***Official Squad Thread***

Squad Enters Closed Pre Alpha

For Commander and Airborne backers, Closed Pre Alpha (CPA) access is scheduled to open on Friday the 24th of July, at

  • 3PM GMT
  • 4PM London
  • 5PM Berlin
  • 11AM New York
  • 8AM Los Angeles
  • 1AM Sydney

The test session will run for ~72 hours until Monday 27th of July, 3PM GMT.

We're excited, you're excited, our significant others should be told to make plans without us next weekend, prepare your caffeine and beverages now, and have the local restaurant food delivery number on speed dial.

From the Dev Team

We want to thank everyone who has gotten us to this point, without your support and encouragement we don't know where we'd be, this is a dream come true for some devs, and an accomplishment after building up years of modding and educational background, training and work experience in the field for all. We are at heart all gamers first, even as we take on the responsibilities of bringing this Offworld Industries from a dream project being chased to our new daily reality.

Distribution

We will distribute keys and the download link in a letter sent from support at joinsquad dot com to your email associated with the Kickstarter account or Paypal account used to pledge the game.


#1 Problem we had on Rangers weekend, people not checking for emails from support at joinsquad dot com. Seriously, add us to your address book now.
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Capacity

We will have plenty of servers available around the world, we'll have more servers on standby to boot within 10 minutes if existing servers are filled, and we're actively looking for ingame admins to help us maintain some semblance of order. Everyone in game will have spent serious time and money to get to this point, we have prepared ourselve and are preparing admin teams for dealing with the stampede to get online.

Join Us as Ingame Admins

It is at this time we ask for people to step up and help us help and the community, by volunteering to be ingame moderators to maintain healthy gameplay experiences for our CPA.
Ingame moderator application

Registering

Here's the lowdown:
Keys being created.
We will lock down our development build and choose a stable release candidate for next weekend.
We are not sure if we will distribute the keys and build download link in one or two emails, due to the fact
Internal QA testing will continue all week to make sure we distribute a stable build
When registering, there will be five links on the main page after you register:
Ingame moderator application
Feedback form
Bug Report Form
Link to download new builds
Link to join our newsletter
Recording and Streaming Gameplay
Act like a decent human being and everyone can record and stream as they see fit. We believe in the power of the people, we fully expect you guys to record, stream, screenshot and write about your gaming experiences with us. The good and the bad, we'll take it as it comes. Please do report problems in our feedback form so we can tackle the bad before we leave CPA.

However...
Among many reasons for termination of your access to Squad IP, overt antisocial ingame activity for purpose of dissemination and/or distribution of video/audio/still images/written recollections of Offworld Industries video game Squad will result in immediate and permanent banning of your key and SteamID.
If said video/audio/still images/written recollections are found online and can be associated to an account on our systems, Offworld Industries at it's sole discretion can and will ban keys and SteamIDs.

Antisocial Activity

Offworld Industries is aware that we all have off days. It's the nature of the beast when playing shooter games. We will take that into account when dealing with singular instances of disruptive behavior. That being said, we have a persistent reporting system attached to your SteamID, enough reports of disruptive behavior will result in bans of various lengths, up to and including permanently banning your key and SteamID.
Be cool, and we're cool.

Troubleshooting

When installing a few problems can occur, here are remedies:
  • Chrome will detect the .zip file as a false positive, click the arrow then select "Keep"
  • Unzip the game in a directory not UAC protected, so NOT in C:\Program Files
  • Config files, logs and screenshots will be saved in C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Squad
  • Make sure to allow firewall and antivirus access to the Squad.exe
  • Some older routers require you to allow UDP port 7777 through
  • Our ingame ping as shown in the server browser and ingame UI is not accurate. The number displayed is something like ((Ping - ~20ms)*4). We're working on it.
  • Not all resolutions are showing up in the Video options
  • in game, type tilde ` to bring up console , type in as examples:
  • r.setres 1680x1050w
  • r.setres 2560x1440f
  • f = fullscreen
  • w= windowed
  • b = borderless
  • Only your default Windows Audio Input device will be selected as your Mic.
  • Mouse sensitivity is not always permanently saved when the game is restarted. please be aware. (this might be fixed before next weekend)
 
Lovely, so people with a package with more than 1 key in, they give a key to a friend then that friend will register with there own email address correct ? then that key will be forever tied to that email and for there steam account correct ? and not the original buyer of the package email address.. cheers
 
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Daytrader said:
Lovely, so people with a package with more than 1 key in, they give a key to a friend then that friend will register with there own email address correct ? then that key will be forever tied to that email and for there steam account correct ? and not the original buyer of the package email address.. cheers
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Correct :)

Can't wait to finally play on some EU servers!
 
Want to, but got to build a new PC first, my trusted XP machine has done me well, not built a pc for like 7 years, its a minefield out there, don't know where to start, but its fun looking ;)
 
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