Battlefield 1 gamers known as a truce on Armistice day

As everyone knows, there’s just one higher means of honouring the fallen troopers of World War 1 than observing a two minute silence. The greatest means is to load up Battlefield 1, a game about taking pictures troopers in World War 1, after which not try this.

At 11am Canberra time yesterday, (practically) everybody on a Battlefield server agreed to cease taking pictures one another. Footage of the unprecedented outbreak of peace may be discovered under.

News of the occasion got here through this Reddit post. You’ll must click on by if you wish to see, as a result of the embed refuses to play off-site.

It’s just about what you’d count on: opposing troopers standing subsequent to one another, doing their weapon-changing animations as shut to one another’s faces as potential. It’s not lengthy, in fact, earlier than a aircraft swoops in and ruins all the pieces with a barrage of machine gun hearth, and somebody stabs the participant who’s recording in retaliation. At least they apologised.

This isn’t the primary time video game combatants have thrown down their arms. The Verdun devs do a Christmas truce mode, which swaps out the weapons for snowballs. It doesn’t share fairly the identical attraction as an advert hoc ceasefire like this, however you possibly can play footie.

I as soon as championed a Christmas day truce in Star Wars Battlefront (the previous one), although it by no means occurred to us to cease preventing altogether. I simply shouted at everybody till all of us agreed we’d solely use pistols for a bit.

Cheers, Eurogamer.