Next Battlefield 1 expansion will add female soldiers

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Battlefield 1 will be adding female soldiers in their upcoming In the Name of the Tsar expansion, according to an official image used to promote the DLC’s upcoming appearance at EA Play 2017.

The inclusion of female soldiers has been an issue for Battlefield 1 since before the game was released. Back in June, DICE caught flack from one of its former programmers for using “realism” as a reason why female soldiers were not going to be included in multiplayer, along with the costs of additional character modeling and voice-over work. After some prying, it was revealed that DICE just didn’t think its “core audience of boys” would find female soldiers in World War I “believable.”

As it turns out, female soldiers did serve for Russia in WWI, although the reasons that the military allowed them to fight were less “girl power” and more “let’s make men who aren’t fighting feel guilty and less masculine by hiring women to fight instead.” Still, they did see front-line combat once before the war ended during the Kerensky Offensive, which could be a hint about one of the featured battles in the upcoming DLC.

It’s unclear yet whether female soldiers will be playable for all armies or just for the Russian DLC, but with EA Play starting June 10th, we won’t have to wait too long to find out more about In the Name of the Tsar. In the meantime, Battlefield 1’s PC community has another opportunity to play on the new upcoming standalone map Prise de Tahure in the CTE.

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Mr_RobotPosted:

Female soldiers are not needed in this game

CR3D1TorC4SHPosted:

OmittingCoder
Textual The BF devs have always been cucks. African American soldiers and now females...


Some how mad at the devs for adding more variety and content to a game


BF1 is supposed to be historically accurate which adding females soldiers does not make it so. They might as well drop the historically accurate part to update the weapons so there aren't 4 per class with each on just having a different attachment

CykaPosted:

That's not how history really was, such a shame.

BONDGUY8514697Posted:

I'll be suing if I'm not able to play as a transgender time-traveling Jack Sparrow when it arrives.

BJPPosted:

Skates
BJP Next DLC we will see new characters with non binary genders and illnesses such as Autism.


Lmao, too far my dude haha. This update should be interesting though.


Have you seen Overwatch ? Attempting to pander to all these groups. They made tracer gay, removed a playboy style Easter egg since some **** complained, changed a tracer poser since it was rear view and could see an outline of her arse, made one character autistic.

SkatesPosted:

BJP Next DLC we will see new characters with non binary genders and illnesses such as Autism.


Lmao, too far my dude haha. This update should be interesting though.

BJPPosted:

Next DLC we will see new characters with non binary genders and illnesses such as Autism.

JastyPosted:

That's a shame that they are adding females soldiers to the game.

YokePosted:

It will be interesting to see how they implement these female soldiers

OmittingCoderPosted:

Textual The BF devs have always been cucks. African American soldiers and now females...


Some how mad at the devs for adding more variety and content to a game