@The Templin Institute; After watching this video, I wonder why the Greater Terran Union already an authoritarian and militarist civilization that values and glorifies wars in high regard has yet to colonize Mars, the so called planet of war. Maybe you should do that for your next Stellaris stream it may even help with the war effort and the you vassalization of the Algans. Plus it would be symbolic as the GTU has finally brought life to the planet once again inspiring the citizens with the tales of old and the reminder of those who fought the Tyrum to lead to the GTU formation. Terra Invicta!!
IW is a perfect representation of the War in the Pacific in WW2. Think about it: crippling a larger fleet in an opening attack, making massive gains, being crippling in one battle, being outcompeted industrially
Except that really shouldn't be the case. The SDF has ships left, there's canonically ships that survived. SATO doesn't. This means all of SATO's shipping should be able to just be blockaded. It's more as if the Japanese pressed a button that deleted 100% of the US fleet at the cost of 80% of their own. All those colonies retribution took over? Taken back. What's SATO going to do about it, they literally have no Navy.
@Eduard Kung Would have made more sense if the SDF were made into the 'Good' guys. Earth needs resources to survive. The SDF needs those resources to make Mars habitable. Earth took those resources that SDF mined. Also make Shohreh Aghdashloo the head of SATO.
The sad thing is that this world and its story line have died. Personally this has the best story and world since the end of the Modern Warfare series. It felt like a massive step forward for COD. The multipolayer was crap but it is on nearly every COD since its run and gun with zero tactics. But this series on a world and story level had so much potential that will sadly be squandered.
I feel so bad for the writers. They really wanted to set this universe up as a series. I almost want them to let Infinity Ward go and make their own franchise based on the IW universe and have it not be under the CoD label. They can then put Raven Software in so they still have the three year. I just want a movie or a book or something on the IW universe.
Infinite Warfare honestly inspired me to write a sci fi story that takes strong inspiration from what was in IW. I absolutely love this game to death and it's truly underrated. It has a solid foundation for lore and it truly should be a sub series of CoD games, or it could become it's own series completely cut off from the CoD brand. I truly believe the writers did the best they could given the fact it's still a CoD game and not something like Halo, Killzone, or TitanFall. But imagine what could've been had they been given more time.
It's been done in EVE Online with the Gallente (Earth) and the Caldari (Mars) as well. It's trope heavy yes, but its not bad either, since most Sci-Fi is closer to Star Wars and Star trek than this, it's not Cliche.
They lost a great deal of ships, flagship, their only known major shipyard in orbit around mars, as well as all those soldiers and officers. All this while the UNSA has been rebuilding with a likely superior industrial capacity and now they cant pull the same trick they tried during fleet weak so if they come knocking on earths door the planetary guns will tear them to shreds.
Infinity Ward stated that they wanted Infinite Warfare to be its own sub series. I don't think it'll happen thanks to the negative reaction but i'd really like to see the rest of the series, mostly to see how the narrative expands.
I honestly like the SDF a lot in terms of design. They do indeed take things way too far in that they want to kinda exterminate all people on Earth and it's colonies, but they started out similar to the OPA in the Expanse: they simply wanted to be treated fairly by the Earth. It kinda makes you think about how the Earth found itself in the situation they're in during the story, and how both sides aren't necessarily the most benevolent. In terms of design, I like their emphasis on efficiency and utilitarianism. Their main small arms system consists of all energy weapons that look similar and likely have similar parts, them having an machine gun, rifle, and shotgun based on the same design, as well as a ballistic submachine gun based on an old earth design. Their vehicles and robots all have a similar look as well following this. Their structures, especially their space elevator and shipyard, look absolutely stunning and fit very well within their common design ethos. Their warships are also quite varied and seem to follow a more intentional approach at fleet composition. Their destroyers are very versatile and have a good mix of anti-ship and anti-fighter weaponry. Their carriers have powerful anti-ship weapons as well allowing them to engage warships and defend themselves while launching fighters. The Olympus Mons combines an extremely powerful main armament capable of destroying most ships and buildings in one shot with good fighter carrying capabilities. Lastly, the Ajax corvettes are great patrol ships which are also able to be used en masse even in atmosphere to defend ships and installations from fighters. It also helps that all their ships look good too.
In-game their gun choice is done very lazy, much less distinct than Makarov's faction. They should use more Volksturmgewehrs and projectile guns to have a stronger flavor.
Kris Handsome agreed. They look cool and seem very plausible. Save their suit design. If UNSA can make more compact suits that function like they do I’m surprised they didn’t take and somewhat improve on that by adding greater element resistant parts to it. But I agree all of them seem like a very plausible thing for a nation that has less manpower to use. The more versatile ships can probably pull above their weight. Likewise their direct energy guns can recharge instead of having to manufacture bullets which can help a lot. Their problem is Idiotic leaders. Kotch was a madman who should have been demoted
Never again will we bow before them. Never again endure their oppression. We will fight them as one hand one arm one soul. We will shatter their dreams and haunt heir nighmares. watering our ancesters grave with their blood. And as our last breath taires at their lungs as we rise again from the ashes of our cities they will know Helghan belongs to the Helghast.
Get off the hate wagon. COD Multiplayer has gone to crap, but the Single player campaigns have always been good. They are far more engaging and interesting than the campaigns Battlefield etc put out.
