Ah yes, squad. 50% of the most cinematic and intense tank gameplay youve ever seen... and 50% heli pilots just being stupid at all times. absolutely love it
i didnt end up playing it for long because of high ping but i remember when i first played i went through the practice range and genuinely flew out of my chair when i first got shot at lol i didn't even realise my headphones were capable of being that loud
@@jowsey if you wanted to give it a shot there are definitely play styles that wouldn't suffer too much from high ping. You could operate mortars and build HABs
To give the chopper some credit, there's a weird thing with the flight model on that mountain that makes you bounce all over the place and it's very hard to land. Heli likes to move away from the large hill on Skorpo like it's a negative magnet, you really just need to slam it down.
As a pilot with @300 hours flying in squad I always felt like skorpo mountains felt weird as hell to land on, I thought it was maybe an optical illusion and I was doing it wrong…I’m glad I read your comment now.
Nah… dude couldn’t even maintain a basic hover, and he was see-sawing because he couldn’t figure out how to stop moving. Just bad piloting, no need to make excuses for him.
Now to be fair, those slopes on skorpo are hella trecherous. Many places look like you can land, but when you try the top rotor clips the mountain when you’re perfectly level.
@@MeaNGiants The desync isnt that apparent client side. If Im flying, everything I do looks smooth in the cockpit, but other helos are teleporting all over. I assume thats what I look like as well to the outside viewer. But it is pretty funny when you get an angry comments from tow shooters like "fix your damn internet", like yeah bucko, I live in a 1st world capital city with a wired connection and 30 ping, I dont have to fix jack shit.
@@capofantasma97 not gonna dispute that. The issue for squad pilots though is that the incline isnt all too apparent. It can look a lot flatter than it is. I mean I assume real pilots get educated on that, but most of us squaddies arent real pilots lol. xD
Problem is not only the slopes, you have winds (height ceiling maybe?) or some other shit genuinely pushing the helicopter the other way. Boot up a training game on skorpo and head over there with any heli and you'll see. You can barely hover up there
ah, its likely due to ground effect, when a helicopter is within a close proximity to the ground, it creates a high pressure air pocket underneath the helicopter causing an increase in lift. depending on the helicopters rotor diameter and blades theres more or less pressure. at least thats how it works irl, im not sure what squad's flight model simulates
To be honest, being a driver to a gunner/commander who knows what he's doing is one of my favorite things to do in Squad. So many times I've seen Vehicles get destroyed because the poor driver is lost in one of the most difficult fog of war situations in the game. Can't blame them. My favourite game of squad ever was when i was an MRAP driver. SL was doing an incredible job with his infantry and used us as an asset, telling us exactly where, how and why he wants us to be. Checking the map constantly, keeping situational awareness and being ready to move exactly as the vic commander wants and when he wants it wins so many engagements. This one time i was in a BTR with SL as gunner and we were in a small village with a great vantage point towards the enemy in another village. We had a repair station 30m behind us around a corner inside a driveway. I was constantly checking our infantry on our flanks to see if the enemy is making a breakthrough. Once a LAT hit us on the front side, being able to look at the map and perfectly reverse into the driveway with the rep station allowed us to be up and ready in 2 minutes and stop the push the enemy was doing.
@@dankovac1609 thanks bud, im honoured to have you as my 99th sub. Never thought this video would take off as much as it did. Gotta praise the youtube overlords lol.
@@capofantasma97 i know, right? It's baffling. It's not like it's a point of disagreement between the community discussing the meta, like making Superfobs always was. It's not even that it's hard to do with inexperienced players. If your squad is capable of mounting in logis and following SL, they're capable of being mechanised infantry. Even the most non-communicative cod fan players will mount up in your vehicle to get to the front faster. I think the problem is leadership. No one really wants to have the responsibility, and we all understand that feeling of not wanting to SL. Squad is basically simulating platoon sized coordination, but without the training that a real platoon would get. Not the super tactical details, literally just the basics of what everyone is expected to be doing. That's why you see clans who actually train together frequently do great in the game, while the common player wants to contribute to the team, but doesn't have the knowledge of how to do it consistently. And that's what military training is for. Doing a good job *consistently* . Instead of mechanised infantry squads being something everyone knows is the norm and is just how things go, like real soldiers do, the player has the perspective of the SL wanting to do something that you know can work but has high chances of you getting wiped AGAIN and having to wait and run for 20 minutes again. It's a cool psychology experiment if you think about it. Like a big collective Bystander effect.
