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Everything [Battlefield] - Rumor: BF5 Set In (Alternate Reality?) World War I

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  • canuckontcanuckont Registered User regular
    I'd like to see, and you can hate me if you want, classes withOUT restriction for weapons.

    Sometimes I just want to run around with a M249 on all my guys....

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  • ToyDToyD Registered User regular
    Nah, I like classes but I hope the vehicle numbers are dialed back just a tad so not everyone is an engineer. 2143 with a squad system with some of the older elements from 2142. Plus Titan assault! Loved that mode! I was trying to figure out why I loved it but don't care too much for carrier assault, and I think it was the tight corridors. Carrier assault is a couple huge open rooms, but Titan assault was cramped hallways to the engine room, much smaller feeling than carrier assault and gave you that metro/locker meat grinder feeling after the open map battles.

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  • ToyDToyD Registered User regular
    Also, LEGO: Battlefield? Let's do this!

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  • ErrorError Registered User regular
    Is there maybe a reason it's being announced on May 5? Maybe something to do with Mexico? Battlefield Pancho Villa? Battlefield Alamo?

  • TurambarTurambar Independent Registered User regular
    But tomorrow is May 6th

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  • ErrorError Registered User regular
    edited May 2016
    Wait I thought it was being unveiled today.

    Dammit. I was looking forward to today.

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  • heckelsheckels Registered User regular
    Damn it I thought it was today too....now I want to just go back to bed.....

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    There is going to be a leak or something teased on an official instagram account any moment so don't despair.

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  • ErrorError Registered User regular
    https://www.instagram.com/battlefield/

    It's up. And I don't think it's WW1. Based on the 3 seconds of footage.

  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    Nothing there for me.

  • ErlkönigErlkönig Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Error wrote: »
    https://www.instagram.com/battlefield/

    It's up. And I don't think it's WW1. Based on the 3 seconds of footage.

    For the Instagram-challenged, which clip has the footage? Most of what I saw was Hardline footage ( <3 that American Dream)

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  • heckelsheckels Registered User regular
    Error wrote: »
    https://www.instagram.com/battlefield/

    It's up. And I don't think it's WW1. Based on the 3 seconds of footage.

    I didn't see anything that would say one way or another....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbcMzWWRChQ

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  • canuckontcanuckont Registered User regular
    edited May 2016
    Wtf was that?

    I'm going to say futuristic since he's looking up at the sky and a shadow is about to cross over him

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  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    The teaser of the teaser announcement for the announcement teaser trailer.

  • canuckontcanuckont Registered User regular
    edited May 2016
    Satsumomo wrote: »
    The teaser of the teaser announcement for the announcement teaser trailer.

    Haha pretty muc what I thought. Silly meter is maxed on that 3 seconds of face shot

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    I wonder if they put a reflection in the eyes.

    Capcom pulled that off in the Street Fighter 5 trailer.

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  • ToyDToyD Registered User regular
    Man I hope he's watching a Titan lift off or appear.

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    My guess is on WW II.5

    America vs USSR. No Cold War. Just war and cold.

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Based entirely on the guys coat and shoulders, it kind of looks like he's wearing an older era ww1 trenchcoat or something like it.

    The lack of any kind of tactical looking shit like a vest and radio (which would be fairly visible) or whatever makes me think it's either A: pre tactical looking shit or B: some guy in a coat.

    As for the shadow? I don't know. But uh, I think this is set in the past. Or I really want it to be set in the past. I don't think I can do Battlefield: Independence Day, man, I don't think I can.

  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Also, dude looked like he had been crying. Had some tear streaks through the grime on his face.

  • GONG-00GONG-00 Registered User regular
    It reminds me of the Matt Damon stare from Saving Private Ryan so Battlefield 1944?

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    GONG-00 wrote: »
    It reminds me of the Matt Damon stare from Saving Private Ryan so Battlefield 1944?

    I'm really starting to think it's a throw back.

    Almost because I feel like Dice would go back and make a AAA blockbuster historical shooter just to take the piss out of CoD and their ever increasingly goofy future stuff.

  • UhtredUhtred Registered User regular
    edited May 2016
    That clip could be from practically any time period but the beige color of his uniform and dirt all over his face to me says more WW1/WW2 than anything futuristic. In 2142 everyone was wearing dopey helmets.
    Juggernut wrote: »
    GONG-00 wrote: »
    It reminds me of the Matt Damon stare from Saving Private Ryan so Battlefield 1944?

    I'm really starting to think it's a throw back.

    Almost because I feel like Dice would go back and make a AAA blockbuster historical shooter just to take the piss out of CoD and their ever increasingly goofy future stuff.

    Also this.

