Battlefield 6 Party Size Limitation - Concern and Suggestion

Has anyone found out if the squad size will be larger than the beta? At any given moment, there could be at least 8 of us in a party ready to play battlefield. It would be nice if we could join our friends in the same game like the good old days

According to a thread that was posted here not long ago, the gist of it was that large squads, all voice connected, would be overpowered for the game. If I recall correctly one poster was suggesting squads of 16.

I think the idea is that the game devs would rather see us play as Team versus Team, and four-man squads are really just incidental, basic organization.

Unless I hear different, especially at this late stage of the game, I assume squads will remain as four-man squads.

I believe it would be very difficult to balance. Imagine a premade team of eight players joining a 64 player server. I think they should keep the limit at four, as it seems to be the current plan.

That makes 0 sense on the basis that you can just join your friend and get more people into the same game. The only annoying part is one team needs to then leave at end of game and rejoin again.

So either they need to remove the ability to join people or make it so that you can go in as up to 8 and then its split into 2 squads.

Battlefield team: I have really enjoyed the battlefield experience; there is a common issue I've seen on battlefield 6 and other battlefield games. The limitation of only being able to play in a party of 4 players (Squad). This topic has probably been brought up multiple times, but I cannot stress how important this feature to allow party sizes of 6 to 8 players. For battle royal mode 4 player is reasonable. For multiplayer matches, I think they should allow parties up to 6 players and then maybe for conquest up to 8 players per party. There have been occasions where friend groups do not want to play battlefield due to 4 player limits when there are 5 or 6 players in the group wanting to play leaving friends excluded from playing together. Allowing feature to have 6 to 8 players per party will increase players wanting to play but also improve loyal members gameplay to be able to have more friends to play with and potentially have a better team. I understand there are other means of joining friends when party is full by joining mid game, etc. I hope everyone understands how this could help with player experience. 

Just some of the threads that people made recently:

Thread 1
Thread 2
Thread 3

In short:
- 8 Player parties for portal is a good idea.
- 8 Player parties in public matches leads to an increase in teamstacking and pubstomping.

You may consider it frustrating if larger groups can't play together. It is even more frustrating if 56 other players have to suffer from a lack of team balance. So 4 players for public matches is a happy compromise. You still get to play with friends, but there's less chance of you upsetting the balance. 

It is a weak point that bigger parties will unbalance servers. This was never a problem in Battlefield 3 and 4, and to my knowledge in Battlefield 1.  Limiting people's playstyle and creating an anti-community environment is absolutely detrimental to the game. The best example is 2042 which was an absolute sham and completely discouraged friends from playing together due to that exact limitation. The game has and always should be community building focused in order to encourage a longer life in terms of how long people will keep playing said game.  When we had Battlelog for 3 and 4 it was the best of times because that platform was a social platform on its own and encouraged friends and players to compete with each other. I know that we will never get anything resembling Battlelog again but the least I can ask for is platoons/clans and the addition of larger parties so people can actually play with their friends and not get sent to another matchmake server after the round finishes.

"You may consider it frustrating if larger groups can't play together. It is even more frustrating if 56 other players have to suffer from a lack of team balance. So 4 players for public matches is a happy compromise."

This subject keeps coming up but the issue really is teamplay versus playing only with your friends.

I believe developers see this as overall  strategy while some players reduce it to just personal preferences. 

Good teamplay, of course, is always paramount. 

It is a weak point that bigger parties will unbalance servers. This was never a problem in Battlefield 3 and 4, and to my knowledge in Battlefield 1. 

What do you mean? Have we played the same game? It was a major issue when players started stacking a server. It completely ruined games. 

Limiting people's playstyle and creating an anti-community environment is absolutely detrimental to the game.

You can throw words like "anti-community" around and I'll throw them right back at you. Team stacking is anti-community and is absolutely detrimental to the game.

When we had Battlelog for 3 and 4 it was the best of times because that platform was a social platform on its own and encouraged friends and players to compete with each other. 

This wasn't specifically because of Battlelog, but because of the tools that those games provided, like platoons and rentable servers. Platoons are coming and having one free persistent server per person isn't quite the same as a rentable server, but it'll get you playing with your friends as well.

the least I can ask for is platoons/clans and the addition of larger parties so people can actually play with their friends and not get sent to another matchmake server after the round finishes.

Sure, go right ahead in portal.

Go ahead and limit the way people play and we will see how that will go. Plenty of examples in recent time with Helldivers 2 and 2042, as soon as the devs start deciding what's best for the community instead of the community, it bites back and leads to the game and community dying. Just because you faced 10 games out of a thousand to be unbalanced doesn't mean that they should work towards balancing that.  With your logic go ahead and limit the parties to 4 in portal and remove that limit at default so you can go and solo play on portal.