@@capofantasma97 yeah i forgot to bring that up. Honestly sounds like a pretty easy fix but knowing how these games are, updates are not as straightforward and easy to do as they seem.
I've been gaming my whole life. I've been playing squad for less than a year and in that time, I've probably had like 3 of my top 5 favourite gaming moments ever in this game.
@@babygorilla4233 I wonder how quick irl reaction times would work there especially with armor plating. I've seen airsoft scenarios like that where they're able to get a shot off against the attacker within milliseconds.
@@amazin7006 armour that stops a round is likely to either bulge in or shatter. You are probably going to be on the floor regardless. Kinda hard to return fire with a broken sturnum
I cant decide which heli clip is my favorite it's a tie between the Venom slamming his skids into the rotor of the mi-8 or the Canadian venom hitting his rotor blades on the mountain and then sliding down said mountain and exploding all the while screaming. Oh and that ambush on the MRAP was awesome nice work.
I think my favorite squad moment was when we were in the castle on that one map and us LATs were using our HE rockets as makeshift artillery. I ended up with 10 kills because the castle was either right next to or directly on the point, and the enemies kept coming in bunches.
Love this game. Specifically becasue it never has any cheaters on active servers. Admins are fast and active at all times on the good servers. Some of the best MP FPS experiences I've ever had.
saying it never has cheaters is a fucking lie lmao i got killed by a full auto HAT the other week. yes they are dealt with quickly but there is alot of cheaters
there's also people who hide it pretty well, it's just part of gaming at this point literally every MP game I encounter a cheater, even PvE games like monster hunter
As former marine and 2 tours it is closest to realism in game iv felt. Arma is just to slow. Squad is a perfect balance..if they tone down colours and make it a little bit more slowwr with bigger maps and longer fitefights. It is closest to realism iv played in a game . Played every single game also. It needs be VR compatible to being it into more immersion@@kyzma4444
Honestly bf3 in its hayday was prime on conquest. Shooting heli's down with tanks, close airsupport with froggers dominating the battlefield. I miss those days.
the third seat gunner in some of those tank clips is a genius. He was shooting where the gunner looks through so he couldnt see. I will be doing that from now on
I was watching without sound up until the back of the truck bit heard the music and instantly thought "yep guy blasting music in local that checks out"
I love how you are inside a tank that is cooking off trying to shoot other tanks(or apc's) that are cooking off on the first shot (but nobody is dead/cooked)
There's a module system, but there's also a total vehicle health system. So a shot at the engine will immobilize the vehicle, to totally destroy the vehicle you need to continue shooting until the HP is empty.
I've tried to play squad multiple times but since i was never in the military and have zero clue what people are talking about most the time, people were just always pissed off at me so I never played it again lol
theres plenty of communities who are open to new players and try to guide you through it. Sure there are some unforgiving people but most of us are pretty chill and laid back. Nobody expects you to be a combat vet to play it ya know.
did they finally introduce joystick support for squad? i was a decent pilot in Arma3 KOTH and wanted to migrate to squad but uninstalled the game when i realized they didnt let me use a joystick. its a while ago now.
Joystick support have been here for more than a year, maybe 2 or 3 years now, but hat free look support might be broke depending on what stick you have, for me it is broken.
@@comediangj4955 in Arma i used to use headtracker and joystick. gonna check out if it works and also the flight model. hope they will improve it to at least how it is in arma3 =D
Damn you guys are really talking shit about my rubberbanding heli here. I'm sorry, but I surely had a good time. :) Great video bud, glad you clipped that moment from Scorpo. Good laugh!
@@MeaNGiants I see. We usually call things out in relation to the object itself. In this case, for the chopper pilot it was an enemy heli. I wonder what an expert on language would say is correct. In any case, most servers ban for such behavior, pretty frowned upon in the community, even though I know some of our own pilots have done such things.
Ah yes, squad. 50% of the most cinematic and intense tank gameplay youve ever seen... and 50% heli pilots just being stupid at all times. absolutely love it
balanced, as all things should be.
