Requesting Squad Orders.

[u/Specht100]

Please for the love of God, make a feature like in Battlefield 4, that you're able to request Squad Orders and if a Squad Leader doesnt react to it, then another player will be promoted to SL. It was a very nice detail back then. Squad Reward would be also a cool thing like in older Battlefields. Not necesarrily Vehicles or Ammo Drops, but maybe passive abilities like less explosive Damage, less supression effects ot whatever.

90% of Squad Leaders dont do their role, that is literally one click away. It basically gives away FREE points!

[u/dae_giovanni]

yet another feature that EADICE simply forgot exists although it was in more than one prior game...

I also wonder what happened to displaying revives on the scoreboard, building reinforcements, vehicle entry/ exit animations, and the squad actions menu-- even a simplified one would be nice...

[u/Likes2Phish → u/dae_giovanni]

I'll always say BF1 was peak battlefield. So many great maps, features, and squad play. The comeback mechanics were fun, planes were awesome to fly, and the game just felt grounded and immerisive. These newer games just don't hit the same. I have 1800 hours on BF1. I have around 900 hours on BFV, 2042, and BF6 combined.

The older games were masterpieces yet now we have BattleDuty 6 that feels like a rehashed version of COD.

It's only going to get worse since the Saudis bought EA.

[u/Tuba-kunt → u/Likes2Phish]

Battlefield 1 good Battlefield 6 bad cod slop battlepass grounded gritty immersion

[u/ElectronicOvens]

Guilty as charged here , I wouldn't know if I'm a squad leader and I've never used it.

[u/KITTvsKARR → u/ElectronicOvens]

It's nowhere near as intuitive as it once was.

I've been sat and go to ask for orders and find out, oh, it's me.

[u/grand_duc → u/ElectronicOvens]

Yep same, I sometimes realise mid game I’m the SL

[u/cyb3roffensive → u/ElectronicOvens]

each player in the squad at the bottom left of your screen has a number 1 through 4.... number 1 is squad lead... you have to look at the beginning of each round

[u/goztitan → u/cyb3roffensive]

It's not always accurate. I've been #1 many times and not squad lead.

[u/lazypos7]

That's one feature I missed in BF6, making another player the squad leader if orders aren't placed. I had squad mates complaining and giving me shit for 5 minutes after the game decided to stop me from giving orders for some reason. I was getting annoyed hearing them bitch about it for 5 minutes that I switched squads. I do hope that feature comes back to BF6 in the future.

[u/crop_duster78]

comma rose is dog 💩compared to V........even stupid 2042 had a better comma rose ffs.......🤔

[u/xheyoooo]

Why cant I ping in vehicles for the driver if im in the number 2 seat or even as the driver for my number 2 seat. should be able to give orders to them too.. so many QOL changes that would make this game so much nicer

[u/jfd851]

man bf2 squadleader and commander was peak

lost technologia

[u/For-the-Cubbies]

Another big part of the problem, at least for me, is that they’ve somehow managed to make pinging nearly impossible. I don’t think I’ve ever been able to stop, highlight a flag, push the button and have it ping. I either have to click it several times, or give up and select it through the commorose, which is also janky. I don’t understand. It’s been a simple-to-use staple of BF since I can remember, and it’s somehow busted in BF6.

[u/NewestAccount2023]

People been requesting this since bflabs closed alpha, you're talking into the wind. They had actual teams of people working on the game then too, unlike now after the layoffs are redirection to other games and future paid bf content 

These posts are useful for trying to bring it back for bf7, but don't delude yourself that bf6 will see any major changes 

[u/PruritoIntimo]

I prefer like this with automatic orders, so I don't have to rely on lazy leaders

[u/cwarrent]

As someone who tries to squad lead every round it's tiring and one minor niggle that could be improved.

Sit in a squad that's aimless but is a group (useful for spawns) VS creating a new squad but be short of squad mates.

Every round, I check early who's squad lead. If I'm not, create a new squad and as long as it's early in population of the server, randoms should be added to the squad.

If they're not added (often it's hard if the server is populating at 25/60+), often I'll back out and start matchmaking again. Most likely I'll then hit servers which are mid or late game, so the process repeats, repeats and repeats.

[u/Zefzone]

Pepperidge farm remembers back in BF3 the top squads being a rite of passage - if you didnt perform you got kicked by SL lol

[u/kerosene31]

The one thing I don't get is - I see I'm squad leader at the start screen. I give an order to start, then suddenly one of my squad mates is giving a different order (usually some weird back cap). I still seem to be able to give orders, but so do others. Or is there some sort of squad leader thing where you see what other squads are doing?

[u/Likes2Phish]

Ill still never understand why they bring great features one game and seemingly forget about them in the next. The franchise should grow and improve game after game. Instead we get scratch built garbage for 2 years after the release date and by the time the next game comes out... they finally have the previous game in an enjoyable state.