Squad 8.2 Patch Notes - Gunplay Tuning, Faction Changes, New Weapons & More!

[@A_Honcho]

Its nearly 2am again, 24 hours after posting my short here's the full thing!! PS - itll be HD soon, Video is still processing!

[@itsmrbigsmoke862]

You really gotta sleep before you destroy your sleep schedule. Assuming you originally had one 💀

[@GTAC13]

I'm pretty happy with the changes to the USMC faction. I hated when it came out that they had no idea whether they wanted a USMC set in the early 2000s with M16s and iron sights or if they wanted a modern one with M27s.

[@tnd1488]

They can always go for a transitional period with both M27s and good ol' M16s on board. I'd miss the M16.

[@Captainkebbles1392]

​@@tnd1488saaaamnee

[@RomaYT999]

M16a2

[@r6orion]

M16 with an ACOG. Thank you.

[@GTAC13]

@tnd1488 IIRC, M16s and M27s never served along side eachother in infantry units, let alone m16s with iron sights. Marines at boot camp started qualifying with ACOGs in 2013 and training units are usually the last to get new equipment. infantry battalions started switching to M4s with ACOGs in late 2015. Marine infantry getting worse equipment has become false since the late 2010s. There were running around with suppressed M27s with LPVOs, better plate carriers, high cut helmets and PVS-31s by 2020.

[@Slapbackjack]

OWI need to make it impossible to hear footsteps from inside MBTs and armoured vehicles. It shouldn't be possible for a crewman to hear you place a c4 or a mine or bandaging a buddy.

[@awesome9174]

Yes!!! They need to do that. Vehicles are way op rn against infantry

[@kreemo916]

Unless the engine is off

[@danielcunha4377]

Them renaming the Insurgents to Middle Eastern Insurgents makes me think they will add African Insurgents which also means they will add the Portuguese and French Forces since both of them have been and are still in some African countries on Peace Keeping missions.

[@Stryker200000]

That would be amazing to get both, personally would love to see the France faction

[@tnd1488]

Also, to boost this idea even further, they may add the Eastern PMC faction (we all know who they are) with AKM/AK74 kits with somewhat optional modern attachements. And WHAT IF, this faction would utilize russian knockoff ATACS camo? I can even help them with modeling that since I own most of such camos that were issued.

[@RustyBear]

Only French. Portugiese would add nothing new

[@RustyBear]

@@tnd1488i want a VSS Vintorez and an RPG-30

[@giahuynguyenkim6389]

An RPG-30 wouldn't mean anything because that thing is for defeating APS, and there aren't any real, hardkill APS yet.​@@RustyBear

[@brushrunner]

I can see the reason clearly why they went full optics. The guy who invented the ACOG said its was the biggest revolution on in a marine deadliness since the m1 garand was invented. After they started adopting in iraq, marines were getting so many headshots they almost opened an investigation to find out if those killings were executions. Turned out optic vs non-optic isnt a fair fight The fix to this wouldnt be iron sights, not in this day and age they stink in a monitor because it blocks vision, IRL its different. Just give them the next most reliable optic out there on some kits, the ELCAN 1x-4x

[@j.orzech1109]

They rly need to add the Option to "abort" a reloading Animation for the Sake of running. Grenada comes into your room, you just took the Mag out of the rifle, please let me run away first and finish the reload process after

[@aleccross3535]

Either a cancelled reload to be able to sprint or a slower reload *while* sprinting

[@yungcaco1443]

lol bro you can just change weapons again and it cancels the animation

[@megacluckcluck2302]

They reaaaally need to add functionality for backup red dots. Both the British Army and the Marines have red dots mounted on top of their prismatic scopes IRL. Might be a little tricky to balance but I think it would be well worth it

[@armoras78]

Canadian scopes literally have ironsigths on top of them. SVD's could use both scope and irons, they don't interfere. But it won't get implemented for "balance" reasons.

[@hippycracktalksmack]

British army is literally the worst faction

[@FriedrichMeier0]

mil sim game btw

[@justateddybear951]

@@armoras78 oh nooooo "balance".... god forbid they try to make the game fair

[@armoras78]

@@justateddybear951 *I will mention the forbidden game - PR had all these things 15 years ago and was fun. Was it fair? I don't know, it was too much fun to care

[@JstNebula]

cant wait until UE5 in 2026... hopefully it doesnt take that long, but glad they are working on the game like this and listening to the community of squad and putting these amazing changes into the game. also love the new guns.

[@A_Honcho]

Things are heading in a good direction!

