Battlefield 2042

A pseudo realistic new WWII game, kinda like Verdun but with a WWII flavor.

PC only?

I'll check it out but I don't know if my laptop can take fairly new games too well.

I think it's only on PC, yes. I'm not even sure if it has been properly released or its a early access game.

My only worry is if they go too over-board like the War for Rights game...excellent concept and id love to see more games about the Civil War, but it is so damn hard to do that outside of a strategy game.

I don't play these games, so I don't know how "true to life" fans should realistically have come to expect them to be. The annoyance seems real and widespread, though, and not all of it is coming from irrational bigots, as many like to paint anyone that complains about ham-fisted "inclusion". Some items seem very true to the time, but I don't think that's the complaint. It's more the circumstance, context and power-fantasy vibe (as opposed to a war simulator vibe) that seems to have people up in arms.

Like I said before, I'm curious to see what happens once it launches. About the time the SJW complaints start to cool, some gamers will hit "Start" and realize that the trailer was prerendered footage with a HUD, rather than actual gameplay. That aspect I would find annoying, were I awaiting this game. Prerendered announcement trailers are fine. Why add a sketchy layer of seeming subterfuge by layering a HUD over it?

It's a 2m 35 trailer without context.

We don't know if it's from a campaign mission or from the 4 person co-op.
Assuming there is some plot we don't know what that plot is.
We don't know if the character is a rescued prisoner, an agent or whatever.

Like most if not all trailers, there's very little we can deduce accurately without seeing this scene in its place.
In context, it may be entirely appropriate or it may not be.

Heh, to me the entire trailer is the issue. The chaos, the fact that almost no one looks like a regular WW2 soldier, the vehicle dropping on the enemy dude, the bearded dude (whatever faction he belongs to, I sure can't tell from the looks) hushing the player before supposedly murdering him (makes no sense at all to waste time like that in the middle of this mess)... it all combines to give me a feeling of alternate universe levels of weirdness. And that's not good after the devs kept repeating how players would be immersed in WW2 like never before.

Exactly, the problem here is the trailer. Terrible bad presented, it reminds me of some of those car ads that make no sense at all, and at the end they show you the car they're advertising.
I honestly don't understand what's going on with trailers of late, it seems the idea is to confuse the viewer rather than hype.

Hm... I said "immersive", not "realistic". Pretty much none of the things you mentioned make sense in a multiplayer game anyway.

It should look and sound like WW2, with soldiers and vehicles and maps resembling their historical counterparts as closely as possible. The rumbling of a Tiger tank's engine, the howl of Stuka dive bombers, the scream of Nebelwerfer rocket artillery.

The BF1 trailers managed to be immersive - they showed brutal trench warfare, the terror of infantry overrun by the first tanks, the deafening thunder of artillery being fired. Like a WW1 action movie that takes itself at least somewhat seriously but does not linger on the horrible details. You hear and see the explosions and all that, but you (fortunately) don't hear or see soldiers dying screaming to terrible wounds. It is a power fantasy of sorts - here you are, rushing through a hell that looks and sounds, but luckily doesn't feel, like a world war, and that makes for some good shooting excitement. And every part of the game that does not look or sound like the conflict it is using as a setting is taking a little bit away from that feeling.

The things you mentioned are realistic, yes, but that's not what I meant. Realism is not needed or wanted in most multiplayer games, but if a game picks a certain setting, it should make an effort to stay true to it, within the limitation of being a game and the need for fun game mechanics. Otherwise we could just go ahead and add jetpack nazis with laser cannons.

I don't expect to tell from a trailer anyway. What I can tell from this trailer is that it is set in WWII era and that I see the familiar looks of a Frostbite engine. No gameplay, just some looks. It's just a marketing trailer. And maybe that's the problem - they simply don't show gameplay.

I actually do not care if women serve on the frontlines, or take a military career in general. I hate war, but femal soldiers are not enough to get me triggered. When I first viewed the Battlefield V trailer, I did not think much of the women. One thing that really bothered me was how cartoon-y it seemed. Well... At first glance it seemed that way to me.

As strange as it might seem, I favor dimmer atmospheres, sunsets, and to a lesser extent, murky sky environments.

I was hoping for environments that look something like this...