I'm pinning this all these months later because I still get a few comments a day asking the question: Why do all your incomes shoot up between episodes? The answer is they don't - I just switch from daily to monthly incomes. It's an option you can access in the options menu.
The Devs should add a way to "mark" tech as 'future want' (green) or 'ignore' (red), so when you're scrolling through, you don't have to check you've gone a different route every time.
They should make text bigger as for me, it's impossible to read it as it's so small. Would love to play this game, but i simply can't see what im reading.
Rather than picking a fight with the Resistance in North America or Europe, you should probably take the Mideast (appears to be entirely Servants/Protectorate?) and unify them into the Caliphate or whatever other meganation they have available.
The Caliphate also has a further evolution into The Greater Caliphate, which spreads into South East Asia and includes Malaysia and Indonesia. Or the House of Islam which goes into Africa.
The caliphate has the potential to be an a powerful country, but is extremely expensive to form at a cost of 35000 research on top of the great nations 35000 research. I don't think it would be a wise investment.
Perhaps the developers should make that accident that happened to the aliens (in the alternate universe) ALWAYS happen, when you play as the servants. Perhaps it would make them less easy to play. Just a thought. Excellent series btw.
Kamya was celebrating. The team always had fun when they got together, which was getting rarer. 11 years in Tomi was never on Earth, even when she was. Max was too busy and also a little cold and scary. Vinsinar and Nero were good mates though - always game and unfailing cheerful. Sahiba heaped loving toleration and made a terrific grump for their jet setting "family game nights" - a kind of running 80-days-around-the-world race to the humanity's landmarks. They had been partying in the streets of Islamabad all night. Reunification, with Kamya as the mouthpiece. She never would have believed it a decade ago. Back then she was a TikTok star, or rather a "star" of modest following with a strong chauvinist outlook. When President Modhi renamed the national party India First, she supported the move. And found herself with a mysterious influx of followers. She started speaking out against the aliens more than she did foreigners, and found herself with still larger audiences for anything she had to say. Eventually a man named Castillo came to India to meet with her. Sahiba had introduced them. Castillo sheepishly told her that he liked her videos. He tried hard to smile, his leather-worn face cracking with effort. Later Max would tell Kamya that he warmed up to her more than anyone, because he would never have to send Kamya to die in battle. Eventually Sahiba suggested she go to the test matches and wear Pakistan's colors. Vinsinar, a cricket maniac who didn't need to be asked, piloted her around the Indian ocean on his jet. Then Sahiba introduced Kamya to some popular Instagram models in Pakistan. Then she suggested Kamya say that Pakistan First and India First were merging into a new world party called Humanity First. And if you thought about it too hard (which Kamya made sure not to do) it didn't make sense. Why would a series of national populist fronts start preaching unity and toleration? But that didn't matter, because you didn't need to think hard. You needed to look at the humans around you. It made perfect sense to them - to the cheering millions who saluted a new flag as it rose over Islamabad. Only Sahiba was still awake, bleary-eyed and nearly inchoate from exhaustion and drink. Vinsinar and Nero were collapsed in a heap on the couch, their normally smart suits wrinkled and unbuttoned. Even Max had stopped by, though he left early to "deal with something." With one hand Kamya raised a glass over her balcony, filming it with an iPhone in the other. "To reunification!" Her phone would buzz and glow for a week.
I would call the sorts of ships that only stay in one gravity-well and protect that body a “picket”. Some variety in how that word is used, but in naval parlance is generally means small ships attached to singular ports for defense.
I made the mistake of trying to coup servant controlled india 6 times in a row (had good opportunity at 20%). Didnt realize the aliens weren't a fan. Lost all my LEO stations nearly immediately XD
if you play servants the aliens will pretty much always end up giving you all the India control points for free once you control the third point (religion) investments in unity give public opinion and it becomes impossible to drop below 90%
yea i nuked one of the Alien controlled territory since they had like 6 alien armies there, i lost everything in LEO and as "revenge" i might have nuked the whole planet lmfao so my first "playthrough" didnt go too well
Japan in my game became Servant controlled and started declaring wars on very small nations. I tried causing unrest there with the eventual goal of couping it but it felt like for every step forward I took 2 steps back. i finally decided to try and kidnap the councilor who was decreasing unrest. I crit failed and my best councilor died. :( So in response I replaced them with the most corrupt, criminal, sadistic Nigerian warlord I could find, stacked him to 25 espionage and went alien hunting. I absolutely adore this game.
I think it's worth noting that fission has some excellent engines. According to a chart posted on reddit recently, one of the best spacecraft engines in the entire game, and by far the highest thrust (at least, without protium fusion) is under Advanced Fission systems, the terrifying sounding Neutron Flux Torch.
I gotta imagine there's an event if you're stupid (or desperate enough) to use that drive around Earth (or even a colony). That's the drive for the nuclear salt water reactor. For those that don't know what the NSWR is, you know the fission pulse drives Perun researched in the demo? Someone took a look at that and said "Blowing up a nuclear bomb out back every few seconds? That's a silly way to do things. You get MUCH faster speeds just having a constant nuclear explosion fire out the back." Be sure to not confuse this with the drives which have a normal reactor core and then eject some fissile byproducts to generate thrust. Which is still bad, just not constant nuclear explosion bad. Or the current ones he's using which just heat up some hydrogen propellant. On a logistical note, the Neutron Flux Torch also requires fissiles as its propellant and they're sometimes a bit hard to come by.
@@AgaresOaks it may require fissiles, but at ~4500 kps exhaust velocity that doesn't worry me as much as it could. You can get 1000 kps deltaV, enough to completely run rings around the aliens, with only 20% of your ships mass as fuel.
@@QuantumShenna Note that just looking at the exhaust velocity and thrust doesn't tell the whole story. Drives in the mid and late game typically have one (or more) of the following problems. Large reactor size, rare propellant, rare reactor materials, end of a long research line, or too much waste heat. Fission is a mix of the first two. Antimatter is a bit of research and a bit of rare materials (or a LOT of rare materials if you're trying to use a Pion Drive). Fusion is mostly research and heat management (a LOT of heat management issues early on) and a little reactor size. Also, there's some kind of hidden variable multiplier determining the combat acceleration because the listed values are definitely for the cruise acceleration if you math it out. And it's REALLY easy to cap out your combat acceleration later on. Normal NERVA has a 20x multiplier. The advanced pulsar drive has a 40x multiplier to its combat acceleration. Antimatter drives have a 60x multiplier from what I can see. Chemical rockets don't have a multiplier.
