Adaptive squad shooter
A first-person shooter where the enemy squad learns from your past matches.
Live on Foundry: point at or tap the map. That is you.
What they believe
One of you against one squad of three to six. Rounds, first to the target score. When the match ends the squad trains against a ghost of you, and the next squad is bred from the ones that did best against you.
Foundry, Depot and Office rotate every match.
A sketch of the squad coordinator, running in your browser on the real Foundry plan. The game’s version is Rust.
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The squad shares one picture of the map: a 16 by 16 grid of where you might be. While nobody sees you, that guess spreads a little every second. A cell only goes cold when someone looks at it and a crouched player there would have been spotted.
“Lost him - last seen at the south yard”
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Lost contact means fan out. Members head for different hot spots and push away from each other, and no more than two check the hottest one. You stop meeting the whole squad at a single doorway.
“Lost him - spreading out”
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Whoever sees you radios it and keeps you busy. The rest take different sectors around you by different routes, wait until everyone is in place, then move on one call.
“All set - go go go”
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Before a fight the coordinator picks a play with a LinUCB contextual bandit: crossfire, pin and flank, trade or bait. It weighs your habits and the state of the fight, and the plays that paid off against you come back.
“Flanking north-west”
Benchmarks from the squad AI rework, before and after.
24.7 to 33.5 m
was 4.6 to 8.3 m
Distance the squad covers when it has lost you. It no longer swarms one point.
0.601
was 0.682
Player win rate across the toughness benchmark.
| Map | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Foundry | 0.17 | 0.06 |
| Depot | 0.23 | 0.15 |
| Office | 0.25 | 0.11 |
Reaction, aim, damage, coordination, grenade use and how many attack at once all scale with it.
Squad of 3
3 enemies. Slow reactions, loose aim, no grenades.
Squad of 4
4 enemies. Fair fights; the squad coordinates.
Squad of 5
5 enemies. Sharp aim, flanks and flashbangs.
Squad of 6
6 enemies. Every trick they've learned, used against you.
The game runs on Bevy 0.19 with avian3d physics. The squad brain is a separate Rust crate with no engine dependency, so the same code runs in the game and in a 2D trainer that plays rounds against your ghost while you sit in the menus.
Window, settings, menus, pause, UI kit, FPS controller, render budget, devtools and the metrics window come from a shared in-house engine.
13,4677,833
lines of Shroud game code before and after the move onto the engine
No matches yet.
Before your first match, that is all the main menu tells you.
Release date, platforms, price, store page and studio name are still to be announced.
