Terra Invicta (Demo) E1 - Undoing Brexit (oh and aliens exist)
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- *PLEASE FORGIVE THE GRAPHICS QUALITY AND AUDIO GLITCHES-IT WAS A RECORDING SOFTWARE ISSUE*
Well here’s a title that I have been looking forward to for a very long time.
From the people who brought you Long War for XCom, comes Terra Invicta, a hard sci-fi strategy game on an incredibly ambitious scale, combining terrestrial politics with detailed physics simulations and detailed research and economic systems.
Terra Invicta will be releasing in the second half of this year, but next week there will be a short demo posted to give people a chance to try out the first part of the game. A full playthrough of TI can take decades of in-game time, the demo covers just the first 7 years, where different factions of humanity struggle for influence and to decide what the way forward is now that we’ve discovered we are not alone in the universe.
The devs have been kind enough to give me early access to the demo, so I’ll be doing a quick playthrough of the demo years, and show you a few strategies I’ve come up with, while explaining some of TI’s many, many, many game concepts and systems.
Apologies for the crappy video quality - it’s a function of my recording software that I’m hoping I’ll be able to resolve for future episodes. I'll also apologise for the editing quality - got my hands on this a few hours ago, it's after midnight here, but I really wanted to get this to you as soon as possible!
"And Mexico is cursed"
As a Mexican citizen, I'm in awe at how faithfully this game recreates current-world conditions.
As someone put it:
Humans: *discover hostile alien race*
Country: *invades neighbours*
Oh, and a Russian division starts out decimated.
Criminal organisations being there to influence makes perfect sense to me, they are large organisations with considerable resources and somewhat unique skills. At the same time they are comprised of people and as such are just as potentially mailable as any other group, that is to say if you can successfully convince them it is in their interest or provide enough incentives to make it in their interest they are likely to support you.
Yeah, they might be against the law, but this does not mean they are not gonna feel the consequences of First Contact.
A guy in the mafia is just as likely to want to end up as xenomorph food as any other guy. Which is to say, not at all. If it takes funneling some of their dirty money to a shady org's space program for them to stay uneaten, they will.
And so begins a grand channel, looking forward to being at the ground of floor of the community to come!
Not surprised to see Perun likes the more autistic style of strategy games too given his Ukraine presentations. You get to a point where you need the depth and crunch of games like this, CMO, Dominions, Shadow Empire etc.
@@IanGerritsen never before have I been offended by something I so deeply 100% agree with
I also see a lot of modding potential here already. For example the Organizations tab could be filled with all kinds of stuff and there could be a ton of different ways to manipulate command points to spice up different countries. The fact that the devs have a modding background and that they stated that the game is "built with modding support in mind" makes me incredibly exited for the game. I might even decide to actively add some mods myself.
if the globe is moddable it's inevitable that people *will* split up the simplified blobs (ex. the balkans)
There already are some great ones and meme factions from kickstarter supporters I think. Like the Templin Institute is there.
Thank you for actually looking through the game before showcasing it to everyone else. I have watched a few other people play the demo and half their playtime is spend just clicking through the most basic of menus, just following the tutorial.
I'm really happy to see you return to this sort of content, it's almost nostalgic to see all the audio glitches too! I really do love the Ukraine war videos too, don't get me wrong, but I started by watching these kinds of videos from you and I really did miss 'em. Do you plan to continue any of those old series, or are you turning over a new leaf in that regard?
I have some dominions stuff planned for this month - fingers crossed. There are only so many hours in the day, but doing these can feel like a good wind down when I can steal an hour or so.
@@PerunGamingAU Agreed on all counts. You are probably the best Dom 5 content creator out there and while it has been fascinating to see the pivot into Ukraine I'm glad to see you getting back on the horse with the gaming content too.
I started with Perun's Phoenix Point gameplay. Best content on that particular game IMO and I would like to see a new play through as all the DLC has now dropped and mod support starting; however this game and the Ukrain coverage are excellent. Really impressed with Perun and as a jaded cynic that's quite a feat.
P.S. I really appreciated what these guys did for XCOM Enemy Unknown and XCOM2. Talented people.
Don't typically get excited about grand strategy games, but the themes and bones on this one look absolutely solid. Thanks for the introduction, and im glad to see you can still enjoy games and build a gaming channel parallel to your more procurement, macro economics, and logistics focus (which is how I among many others were turned onto your channel.) Keep up the good work, very much look forward to whatever comes next for you!
