Offworld Industries confirmed today that their debut game Squad, the Kickstarter backed 100 player tactical FPS, will release on Steam Early Access on December 15th.
With the launch of Steam Early Access there will be two new maps revealed, a 16km^2 map based on a real world location in Afghanistan, and a firing range/close quarter combat training map for rehabilitation of gamers who are unaccustomed to proper tactical squad based CQB gaming, as well as two new factions, Russia Ground Forces and irregular Militia.
This will bring the day one Early Access game to a total of four factions, five maps across two real world conflict zones, and four game modes.
- Advance and Secure. A single or multi latticed conventional vs conventional objective based game mode where base building and supplying bases are secondary objetives allowing full use of the dozen plus kits available in game.
- Conquest. An objective based game where conventional and irregular forces vy for control of all objectives simultaneously, presenting scenarios experienced in the river valleys of current conflict zones where irregular forces flow like water around conventional force troop aggregations.
- Insurgency. A Conventional vs Insurgent game mode where conventional forces take mechanized infantry patrols into territory to search and destroy Insurgent weapon caches. Insurgents are given broad leeway to use guerilla tactics to eliminate the conventional forces’ reinforcements.
- Territory control. A Conventional vs Conventional or Conventional vs Insurgent battle where the conventional forces have to apply boots on the ground to secure total control of the terrain and towns, one square meter at a time.
Enjoy the following quick WIP teaser for the Squad Soundtrack!
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Didn’t see much, and I feel it will look like much either :/
Then wait! Sit back, relax and watch other people play the game.
bro, sit back and stop replying to everyone, you’re annoying.
DayZ was the first, and last game I bought on Early Access, and it’s going to stay that way. But if and when this is ready for release, it’s a purchase for me, it has potential.
Did you enjoy Day-Z at all? I mean was it worth the buck?
It cost me £20, and the experiences that I had at the beginning made it worth while. But, they have taken far too long with it, and I ended up getting real bored and moving on, like most of the player base did. I ended up going back to the mod instead, which has always been great.
So to sum it up it was worth the buck but didn’t deliver in the end. I think it’s their fault and ours at the same time. We keep wanting more all the time, while they don’t have the recipe for an awesome game. Dying light was a masterpiece though. Coming from Dead Island, it was an amazing step. It was really clever of them to try a different project resulting in pulling the plug on an old one. (tech land)
£20 isn’t much, so I’d say I got my monies worth. But I just got annoyed on how long it has been taking. You’re right, Dying Light was good, DLC should be fun to play next year.
Not sure what i hate more, Early Access games or people that come to literally every comment box that mentions them to whine about them, i’m going with the last one. I mean great you don’t like them me neither really, but you gotta accept the fact that they are here to stay and ain’t going nowhere, gamedev is pretty darn interesting and early access games allow us to see into that more. Sorry if this sounds like a rant (it kinda is) but not to just you, so don’t take this too personally.
lol dayz will be 8yers old and still on early access. it on an arma 2 engine runs poorly and from watching streamers play it. its dying down. i know i wont pick up dayz whenever it launches i have already watch it a lot on twitch and its meh..
i wouldnt put that game on early access.if it an mediocre shooter it wont do well.look at dayz its on an old engine(arma 2).its runs poorly.its been on early access for years and everyone has played on the pc.why is going to buy it at launch.dayz is dying on pc as it is.early access will kill games.i have not seen any early access games release yet.
i for one will not pay for a demo which is what early access is.if its free and they want feedback thats one thing.ibet its not free..they want that h1z1 and ark success.if its a bad fps and a streamer plays it on twitch its over for this game.
You have no idea about what the hell you are talking about. Comparing DayZ to Squad is like comparing my Little Poney Friendship is Magic to killing floor 2.
just saying early access can kill the game.and i know im right.look at elvove they let twitch streamers stream it to much and it killed it.
Squad devs aren’t like that, they collected the money on Kickstarter and they deliver what they were supposed to. They constantly share some news regarding updates so you know you aren’t left out. It’s not spoiled Dean Hall, they actually give a damn and want to release a really cool game. They aren’t memekid Twitch/YT Let’s play gods but authentic people. I don’t expect them to show us the middle finger like those creators of another zombie-twitch-open-cases-with-mlg-skins-to-get-12-year-old-subbers-audience games.
Dean Hall, Garry Newman, Notch, Phil Fish, etc. are pretty much worth each other. In some twisted way I respect the guys who are “behind the curtains”, making most money from these broken AAA releases and such, but the developers like Dean Hall are pretty much the new level of douchebaggery. They keep smiling at you from social networks, while telling you how they rob you and how they enjoy it.
But with Early Access you don’t know what to expect even from respected developers (see Double Fine or Bugbear), even if everything was great at first.
Yeah, sure. That’s what “killed” Evolve.
Which you spelled wrong btw.
Seems like InterStellar Marines
#SteamFtW
Bunch of hypocrites in the comments, the ones that complain about the big publishers (EA, Ubisoft etc) releasing crappy unfinished games, are the same ones complaining about games on Early Access. You realize you can simply not buy a game right? I can say proudly I’ve backed Squad during the kickstarter and I would do it again.
“Bunch of hypocrites – the ones that complain about the big publishers releasing crappy unfinished games, are the same ones complaining about
games on Early Access”
how is that hypocrisy ?
don’t get me wrong, never heard of this game before.
for once i agree with you.what is this world coming to???
– “what is this world coming to???”
Everytime I read or hear this, I think of Joe Pesci then shooting Spider from the card table.
Everytime.
hmm, your peasant mind sometimes works eh ?
nothing intelligent to come back with=troll…lol so sad.
I am looking forward to getting to play this finally.