if they wanted to show diversity, they should've made an african campaign

Apparently wanting historical accuracy is racism now.

Just wait for the black female lesbian wermacht paratroopers in CoD WWII

Cod WW2 rocking the black female nazis.. Its a complete charade

You guys know how some black people say "you just don't get it" when talking about, let's say, slavery? That's the same here. So for all black SJW's: you just don't fucking get it, this is our history. Portraying this big part of European history this wrong is very offensive for people with ancestors who fought and died in this war.

WE WUZ KAISERZ N SHIET

I'm a black guy myself & to me the Harlem hell fighters may have only been a small unit in this huge war, but what they did during the war was obviously incredible & impressive so dice had to honor them in this WW1 themed game. But I have to admit, seeing a black soldier in the German & british armies was very strange.

Historical accuracy is truly important as new generations are expossed to this.

they put in all these black people but didn't but in Serbian,Bulgarian,Greek and Russian armies which had a big part in the war

I wonder if their next game is about the napoleonic wars with machine guns and black kings in Europe.

To be more historically accurate they should have made non-white soldiers appear by chance. Like you would get a 5% chance of getting a black soldier, and a 20% chance of getting an Indian one.

The first thing my dad asked when he saw this game (He is a historian) is "Why is there black people" and "Why is there automatic weapons"

Imagine a game about the Zulu army with white naked men in it.

diverse characters in multiplayer video game = ok devs claiming it's historically accurate = not ok

Facts don't care about your feelings.

I guess the new Battlefield 1942 is going to have Black-Jewish-Transexual SS Stormtroopers.

I'm not racist, but a german black soldier????? serius!!! IN GERMANY, DURING THE WW1.

I don't have a problem with diversity in games, but when it's forced diversity/disproportionate diversity, that's when I sit there and question why.

We wuz german snipers in shiet

This is why games need "Character Customization"

the only accurate Faction is the Ottomans because you don't have to diversify an already brown faction.

Battlefield 2 will be set in WW2 and will feature womens on the beach of normandy ,i can see this happening.

50% of the British soldiers in the game are Black when Blacks made up 0% of the British army in Europe during WW1. What a load of BS on Dice's part!

There should not be black men fighting on a German side on the western front in a game set during WWI. It is a nonsensical sight to behold that does history and the genuine black men of WWI a disservice. Black people during this time period were heavily persecuted and would never in a million years have been allowed to bear a German military uniform on the western front. This is sadly the reality of the time period and Dice should have stayed true to that. People will say it is "just a video game", but a movie based on real historical events is "just a movie", and so I wonder what the reaction would be like if suddenly Nelson Mandela was portrayed by a white actor? or if Mary Seacole was played by a white actress? or if suddenly a historically "black event" was whitewashed with an array of white faces? I think black people would have something to say, or at the least, would be surprised. Of course, black people featuring in factions where they make no sense is not the only thing that is historically inaccurate about BF1. For example, people like to point out that many of the guns never saw use in the war, and yes that's true, but for the sake of making the game play "fun" and "varied" (an essential component for any game), prototype weapons needed to be added to the mix. Adding black people to the game in scenarios where they make no logical or historical sense doesn't make the game play more fun. In fact, it's an immersion-breaker to many. If black people were added purely for the sake of inclusion, they should have added a historically correct black faction, like the Nova Scotia No. 2 Construction Battalion, and implemented a story that focused on their fight for equal representation and the contribution they made to the war effort, such as repairing roads, logging and building trenches. That is a historical correct scenario that most people wouldn't have minded. On the contrary in fact, it might even have encouraged people to take more of an interest in the lesser-known roles that black people played during the Great War. Instead, they chose to put a black man on the front cover of the game and basically laugh in the face of history, and in turn at black people's long struggle for equality during that time period. No, black people were not heavily represented during WWI at all, largely due to prejudice, so don't put a black man on your front cover and pretend they weren't. If you want to make a modern shooter where ethnic diversity is a more plausible scenario, go ahead, but not in a WWI shooter where it makes absolutely no sense. The men who fought for Germany on the western front during WWI were white, as were the overwhelming majority (like 99.999%) of allied soldiers. I am sorry if that offends oversensitive people in the 21st century who insist on everything being inclusive, but I am afraid it is simply a fact that black men were nonexistent in the German military on the western front. Facts don't care about people's feelings. A game like Verdun did it correctly. M2H and BlackMill Games made a game based on WWI and put white men in it, because that makes sense...

On behalf of my country, Sweden, i really apologize for the political correctness that was prioritized over authenticity. Some of us REALLY need to learn to keep their political views to them-fucking-selves. If you want a good and pretty well made WW1 game, i STRONGLY recommend taking a look at Verdun. It can be bought on steam (PC) for 23 euro, well worth the money. Dont buy this sellout EA-Political Correctness bullshit. Buy a nice decent GAME, not a political message money maker.

