in my opinion the biggest problem of DF is that they are incapable of communicating with the community about what they do
in the sense that they waste a lot of time and resources on something without first evaluating if it actually works and it happens often (for example the economy and the new guerrilla class)
the moderators can be present as much as they want and send feedback as much as they want but the problem is the development team
let’s take the guerrilla class for example
i can’t believe that after all the discussions made by the community on similar classes or mechanics after all the complaints about how problematic tanks in the gray zone are they decided that the best solution is a class that fights in the F****NG GRAY ZONE literally doubling the problem and not solving the previous one !
Besides the fact that it is practically a burden for the team (trying to cross the front line with only 4 soldiers where entire teams are massacred in seconds will most likely be a waste of tickets) and does not encourage teamwork (because from what I understand it does not even have an engineer)
And absolutely no one among all the developers thought to raise a hand and ask if it would not be a good idea to present the concept of this new class to the community before starting to use the few and precious resources available to understand where to correct before making mistakes
And the result is that they presented a class that clearly required heavy changes or literally throw it in the trash with little time before release but having also added premiums making serious changes without altering the product that the user has bought will be difficult if not impossible without creating a Stalingrad 2.0 disaster
A constant shoot first and ask later that only wastes resources and time for them and trust that they know what they are doing to us
i love enlisted and seeing it treated like this hurts and i appreciate when developers fix something or improve the game (like after fixing the disastrous first version of the economy) but until they start talking to us more and opening up to us about what they are doing and their ideas before starting to work seriously we will continue this constant marathon of failures like this 2024 has been!
There are so many suggestions that i would like to make (including a reworking of the guerrilla class) but all these disasters have made me lose a lot of confidence and desire to write because i have the feeling that what i try to suggest is simply ignored
sorry for this wall of text/emotional outburst