The world has seen a fair share of disheartening events that make people frown just by thinking about them. The vehicular combat game War Thunder recently jogged the memory of players towards one of such instances when it used an image associated with the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
And now the community manager has put forth an apology for that as fans went furious over the use of a controversial image. The image from in focus is one from a new event called Seek and Destroy uses the explosion of the NASA-operated spacecraft that took lives of seven crew members.
The Space Challenger Explosion Wasn’t Really Difficult to Identify
Games depicting war-like state of affairs often needs to tread of eggshells. However, it’s not always a possibility that some fans will notice something that a team usually don’t. War Thunder is one game that has garnered significant attention through controversies in the past. Now it’s happening again.
It all began on social media network Reddit where a user in the game’s community highlighted the infamous explosion being used in the artwork.
It wasn’t long that the conversation reached War Thunder forums where the community manager issued an apology for the incident.
The explosive element might not have been too difficult to identify as the user abacs21, who sparked the conversation, noted that he found it familiar.
MuffinMan3670 notes that the image was on every news following the disaster and that many history books has it too.
While War Thunder may be surrounded with controversies, it isn’t the only war game catching attention due to that. Call of Duty‘s infamous No Russian mission is something fans talk about even to this date.
Gaijin Entertainment’s War Thunder is no Stranger to Controversies
The game has seen a fair share of controversies during its lifespan. Last year, War Thunder got caught in a review bombing incident much like Helldivers 2. Once ‘Mostly Positive’ rating of the game was suddenly came down to ‘Mixed’ after 65,000 negative reviews. It did coerced to do some change of plans by the developers.
In 2020, it was reported that the US 1st Cavalry Division tankers used the game for training during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some photos were published showcasing cadets involved in training using a war simulator which was nothing but the Gaijin’s game.
But the leaked document is perhaps the most infamous controversy that War Thunder was caught in. Many users uploaded restricted or classified documents to debate about vehicle accuracy in the game.
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