So many people will note that the server population for Enlisted is quite low, and this mostly comes down to bad dev decisions that I’ll cover briefly. These are just my opinions and mostly me venting my thoughts to see what others think.
- Mixing weapons from different nations across campaigns.
Some of this was obviously bound to happen, with Germany fighting in Berlin, Moscow, and Normandy, they would need to have some of the same gear. However, the introduction of the Battle of Tunisia, which was supposed to feature Britain vs Italy was just a copy paste of guns already in game with a handful of new ones added in. Not because these nations used the same guns, but because of the terrible dev decision to use these nations weapons in other campaigns when there were literally dozens of different unique firearms they ignored. This made a “new campaign” feel not new at all. And don’t even get me started on how every single campaign uses a stuka. This is just going to continue for every “new campaign” they add. It will feel like a copy paste, except for maybe a pacific campaign. It has truly dug the devs into a hole they can’t dig themselves out of.
- Terrible balancing
When it comes to balancing this game, the devs have been slow to get it done at the very least. This includes aircraft balancing where it took them months to do anything to fix planes being able to wipe whole teams. One side being generally stronger than the other (I’m looking at you Tunisia Campaign). And it includes some of their solutions to lower TTK (time to kill) by making most guns unable to hit the broadside of a barn. Some of the balancing they’ve done has been great, but a lot has been flawed in time taken to fix or just questionable balancing decisions in general.
- Matchmaking
This games matchmaking is hands down some of the worst I’ve seen. I can find a match in 3 seconds every time. Great, until I play for a minute and realize half my team is bots and most of the remaining players quit in the first few minutes. And the join in progress time is only for 30 seconds, not even in the first five minutes or so to actually let people fill in. Overall the matchmaking in this game has been bad.
- Unhistorical Additions
This without a doubt varies for person to person. But some of the weapons/vehicles should not be in the game due to not being used in that campaign. And for weapons that were used after that campaign it leads to massive powercreep Jumbo Sherman cough
- No attempt to balance the strongest weapons (late game rifles used by regular infantry)
While this somewhat ties in to my earlier suggestion, this is important enough to get its own category. There has been no attempt to really limit these. Full squads running around with FG 42s on Normandy is not even close to balanced. And there have been tons of suggestions on how to fix this that have been completely ignored by the dev team.
- If you don’t play, you can’t contribute
Requiring players to have to play two matches a week to be able to post thoughts on the forum is ridiculous. Just have a notification indicating that player hasn’t played since X day would suffice. That way if someone is talking about something people can see they don’t know what they’re talking about. But punishing players who take a break or step away from the game because they dont like the current direction the game is going means you lose those voices. This means the game will keep driving those players away instead of encouraging them to come back. I’ve mostly stopped playing, and them kicking me out of the community as a result ( I couldn’t post for a few months because I stopped playing a month or so after Berlin release) really kills my motivation to play their game.
I’m sure theres a lot more than this but these were the big 6 that stood out to me over the past year of experiences. Let me know what you guys think about this
