I love how Squad appears to be being positioning possibly in response to what's happening with HLL

So it might be coincidental but it's really interesting and amusing to me that Offworld Industries, the developers of Squad, in their latest Dev brief listed one of the changes as a reduction in run speed.

https://joinsquad.com/2023/06/08/infantry-combat-overhaul/ is where you can find the changes.

They talk about how they noticed that over time they had given in to the temptation to make the game a little more arcade than they had really initially intended and they now wanted to roll this back.

They talk about how they felt many changes, including the run speed increase, had increased the temptation of people to go off and run and gun solo, what a mistake this was, and how they will now be reverting this change for the good of the game and community.

Isn't it interesting that for years this has not happened, then T17 release update 14, the HLL community gets frustrated at the knock on effects of the runspeed change, and the next Squad Dev brief lists a change in the opposite direction mentioning most of the same things the HLL community is pissed off about, whilst also saying "we made a mistake before, a change like that is too arcady"

This is how you watch your competition making a mistake, recognise what it is, and jump all over it. Whoever is in charge of Dev direction and Comms over with Squad, well done haha. Just wanted to say we see what you are likely doing, and personally I love you for it.

When you have a community not being listened to by their Dev, and you make it clear you are listening to them quite likely, from a completely different game! This is how you poach players :)

Whoever is in charge of deciding what message goes out over at Squad, THEY... know what they are doing.