Battlefield Franchise Megathread V1 - 'Hardline is still DLC' Edition
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I think WWI if it comes about would be absolutely a perfect setting for a battlefield game. Battlefield's never been stuck on realism, so you could make the period tanks faster and more use of trucks as well. Biplanes fit absolutely perfectly in with BF sized levels, and as far as weaponry, you wouldn't have to stick to bolt actions, you've got rifles, scoped rifles, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, sub machine guns, grenades, flame throwers, mortars, artillery, bombs, mines. Sounds like everything you'd need for a great battlefield game. To the person who said WWI doesn't fit the type of gameplay battlefield has, I challenge you to go back and play 1942 on a 64 player server, being a man among a wall of other men rushing into a fortified enemy position just to gain a few hundred yards of ground is common place on many maps and is great fun. If they had some more flexibility with the WWI setting, to introduce a wider variety of period weapons, and some use of things like zeppelins in combat I couldn't think of something more intense.
I bet that trailer is of a English soldier, in a trench coat, looking up at a zeppelin flying overhead.
I fucking hate mechs. They ruin everything. The vast majority of designs are awful. Why can't more people put some effort into imaginative tank design?
Seriously worried about that polish rumor.
[QUOTE=mastermaul;50263827]I fucking hate mechs. They ruin everything. The vast majority of designs are awful. Why can't more people put some effort into imaginative tank design?
Seriously worried about that polish rumor.[/QUOTE]
I would personally like a dieselpunk battlefield game but I'd agree with you that a lot of people will dislike it and be like WTF at the trailer if this happens to be the case.
But the teaser is perfect, it looks pretty cool yet it reveals so little, it teases extremely hard. From what we can gain from the teaser the game could be set absolutely anywhere.
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Not so worried now. Seems to imply he's talking about an RTS.
[QUOTE=cheezey;50263859]I would personally like a dieselpunk battlefield game but I'd agree with you that a lot of people will dislike it and be like WTF at the trailer if this happens to be the case.[/QUOTE]
"Dieselpunk" is fine. I just hate mechs. Make massive land battleships assaulting towering industrial fortress cities all you want.
im not a fan of mechs myself but the 2142 walkers were pretty amazing.
Like, I dont even like incredibly futuristic settings but 2142 managed to capture it really well
Just out of curosity, I know it may mean absolutely nothing but as a modeler and content creator myself, I know my process so I looked up the Google Trends for Sweden and this is what I got. Interesting, it could possibly fit in with the development length of a new game, putting it at just 3 years ago that it would have started, assuming it'd be ready soon.
[IMG]http://s32.postimg.org/8uzwxlo5h/history.jpg[/IMG]
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May be nothing, but it looks like it could hint towards something.
Yeah, multiple facebook posts from that guy saying it's not published by EA.
However, and I really hate to bring up neogaf so much, but apparently they have a policy of banning people who make false leak claims. A neogaf admin is saying that he got an email this morning regarding battlefield and that a user who earlier claimed the game was called Battlefield 1 and set in 1920 is not wrong and would not be banned.
[QUOTE=Ajacks;50263907]Just out of curosity, I know it may mean absolutely nothing but as a modeler and content creator myself, I know my process so I looked up the Google Trends for Sweden and this is what I got. Interesting, it could possibly fit in with the development length of a new game, putting it at just 3 years ago that it would have started, assuming it'd be ready soon.
[IMG]http://s32.postimg.org/8uzwxlo5h/history.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://s32.postimg.org/5llhr501x/big_spike.jpg[/IMG]
May be nothing, but it looks like it could hint towards something.[/QUOTE]
That shows absolutely nothing.
You're aware people searched for Great War on July 2014 because it started in July 1914 right?
You know WW1 started in July of 1914, right? I'm not surprised that people were searching it on the 100 year anniversary. Also the "world war" spike is the same time World War Z came out. I think you're misinterpretimg that data.
If it's WW1 wouldn't that make it likely to be the first Battlefield to feature horses? Since they were still a bit popular back then.
[QUOTE=bassie12;50264348]If it's WW1 wouldn't that make it likely to be the first Battlefield to feature horses? Since they were still a bit popular back then.[/QUOTE]
Let's fuckin' do this.
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[QUOTE=Wulfram;50264218]You know WW1 started in July of 1914, right? I'm not surprised that people were searching it on the 100 year anniversary. Also the "world war" spike is the same time World War Z came out. I think you're misinterpretimg that data.[/QUOTE]
I didn't think of that, hence why I said "most likely means nothing" because it was just an observation.
[QUOTE=bassie12;50264348]If it's WW1 wouldn't that make it likely to be the first Battlefield to feature horses? Since they were still a bit popular back then.[/QUOTE]
Horses was the most numerous form of transportation in WW2 for the Germans actually, so they werent phased out after WW1. And horses werent really used in combat all that much, that strategy stopped with the stalemate of WW1, at least on the western front.
Just give me WWI with terrain destruction/deformation so I can flood trenches with water please.
[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;50264664]Just give me WWI with terrain destruction/deformation so I can flood trenches with water please.[/QUOTE]
Flashbacks to Battlefield 3 alpha and digging trench networks at the first pair of objectives.
[QUOTE=Viper123_SWE;50264642]BC3 confirmed? :v::v::v:[/QUOTE]
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With the leak of a biplane, maybe it's a multi-era affair?
Then again I hoped the same for Infinite Warfare and we got grungy Space Oddity.
[QUOTE=Viper123_SWE;50264642]BC3 confirmed? :v::v::v:[/QUOTE]
What about that picture suggests BC3?
