Battlefield 2042

Yeah, being honest, BF was never a military simulator nor accurate or anything. Now, BF1 is a different thing, but in BF3 or 4, realistically speaking you wouldn't have your soldiers running around with Holographic sights and the most modern guns out there, plus the best equipment. You can't call on armor or jets whenever you feel like it. It's the army after all, they run on a budget.
My gripe with 1 was that it went too far down the line as to generalize automatic weapons and having "rush type" combat. That was one of the reasons the game didn't cut it for me.

V on the other hand, all we have is that trailer that I really didn't like. But the game could still be fun, and it's WWII, if everyone runs around with automatic weapons it wont be that far down the line.
If anything, I'm catutious about what EA is gonna do regarding in-game monetization once the game releases, after the shitshow of BFront 2 I think we have the right to be cautious.

Funny how those who complain about how it is SJW and altering history don't actually seem to know history. In World War 2 there were multiple countries that had women fighting. Not just support roles, but full on soldiers.

Such a nice comeback.

But then again expect as much from folks with no argument.

I watched the reveal show and liked it, and then that trailer came and, well, greatly reduced my enthusiasm.

It's so silly and totally chaotic, plus many characters don't look much like WW2 soldiers. To me, the depicted action felt like crazy gang warfare with stolen WW2 tanks and planes, that's the best way I can describe it.

BF1's trailer impressed me. This one did the opposite.

The trailer seems to show the early stages of Operation Market Garden mixed with custom soldiers.

Looking at a video about how the game is going to work based on the famous "closed doors gameplay" :
*No random loot boxes.
*There's in game currency used to buy all your shit (comsethic and guns), you earn the money by playing.
*Can use IRL money to buy the cosmethic shit, cannot be used to buy guns or upgrades, or anything else.
*You don't get random stuff, you buy what you want so long as you've unlocked that particularl gun/whatever through a progression system.
*Progression system seems to be a bit more complex. I just don't feel like explaining it (I'm lazy).
*Vehicles change appearance depending on upgrades you have on (say, different armor, some added gun, etc).
*There will be some sort of weekly, daily missions, on top of monthly or something "themed" stuff. This presumably will earn you faster moneyz and progression. It's also class foccused, so if you play mainly as assault, they will toss at you mainly assault related events. So you don't feel forced to play other class if you don't want.
*Customization is deeper. Can customize things like helmets and upper body, and lower boddy, etc. All at once. Video author is concerced about loosing disctinction in each class if everyone can look so different (it's a fair point). In previous BFs you can tell right away if the guy is a support, assault, or whatever. Same for guns, you have different parts, say buttstock, body, barrel, etc.
* "Live service" was mentioned more times that I'd have liked (that is, mentioned in the first place).

Maybe some other shit too, but that's mainly it for now.

LMAO I really don't play Battlefield like that, but I think some people are over reacting. I mean the video has 260k dislikes and counting don't even get started on the comment section.

There will be no women in the next trailer.

(they will still be in the game )

I think you're asking for trouble going to the MGTOW (Men going their own way) reddit.
It's an echo chamber for the sad and bitter.

Nonsense aside, I'm actually a bit more interested assuming all the stuff they've been saying is true feature wise. The problem is that with some of this stuff you will have to take their word for it. The only way of truly knowing is when you buy the game, or you spend a good time searching for honest videos once the game is out.
I will try to remain cautiously optimistic for now, hopefully they show a lot on E3.

This is the way I see it: Battlefield as a series never went into the "political correctness" road, and after what happened to the latest WWII COD having black nazi women as elegible soldiers (and this is not a matter of racism, it's a matter of facts), some people are easy to loose their temper. People always praised BF for being a franchise that tried to keep things realistic, and sure, as I've mentioned this ain't a mil sim, but then again having compromises for the sake of gameplay like HOLO sights on every modern weapon is one thing, having Jews as your average Nazi soldier is another.

The problems I've seen mentioned are basically: women as a front liner, a black guy in the front cover fighting hand to hand with white people (I know the way I'm setting this sounds racist AF, but bear with me), I particularly haven't seen it, but one of those western guys has a katana apparently.
All of these on the front cover as if this was common day in WWII. Some people take WWII as a more serious event, even in videogames, so when they see all this inclusivity for the sake of inclusivity, they get pissed.

So the woman, first she's using a prosthetic arm. I honestly doubt you could get any type of authorization to go on the field with prosthesis back then, men or women.
Women themselves were never fron liners, and were a minority generaly speaking. Russia used a more substantial quantity of women in WWII and the Germans despised them for that, they though the russians were animals for having women fight in the war.
There's a more basic reason why you don't want your women in the war: re-population. Millions of men die, no biggie, but if millions of woman die in your country, you're fucked. How is the population supposed to grow back without women? That's essentially the reason why women were never common, and still are not common in war. Of course depending on the culture you can go further to one or the other side of the balance.
Black people in America at least unfortunately fought on their own battallions as racism was very much problematic. I remember actually seeing WWII documentaries of black pilots that after flights, had talk to each other because the white pilots would refuse to behave or talk to them at all. Not sure how other countries like the UK or France treated them. They were also a minority in the War in comparison.


Now, for the game presentation all these people could just be some sort of super rare "out of the book" rebels or something. So the girl would be a rebel something something who cares not about loosing her arm, the guy with the katana (?) took it from a Japanese officer at some point as a signature weapon, the black guy fights with them because they formed a bond or something, and nobody wears helmets because... I don't know, they feel like not wearing one.
Problem is that it's never explained on the trailer, and as a "first impressions" trailer is weird for many people if you don't specify what's going on.

I personally think this is perhaps due to a cosmetic factor, they wanted to add as much variety as possible to be able to get a lot of different appearences, perhaps to get more people to buy stuff with IRL money since you no longer have loot boxes and the likes (supposedly), so they decided to add all kinds of looks inlcuding prosthetics and what not a la "pink Darth Vader"  perhaps.