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Squad is a Multiplayer only First Person Shooter that is being developed by Offworld Industries. It is inspired by the Battlefield 2 total conversion mod Project Reality. Squad is currently an Early Access title that was launched on December 15, 2015, on Steam.

About

Squad is a Tactical Military First Person Shooter in development on Unreal Engine 4 that bridges the gap between serious MilSim titles, and casual shooters. It will feature Combined Arms warfare on maps up to 16km², which will include land vehicles such as IFV, APC, Tanks, ground attack aircrafts and helicopters, alongside infantry.

Squad success relies heavily on teamwork and communication; featuring built in VoIP, with “Local” chat for players with a certain proximity, “Squad” chat that is focused on player within your squad, and “Command Net” chat, that is open to only squad leaders. The players dictate how the scenarios unfold with base-building and interactive environments, intuitive squad command and management tools and large-scale warfare where strategy and leadership are just as important as a quick trigger finger.

Gameplay

Features:

Extensive amount of Vehicles.

Type	Classification
Armor	Main Battle Tanks (MBT), Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFV), Armored Personnel Carriers (APC)
Air-support	UAV, A-10, SU-25 (exclusive to the Commander)
Utility	Helicopters, Logistics / Transport trucks
Anti-Armor	Armor Hunters
Scout	Light Attack & Recon Vehicles

News & Updates

Future:

The Official Squad Website is a reliable resource for getting up to speed with the new content coming to Squad.

Details about new beta releases, playtest information, map updates, mod showcases and more can be found on the Official Squad Update Page.

A rough view of all future content coming to Squad is showcased on the Official Squad Living Roadmap.

Current release:

Squad is in active development. The latest live release is Beta 21.1

Version	Release date	Highlights
Beta 21.1	August 19, 2020	Update: Substantial gameplay changes to rally points and FOB mechanics.
Beta 21.0	August 5, 2020	Major Update: 2 New vehicles, 2 new CAF variants, and VOIP improvements.
Beta 20.2	July 15, 2020	Hotfix: Various bux fixes and map vehicle adjustments.
Beta 20.1	July 8, 2020	Hotfix: Fixes various crashes.
Beta 20.0.01	June 30, 2020	Hotfix: Fixes a major crash.
Beta 20	June 29, 2020	Major Update: New Map, 2 New Vehicles, optimizations and bug fixes.

Past Releases:

Every change, fix, patch, update, release and content highlight for Squad can be found summarized on the Release Versions page.

Major Development Milestones

The Timeline on the right shows a simplified view of how Squad has progressed since its inception, with the table below providing more detail.

Milestone Summary
Date	Goals Reached
March 2014	Development of Squad started.
October 2014	Squad was publicly announced for the first time (in PR forums, in Squad forums).
February 2015	The studio Offworld Industries LLC was founded.
April 2015	Squad was successfully greenlit on Steam's Greenlight (Greenlight page, Greenlight trailer).
May 27 to June 27, 2015	Successful Kickstarter campaign (Kickstarter page, Kickstarter trailer).
July 18, 2015	Closed Pre-Alpha launch weekend.
September 26, 2015	Closed Alpha launch.
December 15, 2015	Steam Early Access launch (Steam store page, Early Access launch treaser).
August 7, 2016	Release of alpha version 7, which includes the first vehicles in-game (announcement, release trailer).
February 5, 2018	Release of alpha version 10 with new animation system, free-look, vaulting/climbing, bipod resting, and much more (release notes, release trailer).
May 1, 2019	Over a million copies of Squad have been sold (sources: press information)
November 26, 2019	The Beta started with the release of Beta 17.0 and is still ongoing. The beta will focus on stability and optimization, the game will be almost feature complete.

Localisation

Squad has localisation for the following languages: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian.

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 Every change, fix, patch, update, release and content highlight for Squad can be found summarized on the [[Release Versions]] page.
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