Versus Squad v1.30

Added a new map and its achievement: The Great Wall. A fast-paced Defend the Flag map set on top of the Great Wall of China.

Hello everyone,

A quick update to Versus Squad to add manual repairing. Many people have asked for this option to prevent you from accidentally spending money on repairs.

To enable Manual Repairing: in the game options go to:

Options -> Control -> Weapons/Repair/Mouse -> Manual Repair On/Off

Then use the E key to repair the nearest object during build phases.

For gamepad/controller users:

Options-> Controller -> Weapons/Repair/Movement -> Manual Repair On/Off

and then use the A button to repair

I'm going to add more of your requests in the next update! Thanks for the continued forum suggestions!

VERSUS SQUAD has updated to version 1.26.

Thanks to everyone who has come up with these gameplay suggestions and ideas!

To recap here are all the changes made since version 1.25:

Added a FRAG-12 shotgun!



The Saiga-12 shotgun loaded with 30 explosive FRAG-12 shells will shred any enemy to pieces. The Saiga does take longer to reload, so when using this new weapon you should prioritize the faster reload perks. Apart from its reload time, this will probably become one of the favorite weapons :)

Added the associated FRAG-12 achievement (Easy-Medium difficulty).

You can now pickup/sell damaged objects as well. For example if a sentry gun is 25% damaged, you will get back 75% of its value when you remove it from the map.

Added a new option: Player kicking On/Off in the game's 'Control Options' section. If you're out of grenades and wish to keep moving instead of slowing down and kick, you can now turn kicking Off.

Strategic Perk mode now shows the number of strategic perk picks you have and how many you have left to pick.

New Random powerup choice in Random Perk Mode. When playing in Random Perk mode you will now always get a 6th 'Get a Random Powerup' option in case you don't like any listed perks or when you've gotten all perks. This will drop a random powerup a few meters away from you. In online coop you can also let another player pick up this powerup.

'Static Attack' Bosses like the Rotor, Mortar and M61 Gatling Bosses will try not to linger just outside the edges of the map anymore.

Added 'Host Dominion' in on-line coop: when a player leaves, the host will get access to that player's objects so you can remove them if needed.

'Player has joined the lobby' and 'Player has joined the game' messages will now be in your set language and not in the language set by the player who's joining.

Physics collisions with flares, exploded gas canisters, empty weapon magazines etc. have been removed since they sometimes blocked the player.

Easy Difficulty now has 20% less damage done to the player and 10% less chance of enemies running.

10% extra coin drops in the first 30 minutes of a game.

Added armor-based Boss XP: Since bosses will increase their armor up to 2.5X their original during the game, you will now get up to 2.5X their XP per kill, allowing you to move up the leaderboard faster.

Versus Squad version 1.25 should be live on Steam now. Here is a list of additions:

Added a new Paintball Field map!

This map has a typical paintball field layout with several non-destructible defenses: high and low. Low defenses block enemy movement, high defenses also block projectile fire from the Gatling Gun and Rotor bosses. Remember high defenses will also block your own weapon fire, so adjust your strategy accordingly.

Added a Paintball map projectile blocking related achievement

Misc:

Added an explosion countdown counter for the Mortar boss.
Also made the mortars fall to the ground a little slower giving you a little more time to avoid them.

When playing on Easy difficulty, the Mortar boss will launch 20% fewer attacks.

Added boss names to the boss indicators so you can prepare for which boss is incoming.

Increased enemy hitbox by 10%.

Fixed Tank boss tracking you when you're cloaked.

Fixed flares 'going out' when Tabbing to the Statistics menu and back.

Added the Flamethrower weapon!

The Flamer Boss will usually drop his M2 Flamethrower when killed. Although moderately useful against bosses, this weapon can be very effective against regular enemies. Simply setting enemies on fire will kill them very quickly - there is no need to keep targeting them until they are dead. This makes the Flamethrower different from the other weapon types.

Added the weapon's associated achievement "Fired Up"


Building/Waves

Increased Wave build time in coop to 60 seconds to allow more repair time. (Remember you can skip the build phase with Space/Left Trigger).

Unified wave enemy numbers. Waves now ramp up from 25 enemies (instead of 50) at wave 1, 50 in wave 2, 75 wave 3, etc. To offset, there's 20% more chance of running enemies in earlier waves.


Coins

Increased coin pickup time by +5 secs, plus increased coin visibility, larger font.


Gameplay

Added a player grenade counter for coop. You can now see how many grenades other players have to help you to decide to share grenade pickups.

Made the grenade counter for Remote Detonator (at crosshair position) easier to read

Added a transparent melee range overlay when using melee weapons.

When picking up a Ghost powerup when you already have ghosts active, the active Ghosts will now stay on the map for the correct longer duration.

Suicide Bombers now give 500 Xp instead of 250 Xp when killed.

Added a red shield glow for Death Clock to help you see when Death Clock is active.

