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HUN_gattaca_lg
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3 years ago
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Missing content in historical facts on loading screen

This random sentence can be read on the loading screen of Battlefield 1:
This was to be the mother of all battles, and it began with one million artillery shells raining down on the British in five hours.
I think at least one preceding sentence is missing here. The reference to Operation Michael(1918) and the Battle of St. Quentin(21–23 March) is missing.


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https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/The_St._Quentin_Scar_(Codex_Entry)
The St. Quentin Scar is a Codex Entry featured in Battlefield 1. It is unlocked by winning any gamemode on St. Quentin Scar.
The battle began with one million artillery shells raining down on the British in five hours. Headquarters, communications, and artillery were destroyed. With surprise on their side German stormtroopers overwhelmed the British defenses, ripping a gap over 60km long in their lines. This was the beginning of the Kaiserschlacht.

Operation Michael
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Michael
Operation Michael (German: Unternehmen Michael) was a major German military offensive during the First World War that began the German Spring Offensive on 21 March 1918. It was launched from the Hindenburg Line, in the vicinity of Saint-Quentin, France.

Battle of St. Quentin, 21–23 March
Day 1, 21 March
The artillery bombardment began at 04:35 with an intensive German barrage opened on British positions south west of St. Quentin for a depth of 4–6 km (2.5–3.7 mi). At 04:40 a heavy German barrage began along a 60 km (40 mi) front. Trench mortars, mustard gas, chlorine gas, tear gas and smoke canisters were concentrated on the forward trenches, while heavy artillery bombarded rear areas to destroy Allied artillery and supply lines. Over 3,500,000 shells were fired in five hours, hitting targets over an area of 400 km2 (150 sq mi) in the biggest barrage of the war, against the Fifth Army, most of the front of Third Army and some of the front of the First Army to the north. The front line was badly damaged and communications were cut with the Rear Zone, which was severely disrupted.

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    HUN_gattaca_lg
    2 years ago

    @devinrodgersr 
    Here is an another in-game information (flare rocket), short historical fact (star shells) and codex entry (The Battle of Malmaison -  Nivelle Nights) crossover:


    Flare Rocket (https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/battlefield/news/nivelle-nights-all-you-need-to-know)
    Nivelle Nights is the first night map for Battlefield 1 and builds upon the theme of the Battlefield 1 They Shall Not Pass expansion pack, focused on the French army and the Western Front. You’ll fight during night time on the muddy battlefields around Malmaison and Soupir, where the French and German armies clash. You can also find some flare rockets on the map to light up parts of the battlefield.

    "star shells"
    Containing bright burning chemicals and a non-flammable parachuhte, "star shells" were special artillery rounds used at night to illuminate the battlefield, or to pass on messages via different colors.


    "The Battle of Malmaison" Codey Entry - Win 1 game on Nivelle Nights
    German SOS rockets rose into the night sky calling in a counter-barrage, but the French artillery was highly effective in taking out the German guns.

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  • I found a typo in one of these short historical facts. (Is it Indy Neidell's team's fault, after 6 or 7 years?)
    -Poison gas was first used by the German army at Ypres in 1915, though both the French and Germans had used tear gas earlier in the war..
    There is a double period at the end of the previous sentence.


    my screenshot:


    my video:

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    HUN_gattaca_lg
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    I found another example.
    This random sentence can be read on the loading screen of Battlefield 1:
    The total number casualties are estimated at 275.000 for the British and 220.000 for the Germans - making it one of the first world war's most costly battles of attrition.
    I think at least one preceding sentence is missing here. The reference to Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres) is missing.


    https://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/battles-and-fighting/land-battles/passchendaele/
    The Legacy of Passchendaele
    The British lost an estimated 275,000 casualties at Passchendaele to the German’s 220,000, making it one of the war’s most costly battles of attrition. The more populous Allies could better afford the losses, especially with the recent entry of the United States on their side, but the battle had delivered a blow to the collective morale of the British Expeditionary Force. Passchendaele, often remembered as the low point of the British war effort, remains synonymous with the terrible and costly fighting on the Western Front.

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    HUN_gattaca_lg
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    What is the correct spelling, Boelcke (with the letter 'c') or Boelke?


    Boelke:
    As a pilot, try to place yourself between the sun and the enemy. This puts the glare of the sun in the enemy's eyes and makes it difficult to see you and impossible for him to shoot with any accuracy. - dicta boelke


    Oswald Boelcke:
    The pilots of the German Hunting Squadrons, also known as the Jastas, were trained to follow the guidelines set by Oswald Boelcke in his "Dicta Boelcke". It contained a series of aerial combat techniques that covered both attack procedures and tactics.


