Hassler's Cabal finally added to the Frontliner Story Pack

At long last, Pete Hassler's cabal gets their main headquarters added to the Swappernetters: Frontliner Story Pack for The Sims 4. This addition is to celebrate the fact that the apartment complex where Hassler is set to be in-universe has now been officially defined as the Forest Place Apartments of Little Rock. Lack of scouting in 2020 for an actual location for Hassler's apartment led to use of in-game defaults from the Eco Lifestyle apartments, which aren't guaranteed accurate to the floor plans of any real life apartment.

This setup makes it harder for Hassler to hide his activities with Frontliners than in the previous draft, resulting in visitors seldom coming to his door other than Atroce and Triflow.

Another noteworthy detail about Hassler's apartment is that this version is safer for download. The original wasn't included on DzMD, due to its requiring TwistedMexi's T.O.O.L. mod. This version can get by without it. The floor plan for Hassler's apartment is the Magnolia plan.

Revisions to the Swappernetters Frontliner Story Pack

The Swappernetters: Frontliner Story Pack has been revised as of 4/4/2023. The old Trista Clarion and Bret Kamhold cabal HQ houses, which were draft concepts, are still available for download. However, they are now offered alongside new models, which take their designs based on real homes in the Little Rock area.

Trista's home is especially noteworthy, given how connected it was to other places in the original draft. However, the structure and terrain needed for a house like that in real-life Little Rock was too far from downtown to be practical. The new address for Trista's base of operations for her cabal is now specified to be located at 1524 W. 19th St. in Little Rock.

Kamhold's hideout also has a real address now, in nearby North Little Rock. His new hideout is 914 Roseclair Dr. While not nearly as functional as the original hideout, it is consistent with real world geography. It also reflects how Kamhold wouldn't necessarily be operating with the same generous budget as Trista, in spite Steve Trussel and other benefactors at the top of the chain financing both cabal bosses.

Swappernetters Supporting Cast Story Pack now online

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If you were ever curious about what the Swappernetters' allies were up to outside of Arkonia during the timeine, now you can play out their adventures for yourself! This pack includes the Gray Rancher, Fellertooth, some accessory links for John Domeck's Gray Champion, Extirwraith, Extirpon II, Amado Marcones, and the McPherson Women's Prison versions of Hea Pang, Jissika Sundue, and Marge Ramirez!

There are certainly more allies, but these are who made it into the pack.

The Screwworms from Swappernetters now available for The Sims 4

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At long last, a third of the packs that make up the DzMD Sims 4 Story Pack series for Dozerfleet Comics' Swappernetters has finally been completed. There is one pack remaining in that series, and then two additional characters. Some menu changes will showcase next year's hopeful arrivals, both for Sims 4 and Sims 3.

This September 20th release comes just two days after the September 18th release of the Chrome Kite story pack, the second pack in the four-pack series.

In this part of the Gerosha timeline, the old rogue crazy Screwworms are mostly gone from Arkansas / Arkonia. There are still plenty of these jetpack-loving homicidal maniacs descending like locusts on the "Wild Territories," which are recovering from Yellowstone - only for the Navyropes, Extirpon, and two Gray Champions to beat them back! However, only a tiny handful of the old Screwworms remain to terrorize Arkonia into place - and pose a threat to the Twirlflame Trio, the new heroes that have taken over for the old Sodality of Gerosha.

In Arkonia itself, about the only long-term sub-group of Screwworms still operational are the Microwave Mouth Corps. The Mercury Troopers, or "Hgs," have replaced most of the rest. What's the difference? Hgs don't bomb an entire neighborhood just to hit one target! They're more traditional storm troopers; making them more acceptable for occupying and enslaving a nation (without killing everyone.) Hasam Arbini has learned lessons from Icy Finger history; and doesn't want Arkonians to feel that the Chrome Kite occupation of Arkonia is just a drawn-out setup to a rerun of the Battle for Cincinnati in 2016. In fact, Arbini is dedicated to creating a "slightly softer" Icy Finger - one that isn't quite so off-the-rails malevolent!

Yet, Arbini's sympathies sometimes fall on deaf ears; either from on top, or from rogues beneath, or from third party villains with their own sinister agendas!

This pack explores five key individuals who refuse to play by Arbini's rules regarding themselves:

