Enlisted Rising: 5 Improvements To Make 2025 Enlisted's Big Year

[@paradivision1362]

2025 can be the Enlisted's great year, but only if it stream lines itself into a truly high quality game. Here are the 5 paths to accomplish this 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 One big InfoRant to end 2024; 2025 will start with some long awaited guides & strategy videos. This video is 5 different topics I decided to fluently cover in one single video. Official Enlisted Discord Server: discord.gg/qtWjh96n Drama Free Enlisted Community on Discord: discord.gg/D52NFRpAfQ UncleBoomerDivision on Twitter: twitter.com/ParaDivisionYT 0:00 Intro 0:41 Beginner Friendliness & Ressources 14:22 Game Balance & Match Making 24:11 Remove Annoying/Bad Things 31:31 Impactful Improvements 50:23 Maps

[@ryanmichael74]

Paratroopers also need to be addressed either with occasional events or what everyone wants: tech tree

[@BrainDrilled]

devs just need to some being stingey and put the paratrooper events back up on a quarterly basis or something. Or add the squads they already made into the TT. Absolutely tired of the gatekeeping in this game. FOMO is such a shit game design. Oh you missed an event? Here spend all your silver on this gambling box with close to no chance you'll ever get what you want. Fucking shameful.

[@jaywerner8415]

Basic Paratrooper squads in the Tech trees would make sense. Basically remove the "create" and id call it good. After all being para troopers they tend to "pack light" so they would have only 1 Primary Weapon slot (so they would get the bag upgrade in perks) and a Pistol obviously, but they can pack ANYTHING they want into that Primary Weapon slot. And I mean Anything (rifles, SMGs, LMGs, Bazookas, Mortors, you name it), but thats all you would get besides your Sidearm.

[@sergeeduardodegernier5195]

​@@jaywerner8415 Paratroopers do not pack light.

[@jaywerner8415]

@@sergeeduardodegernier5195 Ok. I thought they kinda did. Basically your Gun and whatever you can carry.

[@norbertsznajderowski8142]

​@@sergeeduardodegernier5195 if you play without monitor and dont see giant parachutes, thats not designe flaw 😂

[@paujman]

The A.I. in Brothers in Arms was the bees knees back in the day. They could lay down suppressive fire and cover an area. Socom had some extensive A. I. Controls and these were PS1- PS2 era.

[@CT.Bartebly]

Great ideas. Regarding your idea of the "Gold" Engineer" reward. What if they gave new players a "Free" Premium Engineer 1 squad instead? This would enable Free to play players to access the Premium slot as well as give them a kitted-out squad good for early grinding. Then add the existing missions for build "X number of rallies which get spawned to" to give them an early silver boost. Giving them an existing Tech tree weapon early, like the M1 Carbine for Western Allies would let them a different play style early as well.

[@alanjamesh.zamorano1677]

That, and it's also time they change their so called "starter packs" to come up with an engineer

[@CT.Bartebly]

@@alanjamesh.zamorano1677 100%

[@D.A.V.I.D.36]

That aircraft carrier point is so true! I would hop in the dauntless and drive off the runway at full speed. Then i would slowly drift into the water while holding the mouse straight up. Of course, through trial and error I now know how to take off properly, but at the time it was beyond frustrating.

[@jaywerner8415]

Yeah I think I did that ONCE cus I didn't adjust the flaps. Turns out the Take Off flaps exist for a reason.

[@eelislummaa5383]

I still dont know how to take off...i just gave up using carrier planes all together

[@jaywerner8415]

@eelislummaa5383 ITs really not that hard..... I forget which keys they are, but you can Adjust your Flaps on Aircraft between 4 settings: Flat, Combat, Takeoff and Landing. Now for SOME aircraft they don't really care long as you build up enough speed (IE Fighter planes), but for Bombers like the SDB for example you need to set the flaps to TAKEOFF when your taking off from the Carrier to get enough LIFT or you going to fall of the end of the Flight Deck into the sea. After taking off you can set your flaps back to FLAT and you should be flying just fine.