Capturing an alien gave me two pip on the hate meter. Just an FYI that you might want some defensive fleets around mercury and mars before you try that since that might put you to getting attacked.
I like the flavour text, how Castillo calls scientists egg-heads and personally keeps hold of the detonator. Like they could have just had a copy pasted message for completing the containment tech but it's nice to have the added flair.
I think it's almost in character with a French Resistance style organization for you to completely backstab and screw over the people who share basically all of your goals.
As a leftist, I can say this is pretty normal for leftists in general, not just anti-fascists. Especially when you get into authoritarianism vs anarchism.
The trade off between thrust and Exhaust velocity is a thing in RL. Normally for the same amount of energy you can either throw MORE mass out the back getting greater thrust or throw less out but throw it QUICKLY making you have more Delta-V/Range. Systems like NERVA, Fusion etc side step these issues by providing... more power by using nuclear power over chemical reactions. (Atomic Rockets is a great resource if you ever want to learn about this all without browsing NASA papers)
When you do a cut while you look through the tech tree or your options for global influence, please tell us what you went for after the cut. I want to know dammit 😅
Personally, I’d like to see you play as the Academy. Imagine instead of slaughtering the Aliens you just convince them with facts and logic to stop! Ya know like: “You guys are people, we’re people, you have weapons, we have way more, you have parasitic snot , we figured out a cure for it. Let’s be friends! Unless you’d prefer to negotiate with HF…”
The Academy is definitely my favorite faction. They're the most reasonable of all of them. We want to remain independent and let's work together. It's the hardest because doing the right thing is generally not easy. I also grew up on Star Trek, so working together with aliens is absolutely normal for me.
@@jackskellingtonsora I only recently got into Star Trek, but their ideas resonate with me immensely. It is honestly interesting how this show was made in United States, which is know to not tolerating anything different, as CIA proved decades ago.
@@danilooliveira6580 Honestly, that’s what makes them fascinating to me. On one hand, they’re not sure the Hydras *can* be reasoned with. On the other hand… they feel compelled to try. They strike me as a very deontological faction. Driven by a sense of duty to their fellow man and their fellow sapients. Sometimes this makes things very hard for them.
I was just waiting for a new video, and lo and behold, here I find it! Thanks for showing off this game! Btw, are you going to be migrating your Dominion 5 videos to this channel anytime soon? I originally found you that way, so I want to know if that's the case.
I'd love if the game allowed for tech to be marked with 'ignore'. If you decide to say go fusion it would be nice to not see all the fission and antimatter in the list.
I have no idea what's going on with most of this game's systems - it's way too complicated for my soft brain - but it is super interesting and fun to watch you play
I just got done watching your last vid and the one on the implications of russian mobilization, perfectly timed upload just as I was looking for something else to watch! I'm really liking the play by play, I'm planning to grab the game soon and seeing how this plays out is really helpful.
40:45 God, it's so refreshing to see a game that actually has the AI play by the same rules as you instead of having them be scripted and/or cheat. I know it's easier to make the AI a challenge by just letting them cheat and giving them more resources than the player, but I also think that's very lazy; rather than make the AI better at the game, you give them a crutch which allows them to brute force things but which means that their actual skill is low. Looking at you Stellaris, looking at you Sword of the Stars. So a game where the developers went through the effort of actually making the AI good at the game and having them play the same game you do makes me very happy.
Watching you design the ship reminds me a little of Delta-V : Rings of Saturn. Light up that sunshard baby, we're going to be turning some Alien ships into Alien scrap!
I’m curious how you would prevent the aliens from just declining engagement with your picket and wandering past them to bomb stuff. I look forward to the real space naval engagements.
His demo playthrough made it clear that at minimum the first engagement will probably be willing because the hydras will underestimate your fighting strength based on raw numbers not reflected by missile spam. I think any further engagements would require you to know their target and sit your fleet too close for them to ignore, since they have the delta v and acceleration to just avoid unwanted confrontations.
My first naval engagement was basically my five ships slowly moving in a straight line and the alien ships just moving straight into a wall of missiles. Still lose two ships thought…
initially you draw them in with massively inferior combat power. later you defend what they what to kill. once that stops working life is rough and you need to look at being able to catch them through tech or ping pong tactics
"If you always wait for the next shiny new tech that comes out you're never going to make anything." I actually remarked how much I enjoyed Terra Invicta because of how well it modeled real life space exploration. E.g., by the time you've finished producing something to explore it, its now been made redundant by technological development.
LOL "Adamantane armor." Adamantane is a real compound with the same shape as diamond... except adamantane's units are not arranged into a bonded crystal lattice. It is an extremely weak and brittle solid as a result. Adamantane's current use is as a chemical precursor to drugs like memantine that share its structure. Adamantane has been proposed as a _propellant_ in Hall-effect thrusters, though.
Its extremely cool that the Alien faction, while obviously not 1:1 balanced with Earth (because they operate on entirely different technology), are still constrained by realistic limits of resource acquisition and construction times. That said, in terms of using the word "realistic", its not very realistic that the first alien race we encounter would be one that is so close to us in technology, and of such limited industrial output that they're even able to be countered at all. A real encounter with a real interstellar civilization, would look more like 50 million ships descending from the Kuiper belt. Not 1 ship deploying 1 base that constructs 4 scout transports per month. But of course, if the game was "realistic" in the sense of incomprehensible scales of interstellar civilizations, there wouldnt be much of a game to play, because there'd be no chance to get past turn 2 and live xD Unless they werent hostile, at which point again, there wouldnt be much game to play. But its just an interesting thing to keep in mind during gameplay. Basically in the ingame lore, Earth is unbelievably lucky to have met such a backwards starved alien civilization that barely has any more resources than Earth itself.
For ship design are you able to install 1 or 2 of the more advanced chemical engines then reserve them for exclusively for combat action maneuvers? I feel like have a good flank speed could really matter even in the early game.
I'd buy now. It's unlikely to ever go on sale again for months if not years. That said, it IS still EA and rough around the edges, so wait until there are 1-2 months worth of guides and balance patches before actually playing.
