Where were you when the saviour of the fps genre got released?
here
In my cold dead grave
>>320227716
>>320227716
When is getting released?
Dont wanna buy it if its gonna get a release discount.
>>320227886
today
its on steam already
EA though
Dragon Valley doesn't come out for a few more hours, but I will be in my computer chair as per usual
>>320227923
>EA though
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
I'm not buying it.
Downloading now
so excite
it's cool they have 100 man servers but under the circumstances of smaller servers (~30<) are there objectives other than kill errbody?
>>320227949
they're saying it's actually a good EA, but yeah, thats what they say about every EA.
but standalone Project Reality is promising.
>>320227923
I said release dammit.
Although are helicopters in yet, all I want to do is logistics support. Drop off troops in hotzones and supplies.
>>320227716
It's in Early access, thus not released.
>>320227923
>early access
lol after kliing floor 2 and starbound, never again
There was a top down tactical "RTS"(you could switch to FPS view with your units) much like a top down ArmA 2.
I can't remember the name, it was in EA.
>>320227923
EA is releasing games on Steam now?
>>320228557
Call to Arms
bretty good
http://store.steampowered.com/app/302670/
> no destructible environments despite having rockets and explosives
damn BF for raising the bar so high
>>320228651
Early Access
>>320228669
The menus looks like Men of War.
>>320228770
EA is releasing early access games too? Weird.
>>320228957
Because it's the same devs as Men of War.
>>320228957
Same devs, same engine.
>>320228752
Even Arma 2 had destructible environment somewhat.
They have no excuse.
This thread seems to be filled with misinformation.
This is basically Battlefield 2's Project Reality but on the UE4 engine, 100 player servers on 4km maps.
>>320230193
hop on the hypetrain
>>320229404
>early access
Either uppercut yourself and move on or commit suicide. The choice is yours.
>>320231243
Is it even in their goals by the end of EA, if there's one?
Is this a good game or what? 40 bucks seems pretty steep for EA
How does it play? Is it autistic, near unplayable ArmA shit? How does respawning work? What factions are playable? Does it have squad support like BF and Red Orchestra?
>>320233315
I too would like to know these things
>>320227716
>early access
i think ill pass ty
>>320227716
that happened long ago, it's called Insurgency
>>320233315
It's almost a near clone of PR, but I'm pretty sure the gunplay is better.
You can spawn on guys, but respawn times get longer (up to 60 seconds) if you die a lot. Bullets don't kill immediately but do make you start bleeding out and require that you get medical treatment. Not being part of a squad will get you banned on most servers. Kits are limited, only 2 snipers per team, and only if certain requirements are met (at least 3 people in squad, at least 10 people on team). Games are generally more about holding points than killing guys. Lots of hiking, let transport team do their job and transport you, and don't you dare think about taking a heli if you don't have a pilot kit and at least 3 hours flying offline.
>>320234458
How does it compare to Red Orchestra 2? If I enjoy that will I enjoy this?
>>320234458
So is anyone that actually plays competent, or is it still the same shitters that think flying the Trans helo into aa nets, running straight at enemy defenses, and not paying attention to geography is how you win firefights?
>>320232282
Small scale destruction is, not massive "OMG XBOX HUEG THE CITY IS COLLAPSING AROUND US WE HAVE TO FALL BACK NIGGER SHIT" type of destruction that Electronic Arts have taken on recently.
It'll be realistic destruction. Classy destruction. The kind of destruction that wants you to make gentle passionate love to, not the one that will let you shove it anywhere for $69.95.
>>320227716
>falling for the early access scheme after KF2 "economy update"
>>320234727
Completely different beast.
Games like Red Orchestra and Insurgency are Call of Duty that focus on stamina mechanics and realistic bullet projectile models.
I don't know much about Squad honestly, but in PR bullet projectile physics were forsaken (partly due to the limitations of the BF2 engine) and much more focus on teamwork. You will need to join a squad and listen to his orders. If your squad leader doesn't make orders or is stupid, you should hope that the other squad slots aren't filled.
>>320234739
Nah, PR is pretty good these days. A lot of the PR crew are beginning the transition to Squad.
>>320233315
>How does it play?
More weight, momentum and all that shit than CoD or BF and less clunky menus than Arma. Insurgency is probably pretty close.
>Is it autistic, near unplayable ArmA shit?
It's a milsim so there will the autists who require proper radio etiquette and shit but it's not gonna be as autistic as Arma. Probably wont see much of those people unless you go looking for them and join a community or a clan or something.
>How does respawning work?
Team has tickets (like BF) and you spawn at FOBs and rally points which are places by the squad leaders. Respawn time is a few seconds.
>What factions are playable?
