Before we used to be able to be in squads and parties at the same time. Now we can not … if I am tagged up I can not join a party and if I tag up in a party I leave it.
My question is is this intended? It breaks use cases like coordinating a boss fight while being in one of the parties for it.
It’s one or the other under the new squad UI system. It takes the place of the party UI, so can’t be in both at the same time.
When it’s fully implemented, you should be able to chat to the full squad, or only one subgroup of it. You will be able to keep your original party as its own subgroup within the squad.
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Can subgroups of squads be used as taxis to a map? Also, does this mean parties will be gone entirely so we only have to deal with one thing? People are too used to forming parties, at least in PVE, so two organizing methods presents some real pains when you are trying to organize an event.
This also presents a problem on things like Teq. I often ask parties trying to attract people to have someone tag up to attract people plus I can say things like ‘will 3 people please party with the group at the red tag?’. Plus people often give directions that way (food at the yellow tag). Not everyone uses it in WVW or for vanity purposes.
edit: One possible solution is the groups form squads, not parties, but that will only be an option if parties go away as the first person there will start the party. Also there is the question of how well they will work as taxis, especially when someone needs to spam joins to get on the map.
Taxi’ing doesn’t really change at all. Anyone in the squad can be used as a taxi. You’ll see the “Join name in zone” option for any member when you right click their name in the squad UI.
Parties will still be around, but they’ll remain mutually exclusive with being in a squad.
If someone does tag up while partied, I think their existing party will automatically be invited into the new squad. So asking others to tag up shouldn’t cause any disruptions. And if a person in a party already is invited to a squad, their party will either be added automatically(if set to open join), or the commander will see a prompt allowing them to invite the rest of that party (if invite only/closed).
The only restriction would be that squads can (currently, at least) only have 1 commander at a time. I do hope that can be changed in the future to make a bit more organization possible, in both pve and wvw.
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If I’m tagged up as a commander at Tequatl, I’d like to be able to be in an ordinary party, in case of a disconnection. This new idea seems to have been thought up by somebody who doesn’t actually play the game…
If I’m tagged up as a commander at Tequatl, I’d like to be able to be in an ordinary party, in case of a disconnection. This new idea seems to have been thought up by somebody who doesn’t actually play the game…
This still works in a squad. When you reconnect you are still in the squad, and even still tagged up/leading it. All of your squad members will be listed in the squad UI, so you can right click on any of them to rejoin the right map instance.
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Yay! I was able to join a party this evening while tagged up.
Yes, that works just fine. People that join your squad will no longer be in a party.
It’s back to ‘normal’ for now. Squads will be just a tag and added chat channel till HoT is out, or perhaps some pre-HoT update to prepare for its release.
Once all of the invite/join features are enabled and the UI fully implmeneted, the new squad system should be completely on-par with the party system. So being tagged up will just mean a bigger “party” with a different UI. There won’t be any reason to be in a party as well as your squad, since the squad replaces all party functionality.
Footsteps Of War [FoW] | Yak’s Bend
Seer Of The Divine | Sarina Starlight | Tireasa | Caedyra
Yay! I was able to join a party this evening while tagged up.
Yes, that works just fine. People that join your squad will no longer be in a party.
It’s back to ‘normal’ for now. Squads will be just a tag and added chat channel till HoT is out, or perhaps some pre-HoT update to prepare for its release.
Once all of the invite/join features are enabled and the UI fully implmeneted, the new squad system should be completely on-par with the party system. So being tagged up will just mean a bigger “party” with a different UI. There won’t be any reason to be in a party as well as your squad, since the squad replaces all party functionality.
Yay! I was able to join a party this evening while tagged up.
Yes, that works just fine. People that join your squad will no longer be in a party.
It’s back to ‘normal’ for now. Squads will be just a tag and added chat channel till HoT is out, or perhaps some pre-HoT update to prepare for its release.
Once all of the invite/join features are enabled and the UI fully implmeneted, the new squad system should be completely on-par with the party system. So being tagged up will just mean a bigger “party” with a different UI. There won’t be any reason to be in a party as well as your squad, since the squad replaces all party functionality.
Except no condition icons ><
Ah, yeah. I hope they do have a way to show that info for subgroups. It’s probably not practical for the entire squad, but subgroups should have some way to display members more prominently and with more information
Footsteps Of War [FoW] | Yak’s Bend
Seer Of The Divine | Sarina Starlight | Tireasa | Caedyra