I honestly thought Infinite Warfare had the most fun and interesting campaign in the franchise since the first Black Ops. Big Red One was my favorite CoD prior to those two. I would actually buy these games if the campaigns were always so engaging, and if I could stand the multiplayer.
SDF did nothing wrong; Mars Aeternum. Glad to see these folks getting some attention. Underrated faction from an underrated game, both of which could have benefited greatly from more worldbuilding.
I would love to see a return to the universe of Infinite Warfare, maybe to explore the backstory of the SDF and see how they rose to become such a powerful force. Unfortunately, we'll likely never get that, thanks to its reception at the time.
ThatOneKid0203 Yeah, it's a real shame; the universe has a lot of potential. Would've gotten a lot less hate were it under another franchise or IP, after all, the only real connection it has to any other cod other than a few Easter eggs is its name. One idea that I thought would be interesting for a sequel would be that Reyes is recovered half-dead over Mars and is brainwashed into becoming part of the SDF. Missions would revolve around killing his former allies until he realizes what's up and snaps out of it. Give us some mind fuckery; kinda like something similar to the original black ops.
I mean, they basically just watered down the Helgan Army and replaced most of the clever writing from that series with stickers on the enemies' chests saying "We're the bad guys"
I actually really enjoyed this game in particular from the newer cod games tbh but I would love to see a youtuber break down the ships and vehicles of the game sorta like space dock does don’t know if you guys would be interested tho
Glad you chose to infiltrate the SDF, they’re an underrated fraction for an underrated campaign. I would love to see this universe expanded with more world building as it has so much potential, though given this games reception at release I highly doubt that we will get a sequel.
@@ArcturusOTE its a 'call of duty' game, at one point the trailer was the most disliked game in youtube, but during that time it was still selling like hot cakes. game doesnt warrant that amount of hate tho, i remember that time how bf1 was clearly the superior choice, i played both, and both by far is one of the weakest in its respective title, battlefield 1 campaign was stellar, hell it has one of the best soundtrack, and storyline was short but well done but god awful multiplayer, infinite has interesting world arround its story accompanied by weak plot and subpar antagonist, and the side quest makes this game linear structure even more obvious.
I actually really liked the universe that was set up in COD: Infinite Warfare. Also as a Halo fan, it is similar to the Interplanetary Wars that took place before humanity became an interstellar species.
Glad to see Infinite Warfare getting some attention. It's a very underrated game with a solid single-player campaign that is often overlooked. It reminded me of a time when CoD games also focused on bringing great single-player experiences. The SDF will rise again, so we may get a sequel. Mars Aeternum.
You know what? I really enjoyed this campaign, it was one of the best in Call of Duty and for some ot reminds me a lot of the Universal Century timeline in Gundam. It's a shame we will probably never going to see how the story will continue.
I remember when people went "Reee" over Call of Duty being in space instead of a certain gender and people of a certain racial heritage being in a certain first person shooter game.
Despite having a lot of cliches and a fairly poor villian, this was easily the best Call of Duty campaign since Modern Warfare 1 & 2, in my opinion. Advanced Warfare was alright, but not great and I never really cared for the black ops or ghosts stuff. For Infinite Warfare though, the team of main protagonists were all pretty well fleshed out and even though the campaign was somewhat non-linear, it didn't take away from the overall story. I kinda would have liked a more definitive conclusion (Having both sides lose their entire fleets and then casually mentioning that Earth just kinda ended up winning the war is a little lame), but, hey, fuck those Martians, they should have never picked a fight with "Earf", lol
Calvin_Coolage Well they probably left it open ended for a sequel, but that’s likely up in the air whether that’s gonna happen considering everyone bitched about going back to a World War II setting... and we saw how well that turned out, lol 😒
+ThatGuy Depends. If Donny manages to catch 'Mons at long range (maybe, when it has some problems with drop engine) - she can pummel the Kotch's flagship with railguns and torpedoes with no big problems. If Olympus manages to influx in-close - a single shot of the Focused Spectral Array cannon makes a huge, deep dent from the bow of MCRN pride to the aft.
Thank you.I felt in early stages of a celestial human civilisation. Earth and the moon would be the center of "establishment" poltics like my preferred future ideology,Tecnholiberalism. Or what ever is the ideology equivalently dommaint. Venus and Mars are more "populist" but still on good terms with Earth and won't seceed unless their is World War whatever. And the Gas Giant's being hubs of "hostile" beliefs which in my case would be racial-based Facism,Marxist divirvied systems and theoarcies of various sects. With Mercury and the Kupiler belt being Earth and Gas giant backed colonists fighting each other, research bases and military installations.
I personally favor every planet or moon having a few factions based on it representing different things. The Empire of Hellenia on Mars, The Socialist Union of North America on Earth, The Commonwealth of Tharsis on Mars, Jacksport on Europa, The New Roman Empire on Earth, The Federation of Feldoun on Venus, The Pact of Iron and the Pact of Gold competing for the asteroid belt, Etc.
