Suggestions from the perspective of a new player 3 weeks In

Ok so let’s get the big glaring issue most are fixated on out the room, Merge or Non Merge I couldn’t care less about it. I was too new to the old system to truly appreciate it, and the merge hit too soon after starting for me to have a bad opinion on it.

There are However some MAJOR points that are ruining the game.

  1. Reversed maps.

Whomever decided this would be a good idea should be made to play them solo for the rest of their life. Let’s not get caught up on historical accuracy, I treat these as a “What if”, and it’s pretty cool for it.

HOWEVER, and that’s a big however. The allies defending on Normandy is a typical of example of how this has not been thought through properly.

First of all, the Allies are being pushed back to the beach from in land which I suppose theoretically was possible. What has not been thought about is the spawning and Grey zones. Because the Axis Grey zone is so close to the Allied defend objective, Almost all but the few on the objective itself are in the Axis Grey zone. This leads to a situation where Tigers and Panthers are firing out of the grey zone impervious to attack from infantry or as required been flanked by Allied Tanks.

And the Balance Due to this is destroyed, We end up with a situation of Allies not being able to destroy the Axis Tanks and rally Points. Because they are all for the most Part in the grey zone. Don’t get me started on the Map design been backwards too. Choke points not a thing, and Allies standard spawn points are still on the Assault locations which leads to a massive time between reinforcements which the Axis don’t seem to encounter.

  1. Map rotation.

For the love of all that is holy open all the maps to the appropriate nations regardless of the BR. What you have done here is restrict content, content that could be a massive selling point to new players, Like storming the beaches at Normandy to high BR. New players are now not seeing anything but the same map rotation over and over until they increase BR, ACROSS ALL NATIONS.

There is every chance people will try the game and get bored and leave if playing Allies for example because all they will see is either Pacific or Tunisia, OVER and OVER again. Many will not even know if they increase their BR they will get other theaters of war. Let’s face it, people play games, they don’t read forums and stuff like that. They will leave thinking they had some fun, but ultimately they are bored of the few maps they saw.

  1. Battle rating

WTF! sorry but I had to say that. BR 1 (new players) face off against BR 2 and BR 3. Are you right in your heads?

BR 1 should only face BR 1, Who cares if its mostly Bots or not, let the new players stomp them and feel good doing it. They will level quite quick and get into BR 2 pretty soon.

BR 2 should only Face BR 2 and BR 3. Leave the new players alone and give the BR 2 a bigger challenge but nor a out and out arse whooping.

BR3 again should only encounter BR 2, BR 3 or BR 4. Don’t chuck them in with BR 5, Guys with squads still mostly using Bolt actions playing against entire squads of pre merge long term players with every type of automatic weapon are just cannon fodder.

BR 4 Again BR 3 or BR 5 see above for similar reasoning.

BR 5 shall only fight BR 4 or BR 5, if you don’t understand why, I suggest you look up the term “Seal Clubbing”.

This is my first, and shall be my last post here, If there are no steps towards resolving these issues by the time my Premium Time (27 days) runs out it shall be Adios from me to this Game.

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You forgot to point out one problem right there you’re using premium how do you think the F2P players will fare any better

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I can only imagine it is even worse, and they feel even more clubbed than I do.

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Good, now the community (no matter where it is) needs more new players’ voices, instead of old players always talking about cliches about balance.

I support most of your views, especially, DF has given up the last bit of historicity after the merge, so why not open all maps to all factions? We have seen KingTiger and stg44 in Stalingrad, so why not in Moscow? Why not in Normandy and the Pacific? I think it’s time to remove all the restrictions on factions and campaigns, as long as they are allies vs axis, it’s all OK.

Soviet vs Japan in Normandy? OK! Japan vs USA in Berlin? Absolutely! In this way we can show new players the depth of the enlisted map pool and the diversity of these factions, and attract new players to continue playing, and set stricter BR restrictions to ensure the new players’ experience.

As for historicity and authenticity? To hell with it! Anyway, DF has completely betrayed historicity by implementing a large number of experimental weapons and letting KT and stg44 enter Stalingrad and vg2 enter Moscow. What’s the point of deceiving yourself that this game has historicity now?

you’re right basically with everything, map rotation, if I was new player I would definitely quit, I hated Pacific and Tunisia in the beginning,

br1 bot matches is actually great idea,
then br2-3
and br4-5

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Nice they moved this Suggestion Post to a non suggestion related thread to die… Thanks I get the message loud and clear.

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