In my opinion, the lack of players is due to squad44 not having enough reach towards new players with little to no ads and the fact that people probably still think its been abandoned by the devs, so that they just play HLL instead due to it being more beginner friendly.
@@imnotusingmyrealname4566 I haven't had the chance to play it after the update but with a 1650 super i would average i think 50fps on max or pretty high settings with screen spaced reflection and ambient occlusion off
A have two points of view regarding this issue, first is the one you wrote about, lack of ads, the other is: lack of "how to play" tutorial like in Squad. We all know that when comparing HLL and Squad44, the second has much more features, mechanics strategies than HLL, you can play HLL like a cod and still win, Squad44 no. Inexperienced players are afraid to join because they think it may be too complicated, veterans leave because newbies play it as if it were CoD, IF there was a bootcamp, showing the main features of the game, how it works, and in the end a soldier grabs you and say "You are no hero! You gotta keep with your squad, or you will die!" Something cinematic to give the newbies that Squad44 is not hard to play if you cooperate with your squad.
S44 lacks of players definitely stems from 3 things. Steep learning curve, 80 player maps (and often 10+ long queues), and lack of promotional material. New players, some from HLL definitely feel overwhelmed, especially as squadleads. After like 2-5 deaths (and theres a ticket limit mind you), they uninstall. Once you figure it out, get good comms and a good squad it can be a great experience!
lmao cope, the game has Xbox 360 graphics and yet runs like absolute shit on even the highest end hardware. THIS, this is the reason most people won't give it a chance. The two combined is complete eye cancer.
@@akooma3694 yup i czn understand but as god player born in 1989, i can accept some weak graphic/aesthetic and enjoy the real gameplay the game offer. This gameplay, HLL have not. This is gold tactical immerssiv gameplay budy. Level design very bad on some map too. Anyway, the game will stay like that until the end, i know it, we accpept it.
Type 100 SMG for the Japanese may not come since only ~8000 of them only exist and if you watch The Pacific, which is a spin-off of Band of Brothers, there are no Type 100 SMGs at all (from what I remember). So it's going to be interesting how they balance it because the reason you don't see so many Rising Storm 1 servers compared to Red Orchestra 2 servers is that the balance is horrendous once both players on both teams are highly competent and coordinated. The Japanese don't really have any weapons or strengths that are better than the Americans and the little they do have are either situational (Light Mortar) or have hard-counters that one player can shut down (Banzai charge mechanic gives Japanese chargers bullet resistance and suppresses the Americans. The bullet resistance can be so strong that you can sometimes survive headshots. It's effectiveness stacks only x5 for each person charging. However a single player on the American team can shut it down easily and effortlessly with a flamethrower or MG. You can even counter a charger by waiting for them to release their bayonet and then just shoot them since they won't have the banzai effect.) OWI and Mercury Arts are going to have to add arcadey-esque mechanics for the banzai charge or else they will just be shut down easily/effortlessly and players will not even consider doing it in the long term. But that may not happen and if it did it may not matter as much since the Japanese have so many other weaknesses compared to the Americans like weapons and tanks. If I had to guess what the U.S.-Japan match up is going to be (assuming both players on both teams played optimally, coordinate effectively, and have technical aim), the Americans will win 70% of the time while the Japanese will win 30% of the time, a 7-3 match up. (I'm definitely going to just always choose U.S. lol) So when the Pacific drops I think that yeah it will be good for the game and will grow the player base but people will abandon the Pacific Theatre after +2 weeks, just like what happened to Rising Storm 1.
The Type 100 will definitely come to the game, but probably only for squad leaders and tank commanders. This would line up with the way the MAS 38 was added to the French faction, and there were only 2,000 of those available in 1940.
@@ncrtrooperscout Absolutely untrue. 5+ people banzai charge is basically impossible to stop without lucky explosives or flamethrower, even half-coordinated japanese team has massive advantage over americans
@czwarty7878 Maybe you're right, but I just kind of find the Japanese frustrating and unfair to play as that you have to work 3x harder and get at least half the team to cooperate while the Americans don't have to worry about that and have better weapons. Like how a good arty, flamethrower, or MG can shut down an entire team's effort by a single player. But I guess it goes back to my original point of how they are going to balance a weak asymmetrical faction while still keeping it fun, fair, and historically authentic/realistic for Post Scriptum. Should there even BE a banzai mechanic for Squad 44 like that? After all, it makes no sense in a historical sense, let alone a realistic sense. Japanese soldiers don't just survive headshots or prevent bleed outs because they are charging, that is absurd and arcadey someone might say. If someone here can disprove me then just do that in Squad 44 currently with any faction and see how CONSISTENTLY you can pull off a banzai style charge.
