It has come to my attention that there has been an accepted bug reported to change the armament on the XP-55 from its x2 20mm and x2 12.7mm to be x4 12.7mm
I questioned the user about their sources, and they informed me they have kept this information hidden between them and the Bug Report Manager. Why on earth would this be kept from the public eye unless they are attempting to avoid scrutiny or prying eyes that could disprove their bug report?
Maybe I am going about this wrong, but its rubbed me the wrong way and I would like others opinions on this matter.
On the right I have highlighted a specific section of the bug report. This is where all the sources on the bug report are supposed to be displayed (people that put their sources in the screenshots section do so incorrectly and technically against the guidelines on how to make bug reports). Here’s what it looks like when you are making a bug report.
This section SPECIFICALLY is only visible to the creator of the bug report and gaijin’s moderators. The reason for this is simple: if the user posts restricted or even classified information, random people don’t see it and it doesn’t spread online. To any other person (like if I were to look at the XP-55 bug report which isn’t done by me), instead of showing the screenshots of the sources that the creator has used, it just shows this disclaimer.
If you want the sources that were used on this XP-55 armament bug report, literally just ask for the documents. Either that or the creator of the bug report has the names and information on the sources (generally that should be the case, but some bug reporters don’t put out that information) and you can easily search them up yourself.
Edit: In this case the person that has created the bug report has decided to not share the sources to their fullest with the general public because they literally paid money for them. This is completely fair. It should be noted that just because a bug report is “accepted for review” does not mean it will actually make it to the game. The developers of WarThunder will themselves verify the sources and decide to implement the changes or not.
So no, it’s neither wrong nor suspicious. It is quite literally how the bug report website is meant to be used, by Gaijin’s own design.
Except he did share words on a page, a page which directly states what the report is and that the XP-55 has 4 .50 cals.
The rest he has shared only with Gaijin devs and moderators, and again, they themselves verify the source (it’s not like Gaijin’s devs just look at the screenshots alone, the reason the cover/name of the source is a REQUIREMENT on a bug report is so Gaijin actually gets the source and verifies the contents) so the idea of manipulation is genuinely just conspiracy theory.
Right now you are conspiring just as much considering you have not seen the documents either, just a short segment of an entire document.
The page shown clearly states its a chronological record, for all you know there could be 100 different variants and test beds of the XP-55 as that snippet discloses NOTHING but what the author wants to portray.
And you are continuing to ignore the fact that I have every single right to be skeptical considering this is a declassified historical aircraft, theres no reason to not make it public other than greed or manipulation of the information itself.
It seems you think you are entitled to the sources that person has.
That is not the case.
If you see something in someone’s home, do you go up to that house and demand residents give it to you?
That person has full rights to do whatever they want with it, if they do not want to share it, they can keep it to themselves, and age of the thing they own has nothing to do with it.
I am the author of the bug report in question. Like I said it before, the source was shared with me by someone I personally know through the financial means. I have to faithfully respect their wish, who prefer that such documents not be widely shared. If I’m given permission to share material beyond what I’ve already included, then, of course, I can provide much more information.
Since this thread is open, I am just going to add something.
According to this book I consulted, one that cites the same primary source I used for the report, it explicitly describes the information I referenced.
Just as a imo best practice, I hyperlink either images or the direct source of anything I use in my reports along with images of the snips themselves in both the additional files section and the screenshots section. Allows folks to see exactly whats going on and maybe even use them for their own reports.
Gaijin hiding posted sources imo is terrible and should not be the standard, but they do it to avoid issues of idiots positing classified info.
