BATTLEFIELD 1 - Opening / Storm of Steel

[@glutymaximusy866]

Gotta love how it says at the beginning "You are not expected to survive"... Really shows how the war was... a slaughterfest.

[@killm3552]

Gluty Maximusy yeah it really does. But I also think it means that you're supposed to die in each section in order to move on to the end of the mission.

[@EscapeVelocity11186]

I think the point here is that it's not what probably most of us expected - you know, a standard campaign where the protagonist makes it through against all odds on the frontline; instead, you die multiple times as multiple people.

[@wh24it8e]

and it shows the person's name, who died. a human, an individual, died and forgotten in the mud.

[@94mac]

Overpriced CsGo skin true but the greater meaning is that in reality they weren't expected to survive in ww1 in real life or any war if you are on the front line

[@cjmanson5692]

I literally got chills when I read those opening lines. DICE really, *really* did their homework for this prologue alone.

[@foabmoab]

Easily, for me, the most chilling opening to any FPS war game.

[@SavCorp]

And cod 4 when the nuke goes off

[@nsawatchlistbait7194]

SavCorp good memories 🥺

[@DakotaofRaptors]

@@SavCorp the ending of World at War

[@nikoladrca5324]

It's honestly amazing. I can't believe that this game taught me more about this monumental historical event more than school did.

[@TheReck12]

@@nikoladrca5324 this game isn't realistic at all when it comes to combat, dice wanted to make that very clear

[@TuShan18]

This is one of my favorite openings for a game. When you die, you don’t respawn and try again, you go to another guy and you realize everyone you play as is on borrowed time and will get to you eventually. While the rest of the campaign and multiplayer was good, this was the highlight of the game imo.

[@dawoodrangan5942]

Were they real people?

[@TuShan18]

@@dawoodrangan5942 I doubt it, but I do appreciate them coming up with names, and times of birth.

[@dawoodrangan5942]

@@TuShan18 yh I agree and it also makes it more horrifying and it makes you think deeply of the people fighting in this war

[@arneshpal7702]

?

[@MrMule-eg5fg]

@@dawoodrangan5942 if they were real people then the devs did some serious research for this game

[@chrisstowe111]

One of subtle details that makes this so great are the few German soldiers you don't see fighting. They're just standing there, shell shocked , obvious to their hellish surroundings.

[@InvAzian]

MrAwful when? I only found one around the 7:10 mark. Anywhere else?

[@TehDenizenz]

@@InvAzian there's one at 8:45. It's kinda hard to see since the player shoots him almost immediately but you can see him just slowly walking.

[@jsjzjwbzuqvzusb]

And the guy does not show him bit there is a young guy at the begging with his head in his hand

[@eclipse4949]

@@InvAzian there are 2 at 7:10, one holding his head on the ground, and one walking aimlessly

[@user-cg7tj7cu4m]

Right after 7:10 there is a guy with his head down

[@lovatojonasfan1]

World War One was truly a horrific war. Never before was a war fought on such scale with such sophisticated weaponry. There were flamethrowers, tanks, air planes, chemical weapons, and machine guns pitted against old school tactics.

[@jinitorio]

It was the war that tested the horrors of modern warefare.

[@gnuzzolilli7844]

The great war...

[@glizzygordon5395]

Ww2 seemed like a scary ass war, but nothing beats ww1

[@augustuszogu8046]

Arthur Morgan ww1 seems so much more brutal, being trapped in a disease ridden trench and then being ordered by your superiors to charge across no mans land only for hundreds of troops to be mowed down by machine guns.

[@glizzygordon5395]

@@augustuszogu8046 agreed

[@end8316]

British propoganda: this will be the adventure of a lifetime The adventure:

[@Chuked]

@BeARS 69 well they were born in the wrong generation

[@Chuked]

@BeARS 69 RIP

[@kikoplayz3495]

@@Chuked bruh why the direspect?