Why does Battlefield 1 not have more transgendered lesbian unicorns on the battlefield?

for me its fine keeping the indian guy in the brittish and black people in freanch and americain army but the rest just should'nt be in there

THE GREAT REPLACEMENT HAS BEGUN.

As a African American I strongly agree that there are to many blacks(indians as well) in the game. If they make a dlc that is set in the African theater of war, I would like them to make the majority of the soldiers African with a mixture of Indians on the British side as they fought extensively in Africa. I wouldn't want to see a bunch of white soldiers fighting in Africa as much as I wouldn't want to see a bunch of black soldiers fighting in Europe, Especially in a WW1 setting. I hope DICE will fix this or at least let us customize our soldier more in a future update.

I'm surprised they didn't put in muslims refugees as the majority of fighters just to be politically correct.

my dad is a huge history buff, when he played his first game he laughed because he spawned in as a black german soldier.

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Why does it seem like none of the bigger KZfaqrs ever mentions this? They just pretend they didn't notice... ... they probablly just ignore the *politically motivated historical revisionism* in order not to make anyone feel uncomfortable!

anyone else dreading the french and russian dlc? I can already tell that every single french soldier will be black and all the russian troops will be women also I wanted to point out that the german piolet and engineer are black as well so with those two plus the scout and cavalry officer that means their are more africans than germans for the german team

There's honestly nothing wrong with being a liberal, but political correctness doesn't have a place in history

Hey, at least it's not like playing as females and black females in the upcoming game Call of Duty: World War 2, regardless if you're a marine or Nazi. Lol

90% of german and britain army are made of blacks in this game lol

It's scary, changing history to be more PC. History is history. Rainbow 6 siege is another example. 1/2 the operators are female. THey are hardened swat like officers who shoot on sight. You just don't see much women at all in those roles let alone 1/2. I'm not saying they cant, I'm just saying women tend to be interested in other lines of work. Like you mentioned, WW1 was a war primarily fought in European countries. It's a dis-service to the people who died to shoehorn in people and races who took very little part in the war.

Why not add aliens and lasers because screw realism right?

Dice love to shit on soliders graves

Think of the Ancient Japanese Samurai? What ethnicity do you think of? That's right Japanese/Oriental/Asia etc. We are all familiar with what they look like. Now imagine if Dice did a game set in this time period. They would change this factual and correct ethnic stereotype to Black People, White People and Even Women? That is how nonsensical this all is. (Edit) Tom Cruise was representing a WHITE AMERICAN. WHITE AMERICANS did go to visit Japan and trade with the Japanese during the Meiji Restoration. Hence the casting choice.

Dice is Swedish? ...that actually explains a lot

The historical point first, that is not racist

And now Battlefield 5 gives us disabled female troopers and everyone immediately defends THAT stunt...

This game is so racist! Why can't you play as an Australian Aboriginal ? I mean it's the current year!!

Yup! When I first saw a BLACK GERMAN SNIPER I was like WTF???? So fucking stupid

Blacks complain about racism and discrimination, yet here's me, an Eastern European, from the Balkans, whose region has ZERO representation in any video games.

It's funny how many people in the comments are replying to this video and quite obviously showing they didn't even watch a minute of it, they just read the description, get outraged, and start throwing around points that are addressed and explained quite plainly in the video.

I want to play as a white soldier... and I'm not even white.

Battlefield 1 is so inaccurate. Everyone knows black soldiers weren't invented until World War II.

The Russian Empire also had one in its ranks. His name is Marcel Pliat, he was a crew member one of the Muromets biplanes. Fortunately, DICE did not know about it.

I still wish that Dice had focused more on World War aspect for diversity. I know WW1 is primarily a European war but even more locations all around the world would do the setting justice. That's why I appreciated including Russian Revolution in Tsar DLC and Middle East maps in base game. Not to mention an African Front DLC would have provided an excellent opportunity to represent blacks. But of course that would take effort, something slapping black soldiers into the German army does not require.

Transgender dlc coming soon

Why so many dislikes ? Trut hurts you or what ??? THATS HISTORY YOU CANT HANGE IT

This dude must've been pissed about BFV lol

WE WUZ IN DA TRENCHAZ N'SHIET

AYO HOL UP! SO YOU BE SAYIN WE WUZ KAIZERZ N SHIEET?!?

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This guy is spitting true fact that DICE messed up big time in trying to be historically accurate.

What is next? Viking fighting Knights and Samurais? Oh, wait...

Pisses me of how none of the big Battlefield youtubers have made a deal of this. They are all scared to call out Dice on this political correctness bullshit. Great video, agreed with every word.

