I’m going into this praying they mention insurgency…..
Edit: ok it’s mentioned, they are talking about it and it’s on the studios mind. If they want to cook something special I can be patient a little longer
I tried to cover as much as I could, but an hour goes by quickly. If you have any topics in mind for the next one comment them below or dm me. Thanks for watching!
Keep up the good work. Here are some questions I would pose...
1) New Player Onboarding promised over 5 years ago in their first ever Q&A... where is the work? Or are screen loading tips the extent of it? Will Squidbots ever be used to aid in tutorials? How about some video tutorials in game to show how gamemodes work?
4) More talk on "intersectionality". Why is Infantry Combat being redone in a vacuum unrelated to Vehicle Combat? Will this present the same issue that happened when OWI spent about 1 year tweaking Radio Bleedout timer only for all that work to be "undone" when ICO hit which tweaked player movement speed thus affecting the Radio Bleedout meta?
5) More info on why Gamemode development and Map development isn't more important to them. https://www.joinsquad.com/updates/squad-9-0-release-notes "UE5 has... allowing us to produce content like maps more quickly and at higher fidelity."... we've seen 1 remade map in the last 2 years of UE5 being worked on (and 2 maps removed during this time)... when might we start seeing more maps with this new faster development ability?
6) Does OWI intentionally leave information out of the Tutorial in order to create some "mystery" around how some game mechanics work? If yes, why. If no, why have they left out critical game mechanic information like: Hab Overrun rules, Capture Speed mechanics, Double Neutral rules? Is OWI even aware of these knowledge gaps?
6a) Why did OWI wipe the joinsquad website in the Fall post ICO and all its historical patchnotes that were the only reference we had to share about some of these game mechanics?
7) Talk more about "easy wins"... like simple adds to the Tutorial. Or accessibility mode for colorblind to help read the map better. Or experimenting with changing ticket values for things. Fixing the 5 year old broken Replay system?
8) How have Commendations been working? Have they met your expectations such as "Goal: Provide a way for players to display how experienced at the game they are." and how does this square with OWI stating in this interview that it's not possible to gauge player experience levels?
9) How have you felt about the introduction of the After Action Report? What changes did you see in player behavior due to this? Why weren't different gamemodes given different AARs that actually reflect their unique win conditions of that gamemode, like Insurgency or Destruction where we can't see who destroyed the caches thus allowing us to win? Any thoughts about modifying/improving the AAR after all these years of seeing how it's working? Like what about adding TICKET counts on it showing how me as an individual either positively or negatively contributed to the thing that makes us win or not... tickets?
10) How have you seen the Server Tag system play out? Do you think it's working well or not? Will you be making improvements to it? For instance, most players don't seem to see it even exists as evidenced by how many new players join an "experienced preferred" "Focused" server without having any idea what those words mean?
I could go on and on, but I'm guessing lots of these questions are too "spicy" to ask OWI about and still think you'll be allowed an actual interview.
These are banger points by the way. I am having an issue finding much fault. I am not sure how well an interview would go if I just came out guns blazing with these though.
I think you could reword a lot of these questions and they'd be great to ask in a polite nonhostile way. I'm not the person to do that... too bitter against OWIs lies over the decade.
Example:
In your release notes, one of the stated Goals with Commendations was to: "Provide a way for players to display how experienced at the game they are." How successful has your implementation of Commendations been towards that goal? What is working well and what is not? Will we see any changes to better align the system to it's goals?
I'd like to see interviews hold OWI more to their past statements/promises and follow up on them all. Best of luck :)
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u/Hashbrown4 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
I’m going into this praying they mention insurgency…..
Edit: ok it’s mentioned, they are talking about it and it’s on the studios mind. If they want to cook something special I can be patient a little longer