@@sturmmann7135 Same, game jump from 90fps to like 30fps on high with reflections off...In Squad and HLL its 60fps with occasional drops when multiple explosions happen nearby
This has always been the main reason people don't stick with the game. It has ran like absolute garbage since 2018 the dev team were a joke and I don't see it getting better. Even if it were fixed the anti aliasing options are horrendous and blurry
Damn. I have a decent gaming PC with a 3070 and it doesn't bother me at all. I've never played HLL but I love Squad44. It's my dream game I've always wanted as a kid! I love it
please note that the devs will oonly get money for one year from their finaciers this is a test of how well the game does which means we need to support it !
for me, squad44 is a great alternative to playing squad in its current post-ICO state. the gunplay feels like squad from the v12-v16 period, and has much better armor mechanics. As an 8k hour former squad comp player, it feels great to just jump into a round of squad44 and get to know competent players within the relatively small NA community. leaning is still effective, suppression is still strong but not nauseating, and the teamwork is plainly better than squad's because many map layers are unforgiving to teams who don't utilize regroup points and move quickly, and therefore the quality of SLs and commanders is usually higher. Squad unfortunately has moved away from unforgiving fast paced tactical gameplay to a much more "accessible" new player oriented experience, and the brain-drain of experienced players leaving squad has really begun to affect the average pub game to the point where it isn't enjoyable unless you have friends to play vehicles with. However, post scriptum is still a fairly small community and a 40v40 game where skilled individuals can have a larger impact on the fight than in squad and I've been enjoying playing it solely because it reminds me of what squad used to be like when I most enjoyed it.
There's a chicken or the egg situation playing out with player population at the moment. A few pals and I have bought and started playing recently (based in UK) - it seems you have to play during peak times to get the player counts (on servers where there is half-decent latency), so we play during those times. I imagine something similar is happening for other players who are seeing 3 servers with high pop, but 200+ ping, and are just closing the game to play something else until it picks up. This should improve over time with updates and marketing
The objectives being so far apart is not appealing. Having a lone soldier flank around then place a magical spawn beacon to completely circumvent any kind of frontline is just boring. You dont have epic struggles over an objective zone like in red orchestra but just a series of small flashpoint skirmishes that happen in the most random unimportant spots and only last a minute or two.
fair enough. At first I thought there would be a mechanic that stops you from getting right behind the enemy to maintain a consistent front line. I wouldn't mind if they implemented something like that.
I have been enjoying Squad 44, maybe due to being tired or burnt out of Squad. Now both games have good features that they should intermingle. Maybe they really ought to have kept it as a DLC (akin to Project Reality). Now just hopin for Squad 67 for a 'nam experience.
I loved playing post scriptum back when it was popping despite its problems. Honnestly one of the the best milsin games ever. If they can just fix the problems it has i can see them having a huge comeback
Frontlines could be the game mode that makes S44. The relative simplicity of that game mode is a lot of less confusing to new players (I've played S44/Post Scriptum for almost 4 years now) but still retains the heart and soul of the game. And with the range of theatres that aren't represented in HLL, these changes could make a huge difference. Time will tell, but, performance issues aside, the game is a good place right now and there's a buzz about S44 (always have to make an effort not to call it Post Scriptum, haha) again that hasn't been there for a *long* time. The game is clearly in the hands of people who play and love it, and I'm happy about the direction one of my favourite games is headed in.
Only thing that bugs me is the 80 player servers, there were times where there were 100 player servers and they were the most fun I’ve had on the game; the extra 10 players each side really make the difference
i have played HLL for a few years, been through the bad and good, decided to pick up squad44 again after a year away from it, played 2 games and uninstalled. had a great squad but the fact that I was shooting guys centre-mass, without killing him and then getting killed in one shot in return, made me uninstall the game It has a lot of potential but the engine needs some work so it runs smoothly, similar to hell let loose or better (its based off of squad and the shooting mechanic in that is clunky and awful)
Thank you for the on point comment . I really hope PS succeeds and forces HLL to improve. But after hundred of hours of Squad looking at PS i see the same snail pace and jenkiness that turn me away compared to the more fluid pace of HLL.
I haven't played Squad 44 yet, but the Squad community can be unhinged at times. The final straw was a guy joining my squad, him telling me he was going to murder me and then nading me while I was taking a point. I think HLL being on consoles makes it feel a bit more casual and less intense. Again, never tried 44, maybe it's better than Squad.
