How will parachutes work in BF1 if any at all.
If so how will they be controlled since the WW1 parachutes had no controls. You dropped where you dropped and hoping that the wind wouldn’t carry you in the wrong direction. Will the weather mechanics affect your decent?
Also don’t forget the decent rate was VERY VERY slow. You had low survival rate reaching the ground over enemy fire.
http://www.eastsussexww1.org.uk/dont-look-parachutes-first-world-war/
Probably some liberties will be taken. It would kinda be cool to have them uncontrolled, though. Would make you hold your breath the whole way down, hoping you don’t land in a hole with a bunch of enemies.
Flakfire?
Flakfire is WW2
Ik there’s a Youtuber with the same symbol as the guy I quoted. Sorry for the confusion.
You can still controlled ww1 parachutes, My old man was a red beret in the ADF.. There’s not much different with a ww1 parachutes and a 1970’s paratrooper parachutes… He jump out of C-130…
Flak fire in ww1 , yes there was Flak fire in ww1 …
Can’t agree with this, I don’t like anything that takes the player’s control away from them; it impairs skill. I prefer my descents to be controlled. How else will I land on top of a Bell Tower when I jump out of a Zeppelin? Can’t snipe too well if my parachute gets caught in a tree.
Well it would add another reason for players to not abandon the plane or just use it as a taxi and bail as soon as they reached their destination so thats a positive in my opinion. Also I doubt that you would have a sniper rifle in your inventory anyway since they talked about special vehicle classes during an interview.
I’d imagine spawning in a Zeppelin would be more akin to spawning from an AC130 in Battlefield 3, where it acts as a mobile spawn point that can be destroyed. That said, if I’m going to drop into the map this way, I want to be able to control where I’m going.
You do bring up a good point about vehicle abandonment, however. Maybe if you spawn in a Biplane, the parachute your class is equipped with is not controllable. I still would prefer to leave it as is, though.
I see your point. Then again Im fairly sure that there were no paratrooper assaults in WW1 but we will see…
Paratroopers? Hell yeah.