Enlisted: Reinforced - War Thunder™'s retarded brother

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Kataskopos

Kataskopos

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I've played Enlisted on and off for the past 3 years and it looks like it's finally getting a steam release. Gameplay loop is dopaminergic enough, but the shit AI, weimar economy, powercrept premiums, etc are all hallmarks of a Gaijin product. Soon to be flooded by hordes of unwashed brazilians.
still fun to play as way to cool off for a friday night, plus no chat filter (yet)
 
I appreciate what it tries to do with having AI bot teams to inflate player count. I've rambled about that a fair bit on here, a lot of games want to go for scale by having huge teams, but then they run into two issues:
1) Individual players, unless Level 100 colonel sweatlords, can't really effect the outcome
2) Matches, especially if it's a smaller game, will have much more trouble filling up
And then you've got some titles, like Titanfall (only humans are pilot, everything else is basically shooting range targets in a competitive points scoring competition) and Battle Cry of Freedom (players are officers commanding units), that find a brilliant compromise by having the player and the bots be entirely separate gameplay-wise, so you get the best of large scale for the feeling and intimate teams for the actual competitive gameplay.

Add on that Enlisted has this idea that you can switch between soldiers and different squad members have different roles, and it's a brilliant idea. Except it's all for naught because the pace of WW2 combat and the braindead AI means that your own AI allies are never useful, and if you die then USUALLY the whole squad dies with you.

Aside from that, the tone of the game is terrible. It feels weirdly childish, but not exactly comedic. Just so sanitized and goofy with the way characters talk, in contrast to the way Battlefield 1 or some of the COD campaigns from when it was WW2 created tone. And then the missions end very abruptly.

I like the idea, but it needs much more work. That said, I'm glad they brought it to Steam, I'm willing to try it again. Everybody plays Hell Let Loose but that sounds kind of awful in the same way that Rising Storm 2 was very frustrating for me (the ratio of actual fun to getting shot down again and again, or waiting around, was not ideal).
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
Everybody plays Hell Let Loose but that sounds kind of awful in the same way that Rising Storm 2 was very frustrating for me (the ratio of actual fun to getting shot down again and again, or waiting around, was not ideal).
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Yeah between HLL and Squad I had to first try to apply little color-coded stickers to my keys and then get a new keyboard and mouse altogether to keep up with the C^3 demands at any leadership level and have to either commit to 20 minutes of balls-to-the-wall action or 20 minutes of trying to track down mute retarded 3rd world teammates and dying constantly while getting bitched at by some fucking nerd because I deployed a thing in the wrong place or was trying to actually do a tactical movement while we should have just been leapfrogging and FUCK THIS I'M ALREADY MAD *uninstall*
 
Red Orchestra 2 is better imo. It's much grittier and has better animations even though it's from 2011.

The voice acting in that game is something else:
Those death rattles are fucking haunting
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
Add on that Enlisted has this idea that you can switch between soldiers and different squad members have different roles, and it's a brilliant idea. Except it's all for naught because the pace of WW2 combat and the braindead AI means that your own AI allies are never useful, and if you die then USUALLY the whole squad dies with you.

Aside from that, the tone of the game is terrible. It feels weirdly childish, but not exactly comedic. Just so sanitized and goofy with the way characters talk, in contrast to the way Battlefield 1 or some of the COD campaigns from when it was WW2 created tone. And then the missions end very abruptly.

