NEW FACTION IS COMING TO SQUAD!
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- Get ready for chaos on the battlefield with the arrival of private military contractors as a new faction in Squad! With access to light attack vehicles, modded and modern small arms, they are set to shake up the game. They are going to fit into air assault and light infantry unit types, so I'd expect them to be fast and versatile, but I'm really curious to see how they fit in the game overall and stack up against conventional factions.
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0:29 - Leak
0:52 - Announcement
1:19 - PMC Breakdown
3:30 - Discussion / Concerns
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An irregular forces but for all biomes would be insanely fun.
Imagine irregular vs PMC's. It would be so much fun.
For sure, I'm hoping PMCs get a bunch of emplacements too!
@@Slay3Kilowith a lack of vehicles, I'm personally hoping they get a lot of AT and emplacements
@@briguy345 Probably will. It's easier for PMCs to get acess to AT than vehicles themselves.(both availability and cost-wise)
We are making it out of Geneve Convetion with this one
What?!
@@Slay3Kilomaybe bc of war crimes?!? Idk what he is talking about lol
@@Slay3Kilo Just saying. You cannot judge a pmc cus they doing their "security" missions if you know what i mean. Thus making the geneva convention a choice
@@Slay3Kilo pmcs arent in an army so the rules of war do not apply to them
You mean the Geneva Checklist?
I think they should add the French Faction, maybe OWI should buy/acquire the mod and implement it into Vanilla Squad just like they did with the Australians and Canadians.
That would be my guess!
French Foreign Legion would be cool.
Some popular mods like Global Escalation feature SOF/PMC factions with "tricked out" small arms and light vics so OWI might be trying to change things up while still meeting a demand the players clearly have some interest in. Despite its western inventory I hope it's still classed as GrayFor; pitting American infantry against "you, but better" would be an interesting matchup.
I do hope this faction does serve as a bit of a testbed for other factions as well; I'd kill for that MP5 to get added to the MEA's H&K-based arsenal.
I've seen that but haven't actually played them. I really think it's possible that this is a ground work for multiple sort of factions that are regionally based and can fit the independant alliance category.
we may see Javelin with the PMC group to balance them
Agreed! Just left another comment about that.
Sounds op as heck, but if they make it as 1 jav per 20 players or something
SUVs with miniguns aren't uncommon if that's the right word. A couple of businesses specialize in up-armored, up-gunned SUVs.
A mingun would be W I L D, especially mounted on an armored and quick vehicle like that.
can't wait for Mercs vs Militia fights
Wild. Can't wait to see what emplacements are out there!
They said in the dev blog they´d be releasing the PMC faction *later* this year. They might be working on something under the radar as we speak. And the fact that they kept it out of the dev blog tells me whatever it is, it´s coming soon. And i´d say it is most likely the French or the German (or both in a crazy world), as their mods are coming closer and closer to completion.
Might also not be true and they are taking their time with content release, which is fine.. (i dont enjoy the turkish faction because it was 100% rushed, feels lacking)
And although this is exciting news im kind of dissappointed they keep ignoring the requests for current factions rework such as the BAF, TLF, PLANMC.. much like they did with militia.
(not to mention the optimization, holy fuck.)
I think the French faction could be in a good spot for OWI to add in the near future. I don’t think the German mod is far enough along, but I could be wrong. I don’t think they’d do them at the same time either because that’d be so much added, it’d probably be best to spread it out.
I expect the French to be a likely add this year and maybe some USA/USMC tweaks soon.
I agree, TLF need some reworking.. BAF needs an update too. I talked about that in my last video. I guess time will tell!
it looksl ike we are getting the minibird it action
That's 100% on my wishlist for this.
I'm all for a PMC faction, but I really want to see the French faction mod get added as well as Germany and Sweden/Norway
I think French is likely. Germany is still WIP from what I understand.
I mean tactical collective seems like they did most of the work on the French. I could see the PMC and French coming around the same time (not me coping 😢).
My guess is that OWI may need to focus on PMC to get the implementation, while they could potentially pull some stuff from modders to fill the vacancy between now and then. Who knows!
Maby fpv drones or javelines might be what balences it out. Also the modded weapon part seems awsome, we might be getting supressed ar-15s and modded out guns. Could be a infantry superiority faction that smacks other infantry
I was thinking javelines could be a way of balancing this especially with the lack of heavy armor. I wouldn't be shocked if some silencers are involved.
I was thinking the same, could be insanely fun to play with that and a little bird
Now this is what I was talking about. Something unconventional. I can dig this.
