I find it hard to explain how brilliant I find the soundtrack for this game. This _sounds_ tragic. It _sounds_ hollow, and empty, in the way that one who has lost everything feels. It's a shame this game never got much public traction, because it truly is a work of art.
Ikr , the first 2 min of this OST is so freaking depressing, it feels like we are witnessing the beginning of mutually assured destruction slowly unfolding in front of our eyes ,when ICBM are raining down on cities
I mean in nuclear war half the war would be fought between space stations and there'd be alot nuking satellites with ICBMs so not even the astronauts would really survive
@@genericwhitekidthesecond4330 you're saying shit there is like no way we can store nuclear warheads on space stations the cost is too much and its not worth it and the space stations have no military point at all so it would be a waste of a missile and they also wouldnt use icbms and they mostly would use sattelite busters FOR SATTELITES not uselless space stations
@@genericwhitekidthesecond4330 ICBMs are incapable of targeting objects in orbit, they're designed to hit land targets and they just happen to go into space to do so.
And that is how the world came to end , it takes thousands of years to build the civilization and only takes less than a day to turn it into dusts The things that await humanity up ahead after the dusts have settled and the intense flashes of light have faded away are silence , darkness , famine , death , agony and suffering
It's a shame that even though it only takes one day of suffering to end a civilization. It takes countless days of toil and suffering to maintain civilization. Is it worth it?
This was the track playing when my HOI4 TNO game ended in thermonuclear war and the world burned, reading a story event of a mother's last thoughts as she hugged her children tight with the sirens blaring around her. I struggled to sleep that night lmao
@@justhere4637 Yeah people are like "the world will end in ww3". The World ended with WW1 and the world ended again with WW2. The world will end again in WW3 but there'll be another world after that.
The Astronaut's radio goes silent. They peer through the window of the space station, and see where Houston used to be. There is only a huge flash of white light. They look around at the globe, and sees small trails of smoke racing across America. They hit their targets in LA, Pheonix, Las Vegas, and Portland. Huge flashes of white light melt the cities away. He looks in horror as his home country is turned into rubble. More flashes of white light ploom across the nation. "What happened..." He whimpers to himself. He looks at Jacksonville, where his family is. Almost instantly, he sees ICBMs racing towards Miami, Orlando, and Jacksonville. The bombs hit their targets. He screams in horror as he realizes that his entire family is gone. He grips the glass with his hand, and cries. "The only winning move is to not play." -Joshua, "Wargames"
His wife: Stands in the living room holding her youngest son. The other plays with his toys on the floor. Too young to know the horrors that are coming. The mother is frightened. She holds her children crying…sobbing for her husband is not with her….but in her mind he is. Standing and embracing her. The president addresses the nation. God helps us all…the tv turns to static as the flash pierces through the living room windows…she holds her children so tight…I love you alfred…I will see you soon….the blast wave caves the house…incinerating everything in its path…..Alfred on the space station, seeing the Jacksonville bound icbm screams in silence and slams his fist in anguish into the glass….gone are the days he would tell his wife he loved her…as they all realize they are now trapped…in an eternal loop….player 2 has won the game….but at what cost….
I kinda was startled at the mention of Jacksonville, my hometown, even more so that the astronaut that is being portrayed does too. Well, it does make sense that the city will be struck, 3 major military bases and a international airport.
Billions of years of life developing, millions of years of human evolution, thousands of years of technological progress, all ended within the span of a couple hours
The European fighter pilot flies over the Mediterranean preparing to intercept an African stealth bomber. He fires his missiles, and a flash in the distance indicates the bomber’s demise. As he turns around heading back to base in Italy, a much larger flash indicates the death of 4 million citizens of Cairo. He flies back over the Mediterranean, with many more flashes visible on the horizon. An entire carrier group vaporized by an ICBM strike. Irradiated battleships falling into the depths. As he sees another flash in the distance, he realizes that there may be no place to land in Rome because it no longer exists. Suddenly, he gets a warning on his HUD and in moments his fighter is going down in flames, hit by a Russian ground to air missile. He parachutes into a forest somewhere in Greece. In the distance, Athens burns with atomic fire. He makes his way over to his wrecked jet. He looks up to see an African ICBM streaking through the sky to annihilate a radar installation in Bulgaria. He hears the sounds of treads and rumbling engines in the distance. He climbs a tree to see a tank division rumbling towards the front. Then, he looks up to see the trail of a Russian ICBM streaking towards him. In moments he is dead, along with the entire cavalry division and all the nearby forest. As the invincible cameraman flies up into the sky, one can see missiles streaking towards their destinations, cities in flames, the end of human civilization. But as the camera pans further away, it becomes harder to recognize any sign of humanity at all. As the camera passes the Moon, one can only see faint pinpricks of light on the dark side of the earth. And as the camera gets further and further away, the Earth looks as if humans never walked its surface. Player 3 has won the game.