[@Chuked]

@@kikoplayz3495 because who would want to be in WW1? A sad end to a generation like that, these people went through so much shit I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes for 1 second, I give them absolute respect because I wouldn’t have the balls to charge into machine gun fire, storm a trench, sit in a trench for months, or weeks on end and I wouldn’t have the courage to serve in the military and fight a war so yeah they were born in the wrong generation because most died horrible deaths, everyone in Europe lost either a mother, a father, son or atleast a family member, entire villages and cities were wiped out

[@kikoplayz3495]

@@Chuked well if you're to me about the disrepect of "well they were born in the wrong generation" then, stop, and think of what you said. Do you think they wanted to be born in a generation where a world war happened and they had to serve in it, you can say this for all wars and imo it would still be a great disrepect for saying that tey were born in the wrong generation, because they had no control over when their moms were to give birth to them

[@lucasmatiasdelaguilamacdon7798]

Dream a Little Dream of Me was not published until 1931. This implies that the soldier in the cutscene survived the war, and is probably at his home back in the US about 14 years later, and is still suffering from PTSD. Also implies that the first mission is a past memory. And even that the reason he knows the names and year of birth of those killed in this battle may be because they were his friends who did not survive.

[@TheReck12]

Yes it is obvious he is in some kind of hospital and is having a PTSD flashback. He doesn't look any older tho, it looks like it happened immediately after the war so maybe they just made a mistake adding the song.

[@sinctova]

Dude may have been around 18 or 20 years old, so i think thats why he doesnt look any older

[@NORTH_CAROLINA_REAPER]

@@sinctova 18 or 20? Try 16.

[@Railhog2102]

Only probably for his son to fight in WW2

[@fecesmuncher2448]

@@TheReck12 maybe he just ages well.

[@BrattyRuby687]

Props to those Voice actors. Those screams of fear, fury, terror, and agony were chilling.

[@crisortiz6439]

The German one's were real, they had them working out in the studio during recording to get the fatigue and desperation right

[@imsorryyoutube6774]

There was some WWII game I can't remember that has really long, drawn out, realistic death cries. Like crying for mama etc. Super chilling

[@jadeorbigoso5212]

@@imsorryyoutube6774 cod world at war

[@nukacolacompany2534]

@@imsorryyoutube6774This is probably not what you were thinking of but Verdun's another example of drawn out death cries. There'd usually be one death cry sound effect playing in any combat situation to add to the experience

[@nitsuA_08]

​@imsorryyoutube6774 I believe the game you're looking for is Red Orchestra 2.

[@caelroraback2213]

I remember I got this for my 14th birthday and after or before the cake, (don’t remember), my friends sat down and watched me play the intro. During the first cutscene, all of us were silent, impressed and intrigued by the horror of this game. A time I will always remember.

[@rabbit3734]

Sounds like a fun birthday, lol

[@Chuked]

This was my first FPS game ever

[@thuwunnaminhtut6234]

I remember, the first time I got the ps4 fresh from Bangkok I bought it to be the first game for it too, I heard great things about this, and I just sat in my seat amazed a shock watching this intro, best moment of my life, really made me feel like I was in combat;-;

[@Chuked]

@@thuwunnaminhtut6234 first memories, the ones you wish you could go back in time and do it all again

[@Buzz_1991]

Can agree. Opening was shockingly emotional.

[@dr.killson7355]

1:02 is the most terrifying part of the game for me when the fighting gets so close you have fight them off with your bare hands it just shows how hard a person will go to survive

[@skizzer1003]

I was about on comment on this, The part where he bashes this dudes face it is. Scary, It shows how the soldier getting hit is reacting each strike. This is the rea lwar, Not guns with lasers or jetpacks. Brute, Pain Death Surrounding. Its deadly

[@skeletons7280]

My great great grandpa told me war was shit😂

[@jamesonthekingya7151]

Dude the situation was chaos. Some weren’t even using hand held weapons. One dude was using his helmet. It kinda shocks me how brutal war is.

[@esco5593]

Wait until you see the weapons and trench clubs soldiers made on the battlefield. I saw a collection of things like nail bats, maces, clubs, bayonets, knives, and much, much more at a museum near Fort Douaumont in Verdun. WW1 was particularly awful because every time soldiers crossed No Man's Land and reached the opposing trench, both sides would have to resort to close quarters combat. Look up "WW1 melee weapons" to see what I mean.

