CaptNumbNutz
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Bolded for emphasis.I would much prefer to fight a historical battle, and possibly learn or experience something of some historical significance, than a fictional one. I suggest everyone who is upset about this game setting stop for a moment and realize that DICE might be giving us something we didn't know we wanted.
It was a very adult and sophisticated decision on their part, and a risky one. I like it. I also think this will probably be a lot more like Battlefield 1942 than anything we have had since.
I will admit I was quite skeptical when I heard the rumor about it being WWI the first time around. I'm still a bit skeptical on how they will work some of the very limited battlefields of WWI. When I say "limited" I don't mean the different environments, because obviously they fought from sandy Turkey to frozen Russia to muddy France. I'm referring to mid-war when they got in the trenches, the stuff we know WWI for. One of the bloodiest battles of the war was fought over a few square miles of land. I bet they take a "Battle of Jakku" approach to the Trench warfare map design. Jakku in SW:Battlefront was a desert...wide open but they still pulled it off. Litter the battlefield with junk for cover. Craters so big they create hills for cover. We won't see too many flat open lands for your soldier to run the gauntlet of machine gun fire.
The aircraft and zeppelins will kick ass that's for sure. No missiles and very few flak guns.
Many of the community have been begging for the less is more approach of BF1942. I wonder how this is going to work and how they are going to appease both sides. I suspect we will see less gun attachments (maybe a low power scope for rifles or better iron sight). They will likely focus more on loadouts instead. Do I carry a shovel or spiked club? Do I fix a bayonet, carry an extra grenade or medpack, etc.?
I just now started think about all the gear they had back then and it's not as limited as I originally thought. Brass knuckles, trench knives, shovels, swords, poison gas and gas masks... HOLEEE SHIT there was a full suit of armor at 31 seconds in that video.
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