Squads

Squads
Description	Win or lose as a Squad of 4 Fall Guys! Join as a party or find a Squad inside!
Victory reward	20
Participants	28 - 40
Squad size	4
Fallback round	Hex-A-Gone

Squads (formerly named Squads Show) is a gamemode that was introduced in Season 4 (Legacy). This mode places players into teams of four.

It was initially a temporary gamemode, and became a permanent gamemode on 1 April 2021.. Since the Season 5.Fun update it can occasionally be replaced by another 4-player squad show (e.g. Squad Celebration) for a couple days.

As of Season 2, with the introduction of "vaulted rounds", the full round pool is no longer used, and instead replaced with seasonal variants such as the Satellite Scramble Squads Show.

Appearances

#	Season	From	To	Notes
1	Season 4 (Legacy)	22 March 2021	20 July 2021	Full round pool
2	Season 5 (Legacy)	20 July 2021	21 September 2021
3	Season 5 (Legacy)	28 September 2021	21 October 2021
4	Season 5 (Legacy)	1 November 2021	30 November 2021
5	Season 6 (Legacy)	30 November 2021	9 December 2021
6	Season 6 (Legacy)	13 December 2021	24 December 2021
7	Season 6 (Legacy)	28 December 2021	21 June 2022
8	Season 1	21 June 2022	15 September 2022
9	Season 2	15 September 2022	3 November 2022	Limited round pool of Satellite Scramble
10	Season 2	8 November 2022	22 November 2022
11	Season 3	22 November 2022	10 May 2023	Limited round pool of Sunken Secrets
12	Season 4	10 May 2023	16 August 2023	Limited round pool of Creative Construction
13	Summer Breeze Update	16 August 2023	3 October 2023	Limited round pool of the Summer Breeze Update
14	Fall Force Update	3 October 2023	7 November 2023	Limited round pool of the Fall Force Update
15	Tool Up Update	7 November 2023	6 December 2023	Limited round pool of the Tool Up Update
16	Power Party Update	6 December 2023	23 January 2024
17	Shapes and Stickers Update	23 January 2024	1 February 2024
18	Shapes and Stickers Update	1 February 2024	28 February 2024	Limited round pool of the Tool Up Update with creative rounds
19	Survival Update	28 February 2023	Current

Show Mechanics

Race

Race rounds work based on a points system. Finishing a race earns points for your team. Placing higher in a race will earn your team more points. The teams with the most points qualify for the next round.

Unlike other playlists, most races time out in less time than the standard 3 minutes. These timeout durations range from 2:00 to 2:30, and are map-dependent. Generally, race rounds will play out until all players qualify, though in rare cases they will end prematurely. As of Season 4, race rounds will be ended early more common, as players remaining are impossible to make their teams qualify even if they can reach the finish before the timer ends.

A hotfix pushed on 8 April 2021 added Slime Climb to this playlist. It works like most race rounds; however, falling into the slime prevents you from scoring points for your team. When The Slimescraper was added to the game, it was also added to this playlist, and functions similarly.

Ski Fall was not initially available but was later added in Season 6.3 (Legacy), and uses the same mechanics as hunt rounds, as mentioned in the Hunt section below.

Lap races such as Short Circuit and Speed Circuit are not available in Squads Show or any other squad-based playlists.

Survival/Logic

Survival and Logic rounds work based on a points system. For every second a team member survives, they earn their team one point. The lowest-scoring teams are eliminated when rounds over. As of Season 4, if all team members falling into slime during playing survival rounds and their current score is impossible to make their team qualify at the end, members in their team will be eliminated immediately.

In these modes, a timer is always present, even if the round doesn't have one in Solos (e.g. Roll Out). As of Season 3, there are two exceptions to this above rule: The Swiveller and Blastlantis. In The Swiveller, it ends after all players have fallen or the 3:00 timer is reached, before tallying up the scores and eliminating the lowest-scoring squads. In Blastlantis, the round ends when the 2:30 timer is reached as of water-slime rises high enough to remove most of the safe ground and eliminate most players.

For Perfect Match, because of the typically low number of eliminations on the normal variant, the Perfect Deathmatch variant is always the one selected in Squads Show.

While Block Party was initially in the round pool, it was removed in a hotfix on 24 March 2021, due to the low elimination rate causing random eliminations, but came back after the Season 5.Fun.

Hoverboard Heroes is not available in Squads Show or any other squad-based playlists, most likely due to neither the survival round points system nor the system used for Slime Climb and The Slimescraper being appropriate for this round. However, Hyperdrive Heroes is, and works based on Race round scoring.

