my mod idea would take place in a fictional universe in space even kinda like that one Star Wars mod where it's a dark comedy farce where everyone is some form of authoritarian asshole or is otherwise acting with ulterior motives and what few "good guy" paths if any would all be trap fail state options that inevitably crumple
Ian Smith being killed isn't the worst offense in the writing. If you don't follow TNO lore, the National Party doesn't take power in 1948 so apartheid isn't officially introduced- things like the Cape Franchise still exist for example, but for the most part the writing acts like apartheid is happening exactly the same as it did IRL. The player has two options before the Germans invade: liberalise or crackdown. Both are done poorly.
Holy shit it is worst than I imagined. Glad I never wasted time playing South Africa even when it was a demo. Does it even have any post-war content yet?
no post war content besides the boer republic, it can either join the UP or not. thats it
Wow what a great mod. South Africa has had content since the demo and still isn't finished.
There's been no real new content since the Cutting Room Floor update. That was almost 2 years ago and just added Novosibirsk and the Red Army in Mongolia
This is something you realize very quickly with alt-history "writers", and even good ones like Turtledove, instead of making their own world with its own history, they quickly bog themselves down trying to take real history and shoe-horn it in, even if it doesn't make sense. I guess it's either inability to imagine or, more realistically, trying to make their own godawful political opinions and fantasies a reality.
i like the idea of the South African War imo- but it needs to be able to stand alone as its own conflict. other lore though has to go. iran still having a coup in the 50's is uninspired and socialism should be much less influential globally. the subideologies they recently added have an absurd amount of leftist movements, while liberalism has like three. at that point they should be making a mod about all the leftist movements that have ever existed rather than an axis victory one
I can tell you exactly why this happened, because that's Current Year accelerationist logic. Which is fairly common in this day and age because most of the people who feel that way are spending time on the internet, where they can say and encourage shit like that without putting themselves directly in harm's way.
CRF was supposed to be what was in the first release, Toolbox Theory was supposed to be what was in the first release. Now they are making TT3 for some awful reason. I feel like this is gonna be how TNO dies: Reworking the same update (Toolbox Theory) into the ground over and over again. I think Penelope's Web (Mediterranean Update) was supposed to come out first? But again, most of the updates have been delayed into the next year as always. TNO itself suffered through this syndrome before release, flowing from one year to the next as things got reworked over and over again. I don't know if they can really break it without the central leadership of someone like Panzer.
Why would 1960s hippie American liberals be against America stopping a Nazi invasion of South Africa? This is not the same as a movement spurn from the American media reporting every American casualty and atrocity while treating North Veitnamese back guerillas as a faceless enemy and anger over the draft. You just can't put parts of the real life cold war and put them in a different context. Then have them act them the same and act like it somehow makes sense.
Maybe they're the south park hippies who just want an excuse to smoke weed and smell bad?
they're basically in a rework death spiral since all the big updates are also some sort of rework on a major aspect
that's always been what hippies were really about
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAdevs are making their own fucking fanfics at this point... UPDATE THE MOD FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. A DEMO, A HOTFIX, SOMETHING.r/TNOmod - Russia is a land haunted by its past. When a figure from that distant past returns, the world is shook by the consequences. This is The Story of the Martyr Queen, a "What If" scenario for the TNO Universe.
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HE PUT AN ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN IN THE LINK BELOWdevs are making their own fucking fanfics at this point... UPDATE THE MOD FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. A DEMO, A HOTFIX, SOMETHING.r/TNOmod - Russia is a land haunted by its past. When a figure from that distant past returns, the world is shook by the consequences. This is The Story of the Martyr Queen, a "What If" scenario for the TNO Universe.
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Technically, they added Ireland and Brazil content. But both are basically visual novels.