This is totally unrelated to the game, but you actually radiate heat at the same rate in atmosphere as you do in vacuum. The difference is that you can’t lose heat by convection and conduction. Different processes, but still very interesting if you dive into the math of it! Excellent videos, I’m loving the series and learning a lot about how to play!
So I have no idea how common this is, but on my first playthrough, which I felt good about having watched your entire demo series and the first 5 episodes of your humanity first series, I grabbed the US like your US strategy. Anyway, I'm in the year 2024 and am colonizing mars still, but the aliens have bases all over the solar system already including on Mercury. Seemed to be really fast for that???
The problem with only taking the engine you want out of the current 'level' is that currently there's know good way to know what engine leads to what without researching them. I suppose eventually a good wiki will go up with fleshed out stats and connections, but I'm currently researching engines I'm not sure if I'm going to use half the time just to see if they unlock a better engine I might actually use because I'm not sure what's superior to what nor what leads to what without actually unlocking them to get my hands on their stats.
A very great madlad on the Terra Invicta Subredddit made a gigantic graph with all engines and their stats, maybe you should give it a look and then look at the tech tree to have some idea of what do you want!
I built as my first ship a monitor with 6 pulsar drives and 10.1 Kps with really heavy nose armor. They were a death trap. I’m currently researching nanotube radiators and armor but the aliens have decided to wipeout my space presence in the entire solar system, I’ve been killing every freaking alien, Hydra or fauna, to my heart content. I forgot about the alien threat level. My poor space pioneers 😢
Would be interesting for a video on fleet formations, and how to maneuver so get the best over lapping coverage of PD. I have been experimenting with pairing ships, so any main ship has a Point defense ship that has light lasers, PD lasers and fast fragmentation missiles, all set on defense only. That gives three ranges of interception fire. Putting out a cloud of anti-missile missiles ala Auroa 4x seems to help, before th e light lasers then the PD kick in, and ideally multiple ships can cover each other. Just struggling to evade and keep everyone in the other's defensive spheres
5:10 I really like how this game makes you weigh options. There's no one clearly correct path. Keep your allies strong and they'll fight for things you care about. Go it alone and you might fail.
Interesting you were using the copperhead missiles, the vipers seem better to me than copperhead and oyu have them researchable, but maybe I am missing something. It is not clear to me what the damage vs armor stat does for example
I've been following the series through with my own playthrough after buying the game and I still do not understand how you have such a massive research speed XD
If the aliens have events and economies of their own it would be interesting to see a reverse campaign, you play the aliens. Or even multiplayer with the role of aliens going to the most experienced player
Just finished watching all these episodes, it's nice to see a letsplay of this game where the player knows what the heck they are doing lol. I was just wondering if you are ignoring the moons of Mars on purpose? Are they bad or something? Thanks and keep up the good work!
A gamey strat you can do to bait the aliens to fight you is to lower your fleet's kps to barely enough get back to station. Your fleet power lowers immensely, but your weapons fire all the same. You can get the aliens to fly into a 400-500 power fleet that is more than enough to fight off 2k worth of aliens. Kps impacts fleet power stats way more than it should and the aliens basically determine if their fleet should take a fight or not while at war by comparing fleet powers to one another rather than tonnage or weaponry.
I think it has changed to showing the annual production. He had 76.6 science production at the end of the last episode, which ended mid december. No way it jumped to 2,4k in a month. 76,6 x 365 would be 2,7k, so in the right ball park.
For anyone looking to steal the space stations of other factions, I've noticed they tend to outfit their early game ships with ~9.5 dV. You'll get stuck in a perma loop of fleet evasion if you have less than 9.5 dV yourself, so plan accordingly. After the battle it's simply a matter of spamming assault base until it succeeds or your run out of marine charges. 4 attempts is usually enough
Thanks for the videos i learned a lot of them so far. Still one thing i am still super curious of: last video you ended at around 16.Dezember.2028 with 76.6 research. This follow up video starts a month later (16 january.2028) and here it shows you have 2.4k research. What happened here ?
I'm in favor of the formation of any mega state. People have already talked The Caliphate in the Middle East (I would also add The Shia Nation). I think pick a fight with the Resistance on Earth is strategically sound and should be done but in a limited capacity such as taking that Eurasian control point from them. Then take either Canada, Pakistan, or Uzbekistan. (Also some I saw that may nullify a target is Slovakia. Slovakia under Project Exodus and Resistance control; the former could be planning to integrating Slovakia into the EU.) I think you should also do a video on all of the different nation that can be formed; like go through the techs that deal with forming and breaking nations. I also want to how many nation tags there are for the game.
@@PerunGamingAU should we gift it to our allies for them to go cause trouble for the xenos or does that innevitably backfire and end up with way too much death in space?
Some of the spaceship stuff seems to be handled weirdly. Like how all ships seems to have variable thrust. Reducing thrust without reducing power gets you higher isp for better dv during transits (which is not something that happens in game), but reducing power to get lower thrusts with same isp rarely makes sense and those few scenarios in which it does, don't seem to be modeled in game. One would be to reduce acceleration to human tolerable levels for longer periods of time(which is irrelevant if your max acceleration is >1g), other would be to reduce radiation from rocket in some overcomplicated scheme to save on radiation shield mass. Propelant seems to be volumeless, which is a massive loss of oppurtunity to balance armor mass, crosssection and isp (ex. hydrogen will give you higher isp than water but has significantly lower density, which in the end means that in some situations it might be better to to use latter). Obvious things which are also missing are staging, different thrusters for combat/transit and variable isp thrusters which work as intended. I could go on and on, but presumably devs and community are aware of this and it will be fixed as game gets developed.
One question I wondered, We can see the Earth rotate, but do all the bodies in the solar system rotate around the sun properly? So that dV amounts to get to, for instance Mars, varies whether planets are aligned for efficient transfers or not.
They do. Different celestial bodies have different insertion windows etc. It's very possible to save money, boost and time by waiting to send stuff to Ceres, for example, until the orbits are right.
Are you always kind of tied to Earth or can you actually disappear out into the solar system once your holdings are suitably developed and just kind of leave the other factions to squabble over Earth?
@@PerunGamingAU Ah so previously you had no councilor with the inspire mission, which is why you had to tolerate the traitor for so long. Makes sense, thanks for explaining.
