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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Man, for only 7 missions this DLC REALLY packs a punch. Six full hours of gameplay, mainly thanks to the missions being really long and varied. I had an absolute blast with Raising Hell and I really hope they release more, it was well worth it. Starship Troopers Terran Command still stands out as one of my favourite new RTS releases, especially with how unique its combat system is. I wish it had MP so badly.
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"Fleet liaison, you lived!"
"Yes, sir."
Perfect timing on the unit callout.
"This hellworld is an extremely hostile environment."
The name totally did not give it away
Someone had to be there first to give it a name, and it being appropriate is the point of naming it
Not just that, they named it Gehenna, one of the Hell's many names, and a direct reference to the Apocalypse.
@@cecilsmith2061so what is the name? Like when was it said? Only heard the classification of the planet "hellworld".
@@lulu111_the_cool "Vilon station, a major commercial hub operated by HephaeStar Corporation, orbits the planet of [GEHENNA]"
@@lulu111_the_cool literally 45 seconds into the video
The Mercenaries: "Join me, we can use the secret bug mind control program as leverage to get rich and fuck off to somewhere the fedbois can't find us"
Federation: _literally uses the _*_secret bug mind control program_*_ as b-roll for a propaganda reel_
Honestly spot on for the Federation, character wise, same with the military-industrial complex brutally cracking down on would-be whistleblowers
THough how would this benifit a one world government like the federation? It's wealth would be measured by the amount of resorces it can secrue and extract not buying and selling research to itself.
Fraser really won me over with “Fed-man”
I've read the starship troopers book and now I wish there was more stuff from the book
Such as not being a satire of fascism?
there are more alien species and empires in the book, and theres a whole lot of scoial stuff with miners revolting and whatnot@@Ma_Zhongying
@@Ma_Zhongying To be fair, the film is a terrible satire of fascism. Verhoven didn't even ready the book, and basically the Feds in the film are "fascist" only because they wear vaguely "fascist" uniforms to our culture with the blacks and gray colors. I mean yeah they use propaganda on their populace, but so do all western democracies today. Hell the Feds livestream their crippling defeat, acknowledge they made a critical mistake at the first strike against Klendathu, and sack the Sky Marshall. I don't remember Hitler being sacked for Stalingrad. Further they show a debate between a Fed backed scientist and a non Fed scientist on Bug leadership and the Fed scientist comes across as a nutjob while the civie is proven right.
Hell the only real arguement against the Feds is the whole asteroid was an inside job. But I doubt it, considering it was in the path of a Patrol ship, that couldnt call it in due to the collision and the arguement that the bugs couldn't have sent it due to distance falls apart considering the bugs have space ships of their own, and can enter hyper space.
@@SunTzu176 I'm pretty sure the 'fascist' element comes from the endorsement of militarism and mandatory service for citizenship, along with the obvious presence of a 'great other' that is completely alien and different from us(ie. the bugs). If the book is to be interpreted as a call to action or to have any sort of message, these 'bugs' are an underhanded portrayal of other races/nations/civilisations in our own world, even if this is only expressed in sentiment and not in any specific manner. Basically, it is the assumption that a certain society needs to militarise itself fully against a perceived Great Other that makes it sound fascist.
@@Ma_Zhongyingread the book. It's quite the opposite of fascism. As the above reply said, the only thing "fascist" about the federation is their uniforms vaguely mimicking Germany in WW2. As the movie doesn't go into detail about the civilization yet also copies parts of the book, all civilians share the same rights of citizens other than the right to vote, and you don't have to join the military to become a citizen, just something that makes you earn your vote.
Infact, as long as your of sound mind and could functionally understand the oath, the Federation by law had to find a duty you could perform to earn your citizenship. As the doctor says, even if you were a deaf, blind, paraplegic.
I love they were hinting to starship troopers invasion with Jenkins and his bug experiments
Nice to see the devs are still working in references to the films as they expand the game! You can tell they must be serious fans of the setting themselves.
