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Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks

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Cited on HN 5 times, 2018–2025, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN people bring it up as a joke when a thread is about games or simulators that chase realism and end up tedious.

An Onion News Network parody of a 'hyper-realistic' modern warfare game whose gameplay consists of paperwork, waiting for orders and repairing trucks.

5 jokes · Comedy

5 Hacker News comments

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@D_Mil_Realism Mar 2025 Makes a joke
on HN thread Magical Instant Bullets
I never played Arma, to be fair. I always gravitated more toward the "brain-rot" games! But you're right of course, realistic games use more realistic ballistic models (and everything else). One reason I never got too into the simulator games was that the line between "real" and "game" is always going to be very arbitrary. No simulator will replicate the experience of slogging over a marshy mountain carrying 100 lbs and a GPMG! The Onion said it best: [this video]

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