HELI CHADS UNITE
If they made it realistic on the Hotas id do it more often
@@CMarkem mouse and keyboard superiority
@@hnojic I mean those explosion animations did look like something out of a movie.
The sound design in this game is so good even after several hundred hours it still makes your ass clench from time to time
i have 2400 hours and the first explosion of the first match of the day always makes me jump haha
i didnt end up playing it for long because of high ping but i remember when i first played i went through the practice range and genuinely flew out of my chair when i first got shot at lol i didn't even realise my headphones were capable of being that loud
@@jowsey if you wanted to give it a shot there are definitely play styles that wouldn't suffer too much from high ping. You could operate mortars and build HABs
I love also the background nosies you hear like bird wildlife when going through wooded areas lol
Ehh. That tank on tank engagement felt very underwhelming both in sound and effects. Rest of it felt and looked good though.
To give the chopper some credit, there's a weird thing with the flight model on that mountain that makes you bounce all over the place and it's very hard to land. Heli likes to move away from the large hill on Skorpo like it's a negative magnet, you really just need to slam it down.
yeah when your model is within something like 25 meters of the ground your forward momentum is multiplied.
As a pilot with @300 hours flying in squad I always felt like skorpo mountains felt weird as hell to land on, I thought it was maybe an optical illusion and I was doing it wrong…I’m glad I read your comment now.
@@AuxxiliaryATC i believe it's called rubberband, if you ever need an RTO/Copilot I gotchu :P
Nah… dude couldn’t even maintain a basic hover, and he was see-sawing because he couldn’t figure out how to stop moving. Just bad piloting, no need to make excuses for him.
@@dammitdan1662 just like the simulations . . .
Now to be fair, those slopes on skorpo are hella trecherous. Many places look like you can land, but when you try the top rotor clips the mountain when you’re perfectly level.
Desync doesnt help i imagine.
@@MeaNGiants The desync isnt that apparent client side. If Im flying, everything I do looks smooth in the cockpit, but other helos are teleporting all over. I assume thats what I look like as well to the outside viewer.
But it is pretty funny when you get an angry comments from tow shooters like "fix your damn internet", like yeah bucko, I live in a 1st world capital city with a wired connection and 30 ping, I dont have to fix jack shit.
@@capofantasma97 not gonna dispute that. The issue for squad pilots though is that the incline isnt all too apparent. It can look a lot flatter than it is. I mean I assume real pilots get educated on that, but most of us squaddies arent real pilots lol. xD
@@IdleWorker So do helicopters look that janky in the game pretty often? I wanna buy this game but Im wondering how buggy it is
Problem is not only the slopes, you have winds (height ceiling maybe?) or some other shit genuinely pushing the helicopter the other way. Boot up a training game on skorpo and head over there with any heli and you'll see. You can barely hover up there
I felt that last heli landing, for some reason the mountains fuck with the way you're hovering almost like two magnets pushing eachother away.
It’s almost like mountains don’t make for good landing pads
You can do it although actually landing might be a bad Idea. I normally just hover and try to touch the ground slightly with my nose.
@Tice Nits its something with the flight model, not actual pilot error
ah, its likely due to ground effect, when a helicopter is within a close proximity to the ground, it creates a high pressure air pocket underneath the helicopter causing an increase in lift. depending on the helicopters rotor diameter and blades theres more or less pressure. at least thats how it works irl, im not sure what squad's flight model simulates
To be honest, being a driver to a gunner/commander who knows what he's doing is one of my favorite things to do in Squad. So many times I've seen Vehicles get destroyed because the poor driver is lost in one of the most difficult fog of war situations in the game. Can't blame them.
My favourite game of squad ever was when i was an MRAP driver. SL was doing an incredible job with his infantry and used us as an asset, telling us exactly where, how and why he wants us to be.
Checking the map constantly, keeping situational awareness and being ready to move exactly as the vic commander wants and when he wants it wins so many engagements.
This one time i was in a BTR with SL as gunner and we were in a small village with a great vantage point towards the enemy in another village. We had a repair station 30m behind us around a corner inside a driveway. I was constantly checking our infantry on our flanks to see if the enemy is making a breakthrough.
