flood? nah im gonna put the magical campaings bot farm on the surface once again just to show how Gaijin is trying to do the same once again now we got factions
No I’m just talking about body armor and some things I predict would happen in the future and did happen and stuff that I had set to counter but unfortunately it was ignored.
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questions about the nationality changing feature (sorry if these were answered already)
can PREMIUM squads have their voices changed? can people make the chinese and french allied squads speak english?
are the nationalities limited to US / UK and GER / IT or can allies/axis select other nationalities like french? There are french squads that fight for both sides in the game (like the flamethrower legacy axis squad from Normandy)
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This is very nice to see as a whole, and I really hope we see more of these SITREPs more regularly going forward.
Ill now try to respond to it bit my bit.
Reflecting on the “Jet Power” major update
I understand your limited in what you can say here, but opening up with this and then kinda spouting a couple of nothings wasnt a great starter. Saying that at least it was mentioned.
Maps and missions
Just wanna start this out, the Cave Village mentioned right away, praise whatever gods you pray to, because yes, its needed.
SnowieW’s thread has been amazing, and frankly I would love if any of the other devs opened up their own threads on their own areas of specialisation. I think there has been lots of genuinely thoughtful and well thought out posts in there, and if more devs were to open their own, I hope the trend would continue.
Now the controversial part, the expanded BR ranges for maps. I think it was the right decision to test on live servers, in the future I would like to see more live server tests too. From how you have phrased it, it will be going ahead in the future however, I will talk on it more once I get back to the preferred map system.
Battle Rating changes
Easily some of the easiest and best changes that can be done, it was fantastic to see said changes at the time and even now its good, however not all changes were great, the M1A1 Thompson for example is too powerful for BR2, a Tech Tree 20 round Thompson is needed there. On the other hand, the Pz3 N’s transformation and change to BR3 has been amazing, though it could do with a touch up with removing all of its now useless APHE ammo. (Though I know you yourself hinted at a system to select ammo counts during the issues with the narwhal.)
TLDR there is, Do more, this should be a monthly things, even if its only 1 or 2 weapons or vehicles at a time.
Customization
Again, amazing updates made here, and very glad to see both the map based camo and iconic vehicle recognition symbols are “being looked at”, though tbf considering how much this game takes from WT, its very surprising these couldnt be implemented almost immediately. Still both are needed and the sooner they get here, the better.
Roadmap
There isnt much to say here, progress is being made, slower than both expected and needed, however progress is progress no?
Saying that, this brings me to the most alarming thing in this post, the “like and dislike” system your looking to implement in the place of a preferred map system. The fact a “ban ability” is only being considered is horrendously concerning and this makes me very very worried. I need to really make this point clear, if you fuck this system up and add one as useless as the one in WT, I think myself and many other will be leaving this game. This system is what will allow you to please everyone while adding the expanded BRs for all maps system your dead set on implementing.
For the nationality system mentioned, very nice, though I will be waiting to see how that manifests, because as nice as a system that is, I dont want to be running around with a US marine squad while wearing British uniforms and British voice lines, that rubs me all the wrong ways.
Otherwise the other systems mentioned have nothing to base an opinion on really, we will just have to wait and see for those.
AI squadmates
I am extremely glad to see work on the AI being done, however the list of priorities mentioned there do seem almost backwards to me. 8 and 9 in particular, to myself should be the priority, especially consider how I imagine to make those work, will require reworking a lot of the AI behaviours.
Not much else I can add to that since I will just have to see how it goes, so while I have hope here, I think I might be a bit of a fool for having hope.
Squad experience
Just nice, it was needed a long time ago, but better late than never.
Closing words
Thank you for this post, I really hope to see more of these in the future, and frankly its been really enlightening. Im sure as you can read from my own post, some of it is good, some of it is bad, but posts like these allow us the players to raise issues that might otherwise not be raised until a lot of the gruntwork is already done for these projects or mechanics which would otherwise waste all of our time.
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Good question. I’ll need to clarify for sure, but:
Maybe should have added “premium squads” in here too. At least, to my knowledge, it’s not intended, at least for now, since this would cause a lot of issues.
To my knowledge, it’s only for ITA/GB soldiers for now. This doesn’t prevent other nations being possibilities, but it may depend on what developers’ future plans are for said other nationalities.
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Could you please answer some of these questions not connected to mods/clans?
- So what about the Cosmetic Filter?
- Automatic colorway-biome links for everything?
- Fix the exploit which allows enormous decals to be placed on tanks?
- Add a hotkey to toggle kill log on/off?
- Fix shorts availability outside of Tunisia for the premium “Tobruk” Italian squad?
- Allow Halloween “special” soldiers to wear proper uniforms?
- Fix shameful low quality poses for Sovier female medics premium squad?
- Add “Search Weapon/Soldier/Vehicle” feature?
- Allow all tank commanders to use binoculars and personal weapons?
- So Enlisted is going Cold War. Let’s keep WW2 seperated?