The one thing that could outshine those fantastic maps was the FedNet script. Glorious expansion.
The name "Bomberbee" sounds like it could be legitimate Australian wildlife.
Man I love Rimmy's commentary when he plays starship troopers!
What I find hilarious is that Rimmy's prediction for the second ending is 100% what I expected to happen, and I felt that the first ending he suggested was the least likely of the two given the universe.
Honestly, I was rooting for the Mercs much more than Zhao, but that's why they get killed off.
As an citizen, i am not only not immune to propaganda, i am addicted to it
This story makes me want the next DLC be focused on playable Arachnids, Like instead of troop pops your “limiting factor” is the amount of Special mutators like Plasma and Tank bugs that can be selected per mission alongside most being locked until a certain objective is done.
Alternatively it can be you controlling specialized bugs while AI still control majority of the horde, though both can be pretty limited in terms of play style for the player. Really though in the end I just want Endless wall of staby legs.
Humans surviving on a hellplanet would make a lot more sense if the MI were power armored space marines like the book, rather than glorified 40k Imperial Guardsmen redshirts like the movie with no pressure suit to stop them from huffing volcano fumes
I glad he liked my silly name so much.
would have liked a tad more depth in the ending, like Frazier starts to make Zhao waver for a moment before a superior comes in on the radio telling them they will be briefed on the operation after, or even a reveal that Zhao was briefed between missions and that the feds are also going to take over capturing bugs as well. just felt a tad "flat" in that final interaction between them.
I want a daily stream that’s just the puppy cam
"All due respect ma'am, I got fuckin nukes."
Ngl, watching this video I was more focused on the puppy cam
new rimmy vid pog
I had an emulator on my computer at school and I played Advanced Wars 2 but someone found out about it and now it's blocked
Do love this fleshing-out of the lore, with mercenary groups and things. And I've always wanted some human-on-human in the Starship troopers universe, the bigs are cool n' all but they're not everything that makes the universe cool
I LOVE Puppy Cam!!!!!
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So, I would say I didn’t like the ending. And in this case, I’d say that’s not a bad thing at all.
I didn’t like that ultimately, Hephastar got away with everything and the Federation not only allowed, but endorsed it.
But it is well written. I don’t think I’m supposed to like the outcome. It’s a downer ending that puts the Federation’s evil on display. Zhao, whilst a good man who displays ethical concerns over the experiments with the bugs, turns a blind eye to the idea of the Federation’s wrongdoing.
Because in his eyes, the Federation can do no wrong, because it wouldn’t. It couldn’t. So he denies it.
Just as the Federation wants.
And whilst Frasier was perhaps a lesser evil to Hephestar Corporation, he was ultimately a self serving man who only objected to the evil of the operation once his unit got frozen out of the deal.
He didn’t move to expose Hephestar, but to screw them over out of spite and secure a retirement fund.
And that’s ultimately why he would never get through to Zhao. To a man devoted to greater service, it was easier to latch onto the flaws of a greedy band of mercenaries than admit the cause he serves might be wrong.
I don’t like the outcome, but I will give it credit as the clear path of the story.
This was how it was always going to end.
Frasier was frozen out and used up, then disposed of once he became a liability.
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@@NandolfBlockbusterI would like to know more.
I FIND THE IDEA OF A BUG THAT THINKS OFFENSIVE!!!
I'm petting my good boye!
@@NandolfBlockbuster *desire to know more intensifies*
It's also a nice nod/foreshadow to Jenkins' research in mind controlling bugs from Starship Troopers: Invasion
Is that the one that mostly takes place on one spaceship?
@@kjj26k yes it is this one
Yeah I was pretty sure Rimmy just set up the Plot for Invasion XD
The Mercenary Leader was at fault for not recognizing that the company manager was trying to set him up for an excuse to terminate his contract (along with all his accumulated pay and bonuses)!!!! The smart thing to do would have been to take the pay and bonuses he had already secured and then left the planet (along with a sample of the "Bug Nip" rather than bringing along some actual bugs as well!!!!!
