Starship Troopers: Extermination News

The Only Good Bug Is A Dead Bug

Today, Offworld Industries, in collaboration with Sony Pictures Consumer Products, are proud to launch Starship Troopers: Extermination into Early Access. While the game is primed and ready for intense squad-based shooter action, more features and enhancements will be added to the core gameplay experience over time. By inviting players into the beginning stages of public access, the Offworld Industries team is excited to enlist the community to help guide what features and mechanics to build upon and evolve before the game’s eventual transition into 1.0. Player feedback will be integral to the ongoing creative process, as Offworld Industries works to iterate upon popular requests and add more content throughout the weeks and months following the Early Access launch.

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The Early Access edition of Starship Troopers: Extinction will be available for $24.99 USD—a special introductory price that will increase as more content is introduced ahead of the 1.0 launch— and puts players on the far-off front lines in an all-out war with the Arachnid menace. Squad up as a Trooper in the Deep Space Vanguard, an elite Special Forces group within the Mobile Infantry, and get ready to stomp some Bug! No Trooper will ever stand alone as they line up shoulder-to-shoulder with their fellow Vanguards—trusty Morita Assault Rifles in hand—to battle against hordes of bloodthirsty insectoid aliens on the hostile surface of the planet Valaka.
Work together to complete objectives, acquire resources, build and defend your base of operations, and then escape to the extraction point together. The battle will be intense but, as hardened warriors standing for all of humanity and the United Citizen Federation, leave no inch of ground safe for the Arachnids!

Other Key Features:

Cooperative Gameplay - 16 players can team up in squads of four to defend their base, complete objectives, gather resources, and try to kill every Bug in sight.
Three Playable Classes - Choose from Assault, Support, and Defense classes to best suit your playstyle and support the rest of your squad.
Build Defenses - Construct walls, towers, ammo stations, and more using resources acquired from planetside refineries.
Class Progression System - Unlock new weapons, equipment, and perks for each class to become an elite warfighter among the Deep Space Vanguard.
5 Unique Bug Types - At Early Access launch, encounter Drone, Warrior, Gunner, Plasma Grenadier, and Tiger Elite enemy Bugs during missions.
Escalating Infestation Levels - Increasing Bug threat levels during missions bring bigger and more dangerous enemies to the fight.
Large-scale Battles - A massive map with five unique zones, and swarm-based combat with hundreds of enemy Bugs on screen delivers the sense of an overwhelming planetary war.
Ground War - Retake bases and refineries, destroy hives, and complete a variety of side objectives to wrest control of the map away from the Bug menace.
Ping system - Communication is key! The ‘Ping’ system gives players a quick and easy way to call out points of interest, objectives, incoming enemies, and more to teammates.

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We’re Going to War!

Today, Offworld Industries, in collaboration with Sony Pictures Consumer Products, are thrilled to announce May 17th as the Early Access launch date for their upcoming title, Starship Troopers: Extermination. The launch will mark an opportunity for players to collaborate closely with the Offworld Industries team through the game’s earliest development stages, as their feedback helps guide what features and mechanics to build upon before the game’s eventual transition into 1.0. Community feedback from the frenetic 16-player action—bumped up from the originally-anticipated 12-player gameplay—will be a crucial component of the evolving creative process, as Offworld Industries works to iterate upon player input and add more content throughout the Early Access period.

The Early Access edition of Starship Troopers: Extermination will be available at $24.99 USD upon release—a special introductory price that will increase as more content is introduced ahead of the 1.0 launch. From day one of Early Access, the title will already boast both strategy and combat-oriented gameplay. Players can construct and reinforce bases of operations while not in heavy combat, creating a safe structure to respawn, regroup and rearm themselves in preparation for Bug-exterminating co-op play. These bases are protected from enemy spawns, and base-building isn’t linked to a specific class or rank, so Deep Space Vanguards of every stripe can utilize these structures.

Starship Troopers: Extermination puts players on the far-off front lines in an all-out assault against the Arachnid menace. Squad up as a Trooper in the Deep Space Vanguard, an elite Special Forces group within the Mobile Infantry, and get ready to stomp some Bug! No Trooper will ever stand alone as they line up shoulder-to-shoulder with their fellow Vanguards—trusty Morita Assault Rifles in hand—to battle against hordes of bloodthirsty insectoid aliens on the hostile surface of the planet Valaka.

Work together to complete objectives, acquire resources, build and defend your base of operations, and then escape to the extraction point together. The battle will be intense but, as hardened warriors standing for all of humanity and the United Citizen Federation, leave no inch of ground safe for the Arachnids!

Other Key Features:

Cooperative Gameplay - 16 players can team up in squads of four to defend their base, complete objectives, gather resources, and try to kill every Bug in sight.
Three Playable Classes - Choose from Assault, Support, and Defense classes to best suit your playstyle and support the rest of your squad.
Build Defenses - Construct walls, towers, ammo stations, and more using resources acquired from planetside refineries.
Class Progression System - Unlock new weapons, equipment, and perks for each class to become an elite warfighter among the Deep Space Vanguard.
5 Unique Bug Types - At Early Access launch, encounter Drone, Warrior, Gunner, Plasma Grenadier, and Tiger Elite enemy Bugs during missions.
Escalating Infestation Levels - Increasing Bug threat levels during missions bring bigger and more dangerous enemies to the fight.
Large-scale Battles - A massive map with five unique zones, and swarm-based combat with hundreds of enemy Bugs on screen delivers the sense of an overwhelming planetary war.
Ground War - Retake bases and refineries, destroy hives, and complete a variety of side objectives to wrest control of the map away from the Bug menace.
Ping System - Communication is key! The ‘Ping’ system gives players a quick and easy way to call out points of interest, objectives, incoming enemies, and more to teammates.

About Offworld Industries
Founded in 2014 by a group of passionate game developers, Offworld Industries is now an acclaimed game studio with more than 100 team members located in their New Westminster headquarters and around the world. Hot off the announcement of the studio’s first IP licensed game Starship Troopers: Extermination, Offworld is committed to the ongoing development of the hit FPS shooter Squad, WW1 trench warfare title Beyond the Wire, and is the publisher of FPS title Post Scriptum.
Having sold well over three million copies of Squad, Offworld looks to the future with a focus on bringing players together in experiences where they must rely on teamwork in order to compete, in both existing and in-development titles.

For more information about Offworld, please visit: https://www.offworldindustries.com/

About Sony Pictures Consumer Products
Sony Pictures Consumer Products (SPCP) is the licensing and merchandising division of Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group and Sony Pictures Television for Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation. SPE's global operations encompass motion picture production, acquisition, and distribution; television production, acquisition, and distribution; television networks; digital content creation and distribution; operation of studio facilities; and development of new entertainment products, services and technologies. Sony Pictures Television operates dozens of wholly-owned or joint-venture production companies around the world. SPE’s Motion Picture Group production organizations include Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, TriStar Pictures, 3000 Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Stage 6 Films, AFFIRM Films, Sony Pictures International Productions, and Sony Pictures Classics.

For additional information, visit http://www.sonypictures.com/corp/divisions.html

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Happy Holidays from Offworld

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

Tuning Update for Starship Troopers: Extermination Alpha Playtest

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

Intel Alpha Playtest Update - New Mode

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!