What really sold me more than anything else was the delicate balance of power in Terra Invicta. Inter-human faction dealings are much more complicated than ANY strategy game I've ever seen. Every action, every bit of power you gain, puts an even bigger target on your back. Even if it feels like you're losing, that usually just means you have more space and time to work with, because less people are gonna be coming after you. This balance of power really hits hard with aliens, though, as you have to be extremely careful with how much ire you draw from the aliens. And they are SMART. If you go to war with them, the FIRST thing they will do is destroy all your undefended mining outposts that are sending valuable resources back to you. They have a serious mobility and firepower advantage over you until you gain parity. I played as the Academy through and through. I didn't see them as 'too idealistic' at all. I saw them as the opposite, because they understand that you can't just have a dream. You have to be ready to enforce that vision through force of arms if necessary. They are the most realistic of all, because while the goals they aim for are quite high and seemingly unreachable, they will stop at nothing to achieve them, because compromising your ideals is unacceptable.
Would love to see a lets play of the game if time permits. Been watching your content for a decade or so and always appreciate your commentary. Have a great day!
I have nearly 700 hours in Terra Invicta, and honestly, I'm still learning. Weapon systems and really getting used to the different engine types (now post changes in the latest validation release build). Personally, I absolutely love this game and has slowly become one of my favorite games. I just greatly hope that this gets further development time and a lot of the bugs/performance fixed.
Played the game till the end a few times and loved it, then a year later read the 3 body problem trilogy and yes you are right. I wish we could change the aliens name to Tri-Solarians :)
Excellent review! This game as much as I wish it was, probably isn't for me. I can't help but be captivated by the sheer amount of systems and simulations at work in games like this, it's insanely impressive. Even though I will probably never be the kind of person to be able to succeed in a game as deep as this one. Kudos to the developers for being able to pull off something so grand scale in a simulation stretching across the solar system and beyond.
Love this game, loved this video and it's genuine understanding of the positives and negatives, love space conquest in general. Friendship is non-negotiable, Academy fo' lyfe.
bro watched your content on your old channel, started getting back into total war games and rembered your stuff from 11 years ago and i cant believe i somehow missed you making this channel. boy did it make me happy to see you're still making content.
Good review. Thanks for making time for it. I've played TI a LOT for the past year and it is indeed hard, you really need to invest time to understand the mechanics. And it's all the greater for it, especially if you're interested in global geopolitics and hard sci-fi. And I agree, it takes a long time to play. 50-100 hours for one full campaign minimum. That said, I think you were not doing particularly well in the video footage: 40 science/day is very weak for the late 2030s. I can imagine research took forever this way.
Indeed, That was my second playthrough where I learned the hard way you can't neglect space because it's going to set you behind big time. Also in that campaign in particular I made things worse for myself by tunnel visioning on very high-cost science projects thinking it would give me an edge. Big newbie mistake.
been playing this game for over 120 hours(and am still on my first campaign, though I am rather slow), I have played the game for a few hours after work for a long while now lol. It's both painful and amazing, I do recommend having fewer space objects (less than 200, a few hundred asteroids is too many to manage). The game seems to go through phases where everything feels fast paced and exciting (from mounting a surprise attack on an alien invasion fleet to dumping your research into global tech and stealing it at the last moment) to incredibly slow and monotonous, and it keeps going in these ups and downs. Overall I highly recommend it if you ever felt stellaris lacked enough depth and strategy, and also if you have the patience or autism to enact that strategy over a long period of time.
The LongWar for XCOM:EW is probably the best mod I have ever played (and that's really saying something). It's soooo good man. Longwar2 is probably just as good, but I didnt enjoy xcom2 that much overall so I havent really played it enough to judge it. This game has been on my list awhile, but I havent took the plunge yet (learning a complex game takes dedication ha). Ty for the review!
