Check Your 6

By Check Your 6

Two US Army veterans cover news, highlights, and interviews from the world of hardcore tactical gaming. In about an hour our hosts BDGxGRIM and UselessFodder cover games like Escape From Tarkov, Insur... more

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The podcast currently has 6 episodes available.

Check Your 6 episodes:

July 16, 2021 ControlledPairs, the Bob Ross of Tactics - CY6 Episode 3
Today, Grim and I interview ControlledPairs, one of the most well spoken and tactically minded content creators in the industry. Through games like Onward, Door Kickers 2, Zero Hour, Ground Branch, and Arma 3, Pairs has recently grown to be one of the biggest tactical creators around. But it was a long road to get here! Find out about his 7 year journey to success and the future of VR tactical training in this episode! Thanks to Pairs for coming on and I hope we can have you back real soon!
YouTube edition of the podcast: https://youtu.be/emg7qpM0uGk
ControlledPairs YouTube: youtube.com/user/ControlledPairsGamin
ControlledPairs Discord: https://discord.gg/ehxDGDDR
BDGxGrim: youtube.com/channel/UCxOP6OTLOpZBOsj8-cEvMTQ
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July 14, 2021 Zero Hour Lead Dev Interview - CY6 Episode 2
Meheraj7, the founder and lead (lone) developer of tactical shooter Zero Hour, sat down with me to talk about M7productions, what it's like to be the only game developer in the country of Bangladesh, and what's coming for the Operation Meghna update and beyond! This was a really interesting conversation and there were some HUGE first-ever announcements put out during the interview, so make sure to listen until the end! Thanks Meheraj7 for coming on the podcast. I really enjoyed it and I hope we can talk again soon!
Buy Zero Hour: https://www.nexus.gg/UselessFodder/zero-hour
Video Version of Interview: https://youtu.be/swx55PMV9hE
Zero Hour on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1359090/Zero_Hour/
Zero Hour Twitter: https://twitter.com/zerohour_2020
ControlledPairs Discord: https://discord.gg/CkxjHdZZXa
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1h 18min
January 27, 2021 The Relaunch! - CY6 Episode 1
Welcome to the new and improved Check Your 6 Podcast! In this episode, my new co-host BDGxGRIM and I talk about our experiences as soldiers in the US Army and how we connected with tactical games. We also talk about what 'realism' means in gaming and accidentally design our own Check Your 6 game to be released in 2025.
If you enjoy this episode, please make sure to like and follow on your favorite podcasting service!

