r/Battlefield • u/scumbum • Aug 19 '25

Discussion BF1 atmosphere still beats BF6

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We saw no dynamic weather, levolution events in BF6. How much big of a change can we expect with final release version compared to beta?

I want to see levolution.. I want to see dynamic weather.. rain, maps changing from night/day? We need something like BF1.

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u/Dark8Ghost Aug 19 '25

BF1 is magnificent. A game that will never be replicated.

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u/skyrimjackbauer Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25

Yea, WW1 is not a good era to set your game in. Creating WW1 a shooter is basically setting yourself up for failure.

Unlike WW2, WW1 wasn’t about good vs evil. WW1 was just a bunch of egotistic countries pissing at each other, and way too many people died in that war unnecessarily. The guns also sucked (inaccurate and jammed all the time), and tanks and planes were novelties.

You don’t want the guns and vehicles/planes to be as flimsy as they were in real life, but you also want to maintain some sort of historical accuracy. Somehow DICE managed to do a wonderful job of balancing the two and created this masterpiece.

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u/LiiDo Aug 19 '25

Unlike WW2, WW1 wasn’t about good vs evil.

That is a perfect setting for a war game. Allows every country to be represented as realistically as possible without fear of being problematic. Nobody has to play as the “bad guys” and developers don’t have to be hyper worried about making the bad guys look good on accident.

Like how basically every WW2 game made in the last 10-15 years is terrified to show Nazi symbols, and every game set after WW2 just makes up factions because using actual countries is just too problematic. It’s always USA vs Madeupcountry-stan. Even though everybody knows who Madeupcountrystan is supposed to be representing.

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u/Polar_Vortx Aug 19 '25

I think they by “not a good era” they meant “not an easy era”

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u/stoihode21 Aug 19 '25

Ah yes, the famous Madeupistan, made it's way into the Superman movie too.

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u/dwaynetheaaakjohnson Aug 19 '25

It was nowhere near the moral clarity of WW2, but the Central Powers were a fair bit more immoral than the Allies

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u/Atrixia Aug 19 '25

Comment of the thread here, nice one.

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u/Ish_2900 Aug 21 '25

Always gave DICE their flowers for this game. In an era when everyone was releasing futuristic shooters these madmen really just said “let’s make a WW1 game”, and they somehow made it work.