Is there an easy way to join with a friend?

[MaGicBush]

Am I missing something or is it really annoying trying to play with someone else? My son and I bought this over the weekend and last night spent like 30 minutes just trying to get on the same team in a server. Can you not squad up before joining a server like most games and it try to put you on the same team? I hope we are missing something, as otherwise we tie up a couple spots on a server waiting for a team to be unbalanced so we can both join and play.

[McPhil]

For balance reasons, people always join the side with less players. If both teams are equal, one player joins Team A, the next Player Team B.
You have to be a bit patience and join the other team when there's a free place or the teams are balanced like 50/50.

[MaGicBush]

Yea I sat there and kept clicking to join his team repeatedly for at least 10 minutes and it kept showing the same or one less at times on his team. Kept getting the unbalanced teams error. Eventually he was finally able to switch to my team. Was just frustrating and seems like it will be tedious if we have to do that every game. It would be nice if you could squad up before joining a server and the game bring the squad along when the host/leader picks a server like any other fps I played the past 5 years.

It's funny because the game is literally called squad, but discourages playing with friends. I couldn't imagine trying to get on a team with 2 or 3 friends.

[McPhil]

With 2 players it's not a problem. One of you can always go to the other side. It's hard for 3 or more player to play together.
But having 4, 5, 6 or more player join a team together, will just create unbalance in the teams.

In the end, there is no happy solution for all, how it is now, is the best.

[KDM 16AAB]

To get the same kind of functionality that you can get in the likes of Battlelog, such a framework would need to be a consideration, scoped and designed from the beginning back when the game was still on cig packet. Value/Steam is used for the browser on this one and so you are limited to what Steam has to offer with few feature additions being possible for the ingame browser.