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I haven't seen any other game besides Battlefield 1, in which the weapon skins have such a great weight added to them, with their titles referencing historical locations, people, occurrences and whatnot. And their designs being beautifully ornamented, or heavily scuffed and bloodied, I really adore that variety. Even in other Battlefield titles, the cosmetics feel lackluster to me exactly because of this. They could put all legendary designs in the exchange and abandon the game afterwards, no future engagement or automation update needed, as if that would ever happen anyway. I just don't understand why they choose to purposely ignore it instead.
I think collecting skins and codex entries are important in BF1. It's interesting that the base BF1 skins were given names by Indy Neidell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indy_Neidell
Our Contribution To Battlefield 1 I THE GREAT WAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shmmza-lWY0