It has been some time since I dove headfirst right into a milsim, however Offworld Industries’ bid to revitalize its WW2 spinoff of Squad makes me need to clear my calendar. Put up Scriptum (2018) has been totally acquired by writer and Squad developer Offworld Industries, who’s slapped on a brand new label that higher displays what you are getting: Squad, however set in 1944.
But it surely’s additionally been considerably up to date. A enormous patch yesterday added two new factions (the Greeks and Aussies), a map, seven weapons, and a bunch of balancing modifications.
- New map: The Battle of Rethymno
- New factions: Greeks and Aussies
- New weapons: Brixia Mortar, FN1922 pistol, M1895 pistol, Männlicher 1903 rifle, Männlicher 1903 carbine rifle, Männlicher 1903-14 rifle, MLE 1874 rifle
There’s already some constructive buzz across the replace—Squad 44 is having fun with its highest participant depend in years. It is also price noting that Squad 44 is a uncommon FPS that is not arrange like a reside service sport—there isn’t any battle move, no premium retailer, and no plans to cost gamers for brand new maps or factions. A minimum of, not but.
Squad 44 is, fairly actually, the Squad expertise with a WW2 spin. Regardless of being initially developed by an out of doors studio known as Periscope Video games, Put up Scriptum was a Squad sport all alongside: gamers will acknowledge its near-identical UI, logistic methods, and related weapon dealing with to its modern-day counterpart. The sport by no means fairly took off in the identical method Squad did when it launched in 2018, and later obtained outshined by one other WW2 FPS: Hell Let Unfastened. Beneath Periscope, Put up Scriptum hadn’t seen a single replace since early 2023.
Now Periscope Video games is out, and seemingly disbanded. Offworld, probably busy constructing out its Starship Troopers co-op FPS, recruited Mercury Arts, a staff based by members of the Put up Scriptum modding group, to take the reins of Squad 44.
The rebrand may additionally sign the beginning of Squad 44 changing into extra like Squad going ahead. After years of promising no paid DLC in Squad, this 12 months Offworld launched paid cosmetics in hopes of preserving Squad’s improvement well-funded. If you realize the gang that enjoys enjoying milsims each day, you may guess how instantly unpopular that call was. But it surely looks as if Squad’s participant base has adjusted, and I wager Squad 44’s gamers must do the identical in some unspecified time in the future.
Squad 44 is offered now on Steam.
