Squad Hotfix 10.6.1 Release Notes

October 7, 2026

Hello Squaddies. Coming at you with Hotfix 3 for update 10.6. This release includes both a client and server update, so will properly increment to 10.6.1, and aims to address several critical issues reported by the community: including the infamous track bug, new UI issues, and other problems that emerged with the release.

We want to thank all the players who have taken the time to report issues in detail. Your reports have been of *IMMENSE* value to our development team, and have helped us identify, reproduce, and ultimately address these problems as quickly as possible. If you continue to encounter issues following this release, we ask that you continue contributing to existing threads and or starting new conversations in our official Discord server:

Squad Bug Reports

Thank you for your continued patience and for helping us make Squad a better game. We appreciate both your effort and diligence, Squaddies!

—The Offworld Team

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GENERAL

  • The ammo crate attached to a HAB will now be (properly) destroyed when the HAB is destroyed. preventing players from re-arming indefinitely from a ghost crate.
  • The ammo crate has now been moved inside of the HAB.
  • Fixed an issue which prevented the ‘Frame Generation’ setting from functioning properly with compatible Nvidia Graphic Cards.
  • Adjusted the cooldown and lifetime of non Squad Lead / Fireteam Lead observe markers to a 8 second cooldown and 5 second lifetime.
  • Fixed an ‘EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION_READ’ server crash.

WEAPONS

  • M249: Fixed an issue where the M249 (and its variants) would be held sideways when firing.
  • Fixed Makeshift skin not showing for AKM GP25 Smoke variant.

VEHICLES

  • Fixed an issue where tracked vehicles could enter a state where they would lean approximately 45 degrees onto their side and remain upright when repaired.

MAPS

  • Gorodok: Fixed an issue where certain trees were missing their collision.

UI

  • The “Give Up” button is now visible on the Deployment Menu, now allowing you to give up when you simply want to give up.
  • Fixed an issue preventing players from closing or saving the Emote Radial Wheel after attempting to equip an emote after launching the game.
  • Fixed an issue where the party member count would fail to update after adding multiple members.
  • Fixed an issue where manually entering numeric values in the Settings menu would not apply the new value unless [Enter] was pressed.

AUDIO

  • Fixed an issue where the gunfire sound of the CAF gr

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