♪ (ragtime music) ♪
♪ (upbeat video game music) ♪
♪ (action music) ♪
- Oh, Battlefield 1!
We're gonna be shooting somebody, for sure.
- (FBE) A while back, you reacted to the trailer for this game,
where we told you you were probably going to play
this World War I shooter eventually.
Well, today is that day.
- I see, because I've seen this before, here in the studio.
- Was that the gory one where all the heads were being cut off?
- (FBE) Mm-hm. - Oh god.
It was horrible, absolutely horrible.
- (FBE) You'll be playing the game mode "Conquest,"
in which you and 63 other people fight to control
multiple strategic points across a massive map.
- I just hope they don't curse me out.
- It sounds a little daunting.
- They're going to wipe the floor with me!
- If I can figure out those buttons, somebody is going down!
- "Capture and hold the flags."
- "Massive all-out war: hold the majority of flags
and eliminate enemy troops to win."
- I'm the new recruit in town.
- This is moving to the left, and this is-- oh, this is going down?
- (soldier) Keep it going, boys! - Hard to center it.
- I don't see anybody. Let's see, where...
I guess I have to go further forward.
- (voice-over)...has arrived. (gunshots)
- I'm down already.
(rapid gunfire) - To the right. Whoops.
(laughing)
- So what it was-- "you versus foe: 0-1."
Oh my god, mine died already.
I don't know what I'm doing.
- (FBE) The red letters are the flags that you need to capture and defend.
That's your objective.
- Okay, and now the blue one is mine.
- The flags, where can I find the flags?
- Get those flags over there, okay.
Follow that bayonet, you idiot!
- That's the only way to go through here.
No, no, no, no, no, back.
(soldier barking orders) Go through here, okay.
Oh, this is like a maze.
(shooting)
- Ay, he hit me!
So I'm dead now?
He's going to run over me. (anxiously) Oh!
- How do I capture them?
- (FBE) Yep, so if you hit X right now, you're going to load onto the map.
- Oh, oh, I see.
And now I bring it back to my base or something?
- (FBE) You just have to hold the area.
- Oh. (explosion)
I have absolutely no idea who I'm holding it from.
- (FBE) See that flag going up right in front-- oh.
- Yeah. - (FBE) Yeah, that's a control point.
- Did I just get killed?
Okay, and I'm back. Okay.
All right. - (FBE) Oh, you're in a tank now.
- So I'm in a tank?
(firing)
Okay, there's someone around here somewhere.
I hear fire.
- Flag, flag, where are you?
Aah! (laughing)
Ay yi yi, Josie, you just can't be a fighter, you know?
Oh-oh, there's a flag.
I wish I could be an expert on this because it's fun.
I really, really like it.
(firing) (enemy moans)
- Did I get something? No. (laughing)
(laughing)
Where is it?
- This B, how come I'm not hitting-- I guess I have to go back further.
Did I just get a [inaudible]?
(firing) - There.
I shot-- I had that guy right in my sights, and mean 100%.
(firing)
And nothing's happening. - (FBE) That's not an enemy.
That's a control point you need to capture.
- Oh, well, then what-- - (soldier) There's one over there!
- What is the point of what I'm doing?
Uh-oh, I got shot.
- Great graphics. It's awesome.
Oh, barbed wire? That does not bother me!
I wear it around my feet for traction!
- Trying to get that, uh, one there.
- (FBE) Now you just captured that point.
- Oh, okay, oh, that's good.
- I see a target. They're running away from me.
- (FBE) The little blue dots mean it's, uh, a teammate.
- Oh, that was a teammate? - (FBE) Yep.
- Oh, really?
You mean to tell me I've been using friendly fire the whole time?
(firing)
Ay! He killed me again.
I know now the secret. - (FBE) What's that?
- I should go really fast and then shoot at it right away.
- There's some rocks. There's more rocks.
There's more rocks.
Oops, oops, oops, oops, oops!
Is that my friend?
- (FBE) I think that's your friend, yep.
- Oh, then I don't won't shoot my friend.
- Wait a minute, that's a German flag!
That's my flag!
I'd better protect it then.
Jawohl. Ja! (speaking German)
(speaking German aggressively)
- I'm trying to get the, uh, technique of this
and I feel like I'm doing a better job.
The more I feel like I have a little bit of talent,
the more interested I am in the game.
All of my moral complaints about hurting people
or something like that are kind of not in the picture right now.
"Deploy armored train." A train is coming through there?
(train whistle blows)
Where would a train come through that?
I wouldn't think there'd be any tracks left.
- (voice-over) We have an armored train on route.
- I know, I can hear it.
Don't kill me, please. You did kill me.
Oh, Josie, you're getting old.
- Okay, so now I'm on the train.
Now, okay, I just let the train go and I try to look for bad guys?
Okay, there it is. So shoot-- shoot the bad guys.
I'm way up in the air. I'm flying!
- Where's my gun? I don't even know where my--
Do I have a gun? I don't seem to have one anymore.
I guess I'm just doing the train.
(firing)
Oh, I see, it's a turret on the train.
I didn't-- (scoffs) I just got blown up.
- (voice-over) We have taken Objective...
- Okay, so now I'm up-- it looks like an attic.
Are we hiding?
- Oh my god, I'm flying?
But who am I trying to get?
Oh. (laughing)
- Gee. Ooh.
(plane instruments going haywire)
Oh, is that-- oh no, no! (laughing)
I was just going to say, that is cool.
(firing)
- They hit me again, I think.
It's really affecting me,
like I'm the one that's being really hit. (laughing)
- (voice-over) We have lost Objective George.
- Do you mean E? - (FBE) You just captured it.
You just captured a flag.
- I did?
Seems I didn't do anything.
- I guess you really have to spend a lot of time doing these games
to know what you're doing, and... I don't know if that many is left.
- I don't see any flags.
- "Defeat?!" It means I lost?
- "Defeat." Oh.
- "Defeat."
- I guess I'm defeated.
- "Victory." Somebody took them down.
Was that me?
- Oh, I just got defeated.
So which one-- - (FBE) You were the German side.
You were the left one.
I was the left guy? No wonder I lost!
I should lose.
- "Defeat."
I captured 31 flags? - (FBE) No, the other team did.
- Oh. (laughing)
I think that it might take me several years to learn it.
- Oh no, did I die again?
- (FBE) No, your team lost. - I can see why.
I was on it. (laughing)
- I liked this.
Of all the games that you've asked me to play,
this was the best.
- This much action, it threw me off at first
because I don't think of World War I as having this much action in it.
- Most of the kids probably don't even know
what the hell World War I is.
My impression of the war, I think of trenches,
and people being hungry, and people being wet.
Here, they were just running around.
- I could see where that game could be really terrifically exciting,
especially if you were effective,
but I wasn't very confident most of the time.
- Battlefield 1 is number one.
If I could play it again, for, like, 15 hours,
I could maybe shoot somebody except me. (laughing)
- Thanks for watching this episode of Elders Gaming
on the React channel.
- What games should we play next? Let us know in the comments.
- Definitely more explosions here than in history class.
Bye, everyone.
- Hey everybody, Derek here, a producer from the React channel.
Look, I don't have time to talk right now.
Apparently, there's donuts in the break room.