[@redjul9065]

6:50 i see a good way to make it easy: on one corner or side, you have a System to show how many apcs/ relaypoints are set up. Players should be able to turn them off , but standardise it should be on.

[@MagicWisard]

Holy shit NOT finding maps online is unbelievably frustrating.

[@sylvananas7923]

One massive thing for tankers, we need to be able to pick our shells loadout, how much of each shell we want, especially to get rid of those stupid smoke rounds that only nerf your total ammo and reload times

[@endycore4920]

Let's see if Gaijin or DF will listen ..

[@CalDal_22]

I just desperately want greater first person animations. game has so much potential but I am always left feeling underwhelmed and not immersed because of the weird wobbly animations.

[@CapitanRastrero]

21:12 Exactly! Just because we have bigger numbers (on steam) than Hell Let Loose or Squad 44; doesn't mean Enlisted is successful. As a matter of fact after the Tigers of Burma update there was NO GROWTH (on steam). This could be because of the Holidays but I doubt it, and it should be a mayor wake up call for the devs.

[@SaltyMedic]

100% agree, great suggestions. It drives me crazy to have to wait to use a rally that I built, especially when it's the only one up.

[@hoanghung5542]

the one thing i hope they will improve in 2025 is animations. There is a reason why games such as battlefield or call of duty have so much players, their weapons animations are very impactful (cod) or very smooth ( battlefield). I am some kind of player that enjoy looking at those animations and feel of the weapon that somehow make me hype to play the game.

[@itzbraftoplayz7655]

A thing that annoys me is joining the game after everybody has already spawned and still having to wait 10 sec to spawn

[@paradivision1362]

right, waiting in that case is completely unnecessary (once a player picked a squad)

[@420-cannacat]

BR5 can be too quick, machine guns, lofs of and nothing but arty and plane bombs... br3 is where the most fun is at and i think veteran players also prefere lower br level fights, more chilled means more tactics

[@bbcmotd]

Yes, Russian players want to see summertime Russian campaigns because it wasn't just winter from 1941 to 1945. In fact, most fighting happened during summers because it's warm and bright.

[@paradivision1362]

yeah, but the game is already 90% summer. the game & its playerbase profits more from real snow maps. DF even managed to royally fuck up hürtgen forest by making a map famous for intense snow storms & rain into a....yellow early spring map.

[@bbcmotd]

​@@paradivision1362winter maps like Moscow/District are definitely needed but also we are tired of everyone thinking "Eastern Front = winter". Barbarossa, Kursk, Sevastopol, Bagration, Stalingrad initially, etc. all happened in summer. Yet literally every game has done Russia WW2 Winter.

[@deanabsol890]

Ya know... Enlisted need one more thing. Premium and Events squad must have an option to use other tech tree weapon, not just lock by their own squad weapon. Example like I want to use event Krieghoff Paratrooper. But I am not a fan of BR V. So I choose lower BR weapon. Giving them an appropriate weapon, either for making them playable for BR that they wanted to play, or the right tools for the job. Or giving the squad their historical accurate weapon like, 1st Yokosuka paratrooper. For some player who want to play the squad historical accurately. Not just some experiments weapon, yeah I know type Hei LMG is good but not really accurate. I always seeing premium and event squad other than their unique weapon, they have unique looking squad, just like Sniper Gehwer 41(BR III). Another feature that should added is... Battalion slot, technically an option to switch whole squad for the game. From defensive, offensive or all rounder. Giving player much option instead of one fixed whole battalion(All of our squad). There's lot of squad to choose, Some of them useful, and some of them useless in some occasions. If I ever play as attacker, I would use squad that focusing on offensive like Paratrooper and assaulter, probably Mortar squad. If I ever play as defensive, I would use squad that focusing on repeling them I would use LMG squad, APC or Medic. This is also apply to most arsenal that used for the soldier, just like AT mine and AP mine that more useful as defensive side but lesser in offensive side. Or like molotov and phosphorus grenade that useful for offensive side but not really much as defensive side. Depending on what player style would be.

