EXCLUSIVE - Classified military documents have been leaked on the War Thunder forums—again. This time, the Eurofighter Typhoon’s radar system is at the centre of the unauthorised disclosure.
It genuinely amuses me that DCS has had very few instances of sensitive or classified information being leaked.
Whereas frigging War Thunder can’t make it a quarter without needing to scrub their forums.
I understand the reality is that it is not about authenticity and more about being able to say the missile they schlep around a hanger is the best missile in the world. But still! You would expect the sickos who get off on the exact right shade of deteriorated grey being on a bezel would care more than the War Thunder crowd.
I think Gaijin also causes this with how they “artificially balance” vehicles based on vague or basically made-up sources and ignore direct sources when it pleases them. Look at the current fiasco going on with their new $60 tank that can’t even get smoke grenades for the launcher that’s literally on the model for a perfect example.
Or, that time they refused to buff a WW2 tank and called the Wikipedia article a classified document.
But, fun fact, Wikipedia and other public websites totally CAN (unknowingly) have sensitive material on them. In large part because saying “Hey. We need you to remove that snippet that said the Asgard landed in Toronto, hitch hiked to Dallas, and blapped JFK” because… it confirms that that is “close enough” to real that it has revealed classified information.
I am not familiar with this specific event. But I can also see that as just being a catch all policy they have regarding sources to have fewer cases of governments calling them and asking them to remove “something” with the only info being “You know what it is”.
Its also why a lot of the “War Thunder or whatever has classified information leaks again!” are usually actually more just export control violations (… which are actually MUCH scarier but…).
It genuinely amuses me that DCS has had very few instances of sensitive or classified information being leaked.
Whereas frigging War Thunder can’t make it a quarter without needing to scrub their forums.
I understand the reality is that it is not about authenticity and more about being able to say the missile they schlep around a hanger is the best missile in the world. But still! You would expect the sickos who get off on the exact right shade of deteriorated grey being on a bezel would care more than the War Thunder crowd.
It’s because playing War Thunder makes people very, very angry.
Source: I play War Thunder
Why do you do that to yourself?
Force of habit. I’ve been playing it since the beta in 2013.
I think Gaijin also causes this with how they “artificially balance” vehicles based on vague or basically made-up sources and ignore direct sources when it pleases them. Look at the current fiasco going on with their new $60 tank that can’t even get smoke grenades for the launcher that’s literally on the model for a perfect example.
Or, that time they refused to buff a WW2 tank and called the Wikipedia article a classified document.
WW2 makes it incredibly unlikely
But, fun fact, Wikipedia and other public websites totally CAN (unknowingly) have sensitive material on them. In large part because saying “Hey. We need you to remove that snippet that said the Asgard landed in Toronto, hitch hiked to Dallas, and blapped JFK” because… it confirms that that is “close enough” to real that it has revealed classified information.
I am not familiar with this specific event. But I can also see that as just being a catch all policy they have regarding sources to have fewer cases of governments calling them and asking them to remove “something” with the only info being “You know what it is”.
Its also why a lot of the “War Thunder or whatever has classified information leaks again!” are usually actually more just export control violations (… which are actually MUCH scarier but…).
Honestly, good on them for fucking with the player base who can’t stop doing stupid shit on their forums for more than a handful of months.