• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Time to start posting reviews with:

    • “This game is impossible to win!”
    • “I was told I could take Kyiv in 3 days. I’ve been playing for 1,190 days and I’m still not even close to Kyiv.”
    • “Why is my enemy using smart guided anti tank rockets and my soldiers are riding bicycles and wearing Adidas knock off sneakers into battle?”

    Who knows? Maybe the Russian military is out of tactical ideas and trying to crowdsource a military strategy from gamers to take Ukraine because they can’t do it themselves.

    • gex@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      “In a February 2022 blog post the dev team said they would release a new Kyiv map in 3 days, it hasn’t been mentioned ever since”

    • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      When I got captured I was treated better as a POW than when I was treated by Russia.

      I don’t understand the goal of this game. Is it to loose as much friends as possible? Because that’s the only thing I’m good at.

      This game is not realistic at all. I can’t even rape and torture anyone, like I did at the front lines.

      How come there are modern weapons in this game but we have to use WW2 weapons in real life?

      I could go on and on…

    • Case@lemmynsfw.com
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      2 months ago

      I mean, the US put out the game America’s Army as a recruitment tool.

      Passably decent multiplayer shooter for its time. Good enough to kill some time with.

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      2 months ago

      Duh,just rocket jump all the way to Kiev. If you go fast enough no one will be able to stop you.

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      “Blatant land and money grab with impossible grind. Offers pay 2 win, but even pay 2 win doesn’t get you through the grind. I’m selling all the oil I can for in-game currency and it’s not even making a dent. Huge rip off”

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    2 months ago

    Another thing to add to my list of why steam is a fucking shit hole since green light went away.

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      2 months ago

      Yes… Because all those games where you play as some American grunt fighting in the middle East is something totally different and not comparable at all.

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        2 months ago

        I want to see you explain how Spec Ops: The Line is the same thing as this propaganda shit piece.

        I get the gist, I agree that games like America’s Army shouldn’t be on Steam but you can’t just broad stroke all “grunt in the middle east” games as propaganda. They can end up being something totally different and not comparable at all.

      • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
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        2 months ago

        A small fraction compared to the indie games and puzzlers, or are you one of those just shut the whole thing down so nobody is happy kind-of people?

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    2 months ago

    Can I shoot my training cadre in the tutorial like those Central Asians did near the start of the war?

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    2 months ago

    This game probably sucks. But I do want to play a game where you get the full russian conscript experience. Cruel and incompetent leaders, squad mates you can’t communicate with because you don’t speak the same language, equipment that doesn’t work right or that you are not trained to use making bootleg alcohol that can make you go blind and a button that lets you commit suicide.

    I am sick of being special ops or some lame shit in every military game.

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    2 months ago

    The developer better avoid driving any cars lol

    Just going to install the game to leave a negative review because if anyone deserves a review bomb it’s this.

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        Both the developer, Pivotal Games, and global publisher, SCi Games, of Conflict Desert Storm are British. Pivotal Games closed in 2008 and SCi is a shell subsidiary of Square Enix. The publisher for the American release was Gotham Games, a subsidiary of Take Two Interactive, which closed down in 2003.

        AFAIK, the Conflict series was not developed or funded by the United States government. To my knowledge, only “America’s Army” is a game directly funded and developed for the US government’s military branch. It also is published by the US Military.

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    2 months ago

    Someone needs to do a mod where your armour is tissue thin and there are waves of fibre optic drones coming down at you.

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    2 months ago

    I wonder how people in the Middle East feel about Call of Duty.

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      2 months ago

      I’m sure the people of Gaza are always excited to play the “counter terrorists” on Dust 2 as well.

      It took watching a bunch of videos on Israeli weapons development before I learned who uses the fucking Negev

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        You’re not going to find a weapons maker with an unproblematic background (part of the problem with sourcing arms for your SRA meetup) but IMI certainly has a bad one.

        They’ve also got a number of totally iconic weapons though. Separate the art from the artist and all that.

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          Of the lines I draw in my gun purchasing decisions (you’re right they’re all war profitiers), IWI and the like is the only one that I actively disuade people from.

          That being said, the engineering history nerd in me is easily compelled to learn about design philosophies