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.
The first 3 man locked squad throws the "4 goes into 128" argument out the window.
Yeah, this can't really be about all squads being the same size. If that's what is driving this, then no more locked squads then?
@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.
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.
@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”
I'd personally prefer a higher squad count option, but 4 is fine. I'll be in a PSN party chat when rollin
@Boba_Brett711I don't see that type of restriction being put in place. DICE has not restricted class before why start now.
DICE appears to have give 1 specialist Sundance the wingsuit. Having only 1 Sundance would leave the rest of the squad behind. With little info we have, may be DICE will allow us to have a squad of Sundance with different gadgets.
As a console player now days. We just create our own chat outside the game and use that. They only challenge you can have is ending up on different teams (although that can be even more fun).
