Join/create squad function...

Genuine question; Are we ever going to see this feature implemented into BF2042?

Played Breathrough earlier, was in a squad of 3. The other 2 left halfway through the game. I was left on my own without the ability to join another squad. So, will we be seeing this "legacy" feature return? Has it been mentioned at all by the devs? Or will this be swept under the rug and forgotten?

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Jonesworth
3 years ago
You can switch to a different squad, on PC on the scoreboard you right click your own name. Would be great to create and be able to select which squad to join though

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tom_looken
3 years ago
@Arfan76 i fell your pain those rare moments i get into a squad that ptfos picks up there fellow squadmates and get top 15 on the board is so awesome.

Sadly i am top 15 or top 10 my squad is in the lower 50's/60's.

I am nice though and tell them that they failed as gloried spawn beacons but did better than the ai that was stuck in the wall all game.
RayD_O1
Hero
3 years ago
@Arfan76 wrote:
Genuine question; Are we ever going to see this feature implemented into BF2042?
Played Breathrough earlier, was in a squad of 3. The other 2 left halfway through the game. I was left on my own without the ability to join another squad. So, will we be seeing this "legacy" feature return? Has it been mentioned at all by the devs? Or will this be swept under the rug and forgotten?
Imho the whole Squad Management in BF2042 needs a complete overhaul and needs to be brought into line with previous BF's.
Jonesworth
3 years ago
You can switch to a different squad, on PC on the scoreboard you right click your own name. Would be great to create and be able to select which squad to join though
Arfan76
3 years ago
@Jonesworth Thanks! Didn't realise. Just found out it's the same on PS5. Imagine being able to see the phonetic alphabet squad titles and their squad stats before joining said squad. Now that would be a great new feature! Oh wait, BF4 already had it.
RayD_O1
Hero
3 years ago
@Jonesworth wrote:
You can switch to a different squad, on PC on the scoreboard you right click your own name. Would be great to create and be able to select which squad to join though
Good to know, thanks for sharing. 👍
tom_looken
3 years ago
@Jonesworth holy crap ok i am going to try this top secret trick.

You watch though like 343 dice will see this remove the thread and ban jonesworth for cheating then patch out this ability.
Arfan76
3 years ago
@Jonesworth I just tried it on the PS5.... no option given for joining a squad. This game is so frustrating
FlibberMeister
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Arfan76 wrote:
@JonesworthI just tried it on the PS5.... no option given for joining a squad. This game is so frustrating
Imagine, someone actually decided on this as a feature.

“As a user I can randomly join a squad, but not select one to join”
Someone probably wrote that and then had to describe why they were not going to implement a proper UI to support the most basic of list manipulation code to search/select/join other squads.

It literally takes more effort to not write this functionality.