It's not even a racist issue it's a realism issue. When they changed the american assault class in bf3 to a black soldier after the beta I thought it was a really good idea because it actually added to the realism. About 20% of the us army is comprised of african american soldiers. Mathematically they nailed it.

Why weren't there asians put in the German army, Dice? There were German island colonies near Japan, so by your logic it should be entirely plausible to place tons of Asians in the army? What do you hate Asians now?😯

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Wow, I honestly thought I was the only person who found this irritating. When I play as the British I'd prefer to play as an iconic WW1 British soldier but NOPE replace that helmet with a turban.

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5:25 Hey wtf I wanna ride a Zebra in BF1...

We'll soon have a Samurai game with blacks, muslims and latinos lol

Spotting a black German on the western front would be like spotting a four leafed clover. In the middle of no man's land..

Agreed, as a black teen I understand the claim. As a lover of history, I find historical inaccuracy a major downfall within a movie/videogame. But my great great grandfather was a U.S servicemen, this is what caught my attention to watch this video, but since this historically offends europeans, I understand your disappointment. But all the extreme anti black comments OMG!

Scrolling through this comment section is giving me every stage of cancer

I complained about this to EA during alpha testing. made a post about it and pointed out the actual statistics and how few blacks there actually were in the European theater.

And why did nobody complain when we had a black protagonist is GTA: San Andreas? Because it was an artistic choice. He was meant to fit in this specific urban area and into the cultural and temporal landscape. We learned to love CJ and identified as him. The reason people get pissed about it in BF1 is that it feels forced, has been motivated because of a ridiculous political climate and it's purely driven by political agenda, not art.

drive by shootings in tanks and shiet

Werent there literally millions of indians drafted ? I get the black german part but why tf is this dude so mad about the indians

I'm black and I agree it's too many but I don't really give af because it's a game

Im probably not going to buy the game because of this, not supporting a racist studio.

Idea: instead of the medic just being Indian, there should be an entire team called Sepoys where it's just regular bf1 british classes except they are indian, and each time you spawn it swaps to either, for example if you die as a regular british soldier, you respawn as sepoy version and vise versa.

they have mods that can set the races right thank goodness

WE WUZ SOLDAHS N SHIET

i read a book on ww1, i read the index and at the first day of fighting, a black regiment fighting for france, abandoned there post and raped all the nurses. why not pute that in the game, make it acurate.

Imagine if we were watching ZULU DAWN and a bunch of whiteys were scattered amongst the zulus like it was no big deal, all dressed up in feathers and shit. That would be the cringiest shit imaginable. And its the same feeling I get when I see a squad of black German soldiers in France yelling in German like its nothing.

what about they should do this you can make your own soldier and pick your solider's skin color for america and Britain also no black Germans at all. what we can pick are own type of ethnic groups in the Austrian-Hungarian army ethnic groups like Germans Hungarians Czechs Poles Ukrainians Currants Serbs Romanians Slovaks Slovenes and Italians. also we have the Ottoman Empire they had ethnic groups like Anatolian Turks Arabs Armenians Kurds and Syians.

Can't wait for a WWII battlefield with the all black Japanese army

the game is very inaccurate in general

I wish they had maps in the east African front. It would have been better than just sprinkling diversity in the game so the studio can pat it's self on the back

My thoughts exactly. This is very well said. Now that the game has been out for more than a year I also want to add that they made the Russian scout female. There is exactly one example of a woman serving in a combat role on the Eastern front in the Russian army and she had to get special permission from the Tsar. There was a female unit in the White Army during the revolution but this was just one unit. I agree with they should bring back character customization.

Muh diversity. We wuz kangs.

Playing Battlefield 1 is like walking through Detroit.

I'm pleased with the analysis of this video, the title made me a bit nervous! lol

I modded the game to fix his race.

I am a latino and i am not racist but Black People in the Great war Cmon

The French will actually have less black soldiers than Germany ffs DICE! France had 450 000 troops from Africa. Germany had like 5 colonial guys on the Western Front. Yet Germany gets 2 colonial classes (scout + cavalry) and France only 1 (assault). WTF?! 🤤

i love posting the thumbnail and seeing insane reactions

Where your other video I subbed for a long time come on your channel is FRICKEN awsome

I am not a racist in the slightest but you are so damn right! Even as a white man I would be upset if they made a Samurai game with all of the Samurai being white. They should be Japanese!

I am disappointed dice. Where are the asian, women and trans people? Boycott the game :P In all seriousness another ridiculous thing is, that they did include factions like America at the start, but we have yet to see main fighting forces like France or Russia.

It’s funny because when the French army were added there was no black French soldier added

“Why would they put a American on the front cover when try only entered the war in 1917!” The game takes place in 1917 and 1918. Btw the British actually developed face perfection as shown in one of the classes where a soldier is seen wearing eye protection.

*nationalism is good*