Nice review! i guess it helped that i liked the premise of the game, because i left it and picked it back up 3 times in 2 years before i could get a win (erm... „We were leaving anyway”). Next up, reverse global warming as the Academy, i guess
I think the wall that 90% of players run into on their first few plays is that they treat the aliens and other factions as dumb animals which if they annoy you, can be hit and driven off. When the Servants steal something from you, or worse assassinate one of your councilors, the common reaction is to retaliate by assassinating one of their councilors in turn. But now you are at war, and the servants are now going to focus their efforts on screwing you over. As you grow your power base, if you are far ahead, other factions will trend towards war with you if you don't diplomatically appease them. People will be playing resistance, and they'll steal a bunch of organizations from humanity first and overthrow some of their governments, and then they don't understand that Humanity first is now at War with you, and are going to dedicate as much effort into hurting you as the aliens, and it doesn't matter to Humanity First that the aliens are the greater threat.
Thank you for the review, grabbed this game awhile ago for much the same reasons you did. However, I tend to like traditional roguelikes and grand strategy 4X titles - throwing myself into a wall repeatedly taking lessons from each loss or watching a 10 hour playthrough get deleted is not a 'bad' thing for me.
Great review! The game is super slow and complex. Tech tree is redundant, interface is difficult. You will need pen and paper to keep track of many many numbers if you want to survive.
Lot of negative reviews on my mega-crossover project was like many negtaive reviews of Terra Invicta(in terms of their biases and misunderstandings) And I did enjoy this game, as well this was X-com with Orions' arm use of Real Life physics
You nuked The Six and southern Ontario ! If the residents of the USA didn’t like the wildfire smoke this spring, they sure wouldn’t like the fallout. Good review It’s really three games I think though The political game on Earth The space economy/colonial game The space combat game
This game is amazing but as you said, learning this game is a pain and there are simply not enough tutorials on UA-cam aswell. I am currently on my third playthrough, I still don't know what weapons are useful so I just use the electromagnetic weapon spam strategy because it's not that bad. Also Alien District has been created in China and they already ate most of Asia and Brazil. Idk if I already lost and I am just wasting my time or it's just a temporary threat.
Great review. Did you happen to make a video on a different channel a long time ago talking about alternative history? I think it was specifically about Germany in WW1.
I played it right when it came into early access and I enjoyed it a lot but I found the aliens were basically cheating by mind controlling and assassinsting all my dudes so I quit. I’m looking to try it again when it gets closer to release, also, they need to optimize this game like crazy, it chugged on my 5800x with 3080.
Hi, are you from the USA? It's good to know that there are comrades in the USA, I'm meeting some lately and changing my opinion about your country. A few months ago, if a nuclear bomb had exploded in the USA I would have laughed, today I think differently. Not really, your country is still a threat to Latin America, but I'm actually having more empathy
This game also let's you do other insane shit. Like Having Nations annex other nations. Or The Opposite, have them Secede. So you can have The United States Annex Canada, Cuba, Mexico, and Greenland. It's friggin' nuts. Unrelated to this, you seen Songs of Silence yet?
For a paradox game enthusiast that seems to be one of the most basic land combat and economy sistems since the game didnt need that so nothing wrong with that.
The resistance is too hard? Mfw I started as humanity first. Got to 2030 but then the servants stole both my first ships and I ragequitted. I spent 10 hours getting there and 2 hours deciding how to make em and they just day one snack em wtf
where the hell is Xcom 3 ??? they made a great game xcom 1, then an even better game xcom 2 , by then best game of the genre, and they havent done shit since then, some cartoony city police x com game no one wanted, where the heck is x com 3..... anyway great review I think Ill buy this game
What really sold me more than anything else was the delicate balance of power in Terra Invicta. Inter-human faction dealings are much more complicated than ANY strategy game I've ever seen. Every action, every bit of power you gain, puts an even bigger target on your back. Even if it feels like you're losing, that usually just means you have more space and time to work with, because less people are gonna be coming after you. This balance of power really hits hard with aliens, though, as you have to be extremely careful with how much ire you draw from the aliens. And they are SMART. If you go to war with them, the FIRST thing they will do is destroy all your undefended mining outposts that are sending valuable resources back to you. They have a serious mobility and firepower advantage over you until you gain parity.
