Custom matches are one of the best parts of Enlisted, but there are a few things I would like to see implemented that would drastically improve them, especially for console (I am on ps5) as we cant create our own lobbies with mod maps and kinda just have to hope that someone else is hosting a mod we want to play.
One main thing that should be added is more customization options:
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The ability to disable AI vehicles - these are often very annoying, and I kinda hate fighting against them, there should be an option to turn it off.
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Custom br - there should be an option to select what the br of the ai in the custom match will be.
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Ai can use planes - Im not a coding expert so idk if this is possible or not, but if it is, it should defenitly be implemented, also with the option to turn it off ofc.
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Creat custom squads - This is the thing I want to see implemented the most. We should be able to create custom squads for our matches. It would look similar to when you expand and upgrade your squad in regular matches, only a bit different:
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No silver is required
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To make their loadouts, you have access to all the weapons & vehicles in the game for that country, including event weapons and premium weapons. (The snail may not like this, so perhaps we could make it so that progression is turned off if the player selects weapons they have not unlocked in the tech tree and weapons from premium squads they have not purchased?)
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You are able add up to 9 or 10 soldiers per squad (and for vehicles, the limit is the size of the crew of that vehicle) no limits to what class the soldiers can be (except of course not being able to put pilots and tankers in infantery squads)
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You are able to make a total of 15 squads for each faction
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You can customize the outfits of each soldier for each campaign, no appearance orders required.
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The ability to choose the nationality of your soldiers for factions with subfactions in them (this should also be a thing for regular squads tho)
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Slots like the slot for ammo packs or extra grenades will also be open, allowing you to further cutomize the squads
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These squads will ONLY be able to be used in custom matches that you make. You should also be able to save the squads so that you dont have to remake them every time (you can edit them if you want to change things ofc). If a host makes custom squads, they will be the only squads that can be used in the custom match, both by ai and other players. Ofc, if the creator of a custom match wants to play with their actual squads, they can do that too.
Honestly, custom squads are what I want to be implemented most.
- The ability to change what factions participate in a battle. Currently, we are able to do this, but only for players. If I choose, for example, to make a custom match in a Berlin map, I can select “USA” to be on one side and “USSR” to be on the other side, and all the players will be either Soviet or American depending on what side they chose, however, the ai will still be German and Soviet. This should be changed so that even the ai will be from the factions I selected, not the factions from regular matches.
It would also be great if console players would be to host their own lobbies with mod maps, thought I recognize this may not be within darkflows control due to Sonys stance on these things, thought maybe they could compile a list of the most popular mod maps and make them official extension packs for enlisted?