Battlefield 1's Sneaky Sniper Decoy Was Real

The Sniper Decoy in Battlefield 1 is actually based on a French paper-mache head used in WWI. Cool detail.
#Battlefield #BF1 #Battlefield1

[@adrianveidt8056]

This game still amazes me even after years

[@NaughtyNovaroo69]

Pissed I didn't get BF V

[@minksebroerfurth6568]

Bf 5 hase them to

[@yeezyszn7208]

@@minksebroerfurth6568garbage game.

[@yeezyszn7208]

It’s almost like BF1 is the best FPS ever made 🤔

[@bluephoenix6845]

They even made fake dead horse for snipers to use in no man’s land

[@rvillgaming6306]

Fake trees as well

[@bluephoenix6845]

@@rvillgaming6306 that’s true

[@chrisporter9397]

What, they didn’t have enough real dead horses? :p

[@bluephoenix6845]

@@chrisporter9397 just imagine the smell of being inside it would like to be inside a dead horse or a fake one??

[@daddycremecake4260]

There was a video I saw that one just dug a foxhole and put dirt and a sheet over it, got in it and pulled the sheet over the hole, legitimately looked just like normal ground

[@3starperfectdeer233]

I encountered ONE player using the decoy and that's why he got me with it.

[@LCOfficerUNIT097]

Honestly, good on him

[@PolarGabriel]

I find it kinda funny how people don't use it and so people shoot the glare, cause they don't expect anyone to actually use a decoy It's so bad, that it rolls back to being good lol

[@leseigneurdesannalestamere9573]

@@PolarGabrielalso while considering the heat of the battle, you don’t usually think about if it real or not….

[@agorman1341]

​@@leseigneurdesannalestamere9573yeah lol one time when in battlefield 2 i accidentally shot my teammate because too panic

[@Stangleripkis]

Bf1 is a masterpiece

[@yosefyonin6824]

every other multiplayer shooter feels boring and unispired aftering playing this game. there's no going back.

[@Devinn504]

@@yosefyonin6824 Must’ve never played hell let loose

[@yosefyonin6824]

@@Devinn504 i did, and it's way too realistic to enjoy casually. requires too much planning and team coordination

[@Xatarino]

That is correct

[@Sebasti2n]

@@Devinn504 Games being too realistic are unfun. Games being to unrealistic feel boring and bad. BF1 is Realistic and fun

[@MaxPayne12283]

The fact they made a decoy for each individual faction is so awesome

[@kenny187ful]

Bf1 was the peak of the series

[@sunryse9147]

I have been saying this for the past 3 years.

[@staticaleel5068]

Honestly the one annoying thing about bfv is that they didn’t bother to make the sniper decoy appear different when used by different factions. And unlike bf1, there was only 4 so it couldn’t have been that hard to make a British, American, and Japanese sniper decoy model. Instead it’s just always a German, which both in game and realistically means it’s only useful when used by a German player. Because literally everyone can easily tell the difference between a German sniper decoy and a soldier of any other faction.

[@ExtantPerson]

Not really true when you consider that most soldiers in BFV look nothing like their faction. Which is a much more annoying thing about BFV

[@DanielSMV805]

​@@ExtantPersonplayed battlefield 1. Loved it. Decided to give battlefield 5 a try. First match I get quick scoped by a guy with a golden sniper dressed like he came straight out of Destiny 2.

[@ExtantPerson]

@@DanielSMV805 yep, that describes the experience perfectly. Not to mention the occasional Japanese woman in North Africa using a gun that never even existed.

[@kommandantgalileo]

A mockup of *WHAT?*

[@DaKamerad1945]

Yep, Paris

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

you heard that right

[@1SilverDollar]

Yeah, the City of Light. A fake of that was built.

[@sdivine13]

We did the same shit in ww2 but "bases" not towns

[@jamesrosewell9081]

​​@@1SilverDollar how? Just lights?

[@braddeicide]

The sort of touches Dice used to make before getting destroyed by EA

[@AJadedLizard]

I mean, there was nothing even approaching this in 3, 4, or HL. Those were the games they absolutely phoned in the most.

[@RobPento]

Really appreciate these history lessons. You've moved beyond just entertainment and into educational content. Bravo!

[@amitysmp]

I never noticed the guy in the trench doing that, such a small detail but takes a lot of work

[@halothere6995]

Shots of Canadian snipers, you can see by the Ross rifle

[@HomemdaFaina]

BF1 peak BF.

[@JayMatt89]

I love using decoys..... especially in windows ....

[@yosefyonin6824]

yeah, people undersetimate the power of decoys because they think they will be easily seen. but using decoys smartly, putting them in unexpected places can totally mess wit hthe enemy team. cheers

[@arielmino643]

Gonna try that next time i boot it up​@@yosefyonin6824

[@evats5423]

​@@yosefyonin6824it only ever distracts players that are bad at the game anyway and those should be the least of your worries - its a waste of a utility slot

[@yosefyonin6824]

@@evats5423 it fails to distract when it looks obvious by sticking out in the open or too close to the enemy. Put it far away in hard to see places like broken windows or behind cover and someone will shoot them unless they have a heavy scope. And what else you gonna spend your utility slot? Traps? Dont work in open areas K bullets? Usless when no vehicles are around. Periscope? 99% useless

[@evats5423]

@@yosefyonin6824 traps, you get traps wdym they "don't work in open areas" you place them as anti-flank measure and what you're saying about decoys placing them strategically and what not- you can do that with traps as well you know - you don't place them in the middle of the open or right at the door way so that the wire covers half of your screen when you try to enter but you place then further away or tucked away in some spot, camouflage it a little bit and basically get free kills or protect yourself from a flank. And no you can't "hide" a decoy because good players actually use the spotting feature in the game so trust me you're only fooling Bambis with that who are running around being free kills either way. But even if hypothetically it did what it was supposed to - what do you gain from that? That enemy highlight is not much better than over a regular spot anyway so why bother? It's literally a glorified periscope

[@quinnhasse9170]

fun fact: some sniper decoys used cigarettes to look more realistic also that's how artists helped in ww1.

