You play Arma for the rigorous realism, i play Arma to link the physics of a Helicopter to a Bus so i can finally find out if the 101st would survive Fortnite.
I remember OG America's Army, going through all the training modules to get all the ribbons, that was the coolest bit of propaganda I've ever been exposed to lol
I can about 80% attribute my enlistment to OG America's Army. I was so excited to get to use a real SAW because I shredded with that thing in competitive matches. Then I decided that one term was enough for me when the SAW I got my hands on was a POS built before I was born that kept breaking the belt links and dropping the belt box. Could I sue for false advertising?
One of the best chilled out miltube channel with surprisingly fresh and deep takes. This propaganda aspect of video games violence seems to be really overlooked. I'm a fan of tactical shooters but I can't even count how many vets I've heard talking about how CoD influenced their decision to join military. Also thank you for this content. I can't watch McBeth and others after Gaza anymore. You seem ok.
Also remember Americas Army very well. I was a 13 year old German kid with no money for games. Those games were pretty fun and you could play with your friends! So thanks USA for free games :D Thankfully, once I turned 18 the mandatory 9 month of military service was abolished and I never had to larp real life military and get my colon fingered. I am all for a well equipped army, but the mandatory service was a joke. 😅
As a kid on their crappy Emachines pc in 2003. Operation Flashpoint was the best open world game on the market. Played that for many years. Always wanted to see how much better the government training version was. Until in like 2007 the army had a recruitment truck semi with it playing as a sim for people to try. I topped all the challenges and left the recruiters amazed. I said, I've been playing this for years everyday at home. Which made them more amazed.
Is like the list of groups Saw Gerrera lists off in Andor lol. Separatists neo-Republicans. The Ghorman front, The Partisan alliance, Sectorists! Human cultists! Galaxy partitionists! A real who's who of craziness and I love it
I have been playing Wargames since my 12th birthday. Oddly enough I learned somethings in Operation Flash Point that transferred to actual combat, like noticing the things out place in the environment. In shrubbery i noted the smooth line of a helmet it ugh kept us from being directly in the kill zone during an ambush. It also taught me that you can do everything right and still die.
Hey Justin, been watching since you were in Westpoint, I was a senior in highschool at the time. Hows civilian life treating you. I’m on my last year of my enlistment man and I get so anxious seeing what my life would be outside of the organization. Anyways always love your stuff brother.
For real. If it’s a post apocalyptic WWIII hellscape out there and no one in the group was military or police, I’m leading the fire team because I played the shit out of full spectrum warrior 😂😂😂
It was in the first draft of the script but I couldn’t tie it in as much. My joke with it was going to be about “not sure if spectrum in the title refers to autism or sexuality but regardless the game was published”
My friend still has the OG Operation Flashpoint disc. When it came out, he was the only one of my friends with a Pentium 4 PC and so i would come visit to watch him play. The reason the game got burned into my memory was because aside english, it was also available in czech, dubbing too, i was blown away at the time. One thing i remember the most about this game, i begged mom to buy me a mouse with a wheel, because the menus had you select the options with it and as a kid, i didnt know a way around it lmao. Good times.
Not sure if true, but there was a big rumor around COVID that the US Army mechanized units were using Warthunder for training. There was a joke "Yeah, they'll learn the value of M18's rushing the A point." I could see that, it's one of the better off the shelf simulators. I'm genuinely surprised there's not USAF pilots playing DCS
There are pilots from multiple branches you play DCS. Some former ans current serving. Some of them are even content creators that makes stuff about DCS.
Wikipedia tells me "the United States Air Force's 355th Training Squadron at Davis-Monthan AFB makes use of DCS as an instrument and weapons-system trainer for the A-10C. The use of virtual reality headsets is preferred for a more immersive experience."
One of my favorite games in high school was Conflict Desert Storm. A little over a year after graduating hs, I deployed to the toilet known as Camp Bucca
there's a funny love/hate relationship I guess. used to watch a lot of starcraft, and the favorite players having to go do their mandatory military service, then come back and play starcraft when they were done. tom clancy (ghost recon?) comes to mind though, for military recruitment, or maybe slant six... SOCOM. Like that always gets me goin. but definitely arma and all the psyops around arma footage, ehehe.
I played the shit out of AA back in the day. I had a shit mouse and had to let someone else use my account to get marksman because my $8 PC Show mouse didn't have the precision. I would play for like 12 hours straight just as basic rifleman and out-snipe snipers with it. Good times, good times.