BDGxGRIM:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxOP6OTLOpZBOsj8-cEvMTQ
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bdgxgrim
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bdgxgrim/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bdgxgrim
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlueDiamondGam3
UselessFodder:
Stream is live at 0730 EST / 1330 CEST M-F-Sat @ https://twitch.tv/UselessFodder
YouTube: https://youtube.com/UselessFodder
Twitter: https://twitter.com/UselessFodder
Instagram: https://instagram.com/UselessFodder
Discord: http://discord.uselessfodder.com
Website: http://UselessFodder.com
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1h 21min
June 27, 2020 Real Army Ranger Talks Tactical Games - Interview with BDGxGRIM - Check Your 6 Episode 003
BDGxGRIM YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxOP6OTLOpZBOsj8-cEvMTQ
BCGxGRIM Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bdgxgrim
In this episode we interview BDGxGRIM, an active duty US Army Ranger and tactical gaming content creator on Twitch and YouTube. During the interview we talk about which games get things like NVGs right and which ones don't and also how suppression in video games stacks up against the real thing. Lastly we chat about his YouTube and Twitch career, including why he loves to play Army online as well as real life. Super interesting conversation with this true American hero that I'm sure you're going to love!
To catch more of UselessFodder, you can find him below:
Stream is live at 0730 EST / 1330 CEST M-F-Sat @ https://twitch.tv/UselessFodder
Twitter: https://twitter.com/UselessFodder
Instagram: https://instagram.com/UselessFodder
Discord: http://discord.uselessfodder.com
Website: http://UselessFodder.com
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1h 26min
January 04, 2020 Tarkov Tops Twitch and New Year Updates - Check Your 6 Podcast Episode 002
What a time to be alive. Escape From Tarkov is Twitch's top viewed game, Post Scriptum is bringing entirely battlefields to the gaming space, and every single game we play got at least one update! Crux and Tacti took the holidays off, so in this episode UselessFodder runs solo through a whole host of updates and news in the hardcore, tactical shooter genre as well as musing on some aspects of hardcore game design.
Here's the intel:
EFT Drops program Dec 30 - Jan 05 https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/news/id/156?lang=en
Tarkov 12.2 patch https://forum.escapefromtarkov.com/topic/109770-the-installation-of-the-01225479-patch-has-begun/
New EFT Raid Episode 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISRskAi9q5A
Squad Beta 17 & 18 updates https://joinsquad.com/2019/11/26/beta-17-released/ & https://joinsquad.com/2019/12/18/beta-18-released/
Post Scriptum Chapter 2: PLAN JAUNE on January 9th. http://postscriptumgame.com/plan-jaune-release-date/
Insurgency: Sandstorm Update 1.5 https://steamcommunity.com/games/581320/announcements/detail/1717491079184343467
New Sandstorm trailer: Cool new trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ItrGygI0P8
UselessFodder Sandstorm 1.5 Update Video: https://youtu.be/VxhE1-ATubc
Hell Let Loose Update 4: https://steamcommunity.com/games/686810/announcements/detail/1702855647447726793
UselessFodder HLL Update 4 Video: https://youtu.be/BgLzUcLNvVo
World War 3 new movement system https://steamcommunity.com/games/674020/announcements/detail/1706233347179955717
Tactigamer's WW3 new movement video: https://youtu.be/-IHxfVGoXW8
Ground branch Build Update 20 https://www.groundbranch.com/index.php/2019/12/09/build-update-020-gear-up/
Upcoming game Afterconflict Lost War https://afterconflict.com/ & https://twitter.com/AfterconflictLW
Hope you loved this episode! If you did, please give us a review on your favorite podcast platform and share it with your friends! Feel free to tag us:
Crux: https://twitter.com/itspapacrux
Tactigamer: https://twitter.com/tactigamer
UselessFodder: https://twitter.com/UselessFodder
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October 24, 2019 The Pilot - Check Your 6 Episode 001
In this first episode, we meet our hosts Crux, Tactigamer, and UselessFodder as well as cover all of the following intel on our favorite Hardcore Shooters!:
-Tarkov 0.12 patch will come in 'two weeks' from 27 Sep https://twitter.com/bstategames/status/1177516619389534210?s=20
- Also, Raiders are in all levels and other EFT schenanigans (like the ridiculous economy test). https://twitter.com/bstategames/status/1181954054064410624?s=20
- Also Secure containers are changing: https://twitter.com/bstategames/status/1182228050857140224?s=20
-Squad Alpha 16 release, with helicopters https://twitter.com/JoinSquad/status/1181993781438111745?s=20
- Hell Let Loose Omaha Beach map and Offensive gamemode https://twitter.com/hell_let_loose/status/1181554840251621376?s=20
-WW3 0.7 is finally out https://twitter.com/ww3thegame/status/1182294877775781888?s=20
- Chernobylite releases to Early Access today https://twitter.com/ChernobylGame/status/1184499240451690496
Note: We recorded this before the patchnotes dropped for EFT 0.12!
Hope you love it! If you did, please give us a review on your favorite podcast platform and share it with your friends! Feel free to tag us:
Crux: https://twitter.com/itspapacrux
Tactigamer: https://twitter.com/tactigamer
UselessFodder: https://twitter.com/UselessFodder
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1h 37min

FAQs about Check Your 6:

How many episodes does Check Your 6 have?

The podcast currently has 6 episodes available.