>Le ''Kastov'' (TOTALLY NOT KALASHNIKOV!!!)
>Le ''Lachmann'' (TOTALLY NOT HECKLER & KOCH!!!)
For fucks sake, just cut that retarded shit out and start naming guns as they are named. Why the fuck are they even doing this? Does this name something to do with trademarks or smth?
>NOOOOOOOO WHY AREN'T YOU PAYING US ROYALTIES TO USE OUR GUNS REAL NAME
technically yes, they're simply protecting themselves from being sued by the manufactures for putting the gun in the game; its a sort of "nuh uh"
More like they're trying to sidestep accusations of """promoting gun culture""" which doesn't just cause soccermoms to get asshurt, it's actually uh-llegal in california where activision is based. Oh, and don't think it's safe talk about fictionalized guns IRL since you're still talking about shooting and killing, gleefully I might add, around gays that might not even know the real designation, on top of being memed into believing violent video games also cause mass shootings. Basically it's to protect bobby kotick's fat ass, not yours.
That's wrong you lying gay shill and activision actually got sued by FN I think when MW2 2009 came out.
OK and lose even more money when soccermoms no longer buy it year after year for their crotchfruit so they don't have to parent them anymore. You're a bsns genius on the level of Donald Trump!
Lol, shut the fuck up already about soccermoms. The kids these days buy those games themselves.
Meanwhile in reality:
archive dot is slash bPRtB
archive dot eff-oh slash QFUPm
Oh and you can get a lolsuit from the CA AG for promoting gun culture to minors, which is why all the gun websites have the "pls confirm age???" gate like a web 1.0 porn site.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/07/01/governor-newsom-takes-action-to-further-restrict-ghost-guns-and-protect-california-kids-from-gun-violence/#:~:text=Governor%20Newsom%20signed%20AB%202571,cartoon%20child%20skulls%20with%20pacifiers.
Activision wants, and I assume microsoft would want, good PR so they retain players. They definitely don't want to deal with accusations that they are "encouraging toxic gun culture", aka BAD JUJU in CURRENT YEAR, especially when due to sheer numbers it's just a matter of time until some kiddie in their playerbase attempts to play TDM at their local school. CoD is already the poster child for toxic fps playerbase (although the indieshit whose entire playerbase solely consists of perpetual edgy teens who think the height of comedy is spamming moron in mic chat could take the crown soon since mainstream games are actually enforcing the rules now). And muh violent vidya gaems cause mass shootings is still the soccermom and conservatard meme of choice to justify retarded gun laws that have no basis in engineering, statistics, or reality sometimes. Not to mention the terms of the licenses would limit their creative freedom since a lot of the gun companies want their weapons to be portrayed positively and only in the hands of the good guys. So as a pure business calculation, it's both cheaper and easier for their lawyers and PR department to just make a fake name and gud enuff model. They need to make money for da investors, ya 'kno???????
>promoting gun culture to minors
It's fucking 2023. Do those dumb fucking senile boomer retards seriously still believe that ''MUH VIDYA MAKES CHILDREN SHOOT PEOPLE!'' narrative? I still remember the shitstorm in 2009 with the ''No Russian'' mission, but that was 14 years ago. Like, for fucks sake, I though we progressed past that.
>''No Russian'' mission
Come to think of It, I am kinda interested in what would the media response be for the new ''No Russian'' mission, in the current political climate of an Anti-Russian hysteria. Would they just ignore it?
It's not just the "bideo james cause shootings" shtick. When Medal of Honor Warfighter came out they had an actual promotional campaign with real manufacturers (LBT even had the Hecho en Mejico LBX product line with Project Honor camo designed for the game) and in their website they linked to gun manufacturers.
Because the games journos are mostly San Francisco fags and there's tons of gamers from Europe or who only enjoy non-shooter games, they though that linking to gun websites would mean that children would be able to buy the guns online as if it was some kind of loophole.
Just the year prior EA had already been threatened with lawsuits for using Bell Helicopters in Battlefield titles so dealing with this shit was increasingly hard. If they made no deals they'd get into trademark vs free speech disputes, if they paid for royalties they'd be accused of giving money to the murderous weapons manufacturers.
