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"Has my judgement come so soon?
I had to thrall them all! Traitors siding with the humans! Treason!
Now we are nothing! What was the point of it all?
Have you tried looking after humans? They're monsters!
As they grow in number, so does their capacity for evil, and they won't even notice as they do it.
I was not the monster.

WREEEEEEEEEEE!"

- 'Mad' Cat Lon, old Emperor of the Second Empire, shortly before attacking the player.

Countries are still blocked from buying helldivers 2 even after they walked back the PSN requirements. Back to negative we go

Very funny, the one gripe I have (so far) is that it feels like theres not enough film. More film = more funnies when watching

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There so much hidden stuff that you can pass by. I spent 25 hours in act 1 alone, and still missed things my friends easily found. Act 3 is fantastic though definitely needs a little more time in the oven but still doesn't detract from the awesomeness of this game. 9/10

its alright

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Good simulation game, the tutorials suck though. A lot of my time has been spent google searching why something specific wont work, and a lot of the time there's just no answer. Besides that though, its pretty neat.

I do wish that the AI factions would actually have more organized militaries, as right now it really just feels like a handful of ships come in at awkward times to fight each other. Every so often I can see 2 terran capital ships (Asgard & Tokyo with no fighters lol) moving generally in the same direction, but they dont seem to stay in a formation nor wait for each other. Having an actual battle squadron and/or battle fleet prepare then go through the gates would be awesome to watch. This could be related to economy issues I generally see in my games where there are massive shortages in hull parts and other resources used to build stations and ships that end up crippling some of the nations, but I havent gone far enough in the game to where I am pumping out a lot of resources for them to use.

As a last major grievance (TERRAN QUESTS SPOILER): As of the last time I did it, when the Terran questline gives you the Syn to help Intervention attack the Yaki, it felt very messy and unfinished. It just sends an asgard and tokyo out to invade their systems, and numerous times I've seen them just completely fail without player help, and bug out as the marker brings you to a random fighter or small ship, which I am only able to fix using a cheat mod to kill the ships until no ship of the fleet is left, which will then spawn a new fleet (I think). With player intervention with only the Syn (as you would think), the invasion was very hard. Many times I would savescum, around 15 times until I finally was able to finish off the Yaki.

All in all, its a very good game with lots of content tucked away inside, however there are also a decent amount of things in the game that feel very unfinished and the lack of advanced documentation for a lot of things hurts alot. Hell, a decent amount of inventory items dont even have descriptions. Despite all of its issues though, the game still sucks me in with the idea of eventually fielding a fleet and forming my own form of nation (which cant be done, but you can effectively own systems and have fleets transfer resources to different places, as well as military ships and fleets to defend).

Also, MASSIVE TIME SINK WARNING, saves in this game go on for a LONG time.

i love odin

Ah, Terra Invicta, where do I start. This game lets you choose 7 directions for Humanity to go after first contact with Aliens. Resist the Aliens (The Resistance), Destroy the Aliens (Humanity First), Submit to the Aliens (The Servants), Appease the Aliens (The Protectorate), Cooperate with the Aliens (The Academy), Escape the Aliens (Project Exodus), or Exploit their arrival (The Initiative). You control one of these factions and fight for influence over the planet and nations and eventually space over the long timeline of this game.

When I say this game is long, it is LONG. I've seen pro-alien games end as quick as the 2030s, and I've done anti-alien games which end in the late 2060s. God bless you if you decide to play an anti-alien faction. When you eventually piss off the Aliens they can and will wipe half your off-earth presence. Most of the gameplay is sitting staring at the Earth while stuff happens between 'turns'. I will tell you now it is very very very boring once you have a majority hold over Earth, as once you do, the other factions are game-ruined as they more than likely dont have enough of a space presence to handle themselves without Earth effectively, and thus go into a death spiral and be effectively out of the game.

So thats the early-midgame, what about the mid-lategame? Bad. The game barely changes. Eventually you are able to somewhat put up a fight with the Aliens in small numbers, and can start taking their precious "Exotics" which you can then put on your own ships for better performance. This is pretty much the gameplay loop once you've reached a point of "Total War" with the Aliens. If they come in force though? You're screwed. You effectively need to play like a twitchy homeless crack addict looking for the next person to rob to get the money for their fix. If luck wills it, you'll eventually start being able to field larger and larger fleets to where the Alien fleets stop being less of an issue and more of a nuisance. At this point you've entered the Endgame. The Endgame for anti-alien factions (also academy and initiative) is a mindnumbing few years of just sending your fleets at alien stuff until you finally get them under the threshold for you to do your final mission at their home base in one of the outer asteroids, and finally end the game.

So now after a hundred hours or more, you finally beat the aliens and secured humanity's future, if you for whatever reason want to play again and maybe have a different or better experience, you'd think "Oh! This game was made by devs of one of the biggest mods of XCOM, Long War! The modding community in this game must be amazing!" You'd be completely dead wrong. The modding community barely exists. The modding features of this game barely exist. Half time time mods dont even show up in the mods screen.

This review was written at like 2:30 am and im very tired but i wanted to write this so I missed a lot of stuff in here, from all the bugs and crashes, to the performance and UI, to the 20 gazillion drives that have absolutely no use besides a small handful of them.

The game has so so so much promise, but fails to deliver on a lot of it. The only cool and fun feature I've had, is developing and consolidating Earth, which fun fact: You cannot unify the planet unless you do some very very cheesy way with the way claims and unifcation works, but even then I dont believe you can unify everything. My main fun in this game was just dividing the planet into about 8 nations for each of the continents and Oceania/Southeast Asia. The international politics are very fun in the game, albeit basic in a lot of areas.

Long story short though, if you want to buy this game, I dont recommend it. I wasted 432 hours of my life on this, don't fall for the trap that I've fallen for multiple times, and been sucked back in even more. If they actually somehow pull out this game with all the issues fixed, I will turn back around and update this review praising their work. While they have fixed some issues, there are still large core gameplay flaws that need to be addressed.

Rimmy's 19 Theses are really good with describing the issues of this game: https://www.twitch.tv/rimmy/video/1637578847?filter=clips&range=30d