Squad 44 is the most intense WWII Simulator now 

If you want a tip that I learned back in Red Orchestra 2, the Germans were trained to carry their guns in one hand while running, while Americans and Brits (and Russians) use two. It's a great way to get PID quickly, you can watch the video back and see it in action.

3:51 homie did NOT just say "lore accurate" talking about history lmao

The game will always be Post Scriptum to me, but I’m so glad it got revived, it’s such a great game, good for you for trying it out

5:10 "you're throwing" lmao

Good tip for any new players looking to join squad 44 if you wish to avoid friendly fire and generally gain more situational awareness you Can quickly hit M to pop the map up to identify where your teammates are and where they arent.

Thanks for bringing some attention to Squad 44 and thanks for playing on the 83th server! Hope you enjoyed the Ragtag Circus.

“Wounded” after getting hit in the head by a mortar shell

0:08 "da bluetooth shell is ready to fire" 🗣️🗣️🗣️ 🔥🔥

My friends and I discovered this game a couple of weeks ago and did a bunch of testing since we are also ride or die HLL fans and wanted to see how they compare. Squad 44 has realistic ballistics when it comes to armor engagements. Angles, armor dimensions, penetration, and even over-pen whereas in HLL if you get shot by a tank once it's pretty much game over as in Heavy vs Heavy engagements you win them off of a first shot basis.

One of the fun features of both PR and Squad, is when you shoot at a friendly you will *always* be 100% accurate.

It always was. I'm glad you finally found this game. Best WW2 shooter in my opinion.

Check your map regularly, habie, it really helps with identification part of the game. I bound it to one of my thumb buttons and it really helped me, I have it open 30% of the time to see where the game is going and where the allies are relative to me on the map

2:26 I've seen a number of people doing this lately so I'm going to say it here: Mk in English military designations is an abbreviation for "Mark" as in type or model number (a US designation for this tank would likely be M11 Valentine for example). Saying the letters "M K" is like saying Roman Numerals as letters

Love to see this game getting love. I’m a squad leader and I try to make sure people have a good time whenever I play.

Remember this game was close to getting shut down since hardly anyone touched it when it was called Post Scriptum many years ago.

Squad 44 (and Squad) are absolutely incredible. Highly recommend them to anyone and everyone.

Oh this is a treat to see, especially since the game is about to or already has(?) rolled out an update adding 100-player functionality (50v50) to the servers so any sort of attention to the game is welcome, as the way this game was basically revived from a barely functioning corpse is nothing short of a miracle.

7:15 Im so sorry guys-- EXPLOSION sending dead guy to space

Squad 44 is so good, and is only getting better. Offworld and Mercury Arts are really kicking ass with updating the game. 100 player servers were just added and the Pacific Theater is on the horizon!

The community thing seems like a big W for me. I tried to play Hell Let Loose and my first (and only) game was absolutely horrible. The squads I tried joining would scream at me to get out of their team because I wasn't some uber veteran with a thousand hours played and when I made my own squad they'd announce "Don't join *insert my name here* he's a fucking christmas noob". Ended up spending the 10 minutes I was there solo'ing a howitzer then uninstalling the game.

The most important things to do is 1. learn the colors of uniforms/helmet shapes/weapons and 2. use your map to check areas for friendlies/see areas where there aren't friendlies. For example in the video the Americans have olive green and kind of khaki brown uniforms and Germans have grey. and if you checked your map regularly you would've know there was no friendlies outside of that bunker.

shame you didnt get to drive a vehicle because squad 44 tank gameplay is 'chef's kiss' Saying that one of my fondest memories of the game is getting shelled by an 88 while hunkered down in a house holding the line and feeling the shells impacting the room next to us and looking inside and it was just bloody parts everywhere. Squad44 does like to gib its soldiers when they are hit with anything above a garand.

You brought a blind man as "backup". I don't know what you expected to happen.

7:59 😢

after 1200 hrs in this game and playing it since release (2018), its great to see it coming back, keep promoting it please

You ABSOLUTELY need to get into a tank. The tank experience in this game is SO much cooler than Hell Let Loose.

Post Scriptum/squad 44 is a childhood memory to me now lol I love this game :)

Somehow I am always surprised when the only RU-vidr with a consistent upload schedule uploads.

I love that the aggressive silliness of the atomic mirror brains callout has become accidental psychological warfare against the copycat.

