite units and their associated research/production buildings also get two levels per tier.
• Turrets, mines, and missiles have three levels per tier.
• Time requirements dramatically reduced. It takes a maximum of 5 days (without leader bonuses) to build or research anything now. It’s a hard cap at 120 hours.

Frequently asked question: Why are our resource storage and production so low now?
Our old levels jumped all over the place in terms of advancement. Now they’re consistent. However, all research unlocks, build costs, repair costs, etc are now auto-scaled to the available harvest rate and storage caps, so you have lost absolutely nothing in terms of buying power. Think of it this way: your resource currency just underwent serious deflation. You can buy more with each unit of each resource than you could before.

Unit Rebalance and Strategy

• Unit HP, DPS, build time, and resource costs all balanced based on space requirements. The more expensive a unit, the more powerful it is, and at a predictable and consistent rate. That means that out the gate, a unit that takes 30 space is exactly twice as powerful as a unit of the same type that takes 15 space, but they receive modifications based on their roles.
• Unit speed and range balanced based on unit type and unit role: Infantry is the slowest with the longest range on average. Air units are the fastest with the shortest range on average. Artillery and Sniper units get range boosts and speed nerfs to compensate
• Close range units get a bonus to their speed and a proportionate nerf to their range.
• Long Range units get the same bonus to range and nerf to speed.
• High Speed gets a slightly higher boost to speed while paying the same range cost as close range.
• DPS units get a bonus to damage and a proportionate nerf to HP. Most of your artillery units are Long Range/DPS roles.
• Some units have the “Threat” stat, which makes the AI increase their priority in the targeting system by 50%.
• Threat gets a bonus to HP and a nerf to damage.
• The “Tank” role get a bonus to HP and get an even higher “Threat” stat, making the AI 100% more likely to pick them as a target. Note that the “Tank” role is not strictly limited to actual Tank units. Some aircrafts have the “Tank” role, too. You can find these in the Unlock/Upgrade windows of a specific unit.
• Turret HP is based on potential attacker DPS output, and is currently designed to withstand 20 seconds of fire from the average unit. There will be ongoing analysis and fine-tuning for this.
• Mine DPS is designed to insta-kill the strongest non-elite unit in its target category.
• Turret DPS is designed to focus on particular target types as well and to kill a target in 2 to 10 seconds of sustained fire.
• Missile DPS is designed to take a few hits to kill the toughest units, while able to insta-kill groups of weaker ones.

Frequently asked question: Why are units so weak now that we can’t do event bases anymore?
Units have been balanced to encourage trying different battalion compositions and being more strategic; possibly requiring a little more micro skills too. The older strategies of steam-rolling everything with Elite Paladins, for example, may no longer work, as they are now in an Artillery Role. It may be MORE effective to bring units with a Tank role and high Threat to draw aggro from turrets, then using Artillery like Mortarmen, due to their high anti-building DPS and very long range.

We know some players have taken up the new challenge of getting to know the new systems. Of course, we still welcome feedback. Please expect more monitoring and tweaking of the new systems, so if you have tried different strategies and still find it difficult, please let us know what you are having trouble with!

Miscellaneous improvements and fixes

• All costs (buildings, units) have been further reduced.
• Vault protection is now 7.5% of supply/fuel storage available at the current tier, and 10% of hardware storage.
• All upgrades, unit construction, missile, mine, and turret crafting should be appropriately scaled to resource storage.
• Building HP should all be scaled to unit DPS. Turret, mine, and missile DPS should all be scaled to unit HP.
• Special “items” added in the game that allows for insta-building missiles, or building “Doped” Mines that insta-kill any unit below its level. These items are obtainable from event bases, and sometimes, from the mail.
• TOC leaders no longer have an equip/unequip cooldown
• The update caused old missiles to unstack with no way to stack them. This has been fixed, but you may need to click the “Sort” button to restack your old missiles.
• Issues with missile blueprints not unlocking the the research is being looked in to. Please do not repurchase the blueprints if you encounter this issue.
• AI units all given some unique aspects. Hunt them all!

More releases incoming, including a planned “grand finale” event. We here at Battlehouse are eternally grateful to all our players, and we plan to go out with a bang on April 2023; and we would love it if you join us there!

Have feedback to share about this week’s releases? Let us know over on our Thunder Run Discord Server.

Good hunting, Commanders!

