Future of SQUAD in OWI Q&A! 

I agree! Excited to hear about some of the thoughts/considerations they are making.

Agreed!

I wanna see the Wiesel

It gonna slap!​@@lars7935

That would be cool

Yes but… what about up time I mean half the fun of Vic’s is the repair when getting shot at the more you impair a Vic the worse it feels to play, as a quote VCO armor may have a little bitch and moan moment as well as thermals on gunsights would put massive advantage into bluefore armor which with the new ZTZ nerf feels pretty balanced right now.

@@21Light12delusional, repairing is not fun.

I'm almost certain they will make crew members killable in such vehicles. They've already done this for the engine and ammo rack so it shouldn't be too much work. It's a great thing to add as well. Although one problem I see is how the dead crewmember will be handled, where will they go and how can they be revived?

While I don't know if what Baron suggested is the best course of action, but you also need to keep in mind not every faction will have thermals, so it's not just infantry vs armor balance, but also armor vs armor balance too.

all this can be achieved without thermal. the topic of thermals shouldnt even be discussed. at all. NO THERMAL

Glad you enjoyed it!

I play there some! My group and I typically bounce around. We enjoy vehicle claim there though! That's a huge bonus.

so everything?

Better than cheap fixes ​@@Slay3Kilo

Pretty sure destructive terrain isn't feasible within the engine, also having used thermals in the Army irl, I can tell you they're a game changer, I don't know if killable crew members will balance that.

Also killable crew members makes a game like squad not fun

@@antoniochalking be better idk?

Thanks! Thanks for the tips!

Agree.. or at least they would all be unique

I say it should be a static 2 person required system, basically the first guy with the targeting unit finds a spot, crouches, then the second guy has to load the missile, if they wanna move the missile has to be unloaded,

I've heard this a lot, but i dont really know the WT system well enough to comment on it

I don’t think adding war thunder systems are going to help armor gameplay that much. The main problem I can see is that war thunder you get 3-5 tanks in a short 10min match and in squad loading a tank cost you 20min and tickets.

@@OAB179 which would justify making it strong as in real life with all the optics and stuff. At the end this game tries to be on the more simulation side. I dont see a problem really

I hope we get them soon

Not that I’m aware of

I'm not really familiar with how to even find this via SDK

Very much so!

Should be interesting to see implemented!

Oh.. that could be an interesting view... or at least like a quick timelapse of the match progression or something -- but I also feel like that may be difficult to create and could be more a problem thing to add. The new stat board is less about KD and more about tickets.. where are they lost, gained, etc.. I think that alone would help to some degree.

@@Slay3Kilo yeah. I did think maybe a heat map of sorts but would be a real pain on the software side to implement, even if players stayed the same the whole match lol. Ah yeah, I guess like how you see the vehicle list when opening the map, maybe a counter of how many were lost that round (should be easy to implement)

TBF it wouldn't necessarily be hard or a performance​ hitter. In game match recording is there already. Rockstar games automatically records and takes in account all entities within a set area for their video replay. Squads replay system could be built upon and utilized quite easily to accommodate/accomplish what you are wanting to do. I personally just heard resources this resources that from this QnA. If resources was such an issue then why did they acquire Post Scriptum (Squad 44)? Don't get me wrong I love both, but if resources is such an issue to give your player base what they want and to build out as well as properly balance new features then why spread your team thin in the first place. Its like with the javelins and thermals, (balancing is a problem) no it's not if you give armour proper defense systems to counter like IRL. @@caolkyle

@@Slay3Kilo We are waiting deeper stat board since long time ago (Alpha version )! You know the actual system is too poor. God speed

Did you watch the video? lol

did it actually translate?

@@Slay3Kilo Yes, translated by RU-vid. It is difficult to find translation in every video, but there was a translation in this video.

A bit, if you watch the "other questions" towards the end.. I summarzied a little of that. They are looking into the FPS issue with ADSing and also game engine ugprades.

@@Slay3Kilo Damn I was hoping there was more I missed. Really dissapointing that they focus on just adding more shit

@@gridwreckgamer6254 Its a B2P game, it makes money by creating hype. Making the game go from 60 FPS to 69 FPS on 6 year old PCs, wont bring them any money, adding more shit for people to create videos, to create hype, and another 50.000 people buy the game, does.

