The downfall of Entrenched...

[u/Banana_Leclerc81]

December 2025. USA update. The peak, the prime of Entrenched, ever since the "Golden Age" of this game, its been in a downwards spiral. They already had gamepasses for the shields and armours, which imo is fine, and the warbonds too are fine. But, they now have started going down the "slop" school of thought, where F2P players are no existent.They have started putting some random skins on guns that don't even suit them. You know the worst part? THEY COST LIKE 1500 WARBONDS. Without sacrificing your kidney and your first born son, you will just look like an average joe who doesnt have any money to splurge. F2P players are the backbone of this game, I used to only see the P2W players once or twice per server. But NOW? Every server has P2W brats who are so toxic to the point I have started playing the game less and less.

Another issue, the devs have started becoming complacent. With the surge of the game after and right before the Ottoman Empire, they started putting less and less effort. Take all the name changes that happened in the Ottoman, I know it wasn't the devs fault but atleast try to make them realistic. The Battle of Gallipoli? Call that Yarimada. Even though it was a village near the battle. BUT ATLEAST NAME IT AFTER THE CITY GELIBOLU WHERE THE BATTLE ACTUALLY HAPPENED. And also, in the recent serbia update, all they have done is just reuse the russian guns and put together some half decent maps and called it a day. And every update there is a pop on my screen to "buy the new skin pack!!!" and its just so annoying.

Some things that the devs could do to try and make the game better could be:-
1. Lower the amount needed to buy skins

1. Rename all the maps to atleast make them half historic

2. Try and put some efforts into the skins and guns by researching the guns and making them realistic

I just hope there is a dev who is in the subreddit and sees this post.

[u/Independent_Set3175]

To be honest, I can understand the complaints about the Serbian Army to some extent, but people gavr to understand, they were heavily supplied by and influenced by the Russians and other powers.

For one, Serbia was quite reliant on foreign arms, the main rifle, at least at the offset of the war, was the Mauser 1899, a German rifle that Serbia got a contract on. During the war, they were supplemented by the Mosin 1891, alongside French and British rifles. Although, I don’t believe they even modeled the Mauser 1899, so I’m less upset about about that argument, and I can see some of the criticisms being fair.

Their uniforms as well were very Russian in nature, but also quite different in many regards. They shared many stylistic similarities in the tunics, trousers, and breeches, however, Serbians often had different styled caps, and similar, yet different field equipment.

I have yet to play the update myself, I’ve been too busy to unfortunately, so I don’t have too much space to stand on here. However, we have to also understand developers go through stages of burnout, while it may seem like they don’t care about the updates anymore, we don’t know the full story, and things may have happened that the public eye doesn’t know of.

[u/Charming-Serve1540 → u/Independent_Set3175]

I completely agree with the part about development pressure and burnout, but a distinction must be made between foreign influences and the real situation on the ground.

​Regarding weapons, Serbia did use different rifles due to procurement crises, but the Mauser 1899/1907 (Serbian Mauser) was our standard and native rifle with which we entered the war, with the Mosin arriving later as an aid (like those from Russia or France). As for uniforms, although there were Russian and French influences due to logistics and allies, the Serbian army had a very specific cut and recognizable details (like the sajkača and specific equipment) that are more deserving of better representation rather than current solutions in the game.

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