Campaign Merge Concerns

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In the new and upcoming merge, I am worried about a few things. I have read and reread the articles pertaining to the update and merge of campaigns and progress and I have some personal and legitimate concerns.

My main concern is that I will not be able to play a specific campaign any longer. For instance, I love and enjoy playing the Germans in Normandy and I play enlisted only to play that campaign as well as dabbling in the others from time to time. Will I be able to play JUST ONE campaign or will I be match making all of Axis theaters of war?

Secondly, if the progress of all weapons and tanks and planes are to be merged, does this mean I will be facing the pps-42/43 in Moscow? A battle that was fought prior to the development and production of said weapon? That goes for all weapons and items in game. The historical accuracy of Enlisted in its current state makes it stand out from every other WW2 shooter and FPS game.

I truly am worried that the merge will be exactly like every other game and truly will make me turn away from Enlisted. I’ve currently spent over $70 in game and plan on spending more, that is if the game still has what I enjoy. If the game goes the way of Battlefield 5 then sadly I will have to stop playing the game.

If there could be an option to search and play only in separate campaigns I would be overjoyed and my concern would be resolved.
If there was a portion of the historical timeline that could be followed to a larger degree of weapon use I would find it feasible and acceptable and that would clear up my concern pertaining to weapons and vehicles.

In Enlisteds current state as of 8/19/23, I am pleased with the game and I do not wish to see the campaigns merge. I would like to see the progress become more of a tech tree than anything but not at the expense of my enjoyment.

Overall: will I be able to play specific campaigns still.

If anyone from the development team or community support could respond that would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time.

-Missing

P.S I am an Xbox player (console)

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custom games.

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Unfortunately, no plans about choosing a favorite theatre in sight. As far as we know, you’ll play Germany and end up in any place from Moscow to Berlin, and anything in-between.

According to current info, that USUALLY shouldn’t happen. The matchmaker will TRY to put players together taking into account their equipment.

But, if too few players are in queue, you may indeed occasionally see King Tiger in Stalingrad or such.

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There is no XP progression in custom games. Thus the game has been ruined.

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I’m going to miss the theatre selection too, but I’m waiting to see how it will actually be before tearing my robes apart.

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I’m deeply saddened by this. It’s upsetting enough that I just got into Enlisted and I’ve played every day for 2 months, yet even worse that now the game that I love is killing itself for reasons that are unwarranted and not necessary. This is going the same way as WoT and battlefield 5.

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Actually the game is turning itself upside down to try and PREVENT a slow death.

It was foreseen since long time that the separate campaigns format would be unsustainable in the long run, due to the playerbase stretching out too thin.

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you can always desert, no penalties outside xp , yeah it sucks why are they doing it, to make the game easier for devs by limiting lobbies, or low player count, yeah i know they probably said why ion one post three years ago, i love Tunisia so i know how you feel second what about daily requirements a lot of them are tied to playing a certain amount of games in a certain campaign

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What I think could POSSIBLY be a viable solution, is to have a permanently active mode where the war theatre is fixed with periodic rotation, along with normal random matchmaker.

Say, in example:

Three days, you can play dedicated Ger vs Us event in Tunisia OR normal random matches.

Next three days, you can play dedicated Ger vs Ru event in Stalingrad OR normal random matches.

Next three days, you can play dedicated Us vs Japan event in Pacific OR normal random matches.

And so on.

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Yes there is if you have a full server or quite a few people and you’re playing non modded maps

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Looks like you need to go back and read a bit more, while they don’t say that those things are going to be impossible it will be very improbable that they will happen frequently.

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If you will choose German army you will play a random map from Moscow, Stalingrad, Tunisia, Normandy and Berlin campaigns. What campaign - it depends on your equipment and your soldiers.

It is possible.

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Though I am loathe to admit it, if the merge fixes campaign stacking and leads to more balanced matches then it was a necessary change.

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That’s going to be a soft rule, and we’ve yet to see just how soft.
Personally I hope it’s done away with entirely.

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DF hopefully doesnt fuck up —> playerbase grows —> mappicking gets implemented (currently too few players for that) —> everyone can play, what he wants. ill play le bre west/la perelle nonstop!

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I think that removal of the campaigns is the biggest downside of the merge and will be the one thing that will backfire for several reasons.

I believe that apart from the small hardcore community, also given the too long progression, not everybody plays all the campaigns to the same extent, and certainly some significantly more than other according to preference. Well not anymore…

I believe that there are some campaigns more appealing to the new players, Normandie especially, which you need to get them hooked. Well not anymore…

I believe that the removal of campaigns and random map selection will make it very, very hard for new players to learn maps. Combine it with the above point, well, yeah…

I also find it incredulous that with all that in mind, they still announced 2 more “campaigns” this year, when there will be a chance of only 1 in 6 to get a specific campaign map (ie. Germans, and one of the new campaigns is a German one) , and that is ideally, given how the map selection works atm it will be probably 1 in 10. Unless the “new campaign” is just a bunch of new squads, because surely it won’t be map specific. Wow!

Also what is a point of introducing new maps when they will be simply lost in the sea of already existing maps, even if they introduce one, good luck playing one! With the point above there will be at least 1 in 40 chance of getting a specific map. And that is if the map selector doesn’t screw you over, gl with that. Wow!

And all that even mention customs, GTFO! like right now.

They should be the an addition and not the main game, it’s bad enough that you can do battle pass task in them, mmmkay??

What I propose is that one campaign be singled out of the merged campaigns, and be on rotation, as the guy above mentioned like every 3 days, so we would have 3 days of Normandie + all rest, then 3 days of Berlin + all rest, etc. Would solve most of the aforementioned concerns.

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Well, wouldn’t be a merge without removal campaigns.

Ppl screaming about map selection and so forth fail to realize why this new changes is here in the first place: Reduce the amount of queues/solve the split playerbase.

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Wow, I didn’t know that. Thank you very much for explaining it to me. It is as if a veil was lifted from my eyes, WOW!! and again, thank you.

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Always happy to help lost souls!

I understand these new changes confuses a lot of ppl. No shame in being ignorant!

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Yes I can see the underlying issue and why a dev team would do such a thing. That’s what world of tanks did to get “new players”. They should take care of the veteran players and cater to them because they will play the game regardless of if it’s in a good spot or a bad spot in its timeline. New players will play, get bored and quit. Old players will return and quit based on the scale of change. I’ve seen that happen with Wot, WoTC, BFV, BF4, call of duty WW2 (2017) and Minecraft (change of music and addition to realms only for multiplayer saved maps) and each of them hurt the original player base and barely brought in new players (except Minecraft, new player all the time come). I believe you understand my points.

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