Essentially, the devs have kind of fostered these attitudes. They'll release vehicles with incorrect stats/missing features due to a ridiculously tight dev schedule (they often don't know if a vehicle will be ready for release days before the content patch hits), and they then have ridiculously high standards for getting them to fix the vehicles. Videos aren't enough, multiple sources saying the same thing often aren't enough, etc... They also behave in bad faith, sometimes even things that are obviously wrong if you use a bit of common sense (like ammunitions not detonating when hit on a specific russian tanks, to which they answered "working as intended") or are straight up impossible won't get fixed because they don't feel like it or because their own sources (which they never disclose, hence the "sekrit documents" meme) tell them otherwise.This is my favourite ongoing story in the gaming world right now. How DOES IT KEEP HAPPENING
Essentially, the devs have kind of fostered these attitudes. They'll release vehicles with incorrect stats/missing features due to a ridiculously tight dev schedule (they often don't know if a vehicle will be ready for release days before the content patch hits), and they then have ridiculously high standards for getting them to fix the vehicles. Videos aren't enough, multiple sources saying the same thing often aren't enough, etc... They also behave in bad faith, sometimes even things that are obviously wrong if you use a bit of common sense (like ammunitions not detonating when hit on a specific russian tanks, to which they answered "working as intended") or are straight up impossible won't get fixed because they don't feel like it or because their own sources (which they never disclose, hence the "sekrit documents" meme) tell them otherwise.
So ultimately, people resort to posting the one thing that they can't contradict: Official manuals. This wasn't too much of an issue when it was WWII era and Cold War era stuff since they're declassified, but as they add more and more modern stuff (a recently added russian vehicles is still undergoing trials), well... This happens. It's dumb, but it's unsurprising that it happens given their attitude.
in ten years it would just turn into enders gameWouldn't it be nice if real world conflict can be resolved by online War Thunder match?
I know little about War Thunder, but again it still surprises me it's this game's community and not the Arma community.
"I bet you don't even know the nuke launch codes. lol"Spy play book in 2023:
Go to war thunder forum and type : "Your plane isnt better than mine"
Wait for answers
Reply " prove it"
Profit
"I bet you don't even know the nuke launch codes. lol"
"I SO know the nuke launch codes!"
Was checking the Steam reviews to see if there was any comments about why this game is so fantastically popular with military personnel but came away with a butter chicken recipie from someone with 200hours who I imagine must have leaked it from the kitchens of the US Navy.
Screenshotted, thank you!Still had it open haha. And saved to my recipies so the cia spooks can't hide this important internal information.
It's happened again, this time with a Eurofighter Typhoon DA.7
https://forum.warthunder.com/t/eurofighter-typhoon-da7/9578 for the link of where it happened
It's still NATO Restricted, and Gaijin isn't in a NATO country nor were they the ones making the request for it, so they can't use it and it's technically treated the same wayYou can buy a manual for the DA7 that was (supposedly) declassified, though (for obvious reason), I wouldn't know if that's as... thorough, as what was posted to the forum
But how are they are supposed to prove that other military nerds are WRONG then?I love how it happened enough times that they have a big thread saying "DO NOT DISCLOSE CLASSIFIED OR EXPORT RESTRICTED DOCUMENTS, PLEASE"
that has always been r/noncredibledefence theory on how the US can get accurate values for Russian 'best tech ever' stuff (t14/su-57)Damn, can they add saucers, black triangles, and cylinder UAPs to this game? Maybe someone from a SAP will leak the existence of UFO technology to win a forum argument.
Damn, can they add saucers, black triangles, and cylinder UAPs to this game? Maybe someone from a SAP will leak the existence of UFO technology to win a forum argument.
At this point I think the devs are just embracing the free publicityHow many more times does this happen before Warthunder finally figures out you can just shut down your forums?
Surprised legal teams aren't all over their ass for these repeated leaks.