When Delta Force reaches a crescendo – when it’s you and maybe one surviving teammate, huddled behind a wall, pinned down by relentless, thundering suppressive fire, grenades exploding all around you – it turns from an FPS into something closer to a horror game. How could it be scarier? How about you take the same Battlefield-inspired, nerve-pulling combat but now it’s nighttime, and your multiplayer opponents could be hiding anywhere? If you’re nostalgic for Battlefield 4’s excellent Night Ops, or charged up after Gray Zone Warfare’s own nocturnal skirmishes, the new Delta Force update has just what you need.
After arriving onto Steam in January, Delta Force has been successively updated with weapons, operators, and its co-op campaign mode. A large-scale but slower-paced, tactical FPS game in the spirit of Battlefield 3 (the greatest), Team Jade’s shooter and free PC game is still finding its feet, but the groundwork is solid. User reviews might still be mixed, but Delta Force continues to achieve a daily concurrent player count high of around 100,000. The new season, named Eclipse Vigil, could win it some better plaudits.
Available as of Monday April 21, the latest Delta Force update includes a new operator, Nox, who specializes in stealth and silent infiltration. Rather than a frontline trooper, Nox is better used for sneaking behind the lines and dropping debuffs on the enemy, giving a pre-emptive advantage to the main attack force. You also get two new weapons, the K437 assault rifle and the double-barrel shotgun, the latter of which can be combined with an FPS icon, making its first appearance in Delta Force: dragon’s breath ammunition.
There’s a new leaderboards system, a new vehicle courtesy of the GTQ-35 LT tank, and a new attachment in the form of an underbarrel flamethrower. In terms of fresh features, however, most notable is the killcam. Another shooter staple, the killcam has been absent from Delta Force so far, but as of Eclipse Vigil, you can finally watch – and lament – replays of your gruesome deaths.
Most significant, however, is the new night combat mode. A selection of Warfare and Operations maps can now be played in the dark, encouraging you to use night-vision scopes, silenced weapons, and sneakier tactics. Or you can all out, and light up the firmament with the same rockets and grenades you’d deploy in the daytime.
A totally free Steam game, the new Delta Force update is also available to everybody for the low, low price of absolutely nothing. If you want to give the shooter a try, just head here.
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