Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire - The New Factions (Audio Blurbs, Pictures & Bonuses)
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2024
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UA-camr Rushhardroc wanted to hear more voiceovers from the new factions of Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire, the expansion pack to the Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri strategy videogame, so I made this little presentation to accompany the audio blurbs with some pictures, faction properties and eery music by Darude :D. Nothing special, but hope you enjoy it anyway =)!
Be sure to also check out the "official prequel" video presenting the original factions of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, made by pinkgothic: • The original factions ...
Correction to the credits: "Datatech Sinder Roze" instead of "Datajack Sinder Rose". Sorry, my bad :(! And the special thanks should go to Rushhardroc, but when I made this I didn't know he was using his brother's (Spartan289) account :o!
The Cult of Planet blurb:
Mankind has been blind for thousands of years-for all of its history. We have come to a place whose wonders are a hundred-fold more amazing than anything on Earth. Around us is clear evidence of the will of a higher power. I bring the Vision to the blind eyes of men. I bring the Word to the deaf ears of men. I will make them see it. I will make them hear it.
-- Prophet Cha Dawn, "Planet Rising"
The Cybernetic Consciousness blurb:
Those who join us need give up only half of their humanity--the illogical, ill-tempered, and disordered half, commonly thought of as 'right-brain' functioning. In exchange, the 'left-brain' capacities are increased to undreamed potential. The tendency of Biologicals to cling instead to their individual personalities can only be attributed to archaic evolutionary tendencies.
-- Prime Function Aki Zeta-5, "Convergence"
The Data Angels blurb:
What's more important, the data or the jazz? Sure, sure, 'Information should be free' and all that--but anyone can set information free. The jazz is in how you do it, what you do it to, and in almost getting caught without getting caught. The data is 1's and 0's. Life is the jazz.
-- Datatech Sinder Roze, "Infobop"
The Free Drones blurb:
"Now it's day and night the irons clang, and like poor galley slaves we toil and toil, and when we die, must fill dishonored graves. But some dark night, when everything is silent in the town I'll shoot those tyrants one and all, I'll gun the flogger down. I'll give the land a little shock, remember what I say, and they'll yet regret they've sent Jim Jones in chains to Botany Bay."
-- "Jim Jones", Traditional
Manifold Caretakers blurb:
Tau Ceti Flowering: Horrors visited upon neighboring systems must never be repeated. Therefore: if it means the end of our evolution as a species, so be it.
-- Caretaker Lular H'minee, "Sacrifice : Life"
Manifold Usurpers blurb:
Risks of Flowering: considerable. But rewards of godhood: who can measure?
-- Usurper Judaa Marr, "Courage : To Question"
Nautilus Pirates blurb:
The sea ... vast, mysterious ... and full of wealth! And the nations of Planet send their trade across it without a thought. Well, the sea doesn't care about them, so it lets them pass. But we can give the sea a little hand in teaching the landlubbers a lesson in humility.
-- Captain Ulrik Svensgaard, "The Ripple and the Wave"
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
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 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.
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
Aki-Zeta-5 ftw!
:)
She's Hot
@@westkanye4005 but basically asexual :(
This is a game I still want to play over and over again.
I didn't even know there WAS an expansion! Hmm.. May have to get a copy! Alpha Centuri is a seriously underated game.
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
The voice over work for AC is so amazing.
Thanks for putting this out here, My favorite faction may be the Spartans, My favorite speech in the game is Jim Jones", Traditional.
Thank you for doing this. I love this game so much, and you n' pinkgothic do so much justice having created these videos.
Risks of flowering: Considerable.
But rewards of godhood: Who can measure?
for some reason, this video always gives me the chills when i watch it. good job on th editing!
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.
free drones 4 lyf
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.
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.
I love this game. Great work on this video matsku84. It's a joy to hear the english version since i own the german :-]
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.
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.
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.
The music is so amazing
@wilky1189 No, Alien Crossfire is an expansion pack for Alpha Centauri.
Free drones forever!
SMAC is by far my most favorite game. Probably, the most intelligent I've played for the past 10 years
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. :/
1:17 my favorite quote! i love Sinder Roze!
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.
This is gold among games!
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.
@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.
LISTEN UP! GOG just got the Alien Crossfire expansion! Buy the game + expansion for only 3 bucks until Jan 3! :D
yeah...in my computer....haha. My dad had good taste in games thank god.
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.
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
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.
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..
Thanks :)! It's "Touch Me Feel Me" by Darude.
like 1 IS 0 . like 0 is 1
Thanks! I'm hoping for a remake or sequel too.
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!
@ih8makinusernames This must have a hidden reason, Firaxis are the Borg!
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.
Ok! I'll do it inmediatly!
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]
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.
:*
I haven't i didn;t even know about that, Thanks! Hopefully i'll be Playing it before this day is out =D
I love this game thx for the vid
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 :(.
Thanks mate!
Some from various places found with Google Image search, some from the game files.
Thanks :)! No, there's not one for the original factions... not made by me at least :D. I might make one someday though.
I'd be joining Capt Ulrick!
Sail ho men! :D
Cyborgs FTW
Thanks!!
great
I have the first one and want this one but they dont make it anymore.
Just google "sid meier's alpha centauri compatibility patch". It probably comes with a list of all changes and fixes made.
Thanks for the info!
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 :(
Thanks/Danke :)!
Meant to say "Windows2000/XP compatibility patch for AC" not "AR" :D.
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..
nice vid!!
Data Angels 4 the win..secretly.
Secretly my butt.
Sinder Roze, man! A little anarchy might be good to liven up everyone's life on Chiron! ;)
Thanks :)
hell yeah
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...
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.
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).
great game
I have to say this expansion does not have the same philosophical depth of the base game
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.
Good Old Games sells SMAC for $5.99. Although you just missed a sale where it was only $2.99.
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.
Firaxis webpage, get the patches.
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 :(.
algoritm.4-e-ver
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.
Nautilus Pirates ftw!
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
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.]
@CommanderElerium There are Rumors that they had all human factions originally but took out half because of resource constraints and because seven factions can represent all "mindsets" already. Most "ideals" that the new factions have has already been in the original seven. The other reason was that these "new factions" are not as well balanced. In fact some new factions are rather overpowered in the hands of a competent player.
incredible video but what is the song?
Luv Ya Aki ;) frvr
The way I see it, the developers made some factions intentionally OP as some kind of handicap. As the player character you could still quite easily win on Trascend with the weakest faction.
Hey, what if the data IS Jazz?
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?
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.
1:00 I think "biologicals" have tendency to become more and more similar to each other theese days.
foreman domai is the best! LIBERATE THE DRONES! =D
Cyborg Consciousness aka Autistralia aka Aspergerstan.
Wish I could join them, I'm having a hard time memorizing boring stuff.
free drones FTW!
@Orion6699
I agree 100%. Much better than the CIV games.