- New 5th Map Released! - 29 June 2024
New 5th map - Arlowe - released! Play session today (in less than 1 hour) at 12 PM PST!
- Map 5 and Free To Play Session! - 22 June 2024
The 5th Map - ARLOWE For the last few months we've been hard at work creating our 5th map Arlowe. Arlowe is the same size as Caul (our smallest map) but, unlike Caul which is based in a desert city, Arlowe takes place in forest town with rocky formations scattered throughout. You'll have to use the environment to your advantage as you battle through Arlowe and it's rural town overlooked by an observatory! Free-To-Play Saturday Play Session! - June 29th We will push a patch that allows the Demo to play multiplayer with everyone else a little before 12 PM PST on June 29th. On Saturday June 29th, you will be able to play multiplayer for free on the Steam store page demo. Be sure to tell your friends and spread the word. We want this to be our biggest weekend yet! How to play for free? We will update the demo June 29th at 12 PM PST Download the demo off our Steam store page Complete the qui…
- Price Drop Now Live, Play Session Tomorrow! - 24 February 2024
Price Drop is Now Live! The time has come! We announced a few weeks ago we would be dropping our price on Steam permanently and now it is time. Operation Valor is now only $4.99 USD (local prices differ). We hope this price drop will get more people involved and into the game. If you have any questions please stop by our discord!🙂 Community / Developer Play Session In less than 24 hours, we will be having our Community / Developer Play Session. Saturday, February 24th 12 PM PST // 3 PM EST // 9 PM CEST The play session will last a couple hours Giveaways on our Twitch! 🔰 Operation Valor Twitch 🔰
- Price Drop and Community / Developer Play Session - 14 February 2024
Community / Developer Play Session We will be having a Community / Developer Play Session on February @ 24th at 12 PM PST // 3 PM EST // 9 PM CEST. The play session will last a couple hours and we will be streaming on our Twitch doing giveaways! 🔰 Operation Valor Twitch 🔰 Price Drop As we announced a few weeks ago, we will be dropping our price on Steam permanently in about 2ish weeks! The price drop will be quite significant (in our eyes, and hopefully yours too!). We hope this price drop will get more people involved and into the game. Dedicated Servers A few weeks ago we released our dedicated servers on Steam. You can now host your own server using the "Operation Valor Dedicated Server" tool in your Steam Library. In your steam library, make sure you’ve got the “Tools” section enabled, or simply search for “Operation Valor” in your Steam Library and you’ll find it. We’ve put toget…
- 2024 and Dedicated Servers! - 31 January 2024
We know it's been a while since we last put out news before the holidays. A lot has been happening behind the scenes, but we’re now ready to give an update on Operation Valor and the future. Dedicated Servers We're excited to announce the release of our dedicated servers! Our dedicated servers will work through Steam Tools. If you've ever port forwarded a router you should be in good shape. Servers will not show up in game, you'll have to use the console to connect via IP. I've created an in depth google doc on how to port forward, how to run a server, and how to add admins. It's a working document so if you run into any issues please let me know in discord and I'll update it asap. Guide for Setting up a Dedicated Server. 2024 Development This update isn't something we thought we would have to write so soon, but life happens, especially in indie development. We’re still all-in on develo…
- Free Weekend & More! - 15 December 2023
Free Weekend - December 15th to 17th We are excited to announce our first free weekend that starts on December 15th at 12 PM PST and will run through the entire weekend! During this weekend only, you can play multiplayer for free on our demo that is on the Steam store page. Be sure to tell your friends and spread the word. We want this to be our biggest weekend yet! How to play for free? We will update the demo December 15th at 12 PM PST Download the demo off our Steam store page Complete the quick tutorial Queue for Frontlines (this is Multiplayer) Enjoy! You don't need to do this if you already own the game. The demo will be able to play with owners of the game during this weekend. We will be streaming Friday & Saturday at 12 PM PST. During the stream we will be doing giveaways as well!😎 New Patch Update We released our 4th map Caul last week and the response went pretty well! We are…
- Free Weekend - December 15th to 17th - 4 December 2023
