History VideoGame / BattlefieldV

* RegeneratingHealth: Averted in multi-player; you regenerate a small amount of health passively, but you need to apply bandages (which come in limited quantities) to completely heal your injuries.

* {{Unperson}}: Deme and his Tiralleur units are covered up from the picture.

** You can attach reflex sights to several different guns from both sides of the war, including the STG. The first reflex sight for a small arm (not one meant for in a plane) was the [[https://www.forgottenweapons.com/nydar-reflex-sight/ Nydar]], patented and released in late September of 1945, after the war was already over. It was meant for hunting shotguns, was quite expensive, somewhat fragile, and was never all that popular.

* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** Like in ''Film/DasBoot'', it's surprising to learn the very true fact that the German military gained a fondness for "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" back in WWI that carried forward to WWII.
** The elite multiplayer PC Wilhelm Tannstedt wears what the community derisively coined a "Phantom of the Opera mask." In actuality, it's a reconstructive face mask created during WWI to cover disfgurement. They were originally painted but [[ShownTheirWork the paint was discovered to only last about 20 years, ie. right around WWII, before chipping away.]]

* RareGuns: It wouldn't be a ''Battlefield'' game without some of these.
** One available self-loading rifle for the Assault kit is Russell Turner's self-loading conversion for the Lee-Enfield rifle, which never went past the experimental phase.
** An even worse offender is said kit's starting weapon, the already rare Gustloff Volkssturmgewehr, and not just ANY Volkssturmgewehr, but the extremely rare select-fire variant that may or may not have actually existed!
** The Support kit can use the M30 Drilling shotgun. A high quality [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination_gun combination gun]] with two shotgun barrels and a rifle barrel, it was issued as a self-defense weapon to the German Luftwaffe. However, it was very expensive to make and [[AwesomeButImpractical not very useful]]; thus only 2,500 were produced.
** The FG-42 only had a total production run of around 7,000. This was due to a combination of factors: [[MadeOfPlasticine extreme fragility]], an overpowered round, and its too-light weight. Notably, on full-auto it was known for literally ''shaking itself apart''.

It follows on from its predecessor, ''VideoGame/Battlefield1'', and is set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII once again after ''VideoGame/Battlefield1942'', ''Battlefield 1943'', and ''VideoGame/BattlefieldHeroes'' previously covered that era. The development team placed emphasis on the campaign focusing on the [[TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold "untold stories"]] of World War II. A battle-royale mode called "Firestorm" was also introduced into the game, featuring unique vehicles, level destruction and a literal ring of fire that slowly engulfs the play area until one team is left standing.

* TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold: One of the "untold stories" in the campaign takes place in [[UsefulNotes/NorwegiansWithNoAmmo Norway]] during the German invasion in 1940, a rather seldom-seen theater of the war in video games, though the military action the campaign is based on, Operation Gunnerside, was actually covered several years earlier by the Polish [=WW2=] shooter ''Enemy Front''. Ironically for claiming it as an "untold story", the depiction in ''V'' is ''extremely'' inaccurate, portraying the attacks on the facilities as being carried out by the Norwegian resistance, when they were actually carried out by British-trained Norwegian commandos inserted from outside the country[[note]]They actually purposefully left equipment behind for the Germans to find to make sure they knew it was the work of commandos and not the resistance, to avoid reprisals[[/note]]. Several of the commandos did stay behind after the operation to assist the resistance, and a resistance cell led by one of them was responsible for sinking the SF ''Hydro'' and its cargo of heavy water. Meaning that the "untold story" failed to actually tell the story in question.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** In "Tiralleur",[[spoiler: the French-Senegalese soldiers managed to secure a route to German Headquarters since they were deployed in an area where they would never be expected to come and defenses were light enough for them to secure. Another reality hits when they took heavy losses against the Germans who were well-equipped and well-trained even with smaller numbers. Even when the Senegalese were proven to be tenacious enough to take the base, only three of the entire company survived to take the headquarters with most of the occupants being wounded patients.]]
** "Under No Flag" has a moment where [[spoiler: Billy Bridger radioed to the nearby Royal Navy ship for extraction. Unfortunately, he did it inside a German compound with their radio that caused the nearby units to react. Even Mason give WhatTheHellHero to Bridger for his [[NiceJobBreakingItHero well-meaning mistake]].]]
** In "The Last Tiger", [[spoiler:no matter how hard Müller and his crew fight, they're simply only a single Tiger tank against the entire might of the US Army. While Müller is able to hold his own, the rest of the German army crumbles and retreats across Rhine, leaving Müller and his crew behind.]]

