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I’ve been replaying the newer COD MW1 remastered campaign, and as someone who works in plumbing, I noticed these water heaters are actually pretty well done for a video game. The ‘old style’ gas control valves really do it for me. What’s a game that you stopped and screenshoted something, completely unrelated to the game, because of the trade you’re in?
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Skirting Boards.
Recently I was playing a game that I noticed one of the character’s feet actually steps up slightly on curbs, train tracks etc while the other stays lower down. I don’t know if it’s common, just a little detail I don’t remember noticing before.
Not mine, but I thoroughly enjoyed [this](https://youtu.be/4oGLvF93Esk?si=XX5l7frkgCcEjQHm) video of a carpenter/woodworker evaluating carpentry in Skyrim. It’s surprisingly engaging.
Im a welder , always looking for welds 😀
Not a tradesperson but I work in a hospital. I always stop to check out hospital rooms in games to inspect the layout and equipment for accuracy.
I’m a machinist and in GTA online I always have to stop and look at the lathe and milling machines in the bunker.
Conveyor belts and their lacing.
I’m not a trades person but I appreciate accuracy. I love the example of the original splinter cell and shooting a bullet through a fish tank. The water will drain until it reaches the bullet hole and the fish won’t go above the hole. If you shoot another hole lower on the tank, same thing occurs.
Also I always like checking out bathrooms in games to see if toilets are accurate, or some futuristic BS that are not practical.
Air conditioner units, since i work in installing them alonside other refrigeration stuff.
I’m not a trades-person, but I work at an airport and I really enjoyed seeing the tugs in Alien: Isolation lol
More thought went into those water heaters than the actual campaign story
Starfield old-school computers that remind me of some of the ones I used a long time ago 🙂
I’m a machinist and am always happy when I find a lathe or mill in games.
I drive excavators, so I tend to take a better look at any excavators that shows up in games. DayZ has some really nicely done excavators. I’ve seen what looks like a CAT 336 up to some really large wire operated excavator. I’m not certain, but I do believe I’ve seen some mini-excavators as well.
I also used to work as a machinist for a couple of years, so whenever there’s a lathe or milling machine, I tend to take an extra look. DayZ has a few of those as well, but they’re not as well done as the excavators.
I’ve done a couple different ones. What’ll kill me is windows in a bad/improbable spot, terrible looking wiring, bad neighborhood design
Not screen-shottable, but in Star Trek Online whenever you use a computer from the Original Series era it makes the sound of an old school (1960s) Teletype. I’m imaging the USS Enterprise booting from paper tape before it can go to warp.
I don’t have any good examples unfortunately, but I am maintenance/ electrician technician (MET) and I find myself stopping and looking at mechanical stuff often to see if it is realistic/accurate to how it moves or how it should move. Could be something like a game that takes you through a warehouse I check out simple things like conveyors and such, or stuff that’s a little more complex like robots do they move correctly and try figuring out for the parts that do move is it mechanical movement or controlled by hydraulic/pneumatic devices
I know exactly what you mean. I work for the local gas company. I’d be turning off the shutoff valve for this building due to improper ventilation of the hot water tanks.
A few months ago, I bought a game called Gas Station Simulator. Before long I got real depressed when I realized how much it reminded me of my entire life behind a fucking cash register. Yeah, I’m a min. wage retail employee. Spent a good chunk of my life in customer service, lately stocking shelves at a grocery store. The details in Gas Station Simulator, everything from stocking shelves, cleaning the floors, getting the shelves staged just right and neat, ordering new stock, and actually running the cash register… eesh. I had to quit that game.
I’m a chemical engineer. Lots of games have pipes, valves, and tanks as set dressing for sci fi stuff, but not much of it means anything
One of the cods has a bomb or c4 modeled as a florescent light ballast with some extra stuff slapped on.
butts
God bless all the level designers that think ductwork works the way it does in games. Also my favorite is when a level just has Gas piping for aesthetic reasons and it just kinda leads nowhere.
The woodworking workbenches in certain parts of AC Unity are pretty well done.
Aircons.
Woodworking and furniture. Anything wood, I’m looking at it. I love finding workbenches especially. Some videogames are just a WTF moment. I know I’ve seen great examples, but none are coming readily to mind. I’ll edit this comment if I remember later.
Control, I can even tell you how many times I’ve stopped to examine a strange machine or electrical device to try and make sense of how it works.