Well I think you picked the perfect time to pick this game up since it seems the next major update is going to add the Pacific Theater to the game with Iwo Jima. Honestly though one thing I've always liked about Squad 44 is how it has a bunch of underrepresented battles and factions in WW2 (at least in video games), like seriously when was the last time you saw a WW2 video game that let you play as the French or the GREEKS, I can't even think of a WW2 game in the past that even mentioned the Greeks. Don't get me wrong I like playing as the Americans against the Germans as the next guy, but I feel like you can only make so many Western Front circa 1944-45 WW2 era games before you start wanting to see other places. Also writing this has made me realize you seem to only have played the Operation Market Garden and Battle of the Bulge maps, I think if you ever get the chance you need to play the Operation Overlord maps, especially Utah Beach, I feel like that will activate some neurons. Though now that I say that I am reminded that this game currently doesn't have as big a playerbase as Squad proper which is perhaps one of the biggest problems with the game, but maybe it will slowly grow over time.

4:00 I mean... There's a setting for that in the menu, you can also bring up the HUD and look, as well as the map. 5:55 You can change the range and visibilty of it in the settings.

THE PERSHING IS IN SQUAD 44????????? Okay, now I have to play it. It's my favorite WWII tank and it's almost never featured in FPS's.

Darkest Hour 44-45 is still my favorite WW2 game in this genre.

With the name tags, in the settings you can increase the distance they show and the opacity of them :) to reduce the friendly fire a little bit haha. Great video though!

Lol this was a good video, first time seeing your stuff. Welcome (back) to Squad 44/PS. Pro tip on the Ally/Foe issue: when in doubt, use your map. I’ve played HLL and PS, still I prefer S44/PS over HLL. All it takes is a decent team with cooperative SLs and you’ll see why.

the garand gunshot sound in squad 44... is so perfect. for that matter most of the guns in squad sound so good compared to every other game made nowadays.

I love that this game is getting the attention it deserves.

Currently boating while typing this but saw the notification and just had to come thank you for finally playing Squad 44

8:41 I was practically screaming at the screen that the one you shot wasn't the one you were going for. Great content as always :)

watching this in black and white is so fitting

2:20 Atomic Mirror Brains lookin a little different

Nice! Some tips about identifying the enemies: check your map a lot, so you have some idea of where teammates are most of the time. As you play it'll become easier, you'll learn to recognize gun sounds, uniforms, and how they run and carry their guns. it's no issue after a while :)

Habie, you would love gun world vr it has trash graphics but its like still an amazing game!

My veteran friend once taught me "friendly fire isn't"

This game has always been great it deserves way more players.

I have loved this game, Beyond the Wire, and Squad ever since I played the betas for all three, but I’m most excited to see Squad44 get revived as that had the best memories… I hope we see Beyond the Wire get turned into Squad17

Just a big funny tip as an MG or anything with a bipod. You can tap fire it at the hip and it can be relatively accurate on the first blips. OR you can use your buddy friend there and bipod on their shoulder when they crouch. Comes in pretty handy with those BS sandbag spots that are too high or you just cant fidget yourself on them. We're still advocating for a bipod overhaul someday. For both Squad 44 and Squad.

One thing I learned in my thousands of hours in squad is to use your map to gauge friendly/enemy presence. your map button should be worn out with how much you'll be using it to confirm if the person in front of you is friendly or not, unless it's different in squad 44 but in squad your friends are on the map.

My headphones have a cruel sense of humor for turning up my volume before playing the video

Hell Let Loose died with James Light. RIP a legend.

I love this game, man. If you actually come up with some sort of plan, ANY sort of *plan* with your team it's so much better.

a quick tip for any new players to Squad, if youre ever unsure of who to shoot, you can quickly open your map, see if there are any allies in the direction youre facing.

Squad, post scriptum/squad 44 and hell let loose all have their roots in battlefield 2, so thats probably why some of them have battlefield feels

I am waiting on at least one of these two things before i jump into Squad 44: 1. ICO (Infantry Combat Overhaul, like what they did in Squad) cuz you dont know what ptsd is until you've been supressed by an MG3 2. Soviet faction - theyve got PPSH, SKS amd mosin assets already, thats like half way for ussr weaponry

I don't comment very often so I really mean this when I say this, but I love your videos. You've perfected the timing between topics coupled with the music, just perfect. Fully expect to see your channel explode over the next few years and am looking forward to being apart of it!

it took me months but I finally got my friends off of HLL and into Squad 44, and now we're playing it every night, and it is fucking epic

Also, check your map, knowing where friendlies are helps alot

Spending forever trying to take a single bunker sounds like my type of game I would absolutely ragequit after dying once though

Glad you liked it! The eerie gore combined with the banter makes this game so good!

Yooo that was me on the mortar lmao. I was wondering why you walked up to the tube 🤣🤣

I really needed the “love yourself” today habie. Great video as always!

i remember having trouble id'ing teammates years ago. spamming the map allowed me to see whos who in front of me.

I was a hardcore player of Post Scriptum back in the day. But after watching this i think i might return back to it

I'm the guy with mortar at the begining, i was so pissed when you did that because you got us both killed jajja, nice video !!

