"You can't criticise my game because there's war in Ukraine 😡" I'm gonna try slacking off at work, and if my boss tries to sack me, I'll be like: "You have no right to sack me, do you know how many people have died of AIDS this year?!"

@dcgameboy2344

3 ай бұрын

It’s funny because even if he was in ukraine he is mostly safe if he isn’t on the frontline he thinks this is iraq or Syria

@eagleone5456

3 ай бұрын

What?! My game sucks? Yeah, well... You remember the Holocaust? That's why!!

@sgt.jackson1795

3 ай бұрын

Fragile ego dev. Refunded this game after 20 mins of garbage, I seriously hope no one buys his game.

@grzyb11

3 ай бұрын

@@dcgameboy2344but what if bm21 go brrrrr

@stephanhorn7408

3 ай бұрын

Your game is shit all the way from South africa 🇿🇦

The 2024 "Realistic tactical shooter" guidelines: -every gun, no matter the caliber, must kick like a mule. -limb based health system. -big map with fuck all to do. -slow as a handicapped pug.

@lonewolf_ace_

3 ай бұрын

You forgot the fact that our character NEEDS to "learn" how to boost his asmhatic stamina and poor strenght (even my grandmother was stronger) and even the fact that they don't have enought knowledge about their own guns xD

@manboy4720

3 ай бұрын

@@lonewolf_ace_ every soldier is basically just a newborn who has never done anything and doesn't know shit from fuck.

@MisterBones2910

2 ай бұрын

Meanwhile Fontaine on the SPT-AKI (Tarkov singleplayer system) modding site is doing amazing work with his Realism mod. Your guy can actually run and operate his weapons like he was a private military contractor before being abandoned in the region like the lore dictates, but it still has room for improvement with the skill system. It's just one of the many things the mod does to the game but the movement tweaks alone make the game so much more enjoyable. If you remember the controversial inertia update to the actual live game you'll know how much better it feels with it gradually ramping up from pre-update movement at low carry weight to moving like a boat when you're carrying fifty kilos instead of just being all or nothing with weight affecting stamina and run speed only.

@Nate_the_Nobody

2 ай бұрын

Too many game devs are catering to the casual Timmy who thinks it's unfair that someone could even think about shooting them outside of sneeze range. Their idea to "balance" the giga chad PVP'r against little casual Timmy is to nerf everyone into the ground, the bad players won't be affected by it much because they already sucked and probably won't ever engage stuff past 30m, however, the chad PVP'r will instantly feel it because they won't be able to effectively engage anyone past 30m either. For example, back in the early days of Tarkov (beta 0.7-0.8~) guns actually acted realistic, full-auto wasn't hard to control unless you built the shittiest gun you could think of, armor was actually rather realistic in that it only stopped what it was rated for 95% of the time, I had about just about 4,000 hours playing solo at that point (starting from EOD alpha) and I could regularly (at least 70% of the time, even if I did die I was still taking most of them with me) take out five-man squads because my gun did what I wanted and I have a natural talent for flanks/maneuvering in fire-fights so hit and run tactics worked phenomenally so long as you kept people at distances greater than 30m~ and you made sure your shots counted. Then they cranked the recoil to 11 making any faster than slow tap semi-auto fire effectively useless unless you had meta guns that cost millions with gear to match and maxed perks as well as buffing the power of face shields enough that they're almost always guaranteed to survive at least one shot from anything less than the most expensive ammo in the game meaning you were basically doomed as a solo. Unless you grind from day one of a wipe of course, because now everyone is a shit shot regardless of actual skill unless you have high perks and loads of money to spend on high end gear, if you're soloing with these debuffs you're going to lose 9/10 times to a grouped up party of shit shots ONLY because they have more guns shooting at you which increased their odds of winning effectively turning every fight into a gamble of luck than a match of skill. Honestly fucking hate casual gamers with a passion, I can't understand why they INSIST on dipping their toes into the "realistic" shooter genre just to then complain about how it's too hard or "unfair" that people wreck their shit demanding that the GAME be changed instead of them trying to get better. If you suck at a game, but don't want to take the time required to get better, don't fucking play it, move on, it's obviously not your cup of tea so why are you still trying to drink it?

@MisterBones2910

2 ай бұрын

@@Nate_the_Nobody On the other side of it they did basically the opposite with the recent ammo availability changes. Only casual players got fucked by that one.

I was one of the originally selected voice actors for this game and I have some interesting stories about my time working with these devs. Would be willing to speak to you about it BigFry. I knew this was coming.

@noturkill9879

Ай бұрын

Get this to the top!

@-Belshazzar-

Ай бұрын

Hoo yes we need this!

@chaoticmind176

Ай бұрын

were you the one from : fuck, i am hurt ? also how many voice lines are there in the game ?

@WhiskeyMate

Ай бұрын

@@chaoticmind176 Nah I was doing voicelines for the CAS pilot that you call in for JTAC - I don't believe they would have used my voice after the bad ending.

@smokeypet-russian2215

9 күн бұрын

Up up

The game is made by someone (Erling) supposedly living in Norway, seeming to have lived in and at least still have ties to Brazil. The Direct Contact domain is registered to another norwegian. Mountain 81 LTD is registered in Brazil. The donation section of their site is declared in Brazilian Real. Sounds possible that this guy could be hiding money off-shore from the norwegian tax-system.

@realEchoz

3 ай бұрын

no norwegian organizations tied to them either. thanks for the info, was digging a little into this, too

@ishuikamakura272

2 ай бұрын

So basically he was doing money laundering?

@wolfiegrav

2 ай бұрын

@@ishuikamakura272 From our limited data and point of view it is not conclusive whether he is or not, but it is quite suspicious at least

@allancoelho6905

Ай бұрын

And he chose Brazil for that? We have some of the highest taxes in the world and the guy chooses this shit show to avoid taxes, by having to pay more taxes?

@ATR-_

23 күн бұрын

@@allancoelho6905 It depends on what tax loopholes for business exist

He basically just said "the real world sucks, and my game isnt important in the grand scheme of things, so you can't criticize it" lmao

@yoyoyopistachio3320

4 ай бұрын

"You can clean the toilets! The people giving bad reviews haven't even cleaned the toilets yet!" Dude...

