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Infantry overhaul completed the game, before it was basically COD they way you could sprint and flick shoot someone, it required no brainpower and only people who have never shot a firearm or touched grass think that the gunhandling is not realistic.

I have over 800 hours in squad. Here are some of my thoughts, I love the ICO. It is the only game on the market right now where team work is the only way to win, and that means squad members communicating with SL, SL’s communicating with each other, and most importantly listening to your teammates. Now the ICO is not perfect by any means. I think the suppression is incredible and immersive, but the recoil and weapon sway could be lowered by like 5 or 10% and I would be extremely happy, I hate being 10 yards away from a dude and only being able to hit him once if I’m using single fire because my infantry marine can’t shoot a man sized target twice from 10 yards. (Don’t get me wrong I know the reason why the devs made recoil so high is so that you can’t just one tap a whole squad if you are a gamer because that would defeat the purpose of suppression, but I think recoil and weapon sway being somewhere in the middle of pre ICO and what it is now would be a good quality of life improvement without sacrificing too much of what the core gameplay is supposed to be. If you are a new player just talk to your teammates and have fun, or thinking about picking up the game, or if you are wanting to play a somewhat milsim game but not take college credit hours in ARMA just to turn on a radio, this game will be for you.

I feel that if squad really honed in the optimization it would clear up the biggest issue. With mods players are able get around ICO if they dont like it, or play stuff like GC if they want more variety. Plenty of gameplay is present in the game now, and players can just add more at this point. The developers should focus on optimization solely at this point, at least until its done.

Optimization is so badly needed, idk if it’s just me but I get some pretty bad choppy game play and lag spikes now and then but it’s better than before

@ 5:00 lol he shoots a rocket at the window as the enemy vehicle drives in front of the player without him realizing

The faction is cool but the gear they are wearing is whack as fuck how do you do western PMC and not fo the classic tan vest/ webbing on on black collar shirt look

I need to see how I can get on a squad comp team, been playing since 2016 and im cracked

Keep in mind gents it’s all about practice and making sure that you got a squad who’s willing to go above and beyond to follow orders dont be afraid or shy to kick those lone wolfes when you see them !

I really want to get into Squad, but I think I'll still hold off for now. The ICO fiasco kind of turned me away from buying it.

adding a pmc faction was the last thing we needed, theres already tons of mods.. owi is so disconnected from the community its unreal they wasted devs time for some re textured humvees

ICO is only bad for players who enjoyed more of an arcade movement and gameplay more similar to battlefield where you just have more fun independently

At first I hated the ICO but lately I’ve loved it

Admins are a bunch of losers. I’m banned from 60% of servers because they get their feelings hurt when I say something they don’t like.

Started playing squad this year, already have 550 hours, Probably became my main game, after i quit competitive Hearts of Iron 4, Love the Immersion, and i'd love to meet people who want to do MilSim-like games some day.

Welp that's oof.

I bought squad a few days ago. I'm having the most fun ever in a milsim type game. I've played Arma 3 and Project Reality and neither ever came close to being as fun as Squad for me. I'm excited to play more of it this game is awesome :D

As someone said in comments - this game is the only one in recent years that filled a battlefield-sized hole in my soul

I barely played squad pre ICO, now for me and some of my friends it's a game we put the most hours in for last year or so

Can we get an actual number of comp player vs public? And here’s the thing about comp unless it’s official sponsored by OWI I would just consider them events more then anything and when I say sponsored I mean like OWI gets involved and doesn’t just leave it to the community or clans to organize it there should also be larger prizes pools. Also comp players are the worst in public matches the EGO’s just kill the whole game for me

*has to scroll through 3 pages of full 100 man servers everynight of the week* "dEaD gAmE"

is there a difference between "normal" servers and milsim servers? i havnt played squad yet and i dont have a lot of experience in those kinds of games so i really wonder if there is

Good video. The anti-ico crowd has always been making arguments in bad faith i feel. Because thats the only way they could keep their old style of gunplay

Call of Duty/Battlefield players: "Infantry combat overhaul is going to kill squad" Squad community: Happy all the CoD and Battlefied players are gone

I look at squad as a " Gamer Retirement " Game .. When i was younger as many of you i was playing a lot of video games i was so competitive and really good at any fps game i play .. now im 27 years old with no time for gaming .. my aim is not good as it was .. if i hop in Call of duty ooof these kids would kick my ass .. squad is really fun for me .. slow rhythm game , good community ,, not so competitive , i could have fun with 0 kills in the game , i love this game so much . whenever i have a Free time i play squad .

this game need optimize heavily for low end pc gamers becuase they have 20 fps average in full server

a lot of players just rolled to a modded server because of modded gunplay since stock gameplay is unarmed simulator.

believe or not squad after the ICO its growing up more the ever

I've been playing on 1stRB alot! They are a really good group and I think you should check them out!

Took a break from squad when they introduced ICO because of how easy it was for me to feel nauseated due to the motion but after a couple of tweaks I kept playing it to the point where I now have 1k hours. I normally play on DoD loved the guys that I got to know there.

