FUCK YEAH Aurora. For all those who were scared away, WAIT! we still haven't reached the parts where Quill genetically engineers a new race of humans and terraforms planets (with MATH!) or the more likely thing, Quill will build a war-terraformer ship and suck out all the Oxygen out of the atmosphere (or pump in toxic gases), leaving all the industry on the planet intact for liberation.
+Nicholas Kurus Quite a bit, I'll just copy paste what I wrote to Midnightfox Lets say you researched some new propulsion ability? great you're still not getting new engine unless you designed a new ship engine component and research it only then can you put that component in a ship (you design too, but doesn't need research to be available) Same holds for all weapons, and most ship components. You need to build missiles if you want to arm your missile ships. missiles are have their own design menu where you specify the warhead yield, Sensor (for targeting) and engine as you wish. it allows for some legendary tweaking of the missiles from massive heavy hitter to incredibly fast ones (Also missile without engine = mine. Missile without warhead is basically a sensor drone. a missile without engine or warhead is a sensor buoy) Since we are on the topic of sensor, there are 3 types. "Active" sensor - think Sonar. its great but its makes you easy to detect. and two passive sensors (EM and thermal) which detect EM or heat signature of the ship (and each ship has an EM and Thermal profile. also colonies produce quite the EM signature) take a look at the wiki for an idea of the rest.
+Nicholas Kurus design to your technologies, from rocket engines to antimatter reactors, from meson cannons to Shields. Design every single ship with this technologies you have researched and crafted. Combat drop thousands of soldiers onto a planet conquer it and your navies Duke it out in space. Create super humans, terraform entire planets to be habitable(or not quite) Diplomacy with alien races, war with alien races, unintentionally reenacting the story from Halo with aliens... This game is awesome
+Hivemind well, if you are willing to brave past the bugs, horrible UI, and suicidal learning curve I think you'll find the 4x that will ruin all other 4x for you. This game requires patience but its definitely rewarding.
Ok so first we gotta turn the Moon into a giant artillary battery to defend Holy Ter..I mean...Earth and Mars must become a shipyard planet. Then our God Emperor of Ma...Quill...hmmm
+Illier1 Then we enhance the most brutal, psychopathic humans with the help of genetics and bio-engineering and make them into Space Mar... I mean, uh... Quillian Knights?
So Quill, I gotta ask so I can clearly envision this: How do you remain Emperor of Humanity for the rest of Human existence? Do you have dynasty of emperors all named Quill? Did you become immortal through science? Did you upload your brain to a super computer? Did you cryogenically freeze your body, but made sure you developed a serum that gave you the power of telepathy first? Or some other way maybe?
Nice video, but I had to pause and laugh at the idea that these guys voluntarily named their own division the "Low Tech Armor Division", especially considering that it's only 'low tech' because the game knows that these trans-newtonian objects are coming up. Like nobody in the army today using the highest tech gear we have available is like "This is the Can't Fight for Crap Brigade", because in 2025 or whatever we'll have magic railguns. :D
I'll be honest... I'm a bit of a graphics-orientated person. Every video that has 'graphics' like this game, I usually skip over... BUT, this actually looks incredibly interesting.. I will continue to follow this series. Thank you Quill, and keep up the amazing work!
+Cake But that's a thing with Aurora. With graphics like that you are 1. free to imagine how your ships look like( holy fuck the amount of time i spend looking for shipsets for Space Empires 5 for example ) 2. It looks like a god damn radar screen on board spaceship so you feel even more like a god damn space admiral.
+Juan Pereira super casual? really? by like 99% of peoples standards I don't think so, if you're like an expert at spreadsheet like games like this one, then sure, but people like that are few and far between.
I wouldn't say casual. Accessible is closer to the mark. It doesn't obscure its mechanics behind awkward user interfaces - which games like DF tend to do (although they're not bad games)
+_CoYoTe_ but what about those that are on both sides?? I believe we can diplomatically bring in Arumba as a coalition government head by Quill18 and with Arumba being the sneaky spy master.
+Nicholas Roberts Hmm... you have a point there. Northernlion will be in charge of Domestic Security, Arumba the master Strategist/Admiral, Quill18 as Emperor... hm... what other youtubers and positions shall we fill? :D
This is the 3rd Aurora 4x series I've tried to watch. So far from this video you explain this more clear and straight to the point than the other series I've looked at. Thanks, now I'm creating my own empire as I follow along your series.
