Team/Squad Switch coming ? We really need them
The topic says it all .
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@DuaneDibbley I dont understand why it matters, people will just try to jump ship from "bad teams" and cause even more unbalanced matches. It isn't necessary.
If you want to play with friends then the squad size should be increased to 6 or 8, ask for that.
If you want to play with friends then the squad size should be increased to 6 or 8, ask for that.
@SpudBug
Bigger squad sizes won't help if you can't select a new squad you want to switch into if your current squad consists of players that don't align with your play style (and this is true independent of if you want to PTFO or do base camping).
Also, IMO there is a limit as to how big squads can be to not be skew balance. If you have a 8 man squad you can almost never wipe all and there is always one player alive/remaining. But it is important for balance purposes to really be able kill all players in one squad and their beacons if they have placed any. Either this, or limit squad spawns to captured flags and squad leaders only. Then you might get away with bigger squad sizes.
Bigger squad sizes won't help if you can't select a new squad you want to switch into if your current squad consists of players that don't align with your play style (and this is true independent of if you want to PTFO or do base camping).
Also, IMO there is a limit as to how big squads can be to not be skew balance. If you have a 8 man squad you can almost never wipe all and there is always one player alive/remaining. But it is important for balance purposes to really be able kill all players in one squad and their beacons if they have placed any. Either this, or limit squad spawns to captured flags and squad leaders only. Then you might get away with bigger squad sizes.
@DuaneDibbley wrote:
@SpudBug
Bigger squad sizes won't help if you can't select a new squad you want to switch into if your current squad consists of players that don't align with your play style (and this is true independent of if you want to PTFO or do base camping).
Also, IMO there is a limit as to how big squads can be to not be skew balance. If you have a 8 man squad you can almost never wipe all and there is always one player alive/remaining. But it is important for balance purposes to really be able kill all players in one squad and their beacons if they have placed any. Either this, or limit squad spawns to captured flags and squad leaders only. Then you might get away with bigger squad sizes.100% agreed with this. I just wish that I could have a party larger than 4 so that I can join friends that started playing together 5 minutes before I could login to join them. Even if we're not in a squad together I would at least be able to communicate with them over VOIP/discord/etc and help at least.
Agreed though that if there are larger squads (I think in the current incarnation 5 would have to be the limit for the reasons you laid out) unless it is drastically changed to be squad leader (which we would need a way to manage/relinquish that role...). Spawn beacons also need to be bigger/make noise like in BF4.
A better squad management system would be appreciated.
But any sort of teamswitch functionality would need to come with some extra measures to prevent abuse (no switching to the winning team, no switching if it would unbalance teams in skill or player count).
- @AngrySquid270 Yep agreed, these things have existed for decades now (auto-balance/etc) and would regularly be used at least on community servers in previous BF games...
