You do that IRL and you chance separating the shell from the case and spill the propellant pellets, which are quite corrosive, all over the inside of the tube which is quite the situation because now you've got to clear that out and one spark will kill you all and knock out the vehicle.
At a convention, someone had set up a multiplayer simulation that wasn't 'Star Trek' in a copyrightable way, but basically was like the original show where five people ran the bridge and someone played the Captain. Stations included navigation, science and engineering. Not the thrill of a first person shooter, it did have the enjoyment of an immersive RPG table top game with the props of really running your station.
It was all set up as a bunch of computers and each one ran a 'station'. It was so long ago, I can't remember if there was a main viewer. It wasn't particularly fancy or polished, but the concept was there. It felt more like a table top RPG than a computer simulation, at least the way it was run. It was slow paced, the immersive and fascinating for me. 🤓
The problem is the operators don't last long. This is a very real problem with the US military. Seeing up close and almost personal the people they're killing every single day wears them out very quickly, very badly, and most burn out in very little time. The drone op division has its own psychologist staff specifically for the trauma it causes.
IIRC its still a brass shell on the way out. Plus the bottle wouldn't survive the full weight of the shell, just more than an empty plastic bottle (and a bit more than 2 kilograms).
I dig this. I get it's heavily edited, but I'd love more interactive gaming like this. Badass arcade with competitive team gaming in customizable environments... Hm.
Foxwoods casino used to have just such a setup for their Loch Ness adventure or whatever it was called. There were four rooms decided out as the interior of a scifi submarine that took 6 crew members, two claw operators, a captain, navigator, and two gunners. You had screens to control your station and the goal was to collect the most Nessie eggs before the other sub teams. It was wild at the time and just all around fun.
Dating myself here but anyone remember "Virtual World" when growing up? They had Battletech and Red Planet pods. I was devastated when my mom brother and I pulled up one weekend and the doors were locked.
The BattleTech pod arcade system was mind-blowing at the time. You crawl into an actual enclosed cockpit full of blinkenlights and push buttons, along with multiple screens that you could *actually* change to different statuses/views. All of them are networked together in the arcade for deathmatch. The operator told us when we were getting in to not get too absorbed into all the buttons and stuff or else we'd get killed before we knew it.
I remember something like that from decades ago but it was ring mounted so you could feel the the walk and swung when you got hit. It was bloody expensive to play as well £5 a go
its pushing 30yrs, a school trip ago and I cant remember the name, remember the effect though and the price. It would be like €10 in new money, a lot for a rural teen at the time.
I know there was a company that wanted to make replicas of the Original Steel Battalion Controller (locked system) and make it so that you could use it in any game whit support for controller support and using the standard USB2 / USB3 port.
Disney World used to have a venue called Disney Quest that was a 5 story building with various attractions, most of them virtual (like a build-your-own rollercoaster that you would then ride in a motion simulator called CyberSpace Mountain). Two of the best attractions were Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for Buccaneer Gold and Buzz Lightyear's AstroBlaster. In the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction up to 5 people got on a “boat”; one person was the captain and would steer while everyone 1/?
This was not a fever dream. I did that 25 years ago, it was AMAZING. The cannons, the enormous viewing angle, the pitching of the ship… very memorable. Also a magic carpet VR ride?
else worked the cannons. The boat was surrounded almost entirely by screens projecting your surroundings and enemy ships, and it was 3D (required glasses). Ridiculously fun, best with 5 people if you were going for a high score. The Buzz Lightyear ride was bumper car tanks. A cage surrounded the bumper car with several targets. Rubber balls like you’d use in dodgeball were everywhere. There was a gap in the car where you could drive over them to collect them, then load them in your cannon. 2/?
The cannon fired out the front and if you hit one of the targets on another bumper car they’d spin around for several seconds. 10/10, no notes, perfect attraction and upgrade over normal bumper cars. Those two I would love to see return to Disney somewhere. The Pirates of the Caribbean ride might need a graphics upgrade (it looked amazing in 2000 but some of the VR stuff looked a little dated by 2006/2007 when I last went) but was otherwise fantastic. End/End
Pretty bad ass! There is this place Nauticus and when I was a kid they had this interactive 3D game where up to 6 people went into this sub with the mission of collecting endangered eggs but ya know capitalism there are two other teams of 6 doing the same thing. There was a left arm, pilot, right arm, captain, and two periscopes. The captain had a scanner, windshield wipers, and recall the arms. Arms could collect eggs (and would have to be recalled to store) and fire this goo stuff to ...
