New to Squad? Here are some tips and tricks to get you up to speed!

A must-read guide with important information for new Squad players!

Basic Beginner Tips + Info

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdfQKcocnDQ&feature=youtu.be

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Hello everyone I’m Karmakut and I’d like to welcome you to the Squad community. As a new player, certain aspects of squad might be confusing or overwhelming. Here are some important tips and tricks to get you up to speed with the veterans:

• Pick a squad from the menu.
  
• Don’t pick Squad Leader if you are brand new to the game, learn a little first.
  
• Next pick a kit, kits are limited by the amount of players in your Squad.
  
• The more players the more kits.
  
• When you are just starting to play Squad it is recommended that you play the Rifleman class.
  
• Enemy flags that you can attack are marked with an orange arrow.
  
• Friendly flags you must defend are marked with a purple shield.
  
• It takes at least 1 player to cap a neutral flag
  
• It takes at least 3 players to cap an enemy flag
  
• Games are won when the enemy runs out of tickets.
  
• You can see your tickets at the top right of your screen, but you cannot see the enemy’s.
  
• Every time you respawn, you lose a ticket.
  
• If a medic can revive you the ticket is saved.
  
• Losing flags loses tickets, the more flags the enemy has the faster your tickets will drain.
  
• When you are wounded you must first bandage yourself and then find a medic to restore your health.
  
• To heal or bandage yourself use right click.
  
• To heal or bandage others use left click.
  
• Rallypoints are temporary spawn locations for your squad.
  
• They are destroyed if enemies get too close to them.
  
• Rallypoints have a cooldown of a few minutes.
  
• FOBs are permanent spawn locations for your entire team
  
• FOBs must be placed 400 meters apart from each other.
  
• FOBs are destroyed if enemies overrun the area or if they dig it up with shovels.
  
• If FOBs are destroyed by the enemy you will lose tickets.
  
• Shovels are used to build or deconstruct deployables.
  
• Left click to build, right click to deconstruct.
  
• One of the deployables is an ammo crate that you can resupply from or changes classes.
  
• Only Squad Leaders can place Rallypoints, FOBs, and deployables.
  
• Squad is a team game, this means you must be able to communicate and work with others.
  
• Squad has 3 vocal channels: local, squad, and command.
  
• Local is used to speak with those around you by pressing the V key.
  
• Squad is used to communicate with your entire squad using the B key.
  
• Only Squad Leaders get the command channel by pressing the G key.
  
• Squads only work if players listen to their Squad Leader, regardless if they think they are making the correct decision.
  
• Squad is a game focused around immersion and realism, this means that you MUST work together, pay attention, and be careful.
  
• Take your time to look for enemies, talk with your teammates and check your map.
  
  Finally, don’t forget to have fun and meet new squaddies.

[davidbordelon741]

how do you use a controller

[Tot]

Been playing a while. This helps to refresh why you got the game. Wish they'd stop tinkering with it so much. The updates take forever and break the game.

[Thucydides]

If you are a rifleman and a medic is asking for ammo then place the bloody ammo bag so they can get more bandages

[TheFlightGuy]

Iggy gill, its basically just testing for updates, dont download it if you dont care about it

[NODDY]

Assertion failed: OutUniformExpressionCache.UniformBuffer->GetLayout() == UniformBufferStruct.GetLayout() [File:C:/BuildAgent/work/

I get this cant open the game or fix it??!!

[ronmoba]

Anybody kno'w why my X-box controller won't work in Squad?

[IggyGill]

Whats the purpose of the testing one? should i download that as well

[ABlock96]

Make sure new players are using the actual squad game. Not the testing one. 2 will download when you purchase the game.

[Vitin]

I finally bought a better pc, but I somehow can't play yet, because in the SERVER BROWSER menu, no servers apear so I could connect.

[P-Jon]

I'm assuming that 'cap' means 'capture' and is not another three letter acronym. Is this correct?