@squadbroken962

4 ай бұрын

Yes this world isn't in a good shape, but what does THAT have to do with this game sucking? I thought we play games to distract from that

@STR1KER_SCR1VER

4 ай бұрын

Yeah that's what I thought, i had the patreon.. paid the $30 or whatever it is for 6 months and still didn't even get a code. Msged them. Lost it on them.. everything.. I wouldn't support this game from just the lack of professionalism I've encountered ​@@squadbroken962

@commodorejones8044

2 ай бұрын

@@squadbroken962 Nah Frrrr

@lolasdm6959

Ай бұрын

real world sucks therefore you should not complain about using $15 to buy a trash game

Direct Scam

@YouTubetail

4 ай бұрын

😂 haha bro

@Daxer2009

4 ай бұрын

THIS IS ART, you dont get it!

@interstellarmanufacturingc8093

4 ай бұрын

@legenddile7 bro stop shitting on the game didn’t you hear this awesome dev that you should go to Ukraine and help out instead of complaining about this new awesome game😂😂

@ramrodbldm9876

4 ай бұрын

Direct groupie follower

@ramrodbldm9876

4 ай бұрын

And mostly, direct p😺y po💩

NOT THE AI GENERATED BACKGROUND IN THE LOADING SCREEN LMAO

@ArtyBuz

16 күн бұрын

Yeah the name tag is just gibberish lol

@scottstottsgaming

16 күн бұрын

about 4:30 for anyone curious lol

@arrontheprotogen9276

13 күн бұрын

MMMMMMMM FINGERSSSSSSS

As a Norwiegan watching this in utter horror , we do NOT claim this dude, send him to Sweden

@sebbe636

2 ай бұрын

As a swede, we will pass him to Denmark.

@martinusaokishiro

2 ай бұрын

@@sebbe636 As a Czech I'll gladly do a roadtrip and take him from Denmark to Ukraine, so he can help out for real this time.

@eklipseempire8807

2 ай бұрын

Uh you misspelt Norwegian!! lmao now I am doubting you're from Norway since you can't even spell your language correctly. lol

@BakaKakor

2 ай бұрын

@@eklipseempire8807​​⁠you know english is not their first language right… you think they would misspell it IN norweigan? lol

@snowrunetunes6252

2 ай бұрын

@@eklipseempire8807 midwit

"i dont give a fuck about those comments" proceeds to make the most butt hurt response ever*

@iCookCrystalMeth

4 ай бұрын

people who say they don’t care usually care the most

@alejandrozapataq

4 ай бұрын

@@iCookCrystalMeth exactly, if they really dont care they wouldnt take the time to say anything in the first place

@scottl.1568

3 ай бұрын

If he put as much effort into his game as he did in his fuckin' rants😅

@jericho1-4

3 ай бұрын

And possibly admits to fraud and embezzlement to boot, I can just imagine what his investors and Patrion's are thinking about his using money given for his game development ALLEGEDLY being spent on aid for Ukraine. Looks like a forensic accounting might be in his future, and possible criminal indictments if there are inconsistencies lol.

@thir3749

2 ай бұрын

Most of yall cant even program a single line of code. BigfryTv would be the most happier if he was capable to scam people with bad games but he can't even able to write a single code lol@@scottl.1568

FINALLY someone not being a fake fuck. This game is SO BAD. And the dev is whining about everyone saying his game is shit.

@MegaAwesomedude27

4 ай бұрын

He banned me for asking when he planned on adding mouse sensitivity... like what the hell is up with this dude??

@thetrav2100

4 ай бұрын

@@MegaAwesomedude27obv dillusional trying to just make a quick buck, seen the same shit with burning lands the red flags are all there

@Derivedwhale45

4 ай бұрын

​@MegaAwesomedude27 he's more worried about his country of Ukraine n his people than your game cause he's a nationalist overall

@manbear4222

4 ай бұрын

@@MegaAwesomedude27Mouse sensitivity isn't even an available option yet? Thank God i took this game off my wishlist the moment i saw all the negative reviews piling in.

@thegreatnexus4207

4 ай бұрын

now thats A REAL DEV! not just puppet fake fuck that just sells shitty content

Who told developers that guns swaying like a drunkard is "Realism", no one in real life as that horribly bad control of a rifle, even after running/low stamina. Its extremely game breaking. The only reason ARMA 3 has survived is because servers often disable it completely or lower it a great deal.

@fastwing3295

Ай бұрын

... I don't think that's the *only* reason for Arma 3 still being relevant. Maybe it's because it's just a good game? No, it's surely weapon sway. That's the key. The weapon sway isn't even that bad in Vanilla Arma 3.

@ihavenomindandimustthink

24 күн бұрын

The reason the Arma series is still going strong is because it is a sandbox game focused on military simulation. The game is only as bad as you want it to be. The only serious limitation is that Arma 3 is running off of 2013 code and hardware. It's CPU is capped which is a bummer, but other than that Arma is pretty much a perfect game for what it is ment to be.

@NGCS-ej4lz

5 күн бұрын

@@fastwing3295 They say cluster b personality disordered people are roughly 5% of the population so it makes sense that thousands can see a comment and theirs always going to be a few mental cases/dumb responses. No, Arma 3 is unplayable with weapon sway set to default, and its not a good game, its a terrible game but a very good Simulator.

@fastwing3295

5 күн бұрын

@@NGCS-ej4lz The weapon sway isn't the issue with Arma 3. I don't know how YOU play Vanilla, but I take my time with aiming, and I don't rush things, so I hit shots accurately. Never had a problem with weapon sway. And fuck that shit, Arma 3 is a wonderful game, and a wonderful series. Calling it a simulator is extremely silly. It's thorough, but by no means a simulation.

"You can clean the toilet, wow, are we gonna find a copy of Direct Contact in there?" LMAO

The rant by the dev is so unintentionally funny. Like what does the Ukraine War have anything to do with you developing the game like WHAT? Edit: I was not expecting political warfare in this thread, christ...

@massiveattack777

4 ай бұрын

He’s just deflecting. Instead of looking at the real issues of his game, he wants us to look at the supposed positive and helpful things(sending money) he’s doing for Ukraine 🤦🏻🤦🏻

@alexandern5296

4 ай бұрын

and russia is doing a pretty good job at avoiding civilian casualties so idk what hes even crying about.

@o__o6452

4 ай бұрын

​@@alexandern5296...what is bro cooking??? Russia has literally targeted civilian hospitals on purpose. Not to mention civilian housing, shopping centres, etc... and straight up literal "bullet to the neck" type civilian executions. Thousands and thousands of civs are dead. All major wars have civilian casualties of course, but this war most definitely isn't in the "minimal civilian casualties" tier.