As a Belgian it was really funny hearing you say: 'no need to argue about separatism' xD We're small but some of our are loud about those ideas...
You have one of those voices that gives the impression of reminding one of an old friend. I don't often compliment youtubers on their voices, but yours is incredibly nice to listen to.
I'll love to keep on watching this playthrough and to see how deep this game goes!
I'll do my best to try and cover some new concepts each episode - but we'll see how far I can get in the 7 demo years.
@@PerunGamingAU Do we know how big the scope of this game is (post demo)? Can you form the United Nations of Earth? Can you get alien tech and suddenly play a graphical version of Aurora4x?
Holy crap Perun, in one video you have taught me more about an effective starting strategy in this game than 15 other videos from other content creators. Thank you so much. Love your main channel videos on the war in Ukraine too. You have earnt two subs from me today :)
The Three Body Problem trilogy X Klaus Schwab simulator = love it!
So cool. The last time I watched an hour long gameplay videos was when I was into Stellaris. But being a fan of XCOM and global strategies - I find this game to be a long waited symbiosis.
Also the narration is top notch, thanks!
Im so hyped for this game, I spent several hundred hours each in both of the long war mods so really excited to see what they have accomplished when making their own game instead of building on someone elses.
But the kinda janky look and especially character models of this game reminds me of the game Power&Revolution which is maybe a good thing or maybe a bad thing. Either way I just want this game to be good.
Sadly, it is quite boring and later turns very tedious.
If you want Grand Strategy, try Paradox games, they know what they are doing. The easiest to get into as a newbie is probably Stellaris (because it's the most similar to the simpler 4x games, like Civilisation), the flagship game is Europa Universalis IV. The best compromise between new and evolved (as in has some patches under it's belt) is Heart of Iron IV. The most insane one is Crusader Kings II. The one with the most potential (but very aged, now, and the potential isn't realised) is Victoria 2. Crusader Kings III is ok, but it is the newest one. Imperator is just for fans, not bad, not great and more of the usual.
@@beageler bruh my man says the game turns tedious later on and tries to tell the guy to play eu4 and ck, where 90% of players quit playing before the 1700 in eu4 and also hardly anyone goes to end date in ck
@@pivotmaster351 When you assume...
I play Grand Strategy games. They aren't tedious. This is.
There are other reason to stop doing things besides it being tedious. People stop playing Grand Strategy games towards the end because it becomes kinda pointless.
@@beageler it becomes tedious towards the end because there is nothing to do
@@pivotmaster351 I would've thought it becomes tedious because the gameplay is ridiculously indirect and the space part seems to be complex even by itself. How long does it go on? I would've thought it's only in the solar system and/or only about the invasion.
Glad you did this demo. When you first mentioned it and I looked at it I wasn't that interested. After the demo this will absolutely be a purchase for me. Great video as always!
Thanks for this, Perun. I supported them on Kickstarter, even though I keep telling myself to stop doing that. But I like to support game developers. And this is looking quite interesting. Thanks again for the video.
I backed and I feel good about it :)
Ooooh you're uploading games again! Yes!
Also loving your analysis videos too.
Oh this is the game of the people who made the Long War mods for XCOM. I was waiting for this.
After binging all of your phoenix point videos post discovery with Ukraine conflict stuff, I'm really happy you're doing this!
All the coverage on the early demo for this game has cemented my decision to purchase it.
I was sold when I first heard about the concept a year or two ago, but I'm even more sold seeing how the game actually is.
Try Fate of the World. The gameplay loop is very similar, but it is WAAAY more polished. It is a very different setting, and lacks the competing factions, but that is a big plus in my opinion. The game is tedious enough, no need to add multiple vectors of randomness.
@@beageler yeah but fate of the world is just comparable to the early game of terra invicta, once you start making offworld colonies, space fleets etc it becomes a completely different game
"how would we react if .... blabla aliens"
The answer is "poorly". I think we have seen enough evidence of how humanity reacts to big events like that
Depends on how hot they are.
Aliens are just made up by the globalist elites to try to keep the masses in line.
@@carltonbauheimer Good for them
are they killable by fire?
