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I'd have to disagree with this. GL right now is an incredibly powerful kit when used properly. You've basically got 10 RPG7 frags that have even more of an arc than the RPG frag to get into those tricky spots. The ability to kill people hiding and around corners makes grenadier one of the most powerful infantry kits. Plus, it's extremely annoying already to be on the other side, fighting against the GL nade spam.

Also, a lot of the time, people forget about the GL smokes as well, which are incredibly powerful for all sorts of purposes.

Grenade launcher are kind of useless right now since their splash radius is so small. A buff would make a GL much more useful to the squad.

My post was long enough as is and I did not think I needed to explain why a human wearing his weight in gear couldn't scale 2 meter walls in 3 seconds.

And let's set aside the "realism" factor and consider what Squad was like before A10. In my opinion, making a fortified location that required the engineer kit to use his ladder or C4 to breach was a more fun experience than having enemies pour over the walls. It's completely subjective, but I enjoyed having fortified locations that could stand up to the enemy's presence.

We've seen in the last squad chat talks about changing the vaulting system and here is the trello card on the roadmap.

It's not that simple and would not fix the issue.

Fortifications have already been made cheaper and they are still not used.

Fortifications were used in Squad's past, and this was despite the fact that they were more expensive and logi supplies were a lot harder to come by.

By reducing the cost of fortifications, you end up creating a "race to the bottom" effect and not actually solving the problem. FOBs just become more disposable as the effort it takes to build them becomes less and less.

You have to actually identify why fortifications are no longer used, and you did that in part:

But the fact that fortifications can be easily scaled and easily destroyed by the new assets are also a contributing factor.

If you want a simple fix: make HABs cost more (let's say 1000 construction points). Then logi trucks would be able to drop fewer HABs per run.

Do not make the fortifications even cheaper, we've already done that and it doesn't work.

Greetings,

I am writing to give my personal feedback on the current iteration of the game's meta. Squad when played at a competitive level is very meta focused, we have to learn and understand the meta in order to beat opponents.

Right now there are a few things that really bother me meta wise:

1) FOB Spam: The fact that a team has to build multiple FOBs in order to out spawn the opponent creating multiple angles of attacks without much penalty is very absurd. Half the time you find yourself fighting against FOBs rather than the actual objectives which makes the gameplay kind of silly, for example in the recent Doc's Office vs VAC game on Mestia, the game was played by destroying enemy FOBs around Crucible rather than playing over Crucible itself. This should signal that there is something inherently wrong with the way the game is being played. The fight should be over FLAGS not FOBs, I would suggest limiting the amount of FOBs to be placed on the map at one time by either increasing FOB range via 300 to 500 or 400 or just limiting the amount of fobs placed on a map at the same time in general, maybe the commander can have an ability to destroy a fob.

The game played much better when both teams had 2 - 3 FOBs maximum and infantry was much more focused rather than spread out and playing this "spawn management" game. This also played into SLs having to communicate with one another at the beginning of the game talking about fob placement more. Now SLs just go and place fobs wherever.

2) Mortar Spam: A personal hatred of mine, in competitive you are unable to place fobs anywhere, Teams are so astute now with mortars, if you put any FOB or HAB in the open, the opposing team will immediately mortar it. This forces you to essentially place all FOBs in buildings. Entire games are played with your screen shaking constantly and hearing BANG BANG BANG BANG in your ears ALL DAMN GAME. Something has to be done with this meta, Mortars being as strong as they are is something that can't continue to go on. They are simply too strong and limit teams ability to place FOBs in more places.

A couple of simple nerfs are this: Increase ammo cost, add over heat, decrease damage to HAB/Radio.

3) Power of Airstrike/UAV/Artillery: These things are simply really silly and overpowered, once again limiting FOB spots and causing the "counter mortar" meta. Teams CAN NOT place fobs in the open because of these abilities. Mortaring becomes a chess game of removing mortar tubes when UAV is up because of the opponent will actually counter mortar your mortars through UAV coordination. It's absolutely silly and over powered.