It was around 2012-2013 that the gaming industry started to see the writing on the wall.
>I still remember the shitstorm in 2009 with the ''No Russian'' mission
they didn't have the balls to pull that on remaster MW2, it was just a very vague cutscene
That's not correct at all, the entire mission is there with no changes. Some euro versions don't let you shoot the civilians but IIRC that's how the original was censored there too.
nah senpai, that aint it
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that's the reboot MW2 not the remaster
that shit's not even worth talking about, I presume they may do something edgy in the MW3 reboot but we'll see
ugh, i forgot there was a remaster and used the word wrong, i was talking about the repoop.
>remove the fun normie slaughter
>insert baseless and retardedly complex fear mongering RE DIY guns
their brainswashing of the youth gets more and more on the nose by the year
Half the point of the original no russian was to make you simultaneously assume the role of and be afraid to be a pink fleshy sheep in a no gun zone where big ATF is there to protect and violate you, and now they've gone and fucked it to this level?
I skipped that scene as a kid and it made the game very confusing.
>video games are ahktually good
>this malnourished porcalain skinned manchild has 1500 hours in counterstrike surely he's mentally healthy individual lets sell him some guns
lmfao, honestly think just for a moment about the people you know irl who are big into video games. You really consider these people healthy and mature individuals? Personally I'd much prefer my neighbors to have some grass touching experience at the very minimum if they are going to be exercising their second amendment rights.
Yes, and you are a retarded boomer. Stop blaming video games for shootings you retard.
Fucking have a nice day.
>Tfw you remember MW3 having the Remington MSR and older games not giving a fuck and just naming the guns actual names like ACR, etc and even putting the mfg names on the sides
>Activision gets paid to shill Remington
>Consider this a good thing
It was objectively a better thing, tham the shitshow we are getting now.
fuck nu-COD haven't played that shit in years last one I played was Ghosts
> last one I played was Ghosts
That was released in 2013. You seriously haven't played a COD game ever since?
moron some of us are oldfags, I haven't played CoD since fucking Black Ops 2. literally last cod I played. I tried warzone but it's just too ADHD. my first CoD was CoD2 and then my first multiplayer was cod4.
>I haven't played CoD since fucking Black Ops 2
That was 2012.
>my first CoD was CoD2
That was 2005.
>hen my first multiplayer was cod4
That was 2007.
So you really are an old fag then...
yes I played CoD2 up until blops2. I remember the golden age of games with Xbox 360 and Mw2. This entire basedciety is pozzed, they even monitor voice chat with AI now on overwatch to prevent cyber bullying.
>they even monitor voice chat with AI now on overwatch to prevent cyber bullying
Holy fuck, they really do that??
Does it sound like bullshit?
It isn't hard at all, it's all audio transcription and ML detection algorithms. It's already in most newer games. How do you not know this? Overwatch is the most recent example I can think of that literally does this. I think the new CoD may also. Bullying means less advertisers, gotta push that ESG shit.
They use the same methods of transcription present in speech-to-text software (which had been in Activision-Blizzard games since 2018 or so) to be used as a moderation tool.
>So you really are an old fag then...
I'll do you one better, had cod1 on the PS2, found the big apple and everything.
>cod1 on the PS2
The first call of Duty did not ship on the PS2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty_(video_game)
Newfag, yes it did and it was good shit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Finest_Hour
Finest Hour is a completely different game from COD1
uh, it was the first console release of CoD. that makes it CoD1 to oldfags.
>Cod on the GameCube
Anyone else remember Big Red 1? Could never get past the first mission cus my copy was scratched. It was a hand-me-down and we didn't have money to get a replacement. How was the rest of the game?
>Inb4 go to /v/
I vaguely remember being supremely assblasted that it never got a PC release. It was released to consoles during that era in where everyone and their mom seemed to think PC gaming was going to die for good due to rampant piracy.
That was a great CoD game.
Yes I remember Big Red 1.
SPOILER Vic dies.
