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Assassinx210
5 years ago
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5 man squads

During the pre alpha gameplay I saw that there were 4 people to a squad. I'm hoping they bring back 5 to a squad like BF1 so I can play with all my friends.  I don't know why they down sized it to 4 ...
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  • OskooI_007's avatar
    OskooI_007
    5 years ago

    Yep, 4 man squads confirmed. A couple reasons for them choosing 4 man squads come to mind. There's four classes so each member of the squad can be a different class. Assault, support, engineer, and sniper.

    The second reason I can think of is that 4 man squads divides evenly into 128 players. I don't know if these are the reasons DICE chose to go with 4 man squads, but it's my best guess as to why.

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ragnarok013
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5 years ago
@OskooI_007 wrote:

Yep, 4 man squads confirmed. A couple reasons for them choosing 4 man squads come to mind. There's four classes so each member of the squad can be a different class. Assault, support, engineer, and sniper.

The second reason I can think of is that 4 man squads divides evenly into 128 players. I don't know if these are the reasons DICE chose to go with 4 man squads, but it's my best guess as to why.

@OskooI_007 I'd prefer to have at least 6 man squads like in BF2 which would be 21 even squads and 2 commanders - but honestly in a 128 player game 8 man squads would  divide into 16 even squads if they foolishly don't add commanders back in such a large game mode.

With the prohibition against spawning under fire (not to mention how glitch the under fire sensor has been over the past couple of games) 4 man squads ensure that squads are never together because 1-2 will be dead and the rest probably in contact necessitating you to respawn at a flag.

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DeeCay_DK_81
5 years ago
@ragnarok013 give the man a raise and an extra day off... finally speaking some sense...
64man-team equals to 16 squads:
1: Alpha
2: Bravo
3. Charlie
4. Delta
5. Echo
6: Foxtrott
7: Golf
8: Hotel
9: India
10: Juliet
11: Kilo
12: Lima
13: Mike
14: November
15: Oscar
16:Papa

Then you have 5-6 locked squads with 2-3 guys in each... So you get another 4-5 squads:

16:Quebec
17: Romeo
18: Sierra
19: Tango
20: Uniform

I have never never ever seen any squad name beyond Juliet in BF4
  • Boba_Brett711's avatar
    Boba_Brett711
    5 years ago

    4 to a squad is such a bad idea. 8 in a squad makes so much sense. Literally, we’re going from 64 players (4 man) to 128 players, so why shouldn’t the squad sizes be 8? It’s an even divide of 128.

    My concern is that it’s the specialists that are driving this. The only real thing holding back squad sizes is if they’re limiting specialists to 1 per squad. And since there are only 10 specialists, an 8 man squad would make it harder to be “your specialist.” I don’t agree with this, but I can’t think of a logical reason why they would still keep 4 man squads, it’s just terrible.

      • Boba_Brett711's avatar
        Boba_Brett711
        5 years ago

        @DingoKillrI know that. I meant, are they limiting how many specialists per squad? If you and I are in a squad and I’m Casper, do you get to be Casper as well? That’s what I mean. Like, are they concerned that you’ll just quit the game, or get frustrated by squads, because you can’t be Casper? Hence, 4 man squads and less likelihood someone would have “your guy/gal”

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