Exposing a game that's trying to SCAM the Military... 

You did an awesome job introducing and covering this "project"! I've been looking into sketchy games for a while but TWS and its executives are by far the worst I've ever come across. It's not just the fact that they don't have a game and are lacking the capabilities to build one. This "development team" even resorts to tactics that are borderline criminal. I've been covering this for a year now and been stalked, raided, harassed, impersonated and they repeatedly attempted to take down my small channel with weaponized reports. I've not only received violent threats and death wishes, but the "CEO" and "VP" of the project even went as far as attempting to harass, locate and dox my wife. It's easily the wildest ride I've ever been on. Happy to see this get some traction and hoping this will help to take down this scam for good. Please keep up the good work man, you can be proud of what you're doing here!

This man has become Coffeezilla of military gaming and I'm here for it

"Dude, learning visual studio has been a nightmare" is not a good answer to give when asked a specific question about your engine. That's like a doctor being asked about a procedure they claim to be able to perform and answering "dude, these medical journals are hard to read". Wow. Just. Wow.

At what point does "fake it til you make it" become "I am scamming the federal government"?

Ryan Cohen was on my 2nd naval deployment in charge of our marine expeditionary unit. whenever he would come on the intercom, the whole ship would stop and listen because he literally sounded like a professional voice actor. People would act as if Leonidas himself was on our intercom. Screaming about the decks "For Sparta!"

I am waiting for Bonzo to comment! I have a feeling this will be an ongoing investigation. Check back for his comment and more updates on the situation as this all unfolds.

That discord call with Jabberz was flabbergasting... Really entertaining that we're still getting people trying to scam like this in 2023

i love the ability of business bros to wildly underestimate the intelligence of extremely niche communities.

Ali calling for people to contact his team for classified information just because a guy had a clearance should result in everyone on that team and whoever they work with be investigated immediately. The actual hell is this madness.

At 13:57, he mentions "C Code" Unreal Engine uses C++ C code often refers to ANSI C, which is not C++

The fact he implicated Hasard Lee was a bad move. If Hasard Lee finds out that Ali was asking people who might have Classified Documents to the F-35, To contact his team. is enough to get him or any company he is involved with instantly disqualified from DOD contracts.

Bro this man is exposing the world 😅. We are watching the birth of the next 10 million dollar studio 🙌

Oh man! When he got to the "top secret" part... I just lost my sh*t! Just because you have a "top secret" with one organization, it doesn't mean that you can share highly sensitive military weapon information from other others, all for a "game"!!! This guy needs to be monitored.

Good job on your digging. Worked DoD/DHS myself and yeah that call out on TS is terrifying to me. I am a network engineer so the technical details matter a ton on these things. Always ask about infrastructure to know just how well thought out a project is. IF they can't give you any details its a red flag to me. Say you are running in AWS or something. Say you are running in a colo. Something barebones as that and then we can even dig deeper to confirm the details on our side. The internet only has so much address space so if they are running in a Colo / not in the cloud they very likely have to own some amount of addresses at minimum which you can see through ARIN / APNIC other registries. Look through BGP to see if they have an ASN (Autonomous System Number) assigned to their company name. Do they own their own Domain name. So many variables. I am happy to help you out in digging for certain things G0at, if you ever have networking questions as well I am always willing to lend a hand.

Scamming the military is a time honored tradition. -Sincerely, a $500 hammer

You have absolutely nailed the pivot into the journalistic videos.Comfortably onto my list of creators I make a mental note to watch the vid when I have time.

"Learning visual studio was a nightmare" This sounds like asking your architecht "how do you plan to build my house" and he comes back at you with "you know, learning how to draw was really hard!"

loving that cheaters in tarkov opened the door to all these future investigation style videos. thank you for your time and content brother

I have seen this project and at first I thought "Wow, looks interesting", but then I looked at their pricing, and that instantly made me think "That has got to be a scam. No way they are gonna charge THAT much money for something that might not even be released. I looked deeper into the DCS reddit and turned out that the trailer used asset flip. Glad that this video brings to light the scam and it is so stupid that the guy tried to sue you because you were telling the truth. Once again, thank you for bringing this scam to light.

I was cringing hearing Ali talking about the game development aspect and getting absolutely slaughtered

As soon as he started talking about the F-35 and it’s “available data” and asking people for classified info, he instantly dug his grave with this project

Ali: I'm a semi finalist in a coding competition. Also Ali: Man, learning visual studio is a pain!!

As I get older I found I’ve been losing my passion for gaming, yet I’ve been building my love for video game industry drama. My moms old soap operas make more sense every day with age.

I love how you can tell the walls of the arena in the first person shooter alpha are just resized concrete barriers with the gaps at the bottom for a forklift still there lmao

It made me laugh when Battlefield was brought up, because not only do they have a massive team, even with that team they still manage to release a terrible product and have done so since BF4.

