Delta Force

Delta Force is a free-to-play military FPS from Team Jade, an internal team under TiMi Studio Group (Tencent's largest first-party studio). It launched in mainland China in September 2024 and globally in early access in December 2024, with console versions in August 2025. The game revives the Delta Force name that NovaLogic published from 1998 onward; TiMi acquired the IP from THQ Nordic. It ships three modes on the same client: a large-scale conquest mode called Warfare, an extraction-shooter mode called Hazard Operations, and a single-player campaign loosely inspired by Black Hawk Down.

The Windows client process is DeltaForceClient-Win64-Shipping.exe, the standard UnrealEngineUnreal Engine (Epic Games)Epic Games' Unreal Engine is the most widely used engine in big-budget PC games. Versions 4 and 5 power a substantial share of the modern competitive shooter market, including Valorant (UE4), Fortnite (UE5), PUBG (UE4), The Finals (UE5), and Delta Force (UE5).20 games in this family → Engine shipping-build name. The shipped executable is signed by Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited. ACEAnti-cheatTencent Anti-Cheat Expert (ACE)Anti-Cheat Expert (ACE) is Tencent's in-house kernel anti-cheat, the modern continuation of TenProtect. The kernel driver (ace-base.sys) is catalogued in the Field Guide. ACE is distinct from NetEase's NeacProtect, with which it is commonly confused.2 games in this family → installs its own kernel driver alongside the game. If you uninstall Delta Force and want ACE fully gone, check Windows services for residual ACE entries and remove them.

Delta Force ships with Tencent's Anti-Cheat Expert, known as ACE. The ACE kernel driver (ace-base.sysDriverace-base.sysAnti-Cheat Expert (ACE) base kernel driverOpen plate →, catalogued in the drivers section under the tencent-ace family) loads while a protected game is running. The developer's stated position is that the driver is active during gameplay; community reports describe service entries that persist after the game is closed or uninstalled. Players who care about that distinction should verify the running state on their own system. ACE is a separate product from NetEase's NeacProtect, which is commonly confused with it in coverage but is a different driver from a different vendor. The shipped executable is signed by Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited.

Tencent is the parent company behind a very large share of the global online-games business. It fully owns Riot Games (League of Legends, Valorant), co-developed Call of Duty: Mobile with Activision, and operates Honor of Kings, one of the highest-grossing mobile games in the world. Coverage of Tencent's wider posture (including its working relationship with China's National Press and Publication Administration on game licensing, its data-handling obligations under Chinese law, and recurring questions about telemetry in titles shipped through Tencent infrastructure) is widely available in mainstream business and gaming press. None of this is unique to Delta Force, but it is the operating context the game ships inside.