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Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap

59 points • by n4ze3m • today at 7:55 AM • 34 comments • view on HN

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croniev • today at 11:03 AM

Just me or is this a bit cynical? Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the gameplay is fun and everything. Just the concept makes me really uneasy, especially as I have a friend who's house was destroyed recently in war...

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vfosnar • today at 8:28 AM

as an active osm contributor and community member and io games enjoyer i love this.

if the author is readin this by any chance pretty please improve the attribution placement, projects like this are whats bringin interested people in to help us build a better open map for everyone <3

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heggy • today at 10:39 AM

Fun idea but horribly laggy. Just driving down a street and I would get bounced back constantly and make very little progress. Ping was showing up as much as 5000ms

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ByThyGrace • today at 10:29 AM

This thing just crashed my whole DE. My GPU reset. Haven't had one like that in years.

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glibg10b • today at 9:17 AM

It keeps saying "Your connection dropped. Let’s get you back out there." after a few seconds, then returns me to my spawn point. I don't see any bad HTTP status codes in the network tab

Can you make it a little more resilient on Wifi + 4G? I would really like to try this, it seems fun

Also, incorporating elevation data would also be really cool

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discoinverno • today at 9:20 AM

Nice! Are tanks spawned at the last picked location? I picked my hometown as I wanted to demolish a friend's house, and I was surprised to find 2 tanks there (it's a random small city in Europe).

I also have the bug where it keeps respawning me to the starting point after ~30 seconds

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brontosaurusrex • today at 10:14 AM

Is there a way to change viewing angle?

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jaapz • today at 9:13 AM

5 minute respawn timer after being shot is a bit excessive

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netsharc • today at 9:52 AM

I guess I wasn't the first to have the idea to flatten the White House...

Bye bye, ballroom!

igleria • today at 9:17 AM

I don't get it, how is it possible people are in my local town? or is this more populr than this thread? fun stuff nevertheless.

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indrex • today at 8:58 AM

Saw no buildings. Fired at the next tank.

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RicoElectrico • today at 9:37 AM

Similar in spirit: https://kaijumietz.de/

m00dy • today at 9:30 AM

it's missing interpolation on position estimation.

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pythonRon • today at 9:52 AM

It would be more fun if I could pick a city. Knocking down Trump's white house would be a kick.

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pearl_panel5 • today at 9:10 AM

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vee-kay • today at 9:25 AM

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ijuhoor • today at 10:21 AM

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