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Rolling Scissors posted:So I guess there is a stream going on, Rush on Sinai right now. Why Sinai 😔
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Real talk, I think the historical consensus is that Germany deserves a significant chuck of the finger-pointing because the political and military leaders there did think that it would be a good idea to use their fancy army to win themselves the wealth, power that they thought they deserved.
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Sep 30, 2016 23:55
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I'm just glad we beat back the Martians and the demonic legions.
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Rolling Scissors posted:So I guess there is a stream going on, Rush on Sinai right now. Guys I'm really not one of those PCMR type people, but good god this footage really solidifies how utterly inferior consoles are for FPS games. It's so ponderous. To be fair I think these are PC players playing with controllers? EDIT: Are these the same two lovely commentators from gamescon? Fresh Shesh Besh fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Oct 1, 2016 |
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Monocled Falcon posted:Real talk, I think the historical consensus is that Germany deserves a significant chuck of the finger-pointing because the political and military leaders there did think that it would be a good idea to use their fancy army to win themselves the wealth, power that they thought they deserved. Saying that 'no side was to blame' is silly equivocation. While no one has clean hands the start of the war really was a Austro-Hungarian and German act of aggression. Germany was confident they could repeat the Franco-Prussian war again.
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afkmacro posted:Why Sinai 😔 I'm starting to think Empires Edge might now have much moving boats  .
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sarmhan posted:Also the German naval build up served no purpose other than to give a giant middle finger to England. Dönitz and Wilhelm's idiocy play a big role in the leadup to WW1. Germany sure deserves its share of the blame but there isn't some kind of celestial law that says England is allowed a navy and another country is not. It's not fair to look at it through the current global lens as if the English navy was the US Navy of the times, providing global security and therefore why build your own navy. Wars broke out constantly in that time period and navies were wielded in support of their home nations just as land armies were. The fact that the English Navy blockade eventually starved out and caused the German home front to collapse kind of proves in itself that beefing up their navy was the right call. Captain Beans fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Oct 1, 2016 |
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Oct 1, 2016 02:07
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If your going to blame someone for the war the Austro-Hungarian royal family and Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf deserve more blame than Prussia imo, Conrad had been itching for war for years and Franz Ferdinand was the only member of the royal family who believed in letting Serbs have a bigger voice (the irony of him being the one to be assasinated is rather large).
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Tarantula posted:If your going to blame someone for the war the Austro-Hungarian royal family and Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf deserve more blame than Prussia imo, Conrad had been itching for war for years and Franz Ferdinand was the only member of the royal family who believed in letting Serbs have a bigger voice (the irony of him being the one to be assasinated is rather large). Yeah, it's this. Serbia all but capitulated in the face of the Austrian ultimatum as well, but the Austrian elite felt annexing Serbia was a prerequisite for holding the empire together, hence the war we got.
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I hope this concept art tells the truth and we get this kind of awesomeness somewhere down the line. http://img.vglook.com/upload/attachment/20160509/1462603002013_c513b5063b427b2f51304a897ef09344.jpg!w1920
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Oct 1, 2016 15:54
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I'm a little miffed that battleships are relegated to being a losing-team-bonus but I'm just happy that they're in the game and playable at all honestly. @ the memories of clunky as poo poo naval battles in BF1942, having team mates spawning on your moving ship and seeing everyone warp around and slide off and such... and of course beaching the ship and witnessing the rage.
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Deakul posted:I'm a little miffed that battleships are relegated to being a losing-team-bonus but I'm just happy that they're in the game and playable at all honestly. My most memorable moments of naval combat in BF1942 are when you were just having a shootout and then for reasons unknown the battleship just starts listing insanely to the point of nearly capsizing, and it does this repeatedly back and forth like a pendulum.
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Lmao, oh man, that was really common back in the game's early days. I remember I had a destroyer once on Midway I think and it flipped completely upside down but I could still shoot but then the ship corrected itself instantly and I was launched 100 feet into the air.
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BigglesSWE posted:I hope this concept art tells the truth and we get this kind of awesomeness somewhere down the line. Suez Canal might involve some of that. I'm interested to see how the Battleships are going to handle.
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Deakul posted:I'm a little miffed that battleships are relegated to being a losing-team-bonus but I'm just happy that they're in the game and playable at all honestly. gently caress that, let's take the Carrier and beach it smack in the middle of Midway, losing your teams greatest asset. I glimpsed a new promo pic on Twitter yesterday. I finally found it today after searching for it for quite a while. Maybe it isn't official but it looks cool enough. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ctm1nHjW8AA7AQZ.jpg:large
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Oct 1, 2016 16:10
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Oct 1, 2016 16:16
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Fort Douamount 24/7 NO EXPLOSIVES
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BigglesSWE posted:Fort Douamount 24/7 NO EXPLOSIVES gently caress SAKE GUYS WE LOST BECAUSE ONE GUY GOT BEHIND AND CAPPED THE POINT!
