The players of "Battlefield 1" are doing more than just playing the game right now, as the gamers have banded together online in order to commemorate World War I's (WWI) first Christmas truce in the battlefield.
The community of "Battlefield 1" has been organizing an online ceremony in order to pay respects to the noble soldier of WWI who participated in the truce. The event is currently being put together, albeit unofficially since the developer of the game has not dedicated any resource or effort to the commemoration yet for this year.
The occasion will see players set aside their hate or their imperative to kill each other in-game. Instead, they will all be working toward attaining a goal. This time around, the community will take advantage of one mission recently released by the developers, the Holiday Community Mission, which tasks players with destroying 100 vehicles in a limited amount of time. This feat is quite difficult for an average player to achieve, which is why the community, instead of killing each other, will assist one another in destroying the vehicles regardless of the uniform.
This will guarantee that everyone involved will complete the mission and reap the rewards involved, though the general rule of the event must always be observed, which is to not kill players. Instead, everyone on the map will bunch together mortars in one location and open fire at them until destroyed, since mortars count as vehicles in the game.
This is in keeping with the spirit of brotherhood and Christmas back in Dec. 1914 where the British, French, and German troops historically set aside their orders to kill the enemy and even met up with each other in No Man's Land to bury the dead, take photographs, and play football for a day. This was a welcome peace and ceasefire for them since they were shooting at each other days prior.
Last year's commemoration event for the said Christmas Truce of 1914 was not as successful as everyone had hoped since nothing major actually happened other than the developers giving out digital dog tags to players. Some players were even uncooperative and despised the commemoration stating that they "bought a war game to kill people." With 2017's Christmas just a few days away, the organizers of the 1914 Truce commemoration hope that things would be different this time and a lot more peaceful.
