Aah premium squads… A relic of times past and terribly greedy design decisions which we are still very much stuck with. A time when guns came out of gacha machines and the fate of your soldier was uncertain upon upgrade. Remember that? When the game was all about making your own, unique squad? Tailored to your every need and taste with your very own soldiers? Yeah me too…
I hate premium squads. They suck, they catch dust and they are by far not worth the price tag.
I could sit here and draw up a fantasy of how Enlisted could become a better place where the purchase of 40 bucks on a vehicle that isn’t worth even 5 at least came with gold that matched the purchase value. But Gaijin isn’t Warframe’s DE so I won’t waste my breath any more than that.
Premium squads should be bundles, not fixed sets.
Buying a vehicle shouldn’t put it in a premium squad, locked away. I should be able to use that premium tank with my favourite squad that I spent the last 20 hours grinding out and getting max roll stats.
Buying an infantry squad shouldn’t lock them up, I should be able to use the guns, the soldiers, and even their uniforms (You know, the ones I gave money for) on my favourite squad or any which way I please. I want to be able to decide what happens with the things I buy. The bare minimum is to make those things modular.
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That also be great if someone wants to do some historical accuracy lineups with some of the premium squads
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Bro, just safe your Money and only buy that Squads which are playable in your favorite BR.
Did you read what I wrote? Because it’s not about them being expensive. Well, they are, but that’s besides the point
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That is true in some cases but this game needs to make money and they gotta make their product more desirable so more people start buying it and in all the time I’ve been playing this game I’ve not bought a single premium squad or really much of anything.
Times past? Dude Preemies are a STAPLE of the Gaijin business model. An update for War Thunder just came out and 3 nations at least got new Preemie vehicles. There will be more Preemie Squads for Enlisted. There’s just a significantly smaller pool of things to make Preemies out of since Darkflow doesn’t just reskin TT stuff and sell it as a Preemie like Gaijin very often does in War Thunder cough Cobra King cough
That being said, they’re not necessarily a bad thing. The price is pretty egregious, yes, but that is fairly standard pricing for Gaijin’s Preemies. Shoot they’re often cheaper than Preemie vehicles in WT. DF needs to make money somehow though, and cool and unique Preemies are a perfect and well known tactic for that. They want to add super rare guns, the playerbase may go up in arms if this “hardly used” gun was just thrown willy nilly into the TT, so make them a Preemie Squad. Course the argument that GO’s exist can be made, but those are only 1 gun per faction per BP. Preemies can be released at any time. Plus GO’s don’t make money outside of the one earned by buying the BP
Maybe I’m just used to this business model because I’ve played War Thunder for a good while before Enlisted came out, but it’s not the worst business model. EA takes the cake for that of course
Plus, the fact they’re hardly used means they aren’t OP. Thus the idea the game can be “P2W” because of Preemie Squads can’t be made because if anything they’re barely sidegrades to normal squads if not straight up downgrades
I don’t know, again, it may be that I’m just used to this business model, but it just ain’t that bad to me. Buy them, don’t buy them. It won’t change your experience. I think they have cool guns, and will buy the ones that interest me because I very willingly throw money at DF for making my favorite FPS game.
However your idea of having bundles of squads is interesting
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And I understand they need to make money, as I mentioned before, while the price is insane, the main problem lies in the execution.
As for this, I was highlighting the times when campaigns were all the rage and even back then a hot topic of terrible decisions.
Since the premium weapons and vehicles aren’t broken, I see no reason why I should not be able to mix them with normal squads. This should just be a re-evaluation of how we can use them. If I remember right, in WT, you can just assign a premium vehicle to a normal squad and don’t have to man a different, “premium” variety of squad. That’s exactly what I wish for. The ability to decide what I do with the stuff I bought. Squads themselves should just be a framework with an insignia that the players should be able to fill as they see fit.
Yeah I can understand where you’re coming from, and I do see the value in being able to seize and redistribute Preemie stuff. I just feel like I have something against it. I don’t know maybe it just feels like it would devalue the squad you bought with the weapon? Like at that point all you’ve bought is 5 copies of a gun and a useless squad to fill up your barracks even more. Instead of buying a unique squad with cool guns, you know? But, those squads often rot in the barracks anyways (until we get those cool Preemie Slots) because there’s little value in taking them over a normal squad. A problem that would be alleviated if you were allowed to put those Preemie guns in normal squads. Shoot even just being able to buy more copies after buying the squad would be a HUGE boon, but then you’d have people running around with nothing but that single really good Preemie gun whichever it may be
On one hand, at least it isn’t like WT where a lot of Preemies are pretty much P2W. They come decked out, they are often better than their TT counterparts, and some of them are just flat out OP. In Enlisted, Preemies are more of a gimmick than anything, and I’m ok with that I guess? Just a cool little optional thing you can do to help support DF and get a cool gimmick out of it. It’d be nice if they were a bit more useful so I’d have more drive to use what I paid for other than “well I paid for it,” but the fact there isn’t any of them commonly used by anyone is in and of itself a good thing
I don’t know. I’m torn on it now
This $50 squad still has weird animations. 
I’m enjoying this game so much that I bought them to give some of my money back to the developer.
However, when I look at the attitude of developers who continue to leave behind strange animations where people can’t hold a gun properly, I can’t help but feel like it’s a mistake to pay them.
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I understand the sentiment. The definite absolute least one can ask is that premium prices come with premium quality
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That looks awful, man. Overpriced premium squads should receive the MOST attention to aesthetic details, that are one of their selling points.
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