Starting off saying I love this game and play the hell out of it I'm gonna keep playing the hell out of it.

Biggest issue I'm having is matchmaking issues. I have Ps5 my friend runs PC. We're enjoying playing on harder Difficulties but we're getting our asses handed to us after this update due to lack of squad footprint and usage of Strategems and overall firepower. We can join each others ship and start missions but have yet to have anyone join in on our games from an SOS nor have we had anyone join before deployment. We've had luck being able to add friends in but no random hop in. Our SOS join function works but we usually have to wait a good bit to be thrown on a game.

Alternatively , we cant join games as a squad because one of us gets in and the other is left behind.I can join in some games and he can join me afterwards with a bit of luck. We can stick with teammates after we get in with them but we don't have any luck with direct joins?

There seems to be a lack of the game knowing that a squad is joining and migrating the entiresquad as one or atvleast reserving a spot. I hope to see a squad prioritization for matchmaking I the future to keep this from happening.

Overall I'm still stoked with the game and we keep hammering on , but goddamn I'd love to have a full squad without having to jump through hoops!

Has anyone else had similar issues or have insight?