And not like bugs are rare. You probably can land on next closest planet, poach some bugs using stolen "Bug Nip" without harassment of Company and sell them. While Merc was a good with military tactics, we was bad at politics.
@@hypocriticalrat3607 when he tried blackmailing her and she ordered his team back to the station, it was clear he'd overplayed his hand and she was going to get rid of the mercs first opportunity she got. I'm actually surprised they made it back without some accident happening to the transport en-route, maybe corp should have their own private force and not just hiring external contractors
I would think Patel damaged the company's ability to hire future mercs.
Somebody named “Patel” trying to screw someone over? I can’t believe it! 🤨
@35:33 What I like most about this ending is that it doesn't do the BS cop-out of the corporation getting the soldiers killed because they "know too much" or whatever: instead, the captain is treated as the useful asset he actually is, because the Federation is functional evil, not Chaotic Stupid evil.
Not quite. As Rimmy said, he's now permanently deployed on a lava-flooded bug-infested planet literally called Gehenna. The only reason he's not dead right now is because HephaeStar just had him kill the mercs capable of doing it.
Also, while certainly controversial, thr Federation stands to gain from live captures.
Mind you, even if it was unintended, it was the capture of the Brain Bug that brainwashed a Fed Admiral that led the Federation to the God-Bug. An important target for the war effort.
I agree. I'm always a fan of functionally evil.
They did get rid of him, they just did it smart. That Hell World Garrison Commander positions a dead end job and he isn’t going anywhere from it except into Haephestar corp. He has no recourse whatsoever as the transits all controlled by the people who want him there.
Absolutely agreed - functional evil is the best way to describe the ending, and it's why I like it so much. This is "victory" for the Mobile Infantry, the Federation and their Corporate Allies. It's just not a victory in our eyes at all.
It'd also be on-point if Patel was just like "Yeah, we're collecting live bugs...on the Sky Marshal's orders, you fool." and causes the captain to have a bit of a crisis of faith.
More like the captain Would go, "Okay then, for the federation!"
It's kinda weird to see Merc genuinely wanting to go the frontlines. Like, why do they prefer to go the dangerous frontline where people are killed instead of earning a bit less money but staying alive in safety to earn even more tomorrow?
They’ve got the fight in ‘em.
there commanders still a career soldier he probably likes fighting
Bc he would need to catch other contracts after that one. "Defended a pump while MI killed bugs" doesn't sound as exciting as "Cleared the bug-infested installation on our own". It is for CV
Because he could see his crew getting frozen out- if the MI will kill the bugs for Patel for free, he's got no Contract. No Contract, no money. He -needs- to be the one doing the killing; otherwise, there's no reason to pay him.
Everytime he did a big fight he got bonusses, when he was used as garrison they were paid far less. Besides it became clear he was being phased out so he tried to keep his contract.
I do like that with the ending they link the live action movies to the CGI movies, Maybe one day, we will get to command MI bugs.
Mobile Bugantry
The power armor troopers in Terran Command are the same ones from the CGI movies too so.
I can imagine an infestation breaking out on Earth because of what the corporation was doing and the Mobile Infantry would still think it wasn't the Federations fault. However I would like to see a Starship Troopers story where the entire civilian population finds out the truth and rebels, I'd like to see how that would turn out
The civilians don't have guns
@@jlGenozzV "don't LEGALLY have guns"
No society is free from lawless elements.
some on a mining colony has rebel and got all executed by the Federation. and the fun fact is the bugs never killing the rebels, only the loyalists. (I remember its was a mission but forget which one)
@@redzeckez3346 If I remember right that is either the 2nd or 3rd mission.
@@jlGenozzV Given how the civilian colonist in the base game had guns Legal or not, pretty much say otherwise
"The good guys are here!"
