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EA has released another short teaser for Battlefield 1‘s campaign, providing a brief look at the Avanti Savoia mission. As previously detailed, in this mission players take control of a soldier in the Italian mountaineer regiment.

As you can see in the video, this soldier is wearing the Arditi armor and serves as a shock trooper, breaking through enemy defences. In the case of the character featured in teaser, that means using a heavy-duty machine gun and a flamethrower.

The previous Battlefield 1 campaign teaser was for Nothing is Written, which involves playing as a Bedouin warrior and fighting alongside the legendary Lawrence of Arabia.

Battlefield 1’s campaign is made up of five “war stories.” Along with Avanti Savoia and Nothing is Written, the remaining chapters are called Friends in High Places, Through Mud and Blood, and The Runner. You can read about each of these missions here.

Developer DICE has said the goal of these missions is to spotlight lesser-known elements of World War I.

“When we set out on this game, we wanted to depict not just the common view of what the war was like,” said lead designer Daniel Berlin. “We wanted to challenge some preconceptions. We want to delve into some of the unknowns of WW1. Maybe people don’t know that this person fought or that person fought, that this army was involved. We’re stretching out and bringing all those stories into the game.”

Battlefield 1 comes out on October 21 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. EA/Origin Access members can start playing on October 13, while people who buy the Early Enlister edition can get in on October 18.

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John Carmack, chief technology officer at Oculus, has said VR is currently “coasting on novelty.” Speaking during the Oculus Connect event, Carmack urged developers to “be harder” on themselves and create experiences on par with non-VR applications and games.

“We are coasting on novelty, and the initial wonder of being something people have never seen before,” he said, as reported by GamesIndustry.biz. “But we need to start judging ourselves. Not on a curve, but in an absolute sense. Can you do something in VR that has the same value, or more value, than what these other [non-VR] things have done?”

During his speech, Carmack highlighted loading times as a key area in need of improvement, saying that making users sit through 30-seconds of loading is too long, given the brevity of most currently available VR experiences.

“That’s acceptable if you’re going to sit down and play for an hour … but [in VR] initial startup time really is poisonous. An analogy I like to say is, imagine if your phone took 30 seconds to unlock every time you wanted to use it. You’d use it a lot less.”

He continued: “There are apps that I wanted to play, that I thought looked great, that I stopped playing because they had too long of a load time. I would say 20 seconds should be an absolute limit on load times, and even then I’m pushing people to get it much, much lower.”

Oculus is set to launch its Touch controller on December 6. Each of the two controllers has a traditional analog stick, two buttons, and an analog trigger, as well as haptic feedback and what Oculus calls the “hand trigger.” Touch is also capable of tracking “a set of finger poses” that work to “recognize natural hand poses like pointing, waving, or giving a thumbs-up.”

Preorders for the Touch opened on October 10 at 12 PM PT. Those interested have to purchase yours before the end of October 27 to keep your priority status. People who preorder get two free games: VR Sports Challenge and The Unspoken.

During Oculus Connect, GameSpot spoke to Oculus’ head of content Jason Rubin, about Touch pricing concerns, potential controller fragmentation issues, and PlayStation VR. He also defended game exclusives and explained how they’ll push the VR industry forward.

Carmack, meanwhile, is one of the people named in Fallout publisher ZeniMax’s lawsuit against Oculus VR. ZeniMax is alleging that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey used stolen virtual reality technology to create the Rift VR headset. It also alleges that Carmack, who used to work for id Software, a ZeniMax-owned studio, knowingly took VR technology and information from it before he left for Oculus.

An Oculus spokesperson told GameSpot ZeniMax’s complaint “is one-sided and conveys only ZeniMax’s interpretation of the story.”

It added: “We continue to believe this case has no merit, and we will address all of ZeniMax’s allegations in court.”

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EA has announced it will host daily livestreams of Battlefield 1 gameplay in the lead up to its launch on October 21. In a post on the official Battlefield 1 website, the company said it will be showing off “a whole lot” of the game.

“We’ll have every map on display, from Sinai Desert to Suez and Ballroom Blitz. Each mode will be played as well, including new entries Operations and War Pigeons. They’ll be played by members of the Battlefield community team, as well as a bunch of special guests.”

The streams will begin on October 12 and run every day until October 21. They will take place for two hours a day on the Battlefield Twitch page, starting at 1PM PT and finishing at 3PM PT. A full schedule of the Battlefield 1 livestreams can be found here.

Although Battlefield 1 comes out on October 21 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, EA/Origin Access members can start playing on October 13. Those that buy the Early Enlister edition can get in on October 18.

EA has released a trailer for its single-player campaign that offers a brief look at the stories of five different characters. Another short clip was recently released that teased a battle against the Ottoman Empire.

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