So, how do factions work in Battlefield 2042?
So, I’ve read the storyline behind the game, but I’m still confused about the factions. When you load into a match, the bottom left-hand corner of the screen will say either US Marines Command or Rus...
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@OskooI_007 Because they're supposed to be mercenaries, "no-pats" as in non-patriots. They're from all over the place too (UK, Iran, Germany etc.) in an attempt to reinforce this.
DICE just doesn't know how to delivery narrative/lore/world building through multiplayer, and I hope they abandon any efforts to attempt to do so moving forward. Leave Marcus and his studio to handle the narrative entries, and stop wasting time trying to make some kind of story to underpin 2042. Just make it a good/fun game, which seem to be too tall an order to begin with.
DICE just doesn't know how to delivery narrative/lore/world building through multiplayer, and I hope they abandon any efforts to attempt to do so moving forward. Leave Marcus and his studio to handle the narrative entries, and stop wasting time trying to make some kind of story to underpin 2042. Just make it a good/fun game, which seem to be too tall an order to begin with.
@edgecrusherO0 EA's website says the specialists are forced to choose a side in the proxy war happening between the USA and Russia.
"A food and fuel shortage ignites a shadow war between the US and Russia. To maintain plausible deniability, both sides field No-Pat Task Forces as proxies in escalating conflicts over resources – promising the refugees a piece of what's left."
https://www.ea.com/games/battlefield/battlefield-2042/the-world-of-battlefield-2042/how-we-got-here#brink-of-war
- @OskooI_007 They're essentially mercenaries, not soldiers for one side or the other.
Honestly, I wouldn't waste any time trying to make sense of any of this. It's all so poorly thought out and communicated (man, ain't that the truth for EVERYTHING in 2042) that it's just going to result in frustration and contradictions.
Amazing that we went from fantastic campaigns that could build an emotional attachment to a freakin tank in a few hours, but now they can't even get the very basic foundational building blocks of world building/story/narrative when they can't deliver it through a campaign (which is WAY easier to deliver story/narrative/world building).
I hope they're taking some lessons from Elden Ring on how to tell narratives through world design though, because FromSoft are basically running a master class free of charge.@edgecrusherO0 I see. So they're all mercenaries who America and Russia gives military equipment to so they can fight a proxy war for each country. Sometimes Sundance fights for America and sometimes she fights for Russia.
- @OskooI_007 Yep, hence why there's 20 of the exact same "you" (don't ask questions! This is really the Clone Wars!) on both your team and the others.
Nothing about this game makes a lick of logical sense from the world building standpoint, because there seems to have been zero thought or effort put into it. I'm hoping with Marcus on board that he can right the ship in this regard at least, but he's got a lot of work to do with his studio and it'll be a while until we see anything (years).