The flying body at 7:17 had me cackling

If unsure about enemy or not, press M and look at your map, I promise the uniform recognition will get much easier with time and you will almost prefer it that way over dots above everyone’s heads

I guarantee you would love Easy Red 2. The amount of content it has is insane and it’s way more chill that Squad or Hell Let loose while also having a good mil sim feel. It’s not perfect but I cannot stop playing. I cannot express how much content is already there with more still coming especially if you get the dlc’s which are entirely worth the price of a coke for them.

The first time I played squad, I sat there on a hill trying to figure out whether the advancing enemies were friendly or not

Number 1 thing you should be doing is checking your map, same goes for regular SQUAD. See a couple guys in front of you, open the map, if there’s no friendlies in that direction you know they’re enemy. (Bind your map to something accessible like extra mouse button)

3:08 LORD OF THE RINGS REFERENCE!!!!

Glad youre liking Squad 44 (still always gonna be post scriptum to me). The 100 player update is what brought me back into the game. On maps like Caretan it really gets hectic quick when the enemy does a huge push because theres so much happening at once. The tank mechanics are also so good in this game its like a whole separate gamemode.

I recommend u to bind map to a close button so you can fast check map constantly, which will make ur gaming experience in squad games much better, one u know there are few to no allies in front of u u will feeel mor safe to shoot at anything.

you gotta tryhard a few days before enjoying it, just the time to learn googles, stamina and positioning on the map. After it can be crazy :)

to ID people, there is a map that tells you where ALL friendlies are. Look at it. You can also turn up the opacity and size of the icon/nameplate above friendlies in the settings. If you want to turn it even higher than max then you can edit the value to be even bigger in the settings ini file.

The easiest way to know if it is an enemy or not is constantly checking the map to see where allies are.

it also has like... 800 total players, and protip: Be sure to manually install Easy Anti Cheat into the games folders if you play it. Otherwise you will spend 40 minutes getting into a server only to be kicked after 5 minutes and not told why, then have to spend 30 minutes researching it on Reddit, then another 40 minutes to get back into a server.

Oh man, your videos are awesome. Those editing skills and humor are top tier

4:00 allies hold their weapons in one hand when sprinting, axis just one :)

when you said that squad 44 used to be called post scriptum, i literally loudly said "OH!"

Btw there are some techniques to find out if the person is your enemy or not. First: You can adjust how big and how transparent the names of your teammates are. Second: Allies hold their weapons with two hands when they are running. Germans only onehanded. Third: Look at the different helmets. They are more different than other parts. Forth: You can reinsure you if there are teammates by looking at the map pressing M and zoom with N or pressing Enter.

you know that squad is best played when you stick to your squad. i know that you will never play squad again but just remember that it exists.

I was also shocked to see the current steam sale hade Hell Let Loose 'discounted' from €59,99

So glad this game is getting attention

8:04 quickest mystery solver in the European theatre.

I have a smooth brain all ideas slide right off same with habie lol

this is a reminder to put a compressor in your audio chain when playing military sim games(for gameplay, not just video production), as gun shots are often way too loud and WILL damage your ears. both Tarkov and PUBG are good examples for games with unsafe audio levels. take this from someone who has tinnitus and hearing loss since his 20s. protect your ears.

Anyone else laugh like hell at the mortar round to the face? 😂

Game is worth it and it's only getting better. They're working hard on a pacific expansion now. Get it if you're on the fence

a big thing in squad: if you are ever questioning what is near you check the map

I think they should call the game Squad39-45 as we do play the French in 1940 and in Haguenau in 1945.

Playing K98 against M1 Garants is no problem at all. I got 2000h in this game now and all you need is a little teamplay. MP40, STG44, MG42 in your squad will throw tons of lead to the enemy and in general in Squad44 its all about positioning. You need to outsmart the enemy in the first place. You can be the best shooter in the world, but if the enemy catches you off guard, on the run, you ded. Its all about tactical skills, less about gunplay.

I'm a big fan of both of these games, and I NEVER REALIZED ITS CALLED SQUAD 44 BECAUSE ITS SQUAD SET IN 1944

Play enlisted by far the best ww game there is

As a long time post scriptum player it’s amazing to see the revival hll went so far down hill since team17 took over development

You should 100% try Squad 44 armor, and bring Cory along. It's such a different experience from any other game, even Hell Let Loose's armor. Tanks are faster, damage is less forgiving... it truly is suffering. And it's so much fun.

The humour in this video is top notch!

I don’t really play pc multiplayer because my gaming microphone is extremely spotty with quality on it but it is cool that it has accurate sights for the M1A1 Thompson (until Hell Let Loose which removed the accurate sights).

Hahaha 'I got him, I got him'. Nek minnit

LOVE THE NEW FACELIFT ! This game i thought was better than HLL and had so much more potential. Now with 100 player servers and extra vehicles, im really excited to see what OWI do with this

Bolt actions are the most satisfying guns in this game. Kar98 is god tier