Squad Standard Edition

Squad is a large-scale tactical shooter from Offworld Industries built around fifty-player teams, real-time command and maps that run several kilometres to a side. Players join squads of up to nine under a squad leader, who coordinates with the team commander on a separate radio channel while everyone else talks over local and squad voice. Positional voice chat is the mechanic the whole game rests on: you hear the people near you, which turns a firefight into a conversation. Infantry work is deliberate — no crosshair, heavy weapon sway, bleeding wounds and a revive system that keeps downed players in the round. Combat engineers raise sandbags, forward spawn points and fortifications out of a supply economy that logistics drivers keep fed by truck and helicopter. Vehicles run from technicals to armoured transports and main battle tanks, each needing a crew. Factions include the US Army, Russian Ground Forces, British Army, Canadian Army, Middle Eastern Alliance, Insurgents and the Australian Defence Force. This is the only edition: the full game with every faction, map and update released so far. Squad is a PC-only title and the key activates on Steam.