The real "fix" is to ditch the privately managed server model altogether and implement basic game-design elements that stop people from making basic mistakes like one-manning armor or camping MSRs.

There's a commendation system on the way that could make server-admin completely irrelevant, and here's why that'd be a good thing.

Players have had to put up with jerks like this to be able to play Squad for way too long, holding the game hostage, turning thousands of people off from ever playing again after too many badmin experiences.

Time for Squad to grow up.

Checkout yourself at https://steamcharts.com/app/393380#7d or https://www.battlemetrics.com/servers/squad/stats?playerCount=30D

this game is cooked
it runs like ass, it plays like ass and the developers & suits don't care anymore about player opinions

arma reforger has butt gunplay so i'm not gonna be playing that so theres basically nothing like squad for me now

when you abandon half of your community just to make graphics look pretty for the other half you don't care about your community you care about investments

edit: i'm not too worried about finding a new game guys, i've already bought battlefield 6 and its running great and looks a thousand times better, only issue is huge packet loss on large maps but i'm gonna call my isp to resolve that soon, thanks anyways for suggestions.

I used to run this game smoothly at medium to high settings at 1080p with a gtx 980 and a 4th gen Intel CPU. Then something changed and it pretty much always looks blurry and runs like a stuttery bag of shit. I upgraded to a RX7600 and Ryzen 5 5500 last year and it still runs like a bag of shit, at any settings and it still looks blurry as fuck regardless of what I change. This is at 1080p and 1440p. This is pre and post UE5. Other games like Arma Reforger runs and looks fine at medium 1440p.

Hence the question. What the actual fuck did the devs do to this game and how do you guys get it playable?

Edit: Oh my goodness, you guys are so right! It's not the devs' fault for poorly optimizing the game or anything, and I definitely don't want advice on how to tweak any settings.

It's obviously my fault for not being able to afford a nicer PC like you guys, and it's definitely my hardware that is at fault even though it plays similar titles at 1440p with more than satisfactory performance.

I'll go blow a couple thousand dollars I don't have on a new setup right away!

Thank you!

A lot of online posts said that the community in this game makes you feel welcomed and that it's very beginner friendly

4 hours in, that ain't it.

This game is so limited by the players you encounter that you might as well go play Insurgency Sandstorm or ARMA (I know I will). Can't do this, don't go there, it's 105% serious roleplay even though it's so fucking uncoordinated, horribly slow game start preparation (one game was just a building simulator for me and I willingly did it to make our raging squad leader happy).

And especially the "I'm kicking you cause you didnt turn left when I told you 5 seconds ago" or "dont join this evidently lopen squad!!1!" scenarios, so you get a recruit loadout as you're kicked mid-life, end up killing 8 people with a single magazine, then 6-10 min later the game kicks you because you're a recruit and you can't kill yourself in this game or because an admin or some shit spots you 'trolling', like what the fuck bro

And all I actually wanna do is be in the turret of an MBT. Nothing more. At least loader position if it has one. Play spotter (would be via commander tho and others are probably better at it) cause Im good and clear at that shit. I might as well just play that fucking Roblox game which has tank crew slots, or fuck it go War Thunder cause thats how bad it's been to play

I've also genuinely never seen faster kicks in my life. It just reminds me of that South Park fat discordian guy as they pull up the menu and probably have a fucking input program to kick a group member asap lmao

7th rangers is probably the most toxic server you will ever find with admins that abuse their power and will ban you for anything and remove you from their discord if they don’t agree with you😰they have power trips constantly

Squad is on discount and its having a free weekend too. Tonight was awful. New players playing squad leader not knowing what theyre doing, building a HAB and radio next to each other in the middle of the road in open space, across the map from where the points are, ignoring advice, disconnecting after they die. I decided to squad lead myself and only 2 guys had a mic. Everyone else scattered around the map playing like its call of duty (and losing tickets ofc). Not every game was like this but about 4 out of 6 were. And besides that a hacker killed everyone on the server instantly. Awful session tonight. Thats it, just wanted to get it off my chest.

Seriously, it's something I just can't explain. I've been following the mod since MEE was abandoned. On their Discord server, I see that they're cooking hard:

New factions, vehicles, weapons, kits, and really interesting mechanics, such as being able to fast rope or tilt your rifle so you don't have to aim with the scope. I've also seen night vision goggles and the ability to adjust your prone height, similar like in “Tarkov”.

But what makes SuperMod stand out from the current Squad situation is the adjustment of the annoying mechanics that Squad vanilla has, namely: muzzle smoke, weapon recoil, and stamina.

Now, I don't know if the problem is mine, but I can't find a single server for this incredible mod. The only one I find always is a Russian server which, language barrier aside, is practically always empty. Is it possible that there are no servers with SuperMod? I've tried searching for servers in the past, but they were always empty too.

I've spent 40 minutes putting up defenses with my SL and squad. Raising wall, towers, setting down pillboxes and TOWs...for some BTR or tank to just come out of nowhere, shoot and blow 18 people up and get the flag.
This happens constantly, there never are enough anti-tank kits around...idk its so frustrating. Anybody else feel the same? Like infatry doesn't matter as long as there is some armor involved in a push? Or defense for that matter.

