The current system is broken and no sane new player should even think about sticking around because things will only get worse once the new weapon update rolls out.
The first point: We were promised more ways to earn silver orders but what they did was exactly the opposite. With the previous battle pass, when you would finish it, you would have 4 rewards that would keep rotating until the battle pass would end: 2 silver orders for weapons (elite bp not needed), 1 silver order for troops (elite bp not needed), 2 silver orders for weapons (elite bp needed) and 1 silver order for troops (elite bp needed). Now, they replaced one of the silver orders for weapons and one of the silver orders for troops with XP boosters, so the chance of getting silver orders was literally halved. This won’t be the end of the world for veterans and players that own the elite battle pass, but if you take a closer look at the bigger picture, you will notice that the silver orders at the end of the battle pass can’t be claimed if you don’t own the elite battle pass. This means that the F2P players will literally have no chance of getting silver orders once they finish the battle pass & all achievements (assuming that they will even make it to the end of it, given the grindiness and limitations of the game). You might also think that they’ll get all the available silver orders from the battle pass, but then you’d be wrong, because a lot of them will require the elite battle pass in order to be claimed.
(this aged like milk)
The second point: Stacking retraining points. There was literally no reason to remove this feature. With the new changes, after each battle, you will have to carefully inspect every single soldier and make sure that he’s got the right perks, otherwise all the extra XP gained with said soldier won’t be turned into retraining points and it will go to waste. Who on earth came with this idea and thought that’s an improvement?! Now it will be much harder to get the perks you want and having a higher rank for the troops is useless if you don’t have the right perks. Who wants to be stuck with a perk related to bolt action rifles on a Machine Gunner?
The third point: We’re not allowed to sell troops for bronze orders even if they officialy stated that we will be able to do that. Some people might say that it’s a work in progress and it will come at a later date, but after the recent events, I pretty much lost my trust. My main concern is mostly in regard to selling unwanted weapons, which is linked to this feature aswell, so again, people need to look at the bigger picture and stop saying: “Oh, that’s ok, you can get double the amount of bronze troop orders now”. Keep it up with that passive attitude and soon you will find out that you won’t be able to sell things any more, because “the community asked for it”. Also, if it’s a work in progress, then why did they remove the option to get random troops by using bronze orders if they haven’t added the sell option yet? Those two things are linked together because the only reason they would remove the random orders is this: If you would use a bronze card to get a random soldier, and you wouldn’t like what you got, then you would be able to sell that soldier and keep rolling indefinitely until you would get the one you want, which would break the new system (the same logic applies to weapons).
The fourth and last point: The massive difference between leveling up class I, II and III troops.
Class I: I > II = 6 bronze orders | II > III = 6 bronze orders | III > IV = 6 bronze orders | IV > V = 18 bronze orders | Total: 36 bronze orders;
Class II: I > II = 12 bronze orders | II > III = 12 bronze orders | III > IV = 18 bronze orders | IV > V = 54 bronze orders | Total: 96 bronze orders;
Class III: I > II = 12 bronze orders | II > III = 12 bronze orders | III > IV = 18 bronze orders | IV > V = 72 bronze orders | Total: 114 bronze orders.
This doesn’t make any sense. Why would any non-whale choose to level up ONE class II or III troop when they could level up THREE class I troops at almost the same price?! This decision basically turns those classes into memes.
The good things about the new update: The ability to rank up class I troops at a more than decent cost. This is amazing, but it comes at a way too high price, if you’ll take a look at what I wrote above.
The solution to fix this mess: Let us turn bronze orders into silver orders. I have no idea what the ratio should be, but the option needs to be available. Doing monthly events and stuff like that won’t fix the problem and without new players, the game will simply fade away and die. Daily login rewards won’t fix the problem either, because the amount of silver orders gained from there is insignificant. One other viable option would be a silver reward after completing 3 battle tasks (it shouldn’t be linked to the battle pass rewards and it should contain both weapons & troops orders: weapons > troops > repeat). If these options aren’t feasible, then at least let us earn some silver for X amount of XP gained throught a match.
Personally, I couldn’t care less about these changes, since I finished all campaigns and I have everything I need, but I do care and everyone needs to understand that without new players (especially F2P players), there will be no more Enlisted. They’re as important as the paying users and they shouldn’t be treated as second class players.
