Editing my review because the addition of unit/map voting has been a disaster for this game. The playerbase does not know the capabilities of anything other than armor. Strategy is as foreign a concept to them, as is the idea of a skyscraper to the residents of Sentinel Island, you cannot compromise, you cannot negotiate, you cannot surrender the idea of using armor to break through an enemy's position to the Squad player for he will curse you and your estranged language with hexes only the Hivemind he belongs to would know.

An example I can provide occurred mere moments before writing this while I playing, shortly after i was given a 120+ second respawn timer without having teamkilled or inflicting blue on blue damage at all and subsequently Alt+F4ed and then opened control panel to remove this wretched product. I suggested to my squad leader the placement of a TOW launcher on Navy Port on Sanxian Islands, I suggested the area on the Eastern side with the elevated bridge to the warehouse roof, I said, "Well, we have to plan for the enemy's arrival, we have to anticipate where they will come from, so they could bring an LAV to the cliffs to the Southwest, or be approaching on the road from the South, ultimately-" I was then cut off by a squadmate who said, "Bro, he's just high he keeps repeating himself lmao." and the SL agreed, I was confused so I asked, "Is my mic not working?" the Hivemind node responded, "Yeah bro it's working you just aren't making any sense." apparently reiterating an idea is far too complex an idea for the smooth-brained invertebrate to retain, as they share the attention span of a mosquito and half the skill. The fact that the thick-headed skulls of the Squad player do not deflect small caliber rounds is a tragedy that OWI hopefully remedies soon, but no amount of developer interference could save this game from itself and it's cave-dwelling playerbase that seemingly, like stonefish, come from the depths of evolution to cling to the modern world with their primitive attitude.

Squad is one of those games that a player like myself would approach with an attitude of curiosity and even anticipation for an experience befitting the trailers, a game where you can plan, execute, and win all while having casual lighthearted fun.

This is not the case.

Eventually you will realize why dictators and warlords throughout history came to power, caused as much damage as they did, left countries and cities razed to the ground and get away with it while suffering minimal resistance. The people they can rule over, the people who play Squad, do not know what is best for them, they do not care to know, they do not even know TO care, for the dangers that befall them go unnoticed and willingly so. You could not reason with the Squad player without first beginning with a strategy that involves armor doing all the work so they can play infantry mindlessly and die in the most basic forward assault that military strategem has ever conjured, that is the only barter they can agree to, nothing more, certainly nothing less.

I am uninstalling this failed social experiment and I couldn't even be bothered to check out the new PMC update that is releasing today because it's mostly light infantry and I will accurately predict that it will be the most interesting faction in the game, until the Hivemind start counting their defeats with them because they've never seen a TOW missile on wheels that wasn't on a sandbox map with insurgents, they can't fathom it. It will never be voted in, you will never see PMC units after a few weeks. As for me, I wash my hands of this game and spark up a Marlboro Smooth 100 that I bought at Sheetz in memory of the time I have lost trying, and utterly failing to play the game the way I had hoped. I truly despise everyone that has ever launched this game on their computer, and I implore you pray to your God for salvation from the evils this game will inflict upon your soul. Good luck and God-speed.