• @[email protected]
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    1147 months ago

    I heard that the game sucks you through your monitor and uploads you straight to the Ukranian front lines.

  • @[email protected]
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    37 months ago

    I’ve been called a russian troll for saying the slightest thing about america. Now I don’t buy that shit lmao

    Shouldn’t have cried wolf

  • nocturne
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    327 months ago

    I recall another game being used to draft the player.

    • @[email protected]
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      I mean, don’t the call of duty developers openly collaborate with the military to increase recruitment? Hollywood sure as hell does.

      Great movie, btw.

      • @[email protected]
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        187 months ago

        They might be, but to a small extent. What you are actually thinking of is America’s Army - that game was made with recruitment in mind and to show how the army works. Subtle propaganda like no matter in which team you are, you are always a US soldier, and the opposite side is a terrorist. You pick up their guns, they shoot like shit and they are kalashnikovs etc. Someone on their team picks one up, it’s the same gun it’s always been and shoots perfectly fine. You literally had to go through “training” to be able to use a specific weapon, or be a medic. You took tests at the end of a lecture lol.

        • @[email protected]
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          107 months ago

          CoD is absolutely military propaganda as well, just not as overt as what you’re saying

        • sunzu2
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          Cod and movies like top gun with boomer cruise are us dod sanctiojed propaganda tho

        • SkaveRat
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          27 months ago

          you could (maybe still can?) connect your real life military ID to the game, and get a special badge representing your IRL rank

        • @[email protected]
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          17 months ago

          America’s Army was a game developed by the US military for recruitment, but was only the military’s direct and open leadership of the project that stood out in this. The more common approach is a less visible partnership where military propagandists and censors approve what’s allowed through, and exercise some narrative control to be consistent with the propaganda they’re pushing.

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      They changed the spelling after the war started. IIRC they removed the Russian VO as well.

  • @[email protected]
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    Oh, the game isn’t Russian? Shit, I’ll actually buy it then!

    Fuck Russia. 👍

    Edit: Ultimate edition it is! I am intentional with where I spend my money and I’m super glad to support a Ukrainian company.

      • @[email protected]
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        237 months ago

        To be clear, the rest was developed in Prague (after they fled the Russian invasion).

        No parts that I know of were made in Russia.

        • @[email protected]
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          67 months ago

          (after they fled the Russian invasion).

          Some of the developers stayed in Ukraine from what I’ve heard.

          • @[email protected]
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            57 months ago

            I watched the documentary that GSC released about the development of S2… It was a whole struggle. The company rented buses as tensions increased with plans to move the staff and their families to the western border of Ukraine.

            Several devs stayed in Kyiv where GSC’s building is, and some even went to get enlisted.

  • @[email protected]
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    167 months ago

    Dammit am I gonna have to buy this game now just to give Russia the middle finger again?

  • @[email protected]
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    37 months ago

    Worst I’ve heard about this game is it lacks some of the charming “soul” of the original. That’s not enough to keep me from buying it after Christmas, though.

      • GHiLA
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        There’s really nothing like it.

        Stalker takes all of the advantages games normally give you and crush it down to “You ain’t important, bullet-cushion.”

        Firefights feel like they have stakes and risk is intense. Nothing that happens can just be shaken off, everything needs attention. It’s not a normal FPS.

  • sunzu2
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    I am sure western gamer is in fear of being draft lol

    Well maybe Joe Rogan is haha

  • @[email protected]
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    417 months ago

    Ill probably buy the game just to spite Russia. The fuck do they care about some Ukrainian developers game? It doesn’t affect the war one way or the other… unless they’re afraid it’s going to humanize the Ukrainians.

    • @[email protected]
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      27 months ago

      Ukrainians are actively chasing draft dodgers. They asked the UE to send back ukrainians male in military age. My friend in ukraine calls it north korea. Coz they cannot leave.

  • @[email protected]
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    87 months ago

    Russian disinfo is so nefarious it gets Trump elected but at the same time it barely musters a shit opinion on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Sounds totally legit and not a shit capitalisation on the Ukrainian suffering for page views. *slow clap

    • @[email protected]
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      77 months ago

      Within psyops it’s much easier to amplify competing ideologies than it is to create new ones. Trump is the former, where information by stupid people gets amplified. This Stalker 2 campaign is the latter, where new information is created out of thin air.

        • @[email protected]
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          27 months ago

          Well you could have just said that, instead of raising a comparison which does not really hold up.

          But yes, I don’t believe everything on the internet either.