Tfw been getting into WWI recently

>tfw been getting into WWI recently
>normies are about to go full WWI hype because of Battlefield Cuck
>people will think I'm into WWI history because of a dumb video game

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Just claim you found The Great War on YouTube or something.
Ta-Da! Now no one thinks you support EA.

>tfw video game is one of the most influencial media of our time
>tfw the horribly inaccurate BF1 is the only big budget WW1 game
>tfw entire generations of kids across the world will grow up thinking the Harlem fighters and Bedouins did more than France and Russia, or that the German Imperial Army was 70% black

>giving a shit about what people think about your favorite period of history

What on Earth is wrong with you?

Besides, Battlefield 1 is a good thing for this: literally nobody outside of milspergs and historians care about WW1 as it stands now, so maybe we'll finally start getting cool new shit about it if BF1 succeeds.

Tell everyone how you were into it before it was mainstream

ayo hol up

Life as a history hipster is suffering.

>German Imperial Army was 70% black
literally just multiplayer skin customization, m8. The option to customize your model isn't enabled in the alpha. Right now the only German class that's black is the sniper, and they still talk in the same German accent. Just look at that picture; they're all fucking identical because they're all using the same model.

theres a reason no ones given a fuck about ww1 for a century

Dude...who cares. If you're actually interested in it you shouldn't give a fuck what other people think your reasoning is.

I sincerely hope you're not being a hipster about a period of history, cause that's pretty pathetic, famalam.

And that's because WW2 happened so soon afterwards.

Hol up, so wut ya be sayin' we sum kinda Sturmtruppe? Like Storms of Steel'n'shiet?

>defending this shit

we wuz trenches n sheeet

Also,
>Battlefield Click

No one's gonna take you seriously when you're throwing the word cuck around like a memer, so youre in luck. No one is gonna take you seriously anyways.

Fucking autocorrect. You know what word I meant.

If you want to hate on it because it's a shitty game, go right ahead. It's fucking Battlefield, there's bound to be a lot of bugs and shit wrong with it. Don't stoop so low to pathetic racebaiting that's based on incorrect memes.

It's not that fucking hard.

>defending a game with black German soldiers and womyn Bedouin soldiers

wew lad

Fixed your pic BF1 style

>Askari
>based on one of T.E. Lawrence's clique

wew yourself. I bet you had an autistic meltdown when you realized Kelly's Heroes wasn't 100% historically accurate.

>WWI
>Panzerfaust

I applaud the effort though, I chuckled.

>hol up
>*sharpens entrenching tool*
>ayo hol up
>*gets a sip of schnapps*
>lemee get dis strait
>*straps a bunch of stick grenades together*
>hol up hol up
>*paints face with pitch*
>hol up my nikka
>*goes temporarily insane from enemy bombardment*
>so
>*whips up a knuckle-duster, a nail bat and a stiletto from his pockets*
>so what ya sayin'
>*goes over the top under a moonless night*
>so what ya be sayin'
>*raids enemy trenches*
>we be
>*gets into bloody hand to hand combat using fists and teeth*
>we be sum kinna
>*takes prisoners*
>ya be sayin' we sum kinna
>*is dismembered by a grenade*
>Sturmtruppe
>*dies forgotten in a puddle of blood in no man's land*

>DUDE REWRITING HISTORY LMAO

Why are you even on this board?

this

>popular media isn't 100% historically accurate

STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES. Why is it such a huge fucking deal that the game's using WW1 as a setting to tell a story when literally 90% of all WW2 movies and video games are inaccurate action garbage?

Nobody here is defending Kelly's Heroes you dummy. But keep beating that strawman.

Altrightists are hyperalert about historical euro wars symbolizing modern social changes, as well as are paranoid about Black media representation, so this is both barrels to the face for them. With a side dash of normie garbage "AAA" VIDYA GAME antihype.

Nobody gets so damn worked up over it either. It's a simple fact that popular mass media is going to bend accuracy for a more enjoyable product. Nobody ever gave a shit that WW2 games and movies weren't accurate before, but this game comes around and suddenly it's REEEEEEEEE NOT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE IT'S REWRITING HISTORY REEEEEE like it's changing the fucking history books or something.

This. Its their game. They arent obliged to be 100% accurate. Forcing them to implement something they way you want seems like some way of reverse censorship.

>Altright

PEPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I could just say "invaders from /pol/ " but I wanted to play the word game.

>invaders from /pol/

Don't be a bigot
They're refugees, not invaders

>refugees

Fleeing from what? /pol/ is literally a safe space.

I know it sounds selfish but I can't stand when people assume I am into history due to video gaming.

