There's an uncomfortable comfort in shitposting through the coolzone again after all these years. And yeah, I do kinda want to see some kid micro-ing a few hundred drones through an air-defense network.

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[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You definitely don't want 1v1 gamers. But counterstrike, dota, LoL, MMOs, all the team games probably have very transferable skills. The inside of a modern tank, turret/machine gun control looks very similar to many game interfaces, drones definitely.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

AFAIR the US military decided to control their drones with an Xbox controller partly because most kids would be already familiar with it

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just as they designed their grenades (in ww2) to be roughly the same size as a baseball so most kids would be familiar.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, it's a good decision. Even from my own experience, when getting invited to play FIFA on a friend's Xbox (360), never having played anything on an Xbox before, the controller wasn't the reason I've lost badly, it being somewhat intuitive and handling reasonably smoothly

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Not an expert but heard this only really applies to light quadcopters. A large part of modern drone warfare are fpvs which are a lot harder to fly and require specialized controls (and training for them).