Block the vision of other subs and temporarily disable their ship if ya hit them enough. Periscopes did the same, one on the top of the ship and one on the bottom with 360 degrees of view. Ugh it was the best.
Maybe unpopular, maybe cowardly, but I like a *good* motion coaster more than the real thing. Went on one a couple weeks back that had cold mist for flying through the clouds, and both the floor and ceiling were part of the screen
Maybe 20 years ago that would be called cowardly but given the systemic lack of maintenance across the board I am probably never setting foot on a real rollercoaster again
This idea would be so insanely good at an arcade. You queue up 3v3 and the other team is on the opposing side of you with a sort of crowd area with displays that show what the teams see and an overhead view of the fight.
Humans are naturally competitive and is part of social bonding. Since competing amongst one another (ex: play fighting) in a safe environment improves both parties. Same concept as "competition drives innovation". We're social creatures and that's a core part of it. It's fine that that's how you feel, but know that the average person will have more fun playing a 3v3 experience than a co-op one, no matter the outcome.
TBH I feel that's more of a social conditioning thing than an inherent thing. Particularly in the west. If you look around at different cultures, kids' games vary from cooperative to competitive. And certainly when I was a kid a few decades back in the US, there were basically no cooperative games even offered to us. Everything adults presented us with was competitive. I find I enjoy cooperative games more, and I want to be the change I'd like to see in the world as well.
If you think a non-competitive mindset is the correct mindset, I have news for you. All social animals play competitively amongst themselves. There's a reason animals have evolved with this instinct. It's because it works. You are the outlier here.
Now we just need an arcade thats popular again. Dave and busters wont cut it for this level of involvement i feel like. Half their attraction games are already offline or busted when i get there, even on weekends.
I've dreamt for a long time of opening an arcade that was more akin to a theme park. Each experience is more of an attraction than just a quick corny game. And this arcade would utilize all the newest technology. One of the examples would be loading up into a fake airplane hull with VR goggles and jumping out over top of a fan while wearing a harness to keep you hoisted as a way to simulate skydiving. I have a bunch of ideas for attractions within this concept.
Artillery completely ignoring the support role and opting to piss all over individual targets, matchmaker that isn't skill based, absolutely no drawbacks at all to using premium ammunition so it became the standard in all matches, standing still is always rewarded more than moving around, all maps are 90% useless space, clan wars literally rigging itself, armor falls under either "completely useless" or "utterly impenetrable", most money tanks are lazy reskins of standard tanks, ECT.
They enacted the Russian laws about history, such as not writing about Soviet service men being killed, and how the Germans must always loose. They also prioritised Russian documents (which later turned out to be fake) over western ones. They also rigged mechanics to give Russian kit much better performance than Western.
Frankly, they started in Minsk. And they had studios in Russia. Moving the central office to Cyprus was purely financial decision, escape to tax paradise. SerB, one of the fathers of WoT has announced his support to russian invasion of Ukraine. And was instantly fired from the company.
The creative director supported Russia's genocide in Ukraine. Also the game was very aggressively Russian propaganda given the performance of Russian hardware in that game compared to the performance of Russian hardware IRL. And since we know that WoT was given unprecedented access to classified Russian tank archives and information it's fair to say that their decision to make Russian tech look good was deliberate rather than balanced.
It's also World of Tanks, given that the guy who was creative director at the company is a big fan of Russia's ongoing genocide and the game itself was extremely pro-russian.
Idk, a quick search shows me that the company responsible for World of Tanks, Wargaming, left Belarus and Russia due to Russia invading Ukraine.. this was 2 years ago. They didn't say so explicitly that it was because of the invasion of Ukraine, but they did fire Sergey Burkatovskiy for being pro-war (regarding the invasion of Ukraine).
It was owned and operated by Russian fanbois for a decade of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They didn't divest themselves of their Russian influence until a full year into Russia's genocide of Ukraine...right around the time they started getting boycott.