New this week in Thunder Run:

Welcome to Season 28! Going into the new season, all Leaderboards and PvP Points are reset, meaning that it’s a fresh start for YOUR Clan to be the new the dominating Clan of Gundar, and win the Seasonal Clan Tournament Grand Prize of 10,000 Gold for your Clan at the end of the Season in 3 months from now. Does your Clan have what it takes?

Looking for the Season 27 Tournament winners list? Don’t worry. It will be revealed soon. Stay tuned for another Patch Notes coming later on!

As always, Patrons get these features early, so if you want to be Patron and get early access to future releases, head on over to our Patreon!

Have new feedback to share? Let us know over on our Thunder Run Discord Server.

Good hunting, Commanders!

New this week in Thunder Run:

End-of-Season 27 Clan Tournament

Heads up, Commanders!

From October 6th – October 13th, 2022, rally your Clan and head to the Thunder Dome for your chance to be the strongest Clan of Season 27!

Be one of the Top Clans with the most Clan PvP Points to win between 1,750-8,000 Gold, divided evenly among the top 10 members of your clan.

Tournament ends on October 13th, 2022 at 1700 GMT, at which point winners will be announced, prizes awarded, and leaderboards will be reset for the new season. It’s important to note that you should stay in the same Clan through the end of the tournament and for at least one hour afterward, until at least 1800 GMT to ensure your Clan’s prizes are scored correctly.

Season 28 Opens: October 13th, 2022

• The new season will begin immediately after the end of the tournament.
• Please be reminded that PvP points can only be accumulated on “Dome” maps.

What to have early access to future content releases? Become a Patreon today!

Have new feedback to share? Let us know over on our Thunder Run Discord Server.

Good hunting, Commanders!

New this week in Thunder Run:

Attention, Commanders!

In the beginning of September, we have rolled out an update to our Terms of Service and have mentioned it in the Patch Notes for that day.

Part of the update that was of most interest to a lot of players were the policies regarding alt accounts and account sharing. This update, and the warning of “DO NOT SHARE ACCOUNTS” has been foreshadowed as early as at least December of 2021, as per this post on Discord.

Our aim is to be simultaneously stricter on these policies, while also being more lenient. Stricter in a sense that we’re doing more aggressive account sharing detection and active-but-hidden alt detection; and more lenient, in a sense that low-count offenders are not necessarily moved to the Prison map right away. Hence, the introduction of “Sanctuary“.

Here are a few FAQs that we have gotten, and possible explanations.

What is Sanctuary?

Sanctuary is where a player base goes when it is involved in a violation, typically, of the alt-account policy.

What is the Difference Between Sanctuary and Prison?

Previously, offenders are sent to a different map or to Prison. If a player is in Prison, they will be unable to get out unless the imprisonment was a mistake, and an admin releases the player.

With Sanctuary, the player is free to move out on after a set number of days, depending on the violation. However, a player that makes frequent trips to Sanctuary will ultimately find themselves in Prison, and will no longer be able to get out.

Why am I in Sanctuary?

The player is sent an in-game message of why they were sent to Sanctuary, as well as for how long they will need to wait before they can go back to the map type they’ve been banished from. The length of the sentence depends on the violation incurred.

Effective today, if you are in Sanctuary, you will be able to jump to a map that you specifically have not been banished from.

For example, if you were moved to Sanctuary for an alt-violation, you will be banished from anti-alt maps for X days, but you are free to move to an alt-allowed map until your sentence is over.

As always, if you feel that you have been mis-identified as an alt, please contact support.

I received no message on why I am in Sanctuary/Prison

Some players have found themselves in Sanctuary or Prison without an in-game message like above. In most cases, there are likely other reasons why they have been relocated.

Please contact our support team to check what your account status is. Or alternatively, send a direct message to bh-wulfstan on Discord.

I am in Sanctuary, but cannot move anywhere

Please refer to “I received no message…” section above.

The Future of Sanctuary

We will continue to refine our Sanctuary and Prison systems and sentences, so this may change in the near future – with the name change from “Sanctuary” to something else maaaybe being in the nearer future. We will be making an announcement of any such change when it happens.

Have new feedback to share? Let us know over on our Thunder Run Discord Server.

Want to be Patron and get early access to future releases? Head on over to our Patreon!

Good hunting, Firestrikers!

New this week in Thunder Run:

Attention, Commanders!

The Elite AH-1Z, Elite AH-64, Elite Ka-50, and the Elite Stryker get new colors this week! Here are the colors and the previews:

Please note that Bright Pink, White, Negative Pink, and Snowblind skins are premium skins and therefore gold only. Gray is available for ONP and Hardware.