player 3 could have been any of the mentioned countries. But it does not matter, for the earth is devastated by the nuclear hellfire, and it will be decades until most areas are habitable enough to safely walk the surface. The remains of humanity shelter underground or far away from cities, and the scattered subsistence farmers have forgotten about the great European Union, the African Collective is a mere tribal myth among the desert peoples and the Russian SSRs are only remembered in crumbling books locked in underground vaults.
DATE: [IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII] TIME, EST: 13:46 Communication is cut off. The captain of the USS "Arkansas" knew what it meant. Defcon 1 had ben announced globally on [IIIIIIIIIII]. Nobody was surprised when they saw stars streak across the sky, Leaving trails of smoke as they mark their way towards their target. Soon, blinding white flashes erupt across the shores of Florida. The captain remembers his family, who lives in Miami. On his radar, the nuclear missiles were homing in on their targets. New York, LA, Chicago. One by one, the signals to each city went blank. The crew didn't *see* the flash of light, the mushroom cloud, or the fallout, but they knw exactly what happened. The next one was caught streaking its way towards Miami. The Captain could only watch in horror as the Anti aircraft helplessly tried to stop the inevitable. After the flash on white, Nearly all of the town was vaporized into fine mist. The captain looked back to see a horrifying mushroom cloud towering over Miami, or at least, what was left of it. It cast a shadow over the city and all of its remains. His family. His friends. Everyone he knew. Gone. He realized the same fate had fallen upon so many others. DATE: [IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII] TIME, EST: 6:32 The captain had accepted the fact his family was dead. It was only a few hours after Miami was destroyed. He hadn't heard from them in over a month before DEFCON 1. He was laying in his room, dead in the mind. The image of the flash of light and the horrific mushroom cloud was burned in his memory. It was interrupted by a phone call. He summoned what little strength he had left to answer. He heard the voice of a woman in her late 30's talking frantically, "Honey, I have the kids in the bunker, are you ok?" His eyes widened "Bunker? Since when did we have a bunker?" She responded, "We haven't spoken to you in so long because we had spent all this time making a doomsday bunker for when... when..." "I know, you have to keep the kids safe, alright? I'll get back to you whenever I can." The captain hung up. Even though he got a happy ending, there were millions who didn't. He needed to help them. DATE: [IIIIIIIIIIIIIII] TIME, EST: [IIIIIIII] He stepped out of the bunker. The former ruins of bustling cities had been taken over by plants and nature. He saw the resilience of life. No matter the odds, humanity, the plants, the animals will keep fighting to keep the flame alive. He thought to himself that maybe, just maybe, that things were going to be okay, after all...
@@SuperpowerBroadcastinghow do you macro multiple launches simultaneously? That's literally the only way I see humans coming close to competing with the AI in this game.
I find it funny that the person who made this music, was Alistair Lindsay. whom is most well known for the Rimworld soundtrack, which the game itself is called a "Warcrime simulator" by the community.
I find it hard to explain how brilliant I find the soundtrack for this game.
This _sounds_ tragic. It _sounds_ hollow, and empty, in the way that one who has lost everything feels.
It's a shame this game never got much public traction, because it truly is a work of art.
Ikr , the first 2 min of this OST is so freaking depressing, it feels like we are witnessing the beginning of mutually assured destruction slowly unfolding in front of our eyes ,when ICBM are raining down on cities
I’ve been streaming this game a lot this year on Twitch. Not many other streamers into DEFCON though
When an astronaut/Cosmonaut sees the world go dark for the very last time knowing the world has ended and he/she is stuck in space. Forever.
I mean in nuclear war half the war would be fought between space stations and there'd be alot nuking satellites with ICBMs so not even the astronauts would really survive
@@genericwhitekidthesecond4330 you're saying shit there is like no way we can store nuclear warheads on space stations the cost is too much and its not worth it and the space stations have no military point at all so it would be a waste of a missile and they also wouldnt use icbms and they mostly would use sattelite busters FOR SATTELITES not uselless space stations
@@genericwhitekidthesecond4330 ICBMs are incapable of targeting objects in orbit, they're designed to hit land targets and they just happen to go into space to do so.
