there is a hidden extra faction called the Firaxians they can be accessed by opening the Faction Editor, going to "Load Faction", and either typing in "sid" (to set Sid Meier as faction leader) or "brian" (to set Brian Reynolds as faction leader) as the faction to load. Once loaded and saved, the Firaxians can be added to a game
@@grelm1322 It works as a faction with no bonuses or penalizations, but they have singularity reactors researched at the beggining, so they are absolutely OP at the start
Without tide of Social Justice Warriors, The game has implemented diversity and politics elegantly. (Black/white/yellow, Man/woman, Human, Alien, Cyborg, communism, capitalism)
@@Tomohiko_JPN_1868 Has it ever occured to you that whining about "Social Justice Warriors" makes you look like a boring fuck? At least make up your own vacuous catchphrase. If SMAC came out today you twats would be complaining about Morganites making capitalism look completely brain damaged.
Why this game is so awesome: it focused on ideas and wowed you not with its snappy visuals, but with its amazing script. Some of these quotes are just brilliant.
the song he's quoting is an old australian folk song that was popular with the convict and irish population of the colonies, it's meant to be a sort of heroic rallying cry to rebellion against the British who sent them to Australia as effective slaves for minor crimes. it's definitely an interesting parallel for the drones
Fuck. I loved this game as a kid. I still play it every once and a while. I used to play University and The Spartans I'd always get Cybernetic social engineering and now it makes sense that i'd play Aki-Zeta 5.
Pretty much. Just playing a game with random factions usually results in the two alien factions + Nautilus Pirates being the larger AI controlled factions. Aliens because of their tech advantage, pretty much wiping the floor with anyone who picks a fight the early game. Nautilus Pirates because they start with sea bases and get to expand unchallenged for quite a while.
I agree on Pirates. I'd also include the Cyborgs with the best factions. For the old factions my favourites are the Peacekeepers or the Gaians and least favourites the Believers. I think the Hive is the strongest, though. Never have mixed them up with AX factions before. I wonder who'd be stronger/weaker there. I know the strongest from AX would be uncontested by the old factions, but I'm not quite sure who is weakest of the list.
Firaxis put them offline. However, I bought my version from Good Old Games and get the latest patch to come with it. If you want the expansion buy it there and if you've already bought it, I see no harm to the developers in torrenting it.
I discovered Alpha Centauri only today, at to this date it is the finest turn-based strategy I have ever played. The fact that this game was released in 1999 points to a suspicious relationship between product quality and marketing. :/
Thanks and you're quite welcome! SMAX does in fact have 4 new secret projects! You can find them in my vids (or playlists) right after the Alpha Centauri secret projects.
The Spartan Federation is the Strongest Faction in the Game. Think about it like this, every faction is a body that has focused on one bodily attribute more than anything. The University focuses on Knowledge and that is Brains, the Spartan Federation focuses on Military and that's Muscle.
I am so lucky to have experienced such amazing games that have expanded my consciousness and my imagination, and my View of the Universe. This game is one of Them. Alpha/Alien; two of the greatest games ever made. And Minecraft. And the original Deus Ex. Hyeppppppppp.
Oh, and my insporation was a UA-camr called "rushhardroc" (or Spartan289 when using his brother's account :D) who commented on one of my "Alien Crossfire Secret Project" videos wondering what a male alien sounded like in the game. It's a shame UA-cam removed the Videogame category, since that would obviously reduce misunderstandings like this one.
I copy-pasted all the blurbs directly from the games .txt files (in the Cybernetic consciousness' case "cyborg.txt") and if you have Alien Crossfire, you can read on screen that it's "The illogical" when choosing a faction for a new game.
The back story goes something like this: On the planet there is a lost nexus of energy known as the legendary 6th Manifold. Its location was lost in a great war held a long time ago between the two alien factions, the usurpers who want to tap into the power of the nexus to become godlike beings, and the caretakers who want to preserve the manifold in its natural state. You can watch the games intro movie to learn how they arrived on the planet.