I admire the patience of people in that Discord. That dude answered like he hadn't been studying for a year and then read some article about flight sims and Unreal the day before the test

I also came from WWIIOL and miss that game dearly, it's a shame that nothing has come close to that. Have been basically chasing that high since that game crumbled. This was an interesting video to watch because the flight sim community is very insular so it was neat to get your perspective from the outside looking in. Good job on blowing up another community with another good video. 👍🙌

"just send top secret information to one of our guys with top secret clearence" 😂👌

Hoping someone tagged the DoD or FBI to have this "entrepreneur" on a watchlist cos Holy hell....the classified doc thing he said was crazy bad...like hey send us claasified stuff that we'll than illegally distribute and make public in our game.

You and Coffeezilla are some of the greatest people on this platform thanks for doing your investigations

This might not get seen but as a WAR squadron member (Ali’s DCS squad) I used to be pretty close with a lot of these guys and everything listed here is absolutely correct and I’m glad that it’s coming to light. No hate to any of the WAR guys, I think that they’re good people but this entire project has been sketchy from the start. I’m a big flight sim guy and companies like ED and Razbam (making F15E) take years and sometimes half a decade for one module, it’s so dishonest to market this as “progress.”

I know a fair few people in the game dev and milsim industries. Every single one of us knows this project is a scam and a joke and fully understands why based on our own experience. Really glad to see someone covering it in a succinct and accessible format like this.

I think you really hit the nail on the head with Ali's insecurity. Definitively part of the recent group of people who call themselves "Entrepreneur" and "Hustle culture", gassing themselves up to an incredible amount to other people who do the same thing, creating this massive sphere of influence that only exists so long as no one asks questions or check each other out. We've all met or seen someone who have "2-4" companies of whom they're the only employee trying to convince everyone they're a big deal. And the "Incredible C developer" making mobile apps as a reference for experience creating Unreal Engine components and systems. Holy Shit.

As a game developer, when he said he dropped 8000 of the same tank into a scene in UE to stress test, I cringed so hard.

Given the timing of some of his "businesses" I wouldn't be surprised if he was scamming for PPP loans and whatnot and then moved on to this

I feel so bad for these gamers bro. Just constantly getting lied to and screwed by people like this. Thanks for making the video.

F-15C is a single seat and the F-15E is two seater. The F-15E has a human flare added to it for improved missile evasion

Oh wow... The CEO was literally asking for classified information from people. I would stay far away from this guy and his products. He's going to end up in jail if he keeps this up. Thank you for covering this. It's important people stay away from this guy.

22:50 the base "walls" are just scaled up Jersey barriers, which should only be 32" high. They could have just grabbed some Hesco barrier models and it would have at least looked proper.

the defination of fake it till you make it, over the backs of other people.

I'm glad to be here before the video blows up. I used to play on an Arma 3 server Ali hosted way back in 2016-2019 first called "Viper 6", then "Whiskey Alpha Tango" or "WAR", and boy let me tell you, as someone who knew this guy for so long, none of this surprises me in the slightest. Ali's "methodology" to running an Arma server was to cram as many mods onto it as he could, hoping they would work and wouldn't crash every five minutes since he never bothered configuring any modules in the mission editor. Near the end, it required downloading nearly 50 to 60 gigs if you wanted to join. When it got to the point where the server literally couldn't accept any more mods, he resorted to making "packs" that contained mods from other authors, uncredited, just so he could have a Lamborghini or bullet casing all over the ground. The creators of RHS ended up issuing him a takedown notice and a cease and desist over the use of RHS in his pack, and everyone finally got sick of him and left to join their own groups as he left his server to die, with maybe two or three people sticking around. The guy is a complete egomaniac obsessed with "realism" and the military in all the worst ways.

Now THIS is what people want from game journalism #respect

What TWS claims to do is something that took Bohemia Interactive Simulations (not the guys that did ArmA btw.) 5+ years and a team of >200 people to develop VBS4. And they're a seasoned developer with a bunch of well paying government contracts. The idea that a small indy-studio could just come around the corner and rival that is lauthable.

"I am a business person" Literally the biggest problem with all game studios nowadays. They are just in it for the money, passion is long gone.

This was a great video dude! I'm often watching youtube 'docs' and investigative/informative content and I have to say you did an amazing job with this case. I'm a bit tired at the moment, but tldr this was a great watch thank you

Super solid stuff man, I'm surprised the lengths you went to get info and interviews, etc. This is content that YT needs.

that ending was amazing and probably the best way this video could have ended. actually 10/10 well done.

