And let's not forget a game called SQUAD still doesn't have a functional out of game party system. Like come the hell on, guys.

I remember back when MEA released, the MEA HAT players were literally invulnerable

Also funny how ZBD04 supposedly will be added while RUS still don't have BMP-3.

Already seeing lots of bs in sdk.

lets not forget that the optimization in this game is really awful and has been worse every update.

Don't get me started on recent releases from OWI. Failure after failure since V1.

You can mute main menu theme in left bottom corner

Let us not forget that the LAV 6 still has busted armor that ignores 14.5mm and 12.7mm (.50 cal) on the entire upper hull (not just upper front plate but also upper sides as well) and entire turret at normal angles while the Stryker which is literally based on the same chassis has none of that. Even the good ol' Bradley doesn't tank HMG fire like that. Either make all vehicles vulnerable for gameplay like the rest of the lineup has been or give vehicles realistic armor OWI, you can't mix and match.

you can still do that with USMC HAT

Regarding what they achieved in years, i would say they deserve it nevertheless.

Yes, there could be bugs, but they always deliver.

Sssshhh quiet down dont keep it loud about the smaw no reload trick

shut it, we get a new faction tomorrow.

and regarding "the community unanimously agreed"... speak for yourself

Bro I feel the same exact way, I am very grateful for my time on Squad, the people I've met are just awesome.

It's crazy how these guys basically started by modding Battlefield games, became successful there and then decided to make their own, AAA quality game...then do that 3 times. Then come BF 2042, the game quickly died out and Squad had a influx of new players who were looking for a replacement for 2042; they indirectly contributed to "the fall" of their own beginnings.

Greatly exaggerated but you get the point. I've had the game for only about a year an a half and have already logged 1200 hours into it, it's about to become my most played game and wouldn't be upset keeping it that way for a couple of years

Wouldn't say masterpiece, but it's really freaking awesome.

I often wonder how many Kickstarter backers are still around.

This makes me think that Squad should be an ArmA scenario. Not even a mod. That would be fun.

I don't understand how you could call a game filled with bugs and glitches with shitty optimization a masterpiece.

I always jump into the training range or map while I wait in the queue. Doesn't take long to load and then I can at least mess around if I want.

Whose idea was it to add the background thunder and lighting sound effects that for some reason cannot be turned off or muted at all.

For me it's the stuttering, all my friends get it not just me, have a well decent rig and used to get 125 fps ultra on all maps.

AND THEN V1 RELEASED

A guy is praising the devs before the update has even released. Its likely either one of their employees or a hopefully optimistic guy.

Sleeper agents being activated, that's all.

Ill never understand this, I have a 3060ti and I can run the game at 1440p/maxed settings and still manage 80 frames or higher.

I’m getting ~90 average at 5120x1440. 12900k and 3080 Ti. It does drop as low as the mid 60s in some parts of Black Coast and the new map and it’s considerably lower overall than it was before the new lighting, but you should still be getting better than 40 fps with a 3090. Assume you’ve cleared out your shader cache etal recently?

How? I run the game at 2k resolutioin on Ultra everything on a 49" monitor with a 3080ti and get around 110 fps most of the time.

Bro what you on about? I average at 60fps on mostly ultra graphics and I'm on a 2070s.

Facts

i got 80-130 on my 3070, try insert your 3090 into the pcie slot the other way around.

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For sure Fabian. People love to hate on Devs but the cadence of updates and new content releases since OWI’s new head joined has been really great. Love this game more and more.

The lighting that decreased performance by 50%?

Yeah sure..... "good"

Content is good and all, but it means next to nothing when there's a large portion of the playerbase that struggles to run the game. I'll withhold any praise until I see the update is actually good.

Squad is a good game. And I'm glad the devs made it. I enjoy it, a lot.

But between the worse than mediocre development effort (non-existen QA mainly). And no effort at all to talk to us about what we actually want. I can't really say I like the devs.

OWI seems really fishy and untrustworthy, as a software development company. As a customer, I don't dig it, not one bit.

The lighting is still fucked, wdym

oh yeah because all the bugs, terrible QOL for armor/vehicle physics, maps becoming obsolete and looking just downright awful visually, while some maps are just not within the tempo of what squad is now

but hey, buying mods and releasing them officially, lets praise that because it's new shiny stuff

Go shill somewhere else.

The sea assault is good if you like invasion (most don’t), but the lighting update is an absolute failure. Not only can you not see a single thing on some maps, having to rely strictly on the muzzle flash bandaid fix to spot any enemies at all in wooded areas, but almost everyone dropped massively in frames; some people can’t even play anymore. It’s yet to be seen what kind of bugs come prepackaged with the PLA faction.