I'm sure your busy but guides would be immensely helpful after a few tutorials into space as the resistance I can't tell my foot from my ass in this game. The early game is something you can limp through. Space not so much, too many decisions which is overwhelming. My assumption currently is much of tech or decisions is for roleplay and not per se rivaling the alien threat properly.
I have researched the items that should open up "Pulsar Drive" but it doesn't show up in the options of what to research. I don't understand. Is it related to the total amount of research done to open up the next level of things?
I think you should start a temporary fight with the Resistance to secure some strategic regions, before buttering them up to make peace again at some point after. OR make a move on Project Exodus if there is something good to take from them.
When you can, as I understand you have a very busy schedule, please do a tutorial on Tech in this game. It's currently my biggest barrier to picking this up, and it sounds like it isn't intuitive what one should be prioritizing, as it seems to change based on faction, space industrialization strategy, ect.,
Yes the tech tree is pretty bad, people try to defend it by saying the search function can be used to find out what techs do, but it's so unintuitive and without foresight you don't even know what future unlockables even are let alone what 3+ techs you need to get them available to research.
@@whoknows8264 At this point, having watched further ahead, I'd say its the weakest part of the game. The techs themselves are fine, but the tech tree is so unusable at this point that it probably needs a total UI overhaul to be remotely usable without already knowing what you're searching for, or having some kind of tutorial provide by Perun or similar.
@@88Factor Check out u/questionablecounsel on the subreddit they're making a guide to the game including a rough list of techs to rush and why. Also the game is pretty easy to mod, so if you wanted to rush through the tech tree as a learning experience you could give yourself unlimited research points to save yourself a wasted playthrough.
Great video, I love learning more of the game from you. Right now I'm trying to do a Eurasian strategy with the EU and China. The aim is to go for greater EU and to get China by Taiwan. Taiwan has 9 gov. You would need 7 years of doing only education to catch up with just China. You only need unity movement to get the claims. In the tooltip it says Economic development and research point is impacted by gov score. I think it's possible to get the most crazy China with this strat.
Thanks for the detailed playthrough! But can you please explain what caused the major shift of science and resources outcome between E8 and E9? The difference is just one month
Nice to have some stuff on the ship building. I find it a little disconcerting you don't have any point defence in place though. A 4 missile monitor seeks a little like a glass cannon. Or do you prefer to have point defence escort? I've found a good bit of success with monitor with 3 missile racks and a pd laser, and then escorts with a missile and a pd, and making sure to fly the escorts ahead of the monitors to shoot down the incoming alien ordinance. The current problems with starting ship position makes this trickery tho as battle start is a mad dash to get escorts into positions.
I'm pinning this all these months later because I still get a few comments a day asking the question: Why do all your incomes shoot up between episodes?
The answer is they don't - I just switch from daily to monthly incomes. It's an option you can access in the options menu.
The Devs should add a way to "mark" tech as 'future want' (green) or 'ignore' (red), so when you're scrolling through, you don't have to check you've gone a different route every time.
Yeah, that's one of those things that's super simple but is a major qol improvement
Same with Projects, my list is incredibly cluttered by all the independence Projects that I would love to hide away.
There should at least be a way to hide techs.
They should make text bigger as for me, it's impossible to read it as it's so small. Would love to play this game, but i simply can't see what im reading.
would be great if they added a search function to be able to sort through all the faction projects
The Resistance controls Poland. The Resistance is the first faction into space (militarily). Coincidence?
They got into space and then instantly lost poland. Some things just aren't meant to be
@@gabrielandradeferraz386 the game was like "NO Poland can't into space!"
Poland may not into space but certainly tech support space
I think not
Winged Hussars had a brief cameo
"Sir Isaac Newton will kill you in the cold dark of space."
Sounds like the tag line for a horror movie.
Could have also made a Mass Effect reference:
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Rather than picking a fight with the Resistance in North America or Europe, you should probably take the Mideast (appears to be entirely Servants/Protectorate?) and unify them into the Caliphate or whatever other meganation they have available.
Bangladesh is also controlled by Servants and I'm pretty sure India has a claim, so easy expansion target there too.
I agree.
@@salvation122 I also think it would be interesting to see the India expansion options
The Caliphate also has a further evolution into The Greater Caliphate, which spreads into South East Asia and includes Malaysia and Indonesia. Or the House of Islam which goes into Africa.
The caliphate has the potential to be an a powerful country, but is extremely expensive to form at a cost of 35000 research on top of the great nations 35000 research. I don't think it would be a wise investment.
"That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not "EYE-BALL IT"
I was coming to the comments to make this exact joke lmao
"This is a weapon of mass destruction, you ARE NOT a cowboy firing from the hip!"
Perhaps the developers should make that accident that happened to the aliens (in the alternate universe) ALWAYS happen, when you play as the servants. Perhaps it would make them less easy to play. Just a thought. Excellent series btw.
I think you forgot to give the new councilor cybernetics.
yeah. fixed next ep. it helped the CP cap :) I love the cybernetics tech
@@PerunAU Logged into wrong channel there bud! ;)
@@PerunAU will there be more cyber tech?
lol the whole time he was going over reviewing the new councilor I couldn't help myself but keep saying, "click the augments"
You created a Katiusha for space, perfect for eliminating almost all foreign enemies of the motherland.
now can we blast the tune over all radio channels after losing the first salvo?
@@PerunGamingAU the fact you own the Eurasian Union would make it fit perfectly, the Americans would go along with a good meme as well
Enemies of the 'newly democratised super state' I believe you mean.
Kamya was celebrating. The team always had fun when they got together, which was getting rarer. 11 years in Tomi was never on Earth, even when she was. Max was too busy and also a little cold and scary. Vinsinar and Nero were good mates though - always game and unfailing cheerful. Sahiba heaped loving toleration and made a terrific grump for their jet setting "family game nights" - a kind of running 80-days-around-the-world race to the humanity's landmarks.
They had been partying in the streets of Islamabad all night. Reunification, with Kamya as the mouthpiece. She never would have believed it a decade ago. Back then she was a TikTok star, or rather a "star" of modest following with a strong chauvinist outlook. When President Modhi renamed the national party India First, she supported the move. And found herself with a mysterious influx of followers. She started speaking out against the aliens more than she did foreigners, and found herself with still larger audiences for anything she had to say.
Eventually a man named Castillo came to India to meet with her. Sahiba had introduced them. Castillo sheepishly told her that he liked her videos. He tried hard to smile, his leather-worn face cracking with effort. Later Max would tell Kamya that he warmed up to her more than anyone, because he would never have to send Kamya to die in battle.