[@eelislummaa5383]

Yeah, i think its stupid that the soviet paratroopers can swich their wepons but nobody els can

[@Rainaman-]

Hard agree on lack of fandom/wiki page with all the guns and stats laid out. The one page made for enlisted on fandom is old and lacks so much info. A game with so many guns, planes and tanks as well as in depth features do need an online "guide book". It also creates a SEO effect of serving people historic or model info to non playerbase who can stumble on to the game. A minor bonus but i think it's both quality of life thing and good ROI given how basic the task is. Maybe Major McDonalds could lead the effort there. One thing I do disagree is about sniper squad - new players lack battle sense, upgraded soldiers/squads. Sniper squad can do alright and be very satisfying. If skill based match making would be a thing, I would agree on the whole sniper squad replacement of engi squad. One thing that new players should get are default squads and guns semi-maxed out so they don't suffer as much. The asymetrical nature needs to flattened for new players as much as possible or else many casual gamers will just rage quit.

[@Ftw_wtf]

I absolutely agree with everything you said

[@redjul9065]

From calculations, entlisted has between 1-8million players, if the numbers they show represent certain characteristics. Wich is high, but without data like what matches count*like how are there only 0.26 veicle kills per game?* its only a calculated guess. Like how calculated, entlisted gas 50k players every time on average

[@paradivision1362]

that number is purely theoretical, as the daily log ins are around 10k id say currently. maybe 15k if it grew well in the last months. companies love cooking numbers by counting every player who installed the game once and then uninstalled again 3 years ago. when i was playing mtg professionally and was in the top 50 players for a few months the game was marketed as 50 million people playing it, but my competitors were only a couple hundred thousand worl wide and the 50 million include randoms who maybe played 1 day.

[@redjul9065]

@paradivision1362 from steam alone its 3-5k players all the time,

[@redjul9065]

Considing that most players gonna play 4 games most likely on a day; that means that entlisted gonna have about 80k logins per day on steam alone*roundabout *

[@CapitanRastrero]

1 to 8 million ?!??! Nah it peaks at around 5k daily on steam if you want to be genrous and say that there are 1.5× the amount of players who use the Enlisted launcher instead of steam then that gives us arpund 15k daily peak. Still very low compared to something like War Thunder

[@redjul9065]

@@CapitanRastrero i used the ammount of all games played this year, /365/60×17(this is the time each battles takes from my gametime average)×5(10)(20)(for ammount of players playing the game)(something in that range) Now we have to set how many games the average entlisted player plays; and we get average entlisted players online If we calculate all games per day /365×5(10)(20) and the ammount the average entlisted player plays per day(1,2,3,4) we get the numbers i gave you

[@markusgarvey]

The way I deal with stacks is just to be relentless and and keep recapturing the point. The stacks can be overwhelming, but if you dont give up and keep pushing you can prevail. Half the time other players will see and combine with my attack, and i try to keep having a rally around 100 m from the point at all times. And yes, this game is hard to learn. Being able to try weapons and vehicles is really helpful because the stats and hierarchy dont mean shit if you are not able to use the device effectively. I use all tier weapons on my br5 squads.

[@redjul9065]

8:07 the thing that the map thing isnt obvious. You have to go to developer map modification something to see the maps, no chance that a new player will ever find it😅😅

[@redjul9065]

In the entlisted file, there is something wich is a modding tool

[@edoardomilan3869]

In my opinion, we need: - a chat in the lobby, this increase quality of interaction with players, cause most of the times I don't play with my friends cause I want to play BR 2 rather than BR5 and I can't communicate - the devs must fix airplanes features, it's not possible that the upgrading system make the airplanes worse and it's not acceptable that an airplanes with 700+ km/h velocity get reached from the one with 550 km/h velocity - the tanks system also should receive an improvement, it's unrealistic that a 75 mm of BR2 can't make any damage to a heavy tank from the sides and close combat and they should put some option in the screen to see which part of the tank is damaged without pressing any button (tank system was very good in the game ' heroes and generals' for those of you who played that game) - new maps in new scenario (there is no battlefield in Italy for example) - the players making rally points or APC should have priority to spawn in their own vehicles/rally and like you say they should give new players some engineers gold soldier from the beginning

[@stevadr]

Balanced Matchmaking is Enlisted's biggest issue, that makes new players leave. It strange they "finally' seperated BR 3 from BR 1&2 Matchmaking in late 2024. Now, they need need Matchmaking where - 1. All players belong to the the same BR 2. Experience or skill level of both teams is Balanced 1. Is easy to implement. 2. Is not. For that, evaluate skill based on Battle Awards, not experience or tech research.

