Come on, how many balance test have you participated in?
Even for Enlisted itself, the early testing period always failed to represent later stage actual situation. Because so many more complex situation after mass players come in.
Remember in CAT versions, Soviet was much more powerful, but after CBT paid players came, balance actual shifted to German side. In CBT era, Soviet generally was weaker, but after OBT, too many players flood in Soviet side, balance again, failed to match CBT test result.
In Berlin CBT, Soviet barely even past the bridge. But after Berlin release to mass public, balance again not matching CBT result.
Let alone, those old FPS games that I participated in testing.
Winter war, Isonzo, Tannenberg, BTW, and so many more, all failed to match the actual release situation.
Also, really, those already knowing to fill the form, and got dev’s alpha testing permissions, are super core players to game.
Even lots of core players on forum did not receive alpha test access.
I had post lots more futuristic suggestions for the game.
Really, ATM, balance and BR is a relative minor things. There’s lots more things they need to be priority on.
2~4 weeks arent going to actually improved much. As DF is well known for releasing half baked contents and after months, still no major improvements.
But really, ATM, no one really care about when the merge will going to happen.
But DF need things to keep players still interested in their game.
The longer major content update interval, the more players they will lose.
It’s about the time window they gonna launch. I dont see they are hyping up anything about the merge.
The product better be polished before Steam release or general advertising. Craptacular steam reviews will crush the long term prospects of the game, so they better have the game in a really good place before it’s launch.