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SeanBeansShako posted:gently caress SAKE GUYS WE LOST BECAUSE ONE GUY GOT BEHIND AND CAPPED THE POINT! TF2 style, I like it.
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BTW, pretty sure that's actually an Italian soldier, not a French one.
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The Italians wore green though, not blue? EDIT: Dunno why I'm talking like I know anything about WWI. Fresh Shesh Besh fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Oct 1, 2016 |
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Oct 1, 2016 20:09
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I think the colorscheme on that picture isn't realistic. To me that could be a faint olive color as well as light blue.
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Oct 1, 2016 20:21
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Singleplayer stream starts now. Only 30 minutes. https://www.twitch.tv/xbox
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Oct 1, 2016 21:01
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYlD-SSHF4s Almost a throwback to "hotswapping" from BF2:MC
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Alehkhs posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYlD-SSHF4s looks good
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Oct 1, 2016 21:34
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Pulled the trigger on my preorder. GMG still had it for 20% off (for existing members).
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BigglesSWE posted:BTW, pretty sure that's actually an Italian soldier, not a French one. I don't think the Italian's had the old style 18th century grenade on their helmets. It is a French soldier. Alehkhs posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYlD-SSHF4s That Hellfighter guy at the start? he is the lone survior in his whole platoon  .
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYlD-SSHF4s&feature=youtu.be the prologue seems cool.
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"You are not expected to survive" had a surprising punch to it. Nice way to let the player know that death is expected but also a bleak look at the reality of trench warfare.
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BigglesSWE posted:"You are not expected to survive" had a surprising punch to it. Nice way to let the player know that death is expected but also a bleak look at the reality of trench warfare. I mean, ill be controversial i think thats as a "realistic picture" of WW1 trench warfare as you can get (in a video game). its a awful gory chaotic mix.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:I mean, ill be controversial i think thats as a "realistic picture" of WW1 trench warfare as you can get (in a video game). its a awful gory chaotic mix. They certainly nailed the atmosphere of the late WW1 frontline.
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Alehkhs posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYlD-SSHF4s that actually looked p loving good. lots of new haircuts to try out too
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BigglesSWE posted:TF2 style, I like it. In real life a handful of German Pioneers pretty much the biggest more modern of those fortresses by just slipping through a window and opening the back door. They pretty much walked through the fortress rounding up some very confused French soldiers. Granted it was only held by 400 dudes and almost all the guns had been removed that is still pretty hilarious. What wasn't hilarious was the brutal battles and campaign that followed that has more or less turned what remains into a fortress into a grisly charnel house of bones.
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SeanBeansShako posted:In real life a handful of German Pioneers pretty much the biggest more modern of those fortresses by just slipping through a window and opening the back door. They pretty much walked through the fortress rounding up some very confused French soldiers. Oh yeah I knew that (thought first that it was Fort Vaux that fell this way but I checked it up and I was wrong). It's just that the general concept is something I've seen quite a few times in TF2 when a BLU spy manages to sneak past a RED team that aren't thinking defence in depth. In short: always be burning.
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BigglesSWE posted:Oh yeah I knew that (thought first that it was Fort Vaux that fell this way but I checked it up and I was wrong). It's just that the general concept is something I've seen quite a few times in TF2 when a BLU spy manages to sneak past a RED team that aren't thinking defence in depth. And here I wish I had that GIF of Snoop Dog playing the Alpha of this game.
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SeanBeansShako posted:And here I wish I had that GIF of Snoop Dog playing the Alpha of this game. It's in the OP.
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BigglesSWE posted:"You are not expected to survive" had a surprising punch to it. Nice way to let the player know that death is expected but also a bleak look at the reality of trench warfare. The way the mission transitions from individuals with a glimpse of backstory, and continually backslides towards the end to just feeding bodies into the grinder was pretty powerful, as well. Also, the artillery barrage was overdue. 
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Didn't Ludendorff force the surrender of one of the Liege forts by literally driving up to it and knocking on the front door?
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That looked great and was a fantastic use of gameplay to present the player as just an ordinary soldier who is almost certainly going to die instead of the superhero that most FPS campaigns make them. Really fit the tone of the war.
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