๐ข Attention Commanders! The Thunder Run Kill Points Tournament has come to a close! Congratulations to the winners:
The Thunder Run “Gift of Giving” Camp Kill Points Tournament has come to close! Congratulations to the winners:
1 – giuseppe L75 with 38984 KP WINS 2,000 gold, a turret or unit blueprint of their choosing, a turret or unit blueprint of a friend’s choosing to gift to a friend, and 3x Field Repair Kits 2 – KingPin L74 with 33144 KP WINS 1,000 Gold and 2x Field Repair Kits 3 – Axel L64 with 32184 KP WINS 600 Gold and 1x Field Repair Kit 4 – ๅฐบไธจแฏไนๅฐบ็ชๅใๅ L68 with 27968 KP WINS 300 Gold and 1x Field Repair Kit 5 – COL-SMSM L64 with 13428 KP WINS 300 Gold and 1x Field Repair Kit 6 – ู ุฏู ุฑู L69 with 12264 KP WINS 300 Gold and 1x Field Repair Kit 7 – MrBlackSheep L74 with 11640 KP WINS 300 Gold and 1x Field Repair Kit 8 – Eric L75 with 10464 KP WINS 300 Gold and 1x Field Repair Kit 9 – ROCKMAN L69 with 10280 KP WINS 300 Gold and 1x Field Repair Kit 10 – DONlenard L75 with 10280 KP WINS 300 Gold and 1x Field Repair Kit
Stay tuned for more tournaments in the future, and good hunting, Commanders!
Gundar Arms Industries is rolling out more upgradeable weapons technologies. Purchase more Level 1 equipment sets in the ONP Store, and combine the parts in the Weapons Factory to make all new Level 2 sets! This week the Elite Machine Gunners are getting some new gear.
Elite Machine Gunner Laser Sights II – AN/PEQ-2 IR Laser Sight technology that increases range by 5%
EliteMachine Gunner Ballistic Armor MK II – Improved kevlar that reduces damage taken by 10%
Elite Machine Gunner GMC AP Ammunition II – The newest grade armor-piercing ammunition that increases damage by 10%
Also adds set bonuses to give Elite Machine Gunners the 80% FASCAM shielding that the old shield equipment set had.
Collect the entire Level 2 Unit Equipment set to boost your Unit Equipment bonuses even higher!
Stinger Turret Upgrades
Our engineers just had a breakthrough on our StingerTurrets, and they can now be made stronger than ever. The Stinger Turret level cap has been increased to Level 30!
L30 Stinger Turret Stats
To unlock it, purchase the Stinger Turret Blueprints from the ONP Store, research the tech in your Weapons Lab, and then Equip the new Weapon to one of your Turret Platforms!
“Friends Bar” Changes
Due to the changes in the Facebook API, all friend recruitment quests haven’t been working as intended. We’ve decided to disable these quests. If you completed one of these quests, you should see an achievement in the Legacy category:
“Congrats on being such a friendly person!”
For all Facebook games: you will no longer see the friend bar if you have no Facebook friends in game. If you still have the friend bar, you will no longer be prompted or be able to add new friends, but you can still send & receives gifts to the friends that you already have.
Firestrike is not affected as it primarily uses the Battlehouse login system.
Thunder Run players using the Kongregate platform are not affected.
Battlefront Mars players using the Battlehouse login system are not affected.
In the future, we do plan on bringing back the “friends” bar, but more as a “clan bar.” We’re open to player feedback on how they’d like to see this implemented.
If you have any suggestions about this, or any general feedback you’d like to share, please let us know over on our Thunder Run Discord Server.
Please also let players know that longer term we plan to bring the “friends bar” back as a “clan bar”, and are open to player feedback on best ways to execute that.)
To see where the design team currently stands on various Community suggested features and game improvements, check out the Thunder Run Voice of the Commander Tracker (tracker will receive some clean-up and updates to formatting in the very near future).
We have some exciting news, announcements, and more waiting for you on our most recent edition of the Battlehouse Dev Blog.
From January 14th – January 21st, head to the regional map and feast on Mandel camps in an effort to reach the Top 10 of the ‘Kill Points’ weekly leaderboard.
The top 10 players on the ‘Kill Points’ weekly leaderboard at 17:00 GMT on January 21st will receive the following prizes:
1st Place (Grand Prize): 2,000 gold, a turret or unit blueprint of your choosing, a turret or unit blueprint of a friend’s choosing to gift to a friend, and 3x Field Repair Kits
2nd Place: 1,000 Gold and 2x Field Repair Kits
3rd Place: 600 Gold and 1x Field Repair Kit
4th-10th Place: 300 Gold and 1x Field Repair Kit
Tournaments end on January 21st, 2021 at 17:00 GMT, at which point winners will be announced, and prizes awarded.
Good hunting, Commanders!
Elite Infantry updates
And that’s not all, Commanders!
We’re celebrating with a quality-of-life update based on your player feedback that’s intended to address a few of the issues and suggestions that you’ve brought forth to us via the “Voice of the Commander” trackers. Don’t see the update you were hoping for in this week’s release? Fear not, as there is still plenty more to come.
Elite Machine Gunners an Elite Javelin Gunners have both received a range boost. Also, there are no more Hardware costs when building or repairing Elite Machine Gunners.
Welcome to Season 21! 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?
New “Thunder Dome” map
Welcome to the Thunder Dome, Commander! This season, only the new “Thunder Dome” map will be ladder-enabled. So if you want PvP Points, this is the map for you!
The Thunder Dome requires a TOC6 or higher to enter, and will be anti-alt and anti-VPN. Should you move out of the Thunder Dome at any point, any accumulated PvP Points will be lost.
Get ready to rumble in the dome, Commander!
