Delta Force

Delta Force is a free-to-play tactical first-person shooter developed by Team Jade and published by TiMi Studio Group — a reboot of the Delta Force series that began in 1998. It runs two modes on the same client: Operations, a squad extraction mode, and Warfare, a large-scale combined-arms mode. Every fact on this page comes from the publisher's own material, read on October 9, 2026.

Game Facts

Developer, publisher and the Steam release date read from the game's Steam store page on October 9, 2026; the China, global PC, mobile and console dates from the publisher's own announcements on the official site. The Steam page lists 4 December 2024 while the official announcement gives 5 December 2024 at 00:00 UTC — the two differ only by time zone, and both are the same launch.

Background

Delta Force is a reboot rather than a sequel to the original series, which began in 1998 and ran for roughly a decade. The Steam store page opens with "Delta Force is back! The iconic series returns as the definitive free-to-play", and its own About section frames the game around the fictional G.T.I., a global task force the player joins as an Operator.

The game director, credited as Shadow Guo, describes the project in the store page's own words: "Delta Force was the first shooter I ever played, sparking my love for the genre," and adds that the team is "leveraging Unreal Engine to deliver a truly cross-platform experience bringing players worldwide into an immersive, destructive battlefield filled with tactical depth and thrill-packed action".

The map descriptions published on the community wiki place the Operations maps in and around the fictional state of Ahsarah, including a hydroelectric plant described there as the world's largest. That setting detail comes from a community source rather than the publisher, and is marked as such below.

The Operations Maps

The six Operations maps, as the community wikis' rosters list them. Pick a map, then click it to explore up close — scroll to zoom, drag to pan, double-click (or the button at the bottom-left) for fullscreen. The map imagery is the publisher's own render, served here with acknowledgement; Zero Dam additionally has our own annotated map of it, drawn from the same tool.

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Zero Dam, the map this site has a full annotated guide for, including a zoomable map.

Map imagery © Tencent / Team Jade, from the publisher's own map tool and its Chinese-server deployment (df.qq.com), reproduced here with acknowledgement and served from this site. The map names are the English community wiki's Operations list; the tier notes are the Chinese community wiki's roster, translated. Zero Dam's annotated map is our own drawing — everything under the tabs is the publisher's render.

How the Game Works

The client carries three modes, listed by the publisher's own site as Warfare, Operations and Black Hawk Down.

Operations is the extraction mode. The publisher describes it as forming "a 3-person squad consisting of Operators from four classic Classes, each equipped with unique Gadgets and Gear", with the goal of reaching an extraction point with the supplies you gathered. Its signature objective is the MandelBrick: "Capture and decode the high-value supply, Mandelbrick. Successfully decoding it offers a chance to obtain rare items." The publisher attaches a warning to it in the same breath — "Carrying Mandelbrick reveals your position to all squads!" The roster is 16 operators across those four classes; each one is listed here, and every one of them has an ability page.

Leaving the map is not limited to walking to a marked zone. The Steam store page lists several distinct exits: "launch a massive Rocket Extraction, base jump with a wingsuit, or crawl through long sewer pipes to slip away unseen". Surviving a raid feeds a progression layer the same page calls the Operations Center, upgraded to "enhance physical attributes, expand stash capacity, and unlock new gear".

Warfare is the large-scale mode. The Steam store page describes it as a place where "64 players clash in massive battles. Command tanks and helicopters across urban streets, mountain peaks, and expansive island terrain." The publisher's own site separately advertises the mobile build of this mode as "all out 24v24 combat" and lists the vehicle pool, which includes the M1A4 battle tank, the AH-1035D assault helicopter, the LAV-G1 infantry fighting vehicle and an all-terrain vehicle.

Black Hawk Down is a separate, remastered campaign rather than a competitive mode. The publisher describes it as a "classic remastered game featuring high-definition cinematic warfare" built around "Mogadishu's town, street battles, night ops, and crash sites".

Operations Maps

Operations maps are ranked by difficulty tier rather than by fixed player count. The tiers below are as recorded by the community wiki's Operations page on October 9, 2026; the map list itself is assembled from that wiki plus the publisher's own season patch notes, which is where the newer additions are documented. The map the Chinese wiki documents in full is written up separately under map guides.

Roster and difficulty notes: the community wiki's map and Operations pages, read October 9, 2026. Season 5, 9, 10 and 11 additions: the season tracker linked under Seasons, cross-checked against the publisher's Season 11 patch notes. Every row above is a citation rather than advice — it records what those sources state, and this table carries no route, loot or spawn advice of our own.