@Derivedwhale45

4 ай бұрын

Probably because the game was a ploy in order to send money to anyone having a HARASH time n need someone to make their lives better by any means necessary cause war can make anyone do desperate things to save their own kind

@asmbeats5369

4 ай бұрын

​​@@alexandern5296Russia is doing a good job at avoiding civilian casualties? They are literally targeting civilian infrastructure that's not even close to the frontline. You mean like the mass Graves with executed civilians found in occupied territory, is that avoiding civilian casualties? The constant execution videos of POWs we see? You're out of your damn mind. Seriously, mentally you're in another dimension to the point where I'd suggest you to take your meds.

4:48 "So.. am I just supposed to go out into the forest and kill AI?" yup, you just summarized what is an "Indie Tactical Shooter" these days.

@jumbee1830

4 ай бұрын

RIP mission design

@cannedgoose3259

4 ай бұрын

1000%

@protonaccount2811

4 ай бұрын

@@sdsdfdu4437 Hey, as long as you can position the forward grip on your AR to the exact spot on the rail of your choosing. /s

@AeonPhoenix

4 ай бұрын

This is the same problem that always plagued the gaming industry in general when it comes to scammers, regardless if its AAA or Indie.

@christianjohnsalvador1121

4 ай бұрын

​@@protonaccount2811don't forget selecting this kind of plate carrier vest from Shitass Tactical and manually placing shit on it. Truly peak gaming /s In all honesty some tactical shooter games rn feel more like tacticool autists, milsimps, gun bros or gun nerds trying to make a game and not knowing how to make a game. Too much customization for your character that you won't be seeing 90% of the time or attachments that won't even matter or perform the same as the others(having a red dot or a holo eotech won't make a difference here blud this ain't IRL gtfo with eye relief and easy target acquisition BS)

I'm at the audio from the dev section, I'm Ukrainian, and I'm both offended and have no idea what the F he's talking about and how that relates to his game.

@Super-id7bq

23 күн бұрын

Yeah it's a shame people in the comments have taken this to believe he himself is Ukrainian when he clearly isn't.

@ArmorDoge

18 күн бұрын

You’re needed on the front dude.

I really hate how every developer nowadays want you to join their discord. Trying to find information on the steam discussions, on reddit or googling, only to be met by "ah sorry bro, you gotta join their discord to reach them/find their announcements/report a bug".. What happened with public information? I ain't interested in joining discord servers for every f-ing game I'm interested in (heck I'm in none, just some private servers). And this developer.. just smudges my country's rep because he got too big of an ego. Få hue ut av rævva gutt..

@ricedbroccoli

Ай бұрын

Also the reliance on discord as whole. Not just in games, but in like everything. Like some of the biggest AI companies (Midjourney is the only name I know off the top of my head but I know for a fact there are others), because they're too fucking lazy to build a website or hire someone to do it. its wild.

@exist4046

14 күн бұрын

@@ricedbroccolioh Midjourney has a website! its just that for whatever fucking reason they still go through goddamn Discord to run the damn AI bot thing. I legit have no clue why that hasnt changed. i stopped paying for it like a year ago after they randomly stopped even allowing me to use my debit card for legit no fucking reason, it was impossible to contact support over it (the questions i was asked were literally like “check your paypal and ensure that your debit card is properly linked to it” which i literally already did and then like nothing else came of it) and also i literally COULDNT FIND AN OPTION TO CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION so my account ended up in subscription limbo, basically.

Scammers love to call criticism hate so they can avoid addressing it. It's a classic tactic of avoiding the problems.

@KianoUyMOOP

4 ай бұрын

We've need mental/emotional fortitude and hold steadfast to our convictions more than ever because people's gaslighting abilities in this age have evolved at an alarming rate.

@makesnosense6304

4 ай бұрын

​@@KianoUyMOOP I like the idea of "teach fishing instead of just give food approach" by pointing out these tactics (and others) of misusing words and see how it's done, because that way you can see the pattern and don't have to learn every time it's done. You can just see it easier. This tactic of using different words to mislead/hide/gaslight is quite common, so you just need to make people aware of it and eventually it will lose it's power as more see through it. Question things, and think for yourself is required.

@yungcaco1443

3 ай бұрын

Yh you see it a lot in todays narcissistic society.

@makesnosense6304

3 ай бұрын

@@yungcaco1443 ​ You see it mostly where reality don't fit your narrative.

@Robeebert

3 ай бұрын

A lot of religious apologists do this.

Receiving $5k-$10k a month in patreon donations and still delivering this product is wild. Dude is clearly out of his mind. That wartime rant was irrelevant and unhinged.

@raidermaxx2324

4 ай бұрын

i mean, isnt this kinda what you get?

@commodorejones8044

2 ай бұрын

@@raidermaxx2324 A scam? An unhinged developer? A game that isn't even polished? Damn bro

@juvenilia_in_hell

Ай бұрын

​@@commodorejones8044yes, lol. games need millions in funding not 10k a month on patreon, its a ripoff

@ricedbroccoli

Ай бұрын

If this was some lil passion project that he was working on that had a grand budget of whatever money he could dig up from his couch, it would be excusable. But getting SIX FIGURES a year and producing that is wild

@raidermaxx2324

Ай бұрын

@@commodorejones8044 yea bro.. you can tell what games are a scam, usually real quick

So isn't donating money to Ukraine that your patrons gave you with the explicit understanding that it would go to support game development at minimum a breach of Patreon TOS? I also have to assume it's some kind of fraud as well...look I'm all for supporting Ukraine but, buddy just admitted to misappropriating money donated for game development...

@simula152

Ай бұрын

Literally this. You have to state where your money is going to. This isn't even a political issue.

The guy survived at least 50 shots and a hand granade right on top of it.😂 poor bastards that paid for this contraption to be made. Dear lord.

offered them free advice as a JTAC and they told me to fuck off

@WADEDESTROYS

4 ай бұрын

Wow

@curtyos

4 ай бұрын

actual jtac: offers advice free of charge dev: nah im an expert in all things soldiering mans honestly a fkn meme (the dev)

@davidoffgurglins4987

4 ай бұрын

They definitely needed the advice.

