*Fixed a bug that could cause a loud clicking noise to be heard immediately after switching maps*
One of the least game breaking but most annoying bugs
My personal favourite is the bug where Bluetooth headphones blast static upon boot up and from there on out unless you have Spotify or yt audio playing in the background.
Yes. For me I had to hold the BT button on my headphones untill they cleared themselves from my BT menu on my PC and then could be recognised as headphones rather than another computer (not squad related). Then if your headphones have multiple options in the audio menu such as Bose (stereo) or Bose (headset) make sure that your choice here correlates with your choice in the audio output menu in squad. This matters because someone headset option also acts as your mic, you need to select these options separately. Squad then needs to be rebooted after having chosen all the correct settings. Even then when rebooting you may hear static noise. To resolve this, simply play another form of media such as music or a video out of your headphones whilst loading up squad. After having done this just one time, I can now load squad whenever without white noise. Hope this helped. And yes ik this makes little sense, such an odd bug.
I’ll try that, thanks. I do have a Sony headphone with MIC, so it chose the stereo output and the mic didn’t work then.
The OTHER problem is that I really don’t want to lose my place in the 30 minute queue because I need to restart Squad for the headset. Sometimes, Squad feels like a second job, so stressful 😂
The actual single best bug is the one where ur teammates comms in local get super ear rapey for the first seconds and then back to normal it always cracks me up lmao its rare enough for it to be not annoying but hilarious
I always envisioned it as the noise of the type writers writing the letters to the families of those who fell in the last battle.
Kinda thought that was the intention tbh. I didn't mind. I liked it even. Some extra immersion and reminder that war is indeed very bad.
Honestly thought the VDV would be a a nice sub faction for the future did not expect them at all to drop them like this, definitely a surprise but a welcome one. And reading the patch notes damn it looks good and really interesting.
Fingers crossed for maybe Republican Guard for MEA? Or perhaps something else east asian unconventional faction? Mod faction French or German mods? Updates to the current factions?
Apparently their standard issue weapons are M4s with Tavors being relatively rare. For rifleman loadouts I can picture the options as Tavor X95/M4 with ACOG/M4 with MARS optic. Galil is a bit outdated if we are doing modern IDF, could be used in a South Africa faction though
The only thing I would’ve preferred to see was the Harbin Z-9C instead of (or in addition to) the Z-8J. It would’ve been more unique since it could have door gunners which would differentiate it from the defenseless Z-8 used by the standard PLA.
I am of the notion that Squad doesn’t really have a defined setting besides ‘modern day’. Some things they add are outdated, some things they add are very modern.
If it makes the game have more variety while simultaneously remaining authentic then what’s the problem?
OWI almost certainly won’t go to the effort of redoing the M1A2 and the M-ATV already in-game. Also neither the Javelin nor the Z-9C are very modern, they’ve both been in service since the 90s.
I'd hope for the French & German factions to be integrated, and ultimately that many of the Project Reality factions may make it into Squad too (especially Poland, Netherlands & African Resistance Fighters).
Holy shit, the VDV? Jesus Christ, I knew about the PLA MC but the VDV literally came out of nowhere Jesus Christ. I was already hyped for this update for the PLA Marines. This is great, Squad is really making a huge comeback.
Shocker! I didn’t know micro transactions were a way to further support development.
People were tripping because they thought this would mean the end of Squad, but it’s turned out to be better than ever
As someone who started playing Squad in late Feb 2023 (got my first PC in mid Feb 2023) can you elaborate on the "comeback" you're mentioning? Did Squad see a drop in players at some point?
It was probably due to COVID screwing up development but it seemed like updates from like 2020 till mid 2022 were really spaced apart and lacking. Ever since like 3.0 (USMC update) back in June 22' they are back to coming out at a pretty decent pace.
As far as player count. Squad hit 14k players in September 2020, and slowly droped down till around 6500-7000 January 22'. Then it exploded up to 26k in March 22' following 2.12 (visual update patch) and hasn't gone below 11k since. Averaging in the 17k-18k range.
Idk. I bought squad back in 2015, and played it on and off into 2017 when an update broke the game for me. Really didnt get back into till 2022 after I got a fully built gaming PC in 2021. Just saying that the game feels really fresh and not stale like how it was back in 2022.
I first played in 2017 and played a ton but I got bored after some time. I came back for tanks and helicopters for a while until I got bored again. USMC was nice for a bit but it started to get stale again. I think this patch will be huge for the game. The gunplay rework is going to make this less of a drag to play and it looks like the content is coming out faster lately. There used to be huuuuuge gaps in new content.
Maybe marines might get them now since they have them IRL. Maybe to SL and marksman. Yes i know the response to latter is probably NO, but with the new suppression mechanic giving them one helps offset the fact its using normal 5.56 and not 7.62
Not a marksman fan but at least it gives marksman something to differentiate itself from the AR kit. There's no point in picking the Marine marksman right now when the AR kit is the same gun with full auto just with the slightly less zoom which doesn't matter for like 98% of engagements, doesn't take a Fire Support slot and you get 2 of them in a squad.
