He’s currently working on a book tackling every service weapon in World War I, and he also happens to be a huge fan of Battlefield: 1942. Othais runs the YouTube channel C&Rsenal, which does painstakingly researched videos on some of the world’s most famous vintage firearms.

It begs the question: Is DICE portraying the Great War accurately, or are they taking liberties to make the game palatable for those who have grown up playing competitive first-person shooters that don’t involve bayonets and cavalry charges? It was fantastic that a major developer was taking a risk with an underutilized (and tragic) setting like the First World War, but we were curious how they were going to make a fun competitive shooter set in an era before infrared goggles, laser sights or tactical nukes. Everyone had the same reaction when DICE, the studio behind the venerable Battlefield franchise, unveiled Battlefield 1.