History VideoGame / Verdun

** The British get Tommies (Line Infantry), Highlanders (Specialists with a focus on Recon), Canadians (Specialists with a focus on gas attacks), and ANZACs (Engineers).

** The British get Tommies (Line Infantry), Highlanders (Specialists with a focus on Recon) and Canadians (Specialists with a focus on gas attacks).

Verdun is a historical FPS game produced by two independent game developers, Blackmill Games and M-2-H Games Studio. The setting is the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI First World War]] in which players fight each other as members of one of the various factions during the conflict. Set entirely on the western front, it tries to recreate the scenario of trench warfare as it was during that time.

The game was in development by Blackmill Games for much of 2014 and was released on the 28th of April, 2015 after a year in Steam early access. The developers are still working on quite a few aspects of the game. A free expansion, ''Horrors of War'', which adds a gore mechanic, as well as new squads, was released in March 2016.

The initial release featured French, British, Canadian and German squads. The expansion added Belgians, Americans and a few more German squads. Eventually the Scottish Highlanders were added too.

The name for the game was taken from the infamous [[TitleDrop Battle of Verdun]] and for the most part is extremely realistic. It is also infamous for being [[NintendoHard pretty hard.]]

Standalone expansion focusing on the Eastern Front of World War I called called ''Tannenberg'' was announced in May 25th, 2017. It features a more open-ended and larger map design compared to the base game to reflect the more mobile nature of the war compared to the Western Front's trench warfare. The expansion went into Early Access on November 16th 2017.

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*** [[EliteMooks Stoßtrupp]] - Providentiae Memor! (Minidful of providence!)

*** [[EliteMooks Stoßtrupp]] - Providentiae Memor! (Remembering providence!)

* BottomlessMagazines: Thoroughly averted. If you run out of ammo, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck you're screwed.]] Almost every rifle bar the French Lebel and the Commonwealth's Lee-Enfields holds just five rounds at the most: teams with Anglo-Canadian squads are capable of a noticeably higher volume of rifle fire. Sub-and light machine guns, while very powerful, are extremely slow to reload and deplete their magazines and ammo stocks frighteningly fast. Especially if you change your specialization to carry a rifle instead of a pistol & Machine Gun ammunition.

* BottomlessMagazines: Thoroughly averted. If you run out of ammo, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck you're screwed.]] Every rifle bar the Commonwealth's Lee-Enfields holds just five rounds: teams with Anglo-Canadian squads are capable of a noticeably higher volume of rifle fire. Sub-and light machine guns, while very powerful, are extremely slow to reload and deplete their magazines and ammo stocks frighteningly fast. Especially if you change your specialization to carry a rifle instead of a pistol & Machine Gun ammunition.

* BattleCry: Each squad has it's own.

*** [[LegionOfLostSouls Chasseurs Alpins]] - Sidi Brahim!

* AwesomeButImpractical: The gas shelling. While very good at incapacitating the enemy, it's effects are the same for your troops as well, resulting in the encumbrance of using gas masks, or die a miserable death by poisoning.

* YetAnotherStupidDeath: Oh, boy. In ''Verdun'', 'suicide' comes in many forms.

*** [[TheEngineer Sturmpioneer]] - Anker Wirf! (Grapple - Throw !) [[note]]Comes from them originally being siege engineers trained to scale obstacles by means of grapple hooks[[/note]]

*** [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Highlanders]] - In My Defens God Me Defend!

*** [[UsefulNotes/PrussiansInPickelhauben Schutzen]] - Furchtlos und Treu! (Fearless and True!)
*** [[UsefulNotes/TheSoundOfMartialMusic Sturmpioneer]] - Anker Wirf! (Grapple - Throw !) [[note]]Comes from them originally being siege engineers trained to scale obstacles by means of grapple hooks[[/note]]
*** [[UsefulNotes/TheSoundOfMartialMusic Stoßtrupp]] - Providentiae Memor! (Remembering providence!)

Standalone expansion focusing on the Eastern Front of World War I called called ''Tannenberg'' was announced in May 25th, 2017. It features a more open-ended and larger map design compared to the base game to reflect the more mobile nature of the war compared to the Western Front's trench warfare. The expansion was released November 16th 2017.

Standalone expansion focusing on the Eastern Front of World War I called called ''Tannenberg'' was announced in May 25th, 2017. It features a more open-ended and larger map design compared to the base game to reflect the more mobile nature of the war compared to the Western Front's trench warfare. The expansion is set to be released at some point in 2017.

Verdun is a MMOFPS game produced by two independent game developers, Blackmill Games and M-2-H Games Studio. The setting is the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI First World War]] in which players fight each other as members of one of the various factions during the conflict. Set entirely on the western front, it tries to recreate the scenario of trench warfare as it was during that time.

