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[Vault Boy]

Last I heard is they're trading premium passes for lootboxes. Whether or not you need it to get powerful... I'm not holding my breath. It's EA.

After the Battlefront II shitstorm, I think they're going with cosmetic microtransactions this time.

Personally, I'd be OK with that if the game gets proper post-launch support.

 

[Florence]

It’s like an own-brand knockoff of the Cobra Unit.

 

[Zaryiu]

Don't you know? Being inclusive is more important than being historically accurate.

Fucking bullshit. I fucking hate revisionists, they sicken me

 

[Male]

Ok DICE, if Dr.Claw is going to be in your WW2 game then how about we go a little further and make disabled SS Soldiers?
Here let me design one for you:

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

If we need to put women in combat in WWII for gameplay reasons, then why isn't the final level of the game include more gameplay options like stopping Hitler's UFO from escaping to the moon or whatever?

 

[Medicated]

I've never played Battlefield in my life, but people are losing their shit over this. Because it seems like they just dumped the entire premise of the series in the trash for marketability and whatever executives like to call "diversity"

Also why is Furiosa a WW2 soldier?

 

[Red Hood]

Ok DICE, if Dr.Claw is going to be in your WW2 game then how about we go a little further and make disabled SS Soldiers?
Here let me design one for you:

I prefer a WWII game to let me disable the SS soldiers myself, thank you.

Seriously...this trailer needs context. Is this a Red Alert deal where Einstein built a chronosphere? Because it seems to have WWII trappings with sci fi bullshit tacked on and again- ZERO FUCKING CONTEXT. It looks like ideas pitched about WWII by teenagers that read too many comic books. I would have come up with the similar shit when I was 16, and I would have been dumb and autistic for doing so.

Honestly without the WWII trappings I wouldn't have much of a problem with this, it would be another dumb hero shooter.

 

[millais]

I've never played Battlefield in my life, but people are losing their shit over this. Because it seems like they just dumped the entire premise of the series in the trash for marketability and whatever executives like to call "diversity"

Also why is Furiosa a WW2 soldier?

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I'm sure a big part of the artificial "diversity" has a very simple explanation in the maximization of cosmetic microtransactions. All the different combos of race, gender, prosthetic limbs, and so forth will all have to be unlocked by microtransaction, and the more combinations they can get, the better for their bottom line. Plus with two genders, they can probably easily double the amount of cosmetics by making essentially duplicate cosmetic items that are gender-locked.

 

[Medicated]

I prefer a WWII game to let me disable the SS soldiers myself, thank you.

Seriously...this trailer needs context. Is this a Red Alert deal where Einstein built a chronosphere? Because it seems to have WWII trappings with sci fi bullshit tacked on and again- ZERO FUCKING CONTEXT. It looks like ideas pitched about WWII by teenagers that read too many comic books. I would have come up with the similar shit when I was 16, and I would have been dumb and autistic for doing so.

Honestly without the WWII trappings I wouldn't have much of a problem with this, it would be another dumb hero shooter.

Well that seems to be the main thing. They wanted to have the pull of using the Battlefield franchise name. But then introduce aspects of Wolfenstein and the Division, complete with the team of crack bionic commandos from all corners of the world, and not expect people to be royally pissed off.

 

[Red Hood]

I'm sure a big part of the artificial "diversity" has a very simple explanation in the maximization of cosmetic microtransactions. All the different combos of race, gender, prosthetic limbs, and so forth will all have to be unlocked by microtransaction, and the more combinations they can get, the better for their bottom line. Plus with two genders, they can probably easily double the amount of cosmetics by making essentially duplicate cosmetic items that are gender-locked.

Cosmetic microtransactions. Everything makes sense now.

 

[NotoriousD]

Regardless of the pandering, this is repetitive, and despite forgetting Battlefield was an EA thing I wasn't surprised relearning that since this is the same company that shits out sports rererererereleases yearly.

It looks blah. That's all I'll say. I like FPS/TPS games in general, but half that reason, and the reason I like even generic ones, is that they make good games to kill time and have some mindless fun. But the WWII angle has been abused to hell and back and this offers nothing new except a female power fantasy from what I can tell.

Also:

 

[Nazi vegeta]

>being this mad over a shit vidya made by a shit company

I dont see ''mad'' people and surely not me.
only people calling out bullshit.​

(Seriously, why did people shit themselves over Wolfenstein 2 having... gasp.. Nazis as the bad guy? In a game series about... killing Nazis? Holy shit, what a radical concept, this liberal communist anti-Trump SJW tranny homo bullshit has gone on long enough!)

I dont know if you're being sarcastic with this bit but, that wasnt the issue people were having with that game.
I wonder if folks who believe this nonsense, have even played the old games, because I dont remember any leftist pandering in either the marketing nor the actual games.

And to which I say: this is an AAA FPS. Going in expecting realism or making concessions to reality in favor of player comfort/gameplay is a mistake. If you want your realistic white-on-white brother war, go play Project Reality or Red Orchestra or some shit. You're lucky that WWII games are being made period in this climate.

