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To say that people were annoyed about EA leaving the French out of Battlefield 1's multiplayer is really something of an understatement. The French army played a huge part in World War 1 and many people felt it was unfair to carve them out of history and serve them up as premium DLC at a later date.Speaking to IGN France, DICE's Julien Wera asserted the decision to make the French forces into DLC was about getting it right, saying "To really do justice to the French army in multiplayer and, once again, to show a side that we're not used to seeing, we have chosen to dedicate an entire premium expansion with special treatment after the launch of the game."
With four brand new maps, two new Operations, a new game mode named Frontlines, a new tank gun, an intimidating new Behemoth, a new Trench Raider class and a host of new infantry weapons modeled on real life French weaponry, it looks like Julien Wera wasn't wrong about the expansion receiving extra attention.
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