Patch Notes: War Star Empire

New this week in War Star Empire:

End of Season 13 Clan Tournament

From July 2nd – July 9th, 2020, rally your Clan and head to the regional map for your chance to be the strongest Clan of Season 12!

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 July 9th, 2020 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 14 opens on July 9th, 2020!

• 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.
• Please also be reminded, that after the tournament ends on July 9th, 2020,  all anti-alt maps will become anti-VPN maps.  Any player connected on a VPN will not be able to join an anti-alt map. If a player switches to a VPN while already on an anti-alt map, the player will be moved to a pro-alt map.

More Game Improvements

• Updated Volume Control! Instead of just mute/unmute in settings, you can now more precisely control your volumes with sliding percentage controls from 0 to 100, with mouse-wheel and click-n’-hold support. Clicking the volume bar between the plus and minus sign will now mute/unmute your volume. The UI tooltip is updated to reflect this. The game will save your last unmuted volume preference and restore it if you mute. Example: Set music volume to 50%. Click the yellow bar. It’s muted. Click the empty bar. It’s instantly back to 50%.
• New Security Team Behavior Toggles! You can now set security team behaviors for each building and for any class of units that has security teams or response teams. Cycle through behaviors through an at-a-glance indicator of the security/response team’s aggression level:
  • A – Attack units in aggro radius
  • H – Hold Position
  • R – Relentlessly Pursue

For a sneak peak at what’s coming up next season in Battlehouse games, check out the Developer Roadmap in last week’s edition of the Battlehouse Dev Blog.

To see where the design team currently stands on various Community suggested features and game improvements, check out the War Star Empire Voice of the Commander Tracker (new tracker coming soon).

Have new feedback to share? Let us know over in the “war-star-empire” channel within our Thunder Run Discord Server.

Good hunting, Commanders!

New this week in War Star Empire:

New Dragon Unit

Watch out, Stryker! The Dragon is here to take your crown and supplant you as king of the skies. The all new highly anticipated Dragon AP Gunship unit is here!

Unlock the Dragon AP Gunship by spending Soloran in the Event Prizes store, and then research them and send them to battle!

Game Improvements

And that’s not all! We’ve also made some improvements volume control!

Instead of just mute/unmute in settings, you can now more precisely control your volumes with sliding percentage controls from 0 to 100, with mouse-wheel and click-n’-hold support.

Like what you see? Let us know over in the “war-star-empire” channel within our TR Discord Server.

Good hunting, Commanders!

New this week in War Star Empire:

Voice of the Martian Updates

Heads up, Martians! This week we’re bringing you a couple quality-of-life updates based on your player feedback from the “Voice of the Martian” Trackers. Don’t see the update you were hoping for in this week’s releases? Fear not, as there is still plenty more to come!

For this week, the Upgrade Information bar that lists the benefits of an upgrade has had its scroll buttons fixed. Mouse-wheel scrolling is now supported.

Do you know where else mouse-wheel scrolling is supported? The Player Information Statistics tab!

And that’s not all Commanders! We’ve received complaints about some text overlapping problems for games with more than three rows worth of PvP seasons. This has also been fixed and scroll buttons have been added.

To see where the design team currently stands on various Community suggested features and game improvements, check out the War Star Empire “Voice of the Commander” Tracker.

For a sneak peak at what’s coming up down the road, check out the “Developer Roadmap” in the most recent edition of the Battlehouse Dev Blog.

Have feedback to share about this week’s releases? Let us know over in the “war-star-empire” channel within our TR Discord Server.

Good hunting, Commanders!

New this week in War Star Empire:

Welcome to Season 13!

Welcome to Season 13! 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 the Season, 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?

For a sneak peak at what’s coming up this season in Battlehouse games, check out the Developer Roadmap in the most recent edition of the Battlehouse Dev Blog.

