The game takes place on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, in one of the bloodiest conflicts in world history - inspired by the infamous Battle of Verdun in 1916. Verdun is the first multiplayer FPS set in a realistic World War One setting, the game which started the WW1 Game. Verdun developer will plant 2500 real trees to celebrate this year's 'Christmas truce' event. By Andy Chalk news The 2018 in-game event, recreating the famed truce of 1914, begins tomorrow.
VerdunM2HBlackmill GamesM2HBlackmill GamesReleaseMicrosoft Windows, OS X, Linux28 April 2015PlayStation 430 August 2016Xbox One8 March 2017Mode(s)Verdun is a squad-based multiplayer set during. It was released on 28 April 2015 on, after more than a year in Steam Early Access. It was released for on 30 August 2016. An version was released on 8 March 2017. A standalone expansion was released into Steam Early Access on 16 November 2017, and left Early Access for a full release on 13 February 2019.Verdun is inspired by the 1916 in France. The game includes historically accurate World War I weapons, authentic uniforms and equipment, detailed injury and gore modeling, and maps based on the real battlefields of the Western Front.The game runs on the and was created by M2H and Blackmill Games. Contents.Gameplay Verdun is a realistic, tactical squad based game set in the trenches of World War I that can be played with up to 64 players (with 32 on each side).Squads typically consist of 4 players, each with a unique role that is also typically made up of a squad leader called an NCO, and three roles dependent on the nation and type of squad selected.
Squads can level up by helping the team, i. Killing enemies, capturing sectors etc. Gaining bonus abilities and upgrades on their preexisting abilities like accuracy, suppression etc. You may rename your squad and change its type.NCOs can call in support abilities like, and They can also call in more passive abilities to enhance the abilities of their squadmates, like ones helping them resist enemy or enemy recon more effectively. NCOs can typically carry a self-loading pistol or revolver and melee weapons such as.
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Other members of the squad typically use plenty of bolt-action rifles, plenty of bayonets and melee weapons, grenades, revolvers, semi automatic rifles, machine guns, SMGs depending on the type of unit and the real life availability of those kinds of weapons to them and such.Suppression affects player aiming and vision, by violently tilting the camera view to simulate a soldier's bobbing and weaving out of fire or reactions to almost being shot. Bombs and artillery also suppress the player a lot, making it harder for them to aim steady while being shot at. Players can kneel and prone and also climb on the parapets of trenches to see and shoot at incoming players better.
Environments usually have little cover and plenty of craters made by small artillery between two sectors.There are 4 game modes: Frontlines, Attrition Warfare, Squad Defense and Rifle Deathmatch.Game modes Frontlines The players can choose to join one of the two historic sides of World War I, the and the. Each side fights over a turn-based frontline map, that consists of multiple trenches called sectors that can be captured by either side.
Staying true to the typical of that time, both sides attack and counter-attack each other in turn, so you will be forced to defend each captured sector of trenches. The goal is to capture the enemy's HQ sector or win more points than the enemy team in order to win the game. Points are gained by capturing a sector, or by retaking a sector in a counter-attack. Players have to maintain momentum in an attack, by dying as little as possible and managing to get as many people in the enemy sector as possible for as long as it is manageable.If an attack on a sector loses too much momentum, that is too many teammates die or do not reach the sector, the attack is called off and the enemy commences a counter-attack on their sector in return.
As opposed to Tannenberg, there is not a certain amount of tickets both teams have, but rather only momentum and timelimits to capture a sector.Squad Defense Squad Defense is a cooperative game mode where players fight off endless waves of attacks by AI controlled soldiers in one of the 12, 4-man squads. This game mode can be played on the same maps available in the Frontlines game mode. This mode is the only one that can be played offline.
Rifle Deathmatch In Rifle Deathmatch, players fight in a battle, armed only with one of the rifles and add-ons they can choose from when joining the game. This is a skill-based game-mode, where marksmanship and tactical cunning are rewarded.
Players can earn experience and Career Points by killing other players, and with the Career Points can level up their rifles, gaining extra accessories for it, such as a or scope. Development Verdun entered on 9 June 2013. It was Steam Greenlit on 28 June 2013 and entered Steam Early Access on 19 September 2013. After more than a year in Steam Early Access, it was released on 28 April 2015 on. The developers have continued working on the game, releasing free expansions.On 14 July 2016, the Verdun page uploaded a trailer announcing that the game would be available for and set for a 30 August 2016, release.
However, on 24 August 2016, the game's developer announced that the Xbox One version of Verdun would be delayed while the PlayStation 4's release date would be on schedule. It was released for PlayStation 4 on 30 August 2016, and on Xbox One on 8 March 2017.In 2019 large updates were announced for the console versions of the game. The Xbox update was released first on 5 December 2019, with the PlayStation 4 update following on 20 December 2019. The free updates (called Verdun remastered) added content to the console versions of the game which had until then only been released on PC, including bot support, new squads, a new map, and various graphical updates and sound improvements.Reception ReceptionAggregate scoreAggregatorScorePC: 70/100PS4: 55/100. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
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