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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.
Time to start posting reviews with:
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.
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....
"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"
"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"
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.
do they let players choose to be the north korean guys who say fuck this and go look at porn instead?
war crime simulator 2025
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".
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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.
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.
I wonder how people in the Middle East feel about Call of Duty.
Rami Ismail is Dutch but obviously cares about this topic. And when he seems to feel a particularly high level of self loathing, he talks about it online
https://kotaku.com/war-games-muslim-arab-call-of-duty-palestine-1851055848 is a great article that includes quotes from him and discusses the topic at large.
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
I don't think they remove military propaganda from Steam. Fascist military sims from fascist countries are specifically allowed.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/203290/Americas_Army_Proving_Grounds/
Me seeing you reply with that GIF, then reading your username:
What’s this? It‘s blocked in my region.
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.
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.
The mindblowing thing is that, if wikipedia doesn't lie, the same developers also made fucking Moonbase Alpha
John Madden!
Makes sense. The government probably didn't want to fund 2 games studios when 1 is fine.
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.
Politics aside, this is just Door Kickers with russian AI images all over. At least be creative when making propaganda.
"encounter and interact with civilians“
That’s one way to say SA/shoot them indiscriminately after kidnapping their kids
Is this any different from the US DOD making a FPS featuring actual battles from Iraq?
No, they both should be banned.
You mean Conflict Desert Storm?
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.
I'm going to pirate it then go and sabotage the ruskis
I thought to do the same, but I don't want Russian software on my pc. Who knows what backdoors are built in.
Can I shoot my training cadre in the tutorial like those Central Asians did near the start of the war?
I am just surprised that it's not being mass flagged. Very strange.
Someone needs to do a mod where your armour is tissue thin and there are waves of fibre optic drones coming down at you.
Also, the soldiers are on crutches and there are side missions to loot toilets.
The ol Ender’s Game approach. Interesting move. Let’s see how it plays out.
Play it just to sabotage my own teammates.
Yunarmy: putana yugend