5 man squads

[Assassinx210]

During the pre alpha gameplay I saw that there were 4 people to a squad. I'm hoping they bring back 5 to a squad like BF1 so I can play with all my friends.  I don't know why they down sized it to 4 in BF1

[OskooI_007 · Accepted solution]

Yep, 4 man squads confirmed. A couple reasons for them choosing 4 man squads come to mind. There's four classes so each member of the squad can be a different class. Assault, support, engineer, and sniper.

The second reason I can think of is that 4 man squads divides evenly into 128 players. I don't know if these are the reasons DICE chose to go with 4 man squads, but it's my best guess as to why.

[OskooI_007 · Accepted solution]

Yep, 4 man squads confirmed. A couple reasons for them choosing 4 man squads come to mind. There's four classes so each member of the squad can be a different class. Assault, support, engineer, and sniper.

The second reason I can think of is that 4 man squads divides evenly into 128 players. I don't know if these are the reasons DICE chose to go with 4 man squads, but it's my best guess as to why.

[Hudson009]

@Assassinx210 5 doesnt go into 64 sadly

[GRiPSViGiL]

@OskooI_007 I always felt there should be some sort of squad link up. So if you got 2 squads that all want to be on the same coms and work together they can form a platoon.

It would add a lot to the 64/64 battles.

[WindowsManTv_CZE]

Hello @Assassinx210

I wish to have 5 man squads too but 5 can't fit into 64 or 128 so noone is left behind.

[DingoKillr]

@Assassinx210well in a few armies around the world squad(brick) is the smallest fire team.

In the trailer some vehicles you would have notice tanks, little bird, Osprey and jeeps all have 4 man crews. Unlike previous BF where often 1 or 2 squad mates missed out.

I think the 4 man squad + vehicle is better option for teamplay. 

[Assassinx210]

@WindowsManTv_CZEahh you are right. we are 2 players away from 130 and making it even 5 players per squad.

[MegatronNerd]

@GRiPSViGiL something like this I think would be a cool option for players trying to stick together w their friends and prevent other squads from having less then 4.

[Trokey66]

The first 3 man locked squad throws the "4 goes into 128" argument out the window. 

[Forkbeard84]

Yeah, this can't really be about all squads being the same size.  If that's what is driving this, then no more locked squads then?