***Official Squad Thread***

[Prestonian]

Bought Squad because of the 50% off; jumped in and had a good couple of rounds. There's two of us that'll be playing regularly, and we're looking for other regulars we could hook up with.
Are there any OC get togethers for Squad that we could join?

Xcept, how far off are mortars? Used to love mortars in PR.

 

[FloppyPoppy]

Really enjoyed my session tonight, don't play often enough but was certainly fun. Had a few laughs .

 

[silversurfer]

For me it's lost its appeal. I played it for hours around v6/v7 (i think), but now...i dunno, something isn't as fun about it any more. I loved it when it was infantry only, but now not so much.

The game was always going to be about the full range of units. However arent some maps the smaller kind and so only have infantry. I cant remember if thats a thing but it used to be there was always smaller maps in the old PR days. Its possible they no longer do that not sure. Basra is probably the closest to dense city situations favouring infantry I think

Spoiler: opps

fell through/into a bridge, messing around. Im amazed the game works at all on my old backup 4870 circa 2008

 

[Daytrader]

Yes, some maps you can play infantry only.

 

[syks]

I might have to jump on this again soon, its been a looooong time since I have played, its a great game though and one of the best team based games ive played on pc

 

[hardkore]

So, i've now spent 6hrs playing squad and what do i think?

Bloody brilliant. It can be so visceral at times. I hooked up with some randoms on a English only server last night on Al Basra. Moving down one of the main streets huggling the side shops heading towards the mosque and we came under heavy fire. Bullets whiz and crackle past as you see 2 of your squad fall to the ground and you panic to either return fire, speak on comms or find cover.

First time i actually engaged an enemy, I spotted 3 crossing a road approx 150-200 yrds in front of me. I literally froze with what to do first, call it in a risk missing them or open fire first. Never has a game put me on the spot like that and when the action kicks off my god its intense.

Best £15 i've ever spent.

 

[insideline]

Winning in this game is probably the most underwhelming thing ever...

You're playing a round then bam all of a sudden out of nowhere the round is over. There is no hint that the battle is even coming to a climax. Literally every time I've played and a round ends everyone is like "oh, is that it, didn't even know the round was close to an end". Really needs to be sorted out with some kind of clear visual prompts as to who's winning and losing because it's just confusing and very random otherwise.

 

[silversurfer]

Its kinda done on purpose. I mean the whole game is like that, Im never sure if I hit anyone exactly. Reminds me of a vietnam movie where the viet cong remove the bodies.
But yea its very non gamey. Would be cool to get a highlights of the battle, highlight clip, anything, maybe just like the old end of game bf2 stats thing. People like that pat on the back but I think its a deliberate policy not to

 

[Swifty55]

Not played it in a while but I'm pretty sure it shows both teams tickets on the scoreboard?

Or maybe not?

 

[Xcept1]

Back from my long weekend off. Time to catch up on some Basrah!

Any of you chaps seen this yet?

 

[Josh]

Holy Jeeebus, I don't want to be anywhere near that.

Basrah is amazing, had some great games over the weekend, such close quarters and some proper heart pumping times playing wack-a-mole with the windows.

 

[shedlo]

Basrah is superb! More of my mates have caved on this now!

Those trucks look the business, bet those cannons are well loud

 

[Daytrader]

Awesome trucks.

 

[silversurfer]

That does look a nicely detailed model. Reminds me of an excellent Russian model maker I played with ages ago who made an amazing KA-50 and it did go into the BF2 engine, worked nice but couldnt be part of PR because it was too many polys. Would probably be fine now on this modern engine alongside trucks like above.

Here he is, done a ton of stuff now.
http://www.oleg-kovalev.com/?page_id=34#!prettyPhoto/26/

Spoiler

http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f388-pr-bf2-community-modding/67355-vehicle-su-39-su-25tm-2.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg2GgJswsMY

 

[Josh]

Got invited to play with the Redcoats last night, having a competent SL and team sure does change things in the game. Was brilliant fun, it's taking my a while to learn the maps and spot enemy units especially when it's Russian vs American, and in the split second it takes me to figure it out I'm dead - love it.

 

[1kiwi]

Got invited to play with the Redcoats last night, having a competent SL and team sure does change things in the game. Was brilliant fun, it's taking my a while to learn the maps and spot enemy units especially when it's Russian vs American, and in the split second it takes me to figure it out I'm dead - love it.

Are you using SweetFX?

 

[1kiwi]

All - Wanted to pimp out my buddy koodoo's international tournament here: http://challonge.com/iskt

You can watch the streams on Johnny's stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/johnnyomaha

FFO are playing FORTIS who are an Australian team. As a New Zealander I'm really hopeful we can beat them! Our friends T//A are playing Asteryks + ParadiSe (French) for the next round which should be really interesting. Asteryks + ParadiSe are known to be some of the best fraggers in Squad right now - however it's interesting to see how strategy/vehicles will play into the game as T//A did really well in that respect against salt in their last game.

 

[Grumps82]

Got invited to play with the Redcoats last night, having a competent SL and team sure does change things in the game. Was brilliant fun, it's taking my a while to learn the maps and spot enemy units especially when it's Russian vs American, and in the split second it takes me to figure it out I'm dead - love it.

I heard about you last night Josh, you seem to have done very well from what i hear. Also you dont have many hours in game so fair play mate.

 

[Xcept1]

Got invited to play with the Redcoats last night, having a competent SL and team sure does change things in the game. Was brilliant fun, it's taking my a while to learn the maps and spot enemy units especially when it's Russian vs American, and in the split second it takes me to figure it out I'm dead - love it.

RedCoats are a great bunch of guys. They've been kicking around since the beginning now To be fair the UK/EU has some great competitive clans.

Are you using SweetFX?

ReShade is what you want to be using. Not sure if the latest version is white listed though. Will update when I find out.

 

[Josh]

Are you using SweetFX?

Yeah got one from the SFX site, this one. Looks a lot nicer, I'm more having issues with differentiating between the uniforms, it's easy with Ins vs US/Rus it's the Rus vs USA that gets me.

I heard about you last night Josh, you seem to have done very well from what i hear. Also you dont have many hours in game so fair play mate.

Ah hello, I saw your name floating about Discord last night - aye only 6/7ish hours so far but I'm okay when it comes to shooters just need to get my eye in. Must say you lot are very organised and very patient with newbies, I've heard about people having less than favourable introductions to Squad but I've had anything but, very appreciative of it!

ReShade is what you want to be using. Not sure if the latest version is white listed though. Will update when I find out.

I've linked what I currently use above, is that okay to use? If not I'll get it off before tonight.