[@PonyBoy1776]

What's really interesting though, is that at 1:02 when the French soldier is bashing the german on the ground, the French solider yells: "Je vais te saigner!" which translates to: "I'll make you bleed!"

[@warboy_gameing15]

Fun fact: The names of the soliders you play as, where thr names of real people from the war. Hell of a way to honor them

[@ZekeorSomething]

Very interesting

[@agniteyt]

I think the Devs went to a real WW1 Memorial and picked out random names which bring tears to my eyes...

[@pandaotu]

If you die enough in the final area (Like I did lmao) There's a chance your soldier is one of the unknown soldiers of the war.

[@arneshpal7702]

Fake

[@a.k8185]

@@arneshpal7702 You dont have balls

[@Awfulfeature]

They opened it with a POV from a “Harlem Hellfighter.” Kinda respectful, they never lost a foot of ground, took no prisoners.

[@SpeedyWings2323]

I believe one of them was honored with the Medal of Honor by literally slaughtering a bunch of Germans at night with a fellow soldier

[@ryanrigley2558]

"Took no prisoners" isnt exactly a good thing...

[@Awfulfeature]

@@ryanrigley2558 what do you mean? The French didn’t seem to mind.

[@mautun3830]

@@Awfulfeature it basically means they commited war crimes

[@rusocalix9239]

@@mautun3830 both sides did rip to the fallen

[@donairechristianp]

I Love how you can play as many other soldiers after death. Very Unique.

[@minecraftexpertFTW]

Just like you could in Battlefield 2, once your character died you switched to a different one. Once you ran out you lost.

[@eurobeatvisionary9540]

Just a correction, it wasn't BF2 - It was Battlefield 2 Modern Combat for consoles but i agree, a really good move especially at the game that is supposed to make people aware of how easy it is for one to die, even if they're knights in the sky, ghosts in desert or rats in mud.

[@NevolmonGaming]

Red orchestra did it first.

[@HeadHunter697]

Battlefield 2 Modern Combat did the same thing, the mission would not end unless all friendly soldiers are dead.

[@BasicShapes]

It's not the respawning you like. It's the fact that they assigned names and date of birth/ date of death each time you spawn that makes it far more impactful. They might have used actual real names of people who died in WWI.

[@kuraes]

Battlefield: _"we are the jaded and we are the naïve, we are the honorable and the criminal..."_ Call of Duty: hehe robot

[@gianttacogod]

Hehe wall running

[@justnoob8141]

What wrong with that?

[@kuraes]

@@justnoob8141 i prefer actual story and grittiness over chaotic and dumb futuristic gameplay

[@justnoob8141]

Muzifi and what’s wrong with that?

[@kuraes]

@@justnoob8141 would you like to contribute a argument on why COD is better or are you just gonna keep "AnD WhaT'S WrOnG wItH ThAt"?

[@teammagmadaniel4672]

The worst things to see were the ones who died when they were only 18 or 19

[@Quakefan7]

Team Magma Daniel Some were as young as 17. Some lied about their age to go forth and 'win honor and glory'. And most didn't cone back...

[@guilhermeroyama8842]

Yeah, just thought the same when I played it. I was like "Oh my God he was just a teenager!"

[@Mistjeager]

Some were as young as 14, one recorded as 12

[@CapitalTeeth]

People as young as 13 were on the western front in the war. They lied about their age because they saw the war as ‘an adventure’. Little did they know they would get the world’s first taste of modern war.

[@Belkan_Ace]

I would've been dead for six years already. It's sobering to think about, yet we still send young men off to die in the prime of their lives.

[@BJ-xy9fx]

When I first played the prologue no lie I was really starting to tear up especially when the two soldiers were deciding whether or not to shoot each other and the speech afterwards

[@jar8808]

i dont know why anyone would cry. no one knew ww1 fucking existed (as in no one cares until BF1 came) so you shouldnt have feelings for it until a few years ago.

[@Kevin-cm1dn]

@@jar8808 are u dumb

[@jar8808]

@@Kevin-cm1dn Such a clever insult, it's irrelevant........

[@bagboi9710]

BJ same here.

[@jar8808]

@@TheLucidSpecter ???

