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As Squad leader I think these are pretty important: -not dying -placing outposts and garries -Inter-Squad communication -talk to Squad and see if they have tactical suggestions on what you should do next, it's a team effort that wins -relaying messages from other Squad leaders -**CHECKING MAP AND MAKING NOTES ON MAP FOR YOUR SQUAD** -Have a good sense of game flow -know when to push or defend (often nobody goes into defense so if your Squad can defend the last objective, you will get a lot of action and save the game) -also pretty important to not be an ordering asshole, at the end of the day it's just a game so take it easy and enjoy the match

Don't sleep on the mindset of "obscure your silhouette and outline" to be harder to see. Visual cover can be just as effective as hard cover when used right. Pay attention to the slope of where you are. Will your silhouette break the horizon line when you stand up? If so, you'll look like a bottle on a fence line asking to be plinked. Put hedgerows at your back if you can't hide on the other side of them. If you're Germans, your camo goes well with rocks and dirt, if you're Americans you'll blend best in foliage. When in doubt in forest areas, hold and hide, wait until the other person makes a move first. It's nearly impossible to see someone in this game who is hiding their outline and motionless.

As a competitive player I tell you, play as if you were the character, so you play smart and so much fun until you learn the game, that its the best advice! Had fun and join 501ST and SEVH server from Miami, the best map rotations, full servers and good commanders playing, see ya!

For the newer players: Don't be afraid to take a roll, but do be upfront with your lack of knowledge. saying " I'll go anti tank but have no clue what I'm doing" will get you more tips, kinder instructions, and more level heads. Playing Defense is also HUGE, Games may be won with Offense but they are all lost without Defense. Even if it's just sitting in that cap circle and guarding the Garrison until your team can remove their head from their.... any ways. It's also some of the most fun you can have, one minute nothing is happening and the next you and your squad/buddies are fighting the entire enemy team. But seriously, ask questions, ask for help, there are plenty of us Old Hats who would love to guide you through this game. Sincerely, lv.215 1400 hours.

One to add - the 'gung ho' mentality. The lack of defence on nearly every match is just frustrating

Thanks for the video. I've been a CoD fanatic since day one of CoD1 but got tired of purple carebears with flamethrowers and Godzillas so I started looking for something new to spike my needs. Stumbled upon this game because KZfaq and here I am. Level 38 an still playing rifleman because I need to learn first. This game is so addictive and good, I can't even explain. I guess you lot already know about that but just want to say thank you for putting up this short video about what to do and what not to do. The mapcontrol is new to me so I will take that along as I go. I watched, I learned, I will get better at it. Thanks again

Another bonus to communicating as a squad leader or commander is you can tell everyone you’re new and you’ll get a lot of great suggestions in command chat and generally the command chat are the more experienced players. When I first started I’d state clearly i was new and everyone was really understanding of when you make mistakes too.

One thing that I did a lot and I still catch myself doing is not being aware of other squad positions. Sometimes you could be flanking or under fire and you can call in the support of a nearby squad for anything you might be trying to tackle.

I once mastered as a commander the game The funny part was I didnt used mic but no one wanted to play as a commander (Squad leaders and commander should have mics in the server I played) so I took the role And because I had no mic the admin wanted to kick me but it was denied by the others as they told the admin I should have atleast my chance as a commander since this was my first commander gameplay I understood the mechanics of the commander really quick and made the best of it which actually worked And because I wanted to show to commanders arent cowards like many others just sitting at the back I always ran forward and because Iam a fast chat writer I led the groups really good, giving them special tasks and that all And in the end we actually won Thanks to everyone who didnt wanted to kick me I'll never forget it :D

For some reason I just love playing a game where your k/d doesn’t matter. I go balls out putting OPs in their face basically do human waves over and over most of the time. It’s actually extremely effective to be that aggressive.