Could be alot of fun!
They could have little birds with rocket pods too, which would help
That would be spicy!
@@Slay3Kilo would be a cool replacement for IFVs and tanks tbh.
It seems like the insurgents but for the western side.
Maybe more IMF?
For a long time I've wondered what a similar style faction to this PMC unit would function like, except my idea was more American militia themed for a Red Dawn style scenario. The faction loadout would be:
All weapons would be suppressed with pistol as backup
regular squad
-Riflemen would have snappier AR-15s with little sway or recoil but no auto or burst
-standard medic kit with PDW
-autorifleman would be a heavy barrel AR with a bumpstock and D-50 drum mag (basically USMC auto rifle M27)
-Grenadier is a rifleman but with 4 smoke grenades, 4 flashbang grenades and 4 molotov cocktails
Support
-Marksman with suppressed AR-10 in 6.8 CM (basically hit scan out to 500 yds)
-Raider with shotgun and PCC, demo charge and 2 flash bang grenades
-Drone operator with PDW and light drone (2 per kit)
Specialists
-Sniper with heavy caliber bolt gun like the Canadians but with thermal
-Saboteur with PDW heavy anti-tank satchel charge, and mines
-Drone Operator with mortar claw attachment (2 per kit)
Vehicles
-Bikes
-ATVs
-Pickup trucks
-uparmored dump trucks for transport
-SWAT MRAPs
-Picktup truck with a TOW Missile launcher (1 per layer)
-News chopper
Commander Support:
-Support actions at half or
-Heavy drone with thermals
-Kamikaze drone (1.5 HAT rounds worth of damage if hit from directly above or behind in weak spot)
-INS style artillery
-FOBs would be a mix of BLUFOR, INS and IMF defensive emplacements, but no weapons emplacements beyond hellcannons and maybe a few automatic weapons
Faction ability: Intel regardless of layer, cheaper ammo
The intent is to create a faction that is highly mobile, fluid, flexible, and dominates against enemy infantry and in the information and decision-making domain, but utterly crumbles under the weight of conventional forces if they get trapped in a protracted direct confrontation and so needs to pick and choose fights carefully.
Other factions only get 1 drone at the commander level, US Militia will have 6 due to lack of AT and with proper coordination, should run circles around other factions to mitigate the effectiveness of armored vehicles as a result . With a good team, this would easily be the most oppressive faction to fight against because you could realistically never effectively hide, but it would be the hardest faction to play as.
Thanks for the update, could be interesting, although I'd like for OWI to think about how to improve/expand/create gameplay through developing features/modes instead of just adding another faction.
For example, I'd really appreciate it if OWI finally added fast roping!
How about some more deployables, a triage tent to enter and heal, a radio tower to expand the build radius but can be seen from further out, or even a field main HQ that is a much larger 2 story building that can only be built once per game and needs 2 squads to proxy but costs 10000 construction, or perhaps commander points that are awarded when the team accomplishs a sub objective (destruction of a logistics vehicle or tank) and allows the commander quicker access to existing assets or unlocks other abilities such as the ability to select a Squad (with all members currently dead) to be parachute deployed into battle by an Airbus Atlas.. just some examples.
More factions are cool but they don't keep me coming back for more, it's the gameplay.
I think too many folks are held up on fast roping. IDK that I can see that being added very easily as I think it would cause more frustration overall if it was added poorly. It'd be cool, but I worry about issues with it.
I'm all for more deployables that makes sense. Problem is I think this is a transition where more players have to learn about logistics before throwing more stuff into the mix that requires logistics. Just a thought.
They should add India. It’s quite literally a regional power that controls all of the Indian Ocean, a big part of maritime trade. It’s the fourth best military in the world, and as an American it’s always puzzled me why they are never present in any milsim games. The top 3 militaries above them are there, and so are many of the militaries ranked below them. It almost seems like they are getting skipped purposely. That wouldn’t make much sense considering that they have crazy geographical diversity from deserts, to jungles, to mountain warfare up near the Himalayas. Before moving to something like France or Germany, or creating another BLUFOR faction, I think it’s better they go with an independent power first. After all, they just made Turkey.
I've seen black water and GBRS with .50s, m240s, m249s, RPGs, AT4s, Javelins, and lots of sniper rifles. Not to mention when they're limited to local weapons like AKs PKMs etc in Afghanistan
Could make for some interesting builds.
@@Slay3Kilo I'm also not sure why they don't have access to call ins, plenty of times when PMCs are guarding embassies or leading coalition forces they'll have access to air support via drones and CAS
Im looking forward to it, P320 is dope and a PMC faction on any biome sounds awesome!