@THRE3KINGZStudios3kz

4 ай бұрын

Yea man a lot of vets and service members offered advice but turned out exactly as you say

@nazaxprime

4 ай бұрын

Lol you know this guy ain't going to have close air support in this before it gets shoveled into the furnace so he can move on to his next scam. It was cool of you to offer though. o7

The donations for Ukraine was some next level virtue signalling. That guy can not be trusted in a position of leadership and managing resources.

@EazyE11

2 ай бұрын

Did he say that was patreon money? Isn't that illegal or something 🤨

@Chonkems

2 ай бұрын

@@EazyE11 Patreon's entire existence is a gray area, I feel.

@yourmother1631

2 ай бұрын

Typical Ukrainians

Nobody wants games for free. We just want games worth paying for and worth the price asked for.

@hopedream11

4 ай бұрын

Tbh while this game is shit, half of these Tactical shooter fans don't know what they want. They want PVP they got Ground Branch. RON gives SWAT 4 vibes well it doesn't because the broken AI but I digress. Then you have games like this ie scam or just cooked. Part of it is game devs being shitty plus fans demanding games they either shouldn't be surprised are fails, or have ridiculous expectations then get pissy when they fail. Personally I place the blame on both.

@Puerco-Potter

Ай бұрын

@@hopedream11 "I want a realistic game without the boring part of realism", it's an impossible task to make something realistic but not boring, they want something unrealistic in a way that make them feel like it was realistic.

@cassievalen3169

21 күн бұрын

@@hopedream11 ready or not isnt just "like" swat 4, it is a direct rip of swat 4 in a new engine and looks better lmao

@susmain

19 күн бұрын

Nobody wants games for free? Guess its time to shut down The Pirate Bay.

@darkstarmedia

19 күн бұрын

@@susmain If a game is worth paying for, why pirate?

"You look over to your neighbour and are fucking jealous because he has a car" "what?" 💀💀

@exist4046

14 күн бұрын

Rei icon spotted

That developer is clearly not in a well enough mental state to be interacting with the public. He needs to take a break, get a grasp on reality, realize his job is to provide a product to an audience, and consumers can decide for themselves if they want to buy it or not. If people are saying they don't like your game, they have the right to do so. They don't need to support your game. Developers are not entitled to our money or time just cause they made something. This dev is one of the most delusional developers I've ever seen.

@Jorendo

4 ай бұрын

People like him shouldn't make products for others, they can't handle it. They need some cozy job somewhere where no one will ever judge them. He suffers from something many developers, indy and AAA suffer from, a god complex. They think they are some hot stuff making the best thing ever and anyone who says otherwise is bad and a troll. We saw it with Bioware as well when they released Dragon Age 2, they freaked out over any review that gave a score under a 8. They freaked out over people saying it wasn't a great game, they ignored all the constructive feedback cause in their mind they created a masterpiece and what do us none developers know about making games anyway right? By that logic no one can ever say anything about any product unless they actually make it themselves. Thinking that sausage you have on your plate doesn't taste good? Sorry mate, but are you in the sausage making industry? No? Shut up, you don't know a thing!

@DuskSkullin

4 ай бұрын

i think hes just trolling honestly lol

@StalkerQtya

4 ай бұрын

"bUt RuSsIA iS kiLlInG ChILdREn!"

@rickfastly2671

4 ай бұрын

@@StalkerQtya Zuko: “that’s tough buddy”

@LethalByChoice

4 ай бұрын

This is a simple fact a lot of people don't realize. The developer needs to prove to us why we should spend them money to buy their game, not the other way around.

It is so sad to see these guys making games with zero passion & getting paid big bucks for these shovelware games. Most of the game projects I have worked on have been completely volunteer minus a few great opportunities I've found for paid work based on an existing portfolio of my past hard work. I think the people who put big money into these crowd funding projects is truly bizzare.

@ghostly6175

4 ай бұрын

This is definitely a passion project, the developer was originally working on this game by himself and didnt have any help until maybe a year ago

@asmbeats5369

4 ай бұрын

​​@@ghostly6175 He put more passion into that 4 minute unhinged rant than he did in his entire project.

@politkos5348

4 ай бұрын

@@asmbeats5369bear in mind, someone can genuinely put a lot of passion into a product only for it to be terrible. Tbh i think thats what happened here Passion =/= quality

@Mawyman2316

4 ай бұрын

@@ghostly61751 guy doesn’t mean much anymore, one person can crank out most of what I’m seeing here with a few unreal plugins and two days of work.

@merked-

4 ай бұрын

@@ghostly6175 💀there's that coping supporter we have been waiting for

As a norwegian, we do not claim this dev, anyone who wants him can have him.

@SantoshSharma-bm6xg

2 ай бұрын

I'm taking him 5 bucks

@Rulusto

2 ай бұрын

@@SantoshSharma-bm6xg sold

@Czarro672

Ай бұрын

As a Canadian I would like to humbly decline this offer, however I will open the floor to any Americans who might be interested.

@atamalethatwantstotalk5177

Ай бұрын

​​@@Czarro672 as an American citizen I cannot accept your offer. We got enough problems as it is. I'll refer this to my father's origin mexico

@tales527

Ай бұрын

Can't we just give him to the international waters?

Something interesting I noticed is at 4:35. Look at the background character and the two patches that are on his chest that are suppose to have words instead have wonky looking scribbles. This background visual could be AI generated as it is known that AI art generators have a difficulty developing words within photos.

@LarryPigeon1

25 күн бұрын

Because it is ai crap

"You know in the headquarters, you can clean the toilet. The guys giving those reviews, haven't even cleaned the toilets!" - actual deranged quote from an unhinged lunatic that thinks they're a game dev

@nijgaming410

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, I don't know what argument he's trying to make there. It was completely nonsensical

"This game kind of sucks" "Russia is literally killing children in Ukraine and I donated thousands of dollars to the war!" It's always the devs who think their game is the best thing since sliced bread that are the most unhinged.

@interstellarmanufacturingc8093

4 ай бұрын

Yeah wtf is this dev talking about😂😂

@franciscodiaz9529

4 ай бұрын

"I gave a 3060 graphics card"

@mpondachongo1138

4 ай бұрын

giving me some "children are starving in Africa" speech vibes.

