Terra Invicta - Beginner's Guide/Getting Started
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ABOUT THIS GAME
An extraterrestrial probe is detected approaching Earth. Unknown to humanity, an alien force has arrived in the far reaches of the icy Kuiper Belt and has begun mining a dwarf planet to prepare for an invasion.
With Earth’s nations unable to unite to address the alien arrival, transnational groups of like-minded political, military and scientific leaders develop covert channels to coordinate a response. With the aliens' motives uncertain, factions emerge, driven by hope, fear or greed.
You will control one of these factions.
The Resistance works to form an alliance of nations to mount a coordinated defense
Humanity First vows to exterminate the aliens alongside any who sympathize with them
The Servants worship the aliens and believe they will solve all the troubles of the world
The Protectorate advocates negotiated surrender as the only means to avoid annihilation
The Academy hopes the alien arrival heralds the opportunity to form an interstellar alliance
The Initiative seeks to profit from the chaos and destruction
Project Exodus plans to build a massive starship and flee the Solar System
Gameplay
From the creators of Long War, Terra Invicta bridges the gap between civilization on Earth and the vast interstellar empires of other space strategy games. Gain command over Earth's nations and take humanity’s first steps in colonizing our Solar System where over 300 asteroids, moons and planets in constant motion create an ever-changing strategic map.
You begin on Earth as the head of a shadowy organization competing with other factions for control points representing a region's military, economic and political leadership. Geopolitics is your sandbox, and you may unite or break apart nations as best serves your ends, while using those under your influence to conduct proxy wars against the other six factions.
Factions work through a council of politicians, scientists and operatives whose abilities can be enhanced by obtaining influence over organizations like intelligence agencies or powerful corporations.
Terra Invicta has a global research system that creates opportunities for both competition and cooperation. Shared scientific advancement unlocks private engineering projects. Factions can choose to focus on private projects, at the cost of weakening Earth as a whole and ceding influence over global research direction to other factions with different priorities.
The other six human factions are not your sole competition. Throughout the game, illustrated events will present you with difficult choices as you investigate growing alien activity on Earth.
You cannot remain on Earth alone, and space launch facilities are of vital strategic importance.
Your conflict with the other factions will extend to space, where you will compete to mine asteroids and construct bases on planets and moons throughout the Solar System.
Stations built deep in space can refuel your ships, while those closer to home can serve as research or construction facilities.
Spaceship design in Terra Invicta draws from the best of scientific speculation and hard science fiction. You can design your own ships, selecting from an array of weapons, drives and radiators to place on a variety of hulls.
Tactical combat is built around a realistic simulation of Newtonian physics, where momentum and maneuver in 3D space are just as important as the firepower your ships carry.
Mods
Terra Invicta is built with modding support in mind, and much of the game is accessible to modders without a coding background. We hope that the Solar System setting and geopolitics simulation will provide a useful framework for modders to realize their own creative visions. - เกม
8:55 Actual start of the guide - Ressources
15:45 Map modes
16:18 Council and agents
17:36 Nation tab
18:38 Habitats and fleet
19:13 Tech
23:18 Intel tab
24:45 Countries tab
29:28 Countries armies
31:13 Assuming control over a country
Actual start of how to play
34:07 Tech
38:52 Taking control over nations
40:34 Who to recruit as a new agent?
47:38 Agents assignments
ty sir. So tired of "herp a derp, welcome to my video in which I explain what I wrote in the title"
@@newguy3588 He was giving background you twat.
Thanks
53:23 - Finland giving you boost, cause they are part of Europe, and getting boost from it.
This feels like the game I've been waiting for ever since watching The Expanse
I'm still hoping one day The Expanse goes full circle and gets the MMORPG that the story was originally written for.
