The answer was 12,000,000 people mobilised. 2k+ men for every single vagina. There's not a word to describe how gross that exaggeration is. There's no respect, guy. You're talking about the WW1 game that didn't have the French and the Russians in it at launch. Two of the great powers that were core participants in WW1. Oh, but it stealth had the french because the posterboy was wearing a french uniform because US black's were passed over to French command by the Americans. So he doubles for burgers and frogs. Yay.
So not only did they completely fuck up respecting the basics of the war, stuff that's taught in barebones high school classes like the Brusilov offensive, the whole "exploring the lesser known parts of WW1" was bullshit too. Harlem Globetrotter was dogshit generic western front stuff, how the fuck could Italy be considered less known, and the most niche was a Lawrence of Arabia larp starring a Bedouin tourist ad that gets yeeted by adblock. They are the most stock WW1 settings, outside of the ones that got shitcanned, only they dug out the diversity checklist for the participants in them. Harlem Hellfighters, Women's Battalion of Death, aren't the untold important stories of WW1. They're the trivia footnotes of 2 of the biggest fronts of the war. What makes them different from the 200 other battalions and divisions in the war? Well they have melanin or have 2 X chromosomes. Wow. Such difference.
Y'know what is the untold part of WW1? The significant stories that aren't ever given spotlight? Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria. The entire Balkan campaign, nations that had 100000s of their men die in the war on either side. There's your important tales not yet given their due. You wanna talk minorities, how about Dice giving the same German barks for Austria-Hungary that Germany has. AH, the most ethnically diverse power, half their army was Hungarians, it's in the freaking name, Austria-Hungary, not to mention the slavs like the Slovenes and Croats. How was this diversity represented? Nah bruh, they all German, der wiener scnitzel ist gut ja?
So important parts of the war, nixed until DLC, the (actually important to WW1) diversity of the euros fighting in the war, their deaths numbering in 100s of thousands, non-existant, the less popularised but still important fronts of the war, not acknowledged, and the diversity they thumped their chests for amounts to grossly overrepresenting a specific type of wallpaper in the biggest fronts of the war. Game ain't shit. (And the campaign is so fucking terrible it makes BF4's look great.)
So not only did they completely fuck up respecting the basics of the war, stuff that's taught in barebones high school classes like the Brusilov offensive, the whole "exploring the lesser known parts of WW1" was bullshit too. Harlem Globetrotter was dogshit generic western front stuff, how the fuck could Italy be considered less known, and the most niche was a Lawrence of Arabia larp starring a Bedouin tourist ad that gets yeeted by adblock. They are the most stock WW1 settings, outside of the ones that got shitcanned, only they dug out the diversity checklist for the participants in them. Harlem Hellfighters, Women's Battalion of Death, aren't the untold important stories of WW1. They're the trivia footnotes of 2 of the biggest fronts of the war. What makes them different from the 200 other battalions and divisions in the war? Well they have melanin or have 2 X chromosomes. Wow. Such difference.
Y'know what is the untold part of WW1? The significant stories that aren't ever given spotlight? Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria. The entire Balkan campaign, nations that had 100000s of their men die in the war on either side. There's your important tales not yet given their due. You wanna talk minorities, how about Dice giving the same German barks for Austria-Hungary that Germany has. AH, the most ethnically diverse power, half their army was Hungarians, it's in the freaking name, Austria-Hungary, not to mention the slavs like the Slovenes and Croats. How was this diversity represented? Nah bruh, they all German, der wiener scnitzel ist gut ja?
So important parts of the war, nixed until DLC, the (actually important to WW1) diversity of the euros fighting in the war, their deaths numbering in 100s of thousands, non-existant, the less popularised but still important fronts of the war, not acknowledged, and the diversity they thumped their chests for amounts to grossly overrepresenting a specific type of wallpaper in the biggest fronts of the war. Game ain't shit. (And the campaign is so fucking terrible it makes BF4's look great.)