Same! Could be fun!
Hopefully there will be an eastern style PMC faction down the road too?
My guess is that this sets up the framework for that.
So to balance this faction the SUV will need a mini gun,the small arms will need a variety of scopes,maybe two habs, more helicopters and lots of drone support.
Also Javelins and if you are going to have an mp5 make it an sd5 for gods sake!
And also when will we get African maps?
Wagner vs France.....
I hope we can some Africa based maps added. I would expect to see some more APAC region too. Need little birds!!!
I would like to see the PMC have unique emplacements and weapons.
AGS-17 and Javelin as an emplacement
-Infantry has option of SCAR-H, M4, Vz58, M4 Benelli, and VHS
-LAT has PSRL-1 and MATADOR
-HAT has PSRL-1 tandem and Panzerfaust-3
-LMG has FN Mini and Raptor PKP Pecheneg (bullpub pkp)
-HMG has M60e6
-Sniper has Berret .50 cal (cannot be shoulder mounted)
WHERE ARE MY FRENCHIES 😔😭
LOL! I'm hoping they acquire the mod at some point, while OWI works on PMCs.
I was somewhat expecting that this would be one of the factions they would add soon and I'm excited to see what they do with it. I'm a little concerned about the lack of even IFVs when every other faction in the game has a tank. I wonder if we might see them getting up gunned helis or even a dedicated attack heli but that would probably need a lot of balance alteration to the game so I'm not 100% sure what to expect.
I would expect to see something to help balance.. some new weaponry or emplacements. Javelin maybe?
As much as I love new factions i really with they would work on the games performance.
I wouldn't mind some performance improvements!
Love the idea of this. Opens the door to some crazy stuff!
Yes it does! Could get wild OUT HERE!
I know I love the shift from a great game to call of duty it’s great, maybe we will get some anime skins in the future. 😂
@@Ouch-That-hurts404 ICO ruined your game?
@@OutLaWClone Most definitely, I'm ok with change but barely testing this update and coming out with something that changes the entire dynamic of the game just to appease a small group of people mostly streamers. Then to say to bad to the community that made there game is just sad really. 2,000 hours just for them to say skill issue lmao. I played project reality and ICO was nowhere close to what that game had. I would have been happier with slow changes that the community can slowly grow with. They still have not done anything about performance which is quite sad.
@@Ouch-That-hurts404 I don't feel the same. It took me a bit and I still lose fights I feel I should have won but it's just stamina management. It hasn't really changed the way I play much other then I can't run over 100m to a position I'm going to have to fight. Gotta slow it down.
As for the skins. I'm ok with skins. You can choose to buy them or what ever but to be fair, it's better then paying a monthly subscription to play your fav games. With how long some of these teams work on games for, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the next move. So I'll take some skins please.
Here gose proxy contract wars in SQUAD, it was what I've dreamed of it.
I hope they have a sa 58 or MCX spear loadout
It would be nice if the PMC faction, atleast with maybe just the rifleman etc. Have more freedom with weapon choices and or optioc choice. Like either an MK18 with an holo or an acog or foregrip or no foregrip
I think that would be fun!
Could we hope for the Extraction game mode we had back in project reality?
Haven't played PR, so I'm not really sure.
@@Slay3Kilo Extraction was played on Al Basrah only if i recall correctly. Allied team would spawn down south east and the point was to get a VIP all the way to airport. On the way there there were checkpoints you had to pass. Some of the checkpoints changed place as in RAAS. The allied team had apcs and humvees and an armored suv. The opposing side was insurgents. Really fun game mode!
Fast in Fast out type of faction need nimble fast agile vehicle to thrive in current Squad. They must add some new helicopter like AH/MH-6 Littlebird for fast infiltration and buff the faction capping rate also attaching gunpod to the AH-6 type will add the faction firepower
one think i like to see is that pmc will have more player limits roles like theres only 2 hats per team but for the pmc its more like 4 hats and others this can balance the faction making them more lethal and make them stand against armored vehicles
Yeah, they have to balance them somehow!
Irregular vs irregular faction action is fun
i hope they get more gun options like in the mods
Perhaps!
It’d be awesome to have both wagner and blackwater
Blackwater making its comeback through games now
😰
PLEASE give them the littlebird, PLEASE
I want this too!
Just for your information: PMCs HAVE SILENCED WEAPONS AND LITTLE BIRD!!!
