GAMENOVA was far too fair!
As the saying goes...
Laymen watch the spectacle, experts watch the details.
The clearer one's understanding of NovaXeno's hardware capabilities and how game development works, the more astonished one will be by Command & Conquer.
This company has completely lost its humanity!
A simple test showed that the performance of 1 unit and 10 units simultaneously seeking paths did not fluctuate significantly.
Even if the number is increased to 20 or 30, there won't be any significant change.
How exactly did Gamenova achieve this?
This has become an unsolved mystery among all developers.
It's important to know that Command & Conquer is just a CD; it doesn't have the MMC enhancement chip that used to be embedded in cartridges.
In other words, it relies entirely on the existing capabilities of NovaXeno.
But that's simply impossible!
While 16-bit machines are undoubtedly powerful next-generation machines, they are far from being able to easily run pathfinding algorithms with dozens of units.
Could it be because of that high-speed memory with its special architecture?
I just can't understand it, I just can't understand it!!!
but----
GAMENOVA certainly doesn't lack this kind of cutting-edge technology.
What shocked these people the most about Command & Conquer this time was something they had never even considered, no matter how hard they tried.
External sound card – surprisingly, it can be used as an online device!
All you need is a MIDI cable; any manufacturer will do.
Connect one end to your own sound card and the other end to your friend's sound card, and the two of you can play Command & Conquer online together using this sound card.
After testing, it was discovered that this thing could also be used in Civilization, Street Fighter, and all of Gamenova's past online-enabled titles!
In other words, GAMENOVA created a MIDI protocol-based online technology stack entirely from scratch.
Data runs directly through the MIDI cable, without any complicated protocols consuming minimal bandwidth, resulting in the most comfortable online experience.
Although it can only provide local area network connections.
But that alone is enough to excite all college students.
Isn't this exactly what we were prepared for?!
Who would have thought that what was originally just a purchase of a dedicated peripheral for "Rocksmith" would turn out to have an even more surprising use?
Spending $100 to play Rocksmith at home was already a steal.
Now with this new feature, it's like getting two benefits for the price of one!
I'm so tired of winning.
GAMENOVA is so generous!
"GAMENOVA is so generous!"
Westinghouse Electric executives, upon seeing the generous offer, agreed without hesitation.
Honestly, let alone such a reasonable price, even if Westinghouse Electric lost some money, they would be eager to get rid of these minor issues as soon as possible.
It's 1987 now, not 1977. Westinghouse Electric is no longer the company it once was.
The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant meltdown in 1979 dealt a fatal blow to Westinghouse Electric, causing them to rapidly decline from a decade of glory.
At this very moment, a major decline in manufacturing was being implemented, and the deindustrialization movement was in full swing.
Japan horse, directly absorbing the industries that have moved away from the United States.
After the US became hollowed out, Westinghouse Electric no longer had the conditions to thrive.
Without its nuclear power business, Westinghouse Electric must undertake a complete strategic contraction.
This crucial streamlining process began with a major overhaul of consumer electronics, a sector whose business was also shrinking significantly.
Departments that are optional to sell should be sold.
So, at this critical juncture when the entire board was agonizing over the decision, Gamenova, the biggest dark horse in the US consumer electronics industry since the 1980s, presented a offer that satisfied everyone.
As for the LCD-related patent technologies included in the intention?
Come on, they've already sold off their consumer electronics division, what's the point of keeping this thing?
Even if they managed to stay, Sharp, located across the ocean, would have already dominated the entire LCD market.
They were blind; they sold off some LCD patents cheaply years ago. It was Westinghouse's own incompetence.
Now, these are all problems for Gamenova.
Westinghouse Electric is such a conscientious company!
Sam was surprised that Westinghouse agreed to the acquisition so readily.
Although the entire consumer electronics division appeared bloated and a complete loss-making venture on the surface, the hidden value within it was enough to excite both him and Lin Lixin.
With just a simple reorganization, it can be transformed into an important part of GAMENOVA's industrial chain.
For Lin Lixin, the value of this thing lies in the seemingly useless LCD patent pool.
His eyes flickered, revealing the panel that only he could see.
[My Power of Belief) ]: [With the blessing of the Greenskin Divine Power, you can identify hidden problems in the LCD screen and clearly distinguish the extent of damage.]
A new skill has been added to the skills list.
This was naturally Christopher's reward from his previous mission; he had already encountered the problem with the motion-sensing arcade machine's chassis.
I opened this thing while I was at it.
I thought I'd get a skill that could solve the problem, but it turned out to be a new green-skinned skill.
You should know that the last time he got a green skin was back in the early days of arcade games.
This thing helped him diagnose many difficult and complicated diseases.
However, with his hardware attributes skyrocketing and his involvement in more and more arcade games, that skill is now of very limited use.
Right at this crucial moment, he unexpectedly gained a new skill from the Green-skinned faction.
Well, to put it simply—we accidentally ran into the line of fire.
Although it wasn't the one I wanted.
Now it has finally found an opportunity to shine.
Lin Lixin reached for the receiver and quickly dialed an international number.
"Satoshi, prepare to launch Sunday Project. Dig as much as you can, regardless of cost or expense."
After saying that, Lin Lixin slightly raised his eyelids and glanced at Sam.
Sam immediately understood and picked up the phone to begin deploying the work.
"The reorganization of the Westinghouse Education Foundation can begin."
The Sunday Project is named after the "Sunday Engineers," a unique product of that specific era.
Here, Lin Lixin uses it to refer to the engineers in Japan and Europe who have largely retired due to industrial decline or financial difficulties.
The name sounds mysterious, but it's actually a project that GAMENOVA has been planning for a long time.
When the workload is distributed among each department, there isn't actually that much to do.
Satoshi, or rather, the mission of Game Freak's Japan branch, is to establish a research institute in Roppongi.
They offered high salaries to recruit a large number of unemployed engineers and established a shadow R&D center.
Using Roppongi as a base, a large amount of cutting-edge technology was transferred back to GAMENOVA.
At the same time, GAMENOVA will also reorganize and establish a new award based on the Westinghouse Education Foundation obtained from Westinghouse Electric.
This funding will be used to support universities such as University of Southern California, Stanford, UCLA, and MIT in starting targeted training programs for talent in specific fields.
This isn't like Roppongi, where you can see results in a short time.
It takes a long time for a talent to go from being trained to being involved in projects and finally being able to work independently.
But as long as it can operate stably, it will benefit from GAMENOVA's massive cash flow.
This plan will provide GAMENOVA with a continuous supply of talent in the future.
One is fighting the present, the other is fighting the future.
However, no matter how fast Roppongi moves, it's still too late to solve the immediate problem.
In response, GAMENOVA will deploy its most terrifying and deadly weapon, Lin Lixin himself.