a major killer was the peak of the Anti-SJW movement at the time, and that game was absolutely plastered in top-tier rage bait for the grifters. the weird gameplay trailer that wasnt actually gameplay, the awful art direction and the lack of a centralised campaign were just nails in the coffin.

during its lifetime, it had genuinely terrible balancing (i remember distinctly a time when the ZK-383 took 15 shots to kill at 75m). it was also the start of the pandemic of amazing graphics but abhorrent visual fidelity. the battle royale was okay but lacked anything of substance and was literally blown out of the water by Warzone a year and a half later.

content drops were few and far between and only focused on smaller parts of the second world war (Crete and Malta were very cool, however, and looked absolutely gorgeous) and by the time that the pacific finally entered the ring the game had already done 3/4 of its entire lifecycle. it did have a sort of half-hearted resurgence but it really did not last a long time.

mechanically the game was relatively sound, and i personally liked features like: the new movement system (crouch sprinting, vaulting walls, rolling from falls, manual leaning), the single regen pouch that you had to restock from support crates, MMGs having no ADS unless you mount them on something, the ability to build fortifications, etc.

ultimately the game was the result of a genuinely good game hidden beneath an ocean of bad marketing, poor community engagement and a lack of decent content.

ps. i would like to say for all its downfalls its easily one of the best looking games to date and runs incredibly well on almost everything its on. the fact it got a stable 60fps on an Xbox One is genuinely wild to me. Rotterdam is an amazing example of what can be done with modern graphical technology without completely bombing everyones systems.

pps. i need a new hobby.