Starship Troopers: Extermination News

Attention Citizens,

From everyone at Offworld Industries we wish you a wonderful holiday season with your friends, family, and loved ones as we celebrate the end of another year!

This year has been a busy one at Offworld Industries, as we’ve been working in secret to lay the groundwork for Starship Troopers: Extermination. The entire studio has been lifted by the reaction of fans from our announcement and we’ve been extremely grateful for all the interest! Thank you again to everyone who took part in our recent Intel Alpha Playtest and gave us their hands-on feedback from hours playing the game!

A reminder to those participants in our recent Intel Alpha Playtest: the terms of your NDA still apply to all gameplay experiences, and prohibit the sharing of content.

Please note that the Offworld Industries studio will be closed from December 16th until January 3rd and will not be online. Please continue to share your thoughts with us here, as well as via our other social channels:

Twitter: [LINK URL], our Discord Server [LINK URL], and our Facebook: [LINK URL].

We will resume operations in the New Year, and are looking forward to sharing even more about Starship Troopers: Extermination with y’all!

Thank you again for your support and happy holidays from the OWI Team!

Offworld HQ

Attention Citizens,

Today we have released another update for the ongoing Starship Troopers: Extermination Intel Alpha Playtest.

This update includes:

• Enabled Hive objectives in the Slam game mode, making the game more challenging if the players don't keep the Threat meter in check!
  
• Reduced friendly fire damage to 1% for all weapons
  
• Removed the ultra low quality setting for audio, which was resulting in sounds not being played
  

Please continue to leave feedback on the closed Alpha Playtest Discord server.

Thank you for your continued support!

At ease,

- Offworld HQ

We have updated the Starship Troopers: Extermination Alpha and deploying a new game mode called Seismic Slam.

The objective is to power up and activate the ARC seismic survey device and protect it while it collects data. The ARC is powered by gas resources that are gathered from resource nodes. In addition, players need to gather Ore from resource nodes to build up defenses. This is a freer form game mode, with randomized objective locations. Players are expected to split and coordinate their tasks to be effective!

Details
▶️ Players spawn and fight their way to the ARC drop location. This location is randomized.
▶️ Players establish a base at the location.
▶️ Once the ARC has dropped, Ore and Gas resource nodes are revealed around the world.
▶️ Gas canisters are needed to power up the ARC (required count scaled by player count)
▶️ Ore canisters are needed to build up defenses which are essential for surviving the final horde
▶️ Random side objectives will spawn around the world. Players can choose if they want to complete these. Failing enemy objectives (Red) will result in the Threat level to go up, and the arachnid resistance will be tougher!
▶️ Once all of the required Gas canisters have been delivered to the ARC, players can decide when they want to activate ("Slam") the device. Two players are needed to activate the device.
▶️ Once the ARC is active, the enemies will start pouring in and players need to keep the ARC alive until the data collection is finished.
▶️ Once the data collection is finished (or the ARC falls), players must reach the extraction ship alive!

Thank you all for playing - and please continue to leave great feedback in the Discord!

Attention Citizens,

Today is the first opportunity that a select handful of brave individuals will have to fight against the Bugs in Starship Troopers: Extermination. Intel has 5,000 keys available for an early playtest session that will run from December 1st through to December 15th. This will allow a selection of Citizens from around the world to be the first to play the game.

Starship Troopers: Extermination is still in early development, and this is by no means the final game. As such players who participate in this playtest must agree to a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) that they will only share details about the game, images, and videos, in a special Discord Server that we’ve created just for this playtest. Nothing can be shared with the public.

Would you like to know more?

For more information and a chance to receive one of the 5,000 playtest keys head to: https://game.intel.com/ww/giveaways/starship-troopers-extermination-game-alpha

Thank you for your attention!

- Offworld HQ

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Greetings Citizens,

We are coming to you from Offworld Headquarters where we are hard at work equipping our troopers to fight the bug infestation of our colony worlds!

The development team for Starship Troopers: Extermination was incredibly exciting to share what they have been working on in secret with the world yesterday. The response has been amazing and everyone here at headquarters is determined to keep working even harder!

Those who refuse will be sent to the frontlines of the war against the Bugs!

With the team working to learn what they can about the bugs, both the kind that are meant to be in the game and the kind we are aiming to exterminate from the game code before its release, we may not be able to be as present here in the Steam forums as you might expect. We will have community team members from headquarters monitoring the morale of you, our Citizens, as well as providing you details as we’re ready to share them!

We are working to put together an FAQ that addresses some of your most common questions. This will help provide you with the information you need to know so that you can step into the fight in 2023 when Starship Troopers: Extermination hits Early Access.

Thank you all for joining and we look forward to serving alongside you so that we can all say, “I’m doing my part!”

At ease,

- Offworld HQ