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As an Axis high tier main, I've lately noticed that I'm the only one building rallies, people using STARTER weapons at BR 5 and people with 9 squad deaths at the end of the game with only 4 kills.

>Germans easily in the beginning >Starts losing to the Allies Just like real life

Another problem is that German players get divided among soviet and US queues, not so much a problem in low tier but high tier is f-ing crippled due to it, since most of the times there's 2 or 3 tier V players, and the rest of the team is tier III, making them have to fight about 5 or 6 high tier soviets/Americans, and that's simply an incredibly hard fight to win

As someone who made the mistake of starting as Japan a month or so ago….I was not aware you could win matches for quite a while. I assumed the point was just to see how long you could delay the loss. It feels a tad better now, but that was a brutal start. I spent most matches wishing it would have just let me keep playing against bots for a while longer

I love how in War Thunder “Germany suffers” is ironic, but it’s actually real in Enlisted, wether or not its players or weapons

I am a German main before and after the merge. Back then we were Blitzkrieging the match and it felt to easy to grind points. Now we are literally being stormed by US paratroopers with US Thompsons, Bazookas, and P-47s from every direction. Some of these players have some eagle eyes pointing out the perfect coordinates.

I call this the see-saw phenomenon - one side carries the most weight and then forces the other to be lighter (and easier to play), but once something comes up it always come back down for the other side. Germany will probably see a resurgence once the steam version releases.

I remember when the Italian paratroopers came out. When it happened the couple months between that and the merge it was almost impossible to win as Tunisia allies

Playerbase < Matchmaking TBH Stacked players should face other stacked players in a game(should be mandatory), not solo players facing a stack of sweats on the opposing side unless they have a stacked team on their side. Players with specific battle-rank should be distributed evenly and not engage against a bunch of marshals or generals from the other team while you get newbies assuming they know what to do. Leaving a match should be heavily penalized, timeout, or zero exp gain and it affects WR if that match they left is lost.

As a german Main my teamates always walk arround the god damn point

As a axis veteran I can confirm that rn that most axis players lack braincells to do more than rush to the objective and missing 90% of thier shots

The axis faction may be losing in public matches but it doesn't help that we're mostly stuck with defender maps most of the time and the allies have perfect weapons for room clearing and breaking through objectives and I'm looking at you rocket spam

Finally someone who actually understands the source of the problem. Still, giving some sort of reward for playing with the "all factions" setting on would be the easiest solution to this dilemma

Reminds me of War Thunder... Germany Suffers

I'm a Soviet main and noticed that sometimes there are phases where I can't win a single game and then there's phases where I never lose.

The only reason I really used Germany was to get all the Italian stuff, after the G55 I switched to USA

The axis getting steamrolled by the allies is just historically accurate lmao

If developers don't incentivize "play any faction" as the default option, this is bound to always happen. Even giants like battlefield can't afford to divide the playerbase by factions and mains.

German main, of course i don’t play BR 4-5 because full sweat against, but low tier is still a bit painfull especially when the game put you against BR3 and you suddently can’t pen ennemy tanks, planes got rocket and ennemies got full squad of 9 SMG/HMG somehow , and ally are as good as abscent, been 1st is rewarding at first, but 5 times in a row with more than 1k more than the 2nd is a bit boring, especially when it’s all defeat

Closed alpha test veteran here, I concur equipment was never an issue, except maybe for some exceptionally poor or massively overpowered tanks at certain tiers in certan factions. Unstable player base distribution among the factions have been causing this issue since the very beginning and Enlisted is constantly glossing over the fact by filling the teams with bot players with real player sounding names. I guess they're using that dynamic to sell premium squads hoping that most people won't notice that what they're perma-dominating are teams that have one real player at best. Here's some signs you might be the only real player on your team: - When you're attacking in Assault and the only point ever captured is the one you're capturing while your teammates fail to even contest the other one. - When in invasion, a bot team defending will put up no resistance and the enemy will run through each defense in less than a minute because a capable player will realize there's no need to smoke out pockets of resistance because the bots lingering around are no impedance to him making a run for the next capture point. Conversely, when a bot team is attacking, they'll fail to take the first capture point as the bot squads keep running into the same kill zones where the savvy opponent may have erected a stationary machine gun to keep mowing them down. Additionally, the enemy will have no difficulty going into the offensive and repeatedly raiding your engineer's spawn points out of commission and even erecting a forward defense at the very boundary of their battlefield. - The inherently dynamic conquest mode will turn rather static as you are only able to contest a single capture point while the others are always in the hands of your opponent. So no, Germany alone doesn't suffer. Enlisted suffers and that's Enlisted's fault. If it's annoying to you, then stop playing until things have shifted again and playing is fun and balanced again. Don't fall for the feedback loop of frustration that Gaijin is so fond of capitalizing on. Fuck that asshole snail, even if it makes some sick looking games don't let it hijack and control your life.

