Enlisted is a very fun game, but when you play it for long periods of time to accomplish event tasks, various addiction and dependency symptoms appear.
For example, in my case, I find myself wanting to play the game more and more, and even after I finish the game I find myself thinking about flying in a Stuka or dropping bombs on tanks or the bolt action animations on the Kar98k. It’s as if I left my heart on the battlefield…
This kind of addiction does not happen in other games. But this game is different, it is like an electronic drug.
How do you guys resist the addictiveness of this game?
I have a method.
When I think about playing enlisted, how fun it is, stuff I can do, vehicles I can drive etc. I simply run the game, play 2-3 matches, get annoyed, turn off the game and by then I don’t think bout how fun it would be to play enlited. Works like a charm.
Good insight.
There are many things that piss me off about this game, for example, the bipods that never work may be God’s will.
Not to ruin our lives.
The best way to get rid of an addiction is to find another addiction.
I started a new playthrough of Witcher 3 after some years, it immediately made me have no time for Enlisted. All I’ve been doing for the last ±2 weeks is logging into the game for the login streak.
I wonder how long before I lose the ability to post on the forums. I’m honestly surprised they’re still men.
The Witcher 3 is a really interesting game, but without daily tasks or evil monthly events. It is completely left to the player’s pace, can be played whenever they feel like it, and does not negatively affect our lifestyle. How can such a game compete with this evil game?
It’s fun until bugs and constant things that need to be fixed appear into your match, at the third stuck on the window, melee attack when running with bayonet instead of charging, or engineer having a stroke to build while going prone, that’s it, i quit.
To give you an example on how much i have lost empathy on the game, i bought a laptop to play games while on dead time on the work, i tought mostly would play Enlisted. I have never even installed, and i am playing BG3.
As Adam said, i wonder how long till not even looking at news or replying on the forum.
And not having any news today, is not helping at all.
it will either make you apreciate more the game by how many cool things you can do…
or hate it because devs didn’t already do it in the base game, the documentation is lacklaster at best for doing stuff inside said editor, or hate it even more because you’ll have to do most of it through the blk and text like a software programmer.
worked so far for me though.
and… i’m not playing much else. i’ll be honest.
beside slashing people on Mordhau, or micro managing units in coh2 / coh3, not much else.
most because i don’t have time.
I envy you guys knowing more interesting games than Enlisted.
I played Enlisted the year before last to pass the time until I bought Modern Warfare 2, but I stopped playing Modern Warfare 2 early and got hooked on this game.
Enlisted may start with the intention of playing a little in their spare time, but before they know it, they are hooked on tree smashing. And I start to feel like this is my job.
Aside from the fact that I am not as talented at designing and programming games as you are, if I can be as creative as you, it seems to me that it is an act of sinking deeper into the “Enlisted” swamp. I am sure I would not be able to come back to the real world!
it happens in other games, just you need to find the game that “works” for you. had this phase 20+ years ago with counter strike (even though friends and me played lots of other games like quake 3 arena, unreal tournament, starcraft etc.), counter strike was different.
personally i dont find enlisted addictive. it doesnt strike my competitive side (i try to avoid competitive games cause my skill went way down with age and i am sore loser), it isnt immersive and it is buggy.
one lesson in life is that you will always be addicted to something. you just have to choose your addiction so it positively influences your life.
Most live service games are intentionally addictive by design.
Daily login bonuses, daily battle pass tasks, daily event stages etc. are not just there to keep the player numbers up, once you regularily login as a habit it eventually turns into a small addiction.
And as long as there are regular content updates, these games can easily turn into the only game one plays all year.
My advice is to play a good non-live-service (preferably single player) game next, that usually helps me get a fresh outlook on games.