[@erikfernandez8641]

2026? F. I was thinking comingo on v8.2 😂

[@Icytits]

It's good a thing that they aren't rushing the engine upgrade. If they did, they'd be digging the coding hole that they're already in much much deeper. They pretty much need to rebuild a lot of the systems from the ground up in a much more mindful way, rather than just implement them in a way that "works" with the intent of doing it better later like they have been doing for a long while.

[@sidious69]

2025 summer btw

[@TruthPrevails24]

2026? what? they said 2025

[@mrcreami]

I honestly cant wait. Crossing my fingers UE5 runs well. This has been an update I've really been waiting for and im really happy to see this. Love the vid!

[@Arnechk]

There is no connection with 8.2 and ue5.

[@bolsa8037]

2:29 love the MEA 😂😂😂😂

[@blazegamer9896]

Gunplay finaly seens good enough for me to come back to the game

[@dustinkellerman4509]

next the Marine's need to get suppressors and VCOG sights, like in real life. 🙏

[@kikiz9443]

Sadly adding any sort of spec ops "tactical" stuff will just bring the 10 year old larpers to squad.

[@bobthebutler]

I personally don't hate any kid for playing Squad, but the problem is that they ALWAYS pick SL kit?! YOU AREN'T NO GENERAL PATTON😭🙏 DON'T PICK SL😭😭

[@RustyBear]

@@kikiz9443Look how modded squad Plays. It awful. And now Imagine Vanilla to be like that

[@dadistos4538]

@@kikiz9443 Have you applied for social security yet, old man?

[@Jackal_308]

​@kikiz9443 its standard issue for victor units wdym spec ops????

[@Rug0s]

I agree with having more Irons for infantry tbh. like I'm still pissed that they removed the Eotech C7 for the CAF LAT and medic kits.

[@A_Honcho]

Yep! Can't stand playing CAF now unless I'm an SL

[@0ttoo]

Nice video Man keep it up :D

[@A_Honcho]

Thanks, will do!

[@braedenfurman9434]

Afaik, a lot of SDOs had red dots on top too, so those could be added to USMC Light Infantry

[@App-bj6kz]

It’s patch notes day my dudes, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

[@MagnoliaNox]

I think lone wolf combat engineers have already been a thing? Sure I thought that was one of the two real ways to use them, either defensively or offensively, searching for enemies radios and laying traps behind enemy lines.

[@S.Collins]

Good louder radios, no more spending ten minutes looking through bushes for the hidden radio

[@nvender9062]

Gave me a heart attack when you said the insurgents were no more. I thought they got rid of an entire faction that I myself like to play.

[@joeferris5086]

I've had 3 of the some of the closest games I've ever had this past weekend, with each of them being a differential of less than 10 tickets. It will be interesting to see how these changes affect gameplay. Definitely concerned about lack of red dot or iron sights for USMC. These are very necessary for CQB.

[@Whit3xRabbiT]

Hard to say what I like more. It will be fun to have a page open and go through the changes in game

[@СабЧарт]

good video. Thank you

[@A_Honcho]

Glad you liked it!

[@ohhimark5723]

Best key point to think about for all future updates 9:52

[@Zelatur]

resting weapon on an edge could be a cool feature

[@A_Honcho]

I'm amazed it's not in already

[@Titopaivag3]

The radio volume change worries me. Me and my guys already get acused of ghosting sometimes because we find radios "too fast", which already isnt hard if you have the OP abilities of logic reasoning and fob creation marks on the map. This is just gonna make that job easier, probably too easy for proper balance, but we'll see

[@Scufflord]

amazing work on the video my dude, watched the short last night when it dropped and read through it but still had to come leave a like and comment on the full one to help the youtube gods favor you lol Any chance you know if the WPMC's ak-101 with the M-150 sight has had the zero fixed on it? The reticle isn't in the correct spot and the bullets will actually hit almost a full reticle height above it. Has been like that since it was introduced, just could never find out a good place to bug report it lol

[@MachinedFace88ttv]

11:09 "i't doesnt feel like youre figting the game anymore" So its CoD but slower. Great. . i came here because the shooting was too EZ in tarkov. 100 ERGO is NOT FUN

[@og_tinygrape217]

i feel that i like how it feels like ur rlly there not just some super solider

[@whatevernameuwant8890]

Update is on 2second December;)

[@terranxreaper3797]

glad new changes are for squads future / development

[@PoseidonZombie]

If the TLF rifle is good now that's all I really needed to hear, INS and MEA rework was not on my bingo card at all for 8.2 so I'm looking forward to seeing how they mesh with the update. Not sure about some of the unit changes, I don't think there's a great grasp of what units are good in what maps/gamemodes. Or which units are strong/weak to the others. So making units more specilized to one situation or another I don't see playing out very well.