i remember when this game was casual fun when it released, just more games being ruined by the modern mindset of everything has to be hyper competitive

A big problem with axis seems to be the maps. At least half of the maps have a massive bias against them. Tractor factory is a prime example, every time I see that map half of the German team instantly quits because its both miserable to play and basically unwinnable. Goebbels street is another one. Basically unplayable from the spawn on the side of the mannor.

I remember in campaign era I was 78% win rate in Normandy and 82% in Berlin as axis Now days I stay under rank III if I would like to win in axis

I just gotta say that thumbnail is a 10/10

Major be selling his soul to the snail and jumping on the “Germany-Suffers”-Armored-train just so he doesn’t have to make a new golden weapon order review But jokes aside I’m still waiting for that review tho

I literaly had games with axis where team surronded obejctive with 5 rally points and still somehow lost against Americans... Still have no idea how

I was an axis main for a long time, since a year after enlisted's launch, and after the merge I stopped playing rank IV-V on axis entirely

I remember when they inaugurated the infamous Stalingrad campaign, and its campaign pass system. I completed that campaign on the Soviet side without buying the pass, facing Mosin carbines against SGT42. In that campaign the imbalance was noticeable, even more so between premium and non-premium players. Since many premium players finished completing the high tier within a few days thanks to the experience bonus. The Soviet side was very abandoned, most of the time I had to play with allied bots that only went to the front to die in a stupid way and harm all the effort I had made to capture a point. I can't believe that in 2024 and after the merge there are so many people crying because they took away the possibility of farming points easily.

didnt they say at one point that they want to give xp boost if you play a faction that is weaker at the moment?

i almost always play Germany and i don't see it suffering

To make it absolute balance, USA - Air Superiority Soviet - More ManPower (Squads, Basically 10 Unit per squad or more) Germany - Armor Superiority and equipments Japan - Ability to deal 2x less damage when using banzai

Oh brother I cannot manage to get a tier III gun without being thrown at a tier 5 bullshit feast

Formerly an Enlisted player, I played both German and Soviet armies but I progressed further on the German side. Played mainly in the Stalingrad Campaign because I enjoyed fighting in the city, and around snow covered factories in the country side. Before the merge, I could just buy items for specific campaigns because I was good at doing challenges but now I have to grind to unlock things I use to be able to just buy. The worst part of the merge is the destruction of historical accuracy in terms of armourment. I was thrown off seeing specific tanks, and guns that shouldn't be in certain battles. I miss being able to select specific battles I'd like to participate in. Likely I'll never return to Enlisted but I had a lot of fun playing it till the Merge.

The first thing I thought when this whole meme started was "Didnt allies used to suffer in Normandy and Japan dominate in Pacific". Glad to see someone bring it up. After playing Planetside 2 for years this same stuff would happen every month, and it all came down to population and the groups of people who were playing and actually playing well. One faction would get a really good weapon people would complain on the forums, and then you would play an opposing faction in a good team and dominate said weapon users with ease. It truely is for the most part psychological.

American Teams when you play axis: basically space-marine-doomslayers American teams if you play America: Can't get the first cap, even if it is the one u cap in 10 seconds.

Major McDonadds lost at combat since February 27 2024 RIP Major McDonadds Enlisted will add more but you will never add more to KZfaq.

@00:13 Stuka? Bro u drunk or something?

