maybe then dice will stop being lazy and produce a game that is both authentic and skill based, as opposed to a ww2 game marketed as a ww1 game with rng and other nonsense
DICE is certainly taking a risk with this game. They seem set on trying to annoy most players. The game is set in WW1 which is a strange period for a FPS which annoys people who wanted a modern or futuristic game. Then they add lots of automatic weapons and features that shouldn’t exist in that time period which annoys people who actually wanted a WW1 game. Finally they annoy the WWII crowd because WWI isn’t really like WWII. I mean BF1 plays more like a WWII game but doesn’t have the variety a WWII game could have and this disappoints a lot of people.
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So yeah, not sure what DICE was thinking with this one.
BF1 will succeed or fail based on how many copies it sales, if its sales around what BF4 sold tend it will probably be a success.
I myself was hoping for a WWII game at first but BF1 surprised me in a good way and it is just what I wanted a older war with the BF4 formula of having all weapons and vehicles for all factions.
pretty much any previous ones. authentic doesn’t mean realistic. but atleast other games had weapons that mostly matched the setting, even if some were prototype. where as this game completely fails to capture ww1, its merely used as marketing. so now we have a game that is not really ww1, but it can’t be as varied as a ww2 game either, because it still has to stick to the ww1 marketing
and before someone says that bf4 also uses a lot of future technology and prototype weapons, im well aware of that. but bf4 is not geared towards a specific conflict, so it doesn’t have to stay true to anything, really
and as for skillbased, this is the second game with rng spread and first without ticketbleed, melee attacks are extremely silly too. the dumbing down is real, even though it happened big time with bf4 too
Pick a gun in the game and post proof that it wasn’t used in ww1, then we will listen to you. otherwise quit playing games because you have completely missed the point of them.
I’ve played Arma, big difference trying to compare to bf1, reason is that Arma was designed strictly for pc the consoles couldn’t handle or run it, so some compromises has to be done for console.
90% of weapons are prototype automatic weapons. not saying those shouldn’t exist, but why is every soldier running around with an automatic. what about artillery or trech warfare? once again, they could play atleast some sort of a role in the game
Have you played the game or read any of the press around Battlefield 1? It’s been marked as the most authentic Battlefield game DICE have made…
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Here is a special edition video from The Great War focusing on the authenticity on Battlefield 1
And some more articles on it's authenticity https://www.engadget.com/2016/05/14/battlefield-1-historical-breakdown/ http://www.gamezone.com/originals/alpha-preview-battlefield-1-offers-authentic-chaotic-and-epic-battles-k15i
Here’s also a great video from @ThePoolshark on Authentivity Vs Realism