[@hievenhade7545]

I was very sad when I found out that the whole campaign wasn't built up like this

[@Chuked]

Well the ending of the runner was sad and avanti savoia was sad too because of his brother and all the dead men from his squad

[@JakkinYoStupidAhh]

@@Chuked What happend at the end of the runner?

[@Chuked]

@@JakkinYoStupidAhh fredrick bishop dies after storming the fort on his own, the artillery barrage blows it all up and he dies a heros death

[@Chuked]

@@JakkinYoStupidAhh honestly some of the best shit they’ve come up with in Battlefield in the last few years

[@JakkinYoStupidAhh]

@@Chuked Yes i can agree

[@bartmacful]

7:09 I couldn't kill that guy who's sitting and covering his ears, it was too hard for me.

[@halfwit533]

I believe he has shell shock

[@erenyalcn9393]

I couldn't kill anyone

[@atas2561]

Awww so sweet

[@datamgamer1094]

A person with healthy mind can't kill unarmed people ofcourse

[@duxlorbitxl9986]

I killed every enemy I saw

[@noahdoney]

8:15 "We're gonna make it!" *explodes*

[@MrSpeedyAce]

noah doney Badluck Brian was there for sure!

[@busteraycan]

Well we all knew they were gonna explode when he shouted that.

[@ryanmann1416]

noah doney “Trust me, we’re not...”

[@atrociousbean4096]

noah doney, they're weren't the crew of Big Bess, unfortunately.

[@darklordllama3710]

He just had to jinx it

[@JawsFan27]

Definitely an eye-opener and a powerful opening scene. A lot of FPS games forget that combat is a nightmare to live through.

[@CDio-vr3bx]

All this from one guy eating an egg sandwich and an Uber taking a wrong turn

[@garlandgarrison3739]

20 million lives over 1 (well two because Ferdinand's wife Sophie was killed as well). Was it worth it?

[@CDio-vr3bx]

@@garlandgarrison3739 no. But as it changed the world forever

[@justnoob8141]

@@garlandgarrison3739 it’s actually 2.5 not 2

[@saxinator143]

Potentially. There was a shit Tom of tension in Europe pre assassination. Just because your water isn’t boiling doesn’t mean it’s not hot

[@deadwooddooley3202]

@@saxinator143 true but it was the spark closest to the powder keg so it gets credited for setting it off

[@BasicShapes]

Honestly, from an artistic standpoint, this is one of the most effective openings to a game, or even a fucking movie, that I have ever seen. It conveys such emotion. When I first played through this, I had to pick my jaw up off the floor because I wasn't expecting such depth from a game from the BF franchise. War is Hell.

[@Kazasia-_-]

You have a huge jaw man

[@magentuspriest]

This has got to be the best tutorial mission in gaming. It's not a tutorial for gameplay; it's a tutorial for the brutality of WW1.

[@nicholaslandler9594]

8:39 from here to the end really stuck out to me. The music score combined with the zeppelin falling from the sky on fire, the the flame thrower troopers and gas while artillery goes off everywhere just illustrates the chaos of trench warfare so terribly well.

[@yigitsen7394]

Song name ?

[@paperclip6377]

@@yigitsen7394 metal frenzy

[@Starcraftmazter]

This mission isn't a game, it's a masterpiece. I can think of no better 15 minute lesson in WW1 and how horrifying it was.

[@AuroraAustralis_]

Girls locker room: “omg PE is so dumb! How’s your boyfriend?” Boys locker room: 0:35

[@yeboi1635]

AuroraxShadow kinda a shit meme for this

[@bartholomewjamesjr3rd148]

G(OLD) meme

[@private3949]

no it the feeling when we have a nerf battle

[@yeboi1635]

pickle ivan care to elaborate on comparing trenches and helicopters?

[@yeboi1635]

pickle ivan your talking to the same person...

[@edwardnotthevampire]

Despite its historically inaccurate guns, this is one of the greatest opening to a war game ever. It makes the point up front that you are not the action hero, you are one of the nameless millions bound for the grave marching into pure hellish bloodshed. You won’t survive. It is brilliant and very true to the unrelenting nature of World War 1 and war as a whole. The detail of the shell shocked German soldiers found in the fields is also brilliantly horrifying. They just stumble almost unaware to the world around them. Dazed in some twisted sense of peace. This of course is seconds before they are killed. Thank you dice, for this amazing and terrible opening.

