the servants want to put humanity in the same position as the other servant races under the hydra. the protectorate want to turn earth into a petting zoo
I love how Judith Howell, a cult leader who has been connected to at least one mass suicide, can literally _smell_ the psychological vulnerability on the Hydra. And making humanity, with her at its head, the priest-philosopher caste of the Hydra empire is actually a pretty good deal for someone into ruling from the throne's shadows.
This right here is her strategy. It is not for nothing that the earliest organized governments on earth were priest-kings; we could either be their Pharaoh or their Richelieu.
She smelled trauma and wants to give the whole alien race therapy by convincing them to open themselves to trusting again. Like, after knowing their backstory from the other runs, I do feel for the Hydra and hope the Academy also manages to get them to see not everyone is an enemy. So I sort of approve of Judith's stance, even if its a bit more religious than I would like. (Though with how she arranges for us to work with the Hydra rather than be enslaved truly, calling humanity their 'servants' may well just be a choice word to make the Hydra more receptive than if they were calling themselves 'friends' or something.)
on launch Brutal did not nerf the Aliens if you were the servants, when I tried them out after my first play though to see how it worked it was a cakewalk.
His org is specifically banned from servant use. He is willing to work with anyone, from the terrorists that want to commit xenocide to the guys who think NWO conspiracy theories are an instruction manual, but NOT the servants.
I like to imagine that Perun owes the Servants head some huge favor, maybe they're personal friends, and all of his snark is all in-character while actively still carrying out the missions.
„Hey Perun, it‘s me Judith, do you remember that one time in college I helped you through the social sciences exam and you said you owed me a huge favor for that. So I really need your help with something. I need to like take over the world.“
And Perun actually has a cadre of scientist that figured out phyercites and how to defeat them and in the new world will go around with a gas mask and steer far away from any actual Hydra.
@@davidrossa4125 "There's no way she's serious. But I'll pretend to go along with it just for the memes." Decades later while sitting on his purple throne: "What have I done?"
Obviously, after an accident, Judith donated her brain for transplant to the player character. That explains both her actions and why the player feels so indebted.
@@Blxz Academy: "The pherocytes cause you to worship the aliens as gods and follow their every command, desire, or even suggestion." Servants: "Yeah, so? Same thing, different day." Protectorate: "What is a pherocyte?"
Yeah, I'm starting to think that way. She's still crazy, but at least she believes in humanity and is willing to risk her life to convince the Aliens not to make us cannon fodder. I'd imagine humans under the servant ending might become close to equals given enough time. At the very least higher on the caste system.
@@scvboy1 If she was only willing to risk her life for it I'd be fine with it. But she's not. She's willing to risk EVERYONE'S lives and free will. She's a psychotic menace who cares more about helping a species that acts entirely hostile than protecting her own. She's a genuine traitor to her own species in every meaning of the term.
In a weird way the Servant feels like the Academy, they too wants to achieve a better future with the aliens and with them help both our societies, unlike the ones wanting to stay alone (HF, Resistance, Exodus), the one just wanting to capitulate (Protectorate) and the one wanting to exploit both (Initiative). It's just that instead of trying to achieve this through science and might by analyzing them and proving we are equal, they want to do it through devotion and compassion. The Servant is the social study Academy.
16:49 "Here we've got an Arctic methane eruption, which means the Earth's climate is going to be in worse shape; but that's okay, I'm sure I'm going to be able to cool things down later." Foreboding.
Request to play as The Resistance and gun for the Phoenix achievement, which requires you to play and win as the Resistance after the Servants or The Protectorate have met their win conditions.
It should be an outright scenario. You get handed a small African nation in 2030 after a Servant or Protectorate victory and need to build it into a stronghold. You can increase its population and tech level through councilors stealing projects and conducting underground railroad missions, while on space you have one mining base on Mercury or Mars and can't use boost until the Sentinels are gone.
I'd go a step farther and say a challenge run as the Resistance where he does absolutely nothing, just letting the game play out on its own, until the aliens have won, and only then start actually playing the game.
@@d15c0rd7 Yeah, this is my suggestion. He takes over a legitimately lost playthrough. Not one where it's fortified in Mercury to make an easy comeback.
10:46 this made the Servants Playthrough bearable for me at first, as it goes on it just gets better. The idea that she really really really wants to help them, but also knows better than them so she carries out the commands and impulses of what she wanted to do anyway.
that is what I got from that, basically since she is already willing to do the things she say, there is no internal conflict, so the pherocytes don't overwhelm her and she gets to keep her mind pretty much intact. meaning the pherocytes probably work to suppress negative feelings against the aliens, not control their mind, so if you don't have any negative feelings, there is nothing to supress.