Warfare Maps

Warfare maps are larger and built for vehicles. Nine names are listed on the community wiki's map page as read on October 9, 2026: Ascension, Cracked, Cyclone, Fault, Knife Edge, Shafted, Threshold, Trainwreck and Trench Lines.

Three further Warfare maps are documented as seasonal additions rather than on that list: Akh Canal, recorded as arriving with Season 9: Echo; Coliseum, recorded with Season 10: Meltdown; and The Mog, the Season 11 addition, which the publisher's announcement describes as bringing "the iconic setting of Black Hawk Down to life".

Seasons

Seasons are the game's content cadence and run across both Operations and Warfare. The dates below are the community season tracker's record as read on October 9, 2026; the publisher confirms the start of the current season in its own patch notes but has not published a full historical table, so the earlier rows are third-party.

Season names and dates: the community season tracker, read October 9, 2026. There is no global Season 2 in that record — the tracker states the numbering was kept aligned with the Chinese release, where Season 2 ran first. Season 11 is the current season: the publisher's own patch notes announce it as "The 2nd Anniversary Season" and it is the season that added the support Operator Rover, Layali Grove 2.0 and the Polaris Patrol mode. The tracker's projected end date is not confirmed by the publisher, so this table marks the season as open rather than guessing a date.

Seasonal Events and Hidden Content

The publisher runs recurring in-game hunts alongside the season cadence. Its own anniversary announcement for September 22, 2026 invites players to "Celebrate Delta Force's 2nd Anniversary with massive free rewards, Easter Egg hunts, and Mid-Autumn festivities" — the hunt is the publisher's own term for this class of content.

The most fully documented of these is the second-anniversary Bird Nest event, which runs from September 25 to October 15, 2026 according to a dated third-party guide. Bird Nests are lootable containers scattered across the Operations maps — the Steam store page already lists "scale heights for Bird Nests" as a standard activity. The anniversary version turns one of them into a puzzle: fill a nest in southern Layali Grove with 6 Signal Flares on the outer perimeter, 6 Chocolate bars as an inner ring and 4 Gold Bars in the centre, then extract normally. A countdown appears on screen when the last piece goes in, and completing the extraction launches a multi-stage commemorative sequence titled "When the Stars Blaze" instead of returning you to the lobby. Finishing it grants a profile badge, the Piano Bird Nest Commemoration, and a keepsake, the Music Box Bird Nest.

Other documented hidden or limited content: the MandelBrick decode objective in Operations, which the publisher itself describes; Clams and locked entry codes, both named in the Steam store page's description of looting; and the Fortune Run treasure-map event, which third-party guides record as placing a set of buried treasure spots across several Operations maps.

Bird Nest items, placement and rewards: a third-party guide dated September 24, 2026, describing the event window as September 25 to October 15, 2026. MandelBrick, Clams and entry codes: the publisher's own site and Steam store page. Fortune Run: third-party event guides. Where a step above rests on a single third-party source, that source is named here rather than presented as settled fact.

Season 11 Event Guides

Season 11, Reorientation, is the second-anniversary season, and it packs four collectible questlines into Layali Grove. We walked each one start to finish in its own guide, checked October 11, 2026. The Bird Nest Easter egg is time-limited: it runs September 25 – October 15, 2026.

Season 11 event guide

How to Get the Vigil Harmonica

Zola Zar's task chain on Layali Grove — item spots, reset gates, mail claim.

Season 11 event guide

How to Get the Fishing Rod

The Joe Reed unlock chain: level 17, Layali Grove - Easy, request, GTI mail.

Season 11 event guide

Bird Nest Anniversary Event

6 Signal Flares, 6 Chocolate, 4 Gold Bars — then extract. September 25 - October 15.

Season 11 event guide

How to Get the Ahsarah Mini Rocket

Taj Faris' four material runs and Operation Starseeker, start to finish.

Full walkthroughs: our Season 11 event guides, each dated to its own source read. Every illustration above is our own drawing — we do not republish other guides' screenshots.

Official Channels

• Delta Force — official site — the publisher's own site, and the source for the mode descriptions and launch announcements above.
• Delta Force on Steam — the store page the developer, publisher and release date were read from.
• Delta Force — Garena (Southeast Asia) — the regional publisher's site, where the Season 11 patch notes are published.

We link these official channels without nofollow because we have opened them and we do stand behind them. The community wiki, season tracker and event guides cited on this page are linked with nofollow, because they are third-party records rather than publisher statements.

Update Rule

Delta Force is a live game, so this page tracks the publisher's own announcements rather than trying to keep pace with every balance change. Map and season rows that rest on a community source say so in the row or the note beneath it. If the publisher publishes a full season history, the third-party rows get replaced with it; until then the date at the top records when these sources were read, not when the game last changed.