YES OMG, I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD GET IT, ITS AN AMAZING GAME ITS ONE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVS IVE BEEN TRYING TO SPEED RUN IT LATELY. I RUN ROBIN, HALO GUN, WINDER BOMB, SATELITE POD H AND FORMULA LEGS.
for me Squad 44 is better than HLL principally in its future its just missing players. i think Offworld should use Squad's growth to make propaganda of Squad 44
actually 2 is enoough a driver and a gunner the commander and radio man seat are optional and only needed when you play like an idiot and get close to infantry
Optimilization is main reason i think and lack of marketing, also soviet mod died because update broke all mods and people got crashes on servers with mods
I came from HLL but it is really hard to get into squad44, the game just runs incredibly poorly and is an overall unstable experience. It’s very disappointing and I hope they prioritize optimization first and foremost. Edit: I just wanted to add that I think squad 44 has amazing potential, and I do think the game is outright better than hell let loose. I just sincerely hope they address these issues and that the game has a resurgence in players. (Also the upcoming pacific content is awesome)
I hope they do as well. OWI core gets worse with every update. You either get lucky and it runs normal or you get the short end of the stick like where it runs poorly at times.
I would love to play the game and did but with no players playing then I can’t play either and so went to hell let loose. Seems like a death spiral with the less people playing the more amount of people who also stop because there are no servers to play on
The new devs can add all they want but if the player pop doesn't increase to 2K - 3K+ range, it will all go to waste. They need to figure out a way to make the engagement area a bit more restriced to allow more gunfights
@@HighDiver5555 I’ve been playing HLL since the console release and I wasn’t aware of people complaining about that. Honestly as far as I know, everyone loved it and it was a big success on console platforms for the hardcore fps fans who finally had something of that caliber release. Infact, most console players hated the new speed update if I remember correctly. The reviews are great and it bought a whole new community to the game too. Anyone complaining that it’s not arcadey enough should leave the game and devs shouldn’t even act upon those requests. So I think it would be a positive move for squad to come to console. People also say “there’s too many controls to be on a controller” well if you play HLL on console you should know how they fixed that issue lol
I know the reason. I have a decently strong pc... The game at all settings on low and with 720p runs at like 20 frames anyway. Its just not fun in its current state. I cannot imagine how piss poor the performance must be on a weaker machine. I bought the game, played it for a bit, got dissapointed with the framerate and uninstalled. I imagine that 90% of people did something simmular
The game lacks players because it's not on console. I know steam is big on PC. But the majority of people playing video games nowadays is on console compared to PC. Especially revolving around tactical shooters like hell let loose,
BS, Tactical shooters make no sense on Consoles as most people dont communicate and entire fun in such games is based on communication. Squad have like 11k people playing at same moment on steam while HLL like 2/3k... HLL is one of maybe 2 realistic shooters on consoles... People on consoles would buy it and give up after 2hours
@@funtecstudiovideos4102 i play HLL on Xbox X since November 2023. Yeah it was difficult to adapt but is still the best WW2 game we have on Console and so far the best atmosphere since BiA games. And if you have a good squad who communicates its even greater. So i would disagree that TS on consoles makes no sense. The main reason of console for me is to dont gave a headache about hardware requirements everytime when new games is released. I would love to see Squad44 on consoles and give it a try.
no thats not the fucking reason this game would never work on console because console players are way way to casual for this game the reason it lacks player is the same reason squad struggles aswell the playerbase for a tactical shooter with squad leaders is already low enough , if you make it a ww2 setting iinterest drops even more
Poor performance, crashes and annoying flow with huge maps pushed me away from this one. If only there were smaller maps more foccused on infantry I would enjoy it a heck more. I'm done with the loop of: "Gets shot, spawn miles away, walk for 10 minutes, get shot again, repeat." Is tiresome, but I get why people enjoy that.
Down time in this game is huge! Even more than the Squad. Huge potential here but the flow, down time and that silly canteen mechanic sometimes turns it a real tedious experience unnecesseraily.
@@ANDREFELIPEZIELINSKI 20 fps oh dear me! its basically unplayable m8. rtx 2060 should let you enjoy the game with ok frame rates at low to mid settings.
i love hell let loose graphics and gore also hell let loose its more story acurate because of how soilders run and look they look and act so real i think im at war squad has more mechanics but it feels like competitive in hell let loose you are just a rat trying to survive a real chaos mortars tanks shots everything happens so quick and cinematic
Every time I come back the horrible anti aliasing problems, lack of FSR and HORRENDOUS performance is what makes me uninstall after only 30 minutes. This game needs nothing but optimisation and should be the sole focus of the next 3 updates. It is absolutely atrocious to play.
Tbh I’d prefer if Squad 44 had a better suppression system and made it a little harder to hit other people, since the fact that almost every weapon one shots out to long range every gunfight feels like a sniping duel
Yeah, maybe a litle bit more. I don't want the shooting to be like HLL (which i feel like a much worse sniping duel) or like Squad ICO, where you can't hit people at 2 mts. Maybe a middle point. I like Arma 3 shooting physics, as an example.