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  • General_ArmchairGeneral_Armchair Registered User regular
    Prohass wrote: »
    Am I the only person who hopes they go back to the more rigid roles for classes that BC2 had? Or at least announce a bad company 3 soon.

    As for settings I honestly can't think of one that wouldn't feel overdone. We just have a shitload of games. Frankly hardline felt pretty unique in that regard.

    I'm hoping that they go more rigid ala bf2.

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    One other reason I think the future setting is out is that at the end of the trailer they have a disclaimer that says "no weapon, gear or vehicle manufacturer has endorsed this game" or something like that. Could just be legal stuff but that implies they're using weapon and vehicle models based off real world designs, past or present. I assume you wouldn't need that if you had just made up a bunch of scifi weapons.

  • GONG-00GONG-00 Registered User regular
    My heart wants a 2143, but my head is saying 1944.

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  • emp123emp123 Registered User regular
    Juggernut wrote: »
    One other reason I think the future setting is out is that at the end of the trailer they have a disclaimer that says "no weapon, gear or vehicle manufacturer has endorsed this game" or something like that. Could just be legal stuff but that implies they're using weapon and vehicle models based off real world designs, past or present. I assume you wouldn't need that if you had just made up a bunch of scifi weapons.

    Nah, anytime they go to use a manufacturers name or names of actual weapons they'd need the approval of the manufacturer, so even if they're making up weapon names but saying theyre from an existing weapons manufacturer they'd need that weapons manufacturer's approval to use their name in the game.

  • General_ArmchairGeneral_Armchair Registered User regular
    edited May 2016
    canuckont wrote: »
    Wtf was that?

    I'm going to say futuristic since he's looking up at the sky and a shadow is about to cross over him

    I'm calling it now. Battlefield Delta Green style. You were expecting some kind of future ship, but here are some Old ones and things from beyond the stars!

    Highlights from the campaign will be Innsmouth Massachusetts, Carcosa, the lost city of Pnakotus, and that time shit went bad in Cambodia
    Juggernut wrote: »
    Also, dude looked like he had been crying. Had some tear streaks through the grime on his face.
    That's what happens when you see what was never meant to be seen.



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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    emp123 wrote: »
    Juggernut wrote: »
    One other reason I think the future setting is out is that at the end of the trailer they have a disclaimer that says "no weapon, gear or vehicle manufacturer has endorsed this game" or something like that. Could just be legal stuff but that implies they're using weapon and vehicle models based off real world designs, past or present. I assume you wouldn't need that if you had just made up a bunch of scifi weapons.

    Nah, anytime they go to use a manufacturers name or names of actual weapons they'd need the approval of the manufacturer, so even if they're making up weapon names but saying theyre from an existing weapons manufacturer they'd need that weapons manufacturer's approval to use their name in the game.

    Make sense.

    My thinking was more, "we have a *manufacturer name* rifle but we're not calling it a *manufacturer name* even though it is" kinda deal. I'm not really familiar with what actually requires that kind of legalese though.

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    I wonder if they put a reflection in the eyes.

    Capcom pulled that off in the Street Fighter 5 trailer.

    GIF stolen from GAF: http://i.giphy.com/l41Yp0fVgj19Tcsk8.gif

    Can't see anything.

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  • ErlkönigErlkönig Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Eyes looking up as a large shadow encompasses the person...... I've got it!

    Battlefield: Air Pirates. The shadow is a rigid airship lifting off.

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  • ErrorError Registered User regular
    A zepplin could work

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  • UhtredUhtred Registered User regular
    edited May 2016
    Also stolen from GAF, an achievement leak or something:

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    Heard a rumor too that they might call it Battlefield 1... which is cool as fuck if it's squarely a WW1 game.

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  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    edited May 2016
    Shadow is a mark 1 tank going over a trench maybe?

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    Where everybody is?!
    Darn Overwatch is stealing too many people away...

    Hahah yeah sorry man, we'll be busy with that for a bit until the Beta is over. You're welcome to join.

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Uhtred wrote: »
    Also stolen from GAF, an achievement leak or something:

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    Heard a rumor too that they might call it Battlefield 1... which is cool as fuck if it's squarely a WW1 game.

    Hmmm....

    Hmmmmm

  • MulletudeMulletude Registered User regular
    Ww1 just seems like it would have to be a side game with the lack of variety in transport options and lack of armor until late war.

    Static fronts aren't necessarily a problem though because some maps could simply be to cap and hold the enemys trenches in succession. And eastern front combat would be more mobile

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  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    To be honest, none of the other Battlefield games have really captured the realism of actual battles.

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    That'd be the big challenge to overcome if it's set in WW1. Doesn't exactly lend itself to the battlefield dynamic.

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