Soon there will be no person alive that set foot on our moon, leaving humanity once again entirely stranded on this tiny blue pearl, marooned in a galaxy unaware of our existence. It's a disgrace and I really want to see that change in my lifetime. Hail Quillonia! Hail Space Emperor Quill!
I just realized Quill has almost 300k subscribers. That's weird to me, because I subscribed when he had like 4k. I didn't realize how quickly his channel has exploded.
Ok, I'm hooked. This brings back memories of playing Sid Miere's Railroad Tycoon and Excel spreadsheets. Bring on the next episode Quill. Great recommendation.
This is an excellent series, oh great Emperor Quill :P. Seriously, very educational and well made; I'm 7 episodes in and already feel like I'm getting a hang of the menus and some of the fundamentals for the early game. I'll probably leave more comments here and there; thank you again for this public service!
To paraphrase a german review for this game: Like most 4x games Aurora 4x is nothing more than a bunch of spreadsheets with improved optics. Aurora however skips the improving part and instead adds even more spreadsheets. The advantage of that is that your boss won't notice you're actually playing a game instead of working.
@quill18 This is one of my favorite playthroughs of yours, if you have the energy and the interest another partially roleplaying playthrough of this would be truly awesome!
Honestly, Quill, with all the immensely detailed strategy games you play, I for one welcome you as our new overlord. You're probably good at it. Probably.
been playing this game for past 6 months and I still basically know very little but I really enjoy it, I found out about it on the dwarf fortress forums. I love starting out pre-warp.
I could go berserk on you like most kids my age would, but just for the fact that I am mentally ill, I will calmly let you know that it is not pre-warp it is pre-wormhole. (my age=10-15 as I am using it in this comment).
About 3 years ago, your Victoria 2 Let's Play as Japan got me into GSG. Looking forward to finally really getting into Aurora thanks to this :) Hopefully it gets the views to keep it going.
I am really glad you pulled this game out to play, I had totally forgotten that it existed... I was around in the early days of its development. There is a pen and paper wargame called Starfire, which the developer of Aurora was once really involved in. But due to... politics, he left the fold and Aurora was the result of that move on his part. For a while I followed this game quite a bit, but eventually kind of forgot about it... now I am going to see what the result of the development was. I am excited! :)
I cannot believe that Quill decided to play Aurora on youtube. Such a fantastic game. :) Btw, if You want to avoid some problematic stuff with installing and running Aurora (for example the decimal thing) just download portable install. It help at least me.
Man, I'm really looking forward to this lets play. Quill have you ever thought of taking votes for a let's play from your subscribers to vote on how you play? kinda like you have a "court" that attempt to guide the mighty emperor quill on his mission to explore the universe (using a straw poll or something)? I know a lot trolls would be out there but I feel like most people that would watch this would be into it and you are emperor after all, your final word is law !
2:40 OH MY GOSH DAT PLOTTWIST!!! Better twist than the one in episode 7, when Han Sol-arghh *cough* - ok. Won't spoil you. (I didn't know the game..but it looks great!).
I wouldn't call this more complex than dwarf fortress as dorf fort has a lot going on under the hood. This just has more stuff for you to do in order to accomplish anything. Plus the visual appeal of accounting software, and the speed of a snail once the game gets rolling.
Superfluous? Like what? Personalities, world history, teeth physics for a recently exploded head? Aurora doesn't have much of anything that goes on behind the scenes. NPR AI woefully simple and do not have to follow near the same rules as the player. And any other things that could be going on is just math. From sensors to fighting, everything else is just numbers plugged into formulas. Don't get me wrong, I love Aurora. I just don't agree with the "its complex" statement. Maybe to a beginner, but a cursory glance at the wiki and you find out its all a bunch of spreadsheets and numbers.
WrathOfMega I know, I was commenting on how Neutronium would be purely negative. As far as I know, its not a thing, at least not yet. However, it would be interesting.
I love 4x games but have never heard of this one. I look through steam to see if there are any new good ones but there doesnt seem to be much. This one looks promising, I will keep watching!
This looks like a game where you could either spend the rest of your life playing it... or run away screaming *immediately*.
