Update 34: Air Superiority news - C&C: Shockwave Chaos mod for C&C: Generals Zero Hour

The spooky update, or something. Let's get started.

American Factions:

• IR Smoke reload increased to 60 seconds
• ELITE BULLDOZER HP reduced, from 450 to 400
• Pathfinders no longer trigger Demo Traps
• Replaced CIA Agents inside SWAT Vans with Police Officers
• Replaced all Rangers from destroyed USA Buildings with Police Officers
• Police Officers can deploy Sentry Guns
• Added a terrible terrible Pillbox upgrade to important USA Structures; These include Superweapons and Strategy Centers. I'm sorry in advance

Armor General:

• Wraith Tank HP reduced, from 780 to 500 [same as Crusaders now]
• Mammoth Tank HP reduced, from 1500 to 900 [100 more than default Mammoth tanks]
• Howitzer [the static defense with infinite range] BuildTime increased, from 30 to 50

Chinese Factions:

• Defector code is deleted. DEAD. GONE. REMOVED.
• Reworked Bunker armor to be less strong overall
• Hopper Tanks can now benefit from EITHER types of nuclear locomotor upgrade and weapon upgrades
• Uranium Shells properly applies +25% damage to Hopper Tanks
• Hopper Tanks reworked into an upgrade
• Hopper Tank upgrade costs $3,000 and takes 45 seconds to research
• Upgrade adds 2 Hopper Tanks to Battlemasters, and 3 to Overlords
• Chinese Sharpshooter price increased, from $1,000 to $1,200
• Chinese Shardshooter BuildTime increased, from 24 to 26

China Infantry General:

• Infantry release a Frenzy One cloud instead of Frenzy Three now

China Tank General:

• Increased HP of Original Emperor Tank, from 1500 to 1900
• War Miner HP reduced to something less of a meme

GLA Factions:

• Balloon tanks are now susceptible to EMP attacks
• Greatly increased the recoil when firing Mortar Marauders. Beware
• Replaced the GLA Flak Station base defense with something more aesthetically pleasing
• War Truck armor reduced. It's super small. -1-5% on any DamageType
• Technicals [including Badgers] should now be better at firing on the move
• Expanded Biplane voices
• Added a couple new Quad Cannon voices for attacking air units
• Added 1 new Quad Cannon creation voice with a 10% chance to play
• Reworked Jarmen Kell's vehicle snipe ability and weapons
• Vehicle Snipe ability changed to Vehicle Stun ability
• Vehicle Stun ability lasts 20 seconds by default, and 25 seconds after KSVK Upgrade
• Changed KSVK Upgrade to PTRS upgrade. Adds +5 seconds to stun duration
• PTRS upgrade adds a ton of damage to infantry, allows Jarmen to shoot vehicles and adds his usual abilities
• PTRS upgrade severely limits Jarmen's rate of fire!
• DR. Thrax's Jarmen gets a VSS Rifle which doubles his fire rate, but restricts him to only attacking infantry

GLA Vanilla:

• Added Gladiator Fighter Bomber as a Tier 2 air unit
• It functions like the High Altitude Bomber
• Gladiator Fighter Bomber is equipped with an auto-cannon for air combat
• Fixed Skydiving Terrorists; they now correctly try to guide themselves to the target

GLA Demolition General:

• Hellfire Attack Aircraft is now the Tier 2 air unit; stats unchanged

GLA Stealth General:

• Decreased price and BuildTime of Demo Trap upgrades
• Time reduced, from 10 seconds to 6
• Price reduced, from $400 to $300
• Added Advanced Biplane as Tier 2 air unit
• It's slow and armed with rocket pods

GLA Salvage General:

• Added Me262 Fighter as Tier 2 air unit
• Me262 is extremely fast
• Units will spray and pray bullets to try and shoot it down
• Rockets will severely damage the Me262
• Me262 can only attack other air units
• Voices from Blitzkrieg Anthology

DR. THRAX:

• Added Chemical Bomber as Tier 2 air unit
• It's big
• It's mean
• It drops loads of anthrax
• Chemical Bomber is armed with 2 small anti-air turrets; the rear turret is independent
• Might be too strong, we'll see
• Added anti-garrison shells to Chemical Mortars. Thanks Jundiyy
• Allows Chemical Mortars to force infantry outside of bunkers, and units out of tunnels

GLA AIRFORCE CHANGES:

• Reworked all GLA air units; separated planes into Tier 1 and Tier 2 units
• Removed High Altitude Bomber from all factions; reworked into Tier 2 unit
• Removed Hellfire Attack Aircraft from all factions; reworked into Tier 2 unit
• Biplane anti-air weapon range reduced, from 480 to 420
• Biplane grenade damage decreased, from 100 to 90
• Dr. Thrax Biplane anti-air weapon damage decreased, from 25 to 15. Damage radius increased from 2 to 8 to compensate
• Demo Biplane anti-air weapon damage decreased, from 30 to 20
• Demo Biplane grenade damage decreased, from 150 to 110
• All Biplane health reduced, from 400 to 350
• Added a unique Tier 2 plane to each GLA faction. Information under their respective factions
• All Tier 2 air units require a Palace [or Chemical Bunker]

Misc:

• Nuclear Battlemasters can crush infantry again
• Tank General's Main Battle Tanks can now benefit from the Rank-up ability
• Updated Cargo Plane model from NPM
• Reworked Oil Derricks; Initial Capture Bonus is $1,500 still. HP increased to 2200
• "Helicopter landing on things and dealing damage" now deals GATTLING type damage instead of MELEE, meaning it will damage anything below it. Large airships still deal EXPLOSION damage, beware
• Super Train Burton Plasma Bomb now has a 30 second reload period
• Updated Particle Missile Launched sound with something from Rise of Nations

Horde Bonus now applies to the following units:

• Basically everything China. Really, it's too much to list
• Assault Troop Crawlers, Tiger Sharks, Battle Fortresses, Gattling APC's and Bezerk Conscript Launchers count towards BOTH vehicle and infantry horde types