Eventually Sahiba suggested she go to the test matches and wear Pakistan's colors. Vinsinar, a cricket maniac who didn't need to be asked, piloted her around the Indian ocean on his jet. Then Sahiba introduced Kamya to some popular Instagram models in Pakistan. Then she suggested Kamya say that Pakistan First and India First were merging into a new world party called Humanity First.
And if you thought about it too hard (which Kamya made sure not to do) it didn't make sense. Why would a series of national populist fronts start preaching unity and toleration?
But that didn't matter, because you didn't need to think hard. You needed to look at the humans around you. It made perfect sense to them - to the cheering millions who saluted a new flag as it rose over Islamabad.
Only Sahiba was still awake, bleary-eyed and nearly inchoate from exhaustion and drink. Vinsinar and Nero were collapsed in a heap on the couch, their normally smart suits wrinkled and unbuttoned. Even Max had stopped by, though he left early to "deal with something."
With one hand Kamya raised a glass over her balcony, filming it with an iPhone in the other. "To reunification!" Her phone would buzz and glow for a week.
they're an interesting group of people aren't they....I'm not sure how fun max is at parties
I would call the sorts of ships that only stay in one gravity-well and protect that body a “picket”.
Some variety in how that word is used, but in naval parlance is generally means small ships attached to singular ports for defense.
Or monitor. Depending on the size of the guns.
Just remember to never cross a picket line.
I made the mistake of trying to coup servant controlled india 6 times in a row (had good opportunity at 20%). Didnt realize the aliens weren't a fan. Lost all my LEO stations nearly immediately XD
if you play servants the aliens will pretty much always end up giving you all the India control points for free once you control the third point (religion) investments in unity give public opinion and it becomes impossible to drop below 90%
Yeah the Aliens are very unforgiving if you declare an all out war on the Servants.
yea i nuked one of the Alien controlled territory since they had like 6 alien armies there, i lost everything in LEO and as "revenge" i might have nuked the whole planet lmfao
so my first "playthrough" didnt go too well
Japan in my game became Servant controlled and started declaring wars on very small nations. I tried causing unrest there with the eventual goal of couping it but it felt like for every step forward I took 2 steps back. i finally decided to try and kidnap the councilor who was decreasing unrest.
I crit failed and my best councilor died. :(
So in response I replaced them with the most corrupt, criminal, sadistic Nigerian warlord I could find, stacked him to 25 espionage and went alien hunting.
I absolutely adore this game.
@@flashgordonsthemesong2838 hey hey aliens, Sseth here.
I think it's worth noting that fission has some excellent engines. According to a chart posted on reddit recently, one of the best spacecraft engines in the entire game, and by far the highest thrust (at least, without protium fusion) is under Advanced Fission systems, the terrifying sounding Neutron Flux Torch.
fision is a fantastic, relatively cheap path
Thank you for the information. This is the kind of thing I wouldn’t know without someone telling me.
I gotta imagine there's an event if you're stupid (or desperate enough) to use that drive around Earth (or even a colony). That's the drive for the nuclear salt water reactor.
For those that don't know what the NSWR is, you know the fission pulse drives Perun researched in the demo? Someone took a look at that and said "Blowing up a nuclear bomb out back every few seconds? That's a silly way to do things. You get MUCH faster speeds just having a constant nuclear explosion fire out the back."
Be sure to not confuse this with the drives which have a normal reactor core and then eject some fissile byproducts to generate thrust. Which is still bad, just not constant nuclear explosion bad. Or the current ones he's using which just heat up some hydrogen propellant.
On a logistical note, the Neutron Flux Torch also requires fissiles as its propellant and they're sometimes a bit hard to come by.
@@AgaresOaks it may require fissiles, but at ~4500 kps exhaust velocity that doesn't worry me as much as it could. You can get 1000 kps deltaV, enough to completely run rings around the aliens, with only 20% of your ships mass as fuel.
@@QuantumShenna Note that just looking at the exhaust velocity and thrust doesn't tell the whole story. Drives in the mid and late game typically have one (or more) of the following problems. Large reactor size, rare propellant, rare reactor materials, end of a long research line, or too much waste heat. Fission is a mix of the first two. Antimatter is a bit of research and a bit of rare materials (or a LOT of rare materials if you're trying to use a Pion Drive). Fusion is mostly research and heat management (a LOT of heat management issues early on) and a little reactor size.
Also, there's some kind of hidden variable multiplier determining the combat acceleration because the listed values are definitely for the cruise acceleration if you math it out. And it's REALLY easy to cap out your combat acceleration later on. Normal NERVA has a 20x multiplier. The advanced pulsar drive has a 40x multiplier to its combat acceleration. Antimatter drives have a 60x multiplier from what I can see. Chemical rockets don't have a multiplier.
Capturing an alien gave me two pip on the hate meter. Just an FYI that you might want some defensive fleets around mercury and mars before you try that since that might put you to getting attacked.
I like the flavour text, how Castillo calls scientists egg-heads and personally keeps hold of the detonator. Like they could have just had a copy pasted message for completing the containment tech but it's nice to have the added flair.
That surprised gasp at 19:26 upon realizing he could potentially throw the Servants out of the UK was made me laugh.
I think it's almost in character with a French Resistance style organization for you to completely backstab and screw over the people who share basically all of your goals.
The only thing worst than a heathen is a heretic
Resistance arent radical enough so must be brought into the fold by force!
As a leftist, I can say this is pretty normal for leftists in general, not just anti-fascists. Especially when you get into authoritarianism vs anarchism.
@@jackskellingtonsora it's not uncommon for any ideologies really. The one general tule of politics is that everyone hates each other with a passion
The trade off between thrust and Exhaust velocity is a thing in RL. Normally for the same amount of energy you can either throw MORE mass out the back getting greater thrust or throw less out but throw it QUICKLY making you have more Delta-V/Range. Systems like NERVA, Fusion etc side step these issues by providing... more power by using nuclear power over chemical reactions. (Atomic Rockets is a great resource if you ever want to learn about this all without browsing NASA papers)
When you do a cut while you look through the tech tree or your options for global influence, please tell us what you went for after the cut.