Yep.
So, the latest version of Microsoft Excel looks pretty good. :P
+Nunya Bid'nez it's funny because the game stores data on a BIG spreadsheet
FUCK YEAH Aurora.
For all those who were scared away, WAIT! we still haven't reached the parts where Quill genetically engineers a new race of humans and terraforms planets (with MATH!)
or the more likely thing, Quill will build a war-terraformer ship and suck out all the Oxygen out of the atmosphere (or pump in toxic gases), leaving all the industry on the planet intact for liberation.
+Gamma Ray Already started downloading the game half-way through the video, but that sounds epic. What other cool things can you do?
+Nicholas Kurus
Quite a bit, I'll just copy paste what I wrote to Midnightfox
Lets say you researched some new propulsion ability? great you're still
not getting new engine unless you designed a new ship engine component
and research it only then can you put that component in a ship (you
design too, but doesn't need research to be available) Same holds for
all weapons, and most ship components.
You need to build missiles if you want to arm your missile ships.
missiles are have their own design menu where you specify the warhead
yield, Sensor (for targeting) and engine as you wish. it allows for
some legendary tweaking of the missiles from massive heavy hitter to
incredibly fast ones (Also missile without engine = mine. Missile
without warhead is basically a sensor drone. a missile without engine or
warhead is a sensor buoy)
Since we are on the topic of sensor, there are 3 types. "Active" sensor -
think Sonar. its great but its makes you easy to detect. and two
passive sensors (EM and thermal) which detect EM or heat signature of
the ship (and each ship has an EM and Thermal profile. also colonies produce quite the EM signature)
take a look at the wiki for an idea of the rest.
+Nicholas Kurus design to your technologies, from rocket engines to antimatter reactors, from meson cannons to Shields. Design every single ship with this technologies you have researched and crafted. Combat drop thousands of soldiers onto a planet conquer it and your navies Duke it out in space. Create super humans, terraform entire planets to be habitable(or not quite) Diplomacy with alien races, war with alien races, unintentionally reenacting the story from Halo with aliens... This game is awesome
+Gamma Ray This game... is everything I wished for in a 4x... Just from that statement you made XD
+Hivemind
well, if you are willing to brave past the bugs, horrible UI, and suicidal learning curve I think you'll find the 4x that will ruin all other 4x for you.
This game requires patience but its definitely rewarding.
Ok so first we gotta turn the Moon into a giant artillary battery to defend Holy Ter..I mean...Earth and Mars must become a shipyard planet. Then our God Emperor of Ma...Quill...hmmm
+Illier1 Then we enhance the most brutal, psychopathic humans with the help of genetics and bio-engineering and make them into Space Mar... I mean, uh... Quillian Knights?
+Schmitt Lenin I LIKE WHERE THIS IS GOING.
Rick Veenbergen We all do
***** DONT FORGOT THE SKULLS.
+Illier1 There is only the Quill, and he is our shield and protector.
I envisage the first 10 videos being the 'introduction' ;)
+Stephen Hamer Video 11: "We press 'play.'"
So Quill, I gotta ask so I can clearly envision this: How do you remain Emperor of Humanity for the rest of Human existence? Do you have dynasty of emperors all named Quill? Did you become immortal through science? Did you upload your brain to a super computer? Did you cryogenically freeze your body, but made sure you developed a serum that gave you the power of telepathy first? Or some other way maybe?
+211Serum Within a couple years I upload my brain to the Internet and rule as an immortal cyber-god. Episode 2 or 3 should discuss this.
+quill18 That does seem to be the most logical option in your case. Thank you for responding.
+quill18 Oh, and happy new year from Sweden.
+quill18 All hail the computer god!
01010001 01110101 01101001 01101100 01101100 00110001 00111000 00100000 01110010 01110101 01101100 01100101 01110011 00100001
:P
+quill18 That seems unreliable. I recommend a soul powered life support machine fueled with mass human sacrifice.
Nice video, but I had to pause and laugh at the idea that these guys voluntarily named their own division the "Low Tech Armor Division", especially considering that it's only 'low tech' because the game knows that these trans-newtonian objects are coming up.