And that is how the world came to end , it takes thousands of years to build the civilization and only takes less than a day to turn it into dusts
The things that await humanity up ahead after the dusts have settled and the intense flashes of light have faded away are silence , darkness , famine , death , agony and suffering
It's a shame that even though it only takes one day of suffering to end a civilization. It takes countless days of toil and suffering to maintain civilization.
Is it worth it?
This was the track playing when my HOI4 TNO game ended in thermonuclear war and the world burned, reading a story event of a mother's last thoughts as she hugged her children tight with the sirens blaring around her.
I struggled to sleep that night lmao
really, its interesting
Humanity - Epilogue
More like American Empire epilogue. Humanity can survive a nuclear war just like humanity survived the ice age, black death and so on.
@@AFGuidesHDBased I guess is the right word? It depends on opinion.
@@justhere4637 Yeah people are like "the world will end in ww3". The World ended with WW1 and the world ended again with WW2. The world will end again in WW3 but there'll be another world after that.
@@AFGuidesHD "american empire"
@@SSimon142 Perhaps you would have preferred the synonym "The West".
The Astronaut's radio goes silent. They peer through the window of the space station, and see where Houston used to be. There is only a huge flash of white light. They look around at the globe, and sees small trails of smoke racing across America. They hit their targets in LA, Pheonix, Las Vegas, and Portland. Huge flashes of white light melt the cities away. He looks in horror as his home country is turned into rubble. More flashes of white light ploom across the nation. "What happened..." He whimpers to himself. He looks at Jacksonville, where his family is. Almost instantly, he sees ICBMs racing towards Miami, Orlando, and Jacksonville. The bombs hit their targets. He screams in horror as he realizes that his entire family is gone. He grips the glass with his hand, and cries.
"The only winning move is to not play."
-Joshua, "Wargames"
damn, that was really good.
His wife:
Stands in the living room holding her youngest son. The other plays with his toys on the floor. Too young to know the horrors that are coming. The mother is frightened. She holds her children crying…sobbing for her husband is not with her….but in her mind he is. Standing and embracing her. The president addresses the nation. God helps us all…the tv turns to static as the flash pierces through the living room windows…she holds her children so tight…I love you alfred…I will see you soon….the blast wave caves the house…incinerating everything in its path…..Alfred on the space station, seeing the Jacksonville bound icbm screams in silence and slams his fist in anguish into the glass….gone are the days he would tell his wife he loved her…as they all realize they are now trapped…in an eternal loop….player 2 has won the game….but at what cost….
First Strike...
I kinda was startled at the mention of Jacksonville, my hometown, even more so that the astronaut that is being portrayed does too. Well, it does make sense that the city will be struck, 3 major military bases and a international airport.
Ladies and Gentlemen. This is loss.
I I I i
I I I _
@@xeanderman6688 perfect
@@acertypewriterguy you've commented on my reaction to your one year old comment. I am impresssssssssssed.
@@xeanderman6688 bro I have no life and always look at my notifications
I’ve been streaming this game on Twitch lately
Billions of years of life developing, millions of years of human evolution, thousands of years of technological progress, all ended within the span of a couple hours
"When the bomb has released, the Cry of Agony became a Sudden Silence"
Madness of mankind,
Unspeakable loss for all,
Please, never again.
Yes
This is very depressing
Yes, that's why I love this song
@@gould5167same
The European fighter pilot flies over the Mediterranean preparing to intercept an African stealth bomber. He fires his missiles, and a flash in the distance indicates the bomber’s demise. As he turns around heading back to base in Italy, a much larger flash indicates the death of 4 million citizens of Cairo. He flies back over the Mediterranean, with many more flashes visible on the horizon. An entire carrier group vaporized by an ICBM strike. Irradiated battleships falling into the depths. As he sees another flash in the distance, he realizes that there may be no place to land in Rome because it no longer exists. Suddenly, he gets a warning on his HUD and in moments his fighter is going down in flames, hit by a Russian ground to air missile. He parachutes into a forest somewhere in Greece. In the distance, Athens burns with atomic fire. He makes his way over to his wrecked jet. He looks up to see an African ICBM streaking through the sky to annihilate a radar installation in Bulgaria. He hears the sounds of treads and rumbling engines in the distance. He climbs a tree to see a tank division rumbling towards the front. Then, he looks up to see the trail of a Russian ICBM streaking towards him. In moments he is dead, along with the entire cavalry division and all the nearby forest. As the invincible cameraman flies up into the sky, one can see missiles streaking towards their destinations, cities in flames, the end of human civilization. But as the camera pans further away, it becomes harder to recognize any sign of humanity at all. As the camera passes the Moon, one can only see faint pinpricks of light on the dark side of the earth. And as the camera gets further and further away, the Earth looks as if humans never walked its surface.
