People forget how useful digging trenches is!!! You can be so sneaky. Turning open ground into protected corridors for an advance is so important, you can easily survive sitting in the middle of an artillery barrage or bombing run in a foxhole or trench. SHOVEL META
Like rushing into an objective and spraying down guys with a submachinegun is fun and super easy but it's so boring, might as well be playing call of duty 😵 building defensive points and trench systems ftw! Also bazookas and panzerfausts exist, the tank advantage isn't that strong.
I honestly love this game because I'm having fun. A feeling that's bringing me back to Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 1 days but Enlisted brings in a different way to play.
I have played enlisted for 2 years now. It has had its ups and downs but when you look at the big picture it is a very good game. I think that there are people who dislike enlisted because its "not historically accurate", which it isnt, it was meant to be historically based, not accurate. This means that it will only use weapons and maps from ww2, but you will not see them in the same quantities as they were used historically, e.g. you will see a lot of STGs, federovs, FG 42s, stuff like those which where present in ww2, but in much smaller numbers compared to how frequently they are seen in enlisted battles. Also if you invest some more time in enlisted and start watching content creators. You will definately find vids that seem to portray enlisted as a horrible game, run by greedy devs etc. However dont let these videos tell you that the game is bad. It is quite good but problems in enlisted tend to get magnified to unjust sizes by the playerbase.
I hope this game will be so successful so we will have a new type of FPS gameplay mechanics coming in to the FPS genre for new upcoming games - New ideas! This is awesome!
I like enlisted I really do if you have not played before definitely get at it the reason you hear it's no.good anymore is because long time players got screwed in the major update combining campaigns, I preordered Tunisia and Stalingrad had premium benefits for doing so and lost a major preorder bonus because of it it also screwed up progression as a lot of us had to go back and unlock things from campaigns we did not play to be able to continue the work we did have while historically makes sense to advance that way it was frustrating
Gun play is very good. Last I played the balance was quite off after the tech tree change. Final nail for me is a lack of a British commonwealth tree. Typical for gaijin who hate the brits
@@Pandacorps Nah it may feel like that at first but it isn't any different, the events require you to play 10H a day otherwise you miss out on OP premium squads that everyone is gonna be using which will make you fall behind quickly and if you're a new player it's even worse because you have none of the event squads everyone is using
Tbh the only thing i hate in enlisted is that i only have a br 1 tank ( Germany ) and i allready see like shermans or panzer 4's 😔 ( plus that the enemy always know's were i am and they turn around so fast i cant even shoot back and yes im new )
You probably got marked by infantry! Also try to keep all your gear at the same Battle Rating tier, so your tanks should only see other BR1 or BR2 tanks at most
Pointless to invest silver in and play with * Which they are fixing with the new update and changes to matchmaking rules You unlock all the extra stuff by completing tiers 1 and 2 :)
Hadn't played since the rework from campaigns to tech trees but recently went back in. When I noticed that I needed to grind over 1.5M exp to get back to the tier of the stuff I was at previously using in the Berlin campaign I quit again. I ain't coming back till they change that you don't need EVERY SINGLE THING before the thing you are trying to buy. It should have been only having to have the previous gun/vehicle like in Warthunder. If they never change that well guess I'll never play it again.
Been playing for a while, between the Tunisia and Stalingrad campaigns, and I agree with everything you stated, especially with how annoying the combined arms aspect can feel sometimes (and obviously the grind, especially since I played majority Tunisia before the merge)
Skill issue with the vehicle rant Anti tank squads are quite effective against vehicles, for planes on the otherhand a couple of AA built by engineer squads solves the issue
If you are a beginner try to use the engineers to build support structures like sandbags, rally points and ammo crates. Get your squad to guard a position away from the front so they don't get ripped up. Enlisted also has a console only option, which is a little more relaxed than the all platforms option.
Engineers are the most important soldiers in the game, and massively boost your grind. Every time an ally spawns on your rally, +35 score, everytime an ally kills a soldier damaged by your barbed wire +6 score, ally grabs ammo from your ammo crate +8 score, ally kills stuff with a machine gun you built get assists. Similarly, medics and especially the truck squads. (Med boxes give score when used, ally spawns on your truck are +50 score). Get a truck and a rally deployed and you're earning potentially +120 score every 10s even while dead. And you can (and should) put an engineer in every squad except the truck squad.
after downloading the game today on steam and having a blast i would love to have a bit more competent ai just to make the shootouts more interesting , and id say that the game is a mix of heroes & generals and red orchestra
I slowed down on this game when I saw what the grind was, but the silver/xp boost they added after this video was released made it twice as fast or even more. Everything is way cheaper, more silver is earned, and the weapon unlockks are much more charitable. The company also hired a well-known creator in the community which seems to have improved the updates. Love Enlisted!
