Ok so hear me out, I think therres a way to pull this off without fudging historical accuracy (because if we did we’d never hear the end of it from those HLL snobs)
Japan has unlimited aircraft slots
If you dont want to be a pilot you can spawn as a gunner on a plane flown by AI
Objectives will start with battle ships, and end with bases on the land
For Japan to capture an objective they have to do a certain amount of damage to different armored modules on a ship/base, almost like how you destroy a tank
Just like a tank those armored modules objective points can be repaired
Americans will have extra plane slots (maybe 5) but not unlimited
Infantry will man pre-generated ship AA guns MGs and cannons to shoot down attacking planes
And AI can be ordered to repair destroyed ship modules
This just sounds like something that should be in war thunder, not Enlisted.
I know a lot of war thunder players play, but I really think Enlisted need to start distancing itself from being seen as war thunder with infantry and more infantry with vehicles
That wouldn’t work since DF really hates idea of forcing players to play only in a singular way that’s why you don’t have maps where tanks can’t be used around the objectives.
I aggree that this could be better implemented on WT
BUT IMO I think the opposite, I see Enlisted as just that, War Thunder with Infantry
Actually I think it would be cool to see the two games integrate someday to a certain extent
-Like have a WT game mode that lets you use your WT vehicles in Enlisted
-have a couple dedicated player slots in an Enlisted match for WT players, that spawn can be vehicles every spawn
-still have enlisted vehicle slots and caps that arent affected by the WT slots
-there would have to be larger game sizes to pull this off but I think we would all like to see more players in matches
And what if somebody does not want to play in a plane but with his army?
Or if he has not unlocked a proper attacker yet?/not in his line up?
If a player deserts in the plane only faction then his entire team is a man down as bots cant fly planes.
And you cant expect someone to want to fly a plane in a largely infantry focused game so forcing a plane only mode is doomed to fail.
That was essentially how it started, when it had distinct campaigns with a linear progression in each. What they should have done is centralise the tech trees, but rather than transform the game into a WT clone with BRs and Tiers, they should have segmented each campaign into early, mid and late - they had levels so it was easy to quantifiably separate.
In the same way as you have a troop selection with BRs now, you could have done the same as part of your campaign progression, and in the same way as we have random maps now, you could have easily implemented random campaign access depending on what you equipped in the centralised tech tree. So early war stuff would stay in Moscow or Tunisia, mid war stuff would appear in Normandy or Stalingrad and late war stuff in Ardennes and Berlin respectively.
The addition of the Japanese campaign and the inability of the devs to split that up amongst other options like the battles on mainland China, the subsequent expansion east via Singapore, Malaya, Philippines and the Sth Pacific meant that we have what we have - WT 2.0 with infantry instead of ships.
I don’t mind that but it needs a lot more work to effectively separate the various periods of WWII into sensible aggregations of weapons and equipment that “should” be a lot more historically aligned given the current mechanic of BR overlap by +/- 1 BR.
Mind you I’ve not been tracking the news for a while, and I don’t know the time they reduced the BR spread to +1/-1 but its a welcome change.
I’m currently fleshing out my BR III Soviets and the II-IV MM bracket is very welcome indeed.
Pearl Harbor would be cool, however, I really don’t see how it would fit into Enlisted since this is more of an infantry ground based combat game.
Iwo Jima, Saipan, Guam, Okinawa, Tarawa, Manila would make more sense for pacific war. They could also add Kursk, Crete, Leningrad, Dunkirk and other battles for Europe. Plus develop a couple USSR vs Japan battles.
