Although I am not very good at writing but I felt that this needed to be said, the grind is too long. it isn’t fun to grind for several hours just make little to no progress even when I have premium, and it is even worse when you are free to play. the massive grind is turning new players away and honestly I don’t blame them, I am thinking of leaving this game permanently because of just how bad it is. It doesn’t help that there are 8 different campaigns to play all with their own ridiculous grind, many players only play one campaign because of this and the game is suffering for it.
I know that the devs made the grind this bad on purpose in order to get people to buy premium time and squads, but this is not sustainable system and it will cause the game to die or at the very least seriously hamper the growth of the game because enlisted has major competition, such as hell let loose, halo infinite, battlefield, COD, apex and many other free to play games that people will flock to because of the awful monetization system in enlisted. there are so many other ways to make money than to basically force the player base to pay in order to actually progress in the game such as customization, they could make lots of money through customization! I don’t mean customization like Battlefield 5 with robot cyborg women I mean historical uniforms like NKVD or U.S airborne uniforms, hell they could sell custom helmets or even gun customization. The devs could still keep premium time but please don’t practically force us to buy it in order to make any real progress.
sorry if I dragged on a bit, I just had to go on a little bit of a rant because I really do love this game, devs if you are reading this know that I’m not complaining just to complain, all of this criticism comes from a place of love and if you have read this far I thank you.
the grind in a f2p is long and tedious if you don’t pay, never heard of warframe, eve online, the old republic, phantasy star 2, war thunder, war gamimg, and other 200 f2p?
Nkvd already has its historical uniform, with the lvl 2 Moscow assaulter having more winter based wear. Though the game’s grind is pretty tame for a f2p game, seriously world of tanks and war Thunder’s grind is much worse than enlisted
Those of enlisted said that their objective is that you enjoy the campaign and not that you want to unlock everything in an instant, we should also be grateful that in the daily rewards they give us exp enhancers.
Yeah cool, but most people won’t drop more than 100 hours into game where they barely have played with with 10% of content after months of grind.
I whish it was this great, but after some time it’s hard not to see issues with this game, one being bot ridden matches
Yes, the grind is too long for F2P. Arguably too long for Premium, even. Yes, other games have longer grind (although the “pay for time” model of F2P games has quickly become outdated with the success of Valorant, Fortnite, Warzone, Apex, etc). Enlisted, however, is in a unique place where it NEEDS a high playerbase to function properly because of the Campaign system. Players are naturally split off from the larger pool and it has serious consequences when there aren’t enough players to fill matches (as anyone whos played Axis can tell you). A game like War Thunder doesn’t have this issue. In War Thunder, anyone can queue against anyone, so there’s less need for a large player base to fill matches.
This is kind of a personal thing, but I think Enlisted’s gameplay is also pretty static compared to something like War Thunder that has heavier grinds. In War Thunder, each game can be very different because your BR changes as you level up, you encounter different nations and vehicles that change how you should be engaging them, and maps often change as BR goes up as well. But in Enlisted, you have the same maps, against the same enemies (often with the same weapons and vehicles), for 200+ games. The only thing that changes is your squads, and even that isn’t really that interesting since 90% of the time all youre doing is adding another soldier to your squad, or leveling up a different Assaulter squad. There’s just not a lot of variety to justify how much of a grind there is
EDIT: also if it wasn’t clear, I think Enlisted’s gameplay is absolutely fantastic. It just suffers from repetition without variety and that dulls it as time goes on
look personally I also published that the progression system was tedious and blah blah, and the developers replied that the purpose of this game is not to spend all the campaigns instantly, if you decide to play more than 100 hours it is your problem if you decide to stop playing it well for you.
It’s a free game with a grind process plus minus the same as other free games of this style.
Well, this game is sure not for everyone casula COD fan for sure.
It’s fine. It is still in Beta. Lot’s of work in progress.
Only 4 at the moment
No one is forcing you buy anything. And welcome to the current market for free games, where financial resources are, accumulated through microtransactions to enable people to pay salaries and create new content.
These are completely different games with completely different resources and a player-base.
If you read the news you would know that customization is coming. But now there are far more serious aspects than helmets or uniforms (however I look forward to them myself)
It’s seriously not hard to make 10k-50k xp PER GAME as a F2P or maybe it is i don’t know maybe I’m just god damn exceptional at enlisted and everyone else isn’t but I’ve gone up 9 levels in berlin in the last week only playing like 3 hours a day
50k xp as f2p what are you on?
Even if You are top 1 every game, and win every time (gl), it’s 10kxp for 20min game. What games are you playing that are 1,4h long, or You just meant 300%, booster matches, that are twice as good for premium. (300k xp in 3 games, instead of 150, every booster is twice as good for premium)
I’m wondering if any of You that think this grind is good ever played more than 2h without premium, like wtf.
Because getting 200 kills in half an hour is so unreasonable and boosters are still free i can very easily make 20k a game then depending on the booster is 75-150% on top of that giving me up to 50k and lets break down that math with a couple of freebies for your argument, even if i only made 12k a game which is quite easy even free, 180,000/12,000 = 15, 15 games for a level, that’s easily achieved in a day or if you don’t want to play enlisted for 6 hours straight you spread that out to 2 or 3 hours a day and within 2 or 3 days you have a new level.
Booster every two days, maybe battlepass on post 60 levels gets you 2 per 3 days, but if you play pure f2p, you most likely get +50% every two days/
12k a game, for 30 min game, now you lose some games, -50% xp, so gl playing axis tunisia.
Also it’s way harder to get that score on low level campaigns, and for new guys it’s twice as hard.
Still a level per 3 days doesn’t sound bad, untill you factor in 4 campaigns with 2 factions.
So you basically lock people into single front for half a year, fucking riddiculous if you think most people will stick around. we already got tons of bots and empty matches.
I’m done buying premium anyway, shit sucks, got 3 campaigns maxed after year of playing with mostly premium, i’m not even gonna try playing moscow with shit bolt actions against triple assault squads with vitality that tank one shot for free, so much for 1 shot 1 kill even with starters.
Just make it into 4 separate games at this point, there is no connection between them without axis weapon transfer and shared ordersf
i’ve finished normandy axis, berlin axis, tunisia allies and i’m at level 16 in moscow axis with various assorted levels for the other side in each campaign, i’ve been playing about 6 months, it’s not at all that slow
