Squad Updates

Version 2 Announcement
Oct 29, 2015
Boo!


It's Offworld, bringing to you a frightfully packed update on the next Closed Alpha build (Version 2), set to come out at the end of the week, Thursday 11pm PST/Friday 6AM GMT. We've been hard at work not only adding in new features, game modes and weapons, but also making the current experience smoother and much more enjoyable. All the good stuff!
The Closed Alpha version 2 will be available through the Alpha portal for download to all Founders.
Below is a massive changelog of all the things that have been going down this month and have made it to release!
New Game Mode - Insurgency
The Project Reality classic is back!
Two Insurgent Weapons Caches spawn at the start of each round. The US Army forces must take out insurgents to gain Intelligence and get hints to where the caches are located. As each Cache is overrun and destroyed, another one spawns in a random location on the map.
US Army Squad Leaders have an Incendiary grenade to destroy the Caches, the US team needs to destroy a total of 5 Caches to win. The Insurgents must drain the US Army team's tickets or wait out the clock to win.



New Game Mode - Territory Control
A New Gamemode focusing on pure defence & offence depending on the side. Insurgents have a number of territories at the start that they have to defend. The points are not meant to be captured in any particular order. If the US capture a territory, it cannot be recaptured. US has a time limit to capture all the territories. Some territories have a spawn point that can be captured.


New Scope and Attachment System
All the scopes have been redone, improving their sight picture and alignment. New attachment system allows us to attach several accessories and optics at the same time. Some variants of the M4 now have a foregrip.

ACOG reticle is now fully usable with ranging and bullet drop.
The SVD has its PSO-1 scope back. Reticle is not 1:1 with real life yet.
Known Issue: There is a small jitter when viewing through the scope while standing on the edges of the map.




Improved Inventory

Added an Inventory element to the HUD, showing which item you have selected and what is selected in each item group.
Multiple items per slot. Pressing the slot button multiple times cycles through the items in that slot (For example, Smoke Grenade Colors can be cycled through)
Re-grouped items into more logical groupings. The player can now find items in the same spot in the inventory across classes

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Improved weapon handling

Weapon sway now behaves differently depending on stance (Bipod weapons have reduced sway when prone)
Weapon recoil can now be affected by stance (Bipod weapons now have considerably less recoil when prone)
Focus sway reduction is now dependent on weapon and stance
Weapons now have proper working ballistic flight mechanics
Weapons now have MOA deviation depending on weapon and bullet quality
Weapon sway is now different when not aiming down sights
Full recoil overhaul on all weapons. Weapon config and load out now affects the weapons recoil behavior.
Slight damage and falloff tweaks on existing and new weapons.
Fixed a bug where weapons would have no bullet drop under 500 meters.
Shovels now stop shoveling when deployable is at 100%
Medic bag and field dressings no longer stops healing when the player that is getting healed moves
When entering ADS mode your sights now stay aligned.

New HUD Items

Added a small information blurb at the start of each gamemode, explaining the rules and how to win
Added an Inventory widget, showing which item you have selected
Improved the Ammo widget with a better design to improve its readability
Added a game timer
Updated the chat boxes with some display features
Added a medic icon to medics on the map
Improved the Flag and FOB capture widgets
Player icons are now smaller, making the map more readable
Insurgent flag has been redesigned
Compass has been scaled up and modified for easier readability

New Kit Role Items

Added 5 new AK variants to playable kits: AKM, AKMS, AKS-74U, AMD-65 and PM md. 63. (All with placeholder textures).
Remade existing RPK model. (Has placeholder texture)
Incendiary grenades for US Squad Leaders on insurgency maps. (Note that you drop this grenade for greater precision - you can only throw it a few meters)
M249 now has an CompM4 Aimpoint.
Added RDG-2 smoke grenade, replacing the M18 smoke grenade on the Insurgents.

Kit Role changes

All Insurgent kits now have pistols. The US side remains unchanged to reflect a more realistic load-out. Insurgent Fighter kits now have the AKM/AKMS instead of the AK-74 as standard. The AK-74 is still available as a limited kit in squads. Limited to 3.
AKM or AKMS will be randomly chosen to give aesthetic diversity. They are functionally the same at this point in time.
Insurgent Cell leader and Medic kits now have unique AKs so you can more easily identify the roles in the squad. Cell leader has PM md. 63 and the medic has AMD-65.
RPG Gunner now has the AKS-74U.
US Squad Leader kit now has the Aimpoint CompM4 on his M4 again, as well as a front grip to help identify him.
US Medic now has a foregrip on his M4 to help identify him
Grenadiers for both factions now have UGL launched smoke grenades in both white, blue and red colors.
All insurgent kits now has the RDG-2 smoke grenade instead of the M18.
The Rifleman ACOG kit is temporarily limited to 2 per squad.
Insurgent Marksman kit now has the SVD with the PSO-1, additionally he also has a set of binoculars.
All kits can now resupply fragmentation grenades from an ammo crate. Still limited to one frag grenade per kit role.



