Eastern front

[Crecer13]

I see that the Battle for France will come in the summer, whether the game has expansion plans for the Eastern Front, right now my friends and I are thinking about buying a game, and if the game has an Eastern Front, we will buy the game. We are already frankly tired of the fact that the vast majority of games are the Western Front, and even more so at the same time there are several similar games about Normadia - this topic is too exploited, and brings only boredom.

[Maki Nishikino]

Publicado originalmente por Silky:

Publicado originalmente por Kerscher:

I don’t believe they will touch eastern front. If they do they should do Crimea battle for Sevastopol or Feodosia.

It'd be very stupid if they don't. There's no reason not to.

A need for completely new assets, Normandy (which I believe will be chapter 3) will be much easier in this regard. For the Eastern Front there will be at best a few things from the lend lease act but other than that it will be brand new. This may or may not be viable, it depends heavily on the success of chapter 2 and 3 when it comes to retaining players.

[tmpo]

mhm... interested

[Reinhard]

Why Eastern Front? I'd rather see a North Africa campaign or the Italian campaign

[Reitz]

North africa or italy over eastfront.

[Macisle]

Eastern front would offer some very cool, interesting equipment. For small arms, if they go mid/late war and offer realistic squad loadouts, the Soviets would get 3-4 SMGs per squad (or all SMGs if they include that formation type). That alone might make them popular to play - though a bit tough on the Germans at close range.

And, 2-man turret T-34/76 tanks would be interesting to play (we'll see soon what they do with French 1 and 2-man turrets). Would be cool to have maps with higher numbers of T-34/76s vs lesser numbers of PIVs and StugIIIs. Basically, numbers advantage vs. situational awareness advantage.

And, early war would still offer a huge opportunity for interesting battles. They've already done a lot of the work on the German side with units like the Panzer II and 38T. Early Soviet vs. German squads would be fairly balanced, with LMG advantage German, but less than current Bren. Early war might be naturally quite balanced equipment-wise. After all, the Soviets had some good gear. Their early losses were mostly due to surprise, bad comms & logistics, and a lack of trained leaders. The only real problem would be the historical scarcity of Soviet smoke assets vs. other factions. Soviet infantry should get fewer than German (and way fewer than US/Brit) and that might annoy some players. Maybe far few smoke grenades for the Soviets, but a higher ticket count?

[phobos2077]

The WWII shooter with all kinds of fronts, except the one that actually defeated Nazism. How typically sad and illogical...

Patriotism aside, from the purely aesthetic and fun perspective, Eastern Front is extremely under-used in games. It has so much material to work with, so many huge operations, armies, action on unprecedented scale. Sounds like an ideal setting for a game. Too bad countries with people who are most interested in it (descendants of the involved parties) are not considered the "target market". So in the end we have a market working against historical accuracy, shifting focus to less important battles of the war that have more appeal to the "target audience".

[Maki Nishikino]

Publicado originalmente por phobos2077:

Eastern Front is extremely under-used in games.

Outside of FPS? Not true at all, from RTS to flight sims, tons of them are out them and it's not always the same thing. So there may be a meta regarding the Eastern Front in the FPS genre but other genres? No way. The market has a ton of WWII games depicting the Eastern Front.

EDIT: I just noticed this thread has been dead for a while. -_-