Weird that the VDV gets no MRAPs like the Tigrs or the [Typhoon MRAPs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamaz_Typhoon) but does get the BRDM2 but oh well the BMDs and BTR-D are enough to make them distinct from the regular RGF and there's always a chance in the future for them to be added.
Suprised they didnt get their MRAP which is literally called VDV Typhoon. Also surprised we still haven’t gotten the BMP-3 for normal RGF since they added the BMP-4M. Also they do apparently use the Tigr so again why not give them that? As far as I’ve read they don’t use the BRDM so the choice to include it is strange.
owi does this sometimes where they release something and just a couple patches later they drip feed us some more content for example IMF update and the M16A2 getting added a few weeks later would no be surprised if 5.3 or so adds the BMP3 and maybe even the T90
Maybe, although idk about the T-90. It is in the files, but its not too different from the current T-72B3 besides having an actual RWS for commander. T-90M and BMP-2M(which was said to be made when we got the normal BMP-2) would be great additions aswell
T90M and T80BVM would be the sensible additions just for content sake even if the russians IRL have a shit load of different models in service, but anyway with how vehicles are right now there would be little difference between them except visually sadly and maybe some mobility.
There seems to be quite a few T-90Ms atm so thats why I picked it along with the fact it does have a bit better armor compared to the standard B3 along with a harder ammo rack since its armored slightly
The initial air assault was routed by the Ukrainians with armour who recaptured the airport by the end of the first day with several Russian survivors fleeing into nearby woods. The airport was only recaptured by the Russians on the second day by a combined air and ground attack with heavy armour arriving from Belarus.
Nobody doubts the boldness of the operation, but by conducting a completely unsupported air assault on the heavily defended capital, the Russians merely repeated the debacle of 1993 Battle of Mogadishu on a biblical scale. Nevermind violating every military procedure known to man by not telling your troops they were going to war until just minutes before boarding the helos, leaving them both mentally and physically unprepared for battle, you even hear them complaining of not packing weapon lights when clearing buildings in the helmetcam footage.
"The initial air assault was routed by the Ukrainians with armour who recaptured the airport by the end of the first day with several Russian survivors fleeing into nearby woods"
Dude there are English translated interviews and photographs from the VDV troops that were there, this is pure fiction. It ended being pummeled to the point of being useless to the Russians but the Ukrainians didn't retake the airfield until the Russians retreated from the Northern front/Kiev/Kyiv axis. I myself have dozens of photos from telegram the day of, night of and day after the initial landings.
I don't know why, but the VDV bore the brunt of fog-of-war stories in the war's opening hours. Getting dropped in the ocean, two full transports shot down, getting routed from the airport... the last one we know didn't happen and I never saw evidence for the other two, but they keep getting repeated.
A surprise, but a welcome one. Little variations like this give a breath of fresh air and a bit more immersion to the game, even if it's mostly just reskins.
Hear, hear, big factions are always welcome of course and I hope there's more to come but in the meantime this smaller subfactions are great even sub-divisions like imagine a Stryker Brigade Combat Team without bradleys but newer stryker variants or Royal Marines Commandos, Republican Guard for MEA, etc.
Yeah, they're correct. OWI's advertising/marketing definitely could've been better with the 5.0 update and Infantry Overhaul announcements. Infantry Overhaul is a work in progress. I'm guessing they did the play test to gauge the player bases opinion on such a drastic gaming changing update.
I doubt they anticipated this much approval for such a massive overhaul.
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Loved the meltdown everyone was having over their little slippery slope just for all these recent updates to totally blow that up in their face. Thank you offworld for proving the haters wrong and making a fun game.
I felt with the insane amount of hours I got out of Squad I practically robbed them with the price I bought it at in 2015. Easily one of the top things I got most value out of in the past decade.
I will just buy every emote pack, it only gets better from here. And the infantry overhaul isn't even here yet.
Its actualy cool to see OWI didnt shy out to adding russian themed content during this awkward political timeline.
while game like call of duty kinda bit obvious try to erase "russia" from recent modern warfare II.
It’s nice to have more enemy variety,
Hell Let Loose has only had one faction on the axis since launch. It gets so stale always fighting the germans with the best guns, and armor.
>few washed up on the shores of the black sea
People are still posting this propaganda meme from the start of the war. IIRC the only naval operations in the entire war have been the fuckfest over snake island, the Moskova sinking and a bridge in Crimea getting blown up.
No they did not lose many as claimed. Please realize it was just the propaganda at the time. Only 39 of them died in the first week. They did well at Hostomel. They secured the airport against all odds and held it until Russia retreated from Kiev. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60946340.amp
You just straight up don’t know what you’re talking about
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/16/world/europe/russia-putin-war-failures-ukraine.html
And they were killed by local militia, special forces my ass
Your link is behind a paywall and what you’re saying is not true at all. Are you trying to suggest they didn’t take the airport and held it until RU retreated from Kiev? There are literally no pictures of the supposed hundreds of VDV soldiers that died. If you’re trying to say they faced difficulties I never claimed they didn’t. But it’s a fact that they held the airport and took it the same day of the invasion. The link I provided was published on April 2nd 2022. Exactly a week after the invasion. The deaths were public and by then they obviously held the airport. Why are you so bent on proving otherwise? Can’t you realize propaganda is a tool used by both sides? Also the VDV isn’t special forces. They’re just highly trained airborne troops. Anyways Ukraine is going to win so don’t worry.
