EARLY ALPHA 0.32.0 · 25 SEPTEMBER 2026

SQUAD UP

FEATURES

A new bar along the bottom of every menu screen: MAIN MENU and SHELTER, your group slots, then CHARACTER, TRADERS, BAZAAR and the MESSENGER. Notifications pop up above it.
Messenger: every trader, the system and each player you talk to has a conversation. Unread messages and waiting packages get their own counters, conversations can be pinned, and player conversations can be deleted.
Friends: open FRIENDS in the messenger to search operators by name, send, accept or decline friend requests, remove friends or ignore players. Friends see when you are online, never where you are. You can switch off incoming friend requests or group invites.
Direct messages between friends and group members, up to 500 characters. Messages you get during a raid are waiting when you come back.
Groups of up to 5 operators. Invite a friend or anyone by name from a + slot; invites last two minutes. The leader can kick, hand over leadership or disband, and anyone can leave. Your group stays together after a raid.
Group raids: the leader picks the location, members get a raid invite and their PLAY button becomes READY. The leader starts once everyone is ready, the whole group matchmakes together and spawns side by side. There are no teammate markers: use armbands to tell friend from foe. Friendly fire is on, and killing a group member gives no XP or task progress.
Traders now write to you. Accepting a task puts its briefing in the trader's conversation. Finishing one sends the rewards as a package you collect from the messenger within 48 hours, so a full stash no longer blocks a turn-in. Abandoned or reset operational tasks get a message too.
Bazaar money comes from Lukas: every sale is its own message with the crowns attached, kept for 7 days, and expired listings come back through him (72 hours). Money you haven't collected isn't in your stash yet.
Insurance returns arrive by message: the insurer writes when the search starts, then sends your gear as a package (kept 10 days for Nurse, 7 for Lukas), or tells you nothing was found.
Packages: RECEIVE opens a transfer screen next to your stash. Drag items one by one, Ctrl-click them across, or RECEIVE ALL. If the stash is full, what fits comes across and the rest waits until it expires.
Dogtags: every operator wears a tag in its own slot, next to the pockets. When you die it records your level, your killer, the weapon and the time, and whoever loots your body can take it. You get a fresh tag for your next raid. Nurse, Volkov and Marshal buy tags, and higher levels pay more. Founder's Edition operators wear their own tag.
Headsets: three headsets for the earpiece slot, each with its own sound. They let you hear footsteps, shots and doors from further away. Some helmets and face covers leave no room for one.
Founder's Edition players have their own animated name colour and badge in the menu, on the stats page, on the kill list and in the friends list and group.
In-raid task notifications: kill counts, places found and other objectives show as they progress, and a task complete notice tells you who to turn it in to.
Insured items carry a seal and a thin frame in the insurer's colour (Nurse or Lukas), so you can see at a glance what is covered. Only you see it.

BALANCING

Traders only buy what they deal in: Nurse takes medicine, food, electronics, valuables, keys and maps but not weapons or gear, Lukas takes gear, Wrench weapons, parts and electronics, and so on. The Broker still buys almost anything. The sell tab greys out what a trader won't buy and tells you why, and the Inspect window shows the best trader who does.
Everything you spawn with on a Looter run is found in raid, and keeps that status when you extract.

BUG FIXES & POLISH

The KP-4 scope now shows on every gun it fits, including dropped guns. The KM-74 now shows the RDC-1 railed dust cover and any sight mounted on it, and the OB-91, VMR-54 and KS9 icons show their mounted scope and suppressor.
Bazaar offers are centred in their tiles.
Patch notes are split into features, balancing and fixes.
The Bastion secure container takes up 3×3 in the stash.

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