My first multiplayer was CoD2 on PC, first console was CoD4, my first FPS was Medel of Honor Rising Sun.
I moved to Battlefield games after BO1.
Honestly I feel so sorry for younger generations with how shitty, censored, consolidated and controlled the modern internet is.
I grew up on the best page in the universe (before Maddox was a cuck), Albinoblacksheep, newgrounds, stickdeath, stickpage, fat-pie, badger badger badger, etc as well as shock and gore sites. Downloading and reading thejollyrodgers anarchists cookbook in notepad documents.
Me and my school friends would laugh at ratemypoo, bluewaffle and 2girls1cup on school computers and "click here to get a free cupholder *pops out CD port*"
Youtube was largly uncensored and content creators were just normal people talking to their webcam rather than a bunch of gay neon coloured rich kids and utterly suffocating shilling and censorship that it is today.
Never came to PrepHole though, had never heard of it, would have been nice to see this place back in the day.
PrepHole, kiwifarms and encyclopediadramatica (although that place is more and more of a time capsule with every passing year) are pretty much all that is left of the old internet. Odysee gives me some hope but I'm sure they will go the same way liveleak went in time.
Thank you for reading my vent.
>Laughs in OG MW2
you must be 18 to post here
you are all children my last cod game was the most recent release due to nostalgia but i hadn't played any of them since cod4
adding onto this saying mW2 was dick for PC gamers hence why i never played it or any cod for years
I played CoD 2 in MP, shit was cash
The next CoD game I played then was MW 2019 though
Last one I played was MW2
That was a fun one. Which one was basically G.I. Joe in space? I think that's the last one I played.
Infinite Warfare. I just got the disc off the shelf and am starting it again now
Same. I think I played black ops 2 for like an hour and got nothing out of it.
Last one I played was black ops and that one wasn't as good as MW2
I haven't played a video game console since 2012
>MOH was superior to COD at the start
>COD online is what made the series it is
I preferred playing StarCraft BroodWar online starting in 1999 over FPS's though
I think the last one I played was the first Black Ops, and that was a borrowed copy
>2013
Didn't know it was released that year, I was thinking 2014 or 2015.
I still remember when it was released, I don't own a console so I have to watch a full playthrough of it on YouTube.
Even if it's a playthrough on YouTube it was quite memorable, given that it was a point in time when I started moving from casual shooters and towards throwing my early to late teens out of the window by playing MOBAs, CS:GO, and battle royales before I completely lost interest in vidya
First played was CoD 3 and the last one was Ghost
the old ones always just named the guns like "AK47" or "MP5" or "M4A1" like cod4, mw2 called the ACR just ACR and they had the SCAR-H as well. Not sure why it wasn't an issue back then. I think some games even had like Bushmaster and other stuff on some of the guns.
> Not sure why it wasn't an issue back then
My opinion? School shootings. Specifically the response to them.
Back in the day, when some kid shot up a school, you’d have rumblings about how it was because of violent video games, but it was fairly generalized. Not so anymore. Now, instead of “video games are bad because of school shootings” it’s “H&K (or Colt or Smith and Wesson or whoever) is bad because they use video games to advertise to school shooters.” And while nothing will come of that legally, probably; gun manufacturers are a lot more cautious of licensing their image to video games.
last cod i played was black ops, do i win a prize?
>Activision uses real manufacturers names, real model names
>Activision gets a million fucking letters from Cerberus group (venture capital firm that bought Remington and ran it into the ground because "greed is good") demanding they cease and desist or pay incredible sums of money to continue utilizing trademarked brand
>Months of legal wrangling turn into years. Activision now has direct hire legal team instead of consultants.
>Activision says "well fuck me, never dealing with that nightmare again."
>Gamers get generic clone alternative universe names.
I don't know for certain that's how it played out but I wouldn't doubt it at all.
Wall Street fucksticks ruin everything they touch on purpose.
Why does Cerberus hate free advertising?
As much as PrepHoleommandos hate the beyond greedy and retarded boomers at Cerberus, this is the one instance where they were sort of in the right. Copyright laws as we currently have them are obsolete given how far shit like the internet goes, but they are still in effect all the same. Which means that companies need to be full Chris Chan tier autist on any possible infringement of other uses, as that risks them losing their exclusivity to the copyright.
