Storm of Steel

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"Battlefield 1 is based upon events that unfolded over one hundred years ago. More than 60 million soldiers fought in "The War to End All Wars". It ended nothing. Yet it changed the world forever. What follows is frontline combat. You are not expected to survive."

- Opening transcript

Storm of Steel is the first mission featured in the Battlefield 1 singleplayer campaign. It will be one of the two missions available to play in the First Trial for EA and Origin Access, the other being Through Mud and Blood. Serving as a prologue to the war stories, the mission takes place in 1918 somewhere on the Western Front, as the American 369th Infantry Regiment, as well as their French and British allies, make a desperate last stand against an onslaught of Imperial German Army forces.

The mission is unique in that the player controls several different soldiers over the course of the mission, all of whom (excluding the final unnamed soldier) eventually die during combat. The character's names and dates of birth briefly appear following their death, and the player then Hot-swaps to the next soldier.

Trivia

 * Storm of Steel is the first mission of Battlefield 1 's  singleplayer to be publicly shown in its entirety, with twelve minutes of footage released at Twitchcon 2016.
 * This mission marks the return of the Hot-swap feature from Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, albeit that it only activates when the last soldier the player controlled gets killed instead of being done at will.