A new game was released yesterday on Steam depicting Russia's invasion of Ukraine, claiming to be "officially recommended by the Russian Military".
  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

    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.

    • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
      10 months

      “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”

    • gex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 months

      “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”

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      10 months

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

    • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 months

      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.comEnglish
      10 months

      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.

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10 months

    do they let players choose to be the north korean guys who say fuck this and go look at porn instead?

      • real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        10 months

        The last of America’s Army games, see this steamdb page for screenshots. I tried it years ago and got a vibe of proto-insurgency, it’s somewhat realistic, even the tutorial is decent, but as you can imagine they just wanted a good recruitment tool and this wasn’t it.

        • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10 months

          I played it back in like 2003. It was pretty fucking high class back then, when it came to realism. You could cook nades and decided whether you roll or toss them. You could also peek/lean. I believe it’s kinda common nowadays, but those were some fancy things back then. CS wasn’t even CS:GO back then, but like CS 1.5-1.6.

          I never played it through Steam though.

          Played on American servers and always had like 180 ping. Still managed to snipe decently.

          But even back then I understood it was obviously propaganda, because you’re never allowed to play as “the bad guys”. You’re always an American, and you’re shooting people vaguely Middle-Eastern enemies. From your POV, you’ll rock an M16, but from your enemy’s pov, you’re using an AK47.

          I think if they hadn’t tried forcing that bit, it might’ve seen more success.

          Pure propaganda, sure, but I enjoyed it as a kid.

          • Venator@lemmy.nzEnglish
            10 months

            It also had a link to thier recruit sign up page in game if I remember correctly. Also was one of the first free to play milsims.

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    10 months

    Politics aside, this is just Door Kickers with russian AI images all over. At least be creative when making propaganda.

    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 months

      The last time a Russian had a cultural achievement that impressed the world they had a tsar. There is nothing worthwhile coming out of Russia anymore.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10 months

        Nah, the last time they did that was 1985, when Tetris came out.

      • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.worksdeleted by creatorEnglish
        10 months

        Tetris is great and Nightwatch/Daywatch were fun movies to watch. The subtitles were dome in such a unique way that made the experience more compelling.

        • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10 months

          Nightwatch was fine. Daywatch not so fine.

          Tetris slaps. But that was the last time Russia added to human culture

      • pandamac@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        10 months

        A tsar? What? I’m not even defending the USSR, but there were great cultural achievements coming out of Russia and the larger USSR, both critical and propaganda, in literature and film.

  • Crikeste@lemm.eeEnglish
    10 months

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

    • nagaram@startrek.websiteEnglish
      10 months

      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

      • BigPotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10 months

        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.

        • nagaram@startrek.websiteEnglish
          10 months

          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

  • creamlike504@jlai.luEnglish
    10 months

    Back in 2018, Steam stated its approach to content on its platform was "to allow everything onto the Steam Store, except for things that we decide are illegal, or straight up trolling".

    …

    A social media account linked on Steam to the game’s developer includes a post suggesting Ukraine’s refusal to surrender will provide “a lot of content to make more missions in our game”.

    I’m pretty sure that qualifies.

  • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.worksdeleted by creatorEnglish
    10 months

    Is this any different from the US DOD making a FPS featuring actual battles from Iraq?

      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10 months

        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.

      • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.worksdeleted by creatorEnglish
        10 months

        “Operation Iraqi Freedom” America’s Army in its initial release would have maps uploaded weeks after fighting.

  • Natan¥@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

    I am just surprised that it’s not being mass flagged. Very strange.

  • Stamau123@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

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

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

    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.

  • Hayduke@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

    The ol Ender’s Game approach. Interesting move. Let’s see how it plays out.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10 months

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

    • rice_nine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 months

      Also, the soldiers are on crutches and there are side missions to loot toilets.