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But the lengthy Operations mode won’t replace Conquest, which still serves as the best, most immediate way to experience everything Battlefield 1 has to offer, with the added freedom of a wide-open map.
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That, combined with the multi-map, hour-long battles, makes Operations feel more like a “real” interconnected campaign than the abstract, isolated skirmishes of Conquest. Cutscenes lend interesting historical narrative to the transition by placing the outcome of each battle in the context of World War I. Once they fall to the final sector of a level, the battle actually continues with all the same players on an entirely new map. If the defending team fails to expel the enemy, they fall back to the next point. Attackers and defenders meet in the middle as they battle to control a handful of posts, elevating the stakes of every shootout with a dramatic urgency. Unlike Conquest, where firefights occur in bursts among strategic sprints between objectives, Operations is structured more like the relentless fury of frontline combat. In Operations, two teams clash head-on in an intense push for dominance across an entire map. “Battlefield 1 ups the tension in another way with an awesome new game mode called Operations, which combines the large-scale, long-term intensity of Conquest with the close-quarters action of Rush. Vehicle spawns are also much more spaced out over the course of a match, preventing them from being overpowered and making them much less disposable in the long term. Hopping out to repair like in previous Battlefield games is much quicker, but also the riskier option, making teamplay and squad dynamics more important than ever. New vehicle-specific classes, which can load directly into available vehicle spawns, can conveniently repair tanks and planes from the inside. Scout can make use of armor-piercing K bullets, which don’t do a devastating amount of damage to vehicles but can cancel and reset the enemy’s attempt to repair, creating crucial openings for your team to move in. Assault can lay down anti-tank mines or use the rocket gun, which delivers a moderately powerful blast balanced by the risk of requiring you to go prone to use. Instead, classes like Assault and Scout must now work together to counter vehicles, creating more interesting interplay between class-specific gadgets and the wealth of field guns on most maps. This is an era incompatible with a class like Battlefield 4's Engineer, who could whip out an RPG and take out vehicles with ease. “Vehicles, from the lumbering moving fortress that is the A7V tank to the speedy fighter and bomber biplanes, are more fun than ever and also serve a much more important, long-term function on the battlefield. Capturing points along the way to Cambrai serves as an easy primer for one of Battlefield’s most popular multiplayer modes, Conquest, as well as a how-to on operating tanks, but offers little else in the way of storytelling opportunities. It’s not that the story is bad, but Edwards is painfully bland, as is his mission. The answer is probably familiarity - you play as Daniel Edwards, a young, inexperienced soldier part of a British Mark V tank unit pushing through German lines into Cambrai, France. A Weak BeginningThe first story-driven mission, Through Mud and Blood, is by far the weakest when it comes to character, and the huge jump in quality that follows makes me wonder why DICE kept this one as the opening to begin with. Each war story is grand in its smallness. But Battlefield 1 manages to capture the grit and valor of battle without being disingenuous. That’s not to say there isn’t excitement or heroism - there is.
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This is a sad campaign - perhaps not quite the horror game that the devastation of the Great War deserves, but still one that confidently forgoes the patriotic pomp and war fetishization seen in most modern military shooters.
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While Storm of Steel effectively works as a way to introduce you to some Battlefield basics - how to shoot, reposition, and reload - its grim reminders of World War I’s overwhelming death toll establishes the tragic tone. Sometimes death is awkwardly forced upon you if you end up surviving longer than the script expects, because death is part of the plan. “As you and your fellow Hellfighters desperately try to push back the incoming German forces, you’ll meet death time and time again, but it won’t necessarily be your fault.