@@santiagorojaspiaggio something like that would be alright, I mean even a comparatively mild amount of suppression would have greater effect since most most factions use bolt actions, combining that with giving the automatic weapons some actual recoil and I think things could be greatly improved
I want to play this game so bad. I'm so done with the mess thats called HLL. But i put it aside again because S44 is indeed too buggy, even more than PS.
What is buggy in squad44? Haven't experienced a cluncky gameplay since it was post scriptum. Although it's having a bit of performance issues just now before this massive update
@@diegobluc Grenades that don't work, rifles that don't work, vehicles that sink in sand, vehicles that hit invisible walls. To name a few things. I really want this game to be good. I used to even prefer it over HLL.
@@wesleys4507 I have experienced the grenade thing, not the other stuff. But I believe you as I've seen other people talking about this. I hope they manage to fix everything soon enough before releasing the pacific campaign or its going to be a mess
@@elevenknives0 Very small issues? i won't use my knife all the time, which also often times doesn't registrate hits. On Utah beach as the US your Logi vehicles get stuck in the sand. Logistics is completely useless as the US on that map. Again i want this game to be better than HLL like it was at the start. But since it became Squad 44 it seems to have more issues than PS.
10 players more on each team isn’t going to do anything. They need server queue limit in order to force players to seed other servers. If those 5 servers with 10+ people decided to seed another server, they’d have it more than halfway full amounts themselves alone
I check it out once every now and then and it's still the same everyone is a sniper with insta-kill rifles so MG or anything other than a rifle is pretty much useless performance is shocking bad even with a high end machine and theres issues with teams playing or listening to feedback like this one guy sniping spawn got 58 kills even after I said theres a sniper behind us the leader said ATTTACK the objective and I just thought this is fucking moronic..
Burnt out and addicted to Nintendo DS emulation lately. Also blah blah blah I called the vehicles 4:18 tanks calm down
the thing that always gets me about the community, even in squad or games of the same genre. if you call a btr an lav someones gonna freak lmao
Yoo I'm also addicted to DS lately lol
what are some of our favorite DS titles?
GBA is my shit! it's like SNES II! 😁😁🪖🪖
In my opinion, the lack of players is due to squad44 not having enough reach towards new players with little to no ads and the fact that people probably still think its been abandoned by the devs, so that they just play HLL instead due to it being more beginner friendly.
How good does it run? For example on GTX 1070 lvl performance
Him announcing a squad44 video was literally the first time I heard of it
@@imnotusingmyrealname4566 I haven't had the chance to play it after the update but with a 1650 super i would average i think 50fps on max or pretty high settings with screen spaced reflection and ambient occlusion off
HLL is not beginner friendly.
A have two points of view regarding this issue, first is the one you wrote about, lack of ads, the other is: lack of "how to play" tutorial like in Squad.
We all know that when comparing HLL and Squad44, the second has much more features, mechanics strategies than HLL, you can play HLL like a cod and still win, Squad44 no.
Inexperienced players are afraid to join because they think it may be too complicated, veterans leave because newbies play it as if it were CoD, IF there was a bootcamp, showing the main features of the game, how it works, and in the end a soldier grabs you and say "You are no hero! You gotta keep with your squad, or you will die!" Something cinematic to give the newbies that Squad44 is not hard to play if you cooperate with your squad.
S44 lacks of players definitely stems from 3 things. Steep learning curve, 80 player maps (and often 10+ long queues), and lack of promotional material. New players, some from HLL definitely feel overwhelmed, especially as squadleads. After like 2-5 deaths (and theres a ticket limit mind you), they uninstall. Once you figure it out, get good comms and a good squad it can be a great experience!
lmao cope, the game has Xbox 360 graphics and yet runs like absolute shit on even the highest end hardware. THIS, this is the reason most people won't give it a chance. The two combined is complete eye cancer.
@@akooma3694 yup i czn understand but as god player born in 1989, i can accept some weak graphic/aesthetic and enjoy the real gameplay the game offer.
This gameplay, HLL have not. This is gold tactical immerssiv gameplay budy.
Level design very bad on some map too.
Anyway, the game will stay like that until the end, i know it, we accpept it.
no its because of the TRASH stamina system, the TRASH graphics and the BUGS. I couldnt even change keybinds. Absoloute TRASH
@@akooma3694 exactly. Graphics are from 1999 LOL
3:31 Your dad played World of Tanks? Oh my god I'm so sorry. I see the generational trauma was passed on 😥
my old friend's dad was playing WoW and goddamn he was abusive as fuck
Yeah, took me a little bit to realize that those “free to play!” sweaty competitive games pissed me off a lot. Good riddance
Type 100 SMG for the Japanese may not come since only ~8000 of them only exist and if you watch The Pacific, which is a spin-off of Band of Brothers, there are no Type 100 SMGs at all (from what I remember).