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Oh, boy. In ''Verdun'', 'suicide' comes in many forms.
** Moving without looking out for barbed wire. "Suicide - [[HelloInsertNameHere (Player)]] was cut down by wire!", -15 points.
** Moving without paying attention to the edges of the map. "Desertion - [[HelloInsertNameHere (Player)]] was executed for desertion!", -15 points.
** Moving in a straight line directly towards the enemy.
** Moving in a straight line at a constant speed.
** Moving in the open when nobody else is around to draw enemy fire.
** Popping up in the same place twice.
** Standing atop any kind of rise or hill.
** Standing, crouching, crawling, or walking in the open.
** Standing anywhere the enemy could possibly see you - [[HighlyConspicuousUniform especially when you are wearing Franco-Belgian 'shoot me' blue.]]
** Exposing yourself to anything more than a tiny left-right sliver of the battlefield at once.
** Firing from the same place twice.
** Firing from a bunker (see above).
** Keeping your NCO in the forward-most trench.
** 'Taking cover' behind a tree.
** Ordering a bombardment/throwing a grenade without taking a moment to make sure that it will land where you want it to. [[EpicFail And not on that lone tree/fencepost/trench wall a metre in front of you.]]

* YetAnotherStupidDeath: Getting killed by wire is as common as it is annoying and, to the veteran, embarrassing.

* KillItWithFire: The ''Flammenwerfer'' squaddie will do this. Of course, if he isn't careful, [[TooDumbToLive he might die with it too.]] Two of the [=NCOs=] can call in white phosphorus.

* TooDumbToLive: Oh, boy. In ''Verdun'', 'suicide' comes in many forms.
** Moving without looking out for barbed wire. "Suicide - [[HelloInsertNameHere (Player)]] was cut down by wire!", -15 points.
** Moving without paying attention to the edges of the map. "Desertion - [[HelloInsertNameHere (Player)]] was executed for desertion!", -15 points.
** Moving in a straight line directly towards the enemy.
** Moving in a straight line at a constant speed.
** Moving in the open when nobody else is around to draw enemy fire.
** Popping up in the same place twice.
** Standing atop any kind of rise or hill.
** Standing, crouching, crawling, or walking in the open.
** Standing anywhere the enemy could possibly see you - [[HighlyConspicuousUniform especially when you are wearing Franco-Belgian 'shoot me' blue.]]
** Exposing yourself to anything more than a tiny left-right sliver of the battlefield at once.
** Firing from the same place twice.
** Firing from a bunker (see above).
** Keeping your NCO in the forward-most trench.
** [[WhatAnIdiot 'Taking cover' behind a tree.]]
** Ordering a bombardment/throwing a grenade without taking a moment to make sure that it will land where you want it to. [[EpicFail And not on that lone tree/fencepost/trench wall a metre in front of you.]]

Verdun is a MMOFPS game produced by two independent game developers, Blackmill Games and M-2-H Games Studio. The setting is the [[WorldWarOne First World War]] in which players fight each other as members of one of the various factions during the conflict. Set entirely on the western front, it tries to recreate the scenario of trench warfare as it was during that time.

Standalone expansion focusing on the Eastern Front of World War I called called ''Tannenberg'' was announced in May 25th, 2017. It features a more open-ended and larger map design compared to the base game to reflect the more mobile nature of the war compared to the Western Front's trench warface. The expansion is set to be released at some point in 2017.

* BraggingRightsReward: Medals are awarded if a player or their squad [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs (or both)]] did well. They have no real function beyond adding flavour and looking nice.

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* MoreDakka: The Machine Guns in the game have absurdly high rates of fire. [[RealityEnsues They are quite inaccurate when fired from the hip]], however, and must be emplaced for maximum effect. Have one pointing at a chokepoint, and...well.

* NintendoHard: Most of the guns are bolt-action rifles. The slow fire rate, plus range, ensures that it's a mix of skill, luck and a twitchy finger to shoot (and hit) the enemy. And there are so many ways you can die, and are guaranteed to. Surviving with 10 kills and no deaths nets an [[BraggingRightsReward achievement.]]
* OneBulletClips: Played straight, though there are many weapons aren't capable of this.

** 'Taking cover' behind a tree.
** Ordering a bombardment/throwing a grenade without taking a moment to make sure that it will land where you want it to. And not on that lone tree/fencepost/trench wall a metre in front of you.

* VideoGameFlamethrowersSuck: Played Straight, the flamethrower has a ridiculously short range of about 5 meters outside of which it's completely useless. In addition to this the flamethrower is the only weapon in the game which has a trigger delay, meaning that you can only fire the weapon about half a second after pressing the fire button, the flames completely block your view when you are firing the weapon and even simply firing the flamethrower is a great way of giving away your position to everyone on the map. Simply put flamethrower is an extremely situational weapon and generally it's just better to stick to your carbine or pistol if you are in the unfortunate position of having to play as a Flammenwerfer trooper.

The initial release featured French, British, Canadian and German squads. The expansion added Belgians, Americans and a few more German squads. Eventually the Scottish were added too.

The initial release featured French, British, Canadian and German squads. The expansion added Belgians, Americans and a few more German squads.

*** [[UsefulNotes/TheSoundOfMartialMusic Stoßtrupp]] - Providentiae Memor! (Providence remember!)

* AnachronismStew: Since the uniform changes are tied to squad progression and weapons to personal progression, it can be entirely normal to see, for example, a French soldier dressed in [[BlingOfWar a deep blue double-breasted tunic and bright red trousers]] using a semi-automatic rifle only issued towards the end of the war.