Were there even that many weapons/vehicles to even allow for a WW1 Battlefield game?
As I know there weren't many vehicles that got used nor weapons available and I don't see trench warfare working for something as fast paced as Battlefield.
Like sure a lot of you would enjoy it but the broader market they always try to drag in won't give a fuck about anything pre-WW2. This is of course if they're trying to retain any realism.
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[QUOTE=Viper123_SWE;50264642]BC3 confirmed? :v::v::v:[/QUOTE]
Pre-show footage AKA the history of Battlefield as per usual.
[QUOTE=spekter;50264821]Were there even that many weapons/vehicles to even allow for a WW1 Battlefield game?
As I know there weren't many vehicles that got used nor weapons available and I don't see trench warfare working for something as fast paced as Battlefield.
Like sure a lot of you would enjoy it but the broader market they always try to drag in won't give a fuck about anything pre-WW2. This is of course if they're trying to retain any realism.
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Vehicles, not so much. Weapons, there's more than you think including a couple guns that could be classified as an assault rifle of sorts.
If it is in the World War 1 timeframe I wonder if we'll see Adolf as a soldier?
What if the twist is that we are Hitler?
[sp]What if the double twist is that the final campaign mission is a game of football?[/sp]
[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;50264879]Vehicles, not so much. Weapons, there's more than you think including a couple guns that could be classified as an assault rifle of sorts.[/QUOTE]
Isn't it mostly stationary MGs and a bucket full of bolt-action rifles? They're gonna have to stretch the truth to make it work with BF's formula.
Otherwise people are just gonna start saying it has no content despite most people begging for another Bad Company which had a pittance of weapons/vehicles compared to what we've got in BF3/4 and even Hardline.
There's plenty of weapons sure, but theres not so much in the way of weapon or soldier customization. The most you could do is a bayonet or an extended magazine.
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[QUOTE=spekter;50264935]Isn't it mostly stationary MGs and a bucket full of bolt-action rifles? They're gonna have to stretch the truth to make it work with BF's formula.
Otherwise people are just gonna start saying it has no content despite most people begging for another Bad Company which had a pittance of weapons/vehicles compared to what we've got in BF3/4 and even Hardline.[/QUOTE]
Theres plenty of semi-auto rifles and automatic rifles. France had a semi-auto rifle in WW1, and theres stuff like the BAR, Chauchat, and Madsen for handheld automatic rifles/machine guns. They arent necessarily limited to what was adopted by the militaries involved, either.
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The only thing they're really limited on are SMGs because those were only just becoming a thing at the time
To the people saying what would they even do with WWI tech I'll just quote a post I made recently.
[QUOTE=Why485;49826028]I have two words: Codename Eagle.
If Battlefield were to go World War I, there's no way they would do a realistic take on it. It will have biplanes and tanks, hopefully zeppelins too! It's not like tanks didn't exist in World War I, even if they were extremely rare, but that's never stopped equipment from showing up in Battlefield. The XM8 and XM25 are both prototypes that have never seen service, but both have appeared in Battlefield games.
Besides, a [B]world war[/B] is a better fit to Battlefield's gameplay than cops and robbers no matter how you look at it.
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Here's a some of Codename Eagle's (DICE's first game, set in 1917, and predecessor to BF1942) vehicles.
[t]http://codenameeagle.net/img/vehicles/allied-plane.jpg[/t] [t]http://codenameeagle.net/img/vehicles/allied-tank.jpg[/t]
[t]http://codenameeagle.net/img/vehicles/helicopter.jpg[/t] [t]http://codenameeagle.net/img/vehicles/flame-tank.jpg[/t]
[t]http://codenameeagle.net/img/vehicles/warship.jpg[/t] [t]http://codenameeagle.net/img/vehicles/zeppelin.jpg[/t]
Either way though, this is all talking about a rumor that is just as likely to be made up or misunderstood than true. I'm still putting my money on 2143 as the next Battlefield, although I really hope to be surprised.[/QUOTE]
Just had a Sunken Dragon Rush game. Planted spawn beacon right next to B plant in the restaurant phase and my entire squad just runs straight past the objective, not planting, and immediately die over and over.
There's one thing they need to crack and it's putting more focus on objectives and making them more rewarding. People usually don't give two shits because they're too busy unlocking gear for their guns and even for a pub game this self-centered stupidity is a new low which I feel is fully perpetrated by the gear-centric mindset the game entails..
The lack of variety is why I'm not particularly looking forward to a WW1 game. I'd argue that the difference between an M416, FAMAS, and F2000 are more interesting than the differences between a Mauser, a Lee Enfield, and a Springfield.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;50265528]The lack of variety is why I'm not particularly looking forward to a WW1 game. I'd argue that the difference between an M416, FAMAS, and F2000 are more interesting than the differences between a Mauser, a Lee Enfield, and a Springfield.[/QUOTE]
You HAVE been reading the thread right? It wouldn't be limited to just bolt actions and i'd imagine they'd do it like Hardline where they'd be seperated between factions.
[QUOTE=DeVotchKa;50265656]You HAVE been reading the thread right? It wouldn't be limited to just bolt actions and i'd imagine they'd do it like Hardline where they'd be seperated between factions.[/QUOTE]
But those would be the majority of the weapons. You will have some crazy and cooky early 20th century automatics too and I imagine those would be all I would use but my point is the setting just isn't very interesting [I]to me[/I].
[editline]5th May 2016[/editline]
I browse this thread daily but I don't see how it's relevant. I had a general working knowledge about what happened in WW1 and what guns people used to shoot at each other with before the Battlefield community started getting hyped up for a WW1 game.
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