War Thunder Forums Have, For the Third Time, Been Used to Leak Classified Military Intel
War Thunder players have leaked confidential military intelligence on the game forums for the third time, in response to the Chinese tank ammunition not being accurate enough in this case.
As reported by British Defense Journal (via PC gamer), The user has uploaded a technical document containing an image of the DTC 10-125 Tungsten Penetrator and its specifications. Because they were angry with some small inaccuracies.
The part in question is the “fast, non-explosive 125mm savor round fired by Chinese Type 96 and Type 99 tanks” and ” [People’s Liberation Army’s] Main tank killing round. ”
This leak can be considered a treason, but a similar leak occurred on the War Thunder forums with British Challenger 2. French Leclerc main battle tank. But what makes this stand out is that it seems completely unnecessary.
Reset ERA Nobleman Swerve He said the crime was meaningless because the assets used in the game for the round in question did not represent the final product.
“The game recently shut down its public development server and previewed future content drops,” they write. “The hallmark of these development servers is that values such as armor, penetration, and flight models are usually placeholders that are subject to change in the final release.
“The developer added this shell to the server, but I copied and pasted the value from the previous version as a placeholder. This poster saw this, turned it over, posted a treason, and put it in the placeholder. Fixed what is publicly reported as. Value. “
In any case, this post was deleted by War Thunder developer Gaijin Entertainment, and the team again begged the community not to commit criminal activity in the forums.
“Our community manager immediately banned the user and deleted his post because the information about this particular shell is still classified in China,” the studio said in an email to PC Gamer. .. “The War Thunder Forum clearly prohibits the disclosure of sensitive information to any vehicle in any country, and game developers will not use it at work.
“Players want to make the game as realistic as possible, but don’t do anything illegal and threaten the safety of community team members. War Thunder developers are legally available tools. It’s best to use to research information about the vehicle, and such scandals clearly don’t help our efforts. “
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