It was my servant play-through that made me realize you could have a "there are no aliens" campaign, where all the "aliens" activity is man made, in an effort to control the world and the solar system.
@@sammiller6631 Shhh, its ok. Put on your mask. Take your kid to be castrated. Take your safe and effective medicine. Make sure you only have one child or better yet YOU get castrated aka gender transformed. Accept owning nothing, wealth kills the planet remember? Its ok to not have fair and transparent elections. Media owned and run by operatives is a fine thing. No parallels at all as your nations literally obey the WEF Wafm
Having to do 15 abduction missions to establish a facility is quite a drag, as you only get two orgs that enable the mission. That's why you'd want to have the greater nations, else you'd be doing that forever to integrate every. little. country.
I find it hilarious that the developers solved the issue of making Servant's brutal campaign hard by setting the Hydra's AI to casual. It is so simple, but it works so well and it uses the tools the developers already have. Thanks for the video.
The initiative stand point is one of greed, they are not necessarily bad or good. They just go in for profit. The Protectorate instead just wants to surrender, even if they aliens are weak or getting rekt. At least the Initiative does counter the aliens and even helps humanity (more themselves through) under their own vision of course, but still they help. That is what I think.
@@Nerdule you meant to say Exodus right? the Initiative is the faction who is smart enough to actually utilize the aliens' pherocyte back against them and take control of their interstellar civilization
She didn't really resist the mind control, she just described the effects of pherocytes wearing off. Likely a bit faster due to the drugs she likes so much lol. But yeah hate on the Servants but having completed them I do rather like the story text. I'd never join them but they at least are understandable.
@@jasonkuczynski3491 There is nothing to control thats why they wore off. A "serve us hydras" pherocyte is worthless if the stronger "serve the hydras faithfully with the entire body and soul" instruction is already there naturally due to meth or whatever judith smokes.
@@dtly50 My literati inner voice is failing me but I KNOW I've read her character in a series before but I'm drawing a blank as to the name of said book/series.
After this, I'd love to see a Phoenix achievement playthru as the Resistance. Because you have to make sure the Servants hit their win condition, but then still be in a position to come back from that... now THAT, sounds like a Perun level challange! :D
I mean, life as their artists doesn't sound too bad. Maybe we can just sit back and entertain the slavers while they eventually don't even see us as lesser anymore. Maybe one day we will learn to influence them through our entertainment and art, we could make them content and satisfied and we can all sing songs about unity. Praise be the chemical pherosite showers that make me not have to decide on anything
No. Hydras are always going to see anything other than hydras as lessers. It's how they evolved to think. Same reason we humans initially see everything as danger, then gradually get used to it.
10:32 i've encountered an idea like this in a fantasy novel i read a while back. There was a cult too, that used a ritual to turn newly joined people into loyal followers, and it too worked differently depending on the mindset of the inductee going in. If you were initially loyal to the cause it would just reinforce that, but if you held no such notions, or were a spy trying to infiltrate you would be radically changed. It got to the point that some higher ranking priests started to figure that their own prosperity and political power are important enough to the cult as a whole, therefore they can bend the orders given by their dear leader(whom they they are still compelled to obey) so that they may look after themselves as well.
The servants might not have MC threat meter with the aliens, but they still have the standard MC cap effects for accidents and hab revolt events going over the maximum.
Which is why Perun is building the Ops Centers. The downside of them, that they use up some of your mission control (even if only by burning space in your outposts,) doesn't matter to the Servants, since it's trivial (in the inner system, at least) to make far more MC than you spend on the station.
Your disdain is incredibly amusing to watch. I loved my Servants playthrough (although I found the ending to be underwhelming considering the buildup in story up until that point) and it's incredibly funny watching essentially Humanity First be mind controlled into letting the aliens win :p
"And I base this assertion on Jack and Shit." - Perun. Literally the entirety of The Servants' existence is "My source is that I made it the fuck up" and SOMEHOW some of what they say about the Hydra is correct (like them being afraid of getting railed by a hostile alien species a second time.). Broken clocks and all that, I guess.
'Join me next time for more treason....' 🤣 Pure gold from Perun, thanks mate. I watched your previous playtroughs as well and really enjoyed. Keep up the goood work!
100% of non-essential work is being placed into nuclear weapon production. Imagine one of many conversations in the job matching programmes: "So, what was your job, Citizen?" "I was an Arts Graduate." "Excellent! Here is your lead-lined vest. Your task will be as emergency radiation shielding when ... *if* required. Trust the Emissaries, love the Emissaries" "Oh, wait, hang on, Superior Judith has plans for your and your ilk. Apparently filling holes in hearts; go figure and good luck."