This is scary stuff here. They're actually trying to get a DoD contract. Got to be the dumbest thing they can possibly try and go after given their total lack of ability to produce anything. And I'm surprised some of their activities haven't already landed them into hot water with the law already. Awesome work to g0at and Bonzo.

that day before clip has aged like a jug of milk sitting in a hot car

Phenomenal work, man. Mad respect for the research, presentation, and professionalism.

Damn the tarkov cheating epidemic really opened pandora’s box for all the sketchy game devs. I love where this channel has gone!

Came here for the wiggle, stayed for the amazing content, I really enjoy your videos g0at, they're fascinating and interesting to watch :)

This dude isn't afraid committing a federal crime for exposing classified info, Paul and Ali would be great friends.

The fact that Ali has been so active on discord, not just in their own server is crazy to me. He's out there spinning his tale, and creating scenarios where he has to defend himself with more and more lies, all for no reason. Genuinely looking forward to seeing how this all plays out

Ah yes, i tuned out after the initial wave thinking that this "Track While Scam" can't possibly go anywhere, and yet, here we are, trying to scam their way to the big Uncle Sam.

Hahaha yes! Love seeing this whole situation getting more exposure, and well researched and presented too! I was in there for the Q&A and watched them completely mismanage their discord, website, and everything. They plastered logos all over their website from companies without their permission, including epic games, steam, windows, and several software tools. They demonstrated a complete lack of knowledge about anything they were talking about- that whole classified documents thing is just one example. Luckily they kinda faded away because almost everyone was smart enough to see through their lies. Fascinating to see the behind the scenes stuff with their internal meetings and Ali's horrible attitude!

Thank you sir, i'm getting beaten up by all these scammer entrepreneur

What flow chart ends with "Let's scam the hardcore flight sim community!"

"Remember, at the end of the day, we all want the same thing." LOL!! Another great video. Thanks for all your hard work and information. As a combat vet, I'll do what I can to dive further into information to help expose the people that could care less about the soldiers they used for "marketing" and steal from the gaming community. I'm here when you need it bud.

Jabbers is a stone cold bada$$ video game interviewer. I had never heard of him before but wow he knows his stuff. He asked all the right questions and he knew what UE5 can and cannot do down to some finer details. I've been using Unreal since 2012 (UDK, UE4, and 5) and I'm really impressed

As an AVID DCS player, this is so heartwarming to hear about TWScam. Although I'm not surprised someone like Spud was associated. It fits.

Just to note the start of the video: The old DCS F15 didn't have a simulated cockpit, meaning you could not press most if not all thr buttons, the new one is fully simulated with all buttons clickable.

I consider any game that has in game purchases to be a scam and will never play such games

I’ve dealt with Ali personally and have a failed business with him after HS. Glad to see he’s still up to his old tricks. 😂😅

Been playing dcs for many years. I cannot express how much I was smiling when I heard jabbers voice.

Fun fact: An actual military tank operator leaked classified documents to prove he was right in an online argument about a tank in War Thunder.

When your scammer call center gets shut down. Ali: Lets try scamming sim gamers, they’re stupid.

I have known some people and had a college roommate like this guy and it's disturbing. Not knowing what is real and loving in their own made up like of a world. I knew a guy who faked that he was in the military and told all these stories. All farfetched and hard to believe. Came out later he ended up in rehab and was just doing drugs and lied about his entire life. Makes me so peeved haha

I love the direction youre taking the channel man!! A prime example that you should make stuff about the things that inspire you!

Goat is not the hero we asked for, he's the hero we deserve.

I would love to see a follow up to this video. This is a very interesting story to keep tabs on. Also, Drewski is no fool, he saw the scam just as fast as he spots the enemy in game.

Id like to add something to using real war footage of us in video games. Im a former US Army infantryman. Ive deployed to combat, ive worked with CJSOTF (combined joint special operations task force) in Afghanistan, and ive lost quite a few friends. I can see from a civilians perspective that using us as marketing material for a game can be pretty lousy...but in reality? Its kind of an honor to the friends ive lost. It tells their story. It shows war is hell. And civilians need to understand this...we know exactly what we signed up for. We are literally asked before signing our contracts before entering service "Do you understand you may die in the line of duty for your country?" And to finalize that contract...the answer must be - "yes." We know we may die. Believe it or not, alot of us accept death when we went to combat, especially the more you saw it. You start to make friends with it, you become less and less afraid of it. We want our stories told. I remember this was a thing with "Six Days in Fallujah"....tell the story of those men. Its a new form of rememberance. How many games are there of D-Day? I loved playing those D-Day missions in Medal of Honor and call of duty because i knew what i was basically re-enacting really happened and im seeing it in a first person view and it let reality sink in that this was fucking real. It made me respect those men, honor those men....and remember those men. I just want any dev who sees this comment to think that. I would still kindly ask if you would reach out and still ask if its ok because not every combat vet may feel the way I do but I know the boys i served with do...but not all of us are alike. But generally, we welcome it.