I remember at school around the time Fallout 3 came out we were asked to perform a presentation of a historical item of our choice. I did mine on the Enola Gay and the history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings as well as a detailed breakdown of the Manhattan project

Now I didn't have many friends and played videogames all day on lunch. So when I opened up the first slide of my presentation and it had an image of a large nuclear warhead someone in the class shouted out 'WOW, user IS GOING TO PRESENT A HISTORY OF LONELY SATURDAY NIGHTS ON HIS PLAYSTATION' and the whole fucking class laughed.

I was pretty beta and laughed too. I started talking about the Manhatten Project and the class seemed pretty bored, so I closed my slides and laughed and said 'Y-Y-ES.... HHE WAS RIGHT, A PRESENTATION ON MY SATURDAY NIGHTS! L-L-L-AST SATURDAY, I PLAYED COUNTER STRIKE ALL NIGHT' then spent 10 minutes talking about sitting in my room, eating chips and playing Vidya. Became a fucking laughing stock and failed the class. Why can't my hobbies be viewed as separate things?

This is just such a stupid hill to fight and die on, though. There WERE black soldiers in the Imperial German Army. They had several thousand of them under arms down in their African colonies, and we know at least a few dozen were in Germany before the war broke out, so it's not totally out of the question. They weren't in as many numbers like the French African troops, no. But they did exist.

>but they couldn't get their colonial troops to Germany so it's not historically accurate

And nobody but the Germans had access to the MP-18, but you can get them in the multiplayer regardless of nation. Who gives a shit as long as it's not in the singleplayer?

>But they're FORCING me to play Wie Waz Soldats And Schiesse!

That's completely incorrect and illogical, even from the /pol/ mindset of dude swede cucks lmao. Think about it for a moment, you're saying they're forcing multiculturalism into the game, right? But as of right now, the various skins and models are tied to specific classes. Do you think that the supposed multicultural libcuck Swedes would make it so if you wanted to play an Indian you'd *have* to play a medic? Fuck no, they'd let you play an Indian with any class you want. Thus, it's going to be a customization option that you can change at your leisure. And thus, nobody is going to MAKE you play a black German if you don't want to.

They're fleeing Hillary shilling
Of course they could have stopped on /int/ instead of coming as far as Veeky Forums, but Veeky Forums gives more welfare

And yeah, they behave on Veeky Forums like they did on /pol/, but that's their culture.
You can't ask them to adapt, that'd be bigoted
Since you're a leftist, I think you understand that

The thing is that African troops in the German army only fought in African colonies, not on the Western front
And even for France (the country that had the most colonial troops), colonial troops made up for barely 5% of the total
So having 50% of blacks in every army is bullshit (unless they had made the game about the African theater, but they chose the Western front)

Are you xenophobic? They have a right to go the place with the most welfare if they want to

racist cunt

>The thing is that African troops in the German army only fought in African colonies, not on the Western front
See the second point. And hell, there had to have been more than 40 black German soldiers actually in Germany during the war. That's more than as many A7Vs that were made during all of WW1, but you know the A7V is going to be common as fuck during gameplay.

>So having 50% of blacks in every army is bullshit
Right now, the only German with a black model locked in is Recon. So if you're seeing 50% black Germans, that means half of your team is playing sniper and you've got bigger problems than that. Plus they're not going to make you play as a black guy anyways.

>implying people need to be war-torn refugees to immigrate

Why are you against immigration, bigot?

>studying European history
>starting to specialise into the inter- and intranational social and political conditions that lead towards WWI
>some memeshitting teen that's "been getting into WWI recently" is worried about "normies" from "a dumb videogame"
mount stupid tbqh

>Assault machine guns in WWI

>yfw 1902 vintage

Well to be honest the first assault rifle was made in 1916.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedorov_Avtomat

All this game has shown me is how tasteless WW2 and most war video games were in retrospect. I imagine whomever okayed this trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=c7nRTF2SowQ must be a genuine sociopath.

>40 black people need to be represented in an army of millions

Is this real

Need to be? No. But everyone wants to be a special snowflake anyways. That's why everyone who knows even the bare minimum about WW2 knows about the 101st Airborne.

this hurt to read

Sadly, it's not.

>/pol/
>safe space
How to know if someone's a Redditor: Lesson 1

Out of all the things that bother me the most in this game: It isn't the lack of the French. It isn't the overrepresentation of negroes. It isn't the women soldiers. It's the PC firing the Lewis gun with his hand on the barrel shroud and completely ignoring the carry handle.

>the PC

You mean the PoC

This.

Alt-right wingers, whenever seeing a black man, think it's some form of white genocide

>Alt-right

PEPE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Please. do tell me why /pol/ is a safe space so I can tell you how wrong you are

fuck em'
when i was a young lad i played cod.
it got me into ww2 history.
know i love read into cold war, ww2 and ww1 history as they are so interlinked.
so what if a vidya game got me into history?

What is alt-right?

Were there ever any tank vs tank battles in WW1?

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Redditor/leftypol cuck confirmed

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Why do you leftists hate white people?

PEPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>I can't enjoy this video game, it isn't historically accurate!