I have a feeling this will be a BF1 situation where the diverse character models are put up front and the actual campaign (presuming it has one, considering the market's continuing decline in quality) will all be whites. But then again, we are all screeching about the color of pixels in a video game. You culture warriors might think that's important, but people don't really care.

this might as well be a fanfiction, because this hardly looks like ww2 game.
It's not just the handicapped woman doing flips and no scopes, that looks dumb and pretentious.
let's see how well it works for them. Gamers are dumb bunch anyway, or else they wouldnt keep buying the same regurgitaded games over and over.




overall It really doesnt surprise me seeing both this and wolfenstein2, coming out from swedish software houses.

 

[Kurtzko]

Honestly, as long as the gameplay (the thing people buy battlefield games for because whats a story in a bf game) is fine, and the guns are not fucked up, I could care less. If anything, im a bit interested by the implications of prosthetics and other coolio deviations from reality, 'realistic' ww2 games have been done to death, the novelty of fighting in D-day or Stalingrad with 4k graphics will wear off really quick if there isnt either A: a really good SP story (my ass it ever will be with triple A fps devs) or has a unique twist to the aesthetics. Honestly I feel people are overreacting over a VIDEO GAME TRAILER its not like not having a historically accurate ww2 will cause a warp tear that will spawn the chaos god of SJWs

 

[The Iconoclast]

I'm sure a big part of the artificial "diversity" has a very simple explanation in the maximization of cosmetic microtransactions. All the different combos of race, gender, prosthetic limbs, and so forth will all have to be unlocked by microtransaction, and the more combinations they can get, the better for their bottom line. Plus with two genders, they can probably easily double the amount of cosmetics by making essentially duplicate cosmetic items that are gender-locked.

This. I distinctively remember Battlepacks (loot boxes) in Battlefield 4 always coming with specific attachments for specific guns. I imagine it’ll be done similarly in here, for whatever the battlepack equivalent will be.

Customization is nothing new in Battlefield or FPS games in general. I don’t mean to sound like one of those guys (so pls don’t flame me for it), but would all of this outrage be happening if the trailer had no women?



People are overreacting. And tbh it’s very entertaining to watch their spergouts wherever they are.

 

[Mafoxy[マフォクシー]]

Looks like trash. I'll just wait for Day of Infamy II for my WWII fix.

 

[Medicated]

Honestly, as long as the gameplay (the thing people buy battlefield games for because whats a story in a bf game) is fine, and the guns are not fucked up, I could care less. If anything, im a bit interested by the implications of prosthetics and other coolio deviations from reality, 'realistic' ww2 games have been done to death, the novelty of fighting in D-day or Stalingrad with 4k graphics will wear off really quick if there isnt either A: a really good SP story (my ass it ever will be with triple A fps devs) or has a unique twist to the aesthetics. Honestly I feel people are overreacting over a VIDEO GAME TRAILER its not like not having a historically accurate ww2 will cause a warp tear that will spawn the chaos god of SJWs

I just don't see it much different from Metal Gear Survive. People have certain expectations that come with certain names. If you make Metal Gear with no Snake, no Raiden, no Metal Gear, no espionage. Then you are gonna piss people off. If you make a WW2 Historical game with Nazi portals to hell and the diversity friends bionic commandos you piss people off.

The only difference this time, is since you promotional materials do the typical American marketing of "White Chick, Black Guy, Asian Girl" type of stuff, they can easily weather the downvotes it by saying it's all just a bunch of sexists and racists who don't want videogames to go into the 21st century.

When no one is complaining about that, since videogames have had customizable characters for decades now. The whole thing is just a media ruse.

 

[ShittyRecolor]

The sheer number of women who enlisted in vital non-combat military roles (at least in Britain) shouldn't be understated, but this is just plain inaccurate.

I'm surprised how there isn't a single game (that I know of) focused around female factory workers during WWII. It would be an easy and realistic way to add representation and I don't think it'd be that hard to come up with game mechanics for it. At worst it would end up like those Naughtydog-esque "mash X to solve puzzle" games like The Way Out people eat up anyways.

 

[c-no]

this might as well be a fanfiction, because this hardly looks like ww2 game.​

It's not just the handicapped woman doing flips and no scopes, that looks dumb and pretentious.
let's see how well it works for them. Gamers are dumb bunch anyway, or else they wouldnt keep buying the same regurgitaded games over and over.

One can expect autism from gamers (and the "not-gamers") of all sides in the spectrum over this. Unless the game has something different beyond "improved graphics", why else should one bother to buy it if you still got other WWII games.

 

[WC 027]

Not sure what'll be funnier, the moviebob-esque faggots claiming this to be gaming's Black Panther, or the fat, angry retards who'll want the playable women to be replaced with the option to rape the women of the opposing side's towns

 

[Burned Man]

Not sure what'll be funnier, the moviebob-esque faggots claiming this to be gaming's Black Panther, or the fat, angry exceptional individuals who'll want the playable women to be replaced with the option to rape the women of the opposing side's towns

Seems like the next step up from the Killzone victory screen where the winning side executes the losing side as prisoners. The winning side rolls into town to rape and pillage. The higher you rank in the match the more silverware you are able to pilfer and stash to buy loot boxes with.