The game is good but the issue is 5 things: 1-Grind is disgustingly too much. You barely get XP for anything, the cosmetics are over priced, matter of fact, EVERYTHING is overpriced to force you to pay real life currency 2-bugs (rubber banding when you switch to other soldiers on series x, rubberbanding when you pull out a hammer as engineer, hit animations but no hit markers, etc) 3-Nerfs (weapons, explosives & fire feel so nerfed. Why am i getting hit markers in ww2 game thats trying to be realistic?) Best damage model for a ww2 game is still call of duty world at war 4-Matchmaking is terrible, BR needs to be fixed 5-Player cant pick modes or maps. Too much random play will turn people off, random players with random maps and random modes? Who thought that this was a good idea? Game feels like inexperienced devs made it.
To unlock the Tier 3 of 5 of german equipement you need more than 2.500.000 XP. I pretty much average 5000 XP per game (without premium) so that means I need to play 500 matches. That means => 140+ hours => 6 days. Thats tier 3 only. For Tier 4 it's about 8 days. My stats are 60 kills on average with 320 battles under my belt on PC.
im about the same as you no premium or no battle pass i did allies f2p up to tier 5 that was a pain, Germany is easier due to a high win rate my total time for Germany is 2d 16h and im quarter way through tier 3 i average 5200-7000 per match i average between 50-90+ kills per match with a plane and engineers and machine gunners with a total of 214 matches played
maybe it's different on pc, but playing on console by myself got boring fairly quickly (roughly 80 hours in). when I play War Thunder on console, it would've been boring had there not been a chat to read and talk in during the game. since enlisted (to my knowledge) doesn't have that, it makes it feel closer to like i'm playing a massive game with and against ai. this could easily be fixed by just playing with someone though
Yea, Enlisted on PC has text chat, no team wide voice chat though. Only voice between party members, but everyone just uses discord. Cant even message people in game. If I cant contact someone on discord and I invite them, they have no idea what nation and tier I want to play at xD
Most fun i had is the custom match, there's at least one with full lobby or at least 30+ players no bots with every faction vs every faction (which is the most balance way to play in my opinion), every br can join, random map rotation (i only play Japanese (no way I'm spending more time to grind other faction lol) so having match with less green are refreshing(ironically)), plus for some reason the research points you get are significantly bigger make it easier to grind. the air, tank, and infantry mix are fun as hell, like battlefield but free. I wish the economy can get better so more people willing to join, i used to play war thunder so enlisted don't feel as bad but still, anything to bring more player
I have 1700 battle, start this shit 2021. it does not develop, it rather regresses.. 1. The game is too "intense". Even BR.2, Br 5 is senselessly "dense". 2. Unbalanced: Yes, sometimes directly unbalanced. In December 2023, when the "merge" took place, the game was balanced. Now you are directly unbalanced again. 3. As you said, tank camp and plane spam. If you only play with tanks and planes (if you bought a premium slot, you can do this very often), using only tanks and planes will earn you more XP than infantry. 4. The "meta" was broken with the parachute introduction. Many brainless people jump on the cap all at once -> turbo games. 5. Unbalanced squad mechanics. You can choose 4 assaulters or 4 paratroopers, which is by far the strongest. Once you've drawn a meta squad, you can use it indefinitely. 6. Manipulation with boosters. You replace the 100% booster from the paid (!) premium battle pass and you only get a losing battle. 7. You write your opinion, your proposal is censored, the toxic community (tank camper, plane spammer) starts provoking you. Like I said, I have 1700 battles. All events from the last 2 years are ready. I DO NOT RECOMMEND ANYONE TO JOIN IT!
I have over 3k matches and still can't afford to buy and upgrade anything i want. And I'm always with a premium time and use premium squads. Economy is in dire need of rebalancing, their last efforts were futile and only helped new players at BR1 and BR2 but nothing was done to help us with the insane BR3-5 prices. We need massive buff to the Silver gained and they need to remove or heavily discount buying stuff we just grinded out. I miss old Enlisted where you would grind something and get it for free. Balancing is done poorly they buffed or added insanely powerful weapons for the Soviets, Americans and Japan while Germany feels like it's been left alone with mediocre overcreeped weapons and only their tanks and planes are top tier (let's ignore G43 Kurz because not many people own it)
I tried for like 2 years to actually enjoy this game but the movement is too sluggish and janky for me and i just don't find it fun which sucks cause i really want a good fun WW2 game to get into
I don’t like the easy ways they change things in it first you fight your tumbs off for Some stars for your upgrades and now they remove two stars, your guns to win or play free are not that Good and kill 54 miljon tiger II’s to get to a next line is a bit fake
@@evo4fun606 They merged campaigns, but if you buy a cosmetic item for one soldier, you will only have it in for example Tunisia, but nowhere else. You have to buy it for him in every single campaign if you want to have it always. And that’s just one dude in a squad of 5 for example. That’s BS. Not to mention that merge turned the game from historical game into total mess.