Player 3 has won the game.
"Invincible camera man flies up to the sky" lol
One could only imagine the view from space
what happen to player 3's country after they won the war?
@@jamildacalos6381 they slowly rebuild
player 3 could have been any of the mentioned countries. But it does not matter, for the earth is devastated by the nuclear hellfire, and it will be decades until most areas are habitable enough to safely walk the surface. The remains of humanity shelter underground or far away from cities, and the scattered subsistence farmers have forgotten about the great European Union, the African Collective is a mere tribal myth among the desert peoples and the Russian SSRs are only remembered in crumbling books locked in underground vaults.
RETURN TO YOUR HOMES! TURN BACK! TURN BACK! TURN BACK! (C) threads, 1984
a: did you do it?
b: yes
a: what did it cost?
maybe once humanity ends, in a few billion or trillion years new life will arise, only to destroy themselves like we did
Most people would still be alive though
@@SuperpowerBroadcasting
"once humanity ends"
"Most people would still be alive though"
I don't know about that one, chief.
@@someguy2819 never heard of underground bunkers?
atleast 10 million will survive
@@contingenesis5126
"once humanity ends"
Read that part again and tell me how people are still alive after humanity has ended.
DATE: [IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII] TIME, EST: 13:46
Communication is cut off. The captain of the USS "Arkansas" knew what it meant. Defcon 1 had ben announced globally on [IIIIIIIIIII]. Nobody was surprised when they saw stars streak across the sky, Leaving trails of smoke as they mark their way towards their target. Soon, blinding white flashes erupt across the shores of Florida. The captain remembers his family, who lives in Miami. On his radar, the nuclear missiles were homing in on their targets. New York, LA, Chicago. One by one, the signals to each city went blank. The crew didn't *see* the flash of light, the mushroom cloud, or the fallout, but they knw exactly what happened. The next one was caught streaking its way towards Miami. The Captain could only watch in horror as the Anti aircraft helplessly tried to stop the inevitable. After the flash on white, Nearly all of the town was vaporized into fine mist. The captain looked back to see a horrifying mushroom cloud towering over Miami, or at least, what was left of it. It cast a shadow over the city and all of its remains. His family. His friends. Everyone he knew. Gone. He realized the same fate had fallen upon so many others.
DATE: [IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII] TIME, EST: 6:32
The captain had accepted the fact his family was dead. It was only a few hours after Miami was destroyed. He hadn't heard from them in over a month before DEFCON 1. He was laying in his room, dead in the mind. The image of the flash of light and the horrific mushroom cloud was burned in his memory. It was interrupted by a phone call. He summoned what little strength he had left to answer. He heard the voice of a woman in her late 30's talking frantically, "Honey, I have the kids in the bunker, are you ok?" His eyes widened "Bunker? Since when did we have a bunker?" She responded, "We haven't spoken to you in so long because we had spent all this time making a doomsday bunker for when... when..." "I know, you have to keep the kids safe, alright? I'll get back to you whenever I can."
The captain hung up. Even though he got a happy ending, there were millions who didn't. He needed to help them.
DATE: [IIIIIIIIIIIIIII] TIME, EST: [IIIIIIII]
He stepped out of the bunker. The former ruins of bustling cities had been taken over by plants and nature. He saw the resilience of life. No matter the odds, humanity, the plants, the animals will keep fighting to keep the flame alive. He thought to himself that maybe, just maybe, that things were going to be okay, after all...
DEFCON A.I's are insane af, I only won one time against them ( 1v1v1v1v1
I have the same problem
Awesome game, but too hard...
The AIs are easy. I stream many games against them. I’m looking for real players to challenge now
@@SuperpowerBroadcastinghow do you macro multiple launches simultaneously? That's literally the only way I see humans coming close to competing with the AI in this game.
hoi4 with better nukes: NUKE EVERY FUCKING SUBPROVINCE
Defcon: dead inside wojak
i literaly bombarded every province of a state and there was no population decrease
I find it funny that the person who made this music, was Alistair Lindsay.
whom is most well known for the Rimworld soundtrack, which the game itself is called a "Warcrime simulator" by the community.
This soundtrack si a masterpiece. It really gives you the creepy atmosphere of post apocalyptic world destroyed by nukes.
But now I finally have everything i wanted
you didnt call saul
I worked in a Nuclear base until my boss accuses me of stealing
@@sushiroll9401 say whatever
*So long*
Why they gotta put a Ad at the last one tho?
Lol nuclear war now