Now that Gajin has added infantry to War Thunder (even though it’s currently only in beta), how might this affect Enlisted? Could both games coexist as they always have? Or will this new game mode finally bury Enlisted? Personally, I think it’s unlikely the two games can coexist now; they’re practically the same game, only one is stagnant and the other is much more advanced. For now, we know that War Thunder’s infantry will remain in the modern war era, but it’s obvious that in the future it will cover more eras like WWII, Vietnam, etc. Furthermore, War Thunder is a game that offers more features; it’s more polished, has a larger and more skilled development team, which makes it much more appealing than Enlisted. In fact, War Thunder’s first-person animations already look better than Enlisted’s, and this is just the first beta. War Thunder’s infantry, far from being an option or answer for those of us who wanted more eras for Enlisted, is more of a direct competitor. In any case, do you believe that both games can coexist?
well enlisted and warthunder are similar but not identical, for one thing tanks in warthunder seemed to be made of gunpowder, filled with propane, and covered in gasoline. if infantry prove to be equally as fragile i think enlisted has a good shot of surviving. enlisted feels like in between world of tanks and war thunder.
Enlisted will most likely continue to exist but chances are that WT infantry edition will kill any growth potential enlisted might have in the long run.
If WT infantry is to succesfull and doesnt just end up as the ugly stepchild nobody want like naval then it might be a diffrent story as then it might actually be able to convert then existing veteran playerbase at which point enlisted would be doomed regardless of what the devs do.
well i havent seen it yet but if tank in that mode have 3rd person it probably wont be as fun as enlisted imo.
to my point of view game is cooked
and developers never fixed any of the bugs we have been reporting for YEARS maybe war thunder devs are gonna be more competent maybe…
Even if WT could potentially go to other eras that probably wouldn’t be for a long time anyway
Enlisted devs silence regarding War Thunder infantry is depressingly loud.
So much for “transparency”
To be fair I am still confused how the devs will try to fix the problem of 3 seconds autoloader tanks spaming HE 24/7, the casual 40mm coax AGL of some tanks or helis with 100+ rockets in their rocketpods making everything suffer that tries to move.
HE spam in enlisted can be bad but in WT everything will be just so much worse.
I watched the live and to be honest, WT’s infantry mode is terrible. If it were an indie game, there would be no doubt that it would fail.
But it is a sub mode of WT, which gives it huge attention and potential player base. This is exactly what the Enlisted lacks. For commercial companies, Enlisted has no growth point.
Is there a recording? Now I’m actually curious to see what’s so terrible that it’s even worse than Enlisted.
It is on the official WT YT or twitch channel.
In my opinion, it looks… pretty nice, though a bit clunky for now. But a shooter with bot-squads…
It was like replacing warthunder vehicle into one single weapon
Weapon will show you how many soldier in that squad, when spawn they will all have same main weapon
But soldier in squad can have different side arm like AT,AA launcher and nade tho.
It’s like an Enlisted analogue within the existing WT framework.
Aside from the WT vehicle spawn point (SP) mechanism, imo it’s worse than Enlisted.
And seem like our old friend major is hired by gaijin not DF
That’s what I figured. Essentially, it’s just another ‘Fleet’ situation, cut off from the rest of the game. I hope they eventually find a way to bring infantry to the main maps. This fragmentation of the player base into ‘micro-reservations’ is totally unjustified.
And taking the risk of losing old WT playerbase? I don’t think that would happen
Not every WT player want to play with infantry
Many players don’t want to deal with helicopters or guided bombs either, but they put up with them. They could surely tolerate some poor infantry if it meant giving them 1 or 2 capture points. I think it would be much more interesting if IFVs and Mi-4s/Hueys actually did their jobs instead of pretending to be attack vehicles.
That is not planned and I doubt that most players would want to do a casual 2 km jog between each objective if they are on foot.
It will.
On dev stream it was clarified for infantry in WT to be planned from Korean war to modern, so far.
So no WW2, with exception of weapons that were used in Korean War.
But that’s exactly the point of WT — for infantry to be able to use some kind of vehicles (ideally including air). If it’s just shooting AKs, then… what’s the point? Warface is definitely not what people want from WT.
What do you even mean by main maps?
Maps for air battles? Because that’s the OG mode of War thunder, not ground battles.
And I bet most of WT players would prefer to not have infantry added to ground battles.