Season 12 Tournament Winners

• PrOuD BrOtHeRh0oD XxX – 649 Points

1 – GEN. AjMaL L60 with 434 points WINS 1000 Gold
2 – GEN. AjMaL- L60 with 221 points WINS 1000 Gold
3 – MAJ. PARCA L33 with 151 points WINS 1000 Gold
4 – LTG. Incinerator L58 with 116 points WINS 1000 Gold
5 – LTG. CARLOS-A-VIPER L59 with 96 points WINS 1000 Gold
6 – LTC. N——L L39 with 94 points WINS 1000 Gold
7 – Kadri L58 with 90 points WINS 1000 Gold
8 – LTG. داعش L56 with 68 points WINS 1000 Gold
9 – LTC. BigDog L39 with 13 points WINS 1000 Gold
10 – COL. monster L44 with 8 points WINS 1000 Gold

• friendship and brotherho – 412 Points

1 – Aya L55 with 311 points WINS 500 Gold
2 – GEN. saladeen L60 with 244 points WINS 500 Gold
3 – Donald L56 with 102 points WINS 500 Gold
4 – LTG. BARBARING L55 with 73 points WINS 500 Gold
5 – LTC. BALOO L38 with 25 points WINS 500 Gold
6 – Anon L27 with 22 points WINS 500 Gold
7 – Abdo L33 with 20 points WINS 500 Gold
8 – Anon L52 with 12 points WINS 500 Gold
9 – COL. BlackHorse L42 with 12 points WINS 500 Gold
10 – MG. ALEXANDER-GREAT L54 with 4 points WINS 500 Gold

• Brothers and loyal frien – 174 Points

1 – BG. Lieun L47 with 118 points WINS 300 Gold
2 – Samanta L19 with 98 points WINS 300 Gold
3 – LTG. دمیFAB L55 with 76 points WINS 300 Gold
4 – LTG. فداءFAB L56 with 20 points WINS 300 Gold
5 – LTC. Eagle L38 with 16 points WINS 300 Gold
6 – LTC. FABFAB L35 with 8 points WINS 300 Gold
7 – LTC. lionlion L39 with 4 points WINS 300 Gold
8 – Ali L37 with 4 points WINS 300 Gold
9 – LTC. Samsung L36 with 4 points WINS 300 Gold
10 – MG. ayhem L54 with 0 points WINS 300 Gold

To see where the design team currently stands on various Community suggested features and game improvements, check out the War Star Empire Voice of the Commander Tracker.

Have new feedback to share? Let us know over in the “war-star-empire” channel within our Thunder Run Discord Server.

Good hunting, Commanders!

New this week in War Star Empire:

End of Season 12 Clan Tournament

From March 26th – April 2nd, 2020, rally your Clan and head to the regional map for your chance to be the strongest Clan of Season 12!

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 April 2nd, 2020 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 13 opens on April 2nd, 2020!

• IMPORTANT: Going forward into the new season, PvP points can only be accumulated on “anti-alt” maps.
• For a sneak peak at what’s coming up next season in Battlehouse games, check out the Developer Roadmap in last week’s edition of the Battlehouse Dev Blog.
• To see where the design team currently stands on various Community suggested features and game improvements, check out the War Star Empire Voice of the Commander Tracker (new tracker coming soon).
• Have new feedback to share? Let us know over in the “war-star-empire” channel within our Thunder Run Discord Server.

Good hunting, Commanders!

This week in War Star Empire:

COVID-19 – Impact, Helping You Play & Stay Safe

Attention Commanders,

As COVID-19 is making it’s way across the world, our utmost concern is the health and safety of not only our employees, but also our valued players while we all traverse through this difficult time together. During this time, we urge everyone to follow all guidelines established by both federal and local authorities. If everyone does their part to help mitigate the crisis it will enable all of us to come out the other side of this much sooner.

In the meantime, to help ensure that our players have ample opportunities for entertainment while many of us will be spending more time at home in the coming weeks, we’re offering a “one purchase per player” 50%-off gold sale, and extra free daily combat and base repair kits – both of which can be activated any time throughout at least the next 4 weeks.

• If you currently have a different sale offer running in-game, the 50%-off sale will start as soon as your current sale offer period ends.
• The extra free daily repair kits will be claimable via the “Daily Login Reward” system. The repair kits will show as the new reward for the “Daily Login Reward” system, but the normal daily rewards will also appear when you go to place the kits in your Warehouse.
  • The home base repair kit has an expiration time of 18 hours, and the in-combat instant repair kit has an expiration of 30 minutes.

We hope this gesture makes an otherwise stressful time in everyone’s lives even the smallest bit better. More than that – we hope you all stay safe!

Sincerely,

~The Battlehouse Team

New this week in War Star Empire:

PvP Level Range Update

Heads up, Martians! 👽 We’ve been hearing your feedback loud and clear, and updated “attack level restrictions” is something that you’ve all been requesting for some time now, primarily as a means to help protect younger growing bases. Effective now, the new PvP level limits will be as follows, for attacks on home bases:

• Level 39 and below: attack anyone 4 levels below you, up to 4 levels above you
• Level 40+: see chart below

These limits apply only to home bases. Battalions and quarries can always be attacked regardless of the level difference.