- next screen
"We brought a unit called Immolator, which was named ironically and is in no way engineered to commit warcrimes at peak efficiency."
That's solid comedic timing right there.
the immolator is an enemy bug unit
@@TK-7193 don't tell him that, the humans are always evil.
You can't commit warcrimes on bugs, bugs are no citizens!
Banelings are absolute hell to deal with, give those things wings and you've created hell squared.
That's what a bomberbee is
in Coop Dehaka gets Creeper Hosts, which spawn flying banelings for free and yes they are as OP as they sound
They're broodwar scourge as anti-ground, that's all.
I had no idea what a Baneling is, looked up what it was. Realized that it’s from StarCraft, a game I never played.
Yeah the ending is hoenslty fitting with the setting. The Federation has alot of problems (hell even the movie subtly points it out) and some comics go into it, especially when they give POVs of people who were born outside of the Federation.
I really like the inclusion of the Mercenaries, because there are people in this setting that do not like the Federation at all (for obvious and not so obvious reasons).
The mercs also have a really good logic:
- They are cleary more proficent then the MI, whos experience depends on the squad in general.
- They are a neutral party who handles the shadier/secret corp operations, to avoid the secret being spilled.
- They only care about money, and while the guy did abuse his position to get more cash, they have a good point when dealing with the secret stuff, since having MI handle it, can lead to someone spilling the secret (and also less money for them).
However they didnt plan fully cause the Corps usually are a step ahead of you in most settings.
Honestly I will say Mercs were a good addition however I do find the last twist a bit pointless. Oh but we are selling the bugs to the feds, which makes little sense in why would it matter. MI can absolutely capture bugs if tasked to do so, hell I would imagine specialists teams can do that. I was hoping more for a true bugs black market where they hired mercs because they can "third shift" their captured bugs. So you do your first quotas for the Feds then make extra profit selling it off to the highest bidders (Terrorists, weapon manufacturers, medical research, etc). Hell I find it very hard to side with the mercs when they literally brought this end onto themselves because they got greedy. Like we just murdered your whole posse going up this hill and mechanically you are as replaceable as MI, so while you can make more buckaroos as a merc. It doesn't seem the mercs really care about their people much more than MI besides providing themselves slightly better gear. Like everyone just sucks in this situations, the Feds suck, the corp sucks, and the mercs suck.
@@TheSpoonyCroy Alot of fair points honeslty. Really theres no winning side and only god knows how this setting would be if the Bugs werent a problem.
I disagree with that assessment. Mercs are usually worse at keeping secrets than people who believe in the fight.
Were they clearly more proficient than the MI? Slightly better perhaps but not clearly better, if they were they wouldn't be replace. These sort of wars are usually won by good enough gear deployed on a massive scale and still the Feds are in the process of deploying Marauder suits on a wide scale, the mercs are already behind the curve technologically.
You do not want a neutral party when it comes to state secrets, you want a loyal party.
Money is a piss poor motivation to fight or keep secrets. There will always be somebody else who could offer more money and you can't spend your money if you are dead.
Frankly the Mercs got greedy and broke their own contract which allowed the Corp to be greedy and have them killed for actually good reasons: The Mercs were trying to steal war winning secrets, in war for the survival of the human race, and sell it to the highest bidder.
@@TheSpoonyCroy Makes very little sense for MI to be upset about the capture of bugs when that's one of the main plot points of the film: Capture a bug
The movie isn't subtle about anything.
Zhao? Fed-man? Shady business? Oh no...
These guys are Capellans!
_[Angry Taurian Condordat noises]_
Happy Davion noises
9:30 “We now head underground, for there path we must retrace and find there giant nest and crush the queens carapace THE EDF DEPLOYS”
Sorry just got stronger EDF vibes then normal there
I love the ending, because its literally a case of too much being said by the mercenary. The MI commander can live with the Federation buying bugs, because its the Federation he serves and not an unknown enemy.
