The more i’ve played enlisted, the more glaringly obvious it becomes to me that the absolute worst part of enlisted infantry combat is semi-automatic and fully automatic weapons. I absolutely despise them, they’re unfun to use and extremely frustrating to deal with. Riflemen running around with FGs or SVTs, Garands everywhere, it’s fucking obnoxious. Later war crap in general is a problem now that i think about it. I wish to god the devs had focused more on the early war, like the polish campaign or christ even doing an interwar campaign like the winter war.
For me personally, the later in the war things get they become so fucking BORING. Yes yes we’ve seen the invasion of berlin a million times, oh boy it’s fucking normandy again, not like they made a million games about the western front or something. The early war/interwar is mostly bolt-actions, funky light tanks, and SMGs. The closest we get to this is Moscow, which is a lot closer to what i think the ideal of Enlisted is.
There’s so much weird early war/interwar period stuff to screw with that the focus always falling back to machineguns and heavy tanks, blah blah king tiger, blah blah sherman jumbo, gag me with a fucking spoon. It seems like such a waste of cool settings and equipment. I’m so TIRED of the same 3 campaigns getting rehashed over and over and over again. At least Tunisia is an earlier war campaign, i sincerely hope the devs don’t fuck it up.
Hell, do the spanish civil war, that’s got bolt-action guns, funky uniforms, light tanks, and axis/USSR proxies duking it out.
TL:DR - 1933-1941~ is groovy, 1942-45 is super fuckin boring.
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Ain’t no one forcing you to play any campaign you don’t like.
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NGL I’ve almost never seen Berlin in video games. And in Normandy we get to fight in unique locations like an airfield or in small French villages. Moscow is also really cool. We fight in wooden huts and lots of open spaces. IMO with the late war we get all the cool and new stuff. For example Moscow is my least played because too me the unlocks are so under whelming. Oh boi I can’t wait to get my fucking 5th bolt action rifle!.
Although the semi auto issue I would say either make a separate match maker with people who have all/most of their squads outfitted with self loading rifles. Or just make them limited to like 1-2 a squad
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Of course not, no, I just play all the campaigns because i don’t wanna ignore 2/3 of the game’s content, and to get certain battlepass goals i have different things unlocked for different campaigns. It’s just frustrating really, I want enlisted to be something it isn’t going to be, and that’s not the dev’s faults.
I’d just prefer semi-autos to be a trooper II thing, and shove any full auto gun that isn’t an MG into the assaulter role.
But then we come back to the same issue of people having entire squads with self loading rifles
I want it to be somethign else too - a properly historical “serious” wargame that also manages reasonably fast gameply - gonna have to wait for something else for that tho.
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one way to do it would be to have either a squad leader class that can use them, and limit it to 1 per squad, or to place caps on semi/full auto weapons per squad size.
Honestly, the tank gameplay is absolutely perfect, it’s my ideal kind of tank gameplay. The infantry combat isn’t even bad overall. But the constant semi-auto spam, bomber/CAS spam, and lots of small but ever-present game choices really get on my nerves. If they transplanted the tank gameplay and some of the infantry gameplay onto something like post scriptum or RO2’s campaign i think it’d work very well.
You realise that if it was historical then EVERY US soldier ipost 1943 would have a semi auto - right?
Also there’s good reason why semi autos replaced BA - they were better - period - they are nerfed in htis game for some stupid idea of "“balance”
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hence my preference for the early war/interwar. That’s sorta my whole point, the later in the war you get the more you have to warp things in the sake of balance. In the early war/interwar, everyone is using bolt actions, automatics and MGs are very specialist tools, and tanks are far from the late war armored artillery slabs people obsess over.
Yes there’s definitely different stages of the war with different “feel” for the gamer - and not everyone likes them all - no problem with that.
Agree and disagree,
There are some funky fights on 2nd and 3rd line fronts that would be interesting to see.
Early desert war between the Italians and British would be cool to see, as well as the Greek Italian conflict.
Some of the later war Pacific would be cool too, as the US Marines got shafted equipment wise and fought with older weapons to start with.
Plus something shortly post war would be cool, like Korea.
But yeah, I hope to see:
Spanish Civil War
Fall of France
Greco-Italian conflicts
Burma/ Malaya
Fall of Poland (Soviet and Germans vs Poles)
Maybe even some Freikorps stuff?
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i think freikorps will wind up being a little too early for what Enlisted is going for, since it’s right after WWI, but the rest of those are absolutely stuff i’d love to see. I had the idea for short 10-15 level ‘mini-campaigns’ a while back to show off smaller fronts of the war.
While I disagree with your opinion, I must point out that by your definition of early war being:
1933-1941~ is groovy, 1942-45 is super fuckin boring.
The Tunisian Campaign being fought between late 1942 to mid 1943 would place it in the “late” war category. Now this will be offset by the British never having adopted a semi-automatic rifle largely during the war, but I expect that the Axis will have access to semi-automatic weapons (perhaps the Gewehr 41).
Dont worry the brits help the murican in normandy with lee enfield,sten and with german mp28 copy( idont recall name) so rest assured we wiew the garand magically appear in the brits armory
Lanchester is the Mp28/II copy
Now this is of course a personal opinion, but I hope that the British will not be given American equipment. As far as I remember, Normandy has 3 bolt actions (M1903, Ross, SMLE), 2 semi-automatics (M1 and Garand) and the M2 Carbine. Now the obvious issue is that there are only 3-4 Lee Enfields that could be added, so additional rifles might be required. As for the argument of “how is it fair that the Germans/Axis will get semi-automatics and the Brits will only get a bolt action”, I would argue that the SMLE is an equal to the Gewehr 41 (or 43 but the 41 is more likely to be in Tunisia) but of course not an equal to the FG 42.
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This
But sadly we have no decisional power for this
Very true, personally I will not be playing any American equipment included in the Tunisia campaign for the sole purpose of more guns (excluding weapons that were used by the Brits like Thompsons and M1911s, etc. etc.).
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I agree about the full auto weapons and a bit on the semi-auto.
Troopers shouldn’t have full auto weapons, that’s why gunner and assault clases exist. Just limit them to those clases and call it a day.
About semi-autos, it’s not that simple in case of normandy. US had every soldier equipped with garand while Germany didn’t. So it would be logical to limit german semis but you can’t really do that without rebalancing the whole campaign.
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