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I feel like early 2025 spoiled me. TTNW, All The Way, Razistorija - all in quick succession after each other - it was just too good and now basically every other mod feels mid. Brianesque slop that's only worth a single playthrough especially. Year Zero was such a letdown, like what the fuck is the mod even about? Its supposed to be this feelgood lionization of Church, but all you get is a very boring basic campaign where you're told you got aura, but its all tell don't show. Like, it feels they wanted to make a "fuck the deepstate mod", but were too shy or lazy to make an incumbency sim about Church, which could have had great potential.
And what of 4 More Wars? What does it bring to the table that W. didn't? Howard Dean? Its still the same "Spam Ohio and barely win" campaign as dove Kerry. Sure, its better in replay value than Year Zero, but then my mind just wanders back to Good For Me, a mod by a complete unknown that btfo's all this shit while staying at the same tech level. And don't get me started on how uninspired the OSTs are becoming, especially for post-2000s mods.
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They're teasing a Year Zero sequel lmao.
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>>2343804
how do you unlock like half of the achievements for that?
the only ones i remember getting are the 'don't join eurovision because you retract your recognition of israel' one and the 'be really liberal and attempt to join NATO/the EU when your opponents are seselej and the other guy causing a civil war'.
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>>2343989
Your opponents are decide by how two things: Your domestic policies (are you a liberal or an autocrat?) and your foreign policy (USA, Union State and Non-aligned). Try being doing different combinations to unlock the different candidates.
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>>2344004
yeah i had that somewhat pinned down (could never consitently get the agromerc guy) but that only makes up 6/15 no?
i've never figured out stuff like
>inheritance
>prevrat
>prodigal son
>tomislav III
>overpenitration
i used a guide to get the razistorjia one but it's a complete mystery how a blind player is supposed to
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>>2344006
Inheritance is fairly simple, pick the liberal option in the first question, then oratorial genius in the second and in the third pick "are you sure they love you?". Prevrat and Prodigal Son are automatically unlocked in the route where you get replaced by your VP and with overpenitration you need to kill the mayor during the civil war while making it look like an accident. Tomislav I think can be unlocked if you win as Dodik's VP.
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>>2343804
Looking through the code, I'm fairly certain that Persist to Pride and Tomislav III are physically impossible to get. Persist to Pride requires you to pick the Yugoslavist option for Q1 and to keep Milanovic in Zagreb to pick answer 51431 on Q3, but requires you to have the bureaucrats variable at 2 or above by Q6, which is impossible without having Zoki resign from his post in Zagreb. Tomislav III requires you to win when Milanovic takes over, which I also don't think is possible.
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>>2344043
1. they almost killed it
2. I remember your time
3. Great. I love meetings.
4. Well, it's basically true.
5. Why fix something that isn't broken?
6. gay in America
7. and buddy, I'm a brocon
8. We don't like pegging here.
9. Triglav
10. We're not getting fucking hanged over Boron.
11. doesn't matter
12. No panicking.
13. Condemn violence and, war.
14. Tito's whole non-alignment thing
15. I don't know, a new railway??
16. Make him bleed.
17. doesn't matter
18. Care to share?
19. Montenegro's our soft underbelly.
20. SBD
21. doesn't matter
22. where the hell is Gruevski?
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All this talk about Razistorjia makes me realise not one mod has been as fun of an incumbency sim, nor has had such engaging writing.
Unironically what went so fucking right?
>>2344289
I'd assume it was cut relatively last minute from the initial release, due to time constraints or some other reason - and I don't think they updated the code since?
>>2344086
I'd also assume this is a bug that never got addressed?
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>>2344577
That does make some sense, I mean the description of Tomislav is
>Make things okay.
which is maybe meant to imply things can't be okay, especially after the backroom shit you do in that path? Ala that one W. achievement about making HW proud which you can't ever naturally unlock because he just hates (You).
Same with Persist to Pride and it's description having
>Are you happy?
but I feel like that one's reaching, when it may just be a bug.
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>>2345913
DODIK GET DOWN.
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>>2345883
It works.
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newfag here
'bout a month ago, someone made a Campaign Trail "/v/ plays" thread on /v/ that was incredibly fun to participate in. How often do the people in this thread have a /v///vst/ plays thread like that? I had a great time watching some people get really into character and reading others' rationale about the decisions they were pushing.