    Dicta Boelcke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicta_Boelcke)
    The Dicta Boelcke is a list of fundamental aerial maneuvers of aerial combat formulated by First World War German flying ace Oswald Boelcke. Equipped with one of the first fighter aircraft, Boelcke became Germany's foremost flying ace during 1915 and 1916. Because of his success in aerial combat and analytic mind, he was tasked by Colonel Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen with writing a pamphlet on aerial tactics. Completed in June 1916, it was distributed throughout the German Army's Air Service (Die Fliegertruppen des Deutschen Reiches), some two years before the French and British militaries followed suit with their own tactical guides. Air combat tactical manuals based on the Dicta Boelcke have become more elaborate over time, and have become a mainstay for NATO's air combat training of American, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Turkish, Italian, and Greek fighter pilots.

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    HUN_gattaca_lg
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    @devinrodgersr 
    Here is an in-game information (radium sight), short historical fact (radium night sight) and skin name (Undark) crossover:


    Battlefield 1's iron sights (https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Iron_sights#Battlefield_1)
    In addition to each weapon's default iron sights, four alternate iron sights are available: -The Radium Sight is a pair of easy acquisition, radium illuminated sights for single-action rifles. The Maschinenpistole M1912/P.16 is also capable of having the sight, the only weapon not used by the Scout class capable of doing so.


    Many armies experimented with "night sights" for rifles and other weapons, utilizing small amounts of fluorescent and radioactive radium on the sights to improve night time target acquisition.


    Undark skin for 12g Automatic shotgun
    Undark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undark)
    Undark was a trade name for luminous paint made with a mixture of radioactive radium and zinc sulfide, as produced by the U.S. Radium Corporation between 1917 and 1938. It was used primarily in watch and clock dials. The people working in the industry who applied the radioactive paint became known as the Radium Girls, because many of them became ill and some died from exposure to the radiation emitted by the radium contained within the product. The product was the direct cause of radium jaw in the dial painters. Undark was also available as a kit for general consumer use and marketed as glow-in-the-dark paint.


    Undark and the Radium Girls (https://www.damninteresting.com/undark-and-the-radium-girls/)
    Hammer’s recipe was used by the US Radium Corporation during the First World War to produce Undark, a high-tech paint which allowed America’s infantrymen to read their wristwatches and instrument panels at night. They also marketed the pigment for non-military products such as house numbers, pistol sights, light switch plates, and glowing eyes for toy dolls. By this time the dangers of radium were better understood, but US Radium assured the public that their paint used the radioactive element in “such minute quantities that it is absolutely harmless.” While this was true of the products themselves, the amount of radium present in the dial-painting factory was much more dangerous, unbeknownst to the workers there.

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    HUN_gattaca_lg
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    @devinrodgersr 

    Indiana Neidell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indy_Neidell) also knows the answer to that question.


    Medals (Battlefield 1) Trivia
    https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Codex_Entries#Trivia
    The names of medals were provided by the team at the YouTube channel The Great War, including host Indiana Neidell and research assistant Markus Linke. The team also compiled the game's Codex Entries.


    Our Contribution To Battlefield 1 I THE GREAT WAR
    You may have spotted Indy in the credits for Battlefield 1 already but we wanted to take the time to tell you what our contribution to the game actually was and briefly talk about what we think about the game.


  • HUN_gattaca_lg's avatar
    HUN_gattaca_lg
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    @devinrodgersr 
    Here is an another in-game information (flare rocket), short historical fact (star shells) and codex entry (The Battle of Malmaison -  Nivelle Nights) crossover:


    Flare Rocket (https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/battlefield/news/nivelle-nights-all-you-need-to-know)
    Nivelle Nights is the first night map for Battlefield 1 and builds upon the theme of the Battlefield 1 They Shall Not Pass expansion pack, focused on the French army and the Western Front. You’ll fight during night time on the muddy battlefields around Malmaison and Soupir, where the French and German armies clash. You can also find some flare rockets on the map to light up parts of the battlefield.

    "star shells"
    Containing bright burning chemicals and a non-flammable parachuhte, "star shells" were special artillery rounds used at night to illuminate the battlefield, or to pass on messages via different colors.


    "The Battle of Malmaison" Codey Entry - Win 1 game on Nivelle Nights
    German SOS rockets rose into the night sky calling in a counter-barrage, but the French artillery was highly effective in taking out the German guns.

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