Bohemia was heavily connected through the Silk Road and various other major trade routes that went through Africa and Asia, and Moors would have definitely found their ways to at least Prague by the time of the game. There were black slaves and courtiers in Vienna at the time, Ethiopian monks are recorded as traveling Italy and Iberia as early as the 14th century, an Ethiopian delegation shows up and gets involved in Bohemian politics in the 15th century.
I'm not demanding that they should have been included in the game, but it was stupid for devs and fans to claim that there were zero Moors in Bohemia at the time of the game. It's impossible to prove either way, but all evidence suggests there would have been a few.
I kind of get what they were going for with the trailer: showing the chaos of a multiplayer match of battlefield. But that chaos does not translate to a trailer at all so I don't know why they did that.
Take that Call of Duty, now I can play as a black female Jewish crippled Nazi soldier.
cant wait to see some gameplay footage. sounds like great fun and im a bit of a sucker for customs.
It actually does begin to make a lot more sense when you think of this in the scope of not an actual cinematic representation of a real historical moment, but the reality of a multiplayer match in this setting, with all the customization options and over-the-top action sequences to boot.
Even Jackfrags admitted the trailer wasn't very good. It's all nonsense if you lack the context for the new features and gameplay changes, and it's not really indicative of how gameplay and all these new features will actually work together due to being a purely cinematic bullshot. When I first saw it I was wondering if it was some sort of "singleplayer's finally going multiplayer-style" thing, but no, it's just a really poorly handled trailer trying to hype people up in all the wrong ways.
https://youtu.be/Lz0v-qixpOI
Playing this in the background improved the trailer immensely.
Every line of dialogue Captain Hook had was either incredibly hammy, made no sense, or a combination of both
Really added to the cheesiness of the whole thing
Still in disbelief that they butchered the first impression this fucking hard.
Not only do they need to very quickly try and put out the shitstorm by explaining the actual good shit, but they seriously need to hire much better trailer production teams as this is legitimately the worst possible way they could've handled the first impression and no doubt turned off a lot of people who may have never played battlefield or just plain judges games by their trailers, which is a heck lot.
You mean being completely dead 3 months after launch?
Also I look forward to seeing how Dice & EA fuck its consumer base over once again. I can't wait to hear how the fans will rabidly defend it tooth and nail with shallow reasoning and lack of any facts. Because you know how EA treats those loyal to them, by killing off their games without telling the people playing it, and then going into massive damage control the moment that those facts are leaked to the public.
The trailer reminded me of those RackaRacka videos where shit gets progressively more and more fucking insane and over the top
Why even bother calling it ww2 at this point.
And I wonder if the thing with the camera trailing the ground is gonna be the next trailer thing everyone does.
20-30k peak players on each platform after 1½ years is a dead game? lol ok.
Says a great deal about the state of AAA, when you can put out something so completely wrong on both objective and subjective levels and people will just eat it up no questions asked, slamming them preorder buttons.
The only thing they got right was the V, which we now know stands for the Resistance. Kind of ironic the thing that most people were like "wtf is this" turns out to be the only remotely contextually correct thing about the product.
This looks like it should be on the screen of tv playing in the background of a South park episode.
Meh, should've just went all out with alternate WW2 and pulled a wolfenstein.
Could've had rideable giant nazi Mechs and mecha dogs, stealth fighters and shit but instead we've got....bravehart facepaint customization?
Why did they even add the UI if its going to look prerendered as shit anyways
The problem is that doing stuff like Wolfenstein well requires passion and creativity, things that die anywhere near EA.
the fuck did i just watch?
That was an excellent ADHD compliant trailer.
If they wanted to showcase women in WW2, why didn't they showcase actual events where they took part in?
I feel that just throwing them in where ever kinda lessens the actual truth behind what women actually did in the war.
Plus going from th BF1 trailers to this is just so jarring, what the hell are they going for?
I must say that I'm so far liking this apparently way lighter tone of BF5.
As a disclaimer I fucking adore really serious shooter games and that I'm barely a BF fan.
But I didn't really click with the tone of BF1 (first BF game I've played since BF:BC2).
Since on the surface it looked serious, but once gameplay sets in it gets really fucking goofy.
One memorable moment when my friend got blasted by a cannon, flew five meters cartwheeling through the air and then landing seemingly arse-first on my magical healing syringe.
So for all the jokes about BF5 being Battle Field Heroes 2; I do appreciate the tonal consistency shown so far.
Now I just hope that DICE would for once make a single player campaign that isn't a total waste of time.
The main problem with BF1's campaign wasn't that it was mostly a corridor(trench) shooter, it was that it didn't bother teaching mechanics that'd be important in the MP.
Garbage trailer aside I do like the listed features, sounds like it'll definitely be something that stands out which is what I think they were aiming for. Also I kinda love how much of the "Muh authenticity" this trailer has created.
The way they handled the trailer reminds me a lot of what Killzone 2 tried to do back in 2005.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-4HNmuEAKg
Lots of bullshit, completely made up footage, barely if at all in engine, basically just one big scripted set piece that's not actually in the game in any way shape or form.
That was legitimately one of the worst trailers I have ever seen. Was it meant to be a parody or something?
I think I'll trust Bohemia and the research they did for the game over some random facepuncher tbh.
In an oversaturated cartoony environment.
What fuckin dimension did you hop out of to think BF1 was ever a dead game?
In-game characters reference that they saw african traders in Prague. The game DOES acknowledge this. What they don't acknowledge is that they would have spent a lot time in what is basically a backwater countryside, where literally the entire valuable in the entire area is a silver mine. If they have no personal stake in it there's no point visiting it.
keep in mind he also took that plane down by miraculously shooting and hitting an enemy grenade that was thrown back by his teammate the perfect second that the plane was flying by. Seems legit
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