Feel the need to post since the free weekend means a good amount of people without a full hour ingame leaving negative reviews, here's a counterpoint from someone with almost 100 hours.

Pros: In my opinion, far and away the best WWII milsim in terms of accuracy, sound design, and community. Variety of weapons and vehicles available far surpasses anything else like it. Maps aren't as well-structured or well-lit as in HLL, so the game overall can look worse, but the graphics definitely aren't as poor as people make them out to be, textures in this game are significantly better IMO, especially after a series of graphical overhauls. Deeply passionate core community that will help out new players. Not every game will click, but the ones that do, with a good squad that uses their mics, are some of the most fun I've had in any modern FPS.

Cons: Still poorly optimized. Unless you have a powerful rig you will have issues running this. Due to certain maps being especially badly optimized, servers tend to mostly run older maps that look and play worse IMO. Most major bugs that have come with the most recent update got hotfixed within a day but jank is inescapable. The fun of games rides on your team being able to execute their roles competently, and the game lacking any sort of official tutorial for new players means it's easy for new players to get confused and overwhelmed.

More importantly than any of this, this game has a very active devteam that is in constant communication with the playerbase and works astonishingly fast for being all-volunteer. They've managed to turn this game around from being almost dead a year ago to having its alltime peak right now. If you are interested in the period at all, and willing to adjust to a different game, there is no better time to pick up Squad 44.

Feel the need to post since the free weekend means a good amount of people without a full hour ingame leaving negative reviews, here's a counterpoint from someone with almost 100 hours. Pros: In my opinion, far and away the best WWII milsim in terms of accuracy, sound design, and community. Variety of weapons and vehicles available far surpasses anything else like it. Maps aren't as well-structured or well-lit as in HLL, so the game overall can look worse, but the graphics definitely aren't as poor as people make them out to be, textures in this game are significantly better IMO, especially after a series of graphical overhauls. Deeply passionate core community that will help out new players. Not every game will click, but the ones that do, with a good squad that uses their mics, are some of the most fun I've had in any modern FPS. Cons: Still poorly optimized. Unless you have a powerful rig you will have issues running this. Due to certain maps being especially badly optimized, servers tend to mostly run older maps that look and play worse IMO. Most major bugs that have come with the most recent update got hotfixed within a day but jank is inescapable. The fun of games rides on your team being able to execute their roles competently, and the game lacking any sort of official tutorial for new players means it's easy for new players to get confused and overwhelmed. More importantly than any of this, this game has a very active devteam that is in constant communication with the playerbase and works astonishingly fast for being all-volunteer. They've managed to turn this game around from being almost dead a year ago to having its alltime peak right now. If you are interested in the period at all, and willing to adjust to a different game, there is no better time to pick up Squad 44.