*** [[TanksButNoTanks Vehicle-wise]], they are also using British [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T17E1_Staghound T17E1 Staghound]] armored cars, whereas the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M8_Greyhound M8 Greyhound]] would have made much more sense.

* DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment: One of the weapons added during ''Tides of War'' is a Carcano [=M91=] TS carbine with the [=M28=] ''Trombocino'' grenade launcher affixed to the right side of the barrel. Its in-game name is ''M28 con Trombocino'', meaning "M28 with Trombocino", implying that the grenade launcher is attached to itself.

* RealityEnsues:
** In "Tiralleur",[[spoiler: the French-Senegalese soldiers managed to secure a route to German Headquarters since they were deployed in an area where they would never be expected to come and defenses were light enough for them to secure. Another reality hits when they took heavy losses against the Germans who were well-equipped and well-trained even with smaller numbers. Even when the Senegalese were proven to be tenacious enough to take the base, only three of the entire company survived to take the headquarters with most of the occupants being wounded patients.]]
** "Under No Flag" has a moment where [[spoiler: Billy Bridger radioed to the nearby Royal Navy ship for extraction. Unfortunately, he did it inside a German compound with their radio that caused the nearby units to react. Even Mason give WhatTheHellHero to Bridger for his [[NiceJobBreakingItHero well-meaning mistake]].]]
** In "The Last Tiger", [[spoiler:no matter how hard Müller and his crew fight, they're simply only a single Tiger tank against the entire might of the US Army. While Müller is able to hold his own, the rest of the German army crumbles and retreats across Rhine, leaving Müller and his crew behind.]]

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Aside from the mandatory NoSwastikas, the multiplayer customization has shades of this. Characters of all races appear fighting side-by-side (at least in the Allies-- the German side only has white characters) in a time where people were segregated into colored regiments and different units. Women(let alone women of color,) are also seen fighting in the front lines in equal capacity and in uniform when historically the only notable female combatants in World War II were mobilized women in the Soviet Red Army, in the British [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive Special Operations Executive]] and the various partisan forces in Europe.

''Battlefield V'' is a FirstPersonShooter in DICE's ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'' series.

It follows on from its predecessor, ''VideoGame/Battlefield1'', and is set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII once again after ''VideoGame/Battlefield1942'', ''Battlefield 1943'', and ''VideoGame/BattlefieldHeroes'' previously covered that era. For that matter, the development team has placed emphasis on the fact that the campaign will focus on the [[TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold "untold stories"]] of World War II. A battle-royale mode called "Firestorm" was also introduced into the game, featuring unique vehicles, level destruction and a literal ring of fire that slowly engulfs the play area until one team is left standing.

* TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold: One of the "untold stories" in the campaign takes place in [[UsefulNotes/NorwegiansWithNoAmmo Norway]] during the German invasion in 1940, a rather seldom-seen theater of the war in video games, though the military action the campaign is based on, Operation Gunnerside, was actually covered several years earlier by the Polish [=WW2=] shooter ''Enemy Front''.
* HateSink: [[TheNeidermeyer Schröder]] in ''The Last Tiger'' manages to be the most loathsome character in a ''Battlefield'' game. His [[PrinciplesZealot blind devotion to Naziism]] endangers the entire tank crew and [[spoiler: ultimately gets them all killed when they attempt to surrender]].

* TheEnemyWeaponsAreBetter: Averted in the campaign in regards to the bolt-action rifles; the Allied Lee-Enfield has a much better rate of fire and double the clip size compared to the Axis Kar98k, while doing comparable damage. This is very much TruthInTelevision. Played straight with the [=STG=] 44 (the famous sturmgewehr assault rifle), which has better range and damage than submachine guns and better control than machine guns, which the Allies are mostly limited to (the closest Allied equivalent, the M1907, has a lower mag size and less control).

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Aside from the mandatory NoSwastikas, the multiplayer customization has shades of this. Characters of all races appear fighting side-by-side (at least in the Allies-- the German side only has white characters) in a time where people were segregated into colored regiments and different units. Females (let alone women of color,) are also seen fighting in the front lines in equal capacity and in uniform when historically the only notable female combatants in World War II were mobilized women in the Soviet Red Army, in the British [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive Special Operations Executive]] and the various partisan forces in Europe.

** Like in Film/DasBoot, it's surprising to learn the very true fact that the German military gained a fondness for "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" back in WWI that carried forward to WWII.