If you haven't done so already, you should install the Windows2000/XP compatibility patch for AR. Also changing the value of a variable in the Alpha Centauri.ini file helps. I don't remember it exactly, but I think was something like "ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=0". Change the 0 to a 1.
Request acknowledged :D... I'll look into it at some point. But with all the stupid music copyright claims I'm getting these days I might end up doing it without any music. [I wish I had a girlfriend so into SMAC :D]
Yay, lucky you! When teaching him to play, maybe you should "accidentally" leave out some small but important bit and then kick his ass in a head-to-head game with that little piece of information :D! Right now I'm so busy with work and moving that I can only concentrate on the most requested videos (Rollercoaster Tycoon 2), but hopefully I have time later this summer. Thanks!
Awesome, awesome presentation. As someone who has the original, but not SMAX, I thank you so much for this. You are a credit to the community! Just one question- so SMAX has new techs, but no new secret projects? Ah, how disappointing.
Well kinda, yeah. Alpha Centauri and Alien Crossfire are games that have quite realistic predictions of what future technology would be like... + some nasty alien species equals science fiction at it's best :P.
You can say too that with a high level of mind worm in the game gain's faction is certainly the best faction because you can easy have a large army while capturing some mind worms..
Uh, this isn't a saga or anything like that :D. It's just audio blurbs, pictures and text I edited together from a strategy videogame called "Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire" (which is an expansion to "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri") and added some music from Darude. It's supposed to present these 7 new factions, what drives their leader (audio blurb), what they look like (pictures), and what attributes they have (text).
I never had a problem with the spartans, no matter how powerful the other factions got, no matter how large there armys got they would all be swept away ease & each of them would soon learn that.... THIS IS SPARTA!!!
So, I have found it really hard to buy a copy of this game. For like YEARS. I had the original and loved it, and downloaded torrents of the expansion that never, ever worked. I am very excited, but I have no idea which of these to play as first. Choices choices...
I already made this and pinkgothic made a similar video with the original factions (with my permission), so I don't see any point in making 1 with all the factions.
It's when you learn to join the two that you find out what life really is all about. Information wants to be free. Biological Life is, in a sense, information. In the words of Ian Malcolm, life finds a way.
I tried using photoshop... but I forgot that Alpha Centauri runs in 8 or 16 bit color...and it changed it back to whatever I set it to before. Anyone have anythingo n this? Cool video, by the way.
Yeah, I forgot to change the description, but now it's correct. But I had already finished the vid when I found out so the credits remain unchanged :P.
I think the data angels are under baked. They are the probe team faction, but spying was never its own social priority like academics, Fascism or market capitalism. Maybe something like an alphabet agency where clandestine bureaucracy is wielded for its own sake.
Consider this a formal requ- oh, to hell with that. Matskuuuuuuuu, pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease make one for the original factions? :D [My ulterior motive, beyond personal indulgence? Luring my boyfriend into play SMAC with me.]
Then you should install something like the "Downloadhelper" extension to Firefox and use that to download the video directly from this page in flash format. I upload videos to FileFront only on popular demand, because otherwise they might get deleted rather quickly :(.
This game is great! I whip it out a few times a year and take a few days holiday on Planet! Firaxis would like to do a re-make, but sadly there are some rights issues which they can't seem to overcome :(
Hi Mastsku84! I got the game online from Ebay. However, I'm still having trouble getting the SMAX expansion to work. I tried to edit the terranx file, but I've still been unsuccessful. Could you help me?
there is a hidden extra faction called the Firaxians they can be accessed by opening the Faction Editor, going to "Load Faction", and either typing in "sid" (to set Sid Meier as faction leader) or "brian" (to set Brian Reynolds as faction leader) as the faction to load. Once loaded and saved, the Firaxians can be added to a game
Does it come with its own bonuses and quotes and stuff?
@@grelm1322 It works as a faction with no bonuses or penalizations, but they have singularity reactors researched at the beggining, so they are absolutely OP at the start
The 90s were full of fun games
This was way ahead of the curve
The 90s - better than the 00s, the 10s and the 20s when it comes to fantastic games and a fantastic industry that cared...!
