BF Portal WW2 Opportunity List (BF1942 + BFV)

@Johannes_de_Nova

Perhaps I haven't been clear on my original post.

I'm an OG BF1942 player (like you i supposed) and if I had to choose I would select a remaster of BF1942 over any other opus of the franchise.

I'm fully aware that WW2 is only one part of BF Portal and other opus are getting remastered (BF3, BFBC2...) in addition to BF2042 and will take ressources.

So when you're saying that the main objective is to remaster in priority BF1942 and not BF1 and BFV as they are the last entry of the franchise, i'm totally agree. Even more when you said that to help this work and get the stuff necessary, we can use assets from said games.

@carsono311 mixing BF1942 with BFV or BF1 is up to me, if other players don't have the same POV, they can create their own vision. This is the whole point of BF Portal to give the tools and let anyone create his own version of the game.

Let's get back on your post @Johannes_de_Nova

JAPAN:

I have to admit that I had an hard time to choose between the different Pacific Maps of 1942. But I'll explain why I choosed Guadalcanal over Midway. 

As you said, what made Midway iconic was because it had the biggest Naval fleet possible and created the biggest Naval battles. But what is actually the map? It's the ocean and one Island in the middle. And Midway island even remastered would be very small and not really funny for geound based warfare.

Now think about it: BF portal unlike OG BF1942 gives you the possibilty to set the different equipments and vehicles on each map. So once the carrier, destroyers, fregates, submarines aee available in the Portal, what will be better: the small Midway Island or the bigger Guadalcanal Island?

Guadalcanal with the same Naval Fleet as Midway (or bigger if you want so) will give you the same naval waefare but the difference is that the ground battle will be more enjoyable thanks to the diversity of this island: bases, forward outposts, village, hills, jungle...

Now talking about weapons of the japanese, i didn't put the type 5 in the original post because it's a prototype weapon but anyway i'll never be against more content!

So we should have the folllowing list if we look specifically to japanese weapons:

JAPAN weapons list:

USSR / Soviet Union: 

As we said, the problem with the Soviet Union in the Battlefield franchise consist that we have too few equipment and original maps with them. 

For the map we're all agree o' Stalingrad I think but let's talk about the weaponry.

Here it's interesting because as I didn't play BF1 you gave me information I didn't know. 

So If the M38 Mosin Carbine, M1895 Nagant Revolver are part of BF1, it would make already 2 greats addition for a soviet faction! 

Talking about the BC2 PPSh41 i was perplex to see it with a drum mag of only 38 bullets on YT. Anyway if we can have a reskin of the weapon to the modrrn Frostibitex perhaps we can tweak the option of the weapon to change the ammo capacity to 71.

But we will lack of some famous equipment from USSR and here comes the main question about BF Portal is here:

Can it be possible through BF Portal to add new content that had never been in previous opus of the franchise?  Here for example the SVT40 or PPS43 or M1891/30 Mosin Nagant. 

USSR weapon list:

FRANCE:

In my opinion, France isn't a priority to be added as a faction and I expect to see first the USSR, Japan and Italy before seing it. 

Don't get it wrong about me, I fell in love with the fact my country was added to the game back in 2003, and the Monte Cassino map was in my opinion awesome as well!!! Climbing the mountain by night to attack the destoyed monetary in epic CQC battle, I loved it, and would love to see it back with new Frostbite. 

But mixing together UK and US weaponry is for me enough at the beginning to create the faction as the FFF was generally supplied with these. 

Of course if we see the Lebel 1886, I'll be happy! For the Chauchat it's more of a WW1 weapon, I'd rather prefer the FM24/29 similar to the Bren but it never made an entry in the franchise. The MAS44 was only a prototype by the time of the war ended, so one more time it's not a priority to me. 

The lone addition from previous opus sounds to be the Belgium Nagant M1895 revolver, the Ruby, the Lebel 1886, the M1922 MG, and the Chauchat if it makes a return. 

So we would have this list:

FRANCE weapons list:

ITALY:

I can't imagine a WW2 experience without the Italian campaign. It would be skipping one of the most interesting theater of the war. We need absolutely at least one map that can give different playstyle and for me it should be or Anzio or Baytown! But I definitely want to see the italian architecture and countryside. 

One more time I didn't know that BF1 had weapons that I was talking innmy OG post so that's good to know that from somewhere we can get the M91 Carcano + M1915 Beretta. BFV as the shorter M38 Carbine version of it + I forgot they added the MAB38. Of course BF1942's Breda 30 is must for the italian faction! 

The introduction of the BF1942 M11/39 Carro Armato tank is necessary to my eyes along the US/UK M3 Grant in order to really depicts the early and middle year of the war when Italy was on the African theater with the Afrika Korps. I can see myself preparing 2 El Alamein settings, one for the 1st Battle with more Italian assets to the Axis Team including M11/39 and the 2nd Battle of El Alamein with more german assets. 

ITALIAN weaponry list:

And here bellow the other 3 faction announced weapons list:

Commonwealth weapon list:

US weapon list:

GER weapon list: