Squads

August made the zone competitive. September is about the people you go in with.

Squads

Link your in-game name once with /register, then:

• /squad create - start one
• /squad invite - pull someone in
• /squad view - see where things stand
• /squad leave - when it is time

The one worth knowing about is /squad suggestions. It looks at who you actually play alongside and suggests those people, so it tends to surface names you already recognise rather than a random list of strangers.

Know Before You Go

The Discord now carries a live server status feed - who is online, which map is running, updating on its own.

A small thing that turns out to matter: it is the difference between putting the headset on for a full server and putting it on for an empty one.

Your Stats Survive a Headset Reset

Reset your Quest, or replace it, and the zone used to treat you as a stranger. New identity, stats back to zero, leaderboard position gone.

That is fixed. Identities can now be merged, so your history follows you rather than your hardware. If you have reset a headset and lost your record, say so in the Discord and it can be stitched back together.

For Map Makers

The modkit wiki got a serious expansion this month - actors, nav markers and building assets documented properly, rather than something you had to work out by opening an example map and guessing.

If you have ever thought about building a PavZ map, it is a far less lonely starting point than it was.

Housekeeping

Scheduled restarts now check for live players before firing, so a restart cannot drop a session that is mid-flow. Cheat reports get checked against the server's own telemetry rather than taken on faith.

By the Numbers

Changelog

• Squads: /squad create, /invite, /view, /leave, /suggestions
• /register to link a Discord account to an in-game name
• Live server status feed in Discord
• Identity merging so stats survive a headset reset or replacement
• Expanded modkit wiki covering actors, nav markers and building assets
• Scheduled restarts check for live players over RCON before firing
• Assorted backend reliability fixes

Next up is the persistence update - your inventory and location carrying across sessions. See the roadmap, or come argue about it in the Discord.