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January 2016
A New Year! It's that time again.
Hi Squaddies,
It's the first Monthly Recap of the year! We apologise for not putting one out at the end of last month, but considering it was the Christmas break and we're also coming hot off the heels of our epic Early Access release on Steam, we just didn't have enough goodies stocked up for you all! Anyway, lets get to business.
Art
Effects Update
Our Lead Effects Artist, Bruno, explains the changes behind a number of effects in version 4, in particular the way smoke from smoke grenades behaves and a new approach to depicting muzzle energy.
TrueSky Experiments
We've been running tests on Truesky for Squad and we're pleased to say that the results have been stunning. We'll let these test screenshots speak for themselves.
New Weapons in the Pipeline
We have a number of interesting and unique weapons that are nearing the end of the art pipeline, (their actual implementation into the game is still TBD)
KS-23
A 23mm rifled shotgun originating from the Soviet era, the KS-23 fires shells that are considerably larger than most typical western combat shotguns.
PPSH-41
A classic World War 2 era Russian sub-machine gun that has survived into the modern era, the PPSH-41 is capable of delivering pistol-caliber ammunition at incredibly high rates of fire. We are expecting to include two different kinds of magazines when this weapon ships, a 71-round Drum, or a 35-round box magazine.
Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
Featured previously in a monthly recap, this nasty bit of kit is now fully textured and ready to be implemented into the game.
US Soldiers
Under the advice of our new Army advisors, work has started on the new US Army soldier models, progress has been steady since the Christmas break but we expect it to pick up very quickly again.
Environment
Our talented environment artists have also expanded the set pieces and static environments for our mappers to utilise in their maps, which range from new houses and two storey blocks for the European theatre, all the way to a full sized train depot.
Mapping
Gorodok
We have started roughing out our next map, Gorodok. This map will be set in eastern Europe on a clear sunny day and will focus on open gameplay in anticipation of vehicles. Gorodok is still in its very early stages so stay tuned for further developments.
Expanded Sumari Bala
The built-up area has been at least doubled in size, and more work has been done in detailing and the creation of unique crop and business areas going to the fringes of the town. This particular update will not be in the next Alpha version but another one down the line.
We hope you all enjoyed our little presentation for January. Version 4 for January is coming through the pipeline as we speak and will be released very shortly! So stay tuned to the website, forums and our Steam Page.
Offworld Out.
A New Year! It's that time again.
Hi Squaddies,
It's the first Monthly Recap of the year! We apologise for not putting one out at the end of last month, but considering it was the Christmas break and we're also coming hot off the heels of our epic Early Access release on Steam, we just didn't have enough goodies stocked up for you all! Anyway, lets get to business.
Art
Effects Update
Our Lead Effects Artist, Bruno, explains the changes behind a number of effects in version 4, in particular the way smoke from smoke grenades behaves and a new approach to depicting muzzle energy.
TrueSky Experiments
We've been running tests on Truesky for Squad and we're pleased to say that the results have been stunning. We'll let these test screenshots speak for themselves.
New Weapons in the Pipeline
We have a number of interesting and unique weapons that are nearing the end of the art pipeline, (their actual implementation into the game is still TBD)
KS-23
A 23mm rifled shotgun originating from the Soviet era, the KS-23 fires shells that are considerably larger than most typical western combat shotguns.
PPSH-41
A classic World War 2 era Russian sub-machine gun that has survived into the modern era, the PPSH-41 is capable of delivering pistol-caliber ammunition at incredibly high rates of fire. We are expecting to include two different kinds of magazines when this weapon ships, a 71-round Drum, or a 35-round box magazine.
Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
Featured previously in a monthly recap, this nasty bit of kit is now fully textured and ready to be implemented into the game.
US Soldiers
Under the advice of our new Army advisors, work has started on the new US Army soldier models, progress has been steady since the Christmas break but we expect it to pick up very quickly again.
Environment
Our talented environment artists have also expanded the set pieces and static environments for our mappers to utilise in their maps, which range from new houses and two storey blocks for the European theatre, all the way to a full sized train depot.
Mapping
Gorodok
We have started roughing out our next map, Gorodok. This map will be set in eastern Europe on a clear sunny day and will focus on open gameplay in anticipation of vehicles. Gorodok is still in its very early stages so stay tuned for further developments.
Expanded Sumari Bala
The built-up area has been at least doubled in size, and more work has been done in detailing and the creation of unique crop and business areas going to the fringes of the town. This particular update will not be in the next Alpha version but another one down the line.
We hope you all enjoyed our little presentation for January. Version 4 for January is coming through the pipeline as we speak and will be released very shortly! So stay tuned to the website, forums and our Steam Page.
Offworld Out.
Good job I don't post this solely for you then! Patch is out when it's ready.