Like nobody in the army today using the highest tech gear we have available is like "This is the Can't Fight for Crap Brigade", because in 2025 or whatever we'll have magic railguns. :D
Maybe they're justreally self-aware/progress-oriented? Lol
I'll be honest... I'm a bit of a graphics-orientated person. Every video that has 'graphics' like this game, I usually skip over... BUT, this actually looks incredibly interesting.. I will continue to follow this series. Thank you Quill, and keep up the amazing work!
+Cake But that's a thing with Aurora. With graphics like that you are
1. free to imagine how your ships look like( holy fuck the amount of time i spend looking for shipsets for Space Empires 5 for example )
2. It looks like a god damn radar screen on board spaceship so you feel even more like a god damn space admiral.
+Canaris3 this game makes me feel like admiral ackbar or whatever from Star Wars XD
Jeeesus, your rise to power reduced earth to just 500 million people? Guess that makes sense.
+Kharmitas I've played this with the population set to earth norm. Trust me. You will consume EVERYTHING ON THE PLANET IN A DAY.
+Kharmitas What could possibly go wrong?
+Fanus Obscurus By everything I imagine you mean the Trans-Newtonian elements?
+Kharmitas Which means that you better subscribe to quill if you want to be one of the 500 million to live!
If I weren't subscribed to Quill, how the heck would I even know this video existed?
And I thought learning EU4 and DF was worthy of being proud.
Shit son, Aurora showed me whats what =(
Aurora and HoI3 m8
+Baleur DF? Sure. EU4 is a super casual game though.
+Juan Pereira super casual? really? by like 99% of peoples standards I don't think so, if you're like an expert at spreadsheet like games like this one, then sure, but people like that are few and far between.
actually, EU4 is kinda casual for its, genre... I mean compared to others
I wouldn't say casual. Accessible is closer to the mark. It doesn't obscure its mechanics behind awkward user interfaces - which games like DF tend to do (although they're not bad games)
1:53 Ah yes, all three hundred thousand of us. :p
+Noyoki With Loler1565 on his side it is very possible
+Noyoki For the Force is strong with us!
+_CoYoTe_ And then we would Vassalize him and make him our grand Strategist to utilize the vast stores of luck we have accumulated long before 2018.
+_CoYoTe_ but what about those that are on both sides?? I believe we can diplomatically bring in Arumba as a coalition government head by Quill18 and with Arumba being the sneaky spy master.
+Nicholas Roberts Hmm... you have a point there. Northernlion will be in charge of Domestic Security, Arumba the master Strategist/Admiral, Quill18 as Emperor... hm... what other youtubers and positions shall we fill? :D
HOLY [CENSORED] [CENSORED] [CENSORED] [CENSORED] [CENSORED] Quill is playing Aurora. I'm so pumped.
This is the 3rd Aurora 4x series I've tried to watch. So far from this video you explain this more clear and straight to the point than the other series I've looked at. Thanks, now I'm creating my own empire as I follow along your series.
Soon there will be no person alive that set foot on our moon, leaving humanity once again entirely stranded on this tiny blue pearl, marooned in a galaxy unaware of our existence. It's a disgrace and I really want to see that change in my lifetime. Hail Quillonia! Hail Space Emperor Quill!
covid has me watching a 4 year old lp series
I felt that hard.
better than being sniffed by Joe Biden again
Oh god yes.
8:40 "Its not pretty."
That's because its beautiful. Endless opportunity brings tears to my eyes.
+Kuran Nasir Total victory of function over form. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
The Empire? NAY! The Quilitary!
+TheMan83554 Aaron Stow shall take over! I hope we're referencing the same thing!
The Sponge Monkey Yes! Haha!
+TheMan83554 Quill prevails when the strong survive!
Damien Donahue *proceeds to try to kill all the strong people*
I just realized Quill has almost 300k subscribers. That's weird to me, because I subscribed when he had like 4k. I didn't realize how quickly his channel has exploded.
Finally someone does an Aurora playthrough!! I am so happy its you quill because you are entertaining as well as informative!
Ok, I'm hooked. This brings back memories of playing Sid Miere's Railroad Tycoon and Excel spreadsheets. Bring on the next episode Quill. Great recommendation.
This is an excellent series, oh great Emperor Quill :P. Seriously, very educational and well made; I'm 7 episodes in and already feel like I'm getting a hang of the menus and some of the fundamentals for the early game.
