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Its a shame the devs decided to abandon the COOP development because i think that along with like a roguelite mode(and i hope the new mode will be something like it ) could have worked great. On the plus side the modding scene for this game is great with people even recreating the previous ST RTS and media including custom units.

The third faction aren't "some Arabic nation" - they're explicitly mercenaries. German, American, French... but yeah, a lot of them are vaguely Arabic, and their bases go for a Dune-ish vibe. Also, the faction splits fairly early, with the main antagonists remaining the "Arabians", while the more multi-national rest is no longer so hostile.

Only thing that ever disappointed about the game, the 6 chapters per faction. Wished there was more before getting to the final mission. Still play this game, it's a classic that will never die.

This game is a great example of a RPG in a RTS skin.

Another media about how Americans invade another country to take away someone else's resources and it's very democratic. I wonder why no one likes them?

Could we get a 5 hour video of you just absolutely obliterating dumb reviewers? You called bro out for not reading the book at the exact instant I was thinking “he didn’t read the book” and I need more of this directly into my veins

You convinced me thx but imma play easymode because i suk

Thanks for covering this game! But when someone calls Czechia Eastern European, it always hurts a bit.

16:13 absolutely the correct answer. I've been playing this game on and off for 20 years, and it still pops into my mind now and again, my "Roman Empire" as some people call it

Hope there is spiritual successor for rise of nations and rise of legend.

Your channel is so good. I was one of the first 1k subs, and I just can’t believe it hasn’t blown up yet. I’m confident that it will.

I remember buying this classic game back in the summer of 2001 and playing it religiously. Many happy memories. For New Year this year, I bought the game and have been playing it since. Great game, great game.

I wonder if this game got its freeform vehicle designing idea from 'Warzone 2100' which was 1st released in 1999, where it does have some premade designs but otherwise you have to design them by yourself. Granted, I dunno if that feature was there ever since the 1st release.

"Electronic Boutique". That's a name I haven't heard in a long time, a long time.

I remember playing this on hardest difficulty at night, sacrificing sleep. As I recall, it has very strong feedback loops, do well consistently early on and you end up loosing pretty much nobody, with everyone becoming elite in their respective fields. Most people struggling are probably leaning far to much/long in infantry and crewed vehicles. Soldiers were the most unimportant class in the game, peaking at one guy with missile launcher or crewing a defense turret, while a skilled mechanic could command or maintain an entire armoured formation. Also discourages dividing forces or rushing, supplies are either limited or finite, so buildup over time for everyone is limited. Do prepare everything and turtle, then go do your objectives.

1st mission - Dies 20times - WTF IS THIS SHIT - uninstall - only to discover what a gem it is years later :D

The Russian and American campaigns both also split into two separate endings with a few missions unique to both, whilst they also "share" an ending in one path, these shared missions are often somewhat different depending on which faction you play. It's a lot of content and I can see why they ran out of time. I recently purchased it on steam for almost nothing and replayed it - and I can see why I didn't complete the game when I was younger, and used a walkthrough when I finally did a few years later. Was fun to revisit!

I feel like I must have played the demo of this as a kid, it feels so familiar

Also a note on the third faction: the people who took over the OW maintenance also put together a complex campaign for them as well, based on the development notes left over in the data folder. It's pretty good but HARD.

Anecdotally, playing on the middle difficulty I only needed reset on 3 or 4 missions in total (the final mission for allies, 2 of the alliance missions and 1 mission in Soviet campaign). e.g. for the mentioned exploding apes (which were a very rude surprise), the base is set up to defend in the direction they come from, and since they can't take much punishment, stationing a good soldier in the bunker should deal with them. I believe they also get a call out from one of the characters when they appear. I think the game generally expects you to lose some manpower to rude surprises to avoid breaking the difficulty curve, because the way the bonuses from skills work, around level 8 the people become godly, and level 10 soldier with some easy levels in other skills (which improve his fighting as well because reasons) can tear through a whole bunch of level 3/4s.

Mechanically, this seems like a descendant of War Wind. Except playable.

I LOVE THIS GAME!! And i struggle to get fellow RTS enjoyers to play it with me!

Czech national treasure! 🇨🇿

The story is so bonkers I am surprised there never was an early 2000s animated TV show and a late 2010s life action movie based on it, that by now has two sequels (preferably with Dwayne Johnson as leading actor).

I was in the process of making a video on this hidden childhood gem as well ! The odds

I miss insane premise like tvis

I remember this game being punishingly difficult because of the persistent soldiers. It was easy to screw up early on and be doomed to failure from the outset, or have to keep save scumming because you lost someone important. But I was only 12 when it played the demo so perhaps that was the reason.

I never played this game but I love the premise.

One of my favorite from my childhood

Hey dude. Is there a command where you can select all construction vehicles? On screen? I tried dragging a circle around my units in the previous mission and I can only select the fighting units. Do you know the command to select all units in your immediate screen? Thanks!

"Communism Simulator 2 sheds its pretenses and builds a fantastic world where a centralised, state-run economy can produce commodities or sustain human life." - My Review (I executed a prisoner in the first game after the Storm. The discontent was below, but I wanted to connect my political to that of the storm through ritual.)

lol ee2 was dog shit taco compared to the first

1:14 haha cuck software (1996-1997)

Dude one by one sucks.

I saw the negative reviews of FP2 from people who loved FP1 and it *resonated* with me. They were some very good points but they all boiled FP2 down to just another city builder but with some politics

I've yet to play Frostpunk 2, but the vibe I got from the first trailers was that the game would focus on military conflicts between cities over oil and resources like some kind of snowy version of Mad Max. Some kind of "fighting between cities" I felt was the one thing missing in the first game and the logical progression for what would happen after the winter settled. It seems like a missed opportunity and makes me wonder why the older trailers seemed to hint at it being the focus of Frostpunk 2 when there's nothing like that in the game. I suppose maybe it was over-marketing the "political infighting" mechanic to make it seem like actual wars were breaking out.

I mean frostpunk 2 aint a bad game but not great either like frostpunk 1 since frostpunk 2 sacraficed depth and full hands on involment of the first game. Theres till hope for the second game with expansion size DLCs that bring more frostpunk 1 style depth and involment back. Still after several long play troughs i like frostpunk 2 to.

To be honest if someone asked me what a sequel to Frostpunk should be I'd more or less propose what Frostpunk 2 is.

Thanks for the vid

peon sounds better

Will you do RTS reviews on 'D.O.R.F' and 'Dust Front' once those games are released?

keep your secrets. 23:43, What's an Aphis? Fusion reactor?

Great video! Thank you for sharing. I agree, Stellaris' game beginning is one of the best 4X games... The problem I encounter is restarting new games every time, instead of continuing previous games... Sometimes, it feels overwhelming to get back to a game with 13 planets to manage and trying to remember what your winning strategy was...

The only film that gets the scale right is was the 1970s film waterloo and even they only had 12000 soviet tropes. And even that is like a tenth the scale of a Napoleonic army.

Eugen Systems Games do a really good job of fixing this scale problem for an RTS. Each battle you deploy about a regiments worth of units which are accurate to their true size, and although you normally don’t command a whole regiment at once, the game does a good job of representing scale by having you replace lost units from your regiment as time goes on. Additionally, the game is designed in a way that emphasizes real life situations, unit sizes etc as accurately as possible

Why not just play defensively? There is no tower limit in this game. You can defend an island pretty easily. I always did this when I decided to do a chilling game from age 1-15.