Free Weekend - December 15th to 17th We are excited to announce our first free weekend that starts on December 15th at 12 PM PST and will run through the entire weekend! During this weekend only, you can play multiplayer for free on our demo that is on the Steam store page. Be sure to tell your friends and spread the word. We want this to be our biggest weekend yet! How to play for free? We will update the demo December 15th at 12 PM PST Download the demo off our Steam store page Complete the quick tutorial Queue for Frontlines (this is Multiplayer) Enjoy! You don't need to do this if you already own the game. The demo will be able to play with owners of the game during this weekend. We will be streaming Friday & Saturday at 12 PM PST. During the stream we will be doing giveaways as well!😎
- Patch Notes November 30th 2023 - 1 December 2023
Released our 4th Map Caul Fixed levels not showing Tier 2 and Tier 3 icons properly
- Our 4th map is released! - 1 December 2023
Caul is here! We're excited to announce the release of our fourth map, Caul! From our previous announcement: Caul might be our smallest map, but it's the most densely packed with features. It's a desert-themed map with a mix of dense of urban and rural areas; offering a unique gameplay experience unlike our other three maps. Our focus for this patch was getting Caul in a good state. You can read the patch notes here! Developer Play Session this Saturday In 2 days, on Saturday, we will be having our next Developer Community Play session! Stream / Session takes place on December 2nd at 12 PM PST / 3 PM PST / 9 PM CET. We will be doing giveaways during stream and showing off the new map. We'll be discussing the December 15th event as well which we think you'll be excited for! Read more about our upcoming free weekend here! https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1095480/view/38883580084276…
- Plans for the End of the Year - 21 November 2023
Introducing Caul: Our Newest Map We're excited to announce the release of our fourth map, Caul, scheduled for the very end of November. Caul might be our smallest map, but it's the most densely packed with features. It's a desert-themed map with a mix of dense of urban and rural areas; offering a unique gameplay experience unlike our other three maps. We can't wait for you to dive in and explore Caul before November ends! Upcoming Plans and Holiday Season Event With the holiday season around the corner, we're gearing up for a major event on the weekend of December 15th. This is set to be one of our biggest events yet, and we're putting in a lot of effort to make this event awesome. Lately real life has been a bit busy. As most of you know, we do work full-time day jobs to pay our bills, etc. Despite this, we're committed to enhancing the AI, and our goal is to introduce the first iterat…
- Saturday Developer Play Session + Patch + Giveaways - 10 November 2023
Saturday Developer Play Session w/ Giveaways We are having a Developer Play Session this Saturday (11th of November) starting at 12 PM PST / 3 PM EST / 9 PM CET and it will go for several hours. During the play session we will be doing giveaways on our Twitch! November 9th Changelog You can find the changelog for this patch here! Looking forward Recently we've been splitting our time between fixing bugs, adding new UI features, and optimizing the first time user experience (see our change to servers in the changelog). We've been getting closer and closer to having our 4th map Caul where we want it. Our level designer and 3D artist have been crushing it. We are still aiming for the very very end of November to release the map. As far as AI / bot improvements go, we've been pretty open about this in Discord, streams, etc. When we first implemented AI, due to scope reasons, we made all the…
- Patch Notes for November 9th 2023 - 10 November 2023
A major mechanic we just implemented for servers is: We will only be having servers up for one region during set times throughout the day. Europe servers will be active for 12 hours and then NA servers will be active for the other 12 hours. This is to help keep the population from splitting. For the time being, we have removed region selector. This should help so players don't join an empty server in one region, while another region has players. Adjustments Adjusted text chat to include 150 characters with word wrapping now so you can enter longer messages Adjusted the Support class icon to be flipped so it's easier to tell the Riflemen class apart from the Support class. Adjusted Support Class for both teams: Black Foxes now has 60 x 5 magazines United Militia now has 100 x 3 magazines Reduced reload time for the m249 from 7 seconds to 4 seconds to balance this change. Added Added UI t…
- Hotfix for AI not Spawning on Kalinsk - 2 November 2023
Fixed AI not spawning on Kalinsk due to our new AI behavior where they can vault up and down certain geometry. This is an iterative process so AI won't be able to vault up and down everything, but over time we can add areas they will be able to.