@@gamingtonight1526 command and conquer generals would like a word with you
Without tide of Social Justice Warriors,
The game has implemented diversity and politics elegantly.
(Black/white/yellow, Man/woman, Human, Alien, Cyborg, communism, capitalism)
@@Tomohiko_JPN_1868 True
@@Tomohiko_JPN_1868 Has it ever occured to you that whining about "Social Justice Warriors" makes you look like a boring fuck? At least make up your own vacuous catchphrase. If SMAC came out today you twats would be complaining about Morganites making capitalism look completely brain damaged.
Why this game is so awesome: it focused on ideas and wowed you not with its snappy visuals, but with its amazing script. Some of these quotes are just brilliant.
The quote for the Drones make me go all "YES! YES GOD DAMN IT!!!"
Very Sic Semper Tyrannis, Foreman Domai seems rather heroic, all things considered.
the song he's quoting is an old australian folk song that was popular with the convict and irish population of the colonies, it's meant to be a sort of heroic rallying cry to rebellion against the British who sent them to Australia as effective slaves for minor crimes. it's definitely an interesting parallel for the drones
Thank you for doing this. I love this game so much, and you n' pinkgothic do so much justice having created these videos.
Sigh. Dude. This still rocks so hard. It just refuses to get boring. *watches it again every once in a while* =)
Happy new year.
Still doing this. Merry Christmas
This is a game I still want to play over and over again.
Aki-Zeta-5 ftw!
:)
She's Hot
@@westkanye4005 but basically asexual :(
Thanks for putting this out here, My favorite faction may be the Spartans, My favorite speech in the game is Jim Jones", Traditional.
I didn't even know there WAS an expansion! Hmm.. May have to get a copy! Alpha Centuri is a seriously underated game.
for some reason, this video always gives me the chills when i watch it. good job on th editing!
Risks of flowering: Considerable.
But rewards of godhood: Who can measure?
The voice over work for AC is so amazing.
free drones 4 lyf
Fuck. I loved this game as a kid. I still play it every once and a while. I used to play University and The Spartans I'd always get Cybernetic social engineering and now it makes sense that i'd play Aki-Zeta 5.
Pretty much. Just playing a game with random factions usually results in the two alien factions + Nautilus Pirates being the larger AI controlled factions.
Aliens because of their tech advantage, pretty much wiping the floor with anyone who picks a fight the early game.
Nautilus Pirates because they start with sea bases and get to expand unchallenged for quite a while.
I love this game. Great work on this video matsku84. It's a joy to hear the english version since i own the german :-]
@wilky1189 No, Alien Crossfire is an expansion pack for Alpha Centauri.
I agree on Pirates. I'd also include the Cyborgs with the best factions. For the old factions my favourites are the Peacekeepers or the Gaians and least favourites the Believers. I think the Hive is the strongest, though.
Never have mixed them up with AX factions before. I wonder who'd be stronger/weaker there. I know the strongest from AX would be uncontested by the old factions, but I'm not quite sure who is weakest of the list.
Firaxis put them offline. However, I bought my version from Good Old Games and get the latest patch to come with it. If you want the expansion buy it there and if you've already bought it, I see no harm to the developers in torrenting it.
The music is so amazing
I discovered Alpha Centauri only today, at to this date it is the finest turn-based strategy I have ever played. The fact that this game was released in 1999 points to a suspicious relationship between product quality and marketing. :/
Thanks and you're quite welcome! SMAX does in fact have 4 new secret projects! You can find them in my vids (or playlists) right after the Alpha Centauri secret projects.
The Spartan Federation is the Strongest Faction in the Game. Think about it like this, every faction is a body that has focused on one bodily attribute more than anything. The University focuses on Knowledge and that is Brains, the Spartan Federation focuses on Military and that's Muscle.
LISTEN UP! GOG just got the Alien Crossfire expansion! Buy the game + expansion for only 3 bucks until Jan 3! :D
I am so lucky to have experienced such amazing games that have expanded my consciousness and my imagination, and my View of the Universe.
