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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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The game has a period setting, and in most respects, it takes great care to respect and evoke that setting. An alternate history WW2 with sci-fi
elements was a good way to freshen up the FPS genre, and in terms of costumes, settings (as in your own work) and character development it's very
successful.
When it comes to weapon's design tho, I think the designers missed a trick. This weapon is a case in point. There isn't a single postwar element to its
design. It has rails, polymer furniture, an advanced, adjustable, compact optic, adjustable stock, a modern fire selector and flash hider. Even it's
lines are decidedly modern. It's a fantastic design, for something like Crysis 2, but in the postwar era every aspect of it is anachronistic.
WW2 encompassed an unprecedented evolution in small arms technology. The advances the Germans and Soviets made, tested in the crucible of the Eastern
Front, would lay the foundations for the next 60 years of design, in the West as well as in the Soviet sphere of influence, but the aesthetic was still
for the most part very traditional. Where newer materials and construction methods were used, it was usually as a cost-saving measure. There is a very
particular character to postwar design, sometimes referred to with the label "dieselpunk" and heavily featuring blued steel, stamped metal, riveted
construction, wooden or bakelite imitation wooden furniture, a practical "no frills" design philosophy (the opposite of the pick & mix rail attachment
SOPMOD style prevalent now)
While relatively compact, detachable optics were beginning to be developed, (and issued fairly widely by the Germans) a standardised rail attachment system was decades away. The assault rifle had already been invented and its dominance proven, but in appearance they still resembled the previous generation of repeating rifles and machine pistols. A bullpup rifle was almost adopted by the British in 1951, so the EM2 might have been a good inspiration for the game, along with the Stg 44.
Anyway, I hope you don't mind my essay. This is something that's annoyed me for years, so I'd really love to hear your thoughts on it.