Most of player .real human not the bots! didnt play the objectives, they just like doing useless random. game with no rules quiter and racist chat everywhere.
People forget how useful digging trenches is!!! You can be so sneaky. Turning open ground into protected corridors for an advance is so important, you can easily survive sitting in the middle of an artillery barrage or bombing run in a foxhole or trench. SHOVEL META
Also people need to build more
Like rushing into an objective and spraying down guys with a submachinegun is fun and super easy but it's so boring, might as well be playing call of duty 😵 building defensive points and trench systems ftw! Also bazookas and panzerfausts exist, the tank advantage isn't that strong.
😂 I love digging trenches and the AI would use them as cover. If you can setup on a great spot defending, you can have them get decent kills.
Aggressively asking for rally points*
@@RHizzleeI just get depressed when I hop into games and no one has any AT and I have to do it.
I honestly love this game because I'm having fun. A feeling that's bringing me back to Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 1 days but Enlisted brings in a different way to play.
Guys the video has now became a bit outdated since gaijin recently improved the silver economy and grind
I agree tanks are op… Some of the map borders are stupidly placed and shouldn’t exist imo
I have played enlisted for 2 years now. It has had its ups and downs but when you look at the big picture it is a very good game. I think that there are people who dislike enlisted because its "not historically accurate", which it isnt, it was meant to be historically based, not accurate. This means that it will only use weapons and maps from ww2, but you will not see them in the same quantities as they were used historically, e.g. you will see a lot of STGs, federovs, FG 42s, stuff like those which where present in ww2, but in much smaller numbers compared to how frequently they are seen in enlisted battles. Also if you invest some more time in enlisted and start watching content creators. You will definately find vids that seem to portray enlisted as a horrible game, run by greedy devs etc. However dont let these videos tell you that the game is bad. It is quite good but problems in enlisted tend to get magnified to unjust sizes by the playerbase.
I will try this game someday. Thank you for the review. Its is very encouraging with this new type of FPS mechanic gameplay.
I hope this game will be so successful so we will have a new type of FPS gameplay mechanics coming in to the FPS genre for new upcoming games - New ideas! This is awesome!
I like enlisted I really do if you have not played before definitely get at it the reason you hear it's no.good anymore is because long time players got screwed in the major update combining campaigns, I preordered Tunisia and Stalingrad had premium benefits for doing so and lost a major preorder bonus because of it it also screwed up progression as a lot of us had to go back and unlock things from campaigns we did not play to be able to continue the work we did have while historically makes sense to advance that way it was frustrating
Gun play is very good. Last I played the balance was quite off after the tech tree change. Final nail for me is a lack of a British commonwealth tree. Typical for gaijin who hate the brits
It feels like an actual insult, calling the tech tree 'USA'
As someone who has also played 1000 games of enlisted, all i can say is..i love the owen gun
I can't get used to the sights. It's incredible at hip spraying
I Agree but I think the Lancaster is better
The grind is so unbelievably absurd.
ohhh coming from warthunder it feels like heaven lol
Not really, it is pretty cool actually, you actually have to play for many games. Have some patience.
@@Pandacorps Nah it may feel like that at first but it isn't any different, the events require you to play 10H a day otherwise you miss out on OP premium squads that everyone is gonna be using which will make you fall behind quickly and if you're a new player it's even worse because you have none of the event squads everyone is using
@@Pandacorps Nah lmao, i have 6000 hours on WT and WT EASILY have beat Enlisted in ease of grind
@@Pandacorpswarthunder grind is better honestly
Tbh the only thing i hate in enlisted is that i only have a br 1 tank ( Germany ) and i allready see like shermans or panzer 4's 😔 ( plus that the enemy always know's were i am and they turn around so fast i cant even shoot back and yes im new )
You probably got marked by infantry! Also try to keep all your gear at the same Battle Rating tier, so your tanks should only see other BR1 or BR2 tanks at most
Really good explained how Enlisted works and Feels 😁
Greetings
I will say there is a point to some of the Tiers ... Some tiers when completed, unlock some equipment (such as grenade types and large bags).
