Yes, this was an April Fools Video, but also yes: it is entirely possible to wander about on a Squad map for 45 minutes and never see another player, even on a full server. Is that good game design?
@busted2131
6 ай бұрын
i had this same feeling !
@VynalDerp
6 ай бұрын
It takes some genuine effort and a lot of work by the entire team for this to happen realistically, though. Not a single person on your team has to build a single FOB near any of the objectives on the map for the duration of most of the match while you neither respawn or die by any other means (like falling off a cliff). You also have to walk the entire way without any vehicles or transport of any kind (which the maps are not intended for you to do - you're meant to use vehicles to cross the distances quickly). It's a team game, and even without the team, you can reasonably walk the distance between two contested objectives on the majority of maps in a couple minutes. Not the best, but not a literal 45 minute walk. I've driven for 30 minutes straight in Arma 3 with zero contact before and honestly, while I really wanted to keep the special reward vehicle I had that mission, I should've just respawned instead.
@nightrise45
6 ай бұрын
This is why you should be near you squad and taking to you team
@VladislavDerbenev
5 ай бұрын
It's good game design to implement combined arms gameplay and portray vehicle advantages and bad for constant combat action. Not a problem when constant combat action is not a required parameter. Let's compare: 1. Counter strike alike design. You are in a map where it's unrealistic to not encounter a combat in next 2 minutes. One foot man to cover it all 2. Combat Mission / Squad alike design, where the map is big enough, that you are supposed to use transport vehicles or forward buildable spawns to be in the action. It gives the space to manoeuvre, space out your artillery units and build defense in depth, model logistics and ability to starve enemy team out of it which is not possible in design 1.
@Thunder_Child
5 ай бұрын
I see it as not a matter of game design, but of the players willingness to participate
@reecedignan8365
6 ай бұрын
Ahh, now you get to be the Pixeltruppen
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
Pretty authentic pixeltruppen experience, to be fair
@scrobblesmcbobbles
6 ай бұрын
A match of squad is like a middle school field trip if the teachers were all substitues and the bus driver didn't know where he was going. Its still a fun game for me personally though
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
Yeah. If you enjoy it, it's great. But I've always suspected it's what you make of it.
@nikoc8968
6 ай бұрын
this is why i always loved game-modes like Rush in Battlefield. you force every player in the game to converge on ONE set of objectives in one area. sometimes, chaos > control.
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
Yep. We had the same thing in Rising Storm 2 with the Territories and Supremacy game modes
@nightrise45
6 ай бұрын
Squad is great if you played near the objectives and with you team mates
@WaffleTrooper
6 ай бұрын
squad has a horrible force density problem. There's no way to cover enough terrain to stop a wide enough flank. Given a spawn point can be thrown down by a squad leader, a guy, and a truck, flanking is king. You get to theoretically insert your entire team into a point because you penetrated a screen that isn't actually there. There's seldom an actual discernable front line, and it will almost always be circumvented by a wide flanking logi building a point winning FOB that could only be stopped by being in the middle of nowhere, which is boring. Games tend to be much more about what you can't do instead of what you can do for this reason.
@Dacy_man
6 ай бұрын
This gameplay was IMMERSIVE and extremely REALISTIC
@ukrainainhitman
6 ай бұрын
Expectation: man I’m going to have so many cool firefights Reality: Walking simulator
@nothingnothing8503
6 ай бұрын
because you were get lied.
@christopherrobin4549
6 ай бұрын
This is the only good April Fools joke this year
@raynel8495
6 ай бұрын
What makes this a April Fools joke?
@christopherrobin4549
6 ай бұрын
@@raynel8495 There's almost too much combat in the video to be real
@4rnnr_as
6 ай бұрын
Spoiler alert!
@harveyreilly190
6 ай бұрын
I’m such an idiot lol, I watched about 10 minutes in without realizing the date, I’m done. Lovely ASMR
@Hy93Ri0n
6 ай бұрын
I miss project reality
@vanxthenecron3059
6 ай бұрын
Its still going strong, with 2-3 full servers in EU prime time. Hop back on! I've been enjoying it the past few weeks playing on U777, oh and HOG is gone lmao
@manofpowe
6 ай бұрын
rip HOG@@vanxthenecron3059
@Mechanized85
6 ай бұрын
Man, I really miss the battlefield 2 and that mod as well, let alone to mention about Battlefield 1942 and the famous of FH or FHSW mod.
