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[PlayofSparta]

Yes yes crazy idea. But they already tried countless time WW2, Cold War, Modern Warfare, Futuristic War. Battlefield worked at WW1, so why not?

 

[Deficit]

 

[jshackles]

Gonna be hard to sell Beavis and Butthead skins if they set it in that era

 

[MastAndo]

Cover me, I'm reloading!

 

[wipeout364]

Tell me you don't play COD without telling me you don't play COD.

 

[PauloRoberto]

Messing with the past for cases where a bad guy/good guy side is not easily recognizable, specially at this day and age, is poking a hornet's nest.

 

[Harkonnen]

"Wait a minute, I'm reloading !"

 

[cormack12]

 

[PlayofSparta]

The guns on BF1 were all wrong but fun. You could reload in seconds.

 

[uncreativename]

Mount & Blade Warband and Bannerlord have a huge amount of mods and official dlc set in the 1800s, 1700s and 1600s that you might wanna check out to get your standing in a line and firing guns fix :]

Warband might be a bit dated for you, and I haven't really touched Bannerlord for ages and never got super into it anyway, but this was the first Bannerlord mod video with a bigass battle that I could find. This mod seems to have both single and multiplayer.


and then this mod, L'Aigle, was one of my favourites. Like I said though, kinda old and janky.

 

[poodaddy]

The guns on BF1 were all wrong but fun. You could reload in seconds.

It only takes a matter of seconds to reload a bolt action rifle.

 

[Sintoid]

And it's only tuesday...

 

[kpopSuperstar]

 

[bender]

Gonna be hard to sell Beavis and Butthead skins if they set it in that era

huh, huh, hun, he said bone a part.

 

[twilo99]

The weapon arsenal would be … lacking.

 

[Laptop1991]

I think the gameplay and shooting would be too slow for the COD crowd, it's more Assassin Creed suited territory to me.

 

[PlayofSparta]

It only takes a matter of seconds to reload a bolt action rifle.

True. The rest?



MP 18 far from this speed in real life.

 

[SirKicksalot]

 

[poodaddy]

True. The rest?



MP 18 far from this speed in real life.

For sure, you're absolutely correct. Still though, I feel like it'd be tougher to suspend disbelief for the Napoleonic era, but maybe there's a way to do it right. I'd be interested if they did.

 

[uncreativename]

I think the problem with doing it in COD is COD match sizes are tiny. It kinda works in WWII and forward because you can just imagine that you're a small squad in a much larger battle, but I don't think Napoleonic warfare was really like that. It was about coordinated actions with hundreds if not thousands of other soldiers, so without a massive rework of the COD engine to allow for a huge number of bots and players, it just wouldn't feel even slightly real imo

 

[Stephen Curry]

This isn't the CoD of 2006 anymore. CoD 2 had narrated military footage in between missions to give you historical context. Now it is just slop.

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Not CoD but a Battalion Wars style could work well.

 

[PlayofSparta]

For sure, you're absolutely correct. Still though, I feel like it'd be tougher to suspend disbelief for the Napoleonic era, but maybe there's a way to do it right. I'd be interested if they did.

Could be some form of Steampunk. The series needs something new.

 

[calico]

Napoleonic Mass Effect trilogy please

 

[The_hunter]

Napoleonic wars were fought with line infantry. It would be a challenge to adapt that into the cod formula. But I would play it.

 

[poodaddy]

Could be some form of Steampunk. The series needs something new.

Big time agree on that, absolutely.

 

[PlayofSparta]

I think the problem with doing it in COD is COD match sizes are tiny. It kinda works in WWII and forward because you can just imagine that you're a small squad in a much larger battle, but I don't think Napoleonic warfare was really like that. It was about coordinated actions with hundreds if not thousands of other soldiers, so without a massive rework of the COD engine to allow for a huge number of bots and players, it just wouldn't feel even slightly real imo

You are correct about the size of regular maps, but Battle Royale is huge. I would love to see something similar to The Battle of Leipzig there, lol.

 

[Holammer]

Nah, imagine firing, press R and this happens



Then you wait for the officer to yell "Feu!"


... riveting! A 40k COD would be a better fit. But that's a discussion for another thread.

 

[coffinbirth]

Gonna be hard to sell Beavis and Butthead skins if they set it in that era

 

[dgrdsv]

Anything would "work for COD" at this point in the lifecycle of that franchise.

 

[Hudo]

Infinite Warfare 2 would be cool. Infinite Warfare is one of the very few CoD games I liked.

 

[yurinka]

No

 

[uncreativename]

One more. This is probably my favourite gunpowder mod overall

Imagine you're in

or

 

[coffinbirth]

OP just needs some Spiritual Healing!

 

[Wildebeest]

If it was battlefield ww1 style then everyone would have "experimental" SMGs and there would be air strikes you could call in from observation balloons, tame pterodactyls with grenades or something similar.

 

[Uberman77]

Do you mean COD or just a general FPS? Because the answer is 'fuck no' either way.

 

[StoopKidz]

I think COD should venture to hypothetical scenarios instead ala Wolfenstein New Order, post apocalyptic, etc.

 

[Calverz]

Just play Holdfast

 

[Grenseal]

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

I'd prefer Neanderthal of Duty personally. Throwing stones at each other feels more visceral than these super slow old repeater

 

[GudOlRub]

Singleplayer? For sure.
Multiplayer? Never. Not because of the game itself but because the COD playerbase would implode.

 

[Braag]

Even WW1 struggles to excite players due to lack of automatic weapons.