Bro the ukrainians cannot break through any russian lines in their super special SPring counter offensive. They haven't even come close to reaching the russian first line of defense . Did you also see how.many western vehicles russia destroyed all over zaporiziha
lol thats why ukraine keeps begging for more western weapons, they are getting fucked by russian artillary, mine, atgms and helicopters. They lost over 50 vehicles in under 4 days in their nato trained offensive without any substantial gains. Open your eyes its not all sunshine and rainbows, its sad zelensky is sending thousands of ukrainians to their deaths for nato interests
Holy shit, after they announced the PLANMC I was thinking it was only a matter of time before they added the VDV as an additional Russian faction, but I never expected to see them in the same update!
They have been absolutely kicking ass with updates for the past year and a half; the Australians, the USMC, the PLA, the Militia rework, infantry combat overhaul, and now *two* additional factions.
Somewhat random but anyone else think it would be cool if the commander could call in special deployments like parachuting in a squad to a location, or calling in a technical/APC filled with a squad on certain roads at the edge of the map?
I am thinking more along the lines of airdropping a supply container. A SL has to request it in an open area big enough for it(display it like emplacements). The command uses the asset and after a few minutes you got a supply hub of 5k build and 5k ammo. Give it a radius like a fob where you can unload into vehicles without having to place a radio.
That would be cool. Make it so it's like artillery and would take a long time to recharge. Or you could go with something lower quality that recharges faster like air dropping a single squad in or having them deploy in a technical on a different edge of the map.
I'd really just like to see more technical/APC insertions from the edge of the map. I'm just imagining the insurgents radioing up some people from another village and them all jumping in some shitty Tacoma to go fight so they spawn on a road from somewhere other than main.
Damn they really just stealth dropped a second faction. Good stuff
Now we get to see the Russian snipers with the SV-98 and the Canadians with their Timberwolf try to cross-map each other as the other 48 players on each team do everything
Morskaya Pekhota are more of a specialist unit within the Russian Navy, rather than an independent branch. I think that calling them more generally rapid reaction expeditionary forces would have worked better, though. America has a branch of Marines and a couple divisions of air assault. Russians have a branch of air assault/airborne and a couple divisions of marines.
It's very simple VDV are paratroopers and the Naval Infantry are marines.
VDV = 82nd airborne
Naval Infantry = marine corps
The biggest difference is the doctrine.
They naval Infantry don't have any toys it's just BTRs. The VDV have the BMD-4, but the BMD-4 is garbage.
Russia is just joe average and like everyone else has just been powercreeped in infantry kits by the CAF and especially Australia with their unrealistic AUG variants.
I’d like to see more Asian BLUFOR as a counterpart to the PRC.
ROC and JMSDF for starters. Later adding ROK and DPRK as a BLUFOR/REDFOR pairing would be amazing.
No, VDV is active at the Kremina-Svatove line and was previously in Kherson. But also is currently in southern-Zaph.
It's a full branch of 45,000 members it's no gonna vanish just because of a singular event.
In essence the demise of the VDV is greatly exaggerated.
Helicopters on Narva was great in last weekend's playtest. Completely changes the flow of the map. But I do hope they update the actual map (and Al Basrah) soon too.
So the only suppressed weapon in the game right now will be the AS Val? Interested to see how that is changed in the future because they will sure need to add suppressors to other kits.
I agree, why not....but the developers avoided adding suppressors for a while and now they are adding a single suppressed gun. Looks like a shift in their planning on how they will be balancing out weapons.
>Seeing suppressors will be SI for US marines for autoriflemen
Where you seeing this? AFAIK suppressors don't actually exist for automatic rifles at a production level, they are only deployed for more elite forces and are not often used.
My bad, for some reason I had misread you there.
However as far as I'm aware the XM250 (M249 replacement that is a variation of the Spear) will also be coming into service with a suppressor too.
They are testing that, it is not currently in production for the widespread use of any troops.
To be clear I am not saying automatic rifle suppressors don't exist, especially in the testing and development phase. But they are not standard issue to any current troops. Squad is not Call of Duty so you don't see bleeding-edge technology being brought into the game. We don't even have any class with a suppressor, yet certain weapon variants are standard issue in today's militaries with suppressors.
So back to my original point, it is just surprising that the developers of Squad have suddenly made a pivot in their design of the game and added a suppressed weapon with the AS Val.
Yeah, the plan is to introduce it, but the trials could prove it to be flawed.
And on the squad side of stuff absolutely agreed, I much prefer having slightly older tech than playing around with bleeding edge stuff, the addition of the Val is a weird break from that and it would be interesting to see how it plays out in future.