This game is one of Them. Alpha/Alien; two of the greatest games ever made. And Minecraft. And the original Deus Ex. Hyeppppppppp.
Oh, and my insporation was a UA-camr called "rushhardroc" (or Spartan289 when using his brother's account :D) who commented on one of my "Alien Crossfire Secret Project" videos wondering what a male alien sounded like in the game. It's a shame UA-cam removed the Videogame category, since that would obviously reduce misunderstandings like this one.
I copy-pasted all the blurbs directly from the games .txt files (in the Cybernetic consciousness' case "cyborg.txt") and if you have Alien Crossfire, you can read on screen that it's "The illogical" when choosing a faction for a new game.
The back story goes something like this: On the planet there is a lost nexus of energy known as the legendary 6th Manifold. Its location was lost in a great war held a long time ago between the two alien factions, the usurpers who want to tap into the power of the nexus to become godlike beings, and the caretakers who want to preserve the manifold in its natural state. You can watch the games intro movie to learn how they arrived on the planet.
Free drones forever!
1:17 my favorite quote! i love Sinder Roze!
SMAC is by far my most favorite game. Probably, the most intelligent I've played for the past 10 years
This is gold among games!
If you haven't done so already, you should install the Windows2000/XP compatibility patch for AR. Also changing the value of a variable in the Alpha Centauri.ini file helps. I don't remember it exactly, but I think was something like "ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=0". Change the 0 to a 1.
Request acknowledged :D... I'll look into it at some point. But with all the stupid music copyright claims I'm getting these days I might end up doing it without any music.
[I wish I had a girlfriend so into SMAC :D]
Yay, lucky you! When teaching him to play, maybe you should "accidentally" leave out some small but important bit and then kick his ass in a head-to-head game with that little piece of information :D!
Right now I'm so busy with work and moving that I can only concentrate on the most requested videos (Rollercoaster Tycoon 2), but hopefully I have time later this summer.
Thanks!
Some from various places found with Google Image search, some from the game files.
yeah...in my computer....haha. My dad had good taste in games thank god.
@relativity17 The much more serious and darker tone of this Civ spinoff was a pleasant surprise when I first played it a few years ago.
Awesome, awesome presentation. As someone who has the original, but not SMAX, I thank you so much for this. You are a credit to the community! Just one question- so SMAX has new techs, but no new secret projects? Ah, how disappointing.
great
I have the first one and want this one but they dont make it anymore.
Why the hell do people who make voice quotes lair them over music? Often the music is too loud to hear the quote properly!
Well kinda, yeah. Alpha Centauri and Alien Crossfire are games that have quite realistic predictions of what future technology would be like... + some nasty alien species equals science fiction at it's best :P.
Ok! I'll do it inmediatly!
I also think that University is most strongest of all functions. But every factions have their own strengths and weaknesses.
This video. The game I already have.
You can say too that with a high level of mind worm in the game gain's faction is certainly the best faction because you can easy have a large army while capturing some mind worms..
I haven't i didn;t even know about that, Thanks! Hopefully i'll be Playing it before this day is out =D
Thanks! I'm hoping for a remake or sequel too.
Uh, this isn't a saga or anything like that :D. It's just audio blurbs, pictures and text I edited together from a strategy videogame called "Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire" (which is an expansion to "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri") and added some music from Darude. It's supposed to present these 7 new factions, what drives their leader (audio blurb), what they look like (pictures), and what attributes they have (text).
I never had a problem with the spartans, no matter how powerful the other factions got, no matter how large there armys got they would all be swept away ease & each of them would soon learn that....
THIS IS SPARTA!!!
Thanks :)! It's "Touch Me Feel Me" by Darude.
You're welcome and thanks to you for the inspiration =)!
I get a real We vibe from the Consciousness, give up emotion and passion for progress. Damn fine book though.
