Take on the role of an operative in the Hex Gen network, a decentralized movement of hacktivists resisting the economic pillaging conducted by the unholy alliances of Big Tech, Big Military, and Big Finance. Think "The Windup Girl" meets "Neuromancer". Features: -Facial, vocal biometric capture devices -"Nohface" electronic face projector for thwarting surveillance/drones which cover almost every inch of city -Wireless internet -Darknets - all web activity is fully surveilled, you need stealth not only in meatspace but in cyberspace -More types of hacking - cryptography, DDoS, spoofing -Hunger: experience real economic destitution as you slowly die of starvation and are forced to beg, steal, or even kill for a piece of bread. -DIY: Upgrade your hemp trenchcoat with solar trim, syphon electricity from the private power grid, take apart old phones and radios to hack together an EMP gun, set up a hydroponic garden in your squatted flat so you don't have to kill for every meal.
Latest screens of a so-called "zombie bank". Financial towers retrofitted into military bunker 'Plutoclaves' protecting the ultrarich bankers, CEOs of employee-free fully AI and robot-automated corporations, three-faced government officials, and their DAVOS conference buddies from the multi-million strong protest marches, IEDs, guillotines, and Distributed Denial of Service attacks of the billions of angry jobless starving peons. Patrolled by soldier bots, armored mechs, and Predator drones run by cloud-based AI. Neo-feudalism at its finest. Good luck with the revolution, deadweight!
“A listener, how attractive! Actually, believe it or not, I was a top futures trader at JB Mortem Bank. Weekly million dollar junkets in Geneva and I owned half of Maui till that summer the Ross Ice Shelf snapped off the Antarctic.”
“You mean you profited by destroying millions of lives using weapons of mass financial destruction to implode economies, depriving people of food and basic services.”
“Deprive is such a loaded word. It was their own fault for soaking their economies in debt like gasoline, gorging on the buffet of cheap credit. We were just making a market, allocating capital, investing our money here, or not investing there. We added... liquidity.”
"Yeah, you added a lot of liquidity alright. Red liquidity."
Reminds me of G-String, another excellent mod with a similar mindset to yours.
The environment itself is nice, but maybe you could add some more stuff infront of the building, I'm thinking of guard towers nart the fences infront of it, to seclude the tower from the environment some more, right now it feels a bit "displaced". Behind the barbed wire you could place some clean and secluded pavements, maybe even with some green, to show how rich the people inside are.
I'm not really familiar with the engine, maybe it's not possible, no idea :D
There are some guard tower-like posts on the corners of the adjacent blocks, I could probably add a full-on housing to them later when there's more time. I think having some nice polished surfaces and green grass would be great, possibly for a different tower. This particular one is kind of right in the middle of a bad poverty zone (downtown San Fran) so it's been the target of attacks and generally out of the "green zone" in the crossfire. Hence the shattered glass, etc.
Possibly some grass with burnt sections / craters. Actually I was thinking a fountain/statue type thing with waterfalls and a pavillion, but yeah, it'll have to wait a bit.
Has anyone else told you that the world you've created for this mod isn't that implausible? Because we're already well on our way to it in the United States. Habeas corpus has been shredded and the government drone strikes its own citizens and no one seems to even notice, let alone give a damn. Huxley was right, Orwell was wrong.
Excellent point, my friend. Yes, there have been a couple who've suggested the eerily resemblance to reality. Hopefully, this mod might lead a few more people toward noticing such atrocities, before the atrocities escalate to the degree exhibited in Terminus Machina.