I think such kind of game merge could only work with a massive relaunch of the entire game - something like making “War Thunder II”
Well I dont play Warthunder specifically because if 3rd person view, even in simulator you have a top view of the tank - Enlisted is eliminating the very thing I hate about War Thunder.
This same thing would probably apply to Warthunder infantry - just like you said, first person infantry sounds difficult to make it work there.
People might think that 3rd or first person gameplay isn’t much of a difference, but just imagine Enlisted tanks had 3rd person - TNT kills alone would drastically change.
If 3rd person existed in Enlisted - devs would make combatants throw TNT charges, not plant them)
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The developers of War Thunder are fully capable of creating a World War I-themed mode using some old game assets, without the need for the help of DF. Perhaps DF is busy working on Active Matter and daydreaming about its success. Then again, if War Thunder is capable of doing it, why can’t Enlisted manage to do the same?
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Well, I still think that in WarThunder only AI squad infantry is possible. Like, you are in BMP, you order your troops to get out and go inside that building. They are going inside and the game wont need to render the insides of that building for infantry.
Then you can tell them to spot anyone, to attack or to go and capture a point… While you are covering them with your gun, missiles and autocannon.
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I said it elsewhere, but a WW1 event would have been a perfect excuse to add weapons such as the MG08 to the game as rewards. You could have even brought back rewards like the gewher 1888 and etc.
We could have played the game historically, got WW1 weapons which still would have been historical to use, lord knows, certainly far more common than a lot of the GO or event type weapons we have seen in the past.
As for the WW1 event being hated by the playerbase in WT, some like it, some dont, I think most of the hate for it comes with how imbalanced it was, like did they do no tests at all? Otherwise its a cool event with very good rewards, which I know a lot of the WT players I know enjoyed. But I agree with the spirit of the message, we got completely and utterly shafted there.
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Well I can imagine that Warthunder separates aircraft matches, tank matches and future infantry matches - and then a 4th queue mixing the 3 together.
In such scenario for us Enlisted players we would officially choose between much much bigger maps with more vehicles, or pure infantry maps.
The question is not why they can’t, question is why they dont want to… Because they obviously can, Well, they were able to years before when they released modern conflict april fools, arent they?
Seems like they tested their ability to make active matter in that april fools event…
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I mean WWM is the dream for the WT team, they keep trying it, I mean last time they combined naval into ground and air battles, its very clear they are attempting to make a full blown war game, not just a TDM tank game.
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I heard that the first thing a patient does after their leg gets better is to throw away the crutch. Maybe Active Matter is the leg and Enlisted is the crutch… Who knows what the future will be like?
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They can make Infantry arcade mode with only infantry and vehicles are available for mission score points. But only vehicles available are IFVs maybe. Maybe even with little helicopters.
Then, for infantry realistic I dont even know how would they make that without striking the balance. Cuz if you allow infantry to choose which heli/tank/plane they can bring into battle - they will definitely grab some devilous stuff as Pe-8 5000kg bomb that will annihilate infantry map, lol.
For Simulator mode they can just merge all three of simulator modes - tank, plane and infantry into a single confrontation mode with many little battles inside. Then they can even merge naval into it. Imagine like a giant mode that looks like nuclear option but for every vehicle possible plus infantry. Balanced by gigantic maps, AI units and missions
I would love to see such game come into existence - however this would be increadibly difficult to make it work.
Each part of the game and each role the player chooses to play as would need to have equal impact on the victory of the game - while each part would need to play in an interesting and challenging way.
Just look at Enlisted air combat - dogfights and chasing bombing runs almost does nothing for the outcome of the game, yet people still do it, I honestly doubt this will ever work - its too much work and requires boldness that has never existed before.
Maybe devs just found new toy that is more interesting to them. WW2 setting is not interesting for them and they’ll throw it away in favor of more modern setting of active matter. Thats why warthunder will live longer, instead of making more separate games with separate teams they are adding everything they want into a main game, lol. And using side-projects as testing.
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In regular team deathmatch? It wont work.
But in world war mode or conquest mode with missions and such - it will work. Cuz it will have missions for every type of vehicle and for infantry. But its more of PVPVE mode than pure PVP.
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Damn it. I heard that there are only five people in the studio of ER2, yet they are striving with all their might to pursue historical accuracy. Right now, there is a lull period for World War II-themed games, and there couldn’t be a better time than now to develop and grow. The competition among games of the Escape from Tarkov type is getting increasingly fierce. I’ve already seen a lot of high-quality games… I can only wish DF good luck. Well, Enlisted can also make money by regularly “taxing” players with its battle pass.
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I mean thats more because those are so highly rewarded and also are kinda fun. If you want people to focus on other things, reward other things more.
Dont mind my graphics preset, I’m playing on laptop, lol.
Our soldiers started an assault of enemy trenches. They got up with an exclamation and whistle:
Only three of them managed to get to enemy trench and they started clearing it:
After a short battle, only one soldier remained and he bravely defended his captured corner of enemy positions:
He shot every germany soldier who tried to kill him:
The hero:
Who was killed from behind by coward German:
Rest in peace, Entente_Infantryman_No.481516
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I wish they would try to make tank shells like HE/HEAT and bombs historically accurate because right now they are just pathetic against infantry and i don’t want to buy their games till it gets fixed. At least Enlisted is much more impactful in this regard.
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It makes no sense for WT to add human player infantry - anyone with a quarter brain will just make all the WT players ragequit (and on the open maps it would just be a total turkeyshoot/stalemate of infantry hiding in nooks and crannies and all the tanks afk as far away as possible from anything that isn’t flat open ground)
If only the argument at least made any sort of sense.
Because adding playable infantry to WT would instantly mean vehicle only modes would be unavailable. And they would no longer be a primary part of the game. Surely.
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