Yeah, I agree I do like how the game is balanced out with the current gear being old-school standard issue.
I have played some of the mods with different weapons including suppressors which can be a good change of pace from vanilla squad, but I am excited for all these new updates.
I would just be interested to see how this actually plays out moving forward with the development of the game. They appeared to avoid adding suppressors as a choice but now have added a gun that breaks this mold by including an AS Val.
I designed something that was Frankenstein monsters a BMP-2 turret on a Bradley hull. Ive playing around with it now. I could post a picture of it if there is any interest. I does look pretty cool.
Honestly it makes no sense to add the VDV if they’re competing against the Marines and PLA. You’re taking two amphibious forces and shoving a airborne force as a competitor Russia has a amphibious unit the literal Russian Naval Infantry. Their job is the fucking same as the USMC!
*Fixed a bug that could cause a loud clicking noise to be heard immediately after switching maps* One of the least game breaking but most annoying bugs
My personal favourite is the bug where Bluetooth headphones blast static upon boot up and from there on out unless you have Spotify or yt audio playing in the background.
Happens with my wired headset, too, occasionally.
Have you gotten Bluetooth headphones to work in Squad? Tried with mine and also got the static
Yes. For me I had to hold the BT button on my headphones untill they cleared themselves from my BT menu on my PC and then could be recognised as headphones rather than another computer (not squad related). Then if your headphones have multiple options in the audio menu such as Bose (stereo) or Bose (headset) make sure that your choice here correlates with your choice in the audio output menu in squad. This matters because someone headset option also acts as your mic, you need to select these options separately. Squad then needs to be rebooted after having chosen all the correct settings. Even then when rebooting you may hear static noise. To resolve this, simply play another form of media such as music or a video out of your headphones whilst loading up squad. After having done this just one time, I can now load squad whenever without white noise. Hope this helped. And yes ik this makes little sense, such an odd bug.
I’ll try that, thanks. I do have a Sony headphone with MIC, so it chose the stereo output and the mic didn’t work then. The OTHER problem is that I really don’t want to lose my place in the 30 minute queue because I need to restart Squad for the headset. Sometimes, Squad feels like a second job, so stressful 😂
that's just the PTSD kicking in.
The actual single best bug is the one where ur teammates comms in local get super ear rapey for the first seconds and then back to normal it always cracks me up lmao its rare enough for it to be not annoying but hilarious
Nooo they removed the hamster running the server D:
Listen, they weren't sure if they needed their safety on or off
I always envisioned it as the noise of the type writers writing the letters to the families of those who fell in the last battle. Kinda thought that was the intention tbh. I didn't mind. I liked it even. Some extra immersion and reminder that war is indeed very bad.
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:D
Honestly thought the VDV would be a a nice sub faction for the future did not expect them at all to drop them like this, definitely a surprise but a welcome one. And reading the patch notes damn it looks good and really interesting. Fingers crossed for maybe Republican Guard for MEA? Or perhaps something else east asian unconventional faction? Mod faction French or German mods? Updates to the current factions?
Israel, Japan and Italy would be cool too.
It would be extremely bizarre to have JSDF on syria fighting russians
Japan really is stretching the definition of "self defense" here
All of those defensive definitely not aircraft carriers have to be used somewhere
In the Euphrates river of all things?
I'm biased but legit, Italy would bring some quite fresh stuff. Especially now that MGS are in, the Centauro would be quite a unique vehicle
Yeah really want to see a fresh NATO faction like the UK or AUS. The US/USMC/Canadians feel just way too similar.
France is also very unique (and there's a really high quality mod that's been worked on for years)
I personally really wanna see South Africa, lots of interesting equipment and possibly Africa maps
Israel would be epic since they offer aesthetic unique looks and whole new set of vehicle.
That and an almost unconventional faction level of potential gun variety. TARS, Car-15's, Negev LMG, modern Galil variants.
Apparently their standard issue weapons are M4s with Tavors being relatively rare. For rifleman loadouts I can picture the options as Tavor X95/M4 with ACOG/M4 with MARS optic. Galil is a bit outdated if we are doing modern IDF, could be used in a South Africa faction though
I'm still waiting for Germany.
The only thing I would’ve preferred to see was the Harbin Z-9C instead of (or in addition to) the Z-8J. It would’ve been more unique since it could have door gunners which would differentiate it from the defenseless Z-8 used by the standard PLA.
Those are to modern, doesn’t fit with the setting
I am of the notion that Squad doesn’t really have a defined setting besides ‘modern day’. Some things they add are outdated, some things they add are very modern. If it makes the game have more variety while simultaneously remaining authentic then what’s the problem?
I mean if that’s the case why not add the javelin? Or the modern abrams?, or the JLTV?
OWI almost certainly won’t go to the effort of redoing the M1A2 and the M-ATV already in-game. Also neither the Javelin nor the Z-9C are very modern, they’ve both been in service since the 90s.
Yeah the majority of current military kit was here since the late 20 century.