Once a LAT hit us on the front side, being able to look at the map and perfectly reverse into the driveway with the rep station allowed us to be up and ready in 2 minutes and stop the push the enemy was doing.
Hey man, saw your sub count. Proud to be #99!
Sending good vibes and wishes of luck for the 100th one, and then hopefully hundreds more!
Cheers!
@@dankovac1609 thanks bud, im honoured to have you as my 99th sub. Never thought this video would take off as much as it did. Gotta praise the youtube overlords lol.
People feel confident when picking vehicles but just 5 mins after they messing up the vehicle because its harder than it looks.
@@capofantasma97 i know, right?
It's baffling. It's not like it's a point of disagreement between the community discussing the meta, like making Superfobs always was. It's not even that it's hard to do with inexperienced players. If your squad is capable of mounting in logis and following SL, they're capable of being mechanised infantry.
Even the most non-communicative cod fan players will mount up in your vehicle to get to the front faster.
I think the problem is leadership. No one really wants to have the responsibility, and we all understand that feeling of not wanting to SL. Squad is basically simulating platoon sized coordination, but without the training that a real platoon would get. Not the super tactical details, literally just the basics of what everyone is expected to be doing. That's why you see clans who actually train together frequently do great in the game, while the common player wants to contribute to the team, but doesn't have the knowledge of how to do it consistently. And that's what military training is for. Doing a good job *consistently* .
Instead of mechanised infantry squads being something everyone knows is the norm and is just how things go, like real soldiers do, the player has the perspective of the SL wanting to do something that you know can work but has high chances of you getting wiped AGAIN and having to wait and run for 20 minutes again.
It's a cool psychology experiment if you think about it. Like a big collective Bystander effect.
@@capofantasma97 yeah i forgot to bring that up. Honestly sounds like a pretty easy fix but knowing how these games are, updates are not as straightforward and easy to do as they seem.
"LOGI WHY THE FUCK DID YOU RUSH THE TANK."
"Captain, free bird was playing"
I've been gaming my whole life. I've been playing squad for less than a year and in that time, I've probably had like 3 of my top 5 favourite gaming moments ever in this game.
Dang, which servers do you play in? I want to get those moments too!
@@senseishu937 potato fields 1 is pretty good.
ngl the guitar solo with the helicopter doing a hook is absolutely badass!!
"All sins are forgiven when the Free Bird solo plays"
The second encounter (RPK in the alleyway) is very realistic because they weren’t pulling security. That’s what happens when you don’t pull security
100% in call of duty the first guy would take damage and have a moment to respond. In squad half of them are dead before they know what hit them.
@@babygorilla4233 I wonder how quick irl reaction times would work there especially with armor plating. I've seen airsoft scenarios like that where they're able to get a shot off against the attacker within milliseconds.
@@amazin7006 armour that stops a round is likely to either bulge in or shatter. You are probably going to be on the floor regardless. Kinda hard to return fire with a broken sturnum
Wdym with pulling security?
@@honingpot4577 Refers to having people covering different angles and areas instead of all being bunched up and having no situational awareness
The Skorpo mountains are a nightmare for pilots. Gotta be patient when landing on the hillsides like that.
I cant decide which heli clip is my favorite it's a tie between the Venom slamming his skids into the rotor of the mi-8 or the Canadian venom hitting his rotor blades on the mountain and then sliding down said mountain and exploding all the while screaming. Oh and that ambush on the MRAP was awesome nice work.
I think my favorite squad moment was when we were in the castle on that one map and us LATs were using our HE rockets as makeshift artillery. I ended up with 10 kills because the castle was either right next to or directly on the point, and the enemies kept coming in bunches.
Love this game. Specifically becasue it never has any cheaters on active servers. Admins are fast and active at all times on the good servers. Some of the best MP FPS experiences I've ever had.
saying it never has cheaters is a fucking lie lmao i got killed by a full auto HAT the other week. yes they are dealt with quickly but there is alot of cheaters
@@Kalashboy420 skill issue
@@atloos i would chop you in a one on oe knife fight
there's also people who hide it pretty well, it's just part of gaming at this point
literally every MP game I encounter a cheater, even PvE games like monster hunter
@@Kalashboy420 cope
The explosions and cannon in this game are next level.