@peo4989

4 ай бұрын

If he cared about children dieing in a war why tha F would he give money to a belligerent nation? If he wanted to do something for children he should just go there and feed the civvies personally

@zorkitipafed4626

4 ай бұрын

Reminds me of a guy from Pikabu site (reddit-like, but with good UI and for Russians) who started to produce plate carriers for RUAF. He attracted investments, but instead of selling the products, he was supplying it for free. And now he doesn't get why the investors ask him about their entitlement to a percentage of income when there's no income (the dude didn't specify in the contract that he was gonna do the charity at someone else's expense), and throws shit at them on Pikabu.

operator being made by one Australian dude with zero formal education on game design being a significantly better game. and arguably operator isnt good.

That idiot is THE example of how delusional some indie devs can be. So sad, SO SAD! As always BigFry, awesome video! Leon

The fact that he’s constantly talking about the war and his personal life is insane. Honestly if I were giving money to this guy id be pissed.

@Greystone42

3 ай бұрын

dude def isnt in the right place to go through making a game lol

@ticket2space

3 ай бұрын

Don't pay for a game that's not finished then lol

@potzombie9498

3 ай бұрын

@@ticket2space nowadays no games r actually finished and it’s sad

@yourlocalcat4514

27 күн бұрын

@@ticket2spacethe game hasn’t even started 😭

The dev is thinking that people criticising the game means they attack him personally. It was never about anything else other than the game, it was never about the war or his kids or the other devs paying for their car or whatever shit. Paying customers shouldn't have to think about how much the devs sacrificed to make their games, indie or non-indie games. This man is unhinged.

@Puerco-Potter

Ай бұрын

I think a lot of people attacked him, saying he was lazy or a scammer. That's not directed to the quality of the game, but his character.

I think it’s safe to say that this was Last Contact

If your game is shit, you take that criticism, you listen to the community, you fix the problems and you make it better. Trying to fight back and tell people they're wrong is career suicide. Developers have to earn respect, not demand it. This developer has the worst god complex I've ever seen, he will do nothing to improve himself or his game because he thinks everyone else is wrong and all the negative reviews are wrong. There's no reasoning with people like this, absolutely nothing can be done to change their mind. Just fix your game! Stop pushing back and fix it!

"...whatever the fuck that means" lmfao I love how Big Fry doesn't give a fuck haha

@luckybeans3623

4 ай бұрын

Bigfry makes reaction content which is basically what everyone does and it’s pathetic! Streaming will be the end of normal work and without normal workers. Who is gonna do all the stuff that is needed to make this world actually work… right now everyone just wants to sit behind there computers and make money and talk about stuff they are completely clueless about..

@ThreatCultureMedia

4 ай бұрын

@@luckybeans3623 you must be one the devs of this game lmao

@LethalByChoice

4 ай бұрын

@@luckybeans3623 Sure grandpa let's get you to bed

@spudz2186

3 ай бұрын

@@luckybeans3623 okay grandpa lets get you to bed

I’m so sick of these oversensitive devs that try to funnel all criticism through discord.

@AraiDigital

4 ай бұрын

it’s not even that they’re over sensitive, it’s that they’re unhinged af, lmao, they just happened to be sensitive

What sucks is thst he doesn't actually sound like he gives a fuck about the Ukrainian War, but is instead using it as a relevant shield to try and score brownie points.

@SergyMilitaryRankings

4 ай бұрын

Funding war that's just causing death is scummy

The little groans when you get shot are making me so uncomfortable. I'm making pottery and the character is snuggled up behind me like that movie ghost. Just right in my ear. I feel violated! 😂

@yungcaco1443

3 ай бұрын

^^ Testosterone level 0 ^^

He's married?!!? Who could live with this guy

@yungcaco1443

3 ай бұрын

Well he probably gives her some Patreon money too 😂

@willwolf8436

2 ай бұрын

​@yungcaco1443 nah, all that money went to Ukraine. His wife is make-believe like his game, lol.

Just wow. That cat admitted multiple times to giving money received under the guise of developing a video game via Patreon away as donations to fund the Ukraine war effort among other things? I'm not too smart, but isn't that considered wire fraud? Certainly the people who run Patreon would be interested in hearing these admissions...

@spacequack5470

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely is

Suddenly, the $40 Willy Wonka Experience seems like a better deal then a $20 cashgrab that you can't have fun with.

The developer defending the fact his game sucks saying he gives money to charities is the most delusional thing I ever heard

@yungcaco1443

3 ай бұрын

It’s also called embezzlement and it’s illegal.

"This game reminds me of Transience" this comment has me fucking rolling lmao

@ketaminewomble2562

4 ай бұрын

Ong transience will fail

@Nikkstein

4 ай бұрын

@@ketaminewomble2562 I wonder if he'll criticize his own game as hard as he does others?

@ketaminewomble2562

4 ай бұрын

@Nikkstein if he pulls the same stunt as the head dev in this video, it'd be hilarious. But I really don't understand the appeal of transience. How large is the actual demographic of people who want to play a > single player < first person tactical story game. Because it really can't be that big

@martinbasic2984

4 ай бұрын

Best comment! Lets see that trans game and lets criticize it.

@Copperhounddog

4 ай бұрын

Y’all are hilarious. Just because he’s making a game doesn’t mean he can’t criticize lol. A fps story game would be great imo. Like an old max Payne or F.E.A.R style would be extremely fun.

4:41 Is that AI art? The messed up "American" flag and messed up nametag really make it look like an AI did this.

@gooddoggo3547

4 ай бұрын

it is in fact AI art.

@StalkerQtya

4 ай бұрын

That, or the fact, that his fingers are merging with the table... Why not just buy a stock image for 5 bucks?

@skvader4187

4 ай бұрын

@@StalkerQtya Because that costs money lmao. The devs are just REALLY cheap.

@StalkerQtya

4 ай бұрын

@@skvader4187 They already bought dozens of assets from the store, but were cheap to give someone 5 bucks to buy a few stock images and maybe another 10 bucks for a photoshop artist to make a few loading screens? :D

@Kaisexuall

4 ай бұрын

@@skvader4187 Crazy considering at one point the money he made was 10k a month from people who thought they were paying for this game.

I installed this. The thing I hate the most besides the clunkiness is the weapons sounds are so bad it hurts. And the sound of the rain.. and even the music on the menus are peaking. They all have a lot of distortion. Its really horrible. Another thing is that the scoops from the weapons are too far away from "our screen". It makes no sense at all. Also, all the enemies use bullet tracers. It looks almost like a star wars game. Well, back to Ground Branch.

i love when “realistic” means Fuck ton of headbob

AI generated loading screen is wild

lol all these super duper tactical shooters have the player step up in the shoes of 96 years old man with chronic epilepsy and try to hit a target.

