I don’t see the point in the research system; it deprives the player from playing his favorite campaigns. For example, my favorite campaigns were Berlin & Normandy, now I might spawn there and mostly spawn in Tunisia or Japan if I played with the allies… I love the game, but I really hate the new system.
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After four years of never playing a single custom match, I switched to playing mostly custom matches now because I can choose my map, choose my game mode. The system the way it is 90% of the time put me in games I never enjoyed, as I either hated the map, or hated the game mode.
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Do you play with mostly bots in custom, or with real players?
I’ve recently started playing customs to get BP tasks done because i have a life outside the game, and also don’t want to drag other players down by me focusing on tasks instead of winning the match.
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I play almost entirely now with bots. Since I can choose the number of bots in game I can basically make it as hard as I want. I just turned 62, so I am at the point I want to play for my enjoyment, and constantly getting shoved into matches where I either hated the map, the game mode or both took the enjoyment out of the game for me. I’ve been playing video games since the late 1970’s, so I am used to playing against computer bots anyway. 
Honestly, in all my years Enlisted has just about the worse bots I have ever encounerted.
Bots are more predictable which is the drawback, but since I can add as many as I want, I can still control how hard the game is. Of course, your personal squad bots are every bit as terrible as they are in the general match.
I had never tried to even play a custom match till someone was telling me they go to custom matches to obtain all their daily objectives since they can pick maps that make some objectives easier, and they were right. Usually I can obtain all nine daily objectives in three to four games, and usually my bots have me so irritated that is all I can take. 
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I hear ya, man. I’m only 42, but I don’t have 3-4 hours a day to play THIS game. I rarely have 2 hours in a day to play games, and i also like other games. I’ve let go of the fomo and just play enough to get my elite BP gold return (recently via customs).
I still prefer human matches, the bots are too bad. It’s been enlightening, realizing which enemies in a normal squad game were actually people vs bots. You get a feel for how bots react.
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As far as bots being predictable, man, yeah. I played a custom v all bots today on quarry, and I’ve never had so many Mortar and Artillery kills
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The Custom match queues are listed. Too bad I can’t choose my battle from a list of Standard match queues that have BR +/0. 
The current ‘START’ with match-making can stay but I would prefer the alternative.
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I really miss the campaign system because I only really played the game to start because of the pacific theater (I still do to an extent). Sure I dabbled in other theaters and factions but I miss being able to play what I like. Like @Luvs2spooge I play custom matches more and more and just pick what map I like, more than half the time I pick USA I’m playing in Normandy where I don’t really want to, on a map I don’t really like. Would love to see a campaign preference or a preferably a map selection screen like in TF2 where I can pick exactly which maps want to play. At the end of the day this would be better than a map rotation like we have because the popular maps would get rotated and see the light of day and maps that aren’t so great would get deselected and fall to the wayside. Someone maybe it was @Slakrrrrrr that said Enlisted should add a proper PvE mode. Apologies if I was wrong but I’m pretty sure (I hope).
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I could see the dev’s at some point going to a 0/0 match making, especially if more and more people start playing more custom matches. The more people in custom matches, the less people available for general matches. Getting rid of custom matches would be a mistake IMOP since I think it’s somewhat popular, so with fewer players and more bots all around, I could see a time when they get rid of the multi level BR match making system.
Of course, I’m an idiot and buy premium squads thinking that someday the dev’s will do the right thing and unlock the weapons. So, take whatever I say with a grain of salt. Nobody has been a bigger sucker for the Dev’s then I.
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Problem with custom matches, they don’t advance the research…so I won’t be able to unlock new weapons and tanks …etc. And still I don’t really want to play in random maps. so what you are describing is literally me lol.
I think if players managed to unite, we may be able to lobby the game devs to at least give the option to every player to either play with the research system or campaign system as they like.
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I miss the campaign system too… Devs should give us the ability to choose where to play and how to play… I hope they restore the campaign system back or at least give us the ability to choose whether to play with campaign or research system…
For me I used to play Normandy with allies and sometimes Germany, Berlin with Germany, sometimes Tunisia with the British never with Germany there… now it’s so frustrating to be dropped into random areas 
Maybe if players managed to unite, we may be able to lobby our way back to the campaign system.
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Yeah, good point. Other then the Japanese I have every faction tech tree finished, and I don’t play the Japanese enough to worry about it. And other then soldiers I might on occasion send to the rear to change the squad lineup, I really have little need for research points or silver. So, the small amounts of research don’t really effect me.
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Yeah but i have to get at least 1 arisaka mortar since i stop playing and came back way later from that BP after that i will probably use br5 lineup in tunisia and moscow for fun
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Lowkey I missed the days when the bots had BR V weapons like the germans had FG-42’s and II’s,
MG 15’s
Sniper MKb 42’s and MKb 42(H)
Americans having the M2 carbine and T34 machine guns.
Soviets had the AVS and AVT’s ALSO the fedorov Avtomat
And the other guns they had at the time before it was stripped to BR 1 to 4
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I lost access to my old account… and now I came back to play to start researching everything from zero again with me forced to play at places I am not in the mood for
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lucky you, for me I lost access to my old account…so I must do it all again 
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new system? where have you been for last 3 years…
there was a reason why campaigns were abandoned… some campaigns had 2:1 player ratio and others were dominated by one faction depending on new weapon/vehicle/squad that everyone wanted to play. also it was pretty shit experience for new players to go with bolties and stuarts against players with fg42 and tigers. except getting maps from certain campaign, everything else was shit.
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I do like the idea of being able to select which campaign to queue into, though i realize this will lower player counts in certain areas.
Maaaaaaybe a good solution to this would be, instead, allow different squad presets per campaign (including vehicle camos/decos) the same way infantry have different preset appearance per campaign. As has been requested for bloody ages. For instance, mortars are next to useless on some maps, and very lucrative on others. Same with riders (almost always useless, but especially so on hilly terrain where they evil knievel themselves to death just by driving 10kph on “not quite perfect runway-level” ground).
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I played the pre-merge game probably a handful of times. I stopped playing because every match took forever to get going and got madly outclassed matches. I saw the potential, but didn’t quite hook in.
I came back just after the merge to a completely different game. Way faster to get into a match, and for the most part, way more balanced fights, weapon-wise at least. Simply way more fun than pre-merge.
I’ve been here ever since. 
I’m not against re-adding campaigns to the game, but they should have more focus, and a proper story mission progression to them.
A proper campaign structure. And with an option for PvE too, potentially. I could get behind that.
I’ve always been an advocate of choice. More the merrier.
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