Battlefield V has some of the most iconic vehicles of World War II - the Tiger Tank,
Spitfire, and Stuka.
But one vehicle stands out from all the rest - the V-1.
The V-1 rocket was the first of the German vengeance weapons to fall on Great Britain
in World War II.
Designed to strike large cities like London, this early cruise missile didn't need to
be accurate - it needed to be deadly.
Powered by a pulse-jet engine, the V-1 could deliver over 18-hundred pounds (850 kilograms)
of explosives to its target at a top speed of 415 miles per hour (or 670 kilometers per
hour).
It's this pulse-jet engine that gave the V-1 its signature sound and nicknames like
the buzz bomb or doodlebug.
The drone of the V-1 is very unique, and it's loud.
Audible up to 10 miles away, the sound is so rhythmic it's almost calming.
Many would argue this signature sound is what makes the V-1 so terrifying - but they'd
be wrong.
It's actually the absence of the sound that strikes fear, and there's a very simple
explanation for this.
When the V-1 reaches its target, its guidance system puts the flying bomb into a steep dive.
This interrupts fuel flow and cuts off the engine, resulting in an eerie calm before
impact.
Londoners quickly learned the sudden absence of the V-1's engine sound meant they were
in immediate danger.
Although this design flaw was eventually fixed, the mystique around the weapon remains.
Human hearing and the way we interpret sound is fascinating.
On a very basic level, we rely on sound to survive.
We can acclimate to noises very quickly, but going from a cacophony of sound to nothing,
impacts us in an even more interesting way.
It makes us uncomfortable, while hyperfocusing our other senses to compensate.
(It's one of my favorite tricks used in cinema - and one of the reasons I loved the
Holdo's Sacrifice scene from Star Wars the Last Jedi.
The utter silence focuses your vision on the spectacle before you, making it all the more
impressive.)
In a way, the V-1 duplicates this effect - getting louder and louder on the Battlefield before
the engine abruptly cuts out.
In the back of our minds, we know what follows next.
The resulting explosion again cracks the silence and batters our ears, now desperate to locate
noise.
It's a jarring experience, which makes it easy to understand how effective these flying
bombs were as terror weapons.
DICE went to some crazy lengths to get a proper pulsejet sound for the V-1 in Battlefield
5.
The devs actually took a sound crew to northern Sweden where some people deprived of regular
sunlight actually build snowmobiles powered by pulsejets nearly identical in design to
the V-1 powerplant.
It's this sound you hear in Battlefield 5.
During World War II, over 30,000 V-1s were built.
It was cheap to produce, costing only about two percent the cost of a twin engined bomber,
and it put few German pilots at risk.
Ironically, the concept was pitched to the German Luftwaffe as early as 1935, but rejected
as "uninteresting from the tactical viewpoint."
This short-sightedness probably cost Germany much of its air force during the Battle of
Britain.
Had they embraced the idea of an area bombardment weapon sooner, things may well have turned
out differently when Hitler ordered the bombing of civilian targets.
Nearly 10-thousand V-1s were launched against the UK during World War II, and those that
made it to their target inflicted over 22-thousand casualties.
At the peak of the terror bombing campaign, hundreds a day were fired at London.
As the allies made headway in mainland Europe after D-DAY, thousands of V-1s were launched
against cities like Antwerp in late 1944 to 1945.
In Battlefield 5, the V-1 has more value than just cleaning out objectives.
It's an extremely effective distraction.
When players hear the drone of the doodlebug overhead, all eyes look to the sky and try
to determine where it's headed - just like London civilians did decades ago.
This makes it easier to sneak up on your foes.
I'm curious what you think of the V-1 in Battlefield 5.
Is it cool or just a gimmick?
Tell me in the comments!
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