Nobody is talking about Squad Upgrades after the Merge?

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With the new merge please also consider revamping the squad upgrade system.

At the moment in the test server it’s a bit of a mess with weapon upgrades and soldier upgrades spread out all over the place hidden inside multiple different squads finding them and then having to use that squad to upgrade is very tedious considering how many squads I have already maxed out.

I’ll be honest I’ve never enjoyed the system of unlocking a squad and having to regrind it for 10s of matches to get the basic functionality back as in I’ve unlocked an assaulter 2 and now I go from a full squad to 4 people with no engineer and only 4 riffle men and 1 assaulter. It was unnecessarily tedious for only a very marginal increase in actual power gained. It feels like a punishment rather than a reward for unlocking something new as you are hamstrung until you fully max out at least the squad upgrades.

My suggestion: Please implement a unified upgrade tree and a similar system to the new tech tree and allow us to gain “Free XP” as in XP that we can spend wherever we choose within that tree as long as we have tiers unlocked.

This way we can utilize our leveled squads and make progress on unlocking new tiers of upgrades in a normal fashion instead of constantly being reset to using 3 riflemen and X troop type every time we unlock something.

If a unified upgrade tree is too hard to develop before the merge. Please just allow us to gain and spend “Research points” when we use a maxed out squads and allow us to spend that withing the upgrade trees we have currently.

Please give your thoughts and like this post if you agree that the squad upgrade system needs a change. Thank you for reading

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Some fix is needed anyway as with 5 infantry squads for axis how would game decide which upgrade rifleman get - backpack or second weapon. And it’s confirmed bug, just hope it will be proper fix.

I was hoping with research tree we could also upgrade vehicles, weapons and soldiers in simpler way, but if they don’t want to delete old squads i guess at least some part of squad upgrade tree would have to stay.

But i agree an overhaul would be nice, would help manage so many squads

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Yeah… weapons upgrades already is just awful, now we struggle to even find the squad thats responsible for upgrading that spesific weapon… WHY is weapon upgrades tied to specific squads instead of weapon usage in a seperate tab???
And with soldiers is even more of a mess… with multiple identical soldiers (Germany gets 5x rifleman I & II squads, the same with assaulters…) (prackicly annoying copy-pasta now) how soldier upgrades will work now??
Squads need to be seperate from weapons completely and just put soldiers like Assaulters IIs in the research tree and unlock soldiers & squads that way!! You can even give the ability to buy all of the existing squads if the relevant research for each soldier class is complete (want 10 German assaulter squads? Research your way to assaulter IVs and then buy 6 more assaulter squads… THAT simple).

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Exactly! Finding said upgrades is a huge problem as well as the upgrading issues above.

I feel even worse for the Russian Ally mains as their squad icons look almost all identical!

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