Soldiers, 

Temperatures are rising. Sweat is building up under your heavy helmets. Only one way to combat this sweltering heat and keep morale high: We are giving you the order to splish-splash around! 

The Summer Heroes event is here – from today ‘til September 15th!

Take off those heavy uniforms and hop into the ocean in our beach gear. 

Suit up with colorful new swimsuits, float your way to victory with military grade floaties, and make waves with vibrant flippers engineered for aquatic assaults. Keep the sun out of your eyes with a laid-back straw or fisher hat, and bring the heat with all-new water-themed weapon skins that turn your loadout into a summer arsenal.

How to get your hands on this sweet, summery swag?

1. Play the game and unlock Beach Balls. 

2. Once you’ve collected enough, head to the Rewards shop and claim your beach looks!

Not a beach rat? We’re also working on another outfit for those who’d rather spend their holidays sightseeing. And if you (or your friends) haven’t joined the battle yet, you can get Heroes of Valor at a 20% discount for a limited time. 

Want to see what else is new? Here are the patch notes:

Character

• New character texture

• New character weapon poses

• New jump animation

• Lots of animation tweaks (still work in progress, more animation improvements coming)

UI

• Completely new action bar that no longer obscures character and that is positioned in the bottom right corner (weapon info and action bar are merged into one now)

• New action bar now also shows ammo percentage of unequipped items

• Classic crosshair removed (custom crosshair is now to be used)

• Added "show cross lines" option to custom crosshair which now allows you to have just a dot or a completely invisible crosshair

• New hit indicator

• New hit sound

• New kill sound

• New kill confirm pop-up that now shows multi and consecutive kills in a list

• New skill ready sound

• Increased max displayed chat messages from 8 -> 10

• Changed kill and assist icon colours in scoreboard from yellow/blue to red/grey

• Simplified special kill notifications a bit (as part of it's previous info has been moved to the new kill confirm popup)

• Vehicle HP is now positioned to the right of the character HP instead of the left

• Usernames now gradually fade out the further they are away from you (less screen clutter)

• Friendly health bars above usernames now only visible when friendly is not at full HP (less screen clutter)

• Added ammo counter next to crosshair that shows current ammo in red when under 25%

Other improvements

• New Trooper heal skill sound

• Heal skill particle effect refined

• Added weapon front glow to Fire Bullet skill

• Added fire trails and glow to Fire Bullets fired from a weapon

• Reduced muzzle size from 1.25 -> 0.6

• Improved tank firing sound

Summer Heroes event

• Summer Heroes main menu environment

• Main menu theme song Summer Heroes remix

• Added Summer Heroes 2025 beach ball token Steam item (1 token every 20 minutes)

• Added Summer Heroes cosmetics

Balance and game tweaks

• Scoped rifles now use a magazine

• Increased reload time of poison trap from 7s to 20s

• Increased sprint recovery speed after firing a weapon

• Tweaked camera position a bit

• Added slight camera shake to weapon firing

• Crosshair now hidden when reloading

• Decreased chat message font size from 15 -> 14

• Reworked AT rifle to fire a slow traveling arcing projectile (similar to tank projectile) and now has 3 cartridge magazine

• AT rifle damage increased from 40 -> 45

• AT rifle reload increased from 1.2 -> 2s

Cosmetic items

• Red headband moved to Axis

• Allied headband now green

• Added black headband

• Added blue headband

Main menu

• Added leaderboard category tab and PVP score category

• PVP score now the main/first leaderboard category

• You can now switch between a close-up face camera and a body camera in the hero customization screen

Bug fixes

• Fixed team select issue with ultra wide screen monitors

• Valor Coins should now always stack as intended

• Character corpses should now fall through the water on BB in stead of laying on it

• Lesser heavy shields (applied to other teammates) now have half HP(30) as intended (instead of 60HP)

Soldiers, remember: even while you’re building sandcastles and sipping cocktails from a coconut, the enemy is never far.

See you in the sun,

Fancy Cat Interactive

Soldiers,

It’s been a week since the start of our first offensive, and we’ve got a little surprise to keep morale high…

Barricade Bridge is a brand-new Capture & Hold map set on a mighty steel bridge! Hovering over a cascading river, your aim is to fight your way through a confined space and gain control over the bridge.

One perfectly timed clap and you can catapult your enemies into the current, one misstep and you’re the one going for a swim. It’s a high-octane, high-stakes battle for control. And it’s loads of fun.

We’ve noticed that a lot of you have been running into issues with our server browser, specifically when it comes to finding games in other regions. That’s why we’ve implemented a brand-new subsystem allowing for non-region locked servers and ping measurements. You’ll finally be able to play with your friends in different parts of the world and freely choose the server that best suits your needs!
Headshotting your friend on the other side of the globe sounds fun, doesn’t it? 

We decided to drop an update so soon after release as a small thank you note to the community. It’s been one week since we’ve released into Early Access and your reaction has been overwhelming! From the frenzied discussions on Discord, to the huge amount of reviews you guys left on our store page, we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Don’t worry, we’ve already celebrated with some Belgian beers. But we also wanted you to have something to celebrate with, so we hope you’ll enjoy the new map! 

That’s it for now, soldiers! We’re steadily cranking out bug fixes & improvements, so if you find anything that’s FUBAR, hop on our Discord or on Steam Discussions to let us know. And of course, we’re also sneakily grinding away at our next big Roadmap update…

Patch notes:

• New map: Barricade Bridge (Capture & Hold)

• New online subsystem which allows for global non region locked servers and ping measurements

• Tweaked some networking setting that smooth out gameplay a bit more (might still need more tweaks)

• Fixed motorcycle out of combat and death from exiting bug

• Fixed potential similar issue with tanks and planes

• Increased launch force on enemies from all types of explosions with 50%

• Fixed bots sometimes still showing a golden name in scoreboard

We can’t wait to share all the cool stuff we’re working on!
Fancy Cat Interactive

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2504090/Heroes_of_Valor/