Well if were to give some criticisms of your factions and i'm hope you open to them 1: The Empire of Hellenia. Aka Sparta/Athens in Space. Presumably Sparta has they always been warriors, Despite Athens being much more imperial ambitions in it's peak, but i'm getting off track. It's weird that classical Greek influence tends to show up in Space empires. Despite many would have many more concerns other than fighting wars with each other especially in it's early phase, than survival. Maybe if you treat it as a beacon for Mars's scientists and intellectuals wanting to study the planet and perverse it than settle it into Earth 2.0 or mine it's resources. Than Mars being the center of the most militarized civilization is both cliche and kind of ridiculous 2: The Socialist Union of North America on Earth, What the F***. For one thing it's doubtful socialism will survive a post-industrial/colonial base economy. Where North America, Home of two the most capital rich countries. The US and Canada. Along with a possibility industrialized Mexico that projected by some will be overall wealthier than Russia or Japan in 2050. Not to mention the lack of support Socialism has in past and present in the region outside of a few regional enclaves like Quebec,Oaxaca and New England.Even if some groups are growing. They seek reform in the system, not revolution. North America is generally hostile to generally collectivist-based ideologies and prefer individualism. East Asia is more like to have a pan-socialist union of some kind. Due to presence of China. 3: Commonwealth of Tharsis, Commonwealth implies a Anglo-American/British heritage. Maybe a country set up by refugees from North America and Europe by political upheavals and is a bastion of liberalism. 4: Jacksport :Not sure what it is. 5: The New Roman Empire on Earth. Behold the greatest dumb cliche in Science Fiction. The Roman Emprie in *Space* . I have not real ideal how the Roman Empire would be revived. The idea of a Roman Empire as a state has been discredited for centuries. It would require uniting Dozens if not hundreds of different ethnic,linguistic and religious groups, many by force. Would require the conquests of much Europe,The Middle East and North Africa. Home to very advance militates and economies and even if would be successful. It would require extensive rebuilding on the scale of the Marshal Plan. But this time most of the world might be openly hostile to you and in long term how would the country project power into space if all of the emperors keep getting assassinated, Generals starting civil wars and all of that jazz. That must do wonders for stability. 5: The Federation of Feldoun. Sounds vaguely east Asian.Good news is you mentioned East Asia in a non-negative light, Bad news is their are no federal systems in East Asia. Discounting Indonesia. 6: Why are two "Pacts" fighting over the asteroid belt. Wouldn't it be better if they were Megacorpartions. Rather than two ambiguous alliances with members i'm not sure about. 7: Let's See, No Latin America, Africa, Eastern European (Maybe), Middle Eastern, Indian or Southeast Asian nations/regions mentioned.
1. I was thinking about the region called the Hellenic depression on mars. 2. I wanted something with the initials SUNA, and I found one that works. Was picturing a rapidly collapsing pseudo-government set up by rebels after the collapse of a space America. Like: French Revolution style everything is on fire, then tyranny. 3. I like that idea. 4. Some rich guy settled people on the planet: eventually it became a major trading hub, and neutral ground for other powers on the moon. 5. I’m picturing a religious fascistic state that keeps people under the emperor’s control with propaganda, drugs and mind control. 5. I just jumbled some letters together and thought it sounded good. 6. No idea. Throwing shit at the wall. I find megacorps boring. I’m picturing something like Warsaw vs NATO in the Cold War. 7. I drew a map that has New Rome extending from west Mediterranean to North Aftrica to Brazil, and the rest in vaguely similar shapes under a coalition against Rome that includes the rest of Africa and either China or India or both (unlikely). I need to develop that more.
The entire plot of this game took place within a day (roughly). There's gonna people in this universe who were blacked out for an entire 24 hours and would've never noticed *an intersolar war* was happening as they slept.
Infinite Warfare's universe seemed genuinely cool and thought-out, it's such a shame that's it considered a "throw-away" by Activision and the COD community at large.
I seriously want this faction to appear again. It was so interesting and I was wondering the whole time why they were so cruel, even to their own. It would also have been interesting to see why Koch thought the way he did.
I like what you did with this video. If your going to do more of call of duty, can you please do the Atlas Corporation, task force 141, and task force STALKER.
Were only watching this because we love the Templin institute Lets face it no one cares about what the video is about were Just happy to another one. Keep em coming Guys loving em.
This was an awesome video. I loved Infinite Warfare's story, it was one of the best COD campaigns ever. Can you do a video on the Altas Corporation from COD Advanced Warfare?
What this game did good was that you are now fighting against aliens which means that all countries of the earth can finally work together instead of fighting each other
IW was my very first Call of Duty game. I greatly enjoyed taking down SDF soldiers left and right the same way I enjoyed killing Nazis in Wolfenstein. And all this backstory just make those memories all the more satisfying. Seriously, recruited kids at 12 years olds!? These people needed to be put down. Shame there is not gonna be a sequel.
Noah Caldwell Gervais pointed out that this game was very similar in tone to Space: Above and Beyond, so I instantly became way more interested in playing it.
I don't know if it's common for the Templin Institute to speculate, but the ending of this video is wrong. The SDF did not capitulate, their offensive capability has been crippled (As was the UNSA's alongside their defensive too). It's likely both sides will take years to rearm and repair the damage the war has caused, but due to SetDef's nature, they will still be locked in Infinite Warfare.
Who’s going to feast on Earth’s sky and drink their river’s dry? The SDF! Who’s going to stomp their mountains into fine Martian dust? The SDF! Until the rain falls hard on Olympus Mons, who are we?
Now I love Infninite Warfare's campaign, but the SDF is made so over the top evil it's actually fucking hilarious. I remember the Operation Deep Execute mission where you hear the SDF soldiers interacting behind lines, I actually snickered at their dialogue just because of how overly dickish and crazy it was that they were just casually talking about how much they wanted to go to combat and slaughter shit.
