This game doesn’t need the merge at all and here is why and how.
World war 2 was unbalanced as hell. Quite often a squad of men armed with bolt action rifles would get mowed down by a guy with an automatic or semi automatic rifle.
Guys, what is the merge actually here to address? Long queue times. How many people are actually ever complaining about that? I’ve never heard anyone and I’ve never had to deal with that issue, playing at all random times with different shifts and times zones.
I just got off a high of killing a Sherman with an Italian tank, the crappy one. In a fair move, in city fighting. Then later in the match I took another Sherman with AT rifles from a high position.
Despite this we lost the match, despite my awesome new paratroopers. Despite all the gold order Italian weapons and the melee swords. My axis Tunisian forces never really came out on top. But by gosh I don’t mind losing a match as long as it was a good match. The only real problem I have with Enlisted after 720+ days of playing and 30+ days of being in matches back to back to back. Is that when I lose a match that was fought well and get like 2nd and have premium and boosters I still get nothing for XP.
I loved the first time I tried this game on Normandy and had nothing but a springfield 03 squad and a grease gun to take Omaha Beach. Gosh darn it man, WW2 is unbalanced, in Moscow you should be abled to get wiped by a goofy Russian heavy tank once in a while. But other times a german blitz of pz III and planes and arty will take the day.
And then I played Berlin. I don’t do that a lot. I used my Magazine fed PPsh 41. I did good with it, but I was missing the 71 round drums. I was thinking back to the reason why they abandoned them. They had issues with fit and finish and manufacture time.
And the crappy german weapons. I don’t want to give up that feel anywhere. I don’t want the PPsh to be or the PPD 40 to be out of place anywhere and stuck in 1945 because they are “Too OP”
I don’t care, they were there. Let them be there.
Really now I’m going to have to sit here and calculate like a little smurf how I can best weight my gear to down teir me? Rather than just play the area and time and battle I wanted?
There is a lot of realism you give up in this game. But that is one of the things I think lots of us sub consciously like about Enlisted.
Its not like battlefield 1942, we don’t see every brit carrying a BAR in Operation BattleAxe.
It isn’t War Thunder, we don’t have a Chaffee working together with a Panzer IV and a Chi-Ha.
At first and for a long time I thought the squad/bot system made this game HUGE. But when you look at the players on each side and total number of dudes running around shooting, it isn’t that much bigger than your average BF back in the 64 player days.
What the bot system is doing is making the battle space feel huge, filled, contiguous and more or less homogeneous of the area and time we are supposed to be in.
But oh no what about
Add a playlists, the party leader, or you when playing solo can just check box the campaigns in this play search you want to queue for.
Or how about a server browser like the old days, in KF, BF2, any valve game. Have it tell you what campaign and modes are in rotation. And if it is in progress or in lobby.
then have like other games, a queue on the main menu recommended weakly challenge bonus xp thing FOMO crap that DarkFlow recommends. That will fix your “low pop in certain areas’ Now add Italy and UK stuff.
Grinding the same weapon or vehicle again without a squad attached? Okay give your account a little behind the scenes or in front of the scene XP boost indicator. If I earned the MP 40 on 1 campaign, 10%, next time I grind it 25%xp etc. Then I wouldn’t even feel salty about earning them again.
And for the love of god if you guys really have your hearts set on this, tell your bosses back in HQ, very clearly, that you NEED more time to sort this out. Maybe even until the New Year.