According to Steam this is the 'studios' first release? So the guy looked at Escape from Tarkov and thought he could do it better, he was wrong and he needs to check his ego. New studios should be making small 8-bit gaming titles to include vertical and horizontal scrolling games before graduating onto 2d Isometric games and gamers would be wise to demand it of them.

That rant by the dev... Dude needs some serious help with his mental health

Think the developer needs to contact some counselling

@jd3006

4 ай бұрын

directly

@Derivedwhale45

4 ай бұрын

Seeing how the war is taking a toll on Ukrainians like him, he'll descent into madness and take his angry at the frontlines sooner or later

@user-hu8fn2jp5v

4 ай бұрын

@@jd3006 double the pun

@jd3006

4 ай бұрын

double the fun@@user-hu8fn2jp5v

@bryceday2850

3 ай бұрын

​@@user-hu8fn2jp5vdouble his medication lol

I had it during the patreon and saw absolutely zero progress in the gameplay mechanics that made a big difference 😭

@norseman325

4 ай бұрын

Same I'm a founder and I thought I was crazy thinking it was horrible. I saw all these youtubers hyping it up and thought I was crazy. The discord is still full of boot lickers saying the game is good.

@gamemusicify

4 ай бұрын

@norseman325 first tell a game is bad when people hype it up and a main selling point is its "indie" that's really all I ever heard indie shooter and already knew it would be bad"

@merked-

4 ай бұрын

All "indie" means is it's an Independent Studio / Person / Group. There is no selling point there lmao.@@gamemusicify

@ssj3eric1

4 ай бұрын

I was a supporter for a year and I did notice differences through each build.

@goodcredithaver

4 ай бұрын

@@norseman325 I saw it on tiktok and while it did look good especially for the ue5 graphics, the gameplay alone was just so boring that I couldnt take it serious

Kinda late here with a chime in. Even for an early access, It's missing most components you'd expect in a realism shooter. A massively failed attempt in my opinion.

Dude this game made me want to play Arma 3 with the Direct Contact dev just to show him that everything he and his team did has not only already been done but has been done a million times better. And is now cheaper in all honesty

it looks like if arma was neutered by a thousand mods

@asovietplaytpus5828

4 ай бұрын

Arma just remains the goat of tactical shooters.

@OperatorVanta

4 ай бұрын

@@asovietplaytpus5828 Everything makes me realize Arma will forever be the peak of tactical gaming. Nothing will top it.

@Synthc4t

4 ай бұрын

@@OperatorVanta arma has the benefit of being made when people actually cared about the games they were making, that's why it's the best. it's actually a real game, and not just some horrible scam or corporate product. arma forges and strengthens friendships, games nowadays just make kids yell at each other.

@rickfastly2671

4 ай бұрын

@@Synthc4t hopefully arma4 can live up to the same standards.

@Synthc4t

4 ай бұрын

@@rickfastly2671 i absolutely agree.

Honestly, games like these remind me a lot of crypto rug pulls. Get the hype going, release a pile of garbage not worth anything, either get mad or promise things will get better and announce a roadmap. Then slowly let the thing die and go sit on a beach somewhere.

@WhyAreTheyOverHere

4 ай бұрын

That's exactly what early access has become.

The dev is actually hilarious, like a child defending their fuk up lol

Direct Refund.

I thought using investors money on anything other than what you say your going to use it on is fraud? How is him sending money to other countries to help instead of using it to develop the game not fraud?

@HandleNameIsStupid

4 ай бұрын

Ain't got no time to enforce laws when the leaders of countries either blatantly ignore them or skirt around them in such a way that it's painfully obvious. It all boils down to how people want to live....this is it.

@scottwatrous

4 ай бұрын

Pretty sure Patreon money isn't considered Investment, and that it would be considered more classic patronage to an artist to support their pursuits. If that person wants to spend the money on beer and cigarettes, hookers, or war relief funds, that's up to them and you just get to choose whether to keep supporting them or not.

@spacequack5470

4 ай бұрын

​@@scottwatrousBlatantly false

@scottwatrous

4 ай бұрын

​@@spacequack5470 OK so then what are Patreon funds considered? It might be donation, gratuity, payment for access to product or payment for services but in no way is it investment into a business that comes with any stipulations about where the money goes, nor is there any equity or other aspect. If I pay my barber $20/week and he uses all that money to fund some organization in the Middle East that's his business and I can decide whether I like my patronage of his business being used that way but he's not in the wrong unless what he's doing is illegal. Patreon explicitly states: "While it is discouraged, it is not a violation of our terms if a creator doesn't deliver the expected benefits."

@Astrothunder_

4 ай бұрын

@@scottwatrous On Patreon's site where they describe to creators how to record the money for tax season, its described as "payments for support". Which makes sense since like you said, theres no actual exchange of funds for equity. If there was, that Patreon page on the taxation would look a lot different than it does. Law and tax code have so many caveats so mybe theres already something in place that establishes crowd sources as investors, but from the Patreon page I dont get that vibe that we as backers are seen as "investors".

I feel ashamed to be norwegian....

@Ozzianman

4 ай бұрын

Is that a Norwegian accent? I am Norwegian and I couldn't even tell from all that whining. I do hear a little bit of the accent when I listen more closely though. Like the usage of the Norwegian A, V instead of W (Want becomes Vant) etc... Don't be ashamed though. He is just an entitled fool.

@supposedlyiamaphilosopher587

4 ай бұрын

Same...

@mistercruise

4 ай бұрын

@@Ozzianman I løpet av videoen til Bigfry, så skriver spillutvikleren at han er norsk. Han har som du nevner noen typiske trekk når nordmenn snakker engelsk...og det ene vintermapet på spillet ser veldig norsk ut :)

@doomchromee8648

4 ай бұрын

Same

@Vikingr91

4 ай бұрын

Don't be, be proud. The only reason why people are shitting on him is just because he's Norwegian. It's bigotry Fk all these bishes.

What i get from this story. I think game dev essentially work his ass off alone or in small team. Took the money so he can have better life quality first before prioritizing his game like hiring more perhaps better dev than him. And then when critics along with unfortunately toxicity came, he just couldnt handle it.