@@thomasjohnston1805 fire? Gotta nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Thanks for breaking up the info on how to play the game into more digestable bite-sized pieces, it seems like one of those games that are very interesting, deep, and addictive, but are overwhelming at the beginning.👍
love it! thanks again for the hard work Perun!
I have watched the entire series (up to this point) and I would like to point out an interesting fact about forming the EU. Ultimately the productivity of the EU (bosts and the like) is less than the countries it makes up. A Germany and France seperate will have about as many production points as an EU containing all the nations of Europe.
I’m very excited for this game, it looks right up my alley. I just got into crusader kings and was really missing out on the existential dread part. Also, Perun, your content is great!!
Found out about you because of your fantastic analysis of current events. Sorry the algorithm stopped you from being unable to continue gaming content on the original channel, but I'm glad you're continuing!
Also, as someone that has messed with Bandicam in the distant past, some things never change ;)
What an excellent game to start your channel on. High quality and a good explanation for such a deep game.
Instantly subbed, cant wait for more!
Damn, kinda makes me wonder how detailed it would go for one I can imagine a huge economic collapse and falling apart of supply lines for anything while everyone is scrambling to sell, steal and bribe their way into a secure enough position for themselves, no longer paying salaries or just taking stuff that was supposed to go somewhere else just to keep themselves safe during what could be perceived as the end of our civilization.
Who knows maybe people will come together and fight for the survival of our species by cooperating in our billions... I'd hope so but I'm skeptical.
No matter how much of an ass you are if you see some unknown creature descending to annihilate humans you'd probably forego all hoarding behaviour to defend yourself. There's little use in having wealth when everything is gonna be erradicated by grey men from outer space. At that point is not even a matter of right and wrong, is either cooperate for a sliver of a chance at surviving or giving up and dying.
Just as this game depicts, I imagine people would split into factions with varying approaches, centered around prominent spokespeople. Individuals facing uncertainty would flock to whatever spokesperson seems to best represent them. Some factions would have cooperative goals, others would have conflicting goals. I don't imagine national borders would change much, but rushed international agreements would definitely turn individual nations into de facto supernations - if only in terms of manpower, science, and production.
Given the current logistical, economic, societal, Geo-political, Geo-strategic, and environmental concerns facing the world. I'd say you'll probably get 'the most immersive experience'. . . Real life in another 2 years. Quite possibly sooner than that, I'd say plus or minus 1.5 years depending a couple of currently developing situations.
This seems like a very "Perun" type of game lol...definitely think I want to check it out when it releases
Subbed in an instant! If you're at least 10% as good at gaming than you are at powerpoint, I'm here forever!
This was really interesting I would welcome more content on this game for sure.
I have no idea what I just watched, but rest assured, you did a great job of keeping it interesting and engaging and now I wana play this game, despite not understanding it at all yet.
Love the idea of the game, but I’m glad you are the only playing it as the UI looks like a nightmare
I have spent years, no, decades, extracting myself from the video game industry, and in one hour you've sucked me back in. I think I need a new PC.
Been looking forward to this! Glad you got to cover it beforehand. Looking forward to seeing more so I can decide on picking it up yet or not.
bro this is awesome! Subbed! Thanks for showing me this game, I can’t wait to play
So Perun has now graduated from grand theft aero to grand theft country 😉
I finally remember the gaming channel exists and find out Perun is going to save the human race with the powers of geopolitics and reversing Brexit. Neat.
Having become a fan of yours following your Ukraine war series, I'm delighted to see you get into gaming, especially with this game, which I've supported since it was announced. Looking forward to this and more!
oooo finally glad to see more content. I'm backing this game on KS!
1: I really enjoy your voice, idk why. It's just nice.
Also, really enjoying this E1. Looking forward to watching you play the full game when it comes out.
This game is as if Democracy and Civ had a child and then Civ walked out and Democracy married Xcom who raised the child as their own.
idk I'd be about equidistant from Humanity First and Resistance. "Sorry m8, your population base is too significant in the Dark Forest era to wait for a CHANCE at hearts and minds catching up to astropolitical stratagems."
But for purely pragmatic reasons, as leader I'd also CLANDESTINLY support Escape (we can NOT openly support escapism because that would become a vexing leak in our steam engine. We need all the steam pressure of human capability, not letting people be "but plan B" blasé about the whole thing). Basically, the plot of The Dark Forest.