I'll probably leave more comments here and there; thank you again for this public service!
To paraphrase a german review for this game:
Like most 4x games Aurora 4x is nothing more than a bunch of spreadsheets with improved optics. Aurora however skips the improving part and instead adds even more spreadsheets. The advantage of that is that your boss won't notice you're actually playing a game instead of working.
You ever get shivers when you see the next great game in your life? KSP, Arma, Dwarf Fortress, and now Aurora. Like this series!
The Endless Space soundtrack in the background is amazing! Love that kind of ambient space music.
So excited, I love this game and have been hoping for a play through of this. Good luck on your galactic expansion.
I have been looking for a game like this for a while. I am so excited for this series!
This is brilliant. Like seriously. I hope you post videos in this series quickly! :)
So cool on seeing this, cause I didn't know it existed.
@quill18 This is one of my favorite playthroughs of yours, if you have the energy and the interest another partially roleplaying playthrough of this would be truly awesome!
Gratz on making videos of THAT game, that's why I still come back to your channel :)
Awesome! I love Aurora and the stories it generates!
Honestly, Quill, with all the immensely detailed strategy games you play, I for one welcome you as our new overlord. You're probably good at it. Probably.
You enjoyed that opening speech WAY too much! I could actually hear you grinning from ear to ear! :D
Thank you so much for doing this series Quill! I love this game and I can't wait to watch you play through :)
Need MOAR!!! ALREADYY ADDICTED TO THIS SERIES
I've been waiting for a decent lp of this for years. Nice.
"The numbers Mason, what do they mean?"
Had this sitting on my HD for quite some time and never got into it. Thanks Quill for doing a play through.
totally happy whenever you have a new game to show us, Quillsie :D
Ohboy, this is the olden days.
Well, I have been watching you longer than this, but still hella throwback.
The depth of detail in this game seems Mind Blowing!
Cheers, Ivan :D
This will keep me checking in on your channel for many weeks to come.
Wow I did not expect to see you play this, super excited!
...Is that Endless Space music?
Sounds like it
+jpz719 No, It is Darude Sandstorm...
yeah, it is.
+jpz719 Its in the description. game has no music.
Description: Music from Endless Space used with permission.
Awesome, hope this becomes a fully-fledged series!
Hey quill, if you are reading this I just discovered your channel, and I love it! High quality stuff man.
Quill, good luck with this one. This game is the beast of 4x games.
Love the endless space music quill you brought me to your channel again :).
Military academy will be done in May 2020... I’m watching in April of 2020... hey that means I can sign up for the space navy next month! SIGN ME UP.
been playing this game for past 6 months and I still basically know very little but I really enjoy it, I found out about it on the dwarf fortress forums. I love starting out pre-warp.
I could go berserk on you like most kids my age would, but just for the fact that I am mentally ill, I will calmly let you know that it is not pre-warp it is pre-wormhole. (my age=10-15 as I am using it in this comment).
About 3 years ago, your Victoria 2 Let's Play as Japan got me into GSG. Looking forward to finally really getting into Aurora thanks to this :) Hopefully it gets the views to keep it going.
I am beyond happy that you're playing this!
I can't thank you enough for playing aurora. I've only read one or two AAR's about it (could not get the hang of it myself)
Wow, I'm super pumped for this series now! I can't wait to see Quill's Imperium of man in its prime. :D
Probably the coolest yet most complicated game I've ever heard of.
I am really glad you pulled this game out to play, I had totally forgotten that it existed... I was around in the early days of its development. There is a pen and paper wargame called Starfire, which the developer of Aurora was once really involved in. But due to... politics, he left the fold and Aurora was the result of that move on his part. For a while I followed this game quite a bit, but eventually kind of forgot about it... now I am going to see what the result of the development was. I am excited! :)
thank you so much for this series, you are the best!
great series looking forward to more! love the length as well
Please make a full LP of this, the game is really in need of more coverage.
References to this game in recent streams sent me here.
I am soooo sold on this game.
Had a big smile in my face while installing, seeing 'stellardrone' tracks being used as background music :)
The Endless Space Soundtrack works well with this game, lovin it!
You had me at, "Game that hates the user"
Not heard of this one before - this should be interesting! Keep it up Quill!
This seems like a very interesting let's play. I can't wait for the next episode!
