There has been so much hand wringing and general negativity concerning the effect on new F2P players about their apparent inability to acquire silver troop orders. Out of curiosity and boredom on a lazy Sunday, I created a new account to find out the reality of the situation. For me, my 1st battle (I know, mostly bot enemies) was as much fun as an battle that I have on my main account, in fact maybe more fun because I wasn’t frustrated by the play of others. I played Normandy Axis on the D-Day map. If it matters, the Allies were unable to even cap the 1st point, and there were a few jumbos on the beach.
After it was over I was awarded 7 troop silver orders through “achievements” and noted that Battle pass would reward me at least one silver troop order for battles 2 & 3. I also unlocked the puma and have a 4 man crew to grind with after using a single silver troop order.
I plan on fully upgrading my starter squads before I purchase anymore troops with silver orders. I just don’t see an issue attracting new F2P players. Some will stick with the game, some will quit. But the game was designed to allow the 1st several campaign levels easily. By then, many players will be hooked and will need to decide whether or not to continue.
These are the first couple of days, then the achievements will end.
And it will only be necessary to receive silver orders from the bp…
If anyone cares, here is a link to video showing rewards after my 1st battle.
It is a YouTube link but I don’t have a channel, I just used it to store the linked video
Personally, I only saw a need to use one silver order on the Puma crew because that will help grind XP.
I never said it was normal reward that will continue forever, only that it is more than enough to attract and hook new players.
We already know this. It is designed to feel like you will have enough forever to hook people then turn the supply off and force people to buy premium and the battle pass. Jump to a new campaign or even a new faction and bam nothing
And I’m only going to play against the Puma and Stuart for a couple of days?I won’t see the panthers and the M10… 
Or just delete game.
Which will happen far more often
My point is that the game has not lost the ability to attract new players. What might help kill the game is if they are unlucky enough to visit Reddit or this forum to read all the negative comments that experienced players are leaving. It serves no purpose, if you don’t like the grind after you have reached a certain point and no longer enjoy the game, just quit. It hasn’t cost you anything except time. All the complaining is NOT going to change the minds of the decision makers at Gajin/DF, it’s a very very small number of players making a lot of noise and they know this. I’m not defending their decisions, but it is what it is.
Or just simply try to play two campaigns. That should finish new players off real fast
Come on, most new players are going to focus on one faction of a single campaign until they feel comfortable. Not that many people suffer from ADHD. The developer knows that there will be churn and they have designed the game to hook new players. I see lots of people on this forum venting and posturing but I doubt that many will actually quit the game en masse.
a game doesnt simply need to attract new players, but to maintain them as well.
what will happen when in their 30th hour when they haven’t enough silver order to actually recuirt soldiers?
as i said before this is not wt no one is gonna play this bc its revolutionary, more sooner than later this title will be COMPLETELY forgotten and labled as “that game with IA and veichles”, if the f2p ppl dont want to grind this much.
Didn’t I read a comment from you in the last couple of days that you were quitting?
I doubt very much that masses of players will quit, just the comments on this forum support that idea.
In a month, the same people will be here complaining about something else, and on and on.
from playing 30/40 games per day im playing maybe 10, in the best days.
im playing only bc i dont have money for far cry 6 / battlefield 2042 and im bored.
Wow…I enjoy the game and today is Sunday but I’ve played only 2 matches, one of those on a brand new account. By the end of the day I might play one more match. For me it’s just a minor hobby, not an obsession.
for now i dont have important things to do and much more free time than normal, so im gonna enjoy it to the best i can.
I’m confused with the latest update. I can’t seem to get any soldiers unless I have a “silver soldier deployment”. Before the bronze soldier deployment could get you at least a low end soldier. Is this broken?
what do you mean with broken?
My dude, that’s like having the first dose “on the house”. Soon after, you’ll run out of bp rewards that contain silver cards and achievements to complete (or you’ll be unable to complete them, since some of them will be locked behind troops/gear that are unlocked later in the campaign) and you’ll either have to open up your wallet, get stomped or stop playing.
I won’t even mention the amount of mistakes beginners will make (speaking from my own experience) and repairing those mistakes will bear a hefty price.
Also, since you already know how the mechanics of the game work, you see everything with a different set of eyes and it’s almost impossible to recreate the experience a new player has.
What I’m seeing in this forum is that many are focused on “completing” multiple campaigns.
I can’t possibly be alone in actually enjoying the gameplay, no matter what level I’m at.
IMO, the veteran players who are active on this forum are not even close to the typical casual player trying out the game.
If the goal is to max out every faction of every campaign then F2P ain’t gonna cut it,but I’d also think that there is something else going on if you have that much spare time on your hands.
If a person just wants to relax and enjoy shooting weapons in a video game a few matches a day, then F2P is fine……there is no requirement for anyone to grind to max levels
What’s the point of having 4 separate campaigns, other than making grind longer and dividing playerbase.
Casual new player walks in to Normandy allies, play 3 fun matches (maybe lucky), spends his orders, patch with panther6 comes in and axis start stopming as balance is joke. Now he can’t try diffrent campaign to try to have fun, just play one campaign bro, why you adhd??
What’s the logic here?
You expext people to play 3 months, to maybe afford a chcance to play diffrent campaign?
Also maxing campaigns is joke now, as higher tier soldiers are no way possible to level for ftp, squads you unlocked further require 10k exp for first levels, with no premium that’s 50h to make it playable-just the troop number uipgrades.
So just to try and have fun here, you have to be frugal with your orders (i’m sure all the new players will be), play only one campaign, or HAVE FUN playing any other with just 3 man squads. Are You serious?