- Fix (increase) the resell price of Rider class soldiers?
- Where are the high BR AT cannons for USSR and Japan?
- Bring back/add uniform insignia?
- Make Britain and Italy great again (without turning them into factions)?
- Allow event squads to swap primary and secondary weapon slots?
- Handbrake for APCs?
- Add an ability to discard/sell event rewards?
- Make legacy squads purchasable for silver/XP?
- Allow players to sell/discard decals, decorators, portraits, nickname frames, callsign & appearance orders?
- Sniper M1/M1C Garand Problems?
- Make British soldiers wear British uniforms in reserve?
- BR restrictions in custom games? Old Campaigns battles in customs??
- Remove the blinding white shining at the end of every match?
- Introduce “Even Fight” events based on original Campaigns?
- Add similar-to-premium iconic WW2 gear and vehicles to research tree
- “Conquest Large” BF-style gamemode concept
- Let Volkssturm premium squad wear DAK uniforms automatically like normal squads FOR FREE
- Allow SAS squad to unequip Fairbairn-Sykes knife
- Allow players to mod text strings
- Add “Fronts” presets for factions
- Make an event for BR1 only
- BR1 needs some love/insentive/separate queue
- Introduce Italian/British squads as interim event rewards
- Add faction-specific ammo boxes and med boxes
- Add “cancel seat change” and separate “exit vehicle” buttons
- Please fix tanker’s “black hole” view jittering
- Fix terrains making vehicles stuck forever
- Make prop tank carcass parts breakable/turnable
- QoL: add an option to set waypoints for research sequence
- Please fix paratroopers flying to the back of the map
- Trucks need better engine sounds
- New vehicles and weapons that would be cool to see in the game (no fakes or time travellers)
- Bring back Classic Berlin as event or something
- Tanks need a major visual overhaul
- Bring back Preferred Map system on top of BR system (soft rule)
- Enlisted needs more generic maps now
- Make weapons, vehicles and equipment shared between squad presets
- Display vacant transport vehicles on the minimap
- After the Merge lock post-war weapons to a separate BR
- Confrontation win conditions still don’t make sense
- Necessary UI improvements
- Basic customization improvements needed right now
- Colorblind Mode Please!
- Being forced to spawn APC squad without APC
- Spawn screen unplayable area
- Adding squads to all nations to have BR presets
- British commander voicelines for British paras
- Artillery timer in practice
- Squad command voicelines repeated after every spawn
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The fact a paid squad (The Churchill mk3) is crewed by Americans drives me insane to no end, because otherwise its a very fun tank.
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I enjoy being blinded by the white light at the end of the match its like the men in black flashing me after seeing such poor team play
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But it is squads like the chinese that would need it the most.
China has nothing to do with the USA so having your soldiers randomly talk chinese on d-day just because you like the gun ( or its the only BR2 semi with full damage you have access to) is very off putting and kills the immersion instantly for me.
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Until DF/GJ start caring about WW2, feel free to use my mod replacing Chinese voicelines with American:
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Honestly the fact your looking to release a nationality system without the ability for squads to change uniforms is point blank nuts. That was very obviously the reason people asked for it in the first place.
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When will you give me an Italian assault squad? Or a British engineering squad?
If you know anything about Erika stuff you would know how almost impossible it is for the cosmetics to be fixed in any reasonable amount of time.
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you would have much better luck asking them to bring back the old campaign squads instead of modifying the current campaign squads to have the ability to change their cosmetics.
I am very worried that some players will stay because of ‘penalties for deserts’, but they will only stay in the gray area and not do anything helpful for victory. This will make it difficult for both parties to have a good gaming experience.
We also need to reward players who persist in fighting, so that their earnings increase with the number of deserters. This will reduce the behavior of “running away with deserters” and encourage players who insist on staying to continue trying to win.
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I don’t even want them all, I just want to have everything for the British and the Italians.
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But then why bother adding the nationality in the first place?
If you cant deliver what they want then you might be better off hoping that players just forget about them/ run out steam asking for it.
Because they’re trying to put out the fire but they only decided to put out the chair while the entire place is burning down
Which is why you’d be better off asking them to bring back the legacy squads they removed
The transparency is certainly appreciated, thank you.
“We’ll reveal more about it in a separate dev blog, but to give an indication of the plans for now, it will have a “like” and “dislike” options… A “ban” ability (where you can remove a few totally) is also being considered.”
-I greatly hope that the ban feature will be implemented, and that it will be able to be tied into a player’s presets.
“Shooting through opaque assets, such as through bushes and smoke”
-I’m fairly certain this is the largest source of frustration regarding squad AI, though shooting through smoke is far less annoying and more reasonable, than being shot through a variety of other assets.
“Regarding “ability to change soldier voices” - we can see how much players desire other nations in Enlisted, both in terms of soldiers and equipment.”
-It is genuinely astounding to me, how a game so heavily monetized failed to include unique voices into its customization options, and/or battle pass.
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