I kinda headcanon that they're all jacked up on some Hyperpervitin. That's also why their command talks in circles (noticeable, if you stay on top of the room with command for a bit).
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Witcher 3? Now I'm deffinetly double-following.
Do some titanfall stuff that would be awesome.
@The Templin Institute; After watching this video, I wonder why the Greater Terran Union already an authoritarian and militarist civilization that values and glorifies wars in high regard has yet to colonize Mars, the so called planet of war. Maybe you should do that for your next Stellaris stream it may even help with the war effort and the you vassalization of the Algans. Plus it would be symbolic as the GTU has finally brought life to the planet once again inspiring the citizens with the tales of old and the reminder of those who fought the Tyrum to lead to the GTU formation. Terra Invicta!!
Make a video of the evil destroyer of Earth......BUY N LARGEEEE
Yo should make a video on the SCP Foundation
IW is a perfect representation of the War in the Pacific in WW2.
Think about it: crippling a larger fleet in an opening attack, making massive gains, being crippling in one battle, being outcompeted industrially
Except that really shouldn't be the case. The SDF has ships left, there's canonically ships that survived. SATO doesn't. This means all of SATO's shipping should be able to just be blockaded. It's more as if the Japanese pressed a button that deleted 100% of the US fleet at the cost of 80% of their own. All those colonies retribution took over? Taken back. What's SATO going to do about it, they literally have no Navy.
@rolfneve ☝️🤓
*The Templin Institute:* Makes the SDF sound cool
*Also The Templin Institute:* The SDF makes no sense
@Eduard Kung Would have made more sense if the SDF were made into the 'Good' guys. Earth needs resources to survive. The SDF needs those resources to make Mars habitable. Earth took those resources that SDF mined. Also make Shohreh Aghdashloo the head of SATO.
@@mattstorm360 i mean the only bad thing the SDF did is killing innocent civillians
@@tsarbombawithinternetconne875 which the earth also did .
@@mattstorm360 And yes, hail avasarala
@@Demicleas Yeah but Earth has better propaganda.
Mars: We will kill Earthers.
Earth: We will protect people.*
*So long as they people support Earth.
The sad thing is that this world and its story line have died. Personally this has the best story and world since the end of the Modern Warfare series. It felt like a massive step forward for COD. The multipolayer was crap but it is on nearly every COD since its run and gun with zero tactics. But this series on a world and story level had so much potential that will sadly be squandered.
I feel so bad for the writers. They really wanted to set this universe up as a series. I almost want them to let Infinity Ward go and make their own franchise based on the IW universe and have it not be under the CoD label. They can then put Raven Software in so they still have the three year. I just want a movie or a book or something on the IW universe.
Infinite Warfare honestly inspired me to write a sci fi story that takes strong inspiration from what was in IW. I absolutely love this game to death and it's truly underrated. It has a solid foundation for lore and it truly should be a sub series of CoD games, or it could become it's own series completely cut off from the CoD brand. I truly believe the writers did the best they could given the fact it's still a CoD game and not something like Halo, Killzone, or TitanFall. But imagine what could've been had they been given more time.
@@Pwophet_of_Twuth How's it called?
I cant be the only one who enjoyed Infinite Warfare's campaign.
TheCommunistDragon nope
I thought I wouldn’t like it. I was blown away but how polished it seemed.
I liked the campaign
Tristan Sudarto agreed.
Timeline needs to be worked on though
I gess it was pretty good maybe not great
Funny how Cod basically did the Expanse but combined the OPA and martians ito one :D
And even added a touch of Gundam for good measure ^^
It's been done in EVE Online with the Gallente (Earth) and the Caldari (Mars) as well. It's trope heavy yes, but its not bad either, since most Sci-Fi is closer to Star Wars and Star trek than this, it's not Cliche.
I was thinking the same thing. I heard Expanse is based off of an old novel but I havent found iut the name of it yet.
I think Killzone is a much much more analogous franchise. the second war between Vekta and Helghan played out almost exactly like Infinite Warfare.
Its a series of Novels under the same name.
Some might saw this Defence Front is......Settled!
Well done my chap, well done.
(The Who's we won't be fooled again plays)
I see what ya did there ❤
Shame we’ll never learn more about them since COD’s world building is disposable.
If only this was a new IP.
ikr? And I'm usually just a BF player. I really liked this specific approach to scifi-warfare =) But...not necessarily under the COD franchise.
It is a shame since they're......you know dead as a star fairing nation after the last attack on their shipyard.
They lost a great deal of ships, flagship, their only known major shipyard in orbit around mars, as well as all those soldiers and officers. All this while the UNSA has been rebuilding with a likely superior industrial capacity and now they cant pull the same trick they tried during fleet weak so if they come knocking on earths door the planetary guns will tear them to shreds.
The UNSA probably did when they first colonized mars. These guys arent too bright in some departments.
Infinity Ward stated that they wanted Infinite Warfare to be its own sub series. I don't think it'll happen thanks to the negative reaction but i'd really like to see the rest of the series, mostly to see how the narrative expands.
I honestly like the SDF a lot in terms of design. They do indeed take things way too far in that they want to kinda exterminate all people on Earth and it's colonies, but they started out similar to the OPA in the Expanse: they simply wanted to be treated fairly by the Earth. It kinda makes you think about how the Earth found itself in the situation they're in during the story, and how both sides aren't necessarily the most benevolent.
