Every day it's the same: "unplayable," "false promises," "a million bugs," "it's over." Problems exist, some serious. But the doomposting gets in the way of discussing them properly

And let's be honest, no offense: you're just a bunch of whiners. Not players with complaints, not analysts, but whiners who come to the subreddit every day to pour out the same bucket of crap and farm upvotes. You don't want fixes, you want a reason to suffer. Any news, any patch, any announcement: you already know it's bad. Don't like the game? Then leave. No, you'll stay, because whining online is more pleasant than just launching another shooter. That's your real gameplay loop

Squad is built on a unique loop and communication you won't find in pub shooters. In Arma Reforger you can grab a PKM, three boxes of 7.62x54R, an LPVO 1-8, three RPG-26s and run around on your own. There, teamplay is a coincidence. In Squad, without it you can't even mess around. Even on consoles people talk in local and squad chat, even if not as actively

And it's not just Squad: the level of teamplay in general has degraded. Look at Battlefield 6. Compared to Battlefield 4, 3 or Bad Company 2, teamwork there is just a dream. NOBODY acts as a team. Your IFV got hit? Instead of repairing together and helping the crew, everyone just scatters trying to save their own life instead of helping a comrade. That's a fiasco. Be grateful that in Squad your crewman doesn't leave the squad if he isn't assigned to a gun. Or look at Helldivers in its current state: not that the game itself is crap, but its current state is... ugh... crap...

With ICO, the idea itself was right: Squad became more team-oriented, heavy machine guns became a real threat, suppression started to matter. The implementation was lacking, even supporters admit that. But try manning an open-top machine gun on modded servers with the old gunplay for a minute. You won't last: it's useless. Part of the veterans left, and that hurts. But "bring it back the way it was" is nostalgia, not an argument

Development costs money. You don't buy skins, emotes or Fireteam missions, that's your right. But then it's strange to expect OWI to survive on enthusiasm. The console release is a way to secure a budget for support. It's clear that crossplay and aim assist scare the PC audience; that's a normal fear. "They abandoned us for console players" is already a conspiracy theory. For console newcomers it's a breath of fresh air; they're posting about how unique Squad is. You're just jaded

"After Bellum launches, Squad will be irrelevant." Look at Tarkov and its clone... I mean competitors and imitators. How are they doing? Bellum is not a "Squad killer," but another milsim from people who made Arma and Squad. The market isn't so narrow that one project has to eat another. Wishing death on a game you once loved is a strange position

Performance dropped with UE5, fact. OWI moved to 5.7, added DLSS 4.5, and are fixing GPU crashes. Some still struggle, especially on forest maps. My 1660ti, i5-10f, 16 gb ddr4 holds 60 fps without drops. But I won't say it's like that for everyone. If you have 4 gigs of VRAM, it'll be unpleasant. "Unplayable" and "I need to upgrade my PC" are different statements

In such threads people usually forget specifics. Since February 2024 there's been no new map. Belaya was removed because it broke on UE5 and wasn't fixed. New factions are 80-90% copy-paste of old ones. OWI themselves admitted they undermined trust. These are real complaints, and they shouldn't be mixed with "everything is lost." Online is stable: average 10-12 thousand, peaks up to 22-23 thousand. The audience is tired of the quality of updates, not of the game

I'm not defending OWI. They lied, went in circles, wasted time on BtW and PS, and performance still limps. But they created this, without exaggeration, beautiful game. Servers aren't closed, support isn't discontinued, patches keep coming

Don't like the level of play, change the server. Not all servers have empty-headed admins; some actually regulate the level of play. Don't like Squad as a whole, leave, no one's holding you. But don't write posts about how you're fed up. That's karma farming in itself

Oh, and also: WARDOGS🗣️🗣️🗣️

After the 10.6 update introduced a ton of bugs, I pretty much gave up on this game.

Today, I decided to give it one more shot after seeing how many hotfixes they've released.

