Meet the brand new Hired Ops!

[Natalino]

Dear friends,

This update is not just the next patch, but an event that entirely changes our approach to the project. Today we invite everyone into the game. We also would like to announce that Hired Ops will soon become a free-to-play game.

Our primary reason for making it free-to-play is to get as broad an audience as possible by reaching various types of players with a minimal barrier of entry. Hired Ops is genuinely free to play with no hidden fees and no fancy deceptive tricks designed to compel you to go on a spending spree. Every single part of the fundamental game experience is free. On top of the base game, we will have monthly live updates, which will include lots of new content, contracts, weapons, items, new classes, and perks. Players who already have a copy of the game at the time of the transition to the new model will receive a form of gratitude for your support and trust in us.

During this transition to the new monetization model, users who have already purchased the game will be rewarded with a bonus, which is several times higher in value than the current game price, as well as unique premium weapons and camouflage for their in-game characters. With this update, all players will receive one legendary chest with legendary mods for every 10th character level achieved in the previous version of the game.

We will tell you more about the in-game store later, but for now we’ll note that the in-game store will mainly be items for customization of your PMCs, their weapons, equipment and appearance, experience boosters and in-game currency, as well as additional load-outs for you, so you can have several sets of gear ready for each class at any time. You don't have to purchase them, but if we have done our job well and you enjoy the experience, then we hope you will.

So, what is the brand new Hired Ops?

Your main task is to seize domination in the mercenary market world, taking part in combat operations and completing contracts in war zones around the world.

During the battle, you can improve your combat skills, buy and use additional weapons, ammunition, and specialized equipment. Use all the available arsenal for your preferred class to make your enemies change their tactics and fight under your terms.

You can expect dynamic firefights in all parts of the world, in seven different locations. A military base in Iran, a ghetto on the outskirts of Bangkok, a railway station in Kazakhstan, a coastal communications station in the Norvinsk region and other locations will become a place for battle and competition between BEAR and USEC operators.

The true mercenary spirit reigns in Hired Ops as each fighter picks suitable contracts, perform the most difficult tasks, and earns a reputation in the private military contractor market. The income, future contracts, and status among the other mercenaries depend only on the player. The higher the reputation the player achieves, the harder the tasks they can receive and collect more rewards.

Players can choose a fighter in one of the four different classes with its developed system of skills, and an arsenal of various weapons with a massive number of modifications. The game offers over 80 pieces of modern small arms weapons and over 100 different modules for them.

We worked hard to create a game that would be as accessible as possible to all players. Our ability to continue development depends entirely on your satisfaction with the gaming experience. We will keep improving the game in which your PMCs will travel the world, develop their history, and all this will be free. For us, this is a huge gamble, but your feedback always was and will always be very important to us. Many of you requested for a free-to-play model, so here it is! Therefore, it is essential that we work together to create the game, and we hope that you will share your experience to make Hired Ops better and better.

We thank all the players who have been with us through all the tests, thank you for your continuous support and feedback, we appreciate it!

The Hired Ops Team

[☠ The Grim Reaper ☠]

when it will become free to play? :)

[Comxz2]

Nice thanks for making it free to play but could you please add more achievements and weapons ? also some old maps from Contract Wars like Map 5 ?

[SSIXS]

This is kinda funny to me. From May 2019:

Originally posted by Natalino:

As said before, Hired Ops will not have any microtransactions. It also does not plan to be free to play.

With the release of the new update, the game will be like a new game experience and we will work towards attracting old players back and bring in a new set of fans as well.

Thanks!

Hopefully this will bring people into this essentially dead game though, so good luck!

[Natalino]

Originally posted by SSIXS:

This is kinda funny to me. From May 2019:

Originally posted by Natalino:

As said before, Hired Ops will not have any microtransactions. It also does not plan to be free to play.

With the release of the new update, the game will be like a new game experience and we will work towards attracting old players back and bring in a new set of fans as well.

Thanks!

Hopefully this will bring people into this essentially dead game though, so good luck!

This is a game in development and the project made several changes. This one being a major one. If you have read the post, as mentioned in there, it states why the decision to make it free to play was made and that it was us listening to what many players requested to happen. This was not the initial direction/plan at all.

[Mateus76]

Natalino, wen will be implemented the server option? My ping is at 90...
Thanks

[Volt]

Sounds great so long as you are actively taking the fight to the hackers...

[SSIXS]

Originally posted by Natalino:

This is a game in development and the project made several changes. This one being a major one. If you have read the post, as mentioned in there, it states why the decision to make it free to play was made and that it was us listening to what many players requested to happen. This was not the initial direction/plan at all.

I just found it funny that a month and a half ago, Hired Ops was still a pay-2-play game, and then in just that short amount of time... Absolutsoft has managed to completely convert the whole game and all of the coding for pay-to-play, to free-to-play.

That's pretty damned impressive in my opinion, kudos to y'all.

[Holy_Hobo]

When is the game going free-to-play? I got an email about the new update, looked on steam, saw "free to play", and loaded it up to look at all the new features. Looked good, so I told my friends to try it now that it's free, and they told me it still costed money. Kinda weird to not be free to play at the same time as the new update. Disappointing.

[Masquerade]

Don't really know why people are complaining about the game coming free to play? That wasn't the plan but now it is, and its better for all of us so what the f you crying for? Also AFAIK the game is not pay to win(Like the old Contract Wars was *cough, cough*). So please if you don't like the game get off it and stop giving it ****, if you like it - support it like me.

[Natalino]

Originally posted by Holy_Hobo:

When is the game going free-to-play? I got an email about the new update, looked on steam, saw "free to play", and loaded it up to look at all the new features. Looked good, so I told my friends to try it now that it's free, and they told me it still costed money. Kinda weird to not be free to play at the same time as the new update. Disappointing.

As mentioned in the post for now:

"We also would like to announce that Hired Ops will soon become a free-to-play game."

[Mr_Jatt]

wow i paid 11$ now f2p nice i want my money back
2nd time happen when russian game dev rip me off

[Natalino]

Originally posted by Mr Jatt:

wow i paid 11$ now f2p nice i want my money back
2nd time happen when russian game dev rip me off

"During this transition to the new monetization model, users who have already purchased the game will be rewarded with a bonus, which is several times higher in value than the current game price, as well as unique premium weapons and camouflage for their in-game characters. With this update, all players will receive one legendary chest with legendary mods for every 10th character level achieved in the previous version of the game."

[Volt]

I'm not a fan of collecting money during the match to purchase buffs. I prefer starting with a kit and getting it done.

[Mateus76]

Originally posted by Volt:

I'm not a fan of collecting money during the match to purchase buffs. I prefer starting with a kit and getting it done.

Volt, totally agree, but nobody even asked us, the paying players...nothing new from this dev team. It started with CW many years ago, and it´s still going on...

[SSIXS]

Originally posted by Volt:

I'm not a fan of collecting money during the match to purchase buffs. I prefer starting with a kit and getting it done.

I agree with you Volt, not a big fan of the "buying" buffs in the middle of a match either.

I do like the class-based leveling. I prefer longer progression mechanics myself. It also makes more sense to me, where people need to pick and choose which class or classes they wish to focus on progressing... based on their individual play style.

I'm not a huge fan of the Tactical Conquest maps though. I miss Construction and Lighthouse, where there are 3 objectives to cap on a larger scale map, instead of the 2 points on CQC maps in Hired Ops.

Hired Ops feels like a weird game to me... not necessarily bad as a few of the aspects I like, but not great either as there are other aspects that I don't care for at all.