I played as the Academy through and through. I didn't see them as 'too idealistic' at all. I saw them as the opposite, because they understand that you can't just have a dream. You have to be ready to enforce that vision through force of arms if necessary. They are the most realistic of all, because while the goals they aim for are quite high and seemingly unreachable, they will stop at nothing to achieve them, because compromising your ideals is unacceptable.
Would love to see a lets play of the game if time permits. Been watching your content for a decade or so and always appreciate your commentary. Have a great day!
I have nearly 700 hours in Terra Invicta, and honestly, I'm still learning. Weapon systems and really getting used to the different engine types (now post changes in the latest validation release build).
Personally, I absolutely love this game and has slowly become one of my favorite games. I just greatly hope that this gets further development time and a lot of the bugs/performance fixed.
700 h !!!
If you're looking for a real challenge in an earth defence simulator, this is the game for you. I loved it. It's basically the game 3 body problem.
Played the game till the end a few times and loved it, then a year later read the 3 body problem trilogy and yes you are right. I wish we could change the aliens name to Tri-Solarians :)
As someone who lives in Ontario I forgive you for nuking Toronto, none of us liked it anyway
Always a relief to know that it's not just people outside of Ontario that can't stand Toronto but even people within the province and self.
For those who play grand strategy (like EU4), then this is really good.
Did not have performance issues, decently modern rig with NVME
A friend is playing it and thanks for the review. I don't think I have the time to commit. 500 hours in valheim with friends is more my zone.
This is by far the best review of this game on UA-cam. Thank you for the time you put into this!
Excellent review! This game as much as I wish it was, probably isn't for me. I can't help but be captivated by the sheer amount of systems and simulations at work in games like this, it's insanely impressive. Even though I will probably never be the kind of person to be able to succeed in a game as deep as this one. Kudos to the developers for being able to pull off something so grand scale in a simulation stretching across the solar system and beyond.
Love this game, loved this video and it's genuine understanding of the positives and negatives, love space conquest in general. Friendship is non-negotiable, Academy fo' lyfe.
Friendship is non-negotiable is the best slogan
bro watched your content on your old channel, started getting back into total war games and rembered your stuff from 11 years ago and i cant believe i somehow missed you making this channel. boy did it make me happy to see you're still making content.
Good review. Thanks for making time for it.
I've played TI a LOT for the past year and it is indeed hard, you really need to invest time to understand the mechanics. And it's all the greater for it, especially if you're interested in global geopolitics and hard sci-fi.
And I agree, it takes a long time to play. 50-100 hours for one full campaign minimum. That said, I think you were not doing particularly well in the video footage: 40 science/day is very weak for the late 2030s. I can imagine research took forever this way.
Indeed, That was my second playthrough where I learned the hard way you can't neglect space because it's going to set you behind big time. Also in that campaign in particular I made things worse for myself by tunnel visioning on very high-cost science projects thinking it would give me an edge. Big newbie mistake.
been playing this game for over 120 hours(and am still on my first campaign, though I am rather slow), I have played the game for a few hours after work for a long while now lol. It's both painful and amazing, I do recommend having fewer space objects (less than 200, a few hundred asteroids is too many to manage). The game seems to go through phases where everything feels fast paced and exciting (from mounting a surprise attack on an alien invasion fleet to dumping your research into global tech and stealing it at the last moment) to incredibly slow and monotonous, and it keeps going in these ups and downs. Overall I highly recommend it if you ever felt stellaris lacked enough depth and strategy, and also if you have the patience or autism to enact that strategy over a long period of time.
god, I LOVE THIS GAME. :3
The LongWar for XCOM:EW is probably the best mod I have ever played (and that's really saying something). It's soooo good man. Longwar2 is probably just as good, but I didnt enjoy xcom2 that much overall so I havent really played it enough to judge it. This game has been on my list awhile, but I havent took the plunge yet (learning a complex game takes dedication ha). Ty for the review!