Boss Power powerup drop spacing. When you have Boss Power, the two powerups dropped by bosses should no longer overlap making it easier to see what they have dropped. There is also now 50% less chance of identical powerups dropping.


Gamepads

Pressing B for Back when you have an item to build will now correctly cancel the build and bring you back to the inventory.

Better object placing 'snapping' for gamepad users when building.

You can now repair barricades during build phases!
To do this, stand near a damaged barricade and repair will automatically kick in after 1 second.
Repairs cost up to 90% of the cost of the item. For example if you repair a barricade that costs 500 new and it is 50% damaged, the repair will cost 225 coins. So repairing is a bit cheaper than rebuying the item, but it takes time

Bonus: You can now also repair all types of sentry guns.

Increased the size of the Battlefield map by 20% and the Campsite map by 40% for those who like Run n Gunning.

Increased powerup drop rate by 10% during the first 30 minutes of a game. This will make a few achievements a little easier to hunt down.

For the M61, Mortar and Flamer Bosses: Increased their attack frequency by 25% but only if they are the only boss left on the map. There is no change when there are multiple bosses active.

Increased camera height by 5 meters (15 feet) so you can see more of the battlefield.

Frequency of money (coins) dropped increased by 20%. You should quickly be able to pick up 1000+ coins per wave and more in waves 10+.

Increased cooldown speed of regular sentry by 10%

Achievements:

Added 5 new achievements: Drone Strike, Burst, Serial Kill, Massacre and Intruder.

Multiplayer:
In on-line coop games, clients can now tell the host/server they are ready to begin the next wave by hitting Space or Left Trigger during a build phase. The host will see a 'READY!' indicator mark above the players who are ready.

The host/server now updates 30% faster which should reduce lag (enemies and the state of the game gets updated more often)

Decreased damage from the Flamethrower boss 30% and added a small delay so that you're less likely to get damaged when the flamethrower weapon is just starting up.

Armor of enemies is reduced by 10% which makes enemies a little easier to kill in online games.

Hello everyone,

Versus has updated to version 1.13. You can build a new type of sentrygun! The MK19 Grenade Sentry.
This gun has a slower firing rate than the normal sentry but 5x more killing power, firing explosive grenades. It should kill any regular enemy in one hit and is very effective against bosses when in a group of 3 or more.

To allow for more sentrygun types with different weapon mounts to be added, there are some small changes:

Sentry guns can now be reloaded at any time (outside build phase), not just when they are empty. But the reload speed varies according to the type of gun. The regular sentry reloads in a second, the MK19 sentry takes 2.5 seconds to reload. Other sentry guns will have different reload speeds.

Remember when you build a sentry gun: try to place any type of 'decoy' barricade nearby (for example a barrel) so that you have less chance of a boss targeting and destroying that sentry.

Also:

Added female soundfx for the Sniper class

Fixed a bug where you could (sometimes) not buy or build if you joined a game in progress


What am I working on now/what's coming next:

Electric fences

Perk Group icons

Shotgun sentry (wide-angle fire)

A new machine gun weapon

Version 1.08 includes the first version of persistent player leveling up! The way this works is as follows:

There are 8 player ranks, ranging from Recruit to Master. Each rank requires a balance of total kills and active playtime. Versus was already tracking total kills but from now it will also track 'active' playtime. This time will only increase while a game is in progress (and not while you're in the menu, when the game is paused, when in the building phase, or when it's game over, etc.)

Your total kills will have already been saved, and these will be taken into account.

For those interested, the required kills and active playtime for each rank is listed below.

Whenever you reach a new rank, you can select another persistent base perk. So for example when you've reached player level 5 (Captain), you can select up to 5 persistent base perks which you'll have when you start any game.

(A base perk is any perk which doesn't require another lower perk. Most perks are base perks, for example Powerup Hook, Regeneration, Endurance, etc. A perk like Snare or Heavy Armor is not a base perk and you'll still need to earn those during a game.

I'm looking into adding further player customization which unlocks with each player level.


Player Classes

As requested, Player Classes now also have their own powerup skill:

Scouts: +30% projectile weapon damage during 'Speed' powerups.

Scavengers: +30% more mines during 'Minelayer' and 'Claymore' powerups.

Assaults: +30% explosion damage during 'Rage' powerups.

Medics: +30% melee weapon damage during 'Shield' powerups. (esp. useful for those players meleeing bosses)


Misc.

XP Level Up sound effect changed to be a little more noticeable

Several gamepad improvements


Required historic kills and active playtime for each player rank:

Recruit: Default rank

Soldier: 1000 kills + 10 mins. active playtime

Trooper: 5000 kills + 30 mins.

Veteran: 10000 kills + 60 mins.

Captain: 25000 kills + 5 hours.

Commander: 50000 kills + 10 hours.

Warlord: 100000 kills + 20 hours.

Master: 250000 kills + 50 hours.