Persistent battlefield

[Ghostbadi]

Interested into buying this game, but when I gave it try in early beta playtests, bodies , wreckage of destroyed vehicles (tanks, planes, artillery) , craters from artillery , everything disappears after couple of seconds. I saw some changelogs but I want to hear community.

Guys, did devs finally made Persistent Battlefield's for real, being able to landscape with arty , be able to see dead bodies and wreckages after battle, craters terraforming ground that stays for whole battle instead of disappears?

I am that type of guy who likes to see battlefields after a battle, each cm of Battlefield tells a story.

[uBootsy]

Your expectations seem pretty high and I know some people have complained about this aspect of the game. To my mind it is gorgeous but Im new to this genre.

[Ghostbadi]

Originally posted by uBootsy:

Your expectations seem pretty high and I know some people have complained about this aspect of the game. To my mind it is gorgeous but Im new to this genre.

Yes I agree that my expectations are high, been playing games for already 20 years, so ... yeah it explains a lot I guess

[Comzar]

You can mod the game so that the bodies stay at least for the entire battle session, yet they will disappear if another battle is fought in the same sector

[Herodotus]

Originally posted by Ghostbadi:

Interested into buying this game, but when I gave it try in early beta playtests, bodies , wreckage of destroyed vehicles (tanks, planes, artillery) , craters from artillery , everything disappears after couple of seconds. I saw some changelogs but I want to hear community.

Guys, did devs finally made Persistent Battlefield's for real, being able to landscape with arty , be able to see dead bodies and wreckages after battle, craters terraforming ground that stays for whole battle instead of disappears?

I am that type of guy who likes to see battlefields after a battle, each cm of Battlefield tells a story. :SF_Freestar:

There is a Persistent Bodies mod, though by using it the game disables MP and Achievements, which in the latter's case I think is unfair. But that's for another discussion. Even without the mod, I've noticed on the defence the enemy's bodies remain for some time.

I'd hate to see the CPU (and the GPU) heat level(s) if you have hundreds of dead, rotting corpses. Much as I'd love to see the remains of crashed aircraft and destroyed tanks, as with the Close Combat series, but the crowding effect on the battlefield visually, I think would make fighting or even keep track of living troops across multiple points too difficult on the attack.

Besides, bodies between battles were mostly swallowed by the mud and most aircraft were either removed or so badly smashed or burnt up as to leave just a pile of rubbish. Tanks were removed for repair or capture, same with some intact aircraft for study.

But that's between battles. I agree that persistence needs to remain for the duration of the battle in all things, craters and destroyed machines mostly but bodies if your eyes can entangle them from living troops from both sides.