Suggestion: Remove Commander abilities that effect the other team through damage (add supportive abilities). Maybe add a supply drop ability. Change the way we get commander abilities rather than on a timer? the timer makes games seem very time based and kind of artificial rather than natural, the game seemed to have more integrity without commander abilities. Another suggestion would be to remove the ability for commanders to call in air strikes through UAV and require an SL to mark what he needs air struck, along with reducing the circle diameter that is generated when a call in is done on the map which would force an SL to get a very accurate mark down.

4) Heli Dominance/UAV: Helis are simply way way way too strong with fob spamming and gaining intel without much punishment, they need to be much weaker to small arms and have to have some kind of height based fob. Smart heli pilots can essentially fly without penalty and spot vehicles across map. A good example of this is on Yehorivka, if stepne is taken a good heli pilot can call out any logis that are pushing stepne on border of the map etc. making it virtually impossible to get an attack going. They need to be nerfed in some way shape or form. The exact nerf is very difficult to say to be honest.

5) Vehicle Tanky-ness/LAT spam: Vehicles need a massive balance change, What I have found is that Vehicle players are not having fun playing in them and Infantry are not having fun playing against them. you find that vehicles can do some things like sit on a hab and frag dump it while taking multiple lats, which in fact it should be that vics should not want to get any where close to an enemy spawn and instead play with their own infantry and shoot from a distance.

Suggestion: reduce the amount of LAT and HAT and increase the damage those kits do. Give vehicles Thermals and/or better optics (give them a 1x Zoom with thermal).

Conclusion: I think all these problems are very very important to be addressed in the next update and I hope to see some gameplay changes regarding these. These changes are relatively simple and I would love to see some of them tested.

Thanks for reading,

Doc

A note to add onto the "FOB Spam" section, when I mentioned the game played better with 2-3 Fobs per map, it also played better when FOBs were Stronger/Tougher harder to take down. Which allowed teams to focus on fighting for the flag rather than taking down a fob that is super easy to rip.

@ChrisJ The lighting isn't the issue, it's the size and shape of the newer chevron. I would prefer the darker chevron via version alpha 9, however, the green tint for me was never an issue. the most recent patch they increased the size of the reticule dramatically resulting in very tough target acquisition.

and to be clear I am talking about the 4x Russian Rifleman Optic. I don't know the exact name of the optic but i'm sure everyone here knows what I'm referring to.

Yeah, the reticule has definitely become more "bold". Watch the videos and notice the thickness of the chevron.

I just realized that my three video links were combined:

• Beta 18: https://youtu.be/rFlNMard2co?t=50
• V2: https://youtu.be/WZW7KfMwz08?t=2600
• A4: https://youtu.be/zAG3n6ZlxUI?t=119

Of course, field of view and graphic settings may vary between these videos. Not a perfect comparison.

EDIT: Totally meant to quote XXPX1 not Geebus and don't see a way to delete my comment.

I like this idea, because I am sure that part of the Devs reasoning behind why it is not a one hit kill on vehicles is that vehicles don't really have much of a chance to move before the "Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt". But if the aircraft could be spotted before an attack run, that would make armor a little bit more on edge, creating a kind of gap of armor support for INF until a run is complete or the timer runs out.

Ultimately I would just like to see the Airstrike asset be more of a threat to armor, or just in general. Because right now the only time I fear the sound of a jet is when I'm standing next to a HAB.

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The ticket bleed is extremely minimal, if you have -1 ticket bleed which can only theoretically start at around 10 minutes into the game which means by the 60 minute mark you have lost 50 tickets. If you recapture a center flag at the 60 minute mark you are +10 tickets due to a 70 ticket swing. So I am unsure of what you are unhappy about? Even if you were sitting at -2 for 30 minutes you would be net positive after a flag flip.

ticket bleed is fine the way it is. If you are fighting off -1 for 50 minutes then you should probably be losing.

I would assume it's because the real Oshkosh M-ATV never really saw a TOW variant.

The TOW variant is listed on the wikipedia. Here is an article about the TOW variant and here is one on the waybackmachine and here is a photo of it on the showroom floor. But that's all there is; if anyone has more information or pictures of it, I'd love to read/see them.

As far as I know, it was a prototype variant that never made it pass that stage.

And for those interested, there is also a single photo of a MILAN ATGM mounted on M-ATVs by the Saudi's, according to wikipedia.

I was just gunning one last night for @ChrisJ on Narva (US vs RUS)