Hunt

Bean Hill Zone, Bubble Trouble, Hoopsie Legends and Frantic Factory work as follows - each squad has to score a certain total of points to qualify for the next round. This total is calculated by the score normally required in a solo mode, multiplied by the number of players in a full squad (e.g. Bubble Trouble would require 15 * 4 = 60 points in this mode). Pegwin Pool Party works similarly, but the amount of points required is 35 in duos and 55 in squads. Hoop Chute works similarly, but the amount of points required is 60 in duos and 120 in squads. Airtime works similarly, however the number of points to qualify is still 100% just like in solo modes.

One player can potentially score more than the total amount they would require when playing the round solo, leaving other players in the squad to be able to score less. (For example, in Hoopsie Legends, a player can score more than the 6 points they require in a solo mode.)

Despite not specified as a Hunt round, Ski Fall uses the same mechanics.

From the 14 July 2022 update, the Fall Feed now displays the point contributions for all team members upon the squad qualifying. This is now observed to work in Pegwin Pool Party, but is currently not functioning in Frantic Factory and Hoopsie Legends. This mechanic also works in Bean Hill Zone, but this round is now vaulted from all shows and removed from game entirely.

Volleyfall is a Team round in this mode, as described in the section below.

Bounce Party, Button Bashers, Leading Light and Tail Tag are not featured in Squads Show or any other squad-based playlists.

Team

Team rounds are present in Squads. Before the 14 July 2022 update, only one squad could be on a team, so Team games only appeared later in the show. As a result, Fall Ball, Jinxed, Basketfall, and Power Trip (i.e. team games with two teams) can act as final rounds in Squads.

Volleyfall is a Team game in this mode, as well as in Duos, and can also act as a final.

However, since the 14 July 2022 update, it is now possible for Team rounds to be selected earlier, with multiple squads being assigned to one team. (This feature was previously exhibited in the Golden Goal Challenge and Duos Festival playlists.)

It is possible for there to be multiple team games after each other. For example, Team Tail Tag into Snowy Scrap into Jinxed.

In extremely contrived scenarios, if a Team round is selected as the Final, both teams can share the win by keeping the scores tied with 0-0 score only for map-specific timeout durations. (As these timeout durations tend to be ridiculously long, the guaranteed win may not necessarily be worth the increased time expenditure.)

As of Power Party Update, it's possible to only get team games in this show, since due to the lower player requirements in this show, team games with a higher player maximum requirement, like Team Tail Tag and Egg Scramble (although it has to be unvaulted first) have a chance of starting the round at 8-9 Squads in the show, and after that, team games still have a chance to be the following rounds, making it possible for a Squads game to only include team games.

Final

Final rounds work as normal. If a player on your team wins the final round, all players on your team win 20. It is currently unknown if a win in Squads counts towards the Weekly Crown League, though it seems unlikely.

Finals requiring the player not to get slimed (Hex-A-Gone, Thin Ice, etc.) do not automatically end when only one squad is left, meaning all but one player from the winning squad would have to intentionally get eliminated to end the round (other than timing it out). This is no longer the case, as if multiple players from a single squad remain alive the round instantly ends.

Royal Fumble is in the round pool, however it wasn’t in the period of the 24 March 2021 until the launch of the Summer Breeze Update (16 August 2023) as it was removed due to some instances where the squad without the tail won.

Jump Showdown is also in the round pool, however it was removed in a hotfix on 25 March 2021 until an unknown date, due to timeouts randomly awarding one squad the win (rather than all squads getting the win).

Before Season 6.1 (Legacy), timeouts in elimination-type finals did NOT award all squads with at least one member alive the win; the winning team is randomly selected. It is unclear if this is influenced by having a lower ping to the server, and/or having more members of the team alive when the round times out. As of Season 6.1 (Legacy), this is no longer the case (at least for Jump Showdown), and timeouts should now award all surviving players the win.

Victory Celebration

• For members of the winning squad, each player will see their own victory celebration play while the other players in the squad clap and cheer for them. This is accurate as of Season 6.1 (Legacy).
  • For members of the losing squad, they will still see a specific player's celebration, as determined below in the Notes section of this page.
• If the final was a Team game, the costume colours of the winning squad will be team-coloured.

Known Bugs

• If people leave a Squads queue while the server is still populating, the game will never repopulate. When that happens, players can only leave and requeue at this point.
• In rounds where 7 squads qualify, only 6 actually do, due to a bug. If all squadmates have crossed the finish line and your position is 7th, you're effectively out.
  • A fix for both of those was pushed on 6 April 2021. While the first bug appears to have been fixed, there are still reported instances of the second occurring.
• All rounds added in Season 6 (Legacy) are subject to a hidden qualification quota (similar to Main Show) instead of waiting for all players to finish or for the timer to end. This makes them end prematurely after only a certain number of players cross the line.
• Since Season 6 (Legacy), a series of bugs related to players leaving/disconnecting during the game have appeared. This applies to all squads modes (except Golden Goal Challenge). The general gist is that the game no longer seems to treat a player leaving/disconnecting as an elimination. This manifests in at least two ways:
  • During a Survival round, if a player disconnects or leaves, their team's score will still continue to increase from the points that they contribute.
  • During a survival-style Final, if a player disconnects or leaves, all remaining squads will tie in the final once every remaining player is eliminated, and will all receive the winning reward from the show.