In this episode of Perun Invicta, First Contact! Mind Control! Alien Linguistics? And All-Out Alien Simping Nullified Mind Control? Seriously, this has been a eritdly enjoyable playthrough with some spicy snarky commentary from Perun? *Chef's kiss*
Everyone, we need to monitor Perun closely. So far he has siren resilience to their mind control, but this could change. Max, if he starts talking the Xeno-Happy-Clappy... You know what to do.
Just imagine what the Hydra’s reaction to all this would be. They come prepped for war, and here’s the servants just offering Earth up on a silver platter.😂
That Servant leader spends the early campaign whining about how control is bad and we need to not control things, right up until the Aliens tell her to control the earth. militarily. Edit: and then the Alien Nation tech literally controls anyone who even doubts them.
My take on Judith and the Pherocytes, is that they’re basically drugs and like any drug, different people have different reactions. The majority of people exposed will have roughly the same reaction, but there are always outliers, people who are resistant and those who have heightened reactions. Which who applies to Judith I leave as an exercise to the reader 😅.
It seemed to me the Pherocytes get a little confused if you already genuinely want to help the Hydra. So since Judith is so full of herself she thinks she can help them better than they can help themselves, she can get away with only being lightly affected?
what I'm finding interesting about playing the servants, is that since on brutal relying on the aliens is basically out of the equation, it becomes more like a fight against other humans, so now playing on the down low and betting on advanced technologies becomes less useful, so it may even be worth to bet on cruder and cheaper technologies to start space aggression as early as possible.
I didn't see you mention it in the episode, but you can use the "Regions" tab in the overview of Country as the Servants to see how many abductions have been carried out in a specific province. It will show "X/15" where X is the current amount. Once you have 15 done in a province you can build the facility there and then transfer control of the nation to the Hydra. Yes, it can be tedious for sure. Though thinking about it, I believe the Alien Admin gets claims on all provinces, you may be able to just ally the US with the Alien Admin and then join whatever wars they declare. Any territory conquered should go to them if I recall that correctly. Honestly, you might even be able to blitz poor humanity and get us to surrender before 2030...you monster.
I think I read somewhere that high difficulty for the Servants actually means the aliens are much LESS active than normal (so you are basically on your own) - the difficulty is basically flipped from how it works for other factions.
@10:00 My only rational interpretation is that the Hydra can crush some minds to oblivion and leave others intact, and the agent, recognizing that someone like Judith is independently useful, choose not to overload her. Maybe. Or this is just all a fever dream. I like that one too.
Brother Perun, you sound troubled. Have you shared your concerns with Brother Cash or Mother Judith? I am sure that they could assuage the sickness you feel in your heart. And I really feel like Cash should have joined the Initiative. They, of all people, would love to just throw Cash at their problems.
it is very entertaining how you carry your morals to the game. It is a game. It shows that it is very successful, that it pulls so much emotion out of you. The issue I have after watching all this is when you finally really understand the game the replay value is pretty thin.
Necroing this a little, but the "I love them so much that being forced to love them does nothing to me" is straight out of the Wizard's First Rule series of books. There was a character, who could make someone love them so much that they would die just to please her, but when she was forced to do it to her husband, he loved her so much that it had no effect.
As much as I join you with hating the servants, this playthrough has had an unexpected outcome. I'm now firmly in the camp of the protectorate being the dumbest faction storywise in-game
The thing I thought about with the pheromones and mind control is an interesting aspect to a philosophy of the servants. So you can't *really* be brainwashed if you like the aliens right? So if you think the aliens are going to win, the best way to preserve the human species is to *convince people to like the aliens*.
The context for the narrative of this play through is completely absurd. Perun, you are doing a great job discussing the events that occur. But still, what a mess!
In the Resistance game that I'm curently playing, I overlooked some Xenoforming in Africa. Which, of course, led to Megafauna ramaging through Servant territory. I call this "Karma". ;)
Perun continues the Humanity first sponsored simulation playing the Servants, with access to as much beer (or maybe barf bags) as needed. The Protectorate player will be replaced with the AI as the player broke his keyboard midway during this session (no one noticed until after the session was over). The Initiative player promises to practice her evil laugh and watch Dr No before the next session but warns the Initiative will fail if most humans are mere puppets - no one will create anything new under mind control as they will be content - and human innovation will stagnate.
You can review the total number of abductions on the Region tab; it helps figure out which regions are targeted by the AI and help them along because Servants are awesome.