I want to know dammit 😅
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Such an awesome series. Looking forward to new episodes each day. Literally could watch you play this all day
Truly space technicals. Peak Toyota warfare
I'd like to see you keep the Resistance as a buddy faction. It would be interesting to see how you would buff another faction to distract the aliens.
A German technocrat who's a cynical chemist, and also an astronaut. That just sounds like a James Bond villain.
maybe some family connection to von Brauns?
Personally, I’d like to see you play as the Academy. Imagine instead of slaughtering the Aliens you just convince them with facts and logic to stop! Ya know like: “You guys are people, we’re people, you have weapons, we have way more, you have parasitic snot , we figured out a cure for it. Let’s be friends! Unless you’d prefer to negotiate with HF…”
Potato is doing an Academy run atm. Might want to check that out.
The Academy is definitely my favorite faction. They're the most reasonable of all of them. We want to remain independent and let's work together. It's the hardest because doing the right thing is generally not easy. I also grew up on Star Trek, so working together with aliens is absolutely normal for me.
@@jackskellingtonsora its funny because as you advance with The Academy they are like "yeah, I'm starting to doubt we can reason with the Xeno"
@@jackskellingtonsora I only recently got into Star Trek, but their ideas resonate with me immensely. It is honestly interesting how this show was made in United States, which is know to not tolerating anything different, as CIA proved decades ago.
@@danilooliveira6580 Honestly, that’s what makes them fascinating to me. On one hand, they’re not sure the Hydras *can* be reasoned with. On the other hand… they feel compelled to try.
They strike me as a very deontological faction. Driven by a sense of duty to their fellow man and their fellow sapients. Sometimes this makes things very hard for them.
I was just waiting for a new video, and lo and behold, here I find it! Thanks for showing off this game!
Btw, are you going to be migrating your Dominion 5 videos to this channel anytime soon? I originally found you that way, so I want to know if that's the case.
I'd love if the game allowed for tech to be marked with 'ignore'. If you decide to say go fusion it would be nice to not see all the fission and antimatter in the list.
Hey Perun, could you show the trades you make. It would be interestign to see what trades the AI will accept and what you'd concider worthwhile
will do
Good to know for sure what was implied last episode: traitorous councillors can be turned back to sanity with "Inspire" missions.
I have no idea what's going on with most of this game's systems - it's way too complicated for my soft brain - but it is super interesting and fun to watch you play
With the Resistance putting ships into space I think leaving them be for now would be a good idea until the Resistance starts fighting you again
I just got done watching your last vid and the one on the implications of russian mobilization, perfectly timed upload just as I was looking for something else to watch!
I'm really liking the play by play, I'm planning to grab the game soon and seeing how this plays out is really helpful.
Kamya and Tomi ... ekhem ... INSPIRING each other...
Yep. I went there. But only after the Golden Throne joke.
Thought for the day: "The Alien dream is to dance on the grave of Mankind."
Tasmania represent! Nothing says best island in the world than an ultra lowtech ship that isn't going anywhere fast.
Thank you for your videos! I'm picking up many good advises for my own game!
Make sure you add augmentations to make your new astronaut into a cyborg!
40:45 God, it's so refreshing to see a game that actually has the AI play by the same rules as you instead of having them be scripted and/or cheat. I know it's easier to make the AI a challenge by just letting them cheat and giving them more resources than the player, but I also think that's very lazy; rather than make the AI better at the game, you give them a crutch which allows them to brute force things but which means that their actual skill is low. Looking at you Stellaris, looking at you Sword of the Stars.
So a game where the developers went through the effort of actually making the AI good at the game and having them play the same game you do makes me very happy.
They don’t though, the aliens have a lot of abilities and tech you don’t have.
Watching you design the ship reminds me a little of Delta-V : Rings of Saturn.
Light up that sunshard baby, we're going to be turning some Alien ships into Alien scrap!
"I've been thinking about Poland," nothing bad ever followed sentence.
I’m curious how you would prevent the aliens from just declining engagement with your picket and wandering past them to bomb stuff. I look forward to the real space naval engagements.
His demo playthrough made it clear that at minimum the first engagement will probably be willing because the hydras will underestimate your fighting strength based on raw numbers not reflected by missile spam.
I think any further engagements would require you to know their target and sit your fleet too close for them to ignore, since they have the delta v and acceleration to just avoid unwanted confrontations.
My first naval engagement was basically my five ships slowly moving in a straight line and the alien ships just moving straight into a wall of missiles. Still lose two ships thought…
initially you draw them in with massively inferior combat power. later you defend what they what to kill.
once that stops working life is rough and you need to look at being able to catch them through tech or ping pong tactics
Once again, Max being CIA employee of the month right here
Perun - "Max, I don't want the Servants In the Gulf States anymore."
Max - "You got it, boss."
"If you always wait for the next shiny new tech that comes out you're never going to make anything."
I actually remarked how much I enjoyed Terra Invicta because of how well it modeled real life space exploration.
E.g., by the time you've finished producing something to explore it, its now been made redundant by technological development.
LOL "Adamantane armor." Adamantane is a real compound with the same shape as diamond... except adamantane's units are not arranged into a bonded crystal lattice. It is an extremely weak and brittle solid as a result. Adamantane's current use is as a chemical precursor to drugs like memantine that share its structure. Adamantane has been proposed as a _propellant_ in Hall-effect thrusters, though.
Quiet looking out for the next one!
Its extremely cool that the Alien faction, while obviously not 1:1 balanced with Earth (because they operate on entirely different technology), are still constrained by realistic limits of resource acquisition and construction times.
That said, in terms of using the word "realistic", its not very realistic that the first alien race we encounter would be one that is so close to us in technology, and of such limited industrial output that they're even able to be countered at all.
A real encounter with a real interstellar civilization, would look more like 50 million ships descending from the Kuiper belt.
Not 1 ship deploying 1 base that constructs 4 scout transports per month.
But of course, if the game was "realistic" in the sense of incomprehensible scales of interstellar civilizations, there wouldnt be much of a game to play, because there'd be no chance to get past turn 2 and live xD
Unless they werent hostile, at which point again, there wouldnt be much game to play.
But its just an interesting thing to keep in mind during gameplay.
Basically in the ingame lore, Earth is unbelievably lucky to have met such a backwards starved alien civilization that barely has any more resources than Earth itself.
This walkthrough is becoming the best drug I've ever had.
