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"Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨kid2908@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.eurogamer.net/official-russian-military-game-depicting-invasion-of-ukraine-released-on-steam-as-yunarmy-propaganda

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Time to start posting reviews with:

    • “This game is impossible to win!”
    • “I was told I could take Kyiv in 3 days. I’ve been playing for 1,190 days and I’m still not even close to Kyiv.”
    • “Why is my enemy using smart guided anti tank rockets and my soldiers are riding bicycles and wearing Adidas knock off sneakers into battle?”

    Who knows? Maybe the Russian military is out of tactical ideas and trying to crowdsource a military strategy from gamers to take Ukraine because they can’t do it themselves.

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    • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “Blatant land and money grab with impossible grind. Offers pay 2 win, but even pay 2 win doesn’t even get you through the grind. I’m selling all the oil I can for in-game currency and it’s not even making a dent. Huge rip off”

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    • gex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “In a February 2022 blog post the dev team said they would release a new Kyiv map in 3 days, it hasn’t been mentioned ever since”

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    • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When I got captured I was treated better as a POW than when I was treated by Russia.

      I don’t understand the goal of this game. Is it to loose as much friends as possible? Because that’s the only thing I’m good at.

      This game is not realistic at all. I can’t even rape and torture anyone, like I did at the front lines.

      How come there are modern weapons in this game but we have to use WW2 weapons in real life?

      I could go on and on…

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    • Case@lemmynsfw.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean, the US put out the game America’s Army as a recruitment tool.

      Passably decent multiplayer shooter for its time. Good enough to kill some time with.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Duh,just rocket jump all the way to Kiev. If you go fast enough no one will be able to stop you.

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  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    do they let players choose to be the north korean guys who say fuck this and go look at porn instead?

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    • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Coming soon as DLC.

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    • turkalino@lemmy.yachts ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      lol that happened?

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      • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/…/ar-AA1tK3mt

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s gonna be the next major Gamer lack of media literacy:

      “I didn’t know I had the option to just shoot at the russians who were being racist toward me, uninstall the game, and masturbate for weeks at a time. This game is trash and full of plot holes”

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  • VagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t think they remove military propaganda from Steam. Fascist military sims from fascist countries are specifically allowed.

    …steampowered.com/…/Americas_Army_Proving_Grounds…

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    • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Image

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      • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Me seeing you reply with that GIF, then reading your username:

        Image

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    • duchess@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What’s this? It‘s blocked in my region.

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      • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The last of America’s Army games, see this steamdb page for screenshots. I tried it years ago and got a vibe of proto-insurgency, it’s somewhat realistic, even the tutorial is decent, but as you can imagine they just wanted a good recruitment tool and this wasn’t it.

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  • Crikeste@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I wonder how people in the Middle East feel about Call of Duty.

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    • nagaram@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m sure the people of Gaza are always excited to play the “counter terrorists” on Dust 2 as well.

      It took watching a bunch of videos on Israeli weapons development before I learned who uses the fucking Negev

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      • BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You’re not going to find a weapons maker with an unproblematic background (part of the problem with sourcing arms for your SRA meetup) but IMI certainly has a bad one.

        They’ve also got a number of totally iconic weapons though. Separate the art from the artist and all that.

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Rami Ismail is Dutch but obviously cares about this topic. And when he seems to feel a particularly high level of self loathing, he talks about it online

      kotaku.com/war-games-muslim-arab-call-of-duty-pal… is a great article that includes quotes from him and discusses the topic at large.

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    war crime simulator 2025

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  • creamlike504@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Back in 2018, Steam stated its approach to content on its platform was "to allow everything onto the Steam Store, except for things that we decide are illegal, or straight up trolling".

    A social media account linked on Steam to the game’s developer includes a post suggesting Ukraine’s refusal to surrender will provide “a lot of content to make more missions in our game”.

    I’m pretty sure that qualifies.

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  • simple@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Politics aside, this is just Door Kickers with russian AI images all over. At least be creative when making propaganda.

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    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The last time a Russian had a cultural achievement that impressed the world they had a tsar. There is nothing worthwhile coming out of Russia anymore.

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Nah, the last time they did that was 1985, when Tetris came out.

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      • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Tetris and Nightwatch/Daywatch

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      • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Tatu were pretty good.

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      • pandamac@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        A tsar? What? I’m not even defending the USSR, but there were great cultural achievements coming out of Russia and the larger USSR, both critical and propaganda, in literature and film.

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  • Gregg@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    "encounter and interact with civilians“

    That’s one way to say SA/shoot them indiscriminately after kidnapping their kids

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  • drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This game probably sucks. But I do want to play a game where you get the full russian conscript experience. Cruel and incompetent leaders, squad mates you can’t communicate with because you don’t speak the same language, equipment that doesn’t work right or that you are not trained to use making bootleg alcohol that can make you go blind and a button that lets you commit suicide.

    I am sick of being special ops or some lame shit in every military game.

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  • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is this any different from the US DOD making a FPS featuring actual battles from Iraq?

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No, they both should be banned.

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    • pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You mean Conflict Desert Storm?

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      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Both the developer, Pivotal Games, and global publisher, SCi Games, of Conflict Desert Storm are British. Pivotal Games closed in 2008 and SCi is a shell subsidiary of Square Enix. The publisher for the American release was Gotham Games, a subsidiary of Take Two Interactive, which closed down in 2003.

        AFAIK, the Conflict series was not developed or funded by the United States government. To my knowledge, only “America’s Army” is a game directly funded and developed for the US government’s military branch. It also is published by the US Military.

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      • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        America’s Army in it’s initial release would have maps uploaded weeks after fighting.

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The developer better avoid driving any cars lol

    Just going to install the game to leave a negative review because if anyone deserves a review bomb it’s this.

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  • Stamau123@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Can I shoot my training cadre in the tutorial like those Central Asians did near the start of the war?

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  • Natan_San@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I am just surprised that it’s not being mass flagged. Very strange.

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  • Ok_imagination@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m going to pirate it then go and sabotage the ruskis

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    • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I thought to do the same, but I don’t want Russian software on my pc. Who knows what backdoors are built in.

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Someone needs to do a mod where your armour is tissue thin and there are waves of fibre optic drones coming down at you.

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    • Jayve@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Also, the soldiers are on crutches and there are side missions to loot toilets.

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  • SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Another thing to add to my list of why steam is a fucking shit hole since green light went away.

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    • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes… Because all those games where you play as some American grunt fighting in the middle East is something totally different and not comparable at all.

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      • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        A small fraction compared to the indie games and puzzlers, or are you one of those just shut the whole thing down so nobody is happy kind-of people?

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  • Hayduke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The ol Ender’s Game approach. Interesting move. Let’s see how it plays out.

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    • SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sacrifice then all

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  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Of course Steam would allow this.

    Notorious libertarian Lord Gaben has no issue taking fascist money.

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    • Crikeste@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Imagine getting thousands of kids addicted to gambling, while people still sing your praises. Cool world, cool people 👍🏼

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    • TheDarkestShark@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So Russians are fascist now?

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      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        … now?

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Play it just to sabotage my own teammates.

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  • el_bhm@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yunarmy: putana yugend

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Can I smack a downed drone with a missile launcher?

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  • oplkill@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    that game blocked in Ru region in steam

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