Perun, what is really chilling is the testimony of a former Air Force Office of Special Investigations officer, Richard Doty. He discusses what he called a special "school" where officers who attended come back later... "changed" and not quite themselves. This is found in his interview with Stephen Greer, which is easily found on you tube. There are two possible assurances, however. One is that Greer is clearly using his platform as a UFO guru to advance his religion, Buddhism, and the second is that Doty also admitted that he basically lied over the course of his entire career to every civilian he came in contact with, in fulfillment of his job. Not the best credentials, certainly, but still a source of concern.
Perhaps an early suggestion, since this series is still young, but next series perhaps you could go for that one achievement, wherein the Servants/Protectorate win, and then you, as the Resistance/Humanity First manage to overcome them, and win.
Cheer up, Perun, you could have traded places with Sgt Biceptov, supplied by Oligarkov and taking strategic directions by Scott Ritter and col. MacGregor ;)
2 thing 1st thing:which faction do you think is most fleshed out? 2nd thing: I'm not sure if this is also a challenge point but I think you should try and give the alien administration the whole world before setting off your victory
So let me get this straight. The servants are more willing to try to negotiate at better peace deal than the protectorate.
yes
@PerunGamingAU 🤣
the servants want to put humanity in the same position as the other servant races under the hydra. the protectorate want to turn earth into a petting zoo
The servants at least believe in humanity, the protectorate does not.
The protectorate story is really tragic, well written but utterly nonsensical if you're Perun level good at this game.
I love how Judith Howell, a cult leader who has been connected to at least one mass suicide, can literally _smell_ the psychological vulnerability on the Hydra. And making humanity, with her at its head, the priest-philosopher caste of the Hydra empire is actually a pretty good deal for someone into ruling from the throne's shadows.
This right here is her strategy. It is not for nothing that the earliest organized governments on earth were priest-kings; we could either be their Pharaoh or their Richelieu.
She smelled trauma and wants to give the whole alien race therapy by convincing them to open themselves to trusting again.
Like, after knowing their backstory from the other runs, I do feel for the Hydra and hope the Academy also manages to get them to see not everyone is an enemy.
So I sort of approve of Judith's stance, even if its a bit more religious than I would like. (Though with how she arranges for us to work with the Hydra rather than be enslaved truly, calling humanity their 'servants' may well just be a choice word to make the Hydra more receptive than if they were calling themselves 'friends' or something.)
Perun finally realizing that Brutal only buffs aliens when they're your enemy is my new favorite thing.
on launch Brutal did not nerf the Aliens if you were the servants, when I tried them out after my first play though to see how it worked it was a cakewalk.
The sheer distaste in @Perun’s voice as he plays this is probably the best part.
Proving once again, he is the Illusive Man.
His org is specifically banned from servant use. He is willing to work with anyone, from the terrorists that want to commit xenocide to the guys who think NWO conspiracy theories are an instruction manual, but NOT the servants.
If so, the Protectorate leader is Saren 100%: he thinks he's gonna protect his species, but basically gets scammed in the process.
You can check the number of abductions in a region under the Regions tab
I like to imagine that Perun owes the Servants head some huge favor, maybe they're personal friends, and all of his snark is all in-character while actively still carrying out the missions.
„Hey Perun, it‘s me Judith, do you remember that one time in college I helped you through the social sciences exam and you said you owed me a huge favor for that. So I really need your help with something. I need to like take over the world.“
@@davidrossa4125 "It's us or you're recruited for the militia trying to kill me, y'know?"
And Perun actually has a cadre of scientist that figured out phyercites and how to defeat them and in the new world will go around with a gas mask and steer far away from any actual Hydra.
@@davidrossa4125 "There's no way she's serious. But I'll pretend to go along with it just for the memes."
Decades later while sitting on his purple throne: "What have I done?"
Obviously, after an accident, Judith donated her brain for transplant to the player character. That explains both her actions and why the player feels so indebted.
I love the stories with each faction. Good writing has turned Judith into a weird and misguided but nuanced character with her own flavour.
Yeah. It is actually quite impressive that they made a faction like the servants believable and compelling.
And functionally immune to the pherocytes becaus she already wants to do what they would compell her to do is a hilarious concept.
@@Blxz Academy: "The pherocytes cause you to worship the aliens as gods and follow their every command, desire, or even suggestion."
Servants: "Yeah, so? Same thing, different day."
Protectorate: "What is a pherocyte?"
Yeah, I'm starting to think that way. She's still crazy, but at least she believes in humanity and is willing to risk her life to convince the Aliens not to make us cannon fodder. I'd imagine humans under the servant ending might become close to equals given enough time. At the very least higher on the caste system.