Terran soldier: “What’s going on over there?”
Station security: “Wouldn’t you like to know, fed boy?”
Anyone that doesn't like that ending just doesn't get Starship Troopers as a universe. That's just playing the Federation completely straight.
It seems Rimmy got promoted after his victories at Kwalasha.
But it kinda sucks that the Rejects got disbanded because of losing too many men.
Well it's fine because they put him in charge of company Ruff-necks.
Consisting of former Rejects and soldiers who are raring to go on the Battlefield.
And also, Terran Command has expressed their support for Major Rimmy.
They feel that Major Rimmy will again liberate a planet of these damn bugs.
But Rimmy himself still feels guilty about how he sacrificed so many lives back in Kwalasha.
If there was a Merc ending, I bet it would you picking Fraser at the landing pad. The mission would then be Fraser's crew fighting off the M.I. attack, steal a ship off world, sell the bugs and retire. Would still be an evil ending; as the bug trade continues, just with Fraser getting the good deal instead of Zhao.
I do agree though, Fraser and Zhao were both good commanders.
I swear the mobile infantry gives off EDF vibes. One of these missions they’re just going to start singing “oh we are the valiant infantry”
Well, the EDF probably takes pages out of Starship Trooper's playbook to start with, so...
Halfway through, but I really hope this doesn't turn into the Bugs only spreading because of the corporations.
I want a fleet battle game, damnit. Those bugs HAD ships of their own in the book, I want to fight them.
31:50 There is also the possibility where the Zhao would get the last ditch message from Fraser but 'ignores it', story shows mercs being executed, corp rewarded, post-credit scene is for Sky Marshal congratulating via Captain Zhao to Director Fraser on good co-operation with Mobile Infantry in reclamation and fortification of Gehenna and it's industries.
Now lets see what happens when I unpause.
Ah yes, StarCraft gameplay. Good job UA-cam!
4 minutes in and I can see that this is some top tier old school expansion shit.
21:52 I practically screamed internally ‘BANGLING, ITS A FUCKING FLYING BANELING!’
Federation scientists have discovered three new pieces of conclusive data.
A. God Does Exist after all! B. He’s on our side. And C. HE WANTS US TO WIN!
You know I would've liked to have the choice of the 2 endings but what we got was a very believable starship trooper story that ended how I think the Federation would say it ended true or not!
In regards to how Rimmy killed Fraser it was quite poetic in a sense that it was a power armored officer and a Fleet Liason that executed him meaning it can be implied that Zhao alongside the highest ranking Fleet Officer on the ground were the ones to personally kill Fraser. Its almost a General Rico and Captain Carmen moment the only unit missing would have been a psy operative.
21:20 I was literally about to comment that myself, I like how perceptive Rimmy is when it comes to details like these
I think people are wrong in thinking the Federation is bad for secretly trying to control the bugs:
- The biggest advantage the bugs have is their numbers, turning that against them by having the bugs fight each other is going to be a massive game changer and also drastically reduce human casualties. Sure they might do bad things with the bugs they control later but the current war for the survival of the species is a bit more important than maybe's further down the line.
- The bugs can literally suck information out of people, keeping such a game changing advance secret should totally be priority number one.
The Mercs were ofc in the wrong:
- It's understandable that they feared running out of a job but turning around to try and steal war winning secrets to sell to the highest bidder was a terrible treasons plan that could end up with the human race extinct.
--- The bugs could more easily learn about the tech and find a way to beat it.
--- The more corps try and get bugs to control the bigger the chance those bugs would escape containment and go on a rampage in places the Federation doesn't know bugs are.
--- The corps could actually successfully build bug armies which they can then employ to achieve independence from the Federation at a time where all resources are needed for the survival of the human race.
Money and frankly honesty should take a back seat to the survival of the species.
