Recent reviews by Eistrias

This is literally the first time I feel urged to comment on a game on steam. This game has been my number one go-to game for years now. It is my most played game on Steam and I would have recommended it without the bat of an eye - until today. It has had it's flaws but the overall state of the game in general was absolutely fine. Squad fitted perfectly into the niche between hardcore milsims like arma and arcadey shooters like Battlefield. It was good for what it was.

For reasons only the developers know, they felt it was necessary to shift the game more into a direction of what OWI thinks would be considered "realistic". And while I would not even say that the ideas and plans of the infantry combat overhaul are inherently bad in the first place, the execution is just poor. It does not feel realistic, it just feels as if you play an 80 year old person that has never hold a weapon in his hand before.

Everything feels just ODD:
- If you move while aiming down your scope, it shakes like outcast shakes a polaroid picture.
- If you duck, the scope just blacks out.
- It takes DECADES to lift your weapon, another eternity until you finally can look through your scope and somewhat like 10 seconds until you can get out a more or less consistent shot.
- Supression is just all over the place. While I understand why OWI thinks it needed a rework, its just way too much and also inconsistent as hell. You can't see ♥♥♥♥ for like 10 seconds because a single .50-cal shell goes past you a few meters away. I also got surpressed by a .50-cal that was shooting somewhere above me while I was in a canal literally UNDERGROUND.
- The PIP scopes, while basically a nice idea, just look and feel bad - Especially while using ACOGs or, god forbid, Marksman scopes: You basically look at an area the size of a bottle cap on your big ass display. The rest is blurred out.
- The only way to kill the enemy as infantry is to camp and wait for someone to run into your sight.
- While all these changes hugely affect infantry gameplay, vehicles have been untouched and are unbalanced like hell.

TLDR: This is a game and the changes make it not fun to play anymore. And i mean like it feels like an absolute pain in the ass. I dunno what OWI thought they where doing here, but they overpaced for miles with what they did to the game.

Cannot recommend the game in this state.