@@scvboy1 If she was only willing to risk her life for it I'd be fine with it. But she's not. She's willing to risk EVERYONE'S lives and free will. She's a psychotic menace who cares more about helping a species that acts entirely hostile than protecting her own. She's a genuine traitor to her own species in every meaning of the term.
In a weird way the Servant feels like the Academy, they too wants to achieve a better future with the aliens and with them help both our societies, unlike the ones wanting to stay alone (HF, Resistance, Exodus), the one just wanting to capitulate (Protectorate) and the one wanting to exploit both (Initiative).
It's just that instead of trying to achieve this through science and might by analyzing them and proving we are equal, they want to do it through devotion and compassion.
The Servant is the social study Academy.
"The Servant is the social study Academy." - Yeah, that's why they are evil.
16:49 "Here we've got an Arctic methane eruption, which means the Earth's climate is going to be in worse shape; but that's okay, I'm sure I'm going to be able to cool things down later."
Foreboding.
Request to play as The Resistance and gun for the Phoenix achievement, which requires you to play and win as the Resistance after the Servants or The Protectorate have met their win conditions.
Yes, an XCom 2 run!
It should be an outright scenario. You get handed a small African nation in 2030 after a Servant or Protectorate victory and need to build it into a stronghold. You can increase its population and tech level through councilors stealing projects and conducting underground railroad missions, while on space you have one mining base on Mercury or Mars and can't use boost until the Sentinels are gone.
I'd go a step farther and say a challenge run as the Resistance where he does absolutely nothing, just letting the game play out on its own, until the aliens have won, and only then start actually playing the game.
@@d15c0rd7 Yeah, this is my suggestion. He takes over a legitimately lost playthrough. Not one where it's fortified in Mercury to make an easy comeback.
Holy.. seconded.
10:46 this made the Servants Playthrough bearable for me at first, as it goes on it just gets better. The idea that she really really really wants to help them, but also knows better than them so she carries out the commands and impulses of what she wanted to do anyway.
To much meth in the system, pherocytes died out.
@@xzardas541 She really knows how to put the “meth” in method acting!
Man, there is a LOT to unpack there
that is what I got from that, basically since she is already willing to do the things she say, there is no internal conflict, so the pherocytes don't overwhelm her and she gets to keep her mind pretty much intact. meaning the pherocytes probably work to suppress negative feelings against the aliens, not control their mind, so if you don't have any negative feelings, there is nothing to supress.
@@xzardas541 Possibly, I just like that it comes down to "Yes yes, were you're servants now get on doing what your servants believe is best for you."
Perun's inner voice: Must...kill...xenoflora. MUST...KILL...KAIJU.....AAAAAAAAH
It was my servant play-through that made me realize you could have a "there are no aliens" campaign, where all the "aliens" activity is man made, in an effort to control the world and the solar system.
You can feel the 'ewwwww' coming off the servants but at least it's not the protectorate.
Protectorate is such BS, I'd rather Servants
Watching you suffer through this playthrough is oddly satisfying and quite entertaining. Thank you for your sacrifice.
Do you see the parallels with what is going on in the world today?
His sarcastic comments are hilarious.
@@TheBelrick No, I don't see parallels. Maybe you're seeing what you want to see?
@@sammiller6631 Shhh, its ok. Put on your mask. Take your kid to be castrated. Take your safe and effective medicine. Make sure you only have one child or better yet YOU get castrated aka gender transformed.
Accept owning nothing, wealth kills the planet remember?
Its ok to not have fair and transparent elections. Media owned and run by operatives is a fine thing.
No parallels at all as your nations literally obey the WEF
Wafm
@@sammiller6631 Well, I personally find situation where Perun basically expands Russia to USSR old borders in this episode... ironic.
Human attempting to become a Hydra artist: Gets Rejected
The young Hans Castillo: Shame
The Servant story is actually more interesting than I had expected... I'm intrigued to see how it pans out.
Having to do 15 abduction missions to establish a facility is quite a drag, as you only get two orgs that enable the mission. That's why you'd want to have the greater nations, else you'd be doing that forever to integrate every. little. country.
I find it hilarious that the developers solved the issue of making Servant's brutal campaign hard by setting the Hydra's AI to casual. It is so simple, but it works so well and it uses the tools the developers already have. Thanks for the video.
Damn, so the protectorate is the most pathetic faction.
Depends on how you feel about the Initiative but the Protectorate are *definitely* more craven than any of the other non-Initiative factions.
It's truly sad.
The initiative stand point is one of greed, they are not necessarily bad or good. They just go in for profit. The Protectorate instead just wants to surrender, even if they aliens are weak or getting rekt. At least the Initiative does counter the aliens and even helps humanity (more themselves through) under their own vision of course, but still they help. That is what I think.
