Fortnite has a d day map before bfv I think it’s safe to say this ww2 title has failed miserably. This “live service” is a joke where’s all that content at?
Let’s be realistic here. It would be awesome to storm a beach with boats if it was anything but BFV gameplay. But I don’t think being mowed down over and over with MMGs would be fun at all.
BFV gameplay is to Campy to have a D-Day map that would be fun for Attackers. Even though that’s what happened was a slaughter.
It was hard enough getting off the beach on Galipoli in BF1 sometimes.
Could they not make it 32 vs 16? Or 48 vs 16?
DDay was not a slaughter. Out of 5 beaches 4 were taken with light to negligible casualties, only one beach was bloody but even then out of 43 000 Infantry 38 000 of them were ok… the allies were prepared for MUCH heavier casualties.
But yeah. In any game I’ve played involving beach landings it is a camping bonanza. Why you’d expect it to be anything otherwise I don’t know.
You could do DDay at the much more game-able Sword/Gold or Juno even Utah. But we all know the yankers would start crying because actual WW2 battles aren’t WW2 for them if it’s not Iwo Jima or Omaha.
D day should be a rush & breakthrough exclusive map.. It won’t work for conquest.
Thats what i was thinking too.
Sword, Juno and Gold all saw around 1000 casualties each so hardly negligible. Utah was the only beach with what you could call negligible casualties - circa 200.
I do think a non Omaha beach landing map would be nice, especially the beach with the town on the sea front
Worked fine in BF 1942. Need Navel support, and maybe turn off KD tracking lol. You’d have to balance out the snipers as well. One got a real sense of accomplishment when you pushed through. Of course you could get pinned down, but I’ve seen that happen in other BF’s on regular maps as well.
1000 casualties are very light for a big battle… at each of those locations there were 30-40 000 Infantry, not counting support troops, armoured troops etc. Casualties were comparatively light. 150 000 troops on Day 1 committed - 4000 dead, 10-12 000 wounded.
Khalkhin Gol saw smaller Russian Armies fighting Japanese ones with 10-20 times the casualties.
Battle of Crete had heavier casualties.
Anzio the allies had 7000 dead and 36 000 wounded out of 150 000.
But either way a video game of it would be tricky.
ProAssassin2003 I loved Gulf of Oman and Noshar Canals but I loathed playing as the US for this exact reason until we had a flag to spawn on in the mainland area. I personally don’t find amphibious operations fun.
Why make a ww2 title at all?
30-40000wouldnt have been the assault troops on the 1st wave though, that was total landed during the day. You can’t compared those casualties against multi day battles with many more men committed. Overall though in the grand scheme of the war, d day casualties were light.
honestly, let it be a slaughter, let the defenders have cannons and MG nests, LET THE WIN BE AN ACCOMPLISHMENT and not just another tick for a match won for the next thing to unlock.
The Devs shouldnt be afraid of making things hard, just remember that you can off set their MG nests and cannons with, you know, your own cannons. Maybe on maps like that we should make the attacking side require less points to call in arty, or have some kind of heavy arty implaced once they cap the first point.
Yes the start will be a slaughter, but considering what battle you are trying to emulate, not making it one would simply make it anti climactic and heaped on the pile of uninteresting maps no one is interested in taking further than just ending the mission
A D-day map would be epic. Epic in your wild imagination. In BFV a d-day map would be the opposite of epic.
I still think the Hamada Fortress mode might have been a test for a potential dday map. The thought of crossing a flat and open beach getting one framed by mmgs and boys AT rifles doesn’t sound fun to me.
To be honest. A DDAy map could still work. But should take place with the allies already passed the beach. Not like Gallipoli map which was awful…
In my opinion they’ve already ventured too far from the usual world war 2 scenes to go back to them. We’ve spent 8 months covering the battle of Greece. They stated they want to cover obscure battles, things that were never previously in world war 2 games. So Im not sure we’ll see anything like D-day. I don’t even think the Pacific will have your customary iwo Jima, okenawa, Philippines etc.. itll probably be some obscure battles no one other than WW2 buffs ever heard off.
I don’t want to say anything about women in BFV because that horse has been beaten and trampled to death, but I think D-day Omaha beach with women soldiers (and one with her hair down too) isnt going to look right.
I don’t think you necessarily need to be a WWII buff to know about the siege of Tobruk and battle of Crete, Netherlands etc. Just being someone whose knowledge of the war extends beyond Saving Private Ryan and The Pacific is enough.
this, very much this. Even Panzer Storm, which is set in the Battle of Belgium near Liege, is pretty common knowledge to those that studied the war even lightly