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Many people have complained about customizations countless time already, but I haven’t seen much changes.
So I am posting this again, and hoping someone can see it and actually do some improvement to it.
This is a great game, but the customization is really the worst part of it. I’m not a competitive player. So, my two biggest joys when playing War Thunder are collecting rare vehicles and modifying various tank camouflage. Similarly, one of the great joys of playing FPS games is completing missions to collect rare outfits and skins, dressing up my character in different uniforms, helmets, and tactical gear, and then using my character to cosplay historical figures or appearances I like. However in Enlisted, customization is a complete mess. This completely kills my desire to continue playing, even though the game is currently spending a lot of time on balance and releasing new weapons.
Please make sure to take this issue seriously!!!
- My first suggestion is categorizes uniform appearances based on seasons, rather than campaigns! If it absolutely has to match historical accuracy, then add another criterion: year.
Before the merge of campaign, every squad was different, but after the merge of campaign all of the squad look the same.
I played the Soviet army the most, so I’ll use the Soviet army as an example.
The Soviet Union has two campaigns that both feature snow maps: the Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Stalingrad. I inherited several squads from each of the two campaigns.
For example, the engineer squad from Battle of Moscow is wearing a Shinel (Greatcoat).
And, the engineer squad from Battle of Stalingrad is wearing a Telogreika (Vatnik).
The engineers in the two campaigns wear different uniforms, which might make you think that soldiers in these two battles actually wore different clothing historically.
But when you open Customization, you’ll see that the Battle of Moscow also has the Telogreika.
and the Battle of Stalingrad also has the exact same Shinel. They just cost you extra money to buy them.
In fact, if you scroll down in Customization, you’ll find that about 90% of the uniforms in the Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Stalingrad are exactly the same.
In the game, squads from different campaigns wear different uniforms simply because they belong to different units. In reality, some units wore Shinel, while others wore Telogreika, and even the same soldier might have had several different uniforms. Historically, the Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Stalingrad were only one year apart, so it was completely normal for the same clothing to be worn for several consecutive years.
Then what’s the point of keeping their customization separate?
When customizing my soldiers, I have to buy the same outfit twice just to cover all of the winter maps.
The once-unique squads from each campaign have now become completely identical after the campaigns were merged, because within the same campaign they can only wear the same type of uniform. This really makes the squads in battle incredibly boring and completely removes their diversity. Sometimes, looking at the squads other players have customized, or showing other players the squad appearances I carefully put together, is also part of the fun.
I remember that when the campaigns were first merged, the developers said the purpose was to make each match more historically accurate. But after the game added the Far East campaign, the developers actually put the Far East together with the Berlin campaign!!
Now every day I see Chinese soldiers carrying Hanyang 88 rifles fighting Germans in Berlin. That’s far more ridiculous than seeing a Soviet soldier wearing a 1943 uniform in 1945.
This shows that the previous claim about historical accuracy was not convincing at all. It also shows that even the developers are now too unwilling to create a new uniform system for each new campaign. If that’s the case, why not simply properly improve the customization system and solve all these problems once and for all?
- My second suggestion is that when there are multiple seasons and multiple sets of uniforms, one set can be chosen as the primary uniform. Then, in other seasons, only the clothing that does not fit the season or is historically inaccurate needs to be replaced.
Some parts of a soldier’s uniform change with the season or year, while others do not. For example, helmets, gloves, body armor, and tactical gear are not very dependent on the environment, so there is no need to change them.
This is somewhat similar to how in War Thunder you can link customization layouts.
After you link the layouts together, the decorations and decals on the tank won’t change even across different maps or seasons. For example, you can see that on my Panther tank I added camouflage leaves on the front and placed an Iron Cross decal on the rear. They appeared in every season. If I want to make changes to a particular camo, I can also unlink that camo form the layouts.
I hope the Customization system for soldier uniforms in Enlisted can work like this as well.
- My third suggestion is that in the Battle Pass and events, besides giving out some special weapons, could you also give out special character cosmetics? For example: helmets, caps, uniforms, pants, glasses, and so on. You could even introduce full outfits (sets) and let players complete tasks to collect the entire set.
Finally, I hope you will seriously consider this issue. This has long been neglected. Please remember that not everyone plays this game purely for competitive reasons. While you focus on weapon diversity and balance, could you also take into account the feelings of players like us who enjoy customizing and dressing up our characters?