• Warren "Rappaccini" Buntine: The dark lord himself! Rappaccini is keeping close watch over Arbini's operation, to see which ideas he can cultivate to improve his own global conquest operations - with every intent on making the end result multiversal!
• Jill Hook: An imposter under the Oisdaat Protocol, Jill infiltrates the Frontliners, in an effort to learn more about their culture. However, she decides not to write a report until after she has figured out who all the Frontline bosses are! Yet, she's exposed before she can learn of more than Hassler and Kamhold. She fails to mention Hassler, but does target his Frontliners after being exposed, thus taking part in killing Atroce. She also manages to confirm to authorities that Tabitha Pang is still alive, but fails to indentify any of the others. She is all the same promoted to becoming the Scerwworm operative known as "Lady Chillingworth," tasked with assassinating Frontliners using the same abilities as Miles Charleston had back in 2014. *
• Immanuel "Feathertop" Corten: Able to manipulate the mind and adrenal glands of his targets; Feathertop uses his Marlquaan bond to act similarly to the Scarecrow in Batman lore. While the Twirlflame Trio are immune to his secondary power of illusion-casting, he can harm them by creating doubt in their ability to protect their still-vulnerable allies - or the general public - from self-destructing while under his influence. Like most Icy Finger villains, Corten takes the name for his alias from a Hawthorne story. He revels in the fact that, until the Tug is destroyed - there will be no Gray Champion to stop him!
• Erica Johann / Bliksemhek: Already a disturbed, unstable individual, a chance Marlquaan bonding and losing a fight with Tabby left Erica as a "lightning witch" with a lust for revenge. But when she can't break Tabby the simple way? She goes for the heart. Destroying systematically everything she can that the Twirlflame Trio care about. However, she is not welcome in Arkonia by the Chrome Kite; nor has any use for them. Therefore, she becomes mindlessly destructive; killing others at random for fun. Doesn't matter! If Tabby hates it, all the more reason to do it! The Twirlflames soon realize that they're gonna need some serious outside help - preferably, of the Tug-immune variety - to take this monster down! Yet, unless Tabby surrenders herself to SCALLOP; she fears there will be no way to bargain for society to forgive the Trio. After all: it was Tabby's decision to abandon Erica when the Hgs were coming that cemented Erica's hatred. Frontliners in general were going to get blamed for Blikesmhek's rampage!
• Fred Chimpton / Frotchimar: Ever meet that someone, and they seem to make your latest job all too easy, and feel like a friend; but you suspect they may be a devil in disguise? As Tabby and Jordan find out on a mission one day, Professor Chimpton is quite literally that! What will it take to undo the damage he's caused? How will they absolve their own role in enabling him? Their only consolation in the end regarding working with him, is that Frotchimar's boss, Strakinot, hates the Chrome Kite just as much as he hates Swappernetters! Stopping this cabal of incarnate demons, however, is going to require a major supernatural ally to return: Cherinob!

* The Gray Champion: Chillingworth's Revenge

Some reshuffling by necessity

Until Sacrificial returns from his hiatus, the Extreme Violence mod for The Sims 4 will remain partially broken, along with Akihana's loading screens - which broke with the patch for Journey to Batuu.

Several career items for the Batuu world don't mesh with Extreme Violence, nor do the combinations bode well for neighborhood loading, nor for compliance with the MC Command Center.

Until these items are in place, The Sims 4 will be too broken to use for modding for Dozerfleet Labs. This means that the remaining Swappernetters story packs will have to wait until Sacrificial returns to updating Extreme Violence, before Blood Over Water can be produced. Likewise, this affects all remaining Sims 4 story packs.

In the interim of waiting for these repairs, The Sims 3: Tales of Extirpon is going to see its story pack repaired on this blog. All other projects not terminally dependent on The Sims 4 will likewise proceed, until the mods for that game are repaired. Details on those other projects on the main blog.

New facelift and the progress of packs

So many new packs!

The Swappernetters Pack got so large, it has been split into four packs! The Frontliners' pack is now available for download, as discussed in a previous post.

There will be three more in this set: one for the Chrome Kite baddies, one for the other baddies, and a third for all the remaining heroes that will be featured. This pack series is the Sims 4 answer to the much smaller singular pack of Swappernetters characters cleared for release for The Sims 3. It is predicted that work on these packs will resume some time in October.

For the next several days, until completed, focus will shift to the official trailer for Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff. Immediately after that, work will resume on a pack for The Horrorday Gang, which will most likely be released in late September - plenty of time before Christmas.

With these out of the way, editing can resume on 3-13, as well as completion of Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil. Along with that, Blood Over Water can be made into a webcomic. These works will clear the way for Ciem: Inferno to finally be written, and then sent in search of a publisher. With Inferno ready for publication, completion of Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana should go pretty quickly. And with it finished, writing can commence on Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo.

The Swappernetters and Horrorday Gang packs are the final Sims 4 packs that will be released this year. A few packs for Sims 3 are scheduled for creation and release in 2021, as well as the remaining Sims 4 packs. When all Sims packs in pending are finally released, no new Sims content is expected to come to Dozerfleet Labs. However, old projects that are not game-related are expected to return to this blog.

Facelift

Dozerfleet Labs has received a redesign, in keeping with integration of the Labs division visually and thematically with other divisions. The post-apocalypse theme it previously had was put up as a statement to be made about the state governors, and their manipulation of the exosome scamdemic in an effort to steal the November 2020 elections. The idea is that a war and apocalypse may be needed to undo all their crimes.

However, the future of the Labs division rests in its downloadable content, not in political commentary. The place for that is elsewhere. Therefore, the blog has been updated to show a retool toward that purpose - as well as to aid integration with the Dozerfleet Database.

Swappernetters Frontliner cast now available for The Sims 4!

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If you love futuristic parkour dystopia settings and Sims 4, then you may enjoy Swappernetters! Tabitha Pang and her closest friends in the series are now available to download for your copy of Sims 4! Pending for release are the Chrome Kite baddies, Screwworm and other baddies, as well as various non-Swappernetter heroes.

But while you're waiting for the others to get their releases caught up, you can play this cast in your own save file. And barring that, you can make them NPCs, to spruce up your futuristic world reduxs. This pack goes really well with the Into the Future Conversions Stuff Pack as well! So get to it, and download your roof-hopping ninja teen action today!

Swappernetters characters now available for The Sims 3!

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With the exception of Fellertooth, most of these characters and more will also be eventually made available for The Sims 4. If you loved Mirror's Edge Catalyst, and Dying Light, but wanted something similar that was Dozerfleet-related (and Sims-compatible), then Swappernetters seeks to fill that void!

Turn your Sims' neighborhood into dystopian Little Rock, and use this cast of characters to make your Sims feel inspired to join an underground movement! Is your teen ready to be a Frontliner? Will they get captured by the evil Chrome Kite regime? Will you instead choose to play as a Mercury Trooper, and try to suppress the resistance? Find out today!