Squad is the perfect mix between tactical and arcade.
Someone ingame told me that Squad is just "More accessible ArmA" and his description stuck to me ever since
@@DrSabot-A and... it's not ev close to be an actual thing, tho
SQUADS still doin free Weekends
As former marine and 2 tours it is closest to realism in game iv felt. Arma is just to slow. Squad is a perfect balance..if they tone down colours and make it a little bit more slowwr with bigger maps and longer fitefights. It is closest to realism iv played in a game . Played every single game also. It needs be VR compatible to being it into more immersion@@kyzma4444
I love the detail at 1:00 where the solder instinctively inspects his chamber to determine whether it jammed or he ran out of ammo.
The chopper sliding down the hill got me 😂
Lmao, that was our boy! Dude was rubber-banding all over the place.
And that is why when you're a helo pilot you decide the landing zone, not the infantry that you're picking up...
Subscribed at 456, this channel is going to explode. Really well made stuff!
Honestly bf3 in its hayday was prime on conquest. Shooting heli's down with tanks, close airsupport with froggers dominating the battlefield. I miss those days.
This game hits the real life ptsd than any other shooting games ever
Very TRUE
WHAT!?
HOORAH this game
4 billion Humans 💀
wtf@@T3-Movies
0:22 GHPC better add that crew line
the third seat gunner in some of those tank clips is a genius. He was shooting where the gunner looks through so he couldnt see. I will be doing that from now on
I cant get over how beautiful the explosions are, the fidelity is wild.
4:30 accurate average Canadian army equipment on duty.
I was watching without sound up until the back of the truck bit heard the music and instantly thought "yep guy blasting music in local that checks out"
the use of free bird really tied it together perfectly.
lmfao, the ending was fuckin hilarious
Lmao the heli at the end, Air Canada at its finest.
skynyrd continues to be the only acceptable music for squad montages
that last one was like squidward falling down the mountain
I love how you are inside a tank that is cooking off trying to shoot other tanks(or apc's) that are cooking off on the first shot (but nobody is dead/cooked)
whenever our exfil helicopter comes around like that 4:22 I always say why is he jerking off again while trying to land lmao.
I love how so many gamers who have never seen a second of combat say "this is so realistic"
xd
I love how people don't realize the title is sarcasm, it's literally in the description 🤣
the explosion and smoke effects in this are breathtaking
That Helo tumbling down the hill was amazing!
The Canadian helicopter pilot was the best
i have ridden in one of those helos and can confirm that the concept of friction does not apply to it.
Honestly didn't expect only 3000 views on this video, only realised once I checked comments.
Really good editing bro :)
if that heli crashed happened irl I'd laugh the same fkn way xD
PITCH LOOKING LOVELY TODAY, LADS
I've had this game in my Steam library for quite a while but I haven't played it yet, looks like so much fun
This is now the video I'll show my friends when they ask if they should play squad
Yooooo I was in your squad in the last clip hahahaha that was amazing
you really gave that pilot lots of space to land by running at him every time he got low lol
this is really good and i hope you become famous one day
So funny hahaha. Love the heli sliding into the abyss.
We dont need wars, we have video games
what a great vid. also this game's sound design is so good
Watching tanks play cat and mouse in squad while free bird plays is amazing
Fantastic clips!! Very entertaining. 👏🏻
Average squad helicopter pilot at the end
bro was so close to landing that heli
Once in a blue moon you get these moments 🥺
that was a very satisfyiing helicopter takedown from that tank
Damn could you imagine being in combat and that close?
How is interior vehicle damage calculated? At 0:15 it appears almost like in WoT where you just shoot down the healthbar of a tank until it explodes
There's a module system, but there's also a total vehicle health system. So a shot at the engine will immobilize the vehicle, to totally destroy the vehicle you need to continue shooting until the HP is empty.
I had flashbacks of my dad telling me about his flashbacks.
