Killsquad News

Hello all!

You had questions? We have answers!
Here is our part II of the Gathering video, with the answers to your questions. We hope you enjoy this presentation, and feel free to ask more questions on this post!

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By the way, if you missed the original video, where we present our roadmap for the next few months, we add it here again, for your viewing pleasure.

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Have a great weekend!

Ok, let's cut to the chase! Enjoy this presentation, and keep sending us your questions for next week's Q&A session! You can post questions as answers to this message. And don't worry, we also track any question on the Steam forums as well.

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Hello all!

After the release of Skua, it's time for us to do a Roadmap update, as we usually do. So, next week, we plan to publish our 4th Gathering of Bounty Hunters video, which is a detailed update, straight from our game director, of what we are working on, features, details, and all the nitty gritty you guys love. We can already advance to you guys that you we are sticking to our last published roadmap. So, rest assured, new features are coming your way, soon!

Next week, we will give you an inside look at our plans. Hey, that's what Early Access is for, right?

Here's what is on our plate for next week, for your reference:

1. Progression update, permanent progression
   
2. New hero
   
3. A full UI revamp
   
4. And some surprises we'll leave for then.
   

So, if you want a detailed description of the above, plus more, make sure you tune in next Friday here on Steam, as that's when we will publish it. Additionally, in the spirit of previous videos, we invite you guys, the community, to ask us anything you'd like us to cover on the video. Consider this your access-all-areas, our Ask Me Anything format. So, if there's something you want to ask about Killsquad, Novarama, or any other thing, NOW is the time. Just post your questions as answers to this article, and we will try to cover as many as we can on next week's video.

So that's it for today. It's Gathering of Bounty Hunters time once again!

Oh, and before I head off, let me thank everyone who has posted reviews on Steam recently. We are on a steady rise, and it's such a morale kick for the team. You guys rock!

See you next week!

We are happy to announce the release our our newest update: Skua, available now!

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[h3]It's a new world...[/h3]

With Skua, we deliver our fifth game world to the Killsquad universe. After visiting Wasteland07, Kemmekh, the Palace of Pain and the Colosseum of the Unseen, you're going in against your toughest challenge yet: Skua, the orbital space station of the Federation. Their training ground for new weapons and battle tactics.

Skua brings a full new storyline to Killsquad: expect new locations, all-new enemies and bosses, and new contracts for you to take. And yes, there's also new quests, cosmetics for you to show off your skill, new victory animations... well, you get the idea. Go Play!

[h3]Performance[/h3]

The Skua update also brings our biggest-ever quality of life boost: we have been hard at work to raise performance across all hardware configurations, so you can expect higher frame rates, more fluid gameplay, and an overall smoother experience. We have also been stamping out bugs like there's no tomorrow. As we advance in our Early Access, we want to give you guys the best experience, and we feel Skua is a huge leap forward.

So, whether it's for the all-new adventures, or to rediscover the game with the new performance boost, jump in! There's a universe waiting for you.

[h3]Full patch notes[/h3]
Follow this link to read our full patch notes for the Skua update.


[h3]Language support[/h3]
SKUA is available in English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean & Japanese.

[h3]Roadmap[/h3]
We plan to update our roadmap next week, to announce all the exciting stuff coming to Killsquad after Skua. So yes, stand by. We have more cool stuff coming. New hero? Yep. New progression system? Check. Cinematics? Yessir!

[h3]Bug reporting[/h3]
Killsquad is an Early Access game. As such, it is a product in development. Have encountered a bug? We are sorry. Please report it by joining our Discord community. Please do so here:

https://discord.com/invite/killsquad

You can report bugs on the #beta-bug-report channel. Please be specific describing the bug: the easier for us to trigger the bug, the faster we solve it. If you don’t like Discord, do get in touch directly at [email protected] with the bug info.


[h3]We need your help![/h3]
Do you like our game? Would you like to help an independent developer? Here is what you can do:

[h3]Reviews![/h3]
This is THE single most important thing you can do. Reviews do magic to the Steam algorithm. Or, if you wrote a negative review back in the day, and feel we’ve done a good job, do you know you can update your review? Reviews are the blood that keeps us alive!

[h3]Social media follow:[/h3]

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/killsquad
Twitter: https://twitter.com/killsquadgame
And on the Steam forums

[h3]Streaming![/h3]
Stream Killsquad, post videos on Youtube. Tell the world about it. If you have a significant following, contact us at [email protected], and we’ll try to support you in any way we can.

[h3]Media[/h3]
Are you a member of the media? We want to meet you! Contact us at [email protected]

[h3]About Killsquad[/h3]
Killsquad is an action-packed 4 player action RPG where sci-fi mercenaries raid planets seeking fame and glory. With four planets to explore, over thirty unique contracts to master, more than 100 weapons and 30 unique enemies, Killsquad offers an adrenaline-pumping journey into a dystopian future full of blood and black humour. Killsquad is now on Steam Early Access, with an approximate launch date of Summer 2021.

[h3]About Novarama[/h3]
Killsquad is developed by Novarama, a Barcelona-based independent games developer with +18 years of experience, 11 of them as a Sony exclusive studio. With a team of +40 people, Novarama's mission statement is to building innovative games for mass audiences. Killsquad is our first fully self-published game. Visit Novarama's website at www.novarama.com

Hello, Bounty Hunters!

After a long pause, we're back to the Dev Diary! And we have a really good reason to do so: today, we launch the Beta of our next major Killsquad update, Skua. This new update will bring two huge features: the full Skua Campaign, and a much-desired Performance Upgrade.

Skua is the fifth game world in the Killsquad universe, after Wasteland 07, Kemmekh, the Palace of Pain and the Colosseum. Skua is a huge orbital space station owned by the Federation. They use it to store and test their newest weapons of destruction. And guess who is going in? Yes, correct: YOU. The Skua campaign brings a huge amount of content to KILLSQUAD: new locations, all new enemies, new contracts, new storylines... it's a whole new world for you guys to explore. To suffer. To conquer.

Now, our second major point today is performance. You guys care about performance. And so do we at Novarama. And now it's even more important: with our success in Asia (our friends in China and Korea, yes, this means you!) we've realized a lot of people play Killsquad in net cafés. So, we worked super hard to give you a super smooth experience, across *any* machine. So yes, all of you are getting higher frame-rates. More stability. A better experience for all our community. We hope you enjoy it.

I don't want to drag on for too long. Today is a day to play and celebrate. If you want a final experience, wait for a few more days while we sort out the remaining bugs. We feel we may be ready for a public release next week. But if you just want to go kill bugs here and now, join the Beta. It's free, it's open!

[h3]How do I join the Beta? What is a Beta? Where is the Beta FAQ?[/h3]
Instructions are here

[h3]Where are the patch notes for Skua?[/h3]
They are here

[h3]I see this is Beta 2. What got fixed since Beta 1?[/h3]
Full list here

[h3]Reviews[/h3]
Please write a review. This is THE single most important thing you can do. Reviews do magic to the Steam algorithm. Or, if you wrote a negative review back in the day, and feel we’ve done a good job, do you know you can update your review? Reviews are the blood that keeps us alive!

[h3]Social media follow[/h3]

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/killsquad
Twitter: https://twitter.com/killsquadgame
And on the Steam forums

[h3]Streaming[/h3]
Stream Killsquad, post videos on Youtube. Tell the world about it. If you have a significant following, contact us at [email protected], and we’ll try to support you in any way we can.

[h3]Media[/h3]
Are you a member of the media? We want to meet you! Contact us at [email protected]

That's it for today! Thank you for always being there, and thank you for helping us make Killsquad a great game together!