[@A_Honcho]

Yea, the 4 LAVs / 4 ASLAVs is straight up dumb in my opinion as the 25mm bushmaster is the most OP weapon in game, but time will tell how this balance plays out

[@RustyBear]

I don’t like the MEA (Update) Ins is cool tho

[@roymuerlunos2426]

I kinda think the USMC getting rid of tanks is to also make room for AH-1Z's in their line-up

[@A_Honcho]

Valid point!

[@giahuynguyenkim6389]

Attack helicopters for Air Assault units only, please!

[@rell0223]

there is a shocking lack of at sway changes. after nerfing tows they need to do SOMETHING

[@dadistos4538]

You're telling me my professional soldier can aim his rifle after running for 10m now? wow, almost like it should have always been that way.

[@mostlygamingstuff1260]

We are now in desperate need of an armour/ anti armour overhaul Last night, it took 5 hits to destroy a marine AAV…. First my lat to track it…. Then a tandem, then an unknown projectile that was big, we think it was a friendly tow…. Then two more lat hits Like my god. LATS are basically useless in squad now. Back in the day, all kits would come with 2 lats. They should bring that back for all factions

[@A_Honcho]

I feel like there's an armour bug right now. I watched a M113 Mortar carrier absorb 4 tandems to the rear and take no damage Another one ate 3 tows aswell

[@mostlygamingstuff1260]

@ okay if it’s bug, that’s actually positive news. Because that would imply it’s something in obvious need of fixing and not just how the devs decided to make the game Hoping it’s addressed soon! But overall, what a wonderful time to play Squad…. I’ve been playing since Alpha 9, and this is the best it’s ever been

[@trppy_6655]

They should make it if the gun has a scope on it you should be able to remove that for just iron sights.

[@aarontanchez8091]

I miss flying my bmp techi man, bring it back already!!

[@mostlygamingstuff1260]

The radio change sounds like it may become very disruptive to the current meta…. It’s unclear to me if this will be a good thing or a bad thing. What I do know is, I’ve enjoyed every twist in gameplay this dev team has experimented with/implemented over the years, so I’m looking forward to trying it out. And tweaks on sound levels at certain ranges can always be dialed in to find the sweet spot (hopefully anyway)

[@jadennelson6948]

The Marines change is HUGE. In case you misunderstood here’s what’s actually happening. They have made one singular new group of Marines that are meant to be the FD2030 Marines. This is the one seeing all the changes. The rest remain as “Old Marines” meaning these “new era” marines could even eventually see new uniforms and the new ACV and maybe even the Booker light tank. They tried to even further differentiate these “eras” by giving the old marines the new m39 and the new era marines keep the m38 which is accurate to real life. This could be the beginning of having old and new era’s for all factions! High cut helmets coming soon? This could be real real juicy if they continue

[@furiousredeem1207]

Why would we see the booker, the marines arent even getting it.

[@pissedRAIL]

Tighter recoil control sounds good to me.

[@echoofwrath1161]

Found this channel because of he was in my game and people where like ITS HONDO OMG.

[@A_Honcho]

Gonna Rename my Channel to C_Hondo now!

[@burgwaseaten8797]

that random burb was halarious

[@A_Honcho]

Editing Easter egg

[@TheUncleJason]

How about a patch for easily dragging an ally to safety. Instead of spending 18 hours looking for just the right spot to click f.

[@A_Honcho]

Yea, the fact it's head or foot only makes it difficult, especially if they're folded in half

[@P3RF3CTD3ATH]

No more scoped Mosin for the insurgents? That's a bummer.

[@Wolfman2598]

Im happy MEA got some love.

[@AP-sabot]

Good video

[@SomebodyJr]

Kinda sad that the SMAW is getting removed, hands down is the best HAT Launcher in game

[@A_Honcho]

Only removed for USMC Light

[@Loona565]

man losing a abrams for 3 MATVs with tows is a absolute L along with the increased time spawn

[@Nick33344]

I’m pretty sure the marines still get the Abrams

[@4rRimi]

honestly, idk if you think about it it spreads out the risk on ticket loss and since their harder to find/see it should be just as effective but we will have to see, depends on the players

[@Huntsman00]

The MATV-TOWS are gonna get one manned and promptly wasted

[@RustyBear]

Its light inf. Meaning they get more HATS

[@bordergore7623]

@@RustyBear Yeah but the removal of the SMAAW and replacement with the Carl Gustav is going to put a bit of a foil on that. Without a spotting rifle its gonna be harder for HATs to hit longshots, and when you add this onto the fact that they will no longer have an Abrams I believe this is going to cause the marines to have a tougher time taking on armor. On top of this China and Russia will now be the only two factions with built in rangefinders on their HATs, so on top of this the marines will now have a slightly harder time against enemy infantry.

