MoreAmphibians

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[–] MoreAmphibians@hexbear.net 72 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

Trump's statement on Ansar Allah.

“You know, we hit them very hard. They had a great capacity to withstand punishment. They took tremendous punishment. You can say there’s a lot of bravery there. It was amazing what they took. But we honor their commitment and their word.”

It sounds like you each will be playing your own copy of the game but making the same choices through the aid of a video call? And you're wondering how similar your experience will be?

One thing that will happen is you'll both make the same choice but one person will make it successfully and one will make in unsuccessfully. This is due to some choices being reliant on both your stats as well as random chance, the game basically rolls a die and applies your stat as a modifier. This causes different things to happen, sometimes drastically different. This would cause your experiences to diverge, sometimes drastically. On the other hand, this is an interesting aspect of the game and would give you something to talk about.

Other people have already said the other things I would have said.

[–] MoreAmphibians@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

GTA 2 was also about multiple schlubs, one of whom was even a lady!

[–] MoreAmphibians@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago (20 children)

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraines-army-have-video-game-like-digital-weapons-store-deadly-realistic/

Points for kills: How Ukraine is using video game incentives to slay more Russians

The program — called Army of Drones bonus — rewards soldiers with points if they upload videos proving their drones have hit Russian targets. It will soon be integrated with a new online marketplace called Brave 1 Market, which will allow troops to convert those points into new equipment for their units.

The program assigns points for each type of kill: 20 points for damaging and 40 for destroying a tank; up to 50 points for destroying a mobile rocket system, depending on the caliber; and six points for killing an enemy soldier.

Units will soon be able to use the special digital points they’ve been getting since last year by trading them in for new weapons. A Vampire drone, for example, costs 43 points. The drone, nicknamed Baba Yaga, or witch, is a large multi-rotor drone able to carry a 15-kilogram warhead. The Ukrainian government will pay for the drones that are ordered and will deliver them to the front-line unit within a week.

The scheme is aimed at directing more equipment to the most effective units.

Soldiers will be able to leave reviews on the site to guide future purchases.

“For example, we have increased the number of points for infantry elimination from two to six, and that has doubled the number of destroyed enemies in one month,” Fedorov said. “This is not just a system of motivation, this is a mechanism that changes the rules of war.”