I've used to suffer, but now I am running both ass 4 squad and Horn stg squad and my experience improved significantly

Dude, you put my Reddit post in your video! That’s so cool to see

so I played the axis faction yesterday and I think that its regaining a playerbase again, but the problem is that most new players either choose the US or axis faction at first, and by now they will probably earned a gold weapon order by now and spent it on a late game weapon like the FN model etc, and they dont know that those weapons automatically put them in high tier matches, and with the current tech tree (which is miles better than before the merge, I was wrong) doesnt give players a clear sign of engineer squads, and because of that the new players dont know the significance of engineers, and then the high tier matches have players who cant really contribute much in rallies etc. and then the few players who remain playing tier V axis matches leave because they just solo carry the entire team only to no avail, but now i think its going back, its like keepy ups, the ball changes foot every or every other kick, just like the player base at every update or so

Enlisted was fun during the alpha and super early on when it was just bolt actions, SMGs and light tanks. Now it's everything wrong with war thunder: Infantry edition

God damn it man, this is actually amazing. Not even a day later you posted this video, the axis powers win every match by a large margin... Fantastic.

Hey I hope you could make a video about the Japan faction, since like in lower BR you lose like ALL the time. It also doesn't help that American tanks are so op like for example the Mk1 Grant, no BR1 tank of Japan could pen that, even the ha go tank (the one with the most armor in BR2) unless you know the weakpoint. Life is pain man playing as Japan

Kinda funny how post merge I’ve done like around 20 berlin matches and only won 2 of them as Germany, both conquest mode because motorcycles don’t win games lol

Soy jugador de todas las naciones, (menos Japón) y hay demasiados panzer 3 en la línea de investigación, tier 3 es complicado, las armas son poco variadas y están “nerfed”, y las opciones son limitadas, los estadounidenses son la mejor facción actualmente a mi parecer, la más equilibrada y divertida. Comentario escrito en español para evitar conflictos con la traducción.

As a War Thunder player, you've gotten me interested in Enlisted. GG sir.

I've honestly never had a complaint about being a Germany main. I'm still grinding the tree, and all the good players are against you, but the weapons are good and the variety of maps is excellent.

I ended up quitting because 7/10 matches ended up feeling boring because my team would just crush the enemy team. I couldn't get any kills all the obj were done it was just boring while the enemy team had no rallies kr anything

I am in the video lol. (Simon von Prajz)

I survived the dark days of axis Tunisia main b4 the merge. I learned to embrace the suck and learned to have fun whilst the defeats by learning how to troll the allies.

"Clans" are not "ahead of the game". They are just regular players with discord and high tier stuff. In fact, their stacking is what ruins the game.

you done making content brother?

>be new player >finish doing event for HornSTG >use it as your only t5 squad >say Germany suffers.

I just downloaded this game on steam and instantly saw this video... we really are being watched

Great analysis, hopefully it will help people let go of this silly “faction suffers” ideology and just play the game :)

I am suffering as an Axis player, I've just lost 3 battles with boosters in a row, I kept losing because I'm a tier 1 but I kept fighting against tier 3-4. Please make the pain stop..

Used to do pretty decent at enlisted as an axis main, haven't played in a while but it looks like my boys need me might come back

Man. This is a well made video

I stopped playing the game because it felt soulless, the community felt invisible and dead, the game is way too easy when I had like 200 kill games with low tier equipment and all the pay to win stuff, braindead AI, dunno, the game could be good but eh, oh and on some maps we would just spawnkill the enemy team and I would literally have to wait at the front of the enemy spawn and sit there for 5 mins to find one enemy squad

"Skill issue" is the only response you get from Enlisted players.

Thank you so much for this video! Like you said, each faction is strong in their own right. The Soviets with their rifles, the Americans with their planes, the Germans with their tanks, and the Japanese with their submachine guns.

You're absolutely right. Balance doesn't just mean mirroring everything across factions, but giving different factions different strengths. Giving them flavour. And in a combined arms game, that also means having different factions being strong at different features. Your faction is weak at infantry but strong at armor? Well, how about you bring a vehicle to the fight. Your faction is weak at armor? Maybe bring aircraft. Use the strong part of your faction to overcome the weaknesses. I don't play Enlisted, but I know the same situation from other games. One faction seems completely overpowered and imbalanced, than suddenly it shifts and a different faction starts dominating. Without any changes to the gear, just a change in player population.

The best rifle that got mentioned here is literally unobtainable by now lmao

Peeeeennnnnniiiiiiiiiis

Funny that I returned to Enlisted after some time on the same day this video went into my recommendation. I played four games, one for each faction, Allies won every one, and only one of them wasn't a total wipeout

Paratroopers, P47s, Shermans camping at the edge of the map. Not to mention the damn people bringing level 1 equipment to level 5 games.