@@Nerdule you meant to say Exodus right? the Initiative is the faction who is smart enough to actually utilize the aliens' pherocyte back against them and take control of their interstellar civilization
Kiran Banerjee worked on the UN Human Rights Council or something similar. It was basically a given.
judith pulled some anime bullshit with that resisting mind control lol
Brain too smooth, nothing for the mind control to grip onto.
She didn't really resist the mind control, she just described the effects of pherocytes wearing off. Likely a bit faster due to the drugs she likes so much lol. But yeah hate on the Servants but having completed them I do rather like the story text. I'd never join them but they at least are understandable.
Incense smokes does things to your body
@@jasonkuczynski3491 There is nothing to control thats why they wore off.
A "serve us hydras" pherocyte is worthless if the stronger "serve the hydras faithfully with the entire body and soul" instruction is already there naturally due to meth or whatever judith smokes.
@@dtly50 My literati inner voice is failing me but I KNOW I've read her character in a series before but I'm drawing a blank as to the name of said book/series.
After this, I'd love to see a Phoenix achievement playthru as the Resistance. Because you have to make sure the Servants hit their win condition, but then still be in a position to come back from that... now THAT, sounds like a Perun level challange! :D
I mean, life as their artists doesn't sound too bad. Maybe we can just sit back and entertain the slavers while they eventually don't even see us as lesser anymore. Maybe one day we will learn to influence them through our entertainment and art, we could make them content and satisfied and we can all sing songs about unity. Praise be the chemical pherosite showers that make me not have to decide on anything
Now I'm just thinking, if humans just work in 'maid cafes' if we are made servants
No. Hydras are always going to see anything other than hydras as lessers. It's how they evolved to think. Same reason we humans initially see everything as danger, then gradually get used to it.
@@ZeroNumerous That's canonically not true though.
Is this whole game just the ancient history of the Star Wars franchise?
I see humans dancing in the cantina and on floating barges.
With all those piquant quips and jabs at Judith, it feels like watching Graham Norton's commentary of the Eurovision song contest. Love it.
10:32 i've encountered an idea like this in a fantasy novel i read a while back. There was a cult too, that used a ritual to turn newly joined people into loyal followers, and it too worked differently depending on the mindset of the inductee going in. If you were initially loyal to the cause it would just reinforce that, but if you held no such notions, or were a spy trying to infiltrate you would be radically changed.
It got to the point that some higher ranking priests started to figure that their own prosperity and political power are important enough to the cult as a whole, therefore they can bend the orders given by their dear leader(whom they they are still compelled to obey) so that they may look after themselves as well.
I have to say, after watching this I needed to go to the last episode of HF playthrough for a nice "Purge the Xeno scum!" pallet cleanser.
The servants might not have MC threat meter with the aliens, but they still have the standard MC cap effects for accidents and hab revolt events going over the maximum.
Which is why Perun is building the Ops Centers. The downside of them, that they use up some of your mission control (even if only by burning space in your outposts,) doesn't matter to the Servants, since it's trivial (in the inner system, at least) to make far more MC than you spend on the station.
Your disdain is incredibly amusing to watch. I loved my Servants playthrough (although I found the ending to be underwhelming considering the buildup in story up until that point) and it's incredibly funny watching essentially Humanity First be mind controlled into letting the aliens win :p
"And I base this assertion on Jack and Shit." - Perun. Literally the entirety of The Servants' existence is "My source is that I made it the fuck up" and SOMEHOW some of what they say about the Hydra is correct (like them being afraid of getting railed by a hostile alien species a second time.). Broken clocks and all that, I guess.
These playthroughs definitely help me get better at the game.
'Join me next time for more treason....' 🤣 Pure gold from Perun, thanks mate. I watched your previous playtroughs as well and really enjoyed. Keep up the goood work!
100% of non-essential work is being placed into nuclear weapon production. Imagine one of many conversations in the job matching programmes:
"So, what was your job, Citizen?"
"I was an Arts Graduate."
"Excellent! Here is your lead-lined vest. Your task will be as emergency radiation shielding when ... *if* required. Trust the Emissaries, love the Emissaries"
"Oh, wait, hang on, Superior Judith has plans for your and your ilk. Apparently filling holes in hearts; go figure and good luck."
I genuinely love how insane she is
The leader is too crazy to be controlled
I can't read the words without hearing Marianne Williamson's voice.
@@fortusvictus8297 LMAO don't do Marianne like that
In this episode of Perun Invicta, First Contact! Mind Control! Alien Linguistics? And All-Out Alien Simping Nullified Mind Control?
