SITREP №2 - The Hype Awakens

[Veekay45]

@MajorMcDonalds

The poll is asking more about enemies - USSR and Germany, USA and Germany, etc.

Who on earth ever asked to have German Panzer division emblems on Soviet tanks, fighting for the Soviet side?

What’s next, all weapons open for all factions? All factions FFA 4v4?

[Admiral_Wenli]

@MajorMcDonalds

Commanders - thanks to the success, popularity and desire for more after our first blog in this series, we’re back with another!

Strange way to interpret the demand here, but not technically wrong if you look at it in a twisted way I suppose.

@MajorMcDonalds

The “Ability to invite friends to ongoing battles” is the second of the three. Developers thought long and hard about it, and even implemented it with testing internally, however, the decision has been taken to cancel this would-be-convenient but extremely toxic feature. The reasons for this include that it would allow well-coordinated groups to easily abuse and overwhelm solo players in battles at the click of a switch. Though, while we’ve canceled the full invite-to-battle system, we’ve retained several useful UI micro-features from it - including the ability to jump directly into a custom battle lobby (rather than a standard matchmaking queue) when a friend is already playing one.

I can commend the foresight here, matches are short as is, so its no loss to those who play as groups as is.

@MajorMcDonalds

Many of you were also asking about whether we will do another roadmap for the years after 2026. We can see that publishing another long-term roadmap was in fact, contrary to expectations, not the most helpful due to the timeframes involved with each point. Instead, we plan on making blogs like this more frequently, to keep you updated before each major release, and may publish a new roadmap another time. We’re happy to see such positive responses to these SITREPs as well as the desire for more, so we’d like to continue them!

I mean… you could just make roadmaps with more attainable/realistic goals no? Regardless, more of these and more devblogs wont go amiss.

@MajorMcDonalds

Hmm… I wonder what it could be?

Looks suspiciously non-Manchurian, but I do like the vibe going on in the image at least.

@MajorMcDonalds

We’ll avoid showing them all off now, but we now have many variants of core and simple roundels and icons that are currently missing in the game. For example, these will include various versions of the much-desired Balkenkreuz, including for both the Heer and the Luftwaffe. These aren’t to mention the RAF roundels and RAC markings for British vehicles, US tank stars and USAAF insignia, USSR stars, Japanese air emblems and even an Italian airforce roundel.

Blessed be finally, I just really really really hope these arent paywalled for no good reason, if they need to be purchased, at least let it be done so through silver, or even better let us earn them through achievements like in War Thunder.

@MajorMcDonalds

To earn them, our initial plan (subject to change) is to create relevant longer-term “contracts” for specific nations that players can select to complete across a number of battles. When we know more, we’ll let you know, but we aim to do it in such a way to avoid impacting faction balance and win rates.

Its worded weirdly which worries me, but in theory thats a good thing, atm I’m thinking something a bit like the contract system in tf2, which is a bit long winded but I digress.

@MajorMcDonalds

Would you like new faction roundels and insignia to be usable by more than one nation?

This depends, do you mean, any faction can use any roundel? Or do you mean British tanks could use the “US tank star” (Called the allied star for a reason). Because those are two different questions which a bit of clarification on would be nice.

@MajorMcDonalds

Firstly, we’ll be making sweeping changes to ensure the objective point is every player’s focus. After all, you need to take it, or hold it, to win any and all battles of Enlisted. To be specific, we’ll be increasing the bonus for capturing points by 3 times! But that’s not all - we’ll also be doubling the bonus for kills when attacking and defending the same objectives. Linked to this, and secondly, the bonuses for assists will be increased; primarily for infantry. The goal is simple: if you work toward your team’s victory, you’ll see it reflected in your score with more substantial rewards.

Its a nice mindset for sure and a welcome change, but honestly even x3 for the capture point isnt that much, still an improvement is an improvement, cant complain too much.

@MajorMcDonalds

• Kills with the Ni05 impact mine

Based af, now these are the type of statistics I want to see.

@MajorMcDonalds

• Win rate (including wins/losses in matches from which a player deserted)
• Desertion rate

A very welcome change, will already be more effective than the half baked desertion mechanic that was added so thats good.

@MajorMcDonalds

• Kill/Death ratio
• Kills per minute of battle

These I dont like however, this will only encourage more toxic gameplay from those would be effected by the desertion stat changes.

@MajorMcDonalds

1. A synthetic skill rating

Ah yes, I see no arguments happening over this haha.