Too many people are still applying the fallacy of "the movies are a parody about the evils of fascism" to everything Starship Troopers. And yes it's a fallacy because while that was the idea it was so badly implemented in the films it pretty much failed outside of the uniforms and bad tactics.
Even the promotion to Garrison commander is quite likely a good thing: The dude, a competent and loyal officer, is now safer from harm than if he was still lower ranked and moved from fight to fight and in charge of security for a vital fuel planet and a potential war winning secret project.
P.S. Yes the Corporation was phasing out the Mercs but it was the Mercs who first breached the contract, despite being warned they were about to do so, and allowed the Corp to cancel their pay and declare them criminals... for the very valid reason that the Mercs were attempting to commit treason.
The 'we are the bad guys' bit gets a bit undercut by the fact that all the supposed illegal bug catching was part of a state sanctioned secret research project. Why wouldn't Zhou not side with the Federation on this?
Yeah, this 'we are the bad guys' falls flat when the corporation's actions were sanctioned by the Federation. Fraser trying to claim to a member of the MI that 'the Federation doesn't care about you' was the merc's own fundamental misunderstanding of how the Federation even works. No wonder he got killed.
Corps? Hiding dangerious alien bugs? It's more likely then you think! Tune in at 11 to see the shocking similaritys between HephaeStar and Weyland-Yutani, and how HepaeStar is literaly just Weyland-Yutani! (Seriously, just... Just remove this logo- There it is, Wey-Yu logo! ...They aren't even trying anymore!)
Man, Frasier complaining about guarding pumps while the MI "gets all the glory" means he's not a very good mercenary, because his primary concern shouldn't be glory, it should be getting paid. And guarding pumps while the MI deals with the rest of the Bugs is Easy Money.
It is worth pointing out that Frasier seemed to see the writing on the wall that if he let Patel depend on using the Mobile Infantry for too much then he would just get frozen out of the deal entirely. Add in the fact that Frasier frequently manages to secure additional funds and bonuses every time his troops are in a major operation and he may just be concerned with getting those lucrative bonuses and a bit of glory over taking the safer but lower paying jobs, that isn't necessarily the right or optimal choice from a risk-reward perspective but for a greedy enough person it might make enough sense to them in the moment.
You don't get bonuses for guarding pumps, and you don't let competition muscle in on your contract.
@@seamonkey2841 This is why he acts that way, yeah. The missions go from "Hey, let the MI stay back, we got this" to the mercs being ordered to stay back and let the MI handle things. Fraser can see he's being frozen out - already being sent on the less and less important missions, leading up to them eventually being fully replaced. Hell, I'd even say that Patel intentionally aggravated him to ensure he'd flip his top and give her an excuse to refuse paying them at all.
@@RimmyDownunder Glad to hear I was on the right track with how I understood it. While I had grasped the fact that she was freezing them out now that they had outlived their usefulness and they had access to the free alternative in the form of the MI the fact that she may have been doing so with the full intention of antagonising Frasier into flipping out in order to provide the precedent she needed to terminate them (in both the employment and living sense.) did escape me so yeah, the added context has proved pretty enlightening, at least to myself who isn't the most intrigue minded, so thanks.
_terran command sends soldiers to do anti-xeno wetwork while the company is scheming to stab em in the back_
Ripley: *first time?*
34:05 yeah they wear slick black trenchcoats. Totally good guy-coded!
The Hugo Boss drip overrides any bad guy coding
there must be different endings since you can chose to deploy the mercs or not
The thing here is that buyer as noted IS government of Federation itself. Frasier, his mercenaries and crew of the station were used basically to write off any losses in case of a failure as "haha, stupid civilians doing weird things to bugs". Once the process and equipment is well tested and procedures and protocols established, Pathel no longer needs them. Frasier bet all on the fact Pathel hides something from Federation(at least something they didn't know about). Nope, she is a (mostly) loyal employee 😅 She is 100% corrupt CEO of corrupt corporation, but she is one in a state that likes that.