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>>2344467
>Unironically what went so fucking right? The writer(s) of Razistorija have actually read a couple books for one thing. The problem with 99% of incumbencyslop is that the writers try to be deep and engaging but the only writing they have experienced themselves is YA fiction/fanfiction, hoi4 mods, or other tct incumbency mods. Even the W. team displays a clear lack of experience with any literature or media in general that isn’t very surface level (like the clear inspiration taken from american psycho in W.’s 538 ending, or when they ripped off david lynch in that one really gay meta ending in TTNW where bobby and rogers morton go to the real world). This limited experience leads to shallow and repetitive mods, everyone just rips off W. these days because it was truly revolutionary, but if they cracked open a book or two (even ones totally unrelated to politics) they might find the inspiration to make something nobody has thought of before.
TL;DR: read more books, watch more films, do something other than playing tct and you might be able to come up with something better than yet another W. ripoff incumbencyslop
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>>2348252
You'd expect a guy with as much impact on the current state of the world as him to come up more.
We've got the Bill Clinton incumbency simulator and probably a dozen Trump scenarios and somehow Epstein is only mentioned once in all of those combined.
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>>2348715
>Epstein is only mentioned once in all of those combined
Epstein is mentioned in American Carnage, his tooltip refers to him as “a can of worms”, and Epstein also makes an appearance in a newly added Hope ending where he’s still alive in 2023 and shilling crypto
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>>2347927
Basically listing all the third parties which were historically significant, as well as mentioning which mods they appear, and which they are actually playable, in the latter almost none outside of bull moose.
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Lore: Reddit mod ItsAstronomics has advocated for a restoration of American military dominance internationally. To do this, he argues, military rule by both major general (Gregory Brady) and Rubio-Secretary of Defense, for one year, Mark Esper, is necessary at home. He has also argued for a monarchy chosen by the interests of corporations, small businesses, yellow unions, and groups of the middle class. His anti-establishment fervor and anti-elite rhetoric have propelled him to the election runoff for president.
ItsAstronomics has advocated for neo-nationalism and emphasized national identity and sovereignty, against globalization and immigration. His parties and organizations (yes, this asshole have made multiple, à la Jair Bolsonaro) have engaged in violence with left-wing activists, minority rights groups, alleged undocumented immigrants, and trade unions. His original party, the Restoration of America's Principles was right-wing populist. Due to America being a multi-party system, the party saw some success. Various far right and right-wing parties (Nick Fuentes' America First, Reginald Chandler's [Yes, Chris Chan's son] Patriot Pride, and the Constitution Party to name a few) allied with ItsAstronomics. He created the Resist! party and merged with centrists in other parties concerned about communism taking hold again.
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>>2348815
The alliance played on the Catholic faith ItsAstronomics had to pretend it had anti-colonialist views, supported the environment, and was against transhumanism. While the alliance of the right (America's Revival) was isolationist, ItsAstronomics still viewed the subjection of Africans and Spanish-speakers as justified. There were no real anti-colonialists, just duped leftists. Also, the alliance was ecofascist, and rather than call out the 100 companies with 70% of emissions, it blamed dirty lakes and waters on migrants, and China-bashed the Chinese owned state coal. Also the alliance was funded by Bitcoin enthuasists and had ties to Curtis Yarvin, a former Bitcoin-skeptic, but it just railed on transhumanism morally corrupting people and hurting God through baby-killing somehow. The alliance had neopaganists and weird semi-Christian religious imagrey. The alliance also wanted to abolish Congress, which it saw as too chaotic and people who liked the 2-party system grew warm to the party. It also wanted to implement Project 2025 at any cost, to save a decline in births of Christians and White people. The alliance wanted to guarantee single men, free women as property, Handmaid's Tale style.
Much of this upset Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz was a reliable right-wing conservative. He founded the Conservative electoral alliance. But seeing his countrymen support a fascist in the polls was too much. He ran on national unity, and got the Green nomination, as well as support from the dissident Right. It all failed. ItsAstronomics won narrowly and was free to implement his policy on America.
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>>2348816
The first months of ItsAstronomics’ rule were marked by a whirlwind of ideological spectacle and authoritarian maneuvering. Neo-pagan symbols appeared in public spaces alongside vaguely Christian imagery, and state media framed every policy as a moral crusade against decadence and transhumanist corruption. Environmental policy became a performative ritual rather than substantive action. Lakes were “cleansed” and migrant communities were blamed for pollution, while major industrial emitters remained untouched. Bitcoin-funded initiatives and tech-friendly apparatchiks promoted the moral narrative of resisting technological overreach, portraying any innovation as a threat to divine order. In schools, textbooks were rewritten to highlight a pseudo-historical narrative of Christian and white victimhood, and children were taught that the decline of traditional families was a catastrophe to be reversed at any cost.