If I boycotted every nations products based on their foreign policy….I would t be here. We’ll all quick to throw stones but neither the US or UK can say they don’t have blood on their hands. Iraq & the ‘WMD’ bullshit was that long ago. With that said, with the US’s support of the Palestinian genocide….why are we all still using this app?
mercure
Meanwhile the army is using x-box controller to reduce the training time.
IxnayOnTheOttenRay
IslaNublar
JESUS CHRIST THAT'S NERDY! I LOOOOVE IT!
AdroitCudgel
Jdizzle34993
Step one: make not only one friend, but two.
TheHuntedSnark
A for affort.
12Rewtd
A Volkswagen steering wheel…i think i know what side they are fighting for.
Jawesome19
I always wanted a video game qherw I had to actually do the stuff in real life. Wait a second...no I dont
ButCanYouCodeIt
I'm reminded a bit of the old MechWarrior networked cockpit arcades in the mid 90's. Damn that was fun.
enderite
This reminds me of the “guys only want think about one thing.” Meme.
Durahl
MisterLemons
You do that IRL and you chance separating the shell from the case and spill the propellant pellets, which are quite corrosive, all over the inside of the tube which is quite the situation because now you've got to clear that out and one spark will kill you all and knock out the vehicle.
lonelyrangerofthedreams
Bro, buy a tank already
HisRoyalMajestyKingV
Duuuude!!
drduffer
Gunner shouldn’t also have to be the loader.
Baron29
At the beginning there was a dedicated loader, but I'm guessing he got hit (you can take out individual crew members in War Thunder)
ryo0hki
I want this... Gimme
LupusLilium
Does really seem like Sensha-dō would be popular if it were possible/feasible.
xMOISEx
ThisPleasesTheSlug
SirPhobosKnightofMarsBeaterofAss
Guys will see this and go: "Hell Yeah!"
Rayfire3535
Kite-Man.
Nengex
Hell yeah.
Loser1Alter1Ego
"ON THE WAY!!"
Heroasteral
Thank you!
NATA5
UP
Aksuuuh
Source?
kopaka1
https://youtu.be/fNZ1F7jTSMA?feature=shared
GoofyFoot
Originally posted on Twitter by an account but the post has been taken down.
https://www.dexerto.com/te">3035/">https://www.dexerto.com/tech/world-of-tanks-fans-build-wild-irl-tank-team-setup-2753035/
https://twitter.com/MapleKestrel/
FizbanTheFabulous
At a convention, someone had set up a multiplayer simulation that wasn't 'Star Trek' in a copyrightable way, but basically was like the original show where five people ran the bridge and someone played the Captain. Stations included navigation, science and engineering. Not the thrill of a first person shooter, it did have the enjoyment of an immersive RPG table top game with the props of really running your station.
zqwzzle
Star Trek bridge crew has VR and non VR
FizbanTheFabulous
It was all set up as a bunch of computers and each one ran a 'station'. It was so long ago, I can't remember if there was a main viewer. It wasn't particularly fancy or polished, but the concept was there. It felt more like a table top RPG than a computer simulation, at least the way it was run. It was slow paced, the immersive and fascinating for me. 🤓
PointyHairedJedi
That is the most effort anyone has ever put into playing World of Tanks, I think.
MisterLemons
False. The tryhards in 907s have literally rigged the game to get that tank.
aShogunNamedMarcus
gablestout
DALLASLAVOWNER
Always with the negative waves, moriarty
SwedishGuyYesIDoHaveLongBlondHairWhy
Woof woof
GemsAreOutrageousTrulyTrulyTrulyOutrageous
Cool emulation, but what the fuck is this horrible cover of 7 Nation Army ~ The White Stripes?? Jesus, I hate it. ><
Feralkyn
Not a cover but a weird fucking remix by the sounds of things
GemsAreOutrageousTrulyTrulyTrulyOutrageous
I figured one or the other. It's terrible.
kitskinner19538
Secret Ukraine Drone Operators
mrpink83
Like in Guardians of the Galaxy 2....
Gantzz321
not a bad idea at all, hardware can be replaced, skilled operators take time to replace, oh and lives are saved too.
kitskinner19538
I reckon these operators have been training for several years already!