No game is right now available on market that's equivalent with Squad. Been playing this game for over 4 years now
That helo sliding down the hill was dramatic asf 😂
Certified shooting @ helo w/ small arms moment
Free bird made this video so entertaining than other squad vids kekw
I've tried to play squad multiple times but since i was never in the military and have zero clue what people are talking about most the time, people were just always pissed off at me so I never played it again lol
This is also why I don't even want to try the game. Heard that story too many times from people who did
theres plenty of communities who are open to new players and try to guide you through it. Sure there are some unforgiving people but most of us are pretty chill and laid back. Nobody expects you to be a combat vet to play it ya know.
One day they will fix the helicopter desync. One day. Amazing video. Free Birds was a good choice for music for sure.
the armour fight at 1:04 actually was against the new AI in squad
i hope it was squiders AI tbf
they really gotta work on the sync with the helis tho
This type of videos never disappoints
This brings back the memories of Battlefield 2 Multiplayer.
Good times!
I'll consider joining you guys when I have the time
you put free bird on it, true legend
This is a dope ass video. Makes me Wana play while blasting freebird aswell
That's a good compilation mate!
that logi clip... man im shooked
Man the algorithms sure liked this video
Daddy youtube givin me love. Until he leaves for milk that is.
did they finally introduce joystick support for squad? i was a decent pilot in Arma3 KOTH and wanted to migrate to squad but uninstalled the game when i realized they didnt let me use a joystick. its a while ago now.
i dont own one but ive heard squad pilots say they use them.
Joystick support have been here for more than a year, maybe 2 or 3 years now, but hat free look support might be broke depending on what stick you have, for me it is broken.
But the flight model is still shit. Coming from Arma i just can't get used to squad's flight model.
@@comediangj4955 in Arma i used to use headtracker and joystick. gonna check out if it works and also the flight model. hope they will improve it to at least how it is in arma3 =D
@@ryuwadokoe head tracking is usable
please recommend me servers with a high level of cooperation, realism and tactical play.
Damn you guys are really talking shit about my rubberbanding heli here. I'm sorry, but I surely had a good time. :)
Great video bud, glad you clipped that moment from Scorpo. Good laugh!
A heli ride is a heli ride.
@@MeaNGiants put a lot of practice into Flying on scorpo since then. I Got your backs next time😉
Squad is full of beautiful moments
That was no friendly heli, that was an enemy heli, who deliberately hit the blades to make him crash.
the chopper you see hovering is an enemy heli, thats why im shooting it. The chopper who rammed him was a friendly chopper as i call out in the vid.
@@MeaNGiants I see. We usually call things out in relation to the object itself. In this case, for the chopper pilot it was an enemy heli. I wonder what an expert on language would say is correct.
In any case, most servers ban for such behavior, pretty frowned upon in the community, even though I know some of our own pilots have done such things.
Good God these games are starting to become indistinguishable from reality. Imagine what we'll have on our hands in another decade.
1:40
I can somehow hear the enemy tank driver shouting "DIRECT FRONT, DIRECT FRONT OF US, ENEMY TANK DIRECT FRONT OF US GHAD DANGIT"
1:02 look at the usernames speaking in the radio he named himself ponos the dev of battle ca
WONDEFUL JOB! THIS GOT ME HYPED
God, I love this game so much
Gonna call it rn this is going to be a great channel
I love supporting games that Tencent is a part of.
Greed is inevitable so play the games that are fun. Your favorite studio will turn on you one day
imagine not doing somthing fun because of somthing stupid like who owns it
@@daroth7127 soyjak moment
@@KyleMakeStuff have sex
4:45 excuse me, you can't park there 😅
0:21 bro really said "heeheehaw😂👑"
Military Sim: Players play like call of duty...
well yes, but for a lot of parts like vehicle health or armor penetration by bullets and such its not
nooo wayyy i also just dropped a squad edit with the freebird solo just now watchin this after i uploaded lololol
I am not gonna to play it, but the explosions should be a canon for any military based game!
Nice! We have a game too :)
1:40 Staring warfare, so romantic.
if only this game just became more like project reality in the mechanics then be best game ever
i know right. just wanna 1 tap ammo rack tanks, would make me cream so much more lmao.
@@MeaNGiants ؟🗿
After playing Squad no one would want to got to a REAL war zone .
0:39 Nearest Teammate: [Wang] Brittney Big-Boy
If you hadn't put the horse music on, the clip would have been so beautiful.
this video makes squad look fun