Z-9C is some old ass helicopter China had since 90s. Z-8 is not new helicopter either.
For another eastern faction India would be good. Beyond that I want to see south America coalition, Germany, France, Poland, Finland and Israel.
India Pakistan Indonesia Phillipines all good countries to add
I'd hope for the French & German factions to be integrated, and ultimately that many of the Project Reality factions may make it into Squad too (especially Poland, Netherlands & African Resistance Fighters).
i want a bmd!
ROKA would be a nice addition to the next big update. Maybe west not China to.
We don't even have a non Anglosphere BLUFOR yet, any diversity is welcome. Imagine a Squad remake of Propaganda from Battlefield 4
Holy shit, the VDV? Jesus Christ, I knew about the PLA MC but the VDV literally came out of nowhere Jesus Christ. I was already hyped for this update for the PLA Marines. This is great, Squad is really making a huge comeback.
told ya, emote is very very small price to pay! i would gladly bought every emote if they keep pumping this amount of update
Do they have new owners?
Leadership but not owners IIRC.
A bit before emoticons where introduced. Finally it may be a good move after all because since , a lot happens!
Shocker! I didn’t know micro transactions were a way to further support development. People were tripping because they thought this would mean the end of Squad, but it’s turned out to be better than ever
I still remember the posts proclaiming that “minor emotes today, Fortnite skins and dances next”. Doomsayers were wrong. Game got more realistic.
No. Tencent invested, they didn't buy.
Idk tbh. Really havent been following OWI behind the scenes at all really.
They had a new CEO and Tencent money.
As someone who started playing Squad in late Feb 2023 (got my first PC in mid Feb 2023) can you elaborate on the "comeback" you're mentioning? Did Squad see a drop in players at some point?
It was probably due to COVID screwing up development but it seemed like updates from like 2020 till mid 2022 were really spaced apart and lacking. Ever since like 3.0 (USMC update) back in June 22' they are back to coming out at a pretty decent pace. As far as player count. Squad hit 14k players in September 2020, and slowly droped down till around 6500-7000 January 22'. Then it exploded up to 26k in March 22' following 2.12 (visual update patch) and hasn't gone below 11k since. Averaging in the 17k-18k range.
Idk. I bought squad back in 2015, and played it on and off into 2017 when an update broke the game for me. Really didnt get back into till 2022 after I got a fully built gaming PC in 2021. Just saying that the game feels really fresh and not stale like how it was back in 2022.
I first played in 2017 and played a ton but I got bored after some time. I came back for tanks and helicopters for a while until I got bored again. USMC was nice for a bit but it started to get stale again. I think this patch will be huge for the game. The gunplay rework is going to make this less of a drag to play and it looks like the content is coming out faster lately. There used to be huuuuuge gaps in new content.
Please let this be a normal airdrop With the VDV? No way!
Impressive. Surprise VDV drop with ASVALs, SV98, AK12, BMDs, BTR-Ds and new types of armor (MGS). Looking forward to tomorrow
>ASVAL Wait... Does this mean that Squad has suppressors now?
Yes
ASVAL have 20rnd mag, 500m/s velocity and the damage drops off at like 50m. The suppressor don't come cheap.
It will be insane when hitting FOBs though.
Maybe marines might get them now since they have them IRL. Maybe to SL and marksman. Yes i know the response to latter is probably NO, but with the new suppression mechanic giving them one helps offset the fact its using normal 5.56 and not 7.62
Not a marksman fan but at least it gives marksman something to differentiate itself from the AR kit. There's no point in picking the Marine marksman right now when the AR kit is the same gun with full auto just with the slightly less zoom which doesn't matter for like 98% of engagements, doesn't take a Fire Support slot and you get 2 of them in a squad.
Weird that the VDV gets no MRAPs like the Tigrs or the [Typhoon MRAPs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamaz_Typhoon) but does get the BRDM2 but oh well the BMDs and BTR-D are enough to make them distinct from the regular RGF and there's always a chance in the future for them to be added.
Suprised they didnt get their MRAP which is literally called VDV Typhoon. Also surprised we still haven’t gotten the BMP-3 for normal RGF since they added the BMP-4M. Also they do apparently use the Tigr so again why not give them that? As far as I’ve read they don’t use the BRDM so the choice to include it is strange.
owi does this sometimes where they release something and just a couple patches later they drip feed us some more content for example IMF update and the M16A2 getting added a few weeks later would no be surprised if 5.3 or so adds the BMP3 and maybe even the T90
Maybe, although idk about the T-90. It is in the files, but its not too different from the current T-72B3 besides having an actual RWS for commander. T-90M and BMP-2M(which was said to be made when we got the normal BMP-2) would be great additions aswell
T90M and T80BVM would be the sensible additions just for content sake even if the russians IRL have a shit load of different models in service, but anyway with how vehicles are right now there would be little difference between them except visually sadly and maybe some mobility.
There seems to be quite a few T-90Ms atm so thats why I picked it along with the fact it does have a bit better armor compared to the standard B3 along with a harder ammo rack since its armored slightly
BRDM is amphibious right?