Notes

• The first initial end date for the playlist was on 5 April 2021. A hotfix on 1 April 2021 removed the countdown timer.
• Squads Show was briefly removed on 20 July 2021 to make way for Squads Duos; however, player feedback caused it to be reinstated just a few hours later.
• On 27 October 2021, the participants count was reduced from 40-60 down to 32-40. There was no official word on why this change was made, but it was very likely that the player-base was to low at end of Season 5 (Legacy).
  • This got reverted on 30 November 2021 (Season 6 (Legacy) launch)
• If you don't qualify on a race round but at least one person on your squad does, you get the higher medal your squad gets.
• Before Season 6.1 (Legacy) (for the winning squad) and currently (for all losing squads), the celebration that was selected to be played was dependent on ping, with a player with lower ping having a higher chance of having their celebration played. Also, the celebration selected differed based on final round type and outcome:
  • Survival-type finals (Hex-A-Gone, Jump Showdown, Roll Off, Thin Ice): first to get eliminated
    • Of note, this is because the first to get eliminated will have a shorter time spent alive, which when converted into the winning squad times means they will have a faster qualification time than their teammates.
  • Fall Mountain, Lost Temple: first to the crown
  • Royal Fumble, Team game finals: the player with the least ping to the server
• Before Season 1, should there not be enough teams scoring points to fill the team qualification quota (with this usually happening on difficult races like The Slimescraper and Slime Climb), the game will determine that squads are tied and eliminate no teams. As of Season 1, however, teams that do not score any points at all will be eliminated.
  • Should this result in only 1 squad qualifying, the remaining squad will end up playing the Final amongst themselves. This tends to be Hex-A-Gone due to it being the fallback round. This has ostensibly been changed on 23 August 2022.
• On 21 June 2022, Rock 'n' Roll was temporarily removed due to a few bugs.
• On 14 July 2022, Basketfall, Fall Ball, Jinxed and Power Trip were added as non-finals. Rock 'n' Roll was also re-added.
• On 20 July 2022, Airtime was temporarily added to the show, although it has never returned again.
• Except for some specific spin-off shows like Naughty or Nice Show, the low-gravity and mini variations of Hex-A-Gone and Thin Ice do not occur in Squads, Duos and Trios Shows.
• On 18 October 2022, Pegwin Pool Party was added to the show.
• On 27 September 2023, Egg Scramble was removed from the show due to an exploitable bug.
• On 4 October 2023, Tip Toe Finale was temporarily removed from the show due to a bug where the last 4 rows of tiles would be fake, making it impossible for anyone to reach the crown.
• On 7 December 2023, See Saw was removed from the show due to an issue with the see-saws.
• Strangely, despite being an unvaulted round, Fruit Chute is still vaulted from Squads, even though it is available in Duos as well as Solos. This is most likely an error.
  • This used to be the case with Puzzle Path as well, before it got vaulted during the Survival Update.
• On 15 January 2024, Skill-based matchmaking was enabled in Squads.
• On 16 January 2024, the minimum player requirement was lowered to 28 players, making it possible to have Team games the entire round.
• On 1 February 2024, player requirements for many rounds were changed. This was alongside ROTATION STATION and Ruta en la selva being added, the first creative rounds to have ever been added to this respective show.
• Also on 1 February 2024, Jinxed was vaulted as a FINAL. The reason is currently unknown, but the final variant possibly got the increased player count (18-26), which possibly its non-final variant was going to have. The non-final variant, still has 10-16 players, so Jinxed's non-final variant, is technically 10-26 players. So the vaulting of that round is most likely an error.
• On 5 March 2024, Bean Hill Zone was removed from the show. The reason is currently unknown.

See also

• Duos, a spin-off with two players in each squad.
  • Duos Festival, a limited-time spin-off for the Week of Romance Live Event with only Team rounds.
  • Blast Ball Bangers, a limited-time spin-off with rounds featuring Blast Balls.
• Trios, a spin-off with three players in each squad.
  • TREAT Show (Trios), a limited-time spin-off for the Fall-o-Ween Challenge Live Event.
• Squad Celebration, a spin-off featuring only Team rounds
• Fall Ball Cup (Squads), a spin-off featuring Fall Ball round only.
  • Golden Goal Challenge, a unique spin-off featuring Fall Ball with special mechanics.
• X-treme Squads, a spin-off which mixes this playlist with the mechanic from X-treme Solos.
• Day at the Races Squads, a spin-off featuring only Race rounds.
• Survival Squads, a spin-off featuring only Survival rounds.
• Squads Shuffle, a spin-off featuring only Community Creative Race rounds.

Gallery

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  Original show icon used until Season 4

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  Promotional image