Atrocious take. Does not explain anything. Allies winning 95% of the time constantly can not be explained away with cognitive bias. What a joke.

0:22 Its just the historically accurate progression of the war LOL As an Axis main though this is unfortunate news. My USSR main friend will be pleased though.

This is honestly why i believe Hell let loose is perfect because both all factions are balanced and both get something similar in terms of gear and even get diverse gear specific to their own faction/nation

yeah, I have to agree more with any point here that it's really just a self-fulfilling prophecy. Way too often I see Axis players - both in War Thunder (as Germany) and Enlisted - just playing well, kind of stupidly. Crutching on their Tigers, STG's, and so on because they're supposedly just superior and better. And when that doesn't work, it must just be some kind of mistake on the developers' part. While those they're fighting against think the same thing, and actually take them seriously as opponents. Because they aren't expecting their rifles, tanks, etc, to carry them. Instead playing smart, avoiding throwing themselves into the meat grinder, flanking, and placing rally points instead of the typical W + M1 gameplay you see from Axis/Germany. Honestly, even so, I'd say you can argue either faction is stronger or being biased toward/against. But at the end of the day, no FG42 or King Tiger can defeat a player who simply shoots first and plays smarter, regardless of what they're using. And really, I've played either side in both games, and as simple as it sounds, just recognizing the patterns of players and getting better at the game makes up for any disparity in balance. I wouldn't say this effect is as pronounced in Enlisted as it is in WT. I see similar things from both Axis and other factions more often, and it's more associated with tanks than small arms. But it's definitely present nonetheless. My advice though, for anyone who's struggling: Don't play absent-mindedly. You can get good at the game in a matter of days if you think about why you died, instead of getting frustrated about it. Change your tactics, try different loadouts, and different flank routes. Learn to read maps, and you'll start noticing the patterns. Doubling down on what you're already doing, just more aggressively, only rushes you to your death faster.

The only axis problem is the game is antiGerman. That's why the game has a low number of players. The futur of Enlisted will be the same as H&G

As a German main hearing that, not only do soviets get better assault rifles (this I knew), but they also get a 10% damage reduction, which is insane. On top of that the fact that they get access to panzerfouses is utterly stupid. Gajin has always been biased toward russian factions, and in enlisted it shows more than ever.

Axis player here. At BR V the thing I see the most is mostly skill issue on german side. I went from near 68%wr to near 43% since Christmas and most of the losses were with suicide planes, suicide infantry (suicide players in general, to be short) BR I or II tanks on BR V, people with only Horn squad as tier V and the rest very low tier and so forth. More than "equipment balance", I feel there is a lot of people just camping or doing nothing. I'd seen things so extreme as 6 kills and 14 squad respawns with some regularity. After the 251 event, with people still not building rallies but the 251 doing it's work, things got a bit better in my experience. I don't know in other servers, but in NA often the experience seems to be "steamroll" or "be steamrolled"

I started playing the game again a few months ago, I always play with allies and axis. I think I lost a total of 5 games with the Americans (I'm BR 3) and 90% with the Germans (BR 4). I have more fun with blondes, I want to unlock the Italian weapons so I would hate to give up. I also tried to start leveling the Soviets, but after losing two games in a row after only 10 minutes, I abandoned the idea. Im glad that you ve talk about this huge problem in a video.

I just started playing again and not having decent enough weapons to counter high tier experienced players is unnerving. Especially since I have the skill, just not the equipment. Its annoying, and also quite demoralizing.

I’m a German main (tier 5 I believe). But this is news to me. For the games I’m in it’s relatively balanced on wins and loses. And the most common matches we end up losing are against the Americans. But on the other end with fighting the Soviets it’s even more balanced from my experience. Sometimes I have a win streak or a lose streak but majority of those battles are always really close. One I had not to long ago we were getting our asses handed to us and we were pushed to the last defensive point really quick. Like one after another. But we help that point with tooth and nail and when there troops went down to about 50 left everyone just pushed forward and cleared out the stragglers. Like a full line cinematic counter attack. One of the best matches I’ve ever had.

