HELL LET LOOSE VS SQUAD FULL
HELL LET LOOSE VS SQUAD FREE

I have been talking a number of people who are all on the same page. For all the hype and the name, 'Sqaud' you never really seem to play with your actual unit after the first few minutes of game. By the time you catch up to your unit most games are usually over. Others are still alive so they have to stay to defend or attack. You get odd situations where squads spread out across the map because someone died and had to respawn 2km away. No real comunication (sure there is lots of talking but not real information), just moving around the map. Most SLs and FLs have no real plan or no real goal. My experiences in Sqaud leave much to be desired. Every person on a sqaud has a role even if some roles are less important. Everything about the game from supplies, to building garrisons, means that a lot of different people need to always be working together to get stuff done. Their invidual stats are trash but they had the teamwork and communication to pull a w. I have watched many meh teams beat team with better individual skill because of how well they work together. The UI, maps, textures, the way people talk, but when you get into the game, move past the appearances, and get into the mechanics it is kinda a mess especially in regards to teamwork. Sure there is a serious, sim(y) coat of paint that make it seam realistic at first. Squad is not what many people make it out to be. I have always thought that Squad was a more serious, mil-sim game and HLL as more arcade. I have almost 1k hours in HLL and I am starting to get into Squad. THIS point alone is what makes HLL a slightly better game in my opinion because it creates consistency. Maps in HLL are always on a 2km by 2km grid map rather than varying distances and it only takes 45 seconds to cross 200m at a standing sprint. Locating things in this game and destroying them is far easier than Squad. Marking things in this game is so much more useful than in Squad in my opinion because you can always hit T on your keyboard and it will bring up a UI showing all the marks that your SL has dropped on the map, and if you are SL it will show all the other SL's marks as well. The game is pretty fair since there are only 4 people out of the 100 players in the lobby with a scope, being the snipers on the recon teams (2 teams per side.) Meaning you need your officer to be aware of their surroundings and using their binoculars to spot things for the squad. I have NEVER felt that way about HLL, there is always a reason to keep running, shooting, or deploying since this game doesn't run on tickets. With Squad being a ticket based game I am compelled to not give up and sit there for 5 minutes waiting on a medic, essentially turns Squad into the perfect game to watch youtube and dick around with. You have to do your own research on what the classes do and their loadouts or ask an experienced player for a light walkthrough. This is a good thing and a bad thing, the good thing about it is that the playerbase is always increasing in some form but the bad thing is that there is no introduction for new players to learn off of besides experienced players.

HELL LET LOOSE VS SQUAD FREE

HOWEVER, Hell Let Loose goes on Free Weekends far too often and the game goes on sale FAR too much.

HELL LET LOOSE VS SQUAD FULL

A good Commander (since he doesn't have to command a squad in this game and can focus on what the map and the team needs) will make the team come full circle.

A good SL will make a squad work, 5 good SL's will make a team work. The pros of Hell Let Loose as a SL is that you don't need another person next to you to make a team wide spawn point or to drop a squad deployment station otherwise known as an OP (OutPost) as the SL you can make big flanks and have your friends redeploy on you since this game doesn't revolve around tickets it revolves around teamwork and listening. Let me start here, I have about 600 hours in HLL since about December and it has been one of the most fun fps experiences I have had to date.

Hell let loose vs squad