Hi everyone!

It's been a long time since the end of the closed pre-alpha! Last post in here was almost five years ago!

Squad is finally in 1.0 and the new players have descended upon us!

A few of us are now playing on the server Squad which is trying to gather the more experienced players from the community. Giving us somewhere to shelter from the hordes of new players.

https://discord.gg/hJy3qh

Hope to see someone you there.

- Hellfire

http://forums.joinsquad.com/topic/8084-amd-performance-is-trash/?p=131492#entry131492

http://forums.joinsquad.com/topic/7436-closed-alpha-version-3/

Updated Fools Road. Added a new flag and a new log trench
Fixed an issue where View Distance set to Low would cause the ironsights on some weapons to not be displayed
Updated the description on Radios to explain the ticket loss when they are destroyed
Fixed a few cases where ammo crates would tell you the wrong key if you wanted to interact with them
Updated Militia on Forest
Renamed Chora to Chora AAS
Added Fools Road Skirmish
Fixed an issue where all markers on Chora would end up at 0,0,0.
Added Sumari Insurgency
Updated all Insurgency maps to give 30 tickets to the destroying team upon completion of their objective. Up from 10.
Fixed an issues where Kohat AAS was not showing up correctly in the server browser
Added Text Chat keybindings to the keybinding menu
Removed Turn Left and Turn Right from the default arrow keys. This allows other keys to be bound to them
Made a small optimization pass to the Animation System. You should see some FPS gains with multiple animating characters on the screen
Updated the Militia textures
Unified all fire-select weapons default to single-fire.
Made a pass on the lattice for Logar PAAS and reduced the ticket count
Fixed the russian backpack from being too shiney
Removed the SL2 variant of the Russian SL model. He'll be back pending a material fix
Fixed a number of animation distortions across multiple animations
The full scoreboard will now be shown when in observer cam
Updated the textures of the classic AKs


Hotfix 3.4



Tweaked the Dead Info HUD Widget to display different depending on if the map is open or closed
Fixed a US Ammo Crate starting unbuilt in Sumari
Fixed bunker collisions and material assignments
Fixed the Map Legend from not showing up
Fixed the Squad Leader right-click map menu from not showing up
Fixed a bug in the keybinding menu that prevented axis keys (Move keys, etc) from being rebound. Azerty keyboard users rejoice!
Fixed a case where players would fail to load into the game
Revised Forest, adding a new flag and new assets
Prevented a case when players would become more stuck if being teleported when stuck
Fixed the Join/Part spam from overflowing into the chat box. It now scrolls up instead of down.
Fixed a server crash when Squad leader is passed to a player who is disconnecting
Modified Fools Road. The river has been significantly updated and floating grass around the map has been properly taped down.
Added Chora

http://forums.joinsquad.com/topic/7436-closed-alpha-version-3/

Hotfix 3.3



Fixed AKM GP25 Reload Animation having sounds out of sync
Added a US Main Base to Kohat Insurgency
Updated the Sumari and Forest minimaps
Fixed animations playing for a short time with the medicbag and field dressing when it has no target
Fixed hovering trees and rocks on Fools
Admins can now grant Observer Cam without crashing the server
Set health to 0 when going into incap, so now everyone has the same amount of time to be revived when they go down
Fixed a few cases where the respawn timer would not be replicated from the server.
Made medic HUD icons lerp between 0.5 and 1.0 to prevent them from disappearing
Improved the PSO-1 scope
Really fixed servers starting on maps other than logar. For realsies this time
Updated Forest with some additional tweaks and assets
Fixed a variety of bugs and log errors in the Compass
Really fixed the give up button disappearing. Also for realsies this time
Fixed being able to throw grenades in the main menu
Added basic controller support
Updated the Tire Wall deployable
Fixed a number of issues with the village house
Added bullet hole decals to a variety of materials
Standardized zoom duration and focus zoom time across all weapons
Standardized the Incendiary grenade throw strength to be the same as all other grenades
Increased the bullet crack volume
Updated the Server Browser, adding better indicators for passworded servers and anticheat protected servers.
Added the Custom Servers browser for displaying unlicensed, self hosted, and modded servers.
Fixed the arm on M4 weapons from overstretching when looking up
Added tooltips for deployables.
Updated the Physmats on Eastern European houses
Improved the voice code to not allocate memory as much
Added an entry in the binding menu for the SL menu (defaults to T)
Improved the green tracer to look less like a laser
Added details to Sumari and improved the Skirmish layer
Fixed a crash when a player joins a server while the map is changing. It currently prevents that player from joining the server during the map change process
Added Server Name, Map Name, and GameMode to the scoreboard
Added the Squad Leader and Medic indicators to nametag drawing
Added Interaction widgets to certain deployables (for example, a 'Press [F] to use' to Ammo Crate)
Updated the HESCO and cost
Increased the damage threshhold to skip incap and go straight to death
Modified the non-ADS recoil modifier. LMGs have a higher recoil now than rifles, rifles have slightly more recoil, pistols slightly lower
Removed Kohat Conquest Experimental and Kohat v3
Updated the Menu music to the latest version, also adding a new music track
Filly removed the old login menu and prevented a situation where it would come up and not go away
Fixed a memory corruption server crash related to assigning roles to players
Fixed a server crash when kicking players from squads
Updated the error text on dedicated servers when Steam is not found
Fixed a number of cases where Dedicated Servers would fail to launch because it can't find Steam
Updates and bugfixes to Fools Road
Fixed Interaction Menus not appearing on deployables in Training.