Didn’t EA get into some shit with the one from 2010 because they talked to actual operators about how shit went in the early days of Afghanistan, and basically had one of them be an actual character (the bearded guy)? Either way the multi for that one was actually kind of fun, like a more infantry focused Bad Company 2.
The 2010 one had the controversy with having the Taliban as a playable faction that had to be removed, the Warfighter one had the issue with the SMEs they hired being active duty DEVGRU guys that showed equipment and TTPs they shouldn't have.
Dusty is a mix of a real CAG guy who was in AFO India and and another ex-CAG guy callsign Dusty who was already out of service when the game was being developed.
The Navy Seal Mother in the campaign is based on Slab, who was the leader of the Seal group that Roberts was a part of in the Takur Ghar battle.
It's neat how they sprinkled those details but the series was really doomed to fail when EA was trying to ape the CoD Treyarch/IW formula by having alternating Battlefield and MoH titles.
Honestly just retarded because if they actually ran the company well, they would have gotten tons of sales from bros buying the cool gun they liked from the game.
Yeah but that takes time.
You've got to wait for the kids who play those games to grow up, find jobs, and save money to buy things they loved in their childhood.
It's more immediately profitable short term to lay off a ton of expensive experienced/skilled workers, replace them with outsourcing and cheap, desperate newbies who couldn't give a fuck less, and "consolidate" by closing manufacturing locations and slashing expenditures so you can rape consumers who believe in your historically good name.
It doesn't matter if it would be free advertising, the argument you can make is that part of the sales of the game are people buying it because they want to play the game that includes the Remington ACR or whatever else, not because of the gameplay or story, etc., and thus you are entitled to part of the proceeds IMMEDIATELY.
Wall Street types dgaf about ten years down the line, they want to extract profit right away and gtfo.
If you want to know what's really at the root of our society's degradation, it's that right there - fuck my grandkids, fuck my children, fuck my retirement, fuck next year, fuck tomorrow, give me my shit right now, no matter what harm it brings down the road.
"Fuck you, I got mine" is a real thing and it's all pervading.
I almost have to respect the retardation of posters here who understand nothing about trademark law. The basic concept is that if you don't actively protect your trademark in all instances you might lose exclusivity over it. This is part of the reason why megacorps will sue little Emily's lemonade stand if she uses a trademark of theirs. They don't actually give a fuck that little Emily uses it, no one was going to mistake a lemonade stand for XYZ MegaCorp. To XYZ it's a gigantic hassle, waste of time and bad publicity but if you have a major trademark you are borderline required to be litigious. One of the easier ways to essentially get someone stop without technically telling them to stop is to ask for an outrageous licensing fee.
Except that in any developed (ie, not full time corporate bootlicking), you can only trademark stuff within the scope of your activities. For example Colt can trademark "M4" within the weapon market, maybe the tools market, maybe as far as any manufactured good. But no sane judge would hear their claim in a case about online videogames. Guess they still tried and won.
MW3 had real Remington guns because Remington was doing paid product placement with that game. Same thing with Leopold.
Intellectual property laws are legal risk for publishers. So are all kinds of anti gun groups operating under banner of "think about children".
Vulture capital firm would be better description of Cerberus Group. Their retarded trademark and other IP lawsuits still are nothing compared to even more retarded shit coming out of AM General, manufacturer of Humvee. They have sued plenty game developers and publishers.