Pointless to invest silver in and play with *
Which they are fixing with the new update and changes to matchmaking rules
You unlock all the extra stuff by completing tiers 1 and 2 :)
Hadn't played since the rework from campaigns to tech trees but recently went back in. When I noticed that I needed to grind over 1.5M exp to get back to the tier of the stuff I was at previously using in the Berlin campaign I quit again. I ain't coming back till they change that you don't need EVERY SINGLE THING before the thing you are trying to buy. It should have been only having to have the previous gun/vehicle like in Warthunder. If they never change that well guess I'll never play it again.
Been playing for a while, between the Tunisia and Stalingrad campaigns, and I agree with everything you stated, especially with how annoying the combined arms aspect can feel sometimes (and obviously the grind, especially since I played majority Tunisia before the merge)
Skill issue with the vehicle rant
Anti tank squads are quite effective against vehicles, for planes on the otherhand a couple of AA built by engineer squads solves the issue
I'm trying to work on the Engineer part but I need go research a new rifle for it apparantly
Even a hs123 can kill a kv1 tank.
If you are a beginner try to use the engineers to build support structures like sandbags, rally points and ammo crates. Get your squad to guard a position away from the front so they don't get ripped up. Enlisted also has a console only option, which is a little more relaxed than the all platforms option.
Engineers are the most important soldiers in the game, and massively boost your grind.
Every time an ally spawns on your rally, +35 score, everytime an ally kills a soldier damaged by your barbed wire +6 score, ally grabs ammo from your ammo crate +8 score, ally kills stuff with a machine gun you built get assists.
Similarly, medics and especially the truck squads. (Med boxes give score when used, ally spawns on your truck are +50 score).
Get a truck and a rally deployed and you're earning potentially +120 score every 10s even while dead.
And you can (and should) put an engineer in every squad except the truck squad.
Another great video keep it up!
Started playing recently because I miss Heroes and Generals (another ww2 game that was shutdown)
Another that fall because poor management decision and greed, hope enlisted wont joining them
after downloading the game today on steam and having a blast i would love to have a bit more competent ai just to make the shootouts more interesting , and id say that the game is a mix of heroes & generals and red orchestra
i still have guns from when the random weapon lottery was a thing
i have like 60 hours played and i’m enjoying it a lot i haven’t enjoyed a shooter this much since battlefield 1
This a pretty great video 👍
Great review homie
Nice review. I feel pretty much the same as you!
I slowed down on this game when I saw what the grind was, but the silver/xp boost they added after this video was released made it twice as fast or even more. Everything is way cheaper, more silver is earned, and the weapon unlockks are much more charitable. The company also hired a well-known creator in the community which seems to have improved the updates. Love Enlisted!
Gangjin greed needs to be checked…
💯
It’s way better in enlisted now
I mean they are selling premiums for 80 dollars now in War Thunder their greed cannot be checked
It's a free game lmao
The game is good but the issue is 5 things:
1-Grind is disgustingly too much. You barely get XP for anything, the cosmetics are over priced, matter of fact, EVERYTHING is overpriced to force you to pay real life currency
2-bugs (rubber banding when you switch to other soldiers on series x, rubberbanding when you pull out a hammer as engineer, hit animations but no hit markers, etc)
3-Nerfs (weapons, explosives & fire feel so nerfed. Why am i getting hit markers in ww2 game thats trying to be realistic?) Best damage model for a ww2 game is still call of duty world at war
4-Matchmaking is terrible, BR needs to be fixed
5-Player cant pick modes or maps. Too much random play will turn people off, random players with random maps and random modes? Who thought that this was a good idea?
Game feels like inexperienced devs made it.
To unlock the Tier 3 of 5 of german equipement you need more than 2.500.000 XP. I pretty much average 5000 XP per game (without premium) so that means I need to play 500 matches. That means => 140+ hours => 6 days. Thats tier 3 only. For Tier 4 it's about 8 days. My stats are 60 kills on average with 320 battles under my belt on PC.