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Balance Changes

Added a 2x recoil modifier to all weapons when firing not in ADS
Added Aimpoint to the M4M203
Added AKM GP25 variation for Militia
Added RPK74 and AKS74 variations for Militia
Added MP443 for Russia
Added AK74M and RPK74M for Russia
Added traditional M4 with 3 round burst for Militia
Added M249 with iron sights for Militia
Added correct colored smoke to all grenade launchers
Set default fire mode of the AK74M rifles to semi auto
Increased the front sight post on nearly all AK and RPK variants
Differentiated the way the RPGs frag round and the M72s rocket applies damage
Added new map boundaries for Logar to prevent people camping on the hills at the edges of the map
All squad leader weapons now correctly fire tracer rounds every 3rd shot. This applies to all 4 factions
Removed all sandbag and concrete based fortifications from the Insurgents faction
Remade several deployable fortifications
Fixed HESCO walls being easily breached when un-shoveling them
Limited kits now become available once a minimum amount of players are present in your squad and on your team
Limited kits now scale with the amount of people in your squad and on your team
Some factions have alternative versions of kits available at certain squad sizes
The limits and available kit variations depends on the faction.
A squad is limited to how many special kits they can have from each category: Command & Support, Fire Support, Specialist
If you leave or get kicked from a squad, you will immediately be given a recruit kit instead of the kit you had claimed. Ammo, bandages and smoke grenades will be transferred to this kit so you don't gain any additional equipment from leaving.
Shortened M4 series dry reload

Misc Changelog

Squad Leaders can now kick unruly players from their squads! Once kicked, there is a cooldown before they can rejoin.
Servers can now be password protected, indicated by a lock in their entry on the server browser
Added new separate reload animations for the AKM and AK74 series
Fixed a number of issues where bandaging and medic bags would fail to detect a dead player. Reviving is much easier now.
Added a new UI element that pops up and displays when certain important events happen, like being kicked from a squad, lost connection to a server, or when trying to join a server and failing.
Optimization pass on Particle effects and sprite textures, decreasing their video memory usage and improving rendering speed.
Optimization pass on Weapon Textures, again decreasing their video memory usage and improving rendering speed.
Fixed a number of missing faces and LODs on many environmental models.
Modified the default AntiAliasing settings for a crisper picture
Exposed many AntiAliasing and Shadow settings to the options menu.
Updated Logar with Static Randomizers
Fixed building reverb effects not working as intended.
Fixed a number of Post Processing issues on Logar
Fixed incorrect Scaling parameters on Logars post processing.
Fixed an issue where clients would see an incorrect respawn timer when the timer was delayed due to enemies present.
Prone Players can no longer fall off ledges
Implemented a system to stop wall leaning
Added various new static environment models
Added modular village houses
Added falling metal targets with distinct audible hit sounds. Some targets take one hit to knock down, others will require several hits.
Added a green variation of the HESCO barriers for temporary use for the Russian faction
Fixed weapon collisions with the ground when dropped
Increased the size of the ammo crate icon on the map so it is easier to locate
Added more map zoom levels
Russia has a unique skin for the RPG-7
Added new explosion effects, the RPGs frag round and the M72 now have different explosion effects
Added 3 additional skin variations to the Insurgents faction for greater variance
Soldiers models on Russia and Militia are now associated with the role you spawn in as
Fixed a number of audio sources blocking other sound classes
Tooltips added for kit selection
Fixed aim sensitivity to be persistent across maps

Known Issues

MSAA does not function as intended
Scope Jitter is present when standing away from the centre of map