Hello, my little rats. Today, we're continuing the PLA structure update. Looks like this time we're packing quite a good range of new content here.
Drastic changes were made particularly to the PLA Supply Center. In vZH, the Supply Center was, well, just shit. Why is it shit, you ask? Well, seems like some buildings in the game were indeed rushed to meet unrealistic deadline so rushed games isn't particularly a new phenomenon but I guess they're not as transparent as today with upgraded high definition graphics and fidelity.
But anyway, those boxes looked weird and blurry, there was no fence at ALL, no garage door and the scale is all kinds of wrong. It's just a very out of place building when you compare it to majority of stuff.
Pray no further as the entire building has been remade. I would be lying to say making it was a total breeze.
After days of trying to redesign and fundamentally change it (not painful at all), the People's Supply Center is now completed. Its layout is closer to the original design of the building than what was released at launch. Kinda like Shookwave or Rizz of the Reds, huh.
The major differences being, you know, the small stuff like better scaling, unified storage building, garage doors (finally), 3D doors, better drop-off road, fences (finally), shiny roofs, inclusion of the legendary Animated Tarps(tm), vents and shit ton of immersive BOXES.
Oh yeah, did I mention that now trucks can go through the drop-off building and drop off the supplies now? Truly, this is the next gen RTX6900 experience.
With that out of the way, let's get into the meat of this update.
You're not immune to propaganda. Every piece of media is biased and carries a political message and yes, even Tetris.
Poor? Grind harder dumbarse and you'll be a millionaire in no time. Perhaps try your luck at the totally not rigged online casino, state of the art Doge coin or your traditional lottery tickets. With 0.000000000000000000000000000000001%, you can certainly become the next Elon Mush. Your life is shit and you feel alienated by everything? Surely, it's the fault of ethnic minority, third world immigrants or the alphabet gang right? Surely, it's all their fault right??! Obviously, not. That's just plain stupid.
I'm sure all those oil barons, water lords, tech aristocrats or corporations in general are just exercising their god given right and freedom and not totally robbing you in broad daylight while telling you that's a good thing for the economy and that you're just one vote away from making your lives better.
Surely, price of material goods are sky rocketing while raise is stagnating is because of the Suez Canal ship blockage, individual laziness/disorganisation, labour shortage or WFH, etc. and the free market is gonna save the economy any day now and totally not because of parasitic corporations and aristocrats literally having all the power, factories and money in the world to, you know, get some more.
In a world with finite wealth, I wonder where they would be getting those wealth from, hhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Could it be from the working people who's literally 99.99% of all human on Earth? That can't be, it's too obvious!!!!! It must be because of [insert totally made up and unrelated things]!! Arrrggghhh
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But anyway, in this case, the Propaganda Center here is awesome, wouldn't you agree?
Now actually featuring actual 3D doors (finally), better scaled garage, animated tarps, speaker tower cable, shiny roofs, vents, better fencing and even more contemporary posters. Did you know that in vZH, the Propaganda Center doesn't have any door? I wonder how anyone would even get into the thing lol.
Gommunism is when no door. It's over, everyone
Up next, the PLA War Factory has never seen better days. If you played the latest iteration of ZHE, you would know that Chinese War Factory was the only one to receive glowy furnace light. With this new version, things got even better now with the animated fancy light technique used for other factories so it's not just the glow but also light planes and cyan-ish lights.
In addition to that, changes were made including and not limited to rounder smoke stack, better crane mesh, 3D doors, animated tarps, shiny roofs, vents, better fencing and moar immersive BOXES.
Throw back to 2015. Gawd, I'm old now
PLA Supply Center Mostly new PLA Supply Center featuring better scaling, garage doors, 3D doors, better drop-off road, fences, shiny roofs, vents, animated tarps and more clutter. Trucks now can go through the drop-off building and drop off the supplies.
PLA Propaganda Center The same old PLA Propaganda Center with shiny roofs, better scaling, 3D doors, speaker tower cable, better fencing, vents, animated tarps and even more contemporary posters.
PLA War Factory The same old PLA War Factory with shiny roofs, rounder smoke stacks, better fencing, better crane mesh, 3D doors, vents, animated tarps and more clutter. Also added new fancy lights show while it's being active.
Well, I guess that's it. See ya.
Since Generals was originally made with ****** propaganda infused(just like ALL war games on West), fans of original game most probably wouldn't understand mentioned here clues.
I think General's playerbase, although its more casual and not hardcore as SC2 f.e., still knows a bit or 2 about propaganda because past present and future, is and always will be the same when it comes to human conditioning.
It's okay if they don't get it right away. I certainly didn't get it right away. What I hope from this is prolonged critical thinking of what a propaganda what means in relations to the reader's living condition and not useless antagonism/bigotry against other people in similar or worse situation although that's a pretty high bar on the internet, unfortunately.
Not sure if Generals is on the same level as something like CoD but after lots of reading (ironically to write these blogs lol) and reexamination, it's safe to say, at least, that they provide similar kind of messaging although to varying degrees.
Rats and brats, a beautiful and meaningful read, once again! Loved it all, and all of the re-textures.
I have to say the new supply center looks, not as it should have looked from the start, but even better! Thanks for getting into this trouble, Vec.
Much love and respect as always! <3
Thanks again for the comment! <3
It always bothered me why it was never made into a drive through (like the supply warehouse.)
New Supply Center it looks pretty good, I really wish most PLA buildings were laid out in such a scientific way.
vZH models are anything but scientific unfortunately even down to the tanks and vehicles. Although, they tend to have nice visual designs at least. But that's just my opinion.
Forgot to ask: was that change (to be able to pass trough Supply Center and drop supplies) connected to model or mainly cut-code?
Enabling in code is trivial but the original model only has the door on the front side so I had to add another door.
good
THERES NO DOWNLOAD BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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