Battlefield 5 - going back to WW2

[Baron Dupek]

BF3: Operation Metro
BF4: Operation Locker
BF1: Fort de Vaux
BFV: Operation Underground

 

[Hellion]

Data Miners found out that the "Marita" map is represented in the game files as "MP_Kalamas", which corresponds to a place in the Greco-Albanian border where one of the first battles of the Greco-Italian war of 1940 occured. However, instead of Greeks and Italians, we see Germans and the English fighting each other once again.

DICE should really find a way to add more of the warring nations in the game.

 

[unfairlight]

DICE should really find a way to add more of the warring nations in the game.

That's only going to happen with DLC.

 

[DemonKing]

Data Miners found out that the "Marita" map is represented in the game files as "MP_Kalamas", which corresponds to a place in the Greco-Albanian border where one of the first battles of the Greco-Italian war of 1940 occured. However, instead of Greeks and Italians, we see Germans and the English fighting each other once again.

Does anyone seriously want to play as the Greeks vs Italians though. Hardly a matchup made in video game heaven.

DICE should really find a way to add more of the warring nations in the game.

I'd assume the US (and possibly Japan) are coming later this year as they've said in promo stuff that "A Giant awakes".

 

[Beastro]

Battle Royale mod is coming

and they got choppers

This isn't anything new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_1942:_Secret_Weapons_of_WWII

Secret Weapons of WWII focuses on prototypical, experimental, and rarely used weapons and vehicles (such as jet packs)

It's as stupid now as it was stupid then to waste putting this into a WWII game when there's so much else that should be added over wunder and napkinwaffe.

Guess what also was in that expack:

 

[Baron Dupek]

Data Miners found out that the "Marita" map is represented in the game files as "MP_Kalamas", which corresponds to a place in the Greco-Albanian border where one of the first battles of the Greco-Italian war of 1940 occured. However, instead of Greeks and Italians, we see Germans and the English fighting each other once again.

DICE should really find a way to add more of the warring nations in the game.

what you expect from devs that made WW1 and put France in a DLC?

 

[Wunderbar]

Does anyone seriously want to play as the Greeks vs Italians though. Hardly a matchup made in video game heaven.

Dice are obsessed with adding obscure weapon prototypes into their games, Greeks vs Italians DLC is a good opportunity to add a shitton of weird Greek weapons.

 

[MapMan]

My recent sessions of bf1 and bf v, respectively, went like this:

 

[unfairlight]

Activate Windows.

 

[Valestein]

Strange that they'd add that helo over the one German helicopter that was adopted and was supposed to have been mass produced if not for the allies bombing the factory. There were only 20 made and used however.

 

[unfairlight]

A very similar Axis copter was also in Battlefield Heroes, which Dice also made. Maybe a throwback.

 

[Spectacle]

Trailer for new Pacific war content.

A couple points of note:

• Unlike the first trailer, this actually looks like war.
• All characters depicted are of the historically correct gender and ethnicity.

If the reveal trailer had looked like this EA might have met their sales targets for BFV. Have they actually realized how they fucked up?

Of course, the game would still have been a buggy unbalanced mess at launch. Marketing can only do so much...

 

[Wilian]

So BFV will be in release condition year after it's launch.

 

[User was nabbed fit]

So, the usual then.

 

[the mole]

2 years, if you knew nothing about ww2 you would be convinced sweden was a major faction playing this game

 

[Wunderbar]

Trailer for new Pacific war content.
A couple points of note:

• Unlike the first trailer, this actually looks like war.
• All characters depicted are of the historically correct gender and ethnicity

decline!
they should've gone full retard and add japanese cuties in mech suits slashing american soldiers with plasma katanas.

 

[the mole]

Trailer for new Pacific war content.
A couple points of note:

• Unlike the first trailer, this actually looks like war.
• All characters depicted are of the historically correct gender and ethnicity

decline!
they should've gone full retard and add japanese cuties in mech suits slashing american soldiers with plasma katanas.