[@knoxs6653]

I’ve been playing br3 the most it gives me a good range of games I’m not stuck fighting 4 stack teams constantly and I can be playing anywhere between br2 to 5 and I have squads that can handle all BR’s-and the only thing that is really rubbing me the wrong way is spawning with the apc right next to you and he takes off and runs half your squad over and kills them

[@graczek1tolamus]

I only disagree by a bit with the stacking solution. I play in 3-4 stack sometimes with my friends who arent bunch of sweatlords. Especially as mentioned to counter lazy parasites who do not build rallies and use the built ones. That means that my team has usually at least 2 constant rallies instead 1 of mine which is constantly hunted down. Im sorry but it is a team game. If I cant rely on random teammates I get myself my own teammates who I can rely on.

[@redjul9065]

Also i support team based match making, to prefer the stack

[@zhangzeng]

They need to fix the problem of tank get stuck by the environment like trenches and little trees on the field，war thunder can do it so do enlisted.

[@jaywerner8415]

YES PLEASE! For fuck sake the whole point of tanks being invented was to drive OVER Trenches in the first place. The fact they get stuck so easily in them is mind boggling.

[@happyfeet7759]

That is so true, nothing makes me want to rage uninstall more than getting my tank stuck on something that would realistically never stop it and be left with a subpar assaulter squad 250 meters from the battle

[@jaywerner8415]

The Heck? Where my replay go? Whatever..... But yeah, Given the point of Inventing Tanks was to drive OVER trenches, seeing them get STUCK so easily in trenches is SO FRUSTRATING!

[@JackIsMe1993]

What's funny is the game has filters and postFX setting baked in to the engine exactly like Warthunder even funnier is how abusable these setting are on the backend you can literally set all vehicles to red glowing textures this has even happened to a few people I've seen streaming hell a few tournaments ago a team got the boot for this.

[@paradivision1362]

great you pointed that out, didnt know it.

[@paradivision1362]

@@JackIsMe1993 its funny how primitive these children are not grasping that this is not low life behavior but also will get them deleted from the game. i wouldnt be surprised if there are still dudes like that running around.

[@JackIsMe1993]

@@paradivision1362 So someone reported my reply as domestic terrorism and earned me a visit from the local police (1AM shrugs you replied to my comment I can't see it now ).....not what I was expecting for New Years but Oh well certainly a turn of events I didn't see coming :)

[@_plume2926]

Hey, former new player here. ''Former'' because I gave up on Enlisted after a few days of playing the game. To start with, the grind is absolutely awful (I'm a war thunder player, I know grind can get VERY bad, but in Enlisted weapon research and squad XP has way more of an impact on the game and isn't fairly balanced). You're starting in your little team with bolt actions and you go against medics with a full squad of SMGs... Furthermore, you can see the snail's greedy hands everywhere: every iconic or good piece of content is locked behind a paywall with ridiculous asking prices (even for a war thunder player, yes), want to customize your team's uniform? Well you want to pay for every squad member, for every front! It's way too greedy of a game to be enjoyable. You always end up having to fight against uneven odds and if you want to make it to a position where you can actually play the game, you need to sink in hundreds of hours.

[@xXDimistreoXx]

Slimy snail trail

[@slumphub]

The grind isn't that bad I usually get 20k xp a game if not more

[@friedrichborman7109]

The game is pay to progress yes I was stupid to buy 365 days worth of premium but at least after 140 hours I amlozny finished Axis research

[@redjul9065]

31:21 nothings egainst it, if you build it; you should get on it first

[@The_Dripiest_Duc]

If the devs aren’t going to give new players tips or more in depth tutorials, they should at least have a mandatory message that shows up for new players that leads them to the fourms or reddit pages. I have learned so much basic information just from asking other players.