He reminds me of the German KZreadr Simon Desue who had a giveaway of 500€. But when he didn't give the money he went to a hospital for disabled children and said it would be cruel to ask for the money when it is put into that. Simply he did not want to give away the money and needed an excuse for that. That reminds me of this dev talking about how the money went into charity instead of development. To be honest this is fine when he is transparent with his money, which comes from Patreon. He could take some percentage for his personal life and the other percentage goes into the project.

Once again a realistic tactical shooter has let us down. Waiting for Road to Vostok right now and I really hope it doesn’t fail.

@Ozzianman

4 ай бұрын

Night and day difference between whatever this game is named again and Road to Vostok. Antti has so far been very transparent throughout development and got tons of videos documenting development on his game. Road to Vostok also has *free public demos.*

@asovietplaytpus5828

4 ай бұрын

@@Ozzianman in the world of tactical shooter indie devs he really has set the standard.

@noneya246

4 ай бұрын

Grayzone seems the most legit at this point. We'll find out soon if it's good or not

@sigmaoperator1688

2 ай бұрын

Road to Vostok is doing crazy good to say its a solo developer who had to remake everything in a new engine. I have high hopes for that games success.

@DrHax-qi7ys

2 ай бұрын

Based finland once again providing us with banger game devs

This is what bothers me so much about developers nowadays . They are demanding the gamers to pay them to make games that are less than 50 percent done when they have nothing to show for it …its sad and pathetic … gamers will pay when you show that you care about us !!! This delevoper in particular had his ego rocked and it shows exactly what he needs to learn . Gamers will play your games IF you show them the same care and attention in your games …

The fact this guy used AI for almost all the artwork really is the cherry on top of this shit show

I saw another video talking about this game that explains it perfectly. people in the mil sim genre keep making gun tech demos with complex gun mechanics and physics. but don't think about the videogame aspect of the game.

@napowolf

3 ай бұрын

For real. I swear 80-90% of tac shooter/milsim community are autistic wannabe nerds with no grasp of reality who also can't communicate like a functional human being. I can barely understand what point he's trying to get across thru that rant.

I feel they could've stopped two or three laser sights ago on that setup.

@iCookCrystalMeth

4 ай бұрын

it’s high speed bro

If you critic the game on discord he bans you. My friend has a small yt channel and got a free key to "hype" the game. He wasn't allowed to show any bug. The dev told him that it's been a while since et made a video and he respond to him that the last gameplay had a lot of bug and that he would have to reshoot the hole thing if he couldn't show bugs. Yesterday he made a video saying that he wouldn't post anything about the game and explained why. 30 minutes later his game key was ban.

@tytoalbasoren9457

Ай бұрын

Can you link his yt channel pls? Feels like he deserves a sub.

37:23 The best part. “Clean the toilet”

Wow, just wow. Were the play-testers to embarrassed to tell the dev it was hot garbage?

@chrismiller7627

4 ай бұрын

No I was one of the early play testers and I put in almost 60 hrs testing and this fucktard never did anything to fix any of the bugs in the pre alpha! He was an arrogant asshole who made comments like you might have a skill issue that AI was killing you from 300 meters in a dense Forrest with extreme foliage! His cronie Lemon had the nerve to tell us to look deep in the woods to see the AI' feet splashes to engage enemies! As we got more pushy with wanting results and was giving him more and more feed back he had revoked some of our privileges on discord and even one of us got his game key revoked! He broke the pre alpha build so bad he basically couldn't fix it and went to rebuild the game again telling his patron members who was funding it that he was rebuilding to the newest Unreal 5 updated version but we all knew it was bullshit so we dipped the fuck out! Guy has been scamming people for years if you go back in his discord and follow all of his rebuilds and broken promises!

@JoshyyV2

4 ай бұрын

Probably bro if he acts like this publicly god can only Imagine what’s behind closed doors

@Cyberdeamon

4 ай бұрын

I remember watching GLID's videos (he's got a few) on this game and he was giving this game insane high praise and this was pre-alpha (fucking rip). I wonder if the dev was lying and was indeed paying him and other channels to up sell this turd.

@pcxPOT

3 ай бұрын

yeah looking back now i don't get how GLID could have hyped this game up. @@Cyberdeamon

I think the problem with these types of games is that they don’t focus on their game idea enough, in other words, first you need to set the very basic foundation to make your game idea work. For example: if this game wanted to go for realistic military battle simulation, then you have to first make sure that every system that allows this idea to exist on your future project is working( like healing mechanics, shooting, tactical aiming, customization, basic ai functionality ), only after that you polish visuals+ polish basic ui+polish audio In this game literally nothing works, there is no different mechanics and no apparent vision. It’s like they were trying to replicate something man it’s weird

This is quite possibly even worse than the day before

how the fuck did they make an unreal engine 5 game look like an original xbox game 😂

Bruh they literally copy pasted a picture of a German GSG9 operator from the Internet in the level system tab💀

This is definitely a case where you ended up in a bubble when engineering a product, you become proud of what you've created. However, customers do not care about the effort you have put in, only the results, so he was probably very proud of what he achieved. As he was completely new to game development, learning as he went along and became frustrated when customers don't see all the "effort" he put in, even though everything is put toghether amateurly. Seems to be an common occurrence in indie development.

@hopedream11

4 ай бұрын

Shit like that can be degrading as a game developer. I'm not one but I'd lose my shit if I had to deal with entitled clowns that can't develop shit giving you advice on how to make a game. That and when you do what the fan base wants, you STILL end up getting shit? Yeah no wonder the indie FPS genre is fucked. Majority of the fans don't know what they want lmao and you have shitbag devs who focus on tacticool aspects instead of detailed mechanics etc. I see why GZW isn't spending much on marketing now. So they don't have this happen to them.

this dude sounds like an eastern european dsp talking about “i need support” and “i need your buy in” it’s making my sides hurt so much 😂

Something I've noticed about pretty much everyone of these types of games is that the devs only put a shit ton of details into their guns. The guns are super high quality with dozens of different mods and hundreds of attatchement points and essentially limitless customizablity along with slick and clean animations both for inspecting and reloading. Yet that level of detail never follows the rest of the game. These devs make what are basically gun porn games. The only content is found within the gunplay, nothing else

literally an AI generated game lmao the loading screen at 4:41 and chatgpt descriptions of each class at 7:26 💀💀

@C0kePlaza

4 ай бұрын

how you know its ai?

