About Mute Spectrum

Mute Spectrum publishes one thing: a five-step beginner's course for readers in Australia who are considering an online vehicle combat game on a desktop computer. There is nothing else on this site, and nothing is planned.

Who publishes it

Mute Spectrum is published by MEBAT Distribution s.r.o., a company registered in the Czech Republic.

Written work on this site is credited to the MEBAT Distribution s.r.o. editorial team. There are no individual bylines, no instructor profiles and no staff page, because no single named person is being offered to you as an authority here. Inventing one would make the site look more credible than it is, and that would be dishonest.

How the course was structured

The five steps were planned as one sequence rather than written as separate articles and gathered afterwards. The organising question was: what does somebody have to decide, in what order, between first hearing about this kind of game and knowing whether it suits them?

That question produced an order with a deliberate property — three of the five steps happen before anything is downloaded. Step 1 describes the category. Step 2 measures the reader's own computer. Step 3 covers the account, the Australian classification record and money. Only Step 4 installs anything, and Step 5 covers the fortnight afterwards, including how to leave.

Each step ends in a checklist, and the checklists were written first. If a passage of text did not produce an item a reader could act on, it was cut. That rule is why there is no section on tactics, no vehicle comparison and no advice about which game is best.

What sources each step relies on

Three kinds of source appear in this course, and the text tells you which is being used at any point.

• What the vendor or the affiliate network states about a product. These statements are quoted narrowly and attributed. Where neither states something — a price, a system requirement, a classification — the course says so and sends you to the vendor's own site rather than filling the gap.
• What an Australian government body publishes. Classification records and consumer advice come from the Australian Classification Board; account and device security guidance from the Australian Cyber Security Centre; scam patterns from Scamwatch; online conduct and reporting from the eSafety Commissioner; consumer rights from the ACCC; privacy from the OAIC. These are linked rather than paraphrased wherever the detail matters.
• General practice for desktop software — how installers behave, what a graphics driver is for, why a download appears to stall. These passages are written as general guidance and are marked as such, because they are not claims about any particular product.

You will find no statistics, benchmarks, test results, scores, awards or seals anywhere on this site. We ran no tests, so publishing numbers would mean inventing them. Where a claim would need evidence we do not have, the claim is removed rather than softened.

The commercial relationship, stated plainly

This site carries paid affiliate links, and the product named in the course — War Thunder — is the product those links point to. If you register and confirm an account through one of them, MEBAT Distribution s.r.o. is paid a commission by the affiliate network that operates the link. You pay the same as you would otherwise.

So the honest statement is this: the product discussed in Step 4 is one the publisher has a commercial relationship with. It is named for that reason, and it is named in only two places — Step 1, where the category is described, and Step 4, where the sign-up sequence is explained — plus the homepage section that says exactly this.

What the commission does not do is decide what the steps say. The test we applied while writing was whether each step would survive the product being deleted from it. All five do, which is why the course never requires an installation to continue, never tells you a product is good, and spends three of its five steps on work that happens before any download. The Affiliate Disclosure sets this out in full, including what does decide the content.

How often it is reviewed

The course is reviewed twice a year, and sooner if we become aware of a change in something it describes — a change to an Australian regulator's guidance, a change to the platforms a named product supports, or a correction a reader sends us. The review date appears in the footer of every page, and the effective date on each legal page is updated whenever that page changes.

Corrections are welcome and are the most useful message we receive. If something here is wrong, write to info@mutespectrum.online and say which page and which sentence.

What this site is not

It is not the official site of any game or publisher, is not operated by one, and is not authorised, endorsed or sponsored by one. It is not a news outlet and publishes no reporting. It is not a personal blog and contains no first-hand account of playing anything. It is not a download site and hosts no software. It is not a course you sign up to: there is no account, no login, no progress tracking and no certificate.

It also collects nothing. There is no form on this site, no newsletter, no analytics, no advertising tag, no cookie and no browser storage of any kind, and the pages request nothing from any other server. The Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy describe that in detail.

Contact

Everything goes to one address: info@mutespectrum.online. The Contact page explains what to expect.