[@Benjamin-578]

Have they removed the m110 suppressor? Every time I’m the US it’s just the normal M110

[@Jsokk_0]

All that just to play WPMC every match and the same maps over and over again cause they vote on the same shit on every server that's with good ping

[@not_hAck3r]

Democracy in games be like:

[@Jsokk_0]

@not_hAck3r I guess but people are playing squad like is call of duty or battlefield now hahaha

[@somethingcliched4921]

Who gets the SMAW now? If no faction have the SMAW now. Maybe they're doing a rework for it. As it is at the moment, you can fire both rockets from the SMAW without reloading by firing the second rocket, swapping to the spotting rifle and then swapping to the first rocket. I think its the way they've coded weapons/ammo types and the animations. Hopefully we'll get some kind of reloading overhaul, like staged reloads.

[@quadroff]

Only USMC's light infantry unit gets the Carl Gustaf instead of the SMAW and M27 IAR for all kits. All the other units will use the same kits as before

[@christielangton6527]

Guns! Thanks Honcho

[@ElGringo21]

Can’t wait for China to get the QBZ-191, maybe then I’ll actually try them.

[@simonmalmo7008]

Most of the updates are good (but we need irons/holo's etc on all factions) however I really hope they don't increase the Radio audibility, that would be an awful change as it's almost to easy to find radio's as it is.

[@Benjamin-578]

The British army really needs an update. Or at least bring in the Royal Marines with their new Gucci kit

[@birdideasisallyouhave8261]

Insurgents needed more Medic options bad

[@Jsokk_0]

I haven't played turkey in forever

[@iNdex-Nzo]

For the looks of your clips, I'm happy that pistols are starting to get unfooked, because the sway even when rested but just turning made them unusable. Now there's still too much bit of barrel tipping when orientating your aim for my taste, I think it makes no sense as you don't hold a long, shouldered weapon but a handgun with straight arms, the kind of misalignement you got is only explained by twisting your wirst.

[@BlindAlanAlda]

Are the US Marines also getting a visual overhaul? Since right now they resemble the Marines from 2010-ish

[@A_Honcho]

I think the marines will stay like that to be fair

[@exside1337]

9:51 goida zzz

[@eggs3676]

yaitso

[@Yevgeny_N]

What month is patch 8.2 coming out approximately?

[@A_Honcho]

In like 4-5 days time

[@Yevgeny_N]

@@A_Honcho Thank you.😁👍

[@kosia_fan]

The thing I most like is TLF getting a HAT kit. Finally... They should also add the leopard2a4 now. I am not really convinced that the MPT is going to be much better, ideally it should be the same level of controllability as the m14.

[@zoro21345]

its basically more controllable than m14 on full auto because of the slower fire rate,its pretty much better than m14

[@kosia_fan]

@@zoro21345 yes, the t62 is also the strongest tank and bmp1 is the fastest firing IFV.

[@zoro21345]

​@@kosia_fan i meant for the upcoming patch,i tested it personally

[@kosia_fan]

@@zoro21345 Well im looking forward to seeing that myself. I hope its good

[@zoro21345]

@@kosia_fan kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZSQcmBthdKliJIsi=pe2QycVXd4ghqnwe

[@xShenpie]

gun loadout change for marines is cool and all but what about our M16 skins? they're useless now I guess?

[@Icytits]

I'm sure they plan to add M27 skins in their place, it's not exactly a hard thing to do. Even if they don't, eh

[@GTAC13]

The change is only for 1 battlegroup in the marine faction meant to be representative of the current setup (no tanks, better equipped infantry). Other battle groups in that faction still have the older weapons, and the new M39 replaced the marksman with an iron sight M249 replacing the AR kit.

[@xShenpie]

@@GTAC13 oh that's good to know, im guessing only that battlegroup has the MRAP and the rest still have the Humvee?

[@giahuynguyenkim6389]

From what I watched, yes​@@xShenpie

[@Citizen-Nurseman]

Maybe they should add BUIS

[@Taco-man]

WHERES MY JAVELIN MISSILE

[@A_Honcho]

In 9.0

[@aleccross3535]

Any chance the German Army will be included soon?

[@MrTangent-8]

When will warrior and bulldog be replaced with Ajax and Ares

[@ybj9762]

Hang on if the m16 is being replaced by the m27 what happens to the skin for the m16?

