Re: Missing content in historical facts on loading screen
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.
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.
Did the game developers provide any additional context or background information for the loading screen text and the events it references? www myfedloan idrapp
@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.
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.
@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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