[@robertmoffit1135]

1:24 not only did the war no end anything. It directly caused ww2 and indirectly caused the cold war and the vietnam war

[@yalitza77able]

It changed the world forever because during WW1 there was great advancement in medicine and weapons technology creating tanks, penicillin, food , and more and more advance guns to conquer the other side. As years went by more and more weapons and tech were made.. it's truly terrifying that if it wasn't for war we probably wouldn't came up with most of the things we have today

[@DatboiDemonX]

"Historically inaccurate" as these are all real weapons from that time period.

[@patnewbie2177]

​@@DatboiDemonXYes, but many of them never saw service. But, I don't blame the devs for that. A real historically accurate WW1 shooter would have been nothing but MGs and bolt-action rifles.

[@void-creature]

What I really like about this first mission is that it destroys the myth that war is survivable, which is often indirectly supported by fps games. It doesn't matter how skilled you are in the first few sections, no matter how many lives you take, you will die, and there was never anything you could've done about it.

[@olivers.7151]

"But behind every gunsight, is a human being" that hit me hard.

[@666unknown3]

The war is the world and the world is the war But every behind on a gun sight is a human being We are those people We are the jaded we are the naive We are the honorable and the criminal We are bound for legend and lost to history We are knights in the sky We are ghost in a desert And rats in a mud This is our stories

[@purgei.o6800]

I love u

[@kingjules8744]

Probably one of the greatest openings to any shooter I have seen in a long time. Usually, there are scenes like this in other games that merely just flip the narrative up on its head in order for the player to continue playing along without dissonance. They are usually made out to be a one man army, and thus they feel they are because the game reinforces that fact. Not here. It's clear from the moment that you are thrown back into the flashback that you are not special. You are not the savior of mankind, you are not a super human, you are not the hero. You are nobody. You are just another soldier that is about to become a statistic in a field where millions of others share that same fate. You are not expected to survive.

[@blorgusblurgen4228]

The music in the background is just incredible. It really gave me the chills because it represents the physiological trauma the soldiers are going through at the young ages shown. I just love this opening because not many games depict war like this game does. The music, the setting, the detail, and everything about this opening sets the bar really high for the rest of the game.

[@rebelfriend9949]

"You are not expected to survive" really gave me chills

[@pishposh69]

Bruh

[@chrisburns6403]

Imbracrast

[@Spongebrain97]

Its cuz most people dont have a desire to kill another human being if they dont have to.

[@mouthopenmonkey4571]

Gay

[@zeta1960]

@@mouthopenmonkey4571 look, we have a comedian

[@fredjigili7140]

@@mouthopenmonkey4571 stfu

[@91Bronco]

I’ve played battlefield 1 probably a million times for countless hours but his is still just a kickass opening cinematic!

[@masterofThardus]

11:22 Thi...really shouldn't have made me feel feels, but it did.

[@crazy4sian]

For once, maybe we'll have a war game that actually portrays the futility and pointlessness of war, and that every soldier is a human who just wants to live.

[@samam4156]

Fucking Chills every time i watch this. '60 million soldiers fought and died' 'it solved nothing' appreciate and respect your elders, this isn't even a chip off what they experienced. (obv ww2)

[@jacobchernyak]

sam am of*

[@samam4156]

Jacob Chernyak off you neek

[@Trueysmir996]

sam am the only thing ww1 ended was empires

[@big-bonkin-head1034]

World War 1 was brutal. The worst way to experience some say.

[@anihilist460]

9.7-10 Million deaths were military personal, those are in combat deaths not deaths from disease or other aliments after the war associated with it. 10-11 million civilians lost theirs lives as well. Roughly, 60 million people participated in the war.