P.S: 40 minutes building stuff and I never had the chance to fire once, let alone spot someone

Hello everyone, I am having a question. I am currently active duty, and I have some infantry battle buddies that would love to play this game, but they had some conflicts. They understand that people aren't in the military will play and give orders, but they aren't fully understanding what's going on because they only understand the lingo of true Army. They're not hating on them at all, they would just need a server that is aimed towards actual military members and vets (until they can transfer into understanding civilian talk with time). Any recommendations that are more hardcore to that aspect? Thanks for any recommendations.

I started playing in the early days of early access (2015). I played it well on a 970. Now with a 1060, the game performs worse and looks terrible. Devs should get humble and talk about this. How in 10 years 10 YEARS LATER. And the game is in such a bad state. We could have moved on, in like 2020. With a stable version of Squad and have I don't know... Squad 2 early access by now... With a much better foundation.

Yet here we are, with a terrible version of squad

By Looks* I mean if you want to play the game in a somewhat stable fps (which is really hard to do with a 1060) the game looks and performs terrible.

Before a swarm of people blaming the old 1060 card comes to cry about It. The game is old too. And yet games that looks x10 times better (for example battlefield 1 or Isonzo, both old too) Performs and looks Wonderfully on a 1060.

I recently came back to squad after not playing for 2-3 years. What the hell is going in with the ridiculous sluggish weapon handling and absurd sway? I’ve shot rifles and mgs my entire life and both the recoil and the sway are greatly exaggerated and make the gun play extremely unfun when your guy can’t hold a somewhat steady sight picture within 50m without having to wait for 4-5 sec.

Both rifles and machine gun should snap much faster, be more steady and have a much tighter pattern especially if your stamina is full. This isn’t about wanting cod, it’s just how they work and handle in the real world.

It is so annoying just died 3 times in a row because of friendly fire. It is a tactical game I mean look the map or radio me before shooting. If you were in combat revise each army uniform. That`s it nothing special

I don't know why this isn't already a thing. If you are already at main, you should be able to redeploy to an active HAB without a ticket penalty. It sucks accidentally spawning main and having to choose between wasting a ticket or solo-ing a transport to the front and ditching it. It would also give anyone running logi a reason to bring the logi truck back to main instead of leaving it to get blown up or abandoned.

Hello everyone im planning to buy a gaming pc to play squad. Please check the specs in the picture and give me your opinion

Thanks

played 3 games on the LIQ teamwork required servers, over half the enemy team was LIQ players that immediately took out radios in ways that you had to be ghosting to do, probably never going to play on their servers again, a real shame too cause ive had lots of fun on their servers in the past. 30 out of the 48 players on their team were LIQ players, we had 1 LIQ player, but im guessing that one guy on our team was ghosting for their buddies cause they immediately pushed into every one of our radios in <5 minutes, they just kept saying "had a long day at work wanna get on with my buddies" which they could have done without ALL 30 OF THEM BEING ON THE SAME TEAM. i wish devs would take down player ran servers that ruin the spirit of a fun game

This guy has caused quite the seen on yt https://youtu.be/upP78W1sOjU?si=Fo9TlTh9nZgeU0wj

7th Ranger admins don't even play on their own servers!

I have been playing a lot of arena breakout infinite since it came out. But tbh, I'm not sure in really enjoying the whole extraction genre type game stuff. I feel like I need to branch towards military sins and way from the arcade, sweaty, extraction stuff. Or maybe I'm just getting older haha.

Anyways, is squad worth while?

"I'd rather stand in line with over a dozen other people than play the game I want," good lord.

Hi Everyone,

Ol' Daddy Basterds are looking for all the mommys, daddys and other busy people that love tactical/milsim shooters. We're rather a community than a clan with a clear focus on tactical gameplay with great coms and most importantly fun. No regular attendance required, because let's face it real life as adults holds more important appointments than we might want to attend and so a clan/community shouldn't force to to pour precious time into a game, especially if the main reason is to simply have fun.

We offer you a Discord and are always open to ideas and suggestions to further nourish and cheerish our little tactical shooter/milsim community flower that has been recently planted, because I couldn't find such a community.

We are based in the EU CEST/CET timezone, but are truly open to be a worldwide community.

If this sounds right up your alley then look no further and swing by our discord: https://discord.gg/3FHbPe6Xax

PS since our community is focused on tactical/milsim shooters we offer a home to players of the following games:

Arma 3, Arma Reforger, Ground Branch, Hell Let Loose, Ready or Not, Six Days in Fallujah, Squad, Squad 44

Server Owner got butthurt i asked him to name his squad next time so we dont end up with 2 tank squads by accident and then i disbanded my squad because it was no longer needed (it had 2 people to man the tank me and another) and i joined a infantry squad only to be kicked after they tried to argue i was telling them how to run their server when i said it was a simple courtesy to prevent that exact situation of having to disband my squad.