In terms of design, I like their emphasis on efficiency and utilitarianism. Their main small arms system consists of all energy weapons that look similar and likely have similar parts, them having an machine gun, rifle, and shotgun based on the same design, as well as a ballistic submachine gun based on an old earth design. Their vehicles and robots all have a similar look as well following this. Their structures, especially their space elevator and shipyard, look absolutely stunning and fit very well within their common design ethos.
Their warships are also quite varied and seem to follow a more intentional approach at fleet composition. Their destroyers are very versatile and have a good mix of anti-ship and anti-fighter weaponry. Their carriers have powerful anti-ship weapons as well allowing them to engage warships and defend themselves while launching fighters. The Olympus Mons combines an extremely powerful main armament capable of destroying most ships and buildings in one shot with good fighter carrying capabilities. Lastly, the Ajax corvettes are great patrol ships which are also able to be used en masse even in atmosphere to defend ships and installations from fighters. It also helps that all their ships look good too.
In-game their gun choice is done very lazy, much less distinct than Makarov's faction. They should use more Volksturmgewehrs and projectile guns to have a stronger flavor.
@@teslashark Makarov's faction? You mean Modern Warfare 2 and 3's Inner Circle?
teslashark SDF prefers Plasma or Energy weapons man
Kris Handsome agreed. They look cool and seem very plausible. Save their suit design. If UNSA can make more compact suits that function like they do I’m surprised they didn’t take and somewhat improve on that by adding greater element resistant parts to it.
But I agree all of them seem like a very plausible thing for a nation that has less manpower to use. The more versatile ships can probably pull above their weight. Likewise their direct energy guns can recharge instead of having to manufacture bullets which can help a lot.
Their problem is Idiotic leaders.
Kotch was a madman who should have been demoted
Strider 1: Trigger They are in no way justified in trying to literally wipe out all human life on earth.
Scolar Visari just pressed F to pay his respects
Never again will we bow before them. Never again endure their oppression. We will fight them as one hand one arm one soul. We will shatter their dreams and haunt heir nighmares. watering our ancesters grave with their blood. And as our last breath taires at their lungs as we rise again from the ashes of our cities they will know Helghan belongs to the Helghast.
So, the United Nations Space something declared war on colonial separatists Eh?
Doesn't sound familiar at all.
Nah a bunch of nut jobs on mars declared war on earth for some reason.
Duh, it's a common trope that is realistic
Pfft, that's crazy. Now children being forced to train as soldiers from a young age? *That* sounds familiar.
Gundam
@@davidtarnawski9904 Hmmm, does one child love to damage or destroy ancient artifacts?
Only the Templin Institute can make CoD seem interesting.
this. they turned stupid lore into an interesting video
You’re just too narrow to notice a good story when it presents itself to you
I can’t agree anymore honestly...I honestly forgot cod existed til this vid popped up lol
Get off the hate wagon. COD Multiplayer has gone to crap, but the Single player campaigns have always been good. They are far more engaging and interesting than the campaigns Battlefield etc put out.
I honestly thought Infinite Warfare had the most fun and interesting campaign in the franchise since the first Black Ops. Big Red One was my favorite CoD prior to those two. I would actually buy these games if the campaigns were always so engaging, and if I could stand the multiplayer.
SDF did nothing wrong; Mars Aeternum.
Glad to see these folks getting some attention. Underrated faction from an underrated game, both of which could have benefited greatly from more worldbuilding.
I would love to see a return to the universe of Infinite Warfare, maybe to explore the backstory of the SDF and see how they rose to become such a powerful force. Unfortunately, we'll likely never get that, thanks to its reception at the time.
ThatOneKid0203 Yeah, it's a real shame; the universe has a lot of potential. Would've gotten a lot less hate were it under another franchise or IP, after all, the only real connection it has to any other cod other than a few Easter eggs is its name. One idea that I thought would be interesting for a sequel would be that Reyes is recovered half-dead over Mars and is brainwashed into becoming part of the SDF. Missions would revolve around killing his former allies until he realizes what's up and snaps out of it. Give us some mind fuckery; kinda like something similar to the original black ops.
The United Nations has only upheld its laws and charters. Terra Invicta!
True ..wish the game didn't use cod name .. Activision really need a new ip ..I mean they could use this and do it
I mean, they basically just watered down the Helgan Army and replaced most of the clever writing from that series with stickers on the enemies' chests saying "We're the bad guys"
I actually really enjoyed this game in particular from the newer cod games tbh but I would love to see a youtuber break down the ships and vehicles of the game sorta like space dock does don’t know if you guys would be interested tho
Same dude, I’d kill for an episode on the Olympus Mons or Retribution
Glad you chose to infiltrate the SDF, they’re an underrated fraction for an underrated campaign. I would love to see this universe expanded with more world building as it has so much potential, though given this games reception at release I highly doubt that we will get a sequel.
I wonder how the Templin Institute managed to Infiltrate the SDF in the first place...
I honestly love the SDF's emblem.
Same and I am the commander of the entire team
@@SDFBLACKOP2026CJWmars aeternum
"We wan't a CoD with a good story!"
Infinite warfare: * exists *
"The multuplayer is garbage, let's ignore the decent story and make the game fail."