The councilor cost (30/60) is based on whether they match your factions ideology or not. An executive is ideologically opposed to the resistance, so costs 60, while an activist is ideologically matching, so costs 30. Also the countries you control affects who you see, to at least a small degree I believe. Once I controlled the USA I started getting Evangelists as an option :P
1 item I don't think was mentioned, is I believe I saw in an ingame hint or from another stream - if you don't invest research in one of the overall tech paths it will take longer for your faction projects to pop up. Like, if you don't put any research into space mining, the space mining complex project will take longer to appear as an option. Which can be a big problem if you were trying to jumpstart space mining quick.
It is more accurate to say that you need tech from the above row unlocked in order to open up tech on the bottom row. So "putting points in" indirectly affects your own choices.
@@JohnVanderbeck No, how much you put in determines fow quickly you'll get the research options. Even if you don't contribute any you'll still get it, just later than those that contributed.e
Thought there was supposed to be a bonus for spreading the research more, but apparently they were just considering it in the dev diary. Interesting bit, if you research multible projects from the same category you lose some of your research bonus. Only 1/10 of the total bonus so not much of a worry unless you're way behind on some category and would like to catch up.
Awesome quick rundown man, it’s a lot in this game so this definitely helped me get the gist.
Brilliant introduction. The game makes sense now. Good job!
One of the best guides I have watched so far. 👍 Sub gained.. 👍👍👍
This video was super helpful! Thank you
The beginning of my game is nothing like you describe
thanks for the indepth guide, its definitely helpful, after what i know now, ill try to apply my knowledge, its just a little overwhelming for me. A lot to look at and keep tabs on
Thanks, now I can start the game :)
Purchased the game today it was very over whelming but i want to learn it i like the idea of the game. Your beginner guide was a life saver thanks!
Rolling under your goal is not really weird. Many great table top games do this. Specially if they are rolling a 100 side dice. Aka percentage dice. Because your playing with a percent dice. It easier to say 1-x = pass. Then x-100 = pass. If you go with low rolls are better. I can just eye ball the roll and tell if I passed. While with higher rolls are good like in DnD. I have to do math and sit there thinking if X is in the pass area. For example if my chance to pass is 69. The low rolls it is easy to go 1-69 = pass. While on the higher rolls. I have to sit their and think for a second as I need to remember they need to roll 31-100 to pass.
So the rolling under your percent dice is not weird. It very smart as it just a simple way of doing percent dice rolls. You knowing what you need to pass and instantly telling if you have passed by looking.
Humanity First!
Destroy the xenos!
Suffer not the alien to live
E.D.F
@@seb-fluffysnowcap9530 nothing can withstand are fixed bayonets
We will fight to the last ship, the last bullet. Then we will fight with knives and teeth, we will not go away quietly into the night.
"you have to start with smaller countries first"
The academy taking all control points in Russia and France in two turns: No thanks
I mean it's not impossible with a high persuasion skill.
Academy also has an early bonus to publicc perception in the early game.
Seriously lol. My first game, the academy and servants seemed to have China, Russia, India and some European nations after about a month lol
Very helpful, thank you
Thank you so much!
This game doesn't have a Tech Tree.
It has a Tech FOREST!!!!
haha!
A dense tropical rainforest filled with dangers. Some have started scrolling and missed dinner.
Zoinks!
You will find the divisions are placed relatively accurately. 1st Armored Division is located about there. 3rd Infantry Division 'Rock of the Marne' is in Ga, and you'll find it in GA in the game (albeit more out towards Ft Benning when it is actually in Ft Stewart).
Thanks for this, the game is bombarding me with info! 🤣
Any chance of adding chapters for easy access?
Great video, watched it while making dinner and this clarified a lot and made me realize i should probably just restart my game because I did none of the things you said are important to do early. :D
Thanks
I've watched a few of these beginner guides now and yours was probably the most well presented
Thank you
The reason Finland was giving boost was due to their connection to the European Union
You can change the income display from daily to monthly in the settings.
This is basically like playing a governor in stellaris... Also, wiah they did tech like stellaris, and not that mess.
