In a major update with only a single gun and a tank for the Americans, it feels very lackluster; that is why I believe it would be perfect to reach into the editor and add the Ithaca 37 to the game. You already have the model and the animations for it; all that it needs is its camera to be set up.
I would also like to say that this gun has been requested for a long time, and now would be the time to add it. The weather is perfect for a new shotgun in Enlisted.
I would rather see something different, soviets can use their prototype and the US can get the super bazooka.
Sure it would have worse pen but it has twice the velocity of the panzershreck so it would be very easy to aim long range. Not everything has to be the same.
I urge you to only play with American shotguns in Enlisted. It doesn’t matter what br; just try it because usually, your enemies are easily within 50m if you are playing point. Ithaca 37 might have a chance to slightly extend its range due to barrel length.
What WW2 games have you been playing to make you not like shotguns? It is very saddening to know there are WW2 games that do this to the beloved boomstick : (
They are there; I was just hoping that a reasonable gun like the Ithaca 37 could be added so that there is at least more than one gun being added to the Americans for this “big update”.
I’m doing the US tree right now, I’ve had a bit of a head start across the old campaign set up, but as many players have found my research atm is all over the place and blocked in some areas. I’m somewhere between BR 2 and 3 in most cases. I was actually thinking to equip some of the USMC squads with them for the Pacific campaign, but now that the maps are random, I’m not sure how that will work out.
I’ve played quite a few of the usual titles, and some titles do have them, but I just don’t use them.
I have had much success using an engineer squad split in half; one half is equipped with shotguns, and the other is with rifles. This system worked for me on most maps. I would suggest you use the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion since they are Marines, but the devs didn’t believe that building the perimeter defenses and Henderson field while also repairing it 24/7 due to Japanese bomber attacks was important enough to be featured in this game (they had to do all this with Japanese trucks and bulldozers because there wasn’t enough equipment brought in).