@MajorMcDonalds

You may have already noticed a fresh, modern look on our forums - reorganized categories, updated formatting, and brand-new sections.

You really did take your time writing this huh?

@MajorMcDonalds

Another reason focuses largely on suggestions. Instead of one giant catch-all category (as we had before), we now have themed subcategories and a suggestion archive. This helps surface popular ideas, eliminate duplicates, and keep outdated threads out of the way.

It felt odd at the time, but its a very welcome change, big shoutout to @Euthymia07-live for really helping enforce it too.

@MajorMcDonalds

What do you think it is? It’s no wonder that Enlisted has been called an interactive museum of weaponry - and we plan to keep it that way!

I do think its nice to have such a range of even niche weaponary, however I have to ask.

Will there be any attempts to retroactively fix items that should have been in the Tech Trees of many nations that were instead locked behind limited time Battlepass content?

An example being here the Solothurn S-100, a solution I would offer in this case would be to exchange the battlepass limited item with a Solothurn S-100 which was scoped, allowing the base S-100 to be moved into the German Tech Tree which is strong in need of a semi automatic AT Rifle, but especially one which was used widely by all axis armies of the time.

@MajorMcDonalds

On that note, we’ve recently added a few new community managers to our ranks. They’re mostly working behind the scenes for now, but you may be seeing them around!

Certainly a welcome change, the more interaction from CM’s, the better, especially in non news threads. Would be cool to see your opinions on the suggestions we offer once in a blue moon.

@MajorMcDonalds

You’ve told us semi-autos felt inaccurate - your first shot often missed even when you aimed right. As you might know, shot dispersion is at its highest for a given gun when you are hipfiring and moving together. When you aim down sights with a gun in Enlisted, shot dispersion decreases. However, it technically rapidly decreases over a very short period, and not instantly as you finish the aiming animation. Semi-automatic rifles in particular had a feature where this “cone” of possible dispersion shrank slower during and after the ADS animation, making that initial shot less accurate if fired very quickly. We will be aligning this parameter affecting it with all other weapons, so this should no longer be a reason to avoid semi-automatic rifles. Dust off your M1 Garand - it’s back in fighting form!

Very nice change, I look forward to it.

@MajorMcDonalds

Machine guns are also getting an upgrade. For too long have you relied on bipods to properly counteract the heavy recoil of these monsters - but no longer. After the major update, going prone will reduce recoil by 2.5x more than before. Bipods remain useful and give an even larger recoil control bonus, but simply hitting the dirt will give you a much bigger and more noticeable recoil advantage.

Same again for the MG change, all small steps in fighting back against the SMG meta.

@MajorMcDonalds

Now it’s time to prove we listened. In the next major update, the Meteor’s 2x 1,000 lb H.E. M.C. Mk.13 bombs will be replaced with 2x 500 lb G.P. Mk.IV bombs.

I mean, its something, doesnt at all address the fact the majority of the complaints were about its turning circle, and honestly all the jets having insanely artificially buffed turning circles. Jets should be a trade off of speed for turn rate.

@MajorMcDonalds

In our next major update, you’ll get new winter uniforms for British and Italian infantry squads. As always, these designs are based on real historical photos and references.

About time, sorely needed and welcomed.

As a closing statement here, Im left hopefully optimistic here, I just hope I get to watch my hope crash and burn yet again, that would suck.

[Maraz6s]

@Stein_Grenadier

Ability to view other people’s profiles

Can’t see what this can bring to the game else than toxicity. Unless as long as we don’t have clans.

[Chris_Vector]

@Veekay45

All factions FFA 4v4?

Vanguard with Garand drum magazine and laser sight lol

[Maraz6s]

@MajorMcDonalds

we will be removing a number of “negative” base perk modifiers in any category from more recent premium and event squads

This change will apply to all premium and event squads.

Can you please clarify whether this very welcome change will be only for more recent premium/event squads or for all of them?

[Mladkos]

Honestly this sitrep could use another part, building upon the “operation transparency” with acknowledging what was handled well and what was handled poorly by the devs. It would show some level of honesty and good will towards the community. Then again the devs and their social media management aren’t too adept at reading the room when it comes to comms, seeing as they had the audacity to ask for “labor of love” steam award after seemingly leaving the game on life support to focus on Active Matter. I really hope that those promised devblogs will come soon and will include some outreach and acknowledgement of community’s concerns.

[MajorMcDonalds]

@Veekay45

Who on earth ever asked to have German Panzer division emblems on Soviet tanks, fighting for the Soviet side?