So it's going to be interesting how they balance it because the reason you don't see so many Rising Storm 1 servers compared to Red Orchestra 2 servers is that the balance is horrendous once both players on both teams are highly competent and coordinated. The Japanese don't really have any weapons or strengths that are better than the Americans and the little they do have are either situational (Light Mortar) or have hard-counters that one player can shut down (Banzai charge mechanic gives Japanese chargers bullet resistance and suppresses the Americans. The bullet resistance can be so strong that you can sometimes survive headshots. It's effectiveness stacks only x5 for each person charging. However a single player on the American team can shut it down easily and effortlessly with a flamethrower or MG. You can even counter a charger by waiting for them to release their bayonet and then just shoot them since they won't have the banzai effect.)
OWI and Mercury Arts are going to have to add arcadey-esque mechanics for the banzai charge or else they will just be shut down easily/effortlessly and players will not even consider doing it in the long term. But that may not happen and if it did it may not matter as much since the Japanese have so many other weaknesses compared to the Americans like weapons and tanks. If I had to guess what the U.S.-Japan match up is going to be (assuming both players on both teams played optimally, coordinate effectively, and have technical aim), the Americans will win 70% of the time while the Japanese will win 30% of the time, a 7-3 match up. (I'm definitely going to just always choose U.S. lol)
So when the Pacific drops I think that yeah it will be good for the game and will grow the player base but people will abandon the Pacific Theatre after +2 weeks, just like what happened to Rising Storm 1.
The Type 100 will definitely come to the game, but probably only for squad leaders and tank commanders. This would line up with the way the MAS 38 was added to the French faction, and there were only 2,000 of those available in 1940.
The Japanese were really competitive in RS1 because banzai charges and no ticket loss on suicides was op
@@extrarice1 Even then it wasn't enough to offset the major advantages with the Americans.
@@ncrtrooperscout Absolutely untrue. 5+ people banzai charge is basically impossible to stop without lucky explosives or flamethrower, even half-coordinated japanese team has massive advantage over americans
@czwarty7878 Maybe you're right, but I just kind of find the Japanese frustrating and unfair to play as that you have to work 3x harder and get at least half the team to cooperate while the Americans don't have to worry about that and have better weapons.
Like how a good arty, flamethrower, or MG can shut down an entire team's effort by a single player.
But I guess it goes back to my original point of how they are going to balance a weak asymmetrical faction while still keeping it fun, fair, and historically authentic/realistic for Post Scriptum.
Should there even BE a banzai mechanic for Squad 44 like that? After all, it makes no sense in a historical sense, let alone a realistic sense. Japanese soldiers don't just survive headshots or prevent bleed outs because they are charging, that is absurd and arcadey someone might say. If someone here can disprove me then just do that in Squad 44 currently with any faction and see how CONSISTENTLY you can pull off a banzai style charge.
Servers gradually getting more and more players. And the game is getting better and better.
Poor optimization is a huge issue.
Yeah since few last updates game runs like shit to me
@@sturmmann7135 Same, game jump from 90fps to like 30fps on high with reflections off...In Squad and HLL its 60fps with occasional drops when multiple explosions happen nearby
This has always been the main reason people don't stick with the game. It has ran like absolute garbage since 2018 the dev team were a joke and I don't see it getting better. Even if it were fixed the anti aliasing options are horrendous and blurry
actually ruins the game for me
Damn. I have a decent gaming PC with a 3070 and it doesn't bother me at all. I've never played HLL but I love Squad44. It's my dream game I've always wanted as a kid! I love it
frontline mode is really fun, its something that hell let loose desperately needs and get rid of the old competetive styled mode
Squad 44 have so much potential inside
Ive been having alot of fun playong squad 44.
5:14 doing anything about firearms with music and more people in videogames is automatically epic
please note that the devs will oonly get money for one year from their finaciers
this is a test of how well the game does which means we need to support it !
for me, squad44 is a great alternative to playing squad in its current post-ICO state. the gunplay feels like squad from the v12-v16 period, and has much better armor mechanics. As an 8k hour former squad comp player, it feels great to just jump into a round of squad44 and get to know competent players within the relatively small NA community. leaning is still effective, suppression is still strong but not nauseating, and the teamwork is plainly better than squad's because many map layers are unforgiving to teams who don't utilize regroup points and move quickly, and therefore the quality of SLs and commanders is usually higher. Squad unfortunately has moved away from unforgiving fast paced tactical gameplay to a much more "accessible" new player oriented experience, and the brain-drain of experienced players leaving squad has really begun to affect the average pub game to the point where it isn't enjoyable unless you have friends to play vehicles with. However, post scriptum is still a fairly small community and a 40v40 game where skilled individuals can have a larger impact on the fight than in squad and I've been enjoying playing it solely because it reminds me of what squad used to be like when I most enjoyed it.
