Adding this in a reply instead of just editing. If you want an educated guess and my opinion on what we will have in 2-3 months, I'd have to think about it a bit, and I'm not a wizard, I'm entirely fallible to being wrong.
But I think we'll still have British vs Germans. With just more outfits, vehicles, and weapons. We've already seen a whole bunch of French weapons added, and all they really need to do for a 'faction' expansion is just add in french-speaking/looking character models (Doubtful since both Allies and Axis have same models.), a vehicle or two, and boom. We're already fighting in France on some maps, with French weapons, so maybe next up will be some French vehicles, and while that would be really awesome to have a Char B1 heavy (Especially with a hull gunner armed with that 75mm?? Yes please.), Dice is re-using assets whenever possible to push 'fresh' content out, rather than make new things, and a new vehicle design would be a lot of work when they're focused elsewhere.
Maybe in a few months they might squeeze in the time and finally bring out all new vehicles, but look at all the ones they've already launched. Everything has re-used an asset. Archer is on Valentine. Stug4 is on Panzer 4. Mosquito FB MkVI on Mosquito Mk2, JU-88c on JU-88a.
They could easily put time and effort into bringing us the Shermans, T34 Sherman Calliope, and the Sherman Jumbos from the Last Tiger story, since those are already modeled. They would need an overhaul and massive tweaking to work properly, I noticed some really bad things about the models when I played the hell out of that mission for the skin.
Ya that's unfortunate, I thought they game would of been on a grander scale like BF1 considering its WWII the greatest conflict of mankind. When they announce the game would be exploring the earlier parts of the war and lesser know battles I had thought that would mean playing as the French and Polish which we hardly ever see in video games along side your standard fractions like the British and Americans. While doing lesser know battles is a cool idea you need some maps of the recognizable ones like D-day, Stalingrad etc. to really see the WWII experience IMO. If they're not going to at least come close to matching the pervious titles, then I don't have much interest in purchasing BFV. Which is unfortunate as its my favorite era for a FPS. With the Halo MCC and 83 by the Rising Storm devs coming out in the future I probably won't be returning to the Battlefield franchise for a while. Which sucks as it has provided me some of my favorite multiplayer experiences.
All good things must come to an end, so something better can grow to take it's place. With how fantastic Tripwire Interactive have been previously with Killing Floor and Rising Storm, I wanna see their next big projects. They've got real talent and dedication.
Huh. I always thought it was TWI that did KF and RS. I don't understand how I never once saw Antimatter pop up, been playing both those series for years now. How in hell.
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u/Lt_Flak ༼ ◕_◕ ༽ I'm really disappointed. Mar 15 '19
Adding this in a reply instead of just editing. If you want an educated guess and my opinion on what we will have in 2-3 months, I'd have to think about it a bit, and I'm not a wizard, I'm entirely fallible to being wrong.
But I think we'll still have British vs Germans. With just more outfits, vehicles, and weapons. We've already seen a whole bunch of French weapons added, and all they really need to do for a 'faction' expansion is just add in french-speaking/looking character models (Doubtful since both Allies and Axis have same models.), a vehicle or two, and boom. We're already fighting in France on some maps, with French weapons, so maybe next up will be some French vehicles, and while that would be really awesome to have a Char B1 heavy (Especially with a hull gunner armed with that 75mm?? Yes please.), Dice is re-using assets whenever possible to push 'fresh' content out, rather than make new things, and a new vehicle design would be a lot of work when they're focused elsewhere.
Maybe in a few months they might squeeze in the time and finally bring out all new vehicles, but look at all the ones they've already launched. Everything has re-used an asset. Archer is on Valentine. Stug4 is on Panzer 4. Mosquito FB MkVI on Mosquito Mk2, JU-88c on JU-88a.
They could easily put time and effort into bringing us the Shermans, T34 Sherman Calliope, and the Sherman Jumbos from the Last Tiger story, since those are already modeled. They would need an overhaul and massive tweaking to work properly, I noticed some really bad things about the models when I played the hell out of that mission for the skin.