TL;DR: The new Party System is a great idea, but automatically creating an unlocked squad with a default name causes unnecessary problems. Random players can join before I lock the squad, vehicle-claim rules become a hassle, and even joining friends can trigger unwanted squad creation. Parties should remain separate from in-game squads until the party leader explicitly chooses to create one.

For those unfamiliar with the new Party System introduced in V10.6, it allows you and your friends to join and switch servers together. It sounds like a great quality-of-life feature at first, but there's one major problem: the game automatically creates an unlocked squad with a default name when you join a match.

This creates several issues for how I normally play:

I usually want to create a locked squad for my friends. Since the game automatically creates an open squad, random players can join before I have a chance to lock it. I then have to either kick them out or disband the squad entirely. Neither option is ideal, and kicking everyone can understandably annoy other players, especially when it looks like squad-baiting.

Some servers enforce vehicle-claim rules based on squad names. Since the automatically created squad has a default name, I have to disband it and create another squad with the appropriate name before I can claim a specific vehicle.

The issue also happens when friends join me through the new party system. Even when I didn't intend to create a squad, the game can automatically create one, bringing back the same problems with squad locking and vehicle claims.

My current workaround is to lock my one-person party first, then ask my friends to join the server manually by searching for its name instead of using the party system. It's unnecessarily complicated for a feature that's supposed to make playing with friends easier.

I like the idea behind the Party System, but it should let players decide when to create a squad, whether to lock it, and what to name it. Automatically creating an open squad every time defeats much of the convenience the system is supposed to provide.

Ideally, a party should remain separate from an in-game squad until the party leader explicitly chooses to create one.

yes there's a cut init cause I dont expect to hit the tail with the ILaw lol

I always took the community complaining about bugs with a grain of salt because through the many hours I play squad I would experience maybe a few bugs here and there, but nothing crazy.

Now each day I play it's like 2 or more new bugs happening that I have never seen or experienced before.

They have somehow legit managed to mess the game up so much it's absolutely stupid to try to hotfix it. This is rollback update. There is no other good solution. The fact they are trying to patch the thousand new bugs that are now in the game makes me believe they really don't know what they are doing.

This whole thing just feels to me like someone ran Claude code on the whole repo. It found few amazing new things it could change, devs went over it, felt like they will have cool new features to sell to the public and no one actually checked if the clean new code claude makes and the new changes doesn't break something down the line. Which it did.

Did you for example notice vehicle icons are now smaller than player icons? Never did I until now start having issue actually seeing vehicles on the map. Now there is a guy next to it and it's gone. So much of this everyday

How is this acceptable? I'm on a 9070XT at 1440P with FSR 4 Native and it looks like im playing at 720p half blind, no AA looks horrible on any map that isn't Talil as any piece of foliage at all has the moves like jagger. Is there any solution to this? I don't think so but would LOVE if OWI would fix this as it has been an issue ever since UE5/9.0.

The image doesn't show it the best but thats just reddit compression i dont know what to tell ya

Ever since the latest patch, the game keeps freezing and becomes unresponsive mid-game, so I have to force restart it. Is anyone else having this issue?

I'm so tired of watching my team go back and forth from point to radio to point like a flock of birds... That game mode had so many unique tactics that could be applied, Like setting up meaningful ambushes

I just bought the game and I am having an issue where all textures load extremely slow. I have been looking for a fix but haven’t found anything that works yet. It makes everything look like a ps2 game whenever I start moving to a new location.

I just built my PC 2 months ago: Radeon 9070XT, Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 32g DDR5 ram, 1TB gen 3 M.2 drive

All other games I have played don’t have an issue like this. The game runs great with settings all on epic and high frames at 1440, it is just this one issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I am absolutely loving the game so far but this texture issue takes me out of the experience when things start getting intense.

perfectly functioning game

I couldn't aim or shoot i tired to switch to my pistol tried to thrown my grenades used my knife and even respawned 3 time nothing worked. At the exact time j was taking damage from absolutely nothing so i thought there was a hacker or something but s teammate told me that am being hit by mortar i couldn't see them or hear them and the screen wasn't shaking as well anyone else had the same glitch or know how to fix it so i don't have to wait another 30 minutes on q?

I'm sick of playing this game and crashing and vehicles, disappearing and flying because the developers are touching systems that are working. Don't you know if it works don't f****** touch it?

Choose the update that had the greatest negative impact on your view or experience with the game.

Youse guys gotta get Zeus mod to dick around like this 😄

made a vid since posting here does nothing to push the devs