I intend to put 100+ Hours into Squad in 2025

[Jartasm]

Have had the game for a while and reinstalled this week. 2025 is the year of Squad for me. Please tell me things you would say to a new person interested in becoming invested in Squad, good or bad. Particularly helpful would be the most notorious Squad memes so I can sound hip and cool in game.

[Tyyne]

Don't.

[Aegmar]

game can be great or horrible, depending what kind of folks you end up playing with. First impression is going to come down to blind luck basically..., when you end up in a Squad with an engaged SL and engaged squadmates and even ideally a (mostly, lets stay realsitic) engaged team AND even an enemy that isn't just goofing around Squad can be miles beyond anything else on the market.

Or its just a running simulator with barely any action and the rounds ends after 25 minutes without you knowing why and what you did wrong.

[Namdaets]

1. Ignore the haters, until you know enough about the game to understand what they're talking about. This place is where the haters congregate, so keep that in mind. People in-game are far less likely to meet your enthusiasm with anti-enthusiasm.

2. I highly recommend finding and sticking with a server (or small selection of servers) you enjoy and becoming a "regular." You will get a feel for how the admins run the server and also meet other "regulars" as you become part of the server's own little community. Squad lives and dies by its community, so finding a good server to spend your time in generally leads to better results, imho.

3. Given how dependent this game is on its community, match quality can vary dramatically across servers and times of day. I'll just say Squad has some of the highest highs in any multiplayer game I've ever played, but also some pretty low lows at times (e.g. your team is getting streamrolled because all the good squad leaders are on the other team). I'd just say stick with the game for a while to get a feel for the breadth of experiences possible. Basically what Aegmar said above.

4. Follow the server rules. Don't act like a dumbass. This game utilizes a community ban list, so a particularly egregious gamer faux pas (mass intentional teamkilling, deliberate highly-disruptive griefing, flagrant gamer words, etc.) could, with enough infractions, get you banned from numerous servers and forced to play only on servers that don't utilize the community ban list. If you're not an anti-social freak, this will likely never become an issue for you.

[Concussion gaming]

Make sure you play only as marksman and say skibidi as much as humanly possible. And definitely fly the helies if you get a chance.

[Duck Fiabetes]

I like to do pushups on vehicles.

[Marcus]

Point your weapon the right way. :D
And each time your squad leader has said something.
You say "Yes master" :P

I would just go in youtube, alot of good videos about getting started.
Am new myself, and those videos are worth gold.

[Irrelephant]

Watch moidog eye in the sky videos to get an idea of what's really happening in a battle.

[phamaton]

Just make sure you have fun so we don't get another complaining individual on the forums. GLHF

[CallMeMilenko]

Same for me man. I've had Squad and Hell Let Loose for over a year. Haven't put 15 hours into either game. This is the year I take both games serious instead of just watching YouTube videos about them.

[☨ donaLD]

yes yes da da vse pravilno

[KANEDA999]

Originally posted by Jartasm:

Have had the game for a while and reinstalled this week. 2025 is the year of Squad for me. Please tell me things you would say to a new person interested in becoming invested in Squad, good or bad. Particularly helpful would be the most notorious Squad memes so I can sound hip and cool in game.

definitely play as marksman 24/7, ignore SL, stay lone as wolf, go kilometers away from your team, never use VC, spawn camp when you can and waste as much vehicles as you can.

[bakepotatou]

2025 is the year i drop squad bc its a game for noobs