And we need to freshen up the Burma campaign…I think it is time devs run a Ghurka event where a Ghurka squad is given to the allies. They could even have a new map for the Burma-India front and the battle of Irrawaddy river or Taungdaw. The units did fight in Burma…and wouldn’t it be cool to see the Kukri knife against Japanese blades.
The second part to this with the Ghurka’s legendary stealth and night fighting…the devs introduce a new game mechanic of night fighting…we have sun, rain and snow…why not the dark? People would have to get more tactical with reduced visibility and muzzle flashes giving away positions. And some torches, moon light and shadows and away we go…PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN!
Is this up to SFAA standards @Master_Snail?
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Not sure how something that never was officially announced can be delayed.
Maybe because the darkness would be a mess for the devs to balance it out for the bots.
If bots ignore the darkness people will mass report them as hackers but if they dont people will complain that the bots are entirely useless.
A event squad of Gurkhas would be awsome, making them a Guerrilla squad will cover the basics when it comes to depicting their “legendary stealth”, as you put it.
My implementation would be a fully customisable guerrilla squad, except for the melee weapon which will of course be the Kukri, which should fuctionally be a sword IMO (would make them naturally good infiltrators, due to the sword sprint speed bonus, so another tick for your “legendary stealth” request).
As for more enviormental effects, I think the game should implement more, I think they add a nice layer of atmosphere when it’s not bright and sunny 99% of the time. The few we have, rainstorms in Burma, occasional light rain in Normandy or heavy snow on that one Moscow map are all very nice, and I wouldn’t mind seeing more of it on other maps, as well as greater variations or new kinds of weather for current maps that have weather.
I don’t think night battles should be a thing though outside of special events, historicly they were quite rare (only really skirmishes during the night, full blown battles were rare indeed), that said there should definetly be day-time variations (dawn and dusk battles for example, with lower overall visibility but not outright night, the sun should still be up). Tunisia battles should almost exclusively be fought during either the early or late hours of the day for example, rarely right under the scorching sun.
I say welcome to the club!
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can add a flashlight to Enlisted. The game already has a flashlight model, and can put it in the binocular slot.
An event Chindit squad would be cool too.
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Dusk and dawn work too…just something more limited in visibility. They have camo for forest fighting…dusk would be a cool aspect.
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Then as a follow up, they were involved with the Italy campaign…say a new cliffy coastal town? Then they can intoduce an Italian event squad to fight them…I believe someone from NIEM wanted one. They can have a Beretta model 38 SMG…and say fight at Monte Cassino?
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ok, you get gurkas, japs get thai forces, deal?
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Now we are getting somewhere.
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Burma Campaign events, perhaps commemorating Battle of Imphal one year to add Gurkhas, Battle of Kohima adding Chindits the next?
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Japan should recieve Thailand as a full subfaction, not just as event and premium curiosities, IMO.
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Breaking Dead was in the dark and people didnt seem to have problem seeing the enemy.
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I think the Ghurkas and an Italian campaign should be the next things added as they were prevalent in the war. The addition of the Ghurkas expands the Pacific Island campaign for Japanese additions, as well as introducing the Italian campaign.
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It would round out theirTT for sure…at least help it.
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I believe the same, but be honest, with the lazy work they are doing with the japan faction, do you think we can expect something else?
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Breaking dead was a halloween event so people do expect a spooky atmosphere and also you didnt really needed to see that far ahead as most of the important targets to snipe where glowing already.
Indeed.
I have argued for quite some time (several updates) that the next major update should be a Italian Campaign themed one, where they finally make both the British Commonwealth and Italy fully fledged subfactions + a new map in Italy (Monte Casino, or inland Sicily battle, something Mediterranean in feeling either way, and not another naval invasion). It would be awsome.
Indeed, just the inclusion of a Thai M1888 Mannlicher as a BR II rifle alone would help, capable of the “aiming whilst cycling” mechanic that all other factions have access to in their tech trees.
Thailand already has a lot of overlap with Japan, aquiring a lot of gear from them during the war, so not much work nessesary other than a couple of new weapons and then a acceptable ammount of uniforms and a couple of faces.
I know, I am forever the optimist. 
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that was the earth shield event, breaking dead was april fools.
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My mistake thought it was halloween aswell.
Thank you for your post.
Gurkhas or Chindits would be great.
I disagree with battles in the darkness. Hell Let Loose has Stalingrad at night and it SUCKS. You cant see sheet. Not fun at all, you cant even see where youre walking so often run into obstacles. Is that realistic? Maybe, but these are computer games they are meant to be enjoyable.
100% agree, love all your ideas.
Premium or event New Zealand Maori squad for Monte Cassino would be good as well as finally some tech tree Free Polish for the Allies.
Free Polish would just need Polish names and voicelines (or could use English if necessary), standard British uniforms would suffice, the new field cap works especially well.
I like the Mediterranean idea. Tobruk is another battle I want to see, we have Italian Tobruk defenders and it would be a further opportunity for expansion of Commonwealth sub faction (Australia, New Zealand, British India to name a few)
Thai Mannlicher is a good idea and good point about each faction having cycling bolt. I believe each faction having sub factions is necessary and interesting for the future of the game.
Burma needs AT LEAST two more maps. Even if they reuse existing assets its utterly ridiculous imo to have a separate named campaign with only one map. (possible campaigns for Allies and Japan are listed as Pacific War… Burma campaign).
Also just more South East Asia in general like Malaya and/or Singapore, Burma as stated, the Dutch East Indies. Still hoping for New Guinea but sadly unlikely.
There were cases of joint U.S-Australian operations in New Guinea if they are worried about an Australian only campaign.
Im surprised Italy hasnt been added yet considering theyve got all the assets. All we need is new maps and that’s it. (compared to say France 1940 or China which should be added but would take more work)
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