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[EuroGamer] Battalion 1944 - A developer from Derby wants to rekindle the WW2 shooter

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Source from EuroGamer
Battalion 1944 Website
Link to the Image Gallery
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Remember the days when you couldn't move for World War 2 shooters? The days of Call of Duty 2, Day of Defeat and Medal of Honor (when it was good)? One developer from Derby wants to bring those days back.

Bringing back the competitive WW2 shooters using Unreal Engine 4, looks pretty interesting to me! But it looks like they are going to need a lot of interest to hit that $100,000 Kickstarter but at least they have a good plan behind it:
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It sounds like the developers have worked out a solid plan for the creation of the game. There's even a pie chart to prove it:
UPDATE FROM UNILAD
http://www.unilad.co.uk/gaming/ww2-shooter-battalion-1944-reaches-kickstarter-goal-after-just-two-days/
They reached their Kickstarter goal!
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UPDATE 2: STRETCH GOALS ANNOUNCED (Source: UNILAD)
http://www.unilad.co.uk/video/wwii-shooter-battalion-1944-has-amazing-stretch-goals-announced/
 
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So hard for me to learn new shooters. If I am going to play WWII I wanted in on BF engine.
 
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yay, RO2 has been needing a replacement
 
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While we bounce between WWII / modern-day / near-future, there's always the Cold War. Story potential is dope: the Red Scare, the Space Race, the proxy wars in Southeast Asia and Korea and Africa and Latin America, US v USSR spies, Eastern bloc and breakup of the USSR and puppet states, the Suez crisis, etc.

Cold War should be the next genre, without a doubt. We've done modern to death, WW2 to death, and near-future just passed its peak.
 
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Originally Posted by Vinnce View Post

Just play Insurgency: Day Of Infamy
This.

They keep talking about doing all this "new" things in the video, except it has all been done multiple times.

Also a lot of wishful talk, but no proof: "We want ot have a solid netcode"... Yeah, you and everyone else. One thing is saying it, and another one is achieving it.
 
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No! No more WW2 shooters. Maybe in 5-7 years it will be good to see it's return. But I am still sick of WW2 shooters.

Interestingly, I wonder how a WW2 shooter will do in the casual community nowadays. They've gotten used to xray vision and endless UAVs. Before trying to revive the WW2 genre, why don't they branch out to waters unknown and make a Vietnam shooter. Or a WW1 shooter? Personally, I would love to see a WW1 shooter. With chemical attacks, old style planes, and flamethrowers.
 
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I wish Valve would update Day of Defeat with the new Source engine. I loved that game.
 
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Originally Posted by ZealotKi11er View Post

http://www.dayofdefeat.com/
That's actually the old Source engine. The same Source engine used in Counter Strike: Source. I was referring to the newer engine Source 2.
 
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Originally Posted by i n f a m o u s View Post

That's actually the old Source engine. The same Source engine used in Counter Strike: Source. I was referring to the newer engine Source 2.
They should make a new Orange Box
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I added a link to their website as well as their gallery in the OP
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Originally Posted by ZealotKi11er View Post

They should make a new Orange Box
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Indeed! Still waiting
 
#23 ·
Geeez, some of you are salty about WW2 games....I wonder why? (you guys sucked at them
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Im really looking foward to this game. When they said they want to make a game that they want to play, that just made me be like "duh, thats what I want!"

There is always a time for WW2 games and now is a good time. A lot of the modern games right now seem to be getting a bit bland and going back to what started military FPS games is and should be essential from time to time.

I remember the days I would play MOHAA on my old HP PC with a Pentium 3 at 1 gigglehertz, 128mb of SDRAM and an ATI 7500 SE......oh and Dial up too! Ping would be at 150 to 200 depending on server but 150 was doable, somehow I managed to do well with that ping.

Once I got a broadband connection at home (HS graduation gift from my Mom's) the world changed for me and started playing COD and COD UO like crazy.

Sigh....those were the days PC was the true PC Master Race back then, especially with Clans and all, using TS or Ventrilo....

Im going to cry lol
 
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