[@jaywerner8415]

Medel of Honor Airborne or Allied assault I think. Hell Republic Commando has better AI then Enlisted does. But yeah it would be NICE if they leaned into the Squad mechanic alot more. Namely so they don't just act as extra lives and you still have to do everything yourself. Like you should be able to give them more orders then just "stand here" and change there distance to the player. Like if you have a AT soldier in your squad they will use their AT weapon to engage a Armored Vehicle at range. Would be nice if they could use the grenades you give them, instead of having to swap though soldiers like a mad man chucking a whole box of Explosives. If there are enemies on the point instead of GROUPING UP around the cap like morons, they actually "sweep and clear" as best they can, not expecting them to clear it by themselves, but have them BE AGGRESSIVE and "play the game" instead of just standing around in circles. Why do I mention all of this, Cus their needs to be a GOOD reason pick more then just Engineer and Radioman in every Squad. Like you _CAN_ set up a AT squad to be a "Ranger" Squad with 3 AT, 2 Assaults and MG gunner, but their is just NO POINT in doing that, the AI is not good enough. Seriously Enlisted may as well be renamed to ENGINEER WARS with how impactful Engineers are. Soldiers having RANK Ensignia's would be pretty cool, like every X amount of kills they go up in rank. So your newer soldiers will be privates, corporals, Exetera, meanwhile the Troops you have had for a while will be Sergeants, Lieutenants, Captains, Majors Extera. OH YES PLEASE!!!! Give US the ability to PICK GAMEMODES at the very least! Last but not least and I may regret this, but it would be nice if HE shells actually had proper Blast damage! For Reference your average thick walled Thermus is probably about same size as a 3 inch (50mm) to 4 inch (75mm) SHELL. And that Thermus is PACKED with TNT, even if it doesn't hit you directly the Concussive blast alone (and the shrapnel if that was a thing) would ether kill you, make you deaf and/or bleeding from your busted eardrums or knock you flat on your ass, back or belly.

[@colonelreb2688]

They should add the old campaign squads for gold. They should allow you to change the icons of your squad and name. Increases immersion and customization at the same. For example, if I have a rifleman squad with FG42’s I’d like to change them to a parachute battalion for historical purposes. One way to increase immersion after them adding tons of fantasy or uncommon weapons. They should add a special premium squad slot that is Rangers/SAS, SS/Brandenburgers, Guards/NKVD. That you can customize to be any squad type but get the premium bonus. They need to allow you to delete preset names for soldier loadouts THEY NEED TO FIX THE BUG ON CONSOLE THAT IF YOU DONT USE POINTER CONTROL YOU CONSTANTLY YAW. Paradivision if you read this please do another one of those big community things to draw attention to it. Pointer control is horrible on console and controller (the largest playerbase) and your forced to use it because of a bug that has never been patched

[@Fable148]

Hell Let Loose at least has a reason to worse in this regard. Like squad it is supposed to be more hardcore. Enlisted is not supposed to be that. I agree. Engineers should 100 % be either available from the start or receivable within a few mediocre matches. It is so stressful to be the only one who builds rally points.

[@ivarmagnusson8207]

I hope they make, that the enginer finish buliding the rally point

[@ZigaZagu]

The game is too God damn complicated as far as skills and the grind goes.

[@loysenoreilly3010]

What did you find complicated.... 😂😂😂. Or were you just too impatient to learn through practice...

[@ZigaZagu]

@@loysenoreilly3010 Its not about practice. I've already set up my squads and perks and all that shit how I want to. But its a pain and I dont think new players want to spend hours learning about all this shit and buying quipment

[@Fable148]

@@ZigaZaguHonestly if someone really wants to min/max loadout/perks then there is a video on this channel for exactly that.

[@bbcmotd]

In fact, this video shows one of the main things that need to be fixed in 2025: Tiger 2 shouldn't time travel to 1942 Rzhev. BR 4-5 shouldn't appear in Stalingrad and Rzhev (1942-43).

[@_unknown123.]