6:45 Nambu (pronounced like Bamboo but with and "N") and the Type 100 SMG, those were the weapons you mentioned.
There's a chicken or the egg situation playing out with player population at the moment. A few pals and I have bought and started playing recently (based in UK) - it seems you have to play during peak times to get the player counts (on servers where there is half-decent latency), so we play during those times. I imagine something similar is happening for other players who are seeing 3 servers with high pop, but 200+ ping, and are just closing the game to play something else until it picks up. This should improve over time with updates and marketing
The objectives being so far apart is not appealing. Having a lone soldier flank around then place a magical spawn beacon to completely circumvent any kind of frontline is just boring. You dont have epic struggles over an objective zone like in red orchestra but just a series of small flashpoint skirmishes that happen in the most random unimportant spots and only last a minute or two.
fair enough. At first I thought there would be a mechanic that stops you from getting right behind the enemy to maintain a consistent front line. I wouldn't mind if they implemented something like that.
Getting so immersive, fantastic
PANZERWERFER MENTIONED RAHHHHH
I have been enjoying Squad 44, maybe due to being tired or burnt out of Squad. Now both games have good features that they should intermingle. Maybe they really ought to have kept it as a DLC (akin to Project Reality). Now just hopin for Squad 67 for a 'nam experience.
Man that’d be awesome
I loved playing post scriptum back when it was popping despite its problems. Honnestly one of the the best milsin games ever. If they can just fix the problems it has i can see them having a huge comeback
Frontlines could be the game mode that makes S44. The relative simplicity of that game mode is a lot of less confusing to new players (I've played S44/Post Scriptum for almost 4 years now) but still retains the heart and soul of the game. And with the range of theatres that aren't represented in HLL, these changes could make a huge difference. Time will tell, but, performance issues aside, the game is a good place right now and there's a buzz about S44 (always have to make an effort not to call it Post Scriptum, haha) again that hasn't been there for a *long* time. The game is clearly in the hands of people who play and love it, and I'm happy about the direction one of my favourite games is headed in.
@Tantwo - Thnak mate love ur Content.
thanks man, I appreciate it
I'm definitely gonna buy this before the sale ends. I'm sick of HLL and look forward to more content.
Moved from HLL and no regrets, just keep in mind that there are some bugs after update 😅
Only thing that bugs me is the 80 player servers, there were times where there were 100 player servers and they were the most fun I’ve had on the game; the extra 10 players each side really make the difference
Yeah, this game urgently needs not only more people, but more people capacity in each server.
Server Capacity will not fix the queue problem. Putting a limit on the queue will force players to seed other servers.
Your dad played WoT? Holy fucking shit I'm getting old. I was 16 in 2010 when it came out.
yep, got me into it in 2012
I just had the same exact reaction...
i have played HLL for a few years, been through the bad and good, decided to pick up squad44 again after a year away from it, played 2 games and uninstalled. had a great squad but the fact that I was shooting guys centre-mass, without killing him and then getting killed in one shot in return, made me uninstall the game
It has a lot of potential but the engine needs some work so it runs smoothly, similar to hell let loose or better (its based off of squad and the shooting mechanic in that is clunky and awful)
Thank you for the on point comment . I really hope PS succeeds and forces HLL to improve. But after hundred of hours of Squad looking at PS i see the same snail pace and jenkiness that turn me away compared to the more fluid pace of HLL.
Squad Vietnam is even more dead than Post Scriptum or even Beyond the Wire😢
I haven't played Squad 44 yet, but the Squad community can be unhinged at times. The final straw was a guy joining my squad, him telling me he was going to murder me and then nading me while I was taking a point. I think HLL being on consoles makes it feel a bit more casual and less intense. Again, never tried 44, maybe it's better than Squad.
I just really hope they do the same thing with Beyond the Wire, it was an absolute banger on release but died after a month for no reason.
0:40 NO FUCKING WAY DUDE CUSTOM ROBO ARENA
YES OMG, I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD GET IT, ITS AN AMAZING GAME ITS ONE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVS IVE BEEN TRYING TO SPEED RUN IT LATELY. I RUN ROBIN, HALO GUN, WINDER BOMB, SATELITE POD H AND FORMULA LEGS.
for me Squad 44 is better than HLL principally in its future its just missing players. i think Offworld should use Squad's growth to make propaganda of Squad 44
Do you need 5 people to operate a tank in this game too?
I believe you need 4 people, commander, gunner, driver, assist driver. It can also be 3, depends on the vehicle.
