Anyone else think it would be really good if we could choose which squads we take into battle on the fly - once we know the map/game mode?
For example - I usually have a sniper squad (because I like them). Sometimes they are perfect to have, but there are numerous occasions where a sniper squad is useless and I won’t touch it, and just takes up a spot. Same can be said if assault squads - 1 is usually useful, but certain maps/modes it’d be handy to have more.
Same for vehicles - some maps I want a plane, sometimes I’d like 2 tanks, others I’d like no tanks but a fighter and a bomber instead.
I have so many squads I’ve forgotten about - plus from dev point of view, this might also encourage more spend on premiums/kitting out additional squads outside your top 6.
It’s not a horrible idea, but think about what this means…
Let’s be generous and say you have 10-14 actual human players…
who each have between 8 and 20 squads unlocked for the given campaign…
now they have to pick the squads (and are we letting them pick equipment? swap soldiers?) …
you could be waiting for as much as 5 minutes (probably more in some cases) while people agonize over selecting their squads…
I think it’d frustrate new players, further cater to metas (I mean beyond the current shenanigans) and there are some people who would be struck by “analysis paralysis” and grind the match start to a halt.
This is what custom games were made for. Maybe leave it to that.
Some way to make adjustments to your squad roster pre-battle would be nice - I currently just level up 4 non-maxed squads, and see little reason to bother with anything else, as the game also requires the player to not leave the unused squads empty of troops - this could be an incentive to have all previously unlocked squads as combat-worthy, rather than barebones, but… we also would need improvements in other places for this to work properly (moving equipment from 1 squad to another should be easier).
No - I see your point but your squads would be equipped ahead of time - so you’d only keep equipment on the ones you like. It’d be a case of just clicking 4/6 squads at the start in the same way you choose your starting squad.
I’d like there to be the ability to switch one squad mid-battle. Limited to one, to avoid it being too op.
I like sniping too recently, but some teams are good and some aren’t. If I get a bad team, no one will do the heavy lifting so if I’m sniping, we lose. That spot is wasted then. I’d like to switch it out for something useful. On the other hand, sometimes you’ll get that one guy who is flying and never dies (either because he’s too good or just unopposed). In that event, I’d switch out my plane for a tank so at least I give some sort of heavy support