I hope he comes with the Jagdtiger
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Thank you for your post. I fully agree.
As Ive argued before, yes we got a new Pacific map but it was so similar to existing one’s myself and others had forgotten it was even new within a week. Thats not a very good way to retain existing players or encourage new players to the game.
I am surprised we havent had Iwo Jima or Okinawa yet.
All of your suggestions are good.
As an Australian I have been asking for New Guinea. I believe I have valid arguments in the following:
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New Guinea is very different to existing Solomon Islands maps and also different to other Pacific Island maps which can look rather similar.
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It has not been covered in games before.
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The Kokoda Track is perfect for an FPS game. Proper jungle fighting would be a new feature (and allow the Owen gun and other weapons a chance to be used for what they were designed for).
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There is also Rabaul, a unique seaside port (Rabaul was the capital of New Guinea for a long time).
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The joint US-Australian landings at Lae, an operation in scale to rival D Day in Europe, not covered in games before.
Note: New Guinea was the furthest the Japanese got in World War Two. Australians were the first Allied army to stop them on land. I believe it is important to recognise this.
Similarly we have Burma.
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Not covered in games before.
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Inland jungles and temples VERY different to the Pacific
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Opportunity for Indian Army squads and a specifically UK-Japan map.
There is also the Dutch East Indies such as Borneo and Balikpapan.
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Early and late war fighting (Balikpapan was right at the end of the War).**
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We have the Australian guerilla squad being introduced so it makes sense to have Timor where they actually operated, amongst other parts of the Pacific.
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Opportunity for Dutch squads/weapons.
For the Americans there is of course the Philippines.
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Manila would add an urban warfare map for Japan and more for Allies.
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It would also work for early and late war.
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There’s also Luzon.
In a similar vein we could have Singapore and Malaya, a British/Commonwealth focused urban map with some jungle. The Fall of Singapore in 1942 was a very important event in the Pacific War.
Ill leave it to you to expand more on possible new Japanese tech to be added.
As we see there is heaps of potential content, and in some ways funny the focus on a short war at the end of WWII between the Soviet Union and Japan when the only Pacific War theatre we even have currently is parts of the Solomon Islands.
And just on that, Id like to see island hopping added to the game.
Objectives would be put on separate islands or island chains.
After capturing one, the attacking team hops in their respective landing craft and attacks. The defenders would have one of their tank or aircraft slots become a naval slot. These would have small naval watercraft.
So more specifically we could have Japan on Daihatsu barges being harassed by PT boats, or Higgins boats and LVTs harassed by Japanese armed barges/launches.
A final thought:
I question why Japan HAS to go to BR V? Most of high rank Japan is prototypes and almost make-believe weapons.
Ive argued this regarding a France-Poland-BENE tree, why does every tree need to go high rank?
- It should be acceptable to have a tech tree that is BR I-III or BR I-IV.
- I think BR I-IV would be most reasonable for Japan.
- A shorter grind assists for variety and is less intimidating for new players.
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just look my posts and the other ones,we are trying do work for japan…it cost us a lot but finally we get recently shotguns
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The Browning auto 5 is a slap in the face for the Japan player base.
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The shotgun is lazy. We shoudlve gotten the IJN double barreled Shot gun with bayonet. Instead we get copy paste captured Auto 5.
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the problem its nit only double barrel shotgun,if you read my post about shotguns, seems they have different ones,I would love the bayonet tpe 30 atachment,but better this than nothing
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And?
Only their SF is superior which does not really help if the Soviets are (vastly superior) with MGs, tanks (Ho Ri would suck ass against IS and the IS tanks still have machine guns), SMGs, AT Gear and planes. They also have ARs while Japan doesnt have one, not even a BR5 SMG.
And a capturer BR2 shotgun wont help either.
Dumb.
DF didnt do good maps since ever and almost all maps, including Pacific, dont have fixed spawns for factions.
And Japan vs. USSR event has been teased but nothing was found so far and will probably cone after they tested the no-greyzone map approach.
Thank you for your response. I would love an island hopping mechanic. Anything would be awesome
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Yeah and at this rate it’ll release in another 2 years
The Super Pershing needs to be TT, otherwise it will be pointless
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Id rather have nothing. The japanese were not known for using shotguns anyway.
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Japan needs some decent AT launcher - but to say Type Hei isnt making Japan be able to face Soviets just because they have better SMGs and MGs? pls, 30 round SF makes both MGs and SMGs completely obsolete.
Well, maybe its just me but why should I be bothered to grind Japan if their decent and iconic stff is low BR and only one competitive/ superior weapon is available at high BR?
Simply spamming SFs would be boring, but again, at least fot me.
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Well of course it would 100% be boring, but what do you expect? Japan simply has no realistic tools for high BR.
Fair. If they add the 210mm GL I would be happy.
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Dude thank you! I was looking for the pic of the Japanese soldiers with a double barelled hunting shotgun. Also the source is what? One throw-away line in a pamphlet? It doesnt even name the type or make of the shotguns they had, as far as we know it couldve been all double barreled hunting guns or single shot muratas. Also I said they are not KNOWN for using shotguns. I know they did but they where not a fighting weapon they are more of a survival weapon for the Japanese.
I know, but, its what I found so far!
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quite irrelevant, quite sure if asked from regular history joe about murrican weapons in ww2, none will name M2 or T-20.
Same applies to pretty much to all factions, so called meta weapons were barely used if not at all.
Aka known for is fairly irrelevant, we are light years past that.
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Good point. I completely understand and agree we should do WWII first but I am a little peeved people shoot down my Korean War idea when almost all weapons are already in the game.
Like the M2 Carbine to me that just says Korean War, not WWII.