For ship design are you able to install 1 or 2 of the more advanced chemical engines then reserve them for exclusively for combat action maneuvers? I feel like have a good flank speed could really matter even in the early game.
Looks like this type of ship only has one engine slot, so only one type of engines.
Hope you make it to space combat before the -10% off finish, pretty much last part im on the fence before buying the game.
I'd buy now. It's unlikely to ever go on sale again for months if not years. That said, it IS still EA and rough around the edges, so wait until there are 1-2 months worth of guides and balance patches before actually playing.
This is totally unrelated to the game, but you actually radiate heat at the same rate in atmosphere as you do in vacuum. The difference is that you can’t lose heat by convection and conduction. Different processes, but still very interesting if you dive into the math of it!
Excellent videos, I’m loving the series and learning a lot about how to play!
I've been binge watching this series for the whole day, keep them coming! I'll probably grab the game myself once it's in more polished state.
I'm super glad you did a shout out on the main channel keep up the good game play (and PowerPoints)!
Is there a way to see what threat levels the other human factions have got with the aliens?
So I have no idea how common this is, but on my first playthrough, which I felt good about having watched your entire demo series and the first 5 episodes of your humanity first series, I grabbed the US like your US strategy. Anyway, I'm in the year 2024 and am colonizing mars still, but the aliens have bases all over the solar system already including on Mercury. Seemed to be really fast for that???
them being at mercury is odd, but it is not odd that they are expanding quickly. they do.
More to blow up
They’re not on mercury in 2024 lol, you must mean Saturn or something right?
@@dylanb2990 in my playthrough... Yes they were on Mercury.
The problem with only taking the engine you want out of the current 'level' is that currently there's know good way to know what engine leads to what without researching them. I suppose eventually a good wiki will go up with fleshed out stats and connections, but I'm currently researching engines I'm not sure if I'm going to use half the time just to see if they unlock a better engine I might actually use because I'm not sure what's superior to what nor what leads to what without actually unlocking them to get my hands on their stats.
A very great madlad on the Terra Invicta Subredddit made a gigantic graph with all engines and their stats, maybe you should give it a look and then look at the tech tree to have some idea of what do you want!
This is shaping up to be a very interesting game
Great job I've really been loving your play style and the way you explain what you're doing. Can't wait for the next episode!
I built as my first ship a monitor with 6 pulsar drives and 10.1 Kps with really heavy nose armor. They were a death trap.
I’m currently researching nanotube radiators and armor but the aliens have decided to wipeout my space presence in the entire solar system, I’ve been killing every freaking alien, Hydra or fauna, to my heart content. I forgot about the alien threat level.
My poor space pioneers 😢
Would be interesting for a video on fleet formations, and how to maneuver so get the best over lapping coverage of PD.
I have been experimenting with pairing ships, so any main ship has a Point defense ship that has light lasers, PD lasers and fast fragmentation missiles, all set on defense only. That gives three ranges of interception fire.
Putting out a cloud of anti-missile missiles ala Auroa 4x seems to help, before th e light lasers then the PD kick in, and ideally multiple ships can cover each other.
Just struggling to evade and keep everyone in the other's defensive spheres
5:10 I really like how this game makes you weigh options. There's no one clearly correct path. Keep your allies strong and they'll fight for things you care about. Go it alone and you might fail.
Interesting you were using the copperhead missiles, the vipers seem better to me than copperhead and oyu have them researchable, but maybe I am missing something. It is not clear to me what the damage vs armor stat does for example
I was hesitant to try this game until your videos. It really tickles all the micromanagey things that get me hooked on games like this.
Very cool Perun! Love this series your making!
just as i get a ship yard and save-quit, i see this, its all comin together
I've been following the series through with my own playthrough after buying the game and I still do not understand how you have such a massive research speed XD
I think he is cheating or those are annual data. But the reseach is too fast for that.
@@robertalmadi8422 1k from USA, 600 from India and 400 from everything else adds up to his 2k monthly research. How is he cheating?
for whatever reason, his values at the top are the monthly amounts, not daily as they have been in the previous videos
If the aliens have events and economies of their own it would be interesting to see a reverse campaign, you play the aliens. Or even multiplayer with the role of aliens going to the most experienced player
Just finished watching all these episodes, it's nice to see a letsplay of this game where the player knows what the heck they are doing lol. I was just wondering if you are ignoring the moons of Mars on purpose? Are they bad or something? Thanks and keep up the good work!
Commenting mostly for susan but
MORE TERRA INVICTA
Loving the series, hanging out for more ep's
Just wanna say I’m loving the series and I hope you can manage this and the main channel
That resistance ship has the color scheme of the Martian Navy from The Expanse
A gamey strat you can do to bait the aliens to fight you is to lower your fleet's kps to barely enough get back to station. Your fleet power lowers immensely, but your weapons fire all the same. You can get the aliens to fly into a 400-500 power fleet that is more than enough to fight off 2k worth of aliens. Kps impacts fleet power stats way more than it should and the aliens basically determine if their fleet should take a fight or not while at war by comparing fleet powers to one another rather than tonnage or weaponry.
Excellent another episode 🥳
I've never managed to get such an insanely high science output. I'm gonna have to rewatch some of your older videos...
I think it has changed to showing the annual production. He had 76.6 science production at the end of the last episode, which ended mid december. No way it jumped to 2,4k in a month. 76,6 x 365 would be 2,7k, so in the right ball park.
@@brlbrlbrlbrl yeah it must have switched for some reason because I was confused as hell looking at that
@@brlbrlbrlbrl that's his monthly income though not yearly
For anyone looking to steal the space stations of other factions, I've noticed they tend to outfit their early game ships with ~9.5 dV. You'll get stuck in a perma loop of fleet evasion if you have less than 9.5 dV yourself, so plan accordingly. After the battle it's simply a matter of spamming assault base until it succeeds or your run out of marine charges. 4 attempts is usually enough
Absolutely loving this series 👍
Thanks for the videos i learned a lot of them so far. Still one thing i am still super curious of: last video you ended at around 16.Dezember.2028 with 76.6 research. This follow up video starts a month later (16 january.2028) and here it shows you have 2.4k research. What happened here ?
