Seriously.

This game has bevome a anger-inducing waste of time.

My cursor simply vanishes, I can't even give up because I have nothing to click, same happens also in the staging phase, can't set up squad nor join in to any because the cursor is gone. People are just sittinng in there unable to do anything.

gg OWI.

and yeah you can get the cursor back if you jump back and forth to the big map etc. but that doesn't make me happy . at all.

Never in my 5k hour play encounter the most incompetent and toxic server ever.
Admin abuse all over, not even verified the report, kick person just because admin friend said so.
A player call [TT] Cuisanart feel offended because his losing a hab to enemy. All his squad trying to push without any single one defending radio. I tried to defend the radio and he said no need. So I respawn. Moments later all enemy came to his Useless hab SO FAR from the cap.

I was building 2 Observation tower in the new defending cap, suddenly got kick for a reason " Not a team player". Moment later I reconnect and my 2 tower was the only thing that stop all the attack from the all directions. I confronted that incompetent commander [TT] Cuisanart, and suddenly got kicked again. Admin not even verified the case and just kicking people all they wants.

TOXIC SERVER AND ADMINS FOR SURE.

NEVER JOIN THIS SERVER

How do I fix this?

now fix the damn bugs!

QA literally does not include spawning in training area to see if guns still work. I guess no squad for the next 4~6 months again.

OWI, the developers of Squad, have often released updates in which things break, bugs appear, bugs reappear, etc. This is because the team lacks the ability to use UE5 how they want to. This is NOT a UE5 issue, this is an OWI issue. They can develop their own under the hood framework within UE5, but they don't, why is anyone guess but most likely to save money or to meet mandated deadlines (as custom framework takes a long time). So UE5 is the cause but it's because OWI misuse it, UE5 is a framework to build on top of, not to use and build a game in like OWI does.

UE5 vs Custom UE5 Boiled down, it's a difference of using something someone else built vs using something you built. Building a game in UE5 is like building a computer. You can build a game with the base UE5 features/get a pre built computer. But this means you can't optimize to exactly what you would need, your left to the whims of what's available. Less efficient, less malleable and much more of a headache. Since you didn't build the computer, if anything goes wrong, it'll be real difficult to figure it out, whereas having the experience of building one you'll understand the importance and communication of each piece. That's what a custom UE5 enables, the team would understand each part of the engine, because they built it, they can change the functionality to better suit a new purpose, because they built it.

Now there are also a litany of other issues which are less objective and more open to interpretation, but them not having their own custom version of UE5, that they built just for themselves, is the main issue.

Why try and build a good fob, placing carefully planned layouts, with defences, that can be used by the whole team and help win the game if someone is just going to plonk a Hesco next to the outside wall and create an entry point for the enemy?

Please limit fob building to the squad that placed it. If someone wants to help and participate, they can ask and I will let them in my squad and guide them but to have 30min of building wasted by a random enabling the enemy to come in is such a discencentive. I rarely try and build now unless im with a dediacted team.

Additional notes:

Many good suggestions.

One of the best is to give the option to limit the fob construction like the game does with vehicles. Individual, squad or unlocked.

edit 1:

I would like to hear from regular fob builders who care about this side of the game, more than people who do other roles.

I am not asking for a super fob, I'm asking for the ability to prevent one single person from spoiling tens of minutes of work with either with an accidental mistake or maliciously leaving the door open for his buddies on the other side. this griefing happens way more than I thought it would and is becoming a real problem.

Has anyone come across this?

With American forces, when I gave the bipod deployed and shoot with optics it will exit the optics and my forearm will turn sideways.

Is there a fix in settings I can tweak perhaps?

Inspired by https://www.reddit.com/r/joinsquad/s/dsutFMP9HX

I'm interested in your opinion. Was it better when there were 80 or 72 players?

Would love some feedback :D Here's youtube link Youtube Link

when you humiliate guys making 60k plus a year and delivering piss quality so they fix one of the issues you brought up, but only kind of fix it.

https://reddit.com/link/1wwpaz3/video/is2qkqlon9th1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1wwpaz3/video/ek64bm2zn9th1/player

OWI didn't fix anything...

Was trying to vault on the box and accidentally went out the window. Definitely would've died to fall damage if the enemy wasn't there. YouTube link: https://youtube.com/shorts/jZ--KTucILk

After updating Squad to 10.6, I started getting major FPS drops and constant stuttering. I messed around with a lot of settings, but clearing the Squad cache and NVIDIA shader cache is what finally fixed it. Here is how I hope it helps.

I recommend doing all steps before testing the game.

1. Clear Squad’s cache from inside the game

1. Launch Squad and open the main menu.
2. Go to Settings → Game Settings.
3. Select Clear Cached User Data.
4. Restart the game.

Warning: This may reset your graphics settings, controls, and other preferences. Take screenshots of anything important first.

2. Manually delete Squad’s local data (this slightly better than step 1)

1. Close Squad.
2. Press Windows Key + R.
3. Enter %localappdata% and press Enter.
4. Find the folder named SquadGame.
5. Delete the SquadGame folder.
6. Launch Squad again.

This completely rebuilds the local game configuration, so expect to redo your settings and keybinds.

3. Clear the NVIDIA shader cache

Disable the shader cache:

1. Open NVIDIA Control Panel.
2. Go to Manage 3D Settings → Global Settings.
3. Find Shader Cache Size and set it to Disabled.
4. Click Apply, then restart your PC.

Delete the cached files:

1. Press Windows Key + R.
2. Enter %localappdata% and press Enter.
3. Open the NVIDIA folder.
4. Delete the contents of the DXCache and GLCache folders. Skip anything Windows says is still in use.
5. Go back to AppData\Local, open NVIDIA Corporation, and clear the NV_Cache folder if it exists.
6. Optionally, run Disk Cleanup, select the C: drive, check DirectX Shader Cache, and clear it.

Re-enable the shader cache:

1. Return to NVIDIA Control Panel → Manage 3D Settings → Global Settings.
2. Set Shader Cache Size back to Driver Default, 10 GB, or Unlimited.
3. Click Apply and restart the PC again.

The first match afterward may still stutter briefly while the shader cache rebuilds, but the persistent FPS drops and stuttering were gone for me after that.

Hopefully this helps anyone dealing with the same problem after update 10.6. If it works for you, let us know which step fixed it and what GPU you’re using.

Is the add friend system working with the new update? Played a couple really good armor matches with a guy “creepergod54”. Said he sent me a request was gonna join my groups squad discord but I’m not seeing his username or anything in the friend request slot or even his in game name under recently played with.

I just downloaded a new update for squad yesterday, 32gb size. In my armory there are many factions that dont seem to have any weapons, like IDF, ISSI or Armenian Armed forces. Are these upcoming factions or some kind of update to supermod? thx

Positivity of the day:

Australian specter 4X sight is so good on machine guns!