[@lrballistics]

7:07 that german curled up really hits home. First time I saw that I felt my eyes watering up

[@bobbygarcia9110]

Dude you gave me fucking chills I remember playing and only spotting the soldier slowly drifting waiting for death to hit him

[@nickbuckley4371]

This in real life is why you pay respect to the tomb of the unknown soldier

[@terjeaasheim3651]

And other war memorials

[@o.m.5269]

A detail, I only noticed 6 years later was, that we see at 7:23 one of the crewmembers of the destroyed Male Mark V tank, walking out on fire

[@jacobmeeks5602]

Second. Also haven't seen such a deep and thoughtful story in such games before

[@Moofenic]

Jacob Meeks The last of us

[@kenny7151]

Faiz 101 It was ass

[@Moofenic]

MoneyIsntTurntEnough Your opinion mate

[@jacobmeeks5602]

+Faiz 101 I said in this type of game

[@Slenderslayer351]

Jacob Meeks Battlefield 1 The War Continues is about WW2

[@joshhyyyyyyyy3567]

Play the game with the hud off... its amazing

[@zeta1960]

Oh yes, i played the entire game without HUD, very inmersive

[@Symbie]

In the last part, after the tank Instead of fighting I decided to just stand in the middle of everything and decided to just watch everything of course I fought at the end but during those very few minutes of standing I just thought "Wow, war is hell on earth"

[@cheekclappa6966]

Why did ya have to kill the guy just walking near 7:00 I get its just a game, but fuck man show some mercy

[@mistertagnan]

Pack_A_ Pwned he was shell shocked. The player was doing him a favor.

[@Chamak]

Pack_A_ Pwned In war there is no mercy.

[@Minamoto_1]

Pack_A_ Pwned if you leave him he just dies so this makes no sense

[@anihilist460]

Yes, we should summarily execute all of our soldiers that have PTSD as well. That's a fucked up sentiment you have there.

[@Shogunelite]

Anihilist Back then PTSD was just seen as cowardice, these days it's very important to keep an eye on. So in a way it was a shitty comment to just kill the guy, but back then he would have either died or lived his life waking at night reliving the horrors he went through, unable to function in society who might look down on his behavior.

[@BlueStreakActual]

I remember being stunned at how serious the campaign was at the beginning, it set an entirely different tone for the game and I really appreciate how DICE decided to make the campaign opening so grim to remind us that unlike several of the previous Battlefield installments, this one was based on a real war, where real people fought and died.

[@DX795Q]

And then you have a boss fight with a machine gun train.

[@phoenixdowngaming8193]

omg this was an amazing Opening to a game i have not seen this in forever. the story looks powerful and the Music was bad ass as well i am calling this now Battlefield to be the game of the year 2016 in more than 1 area

[@Cookie-monkie93]

It’s so heartwarming that even tho they were enemies to each other, they never wanted to fight each other anyways, because they are just human beings to each other 11:30

[@apostolis07]

2:10 damn it must have felt horrible for those soldiers hearing that whistle, they knew trouble was coming

[@esco5593]

Especially because the soldiers were already demoralized by the artillery barrage that likely came before it.

[@beerten202]

I like how this mission tells us there are no real heroes

[@sensei4042]

11:25 Me and the snail 10^103857 years into the future on the last part of habitable space staring down each other as the last protons decay

[@tipofthetongue2488]

5:40 ...really...

[@noobjo.mp4196]

360

[@skeletons7280]

Man dude is hella old to be a lawyer

[@Remington-wl7jp]

1:35 When it's your first day of school and the P.E. teacher makes you do Freshmen vs. Senior dodgeball

[@caelroraback2213]

Lmfao

[@nick4467]

You are not expected to survive

[@jamiemorris113]

Easily one of my most favourite FPS missions. So much emotion. Little details like showing the person's name and birth/death date, the shell shocked soldiers, the hopelessness of it all in the final segment where you feel it's an utter massacre with last man left standing. This game inspired me to research and learn about ww1 as I didn't know much before. What an awful part of history for both sides.

[@breakingmad2645]

It’s a great experience that you’re fighting for your life knowing that the game said “You are not expected to survive.”

[@ashmyblunt]

This really makes you give an immense respect to soldiers, no matter what military you're apart of. This was an amazing song choice as well, Dream and Little Dream of Me is a classic.