A few things are missing from the January update: Anticheat system, new awesome scopes, stability improvements, some AMD CPU improvements, audio updates, post processing effects in graphics settings, etc.
Version 4
Release Time!
Hi Squaddies,
We're proud to present the newest version of the Squad Alpha: Version 4.0.
Contained are a number of major improvements to gameplay but also new content additions in the form of additional equipment for the Russian and Militia factions, As well as expanded playable areas for maps currently in rotation and further performance and balance tweaks. Enjoy the changelog below!
Major Changes
Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC)
Easy Anti-Cheat has been added as a new active anti-cheat protection system.
1P78 Kashtan Rifle Optic
The Russian faction now have scopes for their weapons! As one of the most requested feature, we are pleased to grant the Russian faction a rifle optic for their primary AK74M and support RPK74M rifles as well as sneaking some goodies for the Militia.
RGD-5 Grenade
The RGD-5 is a post-WW2 Soviet-era grenade, inexpensive to manufacture and commonly found in many modern conflict areas. Will be featured on the Militia and Russian factions.
Map Updates
Fools Road
Fools Road received a new industrial area in the South West of the map, an updated Estate with a very cool tunnel section connecting the buildings together, as well as many new details and features spread out around the map.
Chora
Chora has also received many updates, expanding the playable area and more detail work.
Flag Capture Mechanics Updates
AAS has been updated with some new gamemode rules to encourage greater emphasis on the flag objectives. Flags now have an increasing ticket bleed based on the number of flags owned by the opposing team, reducing the chance that the team with more flags loses the match. Additionally, capturing a flag now grants the capturing team some tickets, as well as increasing the ticket loss for the team that loses a flag. Finally, we have added a protection sphere around each teams main base, which prevents bullets and players from the opposing team entering in it's area thus adding a layer of protection from main base camping.
Post Processing Effects
Many post processing effects and the ability to change their settings have been added. Ambient Occlusion helps to define soft shadowing of objects. Auto Exposure and Eye Adaptation causes the exposure of the screen image to simulate the effect of human eyes moving between brightly lit and dim environments. Bloom is the bleed-over of light caused by looking at bright objects in lowly lit environments. Motion Blur adds a blur effect to objects depending on how quickly they are moving on the screen (works well with the new Russian scopes). Lens Flare simulates scattering of light when viewing bright objects through lenses.
Server Browser and Joining Server improvements
The server browser has been improved, adding sorting by each column as well as better usability in general. Additionally, a number of bugs have been fixed, improving the server join experience and a quicker response when you fail to join a server.
Changelog
Game Mode Changes
Kit, role and equipment changes
Weapon changes
Rally Point changes
Map and Spawn screen updates
Misc
Before signing off we wanted to give everyone a bit of a road map of our intentions over the next several months. Our next monthly update for February will be largely focused on content, quality of life, UI updates and possible integration of Unreal Engine 4.11 (Check out the preview notes, exciting stuff!)
With completion of the backlog of high priority updates to content, QoL and UI , we've moved the majority of our coders (Including our two new guys!) into a focused campaign over the next 8 or so weeks to come through the other side with a feature rich base system for vehicles and character animations.
We hope you guys will help us in keeping these guys engaged and keeping all of our eyes on road ahead. We are very excited for the next couple months.
Offworld Out.
Release Time!
Hi Squaddies,
We're proud to present the newest version of the Squad Alpha: Version 4.0.
Contained are a number of major improvements to gameplay but also new content additions in the form of additional equipment for the Russian and Militia factions, As well as expanded playable areas for maps currently in rotation and further performance and balance tweaks. Enjoy the changelog below!
Major Changes
Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC)
Easy Anti-Cheat has been added as a new active anti-cheat protection system.
1P78 Kashtan Rifle Optic
The Russian faction now have scopes for their weapons! As one of the most requested feature, we are pleased to grant the Russian faction a rifle optic for their primary AK74M and support RPK74M rifles as well as sneaking some goodies for the Militia.
RGD-5 Grenade
The RGD-5 is a post-WW2 Soviet-era grenade, inexpensive to manufacture and commonly found in many modern conflict areas. Will be featured on the Militia and Russian factions.
Map Updates
Fools Road
Fools Road received a new industrial area in the South West of the map, an updated Estate with a very cool tunnel section connecting the buildings together, as well as many new details and features spread out around the map.
Chora
Chora has also received many updates, expanding the playable area and more detail work.
Flag Capture Mechanics Updates
AAS has been updated with some new gamemode rules to encourage greater emphasis on the flag objectives. Flags now have an increasing ticket bleed based on the number of flags owned by the opposing team, reducing the chance that the team with more flags loses the match. Additionally, capturing a flag now grants the capturing team some tickets, as well as increasing the ticket loss for the team that loses a flag. Finally, we have added a protection sphere around each teams main base, which prevents bullets and players from the opposing team entering in it's area thus adding a layer of protection from main base camping.
