One positive thing is it looks like DICE is aware there was more than one front in WWI and that only one of them was a trench warfare slog.
Verdun is a decently fun Western Front trench warfare infantry only take that I'm fine with DICE not focusing on it.
Although they absolutely should make a map where everyone plays on one team, and there's an hour long artillery barrage you have to hide from and then you're automatically forced out of the trenches and you run at a bunch of AI controlled machine gun nests through poison gas clouds. And that's just every single spawn.
Someone actually made a map like that for the Half-Life mod The Trenches. (Only the artillery was constant, and the spawns were all one way out from the trench so once you ran onto the map proper you were out of the trench.) And it was fucking awesome.
At least 2142 hasn't been reduced to DLC for other games like Vietnam. :'(
Yeah, it's just a horrible single-player only experience now. (Technically, there's one server. There's also technically one server still up for Brink. Guess which one I actually have managed to play on more than once since 2014.)
Unlike 1942 and 2 which have people bothered to keep alive, and BC2: Vietnam which is still up and shockingly active for a paid DLC to a PC version. (Though it's been practically given away on Origin, and the key applies to the account or something, so it works even if you have it on Steam. And I think you can activate a Steam version on Origin.)
I don't have the original Vietnam.
Also, the Battlefield 1942/Vietnam/Battlefield 2 servers were axed since they were hosted by Gamespy, which went away. So now there are only a few private servers running and you have to put extra effort into joining some laggy ass server that's hosted in a country far from your own. You can't play old Battlefield easily anymore.
There have been way more modern Battlefields than anything else in the series, CoD has been on a 4 year bender of future shit.
2 actually is fairly alright last I saw. 1942 did get beat really hard by the Gamespy turn off though.
Kinda wish EA had said fuck it, with the two F2P BF2 spin-offs, and merged them over into BF2. (Giving people that game, and shifting the servers to run it. Since they were saying "fuck ur shit u bought" anyway by shutting them down.)
Huh. Interesting. I thought DICE-LA was nothing but the "CTE"/fixers now.
DICE LA was their way to promote some DICE guys and open another LA studio. And keep a bunch of the Danger Close people. (Ghost Games was a similar weird situation like that but with Criterion.)
I think their temporary role was just helping Visceral move off their tools onto Frostbite but wasn't intended as the long term one.
