[Game] Battalion 1944 - WWII FPS on kickstarter

[Lt_Kettch]

Surprisingly nobody else posted a thread yet. So here we go.

Apparently there is a new WWII (western front) first person shooter in the making. Key features are Unreal Engine 4, "skill based" gameplay ala Medal of Honor and/or Call of Duty and photogrammetry used for realistic environments.

The game is work in progress and it shows (e.g. first person animations) and I don't really like that they have ultrarealistic environments but the gunplay appears to be very arcacdey. I am not really interested but the kickstarter is quite successful so far and judging from that the demand for such a game is there.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bulkheadinteractive/battalion-1944-pc-xb1-ps4?ref=nav_search

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

WW2 and visually appealing is always nice, but arcadey and small maps where everyone runs around with an smg... I shall pass.

 

[AsoBit]

Yeah I'll pass as well

 

[morticore]

Another CoD, meh...

 

[kapulA]

LoL, it's even got hit indicators... CoD 2 redux is apparently what they're aiming at anyways, there was even CoD 2 MP footage shown in that video so yeah, another pass here.

 

[Lt_Kettch]

The game is fully funded now. At least 3,800 people think this game is a good idea. The rest of us can try it when it becomes really cheap (unless the developers mess up and go vaporware).

However, the reception here at the forums was exactly what I excepted :IS2:

 

[-Moody-]

That's what I am looking for. A skillbased Arcade Shooter. Just like MoH, CoD1 and Cod2 or CoD4 Promod.

Somehow those types of games were lost in the recent years, replaced by non-skilled bull**** with perks and killstreaks and unbalanced gameplay. Back to the basics!

Battalion 1944 doesn't try to be realistic and people have to understand this. In terms of military shooters, right now there are only two types of them: realistic shooters like RO/RS and Squad or unbalanced casual mainstream shooter. Battalion fills the gap between them. Comparable to CSGO right now but more focus on movement. Well just like classical WW2 Shooters.