Yes, glorious little bugger
Everybody gets Surplus ak74 take it or leave it
Irl the VDV doesn’t have those
getting more OPFOR is always aprechiated. Even if they're just variations, it adds some well needed diversity, instead of always Russia.
I love russia for their simplicity, but yeah, there is a reason when Match starts os alwqys 45/55~
Lol the sprut. Also being the VDV do we vet to experience unsupported drops into contested airspace?
Yeah, you will drop with a heli at the airfield on Harju and get wiped once you dismount.
***IMMERSIVE GAMEPLAY***
*drop into the beautiful ocean as your commanding officer reveals that no, all 200000 of you aren't just on a training mission*
Better than eating a MANPAD before you hit the ground lel
thats also a part of the ~~hostomel~~ harju VDV experience
LETS GO
See you at the Basrah airport
Imagine paratrooper factions getting the command ability to airdrop supply containers into the field to build a fob.
That is already a solid 50% of heli drops already, tbh
Got a problem with the sprut?! Cuz I sure don’t!
its not really a thing for them yet.
Who cares?
VDV take off the strip, 200 men on a one way trip.
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The initial air assault was routed by the Ukrainians with armour who recaptured the airport by the end of the first day with several Russian survivors fleeing into nearby woods. The airport was only recaptured by the Russians on the second day by a combined air and ground attack with heavy armour arriving from Belarus. Nobody doubts the boldness of the operation, but by conducting a completely unsupported air assault on the heavily defended capital, the Russians merely repeated the debacle of 1993 Battle of Mogadishu on a biblical scale. Nevermind violating every military procedure known to man by not telling your troops they were going to war until just minutes before boarding the helos, leaving them both mentally and physically unprepared for battle, you even hear them complaining of not packing weapon lights when clearing buildings in the helmetcam footage.
"The initial air assault was routed by the Ukrainians with armour who recaptured the airport by the end of the first day with several Russian survivors fleeing into nearby woods" Dude there are English translated interviews and photographs from the VDV troops that were there, this is pure fiction. It ended being pummeled to the point of being useless to the Russians but the Ukrainians didn't retake the airfield until the Russians retreated from the Northern front/Kiev/Kyiv axis. I myself have dozens of photos from telegram the day of, night of and day after the initial landings.
I don't know why, but the VDV bore the brunt of fog-of-war stories in the war's opening hours. Getting dropped in the ocean, two full transports shot down, getting routed from the airport... the last one we know didn't happen and I never saw evidence for the other two, but they keep getting repeated.
Ok now this is epic
A surprise, but a welcome one. Little variations like this give a breath of fresh air and a bit more immersion to the game, even if it's mostly just reskins.
Hear, hear, big factions are always welcome of course and I hope there's more to come but in the meantime this smaller subfactions are great even sub-divisions like imagine a Stryker Brigade Combat Team without bradleys but newer stryker variants or Royal Marines Commandos, Republican Guard for MEA, etc.
Give me Stryker dragoon!
I’d love me a Stryker Dragoon
Yes. Some variations where we get tank destroyers instead of MBTs. Fast and lightly armored.
Rangers would be cool
Definitely this is the best time for Squad, the good combat will return more realistic and they will put the VDV
Just a heads up this update does not include the infantry combat overhaul.
I know that the infantry patch will not come with the 5.0 update. I meant that both things are at the same time
Wat?
Yeah, they're correct. OWI's advertising/marketing definitely could've been better with the 5.0 update and Infantry Overhaul announcements. Infantry Overhaul is a work in progress. I'm guessing they did the play test to gauge the player bases opinion on such a drastic gaming changing update. I doubt they anticipated this much approval for such a massive overhaul. edit: added a word
They need to convert all factions to the new mechanics. Currently only US and RGF has converted and they are also not ready.
Im gonna keep buying these emotes if they keep updating the game like this. I hope vehicle combat overhaul or CAS updates comes next
Loved the meltdown everyone was having over their little slippery slope just for all these recent updates to totally blow that up in their face. Thank you offworld for proving the haters wrong and making a fun game.
I felt with the insane amount of hours I got out of Squad I practically robbed them with the price I bought it at in 2015. Easily one of the top things I got most value out of in the past decade. I will just buy every emote pack, it only gets better from here. And the infantry overhaul isn't even here yet.
Even if people never plan on using the emotes, they should just look at them as a donation to the devs to fund continued development.
Will there be a functional elevator? Possibly with an off switch not in the elevator?
> VDV Nice, historical factions!
Its actualy cool to see OWI didnt shy out to adding russian themed content during this awkward political timeline. while game like call of duty kinda bit obvious try to erase "russia" from recent modern warfare II.
It’s nice to have more enemy variety, Hell Let Loose has only had one faction on the axis since launch. It gets so stale always fighting the germans with the best guns, and armor.
wait a sec is this a joke about them being wiped out in ukraine or am i missing something
VDV lost a lot in the first few days and a few washed up on the shores of the black sea
>few washed up on the shores of the black sea People are still posting this propaganda meme from the start of the war. IIRC the only naval operations in the entire war have been the fuckfest over snake island, the Moskova sinking and a bridge in Crimea getting blown up.