Mate the story was shit and had lacklustre worldbuilding let’s be honest
Chlorin oh please.
Ironically enough (or rather business as usual) the game still sold well
Chiron Covear no it wasn’t
@@ArcturusOTE its a 'call of duty' game, at one point the trailer was the most disliked game in youtube, but during that time it was still selling like hot cakes. game doesnt warrant that amount of hate tho, i remember that time how bf1 was clearly the superior choice, i played both, and both by far is one of the weakest in its respective title, battlefield 1 campaign was stellar, hell it has one of the best soundtrack, and storyline was short but well done but god awful multiplayer, infinite has interesting world arround its story accompanied by weak plot and subpar antagonist, and the side quest makes this game linear structure even more obvious.
I actually really liked the universe that was set up in COD: Infinite Warfare.
Also as a Halo fan, it is similar to the Interplanetary Wars that took place before humanity became an interstellar species.
Glad to see Infinite Warfare getting some attention. It's a very underrated game with a solid single-player campaign that is often overlooked. It reminded me of a time when CoD games also focused on bringing great single-player experiences.
The SDF will rise again, so we may get a sequel.
Mars Aeternum.
Death is no disgrace..... Mars aeternum!
I realized that Mars Aeternum basically means "Mars Forever" which technically means "War Forever" which then is basically "Infinite War"
*mind blown*
@@ComradeDragon1957
Dang, did they do that on purpose... probably not.
ttemicraft FTW surely they did that on purpose.
TheCommunistDragon you didnt 'realise' its one of those facts given to you on the death screen lol
You know what? I really enjoyed this campaign, it was one of the best in Call of Duty and for some ot reminds me a lot of the Universal Century timeline in Gundam. It's a shame we will probably never going to see how the story will continue.
Ah, my favorite COD game! I was asking for this! This game has what I think are the most realistic ships in any sci-fi setting I’ve been interested in
I am not going to lie I really like call of duty infante war.
ya not gonna lie it was my fav cod game this is coming from someone that really only plays the single player
Immolation Liquidation the guns were my favorite
Me too! Till today I don't understand why it got hated so much
Same
And i normally dont like cod
Olympus mons, go flight!
Infinite Warfare is underrated
I remember when people went "Reee" over Call of Duty being in space instead of a certain gender and people of a certain racial heritage being in a certain first person shooter game.
Battlefield V?
@@IkeFanBoy64 Yes.
People getting all up in arms over female soldiers is so annoying. Achievement Hunter talked about why this was so stupid on their Off Topic Podcast
Oh, so every single WWII game has to be 100% historically accurate?
DEATH IS NO DISGRACE!!!
Despite having a lot of cliches and a fairly poor villian, this was easily the best Call of Duty campaign since Modern Warfare 1 & 2, in my opinion. Advanced Warfare was alright, but not great and I never really cared for the black ops or ghosts stuff. For Infinite Warfare though, the team of main protagonists were all pretty well fleshed out and even though the campaign was somewhat non-linear, it didn't take away from the overall story. I kinda would have liked a more definitive conclusion (Having both sides lose their entire fleets and then casually mentioning that Earth just kinda ended up winning the war is a little lame), but, hey, fuck those Martians, they should have never picked a fight with "Earf", lol
It doesn't really say Earth won, though.
Calvin_Coolage Well they probably left it open ended for a sequel, but that’s likely up in the air whether that’s gonna happen considering everyone bitched about going back to a World War II setting... and we saw how well that turned out, lol 😒
To be honest I like this game more then battlefield 1
Me too
Yeah, I’ll take the MCR over the SDF any day.
+ThatGuy Depends. If Donny manages to catch 'Mons at long range (maybe, when it has some problems with drop engine) - she can pummel the Kotch's flagship with railguns and torpedoes with no big problems. If Olympus manages to influx in-close - a single shot of the Focused Spectral Array cannon makes a huge, deep dent from the bow of MCRN pride to the aft.
Deploying Manly Tears
Oscar Mike> All CoD protagonists
I mean, Reznov
What about Oscar from the Office?
I love the SDF aesthetic.
Why do the villians have the best riz, cant wear black and red without making a character look like henchman from a villian faction.
I liked Infinite Warfare's idea to reverse the whole "Earth is Bad - Mars is Good" that permeates almost every Mars vs Earth story in Sci-Fi.
Thank you.I felt in early stages of a celestial human civilisation. Earth and the moon would be the center of "establishment" poltics like my preferred future ideology,Tecnholiberalism. Or what ever is the ideology equivalently dommaint. Venus and Mars are more "populist" but still on good terms with Earth and won't seceed unless their is World War whatever. And the Gas Giant's being hubs of "hostile" beliefs which in my case would be racial-based Facism,Marxist divirvied systems and theoarcies of various sects. With Mercury and the Kupiler belt being Earth and Gas giant backed colonists fighting each other, research bases and military installations.
I personally favor every planet or moon having a few factions based on it representing different things.
The Empire of Hellenia on Mars,
The Socialist Union of North America on Earth,
The Commonwealth of Tharsis on Mars,
Jacksport on Europa,
The New Roman Empire on Earth,
The Federation of Feldoun on Venus,
The Pact of Iron and the Pact of Gold competing for the asteroid belt,
Etc.