[@og_tinygrape217]

prob will get it on the m27

[@RustyBear]

Only 1 battlegroup

[@ALAMO_GREEN]

This game needs a canteen

[@diesel92kj1]

Wait people don't use optics???? How do you see anything!!!!!????

[@Norcan221]

I'd love stamina rework so it doesn't disappear after 50m of sprint 👍

[@officialboomtish214]

The Turks get HAT?! Finally, we can compete with armour!

[@mokmokovik1256]

noooo why did they change usmc hat :C f

[@GhenTuongHB]

I really don't like the factions merging. Everyone has everyone else's stuff.

[@A_Honcho]

Some bits I understand, but others yea I agree with you

[@RustyBear]

Yes. Especially MEA. They where so clean with only German weapons. Now they feel more irregular. VERY BAD IMO

[@giahuynguyenkim6389]

I mean... they are an alliance​@@RustyBear

[@RustyBear]

@@giahuynguyenkim6389 well then why are they made like there own country, then we should see dif uniforms

[@giahuynguyenkim6389]

@@RustyBear it's because middle eastern camo kind of look the same I guess? Can't really care. At least this should help the MEA in CQB.

[@kreemo916]

When is the german faction

[@amperfekpleyrman5083]

Finaly turkey is usefull

[@rath141]

Block channel speedrun for title, hope your dreams come true

[@A_Honcho]

wat

[@pissedRAIL]

Yay, Mea gun diversification. Lack of ironsights is disturbing, radio audio is kind of silly. Fobs are already iffy enough with helicopters spotting them. Now the radio is a projector? Gonna need a whole damn squad just to keep that attack radio alive.

[@Sn3k_G4ming]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY M1A1

[@mimikal7548]

No more M16s? ;( NO MORE HUMVEES!? D: Oooh it's just the light infantry battalion, phew. And some really exciting changes other than that! Can't wait to play russia on sanxian, and "middle eastern insurgents"

[@peri5552]

So they gave in to the “ICO bad” crowd? ICO has it flaws but I liked the fact that it filtered CoD people who wanted to run around and shoot stuff without communicating instead of Squad’s core gameplay based on communication and organized attacks. I guess we’ll see if we have a surge of lone wolves who don’t use comms and just come to run and shoot.

[@kennysaucy1860]

Cant wait for all the ico enjoyers to cry when everyone is a much better shot while not stationary update might bring me back

[@dadistos4538]

Imagine thinking it's realistic to have your professionally trained career soldier to run 10m and be out of breath for a longer amount of time than it took to run that same 10m. ICO was a mistake. Glad to see it getting dialed back.

[@sunnycat69]

🌴

[@village4942]

The guns still feel like shit. Roger that

[@BigBigBigJeff]

Big

[@4Pickledonions]

Came here the Insurgent changes, and bro skipped them all nice waste of time.

[@Holden000]

Wait, what? Admin can hear both sides - so if admin is playing, he has insides of enemy team? This is absurd

[@zoro21345]

for admin cam

[@aleksmilenkovic1592]

In the next patch can we fix the greifers and bully boys plz! So many nasty people making everyone elses expeiriance miserable for no good reason lately. Always moaning at the squad lead just because they have to play as Russians or a race/clan they dont like is playing alongside them, always insulting certain people at the start of game. Almost every game i play now has these types, they are getting too good at psychological warfare. They will not listen to squad lead, continously crash heli's, die continously on purpose all game and again just make peoples experience miserable not to mention ghosting. Servers need to perma ban these types because its really REALLY unbearable and a massive draw back for the game. For example every time the balkan clan plays half the team dedicate the whole game to make their experience misserable instead of playing the actual game, its pathetic boring and pointless

[@Jsokk_0]

Stupid having only scopes

[@guigam3r374]

Squad is getting less realistic btw is a arcade game,still playing arma reforger 😅😊

[@A_Honcho]

Squad has never been realistic

[@RustyBear]

Arma is so Bad

[@guigam3r374]

@@A_Honcho agree

[@guigam3r374]

@@RustyBear is realistic

[@RustyBear]

@@guigam3r374 very clunky

[@Oboar]

Another update and no performance fixes and turkey is still just as useless nothing ever changes lol

[@LordofOWI]

did we watch the same video?

[@RustyBear]

Watch the Video pal

[@Lawi_Jake]

I also don't like playing the brits faction due to the fact that all their scopes are Zoomed in and not fit for CQB.

[@boogie5]

A HONCHO BABY!!!! A decade ago it was, Karmakut! 😁 Keep up the great work! And, come play Squad 44... Better yet, Squad 17 (Beyond The Wire)! We still play every Saturday at 1pm EST and it is a TREASURE TROVE of content d00d! 😁🪖