IslaNublar
The problem is the operators don't last long. This is a very real problem with the US military. Seeing up close and almost personal the people they're killing every single day wears them out very quickly, very badly, and most burn out in very little time. The drone op division has its own psychologist staff specifically for the trauma it causes.
ronnyhugo
Put an "excellent PC graphics" filter on the video cameras. I bet its already in testing.
ronnyhugo
Just put a lot of lens flares on it. More vivid color than what is real.
knubberrub
Would take very little to tag those 2 liter bottles so the system identifies what type of round they are selecting.
ronnyhugo
Yeah just an RFID taped on the lid. Should probably have the bottles full of ball bearings or something though, for heft :D
JustTheTip88
I was thinking water and a way to drain it after shooting so it's light on the way out.
ronnyhugo
IIRC its still a brass shell on the way out. Plus the bottle wouldn't survive the full weight of the shell, just more than an empty plastic bottle (and a bit more than 2 kilograms).
Leithoa
QR / barcode or even a mechanical solution that triggers a different switch.
AThreeFootTallChocolateMooseWithFudgeEyes
use the existing bartags on the labels instead. That way, all you need is a barcode reader
drduffer
Surely, if they’re gamers, the bottles are all Mountain Dew?
kickahippie
Code red for incendiary...?
drduffer
Sure! Makes sense to me.
TankardHoot
Just the use of the bottles as shells is clever.
trumpypumpyinyourrumpy
HE or AP all day
LittleKnownOne
Two shots for Michael Jackson... HE HE
FetteredJuvenescence
HEAP (porquenolosdos.gif)
WhatzitTooya
Is pepsi okay?
relsky
Best possible reply right here.
MisterLemons
It's WoT, it's *all* gold shells all the time.
RPCharImages
No love for HESH?
ExecutorHideo
Nah, I'm on the BESH.
NATA5
I’m all about that BESH BISH
SlightlyRelatedToThePost
*Laughs in FV215b (183)*
Jerzayl
I dig this. I get it's heavily edited, but I'd love more interactive gaming like this. Badass arcade with competitive team gaming in customizable environments... Hm.
Triatticus
Foxwoods casino used to have just such a setup for their Loch Ness adventure or whatever it was called. There were four rooms decided out as the interior of a scifi submarine that took 6 crew members, two claw operators, a captain, navigator, and two gunners. You had screens to control your station and the goal was to collect the most Nessie eggs before the other sub teams. It was wild at the time and just all around fun.
BrockEffingSamson
Artemis Bridge Simulator
twitch760
Dating myself here but anyone remember "Virtual World" when growing up? They had Battletech and Red Planet pods. I was devastated when my mom brother and I pulled up one weekend and the doors were locked.
IslaNublar
The BattleTech pod arcade system was mind-blowing at the time. You crawl into an actual enclosed cockpit full of blinkenlights and push buttons, along with multiple screens that you could *actually* change to different statuses/views. All of them are networked together in the arcade for deathmatch. The operator told us when we were getting in to not get too absorbed into all the buttons and stuff or else we'd get killed before we knew it.
Joxster
I played in one of these in London. Long time ago...
L0rdinquisit0r
I remember something like that from decades ago but it was ring mounted so you could feel the the walk and swung when you got hit. It was bloody expensive to play as well £5 a go
L0rdinquisit0r
its pushing 30yrs, a school trip ago and I cant remember the name, remember the effect though and the price. It would be like €10 in new money, a lot for a rural teen at the time.
ZackWester
Reminds me of the steel battalion controller. but this is on a whole other level.
RevolutionOnHerLips
there's a child in my heart who still wants that game even tho it'll never happen
ZackWester
I know there was a company that wanted to make replicas of the Original Steel Battalion Controller (locked system) and make it so that you could use it in any game whit support for controller support and using the standard USB2 / USB3 port.
taurondir
The Mechwarrior pods were pretty neat, if you overheated you had to punch a code into a pad within X seconds or the mech would shit down
jqubed
Disney World used to have a venue called Disney Quest that was a 5 story building with various attractions, most of them virtual (like a build-your-own rollercoaster that you would then ride in a motion simulator called CyberSpace Mountain). Two of the best attractions were Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for Buccaneer Gold and Buzz Lightyear's AstroBlaster. In the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction up to 5 people got on a “boat”; one person was the captain and would steer while everyone 1/?