A switch from daily to monthly incomes
I'm in favor of the formation of any mega state. People have already talked The Caliphate in the Middle East (I would also add The Shia Nation). I think pick a fight with the Resistance on Earth is strategically sound and should be done but in a limited capacity such as taking that Eurasian control point from them. Then take either Canada, Pakistan, or Uzbekistan. (Also some I saw that may nullify a target is Slovakia. Slovakia under Project Exodus and Resistance control; the former could be planning to integrating Slovakia into the EU.) I think you should also do a video on all of the different nation that can be formed; like go through the techs that deal with forming and breaking nations. I also want to how many nation tags there are for the game.
I would like to see three giant nations, formed off of his three current strongholds.
are there any strategic values in Mars’ moons and Venus in the inner system?
Mars moons are often pretty decent - Venus is a backup to Mercury.
@@PerunGamingAU should we gift it to our allies for them to go cause trouble for the xenos or does that innevitably backfire and end up with way too much death in space?
The space tutorial was very useful!
Perun: "Knowledge for the knowledge god!"
Me: Hail Tzeentch!
Tzeentch: "I love it when a plan comes together."
Some of the spaceship stuff seems to be handled weirdly. Like how all ships seems to have variable thrust. Reducing thrust without reducing power gets you higher isp for better dv during transits (which is not something that happens in game), but reducing power to get lower thrusts with same isp rarely makes sense and those few scenarios in which it does, don't seem to be modeled in game. One would be to reduce acceleration to human tolerable levels for longer periods of time(which is irrelevant if your max acceleration is >1g), other would be to reduce radiation from rocket in some overcomplicated scheme to save on radiation shield mass.
Propelant seems to be volumeless, which is a massive loss of oppurtunity to balance armor mass, crosssection and isp (ex. hydrogen will give you higher isp than water but has significantly lower density, which in the end means that in some situations it might be better to to use latter).
Obvious things which are also missing are staging, different thrusters for combat/transit and variable isp thrusters which work as intended.
I could go on and on, but presumably devs and community are aware of this and it will be fixed as game gets developed.
i think it was voluntarily simplified as the game is supposed to be a 4X strategy, not the Hydra Space Program.😁
Weapon project and drive projects is like a avalanche for your scientists
If the aliens are helping the servants and/or protectorate, does that mean they have communication tech? And if so, can you spy or steal it?
One question I wondered, We can see the Earth rotate, but do all the bodies in the solar system rotate around the sun properly? So that dV amounts to get to, for instance Mars, varies whether planets are aligned for efficient transfers or not.
They do. Different celestial bodies have different insertion windows etc. It's very possible to save money, boost and time by waiting to send stuff to Ceres, for example, until the orbits are right.
Did the new counselor get cyborged? Does cyborging them add any vulnerabilities such as being able to be hacked or anything of the sort?
Are you always kind of tied to Earth or can you actually disappear out into the solar system once your holdings are suitably developed and just kind of leave the other factions to squabble over Earth?
So I missed how you managed to turn your traitor back to the side of goodness and light. Was it hard? How was it accomplished?
Inspire mission. which is why I needed to recruit someone with that mission
@@PerunGamingAU Ah so previously you had no councilor with the inspire mission, which is why you had to tolerate the traitor for so long. Makes sense, thanks for explaining.
@@kerravon4159 even worse, the only councilor that had inspire mission was the traitor
Idk if you saw but fighter is a medium dv class of ship designation. They have low dv planet defence classifications.
2:30 am. New Perun video. Let’s go.
I'm sure your busy but guides would be immensely helpful after a few tutorials into space as the resistance I can't tell my foot from my ass in this game. The early game is something you can limp through. Space not so much, too many decisions which is overwhelming. My assumption currently is much of tech or decisions is for roleplay and not per se rivaling the alien threat properly.
About the ships - while i have similar thoughts, i'm also a sucker for a destroyer with a super massive laser cannon on the nose xD
I have researched the items that should open up "Pulsar Drive" but it doesn't show up in the options of what to research. I don't understand. Is it related to the total amount of research done to open up the next level of things?
Which research projects are for just you, and which ones are for everyone?
imo they need more in depth relation system for other factions, id really like to have a proper working relation with the factions
I think you should start a temporary fight with the Resistance to secure some strategic regions, before buttering them up to make peace again at some point after. OR make a move on Project Exodus if there is something good to take from them.
When you can, as I understand you have a very busy schedule, please do a tutorial on Tech in this game. It's currently my biggest barrier to picking this up, and it sounds like it isn't intuitive what one should be prioritizing, as it seems to change based on faction, space industrialization strategy, ect.,
Yes the tech tree is pretty bad, people try to defend it by saying the search function can be used to find out what techs do, but it's so unintuitive and without foresight you don't even know what future unlockables even are let alone what 3+ techs you need to get them available to research.
@@whoknows8264 At this point, having watched further ahead, I'd say its the weakest part of the game. The techs themselves are fine, but the tech tree is so unusable at this point that it probably needs a total UI overhaul to be remotely usable without already knowing what you're searching for, or having some kind of tutorial provide by Perun or similar.
@@88Factor
Check out u/questionablecounsel on the subreddit they're making a guide to the game including a rough list of techs to rush and why. Also the game is pretty easy to mod, so if you wanted to rush through the tech tree as a learning experience you could give yourself unlimited research points to save yourself a wasted playthrough.
Great video, I love learning more of the game from you.
Right now I'm trying to do a Eurasian strategy with the EU and China.
The aim is to go for greater EU and to get China by Taiwan.
Taiwan has 9 gov.
You would need 7 years of doing only education to catch up with just China.
You only need unity movement to get the claims.
In the tooltip it says Economic development and research point is impacted by gov score. I think it's possible to get the most crazy China with this strat.
Thanks for the detailed playthrough!
But can you please explain what caused the major shift of science and resources outcome between E8 and E9? The difference is just one month
swapping from daily to monthly incomes. you can do it in settings menu
@@PerunGamingAU thank you for a quick response! I was confused and tried to understand what went wrong with my campaign as numbers were much lower
Nice to have some stuff on the ship building.
I find it a little disconcerting you don't have any point defence in place though. A 4 missile monitor seeks a little like a glass cannon.
Or do you prefer to have point defence escort?
I've found a good bit of success with monitor with 3 missile racks and a pd laser, and then escorts with a missile and a pd, and making sure to fly the escorts ahead of the monitors to shoot down the incoming alien ordinance.
The current problems with starting ship position makes this trickery tho as battle start is a mad dash to get escorts into positions.