cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/gaming/p/1782151/i-aspire-to-be-as-petty-as-war-thunder-players

At least it wasn't a classified document leak, I guess?

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[–] 50 points 8 months ago

War thunder is the most successful psi op ever to get actual specs of military equipment.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    Yeah, better than a leak, I guess.

    But still, all the grass he would have touched on the way, and none of it seemed to help.

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    [–] 81 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    If the devs weren't deep-throating the Russian government, this man wouldn't have needed to disprove them

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Isn't warthunder russian? I'm pretty sure they have to or risk getting arrested

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    They could have grown a pair and moved to a different country like Wargaming did

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    They moved to Hungary years ago, most of the devs are from there now. People still claim "russian bias" cause a lot of russian vehicles have volumetric modeling, which sometimes just eats shots, but now a LOT of other tanks from other nations have that as well.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Do they still force users to seed the client files with their own connection? Because the one time I tried Warthunder, I was appalled both by the fact that the Gaijin agent did that, and by how unnecessarily difficult it was to remove.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    My angle for intetpreting this is that you actually have to provide documented, physical, on the ground evidence in order to even stand a chance at overcoming the Russian Bias / Stalinium bullshit that Gaijin so often engages in.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    To be fair, a lot of tanks from other nations have now the exact same bullshit volumetric modeling a lot of soviet tanks have, so... mild win, I guess?

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Gajin usually uses official public sources where possible, assuming that they are correct, and all tanks were made to spec, which is fair for praticality but maybe sometimes the spec was a suggestion, and sometimes the "spec" wasnt so real and was a carefully planted lie

    Reports from oposite intelegence agencies are probably more likely to have less lies but at same time are usually top secret and have way less concrete info to work on

    And there is also wear and tear, lack of maintaince, unproper storage, maybe the steel just got a bit rusty

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    I mean, they say they do, but the stats that are displayed on the vehicles infocards in game are very often just not the actual stats they actually use, in the game.

    Like, people have tested this.

    Many of the stat readouts are just wrong.

    It is good though that you bring up that yeah, they're orienented around 'stated' specs, which... very often do not actually reflect what was actually constructed.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Isn't this the game where people kept leaking the specs of military vehicles to try to make them more game accurate?

    No joke, this is actually how I realized UFOlogy was bullshit, no one was leaking anything on aliens to make X-COM better.

    Real things are real

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