At the moment US, Russian forces, Turbanheads and Militia. Dunno if there will be more official ones but there will be more modded in like in PR. Some ppl are already working on that stuff and some WW2 mods or something.
>Does it have squad support like BF and Red Orchestra?
>game is called Squad
>"Does it have squads?"
Gee I don't know.
>>320234214
>baby's first semirealistic shooter
totally different scale and style of gameplay. serves a different purpose.
>>320234727
>>320234950 said it pretty well. I'd probably add that Squad is also a lot slower because the maps are very big and that's probably going to be the biggest turnoff for most people.
>>320234739
It just came out to the public and is a top seller on Steam right now. There will be people who are total shitters. If that's a turn off then wait a month or two.
>>320234964
I highly doubt that.
One of the biggest problems with PR, Red Orchestra, and other team based games is that idiots have 0 fucking idea what they're doing half the time, especially at a slightly higher level, and this leads to an experience thay is fun at first but rapidly wears thin as personal skill grows but collective skill remains shit. Then people leave and it drops further.
Used to be the pilots in PR talked to each other and knew where the aa nets were and told faggot squad leaders off if they tried to send them there. Used to be a lot more communication and a lot less horseshit, and that's just the nature of the type of game.
Or is that fixed, to some extent?
>>320235261
>shitters
Yeah but it's a team-based game. Personal skill doesn't amount to much. Do they have a better communication system than fucking mumble yet?
>>320235436
Game has in-game voice with local, squad and command channels. Bound to V,B,G respectively (I think).
>>320235261
It's not a milsim. Some players are ex-military and use their knowledge to their advantage. A lot want to sound like them, hence autistic gameplay.
Kiddies screaming on local whilst the squad babbles about inane shit on the squad net, whilst the command and squad leader nets are all transmitting are... these are things that have to die a slow painful death.
Also those people in squads who, during a contact yell out "CONTACTS" or "I'M HIT I NEED A MEDIC" or "HOLY SHIT HE RAN OVER THERE" as loud as they can, as if their resting heart rate just immediately jumped up to it's max. Jesus fuck just calm down son and send decent information for the squad.
>>320235261
Well I guess I could look at it as BF version of Insurgency?
Still going to wait few days and see people reaction on it before buying it at least
been burn by Early access quite a lot lately
>>320235558
Fuck. Did they do away with the contacting individual squads thing? The only way I could get shit done was to talk to other squads in the area individually.
Also how many actually use the comms?
>>320235313
>Or is that fixed, to some extent?
In PR? It isn't a problem unless you make it a problem. Most shit pilots get kicked quickly or the team rags on them hard enough so they resign their position.
Squad doesn't have airframes yet.
>>320236002
>Did they do away with the contacting individual squads thing?
I'm not sure what you mean. I've not actully played as a squad leader but as far as I understand it you press G and it transmits to all other squad leaders.
>>320236002
Squad to Squad comms hasn't been perfected yet.
I actually had some decent fun the few times I played PR, might eventually try this out too
>>320236096
It used to be setup that you could contact squad leaders individually using the numpad keys, so if you wanted to yell at the tanks it was a lot easier with a lot less noise on the nets. You did have to tell them who you were though, which a lot didnt do. I'd get called by someone who didn't tell me who the fuck they were first.
I don't remember how long ago it was.
>>320235814
This is why having a working understanding of radio etiquette/small-unit tactics is pushed a lot. Sadly people seem to care too much or not enough. No one can strike a functional medium.
>>320236392
>>320236392
>No one can strike a functional medium.
Not true at all. There are some retards who get a bit autistic, few and far between. At the end of the day, leave and join another squad. You're in control of your own gaming experience, friend.
in game now, will answers questions later
MFW IVE BEEN HYPED FOR SQUAD STEAM RELEASE FOR PAST 6 MONTHS
>39.99
LOL FUCK YOU PROJECT REALITY FGTS.
welp looks like i'll be waiting till this game is 4.99 during the spring sale.
>>320238515
>Waiting for a game for 6 months
>Didn't pay 30 bucks for it before they closed pre-purchases
>Doesn't want to pay 40 bucks after release
Sounds to me like you weren't very hyped for the game after all. What did you expect? You wanted the game to be 10 bucks on release? I also find it hard to believe that you waited for Squad for 6 months and didn't know that they would be selling it for 40 when it comes out on EA because i'm pretty sure that info has been out for months.
>>320238865
didnt even know it was 30$ I just heard about it awhile ago when I reinstalled bf2 and played some PR.
Figured it would be in the 20-30$ range.
like i said, i'll just wait for the spring sale when its 5$ and nobody plays it.
