C&C Tiberium Wars Firestorm Predator Tank
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In the Firestorm mod (not to be confused with the Tiberian Sun Firestorm expansion) for Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars the Predator Tank is vastly different from the default Predator Tank from default C&C 3 Tiberium Wars, even right off the bat, it has a missile launcher system installed and that’s before the vast number of upgrades it has and can switch between sonic weaponry and a rail gun loadout (after researching them), for some reason the rail gun bulges on the Predator tank in this mod. The rail gun can be further upgraded with “Rail Accelerators” which increases rate-of-fire and gives the rail guns a cyan “shimmering” effect. The “Thermobaric Missiles” upgrade increases the rockets damage and changes the color of the Predator Tank rockets from orange to yellow. The “Laser Range-Finder” adds a targeting laser to the tank and increases it’s visual radius and weapon range.
As for armor related upgrades “Adaptive Armor” increases the armor of tanks including the Predator and the Kodiak Battlecruiser, it also adds white shimmering to the Predator Tank’s body. There’s also “Nano-Repair Systems” which automatically repairs GDI vehicles over time, even in combat. Sadly getting all these upgrades researched would bankrupt a lesser commander (the same way DraftKings bankrupted me when I bet on Messi to win the FIFA World Cup) who doesn’t have multiple resource collection sources set up.
The Sonic Weaponry and Resonance Amplifiers upgrades are visually less impressive to the tank model, adding what appears to be a gray silencer with light blue bands (ironic, a weapon that relies on sound wave showing a silencer).
Given the advanced technology available by the time of Tiberium Wars (around the 2040s), I wouldn’t be surprised if they had futuristic AI software and hardware available that can turn tanks and other military vehicles into autonomous (if not borderline autonomous) UGVs (Unmanned Ground Vehicles), certainly more advanced than AI LLM Moderators that mistakes benign grid patterns for CP like Discord did and then deny the appeals over their AI moderation mistakes. My friend who uploads WW2 stories on YouTube and Instagram named
@Panzerpicture on Twitter got his whole Google account terminated over Defamatory AI Lies that effectively plant CP on one of the YouTube shorts he uploaded to justify censorship. Whether or not he was singled out by admins or it’s the AI acting on it’s own accord is irrelevant.
The fact tech companies defended their AI moderation mistakes feeds into Bad Faith censorship and someone brave needs to lawyer up and expose YT as a Biased Publisher when exposing their Wrongful Termination over BS reasons to a federal judge and force them to apologize for AI moderation mistakes. A Minecraft related lawsuit was crowdfunded in December 2024 and Jason Crawford actually won Facebook litigation over his wrongfully banned account so Big Tech litigation is possible.
The Firestorm mod for Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars can be found on ModDB. I did not make the mod, I just took the screenshot and built a description around it based on the in-game function.