Had to force myself to stop playing this since I've spent like 24 hours on it in just the week since I bought it which probably isn't good. The game is a lot of fun though, it's still stupid that this isn't just an expansion for Verdun but oh well, people are still playing it 2 years in so I can't complain. Occasionally there were 3 or 4 servers that were all completely full so I had to wait to join, which literally never happened when I was playing Verdun even years ago. In that game and especially in Tanneberg you were lucky to find a server at half capacity on a weekend night, so having even a semblance of an active playerbase here is really nice. The gameplay also balances the back-and-forth trench warfare map design of Verdun with more open objectives and more varied geography in line with Tannenberg and feels like an improvement on both games. The increased verticality is one of the standout aspects, multiple maps have you fighting all the way up, or down, a mountainside (and few have both, as the maps in this game are very long if the attackers push all the way through). The fact that it's set in WWI at all makes it the most interesting multiplayer shooter I've played in years, and while it does feel a little more accessible than Verdun it's still very committed to accurately representing that conflict. You still die (and kill) in one hit, you still get blown up out of nowhere by artillery, you still get gutted with a bayonet from behind while trying to put on your mask since the enemy just dropped mustard gas on your trench, the guns still look, sound, and feel great, LMGs are still rare and very situational, but incredibly fun to use when the time is right, etc etc. My only complaint with the level of immersion is the lack of trench guns, I know they were only used by Americans who didn't fight on the Isonzo front, and the Germans explicitly outlawed them, but you could use them as some of the factions in Verdun. They end up feeling absent here despite the fact that it is more realistic to not include them. Also, all the LMGs are really weird and unwieldy, which I'm sure is accurate to the real Italian and Austro-Hungarian LMGs of the time, but they never feel quite the same as my beloved Lewis gun did in Verdun. Those are minor complaints, of course, and this game is still very good. Hopefully whenever they make another one of these (I guess in the Middle East or the Balkans? They're kinda running out of WWI combat theaters...) they have the good sense to just release it as DLC or an update for Izonso instead of splitting the player base a fourth time, but I doubt we'll be that lucky.