Listen up, Squaddies!
Unreal Engine 5 Public Playtest 3 is coming this Friday, May 23, 2025 11:00 AM!
Here’s what to expect:
The build for this playtest is AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD NOW!
There will be multiple servers being hosted by Community names that you will know and recognize! Feel free to play wherever you like, but servers will open and close to accommodate the population needs! The general public will not be given access to the Server hosting branch for testing.
We want to also mention that this is a WORK IN PROGRESS build of Unreal Engine 5, and is still in active development. That means you are likely to come up against bugs, or features that don’t work/feel the same way as the current 8.2 version of Squad. We have included some known issues in this post, but anything that you come up against can be reported in the previously mentioned Discord Server for testing.
Testing will run over the weekend from May 23rd to May 26th, and then the UE5 Servers will be taken down.
We are also hoping you can take the time to fill out a survey for us, answering some questions about your experience during testing. This will be available IN GAME, in the News Box on the main menu. We will send out a reminder of this later on as well.
CHANGELOG
- New southern Basrah mainbase level artbox pass (will benefit from this test).
- Various maps landscapes reworked to resolve nanite landscape visibility issues.
Scalability
- Added DLSS Preset K for all quality levels except UltraPerformance.
- This should improve the visual clarity for everyone using DLSS.
- Separated Frame Generation options so that you can run your preferred Upscaling solution without needing to use the same provider for frame generation.
Factions
- Bolt action rifles do damage again (as long as you hit your shots).
- Ironsights and optics on RPK and PKM work correctly again when bipodded.
- Deploying bipods should work correctly again.
- Smoke grenades no longer send vehicles flying.
- BMP2 no longer invisible when tracks are destroyed.
- PLA ATGM's are guided again.
Known issues:
- Loach still randomly loses its tail rotor sometimes, still being investigated.
- Some USMC desert vehicles have bugged textures. (Or state-of-the-art dynamic camouflage, depending on how you look at it),