3 is enough
actually 2 is enoough
a driver and a gunner
the commander and radio man seat are optional and only needed when you play like an idiot and get close to infantry
2 for a lite tank (or one if you are hot), 3 is a good number for the most of medium and heavy tanks
Sneaky IL2 1946 bgm
do i hear medal of honor song
you are correct
I played a lot in the past but the poor optimization prevents me from returning.
If it's getting that many boos you might as well bring bring squad 44 to consoles
Optimilization is main reason i think and lack of marketing, also soviet mod died because update broke all mods and people got crashes on servers with mods
There are also bugs during sale :D
I so wanna like this game... but when it drops to constant 25fps for some reason... thats just not playable
I came from HLL but it is really hard to get into squad44, the game just runs incredibly poorly and is an overall unstable experience.
It’s very disappointing and I hope they prioritize optimization first and foremost.
Edit: I just wanted to add that I think squad 44 has amazing potential, and I do think the game is outright better than hell let loose. I just sincerely hope they address these issues and that the game has a resurgence in players. (Also the upcoming pacific content is awesome)
I hope they do as well. OWI core gets worse with every update. You either get lucky and it runs normal or you get the short end of the stick like where it runs poorly at times.
Are there full servers in Europe?
Yep, like 4-6.
it's been getting better but no-one wants to give it a chance
Ya it’s definitely outreach! They need to get content creators playing the game and making videos!
Squad 44 is better than HLL. More people need to give it a real try.
I would love to play the game and did but with no players playing then I can’t play either and so went to hell let loose. Seems like a death spiral with the less people playing the more amount of people who also stop because there are no servers to play on
That has changed 10 full servers with queues tonight and another 10 rather full
The new devs can add all they want but if the player pop doesn't increase to 2K - 3K+ range, it will all go to waste.
They need to figure out a way to make the engagement area a bit more restriced to allow more gunfights
Bring it to console, ez player base fix
No. That’ll just cause the console players to say “it’s too hard make it easier so we can have fun”. Then you end up with just another HLL situation
@@HighDiver5555 I’ve been playing HLL since the console release and I wasn’t aware of people complaining about that. Honestly as far as I know, everyone loved it and it was a big success on console platforms for the hardcore fps fans who finally had something of that caliber release. Infact, most console players hated the new speed update if I remember correctly. The reviews are great and it bought a whole new community to the game too. Anyone complaining that it’s not arcadey enough should leave the game and devs shouldn’t even act upon those requests. So I think it would be a positive move for squad to come to console. People also say “there’s too many controls to be on a controller” well if you play HLL on console you should know how they fixed that issue lol
@@wallclock4648 thanks for the insight. Hope you guys get a server browser on HLL
I know the reason. I have a decently strong pc... The game at all settings on low and with 720p runs at like 20 frames anyway. Its just not fun in its current state. I cannot imagine how piss poor the performance must be on a weaker machine. I bought the game, played it for a bit, got dissapointed with the framerate and uninstalled. I imagine that 90% of people did something simmular
Had to refund the game, couldn’t get a match with less than 200 ping, sad
I feel your pain but it is surprisingly playable on US servers, I barely notice it
The game lacks players because it's not on console. I know steam is big on PC. But the majority of people playing video games nowadays is on console compared to PC. Especially revolving around tactical shooters like hell let loose,
BS, Tactical shooters make no sense on Consoles as most people dont communicate and entire fun in such games is based on communication. Squad have like 11k people playing at same moment on steam while HLL like 2/3k... HLL is one of maybe 2 realistic shooters on consoles...
People on consoles would buy it and give up after 2hours
@@funtecstudiovideos4102 i play HLL on Xbox X since November 2023. Yeah it was difficult to adapt but is still the best WW2 game we have on Console and so far the best atmosphere since BiA games. And if you have a good squad who communicates its even greater. So i would disagree that TS on consoles makes no sense. The main reason of console for me is to dont gave a headache about hardware requirements everytime when new games is released. I would love to see Squad44 on consoles and give it a try.
no thats not the fucking reason
this game would never work on console because console players are way way to casual for this game
the reason it lacks player is the same reason squad struggles aswell
the playerbase for a tactical shooter with squad leaders is already low enough , if you make it a ww2 setting iinterest drops even more
@@patrikmalory Squad 44 run like shit on good pc so on consoles it would look and run like Cyberpunk on ps4...
@@tavish4699 Squad literally have 11k people playing on steam at the same time...
Poor performance, crashes and annoying flow with huge maps pushed me away from this one.
If only there were smaller maps more foccused on infantry I would enjoy it a heck more.
I'm done with the loop of: "Gets shot, spawn miles away, walk for 10 minutes, get shot again, repeat."
