Report: Deadliest Warrior studio head misrepresented military experience

by JC Fletcher on Oct 7th 2011 4:00PM

IndustryGamers reports on a new allegation that Robert Daly, head of Deadliest Warrior developer Pipeworks Studios, may have misrepresented his military history. A little background: Daly has claimed in interviews to be part of the Special Forces, which is of course an important qualification for making games about Vikings whaling on ninjas.

Jeff Hinton, owner of Special Forces community site ProfessionalSoldiers, read Daly's claim and then looked him up. "Robert Daly's [National Personnel Records Center] military records state he was some sort of imagery analyst," Hinton told. [United States Army Special Operations Command] has absolutely no record of him in their system." So, according to Hinton's research, Daly was in the army, but not in Special Forces.

We're contacting Pipeworks for a response to this allegation, as well as the related claim that Deadliest Warrior's pirate was actually a privateer.

Source: IndustryGamers

Tags: army, deadliest-warrior, deadliest-warrior-legends, microsoft, pipeworks-software, playstation, ps3, psn, robert-daly, special-forces, xbla, xbox

Reader Comments (38)

Caught!

"Imagery Analyst" sounds like a cover for a killing machine to me.

What the hell!? What a misrepresentation! That's it, I'm not buying this game anymore I am sick of being lied to like this.

/sarcasm.

Well if he was in the special forces, I would think they would not make those records public, right?

Why lie? It's ridiculous.

I was in the Navy, but I don't tell people I was a SEAL.

@blessrok

I'd tell people if I was a marine animal who could use a computer.

you can just look up people in the special forces?

something about that doesn't seem right

@eat it

i think your confusing Special Forces with Covert Ops. There is a difference. even with the special forces, there is a whole separate tier of elite soldiers. Just look at the SEAL Team Six that killed Osama. they were Special Special Forces.

@eat it You have to submit a form to get someone's military record. It's not exactly a big deal for the military to tell you "Yeah, xyz was part of abc."

Now specifics and details will be trickier, but you can get the basics easily enough.

@LexStewther
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/193697/20110806/seal-team-6-members-perish-when-taliban-shoot-down-nato-helicopter-osama.htm

In a strange twist many members of their unit were killed in a helicopter crash soon after the Osama assassination.

Anyway the story reminds me of Chef Gordon Ramsay lying about his soccer career.

Vikings whaling on ninjas would be pretty silly. I'm picturing the vikings hunting Moby Dick on a longboat constructed out of ninjas all bunched up really tightly.
Vikings wailing on ninjas makes a lot more sense.

@(Unverified)

Hey you! I don't know how you came by this classified information, but I was in the Norwegian Army and I will have none of your wisecracking about our top secret ninja-whaling viking special forces. >:-(

he is what they call a 'squint', an imagery analyst or imint, that is a far cry from special forces, and you can confirm if someone was or was not in special forces at one time. what you can't do is find out who is actively on special forces.

the guy sounds like a d-bag, he might have been asigned to a special forces attachment, and thus can wear a special forces badge, but you are not special forces.

btw, if someone tells you they were in special forces, that is usually a sign they were not. I have worked with some of these fine folks 'around about' the border of Iraq and they are the most humble modest people you will meet.

@stressflyer

I agree. Knew this guy for a while and he never even mentioned he was in the special forces until we helped him move and a photo slipped out.

Same with people who claim in online multiplayer that they're MLG. Most likely they're not.

Well, hey. Valerie Plame's cover was as an energy analyst for Brewster Jennings & Associates, so for all we know "Imagery Analyst" is code for Incognito Asskicker. Food for thought!

He still did more than the majority of us on joystiq :O! just sayin'

Oh yeah, well I was part of a crack commando unit back in 1972. We got sent to a military prison for a crime we didn't commit. Of course we promptly escaped, and we now work in the greater Los Angeles area, primarily as soldiers of fortune, helping out the poor and unfortunate.

@Slight of Ham

I've been looking for you but I just can't find you. I needed help and wanted to hire your team. It's not very convenient. You should put your number on Craigslist or something.

Next thing you'll tell us is Dennis Dyack isn't really a mutant. Since when does being in the special forces make you an expert on how to make a game? I bet you would find a lot of lies on resumes in the industry if you actually looked. How many people have Goldeneye on their resumes, for instance. Probably find a few that were tangentally involved but have that shit front and center.

@Gemini Ace

When you claim to be something you're not to get a job, that's bad.

Whoa, what? I knew his arbitrary "X-Factors" from Season 3 were suspect...

Geoff Desmoulin and Dr. Dorian forever.

I have known a couple compulsive liars in my time. One thing that is common to lie about is military service for some sort of elite or covert agency. I think they do this for a few reasons. It is almost impossible for regular people to verify. It is very believable to most people who have ever seen an espionage movie. The chances of actually meeting someone who was really involved with the organization they claim are very very low.

He didn't completely misrepresent himself. The command he worked at is special forces, however he deals with imagery. I can't go into specifics, but I'm sure everyone knows what a camera is.

Um is there really any way to prove people weren't in the special forces? The who's who of special forces seems like something the military would be wise to keep secret.

Sadly, people claiming to have been in the military but really weren't is starting to become rampant. I have known of several people getting jobs because of doctored or non-existent military service.

@andrewpoe

I agree, I know a guy that got a job at a Correctional Facility because he lied about his military service. Makes me sick because I served in the military.

Looks like Robert Daly & Robert Bowling have something in common besides their names....

Their lack of military experience.

Looks like Robert Daly and Robert Bowling have something in common.

Lack of military experience.

@neosxtc

I love how both of your comments are just barely different. They gave me a good 20 seconds of "Can you spot the differences?"

@King Johngie the Fourth

ha sorry that was my bad. I posted the first one and for some reason it didn't post and then I was like umm ok try again....

It's like one of the Highlight spot the differences.

What, someone in relation to the shitty Deadliest Warrior games/show misrepresenting themselves and their knowledge? UNHEARD OF, I SAY.

Someone was getting advice from Bear Grylls.

"wailing", not "whaling".

@NecroSen

Thank you.. should be a much bigger uproar for a game that lets you go kill whales!

Just about every soldier I know wears a ranger tab, I think you can qualify for it but not actually be assigned to a ranger unit or something. But who knows, the army is weird, it's always our navy guys getting shit done or rescuing the army "special forces" when they get in a fubar situation.

Also, look how fat that guy is, that is if they mean the computer guy, there's no way spec ops guys let themselves go like that.

@Synner

However to give him the benefit of the doubt, he may have been attached to a spec ops unit as support, meaning he'd train and go on missions and stuff with them.

You don't have to be a seal to be attached to a seal team, you can be the guy who maintains and sets up their comms, in fact one of those was shot down in that helo a few months back.

Yep he was part of the "special forces" but not the normal special forces. His games suck so much.

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