No. I do not run squads and I have no intention on running with a squad. I simply pay attention to my teammates around me and I work with that. I feel that if you have to run with a squad to win than your situational awareness is ****** and you have forgotten that this is a "team-oriented" game and not a "squad-oriented" game.

Combat in DUST 514 is tactical and squad-based

If it does change how can I ensure that the squad I join will only be playing Factional Contracts and will only play on the side of the Gallente?

No. I do not run squads and I have no intention on running with a squad. I simply pay attention to my teammates around me and I work with that. I feel that if you have to run with a squad to win than your situational awareness is ****** and you have forgotten that this is a "team-oriented" game and not a "squad-oriented" game.

Side Note: I am very stubborn when it comes down to running with squads but my attitude towards it might change; I have become more open to it over this past month. If it does change how can I ensure that the squad I join will only be playing Factional Contracts and will only play on the side of the Gallente?

If I view my stats from the 4 Factional Contracts I have played (all of which I was not part of a squad) it would appear I am more beneficial to my team than I am detrimental regardless of whether or not I play with a squad.

I recently decided to give Factional Warfare a shot and I have mixed feelings about it.

I have played a total of 3 matches and out of those I have only won one match.

To me it seems that Skirmish Matches might be too much for a lot of people to handle. For example the first match I played I got destroyed (3 kills and 6 deaths) and still came in second place. The combined kills on that match for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place was 11 and the combined kills for the remaining 12 members on my team was 3.

What are some good strategies for handling Factional Contracts? I am thinking of just picking an objective to hack and simply do what I can to hold it for the length of the match. I found that if I try to hack multiple objectives the enemy will just follow behind rehacking everything that I hack.

Also, I am only playing Galente Factional Contracts if that matters to any of you in terms of strategy.

What was your contribution to the matches you won? If you win matches but you don't contribute anything worth a damn then you are simply riding someone else's glory.

So as of now it seems running with a squad is the only way to go. This saddens me.

My weekly W/L ratio is a 1.27. That is playing nothing but Public Contracts with the exception of 6 Factional Contracts in which four of those 6 were wins. Without running in a squad I still have a positive W/L ratio. My weekly KDR is at 3.29.

first find 16 people... better yet find more than that since your going ot need to pick and choose based on SP

you need
- a commander, a side role mostly, must be able to predict battle flow and is responcable for calling out what objectives to push, where squads should spawn, and what is the priority at any givin moment. this is make or break.
- dropship pilot with either amaar or minmatar logi suit with complex hacking modules in every low (uplinks manditory the rest is just nice
- 2 tankers with flexability as far as turrets and both gunnlogi/madrugar

thats your command squad.

squad 1

- 2-3 heavys (amaar)
-2 minmatar logis (uplink, nano, rep, needle)
- 1-2 scouts either amaar (anti scout role), gallente (anti logi role) (uplinks a must)

squad 2

2-3 scouts caldari and gallente preefered uplinks a must
1 gallente logi
the rest fill as per preferance

command squad does the primary communication as you have the FC and your dropship with the greatest innsight into the battle, the tankers need to communicate well with the fc and the dropship to counter other dropships and tanks, EVERYONE ELSE fills the needs of these 4 people.

squad 1 is a defencive squad, specilised in holding a point, used for entrenched defence or used in a switch to prolong a failing objective to buy time to use squad 2 in taking a different one. you need to be proactive in telling these guys what their primary objective is and if nessesary they ALL need to suicide for a hot swap on a freesh uplink on a newly ninjad base.

squad two is your attack squad, used in harrasement int hee event that you hold a winning number of objectives and used to capture new objectives when you need them. stealthy quick and very anti-scout it needs to be able to get in, kill off enamy uplinks, and place their own in a very short amount of time, used to create a position in wich squad 1 can inhabit.

squad one is also built so that you can split it into 2 squads to defend two closer together objectives, BUT only if they are still in range enough to suppport each other.

So as of now it seems running with a squad is the only way to go. This saddens me.

I just don't understand why it is so difficult for people to treat the entire team as a squad as opposed to just 5 or 6 people.

I also think that it is kind of pathetic that when I ask people what strategy they have for Factional Warfare the only response I receive is to join a squad. I don't see how joining a squad is a strategy; what the squad does in the match is what I see as a strategy.

I just don't understand why it is so difficult for people to treat the entire team as a squad as opposed to just 5 or 6 people.

I also think that it is kind of pathetic that when I ask people what strategy they have for Factional Warfare the only response I receive is to join a squad. I don't see how joining a squad is a strategy; what the squad does in the match is what I see as a strategy.