Seriously, this has been a eritdly enjoyable playthrough with some spicy snarky commentary from Perun? *Chef's kiss*
Its so funny hearing the pain in his voice trying to play the dutiful mind slave
Everyone, we need to monitor Perun closely. So far he has siren resilience to their mind control, but this could change.
Max, if he starts talking the Xeno-Happy-Clappy... You know what to do.
I really want to see Perun playing the protectorate. Servants at least have some redeeming qualities, but protectorate has absolutely none.
The Servants throw out ‘The Final Solution’ like they’re picking out what beer to have with fish and chips!
You gotta keep that brain clean
I'm slightly worried that we might have pushed Perun down the self destructing path of substence abuse. Stay strong brother!
You mean "Judith Howell method acting".
You thought it was a speedrun... BUT IT WAS I, TERRAN INVICTUS DIO!
It's nuts that the goal of the servants to capitulate to the aliens so hard and fast they don't bother with the usual enslavement protocols
Just imagine what the Hydra’s reaction to all this would be. They come prepped for war, and here’s the servants just offering Earth up on a silver platter.😂
That Servant leader spends the early campaign whining about how control is bad and we need to not control things, right up until the Aliens tell her to control the earth. militarily. Edit: and then the Alien Nation tech literally controls anyone who even doubts them.
My take on Judith and the Pherocytes, is that they’re basically drugs and like any drug, different people have different reactions.
The majority of people exposed will have roughly the same reaction, but there are always outliers, people who are resistant and those who have heightened reactions. Which who applies to Judith I leave as an exercise to the reader 😅.
She's just naturally allergic? So all of her actions are due to inflammation in her nervous system.
It seemed to me the Pherocytes get a little confused if you already genuinely want to help the Hydra. So since Judith is so full of herself she thinks she can help them better than they can help themselves, she can get away with only being lightly affected?
Remember all those gurus telling you to "follow your passion"? Well Judith sure did.
The only thing you need to be careful about is ensuring that the Alien Nation's unrest doesn't get too high (and lead to nation breakup).
what I'm finding interesting about playing the servants, is that since on brutal relying on the aliens is basically out of the equation, it becomes more like a fight against other humans, so now playing on the down low and betting on advanced technologies becomes less useful, so it may even be worth to bet on cruder and cheaper technologies to start space aggression as early as possible.
"I base this hypothesis off jack and shit." Hilarious
I didn't see you mention it in the episode, but you can use the "Regions" tab in the overview of Country as the Servants to see how many abductions have been carried out in a specific province. It will show "X/15" where X is the current amount. Once you have 15 done in a province you can build the facility there and then transfer control of the nation to the Hydra. Yes, it can be tedious for sure.
Though thinking about it, I believe the Alien Admin gets claims on all provinces, you may be able to just ally the US with the Alien Admin and then join whatever wars they declare. Any territory conquered should go to them if I recall that correctly. Honestly, you might even be able to blitz poor humanity and get us to surrender before 2030...you monster.
it's looks like perun is slowly turning into the narrator from the bards's tale from reading everything said by the servants
I think I read somewhere that high difficulty for the Servants actually means the aliens are much LESS active than normal (so you are basically on your own) - the difficulty is basically flipped from how it works for other factions.
35:52 he knows.
@10:00 My only rational interpretation is that the Hydra can crush some minds to oblivion and leave others intact, and the agent, recognizing that someone like Judith is independently useful, choose not to overload her. Maybe.
Or this is just all a fever dream. I like that one too.
I love how he is just constantly dieing inside a little bit XD
Day 2 of asking for an Exodus Playthrough
After this cluster of drinking mate
I'm not sure what I love more, the very open dislike of everything servant, or the backhanded compliments lol.
Brother Perun, you sound troubled. Have you shared your concerns with Brother Cash or Mother Judith? I am sure that they could assuage the sickness you feel in your heart.
And I really feel like Cash should have joined the Initiative. They, of all people, would love to just throw Cash at their problems.
Perun’s additions to the Servant narratives should become canon
I love that you can establish alien control before you even know what the aliens really want.
it is very entertaining how you carry your morals to the game. It is a game. It shows that it is very successful, that it pulls so much emotion out of you. The issue I have after watching all this is when you finally really understand the game the replay value is pretty thin.
“Silver seekers” sounds like a Senior Citizen treasure hunting committee.
The aliens have their own victory condition? Like an unplayable faction?
"I base this ascertain on jack and sh!t." Dude, this line cracked me up! Lol
Remember the mind control needs to be "toped up" to keep being effective. So she merely managed to get pheresites out of the system
Max, during a drunken episode, admits that Cash was one of his love children. Now things fall into place.