I like that there isn't a tutorial. It encourages new players to plug in their mics and encouraged veteran players to lend a helping hand

Another thing RE: sounds, it pays to memorise the sounds of your weapons. It can be a very good indicator of whether there are enemies near. You don't have much to go on with footsteps if the enemy you're looking for is flat on his belly in a cozy spot, but if you can recognise the sound his weapon is making you can sort of guess a direction and range. Also, like @RedcoatViking says, running around like a headless chicken isn't going to do you any favours, but be mindful as well that if you can see the enemy, they can probably also see you. And the fact you're crouched behind a wall doesn't mean that *all* of you is crouched behind that wall. I've been headshotted more than once while thinking I was safely crouched behind cover.

the thought of having squamates swap out support roles to get more supplies for a garrison never occurred to me.

The most annoying thing In hll is when people don't communicate

Honestly, for me this game runs very much like Squad, yes there are some major differences, but the teamwork and mostly map awareness is what matters when it comes to this types of games.

Just to add about the capture zones, that I have recently learnt. In warfare mode (the most common game type), you have to be in 4 squares surrounding and the strongpoint itself, to start capping, as said in the vid. Whereas in offensive mode, you have to be inside the strongpoint itself, to contribute to the cap race.

Good video with good tip and info.

I just played a match that was amazing, I just started playing earlier today and some matches none of the squads wanted to communicate...this last one I played, the commander actually pointed out numerous things like they should and gave me and my sniper the task of reconing the next objective for tanks because we were the closest. The communication absolutely is key to success and we destroyed the enemy, that was the first match that went flawlessly I F'ing LOVE this game!!!! Nice video to brother

I've got about 90 hours in the game and didn't know that being in the same map "square" as the control point actually helps push the bar on the point. That makes so much sense though, because I've sworn that we would be taking the point without having anyone on the point itself.

With this new update a lot of new players are arriving but with no learning. This kind of videos should continue. Thanks

I’m pretty new to the game but I’ve learned Outposts and Garrisons are the most important aspect, I try to use support but my squad leaders are always higher rank yet they never ask for supplies to build a garrison on a flank route they’ll just put up and OP then push from flanked and get killed and respawn on Outpost then push flank and die until the other team zeroes in on Outpost with artillery and turns into a 5 sec life span on outpost or a 400-600m run from HQ because the rest of the team never put any Garry’s up either.

Got the game 2 days ago and this vid has helped a lot

THE CAP TIME IS ALWAYS 2 MINUTES, NO MATTER HOW MANY MORE GUYS YOU HAVE I see this happen so often, 45 out of the 50 players on one team sitting on a capture point while 2 people on the enemy team began a solo cap their defensive point and they think because they have more people on point they will cap first, with nobody even trying to stop the enemy.

If you’re new use your mic, I know 99.99% of you have one. Converse that’s how you learn. Majority of HLL players are open to help you out.

Playing red orchestra 2 for years has definitely helped ease the learning curve of hell let loose!

Great guide , I’ve only been playing a week. Always join as a medic , game is incredible when you get in a good squad.

What a time to furnish this with all the new players arriving now! Grinding this into them will aid in everyone enjoying the game. Simple and basic the new player will be able to grasp what their Squad Leader is moving to achive. (Well most of them)

Hope this was helpful to the recent flood of new players! Join the new Discord server: discord.gg/pK4Y3HRG4h

Brand new player and enjoyed defending last night. Was just listening to the squad leader and helping the best I can.

Biggest thing for me after playing my first match is knowing I can contribute to the capture sector without being in the actual capture zone. This would've reduced my deaths in my first game as I would get picked as soon as I made any motion outside of cover. Knowing this, I can be in a better square or take my time checking angles and treelines without feeling the need to push to put another body on the objective. I'll also be less subject to artillery, vehicles, and machine guns focusing on the objective.

Recently had a round where more than half of my team could use this tutorial. Three dire mistakes were commited by them. 1. They bodywaved the capture point. No flanking. No strategy. Just one collumn of attack wave over and over again from one direction. Right into the well established defense and making the enemy artillery having a field day on them. Not even the commander's airhead helped them out. Barely anyone took the chance to spawn behind the point. 2. Nobody defended. There was like one squad loitering on the point we needed to defend and even they were not a full squad. The rest of the team was busy commiting to Mistake 1. 3. Ignoring garrisons. In their fever to throw themselves at the enemy the entire team forgot garrisons. A squad or two slammed down a terriblly placed garrison where they were running into the enemy defense like cattle but that was all. Even when the defense garrisons got removed, nobody tried to help us out and we couldn't spawn anywhere near the point we were meant to defend. The rare occasions where I left a losing game cause I knew there will be not an inch of fun to be had in that team.