It's a multiplayer game, as long as the patch of dirt I'm standing on looks like Japan and I'm holding a ww2 weapon I'm fine

 

[fantadomat]

Meh,racist trailer,there is no black japs in it 0/10!

 

[DemonKing]

Meh,racist trailer,there is no black japs in it 0/10!

Or disabled women...could it be that EA released they screwed up the marketing back at release time?

Happy to see lunge mines (or idiot sticks, as the US soldiers used to call them, as the lunger usually blew up with the mine) in the game.

 

[IDtenT]

Been playing this lately.

It's not the greatest FPS ever, but I do enjoy the way environments change.

 

[IDtenT]

New maps are pretty gewd.

 

[Daedalos]

Yea I'm back playing this game, and its honestly pretty fun

 

[Dexter]

https://boundingintocomics.com/2020...nt-development-final-update-releases-in-june/

Battlefield V to End Ongoing Content Development, Final Update Releases in June
Spencer Baculi
April 24, 2020

After just under two years of release time and numerous controversies, EA and Dice have announced that ongoing content development will be ending for Battlefield V, following a final content pack release in the summer.

On April 23rd, Battlefield V Senior Producer Ryan McArthur published a blog post titled “The Future of Battlefield V: An Update with Ryan McArthur”, announcing that the game will see only “one more standalone update this summer” and noting that the team was aiming for a June release:

“As you are aware, the current Battlefield V Chapter, Into the Jungle, wraps up on April 29. As we look to the future, we will release one more standalone update this summer that brings with it some new content, weapons, and game tweaks. We are targeting June for this update. We’re still tackling the challenges from working from home and will let you know how things progress for us over the next month.”

While new content will not be developed, EA and Dice will provide ongoing support for the game in the form of “weekly rewards,” “various weekly initiatives,” and “Community Game Updates.”

“Here’s a brief overview on what’s coming:

New Content: A new update will be released this summer.

Weekly Rewards: Following the summer update, you’ll receive Battlefield Currency or Company Coin as Weekly Rewards, giving you a chance to unlock gear you may have missed.

Events and Activities: We’re also planning various weekly initiatives such as the reintroduction of #FridayNightBattlefield servers, where the community can play Battlefield V in a friendly atmosphere. Throwback Thursdays, where we’ll look to bring you together across all of our Battlefield titles are in the works, too.

We are continuing our work on Community Games Updates. We are committed to bringing these to the game and we’ll keep you updated on when you can expect them to start coming online.”

Despite the game’s playable lifespan coming to an end, Battlefield V will be remembered for a long time to come for the game’s anti-gamer marketing and its producer’s condescension towards long time fans of the Battlefield franchise.

Rather than adhering to the series’ grounding in real world military combat, history, and technology, the developers opted to use the game as a vehicle for promoting progressive politics.

After the game’s first trailer, featuring a number of historical inaccuracies including soldiers with prosthetic arms and women serving on the frontline, EA Chief Creative Officer Patrick Soderlund stated that these choices were made to “stand up for the cause” and that “people who don’t understand it, well, you have two choices: either accept it or don’t buy the game.”

Upon release, Battlefield V was met with middling to overwhelmingly negative reception and currently holds an average score of 73/100 among critics and 2.3/10 among fans on review aggregate site Metacritic.

In response, EA and Dice plastered the walls of their Battlefield V launch party with quotes from critics on social media. Unsurprisingly, the game eventually began to bleed users shortly after launch.

Ultimately, EA and Dice admitted last year that the game “didn’t resonate strongly as we would have liked it to with players and we were never truly able to catch-up.”

They added, “A combination of a poor start in our marketing campaign together with what I think was a longer development cycle”.

 

[Olinser]

Big shocker, when you cater to a group of people that DON'T PLAY YOUR GAME, and tell people actually interested in the game that if they don't like your SJW politics don't play the game... people don't play the game.

Exactly as has always happened, the SJW parasites moved on to the next woke headline and never gave two shits about supporting the actual game, and the actual gamers went to companies that wanted their business.

Suck it hard, Dice.

 

[IDtenT]

What actually killed it off was fucking with the weapons earlier this year.