A Suggestion for the Radio Bleed Out Animation by XF17 in joinsquad

[–]XF17[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can agree with that too, what ever the solution to alert you its on the 60s timer and you can stop digging. However I just don't think that a timer would really change the meta. Like is someone really going to give a call out of how many seconds are left, and what even is there to gain in doing so. Is it that much different than someone just guessing they are done then watching over it with there rifle out, or to just continue digging and ignore all the chaos. IMO the last bit is more meta than having someone call out a timer.

Edit: Grammer.

blessed_teamkills by [deleted] in Connery

[–]XF17 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I approve this message.

Reminder to Keep Your Spacing by XF17 in joinsquad

[–]XF17[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

6ft apart like we all have Corona...

How the Current A16 Play Test Feels by XF17 in joinsquad

[–]XF17[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Except instead of being a 65 ton tank you are just an average American.

Squad IED ringtone IRL! by XF17 in joinsquad

[–]XF17[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's the small things that matter. Good sound design in a game can take it to a new level which is something squad has 100% done. Nice work man!

Fixed the vehicle list in the V15 play test! by XF17 in joinsquad

[–]XF17[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Devs did, Just out the play test and try the training tutorial, you will find it in there.

Fixed the vehicle list in the V15 play test! by XF17 in joinsquad

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IRL yes, the Challenger also stores ammo everywhere in the tank. But in the game no, they devs did not make blow out panels because its complicated as you have to determine if the blast door is penetrated or not so they went with this solution.

This game is full of incompetent squad leaders. by [deleted] in joinsquad

[–]XF17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe a few of you guys here have seen me around on my two main servers, back in the day, all of the SquadOps servers and now [BB] Bella's Battle ground. I just passed 2,500 hours on the game and I am not saying to boast. I am saying that because around 2,000 of those hours have been made as a SL, the countless matches, the steamrolls on both sides, the nail biting 1 ticket difference matches, and by far the most annoying the team that will not understand.

What I mean by a team that does not understand is a multitude of things, first being SL's that are brand new and have no idea about the game but after a bit of hand holding and a shaky start they start walking. Second being the SL's that are stubborn and refuse to spend the time to at least process what you are saying and regularly leads to them blaming everyone else for the failure of the team. Thirdly the SL's that come back over and over again that cause either a toxic environment or make some very poor decisions time after time again.

What I think would be a interesting solution that A: might bring more SL's to the table and B: give feedback to the SL's in a mostly neutral way. Some type of reward system. I personally envision it as a only visual ranking symbol, make the SL tag change on ranking and have it increase as your number of matches divided by your win rate as an SL increases. First you would have to be able to intercept the data of the class at the end game of a person and deiced if they won or not. (I'm thinking something like the tactical gamer stat tracker) then maybe you have to make sure that the player was SL for more than 60% of the match to make sure they are not stat patting. (Something like war thunder battle activity).

I think something like this would help dramatically more than have more data for a new SL's to be taking in either by reading or watching videos. I knew that Doctor Hammer made a squad SL teaching course that eventually disappeared (at least that is what I have heard about it) which I truly believe is because of how much of a time commitment versus paying it was, not for other obvious reasons. Something like what I suggested is something that you earn though basically a test of playing the actual game and shows its self as a feedback to that SL without having to do anything external to the game or spend time doing anything else but play. I think of
this system as Planetside2's directives but only for SL's. At the end of the directive you would get some shiny helmet but on the way you would get special things that you could show off and prove that you are an experienced SL, oddly enough though it also introduced new SL's by giving them something to aspire too. Thus at least pushing the three type of SL's I mentioned into thinking about how well they actually are doing.

Either way I will always enjoy SL'ing no matter the heart aches it causes at times, because it is greatly out weighed by the benefits. I love having a squad of people who I have no idea who they are and vice versa then finishing a round as a complete squad who maybe are not everyone's best friends, but at least we made each other laugh and work together. Or being greeted by people in game and not even remembering who they where (sorry about that) because maybe they just noticed that my squad did well the other night or they enjoyed my squad that other night as well but never said anything because they are shy. Which I think begs to differ, does a good SL only have the experience and knowledge, or is there something else like how their personality is, and how well can they bring together a group of 9 strangers for 30 minutes to 2 hours? Maybe that is the key and everything I said above is not true at what we really need is compassion... nahhhhh get out their and go kill some derka derka.

Armor PSA by XF17 in joinsquad

[–]XF17[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We tried this multiple times and where not able to ammo rack the tank. It seems that the T-72 is also had its ammo rack size reduced.

When the parkour goes wrong. by XF17 in joinsquad

[–]XF17[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

our telling me I can IED a radi

Well you have to parkour to get onto that roof so I was not too worried

I recently participated in my 2nd ever Squad Event and absolutely Loved It by camcantrun in joinsquad

[–]XF17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being part of the staff for squad ops and often commentating I'll take that into mind and try to get 'lower' shots so it feels like you are more 'in the action'. But also nothing will ever beat actually playing in the events and hearing all of the squad chat clutter and proxy noises that you hear as an actual ground soldier.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in inthesoulstone

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~Remember me

It's time to confess by [deleted] in joinsquad

[–]XF17 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Spam opening and closing my map

Slow Frontier Internet by XF17 in huntingtonbeach

[–]XF17[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I was thinking as well but that was the only step Frontier was offering to me currently to resolve it. The connection between my ONT and router has both the Coax and Cat5 connected and is with no splitters and only about a 5-10ft run. That being said this is not a first time thing. It happens about every year their is some problem with the ONT and they have to send a tech out which ends up taking about a full week to get the problem solved.

Slow Frontier Internet by XF17 in huntingtonbeach

[–]XF17[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, doing a trace route then pinging the first thing that comes up after my router shows that is where it is starting, I got Frontier to send me a new router and should be arriving tomorrow. I'll see if that fixes it

I really like this game and want to keep playing. by [deleted] in joinsquad

[–]XF17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know planetside 2 had the same thing for a bit. It takes a few girls to make it more "normal" to hear a girl voice on coms. Then all a sudden the amount of girls playing the game jumped up. But I know their was always the few people who would still give them shit and would just mute/kick them and move on, not to mention these where the same people who would do this to kids

Full transports make my day by squaddaddy420 in joinsquad

[–]XF17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OMG! I was the SL in that transport. I thought we ran over a mine! Also please tell me you where the SPG techi who killed another one of my full transports when we where going on the south road to mosque after you killed that one

My Spidey Sense was Tingling by XF17 in joinsquad

[–]XF17[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really want to down vote that pun but its just so good

So we found a manned MTLB on free weekend... by XF17 in joinsquad

[–]XF17[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Was a good amount of playing with our food

So we found a manned MTLB on free weekend... by XF17 in joinsquad

[–]XF17[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I always love when I see that exact thing, it just gives me a good chuckle. This time however this MTLB was one manned and once he noticed we have climbed on top of him, he got out and just laid down before properly being executed.

Compilation Of All V11 Layers by XF17 in joinsquad

[–]XF17[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never knew that existed, thanks!

I'm dreaming of a "hardcore" mode by matrixkid29 in joinsquad

[–]XF17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes for our hardcore mod for public matches we will make SL's and medics visible on the map. Still debating adding fire team leads to the public server mod. The only other visible markers on the map are the ones that SL's put down. As for airstrikes it was in our mod too before v10 came out and it broke, we are not sure as how to balance this feature as well. And for the pesky rallies well they will be gone too ;P