Why even open this can of worms? Why slow down game development with a mere cosmetic choice.
Most women that did fight in ww2, did not go to the frontline.
Sure, a small number did fight but why should the game care for that at all? What difference will it make playing a woman compared to playing a man? The number of women that saw frontline action was so abysmally small that it’s pointless to even waste development time on this.
My answer is no, just no. I don’t think it’s a good idea to add them now, nor after release, nor ever.
I promise you that in this type of community you will specifically see players targeting those that look like women, for the sole purpose of T-bagging or laying on the corpses and insinuating rape.
And besides, what would this even accomplish from a cosmetic perspective? I see people saying rare guns and rare vehicles are used in the game, but you can actually see your gun as you use it, and you can feel a difference between the mp41 and a kar98k.
Now what sort of difference would that be when playing a woman? You can’t see your own character, and you have no time to gaze down at your own boobs during a fight.
Playing a woman could certainly be different than playing a man, but do you really want to see that difference implemented? Less stamina, less thrust damage with the knife, slower running speed?
And before anybody calls me sexist, keep in mind all sports are divided between men’s and women’s categories, because every time a man has successfully sneaked as a transgender in a women-only sport, they took all gold medals and had no competition from the other women by a long shot.
I wouldnt do that because im not so misguided to think that my grandad should be featured in a game in which millions and millions of people fought. And not one individual mattered beyond the next.
Indeed, there was millions. 1.7 million of women in soviet army. So probably it will be not a modern trend, just a reality of this war.
At least in Enlisted one women-pilot should be added for sure.
The fact is that the BFV added women to the front, which were not there. I suggest adding women only in correct historical battles. Neither Japanese women-samurai, nor black women in the battle for Norway, nor Rommel’s Asian tankers, and so on.
I am not suggesting catering to the militant feminism of the new wave. Only a historical prototype in a historically precise location.
Most of witch did not serve in front line combat, you might as well argue they need to add NKVD squads to go and team kill people not fully committing to the match.
I think women implemented in a true-to-history manner could make for good advertisement for the game.
It’s usually either no women or too many women, seeing it done right would be cool.
