Place of Death

Where and How to Die

In a game like Squad, a fundamental part of infantry play is the ability to get revived. With that being said, you should constantly be positioning yourself in a position where you can easily be picked up by a medic during the firefight if you go down. This should constantly be going through your mind while playing. Examples of this are standing in a building and shooting through a window, shooting from behind hard cover such as half walls or rocks, shooting from a sloped surface where your body will fall off or roll off when you die (like a berm). Keep in mind that you are never 100% safe for a medic to come revive you when mortars, vehicles, grenades, and explosives are in play. It is good practice to guide your surrounding teammates and medics in local chat while you are downed. This includes the position of the enemy that killed you (or if you don’t know, you can mention that as well), the amount of enemies and their weapons (is it a vehicle, is it an MG, rifleman?), and if you are safe to revive. Furthermore, while in the downed state, you can listen for audio queues from the enemy such as bandaging, loading a grenade in the grenade launcher, throwing a grenade, etc.. These are all important situations to forward to your teammates as it is easier to push an enemy when they have their bandage out. By telling your teammates how and where you died from, and listening for important information while you are downed, you are remaining an asset to your team.

There are good times to die and bad times to die. When there are downed players in your squad, you shouldn’t be making aggressive peeks even if it means dying in a safe spot. In my opinion, there are two and a half perspectives/styles on how to play while you have downed players in your squad (it is all very situational, as long as you don’t do the first thing I mentioned above… your death must not be useless):

• 1: Gain ground and buffer with the goal of keeping the enemies occupied during the revive (most risky) … can be useful if you are trading your life for three revives etc.
• 2: Take a more passive position while waiting for your medic to revive (if you die, that could prompt the enemies to push your medic as they are doing the revive)
• 2.5: Rotate with your medic in order to re-frag the guy that killed your teammate & help medic revive by covering him from close (in my opinion this is the strongest)

If you have medics around you, you know you can be a bit more ambitious with your peeks as you will get instantly revived if it is a good medic. This can even mean standing on top of a wall/ roof/staircase (granted you position yourself so you fall into cover afterwards. If the medics are far away, you should be more cautious with peeking as if you die you risk respawning and burning the ticket.