Why (almost) No One Uses Squad Commands?
Since day 1 I have noticed that in Battlefield 2042 most (like 95%) of squad leaders do not issue squad commands. They do not react to command request and ignore chat. Why is this? Would be great if ...
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So this is a multi pronged issue.
#1 there is no real notification that you are the squad leader, there are no reminders that you need to be marking objectives for your squad. The scoreboard is terrible, no way to change squads if their play style “aka all snipers” doesn’t work with yours, no way to vote and replace squad leader.no way to pass squad leadership if you aren’t interested in doing it.
#2 no VOIP, total fail. This is one of the best features of any multiplayer games and helps tremendously to be able to talk instead of type into chat.
#3 the existing commo rose is horrible. It is too busy, hard to read and not intuitive. If we can’t get VOIP it would make more sense to split squad commands onto another comms rose.
So I don’t think people just don’t like doing squad leader duties but the game sure doesn’t guide or give them effective ways to figure it out. I had heard some of the “legacy” features listed above were not in led on purpose to “reduce toxicity”. I swear we have non-gamers making decisions about games.
There's also no incentive to give squad commands. To my knowledge there is no 'order followed' bonus for the leader nor squad mates.
Honestly Dice Sweden has watered down the significance of squads and squad play so much that they could easily remove them and the game would largely be the same. All they are now are a couple of free spawn points.
I'm not saying playing as a squad isn't effective. It is but it isn't being facilitated by the game. There is no machinations in the game to support, incentivise or force squad play to the point where folks running third party communication programs with their buddies have a significantly larger advantage than they should if the game did a better job at providing for squad based gameplay.
@rippedwire01 wrote:There's also no incentive to give squad commands. To my knowledge there is no 'order followed' bonus for the leader nor squad mates.
This is the answer.
There is just no incentive to play as a squad and no indication that squad actions are being completed.
The squad system is pointless as it is currently implemented.
Really? Thanks for the answer. I did not know there is no bonus exp for completing squad commands. My bad then ^^. Removed from the list.
- @firzen_one Get no extra XP like past BF's and nobody gives a flying ****. This game is designed to be the ultimate anti-community based FPS.
You can change squads, you just have absolutely 0 clue which one the game will through you into. After enough change squads, you finally get tossed into your own squad. When you go to change squads again, you'll either be placed in your original squad or back in your own solo squad.