im about the same as you no premium or no battle pass i did allies f2p up to tier 5 that was a pain, Germany is easier due to a high win rate my total time for Germany is 2d 16h and im quarter way through tier 3 i average 5200-7000 per match i average between 50-90+ kills per match with a plane and engineers and machine gunners with a total of 214 matches played
Thank god japan only had like half of you guys equipment so it took considerably less time to grind it
maybe it's different on pc, but playing on console by myself got boring fairly quickly (roughly 80 hours in). when I play War Thunder on console, it would've been boring had there not been a chat to read and talk in during the game. since enlisted (to my knowledge) doesn't have that, it makes it feel closer to like i'm playing a massive game with and against ai. this could easily be fixed by just playing with someone though
Yea, Enlisted on PC has text chat, no team wide voice chat though. Only voice between party members, but everyone just uses discord. Cant even message people in game. If I cant contact someone on discord and I invite them, they have no idea what nation and tier I want to play at xD
Pov:someone asked me what enlisted is
not only is the gameplay clunky and a chore, the grind is also crazy long, making this game horrible
After update everything is MUCH cheaper now:)
Most fun i had is the custom match, there's at least one with full lobby or at least 30+ players no bots with every faction vs every faction (which is the most balance way to play in my opinion), every br can join, random map rotation (i only play Japanese (no way I'm spending more time to grind other faction lol) so having match with less green are refreshing(ironically)), plus for some reason the research points you get are significantly bigger make it easier to grind.
the air, tank, and infantry mix are fun as hell, like battlefield but free.
I wish the economy can get better so more people willing to join, i used to play war thunder so enlisted don't feel as bad but still, anything to bring more player
I have 1700 battle, start this shit 2021.
it does not develop, it rather regresses..
1. The game is too "intense". Even BR.2, Br 5 is senselessly "dense".
2. Unbalanced: Yes, sometimes directly unbalanced. In December 2023, when the "merge" took place, the game was balanced. Now you are directly unbalanced again.
3. As you said, tank camp and plane spam. If you only play with tanks and planes (if you bought a premium slot, you can do this very often), using only tanks and planes will earn you more XP than infantry.
4. The "meta" was broken with the parachute introduction. Many brainless people jump on the cap all at once -> turbo games.
5. Unbalanced squad mechanics. You can choose 4 assaulters or 4 paratroopers, which is by far the strongest. Once you've drawn a meta squad, you can use it indefinitely.
6. Manipulation with boosters. You replace the 100% booster from the paid (!) premium battle pass and you only get a losing battle.
7. You write your opinion, your proposal is censored, the toxic community (tank camper, plane spammer) starts provoking you.
Like I said, I have 1700 battles. All events from the last 2 years are ready.
I DO NOT RECOMMEND ANYONE TO JOIN IT!
I have over 3k matches and still can't afford to buy and upgrade anything i want. And I'm always with a premium time and use premium squads. Economy is in dire need of rebalancing, their last efforts were futile and only helped new players at BR1 and BR2 but nothing was done to help us with the insane BR3-5 prices. We need massive buff to the Silver gained and they need to remove or heavily discount buying stuff we just grinded out. I miss old Enlisted where you would grind something and get it for free.
Balancing is done poorly they buffed or added insanely powerful weapons for the Soviets, Americans and Japan while Germany feels like it's been left alone with mediocre overcreeped weapons and only their tanks and planes are top tier (let's ignore G43 Kurz because not many people own it)
I tried for like 2 years to actually enjoy this game but the movement is too sluggish and janky for me and i just don't find it fun which sucks cause i really want a good fun WW2 game to get into
When the Draft comes back 18 to 26 year olds for the middle east, that game,wont be fun.
Finally not a “Haha Enlisted has bots lmao” review
I have 1000 games but all as germany… am I based?
I only play costume servers
So far, I enjoy the game. Playing on my steam deck, however the controls seem very janky and not very well mapped
Get yourself a docking station and start using keyboard and mouse. Trust me its way better that way.
I don’t like the easy ways they change things in it first you fight your tumbs off for Some stars for your upgrades and now they remove two stars, your guns to win or play free are not that Good and kill 54 miljon tiger II’s to get to a next line is a bit fake
wait you're one of the EVA?
Grinding in this game compare to war thunder, this one is quite easy and faster
I am done with playing console axis right now, not worth the pain
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It has became massive shit after the merge
Merge improved a lot about the game tho!
@@evo4fun606 They merged campaigns, but if you buy a cosmetic item for one soldier, you will only have it in for example Tunisia, but nowhere else. You have to buy it for him in every single campaign if you want to have it always. And that’s just one dude in a squad of 5 for example. That’s BS. Not to mention that merge turned the game from historical game into total mess.
Enlisted makes the finals look like a good game 😂😂😂
Most of player .real human not the bots! didnt play the objectives, they just like doing useless random. game with no rules quiter and racist chat everywhere.
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