Here is a table of the exact level ranges for home-base attacks:

More Game Improvements

And that’s not all, Commanders! Here’s a recap of the other “Voice of the Martian” centric game improvements we’ve made this week:

• The Settings Menu has been updated with two toggles for the Map Bookmarks. One allows you to show the bookmark number in front of each. The other allows you to turn off the “Created on” label.
• Players now have the ability to mousewheel and/or click-and-hold scroll the Battle History window. No more clicking arrow to arrow for minutes on end while you try to find that old battle replay link from last week!

To see where the design team currently stands on various Community suggested features and game improvements, check out the War Star Empire “Voice of the Commander” Tracker.

For a sneak peak at what’s coming up down the road, check out the “Developer Roadmap” in the most recent edition of the Battlehouse Dev Blog.

Have feedback to share about this week’s releases? Let us know over in the “war-star-empire” channel within our TR Discord Server.

Good hunting, Commanders!

New this week in War Star Empire:

More Generator Updates

Heads up, Martians! 👽 Your generators are slightly less resilient now. The shutdown threshold has increased by 10% across the board (82% at L1, 60% at L12). Your generators will still provide 50% of their power output as long as their health percentage stays above the threshold, and will provide 100% output if they aren’t damaged. Protect those generators!

Clan Help System Updates

And that’s not all, Commanders! Asking your clan for help just got a little easier. You now only need 7 responses, down from 10 to fulfill a clan help upgrade request. Get those upgrades in!

To see where the design team currently stands on various Community suggested features and game improvements, check out the War Star Empire “Voice of the Commander” Tracker.

For a sneak peak at what’s coming up down the road, check out the “Developer Roadmap” in the most recent edition of the Battlehouse Dev Blog.

Have feedback to share about this week’s releases? Let us know over in the “war-star-empire” channel within our TR Discord Server.

Good hunting, Commanders!

New this week in War Star Empire:

Generator Updates

Heads up, Martians! 👽 Generators are a little hardier now. Instead of shutting down the moment they cause damage, they will still provide 50% power until damage exceeds a set health percentage. Look at your generator’s new “Shutdown” stat to see how much health it can lose before shutting down.

Game Improvements

And that’s not all, Commanders! Here’s a recap of the other “Voice of the Commander” centric game improvements we’ve made this week:

• Mousewheel scrolling support has been added to multiple portions of the UI: Achievement Categories, Change Rank, Battle History, Battle Logs, Leader Training, Equipment Crafting, Relocate Base, Regional Map Bookmarks, Equipment selection for buildings and units, Clan info, Choose Clan Symbol, and Logistics Dispatch now all support wheel scrolling.
• Map bookmarks, Achievements, and Player Settings now support “click and hold” scrolling. If you don’t have a mouse wheel, you can still enjoy the fast, smooth scrolling. Just click and hold!
• The Map Bookmark scroll buttons have also been changed from “left/right” to “up/down” to provide for a much more smooth scrolling experience.

To see where the design team currently stands on various Community suggested features and game improvements, check out the War Star Empire “Voice of the Commander” Tracker.

For a sneak peak at what’s coming up down the road, check out the “Developer Roadmap” in the most recent edition of the Battlehouse Dev Blog.

Have feedback to share about this week’s releases? Let us know over in the “war-star-empire” channel within our TR Discord Server.

Good hunting, Commanders!

New this week in War Star Empire:

Health Bar Color Updates

🐲 Happy Lunar New Year, Martians! 🐉

We’re celebrating with a quality-of-life update based on your player feedback. Players across all Battlehouse games have been requesting more visual cues about the health of units and buildings, and this week we’re here to deliver. Health bar colors have been updated to the following scheme:

• Buildings and units with health at 0% to 10% will have a red health bar.
• Buildings and units with health at 10% to 50% will have an orange health bar.
• Buildings and units with health at 50% to 75% will have a yellow health bar.
• Buildings and units with health at 75% to 100% will have a green health bar.

And that’s not all! Keep a close watch on your Drone units, because the Devastator turret head’s damage against Drones has been significantly increased.

To see where the design team currently stands on various Community suggested features and game improvements, check out the War Star Empire “Voice of the Commander” Tracker.

Have feedback to share about this week’s releases? Let us know over in the “war-star-empire” channel within our TR Discord Server.

Good hunting, Commanders!