I previously worked around military planes. And even when we had a simple software update, we had to ask a Boeing Engineer to fly out and do the update…I’m not from the US… For a plane that was build 20years ago… This dude is like: yea, a simple google search will do the trick…

The journalist none of us saw coming, but the one we all deserve. Your evolution is rather extraordinary. Cheers.

When I hear Ali Mahvan saying "I'm a Businessman", I already know that for sure he "worked" with web3 and now are trying something that in his mind will be profitable

There are plenty of "business people" who think this is just how business works. the product is optional. the sales pitch is all that counts. The scary part is that they genuinely don't think they are scammers.

Sounds like something my cat would do "I´m so going to scam people via a video game that panders to the nerdiest of nerds without having shit to show"

What sucks is that it makes people only trust the big companies to produce games, but can spread to any market like in retail. We all know how stale games from these large companies can get like Ubisoft or EA. Either get boring games or get ripped off, doesn't seem to be an in between option.

"Yeah I'm kind of a pro gamer. I have 11 subs on youtube."

Don't have any doubts about any of the video, but at about 15:00 it talks about nanite and this is actual possible. Nanite doesn't support deformation, so character animations where the body distorts around joints is impossible. However, rigid animation with separate pieces is possible which is good for robots and tanks with fixed joints. The valley of nanite (I think is the name) demo does this with a massive robot at the end. Again, doesn't take away from how scummy this scam is, just thought I'd clarify the one thing I have knowledge about.

Played 1.6 with this guy in '07/08. Been a sub since 10K. Great videos dude! Love your stuff. Glad you're doing well! ~Kspree

I would say you don’t see scams in those games as much because the audience seems more detailed oriented then most other.

That top secret fail bro... I still cant comprehend it

Star citizen and Tarkov devs breathing sighs of relief right that this developer is so sketchy that it makes them look downright professional.

Your analysis of the board members was f****** amazing.

I hope Ali is aware that succesfully securing a judgement in a Defamation or Libel Suit is EXREMELY Difficult, you not only have to prove that what Goat said is untrue ( which it's not ) but also that he knew it was false, AND that they meant to do malice / harm. It's an incredibly high bar to reach , and Ali is going to end up being countersued for Lawyers fees and damages when he inevitabely fails at this defamation suit.

As a hardcore DCS player and real world pilot, it’s cool to see someone talk about the game that is so important to me, and seeing his reaction to it is brilliant.

So, I saw Asmongold review your Wiggle video on Tarkov and I somehow ended up to your most recent video and now involved into this. This is crazy and I am praying that everything goes your way with this lawsuit and your family. Someone who scams should be put behind bars over people selling bud.. especially these large scale scams. Keep up the good work and hopefully I see more videos from you.

There is such a thing as a blacklist in government contracting circles. This company just might be on it soon

We've been calling this Track While Scam for years. Thanks for covering this. I was really excited back when Ali was trying to hype Sharebert as DCS World's entry into the pro gaming market, which obviously went nowhere because DCS World is not much of a spectator sport unless you're REALLY into air combat, and because he likely never had any real connections to the pro gaming circuit anyway. This was before any of the Track While Scam nonsense.

To be fair, years ago my buddy got DCS A-10 with the full manual and HOTAS setup, I got up and airborne from his pointers, then promptly pulled the levers for the engine extinguishers and somehow managed to crash land with barely any control, and man, I'll almost always remember that because when I started up I joked "Bah I probably won't even get off the ground"

he really said learning visual studio has been a nightmare LMAOOOO.

Please enable closed captions. I do not have any issues with sight or sound but use them on all videos.

Please be carefull if you are going to install anything they send you, we all know what happend to your pc after you exposed someone like this . And keep up the work, can't wait for a follow up on this

Im glad I stuck around after your departure from Tarkov. I knew there was something special with you and I have not been disappointed. Keep up the good work, dude!

Very impressive video. I believe you have the talent to become extremely successful with this kind of format. The pacing and delivery of the video was on point and kept me very interested for the whole duration. Hella good job!

thank you for your work researching and creating this video. as a part of the flight sim community, this hits home for me and im glad someone out there has the spine and courage to expose truth in this space when we need it. bravo and thanks again. you earned my sub.

This is like opening a can of worms, and there’s another can worms, in that can of worms.

Yo @Jabbers really was articulate and knew UE5 as an engine. It is really fun to see someone with knowledge challenge a "business man" on a technical subject.

Stopping a new Chronicles of Elyria before it takes off. Good job, G0at! Thanks for helping the gaming community (again.)