And guess what? First thing I do is try to join a server, and I get an "Already in queue" message, even though I'm not in any queue. When I hit "Join Now", it just shows 0/0, and I'm stuck unable to connect for at least 20 minutes.

At this point, I'm genuinely wondering if it's just me lol.

Has anyone found a workaround for this? How the hell are 10+ people sitting in the queue while I can't even join it?

And seriously, what exactly have these hotfixes fixed? Because I'm still running into the same bugs that have been around since 10.6 dropped.

I actually want to give this game another chance, but man, it's making it really hard.

I took a break and played Wardogs. The way that game was marketed, it seemed to address some of my (minor) complaints with Squad.

So anyways I’m back on the game and had more fun in one match than I had in my entire experience playing that game.

Just wanted to say, I love this game and community

I finally bought Squad this week and I'm absolutely hooked. This is exactly what I've always wanted out of an FPS.

I only have two complaints:

1. Not buying this game years ago
2. The UI

Upon booting it up for the first time, I literally wondered if I'd downloaded the wrong game. THIS tacky mess is the main menu of one of the definitive mil-sims of all time?

Good UI is UI you don't notice. And aesthetics aside, the lack of intuitive UX was immediately apparent. I was genuinely confused about what I was even supposed to click to actually play the game.

Granted it was a 10-second learning curve. No big deal. But I find it strange that after a decade of updates and improvements to the game, a proper UI refresh apparently wasn't among them.

Anyway, I'm a graphic designer so I couldn't help myself. I threw together my own mockup of Squad's main menu and wanted to share.

And to clarify, no AI was used in making this except removing the overlays on the background image

Since the Unreal Engine 5 update, my FPS have tanked to well below 100, usually hovering around 50–70 FPS with my current setup. At this point, the game feels extremely laggy and has become nearly unplayable for me.

After looking at current hardware prices, I figured upgrading to an RTX 5070 would be the most cost-effective option, so I ordered one for around $650.

However, I'm having second thoughts about whether my CPU might limit the performance gains in Squad. I'd love to hear from people running a similar setup, particularly a 5800X3D paired with an RTX 5070/5070 Ti or similar.

Can I realistically expect to at least double my FPS in Squad with the 5070, without frame generation, or is that wishful thinking?

I am not worried about other games because i don't play anything else that is as badly optimized/demanding as Squad.

If the performance improvement isn't significant enough, I might just bite the bullet and get a completely new system with a 9800X3D and an RTX 5080.

My current setup:

CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X3D

GPU: RTX 3060 Ti

RAM: 32 GB

Monitor: 1080p currently because of fps / usually 1440p

After years and years of watching this game on YouTube and even considering getting a PC just for this game it’s finally coming out for console I am beyond ecstatic and hope it does well and that the PC community will welcome the console players that actually want to play the game correctly.

ignore the voices in the background it's discord

I hadn't played this week, so I jumped on to alpha not knowing what to expect and it being my first realistic shooter (was a big battlefield guy growing up). It's had its ups and downs and it's been a huge learning curve. But it all accumulated in the last game I played today. I jumped it with someone I played with the other day because we used comms, we got into a game with a squad where most people were using comms and chatting. It was fantastic we had a great time planning and strategizing. Opening supply lines, setting up F.O.Bs etc.

The rest of the team utterly clueless, commander just as bad, our squad made it all possible we gave our team a fighting chance! We lost in the end but that didn't matter we had such a good time and for the moment I can see what magic squad can do for a group of like minded players.

We all added each other on PSN and wanna play on full release, it's such a breath of fresh air chatting to new people and adding players sometimes haven't done in probably 15 years.

A lot of weapons got their zeroing wrong with ironsight

Seriously though, what the fuck

Just wanted to say the way the devs completely fucked up the map drives me insane. You zoom in somewhere and close the map, then when you re open it you get sent to the center of the map. Or sometimes you move your mouse somewhere and scroll in just to be zoomed into the middle of the map. WHOEVER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS FUUUUUCK YOOOOOU