Forcing players into random factions did nothing but mask the issue that Japan is loosing 80% of all matches played.
If this “experimental event” is a balancing test, then I think it is a really bad one, because from my point of view you’re not supposed to do balancing DURING an official event with rewards.
I’m not really having fun playing this event, and if this event is an indicator of the quality for future events, then I honestly see no long-term future for Enlisted.
This is disingenuous. Since the Join Any Army function was introduced, it has absolutely stopped kerb-stomping of the Japanese in every game.
As always, it now depends on your teammates building rally points and pushing the point.
It’s my personal experience. I’ve never queued as Japan before the event, and despite me ending up as a Battle Hero in the majority of matches played, these are the stats I ended up with (Battles, Kill/Deaths ratio, Win percentage, Battle time):
a few things…
the gunner doesnt render
…and who thought an attacker without guns was a good matchup for a Su- 2…
at very least should have been D4Y1
or even 2 fighters and change how many planes could be in the air since they had this event in the making for a while
TLDR: some axes & swords yes, axes for everyone: not necessary (not even for gameplay reasons)
I agree that some soldiers should have axes. I heavily doubt all LMG carriers were equipped with axes, so my preference would be axes to some (e.g. engi definitely), swords to some other, knives for the rest.
This is not a lumberjack simulator, but e.g. I did not know about this either: “The Woodsman’s Pal, a type of survival axe, was standard issue for aircrew” - sentence courtesy of some AI algorithms I trust as much as my WW2 knowledge.
Also all I know the axes are required for the yell & rush tactics which is as realistic as shooting into the ground to gain an extra 2 meter of jump height, otherwise knives work as well (should be some kind of machetes in the jungle I think).
If only I could take out an APC by hitting its wheels with an axe, now that would be nice when all I have is a hand grenade instead of an explosive pack or TNT with my last survivor, who’s braindead enough not to pick his mate’s TNT lying dead next to said APC.
Tiger: I don’t play tanks, have no opinion whether one should be present in such a 0 reality event, never even considered them so giving free pass was far from me. I just mentioned not giving axes to everyone and their mother is not the greatest sin, in this event loadout 1-2 axe, 1 sword per squad would feel better for me.
Thats not entirely true, the Type 100 is very good, enough to fight on par with the PPSh at least. And they do have the 50rnd MP28 for their BR2 lineup.
No its not very good, its “fine” at best. Again it doesnt compare to any PPS, which has slightly slower ROF however is vastly more accurate even on mid ranges and just feels good to use.
Im going to disagree with this because the event is a very poor showing for the japs, the auto hei and the Ho Ri will dominate BR5 vs the soviets.
Again that wont matter cause even if Ho-Ri wont be dominated by IS-2 and T-34-100 then its going to be flattened by Air cause unlike japs SU has proper br5 bombers. Its going to be the same as vs US
While Hei-Auto might be superior to AVS-36 or AVT, which I personaly like more cause they are more reliable and accurate, SU has all the armory of other weapons like semi-auto snipers, PROPER LMGs and superior br5 SMGs.
Japs are just not as rounded up like main 3 factions all of their br5 armory feels upscaled
I’m not feeling it. I will stop playing event after lvl 4. Japan getting better planes, smgs and mg gunner with vertical perk would make me not as annoyed while playing it.
With such crappy loadouts even destroying soviet apc is almost impossible task to do. While Soviets can just hop into their bomber with 6x 100kg bombs and destroy not just apc but also 2 squads of enemies.
Or maybe DF wants me to leave matches so i could play as overpowered Soviets?
Ofc not, their skeleton crew just smoked weed and drank vodka for months and finally released it after messing up in editor for 2 days.
You could set it all up within 2h with just mod tools. They haven’t added anything new that wasn’t already in the game.
Just new icons and ai art on event screen and a JP Tiger + new useless bike but that’s about it.
I highly doubt that more than 5 people are actively working on Enlisted.
Im going to disagree there, I mean its at BR3 for a reason, and in my personal opinion, its the best that BR3 has to offer.
I mean apart from the still broken PPSh Box dispersion (Will this ever be fucking fixed?), the Type 100 is more than enough to be on par at least with it.
I mean nothing new there for Jap players, as you said yourself even, not to mention the kika is still very good and I would argue they have better fighters at BR5, even if their entire attacker line from BR1 to BR5 is massively lacking and for no good reason with all the options for it. (I mean ffs how hard is it to add options, I mean how many countless suggests do they need to add them?)
Doesnt matter with the SF meta, not to mention the japanese Type 100 MG is still very powerful, as long as you can setup, there is literally nothing that will beat it. But yeah, there is a reason so many people run 9 man SF squads at BR5, its mega broken.
Are they missing stuff? Yes, absolutely and it annoys me to no end, however the stuff they do have is honestly extremely powerful.
Surprisingly my two jp matches were pretty cool and had some even fights which is a massive improvements from usual matches in normal MM and at the beginning of the event.
So maybe hope is still not lost. I only wish they would receive a couple of better planes, smgs, give them vertical recoil for mg and give more ammo to super hei.
Are you suggesting that Japanese ground attackers are bad this cant be 
I mean they dont have guns but they are OP and when you ask them why they are OP they can never explain … xD
Nice event. I just got penalized from leaving a custom match
Fantastic
One of the most trashy activities, the team is slow to heal and has little physical strength, they are like a group of disabled people with no hands and feet
The idea of the event is good, but the PRACTICE of it is horrible, absurd and the difference between both Nations is very glaring!
Can you elaborate, lol?
I sure hope they eventually bring in Manchurai maps - the event is such a pain to play, those Pacific maps are the least fun I ever had in this game, all the enemies are inside of our spawn - while my team is inside the enemy spawns. dogshit gameplay, those maps have zero structure.
Oh so I wasn’t mad…
I always thought when I flew past my wingmates in my Zero, that they got into skirmishes and lost their rear gunners somehow.
But all of them? I know they are exposed but still…
In the first match today, 80% of the enemy team deserted. 
going great
Dude, yesterday I played 4 times in a row as Japan and lost every time. Right after, I played just once as Russia and won in a landslide!
I confirm the players’ complaints that Japan is suffering more than Russia in this event, and I confirmed that yesterday!