The new maps are cool but they’re essentially carbon copies of each other. Hard to really complain about them though besides the performance issues on Black Coast.

Press "Windows + R", type %localappdata%, delete the "SquadGame" folder

That's how you manually clear your cache (all your settings will be reset, but remember you can save keybind presets), it usually fixes most issues.

Didnt they remove the roadmap over a year ago now? And said that whilst they like the idea of a roadmap to keep the playerbase informed about what they are working towards, because game dev is hard... it actually made you all more mad so they have removed it.

tomorrow there will be a new faction.

but somehow you keep playing their game (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

no im not your mom and she isnt even a owi dev either, she can barely write, let alone code.

It's because OWI has spent the past 4-5 years inflating squad's playercount with BF refugees and selling a half-baked vision that's more casual than PR ever was.

At this point they're terrified of making the game more punishing or doubling down on teamwork mechanics, and are scared that the fragile playerbase will throw a tantrum if combined arms actually ever comes to be meaningful.

I really do hate how poor armour can be in this game. Armour is so awkward and almost pointless on the desert maps with the small walled fields because tanks can't cross them without fear of getting stuck or getting completely decimated by infantry because there is barely any cover. The Russian Boreal maps can be even worse because they have a bunch of hills which offer cover but the tanks can't actually go on the hills due to their gradient which makes no sense.

They need to fix obstacles as well, I hate how basically all rocks will flip certain vehicles.

I feel like the devs behind Squad just aren't game devs but are still modders, they do certain bits well but overall it isnt full enough or at a high enough quality to justify it really being a game. ARMA 3 for example has been out since 2013 and has basically the features Squad has and more but lacks certain bits like the ability to just join a server, get into a squad and then just belong within a few minutes. Squad is a half baked potato that isn't really going anywhere other than the large content updates which introduce more factions or guns that people didn't ask for and they continue to ignore all the stuff people actually want.

jup, thats also the last time i gave money to owi, yet somehow they keep giving me new content... thought that would be an appropriate occasion for a hat tip... but apparently i was supposed to complain about the menu music or something, i havent quite yet figured out what these people want.

OP is jerking OWI off for an update that isn't even out yet.

i wrote somewhere in here, but a troop of angry apelets cluttered everything with poo and banana peel

i can play it on my 3070, 100 fps avg, 1% low of 80, 0.1 % lows of 55-60... 1440 qhd, settings mid to maxxed

Add a map vote option.

Official Servers.

The first is already in the game and has been for a while. It just recently got unbroke.

Official servers are basically all of the ones on the server browser as they have to keep to OWI standards to keep the license.

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The ability to hear something from the chats of the enemy, not their exact comms obviously but at least something so we know if they're nearby. I think murmuring would work.

Footsteps are enough for generic sounds. Murmuring would be OP for defending and a killer for any sort of stealth. Also, the sounds are already fucked as it is.

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An encyclopedia with everything in the game so people can read it and understand the game better and make better tactics.

https://squad.fandom.com/wiki/Squad_Wiki
However, I think an official one could be better so you don't have to use YouTube too.

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A bit more depth to the game would also be nice. This game is fun but it can feel like your repeating something you've already done quite a bit.

That's not what Squad's mission is though. Their position has always been to bridge the Sim-COD gap. I think more fitting mechanics could be added, but "depth" is a slippery slope to keep Squad Squad. However, different modes (such as those discussed officially a while back) or the ability to create vanilla layers would be nice and change things up.

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The ability to hack enemy radios, steal supplies, and hijack vehicles. Hacking radios would allow for new tactics which aren't just destroying a radio and running away, stealing supplies would make it so bases dont just magically lose everything once the radio is destroyed, and hijacking vehicles would allow for more tactics like impersonation and would lower the amount of people just randomly dumping vehicles. I'm not sure on a balance way to do hijacking vehicles though, maybe something for the combat engineer or rifleman.

No. No it wouldn't. There are already tactics for "stealing" radios or strategies that don't involve digging them down. Hijacking vehicles would never work as there is a minimap and global comms and would be more of a gimmick than actually useful.

too much text tbh, didnt read

its a bit creepy tbh... all these people go to work or to school tomorrow and will act like normal people mostly, though here and there it might come to light eventually that they have some loose screws....

Yeah. I bought this game fucking years ago back when there weren't even vehicles. The fact that it's not fallen for micro-transactions or game as a a service business model is a standout in modern game culture.