• switches@kbin.social
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    i feel like every military needs to go through their personnel and fire every war thunder player on principle at this point. like come on.

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    1 year ago

    And the game is far from a simulator. That’s what I don’t get. Like if it was steel beasts or arma or dcs it’d make sense to me.

    But war of duty. I just don’t get

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      Exactly.

      If this were a DCS and someone were insisting that the jet they flew for a few years actually has a secret vectored thrust system, I could sort of understand.

      But this is “Here are twelve top secret documents. This tank should have 0.1 more points of armor on the left side”

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      Well, I just checked, the US military has over one million active personnel, and if 1% of them are dumb, and 1% of that are especially dumb, that’s still over a hundred people. So if a few of them play War Thunder… yup.

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      1 year ago

      Well, I would assume “Not Very”.

      But, you know, people are thick…

      …very thick.

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    This is getting outrageous. Do you think they’ll hit a 15 streak before playing War Thunder is court marshallable?

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      Is War Thunder even a good game? The only time I hear about it is after these leaks. Then it’s like viral marketing and I think “this game must be awesome if people are committing crimes to get minor Stat changes” then I forget about it for a few months until the next leak.

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        1 year ago

        It is a free pay-to-win shooter. It is designed to get certain types of people addicted to it, to most other people it is boring as hell.

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I think this makes it leak #18 from the forums

    Turns out baiting nerds into internet arguments is significantly more effective then foreign op agents infiltrating the dod.