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Usually a game forgets the Eastern Front, however in this case, it is the entire Pacific Theater! When will we see the Japanese faction?
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Can’t wait!
I can.
I’d rather wait 2 years than get a campaign full of placeholders and unpolished game and “old” campaigns.
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Never.
That’s enough.
Most games either do a Normandy, Pacific or stalingrad, most games forget dunkirk or Italy and even the marigot~~ line
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they will come, sooner or later.
it’s one of the most requested campaign on all community platform
I would hope for a more complete western ww2 game rather then a broad ww2 game
yeah, but with time they can do both.
new axis nation would make dev actually put a lot of effort in the campaign rather than copy pasting the same MP40, Kar98K, MG34, and MG42 in all campaign.
Opposite for me with something like Red Orchestra dedicated to the entire Eastern Front.
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I still would rather forego the Pacific theater for a more complete uk/aus/canada/us/Russian vs Germany/Italy
OP is obviously very new to the game.
We currently cannot populate 4 base campaigns properly, and you want yet another campaign on top of it?
Come on…these are the exact same people who then cry that they are playing with/against bots.
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I wanted to see Pacific campaign in future, with hope that more players gradually will be playing Enlisted. Adding nothing new will not welcome new players to the game either… it will simply die out.
Pacific campaign would be very tricky to balance since the Japanese equipment was inferior to US, especially near the end of the war. Japanese infantry used mainly bolt action rifles, SMGs were very rare to non existent and a few MGs copied after foregin design.
If they were to be add Pacific campaign, it is impossible to balance tanks.
Japanese main tank “Chiha-Kai” could barely fight M3 light tank, which was the weakest American tank in the Pacific theater.
So, I think if they were to add Pacific campaign, they have to do some ingenious balancing rather than just copy-and-paste campaign levels and replace the weapons.
Chi-Ha Kai could easily kill Stuarts, it can even destroy Sherman from sides.
Imo for balanced campaign best would be Phipippines 1941-1942 where Us doesnt have that much advantage in weapons and equipment in general.
No.
Of course, ChiHa can destroy M3 stuart, but on the other hand, M3 stuart can penetrate ChiHa from literally every angle.
And in the terms of mobility, stuart is much more sperior than ChiHa.
As far as I know, Japanese tanks could hardly stand a chance against American tanks except in ambush.
Do you think it is possible that replicate the tactic of shutting down your engine and waiting in the grass for hours in a game?
Just same as Chi-Ha Kai.
Thats why i want Philippines 1941-1942 where US doesnt have anything stronger than stuart. And Japanese dont have anything stronger than Chi-Ha Kai, and those tanks are balanced against each another.
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Well, aside from the tanks, I’m hoping that the pacific campaign will be an opportunity for developers to stop trying to force equipment to be equal.
Even if the tank problem is cleared up, I have a feeling that the infantry weapons that the Japanese army lacks will be filled with captured or barely used weapons.
I don’t want to see any more fantasy-ish Japanese army using Type100 SMG or Type5 rifles as a matter of course.
If they add a pacific campaign, it needs to be early war, and it needs to give the Japanese some special and interesting mechanics. If not, Japan will get stomped.
If there was ever a time to add a bayonet charge, the pacific would be it. Double the player and AI squads health while in the animation, and you have something decently useful. Just one example.
Maybe a tunnel system? Things like this to balance the campaign out.
The biggest balancing factor would be to give 13 year old girls sharpened bamboo stakes tbh.
if chi has had heat they could still fight in the later stages
here is how i could see tank balance happening if it was late war(not sure if historic):
chi ha / ke ni vs m3 stuart
chi ha kai/ chi he vs m5 stuart
ho ni/na to vs m3 lee
chi nu vs m4a1
chi to vs m4a2 76