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  If anything, this is a testimony to how good the game is.
context: If more people played games fewer would be fooled by this sort of “footage” in the first place. Yeah you heard me right, save the world, play Arma. >
  
  Arma is at it again. This game has been fooling journalists and the public for many years.everyone with a pc good enough ahold try it. >
  
  ARMA 4 coming soon, I wonder how bad it will trick people once they've worked out the inevitable bugs and jank like burned out tank hulls being launched into orbit and whatnot. >
  
  ARMA Reforger has been fantastic as a technical demo of what's to come. ARMA 4 can be insane. >
  
  Must be a slow news day. >
  
  Its all about clicks nowadays. >
  
  I love how they do a deep analytical dive of the videos to verify if they are fake or real. Meanwhile, I'm sitting here in 0.1 seconds being like, "Oh yeah, that's Arma" >
  
  I know, they could probably ask the local gamer in the office or newsroom and get an answer lol >
  
  Yeah but then when the article simply says “We asked Josh in IT and he said it was ARMA.” People would give them shit for barely investigating and not having any evidence other than “one of our people said so.” >
  
  As if they wouldn't rephrase it as: "we consulted our staff technical expert who readily identified the footage as being from a video game, they specifically identified it as being from the game ARMA" >
  
  Thanks for the link! 🙏🏻 Great points! >
  
  Should have took C&C footage for fear mongering.
  "Breaking News. Mysterious Sect kills beloved african leader Nikumba." >
  
  We need to give Ukraine a bunch of Prism tanks. >
  
  It is pretty wild that we've gotten to the point that regular game footage is good enough to be passed off as real war footage. Like i remember as a kid thinking how wild some of the Atari games looked, and now we got this level of shit. >
  
  As great as Arma is, it does not look even remotely realistic. That game is visually 10+ years behind the industry standard. How people think that this is actual war footage is beyond me. If this was footage from Unreal Engine 5 I would understand getting fooled. >
  
  Well, ARMA3 is 10 years old, so yeah.  
  Just make it pixellated, avoid closeups of anything, and lots of smoky or night shots. >
  
  Smoke would make it look even less realistic >
  
  People continue to be really goddamn stupid
  News at 10
  If you fall for video game footage and think that it's real breaking footage, then I'm sorry, that's on you. I've seen a few Arma and DCS clips passed off as the real thing and it's always incredibly obvious. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 89%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  The dramatic visuals have the trappings of real-life combat, but they are clips from video games fuelling misinformation.
  In the comments under one Arma 3 video titled "Ukraine's counteroffensive!" - which simulated a missile strike on a column of tanks - a user, who apparently took it as real, wrote: "We must ask Ukraine after this war to train NATO forces how to fight."
  Bohemia Interactive has urged users to use gaming footage responsibly, refrain from using clickbait video titles and clearly state that it was derived from a video game.
  
  
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  "Footage appears to show soldiers aiming rocket launchers at their own feet and firing in an effort to leap high into the air, crouching repeatedly on the faces on dead enemies, and one particular soldier named IfuXXdUrMom69 who appears able to shoot through walls and possessing supernaturally accurate aim that never misses." >
  
  we have actually seen a few russians fire rpgs at their feet in their trenches/foxholes.