Well it's official.
They're going back to their roots...
Battlefield WWI might have took them by surprise with its financial success. Sounds like everybody is tired of double jumps and wall running, just wanna empty a carbine in the enemy or drive a Sherman.
Sounds like everybody is tired of double jumps and wall running,
Never!
It's a bit 'Saving private Ryan - the game.' Other things happened in WWII other than D-Day.
Very possibly. I just wish they'd looked at the war form a fresh angle rather than redoing the same thing everyone, including them, has in exactly the same way. Obviously the game could go to other theatres and this is just a small taste but it doesn't bode well that their big reveal is landing craft and troops storming beaches again (that sequence was very Private Ryan-esque.)
I agree with the other posters that we appear to have seen this campaign before; several times. I haven't played the CoD canon, so I don't know how much variety it has exhibited in the past. All I can say is that I think Battlefield 1's campaign set quite a high bar for this kind of thing, and it doesn't look currently like CoD will clear it.
Of equal interest to me (I use the term loosely) is the multiplayer. I played MW, MWII and Blops 1... then I got tired of circling the same time of arenas time after time, and stopped playing. Unless this has changed, I can't see myself buying in to this. Battlefield 1 has spoiled me...
It's been a good decade or more since the "LOL more WW2 games" meme had any truth to it. I'm guardedly optimistic about there being a good mainstream WW2 FPS again. We're due.
I would love to see this franchise cross over with the Wolfenstein alternate reality franchise that Bethesda is doing right now.
I just want them to build a new engine. The COD engine was looking dated 5 years ago. I'm glad we are going to get a game without robot legs and wall running though.
I'll post this link here, but it almost deserves a thread of its own.
Open Beta on PC next weekend right? 29th or something?
PC Open Beta can be downloaded on Steam from now, ready for the weekend.
Yeah, gave it a whirl last night, man I'm rusty
Is it normal to repeatedly lose connection to the Host server? I've been able to play part of one game, and I've been disconnected at least 20 times. I've set up the correct port forwarding, I think, although ww2 isn't on the official Activision page.
I didn't have to change anything at all, and had zero issues.
Yeah, so the fix for me was ... hilarious. Switch the game to Windowed mode instead of Full Screen. Connect to a game. Switch back to Full Screen. Play.
Why on earth a change in display or resolution has anything to do with network connectivity ... who knows.
Can't say I'm excited about this at all. The maps are tiny and claustrophobic, maybe 50 meters in diameter. After playing PUBG, it feels like a fist fight in a phone booth. Got multiple kills simply because I spawned behind the enemy. There's no gameplay other than run and gun - if you try to hold a position, you're instantly flanked and killed.
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