Whaaa!? stoked you're playing this!
Quill, the Japanese and the Europeans did their first moon landings in the 1990s
+Alam Unmanned probes don't count.
+quill18 I concede
+Logical Phallusy The Communist Gangster AI Overlord has been there since the 50's ;P
+quill18 We all know that Nazi's have a base on the dark side of the moon.
+Alam Sir I solute you for your honorable quit from battle on the Internet space. You will be remembered Alam.
26:28 THAT VOICE CRACK IS SO EPIC
Finally something new on your channel! :D
I am so excited to see this pan out
holy shit aurora plus quill. i might be the happiest person on earth right now
I cannot believe that Quill decided to play Aurora on youtube. Such a fantastic game. :)
Btw, if You want to avoid some problematic stuff with installing and running Aurora (for example the decimal thing) just download portable install. It help at least me.
Damn, finally!
This is going to be great!
Loved that scrolling intro!
it's cool to think space and galaxies exist. this feels like a fantasy game :D i love it
Man, I'm really looking forward to this lets play. Quill have you ever thought of taking votes for a let's play from your subscribers to vote on how you play? kinda like you have a "court" that attempt to guide the mighty emperor quill on his mission to explore the universe (using a straw poll or something)? I know a lot trolls would be out there but I feel like most people that would watch this would be into it and you are emperor after all, your final word is law !
Thank you for playing this game.
Hail Quill18! Our savior and soul source of guidance.
Awesome, thanks Quill!
2:40 OH MY GOSH DAT PLOTTWIST!!!
Better twist than the one in episode 7, when Han Sol-arghh *cough* - ok. Won't spoil you.
(I didn't know the game..but it looks great!).
Woo! Been wanting to see someone do a play of this game :D
I wouldn't call this more complex than dwarf fortress as dorf fort has a lot going on under the hood. This just has more stuff for you to do in order to accomplish anything. Plus the visual appeal of accounting software, and the speed of a snail once the game gets rolling.
+Justicar DF has a lot of completely superfluous and un-needed stuff going on under the hood. So does this game,
Superfluous? Like what? Personalities, world history, teeth physics for a recently exploded head?
Aurora doesn't have much of anything that goes on behind the scenes. NPR AI woefully simple and do not have to follow near the same rules as the player. And any other things that could be going on is just math. From sensors to fighting, everything else is just numbers plugged into formulas.
Don't get me wrong, I love Aurora. I just don't agree with the "its complex" statement.
Maybe to a beginner, but a cursory glance at the wiki and you find out its all a bunch of spreadsheets and numbers.
Keep up the good work from Australia
This melts my brain.
QUILL, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? I can't even right now! dangit, I don't have time to sacrifice for this game! I require more! LOUD NOISES!
This seems rather interesting, im gonna try it out and look forward to your play through +quill18
Omg he is actually playing this... Hell yes.
ALL HAIL THE GOD EMPORER OF MANKIND QUILL!
+Furious Ape
The Quill protects!
+Vojtěch “Mortis” Ptáček In Quill we trust! Hail!
Great stuff, keep it coming.
If theres only one dude who made this entire game...kudos, hats off and bow in the dust. Fakking hell.
I, for one, welcome our new overlord.
El Presidente Quill will lead us to glory!
Woah, hold up. We have _Neutronium_? I mean, I know he said physics-defying, but DAMN.
+WrathOfMega That would be *really* weird. Imagine a purely negative element!
Npgabriel I was more talking about how Neutronium is a thing and the idea of it existing on Earth is... Interesting...
WrathOfMega I know, I was commenting on how Neutronium would be purely negative. As far as I know, its not a thing, at least not yet. However, it would be interesting.
Call me an idiot, but what is nuetronium?
+Colton Wilson yer an idiot. that being said, what IS neutronium?
:)
thanks Quill18 for playing this game
Wow this looks awesome!!! Totally trying it out.
That intro though! Nice work
I am happy to watch Quill play this, because I don't think I could make it past 5 minutes haha
OMG, quill playing Aurora. 2016 looks promising already.
I love 4x games but have never heard of this one. I look through steam to see if there are any new good ones but there doesnt seem to be much. This one looks promising, I will keep watching!
I thought this was stellaris for a moment and was freaking out
yay quill leader of the world !!!!!