Resistance simmered but was fragmented, with traditional conservatives like Ted Cruz marginalized and dissident liberals bewildered by the alliance’s mixture of ecofascism, corporatism, and religious spectacle. The public rollout of Project 2025, with its policies to guarantee single men and treat women as property, triggered protests in urban centers, yet the rural and suburban strongholds of the alliance cheered. Within months, the government began restructuring Congress entirely, replacing elected representatives with appointed loyalists and paramilitary enforcers. Internationally, ItsAstronomics’ rhetoric strained relations with allies, while China-bashing and anti-globalist posturing brought applause at home. The new administration’s combination of theatrical religiosity, environmental authoritarianism, and social engineering set the stage for a society increasingly divided along lines of faith, ethnicity, and compliance with the state’s moral hierarchy.
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>>2349036
It's fine, but nothing more.
It still feels like CYOA mods are circling the same drain of W., TTNW, and such.
It was talked about earlier in this thread but I feel like nothing's topped Razistorija, or even American Carnage/Obamanation (because as much as they were beating you over the head with their messages it wasn't the same verbose cynicism slop).
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>>2349659
>i'm afraid it's just gonna devolve into "Reagan is literally Satan"
I got more of a “Reagan hardly knows what the fuck is going on and Nancy is the real power behind the throne” vibe from it
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The definition of mid. Overly verbose in places and typical Democratic wanking. The bitching about Chennault doesn't help either, the way it's written you'd think Nixon single-handedly stopped a peace deal in '68 (instead of, yk, the fact it was 100% going to fail with or without him) and kept the war going.
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Hello everyone, Memorandum Teleoptik here. Long story short: two months ago, the anonymous individual behind the original allegations came into contact with us to retract their accusations, apologizing for the fact that they were either wildly exaggerated or invented whole-cloth (a la the Nazi stuff).
Since then, we (the original coder and writer, alongside various returning and new artistic contributors) been working on a remake of Razistorija in an entirely new engine. The plan is for it to release in a trilogy with two of the original writer's yet-unpublished works.
That's all. See you all in April!
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>>2352638
HOLYYYY. This looks awesome, but since the original accusations were retracted is it possible to see the original Razistorija back on CTS (and maybe have the Persist to Pride achievement fixed?)
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>>2352678
1. The other anon said everything there is to be known.
2. The Persist to Pride achievement was already fixed in an internal copy, but this unfortunately was not the version that entered public circulation. It will be fixed in the remake, alongside a side-host of the most up-to-date legacy code.
Additionally, the technical framework we're using was built from the ground-up in Godot and will feature editable scenarios, alongside being much more modular than base TCT. It will be released for public use, for free, alongside the Razistorija remake. Our hope is that it will be a useful tool to other creatives in the mapgame sphere.
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>You know, you aren't so bad for a communist faggot.
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brehs how do i get these cheevos, they're the only ones i don't know how to get (besides the unobtainable ones)
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>>2352787
'Razistorija' itself is a real word and literary-philosophical concept derived from the writings of Dobrica Ćosić. Literally, it means 'un-history.' Attached is how Nick Miller describes it in 'The Nonconfomists:' I think this is perhaps the part of the mod that was least understood - naturally so, for the record - but it was also the most loadbearing to our subjective conception of it. All MTO works until now have dealt with 'Razistorija' in one way or another.
The Razistorija Ending being easy to find was not as important to us as it simply existing, although both our playtesters found it independently. It is achieved by retreating to the past. Razistorija 2012 and the little world it depicts is a circus of misery constructed such that it can be approached and interpreted from all possible ideological directions. This is why we were simultaneously being accused of being Nazis and also Maoists, Serbian chauvinists and also Ustashas.The Razistorija Ending is peeking behind the curtain, and screaming. Being a kid who is already dead, looking into the eyes of a loved one inside a dream and seeing no-one there. You get the picture. If you do not, my hope is that the new path we are adding in the remake will help illuminate it. This is gay wordcel slop but it's also the only honest answer we can give, and purposeful esoteric ambiguity is passé.
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>>2352897
Yeah. But, you know, it's been known to happen to people - a real occupational hazard in the terminal society of developed liberalism - it's no joke. What is Seselj or Zmago Jelencic or Bosniak Mujahideen or Ustasha Emigrees except those who have been brought back to life through the reversal of time, blind and gigantic ogres hillocking chaotically about like the Max Ernst's "The Angel of Hearth and Home"? A crazed Manchu Nationalist exits a quaint ethnic festival with a revolver and begins to frantically exert his will upon the world. Men dedicated to the brave ideal of Occitanian Ultranationalism.
The Razistorija Ending is about this, and it is also about being children raised in the muck of it, the innocent and young being world-historically molested. That's about the long and short of it. You'll either intuitively relate or you won't. Over-explanation is its own kind of death.
