Sorry for image brightness, I use HDR.
I wasn't even trying to go for a nuke, just casually playing and on my 4th point capture I suddenly notice the nuke icon. I was playing in a nearly-spaded Marder A1- and a stock Luchs A2 (with parts).
Was genuinely surprised it was possible getting a nuke with only 6 kills.
Pre-rant note: I have nothing against Greek vehicles or Greeks specifically. I'm happy you have representation in the game but I don't believe it should've been as an Israel subtree.
Ever sience soon-to-be 5 years ago when Israel was first added to War Thunder, I was excited about all the cool unique vehicles that could be represented in the game. The launch state was a bit sorry but I still held hope for a bright future. Every passing update I watched as Gaijin adds nothing unique, instead they fill the tree with copy&paste. Me and my buddies at Shiryon Archive worked day and night to find reliable info on as many Israeli vehicles as we could, and many often times we've felt our attempts were to no avail, and yet we persisted. We scoured every courner of the internet's archived 2004 shitty websites and brochures, talked with experts and retired crews, built a huge list of vehicles with specifications for all and did other projects with them.
And now, after Israel had been left to rot for so long, Gaijin finally adds them a subtree that contains NOTHING but copy&paste. Not a single Greek vehicle added this update is unique in any shape or form. All of them are vehicles existing in other trees. It's the only subtree to be this way, even BeNeLux has half a dozen unique vehicles. I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist but it really feels like Gaijin does this in purpose to diminish the rich history of Israeli vehicle development. To this damn day Gaijin didn't add iconic vehicles such as the Pereh/Hafitz, or even considered expanding the tech tree to rank III even tho it could easily be expanded even all the way to rank I and still have plenty of unique vehicles.
This was a mistake. I guess now I feel how the Franch vehicle research team felt when the BeNeLux subtree got added. So many cool ideas to add, but Gaijin takes the easy route because it's more important to model and sell premium vehicles for the price of AAA games.
While doomscrolling, I've come across a video of an arrest in Nabulis. The guy filming in the video, speaking in Hebrew, said the 15 year old girl just attempted and failed to stab soldiers. He pleaded the soldiers to shoot her, which seemed to piss off the police officer enough to get him to distance the person right as the footage cuts off.
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The thing is, the post in this subreddit does not mention the girl's attempted murder, instead making it out to be as if the soldiers decided to arrest and shoot her for fun, encouraged by the """settler""" filming it. All I did was point out that the guy said she tried to stab soldiers before, and a mod instantly banned me and deleted my comment. When I modmailed the subreddit trying to understand why I was banned, I discovered I was also pre-emptively muted. And the most ironic part? The subreddit's name is "depropagandized news", and the mod who banned me is spreading propaganda by silencing an important pirce of the story to spread their agenda.
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This is by no means me attempting to convince anyone here to brigade the sub, please don't do that. I'm just sick at how I constantly see misinformation on this platform and whenever I point out that misinformation I almost always get called a "hasbara bot" then instabanned. I feel powerless against a well-oiled propaganda machine that dehumanizes me and my countryfolk. I started seeing people call Israelis "literal demons" in comment sections and openly call for the extermination for Israel, a lot more often recently than before.
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I feel terrible. Terrified, angry, and sad all the same. I'm so pissed to see such behavior that'd get you canceled if it was about any other international comminity, but it's open season when it's da juice appetently. Is there anything I can do?
I use sentries a lot, and played a few games to see what all the commotion is about. I much prefer Hive Guards in their current form than what they used to be. The lower health makes them drop faster, especially when using AP2 weapons like the Trident. Their weakspots are rather easy to hit even if you don't like to aim.
People always use sentries wrong, they are suppised to take the heat off of you, not play the game for you. I really hope Arrowhead reverts the change's removal.
You know how in most shitpost videos there's a beat playing in the background while some GIF plays and a wild text appears on screen? I'm looking for a specific one I used to find all the time but now I can't find it anymore.
It goes like this:
* Violin (or some other sort of light string instrument - C D# D C D# D C #D D C #D D C D# D C C D# D C D# D C D# D C #D D C, C C.
* Some sort of a high-bass sound effect, sounds like deflating baloon or farting maybe?
I remember that sometimes there was also a man's scream during the middle of the string instrument part.
Tried to record myself mocking the beat: https://voca.ro/1aBIyittxJme
Sounds bad but maybe it could flip a memory switch for someone?
זה יוצא מכלל שליטה! לפני שבוע זה היה פסל של ישו, עכשיו זה תשתיות אנרגיה ומים של כפר נוצרי בלבנון, איך דברים כאלה מתאפשרים בכלל??? חיילי מילואים עושים מה שבזין שלהם, אין משמעת צבאית בכלל, מתנהגים כמו ילדים בכיתה ט' בטיול שנתי.
זה רע *מאוד* לתדמית הלאומית שלנו וזה מתחיל להשפיע גם על אנשים שעד עכשיו היו בצד שלנו. אני לא יודע למה לא מראים את זה בתקשורת בישראל אבל הצבא חייב להתאפס משמעתית ודחוף! זה מרתיח לי את הדם לראות חיילים מתנהגים ככה.