This has nothing to do with gameplay mechanics. Being able to customise your character into looking like a half cyborg viking black chick whilst fighting as the Germans has zero impact on, say, gun/vehicle/map balancing or any other gameplay mechanic or dynamic.
The only thing that it does have an impact on – and, as 99.9% of this entire thread indicates, it’s a TERRIBLE impact-- is the WW2 theme. The difference between authenticity and realism is a slightly blurred one that does tend to shift in meaning depending on context, but in the context of this WW2 video game, and certainly in the context of this thread, the two words are not to be used interchangeably…unless of course you’re just blindly trying to defend your game but don’t have solid, tangible enough grounds upon which to do so.
NOTE: I’m not using words like “you”, “you’re” and “your” here as indication that I’m referring strictly to you as in: you, fakemon64 – But rather “you” as in “anyone”.
No Soviets
No Japanese
No Americans
No famous battles
No faction locked weapons
Game was doomed from the start because the design direction was put forth by a bunch of leftists that dont play WW2 games. Hell even Soderlund based his whole rationale for this farce on what a 12 year old girl said. Yea, you know, the playerbase of battlefield lmao.
Aside from the vehicles, which DO have distinguishable Axis/Allies characteristics, I can literally never tell whether I’m playing/fighting against the British or Germans.
It’s not WWII Game, it’s Battlefield with a WWII-Backdrop, same formula as before and before that. Why would one expect that? It’s very immersive and feels like a Battlefield game.
Well, read again, I didn’t claim BFV had the feel of a WW2 game.
Immersion is an effect describing the technical quality of providing the feeling of being physically present in a virtual world and has nothing to do with the authenticity of the content experienced or something like that.
And on a technical level, Graphics, Sound, Input I would argue that this is one of the most immersive games.
Agree with you very much here. When immersed in Battlefield games of the past I would dream of these guys re-doing Vietnam or WW2 and here we are; and no - there is not a WW2 vibe. I don’t feel very 1940’s when I’m running around on a map.
The fast paced meatfest on some of these maps feels very far away from the Conquest in Battlefield I know. Just everyone running to a choke point and staying there, constantly dying and respawning, then run back as fast as you can and do it again, wtf.
I voted him up too, but I think the word is right on the mark, moaning ? Well that would’ve been suggestive When they get shot (women), they do really screech. And tbh it makes me a bit uncomfortable, (and I’m used to all sorts of ¯_(ツ)_/¯ through my job), but sounds of women in pain all around me while I’m playing a WWII game,.. I don’t like it. That’s why I stay mostly in my Tiger and rather listen to my Maybach pur.. and when my 88 kills something, only the silence and smoke remains B)
Narvik is kinda real. It was a British invasion from the sea though instead of the air to try to stop the Germans invading Norway. The Germans lost a lot of their Destroyers in the Norway campaign.
Rotterdam and Devestation is real.. The Germans bombed the ¯_(ツ)_/¯ out of Rotterdam when the Dutch refused to surrender.
Hamada is a funny one as the Germans weren’t in Africa in 1940..The Africa Korps never started combat operations until March 1941.
Arras was a real battle in Northern France when British and French armoured units counter attacked the Germans heading towards the French coast. British tanks pushed 10km into the German lines before being stopped by 88mm guns used against the Matilda II tank.
Nope, not here. DICE managed to kill off a great deal of authenticity. kills a british soldier running with STG44 that yells in a female high pitched voice with a blue smurfface
I mean it is barely WW2. Sometimes I feel like we are just playing outside on some cool looking maps in a modern setting. They did the naturalistic style pretty well, and the city maps have a decent look to them.
It feels like WW2 in some ways, but obviously it does not have the iconic battles.
When they get shot (women), they do really screech. And tbh it makes me a bit uncomfortable, (and I’m used to all sorts of ¯_(ツ)_/¯ through my job), but sounds of women in pain all around me while I’m playing a WWII game,.. I don’t like it. That’s why I stay mostly in my Tiger and rather listen to my Maybach pur.. and when my 88 kills something, only the silence and smoke remains B)