I get where you're coming from, but don't worry, this isn't going to be another "EJIPTJUNS WAS BLACK" uproar.

It's much easier to look up info on WWI, and anyone with more than two brain cells can tell that there weren't a significant number of black soldiers in the German army at all. Same goes for the Bedouins.

You act like everyone is an history addict
Video game is a very powerful media
WW1 is very rarely treated subject in video game, and for a whole generation of kids across the world, this game will be the most info they'll get on WW1

And no, they ain't gonna do research to check what's right (at least 90% of them)
That's how history is rewriten, by given a flawed version to the mass who wont bother checking

See You think people are seriously going to read up on WWI? No. Normies just take whatever the media gives them.

99% of what people these days know about Rome is from RTW.

play verdun its way better

Peoole are mostly retarded when it comes to WW1 anyway. It's better to just silently watch the retards circlejerk in their gas attacks ten times a day, neverending artillery, and charging at machine guns by walking lol XD SO STUPID GENERALS

They're idiots.

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sup reddit

Verdun is fucking terrible and needs more players per map and direct communication. All war games need local comms.

There are 30+ Trump threads right now. He is the only thing I have filtered because those delusional betas are annoying. Mittens wasn't this annoying.

If they're so uninterested in history, then how is this game going to lead to WWI being rewritten?

Are the people who aren't interested in history going to play this and decide to write books on the history of WWI with BF1 being the main source material?

Real historians know what is and isn't accurate, and they know that video games are almost always historically inaccurate.

dude just look at how call of duty affected people's knowledge of the eastern front

>people will think I'm into WWI history because of a dumb video game
Fucking first world problems matey.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A7V#Villers-Bretonneux

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>If they're so uninterested in history, then how is this game going to lead to WWI being rewritten?
>Are the people who aren't interested in history going to play this and decide to write books on the history of WWI with BF1 being the main source material?

Are you retarded?
Popular view of an event is more important on the long term than some obscure book no one will read

>across the world

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The general populace believe it was an action movie, but you have to remember that the general populace are idiots in regards to specific fields.

So normies will think it was something that it actually wasn't. So what? That's what it's like in regards to every field, but you don't see actual historians using games as source material.

It's the same way with music. Most people are not very interested in music, but most people also have fairly strong opinions on music. The one percent of the population that has a legitimate interest in music know that normie views aren't going to change anything other than boring pop artists selling more. There will always be good music, you just have to have an actual interest in order to find it.

I like how early tanks looked like pre-dreadnought battleships in that instead of having large turrets they just stuck smaller guns everywhere. It's an interesting parallel.

The worst possible outcome from BF1 is more misinformation about the war which is a given, I tell you that
isn't this garbage just a mod for MoW2 tho?

Filename freaked me out for a second because my name actually is Thomas

>Popular view of an event is more important on the long term than some obscure book no one will read

In what way? No one who gets their info from video games is going to start influencing historical views of an event.

So when normies start trying to say that half the German army was black, you can very easily get information disproving this. What can they back themselves up with? The one game on the subject that they played?

>So normies will think it was something that it actually wasn't. So what?
Because that's where wewuzism comes from. Truth is, ignorance should be fought anywhere and everywhere

Was supposed to be a mod for mow1

Yes, but then you've got important future people that actually believe this shit (Ben Carson and the pyramids, for example)

>wewuzism

Easily disproven with information that is readily available.

What you're talking about is fighting against stupidity, which is one battle no one can win.

Does that mean Carson would start writing his own books? Or start forcing historians to adhere to his views?

Possible? Sure, but unlikely.

There's a tons of people that believe in widely disproven historical myths, even though they have the sum of human knowledge at their fingerprints

Australians care, on account of muh ANZAC legend. We only care about Gallipoli and Flanders, but it's fucking something.

And the moment he would try to do so, actual historians and buffs would lambaste him. It would continue to be apart of the "popular" image rather than the real one.

Like the Salem Witch Trials or golden era 50s America, people may have a perception but that isn't going to change dramatically from one game. You could argue the lack of bolt action rifles and inclusion of too many experimental weapons would have a bigger effect on the public perception of what WWI was.

Easily the greatest era of warfare the world has ever known.

Let's be honest, this board is just a /pol/ colony.

>Are you xenophobic?
Please explain?

The fact that they have that knowledge available but still don't look it up goes to show that we don't have to worry about these people being a genuine threat to how events are historically, not popularly, known.

So good I fell asleep in a trench

This is the main historical inaccuracy I'm disjointed by. I don't care too much about historical accuracy in media that obviously isn't aiming for historical accuracy, but if you're going to use a different setting you ought to have different gameplay.

But that's not really inaccurate. All of the LMGs in the game were in service in WW1, and the alpha has shown that they're inaccurate as fuck firing from the hip. You have to actually lie prone and set up the bipod to actually have accurate fire worth a damn.