Is tiresome, but I get why people enjoy that.
Down time in this game is huge! Even more than the Squad. Huge potential here but the flow, down time and that silly canteen mechanic sometimes turns it a real tedious experience unnecesseraily.
I'm always getting 20 fps with a rtx 2060, ryzen 5 4600g and 16gb of ram, tired of the optimization
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@@ANDREFELIPEZIELINSKI 20 fps oh dear me! its basically unplayable m8. rtx 2060 should let you enjoy the game with ok frame rates at low to mid settings.
Squad 44 or hell let lose?
Both
i love hell let loose graphics and gore also hell let loose its more story acurate because of how soilders run and look they look and act so real i think im at war squad has more mechanics but it feels like competitive in hell let loose you are just a rat trying to survive a real chaos mortars tanks shots everything happens so quick and cinematic
hell let loose soilders unform are acurate af and the way you see soilders in every corner fighting and dying is so cinematic
6 MONTHS????
Every time I come back the horrible anti aliasing problems, lack of FSR and HORRENDOUS performance is what makes me uninstall after only 30 minutes. This game needs nothing but optimisation and should be the sole focus of the next 3 updates. It is absolutely atrocious to play.
Tbh I’d prefer if Squad 44 had a better suppression system and made it a little harder to hit other people, since the fact that almost every weapon one shots out to long range every gunfight feels like a sniping duel
Imo the suppression system is great as is. 1 bullet can make you're aim swerve completely off target.
To be fair a 303 rifle round versus a human body with 0 body armour will put you down 😅
Wdym brah😭
Yeah, maybe a litle bit more. I don't want the shooting to be like HLL (which i feel like a much worse sniping duel) or like Squad ICO, where you can't hit people at 2 mts. Maybe a middle point.
I like Arma 3 shooting physics, as an example.
@@santiagorojaspiaggio something like that would be alright, I mean even a comparatively mild amount of suppression would have greater effect since most most factions use bolt actions, combining that with giving the automatic weapons some actual recoil and I think things could be greatly improved
Nah el stuer is going to one shot tanks
I want to play this game so bad. I'm so done with the mess thats called HLL. But i put it aside again because S44 is indeed too buggy, even more than PS.
What is buggy in squad44? Haven't experienced a cluncky gameplay since it was post scriptum. Although it's having a bit of performance issues just now before this massive update
@@diegobluc Grenades that don't work, rifles that don't work, vehicles that sink in sand, vehicles that hit invisible walls. To name a few things.
I really want this game to be good. I used to even prefer it over HLL.
@@wesleys4507 I have experienced the grenade thing, not the other stuff. But I believe you as I've seen other people talking about this. I hope they manage to fix everything soon enough before releasing the pacific campaign or its going to be a mess
@@wesleys4507grenades and rifles dont work how?
Sounds very small issues.
@@elevenknives0 Very small issues? i won't use my knife all the time, which also often times doesn't registrate hits.
On Utah beach as the US your Logi vehicles get stuck in the sand. Logistics is completely useless as the US on that map.
Again i want this game to be better than HLL like it was at the start. But since it became Squad 44 it seems to have more issues than PS.
I have the answer for you, because it is not 50 vs 50
10 players more on each team isn’t going to do anything. They need server queue limit in order to force players to seed other servers. If those 5 servers with 10+ people decided to seed another server, they’d have it more than halfway full amounts themselves alone
@@HighDiver5555 It is almost a deal breaker for me
@@Napoleonheir1805 I don’t see why. That sounds irrational to me. Try it, you’ll hardly notice a difference in player count, I assure you.
A great Game but theCrashes make this Game unplayable.
Fuck this game bro. RISING STORM 2 is now avaliable for 5 bucks!!!! See yall in RS2.
I check it out once every now and then and it's still the same everyone is a sniper with insta-kill rifles so MG or anything other than a rifle is pretty much useless performance is shocking bad even with a high end machine and theres issues with teams playing or listening to feedback like this one guy sniping spawn got 58 kills even after I said theres a sniper behind us the leader said ATTTACK the objective and I just thought this is fucking moronic..
Top 10 worst rebrandings, but I'm glad it's getting new updates.
I just need them to optmize it a bit!
Even more than a bit
100 player servers and more player reach. I see this game nowhere
It needs a touch of the ICO for me to regularly play it tbh
This game is really cool. Too bad it runs like AIDS
HLL is still 100x better.
Mid
Midder
Nah, its not worth playing with current playerbase. No mics=Boring walking simulator
Mid asfff
Says the 12 people playing s44. 8800 playing the far superior HLL.
am i going to be able to play with a 1050ti?
Dead game
I wrote the script before it increased and didn't check when making the video so that's my bad