gettingtwelveblueshellsinarow
This was not a fever dream. I did that 25 years ago, it was AMAZING. The cannons, the enormous viewing angle, the pitching of the ship… very memorable. Also a magic carpet VR ride?
jqubed
else worked the cannons. The boat was surrounded almost entirely by screens projecting your surroundings and enemy ships, and it was 3D (required glasses). Ridiculously fun, best with 5 people if you were going for a high score. The Buzz Lightyear ride was bumper car tanks. A cage surrounded the bumper car with several targets. Rubber balls like you’d use in dodgeball were everywhere. There was a gap in the car where you could drive over them to collect them, then load them in your cannon. 2/?
jqubed
The cannon fired out the front and if you hit one of the targets on another bumper car they’d spin around for several seconds. 10/10, no notes, perfect attraction and upgrade over normal bumper cars. Those two I would love to see return to Disney somewhere. The Pirates of the Caribbean ride might need a graphics upgrade (it looked amazing in 2000 but some of the VR stuff looked a little dated by 2006/2007 when I last went) but was otherwise fantastic. End/End
Jerzayl
Pretty bad ass! There is this place Nauticus and when I was a kid they had this interactive 3D game where up to 6 people went into this sub with the mission of collecting endangered eggs but ya know capitalism there are two other teams of 6 doing the same thing. There was a left arm, pilot, right arm, captain, and two periscopes. The captain had a scanner, windshield wipers, and recall the arms. Arms could collect eggs (and would have to be recalled to store) and fire this goo stuff to ...
Jerzayl
Block the vision of other subs and temporarily disable their ship if ya hit them enough. Periscopes did the same, one on the top of the ship and one on the bottom with 360 degrees of view. Ugh it was the best.
tarnok
So live action sea of thieves. I'm so ready for that omg
jqubed
Basically, but just PvE battles. That’s not to knock it; it was pretty much a perfect arcade experience.
Ryebread91
Yeah that place was awesome. Forgot about the pirate game.
wadatahmydamie
Maybe unpopular, maybe cowardly, but I like a *good* motion coaster more than the real thing. Went on one a couple weeks back that had cold mist for flying through the clouds, and both the floor and ceiling were part of the screen
GenuineBeamm
Maybe 20 years ago that would be called cowardly but given the systemic lack of maintenance across the board I am probably never setting foot on a real rollercoaster again
TheMeatIncident
Ngl a flight on the back of a dragon would be a good motion coaster
ALiteruhCola
This idea would be so insanely good at an arcade. You queue up 3v3 and the other team is on the opposing side of you with a sort of crowd area with displays that show what the teams see and an overhead view of the fight.
FetteredJuvenescence
I was with you until you said 3v3. I'd be down for a purely co-op version but I generally avoid competitions of all kinds.
ALiteruhCola
Humans are naturally competitive and is part of social bonding. Since competing amongst one another (ex: play fighting) in a safe environment improves both parties. Same concept as "competition drives innovation". We're social creatures and that's a core part of it. It's fine that that's how you feel, but know that the average person will have more fun playing a 3v3 experience than a co-op one, no matter the outcome.
FetteredJuvenescence
TBH I feel that's more of a social conditioning thing than an inherent thing. Particularly in the west. If you look around at different cultures, kids' games vary from cooperative to competitive. And certainly when I was a kid a few decades back in the US, there were basically no cooperative games even offered to us. Everything adults presented us with was competitive. I find I enjoy cooperative games more, and I want to be the change I'd like to see in the world as well.
ALiteruhCola
If you think a non-competitive mindset is the correct mindset, I have news for you. All social animals play competitively amongst themselves. There's a reason animals have evolved with this instinct. It's because it works. You are the outlier here.
borgmaster
Now we just need an arcade thats popular again. Dave and busters wont cut it for this level of involvement i feel like. Half their attraction games are already offline or busted when i get there, even on weekends.
ALiteruhCola
I've dreamt for a long time of opening an arcade that was more akin to a theme park. Each experience is more of an attraction than just a quick corny game. And this arcade would utilize all the newest technology. One of the examples would be loading up into a fake airplane hull with VR goggles and jumping out over top of a fan while wearing a harness to keep you hoisted as a way to simulate skydiving. I have a bunch of ideas for attractions within this concept.
ALiteruhCola
Problem is that it takes a ton of money to do it successfully. There's a reason why there's only a handful of legit theme parks in the US.