My friend got me this game for Xmas. Glad you reviewed it
Nice review! i guess it helped that i liked the premise of the game, because i left it and picked it back up 3 times in 2 years before i could get a win (erm... „We were leaving anyway”). Next up, reverse global warming as the Academy, i guess
I think the wall that 90% of players run into on their first few plays is that they treat the aliens and other factions as dumb animals which if they annoy you, can be hit and driven off. When the Servants steal something from you, or worse assassinate one of your councilors, the common reaction is to retaliate by assassinating one of their councilors in turn. But now you are at war, and the servants are now going to focus their efforts on screwing you over. As you grow your power base, if you are far ahead, other factions will trend towards war with you if you don't diplomatically appease them.
People will be playing resistance, and they'll steal a bunch of organizations from humanity first and overthrow some of their governments, and then they don't understand that Humanity first is now at War with you, and are going to dedicate as much effort into hurting you as the aliens, and it doesn't matter to Humanity First that the aliens are the greater threat.
Thank you for the review, grabbed this game awhile ago for much the same reasons you did. However, I tend to like traditional roguelikes and grand strategy 4X titles - throwing myself into a wall repeatedly taking lessons from each loss or watching a 10 hour playthrough get deleted is not a 'bad' thing for me.
Great review!
The game is super slow and complex. Tech tree is redundant, interface is difficult.
You will need pen and paper to keep track of many many numbers if you want to survive.
Lot of negative reviews on my mega-crossover project was like many negtaive reviews of Terra Invicta(in terms of their biases and misunderstandings)
And I did enjoy this game, as well this was X-com with Orions' arm use of Real Life physics
You nuked The Six and southern Ontario !
If the residents of the USA didn’t like the wildfire smoke this spring, they sure wouldn’t like the fallout.
Good review
It’s really three games I think though
The political game on Earth
The space economy/colonial game
The space combat game
This game is amazing but as you said, learning this game is a pain and there are simply not enough tutorials on UA-cam aswell. I am currently on my third playthrough, I still don't know what weapons are useful so I just use the electromagnetic weapon spam strategy because it's not that bad. Also Alien District has been created in China and they already ate most of Asia and Brazil. Idk if I already lost and I am just wasting my time or it's just a temporary threat.
Great review. Did you happen to make a video on a different channel a long time ago talking about alternative history? I think it was specifically about Germany in WW1.
Great review...
3:30 That's a hell of a 2024 prediction right there. 🌍💥
So no mention of the RNG issue I saw in the negative Steam reviews? 🎲
I played it right when it came into early access and I enjoyed it a lot but I found the aliens were basically cheating by mind controlling and assassinsting all my dudes so I quit. I’m looking to try it again when it gets closer to release, also, they need to optimize this game like crazy, it chugged on my 5800x with 3080.
Hi, are you from the USA? It's good to know that there are comrades in the USA, I'm meeting some lately and changing my opinion about your country. A few months ago, if a nuclear bomb had exploded in the USA I would have laughed, today I think differently. Not really, your country is still a threat to Latin America, but I'm actually having more empathy
You can scale down the solar system and make it much more accessible and less gpu hungry.
This game also let's you do other insane shit.
Like Having Nations annex other nations.
Or The Opposite, have them Secede.
So you can have The United States Annex Canada, Cuba, Mexico, and Greenland.
It's friggin' nuts.
Unrelated to this, you seen Songs of Silence yet?
For a paradox game enthusiast that seems to be one of the most basic land combat and economy sistems since the game didnt need that so nothing wrong with that.
@@ignasignas9469 I'm not counting those.
Paradox is it's own brand of Madness.
Not Institute, Initiative.
The resistance is too hard? Mfw I started as humanity first. Got to 2030 but then the servants stole both my first ships and I ragequitted. I spent 10 hours getting there and 2 hours deciding how to make em and they just day one snack em wtf
Losing ships is unavoidable. I would advise you to simply spam cheap ones instead of focusing on a few strong ones.
where the hell is Xcom 3 ??? they made a great game xcom 1, then an even better game xcom 2 , by then best game of the genre, and they havent done shit since then, some cartoony city police x com game no one wanted, where the heck is x com 3..... anyway great review I think Ill buy this game
So the game doesn't model the real economy and everything, but the western propaganda version?