I like the idea, but it needs much more work. That said, I'm glad they brought it to Steam, I'm willing to try it again. Everybody plays Hell Let Loose but that sounds kind of awful in the same way that Rising Storm 2 was very frustrating for me (the ratio of actual fun to getting shot down again and again, or waiting around, was not ideal).
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The squad system is certainly charming but its implementation is scuffed. Squad members really are just a mobile parking lot you have to play around in a 50m radius while dodging ritalin junkies, HE shells, and CAS. The only real way I've been able to utilize them is environmental/weapon based, usually something like hiding them in cornfields on Le Perelle Village w/ MG34s or M2 carbines while spamming marks on point.
Funnily enough the squad system does have the effect of high uptime from the availability of living squad mates which makes dying to a sniper 200m away less frustrating. Combined with the goofy ass tone of the game it's a comfy casual experience, at least for me. I get a kick baiting schizos out of the woodworks and coercing people into typing TND for total nazi death since the game does attract a certain type of crowd.
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@Kataskopos Yeah that too feels awkward and cringe, but I love it too and it's a smart way to implement premium/paid content. It's kind of silly because for the most part nobody will see that you're Audie Murphy or the Memphis Belle or whatever, nor will you see it because it's an FPS, but I still like the idea. If they'd throw in voice acting lines or something (some dumbass taunt/boasting) it could work well. If there was a WW1 version of this (aggravates me they never did WW1 in War Thunder) I'd pay for Alvin York.

It's definitely comfy, it's far and away the most mindless, sit down and just click on things war game I've played. But the flip side of that is that it never feels elevated to anything better. It's the exact opposite, in that regard, of Rising Storm 2, which was 99% drudgery and pain and 1% PTSD flashbacks.
 
The Evil Midnight Bomber said:
Red Orchestra 2 is better imo. It's much grittier and has better animations even though it's from 2011.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WKUr_zwZP5khttps://youtube.com/watch?v=aV2l000OaNI
The voice acting in that game is something else:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ldNSMnEeKioThose death rattles are fucking haunting
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I liked all the little details in RO2 as well. Like the player-models of more experienced players are wearing more dirty uniforms and have their jacket sleeves rolled up. And I remember that in hot/summer maps, MG barrels overheat faster than on cold/winter maps.

There was even some popular mods at some point, for WWI Westfront and Ostfront, and WW2 Westfront.
 
In an absolutely stunning and brave display of marketing brilliance, Enlisted is now available on Steam for (despite being free on their launcher):
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Including previously discontinued squads (which were 10 bucks total originally):
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I have never seen a publisher so intent on burying their title on what is supposed to be a release intended to capture a wider playerbase on a much more accessible platform. It looks the filthy kikes at Gaijin™ still have a stick up their ass about the 30% cut Steam got for War Thunder.
 
Kataskopos said:
In an absolutely stunning and brave display of marketing brilliance, Enlisted is now available on Steam for (despite being free on their launcher):
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Including previously discontinued squads (which were 10 bucks total originally):
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I have never seen a publisher so intent on burying their title on what is supposed to be a release intended to capture a wider playerbase on a much more accessible platform. It looks the filthy kikes at Gaijin™ still have a stick up their ass about the 30% cut Steam got for War Thunder.
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Fastest downfall of a F2P game? Possibly. Enlisted was not doing so well anyway from it's first release.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
Is it still alive?
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Barely unfortunately. There is one full EU server right now.
millais said:
I liked all the little details in RO2 as well. Like the player-models of more experienced players are wearing more dirty uniforms and have their jacket sleeves rolled up. And I remember that in hot/summer maps, MG barrels overheat faster than on cold/winter maps.

There was even some popular mods at some point, for WWI Westfront and Ostfront, and WW2 Westfront.
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The only shitty thing about the hero mechanic is that being a hero actually gives you buffs which is kinda unfair. Screenshot 2024-03-30 112202.png
Your team also gets suppression resistance buffs when you're around them.
 
That low teir Axis Paratroopers are OP man. I just sat in one spot with my MG-34 and took 20 kills with one person alone. It doesn't help the fact that mostly Ally players quit to often, I feel like Russia is more competitive

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Well what do you guys think about the April fools update. I find it kind of hit or miss with the gun game mechanic and shit.
 
Medic said:
I find it kind of hit or miss with the gun game mechanic and shit.
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the funniest joke of it all is charging another 10 bucks for an april fool's battlepass to get most of the rewards
 
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