I did some research essentially pre-dreadnoughts were entirely different. Dreadnoughts added several large guns because the older ships with 5" guns had trouble hitting at more that 3k(?) yards. Dreadnoughts added large guns to handle this roll. Battleships at the time went all large guns except a few small caliber guns to deal with close range and torpedo defense.
But there is no hard definition other than arguably the number of smaller caliber guns however you are correct they were different classes.
I find the engadget poster's logic a bit odd. He doesn't mind murdering people in games because they are "faceless". However, he is not ok with WWI?
My opinion is that any mainstream media that can perk the interest of people (especially the younger generations) wanting to learn about world history is good. Our WWI and WWII veterans are few and far between these days. I believe that "The Great War" youtube channel grew about 50k subscribers the day the trailer dropped.
*old person rant over*
There was so little navel warfare in ww1. Wasnt it like 1 big battle only?
The power of sniper riffles on BF4 is annoying but it is still a good game.
As much as I love the franchise it would likely be its death knell for me if they did away with dedicated servers. It would be a disaster.
There was a mention on Wikipedia that dreadnoughts only fought each other a few times.
There is no way someone from ww1 is still alive. lol.
The power of sniper rifles in real life is pretty annoying, too. BF4 employs them and IMHO has nerfed them to please the run-n-gun bunny-hopping crowd.
Seriously, you shoot someone with a .50 in real life and almost every shot is a kill shot. In BF4 you have to hit someone three times in the chest before they go down. In reality their organs would be mush, even with a ballistic plate vest that could (maybe) take a hit from a .50
The first thing I'm going to do in-game, is drive a boat out of bounds, this game is going to be awesome.
The battle cruiser was the big invention in navel warfare during ww1 if I recall correctly.
For those who are worried about the possible lack of a server browser, the battlefield twitter confirmed it is still in.
https://twitter.com/Battlefield/status/730058288411324416
My guess on how the party system will work then is that it probably have a hybrid SW Battlefront/BF3 system where you can add a party before heading into the game as one. I guess maybe this time for BF1 they will not autobalance people from the party. I do miss the BF3 battlelog join as party that they removed from the BF4 battlelog.
In the past I would've definitely hated if there were no dedicated servers, and I was a little surprised at the way SW: Battlefront had no particular server list when I first played it, but actually I don't even care about that. I mean, you'd need a way to filter servers (cause Battlefield has those DLC packs or gamemodes), but beyond that, it doesn't really matter. I've had zero issues with playing Battlefront that I can say was because there's no server browser.
The first thing I'm going to do in-game, is drive a boat out of bounds, this game is going to be awesome.
Won't you die? You can't go out of bounds in a BF game right? Did something change? I don't get it.
You're probably thinking of Dreadnought-type battleships, which also meant a redesign and rethinking of battlecruisers as well. Along with the employment of steam turbines, the dissenting idea was to use all big-gun armament which simplifies fire control (as opposed to having to accommodate medium and smaller-sized guns). That kind of thinking trickled down to other ship types, namely Battlecruisers which are essentially battleships with much less armor to boost their speed and range.
Won't you die? You can't go out of bounds in a BF game right? Did something change? I don't get it.
^^I still say manning a Dreadnought is cooler than manning a Battleship.