tropic dawn
I believe it makes sense that because the auto-join feature was implemented in Squad, that the next step is to allow for friends on steam (or Epic, idk how they work) to be able to make a pre-made squad in the menu and then use the auto-join feature to find and queue up for a server that is seeding. The implementation on the server side of this is to have a ticker during seeding that has the team with a lower player count be designated to receive the next pre-made squad and this will continue until the server reaches 80 players, which usually finishes seeding and starts the next round.
The idea is beneficial for both players and servers because currently the servers are top heavy with some servers with 30+ player queues meanwhile noone wants to join a server that just started seeding. A natural funneling of pre-made squads means the servers that are seeding will quickly jump up to the required player count to either start the next match or kick off more players joining to finish seeding. This also fixes the issue of friends waiting in queue because they instead all go at once into a server with the necessary slots open.