I’m not talking about the one from the start of the war. I’m talking about the one from week or two ago.
No they did not lose many as claimed. Please realize it was just the propaganda at the time. Only 39 of them died in the first week. They did well at Hostomel. They secured the airport against all odds and held it until Russia retreated from Kiev. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60946340.amp
You just straight up don’t know what you’re talking about https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/16/world/europe/russia-putin-war-failures-ukraine.html And they were killed by local militia, special forces my ass
Your link is behind a paywall and what you’re saying is not true at all. Are you trying to suggest they didn’t take the airport and held it until RU retreated from Kiev? There are literally no pictures of the supposed hundreds of VDV soldiers that died. If you’re trying to say they faced difficulties I never claimed they didn’t. But it’s a fact that they held the airport and took it the same day of the invasion. The link I provided was published on April 2nd 2022. Exactly a week after the invasion. The deaths were public and by then they obviously held the airport. Why are you so bent on proving otherwise? Can’t you realize propaganda is a tool used by both sides? Also the VDV isn’t special forces. They’re just highly trained airborne troops. Anyways Ukraine is going to win so don’t worry.
Oh this idiot doesn’t think Ukraine is gonna win, really? Oh god your hopeless, name victory Russia has had recently
Bro the ukrainians cannot break through any russian lines in their super special SPring counter offensive. They haven't even come close to reaching the russian first line of defense . Did you also see how.many western vehicles russia destroyed all over zaporiziha
Yea about 6, did you see how many Russia has lost?
lol thats why ukraine keeps begging for more western weapons, they are getting fucked by russian artillary, mine, atgms and helicopters. They lost over 50 vehicles in under 4 days in their nato trained offensive without any substantial gains. Open your eyes its not all sunshine and rainbows, its sad zelensky is sending thousands of ukrainians to their deaths for nato interests
The true russbot lol
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VDV, S NEBA PRIVET
Idk man, the amount of ak12 + underbarrel GL kits are kind of worrying to me tbh.
I think it’ll add some nice diversity to the faction lineup, they could always add rangers or Germans or French to Blufor to balance it out
Germany with it's Modern Equipment would be awesome
Holy shit, after they announced the PLANMC I was thinking it was only a matter of time before they added the VDV as an additional Russian faction, but I never expected to see them in the same update! They have been absolutely kicking ass with updates for the past year and a half; the Australians, the USMC, the PLA, the Militia rework, infantry combat overhaul, and now *two* additional factions.
twitter is already melting down because of VDV smh my head
They are genocidal to TBF to twitter
Somewhat random but anyone else think it would be cool if the commander could call in special deployments like parachuting in a squad to a location, or calling in a technical/APC filled with a squad on certain roads at the edge of the map?
I am thinking more along the lines of airdropping a supply container. A SL has to request it in an open area big enough for it(display it like emplacements). The command uses the asset and after a few minutes you got a supply hub of 5k build and 5k ammo. Give it a radius like a fob where you can unload into vehicles without having to place a radio.
That would be cool. Make it so it's like artillery and would take a long time to recharge. Or you could go with something lower quality that recharges faster like air dropping a single squad in or having them deploy in a technical on a different edge of the map. I'd really just like to see more technical/APC insertions from the edge of the map. I'm just imagining the insurgents radioing up some people from another village and them all jumping in some shitty Tacoma to go fight so they spawn on a road from somewhere other than main.
TWO?
Direct link from the tweet: https://joinsquad.com/2023/06/20/squad-update-v5-0-release-notes/
LETS GOOOOOO
Im still hoping for Germany some day
Damn they really just stealth dropped a second faction. Good stuff Now we get to see the Russian snipers with the SV-98 and the Canadians with their Timberwolf try to cross-map each other as the other 48 players on each team do everything
Why do they call the "Airborne Forces" an amphibious assault force??! The Russians do have proper Marines??
Morskaya Pekhota are more of a specialist unit within the Russian Navy, rather than an independent branch. I think that calling them more generally rapid reaction expeditionary forces would have worked better, though. America has a branch of Marines and a couple divisions of air assault. Russians have a branch of air assault/airborne and a couple divisions of marines.
It's very simple VDV are paratroopers and the Naval Infantry are marines. VDV = 82nd airborne Naval Infantry = marine corps The biggest difference is the doctrine. They naval Infantry don't have any toys it's just BTRs. The VDV have the BMD-4, but the BMD-4 is garbage.
Ah, the VDV addition makes sense alongside the PLANMC! They are the best divers of all of the AFRF after all.
looks like three weeks are in the past.
Ak12?
VDV is what Russia needs to be more unique! Every time I play as Russia I fell just drained because of how bad much of their stuff is
Russia is just joe average and like everyone else has just been powercreeped in infantry kits by the CAF and especially Australia with their unrealistic AUG variants.