For all we know, aliens could be just resource hungry or risk averse, and thus they will want to eliminate us and all Earth life out of very boring considerations (like we do some wasp's nest to build a house). So humans remain to be the one chance complex life has to become multistellar, instead of dying with the boiling away oceans of Earth in 1 billion years.
Furthermore, Ruina is my wife.
Also, I’m deeply enjoying the number of hilarious modern political commentaries this game allows for.
It's fun to see how in this game, East Germany never rejoined West Germany and France is still split between North and South. And apparently, we still have Yoguslavia.
No these are just simplifications of States. But it might be that there is the possibility of Division if social unrest gets to high.
@@wutzibu there’s actually some techs down the tree that can divide up a lot of countries. Like, you can balkanize the US, China, Russia, Brazil, India and most of Europe with these techs/decisions.
they are just different states of a country, they are still the same country
This is really interesting, i hope to see more of this.
I am also a kickstarter backer of Terra Invacta, nice to see some gameplay!
Normally I don't look for new gaming channels but this is a game I've wanted to see in depth coverage of. also came here from the politic channel.
I do not know if somebody raised this already but one of the chief contributors to the game is a hard science fiction author John Lumpkin (Human Reach series, I highly recommend it). The Devs are people responsible for XCom Long War. Both influences show very heavily. Wishlisted.
Thank you for this video!
I wouldn't have heard of this otherwise, and it looks really fun and interesting!
Be well and stay safe!
God, this is just *so* fascinating as a game concept.
I greatly enjoyed your video, but I'm not gonna lie, I'll be way more interested in the far future videos where you don't have to explain gameplay mechanics and you can just dive straight into the meat of the game, as well as making snide and serious comments about how it relates to real life geopolitics.
So cool!
The good thing about doing the demo and using that for introduction purposes is that, come release, I can just play the game as you say.
After playing the demo i think you had amazing starting agents : O
Some nice mechanics there. Subbed.
just for undoing the brexit i love you
I had no clue about this coming out, and it looks super cool.
Three Body Problem: the video game.
This opening seems to be super strong.
Of course it does. #PerunOP :P
Holy shit this is fun. I subbed.
And there's so many more videos :)
Well watching this was a wild ride. My own speakers are failing AND your sound recording is failing periodically, so it left me guessing what is currently blowing up on quite a few occasions.
We love it, more please!
I have to say you have done an amazing job introducing a game like this that is so deep and detail-rich! I played the demo for a couple hours yesterday but could quite pin down what options i had as far as tackling certain objectives. I'm definitely excited to go back for another run.
I have the strong feeling the game will either turn out to be incredibly tedious or easily solvable.
If the gameplay loop interests you, try Fate of the World, if the genre of Grand Strategy interests you look into Paradox games (Stellaris probably the best to start with, although Crusader Kings II is free. But CKII is overwhelming for a newbie, while Stellaris is manageable if one knows 4x games), there's a reason they're the kings of the genre.
EU Unification: "Ah yes, man made Horrors beyond my wildest nightmares"
nah, more like the only chance for europeans to stay relevant on the world stage.
crazy how not even aliens that could destroy mankind can bring people to work together...
@@Audifaram your clown license?
As somebody who wants the UK to rejoin I'm scouting out for our nearest would be alien overlords.
im so hyped for this one!
Great video! Keep going!
nice, the war powerpoint guy has a gaming channel too
Interesting game too
Great video. The audio glitches hurt my ears thou lol
Alien ship crashing into earth in October 2022? Seems entirely reasonable given the last two years
i have this wishlisted since ever^^
This reminds me of a more involved Sigma Theory. Looks fun, if complex.
So hyped for this game
With the way claims work and how its easier at the very start to break into the member states of the EU than going right for the US, it looks like speedrunning EU unification is by far the best strat. Is it easy to form new federations or get new claims? For example, can China form its own fed and then unify it to expand as easily as just unifying Europe? Or can they, say, claim Japan and conquer it? It seems like the CP limit makes playing any other way kinda pointless, just forming mega-Europe is way stronger AND easier than messing around in Africa with all that unrest, for example.
Now that I played the full version and went for the EU start in my game, it just looks ridiculous how easily he can secure almost every EU nation at the start.