Have new feedback to share? Let us know over on our Thunder Run Discord Server.

Want to be Patron and get early access to future releases? Head on over to our Patreon!

Good hunting, Firestrikers!

New this week in Thunder Run:

Weekend Warrior Bonus

Weekend Warriors Unite!

Due to the events bug that prevented players from earning ONP, the next Weekend Warrior event bonus will be doubled. Starting Saturday September 3rd at 8am GMT, until Monday September 5th at 8am GMT: enjoy 120% ONP on all event bases for a limited time!

Terms of Service Update

As per our Terms of Service Section 18, we may change our Terms of Service from time to time, and we are obligated to notify you of such changes.

So…. please be aware that our Terms of Service has been updated. We encourage everyone to review the changes. We reckon most of our players would be most interested on our new alt-account policy, but we hope you take the time to read everything. You can find it HERE.

New Elite Unit Skins Incoming!

New colors for selected Elite units are coming on September 15th! Here’s a sneak peak:

“Manufacture Units” toggle

We’ve added a small Quality-of-Life update on your Settings menu. The new “Manufacture Units” toggle allows you to split Normal and Elite units for training.

Enabling this will show only either Normal or Elite units for you to train. By default, only the normal units will be shown. By clicking the “Showing” label beneath the unit icons, the window will switch to only showing Elite units.

There are plans to make more units more viable in the future, and this is the one of the first steps to make things easier from a UI perspective.

Have new feedback to share? Let us know over on our Thunder Run Discord Server.

Want to be Patron and get early access to future releases? Head on over to our Patreon!

Good hunting, Firestrikers!

New this week in Thunder Run:

Attention Commanders!

We would like to sincerely apologize for the events bug that prevented players from earning ONP. We understand that this caused a lot of our “Weekend Warriors” to lose out on the chance to earn ONP.

Therefore, on the next Weekend Warrior event, Starting September 3rd, 2022 the bonus will be doubled. We will post more details about it on our next Patch Notes.

Scarlet Paint FREE for all Elite Units

And that’s not all, Commanders! As mentioned in a previous Patch Notes earlier this month, we discovered that the accidental Elite TOS1 color resulting from the reworking of the paint system was liked by some and thus we released it as a separate color for the Elite TOS-1A.

We’re happy to announce that this color is now available to ALL Elite units for free!

Have new feedback to share? Let us know over on our Thunder Run Discord Server.

Want to be Patron and get early access to future releases? Head on over to our Patreon!

Good hunting, Firestrikers!

New this week in Thunder Run:

Attention, Commanders!

You can now auto-migrate your Facebook account details over to the desktop client! No more contacting support, no more jumping through hoops, nothing!

Interested? Please follow the steps below based on which scenario fits you.

Scenario 1: You have never tried our client before. Here are three easy steps to do it!

1. Install client and run it.
2. Select “Use Facebook” and log in with the account you use for the game
3. Click Play Now.

Scenario 2: You have tried the client, logged in with Facebook, but have not migrated yet and want to do so. Please follow these steps:

1. Install the client, and log in
2. Click Account Info
3. Scroll down and look for “Auto-Migrate Existing Account”. If it is Off, click on “Click to Enable”
4. Click Play Now.

Scenario 3: You have tried the client before, but didn’t use the “Login with Facebook” option AND have not yet migrated, please use these steps:

1. Check if you have a Facebook account associated with your login by going to https://www.battlehouse.com/bh_login/login/
2. Click the button for the login method you currently use in the desktop client.
3. Click on “Click here to manage your account.”
4. If “Linked Facebook Login: (none) appears, copy down the email address that appears further up
5. Go back to https://www.battlehouse.com/bh_login/login/
6. Click “Continue with Facebook” and log in with the account you use for the game
7. Click on “Click here to manage your account.”
8. If the email address is the same as the one you already had, you’re done. If not, click on “Change” next to your email and enter the one you copied in step 4.
9. Check your email and click the confirmation link.
10. Follow the steps in Scenario 2

Note: Please follow the appropriate steps for your situation. As it was before, migrating accounts will result in loss of access of one of the accounts. Due to the technical challenge of unmerging accounts, we will not be able to do this for anyone in the foreseeable future.

Important: If you have already migrated your account via support or the migration tool, do NOT enable “Auto-Migrate Existing Account” on your client.

Have new feedback to share? Let us know over on our Thunder Run Discord Server.

Want to be Patron and get early access to future releases? Head on over to our Patreon!

Good hunting, Firestrikers!