I’m all for having a grind since it gives a reason to keep on coming back. This grind though is too much by a long shot though. I’m a completionist but fuck this one. Without the battlepass, the rate that you gain orders is a snails pace which definitely needs to get more consistent since it seems like random chance, although I could be absolutely wrong. The campaign just takes way too damn long without premium and the grind of getting the right perks on a soldier is the worst of all. This needs to be adjusted bad
even with premium it takes too long. and that wouldnt be the problem if there was only one or two campaigns. but there are 6 campaigns (included pacific) and there is really no incentive to grind axis 5 times for same weapons, or US and soviets for 3 times.
Yup, with this insanely overdone grind there is no matchmaking so while you’re grinding, chances are you are stuck with a shit team. I can’t bring myself to even enjoy the game even more. If there was matchmaking this would be more bearable but without it, just unplayable.
I don’t personally mind the grind, however I can understand those that do. How many hours of gameplay do you think the average skilled player should be able to complete a single campaign should take? From there statistics such as average xp can be used to determine a way to rebalance it (in theory).
I really think they shot themselves in the foot with the weapon selection for the various campaigns, if they have been even a little bit interested in making the weapons choices historically relevant for the campaigns that they chose we would see some difference in weapons but they basically all feel the same.
I guess I’m lucky in that I really dislike all of the campaigns apart from Tunisia, because as I mentioned a few times before I find the maps on the other campaigns to be really small and overly cluttered and extremely annoying to play on if you like using vehicles so I have very little in the way of interest in progressing in those other campaigns.
It took me about three months I think to max the Axis out in Tunisia but I was playing four or five games a day.
Edit- o, ya, i bought the battle pass to do it, But it really is a good deal, as you get all the money back as you complete it.
I made 57,000 with no premium in a single game in Moscow as the axis so please keep telling me how the grind is so long
You need 3 million of xp for grind from lv 0 to 26
I’d say the grind with premium is… well, cannot be even called “grind”. About 150 battles to max one side in the campaign is not much.
i needed about 3 months to grind axis in normandy, i will need 4-5 months to grind allies normandy. that is as f2p. so halve those numbers for premium. and then increase those numbers by at least 50% for average player (cause i constantly have at least 50% better results than average player). you get around 3 months of grinding for average premium player for one side. and that is with few battles per day (1-2hour playing). and you will now have 6 campaign, so that means 12 sides and that equals 3 years to get all campaigns fully grinded with premium for average player. now that will probably be less cause some campaigns have less levels, or in case of stalingrad it has 400% xp modifier, or some players will improve, or people spend more time per day playing the game. but overall game is too grindy.
The game being free should be a big hint nothing will be handed to you. The grind is there to offer great rewards for the devoted and also give some room for the developers to earn from those who purchase battle pass and premium. I’m an older gamer with decades of gaming and I can say this grind is nothing close to the grind in other games. If you love this game, you will embrace the journey. The best advice I can give to make it more enjoyable is to find a guild or clan, make friends and share the journey with them
this is not true. grind in enlisted is deceptive cause you are constantly grinding same equipment in new campaigns. axis has 5 campaigns with almost the same equipment. soviet has 3 and US will now have 3. and they can add lots of other campaigns. invasion of france, invasion of italy, invasion of china and some minor campaigns like winter war, invasion of yugoslavia etc.
so for some weapons you will need to grind to 900k xp just to have it available in all campaigns and that could change in future for worse with addition of new campaigns.