Well if were to give some criticisms of your factions and i'm hope you open to them
1: The Empire of Hellenia. Aka Sparta/Athens in Space. Presumably Sparta has they always been warriors, Despite Athens being much more imperial ambitions in it's peak, but i'm getting off track. It's weird that classical Greek influence tends to show up in Space empires. Despite many would have many more concerns other than fighting wars with each other especially in it's early phase, than survival. Maybe if you treat it as a beacon for Mars's scientists and intellectuals wanting to study the planet and perverse it than settle it into Earth 2.0 or mine it's resources. Than Mars being the center of the most militarized civilization is both cliche and kind of ridiculous
2: The Socialist Union of North America on Earth, What the F***. For one thing it's doubtful socialism will survive a post-industrial/colonial base economy. Where North America, Home of two the most capital rich countries. The US and Canada. Along with a possibility industrialized Mexico that projected by some will be overall wealthier than Russia or Japan in 2050. Not to mention the lack of support Socialism has in past and present in the region outside of a few regional enclaves like Quebec,Oaxaca and New England.Even if some groups are growing. They seek reform in the system, not revolution. North America is generally hostile to generally collectivist-based ideologies and prefer individualism. East Asia is more like to have a pan-socialist union of some kind. Due to presence of China.
3: Commonwealth of Tharsis, Commonwealth implies a Anglo-American/British heritage. Maybe a country set up by refugees from North America and Europe by political upheavals and is a bastion of liberalism.
4: Jacksport :Not sure what it is.
5: The New Roman Empire on Earth. Behold the greatest dumb cliche in Science Fiction. The Roman Emprie in *Space* . I have not real ideal how the Roman Empire would be revived. The idea of a Roman Empire as a state has been discredited for centuries. It would require uniting Dozens if not hundreds of different ethnic,linguistic and religious groups, many by force. Would require the conquests of much Europe,The Middle East and North Africa. Home to very advance militates and economies and even if would be successful. It would require extensive rebuilding on the scale of the Marshal Plan. But this time most of the world might be openly hostile to you and in long term how would the country project power into space if all of the emperors keep getting assassinated, Generals starting civil wars and all of that jazz. That must do wonders for stability.
5: The Federation of Feldoun. Sounds vaguely east Asian.Good news is you mentioned East Asia in a non-negative light, Bad news is their are no federal systems in East Asia. Discounting Indonesia.
6: Why are two "Pacts" fighting over the asteroid belt. Wouldn't it be better if they were Megacorpartions. Rather than two ambiguous alliances with members i'm not sure about.
7: Let's See, No Latin America, Africa, Eastern European (Maybe), Middle Eastern, Indian or Southeast Asian nations/regions mentioned.
1. I was thinking about the region called the Hellenic depression on mars.
2. I wanted something with the initials SUNA, and I found one that works. Was picturing a rapidly collapsing pseudo-government set up by rebels after the collapse of a space America. Like: French Revolution style everything is on fire, then tyranny.
3. I like that idea.
4. Some rich guy settled people on the planet: eventually it became a major trading hub, and neutral ground for other powers on the moon.
5. I’m picturing a religious fascistic state that keeps people under the emperor’s control with propaganda, drugs and mind control.
5. I just jumbled some letters together and thought it sounded good.
6. No idea. Throwing shit at the wall. I find megacorps boring. I’m picturing something like Warsaw vs NATO in the Cold War.
7. I drew a map that has New Rome extending from west Mediterranean to North Aftrica to Brazil, and the rest in vaguely similar shapes under a coalition against Rome that includes the rest of Africa and either China or India or both (unlikely). I need to develop that more.
I’ve been worldbuilding a sci-fi setting for fun for a while now, some of the names are in that and a few are random.
The Greater Martian Union would be a greater name for the SDF
Excuse me while I shamelessly and quietly steal this name.
See you in court then buddy
SDF works better on a propagandic level, though.
GMU definitely sounds like the protagonist faction as opposed to the SDF which comes across as more militaristic and oppressive
Up the Martian Congressional Republic, down with the Earthers
I’d your doing CoD stuff maybe try the Federation from ghosts
The entire plot of this game took place within a day (roughly).
There's gonna people in this universe who were blacked out for an entire 24 hours and would've never noticed *an intersolar war* was happening as they slept.
1 day, batman can barely save (part of) a city in one night.
The Federation from Cod Ghosts would be awesome because that one is also underrated just like the SDF and similiar in a lot of ways
Infinite Warfare's universe seemed genuinely cool and thought-out, it's such a shame that's it considered a "throw-away" by Activision and the COD community at large.
Yeah you're right. It still seems a shame, I could get into an Advanced Warfare franchise.
Yeah they should, both were good games, with a foot in creating a new, and interesting series.
I seriously want this faction to appear again. It was so interesting and I was wondering the whole time why they were so cruel, even to their own. It would also have been interesting to see why Koch thought the way he did.
It's just indoctrination from birth
That was a waste of use of Jon Snow...
The North will always remember that...
Great video guys!
Wow this was very well done! You really know something, remember, death is no disgrace.
As a person who uses his imagination to wonder what it would be like to live in these alternate worlds, I am so glad I discovered this channel!
"reduced to a footnote in history" dannggggg thats a big slap in the face to the SDF. nice.
"You lack what it takes to win this war." Mars Aeternum!
The most interesting COD ever. This is what it felt to be earth soldier battling MCRN just like in The Expanse.