Its this + wanting to avoid lawsuits for advertising weapons to children
They were very spooked by what happened to remington and the california bill that prevents advertising guns to minors
Man I miss MW2. Running around with a suppressed ACR, scavenger, and a guided missile launcher on my back. I loved beating all the “meta SCAR/UMP” users in the lobbies.
the bullet magnetism in MW2 was fucking insane. people denied there was any - but i know better. i used to use dual .44 magnums and shoot people in the head from across the map even though you could see the tracers and they had like a 3 degree spread and were inaccurate as fuck
same thing with the dual kriss vectors with double tap, where the volume of fire was so high it was guaranteed the RNG would critical hit headshot double damage obliterate someone even if they were hundreds of meters away or you were shooting at the ceiling. everyone i'd kill, they'd always accuse me of hacking, and i'd tell em "BULLET MAGNETISM", and then they'd call me a scrub and say there wasn't any
Imagine paying $1,500 to play a video game.
will the same shit happen in future battlefield games?
probably doesn't matter as bf is dogshit now
meanwhile if you look close enough at your buddy in Squad you'll see the Crye and Multicam logos on his kit
just stop playing garbage games if you don't like garbage experience
Is that the game with Nicki Minaj in it
Why is Nicki Minaj not getting cancelled for promoting firearm culture? Oh wait it’s because most of her fans are black and don't buy into the idea of their children being “indoctrinated” by gun culture or any of that nonsense. Whites and garden gnomes have ruined it for everyone else
*Leftist Whites
haha, snoop really has it all.
blacks are the LITERAL DEFINITION of a whole fucking race and several generations indoctrinated by media into violence and reckless gun culture
>Indoctrinated
They haven't been indoctrinated at all. They're just naturally violent because they're morons. You give one a spear and he'll chuck it at his neighbour and steal from him. You give one a knife and he'll stab someone and steal from him. You give one a gun and he'll shoot someone and steal from him. morons haven't only existed on the modern day USA, there's plenty of examples of them constantly repeating this behaviour. Fuck there'd be even more examples if they were intelligent enough to work out how to record history before we came along and took them into civilisation. Unfortunately some animals just can't be domesticated safely and morons are one.
What a retarded question
It's a normal question.
its not he is a retard
No, you are.
when did this start? I remember guns in the old 007 games had made up names but then cod and moh were using real names. Stopped playing video games years ago though
A long time ago. Rockstar had some kind of legal trouble and changed all the gun names in Vice City to fictional ones after the initial release version. They even altered the models so they didn't resemble their real world counterparts as much.
og moh was ww2 only
I do gotta give credit to some of the older COD games tor helping to develop my retarded taste in firearms
>M203 handguard
>No M203
>mfw.jpg
yeah
>selector in semi-auto
>bruh.png
what scope is that
it's poorer than Poortex; the brand is Ncstar, don't recall the exact model but it was dirt cheap, like $50 or something.
I bought it like a decade ago for some airshit toy as a teenager, rediscovered it a couple weeks ago and decided to slap it onto my AR because I hate the tall profile of the irons.
I wouldn't trust it for any long distance marksmanship but it does hold accuracy well enough for medium range shooting.
>poor this
>poor that
What optic brand isn't considered "poor" or doesn't have any budget options? Nightforce?
ACOGs and Eotechs and shit like that I guess.
I'm not too big into optics myself I just know that Vortex is considered like the bare minimum for acceptable quality around here.
ACOG is a Trijicon brand product bro what the fuck are you doing
I was on the fence about EOTech and Trijicon being up there with NF but meh
Vortex has the Strike Eagle which is stupid cheap, but their high-end Gen III Razors run well over $2k. IMO Sig has cornered the market for budget LPVOs since they produce them by the trillions while also including mounts.
>Ncstar
Lmao being Latin American I love all these poverty optics. They get more use in firefights than people would think. I think Ncstar is Chinese.
Plenty of games don't do this, or use names that *seem( generic but are still trademarked. "MP5", for instance, is trademarked. IMO, it's not a planned out thing, it's just a manager somewhere going "oh shit maybe we should change this" and it being done.
This basically happened because the gays at LockMart, Northrop Grumann and Raytheon started throwing bitchfits over CoD games using their veHICKles's likeness and names without licensing them first. You might have noticed that CoD games since 2019 have been using fictional vehicles instead of the classic staples of the series such as the Apache Longbow, the UH-60 Blackhawk, the AV-8B Harrier, so on and so forth.
True, but they won the Humvee lawsuit, and there's plenty of big games that continue to use their likenesses. BF2042, for instance, has all of that stuff still. They even call it an Apache!
https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/AH-64_Apache/Battlefield_2042
In this specific instance I'd have to check the credits but I believe that DICE has officially licensed those vehicles.