>You have to be either an ex-military dudebro, a military autist or be in a fuckhuge group of friends in order to enjoy this game
No thanks, I'll stick to casually playing Battlefield by myself.
>tfw cant play squad because you have too many games to play right now and you are feeling stressed
I don't have time for another game god damn it
>37 euros
Is this just gonna turn into another insurgency where barely anybody plays it anymore?
>>320240609
I only played the mod, I'm glad I never gave in to friends asking me to buy it.
>>320240609
But people still play Insurgency and the best part is because it's not popular, russians and kids in general don't play it, they stick to cs go.
>>320240445
I know that feel.
I need to finish yakuza 5 first before i buy squad
>>320227923
>EA though
well fuck that game then
All their alpha players are talking about vehicles, how one shouldn't even dare fly unless they've had hours doing offline practice. Their advertisement is all about the combined arms, and 50 v 50 warfare. I'm looking at some steam streams, highest server is 72 players and infantry only. So what happened?
>>320240331
Whatever happened to meeting new people and making friends over the internet while playing video games?
This is why video games are so shit nowadays. Used to be that you could and would play multiplayer video games with random people on a server and eventually just got to know the regulars better and then you'd have new friends. That's how I've made most of my internet buddies and Squad is one of the few new games that makes something like that possible and even encourages it because of how the game works.
Just get on a server and start playing the game, if the people you are in a squad with are annoying you change squads or servers. If you still can't find people you like to play with then I'd say the problem is in you.
I just want a coop vs Ai mode to come out. One of the maps looks like Takistan insurgency from Arma 2.
>>320241074
Did you miss the part where it says it's Early Access? It's pretty hard to miss.
>>320240609
>where barely anybody plays it anymore?
yes, give it till the spring sale where itll be 4.99$ and the entire community will fit onto 2 servers, just like Project Reality.
rip $40
is it toaster friendly by any chance?
>>320242487
Not really but I don't know how optimized it is.
>>320242487
Not toaster friendly but doesn't need a bestly machine either.
>>320234876
Insurgency did EA well, but that's the only shooter I can think of doing EA that hasn't left me feeling ripped off (Interstellar Marines, Contagion)
>>320242487
Runs off UE4, mang. Also, has yet to go under optimisation so wait out for that. Still Early Access, and will most likely be for at least a year.
really decent alpha what I've seen thusfar, price is steep, but if you're into realistic tactical team shooters it's great.
Better than Arma desu
>>320243938
>UE4
welp. thanks.
How is asia server?
>>320244103
There are a few chinese and australian servers. Ping isn't much of an issue though, anything up to 200 or so is playable in this game. It's not a twitch shooter so playing from europe on american servers is perfectly doable for example.
There's one Jap playing it on Twitch. You could ask him about it.
>>320244430
Thanks
Do you need a good rig to run it? i can run Insurgency at med at best
>>320245872
Insurgency can be run on toasters, Unreal 4 is pretty demanding.
no webms?
da fuq senpai
>look at steam page
>Squad is a 50 vs 50 multiplayer
naw fuck that. Carrying is annoying enough when its 4 people and not 49
>>320247856
It's not possible to "carry" in this game.
>Early access
Fuck right off faggot
>>320248019
tanks and helicopters can
>>320247201
This is extremely accurate.
>>320247856
>50 vs 50 isn't completely awesome
Just gtfo and never come back.
>>320248262
It sure is.
>>320233315
>Is it autistic, near unplayable ArmA shit?
Are you seriously implying ArmA is "autistic and unplayable"? Seriously? Fucking hell, you must be dumb as rocks.
>>320248487
People are starting to reach the point where they've reassured themselves into thinking more players is bad so that they are happy when they play 6v6 or 16v16 in their yearly FPS of choice.
>>320227716
Is Insurgency kill?
>mfw going on games like this, Red Orchestra, Project Reality etc and team killing
>mfw ALPHA CHARLIE BRAVO faggots sperging out and crying
I post this facebook frog just to be a shit
These games are really fun to play for real, but god damn is it hilarious tossing a grenade into my team and hearing everyone freak out.
We can have long discussions about how the whole EA concept doesn't work but in the end there are a few title for whom it does work and actual devs delivering.
Prison Architect and ARMA 3 comes to mind.
What if, just what if, Squad is another one. It does seem like another military shooter, but it'sn ot your battlefield nor call of duty and it's something you should check out if you're into FPS games. It does the realism immersion quite well to be frank.
>EA
Yeah, I buy it on full release.
I bought DayZ and KF2. Thats enough dissapointment for me.
>>320249058
It's been dead long ago.
>>320249058
Its still alive, source? i've been playing everyday nonstop for the last month
That being said, it does get a little dead at late hours EU time.
