I try to keep up with any news about the game and often read the forum. What I have noticed is that there is a large difference in expectations. I don’t know how serious the devs take the forum but if they do their really getting some bad suggestions.
for instance splitting Italians with Germans and Brits with Americans. With the current player base this is quite unrealistic. They would have to create a lot of new weapons and maps just for Italians. But this would mean most factions have very few maps to play on (Italians) or play on the exact same maps as the faction their being spit away from (British). The idea of having to grind out the tech tree again also sounds horrible.
(My personal solution to this problem specifically: my suggestion would be that you could control if your new soldier is British or Italian, so everybody could choose to have squads filled with Italians or Germans for instance. That we could at least have the option to truly play as the minor faction).
This brings me to a bigger problem of most suggestions. The devs should not focus on new weapons, tanks or factions but should create new maps for the Japanese and Soviets. Especially Japan needs some diversity, they only really have one map type currently. A popular suggestion is to create a Japan VS Soviet map. With the new Japanese weapons this could be a balanced. The battles could be Xinin Gol on lower BR or the invasion of Manchuria on higher BR.
But regardless of that idea, having new maps for the Japanese and Soviets is needed. Germans and Americans have a lot of map types but the Soviets only have cities or towns near Moskow and the Japanese only have tropic islands.
My point in this hole rant is, if there is not enough diversity in maps, creating more factions is unrealistic. The devs should focus on fully fletching out the current factions. What these factions lack is diversity in maps. I play all of the factions (although mostly Soviet, German and Japanese) and notice this disparity between factions all the time.
I think this is important, because if the devs actually read the forums, they will only see people asking for something that is neither realistic or something that would even make the game better. Splitting Germans and Italians would just create more problems, creating more guns would not solve the problem, while creating more maps, especially for the Japanese and Soviets (which most probably will also be maps Americans and Germans get to play on) will massively improve the game. This while new maps are also a more realistic demand.
I hope I spark some discussion and would like to know if you guys agree or disagree, if my observation holds up etc.
I don’t think they ever said anything about the T99. I told them directly I would 100% burn money on it if they added it and they made jokes about writing that down, but I honestly have no clue if they’re actually going to do anything like that
Why not both? All we have to do is turn British, Italians, and others into sub-factions and then add the maps. They have enough weapons and vehicles for it.
Italy has the guns for BR V; I am just unsure about the tanks, as they have only one heavy tank. The British have the vehicles for BRV, but some of their small arms are questionable if we are talking BRV. Maybe allow the British and Italians to use select German and American weapons to fill in the gaps. Otherwise, paper weapons will be necessary.
I 100% agree, without map or faction diversity the game becomes stale fast! I want Sicily so bad (same with Manila) but I would settle for at-least German or Italian troop selection. We will need more squads so one could have a full Italian rifleman or assaulter squad and fill out an entire team with them(same with the Brits), it would also be nice if they would add Italian uniform options for the eastern front maps, so tired of my Italians becoming German all the time, while still speaking Italian. I also think one way to get more out of the maps they have now would be to constantly change cap points to different parts of the maps (more than they do already). edit: Alright I don’t 100% agree (jumped the gun there) I don’t think we need to split the Italians from the Germans or the British from the US, more just define them as European Axis powers and Western Allies. It would be great if they had special squad unlocks based on the nation of the squad, example Canadian engineer squad, Hungarian rifleman squad etc.
If the trees were split, nothing would change. Nothing should be added. The Americans would still fight the British and the Italians the Germans. This game has long since abandoned historical accuracy. I want to play the Italians, but I also have to grind the Germans. Why? Weapons can don t stop being added until the game is balanced. Americans on 5.0 almost unplayable. Russians too. Germany greatly surpasses both the Americans and the Russians, while Japan is stronger than the Americans.
New weapon? Yes.
New map for UK and Italy only? Unnecessary, just let them stay in Tunisia with the old US and German factions.
Italy could even join the fight against the Soviets at Stalingrad
havent read everything but yes, new maps are the CORE of whats needed. new maps also means removal of bad maps/game modes and ability to chose which maps you wanna play.
the addition of new maps without any selection mechanism just means “congrats, you have 5% chance to play a new map with 50% chance of bad old maps/game modes”
Hmm in that sence an italian faction would be more viable, as an BR III max faction or something. But what would it really add?
I think the best idea is a button that allows for the separate recutment of italian and British soldiers so you can make Bitish and Italian only squads.