@@gridwreckgamer6254get a better pc

Havent played it

They talked about it some along with game engine upgrades

Not discussed so far

lol, not here

Nobody needs them lol, go play arma

@@deemwinch twas a joke

we call um cope cages for a reason, they won't help

make it affected by t90a shtora/ircm smoke+cost a lot. whyd they mention it when they dont know how to balance it lol? even though they said vehicles are becoming more meta

Maybe they can add like a ten sec lock on timer or maybe the vehicle gets alerted it’s being locked on or maybe a certain percentage the missle won’t even hit idk just a few ideas

It seems someone was offended that in real life his country's tanks fly into space after meeting with a javelin 🤷

​@@Iron_Hawk340 can smell an edgy pro-ua fanboy from a mile away😅

Totally agree. Anything can be as strong or as weak as you desire, that’s the beauty of it being a video game. I want attack helicopters, pilotable jets, the FGM-148, and so much more in Squad.

@@luger700 oh man, i remember the good old days when i was playing project reality. i loved to being pilot in that game so much because there was so many playable aircraft and it required such a precise coordination with other squad leaders. i hope devs will look at PR and add features that was already there

I def want them to bring any and all to the game.. but I can understand a hesitation around something being OP.. They brought the new mortar m13's in and that was OP.. people complained. So if they do = complaints.. if they don't = complaints.

Or add cages, APS, make it not one shot one kill and it will be fine but OWI are just lazy

@@CarryMeh161 aps doesn’t exactly work against a javelin but cages will and if it 2 shots vehicles instead of one expect say old Soviet tanks like the t55 it will work great if a rearm price of say 500

how bout this, thermals can be dlc, for 4 thousand dollars.,

Uh.... false? They just added a bunch of new vehicles.

@@Slay3Kilo let modders take care of vehicles, they should focus on gameplay mechanics imo

This game isn’t meant to mimic real life. If they added components like real life, then American factions would most likely be skipped/banned from rotations as no one will want to play them. Just like when MEA came out, no one liked them but they slowly tweaked it. It would be a good feature for vehicles to pick how much of what round they get, similar to the Supply/Ammo for logis, that alone would massively mix things up. Also need to bear in mind that game studios, the size of OWI need to small, iterative changes and not less massive changes. (Can look up Agile Scrum delivery vs something like Waterfall). As a QA, I very much see the frustration that the sensors modules being added with no real use for, is just purely a fact of software development. That you can’t do all the changes in one go, unless you accept the risk that follows doing that.

CREAMI!!!!!!!!!!!! I agree with a chunk of this. I personally think the LAV-25 needs some love especially going against PLA's ZBLs or some of the RGF vehicles. However, if one faction has superiority across the board it makes the whole thing pretty imbalanced. While that's how it should be, if it were based off realism, it doesn't offer much variety in the gaming experience. It becomes dull if you know you'll just win as that one faction or lose if you oppose it. As for ICO, the point of it being a year was more about the fact that folks are asking for it to just be removed. That's not going to happen. What they are focused on and what they want attention to is tweaks and updates they can make to things like weapon handling. They've been doing those tweaks in the updates since the ICO release, most recently updates to PLA weapons. I was hesitant about ICO, but the writing was on the wall that it was going to be a thing I was either going to have to adapt to if I were to keep playing. It took some hours to get there, but now I feel like I have a much better understanding of how it works, enough so that I get gratification from the firefights and whatnot. It may not be for everyone.. but what myself and a large group of friends I game with have found is that it requires time, patience, etc.. to learn and adapt to. Positioning becomes key, vehicle movement/combined arms becomes much more important. Before ICO.. they were important too, but underutilized in the way that they are now. If you treat the game the same way with the new mechanics in place.. you won't have as much fun nor be as successful. You used to be able to take a light vehicle out of main and it didn't matter as much if you had it after the initial rollout.. but now you need it giving character movement and stamina. There's also a bigger reliance on working with a group.. a fireteam or whole squad to work together to do a push on an objective. I've had a bunch of fun over the last several months, especially playing in a group and working together to attack things , again with a different effort put towards strategy and how we go about it.

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People will complain of imbalance.. Can't win if this is the case.