6 people found this review helpful
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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1,911.4 hrs on record (1,907.1 hrs at review time)
Posted: 11 Nov, 2018 @ 9:57pm
Updated: 28 Sep, 2023 @ 1:08am

Update 6.0 has ruined the game. I do not recommend

I can not publicly review this game the way I want to, it would involve to much profanity. I am upset, no... that's not right, I AM FURIOUS! I didn't ask for a combat update, no one i can find in any discord server asked for a combat update. The Devs have completely lost touch with what Squad is or rather what it was. IT WAS supposed to bridge the gap between ARMA and BattleField. And for a long time it was, thats why i played so much of it. With the new "combat overhaul" there is motion blur that can not be turned off. My dead grandfather could ADS faster than you can in game. It's nearly impossible to see anything beyond 50m while moving. forget about getting into a gun fight. it now heavily favors defenders hiding in bushes. who ever is stationary first wins due to new and clunky "aiming stamina". Movement speed is at the lowest i've ever seen. When you get shot at once you can't continue to sprint and you become a slowly moving target as more and more bullets land next to you because no one can shoot straight anymore. Team damage needs to be removed all together because people are so on edge that they shoot at anything and everything looking vaguely human. One close miss from an enemy will cause you to shake so violently you would give Michael J. Fox a run for his money. Vehicles are the only way to have any fun, but if all i wanted to do play vehicles I'd play War Thunder. Its just to much, all of it. It's no longer fun and makes me actually sick from all the motion blur that can not be turned off. As it is today with this joke of a combat system Squad might as well just be removed from the steam store. Its supposed to be officially released and they Devs are pulling stunts like its still in alpha. There is legal precedent for making changes to games that are released, changes that alter core aspects of the game. Combat is defiantly a core aspect of Squad. Someone with time and money might pursue that. I feel betrayed that they would take a game I dearly loved and all but destroy it. If i could refund it and get my money back I would. OWI has destroyed any trust I had left with them. I'm done, I'm done with Squad, I'm done with OWI and anything they ever put their greedy incompetent hands on in the future. I sincerely hope OWI rolls back the Infantry Combat Overhaul, but knowing them they never will.

SO, instead I hope it all falls apart. I hope they never touch any game ever again.
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5 Comments
Rebel Ben 9 Oct, 2023 @ 3:13pm 
Check some of the sway changes out, some good improvements tweak wise to point firing as well as support weapons.
Mad Moose 30 Sep, 2023 @ 11:57am 
its just frustrating and not that much fun
Mad Moose 30 Sep, 2023 @ 11:57am 
We eventually won the fire fight, then a MTLB rolled up and shit canned my logi. We fought off a rally for a while and the enemy took Verto, it happend to be center cap. We then fought for over an hour trying to take Verto and never captured it. my team won by some miracle of modern warfare. I went 22 and 3, but man i did not think we deserved to win that match. we couldnt make any moves and neither could the enemy, we had 2 guys running an open top MRAP most of the game and they crushed it. They are the reason we won, they blew up every vic they could find and some infantry along the way
Mad Moose 30 Sep, 2023 @ 11:27am 
I SLed quite a bit last night and it was pretty standard for the most part. we just could not kick the enemy off objectives. On Fools road we all got jammed up on the bridge out of US main. Far to late to rush FOB Papnov, so we went to verto. Enemy logi rolls up across from us as we are dismounting and we proceed to engage in the most embarrassing fire fight of all time. I'm talking my squad fired at theirs in the open at 40-50meters for 2 whole minutes. with all that fire i'm sure they were just as suppressed as us. just seeing blurry blobs on the ground and muzzle flashes. i cant tell you if i even hit anyone. I burrned 3 mags and my nade.
Rebel Ben 30 Sep, 2023 @ 10:16am 
I doubt they will revert the changes you want them to. Adapt or leave is the option and you chose the later.

Its pretty easy to shoot still. Take a red dot. Fill your stamina bar before engagement, crouch to make your weapon steady the fastest it can. Out-suppress your enemy or take your time with shots. Even if you take an acog you can do fine with these tips.

If you are getting supressed, its tough luck I guess. Your team should be shooting back to help you.

Vehicles should be worth more tickets now tho. AT kits with scopes struggle when they run to catch them. And they are immensely powerful with the current suppression.