Cindex1337
And why most of them have been around for a while. Recovery cost on huge games like that is a LONG time, even with absurd prices.
0570
How many hours of War Thunder to unlock this?
knotydes
0 cuz this is World of Tanks.
GoofytheScot
I think it's behind a paywall
Dolenmorgul
All of them I think
Whitebeardthepirate
oh you don'\t need hours. All you need is to give your name, address, Social insurance number, bank account number and PW, and the deed to your house.
Burke616
Ha ha ha! Having the deed to a house! That's a good one!
PicassoCT
Oh, you get this sweet piece of kid for posting military documents..
TurboPuns21
Bout tree fitty
Wor3q
It's unlocked after posting 5 top secret tank manuals.
harmlesspotato
theweezel69
Do they have to be tank specifically?
ShiftingPattern
Yes. The version you get for submitting aircraft manuals is very different and a lot more dangerous.
theweezel69
For me, for the enemy, or for both? Two of the three I am ok with. The third only if there is soft curvy bodies and leather involved.
Curii
Wrong game, its WoT...
MisterLemons
An odd choice. That was hands down the most mechanically toxic game I've ever played.
The only winning move is not to play.
AzgarOgly
can you explain "mechanically toxic"?
MisterLemons
Artillery completely ignoring the support role and opting to piss all over individual targets, matchmaker that isn't skill based, absolutely no drawbacks at all to using premium ammunition so it became the standard in all matches, standing still is always rewarded more than moving around, all maps are 90% useless space, clan wars literally rigging itself, armor falls under either "completely useless" or "utterly impenetrable", most money tanks are lazy reskins of standard tanks, ECT.
AzgarOgly
Do you wanna talk about it?
Curii
Well, it was better than the Russian propaganda that was War Thunder.
Falkh12
First time I'm hearing about this. Care to elaborate?
Curii
They enacted the Russian laws about history, such as not writing about Soviet service men being killed, and how the Germans must always loose. They also prioritised Russian documents (which later turned out to be fake) over western ones. They also rigged mechanics to give Russian kit much better performance than Western.
VibratingNipples
looks like World of tanks console to me.
blaghart
Isn't World of Tanks the Russian propaganda video game?
VibratingNipples
It was never in Russia. Their main headquarters is in Nicosia, Cyprus. They were in Minsk, Belarus up to 2011, but moved to Nicosia.
AzgarOgly
Frankly, they started in Minsk. And they had studios in Russia.
Moving the central office to Cyprus was purely financial decision, escape to tax paradise.
SerB, one of the fathers of WoT has announced his support to russian invasion of Ukraine. And was instantly fired from the company.
enterusernamehere25
They left Russia at the start of the invasion of Ukraine
blaghart
The creative director supported Russia's genocide in Ukraine. Also the game was very aggressively Russian propaganda given the performance of Russian hardware in that game compared to the performance of Russian hardware IRL. And since we know that WoT was given unprecedented access to classified Russian tank archives and information it's fair to say that their decision to make Russian tech look good was deliberate rather than balanced.
Frederf
I mean aren't they all?
rusrsdude
Nah that's Fox News
blaghart
It's also World of Tanks, given that the guy who was creative director at the company is a big fan of Russia's ongoing genocide and the game itself was extremely pro-russian.
rusrsdude
Idk, a quick search shows me that the company responsible for World of Tanks, Wargaming, left Belarus and Russia due to Russia invading Ukraine.. this was 2 years ago. They didn't say so explicitly that it was because of the invasion of Ukraine, but they did fire Sergey Burkatovskiy for being pro-war (regarding the invasion of Ukraine).
SoulfireUK
😂🤣 it’s made in Belarus I believe.
I enjoy driving around with the flag of Ukraine.
blaghart
It was owned and operated by Russian fanbois for a decade of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They didn't divest themselves of their Russian influence until a full year into Russia's genocide of Ukraine...right around the time they started getting boycott.
SoulfireUK
If I boycotted every nations products based on their foreign policy….I would t be here. We’ll all quick to throw stones but neither the US or UK can say they don’t have blood on their hands. Iraq & the ‘WMD’ bullshit was that long ago. With that said, with the US’s support of the Palestinian genocide….why are we all still using this app?