[@ND-jf2bm]

This in beautyfull that they show humanity in every soldier. Humans that have fellings and aren't mindless robots like shown In cod games.

[@angelmacias2084]

1:37 That is probably the heaviest shit you could ever read in real life or in a video game

[@gijoystick8716]

Battlefield 1 has the best attitude towards war in a video game showing war not as something righteous and noble for one’s country but as a disease something to be avoided with those who get caught in it never being the same afterwards and this I find admirable

[@bennette.7143]

I remember the first time I played this game and the opener. Most tense I ever was playing any video game opener. Also I love how the mood begins with calm and then descends into chaos until the final climax in which it descends back into somewhat of a calm. It just leaves the player in pure awe and shock of what they just experienced.

[@Azalgan]

The sound design, the music. Oh my

[@entoma_]

It is a game created with love and respect for the fallen...

[@theagamer07]

Parents: Aww, they're digging tunnels in the snow How the kids saw it: 0:34

[@Sgt_Long_Dong]

“You are not expected to survive” hits hard

[@davelo3506]

Id like to meet the man who said "videogames aren't art."

[@Daniel-zp2pi]

7:12 "War, war never changes!"

[@ediiorgovan4054]

the fact that the first boy was 18 years old really makes me think about this too much

[@suityboi2126]

Shut up about the snail

[@arq2565]

Goku and the final spongebob After a millenia of war that resulted in billion of casualties 11:26

[@theAverageJoe25]

8:15 “good thing those bugs can’t aim”

[@cocknballtorturer6839]

It will be a sad day when these men are forgotten. What a masterpiece of a game.

[@GeometryDashEndermaster]

0:41 makes me shiver every time

[@ShibaMoment]

Watching soldiers beat others to death with their bare hands truly shows the brutality of this war. No FPS game has ever had a more impactful intro.

[@smittywerbenjaegermanjense2350]

“What fallows is frontline combat. You are not expected to survive.” The epitome of WWI frontline combat. This opening scene and gameplay capture that better than any game I have ever played before.

[@tuiman5212]

Fun fact: The Harlem hell fighters were African American troops who were given to the French military to use because white American generals believed a black soldier should never fight under the American flag, The Harlem hell fighters were given nicer French uniforms and helmets by the French and were treated more equally than their white American counterparts. America also gave the minimum medals to the Harlem hell fighters so France gave them their own medals. France was also a safe haven for Black folk due to it being the only country where looks didn’t matter at the time only your work ethic. They abolished slavery before the end of the 1790’s. The first country ever to abolish it.(sadly Napoleon brought it back for a couple years)

[@patnewbie2177]

Yup. Damn shame that the boys came back from the war just in time for Jim Crow and the Red Summer.

[@Sinder_Primagen]

I never died in the intro as I stuck behind cover and only advanced in the enemy when my team did

[@nukacolacompany2534]

That's how professionals advance in open warfare

[@x-omnistar-x9602]

”We have so much to say… and we shall never say it.” - Erich Maria Remarque, WW1 veteran and author of All Quiet On the Western Front.

[@alexanderposey2793]

0:34 me walking up for school

[@crusadascrib3949]

Accurate

[@s3rver636]

No when you encounter the bully in your middle school and people stick up for you but the bully has friends what is going on in the middle of it: 0:34

[@sapqr6985]

It may not succeed in being the most historically accurate, but it damn well succeeded in portraying the horrors of WW1.

[@yoan4o1]

00:26 CJ, is that you?

[@Chamak]

yoan4o1 no its Eddie Murphy

[@Pninety]

lol

[@atrociousbean4096]

diaa pater, r/woosh??

[@renaultft1917]

No woosh. It's hsooW

[@GustavoHR115]

CJ's great grandfather

[@whoa_4027]

So this is christmas.

[@SangTheCryptek]

Every so often I go back to this game to play this opening. I try to see how long I can hold out as each each person (though a few deaths are obv scripted). Never before have I found myself going back to play a game's prologue so many times. The ending narration always gives me chills and even gets me to tear up a bit, without fail. "We are the jaded and we are the naive. We are the honorable and the criminal. We are the bound-for-legend and the lost-to-history. We are the knights in the sky, the ghosts in the desert, and the rats in the mud."