"She is 100% corrupt CEO of corrupt corporation"
I wouldn't say she's corrupt. If se were corrupt she'd be rampantly embezzling all the mercs paychecks into her own bank account AND stealing from the company Christmas party fund. The corporation is definitely "morally dubious" though.
I love how Rimmy has a dedicated puppy cam, and the first thing he does is put his glass in front of it.
"Nice argument captain. However, I did notice that your employment contract is with the federal goverment."
LETS GO MORE STARSHIP TROOPERS
I really love how the Starship Trooper Verhoevenverse has gotten so much love in video games. The aesthetic is impeccable, the satire is handled just right, and of course; the music. Even just listening to this gameplay with game sounds and commentary you can hear the Poledouris-inspired soundtrack really pulling out some of that epic feel from the original film.
Handled better by other people than the inventor, ironically enough.
@@KillerOrca I can't really agree. If you mean Verhoeven, the original movie is pretty much untouchable, and he had no involvement in the shitty movies that came afterwards.
If you mean Heinlein then I'd just say he didn't lend much to the Verhoevenverse, just names really.
@@HellbirdIV The original movie didnt have power armor, one of like, the DEFINING features of the series. I have no idea how Verhoeven missed the fact the Mobile Infantry are called that because they have, you know, power armor for mobility.
The fact it didnt become standardized until the anime is a crime.
@@KillerOrca Sorry but that's a terrible take. It fundamentally misunderstands the entire point of Verhoeven's film.
He DIDN'T set out to adapt Starship Troopers. He had a different script. The "adaptation" was forced on him, and he chose to use it to make a satirical film about fascism, which he had personally experienced as a young boy in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
There's a reason I said Heinlein's original book didn't have much to do with the movies. The Verhoevenverse is very, VERY different to the original book.
@@HellbirdIV yeah but the thing is the original film had nothing to with facism because Verhoven is incompetent and had to quickly start shoe-horning things in the sequels to make the Federation actually look facist.
The whole switching between forces bit reminds me of Dawn of War: Winter Assault where you swap between IG and Eldar or Chaos and Orks depending on which campaign you play, and I fucking love that.
I was on the fence for buying this dlc, but seeing that ending...
I gotta give this a whirl!
Is this what Zhao was doing before he became commander? I guess that's how he got promoted. Though I don't remember seeing bugs in Avatar
Edit: Oh my gosh he is *literally* commander Zhao now!
"Puppy cam" *zooms on character's crotch*
14:25 The moment I heard "No worried Fed" I can hear the shippers at work
Imagine a corporation owning a monopoly on manufacturing, extraction, logistics and distribution on a galactic scale... and they're offering shares... even NFTs felt like a better investment.😂 A slight breeze on the economy and money won't exist anymore...🤣
Man, I firmly believe this has one of the best formulas for a Vietnam War RTS. Obviously engagements would be a lot different, line warfare doesn't work too well against NVA after all, but there's a lot of elements that would be easily transferable to 'Nam. The shuttle transport system would be reskinned to UH-1 helicopters, bug hives would be VC tunnels, there could even be a tunnel rat unit that would count as 1.5 the strength of a normal infantry squad or clear tunnels faster. Radio operators would have to work with combat engineers to blow/burn away the scrub to clear space for landing zones. Maybe replace snipers with LRRPs or force recon as scouting units due to the lower engagement ranges from the scrub, but still have some option for city-fighting missions like the Siege of Saigon. IDK, I can't be the only one who's thought of this, right?
hmm I don't dislike the ending but honestly picking a side (yes I know alot more work) and having the M.I and mercs slug it out sounds great
You'll never find me simping for a fed but for paycheck I'd glady sign up.
I wonder if there's also a Bugs Campaign...
That would be amazing. Basically like if the Zerg from Starcraft were the Allies in WW2, planet-hopping until finally reaching the heart of the fascist regime back at Earth for the final push... That's more or less what the original movie implied was happening, given by the end the Federation was relying more on wonder weapons and child solders, implying they were running out of people to press into service and scraping the barrel. Sounds familiar.
