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The roadmap just for 2021 is huge, v2.0 expected in February will have new vehicles for the Great Britain faction, new Insurgency weapons and vehicles and an overhaul of the layer system.Īfter that, the list is long for planned features but players can expect at least three new maps, three new factions in the shape of the U.S Marines, PANASIA, and Australian Forces. Knowing how Offworld Industries work around Squad, you know this is truly just the beginning. Officially released in September of last year, v1.0 brought with it 100 player servers, a map based on Fallujah, the scene of some of the most dangerous fighting of the second Gulf war, as well as the pan-Middle Eastern Alliance faction with all their weapons and vehicles. It's simply the best tactical shooter based on modern warfare on the market and nothing even comes near. You can also fly said helicopters, be an artillery gunman, exclusively run supplies and build bases.

Call in arty, helicopter evacs, relay information to other squads and that's just if you are an infantry soldier. Set up bases, control key areas, engage enemy forces, fight, retreat. To save too much of a preamble squad is the spiritual sequel to Project Reality, a combined-arms tactical shooter, players are split into one of two teams, and then squads of eight, with a player-controlled Commander dictating the action on both sides. SquadĮntering early access all the way back in 2015, every year Squad gets better and better. From those already released and being continually updated to those that are just starting their journeys - here they are. So having said all that if you are in the market for one, or want to whet your appetite for what is coming up we thought we would break down the best tactical shooters in 2021. In short - it's a great time to be a fan of tactical shooters. And importantly with player bases that can sustain the development of these projects that, as anyone who has followed the genre knows, takes years (decades?) to fully-realise. Now with those studios all-grown-up and the democratization of game development through free-to-use engines such as Epic Game's Unreal Engine we now have multiple studios developing competing and complementary tactical shooters. Project Reality is still in development 15 years after its initial release. Those developers many of you will know are the nucleus of the studio behind Squad.

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The game even spawned its own mods that would later be incorporated into the game.

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Unreal Tournament had a little mod called Red Orchestra with a team that would go on to be known as Tripwire Interactive.īattlefield 2 too had a mod that would long outlive that game - Project Reality - which would become a behemoth over its 15 years in development featuring 15 fully realised factions, many maps, and honestly completely outgrew the BF2 engine. The fans of an FPS grounded in reality hadn't disappeared though, and it was indie developers that picked up the mantle and ran with it.

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Hearing the distant scream of a Kar98 in Hell Let Loose never made my hair stand up the way guns can in Hunt: Showdown or Squad.Gradually the bigger game development studios moved away from tactical shooters to pitch their tent in the much more lucrative casual shooter with the Battlefield and Call of Duty series reigning supreme on both console and PC. It's a cool effect on its own, but the noise doesn't carry well over a distance. The standard rifle sounds for all three playable factions (US, Germany, and Russia) sound more like bassy cannons than piercing screeches. I've heard lots of 'whizzes' and 'pops', but Hell Let Loose lacks the intimidating 'crack' you hear when a bullet breaks the sound barrier next to your face. Ironically, one of the most disappointing moments in Hell Let Loose is when bullets just barely miss me. Some of this comes down to the sound effects Black Matter chose for its WW2 arsenal of Kar98s, M1 Garands, and MP40s. No matter how much I mess with audio sliders, the game never gets loud enough for my liking.

This is where Hell Let Loose kinda falls flat. When everything is tuned correctly, a gun should be so loud that I can't hear my teammate over the radio. Coming from dozens of hours in Squad, part of that game's immersion is letting the game overwhelm my ears with extremely loud guns, tank fire, and explosive ordnance.