I actually like how Enlisted handles the way places look. We have beautiful green forests, bright white snow on a sunny winter day, etc. I think this dark and grim exaggeration of misery and gloominess is overdone in World War II fiction - not just video games, but especially movies and documentaries that use dramatisation. The horrors of war feel much more real to me when the environments are beautiful and serene, colourful even, only to be utterly ruined and demolished by extensive shelling; explosions and gunfire drown out the birdsong, sunlight gives way to smoke and death.
This is what I want Enlisted to be like - it feels more authentic and less cliché.
Well thats sort of my point, we don’t have anything else but sunny weather. While it doesn’t bother me in Tunisia, in other campaigns it feels unnatural. Also it feels like all the battles in stalingrad happen at the same time of day.
Also for a city raging with battles it’s actually really quiet. There are no ambiental battle sounds.
Next time you play stalingrad, do a little test for me. Search on youtube some distant ambiental battle sounds and leave the video playing in the background while you play. It will be 10 times better.
Now… While i did post some screenshots from a movie, my intention was not to impose a copy of that style, but rather to show how weather plays an important part in setting the feel of the map. So far, having only sunny weather in all campaigns doesn’t feel right. Especially in Stalingrad in autumn. I mean… We have puddles everywhere on the street, so it must have been raining no?
Actually, that’s a really good point and I agree with you there.
Agreed again, Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad did ambient (and active) sounds of battle much better than Enlisted and it’s an older game. RO2 also does amazing stuff with how soldiers react to the events around them - not just basic stuff like “don’t shoot him, he’s ours, Russian!” during friendly fire or “let me rest for a bit” when exhausted after sprinting, but much more grim stuff like men shouting for their mothers as they bleed out to death when artillery falls on their positions.
Agreed for the third time lol, I think I just misinterpreted your comments here.