The squad ICO was 100% needed to combat the sweaty players that were just ruining the whole point of the game. But I feel like the ICO could've been better. I have gotten used to the slow movement and stamina part of the game. The only really BIG thing I think they need to fix are the optics. Some of the optics look good but if you have ever played the Russian Faction the scope that you get takes up your ENTIRE screen, and its like that for a few other scopes as well. The American one isn't to bad and my favorite has to be the Aussies or Brits. I understand the Russian scope has a eye cup on it but does it really need to take up your entire screen? The suppression part of the game was also a VERY nice feature. But there is a few times I think its completely to over kill. Obviously I have never been shot at in real life so I can't say much but sometimes when you get shot in this game your vison goes blurry for like 10 seconds and there is absolutely NOTHING you can do about it. So if your a marksman or just a regular infantry your fucked. Now is this realistic? IDK but is it way to overkill for a video game, YES. The people who say the game is dead have no idea what they are talking about and they just say that because they are made that they can no longer jump from roof to roof, call of duty, 360ing, a whole infantry squad. (I was one of those people and I am still around after ICO) Its been awhile since I've typed so much...

Global escalation or in general modded squad has saved it for me finally getting frequent updates and removing that god awful ICO

we need a better community, im sick of joining a milsim server and still getting stuck with a squad that is disorganized and clueless, i even still get SL’s who have little experience being SL

I don't mind ICO but sometimes suppression has me and an enemy taking an entire mag to kill each other because its so powerful its luck who gets hits at only a few feet away from each other, this breaks immersion for me, also having stamina bar disappear after 20ft of sprinting is pretty obnoxious to successful flanking and movement and leaves both teams typically camping on their cap for 1.5 hours maybe have a sprint and jog option and jog only half depletes it but it will more slowly partially recharge . We also need more logi trucks its infuriating to have a few new players waste the 2 trucks you have and match is essentially over. Having rallys not be detroyed by proxi would really help with strategically moving around the map to flank and ambush, i always hated a random enemy not finding but just stumbling on a rally and its now gone, they should have to find it and dig it down or blow it up it. FOBs need a buff so that you can have kind of a "superfob" build item to defend them more easily building a base with a perimeter quickly without the tedious task of placing 20 indvidual hesko walls. this would open op new areas to build on and more importantly more defendable position not just a spawn hut. another important change could be made to make habs less easily proxied and overrun by large group( 8players within 80m) i think it should be 25m max with 10 people and 10m with 5 people, meaning you would need to get close and personal and 1 player inside of the hab should proxi it. This would make them ground to fight over then just a spawn point. i think having logis should carry double build and ammo could help as well as more or fast spawning logis. maybe have as system where if you have all of your allotted logis on the field already the abandoned logis will self destruct if you get in a new one on base, 5 ticket penalty to get immediately back in the game, obvously need a warning message so you dont waste them

You make great videos man

Typically Oceanic communities never thrive in very niche multiplayer games but Squad has had a healthy Oceanic population through out its whole lifetime. It did come close to completely dieing off but after OWI got through their 'Technical Debt' era and updates started coming again, the Oceanic community grew and grew and now we've got 3 to 4 full servers every evening.

I am really excited for dedicated attack helicopters and AA assets to be added, of course I’m also hoping for new factions.

Experienced player servers are where you find the best experience. We also just got over a free weekend a couple weeks ago so the large influx of new players has increased the player count but decreased quality of games but not at their fault. Find communities to play with and become a regular on a server you enjoy and have fun on.

5:13 Hello there. :)

Optimization is the only one problem in Squad. Everything else is perfect.

Overall i think squad is i a better shape today than pre ICO However, i don't know if it was the case for the English community, but for the French community it was a desaster as all veterans simply quit after that, and during the following 5/6 months the general level of in game strategy et lead by SLs was an absolute nightmare (when there were people willing to lead)... Today it's getting better, but we're far from the good understanding of the game we had before, and it will take a long time to come back since most of new player learn without the experience of veterans. I really like ICO but the weapon swing was just to much for veterans, and not being able to aim properly pissed a lot of them, myself included.

The WPMC winning the most? More like..."W" PMC amirite?

I don’t think I’m asking for any sort of weapon progression, or character progression. It would be kind of nice to earn titles and ribbons for specific roles. So like, if you were a great SL for a lot of games, maybe a Medal by your name to signify that you’re a reliable SL.

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Yeah, ICO is punishing and I certainly think some things need tweaking, but I’ve played squad since 2016 and I have put in several hundred hours post-ICO because of how fun the game became to me.

Hello @Slay3Kilo, do you play on dx12 or dx11 ? I have read A LOT about it on reddit and decided to hell with that and checked by myself. Dx 12 with DLAA, scopes on x1.25 and the game is really smooth. Just once it dipped to 40 fps when i was alone in middle of the desert and nothing was happening, but it dipped for about a minute, and then i continued to play for 3 hours, no crashes mentioned on reddit and other weird stuff. I have 4080M and Ryzen 9 7945HX. Back to the main question, dx11 or dx12 ? Also shadows low or high/epic ? Forgot to mention that im a new player, was playing few years back, just rejoined few days ago.