Hardcore Shooters and Realistic Military Simulations
What are hardcore shooters and military simulations? Hardcore shooters and military simulations are shooters that become an above-average challenging game due to the omission of aids as well as the realistic and thus harder-to-play implementation of damage models, recoil, and so on.
Typical elements that a hardcore shooter or military simulation does not include compared to shooters like Call of Duty, Battlefield, or Rainbow Six Siege are the crosshair, the minimap, hit markers, and kill confirmations
The fundamental principle of these shooters is realistic layout. Everything that a real soldier would not have because it would be an aid of the game and not a real gadget is absent.
Squad
Genre: Military Simulation, Hardcore Shooter | Developer: Offworld Industries | Platform: PC | Release Date: September 23, 2020 | Model: Buy-to-Play | Perspective: First-Person
What defines Squad? Squad is a hardcore shooter that focuses heavily on realism and aims to simulate real combat. Accordingly, the weapon behavior is very demanding.
Squad was first released in early access on Steam in 2015 and has been available in full version since September 2020.
An important feature of the shooter is the heavily implemented sound, which contributes to the overall immersive atmosphere, for example, with grenades and gunshots.
Equally important is the sound of your teammates, as communication is vital for coordination within the team and tactical approach. The success of Squad in April 2022 can be better assessed when it set a player record on Steam.
Here you can find Squad on Steam.
Hell Let Loose
Genre: Military Simulation, Hardcore Shooter | Developer: Black Matter Pty Ltd | Platform: PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5| Release Date: July 27, 2021| Model: Buy-to-Play | Perspective: First-Person
What is Hell Let Loose about? In Hell Let Loose, you fight in multiplayer battles with up to 100 players simultaneously on historical battlegrounds of World War II. The focus is on realism and strategy, justifying the title’s existence as a military simulation.
Moreover, the game does not provide players with special aids. For example, there is no crosshair, hit marker, or kill confirmation displayed, thus meeting the criteria of a hardcore shooter.
Overall, in Hell Let Loose, there is nothing that does not belong in the setting. There are no colorful skins or anything like that, and weapons behave like their real-life counterparts.
How important is strategy in Hell Let Loose? In Hell Let Loose, every soldier has a special role. The officer leads a squad and communicates tactics and support requests with other officers, their squads, and the commander, who commands the entire team of up to 50 players.
Other classes include the medic, the engineer, the scout, and the machine gunner, all of whom must perform different tasks in a squad, making communication and strategy crucial for success. Therefore, a team can only have one soldier of a class at a time and cannot consist of two medics and three machine gunners or similar configurations.
What is the most important feature of Hell Let Loose? The most important feature of the WW2 shooter is communication. If a squad does not communicate with each other, it will have no success on the battlefield, and each soldier will be left to fend for themselves – a scenario in which a squad has little influence on the fight.
However, it is even more serious if the individual officers do not communicate with each other. Then not only is a single squad aimless and without any tactical coordination, but the entire team is as well. This is a combination that is rarely successful in a military simulation like Hell Let Loose.
Here you can find Hell Let Loose on Steam
No game for you among them? If you didn’t find a title in our 6 game recommendations that you should play if you like Escape from Tarkov, feel free to browse around MeinMMO.
Also, feel free to let us know which game you think is missing from the list that EFT players will enjoy. We will keep the post updated in the future and add more games if necessary.
If you are generally into shooters and not just military simulations or EFT-Likes, then perhaps one of our list of the 15 best multiplayer shooters of 2022 could be a game that you might enjoy and entertain you long-term.
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