Post Processing Effects
Many post processing effects and the ability to change their settings have been added. Ambient Occlusion helps to define soft shadowing of objects. Auto Exposure and Eye Adaptation causes the exposure of the screen image to simulate the effect of human eyes moving between brightly lit and dim environments. Bloom is the bleed-over of light caused by looking at bright objects in lowly lit environments. Motion Blur adds a blur effect to objects depending on how quickly they are moving on the screen (works well with the new Russian scopes). Lens Flare simulates scattering of light when viewing bright objects through lenses.
Server Browser and Joining Server improvements
The server browser has been improved, adding sorting by each column as well as better usability in general. Additionally, a number of bugs have been fixed, improving the server join experience and a quicker response when you fail to join a server.
Changelog
Game Mode Changes
- Added Dome of Defense around main bases (Destroys all enemy projectiles upon impact, and pushes back enemy soldiers if they try to enter)
- Updated the AAS logic to be more robust and have more features
- Allows for giving the capturing team tickets and also has an option to prevent ticket gain when capping from start-neutral
- Owning more capture zones than the opposing team will begin to incur a slight bleed penalty. The more zones owned, the more bleed the opposing team incurs.
Kit, role and equipment changes
- Marksman kit moved from the specialist group to fire support, same squad/team limitations as before
- Fire support kits are now reduced to 3 when at max squad size, down from 4. You should see more ordinary riflemen on the field now
- Grenadier kit now unlocks at 5 squad members, rather than 4
- Max amount of grenadiers available per squad down to 1 from 2 (AK74+GP25 removed from Militia until we have a more flexible inventory selection system)
- Ordinary riflemen/fighter kits with ironsight or red dot sights now have 2 frag grenades rather than 1
- Automatic riflemen now have another 150-200 rounds depending on the caliber of the weapon, so you dont have to feel bad about suppressing the enemy
- Designated marksmen now have less rifle ammo to keep in line with damage potential of other classes (SVD down from 8 to 4 magazines), make those shots count
- Designated marksmen has 3 pistol mags rather than 2
- Added more smoke variation and each team now has different colored smoke variations. Militia have Green and Yellow smoke colour variations, Russians have Purple and Orange, while the insurgents have Black and Yellow. 40mm smoke grenades remain the same for now.
- Russian squad leader has an alternative kit available at 6 squad members, an AK74M with an optic
- Russian rifleman + optics kit available at 4 squad members. Limited to 1
- Russian Automatic rifleman + optics kit available at 8 squad members
- Militia rifleman + optics kit available at 4 squad members. Limited to 1
- Every kit that has a magnified optic now has one less magazine than their red dot / ironsight counterparts
- Added RGD-5 frag grenade to replace placeholder M67 on the Russian faction, also gave an alternative skinned version of it to Militia instead of the F1
Weapon changes
- Added deviation to rockets and launched grenades projectiles
- ACOG model got a quality of life upgrade to make it look prettier
- Slight increase in the recoil of the SVD
- Fixed a bug where all weapons were firing at the same muzzle velocity. Now weapons have different bullet drop depending on caliber/muzzle velocities
- Fixed grenades being able to be quick thrown with left/right mouse combo. As a side effect you can no longer switch throw type (long/short) when you have started one or the other.
- Fixed grenades being prepped for a quick throw by switching weapons when the animations were done. You are now committed to the throw when you have pulled the pin.
- Updated inventory action delay timer on the scrolling menu from .5 to 1.5 seconds.
- Medic bag and field dressing improvements
- Added more information feedback to the player
- Fixed an issue where enemy soldiers could be healed
Rally Point changes
- Rally point code has been more optimized for server use
- Increased placement cooldown time from 30 seconds to 210 seconds
- Rally points can no longer be placed with enemies within a 50m radius, and will reset the placement time from 0 to 90 seconds. Your former rally points do not disappear.
- Rally point placement now requires sl + 3 squad member if the sl does not have an officer kit, if he does have it, then only sl + 1 squad member is needed
- Changing squad leader now resets the rally point placement time to 120 seconds if the placement time was under 120 seconds.
- All rallypoint messages are now shown in the chat area instead of the middle of the screen.
- If your squad leader changes, a message is now sent to your chat area to inform.
- Deployable placement errors are now posted to your chat area.