Yep... engineers and Wiki are good

[@BullFernando-p2d]

They need to add concrete armor customization for Sherman's. You get 0 additional armor, buy your tank is slower.

[@redjul9065]

54:30 i would make one small change about gamemode, if you wanna play attack or defense, you shouldn't be able to seperate it, by logic😅😅

[@redjul9065]

15:10 i have an issue with matchmaking. Rank based games as obtional is way better; due to the less trying to manipulate the system. Like if winchance is the measurement, people will build less relaypoints, etc. Rank based match making is way less disruptive.

[@sampel3660]

Carriers wouldn't be useful even if you had to choose between spawning in one or 10km away in the air. Is not that much about the extra time of the takeoff but of the time that takes getting good altitude and position. Well and the elephant in the room; its onesided to american aircrafts lol

[@cntipede1000]

Why penalize people who play with friends?

[@paradivision1362]

its not a penalty, its balance. if 4 people think its ok to play together, than its symmetrically ok if they play other 4 stacks 🤷‍♂

[@MagicWisard]

You don't. What you do is match based on grouping. So if you are playing with +1 person in your Squad, then you should be auto-matched with other players in a squad. That would create more balance than we have now.

[@Justimba9]

still no mouse and keyboard support on console?

[@ishtarofakkadt.6416]

Or the improved aim assist at least.

[@koifishjojo7947]

Yeahhhh need that controller is bad

[@Justimba9]

Oh yeah the aim assist hopefully they come out at the same time then Im will see if I prefere MnK or controller

[@Fable148]

Honestly wouldn’t hold the non-customizable AI against the that much. BG2 has it much better in that regard since it is mostly single player. If Enlisted change the AI wrong it could break the game. Also I don’t like the idea of the night maps especially if they’d look like Warthunder.

[@TovarishTony]

Reintroducing the campaign system in a more simplified manner like have to split early war and late war equipment would atleast try to win back the old players who left after the merge. Freedom of choice? used to be able to choose map pools.

[@myfartbox4prez882]

what is the button to parachute out????

[@paradivision1362]

the game kicks you out of paratrooper planes automatically. if you want to leave normal planes, its usually F.

[@myfartbox4prez882]

@@paradivision1362 Ty watch all your content, one other question idk if its me or my settings but i cant control my tail gunner on the me410, I have a guy in that slot and everything. Works for every other plane.

[@dd313jr9]

I don't understand how so many players are so bad at the game! No rally and barely 30 kills....like my internet connection is crap and my Xbox controller has stick drift....i can barely line up shots for more then 2 seconds before i get to looking at the sky and im still top ranked. And i dont be trying. Ive recently stopped trying after we lose a point or two and nobody has built any rallys...i stg its like only the eastern European sever has teams that build rallys....in Europe and US servers people refuse to do it...they prefer to run super far and get shot in the face by guys sitting on the point

[@ox3996]

52:35

[@happyfeet7759]

Imo stack vs stack system would be beneficial for the game only paired with some kind of skill based matchmaking. Im relatively sweaty player but all my friends i play with are just having fun and don't try to minmax at all, playing together gives us minimal edge, and my winrate isn't much higher when playing with them. If we would be paired with sweaty four stacks all the time they would just get disheartened and quit playing. Now, i do understand that being a stack gives advantages but i think that system should pair good stacks vs good stacks and casual stacks vs casual stacks instead of messing up casuals, possibly making them quit.

[@maineiacman]

Skill based matchmaking is a terrible idea. It ruins everything its in (Look at CoD and Halo)

[@LipziG3R]

And then there are countless games that are huge with skill based matchmaking. Maybe don't pick just 2 examples that fit you. lol

[@koifishjojo7947]

Warfare is better than enlisted stay enlisted we will die for the snail!!!!

[@Ditto4119]

Wowww Para you brought back some very fond memories for me upon mentioning Baldur's Gate 2! I myself only finished the saga about a year ago now on New Year's Day of 2024, but you were not at all exaggerating when you said it's one of the greatest games of all time. My already high respect for you just got 9999x higher, a man of true culture and taste! 🫡