I really want the little bird
I think the turkish army is pretty good tbh. Their infantry loadouts are super strong, like, up to 3 mgs in a single squad strong but they struggle to compete armour-wise yes. I think they can still be a really strong pick for infantry centric maps.
Infantry they can do some work, but most large maps with enough space.. armor can be a struggle which can negatively effect those infantry pushes.
They will probably get the little bird or something like that for air
One can hope!
I think it's unfortunate that most players believe tanks are a meta thing and that when the PMC faction releases, it's gonna be played around with for a few days and then never touched again because, "muh 2-4 tanks".
IDK if they think it's the meta thing, but I think to many have relied on armor (ifvs and tanks) especially in the wake of ICO. But with 7.2, you dont always have all that to rely on.
Man OWI is cooking! You guys rock!
Plenty on the way
Mercs BABY!
Yeah man!!
Imagine people pretend to be Blackwater PMC, it would be chaotic
Like they do on insurgents? Lol
Imagine! MH-6M with dual 7 rocket pods
thats pretty spicy!
hope they get a mk19 GMG
I sort of expect them to get some really fun emplacements.. but who knows.
I trust.
who?
@@Slay3Kilo OWI
Some Amazing Additions
Give Me MP7
This Is Great and All but I wish They’d Focus more on Consolidation
Gunships, Bugs, Old Factions, Education
Egh
I dont get what's their point, add the damn French faction ! Their mod have the UN faction too so why not ?
Maybe one day! I'm thinking it could be on the way!
I'm here
Welcome back!
@@Slay3Kilo you did say you just released a video on it might as well stop by
PMC faction was leaked on reddit a month ago
Must have missed it!
I wonder if in a year or two they will add russian pmcs? And put them against france in africa
I think this sets up a format for them to add plenty more PMC options based on region.
Imagine attackheli
could be wild
Why not france?? Its basically already in the game and just need to make it official
#bluforinsurgents give us BOMBS
Poland needs to be added into this game, or Bundeswehr could be nice too
Very skeptical , as for the last 24 years western PMC's haven't ever been used in this role, they were basically just security details or pulled security , not ever in a main effort combat role. Only groups like the Russian -Wagner in recent memory or South African Executive- Outcomes if you go back many years go have ever been in those roles.
Походу щя Тарков будет)
I wish they'll add Polish forces
i wish squad would get dedicated servers 🤦 why all servers has to be made by players , doesn't make sense and is the only reason I can't get into the game completely
They do have dedicated servers. Idk why the Dev doesn’t run their own, but I don’t know why this is an issue?
We do not need new weapons or vehicles we need fu'king FPS Optimization i have Rx 5700 xt with Ryzen 5 5500, gpu usage %50 CPU cores %60-70 FPS: 55-60 :D
I want Brazil, where is Brazil, I need my Ia2
Brazil could be a fun curveball to get added!
Would be cool if you could customise their kits are little bit nothing too extreme
Maybe sight and simple stuff?
I whould like America militia
I’d like to see more Redfor or independent factions. Don’t get me wrong I love the variety in this game, I just wish there were some balance in how many there are. I love the MEA but no one else does so I barely ever play them
Maybe this will help that.
I don't care about factions, I just want bug fixes and optimization.
I'll take that as well!
@@Slay3Kilo I just want to not hear phantom gunshots or see helicopters lerching across the sky as the server updates.... Why does OWI hate us. :'(
We want french army (regular or legion) and german army !
And game more stable, too many fps drop and freez 😢
Yes!
LET'S GOOOO! WAGNER gonna be slappin
European Union?
huh?
Im not excited at all. Won’t fit into squad.
I’ve been hearing this too!
Same. I dont particularly like irregular type factions since it plays heavily against the whole gameplay of Squad.
It would attract the wrong type of people aswell.
@@honkhonk8009 irregular factions are my fav. But this doesn’t fit. Bc this ain’t an army or so. These are like special forces and they don’t fit into squa d
Insurgents and Militia exist, what about them ?
I think it fits nicely. Offers an alternative to insurgents and militia.
I don’t know if I’m alone but I’d love to see civilian npcs in some games
To commit war crimes I guess
Haven’t heard that before and not really sure it would add much of anything positive to the game honestly
bruh if anything i learned from arma 3 is that civilians are just free score points
maybe if u could wear civilian outfits to avoid getting shot and if shot it would elongate the timer of the guy who killed them, just like in PR
@@zielakbb2400 impossible, would require a ground made gamemode from scrarch
yeah but... squad sucks
Add cjng 👀
Who?
@@Slay3KiloSounds like a Cartel group