You can unlock engineers and game gives you engineer squad in level 3. I made 8 matches today but i was the only one who built rally 6 out of 8 . Oh and japanese are overcrowded meanwhile us really having hard times like normandy again
The overcrowded part was entirely to be expected and they still didn’t do anything to even try an alleviate the issue. Japan is an entirely new faction (even if you start with Italian rifles and German SMGs), so of course people would flock to try it out.
It will pass, but the damage will be done and the stigma will remain. Not that there are any other campaigns that don’t have that problem, or that stigma.
P.S. I saw plenty of engineer activity on the Japanese side, but only later in the evening. At first it was like playing EvE.
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most points have atleast 3 spawns lol a bless to witness to be honest.
now, just needs better americans fighting.
one day, when we all maxed axis.
I’m just gonna say that I’m really loving the Pacific so far.
honestly i don’t think this is even something that can be fixed. everyone is naturally going to hit up japan as like you said they’re new. just something you just have to let ride out. but it won’t be like tunisia - both sides seem so much more interesting than the pure copy paste we got for the past 2 campaigns
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One way to kind of fix it is by making sure that new major factions are introduced in pairs. In practical terms it means that Pacific, Tunisia and Moscow should have been added before Normandy, Berlin and Stalingrad.
I know it’s not always easy to arrange these things perfectly, but they aren’t even trying. They just followed the money without giving any thought to gameplay. Not to mention how their entire campaign system and progression in general are a huge mess.
good idea, but a bit late now unfortunately. additionally, the original 4 campaigns were decided years ago by the community, but i agree that in a lot of cases a stronger hand from the devs is a good thing (assuming these devs were making good decisions - previously df were not but again this seems to be changing)
ive mostly believed that by and large, campaign balance issues were always due to playercount imbalance or skill defecit. the game is far better balanced (except tunisia) than most players want to believe due to their wanton coping.
Of course it’s too late now. They should have expected this problem from the very beginning. Hopefully they’ll eventually dig themselves out of multiple holes they’ve created for themselves, but it still pains me to see that most of it could have been avoided with some foresight.
+20% XP for “play any faction”, done.
+35% XP for “play any faction in any campaign”.
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unfortunately a lot of people that come into this game don’t have the time to grind everything or the money for premium to help with that - so a lot of players just want to grind one faction. For them, this change would be meaningless as the xp is not applied to their faction. besides, a 20% bonus isn’t going to make me want to charge a beach with a springfield like i did when i first booted up normandy. I want to play the new jap shit bro lol
i’m not against the idea of an xp boost for join any team though. it should be implemented alongside another solution.
Some people will grind the faction they want, but at least others will be incentivized to try the other faction.
Personally I don’t care about which faction I play as long as I know the match won’t be a roflstomp in either direction.
So if that option helps, it would’nt hurt.
Maybe the values can be tweaked up/down.
Some measures is better than nothing at all, but without a functional protection from quitters people would just keep qutting battles until they got the faction they wanted with the bonus. Or (more likely) until all matches are full on EvE.
such a hard times with better smg’s, tanks, lmg’s and Semi-auto rifle’s, bruh
To be fair, the very first American SMG is bad. Either way, weapons and vehicles have little impact on who’s going to “have a hard time”, it’s all about the number of bots and quitters. Maybe it would have been different if those weren’t so everpresent, but they are.
Play NA server other server are unbalanced toward the jap
Dude what do you expect?
The japanese faction is brandnew whereas the US are already presented in the game.
It is just more then logical that people will play the japanese imperial army before.
It might change in 2-3 weeks when a lot of players will have everything unlocked and switch sides.