Battlefield 2042

"Easily triggered". Kek, good one. I'm actually having a really good time seeing people roasting this game from left, right and center. It's aways fun to see pretentious game devs going woke and getting broke.

Just because I made the personal choice to not buy this game, doesn't mean I foam in my mouth while thinking how much this game angers me. I refuse to buy games on more grounds then just ideology. If they are boring, uninspired or poorly produced, I don't buy them either. I for one, am completely skipping blacks ops 4 for those reasons.

There's just so many other games on my plate that I care more about. Odyssey, Red Dead, Spider-Man plus with it being worn-out-its-welcome genre; I think i'll pass. I played BF1 because it was a breath of fresh air.

It means becoming openly progressive or politically correct and seeing your business being ruined as result of it.

Aye, because cyborgs from 2193 have no place in World War II

Hence the name,its fitting.

I'm sorry, i think i missed your point. I'm hardly agitated, so... no need to chill out.

I'm going to try to articulate this with calm and respect.

These are not the same:



The reason I used the word 'triggered' before, used with irony I might add, is that the reaction from some to this character with a prosthetic arm appears for some to cause a knee-jerk reaction of distress well beyond that which is reasonable. The wailing about 'SJW's' from some quarters has reached comedic proportions.

For sure, to suggest that WWII was commonly populated with such individuals is faintly ridiculous (even if limited examples existed and have been documented) but I don't see that focusing on one such character in the marketing as an example of their existence in this game is a problem. How would anyone know the character was there and that you could play as them in the co-op mode if they weren't shown? Granted, DICE probably went too overboard making the character so explicit and then got angry about it, but even so.

The small strand of opinion that gets hot under the collar with 'SJW's are ruining my game' really does need to calm down in my view.

Actually, so long as these characters are reasonably balanced in the game itself, it's just fine.
The marketing has emphasized new elements and it's become a talking point.
The Beta should reveal the reality.

So the issue here was really about the capacity of the prosthesis?

The technical correction between cyborg and robot is acknowledged.
Rewatching the video, the prosthetic can 'hold/clamp' the rifle / cudgel fairly well but I'm not convinced it's bionics in action.

Not sure a similar prosthetic on a male soldier would have got the same reaction.

Eye-rolling aside, here's a prosthetic demonstration not a million miles away from that, filmed in 1921.



The example in the BV trailer could almost work if it were not for the agility with which the limb grasps and ungrasps the weapons so quickly.
Holding or steadying a weapon seems a viable thing to do after a moment adjusting the clamping tension.

Artistic license?

Gotta work on that artistic licence maybe?

It would seem so.

Yes, at least it's out from between COD and RDR.

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Yet EA's market value drops around $2.5 Billion on the news. (6-8%)

Those markets eh...