[@kevincolo3372]

It's rare to see a multiplayer fps with a decent campaign mode, let alone an amazing one like this.

[@META19991]

How did we went from this masterpiece to 2042!????

[@SCA84]

New developers

[@MikMoen]

The scene with the German and American just giving up and refusing to kill each other is a powerful one.

[@Smiff1]

I have to come back to appreciate one of the most immersive games ever made, a truly beautiful but chilling experience and I’m sure every player can agree

[@dachuckbuck669]

“You are not expected to survive” is one of the most chilling lines ever in shooters.

[@conraddebassige1593]

With the war being over it's gonna be one hell of a clean up job

[@asian_sensation_6998]

Conrad Debassige I don’t think they’ll ever clean up that... they probably just piled them up, prayed, then burned it

[@arianas0714]

Sometimes the bodies just rotted at the ”no man's land”, and no one even bothered searching for the bones. But yeah, cleaning up the rest of the bodies was one hell of a job.

[@esco5593]

They still find unexploded artillery, gas, and ammunition loads as well as human remains in large numbers every year. I visited several WW1 battlesites in France, particularly around Verdun, and the scars are clearly visible today. A lot of the places you visit look like the moon covered in grass and trees. At Fort Douaumont, the outside walls were riddled with so many bullet holes and hit with so much artillery that they look smoothed out. You could also see the scars of flamethrowers streaked across the wall. It was amazing, but very haunting to be there.

[@tankhead2645]

"Heres a deal, you get to live forever, and have 3 million dollars, but a hyper intelligent and immortal snail is hunting you, and if it touches you, you die an extremely painful death. Would you take it?" Me and the snail after we both outlive humanity, and the sun is dying 11:15

[@tankhead2645]

Wait everyone is making that joke

[@bradenfranks7011]

I literally came here because I saw the meme lol

[@akibru2535]

The way how they show all the different perspectives is great

[@justin2308]

One thing I really like is that this opening battle apparently is based on a specific engagement during the war: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

[@codafett]

I come back here every now and again because the scene of the two soldiers lowering their guns is just beautiful

[@danyleon4870]

Fun fact: it did happen. They even playing soccer during Chirstmas.

[@timothyrhode3973]

I heard that song on the radio and it all just came rushing back to me.

[@dr.sweetlove7859]

I always think about 4:10 only 18 years old.

[@DRLZEca]

I thought DICE was only gonna go up from here. Sucks getting older and having the people who make the games you love just make shittier and shittier decisions

[@miguelbombas4000]

''Battlefield 1 is based upon events that unfolded over one hundred years ago.'' Can't read that sentence without without feeling disgust.

[@magnesio1778]

Last piece of pizza Girls: No, you can have it, I'm full Boys: 0:41 - 1:04

[@s3rver636]

When the people die in this game it shows how long they lived throughout their whole life, I one time died as a 12 year old person

[@lauraarceo1909]

I think we all came for the short cinematic in the beginning.

[@autonomous3807]

Charlie Brown: “I got a rock” Snoopy subplot:

[@patnewbie2177]

Fun fact, there was an actual Snoopy flight combat game for the PS2/X360. There's even a level that takes place in Verdun.

[@Kaizen_KyranTTV]

"What follows is frontline combat" "You are not expected to survive" Im fucked

[@RenegadeSamurai]

Fascinating how Battlefield went from this atmospheric masterpiece to BF5....Whenever I play BF1 I feel really immersed into the time and situation. Specially St. Quentin Scar at the beginning...the nomansland you're crossing with not a glimpse of green, only rubble, dust and death around you. truly horrifying when you think about how the Soldiers back then must have felt...

[@sufyaanbulbulia4455]

And then 2042 happened........

[@RenegadeSamurai]

@@sufyaanbulbulia4455 yeah...true. I didn't think BF could've sunken deeper than BF5 but well...always count on them to fuck things up lol

[@sufyaanbulbulia4455]

@@RenegadeSamurai Yeah 2042 makes BF V look like a masterpiece

[@dracomalfloy7884]

This is one of the things that really got me interested in history.