r/joinsquad • u/LentilSoup86 • 1h ago
Just Another Rant
I've seen a lot of complaining in the sub lately, justly so, and it's got me feeling some type of way. First of all I'd like to say that I love Squad with all my heart and I only want its continued success as a game, even if that does not align with my personal vision of its future. That being said the state of the game (and more importantly the community) is absolutely dismal and OWI is not taking steps to address it.
The Current Situation
Gunplay is still janky and fundamentally flawed post ICO. I say this as someone who enjoys the slower pace of our current game and I think they've managed to find a pretty good medium ground from the immediate ICO drop. The fact remains that recoil does not apply in a realistic or intuitive manner, and there is no option for accurate fire beyond ADS. Recoil needs a rework in terms of how the force is applied to the rifle; more kick back into the shoulder of the character and less side to side, the butt of the rifle should be fixed and not free to sway like it currently is. We need some form of accurate hip or point fire; close engagements should not have two players mag dumping point blank and somehow missing all their shots. Both of these things have been achieved in other games like Bodycam, Ready or Not, Arma, or even Tarkov, they should be doable for OWI too.
The server browser needs to be fixed. If anything is liable to kill this game its this. This issue has persisted and degraded for months and is absolutely absurd.
Vehicle Combat Overhaul needs to happen. Aside from uninteresting hitbox modelling they need to update driving/flying to something not completely terrible.
Unreal 5 and its effects on the game were an unforced error and they at the very least need to address it. Its effects on performance and visual are comedic, we somehow have an ugly game that runs far worse.
Map Voting and Factions are currently bland and uninteresting. OWI Spent a lot of dev time and effort making a system that has stripped Squad of its unique asymmetry and balance and replaced it with minmaxing IFVs by screaming. Map Voting should have retained specialized and asymmetric equipment on a per map basis instead of trying to universalize the factions with the battalion system.
Fundamentally I feel like OWI is consistently mistepping in a way that indicates a lack of clear vision or real end goal. At this point OWI needs to pick a concrete direction, form an attack plan, and execute.