You might want yet another campaign so we can play forced 1v1 (rest are bots) in random matches, but to be honest, I would prefer devs focusing on gaining playerbase for current content first.
That includes fixing/replacing placeholders and polishing current content in overall.
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We will get that campaign eventually. They will have to do something along the lines of putting the campaigns on a rotation every couple of days or the player base might get to spread out to much
Not really if anything d-day has been overdone and remains to be the most popular choice for ww2 and Hollywood naval invasions
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Luckily the D-Day isnt overused too lol
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Nanking, Shanghai, Ichi-Go, or Khalkin Gol when
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Well this indeed isn’t twitter, so don’t overreact like a twitter user.
But besides that, there is a guy, I think from Japan (I mean, he definitely knows Japanese) who made some great suggestions about the possible campaigns set in the Pacific theater. Here are links:
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As a Pole I’d like to see both “western front”, as you called it, of the 1939 campaign, so Poland vs III Reich, but also the “eastern front”, so Poland vs USSR. But that probably won’t happen for many reasons.
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I personally think playing through the invasion of poland sounds rad as hell. No semi-autos, no PzIII or newer, maybe some actual cavalry. So fun.
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Definitely cavalry (and in case of the Poland vs USSR, probably on both sides), but unfortunately Darkflow has all the semi-autos they need:
- For Poland they have the Kbsp wz.38M (in the engineer premium squad in Berlin),
- For Germany they… Well, they don’t have anything because Germany didn’t even have a semi-auto rifle program, but they would probably use the ZH-29 since, even though they deemed it too complicated and overengineered (which really means something when said by a German), it was available to them at the time.
- For USSR they have the SVT-38 and the AVS-36.
And although the ZH-29 was never used by Germans, neither was the wz.38M rifle used by Poles (except supposedly by its designer: Kbsp wz. 1938M - Wikipedia), and I don’t know anything about Soviets using their rifles in the campaign (SVT-38s were tested in Finland), Darkflow doesn’t seem to care, as they have put the Armaguerra Mod. 39 in Tunisia besides it being about as experimental as the Kbsp wz.38M.
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Yeah, they’d probably add them, but I don’t have to like it. Poland would be an opportunity to get it right on what was there, but you’re right.
Finland would be another cool one to play, though, and the historically correct place for them to add the Federov.
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Gotta love that people keep insisting that they’ll enjoy playing a Pacific Theater campaign. I’m quite certain the player base would be almost identical to Tunisia, where nobody wants to play Axis because Italian kit is pretty much universally inferior. Considering the Japanese wouldn’t have German kit to augment their shortcomings like the Italians do, I anticipate a very Allied-heavy player base.
As a person who likes chill games with mostly bots I’m not bothered by this, but if people think folks will be lining up to play as the Japanese they’re woefully mistaken.
I was about to suggest that they could do guadalcanal with relative balance, but then I remembered that the Johnson LMG and Rifle were both reportedly in USMC hands for that campaign. The japanese just didn’t have much that would compete, although their rifles are pretty good, passable SMGs, and arguably better LMGs than the USMC had available, but I can’t say you’re wrong.
The Japanese have many experimental/copy weapons to fill in any gaps. They have enough tanks (experimental or not) as well for a fair fight like in Iwo Jima or Saipan.
If there’s a thing this game doesn’t need, it’s more ahistorical shit in the main lines. That stuffs fine for premiums and rewards.
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Thank you for introducing my suggestion.
Generally speaking, battles of Asia-Pacific war are unbalanced, but I think both battles I suggested are relatively better for game. In personally opinion, Shanghai seems to be more interesting than Philippines because there are lots of unique weapons, varied types of battlefields, and above all, both forces’ weapon are well ballanced.
We can fight around suburban fortification (Seeckt line) and modern city which is have unique mixed culture of Chinese, Japanese and Western people (In that time there were Settlement. It is reason why Japanese garrison were there). Additionally, Chinese had the best army with well-armed by various rifles, SMGs, including decent tank that is on par with the Japanese. In other hand, Japanese naval garrisons had unique various SMGs different to the army.
After this battle, Chinese lost there best army, and weapons are replenished by Soviet and American weapons so uniqueness will be decrease.
Among other battles involving Japan, the battles of Burma and Malayan may also be interesting. Especially in Murray, there is a capture of Singapore, one of Britain’s largest bases, and you can enjoy two battlefields, the jungle and the modern metropolis. Also, unlike the US military, they do not have many semi-automatic rifles.
However, in this case, the lack of submachine guns on the Japanese side may be a major problem. Basically, only the Navy garrison was equipped with SMGs until the Type 100 submachine gun was started to deployed since late of 1942.
Either way, we need more population to add new campaigns.
We may expect more East Asian players by setting the battle in East Asia, but before that, developers should prepare a server in East Asia first. Now I’m playing this game from Japan, but ping is reaches 200-300!
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In Saipan and Iwojima, they had only Type 97 Chi-Ha (57mm/ 47mm) and Type 95 Ha-Go.
Decent armored vehicles (anti-tank SPGs like Type 1 Ho-Ni I, Type 4 Ho-Ro) were fought only in Philippines, and other decent tanks (Type 1 Chi-He, Type 3 Chi-Nu and few other prototypes) were staid in mainland until the end of war for their last battle.
If they want to implement such battles, they need to select “unhistorical” weapons and some people may be dissatisfied.
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The whole game already has that. There were no jumbos in Normandy, or mkb42 in Moscow.
Count on Japanese experimental weapons being in Pacific campaigns.
Sure.
But in case of Japanese, all semi-auto rifle (except for captured rifles), almost all decent tanks that can destroy allied tanks, and anti-tank rocket launchers (except for naval rocket launcher in Manila) had never seen battle. I feels like there are too many such weapons…
Although, for game such weapons are good.
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If you want to believe a bonk on the head and pointing out the issues with the post is the same as the twitter hate mob you can be my guest, not my problem.
As for the links, those were the reason I pointed out the expected quality in the first place as I have seen well made pacific campaign suggestion posts.
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Make it interesting then, Japan vs China.
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