Started playing today and had no idea what I was doing. Then I played as a medic and I had a blast and everyone was thanking me and even got an commendation.

This is great content! I love how complex this game is and I wish I could get it but I don’t have a next gen console, but when I do this will be the first game I get.

Never thought I'd need to study for a video game, but these videos are very helpful. My first 3 days of playing have been less than desirable. Only one good/fun game out of about 8.

As a new player. I decided to do the leader role because of the mp40. ahh i like it a lot more. or the stg. but usually the stg and the machien gun are taken. I was playing with being a medic but i have heard that medics are useless.

Flanking is extremely underestimated imho, even if you have a superior enemy, a well placed flank attack can cripple the regional hold of an enemy

Thank you very much! I found this so helpful as I am pretty new to the game. You got right to the point and were very clear with how you talked.

Great video. People come to this game from BF and Warzone and their like expecting to be just as good. HLL requires skill as well as having a sense of team play and been able to at least think ahead. Simply beaming your opponent faster isnt going to work. Need to be more games like this tbh

Saving this to a special place so i can send it to new players who are interested in learning the game more. I find it hard to articulate my words in the moment and this video is just what i needed

It's important to note that I did not want to play Squad Leader at level 3. However, the design of the game often forces new players to take on the role. You can't play the game without joining a squad, and often there are no open squads available (and if there aren't all full the rest are locked). You then have servers with restrictions on the SL role, including the requirement of having an SL in order to keep the squad, and level requirements, and it just becomes this huge fucking mess where no one wants to be SL or learn it because they cannot jump through every single hoop the game/server owners demand. Combined with little tutorials, on top of an ill-explained supply system, and you have a community that is afraid/discouraged to lead.

Flanking is a problem. There is no flank without a front do not encourage it. Thats how that blue zone attack garrisons get destroyed. That flank garrison will lock up. If one squads flanking do not go with them. The flanks there to shoot enemies at a different angle and distract them. The push to cap will half to come from the front. Map control is good for comp games but not when herding newbies. Stay in the cap zones.

Another thing, don’t be afraid to die, it still sucks when you run a huge distance and get domed in the head but this game isn’t about KD

Another thing people get wrong imo is supplies. They think that the only way to get supplies for garrisons is through a supply drop even though you can roll scroll your support, you can bring a truck and so on. Supply drops gives the enemy the supply drop position which is very stupid to drop on the front line aka where the enemies are and can see it. I usually use supply drops behind the front line for example if I want to build a garrison in the next locked sector so we can fall back in case we lose and to drop on the next point so the supplies are there when we take the point. There are so many more things with supplies most people get wrong with but please, don’t use supply drops unless you have to. If you get killed when you drive the supply truck and that you have a squad that doesn’t want to drop supply boxes.

I used to always have my mic off especially for COD or R6. But this game got me out of my comfort zone and now I’m constantly communicating especially as a medic

When I first played Hell Let Loose, as I played Enlisted before I had a genral concept of how to combat but I had not rhe slightest clue how to control areas. 🤣so my self teaching experiment was to join a squad on my own and play each role to see what their differences were. I basically always took a quiet route into the enemies territory and came back frm behind to attack outposts which in reality shouldn't have qorked as well as it did. I was hard to apot because I alwasy kept a distance where I could be effective but also undetectable or able to flee if i needed to. basically just going where the enemies were more interested in going and just clearing it out was my goal. As long as you know what kind of game your playing even new players can be a big help. 🤣everything else I learned in this video today lol

Great video buddy thank you! I'm edging so hard rn.

