Fully immersive squads: improving soldier appearance & callsign change orders

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After the merge it is no longer possible to craft a full new Italian squad filled with Italian soldiers of the higher or maximum soldier types. For example, the engineer II and Assaulter IV will always be German when enlisting new soldiers for silver.

I for one love to craft a custom squad to my own liking. While a face and kit change is possible to make the soldier look Italian, the voice-over and name of the soldiers will remain German which limits immersion for Italian squads. The same applies to British squads and American soldiers and vice versa.

Right now, an option to select the soldier’s nationality during enlistment has not been implemented which would eliminate this problem entirely. My suggestion for an alternative is twofold.

  • Couple the facial appearance (soldier’s head) with the voice-overs of the soldier itself so that the soldier speaks Italian in game. This would encourage the expenditure of orders for soldier’s appearance.

  • Second, make it possible to spend callsign orders to change the soldier’s name to a random one of the other faction within the Axis or within the Allies. Right now, orders for soldier’s callsign go largely unused by most players. A reasonable cost of 6-8 callsign orders would encourage people to spend and covet them.

Alternatively, a reasonable gold cost could be imposed for these functions if the player has run out of orders.

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Or for the cost of one costumization order we can change our soldier nationality with a random change of his body features for match the new nationality

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This would be even more simple, excellent suggestion! I would still endorse using callsign orders to change the soldier’s name as well. Right now this currency goes largely unused since you can’t change the name of the soldier anymore, just the ‘nickname’.

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Which nobody even sees anyway. Frankly, I used 5 total of these to give tank crewmen their role names, so I can easily tell who is where when they start playing musical chairs after getting hit.

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I don’t run tank squads but that is a smart way of putting the otherwise worthless callsign orders to good use!

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Before we add anything new why not fix the customization first? In custom games and training the customization goes back to vanilla.

Here is my squad in the hangar
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And here it is in training

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The game seems to automatically change the clothes to moscow clothes instead of using the ones selected in hangar. Please fix it as i dont want to see people running in winter camo in my el alamein mod

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