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Platform(s): PC
Genre: Online Multiplayer
Developer: Mercury Arts

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'Post Scriptum' Launches Open Beta For Pre-Orders - Screens & Trailer

by Rainier on July 23, 2018 @ 4:42 p.m. PDT

Squad 44 is a WW2 simulation game, focusing on historical accuracy, large scale battles, difficult learning curve and an intense need for cohesion, communication and teamwork.

Players will relive the events of ‘Operation Market Garden’ across the fields and towns of Holland.

This massive Allied assault consisted of a coordination of the British and American Airborne to capture key bridges while the British XXXth Corps moved to reinforce them through Highway 69. However, consecutive delays in consolidating ground from the north of Belgium through Nijmegen forced the 1st British Airborne Division in Arnhem to make a stand much longer than anticipated. With no successful link between the XXXth Corps and the Airborne in sight, the seventh and final bridge in Arnhem was considered lost.

In a 40 vs. 40 multiplayer setting, players will be given the option to fight with the British Airborne Division and its Polish brigade, British XXX Corps, US Airborne (Post-Release) or several branches of the German Army, such as the Wehrmacht or the Waffen SS. It’s a rare opportunity to experience the intense battlefield that was the Battle of Arnhem, which stretched across farms, woods, villages and city areas. Each area is being accurately recreated from archival references that range from street level to aerial images. Whether you’re jumping out of a plane, resupplying friendlies or operating a tank you will find multiple reasons to drop back into the battlefield in this grand scaled representation of a WW2 setting never explored in a large multiplayer environment.


‘The Bloody Seventh’ is our name for the initial focus of the project as we feel it succinctly details the struggle that the British paratroopers had to endure while waiting for their army counterpart to establish a link through the Lower Rhine.

Firstly known as a modding group for Squad, our ambition and expectation for Post Scriptum rapidly made us realize that we would have to create our own studio in order to reach those goals and fulfill this vision of ours. Such things would not be doable in a respectable time frame without us going full time on the project, and as such, get a living from it.

Currently in open beta, Post Scriptum will be full release on August 9th, 2018 for $29.99 USD / € 27.99 / £ 23.79.

The Open Beta will run from July 18th till August 9th, 2018 and will be playable 24/7 during that time. This period will allow us to collect important information in order to resolve bugs and optimization in time for the release of Post Scriptum


Key Features:

  • 40 vs 40 multiplayer PvP battles
  • Parachuting into action
  • Photo scanned 3D Uniforms
  • Artillery and Airstrike support
  • Vehicles using realistic values, such as turret speed, armor thickness etc..
  • Authentic level at a 1:1 scale based on military archives and historical maps
  • Faithfully recreated historical weapons, vehicles and famous landmarks
  • Base building, fortification and barricades
  • Logistic and supply runs to help fortify your position and rearm friendlies
  • Towing system for supplies
  • In game Voice Over IP with proximity fade
  • Player driven objectives in Sandbox game mode
  • Full access to PS SDK to add or modify content
  • Steam Workshop support
  • 5 maps for a total of 140 km² of authentic playable area
  • 3 game modes, such as “Offensive”, “Stratagem” and “Sandbox”
  • More than 40 faithfully recreated vehicles and 50 authentic weapons
  • British & German factions, including the 1st Airborne Division, XXXth Corp, Waffen SS and the Wehrmacht
  • US Airborne Faction (101st & 82nd Airborne) release as free content in 2018. Including an additional 3 maps.
  • The entire western vicinity of Arnhem in 1944 and Arnhem city center with its famous bridge too far
  • Source Development Kit for you to add or modify content.

 


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