For those who hate ICO, what other games like Squad are there?

[ZigZack]

If it was last year, I would say Burning Lands (but that ship has sailed). I feel BF3 Reality Mod is our only hope for a decent tactical shooter until someone decides to make a Squad clone. It’s made some pretty amazing progress recently and seems to capture the PR vibe quite nicely.

What do you guys think?

[Sling Blade]

Arma 3. The great thing about Arma 3 is, you can literally do whatever you want. Your imagination is the limit. There are loads of free mods. Play any style of war you want. Halo, Star Wars, modern day, ww2, ww1, Vietnam, etc etc. AND you actually have to talk to people to make it work. There is no solo run-n-gun like this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. You must join a discord server and use teamspeak to communicate. AND... if you want to use vehicles, you can actually USE the vehicles in Arma, unlike this game where they are all locked and being hogged by locked 2 man "squads".

Arma > Squad

[Chungal Grease]

Originally posted by ZackTactical34:

For those who hate ICO, what other games like Squad are there?

Squad still has several unique features that no one else has managed to combine together in a camouflage first person shooter genre including but not limited to the logistics system, the user placed fortification and weapons emplacement system, the Random Advance And Secure game mode and the larger open world environments. So basically you're stuck with noodle arms and gravy vision until the developers walk it back.

[kind713orange]

short answer, there is non. arma runs like ♥♥♥♥, hell let lose still aint good and has xbox kids on it, and enlisted has gone to ♥♥♥♥. ive been playing ground branch, ready or not, battlebit to get my fix but it aint the same

[Towelie420]

Originally posted by kind713orange:

short answer, there is non. arma runs like ♥♥♥♥, hell let lose still aint good and has xbox kids on it, and enlisted has gone to ♥♥♥♥. ive been playing ground branch, ready or not, battlebit to get my fix but it aint the same

Same here NOTHING out there the same, MEE and Galactic Mod that's bout it. I do DCS Helicopters and IL2 Sturmovik . I just reinstalled Arma3 to play some Prairie Fire.

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by Izhevsk M44:

Arma 3. The great thing about Arma 3 is, you can literally do whatever you want. Your imagination is the limit. There are loads of free mods. Play any style of war you want. Halo, Star Wars, modern day, ww2, ww1, Vietnam, etc etc. AND you actually have to talk to people to make it work. There is no solo run-n-gun like this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. You must join a discord server and use teamspeak to communicate. AND... if you want to use vehicles, you can actually USE the vehicles in Arma, unlike this game where they are all locked and being hogged by locked 2 man "squads".

Arma > Squad

You forgot to mention that Arma 3 has an outdated engine that doesn't utilize modern hardware, resulting in the game running like dogwater. Or that not everyone wants to be in some discord club to play a match.

Inb4 "squad runs poorly." It runs a heck of a lot better than Arma 3.

[Aegmar]

Originally posted by Rock:

Originally posted by Izhevsk M44:

Arma 3. The great thing about Arma 3 is, you can literally do whatever you want. Your imagination is the limit. There are loads of free mods. Play any style of war you want. Halo, Star Wars, modern day, ww2, ww1, Vietnam, etc etc. AND you actually have to talk to people to make it work. There is no solo run-n-gun like this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. You must join a discord server and use teamspeak to communicate. AND... if you want to use vehicles, you can actually USE the vehicles in Arma, unlike this game where they are all locked and being hogged by locked 2 man "squads".

Arma > Squad

You forgot to mention that Arma 3 has an outdated engine that doesn't utilize modern hardware, resulting in the game running like dogwater. Or that not everyone wants to be in some discord club to play a match.

Inb4 "squad runs poorly." It runs a heck of a lot better than Arma 3.

Also Arma 3 usually requires quite a few mods that need to be configured to achieve whatever you want and thats not realsitic for large scale play. It needs to be something simple to install.

What confuses me: Its been a few years since i last played the Arma Campaign, but as i remember weapon sway and adverse affects from movement when aiming have been even more pronounced in Arma 3 than in Squad post ICO. Did Arma get casualized at some point later in its development ?

[Aegmar]

Originally posted by Izhevsk M44:

AND... if you want to use vehicles, you can actually USE the vehicles in Arma, unlike this game where they are all locked and being hogged by locked 2 man "squads".

Wouldn't that be great to have like 50 one-manned vehicles in a multiplayer round....

[Sling Blade]

Originally posted by Aegmar:

Originally posted by Izhevsk M44:

AND... if you want to use vehicles, you can actually USE the vehicles in Arma, unlike this game where they are all locked and being hogged by locked 2 man "squads".

Wouldn't that be great to have like 50 one-manned vehicles in a multiplayer round....

At least people that want to use them could ♥♥♥♥♥♥ use them. That's the main reason I quit playing this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game so quickly. I couldn't use vehicles, and noone would let me in their squad. Totally defeats the purpose. I've had more teamwork, coordination and communication from randoms in GTA Online than this dumbass game. The big advertised selling point is "teamwork" and "communication". Not my experience. Nobody said a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ word and I was left by myself in the middle of nowhere on foot. ♥♥♥♥ that. If I want to play a walking simulator for an hour I could just go outside.

[dongobongo]

Originally posted by Rock:

Originally posted by Izhevsk M44:

Arma 3. The great thing about Arma 3 is, you can literally do whatever you want. Your imagination is the limit. There are loads of free mods. Play any style of war you want. Halo, Star Wars, modern day, ww2, ww1, Vietnam, etc etc. AND you actually have to talk to people to make it work. There is no solo run-n-gun like this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. You must join a discord server and use teamspeak to communicate. AND... if you want to use vehicles, you can actually USE the vehicles in Arma, unlike this game where they are all locked and being hogged by locked 2 man "squads".

Arma > Squad

You forgot to mention that Arma 3 has an outdated engine that doesn't utilize modern hardware, resulting in the game running like dogwater. Or that not everyone wants to be in some discord club to play a match.

Inb4 "squad runs poorly." It runs a heck of a lot better than Arma 3.

I've played a lot of arma tvt games where teams are like 70vs70 or 100vs100 and I have a better fps than in squad, since our server hardware was a decent one.
Btw arma is not a jump@play game, so there is no matchmaking, before you can play any game properly, you need to find and join some unit/community.

[lazyeye eric™]

I bet if private servers could run pre ico patch they would be more populated than the current patch.

[KDM 16AAB]

I dunno why but I've been playing operation harsh doorstep the last few days and it's been pretty good, minus the server lag.

[Oozy]

Something like squad but without ico and with a playerbase? non, either move on from this genre and never play again or accept the ico and play some modded servers to take a break from it.

I would rather them update the vehicle physics and kink out existing bugs tbh

[ArtofWar]

Originally posted by KDM 16AAB:

I dunno why but I've been playing operation harsh doorstep the last few days and it's been pretty good, minus the server lag.

OHD is good and I firmly believe that it can be a replacement for squad but it still needs more time to cook. There are a few oversights that I need to see fixed before I can really suggest it or sink hours into it myself. The main thing is spawns. They need to get rid of the current spawn system and make teams have a main base to spawn at but until they get vehicles added I don't think they will. There is also no spawn protection and players could easily just farm kills at the spawns.