Wish you had touched up on more modern offerings like Steel Beasts, GHPC and DCS. Then following that line you had things like M1 Tank Platoon 1 and M1 Tank Platoon 2 which came after marine doom or B-17 Flying Fortress which came before marine doom and was simulating WW2 bomber missions.
I played the hell out of Operation Flashpoint dragon rising and red river when I was a kid. COD and BF could never scratch that “realistic” combat experience itch like those games.
Video games cause violence. There’s no argument. If I’m 100 points off of a nuke in war thunder and get vaporized by a 1,000 kg bomb, I’m sending my mouse to computer god.
Forgot to talk about my favorite game, Digital Combat Simulator World I like helicopters. "Some air forces have used DCS World as a training aid. A professional version called Mission Combat Simulator (MCS) is available for organizational use. The United States Air Force's 355th Training Squadron at Davis-Monthan AFB makes use of DCS as an instrument and weapons-system trainer for the A-10C. The use of virtual reality headsets is preferred for a more immersive experience. Ukrainian pilots have trained using the A-10C II and F-16C modules for DCS World." DCS: is so much fun, I wish I could fly helicopters IRL, but US military needs any random 4-year degree from a college. Almost did but when in college, but the Trump trans bans, and I'm "medically transitioned" according to Trump, thus it's too expensive for the military to afford, i pay like $20 a month on my meds, that cost way to let me fly a helicopter for the military, so not allowed in, thanks Trump, so dropped out of college because it was hard to pay, find a job while I think about what field to go into now. So to join now that Trumps gone, they're telling me it would be about... 4-year degree from college, then 2 years basic training, then 2 years officer school then 2 years flight school then after all school/training is done 10 years active deployment. That's 20 years of my life for learning to drive the fancy car that goes up and down... Why the Air Force has recruitment problems, idk? Or try to save up hundreds of thousands to do the same thing with civil aviation. I think I can budget and save enough to get a Helicopter CPL in 20 years or less, so going to try for civil, and not risk getting a dishonorable discharge over gender every time there's an election.
So I joined in 2015. One day we got to go to a building full of those simulators. We used a version of the VBS where we put on like an early VR setup w/ a weird exoskeleton of sensors and a VR headset mounted on our helmets. We had to move around in the game with controls mounted on the fore grip of the rifle. It was basically ARMA 2, but it was neat/
I cant remember the particulars nor validity, but I was a wee little PFC when armericas army came out and we played it in the barracks and we could see the potential benefits of someone joining after having played it. Even if they were to play it while waiting for their MEPS date.
America’s Army was my first shooter game on the OG Xbox. I got it for free because I had inside connections at like eight years old (my dad was a recruiter)
america's army was a solid contender for somewhat realistic tactical shooter, down to the grenade spam and learning to pixel aim the 203 into the enemy's spawn.
Haha, unusual aspirations for a six-year-old. I did eventually become a veterinarian for dogs, cats, birds etc. but not before I was sent to Southeast Asia to kill strangers.
So great. When I look at how wars are being fought now, I have no doubt in my mind that it was by a generation who grew up with video games. Like, that thing with the Bradley and T-90 was straight out of War Thunder.
Imagine if your ass would stumble upon Command and Conquer Generals in 2003. The first mission with USA is invading Baghdad and destroying WMD. Not some tree hugging civ 4 experience. 😎 And lets not forget flash game series "Madness", that game basically breeds school shooters :D
I bet you also struggle with the "the economy is crap, maybe i'll get back in uniform" And then you turn on the TV and see what ever flavor of socio-political slop that passes for news and are quickly reminded why not being in is infinitely better than whatever the heck would happen if you went back in.
See that’s why I never joined up after years in Air Cadets. I would never kill somebody I had never met before because the government told me I had to. That’s fucked up.
FPV Kamakazi Drone is a Russian copy of a game called Death from Above. 30% of the profits from the original game support the Ukrainians. I assume Russia isn't donating any of their profits to Ukraine.
ever heard of the thousands of IT specialists and programmers leaving russia after a partial mobilisation was announced? the developers are most likely russian oppositionists against kremlin regime but somebody gotta do some digging on that one
6:50 this is incorrect Technically its Kriegspeil in 1924 The Prussian/German and British armies were training officers with purpose built tabletop environments reffereed by higher rankings officers. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel In 1912 HG Wells , writer of war of the worlds Created one of the first adaptations of the british military war games to civilians hands, the successive lineage of that game can directly trace itself to dungeons and dragons