L26 Stinger Turret Upgrades
And that’s not all, Commander! Our engineers just had a breakthrough on our StingerTurrets, and they can now be made stronger than ever. The Stinger Turret level cap has been increased to Level 26!
Level 26 Stinger Turret Stats
To unlock it, purchase the Stinger Turret Blueprints from the ONP Store, research the tech in your Weapons Lab, and then Equip the new Weapon to one of your Turret Platforms!
Looking for the Season 20 Tournament winners list? Don’t worry. It will be revealed soon. Stay tuned for another Patch Notes coming later today!
The Ruthless Event has come to close, and all the Battle Replays have been reviewed.
We understand that the rules may have been confusing for some, considering that our more recent contests were a little stricter.
So in the spirit of this season, we’ve gone ahead and made two “winner” brackets: those who destroyed the TOC the fastest, and those who destroyed the whole base the fastest! This means, more prizes for more players!
For the “destroy TOC the fastest,” here’s your list of winners:
Player
Score (Time Steps)
Replay Link
1. guerriero *2,500 Gold, 250k ONP, and 250k Hardware
From yesterday December 31st, 2020 – January 7th, 2021, rally your Clan and head to the regional map for your chance to be the strongest Clan of Season 20!
Be one of the Top Clans with the most Clan PvP Points to win between 3,000-10,000 Gold, divided evenly among the top 10 members of your clan.
Tournament ends on January 7th, 2021 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 21 Opens: January 7th, 2021
NEW: Welcome to the Thunder Dome – Starting next season, January 7, only the new “Thunder Dome” map (TOC6+ required) will be ladder-enabled. Get ready to rumble in the dome!
The new season will begin immediately after the end of the tournament.
Please be reminded that PvP points can only be accumulated on “anti-alt” maps.
We’re celebrating with a quality-of-life update based on your player feedback that’s intended to address a few of the issues and suggestions that you’ve brought forth to us via the “Voice of the Commander” trackers. Don’t see the update you were hoping for in this week’s release? Fear not, as there is still plenty more to come.
Deactivate your mines
We have heard your feedback loud and clear, and now, it is possible to disable minefields.
You can now disable your minefields during single-player AI attacks if you wish. This will automatically remove itself if you log out, or can be removed any time you want by clicking the status indicator icon and choosing “Remove” or clicking “Manage” on any mine and then clicking “Enable Minefields”
“Disable minefield” (or “Enable” if currently disabled) button at the bottom
Status indicator when mines are disabled
Known issue: When building new mines, the “Disable/Enable mine” button overlapswith the progress bar. This will be fixed really soon.
BMP-1 and Elite BMP-1 Updates
In preparation for customizable loadouts that we’ll be rolling out in the near future, we’ve made small changes to the BMP-1 and Elite BMP-1 units.
Particularly, the BMP-1 will have its special troops default back to stock Riflemen, and the Elite BMP-1 units are defaulted to Elite Riflemen. The Elite BMP-1 has also been given a slight damage increase.
Some may see this as a nerf, but don’t fret, commander! Customizable loadouts are coming and it’ll be worth it!
Upgrade/Unlock mouse-wheel support
And that’s not all, Commander! We made some tweaks to the UI as well! Upgrade and unlock windows now support mouse-wheel scrolling. No more clicking on the arrows on the top left of those windows!
Think you’ve got what it takes to prove you’re the Master of the Ruthless Event? Post a link to a Battle Replay of you fighting the last level in the Ruthless ONP Event as a comment on this post on our Thunder Run Facebook Page, no later than Thursday, December 31st at 17:00 GMT to become eligible to win BIG prizes! ๐ฐ
BEWARE: The difficulty on the final level for Warlord has been increased for the contest, and replays that contain the use of consumable range boosts will not be accepted (boosts provided by unit equipment is allowed).
The players who either destroy the entire base the fastest (in one attack), or receives the highest percentage of Base Damage in the first attack wave, will be declared the winners on December 31st, 2020.
NOTE: To post a Battle Replay link, click the “B” icon at the top of your game to open your “Battle Log”, click “View Log” next to the battle you want to share, followed by “View Replay”. Once the replay loads, click the “Get Link” button and paste the link as a comment on this post on our Thunder Run Facebook Page.
Prizes
1st Place: 2,500 Gold, 250k ONP, and 250k Hardware
2nd Place: 1,750 Gold, 200k ONP, and 200k Hardware
3rd Place: 1250 Gold, 100k ONP, and 100k Hardware
4th – 10th: 100k ONP and Hardware
If there is enough interest in this competition, and/or we receive a lot more total submissions than 10, we will consider breaking down additional prize tiers based on attacker TOC level.
Hey Commanders! Our engineers just had a breakthrough on our StingerTurrets, and they can now be made stronger than ever. The Stinger Turret level cap has been increased to Level 22!
Level 22 Stinger Turret Stats
To unlock it, purchase the Stinger Turret Blueprints from the ONP Store, research the tech in your Weapons Lab, and then Equip the new Weapon to one of your Turret Platforms!
Candace’s Christmas Sale
Hey Commanders! We hope you’re enjoying the holidays! To help celebrate, we’re offering a Hardware Bundle with our gold packages.
Simply head on over the Buy Gold menu and get free “Hardware Fill” boosts whenever your purchase a Gold package in between December 24th, 2020 all the way to December 31st, 2020.
Hardware Bundle
Game improvements
And that’s not all, commander! Several players pointed out that the regular MSTA seems to be more powerful/useful than its Elite counterpart. It’s been patched to make it all stats equal or slightly better at all levels, and the “Slow” impact effect still applies to give it the “Elite” name.Health, range, splash range, and damage all got boosted.
For comparison: MSTA 5 StatsFor comparison: Elite MSTA 5 Stats
