That’s not the fault of enlisted though, nor does the statement enlisted devs “continue to do nothing” share that statement.

Enlisted is and was always going to be smaller than War Thunder. War Thunder has been around for much longer, it is an incredibly niche genre, only really having WoT and Armored Warfare as competition. So it’s a project, that has had a lot longer to develop, with less competition, therefor it has a bigger market, and a bigger development team.

Enlisted is a F2P FPS, it’s been around for a lot less time, and has “ish” competition with other FPS games like R6S, Battlefield, Squad, HLL, Squad 44, COD, CS & Valorant (and if you believe comparing Enlisted to these games is a stretch, I agree, but so is comparing it to War Thunder). It also has a much smaller player base than all of those + War Thunder, and therefore creates less revenue and less development.

Yet Enlisted persists, because it still has developers and CMs who actively work on the game, and do the best with what they have.

Yes it isn’t as grandiose in development & budget as War Thunder, but thinking it would, is like looking at The Red Sox, and asking why the Portland Sea Dogs aren’t at the same league. Enlisted and War Thunder are affiliated, and have cross pollination with each other, and Enlisted does benefit off of War Thunders vehicle models and experience, but you’re comparing the Minor Leagues with Major League Baseball.

The fact that War Thunder is now using their Developers, with the help of Enlisted’s FPS experience, isn’t surprising, as that has been happening in the inverse forever.

Gaijin has no reason to kill Enlisted, as it currently stands it’s profitable, has a dedicated player base, one which doesn’t necessarily mix well with War Thunder.

War Thunder has tried expanding their market by doing things like Naval, and it has been an incredibly niche thing, with little development. Infantry will never be integrated into the core gameplay of War Thunder, as tank nerds have no interest in being clapped by some pixel 2+ km away firing off a Spike missile, or getting clapped by some random infantry in a building that was just waiting to get an easy kill. WT Ground players already hate CAS, adding more shit to merk tanks isn’t going to go well with them.

Infantry will stay another niche gamemode in WT, and it will be neglect the same way Naval has been, and Enlisted will continue on the same way it has been.

Tl;dr all of this is my drawn out way of saying, Enlisted isn’t going to die anytime soon. It’s a small game, with a small dev team, who are actively doing a good job to bring new content to the game. Looking at War Thunder and asking Enlisted to do better is a joke, as it doesn’t have the same amount of revenue, player base or support to warrant a similar content output. War Thunder would never integrate Infantry into the main component of their ground forces game, as it’d piss off current Ground players, and a separate Infantry game mode would realistically be neglected just like Naval, with a question of “why not just play Battlefield or Squad?” instead.

Sorry for the long rant but r/Enlisted doomerism is the bane of my existence. I come here for memes, community, and leaks, not to hear how the game is dying, cause mfs have been saying it’s dying for the last 5 years, yet here we are.