Fireteam: A Brand New PvE Game mode for Squad!

Attention Squaddies!

Howitzer here, with a detailed look at Fireteam, the brand-new Squad PvE gamemode launching in Update 10.1. This 5-player co-op PvE mode condenses the game’s most memorable moments into shorter, intense tactical missions.

This is the initial glimpse of Fireteam. Leading up to the release, we’ll be releasing follow-up Dev Diaries so you can get a closer look at what is coming with this exciting new addition to Squad. So, keep an eye on our socials throughout the month. But to start with a bang below we have something special for you all the announcement trailer for Fireteam. Enjoy Squaddies!

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Much like we have been doing with our ongoing development work on Squad for the past 10 years, we will look to the community. We encourage all Squaddies to give us feedback in the Squad Community Discord when Fireteam is available to help guide Fireteam’s roadmap of features and content. Since Fireteam is part of Squad, the experience will feel familiar to all players: teamwork, communication, tension, and tactical play are essential for victory.

With Fireteam, we aim to expand the appeal of Squad, introducing the game to new players who want to experience the magic of Squad while also giving seasoned veterans new ways to challenge their skills in combat. It provides a fresh experience while retaining the core principles that make Squad so much fun. Over time, Fireteam will:

• Provide a different experience for players who enjoy Squad's teamwork but prefer PvE over PvP.

• Create new opportunities for modders and mission makers to expand scenarios in fresh directions.

• Allow new players to experience Squad in a more approachable way, training them to tackle the larger 50v50 experience.

At its core, we are developing and focusing on a set of tools and believable enemy bot behaviours. Our team and modders will utilize these tools to create various types of missions for players to experience. At the same time, we will use these tools to create a new, seamless first-time user experience that eases new players into Squad.

Our long-term goal is to establish a robust mission creation and selection process for Offworld, enabling modders to create and play missions of all types. Ideally, the types of missions possible for creation will be endless and limited only by one’s imagination. Fireteam will also have its own living roadmap of features and content that we plan to release to the community.

This brings us to what we are releasing in Update 10.1 and how we plan to roll out this mode, as it will be significantly different from how we have traditionally launched content and modes.

The experience the community will be getting in Update 10.1 is our first early offering of the potential that Fireteam holds—a mini “early access,” if you will. We will engage the community in the long-term development of this mode, but to accomplish our vision, we need your financial support. Given this, we will launch this mode with two paid tiers, in addition to the free one. All owners of Squad will get free missions upon release that we will add to with future updates, so that they can experience what Fireteam is all about, while the rest of the missions will be released as content inside the Supporter / Founders Pack. This approach will enable everyone to contribute feedback and help guide its development, while also providing us with the necessary support to make the investments we want to make.

The Founders Pack will be released with three tiers. The pack will provide