Official Squad Thread

Guest2 · 28 Apr 2016 at 07:59

I was having a good game on Skunkdogz last night but about half way through a whole clan left the other side so the teams were unbalanced making it crap

Whats happened to thr Redcoats servers? I only used to play on them but I have not seen them for about a week now

Garfo · 28 Apr 2016 at 08:25

Normally happens when other team losing badly half our clan went other side when happened to balance it

Xcept1 · 29 Apr 2016 at 11:55

Original Soundtrack Vol. 1

We have a very special announcement for our music lovers, Volume One of the Official Squad Soundtrack will be available in a few days for all our Founders as well as for general purchase via Steam. Featuring 10 tracks totaling 45 minutes of music, this first volume is intended to give listeners and fans of the game an audio record of where Squad has come from and also where it will be heading into the future.
To read more on the composer and history check out our previous post with Scott Tobin.

We also have a bit of a foreword from Scott himself -

Scott: "Hi all! I am very excited to see the release of the first Squad Soundtrack. Here are a few notes and thoughts on the soundtrack. The Squad soundtrack is a blend of ambient and orchestral genres. This was both a personal choice and an artistic in order to set the mood for the game."

"Volume one follows a narrative and I took inspiration from a few of the maps in Squad. The soundtrack contains 10 original songs, 2 of which are bonus tracks, the main theme from the early release and an instrumental version of Lost Squad. You will hear I utilised spacious reverbs, bowed instruments, and custom sounds in order to enhance the ambient open world setting in Squad. My intention for this album is for it to be listened to as background music. One of my influences for this soundtrack is music producer Brian Eno. "

"Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting. - Brian Eno from the linear notes on the Music for Airports album."

"I would like to thank my colleagues at Offworld Industries for supporting me as I continue to make music for Squad. I would also like to thank the kickstarter backers, without you we would not be in the position we are in now. Finally I want to thank everyone that has supported me over the years, going to back to the days of Project Reality."

Enjoy the soundtrack!

Scott Tobin

Album Art by Chuc and Ajax

Oh and on a side note, the new monthly recap will be out rather soon too!

Thekwango · 29 Apr 2016 at 12:08

really must give this a whirl again. been too caught up with The Division of late. can't wait to see how it looks now I've finally upgraded my gpu from a 5770 to a R9 380x! hopefully should get a run out this evening.

skunkdogz still the go to server for OcUK?

Boycey0211 · 29 Apr 2016 at 16:58

I'd actually love a WW2 mod for this, haven't put enough time into it yet

titaniumx3 · 29 Apr 2016 at 18:34

Would I be able to play this without a mic?

Grumps82 · 29 Apr 2016 at 18:50

You would be far better off playing with a mic tbh. I mean even a cheap 9.99 desktop one will do the job.

Orch · 29 Apr 2016 at 19:22

You could, but you wouldn't get the most out of the game tbh.

1kiwi · 29 Apr 2016 at 22:08

titaniumx3 said:
Would I be able to play this without a mic?

I wouldn't. You won't get the most out of the game without a mic and you will be pretty useless to your squad mates. I only play in squads with MIC=Kick rules - these are very common in NA servers.

titaniumx3 · 29 Apr 2016 at 22:51

Are USB mics any good? Would they cause any issues whilst gaming?

Garfo · 29 Apr 2016 at 23:07

titaniumx3 said:
Are USB mics any good? Would they cause any issues whilst gaming?

I use one no problem at all

shankly1985 · 30 Apr 2016 at 14:05

titaniumx3 said:
Are USB mics any good? Would they cause any issues whilst gaming?

No issues here using blue snowball mic

Garfo · 30 Apr 2016 at 14:39

Just got a special code though from kickstater

squad leader pack yay

Xcept1 · 30 Apr 2016 at 18:57

Yup, for those that are eligable you can now redeem your keys for the OST.

Also, Backer Tags are now showing on the forums.

You will notice a Link Steam Account link in the top menu of the forums, next to Discord. Click this and login with your steam account that you redeemed your Perk keys on. Once redeemed you will get a status message before a redirect on any perks you own. After doing this you will start seeing your backer / founder tag on posts.

If you were a Squad Leader backer or above you will now have a new option in your profile section to add your in-game name to the credits. Go to your profile, click edit and scroll down to the bottom. You will see a new field below the About Me section. Add your in-game name there and we will add you to the credits later.

Make sure your name is appropriate or it will not be added into the credits.

NOTE: The steam login is done via oauth so we never see your login information. It is done directly on the steam website.

uksoldierboy · 1 May 2016 at 11:25

Cheers Mel just did, love the OST and my founder tags

Guest2 · 1 May 2016 at 11:25

On the night maps is there a way to use nightvision / flashlight for either either side?

Xcept1 · 2 May 2016 at 12:33

Guest2 said:
On the night maps is there a way to use nightvision / flashlight for either either side?

Not yet. We're still toying with how to tackle night maps as most people just crank their gamma up so it's day time anyway. Trumpets!

MindfulPlayer · 3 May 2016 at 07:53

How many players still play this game ?
Will it run on my FX 6300, 16GB of Ram and Radeon R7870 ?

Orch · 3 May 2016 at 09:22

Loads are still playing, it's very active and new players joining all the time.

The bad news is performance will suck a fair bit on your CPU. AMD processors don't do well at all. I was getting 25-30fps max with drops to single digits on an FX8320 at 4.6Ghz. Switched to an I7 and now it's solid 50-70fps.

Future updates will go a long way to fixing this though.

Xcept1 · 3 May 2016 at 12:14

Our next major release will have UE 4.11 running. Coupled with our own fixes (new animation and sound systems etc), AMD cpu performance should be greatly increased.

Remember you can refund on Steam if you have less than 2 hours played. Either that or wait until Alpha v6 drops

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