@pelmanism1084
6 ай бұрын
This is the most realistic Squad gameplay I've ever seen.
@Gav624
6 ай бұрын
3:38 audio bug was a nice jump scare!
@dadoogie
6 ай бұрын
Best Squad review made. This is how it plays out for me every time i install it hoping to play. Get the star wars mod if you want to actually fight things.
@azubankull1939
6 ай бұрын
Damnit you got me.
@nothingnothing8503
6 ай бұрын
they don't got me, i just totally knew what is happening soon.
@d.c.6065
6 ай бұрын
Them: You can’t be happy, you just got pranked!!! Me: 45-minute-Hapless-video goes brrrrrr 🥳🎉🥳
@zombine375
6 ай бұрын
POV youre a british soldier walking back to base because I used his APC as bait.
@stormcommando1640
6 ай бұрын
First time Hapless posts a squad video in how many years???
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
Sorry to disappoint!
@stormcommando1640
6 ай бұрын
@@usuallyhapless9481 far from disappointed, admittedly I find your CM content a lot more interesting.
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
Luka from the CM Discord has been replicating Squad maps in CM, so it could be really interesting to give one of those a go. We're playing a game on BF2's Strike at Karkand and easily the most brutal game I've played in ages.
@virtuallyreal5849
6 ай бұрын
I was going to complain about the clickbait, but then I remembered what day it is.
@glenchen5723
6 ай бұрын
Truly, a walking simulator
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
Yep
@babouras123
6 ай бұрын
No one was shot in the making of this video. :).
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
Some players got blown up at one point, but I had nothing to do with it and I have no idea what happened
@babouras123
6 ай бұрын
@@usuallyhapless9481Oh, really? 😁
@radarradarovic2076
6 ай бұрын
Had to double check this was Hapless' video because of the click-baity title.
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
I've always wanted to see if click-bait titles and thumbnails with red arrows make a difference. They don't.
@4rnnr_as
6 ай бұрын
I've been watching more Squad content and am thinking about reinstalling to scratch an itch for realistic modern infantry combat. So I saw this from Hapless and was so excited... 🙄 hahaha. Wasn't bad though. Actually it is fairly immersive walking towards the din of battle.
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
I do have some actually Squad from the ICO, but it was actually more boring. Just louder.
@Prederick
6 ай бұрын
Oh dammit. Well done, I was a solid 3 minutes into the video before it clicked. 😂
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
:)
@soerena88
6 ай бұрын
in my 250 hours of squad gameplay, i have never ever managed to do anything like you did here..
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
You probably weren't trying to though
@michaelbourgeault9409
6 ай бұрын
37 minutes in, and I'm remembering Operation Neptune
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
The naval component of D-Day?
@michaelbourgeault9409
6 ай бұрын
@@usuallyhapless9481 Close - the airborne insertion was also considered part of Neptune. I was thinking of all the airborne troops who spent the day wandering the battlefield without encountering anyone else.
@HaydnHaendel
6 ай бұрын
Last time I saw this much action they were looking for Captain Jack in Africa
@lieutenantpolo
6 ай бұрын
Now this is the real walking stimulator😎 I have squad, but never really bothered playing it online much, (for various reasons) Are the maps really this large, with nothing going on in them? It really does seems like there is a force-density issue, when there is supposed to be 100 players in the match.
@vanxthenecron3059
6 ай бұрын
There are map.objectives and transport assets, it's up to the players to coordinate ways to get there. A good team would minimize the amount of walking required by good use of assets and built spawn points (FOBs).
@rokivulovicstanaccount
6 ай бұрын
It's being played up for effect. Hapless spawned in main on foot and wandered aimlessly in the rearline. The main problem with force density in squad is usually the opposite in my experience, with half of every other squad breaking down into groups of singular men with optics and no mics hiding in bushes randomly scattered across the map in hopes of getting one or two easy kills
@lieutenantpolo
6 ай бұрын
@@vanxthenecron3059 Appreciate the reply thank you, I figured that was probably the case.
