Rejoice console peasants! We, your glorious PC master race are generous gods! We have forsaken our role in beta testing Call Of Duty WW2 to allow you, the unwashed, cabbage scented masses wallowing in your analogue stick fields a chance to experience the excitement we have known since time immemorial. That’s right, young triangle-button farmer! You are being conscripted! Nay, I say, ’tis not a death sentence as you may suspect for the field of war is virtual, you shall respawn, humiliatingly risen from the ashes of your defeat by camping Gary.

Aye, we the gentry have taken notice of your laziness but you may rest easy, we too would’st not frolick through historic Flanders Fields (yes, we know it’s the wrong bloody war, shut up) if it required so much backbreaking physical labour as moving a tiny plastic lever with our dainty thumbs.

And so you have it, favoured lower social classes, you may briefly retire from the plough and Miller’s Wheel because we too wish to never hear that song again as long as we should live on this sweet Earth. Take this leave on 25 August 2017 to play the Call Of Duty WW2 multiplayer beta on PlayStation 4, for those of a greener persuasion you may take your leave 1 September 2017 to worship similarly at the monolithic block you insist is an Xbox One, whatever that may be.

That is assuming you have worked hard this season and our tax collectors haven’t robbed you of your hard won earnings so you may pre-order this celebration of vicarious violence! Go forth and multiply!

In all seriousness: there’s no word on a PC beta for Call Of Duty WW2 just yet but if you preorder the game, either digital or physical versions, you can get access to the “private” beta that begins 25 August 2017 for PlayStation 4 owners and 1 September 2017 for Xbox One owners. If that’s up your alley then Call Of Duty WW2 launches on 3 November 2017 and costs £44.99.