Command says it adds 1% not 1. So if you have ops you get 1% of x, x being their base after orgs.
The monthly boost income for Finland comes from its membership of the European union
Yes, that armored division was at Killeen aka ft Hood. That town is a cesspit sadly. Where a lot of people
Who moved into town for a military family and then got into trouble, drugs, guns, etc.
yep. My wife worked in Killeen for a few months....
Welp, this seems too complicated for me. Thanks for the vid xD
Can you put these episodes into a playlist?
Super video - good job - you explain the game very well - I have the game wished right now on Steam - For now am watching videos about the game - Got a few other games to finish 1st :) - New sub from me
It actually makes me sick that this doesn’t have more likes 😐
is hard to get likes in a 1hr video guide
I love it when he goes ah uuuugh, UUUUH, augh UUUUH ah, UGH. It's like we're hearing a brain seizure.
Literally excel sheet on steroids
If you turn councilor for bad guys you will be able to see what aliens are doing.
Comments on one-tenth of the way through my first play through:
- Randomly selected Project Exodus ('hey Siri, give me a random number between 1 and 7).
- Did the "Grand Strategy / Strategy / Tactics" routine at the start to determine what to focus on.
- Emphasized Science as I need to build a non-existing Space Ark.
- Picked up control points in a few countries (Cuba, Finland, Ireland, Venezuela, Mexico) while waiting on my Improve Popularity in the USA.
- USA has great Science, that's why I targeted it.
- Took a few years to take USA, the other smaller countries took a few weeks each.
- Spent about 3 hours offline in the Tech Tree to determine as Exodus to focus on Interstellar Launch Facility and thus Titanic Spacecraft (holy **** those are expensive).
- Enjoying the unknown of first play through: am I targeting the right projects? the right countries?
- Enjoying killing the Xenoflora that the Aliens are pooping onto Earth. Killing Xenoflora doesn't directly help me, but it's fun and it keeps some countries producing so that those factions can contribute to global science research.
- Interacting with the other factions is a bit fiddlely, requiring at least two steps (usually many more) of going through councilors, with no way to target which faction you want to talk to. Maybe move this option to Faction level? It can take years before you can trade with the faction you want to trade with. Not sure what they're trying to simulate here, or how this is fun gameplay.
Things I screwed up on:
- Missed the rush to the Moon by a few months. I waited after Mission to the Moon was finished for the game to tell me I could go to the moon. Turns out once the Moon is available, a button appears once you click on the Moon
- Missed the "Solar System" and "Country" information screens (or maybe those are not there at start?). So I didn't know how to send probes (hint - it's done in "Solar System"), didn't know how to find what countries I had control points in (hint - it's in "Country").
- Didn't focus on getting control of the Global Science Research early enough. It's VITAL to get control of this research direction so that you can pick the projects that get you to your Grand Strategy goal (in my case, Titanic Spaceships). I want the other factions to spend their Science helping me, not helping themselves.
I was planning a moon mission for a while and forgot for a few weeks after the moon mission tech was researched. Found my enemies already had bases set up, but thankfully _not_ in the pearl sea or crater or whatever. So I popped a probe and a base there. Supposedly it has 4 - 10 water, 0 - 4 volatiles and I think it said 2+ minerals. While everyone else landed in sparse areas.
So fat I managed to get U.S, Canada, Mexico, Pakistan, Iran, and Kazakhstan. And half of Japan. I lead the world in research by a wide margin. To the point where for a couple months there, I was able to divide my research into fourths for 3 main tech and 1 faction. And I watched as the two other factions apparently gave up researching global tech after I hit over 90% contributed in all 3. It ended up stalling global research for a bit 😂 because after getting over 50% of the total costs, I dumped almost all my research into faction projects and shit just wasn't getting funded lol.
Playing as the Resistance (XCOM) I'm fighting off large amounts of alien fauna in south America. But I still don't know what I'm doing 😂
Traits: Government - Ethical - Affluent
One of these things is not like the others...