In my playthrough I could with a lot of luck secure France, Benelux, Germay, and Poland leaving out the executiv and was already at my cap, meanwhile like 3 AI Faction entrenched themself in UK and Italy. And that was the luckiest start I ever had until now.
Game looks really interesting sorry i missed the demo. Just wish listed it on steam.
Cant wait to see the speed run for Nuke the planet%.
I’m just picturing Orban banning this game just because a random guy on RUclips federated Hungary into the EU. That is the funniest imagine ever.
Get in Viktor, we're building a superpower
Alright.. Question.. Did they only hand out keys to Australians?! Because so far, the only videos I've seen of this game, have been by Australian RUclipsrs XD
Love the video btw! Really looking forward to getting my hands on this!
I love the video and that you are covering the game Perun, but I was so distracted by that recruitment slot. I know you just forgot, but please, you even rushed the tech to get it...
Yeah, solid misplay, will resolve that. Call it excitement at finally being able to talk about this title.
@@PerunAU Don't sweat it to much. You have still provided the best coverage of the game so far, on both twitch and RUclips Perun, so I look forward to seeing what other interesting strategies you have in store for us
Naming the leader of the Servants 'Judith' is kind of on-the-nose, isn't it?
That boost mechanic is interesting. Does it actually model the types of rockets each country has access to? By October (if everything goes to plan) SLS and Starship should be online, so America would start with a huge boost advantage.
The game assumes that by October the US is the only just in second place on boost (behind Baikonour and its huge stock of Soyuz rockets). There isn't actually that much boost in the rest of the world. France has a decent income, China has less than half of what the USA has, and smaller players like Israel are like 25x smaller than the biggest players.
It's a scarce resource on the map early on.
Didn't they announce last week that SLS was delayed (again!) until next year at the earliest?
@@PerunGamingAU For boost forming the EU federation has also a benefit. Except for French all the other EU nations have to form a space program (60 points needed) before they can build boost (which is 2 point for lvl). So after joining the federation they do need to finish that project. Also I believe the proximity to the equator affects the boost and I believe French Guiana (part of French) is the closest launch site an EU country can have to the equator.
Btw do you know what happens to the already invested point for a next lvl point of a country once it joins a federations. So I mean with a army 45/60 before deployment do those 45 (or it's value carry over)
Btw once I hit the 7 year mark the game stopped being a free demo and locked me out. Just a head up warning.
They have to update the UK from a boost % because the UK is doing a ton with rockets right now, and they seem to be targetting the remove junk industry, which is really cool.
Ayy! This is Perun!?
It just showed up in my recommendeds.
Perun plays video games? Interesting...
I have quite a similar taste in games to you so I'm looking forward to more content. I found you through your Ukraine videos but went back through some of your original backlog.
That being said a suggestion if I may. I think it would be a good idea to have some shorter form gaming content as well. I'm down to watch an hour and a half long video about war economies or whatever, but once a gaming video goes above 35 or 40 minutes it gets way harder for me to watch the video. I quite like your style and think you'd be good at shorter vids.
Just my 2 pence
The interface is sorta slow and the game looks a bit rough in a lot of areas. But the mechanics of the game are interesting and unique enough for me to be hyped for this tbh. In my demo playthrough the US and Russia launched nukes super early and it was fun trying to play through that scenario.
this looks pretty great
Great choice of first country
Victoria and NSW are a single state.
HERESY!!!
it's not "real time" if it's pausable and you can give orders when paused. If it plays like paradox games which looks like it does, it's not called real time.
I guess the audio glitches are different thing, but there is definitelly clipping (grainy sound when speaking louder) going on in audio. You can turn down the mic gain (to avoid clipping) and use a compressor to normalize loudness.
Looks pretty good, but would take quite a bit to learn. Regardless, thanks for sharing.
I can not wait to get it!
This game looks like crack to my geo-strategic brain
This game is Stellaris meets the Victoria 2 diplomacy tab that doesn't suck.
My Jealousy knows no bounds.
You never did end up hiring a 5th councilor.
I get the feeling that for your strategy, the Academy controlling Russia's arsenal wouldn't have been the worst thing in the world.
seems like the netherlands has merged with belgium and luxembourg. I think i missed that memo IRL.
great strategy
Cue Beethoven's 9th and hail the European Superstate \o/
So, these are Long War guys right?
Lets see what theyve got.