I've noticed Ace Combat- going back to at least AC4 have always had a huge list of credits where all of the planes were licensed. Even ones that aren't playable like the B-52 or Harrier. Don't know if it's true or not, but I even heard the reason the Tornado isn't in AC7 is because Panavia doesn't exist anymore and they didn't know who to actually license it from
>Call of Duty after 2012
Who cares
They are not guns, they are vidya. They have nothing to do with guns. You OP know nothing about guns. If you ride a 'horse' in skyrim you don not know anything about horses.
>his gun autism doesn't activate when he sees firearms misrepresented in media
You post on PrepHole but you don't know anything about PrepHole
From what I have heard it literally has nothing to do with royalties but instead "not promoting gun culture". I forgot where I heard that so youll just have to take me at face value here.
It's all about money
Licensing doesn't even cost that much sometimes, but bean counters would rather developers spend the time skirting trademarks than they would take even the tiniest scoop out of the billion dollar marketing budget, or Executive Cocaine & Ozempic fund to pay for licypmt0ensing.
Don't forget you lose even more $$$ when there's bad press going around that CoD is making squeakers into mass shooters or some shit like that.
You have massive autism
the original MW2 was the death knell for Call Of Duty.
COD4 was perfect, MW2 made it worse in every imaginable way.
this is objective fact.
True
True. MW2 was cartoonish and over the top.
Remington got sued out the ass after Sandy Hook because their blatant advertisement i.e. the ACR somehow contributed to Adam the Autist shooting up a school. They ended up settling for an insane $73 million because Adam the Autist used a Bushmaster AR, and Bushmaster was recently acquired by Remington. Now gun companies are terrified to directly advertise their products that are readily available to civilians, lest another mass shooting be exploited for financial benefit. Enjoy your off-brand Kastovs and Lachmanns for the foreseeable future outside of indie milsims.
> Enjoy your off-brand Kastovs and Lachmanns
Cool. I will.
Because tbh, fake gun names is a really weird hill to die on.
It's faggy they have to do that.
Americans and their lawsuits and civil judicial system have been a disaster for the human race
Considering the current status of Russia, why do they bother respecting their IP/trademarks? What are the Rooskies gonna do? Appropriate Heroes 3?
It is because they want their guns to be more iconic/memorable to each game, and because they want to make them easier to google. Let me go over some of the suggested bandied for why they do this and why they're not true:
> You aren't allowed to show off guns in California
False. You only can't work with gun manufacturers to put product placement in video games in California - which Call of Duty once did - so putting in specific real world guns is fine so long as you don't do it in cooperation with a gun company. The idea most people seem to have about this would constitute a violation of the 1st amendment.
> It's to avoid copyright violations
The appearance of most firearms is not subject to copyright law, as they're designed entirely for functional purposes. Their look would instead be governed by patent and trademark. As far as trademark goes, all you have to do is not say the "G" word, and you cannot claim patent protection on a depiction of your patented item. Tons of indie games get away with this.
>the "G" word
uh
what uh
what word are you talking about
The MP5 design is trademarked. A few other guns also have their actual design trademarked too.
>Why the fuck are they even doing this? Does this name something to do with trademarks or smth?
They do it because it allows them to not have to share the profits from selling merchandise, i.e. all those dumb toys at Gamestop
>For fucks sake, just cut that retarded shit out and start naming guns as they are named
I don't know how licensing works: the post
tarkov devs dgaf
After reading everything ITT how does Tarkov get away with it? Is it just because they’re Russian and don’t give a fuck? Everything in the game has the official licensed names.
US based companies don't really interact with Russian ones, a lot of companies have a "no contact" policy and a lot of Russo companies are outright blacklisted from US banks, legal firms, etc. They are even blacklisted on the SWFT payment system which is what all common democratic based nations use. Safe to say A. they don't give a fuck, and B. US based companies aren't going to get into a pissing battle with Russia since the US government literally has zero jurisdiction.