God this game hurts my head
I got the alien crash in Chine on my first play through.
7:50 the placement of the military in Australia isn't correct when I played it. The bases should be up in Townsville or darwin or even pine gap.
My first game felt borked so i started again.
Started with the ISS which i thought was a boon.
But no councilors capable of protecting assets, cracking down, or purging for almost a year.
Tool control of Kazakhstan first, for their space program. Then i took Pakistan and Iran for their militaries, just incase i needed them.
Shortly after instarted grabbing up african nations for small research boosts and spoils. After a couple months i took spain and got started on their space program.
I felt brave another few months later, and poured 3 councilors out of my 5, into improving my relations with the U.S. didnt help all that much, so I pivoted to Canada. Managed to get pretty lucky and got Canada, then America followed suit. Then Mexico.
Same sort of strat, increase public relations, then sejd my highest PER stat guys in. With America's army and space program, i not longer had much need for my african or middle eastern nations and i abandoned most of them except Iran, Pakistan and Kazakhstan.
Spain stayed with me until i forgot about it. At some point their space program completed but by next year the Initiative took it from me.
Currently im fighting down in South America, trying to beat back the growing tide of alien fauna in Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and their neighbors.
I thought invading Venezuela would make it American territory, i was wrong it was just an expensive regime change.
Now im trying to research contact relations so i can unify the continents, but the fuckin servants are busy annexing everyone around Russia and i have no idea how they are doing that without the research.
This game doesnt explain its concepts very well, despite committing the gaming sin of frontloading its tutorial with bombarding text boxes. Which makes some of the things feel extremely bullshit to new players. How did i fail a roll with 98% success chance on a 99% roll? How does that make sense compared to rolls ive done with a 38% success chance and a 56% roll? These arent explained, and feel nonsensical. Pointing it out in discussions is met with ridicule by the players.
Or, why is The Servants able to annex territory without the global tech?
This is why im here lol. This playthrough seems super lucky and i would like to survive it
Does anyone have time stamps by any chance for the topics?
Spoils is actually how much the rich people get out of the country. Not how much your faction gets. It's used to balanced inequality and support for your faction
Zack Hype I'm unable to check right now. I thought Spoils clearly stated your faction gets cash when the meter is filled up. The downside to Spoils is it's wasted Priority but keeps the elite happy and therefore less risk of a coup.
for the imperium
This game- Early space age Stellaris.
I never know if I'm doing good when playing this game
This game really needs a simpler more standard UI or a real tutorial. It's bonkers that they thought a game this complicated should have a user interface that offers absolutely zero help to players. Wild.
@53:28 its because of the EU. the EU has a space program and any country that is part of the EU can use that space program or in the very least is funding it.
BTW France is the Current leader, not the permanent one, it's supposed to rotate between member states every few months. if its implemented in the game.
It's sadly not so you have to take France
@@ruukinen yeah... Found out that too. Kinda sucks. Also happens that unifying nations actually make you lose ressources.
Basically unifying all Europe into a single nations nets you mucb much less ressources than having all of them in a federation and sharing space ressources (and by a ton) and it's related to how each country has monthly points.
In my current game I unified soemthing like 6-7 and it really sucks. Good to keep control of the region because it's much harder for enemies agent to have successful actions but you lose so much. 6 nations Europe = 20 pts. Just Sweden alone has 10... 😭
Gets especially bad for boost research... 6 nations boost = 0.16-032 per 2 boost. Sweden gets an insured 0.16/2pts.
Makes way easier to have fully dedicated boost smaller regions to get a lot of it. Guess I fucked My stars dominations ambitions for this run.
@@jobslolo7387 It's also because when you consolidate you have a higher gdp. It gets more expensive the higher it is. To me it feels like it is worth consolidating because you get more for less actions since you only have to do some public campaigns and some defend interests every once a year or so.
