During the Battle of the Bulge, the platoon is surrounded by Germans. African-American combat engineer Howard (Russell Richardson) helps the ❤️ platoon contact air support. Daniels obtains intelligence from a German POW revealing that the Germans plan to destroy the bridge ❤️ at Remagen, the last bridge over the Rhine. After destroying the explosives in transit, the platoon attacks a nearby air ❤️ base to destroy the remaining explosives. The attack fails, and Zussman is captured. Daniels disobeys Pierson and attempts to pursue ❤️ the truck carrying Zussman, but is wounded and fails, with Pierson firing him from the platoon; Zussman is sent to ❤️ a concentration camp. Daniels is awarded a Bronze Star for discovering the German intelligence, and given the option to return ❤️ home to his pregnant wife. Daniels refuses, however, still desiring to rescue Zussman. Upon confronting Pierson, he learns that Pierson ❤️ was actually demoted, after the Battle of Kasserine Pass, for disobeying orders to retreat in a failed attempt to save ❤️ part of his platoon. Pierson allows Daniels to rejoin the platoon.
Austrian engineer Marie Fischer (Katheryn Winnick) is sent on a ❤️ mission to her hometown village of Mittelberg by her commanding officer, Major Hank Rideau (Darin De Paul), to retrieve lost ❤️ artifacts stolen by the Nazis for experimentation, as well as rescue her brother, Klaus, who provided the information. Klaus has ❤️ been unwillingly working with their lead scientist Peter Straub (Udo Kier) and weapons expert Colonel Heinz Richter (Tomm Voss) on ❤️ a project to exploit a new energy dubbed "Geistkraft" (literal translation: ‘Spiritforce’) to assist the Nazi party's war efforts. Marie ❤️ is accompanied by Scottish history professor turned art thief Drostan Hynd (David Tennant), Art Historian turned French Resistance fighter Olivia ❤️ Durant (Élodie Yung) and United States Army Captain Jefferson Potts (Ving Rhames), all of whom have significant knowledge on the ❤️ stolen arts and relics. However, on their train ride to Mittelberg, the group is attacked by an unidentified colossal being. ❤️ Marie is stranded from the others, and finds herself taking temporary refuge at a small house nearby, where she holds ❤️ out against hordes of dead German soldiers reanimated by Geistkraft, until she is able to make her way to the ❤️ village.
On their flight back from New Swabia, the crew's plane is shot by a bolt of Geistkraft lightning, and crash-lands ❤️ near the site. They then find themselves within the Lost City of Thule, the source of the Geistkraft energy. The ❤️ team uncovers ancient weapons once wielded by the Raven Lords, elite warriors who are meant to bring balance to a ❤️ cycle of life and death, and uses them against the undead horde. B.A.T. agent Vivian Harris, who is sent by ❤️ Rideau to recover Barbarossa's Sword from the crash, is driven insane by its power, and uses it to awaken the ❤️ God King, a gigantic Thulian entity who claims to be the influence behind Straub as well as Barbarossa. The God ❤️ King seemingly overpowers the four, but Klaus, who has been reborn as the Rook, arrives and charges them with Geistkraft, ❤️ bestowing them the title of Raven Lords, allowing them to defeat the God King. Rideau then contacts the four, revealing ❤️ his true status as a member of the Order of the Ravens, an ancient cult dedicated to serving the Raven ❤️ Lords; he insists that they must now embrace their newfound titles and destiny, and lead the Order in the ongoing ❤️ battle against the remaining undead forces.
All pre-orders excluding the PC version included access to the private beta, which was made ❤️ available first on the PlayStation 4 from August 25–28, followed by a second week for both PlayStation 4 and Xbox ❤️ One from September 1–4. The PC beta was announced as an open beta, and ran from September 29 – October ❤️ 2 on Steam. Players who participated in the beta received the Beta Combat Pack for the full game, which contains ❤️ a special in-game helmet, emblem and calling card. The game is available in three editions: Base Edition, Digital Deluxe Edition ❤️ and the Pro Edition. The Pro Edition was sold exclusively at GameStop, with pre-orders of the game at GameStop also ❤️ included a limited edition hat.[24]
Before the game's release, its sparse use of the Swastika symbol, as well as the diversity ❤️ of playable German soldiers in the online multiplayer, drew some criticism. During E3 2024, Sledgehammer co-founder Michael Condrey explained that ❤️ swastikas were removed from the multiplayer and Zombies modes as "Including Nazi symbols wouldn't bring honor, nor be appropriate, without ❤️ the rich history of a WW2 story to ground their context in Multiplayer" and that the multiplayer experiences were "shared, ❤️ global ones, so we needed to adhere to local laws and regulations", referring to Germany's censorship laws on the imagery ❤️ of swastikas. On the other hand, swastikas would be included in the campaign, stemming from wanting to be "historically accurate ❤️ and tell the story we wanted to tell ... the best way to represent history, which was very important to ❤️ us."[29][self-published source] Condrey also empathized with complaints that including black and female German soldiers in the multiplayer was historically inaccurate ❤️ (as in reality Nazi Germany never recruited people from such denominations), saying he wanted the game to appeal to a ❤️ diverse audience and being reflected in their player avatar: "it's also about putting you - this is about you - ❤️ in World War 2 ... that evolution of your character means it's important for us to allow you to choose ❤️ to be you, and to have a hero that represents who you are, whomever you choose that to be."[30]
Vera (Cyrillic: 5@0: Vra, "faith") is a female given name of Slavic origin, and by folk etymology it has also been explained as Latin vera meaning "true". In Slavic languages, Vera means faith. The name Vera has been used in the English speaking world since the 19th century and was popular in the early 20th century.