I am a german main and US second, with a good squad you can win. But it's such a pain without having to sacrifice wave after wave. It's like when Japan first came out, every match was a slaugther with Japanese players blitzing the map. It's a matter of server and player competency sometimes when half the team is tier i-ii and you have tier iv. People have to pull their weight in a server.

German suffers : ❎ Skill issues : ☑️ **Phonk music intensifies!**

One idea would could be, wich sjf and me brought off an underdog bonus: if the playerbase is 50% of what is needed, an bonus of 50% extra xp, and for every ai replacement 10% xp extra. would improve other problems of player leaving an non winable game to a degree

I'm an axis main and usually the only one building rallies ANS playing the obj. I love tanks, but often can't okay them because if I don't sweat the obj we lose

I don't play Enlisted but played War Thunder extensively. I remember during New Year sale, BR 10.0 for Russia became absolutely unbearable, pretty sure I was losing at least 8/10 games. The reason being a lot of new players buying 10.0 premium tanks during the sale, causing the win rate for 10.0 Russia to plummet.

New Enlisted Germany player here: 25 Rounds, 2 Wins

Im soo glad I fully leveled up all nations before merge happens. I'm just here clicking on join any team.

Germany has definitely been nerfed

Bruh, no one went to play high tier Germany, I was building rallies but no one was going on the point even though there is tank support. So it's everyone fault

Exactly!!!!! We shift bro. We shift. It’s just how we are. We rotate our grinds

As I like to say, German suffers skill issue

I know a way to solve the problem that DBD (Dead By Daylight) uses. The game was suffering with long periods of match making, because in diferent times of the day there was too many killers or too many survivors, and to make a game start it needs in minimun 3 survivors and 1 killer (yes, you dont need the 4th surv to start). So to solve this, whe the game notices that there is too many killers the game gives a 100% coin bonus for every match for every survivor until the number of the killers and survivors reach a ballance or the survivors reach a bigger number mking the killers receive that bonus, and the bonus can be 50%, 75% and 100% depending on how big the diference of players is.

Just like the stock market, player skill fluctuates

Howdy Major! Finally a new YT ypload.

the American Sherman may lack in armour and armour penetration but there were studies shown the the American 75mm was the best infantry support gun of the war compared to the 76mm 90mm and 105mm and coming from a game many tanks main role is infantry support unlike war thunder where the M4A3E2 Jumbo is so out matched by German heavy tanks

Biggest culprit is the matchmaking system imho, it should create a balanced lobby before launching a match. Seems like the game creates a match (with factions and map selected) and then fills it up with any players available. Leading to those matches where there's one experience player on one side and a full veteran team on the other.... Adding the lack of a middle BR bracket and sometimes I'm the only experienced player in BR 3 fighting a full team of veteran BR 5 My solutions would either be: - Create a middle BR2-3-4 bracket - Count every weapon BR towards a total points level --> gets you in a precise BR range (rather than having one good weapon shifting your whole BR)

Me Playing IJA in Pacific: First Time

It feels frustrating that the german playerbase seems currently incapable of playing objectives... they sit around capture points instead of going onto them to prevent the loss of the point. Players farming kills outside the objectives instead of supporting the defense... if you are lucky there's 2 people who build rallies, usually I feel rather left alone with that task most of the time. Tankers driving right into the incoming infantry and exploding within seconds before the first enemy tank comes around the corner and obliterates your infantry... hella fun as of late xD It wasn't like that a few weeks ago. Winrate dropped from 75 all the way down to 54 and still falling... Out of curiousity I tried playing Soviets and oh boy... wins, wins, wins... matches gone by faster than a hiccup.

Oof that bit about steam bringing new players did not age well

people just like playing the good guys leave us alone

As a German main I must say I am having easy days just by the start of this month. Team balancing is now more optimised to German. For the few months before, I could hardly find a half team of true human players in German, it is easy to confirm it when you try blacklisting a bot it won't show the unblock command, but just keeps the blacklisting command by the 2nd click

😂 "I build rally points" 5 months later i still chuckled

About the players being biased - actually, in the Russian enlisted community people tend to believe that the Axis is INCREDIBLY overpowered and that it is absolutely impossible to play against. There even have been some accusations about the devs being “nazis” for overpowering the Axis. Which is…. Yea, a very post-soviet thing to say. I also must comment that as a person who played ALL of the factions for a good while I have never personally seen any under/overpowering issues with one faction or the others.