@Veekay45

Are you insane?

In fact, you can see the poll is not 100% vs 0% - it’s narrower than this. Obviously we’ll wait for more time.

We see actually in WT that many players want this type of thing. Of course WT does not dictate this game, so to be sure, we thought we’d do a poll to ask to confirm.

Doing a poll about it is precisely the best action we could do regarding it, and is what the community have been asking for - more of this type of thing, asking players first to confirm.

[Conscript_Joe]

@MajorMcDonalds

We see actually in WT that many players want this type of thing

A friend of mine wants the ability to put plane pinups decals on tanks also. I speak in his stead because he is shy. It is of course not me. I would never paint a huge pinup on my jumbo front plate, ever! But he would.

[Admiral_Wenli]

@MajorMcDonalds

We see actually in WT that many players want this type of thing. Of course WT does not dictate this game, so to be sure, we thought we’d do a poll to ask to confirm.

Right this is a bit concerning to see, since Enlisted and War Thunder have become very different games, I mean a large reason I left WT for here, is because how arcade like WT has been becoming, Enlisted however still have a nice balance of casual to realism.

[Dani32_MTB-psn]

It might give the idea of the Alps but it isn’t, from the landscape to that house, but it could be Slovakia or that area in general, i also hope for Manchuria

[BaronBrahman-live]

@MajorMcDonalds

Poll:
Would you like new faction roundels and insignia to be usable by more than one nation?

• 73%No

• 27%Yes

95 voters

I don’t see that ratio changing the majority of people don’t want Enlisted to become war thunder, if they wanted to play warthunder they would, at least then they’ll playing a game with more dev resources/ support.

[Dirktator_Dirk]

Yeah I kinda agree with this.

@MajorMcDonalds, could you give any insight in the future about for instance, the unpopular event structures, how small the updates have been, and the general concerns of the future of the game?

[IceySmooth]

@Veekay45

And McD is even suggesting that we allow Japanese decals on Soviet tanks in Stalingrad - like what are they even smoking there?

Dont dramatize

They gave a poll and asked for community feedback in this. Its currently a 70+% NO DAWG

Its very good to ask, and I appreciate the gesture, even if i agree with you

[IceySmooth]

@MajorMcDonalds

We see actually in WT that many players want this type of thing. Of course WT does not dictate this game, so to be sure, we thought we’d do a poll to ask to confirm.

Doing a poll about it is precisely the best action we could do regarding it, and is what the community have been asking for - more of this type of thing, asking players first to confirm.

Please continue to consult community in this regard

Plenty of us LEFT WAR THUNDER, precisely because of this reason (and because its 24/7 conquest hell)

[Dirktator_Dirk]

@MajorMcDonalds

This change will apply to all premium and event squads.

Will you guys also add an extra soldier to ther Soviet female medic squad or other unfinished squads? Maybe add on AT to the Medic squads so the squad is comparable to the Chinese Thompson squad?

(I promise to buy it if you do)

[c4qph2]

@MajorMcDonalds

Excuse me, but when this

will appear on your roadmap?

[MR_87]

@MajorMcDonalds

the Meteor’s 2x 1,000 lb H.E. M.C. Mk.13 bombs will be replaced with 2x 500 lb G.P. Mk.IV bombs.

What about kikka and F80
They also have more than 500kg loadouts

[Conscript_Joe]

Kikka have almost nothing else though. Probably the plane with the least ammunition of the game (planes without guns apart)

[Euthymia07-live]

@Maraz6s

Can you please clarify whether this very welcome change will be only for more recent premium/event squads or for all of them?

All

[c4qph2]

@MajorMcDonalds

Cloudy with a Chance of Meteors

If you remember from the last SITREP, we said we’d heard your concerns about the Meteor F Mk.3’s bomb load compared to other factions’ jets - and posts about it continue to appear sporadically on social media.

Now it’s time to prove we listened. In the next major update, the Meteor’s 2x 1,000 lb H.E. M.C. Mk.13 bombs will be replaced with 2x 500 lb G.P. Mk.IV bombs.

Maybe it’s better to keep the old bombs, but with a reduced effectiveness against infantry while maintaining their effectiveness against vehicles?

It’s a matter of opinion, but I absolutely hate the Meteor as a vehicle that obliterates half a team in one strike, but I absolutely adore it as a means of clearing out annoing tanker mold from the gray zone.

Also, a Meteor bomb crater is the best place to build a rally point. Especially on points that are just a f*cking field with rocks 4.