:*
So, I have found it really hard to buy a copy of this game. For like YEARS. I had the original and loved it, and downloaded torrents of the expansion that never, ever worked. I am very excited, but I have no idea which of these to play as first. Choices choices...
I did that in photoshop, but I think it also needs to be the right color, since I think SMAX runs in 8-bit color or something, dunno, lol
like 1 IS 0 . like 0 is 1
Meant to say "Windows2000/XP compatibility patch for AC" not "AR" :D.
Thanks :)! No, there's not one for the original factions... not made by me at least :D. I might make one someday though.
@ih8makinusernames This must have a hidden reason, Firaxis are the Borg!
Thanks :)!
I've made some custom factions, but have never even tried to replace the pictures so I can't help any of you there :(.
Just google "sid meier's alpha centauri compatibility patch". It probably comes with a list of all changes and fixes made.
I already made this and pinkgothic made a similar video with the original factions (with my permission), so I don't see any point in making 1 with all the factions.
data IS jazz ;)
It's when you learn to join the two that you find out what life really is all about. Information wants to be free. Biological Life is, in a sense, information. In the words of Ian Malcolm, life finds a way.
I love this game thx for the vid
I'd be joining Capt Ulrick!
Sail ho men! :D
great game
I tried using photoshop...
but I forgot that Alpha Centauri runs in 8 or 16 bit color...and it changed it back to whatever I set it to before.
Anyone have anythingo n this?
Cool video, by the way.
Thanks mate!
Yeah, I forgot to change the description, but now it's correct. But I had already finished the vid when I found out so the credits remain unchanged :P.
The new factions of ACF where much more powerful than the old ones which lead to unbalance.
I wish I could play AC again though..
I think the data angels are under baked. They are the probe team faction, but spying was never its own social priority like academics, Fascism or market capitalism. Maybe something like an alphabet agency where clandestine bureaucracy is wielded for its own sake.
hell yeah
incredible video but what is the song?
Data Angels 4 the win..secretly.
Secretly my butt.
Good Old Games sells SMAC for $5.99. Although you just missed a sale where it was only $2.99.
I have to say this expansion does not have the same philosophical depth of the base game
Thanks!!
dude do yu know any site to download it for free and for xp please . i dont get this game any where
Thanks for the info!
Does anyone know where I can SMAC and SMAX? I've been looking everywhere for it.....
Consider this a formal requ- oh, to hell with that. Matskuuuuuuuu, pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease make one for the original factions? :D
[My ulterior motive, beyond personal indulgence? Luring my boyfriend into play SMAC with me.]
Then you should install something like the "Downloadhelper" extension to Firefox and use that to download the video directly from this page in flash format. I upload videos to FileFront only on popular demand, because otherwise they might get deleted rather quickly :(.
Late reply, but I think EA still have the rights to "Alpha Centauri" and they're not making any sequel.
Hey, what if the data IS Jazz?
This game is great! I whip it out a few times a year and take a few days holiday on Planet!
Firaxis would like to do a re-make, but sadly there are some rights issues which they can't seem to overcome :(
Sinder Roze, man! A little anarchy might be good to liven up everyone's life on Chiron! ;)
Thanks/Danke :)!
But that's absolutely true that "the illogical" and "theological" sound almost the same.
that's because the transcendental is not limited by anyone's "logical" boundaries of thinking/thought.
Firaxis webpage, get the patches.
nice vid!!
I wana download it. How can i do it?
Cyborgs FTW
Thanks :)
Hi Mastsku84! I got the game online from Ebay. However, I'm still having trouble getting the SMAX expansion to work. I tried to edit the terranx file, but I've still been unsuccessful. Could you help me?
Luv Ya Aki ;) frvr
Just download it. It's not made any more so it's not like the developers are losing any money if your don't pay for it.
Wow, this is gorgeous. Any chance of getting one of those for the classic factions? Or is there one and my search-fu is just failing me that hard?
With "Wing Commander Movie Player". You can get it from hcl(dot)wcrevival(dot)de.
1:00 I think "biologicals" have tendency to become more and more similar to each other theese days.