If it was a case of a British company or another NATO company screwing over US based companies it would be a different story. A lot more frameworks in place for that.
>Is it just because they’re Russian and don’t give a fuck?
Yes. For that matter I'm pretty sure putin sends a hooker to give them a blowjob for every chudjak.png they inspire to play tarkov on the IRL US server with one of their realistically named guns.
But I play as a USEC…
What do you like about tarkov? Ive tried it a few times and i hate it, even the single player mod. The gun autism is too inconsistent for me and its detailed in the wrong direction imo.
No other game gets my heart pumping the way it does. Maybe it’s just the risk of loss when you have a valuable/quest item and you’re getting in a firefight. Gunplay also feels smooth, I could never play a game like Day-Z with how clunky it is.
Thats fair. I wanted a more straight forward shooter so i didnt really like it.
I also felt like the game was heavily biased towards russian guns as far as actually being able to use them. Its like i would find 3 parts and i can combine them to make an AK but i cant use my AR because im actually missing the rollpin for the trigger group and the gasblock i found is .025" and dark gray while i needed .024" in medium gray.
Setting wise AK bias makes sense
ARs can be good shit after playing dress up and are there because "muh private PMC company"
But shit like an A1 AUG, DesertMDR, KEL TEC RFB & more are there because ??? reasons?
I dont mean bias in like the gameplay sense and to be fair i am exagerating a bit.
The game just seems to pick and choose what parts are included by default and which are different pieces, and it feels like they bias toward western guns and accessories have more components than eastern guns.
>Is it just because they’re Russian and don’t give a fuck?
Yes.
A lot of games still have the names. Even names you'd think are generic like "MP5" are trademarked just the same as anything else.
I'm interested in what the "G" word is, please tell.
>I'm interested in what the "G" word is, please tell.
Probably Glock.
Activision is a small indie company and can't afford to buy the rights to actual guns anymore
>Does this name something to do with trademarks or smth
Yes.
>Why the fuck are they even doing this? Does this name something to do with trademarks or smth?
Yes you stupid moron, it takes like 3 seconds to look that up instead of making a thread
No. Stfu
Unironically California, they have some law about not being allowed to advertise guns on children's stuff iirc.
This isn't new. GoldSrc and Source Counter-Strike games had you running around with guns like the CV-47, Leone YG1265 Auto Shotgun, Night Hawk .50C, and 9x19mm Sidearm, even though nobody used their fake names.
CS used fake names when it started going retail. Beta (and inside filenames) use the real names. Same as for Goldeneye beta on the 64. They used the real names before release. Ironically enough, the all guns cheat still give you access to the one most obvious brand name besides MP5: Taser.
Why is it that older games (i.e. RE1-3, Parasite Eve, a bunch more that I'm blanking on) actually named the guns after their real life counterparts but today they pussyfoot around it? Just nips being nips? Change in trademark laws? Companies wanting to get their royalties now that vidya isn't a niche thing?
The latter is very likely the case. Remember when you had obvious non-Japanese brand placement in anime? When anime became more mainstream, this ceased.
California law forbids the use of trademarked names and 100% accurate depictions of firearms in videogames.
(Activision is located in California so they have to abide by these laws)
For real?
Assembly Bill 2571
>everyone in this thread is fucking lying cuz this is the only reason they actually changed the names, few prior games already had this change cuz of lobbying
>getting mad about CoD
feelin kinda 2005 here!
It's not a trademark/copyright issue at all. Glock is extremely autistic about their intellectual property rights when it comes to competitors, but media is full of named glocks and they do nothing about it. Firearm manufactures all love the free advertisement of being in video games and action movies, particularly when used by the protagonist.
So why do they do it?
Most importantly, it makes the game devs feel like they're being creative and special. (They aren't)
As a little bonus, it pre-empts complaints of unrealistic details. It's not an incorrect depiction, it's fiction.
What games have the best gunplay
I liked the way Rising Storm 1/2 portrayed recoil but now that company is pretty much gone.
Any other games friend
it's based af, that way you can have a little bit of freedom and you don't have to pay shekels to some globohomo company.
You fucking idiot.