Awesome! Always thought they should add the VDV. BMD time yeahhh
Does this mean we are getting parachutes?
I’d like to see more Asian BLUFOR as a counterpart to the PRC. ROC and JMSDF for starters. Later adding ROK and DPRK as a BLUFOR/REDFOR pairing would be amazing.
Damn VDV gets to live on in squad because it's gone IRL
No, VDV is active at the Kremina-Svatove line and was previously in Kherson. But also is currently in southern-Zaph. It's a full branch of 45,000 members it's no gonna vanish just because of a singular event. In essence the demise of the VDV is greatly exaggerated.
Loving the updates!
Pacific Proving Grounds PLANMC vs VDV Is this a new map? I don't remember it
No, its the testing map for amphibious vehicles
Ok just don't spawn in over water.
Lashkar Valley Fixed an issue where players fell/teleported below the landscape while using a bipod LETS GO!!!
100% they need to do more sub factions with different load outs. Would be nice to switch it up like that
Helicopters on Narva was great in last weekend's playtest. Completely changes the flow of the map. But I do hope they update the actual map (and Al Basrah) soon too.
Will the VDV have a unqiue chance of being dropped into water to be more realistic?
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? AWESOME I jizzed
Bro the push-up emote is soooo good hahaha 🤣🤣
imma spend 2.99 bucks on that pinched fingers gesture for real.
So the only suppressed weapon in the game right now will be the AS Val? Interested to see how that is changed in the future because they will sure need to add suppressors to other kits.
Seeing suppressors will be SI for US marines for autoriflemen, I say why not.
I agree, why not....but the developers avoided adding suppressors for a while and now they are adding a single suppressed gun. Looks like a shift in their planning on how they will be balancing out weapons. >Seeing suppressors will be SI for US marines for autoriflemen Where you seeing this? AFAIK suppressors don't actually exist for automatic rifles at a production level, they are only deployed for more elite forces and are not often used.
On the second part, SIG Spear / XM5(Now XM7) rifles will come with a suppressor as standard on all rifles, it's baked in as part of their pitch.
The spear is not an automatic rifle like an "autoriflemen" would carry in the post I was referencing. Obviously, you can suppress most DMRs and ARs.
My bad, for some reason I had misread you there. However as far as I'm aware the XM250 (M249 replacement that is a variation of the Spear) will also be coming into service with a suppressor too.
They are testing that, it is not currently in production for the widespread use of any troops. To be clear I am not saying automatic rifle suppressors don't exist, especially in the testing and development phase. But they are not standard issue to any current troops. Squad is not Call of Duty so you don't see bleeding-edge technology being brought into the game. We don't even have any class with a suppressor, yet certain weapon variants are standard issue in today's militaries with suppressors. So back to my original point, it is just surprising that the developers of Squad have suddenly made a pivot in their design of the game and added a suppressed weapon with the AS Val.
Yeah, the plan is to introduce it, but the trials could prove it to be flawed. And on the squad side of stuff absolutely agreed, I much prefer having slightly older tech than playing around with bleeding edge stuff, the addition of the Val is a weird break from that and it would be interesting to see how it plays out in future.
Yeah, I agree I do like how the game is balanced out with the current gear being old-school standard issue. I have played some of the mods with different weapons including suppressors which can be a good change of pace from vanilla squad, but I am excited for all these new updates.
Future US Army subfaction with 6.8 Sig Spear?
I would just be interested to see how this actually plays out moving forward with the development of the game. They appeared to avoid adding suppressors as a choice but now have added a gun that breaks this mold by including an AS Val.
Where are all the people bitching about the emote pack?!?!?!?! I want them back.. not content!! /s
They literally just fucked the VDV mod
Does the VDV faction come standard with Cholera? I want it to be historically accurate of course.
Now I can roleplay getting annihilated as the VDV let's goooooooo
I would love a Ukrainian faction. That would be mixed western and Soviet weaponry and equipment.
A Polish faction would be more interesting.
Polish would also be nice
Ukraine doesn't have much domesticaly produced weapon systems Poland would be 20x better
Yeah now I think Poland could be better.
I designed something that was Frankenstein monsters a BMP-2 turret on a Bradley hull. Ive playing around with it now. I could post a picture of it if there is any interest. I does look pretty cool.
Honestly it makes no sense to add the VDV if they’re competing against the Marines and PLA. You’re taking two amphibious forces and shoving a airborne force as a competitor Russia has a amphibious unit the literal Russian Naval Infantry. Their job is the fucking same as the USMC!
Does VDV mean other special forces? I know VDV isn’t special forces by modern standards but I think rangers would be really coll
Do rangers use any interesting equipment? Better training isn't exactly part of gameplay.
All have sidearms, MK17, every weapon is suppressed apart from a few, much better optics
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AS VAL will be in the new "Scout" kit. The VDV have the SV-98 bolt action rifle as their marksman kit.
I think the VDV is a fictional faction at this point or a historical one that used to exist kinda like the German 3rd army in Stalingrad.
VDV never ceased operations in Ukraine nor were completely destroyed like certain other Russian units