Luckily, there is AI support, so all the empty player slots are filled with bots.

Verdun's small playerbase is both a good thing, because it keeps the toxicity at minimum, and a bad thing, because you can rarely find more than one semi-populated match. If you want to, you can still limit the framerate to 30, but I personally play with it unlocked. Don't get me wrong, it's completely playable, but the framerate definitely isn't steady. Now the negatives: The game is rather chuggy on consoles. Voice acting is pretty neat too, characters' voice intonations don't sound fake, their screams of pain and orders sound convincing. Weapons look and feel great, the reload animations are detailed, gunshots sound realistic, so do the explosions. If it's set to ultra, explosions will often tear limbs off, shots will deform heads, sometimes after you die your character will start to roll on the ground and scream in agony. There is also a gore system which can be turned off in the game's options. Verdun is overall a lot slower than Battlefield or Call of Duty, reloading takes more time and you have to recharge your stamina. If you are dueling an enemy, usually the quicker one will win. One rifle shot in the torso is pretty much always an instant death, pistols usually take 1-2 body shots to kill at short to medium range and 2-3 at longer range. It should be noted that this game is rather unforgiving at times. There is a total of 9 maps in the 'Frontlines' mode, each of which is based on real life battlefields. A point is given once a team succesfully attacks and defends a trench, which makes the enemies fall back and defend the next trench. There are two teams, who take turns attacking and defending trenches, with the goal being to either score more points than the other team or capture the enemy team's headquarters. There is a bunch of modes, with the most popular being 'Frontlines'. The gameplay is enjoyable once you get into it. Obviously it doesn't look as good as the Battlefield games, Verdun has a smaller budget and a smaller development team, plus, it runs on Unity, but the graphics aren't really bad, they are just passable. I once heard two guys in my squad have a historical disscussion about WW1, so this is definitely a community I enjoy being in. Now onto Verdun: I noticed a solid part of the playerbase being really interested in history, and the players are mostly nice.

Both games try to accomplish different things, feel and look differently, they just both are first person shooters set during World War 1. And we found a gas mask near his skull, a French-issued M2 gas mask.First of all, I see a lot of people comparing this game to Battlefield 1, but I personally find them hard to compare.

On his left side he carried a wallet that contained two French coins. But they’re not proof of his nationality. “The boots are those that were on his feet when he died, and they are French army boots. “A tag is the only item that would have allowed us to formally identify him,” said Fremont, acknowledging the sadness and frustration of not being able to make an identification. A DNA test is useless without a known relative to compare against. What’s missing is the soldier’s ID tag.įor months, Fremont has searched for clues as to the identity of the soldier, whose remains were found in March by workmen resurfacing a road. Laid out on a white sheet are the combatant’s near-complete skeleton, many of the bones blackened, and his leather boots, the laces tied tight. French forensic pathologist Bruno Fremont and forensic assistant Manu Robas work on the identification of the remains of an unknow soldier, killed during World War One, found during road construction work near the battlefield of Douaumont, during an interview with Reuters at Verdun hospital, eastern France, November 5, 2018.

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