Faction Specific Squad Commands

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It is important to maintain balance in Enlisted, but doing so has the unfortunate effect of degrading the feeling of uniqueness between the factions. I believe the following suggestions for faction-specific squad commands would not only bring back some of that feeling of uniqueness, but also expand the viability of Enlisted’s squad commands mechanic.

For the USSR:
URAAA!

URAA!
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Duration: 20sec
Cooldown: 120sec
Effect: Immediately grants the squad +80% aim stability after taking damage, immunity to headshake from explosions and concussion, +20% run speed, and full effects of Flask use.
Let nothing stop the RED WAVE! URAAA!

For Allies:
Dig In!
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Duration: 30sec/Contextual
Cooldown: 120sec
Effect: Immediately grants engineers in the squad +50% build speed and +40% construction resources. Squad members spread out and adopt a defensive posture, taking any available cover in the contextual vicinity and/or digging a shallow fighting position in open terrain.
Make them pay for every meter of ground they take!

For Germany:
Desperate Defense

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Duration: 20sec
Cooldown: 120sec
Effect: Immediately grants the squad +100% time in downed state, greater chance of entering downed state on lethal damage, +75% medpack usage speed, and +200% medpack health restore. Soldiers with an empty secondary weapon slot gain a single Panzerfaust 100 (remains beyond buff effect duration)
For the Fatherland!

For Japan:
Banzai!
Banzai!
Duration: 20sec/Contextual
Cooldown: 90sec
Effect: Immediately grants the squad +15% sprint speed, +20% run speed, +100% melee damage, +20% melee attack speed, and full effects of Flask use. Squad members use shin-gunto, katana, or bayonet (run check with priority list of shin-gunto, katana, bayonet, knife, shovel in that order) to charge the contextual location and engage enemies in melee.
For the Emperor!

It’s not perfect, and balance should remain the priority as always. But it would be incredibly cool to see some 9 man infantry squads Banzai charge through a smokescreen to take an objective full of well dug in Allied soldiers.
Feel free to leave some suggestions of your own for faction-specific commands like these in the replies!

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interesting concepts

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I would love this. I think the Devs should embrace Asymetric balance and give up on the idea of having 100% parity which has led us to things like SF rifles and ofenrhor for everyone and fantasy weapons and vehicles

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The sad part is that I think an asymmetric balance was the idea in the beginning. But years of balance complaints and demand for new content, plus the very real lack of content that was actually used in WW2 has created what we have now. I really don’t know what the devs were supposed to do. Leaving the content saturation low to keep up realism may not have worked. Who knows?

Ofenrohr is a whole other thing though, that should not have happened in the first place. No reason for it. Options existed for the factions, giving everyone a “stolen” ofenrohr was just “we can’t be bothered” laziness.

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I love the concepts, I would love to see a similar system in game. Thought I think all the abilities need fleshing out and balancing.

For example, the resources added by the allied ability, do they stick around forever? Or are those resources gone after 30 seconds?

I think the abilities might be better to have both a negative and positive bonus to them, so for example, the banzai charge ability, perhaps that might reduce medkit speed to simulate the lack of medics in such a charge?

Or the soviet one maybe increases vertical and horizontal recoil?

Another thing I would add is that maybe it could effect how the AI acts as well in this period, where say for digging in, bots become 5% more accurate,

Or for the Germans, They become 5% more aggressive

etc, etc.

But overall I love the concept and would love to see it iterated upon.

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yeah after a lot of coping the USA got the anm2 stinger, t20 rifle, etc because germany cant keep their battle rifles and high rof machine guns to themselves

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Controversial opinion, but the stinger was a good addition, but yeah the T20 just was too much.

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idk what’s wrong with T20, it’s just a fair counterpart even betore FG42’s damage buff

Weapon Name Obtained BR 10m 100m Velocity Magazine Reload Alt Reload Rate of Fire Vertical Horizontal Recoil Control Vertical Horizontal Dispersion While Aiming Hipfiring Visual Recoil Recoil Dir ADS Speed Recoil Offset Sprint Factor Weight Additional Info
FG 42 122000 RP V 15.3 12.5 750 20 (+1) 2.6 2.2 990 75 32 0.25 19 8 0.25 0 23 0.3 0.35 0.6 0.3 100% 4.2 20/40
FG 42 II 124000 RP V 15.3 12.5 750 20 (+1) 2.6 2.2 830 67 22 0.25 17 6 0.22 0 23 0.3 0.35 0.65 0.3 100% 5 20/40
T20 124000 RP V 15.3 12.5 830 20 2.3 2.3 710 74 25 0.25 18 6 0.2 0 15 0.3 0.32 0.65 0.3 100% 4.2 20/40
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the anm2 stinger cant even hold 200 rounds. Darkflow won’t correct that error though

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It was fine as a gold order weapon, but the USA was quite effective being able to use the m2 carbine on riflemen to make 9 man assaulter squads

The point is, nobody can tolerate asymmetrical balance

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so the other three get a benefit that works on every class but the allies get a buff to engineers where is the buff to defense for taking cover.

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Yeah, adding the immunity to headshake and concussion to that one would probably be good.

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you could just add something like this to the “I” key :slight_smile:

pressing “I” makes everyone do battlecry (I Think its “I” key)…adding another buff effect could be cool

I feel like the german one should be more offensive, Lightning war for example (or Blitzkreig, not that they called it that)

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The battle for Italy | National Army Museum
For Axis/Italy
A roman Mile
Duration: 90 Seconds
Cooldown: 300 Seconds

Effect: Allows longer use of stamina and stamina recharge allowing a unit to move quickly over the map reaching objectives. Not sure on stats as the player can already considerably juice the stamina stat and recovery.

For Allies/UK
The mad minute
Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II - Wikipedia
Duration: 60 Seconds
Cooldown: 180 Seconds

Effect: Increases rate of fire and reload for bolt/pump/lever action weapons at the cost of accuracy. allowing lower tier slow firing weapons to compete with semi autos. base on the made minute a UK fire drill.

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There are so many things that needs to be fixed , like names of the gun for instance Japanese designation for Bergman submarine gun was Type BE yet in game its called Bergman M1920 , scopes for japan are wrong they are using German croshair and so on devs dont prioritize these things as it seems or rarely do get on top of them , you can see somtimes the fix stuff fast while others are left to eat dust (You should be very familiar with it as it took them way long to fix G41(M))

As for the topic I love the idea but I feel like it makes the game a little bit complicated, not a complaint though .

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Honestly a really interesting and novel suggestion. I think it offers a unique asymmetric gameplay factor that could be really really interesting! Perhaps a system like this combined with a class of soldier like “officers” or something else would be an appropriate means of implementing such a new mechanic. Either way it’s certainly an interesting proposition, plus if one was able to hear these lines and other such similar commanding verbiage, whether friend or foe, it’d certainly add a new layer of immersion to the game, in my opinion.

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