Some tributes come from official announcements, and some come from the players themselves: the one in Battlefield 1 was the second kind. On November 11, 2018, the centenary of the Armistice that ended the First World War, players in an online match stopped shooting each other at 11 a.m., remembering the “11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month”, when the ceasefire took effect in 1918.
The moment was recorded on an Australian server, at 11 a.m. Melbourne time, and the video spread after being shared by DICE’s Jan David Hassel on Twitter: “This is the 100-year anniversary of the end of the First World War. At the 11th hour we stopped fighting,” he wrote. “Battlefield 1 players stop shooting each other to commemorate the end of the First World War.”
https://twitter.com/JanDavidHassel/status/1061598282177224704
What stands out is the chosen place. Battlefield 1, released by DICE and EA in October 2016, is set precisely in the First World War, and the scene of soldiers standing still, in silence, in a setting that recreates that conflict, has a force no trailer could. A nice detail: nobody at DICE organized anything; the idea came from the community itself, and most respected it.
Not everyone, of course. A biplane flew past firing and the player who was filming ended up stabbed in the back by another participant, who later apologized. Even so, the tribute stood as a rare example of a shooter used to remember the real cost of a war, and not just to recreate it.
What came next
A few days later, on November 20, 2018, DICE released Battlefield V, set in World War II. What remains is the memory of that November 11, a reminder that an online match can also hold a minute of silence.
Source: Eurogamer.
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