Battlefield 1: A ruthless man takes advantage of the truce of the players who commemorate the armistice to bomb them – Pop culture

Battlefield 1 players stopped fire at 11 am, along with the two minutes of national tributes. Until another player comes to bomb them by plane.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the armistice, this Sunday, November 11, 2018, Australian players from Battlefield 1 decided to establish a ceasefire. At 11 am, Canberra time, they stopped the fighting, along with the two minutes of national tribute. But the truce did not last, after the bombing of a German plane.

The blink of an eye was relayed from Reddit by an employee of Dice, the publisher of the game, in the form of a video – impossible to integrate it here, it is possible to see it on the social network.

"This is the 100th Anniversary of the End of WW1.

Battlefield 1 players stop shooting each other to commemorate the end of World War 1.https: //t.co/bvYTAzK2vE

– Jan David Hbadel (@JanDavidHbadel) November 11, 2018

We see a dozen players to put away the weapons following the request to stop fighting emitted on the messenger game … While others continue to shoot. Some, because of jet lag – " It is 13 hours here ", Can be read in the chat – others voluntarily. The video closes with the badbadination of the player at the origin of the truce, with a stab in the back. The player behind the kill came to apologize to his victim on Reddit, pointing out the lack of respect of the order by these enemies.

The paradox of a tribute to the armistice on a war game

The idea seems ironic: make a truce about a game that consists of killing each other … But at least, compared to other war games, Battlefield 1 lends itself to it. Because if the title is part of our selection of games that retranscribe the horror of the war, it is precisely because the FPS, far from glorifying violence, tells the war of the forgotten.

Admittedly, Dice waited a few months before joining the French army to play, while the majority of fighting took place on French territory. But it is still part of the most realistic games, and therefore conducive to this kind of community event. This tribute attempt makes talk about the license, three days before the release of Battlefield V, November 15, which will try to apply the format of its predecessor to the Second World War.

This is not the first truce in game. The reference simulation game of the 14-18 war, Verdun had introduced an event for the Christmas truce, on the fronts where the cease-fire had been respected.