I've been hearing people who are into WW2 history, fucking hate it for the multitude of inaccuracies.
There is a lot of that all over. After reading d day from a German point of view, it brings it all to real. For example, people being shot to shit as they try to leave the transport as soon as the gate draws down. This never happened. They were trained to shoot when they were OUT of the transport in waist deep water. And they did that. Because they were short on fucking everything at this point.
The book is amazing because it’s true. They even call out American films. Which I would assume was “the longest day” with John Wayne. Cool thing is, I was there and got to see it in July. All that shit is still there. As well as read the books about people being interviewed by his great grandfather while he was a propagandist for a Wehrmacht press, and actually visualizing the places they are at as I saw one gun battery a guy was talking about.
Pretty epic shit. Those people were just like us. Hell, even in band of brothers shifty talked about “I don’t think we hated the Germans per se. we could have been good friends. He might of liked to fish, I may have liked to hunt”.
They didn’t know the evil a lot of the times. They heard rumors. They were programmed. A lot were blinded. They looked at france as a unified Europe and their sovereignty was beinf attacked. Pretty crazy stuff. But a couple developers went to Bastogne, and the Ardennes, and wanted to get it visually correct at least. For that, kudos. The rest has always been about a lot of BS. My great uncle was there. Landed after on Omaha. Never got to let the guy. My dad let me see his letter explaining how he won a silver star and Purple Heart though when he held a bunker by himself when all his friends were killed and he knocked off 13 Germans. Pretty epic to know my own bloodline was a part of that. He died later before I was born. He drank himself to death.
Anyway. I still like playing the SP because it’s a good story and in 4K hdr it’s epic as far as graphics go. I’m sure there are thousands of small stories no one knows about. To call something historically inaccurate, (not you. The author) while in the same breath pronably doesn’t denounce saving private Ryan in the same breath is pretty amusing.
Come to the book thread and read the d day book we are talking about. Puts a whole new perspective in things.