[@archie3k433]

Fun fact: no one uses these because they suck and the spotting flare and tripwire bombs are actually useful.

[@cavman9883]

The decoy can distract enemy players. If you set one up behind a sniper shield, enemies in the distance will start taking shots, distracting them and making them vulnerable.

[@archie3k433]

@@cavman9883 Maybe.. But it won't distract any good players. lol

[@archie3k433]

@@cavman9883 To be fair, most players aren't good, so those decoys probably work on plenty of people. You on Xbox? Archimedes 3000 is my tag if you wanna play. I'm an okay player all around but I'm a top tier Support player.

[@Sebasti2n]

@@cavman9883 His point is NOT good. most good players WILL be fooled. if you put a decoy in the corner of a window one of this pesky "'good" snipers are gonna shoot it. to them its a free kill

[@pabloteixido2155]

ww1 rules

[@bawlsach43]

the bf5 sniper decoy is my crutch

[@cwbbakker]

I’ve been googling on the fake Paris the past ten minutes since watching this and damn it’s impressive

[@dr.bright6272]

Casually sets severed head up as decoy

[@boomboomboombob]

The fact it spots enemies is stil realistic given the fact tey see where the bullet hit and the angle at which it hit amd most kf the time where they thought the sniper was, they were actually there, making it realistic and effective at its job.

[@lalthamuon6720]

There must have one guy who shot the decoy and when the entire enemy come to kill him, he manage to kill them all

[@Killabear-en2xq]

Was playing tonight and saw quite a few of them on Somme.

[@johanlindenhann254]

Someone made an AK version of it in the Ukraine war. I don't remember which side. It's pretty cool.

[@YugiHunter]

time to play bf1 again

[@ecbrown6151]

I’d pay $$$ for a re-release with increased player counts (128!) and all the DLC included. Heck, they should really release all the DLC for anyone who owns the original at this point, you can find games but rarely any that are running the DLC maps.

[@Memez_Scavenger]

You should do videos in enlisted

[@swancman]

I miss historically focused Battlefield...

[@josephmuradyan6161]

I didn’t know it spots whoever shoots it, actually makes it slightly more usefull

[@st3na4yt]

The russian snipers with mustaches😂

[@TaitLawrence-xl2xb]

Can you explain it to my oblivious ass

[@magicani]

​@@TaitLawrence-xl2xbthe Russian scouts/snipers are women ingame to represent the Russian womens battalions of death

[@TaitLawrence-xl2xb]

@@magicani No I meant what was so funny about Russian snipers with mustaches but I think now he was referencing Reznov

[@hayleywilliams8750]

Bf1:great very historical Bf5:historical but many inaccurates Cod: what is historical accurate mean

[@scopple3852]

What campaign is that clip from?

[@Flakfire]

Friends in High Places

[@scopple3852]

Ah, I see it now. Thanks

[@Razor64Redz]

It actually works. I tried put the decoy then the other players shoot it. I saw the glint and got him. 😂

[@Xatarino]

The war is the worst

[@S1aughtahyou]

Back when DICE cared. Man was that game BEAUTIFUL. Truly a fun and accurate game. Proving you didnt need speedy gameplay.

[@1SilverDollar]

I always wondered how they gave off the scope glint to the opposing side.

[@chamberlane2899]

Far as I’m aware, that isn’t legit, though it might reference the fact that some of these could (and would) actually smoke cigars (and would thus subtly light up at night). Maybe there were incidences where they were tied to a periscope rifle, but I haven’t seen any evidence of that.

[@skyler9988]

U think they also had periscopes so they could see potential sniper nests

[@LeoMkII]

BF1 is to this day the best fps ever made, period

[@cornerconversation]

Yes shoot the helmet not the standing guy 5 feet behind him😂

[@ToxicBastard]

Generally one would employ a move known as "ducking" when in a sniper's scope.

[@ethancurtiss6561]

Wish sniper elite 5 had this

[@MrMcFish219]

They do...?

[@ilkinibisov6778]

Ottomans used real heads instead of decoys

[@91kitson90]

BF1 campaign could have been epic. Instead its just a tease..

[@Sau-bu6ud]

I did not know, because noone is using those things

[@ocularorb4021]

I did actually

[@quetzake]

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

[@meld1817]

Battlefield 1 is better without sniping

[@ExtantPerson]

Nah, BF1 sniping is really nice. That being said, personally I prefer iron sights on my bolt actions

[@steamrangercomputing]

Of course it's real, the devs wouldn't have made up something so useless.

[@yeezyszn7208]

Sticky bolt at the end. Felt that tbh. My bolt actions have a sticky bolt.

[@staticaleel5068]

Honestly the one annoying thing about bfv is that they didn’t bother to make the sniper decoy appear different when used by different factions. And unlike bf1, there was only 4 so it couldn’t have been that hard to make a British, American, and Japanese sniper decoy model. Instead it’s just always a German, which both in game and realistically means it’s only useful when used by a German player. Because literally everyone can easily tell the difference between a German sniper decoy and a soldier of any other faction.