^ It's been broken for a while.

You can invite people from the player list, which is good if you know someone on your team or are spamming invites to everyone.

For the people who frequently like to join squads in a battle, this is a terrible situation. It can put teams of random players or small squads at a severe disadvantage against teams composed of larger squads (now more of a FW issue than in Pubs) - but that's not what bothers me the most. I feel it greatly diminishes the new player experience. Team chat/the ability to squad in match happens to be one of the more prominent social aspects of the game for newer players. Local chat is a joke, and of course there are people in team chat with poor mic etiquette but it's a good tool to have.

Also, by being unable to view your squad channel you lose the ability to kick someone who may be disruptive, giving contrary commands to what squad lead intends, or to mute someone who may be having mic feedback issues.

Squad finder is too hit or miss to be the only opportunity outside of chat channels to find other people to play with. The only way I learned anything detailed about the game was by joining random squads of guys who played longer. Squad finder is less useful now than it was in the past due to trolls entering squads and yelling/talking bullshit on comms - block doesn't keep them out. They need to be kicked constantly, or the squad locked, which defeats the purpose of having a public squad.

You've modified squads with this last patch, why have you not fixed the in game controls for squads as well?

I think removing names and such during the match was a strategy to combat lag... Though it doesn't seem to have really helped much at all.

It could also have been done to make room for the new skins they were putting in, a while back I heard they were at the memory limits of the PS3 with their coding, hence why they have such a hard time adding things like maps to the game.