Just discovered Squad. How similar is it to the BF2 mod Project Reality?

[dcm]

Originally Posted by PotatoLord

genuinely curious, why are there bots that make super mundane posts like this and why are they such an issue

IMO? Training.

[PatrickLA_CA]

There's only one reason, ads

[dcm]

Originally Posted by PatrickLA_CA

There's only one reason, ads

How exactly?

[SemlerPDX]

Originally Posted by dcm

How exactly?

Are you seriously asking how bots spam ads on forums?

[dcm]

Originally Posted by SemlerPDX

Are you seriously asking how bots spam ads on forums?

No. I'm curious as to how promoting squad specifically on this forum, makes the bot owners/squad publishers any money. Most players are already aware of squad, and may already own or at the very least played squad during a free weekend.

[WingWalker]

To stay on topic...

I was all excited about Squad at first, seemed like this community would be evolved and that it would become an evolved extension of PR.

Got on their forums at the start up when they were selling user levels like "Founding Member" or whatever.


The whole thing seemed to fall flat with no enthusiasm or progress forever. When something happened it was ok, but about 1 light year away from the amount of development in Project Reality.

Lost interest.

The original thing that got me on PR was the total lack of realism in VBF2, specifically the 2 shots needed to kill with the Barrett 50 and fat ass reticle of the scope. (funny how spell check on here doesn't know "Reticle"...)

[Gerfand]

Originally Posted by PotatoLord

genuinely curious, why are there bots that make super mundane posts like this and why are they such an issue

Data usage.

While 1 or 2 may not use a lot of data, since every post is like not even 1kb... think if it was 1000, this was a problem that I read about Twitter "twitter is being destroyed by people doing Good morning posts" same with Grandmas on whatsapp sending good morning images and downloading it every day on whatsapp or similar

Also if they keep appearing it bloats the forum.

[Gerfand]

Originally Posted by WingWalker

To stay on topic...

I was all excited about Squad at first, seemed like this community would be evolved and that it would become an evolved extension of PR.

Got on their forums at the start up when they were selling user levels like "Founding Member" or whatever.


The whole thing seemed to fall flat with no enthusiasm or progress forever. When something happened it was ok, but about 1 light year away from the amount of development in Project Reality.

Lost interest.

The original thing that got me on PR was the total lack of realism in VBF2, specifically the 2 shots needed to kill with the Barrett 50 and fat ass reticle of the scope. (funny how spell check on here doesn't know "Reticle"...)

I not sure if this is on topic, but its ironic how the game seens to have restarted its development pace after it became a commercial product by tencent, instead of a Passion project, think they made some 2 updates now with new freature, probably will get Thermals, another faction, etc, soon.

[PatrickLA_CA]

Well, I thought I would give it another try yesterday, it's not bad, definitely not PR and would never replace PR for me. The issue I found with squad is the servers. There are a few servers that have PR-like rules that are enforced and there, the gameplay resembles PR quite nice, but most servers are BF-style servers where each squad plays its own game, not much comms and teamwork.

[anantdeathhawk]

My 2 cents: Enlisted and Hell let loose are better than Squad. Buying Squad was a worst decision i ever made, my first ever steam purchase, back in 2016. Hindsight is always 20-20.