@Xuffy0904

4 ай бұрын

@@C0kePlaza The loading screen image has the typical cinematic lighting of ai generated images, you can also tell how by how it doesnt know what its trying to be, it doesnt look like a 3d render at all, it looks almost like an artwork but the thing is you cant find anything that signifies a type of brush that was used, every lineart and color just look like they were morphed together in a random generated way. Yes its hard to notice and you could just not care, but its more like a dissapointment knowing the developers would rather be lazy and use a prompt instead of hiring a 3d render artist or an illustrator. Shows how much they dont really give a flying fuck about the game they're making at all.

@Xuffy0904

4 ай бұрын

@@C0kePlaza And for the classes description, same thing, they were lazy, they don't have a writer or even have an R&D (research and development) process before starting the development of the game. So they went the easiest route and just ask chatgpt what the definition of "squad leader" is or any of the other class. If you want to throw in some lore into your games, then write. And its also ironic how the lead developer stated that "this games is for anyone that wanted something different" when he uses AI. Brother the only thing thats different or special about this game, is how its gonna go down as the worst developed tactical shooter game in history.

@iCookCrystalMeth

4 ай бұрын

@@C0kePlazatldr zoom in to literally any part of the loading screen

@alex23324523

4 ай бұрын

@@C0kePlazato add to xuffy's comments, the solider's name tag is also a garbled mess

I don't understand being hyped for the "potential" of a game anymore, especially when the developer is so unproven. Subbing on Patreon is silly, but buying this game would be insanity.

@lanky2592

4 ай бұрын

Fr, trust in game developer is all-time low rn

It looks like every single one of these guns were bought off CGTrader instead of being made in-house. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing but it's kinda ammusing when they have so much income from Patreon. They couldn't spend any money on commissioning or producing their own weapon models? Y'know... the most important 'characters' in a first person shooter game?

Some devs will never learn the fact that if a game is too realistic, it's not fun. Reason? Because the reality of war is not fun. Not to mention the various game breaking bugs that plague Direct Contact.

@brawler5760

2 ай бұрын

And if you are gonna make a game about war, Far Cry 2’s a perfect example. It’s just a backdrop for what your character actually does, and also… there’s an actual game there

bro tried so hard to make a milsim game but every round is subsonic. also the worst part about what was mentioned at the end, is that i feel like most people have already lost trust in most indie devs unless they have an established and reputable history from other games or KZread.

The mountains/landscape at 9 minutes look like unreal sensei's UE5 beginner tutorial...

It's bad enough we're plagued with early access games that never come out of early access and end up as dead ends. We're expected to pay for PRE-ALPHA games now??? What is pre-alpha?? This doesn't even feel like proof of concept tbh what is the concept? Where's the looting? EDIT: I forgot, I've seen another video on this. The concept is "you can mod your weapons and shoot some stuff with it"

as an artist, if I ever act like this with my fans, please go ahead and cancel me.

So annoying how people are releasing shite games and then just making an excuse saying they are an indie company and it's to be expected.

Looks like a triple A game to me, let’s just throw in the battle pass, store, and maybe update it

@chiron01

4 ай бұрын

Clearly it's quadruple A 😂

@benny5299

4 ай бұрын

agahahahahaahah

@unapersona8352

3 ай бұрын

Don't forget anime skins

meanwhile there is one psychopath of a dev creating Road to Vostok on his own

@yungcaco1443

3 ай бұрын

Probably another disappointment for some people just waiting to be unleashed 😂

no matter if the game is ultimately shit or not (i know it's crap), but the fact that it lacks a basic tutorial for literally any kind of game mechanic is so bad that the game is already out of the window for most people. who wants to bother trying to figure out how this game works man, i'm not Columbus setting foot on native america for the first time wtf man

So my 3080ti 16 gig isn't good enough yet he gives away a 3060? So he gives away a card that isn't good enough for his own game according to him? And gives away money was given to make his game to something else? Really now? And now he expects praise for it?

@K3ntucky123

3 ай бұрын

I owned a rtx 3060 and he told himself that it wasnt good enough felt pretty insulting

This game is so tactical that all the ammo is subsonic apparently ^^

Poor guy. He sounds like he needs therapy. I spent a month in Norway last year and I could see how strong of an effect the long nights had on some people, even locals. They'd drink themselves to death just to avoid the emotions that this difficult environment brought them, even though they are, technically speaking, one of the richest and most comfortable countries in the world. I hope he gets some mental health help, and I hope people don't fall for games like this.

@johnwicks4936

2 ай бұрын

He’s from Brazil, at least that’s where he claims his company is registered.

@Blaidd7542

2 ай бұрын

@@johnwicks4936 he has a Norwegian sounding accent, definitely not brazilian.

Charging money for this must be criminal. So many visible cut corners, especially when it comes to ui elements and the loading screens which are all obviously ai. All I have to say is, yikes.

The dev gave away an RTX 3060 GPU (to some Patreon supporter/member, i guess?)... that's not even that great of a graphics card anymore. lol 🤣

@user-so9wm2lk2w

4 ай бұрын

Lmaaaaoo. This dev is out of his mind. He couldnt take any criticism

@Boomer112

4 ай бұрын

@@user-so9wm2lk2wYeah, like i said an RTX 3060 isn't even that good anymore. And yes, it's absolutely hilarious to hear how butthurt he is about the criticism he gets about his garbage ass game. 😆

@user-so9wm2lk2w

4 ай бұрын

@@Boomer112 😄😄😄

Genuinely do not understand how people cannot see the success of something like Palworld that while sure, is not the easiest thing to make but not overtly hard as well if you have any semblance of passion, which has now made millions upon millions. Yet we have losers that make early access have a bad name for other proper devs.

@hopedream11

4 ай бұрын

Part of the reason Palworld made money IA because Pokémon went to shit. And the fans are DESPERATE AF for anything similar

I feel like this is a perfect representation of several things wrong with some indie game devs. They, like all of us, are also people who can make mistakes or worse, have giant egos. This particular era we are in is a VERY particularly bad time of inflated egos and dodging criticism we unfortunately have to deal with and have to carefully pick and curate our time and who we give that money too.

I feel bad his family and "daughter" cause they are probably embarrassed and ashamed of his behavior and attitude and will never talk about his stuff cause of this. Also if anyone's wondering their channel is "official direct combat" and he's still trying to gaslight people who dont know better about it so don't let him keep lying and maybe save some people money.

Glorious circumstance. Send more money to (not) make the game.