Basically it costs less command cap and less actions so you can take other countries instead.
@@ruukinen I'm thinking about waiting until a region has space + about 3 fuel per year production before unifying. Then they should benefit from better military protection. And better spread around. Last game I lost because aliens basically fucked my very few space center with spam sabotage and then I was pretty much stuck and unable to do anything space related.
@@jobslolo7387 It helps to take their territory of them so they can't afford to do anything. But yeah it's hard if it gets to the point where you can't progress because they keep destroying everything you make.
Is it just me or did they scale down the United States to give the other countries a chance!😂
OK, it's an above average size tech tree but 'freaking gigantic'...?
53:20 they are getting boost from being part of the EU
When can we get the mod that converts Hearts of Iron saves to Terra invicta maps and then the mod that converts Terra invicta saves to Stellaris saves?…
…Never you say?…
Have faith!
Learn 2 code. The save converters were basically Python scripts originally that parsed save files and generated a mod.
i live near ft hood. its acurate
35:30 That is BAD advise. Influence is everything. And its hard to get at the beginning of the game.
yeah agreed, whats the point in increasing the cap if he isn't anywhere near it? The influence is already at the start of a game very valuable
Haven't played enough yet to agree on the influence scarcity, but definitely a bad plan to waste research on C3 when you're just starting. Maybe if you'd gotten up around 1/2-3/4 of the cap it'd be a good idea to boost it, but actual resources are more useful initially.
@@Ghrathryn I'd say it's a waste to research any of the repeatables unless you desperately need a resource NOW. Just start with putting everything into one of the global techs and then start researching your own engineering projects once you actually have something useful to tech.
Thank you very much! =))))))))))))
This game has at least 5 games in it!
Absolutely fantastic!
People keep saying this is like XCOM, but as far as I can see it looks much more like "Superpower" or "Power and revolution" or something.
XCOM was all about tactical turn-based battles.
This is real-time grand strategy, right?
XCOM influenced because it was made by the team behind the Long War mods on the latest XCOM games.
In terms of 'where it sits', probably the best place with other games that I've played is between Hearts of Iron and Stellaris though governments taking more of a back seat to global political factions that are responding to learning for a fact that we aren't alone in the galaxy in different ways.
@@Ghrathryn Yeah, I am aware that the devs were involved in the long war mod for XCOM.
But aside from the theme of an "alien invasion" on current-year Earth, the gameplay is completely different from XCOM as far as I can see.
Granted, I haven't played Terra Invicta yet, so maybe there is some tactical battle stuff in the late-game, but I haven't seen any in the YT vids I've seen about this game so far.
@@Antares2 It becomes slightly more like XCOM with space battles but even then it's more like that 40k game that is about space battles than XCOM.
@@ruukinen Ah, I understand. Thanks.
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Clearly its my love of delicious coffee!
January 8 2023. Watching these old TH-cams is amusing. They had no idea how Catastrophic things would happen. *Eats catfood with rusty knife* No idea...
I have been watching your playthrough which is great but I've had to stop because for spoiler reasons. Can you do a video with things you wish you had known?
Good idea. Although I probably will wait until I beat the game
man im became 80 before this guy actually started the damn guide
Essentially. Essentially. Essentially. Essentially.
hahaha, ok, this is absolutely nothing like X-COM. Feels a lot more like Crusader Kings or Hearts Of Iron.
And stellaris when you go to space.
Damn they even have Russia invading Ukraine
Your moving the mouse around like a spaztic jumpy-bug makes your tutorial nearly impossible to follow.
too much unnecessary talking for intro if its a beginners guide or a getting started guide
Essentially, essentially, essentially, essentially, essentially. Mix it up a bit.
Great guide, but there's nothing more annoying than someone who stops mid sentence to swallow their spit every 4 minutes.
Apart from people who point that out....😅
Bla...bla...
nobody knows what the fuck xcom is. how about using a reference people actually can relate to. #tips