Perun achievement unlocked! Maximum swarminess accomplished! Level 6 Snarky now available!
Servants are immune to mind control because there needs to be a mind to be controlled.
Necroing this a little, but the "I love them so much that being forced to love them does nothing to me" is straight out of the Wizard's First Rule series of books. There was a character, who could make someone love them so much that they would die just to please her, but when she was forced to do it to her husband, he loved her so much that it had no effect.
They're in the asteroid belt, they're in the walls, THEYRE IN THE GODDAMN WALLS
The amount of pain in this man voice when he reads story text or taking over a country.
42:57 Not a sentence that I expected to hear in this video.
As much as I join you with hating the servants, this playthrough has had an unexpected outcome. I'm now firmly in the camp of the protectorate being the dumbest faction storywise in-game
Perun, what is your chosen beverage to get you through this ordeal?
The thing I thought about with the pheromones and mind control is an interesting aspect to a philosophy of the servants.
So you can't *really* be brainwashed if you like the aliens right? So if you think the aliens are going to win, the best way to preserve the human species is to *convince people to like the aliens*.
A realistic version of an Alien invasion of earth after 99% of their population has been decimated by a previous catastrophic event.
Truly the Shadow Wizard Money Gang plathrough.
Servants know that alien daddies just need our love.
24:24 It's moments like that, that make me glad we cut the cord in 2013.
The context for the narrative of this play through is completely absurd. Perun, you are doing a great job discussing the events that occur. But still, what a mess!
In the Resistance game that I'm curently playing, I overlooked some Xenoforming in Africa. Which, of course, led to Megafauna ramaging through Servant territory. I call this "Karma". ;)
me omw to murder megafunas with the us army:
I would really love to see the space battles with the other human factions.
31:55
lol "one vision, one purpose" is a reference to Command and Conquer, not the mustache man.
Kane?
Perun continues the Humanity first sponsored simulation playing the Servants, with access to as much beer (or maybe barf bags) as needed. The Protectorate player will be replaced with the AI as the player broke his keyboard midway during this session (no one noticed until after the session was over). The Initiative player promises to practice her evil laugh and watch Dr No before the next session but warns the Initiative will fail if most humans are mere puppets - no one will create anything new under mind control as they will be content - and human innovation will stagnate.
Being the aliens' "interns" is at least in my opinion. Objectively much worse than being their slaves.
Came for the Ukraine content, bought Phoenix Point, now I'm looking into Terra Invicta.
I weep for my wallet.
PROTECTORATE PLAYTHROUGH NEXT PLEASE! achieve peace for our time with the flawless strategy of appeasement of the alien demands!/s
You can review the total number of abductions on the Region tab; it helps figure out which regions are targeted by the AI and help them along because Servants are awesome.
Perun, what is really chilling is the testimony of a former Air Force Office of Special Investigations officer, Richard Doty. He discusses what he called a special "school" where officers who attended come back later... "changed" and not quite themselves. This is found in his interview with Stephen Greer, which is easily found on you tube. There are two possible assurances, however. One is that Greer is clearly using his platform as a UFO guru to advance his religion, Buddhism, and the second is that Doty also admitted that he basically lied over the course of his entire career to every civilian he came in contact with, in fulfillment of his job. Not the best credentials, certainly, but still a source of concern.
Perhaps an early suggestion, since this series is still young, but next series perhaps you could go for that one achievement, wherein the Servants/Protectorate win, and then you, as the Resistance/Humanity First manage to overcome them, and win.
Its so silly that you get all those points handed over from the aliens besides not having had any contact with them yet...
Cheer up, Perun, you could have traded places with Sgt Biceptov, supplied by Oligarkov and taking strategic directions by Scott Ritter and col. MacGregor ;)
world cup? terra invicta with perun..? well, here i am
Guess the servant will be fine to build a research dyson sphere around mercury?
When you play against your personality to please the crowd.
2 thing
1st thing:which faction do you think is most fleshed out?
2nd thing: I'm not sure if this is also a challenge point but I think you should try and give the alien administration the whole world before setting off your victory
You can see the number of abductions in a region on the "Regions" tab, it was hard for me to find.
The I Hear Voices station? It's nice to know Randy Orton has a career as a Servant station commander if he ever has to retire.
I am referring to this play through as the scientologist propaganda play through.
Judith can handle her drugs. Hubbard couldn't.
@@richardarriaga6271 oooff that hurts. I got second hand second degree burns from that
Sounds like a great future for humanity... #wecanfixthem
You can see ubductions count in Regions tab in country's panel.