Verdun is the first multiplayer FPS set in a realistic World War One setting. Merciless trench warfare offers a unique battlefield experience, immersing you and your squad into intense battles of attack and defense. Verdun is part of the WW1 Game Series, with the second entry Tannenberg taking players to the Eastern Front.
The game takes place on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, in one of the bloodiest conflicts in world history. The developers were inspired by the infamous Battle of Verdun in 1916. The game offers 4 distinct game-modes with many historically accurate features such as realistic WW1 weaponry, authentic uniforms, horrendous gore, and maps based on the real battlefields of France and Belgium.
Verdun key features include:
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We've written bits and pieces about the light machine guns in Isonzo (as distinct from the heavy machine guns which are static weapons placed by the map designers) but never brought them all together. If you haven't tried them out, you can unlock them by completing Assault class missions.
The German faction was added to Isonzo way back in December 2022, and they brought with them the third light machine gun to feature in the game: the Maschinengewehr 08 / 15, or MG 08/15 for short. It's an adjusted version of the basic MG 08 heavy machine gun, which is itself based off the original Maxim gun from 1884.
The MG 08/15 was first used in 1917 during the Second Battle of the Aisne on the Western Front. Overall it did the job, but was never an excellent weapon. It was heavy compared to the French Chauchat LMG, with the water cooling system compounding the issue. Fortunately in Isonzo you don't have to carry it all the way to the frontline.
In Isonzo the MG 08/15 is limited to the German Assault class, and within that class limited to a maximum of 2 users at a time. These limitations also apply to the machine guns used by the Italian and Austro-Hungarian Assault classes. Even with the need to deploy for accurate fire, light machine guns are extremely powerful weapons so it makes gameplay sense to limit their employment. At the same time, they were historically limited, even with increasing German efforts to equip their troops with more light machine guns.
For example, a German company would have around 240 men, and by 1918 with a full complement, each company would have 6 MG 08/15s. From that perspective, having 2 LMGs available for the 24 German soldiers in a match is generous - as you might expect for the assault troops in the thick of the action.
An interesting fact: the gun lives on in the German dialect, with nullachtfünfzehn being colloquially used to refer to something that's entirely average and unremarkable.
The MG 08/15 in Verdun
The MG 08/15 appeared in our first game, Verdun! They could be used by machine gunners in the Landser and Schützen squads. Verdun also had the rarer MG15n.A. and MG08/18 light machine guns.
We've written about the Villar Perosa before, in one of the earliest Isonzo Dev Diaries.
A fascinating weapon with a distinctive double barrel design (actually two entire firing mechanisms coupled together) it was originally intended to be an aircraft weapon, as well as a man-portable gun. It wasn't so effective in the air, but served well with ground troops. Technically it could be considered a submachine gun because it fires handgun cartridges instead of rifle cartridges.
The Austro-Hungarian Assault class makes use of the Madsen, a Danish light machine gun that was used around the world into the Second World War and beyond. When the First World War broke out, Austria-Hungary was not in a position to develop their own light machine gun, so they purchased Madsens directly from Denmark.
While mass production of the Madsen began in 1902 (and continued until 1955), the design process started back in the late 1880s with Danish artillery officer Captain Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen attempting to create a self loading rifle with the help of Danish Arsenal technician Rustmester Rasmussen. However, Captain Madsen left to become the Danish Minister of War before the Madsen machine gun was invented - credit for that should go to a Lieutenant Jens Schouboe, who patented it in 1901.
A new campaign event begins in Verdun and Tannenberg, and Isonzo gets a small update.
The Ascent event is over, so we look at some player screenshots and what's coming next.
There's a wealth of fantastic FPS games out there these days, and if you're a PC gamer you could do a lot worse than checking out the Steam FPS Fest happening...
Jump into Isonzo and either assault or defend the sheer rockface of the Marmolada mountain. 16 brave Italian mountaineers attempt to scale the Marmolada...
I love this game.
If you ever need a idea for an expansion, please think about the spanish civil war. Altough gcould sound a very local conflict with a little public, it was the almost direct predecessor of the IIWW.
It would have a similar rifle based gameplay,with potentially tanks, airplanes, more lighter machineguns and smg. The selling point could be the war of ideologies, where traditionalist, nationalist and fascist were fighting against republicans, anarchists and communist, with a lot of foreigners volunteers; more urban fights; and one of the Wire creators, it's making a mini tv short about the american volunteers. There hasn't been a real fps about this period, except a mod for CoD2.
Cheers!
Hey,I've asked myself.Can anywhere this game be bought?
I can't afford the game unfortuently.
<,UNfortunately> not <unfortuently>
It could be bought in a Humble Bundle for 5.50 with 7 other games a week ago :/.
It's on Steam
Will you ever add the M1917 revolver for Americans?
Wow wow wow, This was made with Unity!?
yes indeed!
We're can. I buy Verdun for my ps4?
in the PlayStation store, digitally only: Store.playstation.com
there is no ps4 version in southeast asia *SadFace*