If you're on a map with terrible cover, playing with a decent squad try "bounding" basically 2 or 3 guys open fire on the enemy, the guys not shooting move up hit the dirt after 6 or so seconds and then they suppress. The original guys shooting then move up and you just repeat this till you cross the open area you can't avoid. (Leap frog kinda) Obviously this is for taking fire as you cross that field, if you're not taking fire there's other ways you can cross rather than just running hoping not to die.

the SL position should be reserved for level 25-50 or something, the amount of players who start an infantry squad and either abandon the SL role instantly or do a terrible job in general will only rise.... it doesn't help that starting a squad puts you as SL, so you are forced to play SL, abandon the position once you join, or you wait around for 2 minutes for people to make squads

Thanks for the vid, I just bought hell let loose a few days ago and I was wondering why I’m so bad at it and constantly keep dying lol it was frustrating. I’m gonna use these tips when I next play

Was just in a game with you not too long ago and then your channel shows up. Great video!

Being a new player, I have to say whenever I've said on Comms I'm new and don't know what I'm doing I'm always greeted with support and forthcoming help. With a community of players like this encourages me to use Comms (normally comm shy). I'm still really struggling to understand how to play the game properly.

New sub here. I appreciate your videos! Solid content without expletives and vulgarity. Thank you, keep 'em coming.

Mistake 6: Not redeploying. Value your life, sure, however you still need to redeploy as the Butler ebs and flows. If the enemy is capturing the one behind the one you are faster than you, then redeploy and stop them. Redeploying is NOT failing, it's playing the game correctly. If your squad leader asks you too, DO IT! Your not helping waiting till you die, just redeploy and help your squad.

Point 4: Whilst this is correct for warfare although you should still be moving into the stronghold to be most effective in offensive/defensive the only place where you’ll capture to point is in the stronghold

I do #3 way too much I realized the other day I play this game like I would Battlefield, sprinting into fights and not taking my time Gotta break that habit lol

i did not know about that taking or defending the circle was about being inside the grid , like the other night we lost the circle and i had guys there wondering how we lost it \

Theres 1 main thing i didnt see anyone say at all......dont always just "give up" adter getting downed if there is a medic near you. Use your coms and either do a team or proxy and ask for a medic. Medics will revive you or anyone they can!

one thing that I do as a SL is use my binoculars as my main weapon to give my squad important information. I see a lot of SLs not using their binoculars and play as if they are a rifleman.

Great video. Subbed.

To be honest I wish veterans were more willing to have newcomers to their squads. I actually had to start making squads myself because the other squads are all locked and the SLs all reject you if you request to join it. Essentially locking new players out of their team. Very unwelcoming. Gotta learn the game alone and the hard way. This was my experience at least in the servers I played. Veteran SLs who are welcoming are pretty rare on this update post free weekend.

I wish the game had this in a tutorial.. I'm not playing as much now because others don't know this stuff.

New/clueless players choose squad lead because it’s the only way they can spawn when populating a lobby. It’s not even intentional they just don’t know better.

as a new hell let loose player this video helps me alot

"Use Your Eyes and Your Ears" Me going deaf with gunshots while not being able to see the gun flShes with 1080p monitor:

"most people are more than happy to help new pplayers" Lol, that definetly didn't happen when i tried the game, for the first time. Good god, the berating and shouting, for not knowing something that wasn't explained well in the first place.

I would add, for mid-advanced players: don't overdo it. Taking your ennemy by a reverse or in the flank is great, but taking 25min from the beginning to make a turn from the other side of the map is generally a loose of time

Best advice for newcomers play as if your actual life depended on it.

Thanks for this. I am at level 36 and I still don't know how to play this game...

I'm a newbie only level 29 been playing for two weeks and I wouldn't dare be a squad leader just yet! Lol I need a few more weeks to feel comfortable in that role but I'm definitely improving everyday

I would love to play games like this but I hate talking to people online

56k views super helpful for new players, Thank you I guess first comment?

I enjoy playing medic, i hear the best voice comms today was my first day and enjoyed hearing people call for me in super funny voices, did like 30 plus revives.