@@RoyalFusilier Oh I'd play the crap out of that game... probably more than the Mercenaries or Earth campaigns tbh. Sure, the Bugs would probably be crueler than the other 2, but I love the idea of planet-hopping as if the Bugs/Zerg were the WWII Allies.
0:02 i was not ready for puppy cam *dies from cuteness overload*
Rimmy somehow always looks exactly like and nothing like how I expect him to look based on his voice alone.
I particularly like that there was no obvious good guy in this. The merc had a good point, the Federation is corrupt and does not care for the individual, but he obviously has no moral ground to stand on as a mercenary who does shady things for self gain.
The MI captain seemed like a virtuous law abiding citizen, a walking recruitment poster; but he is also blatantly brainwashed by federation propaganda and ignorant of something devious he is partaking in. Also executing the merc leader and saying he refused to surrender when he clearly did, is a warcrime.
The CEO lady, well enough said, she is basically the merc but in a greater position of power.
Rimmy mentioning that he likes Advance wars Dual strike hit close to home
it's an old favourite of mine :)
@@RimmyDownunder the fact that dual strike made Jess an absolute menace after being underwhelming, in black hole Rising then adding Javier to the mix that was outright diabolical, those two were the ornstein and smough of Dual Strike in one singular mission
Puppy cam is the best addition ever \o/
is that option to call in mercenary's a story split
Nope!
Life has many doors, "Fed-Boy"
I also really loved the ballsy ending but i wanna raise a point..... Didn't Zhao have a point here , given that Fraser didn't know the full picture? if Fraser revealed that they were duplicitly hiding these bugs, the people would have lost faith and possibly denounced the war. A Vietnam all over again. But Zhao said " the federation always looks after its own." and that is what they were doing. Studying the bug so as to better kill it or how to control it. Which serves the war effort. But having garnered such hate for such a foe they couldn't publicly admit they were trying to control them or that would also have the same effect. So what I'm trying to say is, on a Galactic scale, they were looking after their citizens, at the price of a few mercs purposely left in the dark so they couldn't blow the lid off things and ruin everything. Like they tried to.
For folks trying to wrap their heads around the bug catching plot point, I feel like it'd be more helpful to understanding it if you see the bugs as sapient.
Basically we're enabling the equivalent of human trafficking, and modern slavery here.
Bugs are probably used as part of the industrial work or something along those lines on the planet surface, like how agro corps exploit migrant labor and enable the trafficking of undocumented people to make up for cheap labor demand.
frasier would have had zhao on side if he didnt mention money. it was that that triggered zhao`s fascist loyalty
« How does it feel, fedman? Fighting for minimum wage and an illusory chance at citizenship while I fight for a big heap of money? »
Kinda seems like a second ending was gonna be a thing based on the Objective specifying killing OR capturing the Mercs
I love puppy cam but the fucking map dude
Advance was is one of the best games on the gba/nds, also does anyone think rimmy would play Advance Wars reboot camp?
FED MAN 👹
Feds? Mercs? Orange? Was this entire DLC just an elaborate Project Wingman meme?
Honestly nothing better to see then devs making games that are both enjoyable but also stick to the universe. Huge props
Damn that's dark Robert Heinlein is no doubt rolling over in his grave as we speak.
“Oh no! There is a volcano erupting!” My brother! You are on a volcanic planet!
Only thing discuraging me from playing this is that they go off the movie and not the book.
The mercs contract should be paid whether they are gaurding pumps or sweep and clear.
this "StarCraft" gameplay is great, good job UA-cam
I can't help but feel bad for the MI. The mercs even have better equipment.
i wonder who would win in a flat out fight: Mobile Infantry or the Colonial Marines from Aliens' franchise
A very, very close match. I don't think it could be predicted.