[Game] Squad: Teamwork Oriented Multiplayer Shooter

[Neuromante]

Developers of the Project Reality modification for Battlefield 2 officially announced their next pursuit: Squad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBdh-1MZ3ww

Squad takes the tried and true gameplay developed for PR and takes it to the Unreal Engine, with new features, better graphics and interface. Teamwork and realism, as always, come first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14uHaybmypY

Note that the game still lacks a functioning sprint feature, so the player movement may seem awfully fast.

 

[Comrade Kaizer]

Man, 139 views and no discussion. I thought you guys here were in the know?

Looks like it can potentially be the game I've been waiting for all these years. I hope the team there can pull it off and I wish all the best to them.

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

Modern warfare... I've lost interest.

 

[Lt_Kettch]

Modern warfare... I've lost interest.

Agreed, and even worse it es terrorists vs. regular Army (I presume). Which is too close too reality to be fun, nowadays.

Also it is still a very early build.

 

[Flogger23m]

Agreed, and even worse it es terrorists vs. regular Army (I presume). Which is too close too reality to be fun, nowadays.

Also it is still a very early build.

As long as they do it right it would be fine. The problem is I have yet to see anyone try and make the teams asymmetric (RO2, Insurgency ect.). In which case I would rather have proper infantry for both teams. Maybe the original BF2 PR accomplished it but I never really played it so I can not comment.

As for the theme, IMO, it is better than playing as WWII Germans again. Perhaps the most over represented military in gaming that it gets tiresome. Though a Vietnam War setting, with some asymmetric combat & gameplay would be interesting to me. Maybe In Country will deliver...

 

[Neuromante]

Agreed, and even worse it es terrorists vs. regular Army (I presume)

The PR mod has always had many factions to play with, most of them regular armies and each one with their own national gear and vehicles. I can't see how this could be different.

It should be noted that maps with insurgents versus regular army feature true asymmetrical gameplay, while army vs army plays more conventionally.

It will be probably something like this for conventional warfare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiI_8T1D98A

and something like this for insurgency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Zo_-ilH9A

 

[Neuromante]

First dev diary out! Talks about ongoing development including tracers, sprinting, reload animations and some awesome VOIP features!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8liv9wVZu1s

 

[ValentinBk]

I was kind of turned off when I saw on the forums they don't intend to include any gore in the game. Visual feedback to combat is pretty important to me.

 

[yours truly]

The sad thing is that people complain about a lack of tactical/realism shooters and then decide not to support the one that comes along for stupid reasons.

 

[Snuffeldjuret]

Man, 139 views and no discussion. I thought you guys here were in the know?

Looks like it can potentially be the game I've been waiting for all these years. I hope the team there can pull it off and I wish all the best to them.

I am so not in the know! I even got a bit confused. So what is the difference between PR2 standalone and Squad?

 

[yours truly]

I am so not in the know! I even got a bit confused. So what is the difference between PR2 standalone and Squad?

Project Reality 2 was going to be a free standalone game on CryEngine3. It was being developed by both PR and non PR devs. They were having problems and the project was left in the dark with no news for quite a while. In August, Squad was announced as a commercial game for the Unreal 4 Engine. It was revealed that they have been working on it in secret for over a year. The Squad developers have all worked on PR at one point in time. Members from the PR2 team have joined Squad. Basically, Project Reality 2 is unofficially dead, and Squad is taking its place as a spiritual successor to Project Reality.

 

[Snuffeldjuret]

Makes sense. I always thought it sounded like a very difficult project to create a great totally free product :O. Perhaps that was not the issue though ^^.