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  Hey, if you actually believe anything governments say in a war, may as well believe a video game.
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. >
  
  If anything, this is a testimony to how good the game is. >
  
  I wish the rest of society knew how hilarious it is for someone that has thousands of hours in a3 when they say stuff like this. Arma 3 is one of the most janky video games there is. >
  
  We need to stop the Russians tanks
  plants bushes and builds 1 foot tall stone walls
  Command it's working 
  tank taps bush and flies off in to the upper atmosphere >
  
  Anyone who's played Arma for more than a few hours will tell you that Arma is nowhere near realistic enough to even pass for the kinds of things people edit it's footage for.
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  for lack of a better word the AI is braindead and the animations are robotic. >
  
  Can anyone link to fake examples? Would be interesting to see. >
  
  Wow, that’s in-game graphics? Pretty insane. >
  
  Sounds like the Facebook boomer news for Zoomers. >
  
  Any video game can look real to people who don't play them. I remember when I used to think Halo 3 looked like real life, and that Skyrim was basically a simulation. Now, Skyrim characters look like stop-motion clay that someone forgot to smooth out. I remember being afraid of how gritty and realistic Max Payne was as a kid, but recently went back to it and found myself laughing every time Max's face showed up. >
  
  Arma 3 is a decent looking game but it’s not photorealistic, even if you’ve never seen arma before you could probably tell the “footage” you are seeing looks off, like blocky or cartoony >
  
  They got their cutscene copied to save some Russian propagandist some animation time, but idk if that means they're "fueling" a wave of misinfo. >
  
  I've got the achievement where I've put somewhat of a grossly amount of hours into Arma 3 's editor alone. It's a great game that i hope the military is using now instead of AA. I've had it for years and didn't know the HIMARS was even in it because i don't mess with artillery much until lately. >
  
  I’m surprised I never saw anyone compare Russian war tactics to a game of “Plant the Bomb” in CS:GO while the world plays “America’s Army” if ARMA was too soft for you. >
  
  Russians utilize the infamous Rush B>!akhmut!< tactic >
  
  So basically get fucked and blown from Alpha and Charlie..? >
  
  This is so painfully accurate… >
  
  75% off on Steam right now.  There was another DayZ mod for it that I remember looked and played better than the standalone, at some point in that game's troubled history. >
  
  Ah yes the Arma 3 Epoch mod.  I spent many of hours riding bikes in to zombies to be launched in random directions. >
  
  That's it!  I wonder if it still works? >
  
  OORAAH DEBBADAWW 
  "He was a great man." >
  
  Reminds me when people though gameplay of DCS was the ghost of Kyiv >
  
  Anyone going to bother to mention it's been pro-ukranian sources largely pushing this obviously fake footage to push an agenda online? >
  
  Actually it's Russia that use Arma footage to report it's victories since they started bombing Syria. It seems that people in Russian state TV simply use google search to find random footage for their propaganda. >
  
  Ive been seeing  less arma 3 and more DCS >
  
  I have mates in the military that have fallen foe that cram video, yet its so obviously fake