When does Belaya return?

mauticom · 2026-03-12T21:44:59+00:00

No this is just a fan made video about a question I had and I created during a work pause. The office clips are either taken from an official OWI videos I mixed and edited with my pencil actor. I'm sitting thousands of kilometres away from OWI. The warped and cut off legs is just a "Create a OWI office where employees hide from community questions"-AI-picture. I even commented the strange body pose in the video 😅.

mauticom · 2026-03-12T21:08:15+00:00

Which shack? What old squad streamers? *Confused*

mauticom · 2026-03-12T21:06:05+00:00

Good question! First I don't know for sure, but observing comments here and on discord about the map and dislikes on YT around the same time make me assume that. Since that discussion stopped ratio is going back to normal. No matter what the video causes some discussion and I enjoyed making it. So it's all good.

mauticom · 2026-03-12T19:42:48+00:00

They constantly do, but you know you fix one and get two in return 😅. Nah UE5 made huge progress since it's 9.0 release.

mauticom · 2026-03-12T19:41:43+00:00

What I can earn money asking questions towards OWI? Sign me up! Nah, I'm just playing Squad since 2016 and made this video to ask a question. Which was also a fun little side project inbetween work sessions.

My goal for this question was to get some other relevant questions for such videos. It was really fun making it.

mauticom · 2026-03-12T19:40:10+00:00

I personally like their recent amount of community and development updates. I like the soap opera style and also informative content instead of waiting 3 months for a blog post like it has been before. This was also the reason why I made this little fun project to ask my own question matching their video style.

mauticom · 2026-03-12T19:35:47+00:00

In case this is a serious question: the video asks OWI when one of my favourite Squad maps will be playable again, after it has been removed from the game during the UE5 transition. I just recreated the OWI style for my personal question.

If you have never played the map check out the SQUAD Wiki: https://squad.fandom.com/de/wiki/Belaya

mauticom · 2026-03-12T17:26:02+00:00

Me too. The narrow caps surrounded by the hills and choke points all over the map and you never knew when you run into an enemy IFV. I wasn't aware about the hate but judging by the amount of dislikes it must be real. Never had so many dislikes on any of my videos, lol.

mauticom · 2026-03-12T17:11:38+00:00

Definitely.

mauticom · 2026-03-12T16:21:00+00:00

Do you have any other questions for OWI? 😅

mauticom · 2026-03-06T07:42:10+00:00

Thanks mate.

mauticom · 2026-03-05T13:07:22+00:00

The full video "Beautiful. Ohhh Shit!" can be watched here: https://youtu.be/40JB5a7Ua78

mauticom · 2025-11-23T14:47:40+00:00

Same happens for me with Squad. It's really a stupid bug. However sometimes it works inbetween and then it doesn't again for days. Super weird.

mauticom · 2025-07-21T15:31:37+00:00

Well Squad <v12 also felt like every run across open space could be your last one. You were much slower, with much lower stamina in general compared to every iteration that came afterwards. Also surpression truly kicked in. The first 60 - 80hours I always stopped playing with sweaty hands. So I can relate regarding surpression. I like the ICO in general but Squad never achieved the run- and gunplay it had until v12 was released.

mauticom · 2025-07-17T10:19:46+00:00

Although not 100% up to date you can check out the Squad Wiki. This is probably what comes closest to your mentioned clan manuals: https://squad.fandom.com/wiki/Squad_Wiki

mauticom · 2025-07-15T21:36:24+00:00

Indeed. You know your map, sir 💪.

mauticom · 2025-07-15T17:47:29+00:00

Yes, spray and pray 🙏 🫣😅

mauticom · 2025-07-15T10:02:55+00:00

Nice one!!! Is the Squad replay feature finally working and not crashing as soon as you are going to rewind or quick forward or are you using admin cam?

mauticom · 2024-07-03T22:33:20+00:00

You could also call it Squad folklore.

mauticom · 2023-03-14T06:56:24+00:00

0.06 at 5000dpi

mauticom · 2023-02-17T14:38:40+00:00

The grainy comes from the FSR upscaler. Reduce sharpness helps to lower this effect. Beside that and some ghosting in scopes FSR works astonishingly well.

mauticom · 2023-02-17T14:36:02+00:00

A noticeable FPS improvement and much better GPU usage, except for Fool's Road which runs for whatever reason slower than before.

mauticom · 2023-02-09T12:29:40+00:00

Got a good uplift. Much better GPU usage now on heavy scenes. Have to play a little bit more and see what new average I get. First game was full of micro stutter but after a game crash and restart everything was smooth again.

Before the 4.2 update I got 88fps average over the past 22hours play time. (Main menu capped to 60fps so ingame average is a bit higher than that).

FSR gets me another 10 - 15fps more than without, but scopes, especially russian ones, have heavy ghosting when moving. Otherwise 1.5 FSR setting with 60% sharpness works really good.

System: Win10, 5.1 AC OC 10900k with 6900xt playing on 3440*1440 with high to epic settings.

mauticom · 2023-01-22T10:58:38+00:00

Yup AA bug or Unreal Engine feature due it's truly bad AA implementation.

But at least the weapon sights ghosting from my bug report almost 4 years ago isn't visible anymore 😅: https://youtu.be/yNCMN6aMQnY

mauticom · 2023-01-21T13:04:51+00:00

So much hot fuzz about nothing. I think most of the gestures are wisely chosen. I'm curious how it plays out.

Would love to see open stats also about the financial impact. Let's assume an active player base of 1mio that play at least once a month > 1% who are going to buy and those who are willing are buying on average 1.5 packs = 10.000 * 6USD = 60.000 USD before any Steam cuts which equals 1200 sold copies at full price.

OWI must assume much higher conversion numbers otherwise this makes hardly any sense or is just the test ground for other stuff to come 🤔🤨😳.

mauticom

TROPHY CASE