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>>2353068
Neither of us have bothered with any mods since the release of Razistorija. I can't speak for my co-dev, but as for me personally, I am just un-interested in self-soothing lullabies about how THIS obscure imperial bureaucrat could have tucked you in and told you there are no monsters under the bed. It's all dreadful stuff, cosmologically extremely bleak, bleaker and more dreadful than even our work in many ways.
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>>2353067
We understand this perspective, but this is as public as we can reasonably be without associating or engaging with the den of noospheric terrorists and (ironically enough) open predators that comprise the 'Base TCTNO' failson cartel system. Besides, we are uninterested in being figures in the 'TCT Space.' We know they know we know, and we'll keep our distance if they keep theirs.
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>>2352992
I don't remember the exact order they appear in, but;
1. Dodik - VP: Zoran (obviously)
2: Tito - VP: Moša Pijade
3. Dobrica Ćosić - VP: Dejan Medaković
4. Putin - VP: Medvedev (degenerates into an old orthodox icon of the Theotokos)
5. Rudy - VP: Huckabee (degenerates into Epstein-Maxwell)
I think that's that.
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>>2353250
You don't get it! If this specific candidate won AND followed my ideology we would have a Democrat one-party state and we could kill any Republican on sight!!
>>2353252
>Open predators
Huh?
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>>2353271
Not op but it’s an open secret Lurker (the 1824 guy) has said sus things about the age of consent and other things of that nature but is allowed to remain in the community discord (despite other people getting banned for much less) and even work with Astro on his mods, that’s the only thing I’m aware of unless mango is doing more with underaged girls than just making them cut themselves
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>>2353632
Idk but do I know the Hope guy is the biggest critic of mango still in the community and if you’re ever banned from anything tct related the actual reason will always be because you didn’t sufficiently suck mango and his friends dicks and glaze their diminishing returns to the fullest extent possible, that’s why every prominent modder that isn’t attached to his hip in some way has long fucked off either by choice or involuntarily by now so sounds like he’s next for the chopping block
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>>2353817
Hope IS slop and creatively bankrupt imo but it’s obvious whenever Mango drags his ass out of his private server to drop another faggy “review” (aka permission for the W team glazers to flame hate towards a mod team he doesn’t like, as was what happened with Hope last year when he, obummer and the other mean girls of tct piled on it) on the discord you know it’s only because he had a prebaked agenda against it and not that he genuinely wants the creators behind them to improve and make better work
>it’s your fault because you’re white, can’t wait for Hope
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alright so I was talking to one of my buddies who happens to be a higher up in the community and basically:
1) the guy behind hope had the doxx of several members of his own team
2) he kicked them out because they were unproductive and threatened to dox them if they ever told anyone
3) my buddy (who is the higher up) who was in the server this was happening in leaked this to the head mods
4) hope is never being updated again, none of the lead hope guys are ever getting unbanned + if they try to then hope is getting taken off the loaders
so the dude's a straight up scumbag from what I hear lmao
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>>2353880
Plus not letting Hope be updated again if true reads to me like a deliberate move to wipe out the Hope team from the community to keep people in line ahead of P24, even Tom was allowed to upload mods if he wanted
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Feels great to be a right-winger with no stake in this debacle who can just laugh at the idiot liberals having yet another petty spat over a browser game.
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>>2353974
i'm inclined to believe that, however agreeable had much more power within the hope team + much more time getting to know the members than imfakeithink. plus (according to my buddy) agreeable was incredibly transphobic to certain members of his team for no reason
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>>2353978
All I know is Ronnie (the one mango got to cut herself) is in the Hope server clearing Agreeable of any wrongdoing and saying the main server mods are hijacking a doxxing that she says didn’t even happen to her
>plus (according to my buddy) agreeable was incredibly transphobic to certain members of his team for no reason
SteamedHams is the one accused of transphobia and of leaking people’s voices
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The hearsay is annoying right now can somebody post a lick of evidence for what they’re pushing instead of naming random niggas as the culprit otherwise fuck off? Hope was dogshit and I don’t care about their gay inner team drama doubt anyone else does.
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"Where the fuck is the evidence for this? I don't believe those people would ever do it consider doing what I've actually seen on discord.
I've seen the doxxing shit debunked, and it really looks like most of these claims are bullshit created by the mods. The alleged victims even spoke out against it. I can't see why agreeable or the team would ever do that?
Nobody was threatened with doxxing, if that was somehow unclear. And from what stuff I've seen, the leave was taken care of personally and is weird to go into in this ban case. All of the doxxing shit was bullshit created to just ban the team, as there's no real evidence to say the victims somehow lied.
This entire thing is extremely suspiscious because of how they've changed direction from doxxing to transphobia now. I don't trust them."
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>>2354155
>Is it because they criticized Mango once?
Probably a combination of things. Criticism, the whole self harm thing making Mango look bad, etc.
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