@lieutenantpolo
6 ай бұрын
@@rokivulovicstanaccount Interesting thank you. Would you say, that squad is still somewhat of an accessible game, for somebody like me, who does not really like using mics, in online games? (unless with friends/people I'm comfortable with) Squad looks interesting to me, but I tend to be put off, by how seriously people seem to act in it. Although I very much enjoy more accessible tactical games, such as rising storm 1/2 or ARMA co-op with friends etc.
@darugdawg2453
6 ай бұрын
You cant really camp in one place because it would be very boring esp if the objective moved
@countvontoten3978
6 ай бұрын
Nemo Resideo.
@zer9761
6 ай бұрын
ofc it has even on a smaller maps.
@michaelbourgeault9409
6 ай бұрын
wow - I had no idea you could do that with any helicopter let alone one as big as the Mil8
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
It's a Merlin I think
@michaelbourgeault9409
6 ай бұрын
@@usuallyhapless9481 I think you are probably correct, but I would like a better view if you have one? Still - that was some darn good piloting, even for pixeltruppen :)
@kingofburgundy6323
6 ай бұрын
I knew you'd never play squad seriously 😂
@vicheller3945
6 ай бұрын
I was riveted to the screen
@alexy590
5 ай бұрын
Glad I never bought Squad. Looked promising but I was worried about problems like this. On the topic of other games. I'm curious, you ever play Flashpoint Campaigns: Southern Storm or Armored Brigade?
@usuallyhapless9481
5 ай бұрын
I should be fair and say it is entirely possible to have fun playing Squad. I just feel that 90% of that fun is what you make of it, rather than a designed experience. I haven't played Armoured Brigade, I have played Flashpoint Campaigns but the earlier one, not Southern Storm. It didn't really grab me, which is a bit of a shame and makes me worry that Combat Mission takes up so much headspace I can't actually cram anything else in.
@seankong9733
6 ай бұрын
Do... do I have a problem if I say that I enjoy the quiet walking simulator gameplay of Squad much more than the high energy gunplay of Battlefield and COD? Am I crazy?
@darugdawg2453
6 ай бұрын
I dont. Thats why i spawn in habs or with team to get a vehicle
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
@SeanKong9733 Nothing wrong with that!
@imjohnfreeman
6 ай бұрын
Yep
@whya2ndaccount
6 ай бұрын
Presumably an April Fools post?
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
Yep
@larsdejong7396
6 ай бұрын
*Walking around at your own without any orders from above* "Yes, I am very realistic." You absolute trol. :)
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
At least as realistic as the average experience of trying to play Squad :P
@thewarroom2495
6 ай бұрын
You got me
@PitterPatter20
6 ай бұрын
What was the original title for this video? I saw it in my subscription feed when it dropped but didn’t internalize it, lol.
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
It was basically some click bait for April Fools
@gools9621
6 ай бұрын
Daddy Hapless please upload real squad content😩😩😘
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
Not impossible, my concern is that it would consist mostly of me moaning about it
@DrewShotsFan
6 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@justinscreed
6 ай бұрын
I got fooled. Now get back to teaching me stuff!
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
Friday!
@bobtoss4747
6 ай бұрын
Bruh lol
@xahmadx6442
6 ай бұрын
It's jover Hapless has fallen Millions must unsubscribe
@virtuallyreal5849
6 ай бұрын
The Jend is nigh!
@WekBenHelix
6 ай бұрын
Bahahahha
@darugdawg2453
6 ай бұрын
Why did he spawned in the main base without his squad
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
Honestly, I usually feel so much better off without a squad in Squad
@2Dark03
6 ай бұрын
Play graviteam tactics
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
Maybe this time next year
@2Dark03
6 ай бұрын
@@usuallyhapless9481 how about next year on the 2.
@michaelbourgeault9409
6 ай бұрын
Let me be the one to ask - how many of us are watching the entire video?
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
Give me a couple of days, I can answer that ;)
@malak299
6 ай бұрын
horible game on nowadays
@vanxthenecron3059
6 ай бұрын
This is gonna be terrible for the yt algorithm 😭
@Mechanized85
6 ай бұрын
I am not gonna lie that, I am really sick with april fool.
@usuallyhapless9481
6 ай бұрын
Sorry. It's only once a year though!
@Mechanized85
6 ай бұрын
@@usuallyhapless9481 alright, everything is okay, I am just overacting and, I’m should be one who sorry first, sir.
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