Improved Main Menu

Server Browser now shows Map, Gamemode, and whether or not the server is out of date.
Improved feedback when you are kicked from a server, or if the master server goes down.
Renamed 'Deploy Now' to 'Start Local' to better describe what it does.
Added a FOV Slider.
Added Toggle ADS/Lean
Added Credits, Founders will soon be added
Added two new main menu music tracks from Scott Tobin

Improved Maps

Kohat Performance and Visual Improvements
Logar Valley Performance and Visual Improvements
Added Police Station static object
Added Mosque static object

Misc Changes

Added support for special events
Added in Founders Skins for the AK, M4, and RPG-7. These will be tied to your Steam Inventory in the future, but for now they are assigned randomly each time you get a new kit (spawning or ammo box)
Prevented the game from launching if certain settings were turned off, fixing ini options abuse like no shadows, no smoke particles, etc.
Added "Kick from Squad" ability and "Give Squad Leader" ability for the Squad Leader, left click on the "My Squad" list on the player and follow the menu buttons.
Added right click on the "My Squad" list on the player and follow the right click menu buttons.
New weapon fire sound improvements for AK series, SVD and new distant fire sounds.
New projectile flyby sounds.
Added injury sounds like death screams.
Added more construction sounds for deployables.
Added explosion debris sounds for grenades and rockets.
Improvements to footstep sounds.
Added support for multiple permission levels for server admin access
FOB Capture radius reduced to 75 meters, from 150 meters
FOB spawning is no longer disabled when 2 enemies enter the radius. Instead the respawn time scales up 15 seconds per enemy in the radius.
Changed the black Dead screen to a grayscale blurred out image of the map from the map camera location.
Improved spawn points so that spawns have multiple positions to check for a valid spawn. This should prevent issues where you cant spawn on an otherwise valid spawn point.
Improved the Admin Observer Cams controls and features, and removed a number of hud widgets when in camera mode.
Reduced the bleed out rate when incapacitated and bandaged.
Added per-state sounds and effects for Deployable construction
Fixed the Go-Pro camera position in filming mode
Added reverb effects to almost every static building
Fixed an issue where the loading screen would go away too early, leading to issues where you would spawn in on the map without the terrain loaded
Fixed an issue where multiple servers on the same IP would not be listed on the server list
Improved performance of stamina calculations
Weapons now drop and have physics when the player dies
Fixed the Insurgent Shovel being held incorrectly
Added Credits in the main menu, Founders will soon be added
Added the ability for admins to assign squad leaders and kick squad members from a squad
Shoveling a radio now adds or removes capture progress on the FOB.
Shovels can now destroy deployables with right-click
Fixed the radio tower so that you can no longer climb up the sloped bars
Fixed server heartbeat timeouts
Added ability to deshovel FOBs to help with the capture tickets

Stay tuned to the main website page and also the forums for the actual release of the Closed Alpha version 2, expected delivery date to be this Thursday 11pm PST/Friday 6AM GMT.
Offworld Out.

Version 2.1 Hotfix
Nov 2, 2015
A hoy-hoy. Its Offworld, with a very quick update.
We are putting out a hotfix for a number of pressing issues with the Closed Alpha Version 2 Build, mainly dealing with some gameplay and immersion breaking issues and bugs.
Please pay attention to the Alpha site for the download link which would be coming in the week.
Below is a changelog of what is going into the V2.1 Hotfix, and another reminder that this is going to be a full build download.


Changelog

Fixed shovels not being able to destroy deployable assets
Deployables now change state at 1/3rd and 2/3rds of their max health
Medic HUD now shows when players need bandaging when they are incapacitated on the ground.
Fixed Field Dressing and Medic bag collision issues, meaning players could not heal when lying down
Some quality of life changes to the player Bleeding Icon
Fixed community admin not being able to kick players
Disabled annoying admin notifications of failed shots
Fixed numerous client-side crashes
Fix some issues with inventory widget not showing the correct icon depending on what is left in multi-slot inventory locations.
Added physics to UGL smoke grenade projectiles
Added Local VoIP volume slider, out of game volume slider, and allowed volume increases beyond 100.
Fixed scoreboard player name sizes so that more players will show up on the scoreboard.
Fixed grammatical error in ruleset text for certain game modes.
Fixed missing weapon cache icons after one gets destroyed.
Added Orange attack and Purple defend colour coding to the Insurgency cache map icons for clarity.
Fixed ACOG being too dark, especially on night maps
Fixed a Rally Point related crash
Added display name to game modes that can be used to show display names in the server browser.
Fixed naming on the other rulesets and game modes.
Fixed Voice volume level slider
Added Radio Filter on/off button in the settings
Fixed audio reverb issues on certain locations on Kohat and Logar
Fixed Conquest game mode not displaying Conquest on the server browser
Fixed Territory Control displaying incorrect team as the winner
Fixed a number of instances where players could exploit wall geometry and fire through solid objects

We'd like to thank our community for their patience!
Offworld Out!