- Speedrun Competition w/ Prizes! - 1 November 2023
Speedrun Shoothouse Competition We are holding a Speedrun competition for the Live Fire portion of our Shoothouse from November 1st to November 8th. The top 10 Speedrun scores will get a special badge in game while the top 3 Speedrun scores will get a special banner in game! All you have to do is join our discord and make sure to submit your results after each Live Fire run in the Shoothouse. The shoothouse AI positions have been updated so... good luck! Times are updated live in our Speedrun Leaderboard in Discord! Patch + Play Session We JUST released another patch updating adding new functionality to AI, adjustments, and fixes. You can read more about the patch notes here. Also! We will be having another play session this Saturday at 12 PM PDT. This play session will be community driven so be sure to drop by discord and join in!
- Patch Notes for November 1st 2023 - 1 November 2023
November 1st Changelog Adjustments Adjusted matchmaking to be very fast given the current population of the game. This will need to be adjusted when we grow a little, but for now, queueing should happen within 60 seconds (usually ~45 seconds). Adjusted match preparation time to start sooner so players are not waiting as long. Adjusted the "buildable detected" feature from 60 seconds to 10 seconds. Enemy buildables will now disappear from the map after 10 seconds of you no longer have vision of the buildable. This is to help balance buildables being destroyed by mortars so easily and deconstructed so easily. Adjusted all refill areas on all maps for vehicles Adjusted the shovel digging sound so it can only be heard when very close (on screen). This was a riduculously large range (too large) and made it very easy to find people building. Reworked AI prioritization - you should not see AI…
- Large Patch + Saturday Play Session - 26 October 2023
This post will be very long but it's worth the read trust me! Our Community Thank you so much again to our community. We know that we are small right now, but we have plans on how we will grow in the coming months. You early supporters mean the world to us. Thank you for believing in us. We hope to see you this Saturday for our Play Session! We have added ways to find players in our Discord. You can now add the "looking for group" (lfg) role to yourself so that you can be pinged when others are looking for players. We added a regular "looking for group" channel as well. We also added a locked Events channel so you can see when the next event is coming up (typically the devs will be playing every other Saturday starting at 12 PM PDT and staying on for several hours. I want to highlight a few big changes coming to our game real quick before getting into the details: Local Voice Chat ("C"…
- Patch Notes for October 20th 2023 - 20 October 2023
Fixed replays not loading Potentially fixed a crash that was occurring on Sumersgate A fix for bots getting stuck on Kalinsk
- Developer Streams, Patch, and More! - 20 October 2023
Thank you to everyone who played on the first day of our release! If you haven't already be sure to leave us a Steam review as it really helps us out 💛 We will be streaming later tonight on our twitch and streaming tomorrow (Saturday) at 12 PM PDT. We will be doing more giveaways during Saturday's stream! The release yesterday went well with very few major issues. We are deploying a small patch later today with the following fixes: Fixed replays not loading Potentially fixed a crash that was occurring on Sumersgate A fix for bots getting stuck on Kalinsk Again thanks to all you awesome people who picked up the game! We are focused this next week on fixing any major bugs you report in our Discord and adding quality of life improvements! We will see you later tonight and tomorrow (12 PM PDT) for our Developer streams! 🔰 Operation Valor Twitch 🔰
- Operation Valor Releases Today! - 19 October 2023
We're excited to announce that Operation Valor's full release will be available on PC today! Operation Valor is a tactical top-down PvPvE shooter that provides large-scale combat through base building and teamwork. This game is a cross between action-packed military gameplay and RTS-style mechanics. Players will fight across diverse battlefields with squad-based action in vehicles, or on foot. Prepare for an exciting battle utilizing strategy, logistics, and base building. We will be doing a developer stream on Twitch today for a few hours during our release. We will be giving away copies of Operation Valor during the stream so tune in and ask questions! 🔰 Operation Valor Twitch 🔰 Operation Valor's full release will be available on PC today online at 12pm PDT / 9pm CEST!
- Launch Plans, Giveaways, and More! - 18 October 2023
Hi everyone, As we near launch in 24 hours, we'd like to take a moment and thank everyone who has joined us along this journey the last few years. Those who have joined in on our previous alphas, betas, including our last beta that took place on September 30th. A lot of you reported bugs and gave constructive feedback that was imperative to making this game what it is today. Even just being in the test helped us get valuable information on our multiplayer servers and catch crash reports. Thank you. Thursday's launch is just the beginning. We will be releasing a new map by the end of November and we want to add better support for community servers as well. The week or so following release we will primarily be focused on fixing any bugs people catch and adding quality of life updates. We will be giving out a few copies of Operation Valor during our release day live stream so be sure to tu…