Circles bonus to high which keeps people rushing.. suppression fire to weak and it will alert enemy to your position..most people flank with supply trucks. Air supply to frequent in game.. its all about garrisons, even nodes have no added value with basis generation of supply in any of each sector.

0:33 no its because the squad leader button is big. And the new players don't know what it is. And they think they're just joining the game. They don't realize they are a squad leader

Honestly after around 10 hours of game time you will be good to go and know exactly how to play the game, expect a lot of spawn die spawn die within them 10 hours and slowly getting out of that state. I am now 40 hours played and love playing any role specially a squad leader.

for everyone... pretty much all those things apply to Squad too

When I started playing this game (around level 3 / 4) I had a squad where no one wanted to hop in as SL. So I did the job, the game forced me into it. I just asked what they needed from me, and we had a pritty good run. Same with the command job. We kept loosing because of a lack of commander, so I took the job again and the SL told me what to do. You can take the job as low level, you just gotta listen to experienced players. Follow their advice.

i would say tho something i must do a bit of arguing with here is the not flanking enough, this is usually atleast in my experience a all in or out thing, if theres a flanking garrison nearly the entire team tends to go there, which just turns it into the frontline again, what we need is pincers instead of just simple flanks, where multiple squads come in from multiple angles creating kill zones against their enemys.

I have never head to step in as the Commander in any game yet, but more times than I can count...I have had to step in as SL, not being able to enjoy doing other Roles within a Squad. However Issues I am seeing in HLL, is that many ppl tend to focus on being Squad, Tank Crew or Recon.. but many keep not using the Arty, if u are new & scared to the game.. get used to it using Arty & do get the HLL Arty Calculator App for you Phone, what else... Couldn t agree more.. Comunication is Key, as RedCoatViking is saying guys.

COs who don't give orders on this game are very frustrating. If you don't want to give order be a regular soldier.

As a console player I feel salty pc version is like a totally different better game lol

Don't wear the white helmet. Don't wear the uniform with rolled up sleeves. Wear something with gloves when you unlock it.

for the love of God if you are on defense do not throw fucking smoke, especially in front of your teams machine guns. No one is worth giving the enemy a free advance even if you are a medic, that's why we have garrisons and OP

Console player mistakes: not using voice comms, spamming sniper role, not doing anything your actual role requires.

Please add more, great video!

I think new players become squad leads as everyone is in locked squads so they make their own.

4th tip was by far the most helpful. everything else feels patronizing, but then again i just spend about 6 hours watching tutorials so that probably plays a part. lol

New players jump into the squad leader roll because of people locking squads. I keep launching the game, keep joing a server keep seeing only locked squads i quit the game as easy as that..

It’s tough for me becuase I’m not a competitive player and am pretty new, I want to be in a squad alone so I don’t have to annoy players who actually talk and lay out strategic plays. So I try to make my own closed squad.

Great tips!

Over 500 hours in HLL watching beginner guides at 2am in the morning learning nothing I don’t already know what am I doing

They need to make support a more appealing role so that the SL has someone to help build the garrisons.

as someone who hasn’t fully hit puberty and sounds like a 2 year old, it is hard to try and find friendly- or atleast decent people that don’t wanna call me slurs or immediately leave. So most of the time I just follow people and play any role but the squad lead

I got this game on PS5, played for an hour killed 1 person with the BAR (I couldn't see them at all) and was killed by people I couldn't see or even knew what direction that was in. I get it ok it's kinda representing "real war" but even playing a carefully, sneakily and dodging from cover the cover the best I could, I just felt there was a few guys with scoped rifles sitting as far away from capture points as the could farming kills, as PTFO means very little when compared to a personal K/D ratio.

This is the one game if it had a tutorial I definitely wouldn't skip it

Worth their wait in gold🤣that's a good pun lol

Nice !

6:25 got to love randoms lol

About time the game got volume sliders, command chat is so loud I had to turn it down to 1%. Good luck getting anyone to listen to you in this game lol, I will ping a garrison, and no one take it out lol, then I end up having to solo against an entire squad wave just to reach it. Happens alot in this game.