Everyone gangsta till the martians get tired of the bullying
So, the SDF is basically the Infinite Warfare's equivalent of Thirteen Colonies.
And the entire lore is just a futuristic version of the 1900s
@@josh_Car Interesting, I never thought about it that way.
i wish they made an art or lore book for this game, i want to learn more about this setting they made
Same here.
We have Martian Congressional Republic at home
I like what you did with this video. If your going to do more of call of duty, can you please do the Atlas Corporation, task force 141, and task force STALKER.
Do the World Government from One Piece!
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Death is no disgrace!
Mars Aeternum!
Earth VS Mars is always my favorite sci-fi.
SDF=Bortherhood of nod in infinite warfare
UNSA=GDI in infinite warfare
You guys really have to do the Martian Congressional Republic in The Expanse universe next.
unexpected, but a welcome one
Were only watching this because we love the Templin institute Lets face it no one cares about what the video is about were Just happy to another one. Keep em coming Guys loving em.
“I want to head to the belt to join the OPA.” “We have an OPA at home.” *The OPA at home.*
We are the fleet that guards the realms of Mars.
This was an awesome video. I loved Infinite Warfare's story, it was one of the best COD campaigns ever. Can you do a video on the Altas Corporation from COD Advanced Warfare?
What this game did good was that you are now fighting against aliens which means that all countries of the earth can finally work together instead of fighting each other
IW was my very first Call of Duty game. I greatly enjoyed taking down SDF soldiers left and right the same way I enjoyed killing Nazis in Wolfenstein.
And all this backstory just make those memories all the more satisfying. Seriously, recruited kids at 12 years olds!? These people needed to be put down.
Shame there is not gonna be a sequel.
Noah Caldwell Gervais pointed out that this game was very similar in tone to Space: Above and Beyond, so I instantly became way more interested in playing it.
Mars Aeternum!
I actually enjoyed the game.
I don't know if it's common for the Templin Institute to speculate, but the ending of this video is wrong. The SDF did not capitulate, their offensive capability has been crippled (As was the UNSA's alongside their defensive too). It's likely both sides will take years to rearm and repair the damage the war has caused, but due to SetDef's nature, they will still be locked in Infinite Warfare.
Humanity is locked in infinite warefare
Who’s going to feast on Earth’s sky and drink their river’s dry? The SDF! Who’s going to stomp their mountains into fine Martian dust? The SDF! Until the rain falls hard on Olympus Mons, who are we?
I just got this the day before yesterday. How the hell can this channel be so convenient? XD
Death is no disgrace!!!! Mares Eternum!!!
Damn I feel like I'be heard this kind of world building in 90% of the hard sci-fi litterature
Imagine if it took place in the same universe as the original Red Faction.
'Get your ass to mars'. That made my day XD
Anyone remember using the F-spar?
Yeah
"You may Fire when Ready."
Yep
"I am become death, destroyer of worlds"
"Damn that's bright."
Remember, every confirmed kill is a credit towards citizenship.
Also, SetDef uniforms are smexy
I love all of your videos. Very professional and they are full of useful information. I would love to see your take on Moonbase Alpha from Space: 1999
The COD ip was really what held this game back from succeeding. Just imagine if Infinity Ward had more than three years to develop the game.
1 Mil Special: Templin Institute focuses on... ITSELF.
Hell no you aren’t I loved it especially the fighter pilot missions
So they're basically the Principality of Zeon from Gundam.
The SDF are the good guys
sdf did nothing wrong
The Singleplayer Campaign was interesting, I personally liked it, but it's world is very wacky.
Earth aeternum!
The SDF - the Terran Federation of CoD (Blake’s 7)
SDF,SetDef, and Settlement Defense Front.
I've said iy before and I'll say it again, I want an IW sequel
You need to do a video on the Principality of Zeon.
Infinite Warfare was the best Call of Duty since MW2 fight me
Why? You're not wrong
No one's gonna fight you because you're right
Probably the most interesting CoD I’ve ever seen. Might give it a shot someday if it’s on PC
It is. Its CoD it's always been on PC since 2003.
It is, but fair warning the mp is dead on pc, so only buy it if its on sale
Suggestion : Forrunners ( halo ) or the SCP foundation
Man this game really does reflect the real world I hope something like this doesn't happened
If you're on the subject of Martian-based governments, please do the Red Faction and/or Earth Defense Force from Red Faction: Guerilla.
Enemies: Russians, Chinese, Latins, Germans, high tech PMCs, Martians.
Peace to the fallen and take that SDF. Mother earth aeternum.
This is basically Mobile Suit Gundam in Call of Duty
SWSC1 aka Olympus Mons. Captain Admiral Salon Kotch
It is sad that we fell but we will rise again.
*Mars Aeternum!*
They are very similar to the Helgast Empire in Killzone
Now I love Infninite Warfare's campaign, but the SDF is made so over the top evil it's actually fucking hilarious. I remember the Operation Deep Execute mission where you hear the SDF soldiers interacting behind lines, I actually snickered at their dialogue just because of how overly dickish and crazy it was that they were just casually talking about how much they wanted to go to combat and slaughter shit.
I kinda headcanon that they're all jacked up on some Hyperpervitin. That's also why their command talks in circles (noticeable, if you stay on top of the room with command for a bit).
@@caav56no they just snorted mars sand, that shit makes you higher that than a spaceship man
It is very realistic if what may happen in humanities future
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