Thinking about pulling the trigger and getting squad. Missing the DayZ SHQ squad days. Arma3 doesn't do it for me for some reason, can't put my finger on it. Is SHQ TeamSpeak still in operation?

I doubt the price would go up to $60 for what it is, but I don't see it dropping below $40 anytime soon since the product is at the beginning of its life cycle. It might be smart to wait awhile. I just got off a training server and it's total chaos. Players TKing, etc. No chance to learn anything except how to hit the Give Up button when you are wounded and down. LOL!

BTW, Happy Birthday! Mine was yesterday.

played for about 7 hours yesterday, not one intentional Team kill . every game i played was well organized team work affair. and that is a friggin rarity in today's FPS's this game yet still early in development had probably been the most fun ive ever had in a tactical game. the amount of willingness for people to work as a team and attack objectives like in the real military is stunning to say the least.

The sounds, and actions of this game actually gave me flashbacks to Afghanistan , no other game yet has done this to me.

Tried it. When I get into a vehicle it goes to this close up 3rd person view staring at the back of my neck.

When I get out of the vehicle it stays that way. Either a bug or something with my setup.

This was on the firing range.

EDIT: It's a bug that only happens on the range. Too tired to try any real games tonight. I'll give it a go tomorrow.

Yes and no. As a commander its a must ( though some try without, though it usually doesnt end well... )

As a squad player it helps a lot, but you could get away with some brief reports ( though your other half might get concerned if you start screaming "I need a medic!!!"

You can also type to squad,local, etc.

PS, they aren't spawn camping. That's part of the gameplay. Besides taking victory points, each side hunts for and destroys enemy FOB's to stop reinforcements in an area. You don't spawn on an FOB that's being attacked.

With as many people that now have it, we should see about having an official session. You don't need a server. We just all meet up on TS and find a server to play on and create our own squad.

I haven't played it in months but if we all organized a night, I'd play.

Things have settled down a bit since the free weekend ended. There are still some silly people who bought the game just to grief everyone, but it's mostly just newer players (like me) still learning the ropes and honestly wanting to play well.

Last night I had a good game but realized that it wouldn't have been very exciting to watch, so I deleted the video. We took a point in AAS, swept the area for hostiles, and built an FOB and ammo crate while the rest of the team pushed the next point. We had a couple squads harass us here and there, but we were able to set up some defenses and coordinate a logistics truck to resupply us. Then the point ahead of us fell and suddenly all hell broke loose as we were holding back the enemies' push, wave after wave.

Oddly enough, the fighting at the end was pretty annoying. I really liked playing defense and building stuff. The best games have been ones where I'm on FOB building detail, lol. Something very satisfying about running around with a shovel franticly building sandbags and hescos while bullets and RPGs are hitting closer and closer.

I was born to be a grunt.

With as many people that now have it, we should see about having an official session. You don't need a server. We just all meet up on TS and find a server to play on and create our own squad.

I haven't played it in months but if we all organized a night, I'd play.

6700 views of this thread yet this is my view of SimHQ’s interest in ANY sort of tactical shooter ...



It definitely ain’t happnin’ here fellas.

Maybe try SQUAD OPS ... http://www.squadops.gg/

These have been the best times I've ever had in online gaming doing these missions. I've done seven "Ops" I believe so far and had a great time at every one of them. The "one life" rule is what really sets it apart from other games and the focus on tactical movement and planning make it seem so real. Knowing that there is no respawn really does change the way people play, as not dying becomes very important not only in regards to the amount of ingame play time you'll see, but also to your team as every man in the fight is important and losing them hobbles your side.

Anyone that likes FPS, but hates the Counter Strike style twitch respawn fests with griefer kids spawn camping and TKing will really appreciate the experience here.

It's both really. Just join the discord, join the website and you can sign up/register for any of the open events. If you attend their SOTT course you can also then attend the closed ops as well. The course takes an hour, and just makes sure that you understand the basics so there's no confusion during an op.

My humble rule of thumb with Squad : if upon joining in I do not hear the Squad Leader doing a simple com check on all members or barking orders, I simply bail out and try another squad. Slug