Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap

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...

It's just for fun guys. It's just a game ! Don't let game play yourself !

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

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

I just demo'd my own home. Kinda felt nice. Always wanted to rebuild it.

Neat idea, however in my home town it quickly gets stuck on the streets, maybe the collision testing isn't that great.

I can't load the thing, but the idea reminds me of the trope of adolescents playing early FPSes and making maps based on their homes and schools, for good or for bad…

5 minute respawn timer after being shot is a bit excessive

Keep getting "lost the convoy."

For US addresses, can you include the state in the search? It's common for the same city name to be reused. For example: Dallas North Carolina (small town) vs Dallas Texas (metropolis)

I want to try this but every time I try to join either from my mobile or desktop (both on WiFi), I get this error: "That callsign belongs to another player. Pick a different one." that comes from the Railway-hosted wss://worldstrike.fun/ws

Here's a full response with headers:

HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols Connection: Upgrade Sec-Websocket-Accept: GeKaJfsfiYd9s2vROz7kMU3RDWA= Sec-Websocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; server_no_context_takeover; client_no_context_takeover server: railway-hikari Upgrade: websocket X-Railway-Request-Id: UA8DKXk_TKiusD2aYqVb7A x-hikari-trace: lhr1.7mfs x-railway-edge: lhr1

{"type":"error","message":"That callsign belongs to another player. Pick a different one."} Connection Closed: 1005

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

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

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

I can't see my tank because the status box takes up most of the screen?

FUN. Tanks are not my "thing" but it was fun to cruise around LA shooting at stuff. I have always wanted to make a racing game with real roads around you. Make segments like from the house to the store and see who can drive em the fastest in game. Good inspo from worldstrike! TY

Destroying Mar-a-logo is a blast! So cathartic.

But I'll stick to destroying places that have made my life miserable.

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

Bye bye, ballroom!

of all the fun things you could do based on OpenStreetMap choosing to destroy cities says a lot about the values of our times

Anyone else immediately think of San Diego?

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.

Is there a way to change viewing angle?

Would love to see some stats on what people decide to destroy …

Saw no buildings. Fired at the next tank.

Hi there! My name is Ender, and I'd love to play this game.

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

it's missing interpolation on position estimation.

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

I am genuinely interested in the opinions of people who live in or fled war-torn countries. Would they find this in poor taste? That it trivialises ongoing struggles? Have they tried looking into their own cities? Do they not care? Do they think this is somehow useful? Does it surface memories? Are they more bothered by the execution?

Of course, we’d need more than one or two data points. If you know someone (or are you yourself) in that situation, I’d welcome learning your thoughts. No judgement or ulterior motive, just looking to understand another perspective.

Edit: And, of course, the downvotes are already coming. Don’t know why I bother with this community anymore. Call for exploiting and exterminating other people (I’m not talking about this submission) and you are celebrated; but try to be empathetic and learn about others, no sirree, can’t have that, that’s a grave offence to the great hacker blowhards who frequent the big AI News network. This community has become putrid.

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