Battlefield 5 may get a single-player story from the German perspective

Battlefield V’s single-player mode as soon as once more picks up the War Stories idea, with a sequence of vignettes from totally different components of the warfare – and it appears like considered one of them may simply be from the German perspective.

The newest Battlefield V trailer provides a handful of particulars on War Stories, together with titles and teaser pictures for every of the mini-campaigns. The remaining one is coming post-launch – it’s known as The Last Tiger, and the teaser picture appears very very similar to a German officer commanding a German-built Tiger tank.

A marketing campaign exploring the German facet of World War II is a delicate thought to say the least. Even Battlefield 1 averted the German perspective, and that WW1 setting comes with out the entire ‘Nazi’ factor. All we’ve received proper now could be a single teaser, and speculatively you’ll be able to theorize a number of potential tales like an Allied faction capturing a Tiger tank (not unlikely, on condition that the ‘last Tiger’ nonetheless operational as we speak was captured by British forces) or a German squad having a change of coronary heart and defecting.

The thought of a German soldier defecting and heading over to the Allied facet appears fairly acquainted after DICE’s final game, because it’s kind of precisely what occurs within the Battlefront 2 marketing campaign. Of course, the metaphorical Nazis of the Star Wars universe are a much less thorny matter than the Nazis of precise historical past, and even one thing so simple as a redemption arc can be a problem to deal with successfully.

War Stories can have 4 chapters at launch, titled Prologue, Nordlys, Tirailleur, and Under No Flag. Nordlys has you enjoying as a resistance member in the course of the German occupation of Norway, and it’s the story we’ve seen essentially the most of up to now. Under No Flag has a British legal utilizing “his unique sets of skills behind enemy lines in North Africa.”

The Last Tiger will observe up a while after the Battlefield 5 release date, and given how the game’s ditching the premium pass, it’ll be one other free replace.