- Fixed an issue where you could leave a squad and keep your kit if you were incapacitated
Map and Spawn screen updates
- Opening of map and spawn screen no longer stops the talking input
- Clicking around and interacting with the spawn screen no longer stops other inputs (you can now move and interact with the menu at the same time, note that there are many edge cases to this particular issue and we will be addressing them as they are reported)
- Fixed an issue where the mouse cursor could be lost when returning to the spawn screen after having opened the main menu
- Map and spawn screen now automatically closes when the main menu is opened
- Moved a large chunk of the map implementation to c++ improving stability and speed
- Fixed a bug where the SL menu on the spawn map was not updating its last clicked position correctly
- SL menu on the spawn map now opens with the cursor in the middle of the hex menu, making it easier to mark locations and work with the ui
- SL marker lifespan is now 5 minutes, up from 1.5 minutes
- Reduced the zoom levels on the map from 7 to 4, and made the map zoom all the way out on the outmost level
- Slight rework of the map medic icon, making it more distinct.
Misc
- Added a 240 second team switch timer, limiting how often you can switch teams, this timer only applies after the round startup time, allowing teams and friends to get set up while waiting for the game to start.
- Keybinds for the spawn screen and map now work on both open/close. (You can rebind them to Enter without issues)
- Changed the lowest possible FOV to 90 degrees.
- Added more graphics settings for Motion Blur, Bloom, Lens Flare, Auto Exposure, etc.This is still work in progress
- Fixed issue where some higher resolutions were missing from the graphics settings
- Added sort-able server browser
- Fixed some disconnection issues upon joining a server
- Added a system that allows for individual damage sounds depending on the collision bone that was hit, this is replacing the dead sounds, meaning that you no longer know if an enemy died unless you do a visual confirmation
- Added initial enhancements to the Admin Camera to support Squad League with Player Outlining and Capture Zone visualizations.
- Redesigned smoke grenade variations to share one projectile and one effect. Any color variations now only need to be a child of the original, instead of needing duplicate effects and projectiles. This optimizes the deployment of smoke grenades and makes implementation easier.
- Stopped smoke from playing on the server unintended. This prevents smoke spam affecting server fps.
- Removed manually placed border blocking volumes and updated with new spline blocking volumes.
- Fixed the ability to lean while prone, this snuck in due to lean code optimization
- Lots of LOD models added to weapons, improving performance
- Reworked tracers slightly, making them easier to use when correcting bullet drop
- Reworked server configs, ban lists & admin lists (Details Here)
- Added server messages
- Changed console command ShowPlayerIds to ListPlayers
- Added temp / timed bans
Before signing off we wanted to give everyone a bit of a road map of our intentions over the next several months. Our next monthly update for February will be largely focused on content, quality of life, UI updates and possible integration of Unreal Engine 4.11 (Check out the preview notes, exciting stuff!)
With completion of the backlog of high priority updates to content, QoL and UI , we've moved the majority of our coders (Including our two new guys!) into a focused campaign over the next 8 or so weeks to come through the other side with a feature rich base system for vehicles and character animations.
We hope you guys will help us in keeping these guys engaged and keeping all of our eyes on road ahead. We are very excited for the next couple months.
Offworld Out.
They payed £30 for an alpha version of a game, so as you say, these things are to be expected
We've already nailed a few issues for the hotfix though, more on the way!
Any crashes etc then please upload your dump files as per.
A few minor things but not the huge overhaul just yet.
4.1 hotfix
Both servers and clients will need to update.
A note to server admins, please change the property name of MaxNumPlayers to MaxPlayers in Server.cfg now. This property will now parse properly.
- Fixed player counts not reporting properly in steam.
- Fixed server config parsing issues.
- Fixed a layer of fools road which had incorrect spawning rules and unlimited kits.
- Removed server messages from single player.
- Other minor bug and crash fixes.
Both servers and clients will need to update.
A note to server admins, please change the property name of MaxNumPlayers to MaxPlayers in Server.cfg now. This property will now parse properly.
We will be pushing an update shortly, here is the change list:
Alpha 4.2
Alpha 4.2
- Added a SERVERCONFIGSDIR command line parameter to allow server providers to specify a custom config directory location once more.
- Added a server performance profiling command that will be used to aid with easier performance profiling on servers who volunteer to partake in it.
- Fix to a bug in banning functionality that caused some bans to not persist.
- Optimized design of the Map player and medic icons.
- Various other smaller bugfixes.
Game play over realism every day!
Technically you're not dead, just incapacitated
We just don't want people finding reasons not to use in-game comms. Exactly why local chat will never be heard by enemy players!
We're currently running a server performance test on a server named "Squad Official Server Performance Profiling Test".
Hop on the server if you can, and tell your friends / clanmates to help us gather some numbers.
In order to get the best data we can, we have set up a very powerful server and would like to completely fill it.
The data from the test will help us identify the latest server performance bottlenecks, and should help us quite a bit with improving server side performance.
Hop on the server if you can, and tell your friends / clanmates to help us gather some numbers.
In order to get the best data we can, we have set up a very powerful server and would like to completely fill it.
The data from the test will help us identify the latest server performance bottlenecks, and should help us quite a bit with improving server side performance.