Cepheus Protocol - Zombie Apocalypse City Defense Strategy

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[@TheWasher18]

Finally, this game deserves all the publicity. The devs are true legends with the dedication and amount of work that's been put into this.

[@argmon9090]

ikr , the update has been very substantial

[@nvidiaplay]

@@TrueRandomization they are updating it like every week or two almost all the time

[@helixfelix1779]

After watching, I can tell that the devs are putting in the hours and listening to feedback. As for my 2€ - When Splatter mentions demolishing buildings and the fences, I think it would be cool if you could incorporate both but then use the rubble created, starting with sandbags and scrap for early game fortifications (which can be built with the capture / command truck) moving on to more advanced fortification techniques. (Sandbag emplacement, watch towers, etc.) In command and Conquer and Warhammer 40k Soulstorm (apocalypse mod) you can utilize abandoned buildings as essentially watch towers, so another feature instead of demolishing buildings is establishing a system where the helicopter can drop troops off on rooftops and rappel into windows / breach and fortify a building. (Could have a %chance based on there being certain supplies, specialists (Doctors, Police, Mechanics, Persons of interest, etc.) that you can also train and equip after persuading them to help. Success rate could be based on the player’s ability to rescue other civilians / locating other person(s)of interest.

[@Dopamint]

Fun Fact : most devs put a lot of hard work in their games.

[@altaiir541]

I bought the game 2 days ago, and I'm loving it.

[@gannonpatton2858]

I like the concept of this game. Could use a lot more polish but definitely interested in it.

[@emppukoo739]

Well its beta, so you can bet that they will polish IT..

[@mrrogue4864]

Very active on the discord

[@IAreSmeegoo]

I didnt see any polish.. it looks like its all english heh

[@gannonpatton2858]

@@IAreSmeegoo Every time I write "polish" I think the same thing!

[@DarrylCross]

Well said; when defending your city against a horde, few are more reliable allies than the Polish.

[@TotallyNotAFox]

You can pack up the truck right at the moment the command tent is finished - the tent can build every other tent as well if you click on it. By clicking on fences you can make gates and engineers can repair bridges. The civilian hold building also can build 3 other buildings already which can give you extra money for healthy ones and DNA for infected + there is a buildable scanner to check the civs.

[@Carewolf]

Not sure he cared about effeciency, he build two trucks, and only ever used one.

[@TyphusVonElder]

Gates dont work in new build. Civilians don't spawn or head to your area fast enough. Meaning you are stuck holding off the enemy and because of the capture trucks you can no longer stop the progression of the infection. You literally need to be like " oh she spawned on that island huh..well looks like all those people are dead." Before you can say anything, she eats 105 mm cannon shells to the face, which is bs.

[@TotallyNotAFox]

@@TyphusVonElder Yeah, loaded up the new experimental build and found out that the gates don't work again after writting here, still found some civilians though. An easy way are the unlockable mortars to take here out, with good aim of the burst fire ability she dies quickly (had shredder rounds unlocked at that point)

[@tsuna666]

Haven't played in a while now, but this video doesn't do it justice. Once the Virus has time to build up bases things get crazy and fun. Also the devs have stated that this game is heavily inspired by the Prototype series (you are basically playing as Blackwatch) which I think is hella cool.

[@TheUnknownLegend1234]

Never knew that. That's awesome!

[@cigODoggo]

Blackwatch were hella corrupt. Definitely didn't like those guys. But I have wanted a new prototype game for YEARS prototype 2 was good but it needed work

[@gamereapbot4794]

Now that makes me interested

[@unifiedhorizons2663]

sounds about right the infection in that game would react to the Americans forces by building tank busters beasts and they'd make more infection to contiune

[@lior414]

Do you fight anything other than zombies?

[@timofaust1315]

Bought this a while ago, but the devs communicate their progresses and challenges quite well and continously deliver good updates. Looking forward to the full release, but already had good fun in early access.

[@williamedwards4151]

Same. It's been good fun so far! I've popped in and played around with this several times. And it gets better each time.

[@ilo3456]

Not just that but I was playing in their experimental version generally giving feedback on issues I ran into and the devs would talk to me and figure out what was going wrong, they'd make a patch let me know they did something and then I'd go check it and give feedback once again, the devs are amazing, they are really in touch with the community.

[@honeybadger6275]

@@ilo3456 That's pretty rare these days. Most devs just put out buggy broken crap and ignore the people that bought their games, look at the latest hearts of iron 4 dlc for example. It's completely untested and the one thing people wanted improved, peace conferences, the devs made several increments worse. Not to mention the air system rework is in my opinion worse than what we had before and the devs removed the ability to set airwing sizes because there was a glitch in the old system that allowed people to create manpower out of thin air, but the devs cant code and couldn't fix the bug so their solution was to remove the game mechanic. Honestly at this point just stay away from anything paradox interactive releases. Crusader kings 3 was pretty barebones and buggy and still is, Imperator Rome is bad, and from the sounds of things, their new game coming out Tuesday, Victoria 3, is going to be about as bad as Imperator Rome.

[@williamedwards4151]

@@honeybadger6275 Yeah. These guys give a shit. And it's super refreshing and appreciated.

[@honeybadger6275]

@@williamedwards4151 Yeah at this point I'm out of patience for devs that expect players to beta test their new dlc's when they come out.

[@adamcepeda8774]

This one looks extra interesting. You never fail to bring all the good ones to the light of day. I certainly hope these indy devs thank you in some way.

[@thegrimdeath1]

I love how he's like I'm going to destroy the longer bridge to draw zombies to attack more. Then destroyers the shorter bridge anyways

[@argmon9090]

the game has evolved so much , looks great

[@jeremywilson4675]

Yes so glad you're covering this game again! It still needs alot of work but I hope the exposure gets them more business so they can continue developing it!

[@Wolfsheim23]

Im REALLY excited about this game. It looks so meaty! I hope it doesn't end up too ambitious for the Devs. I love everything about it so far and the direction they are going. PLEASE don't flub on AI and keep this game challenging. I can see this having tons of replay value and areas to open up for multiplayer too and even eventually playing as the zombie horde. I especially love how bases are so custimizable, you can build them or just parts of them pretty much Anywhere and use so many different parts of the environment. No premade template bases is awesome!

[@gunraptor]

I've owned this game for like two years and it has not once been uninstalled from my hard drive. I LOVE this game and it only gets better with every update. I want to see the style and scale of this game applied to more RTS games, as it has set a new bar for me.

[@Seth90]

34:40 - It's the Scar-L, so it's the 5.56 variant it's also written beside the weapon name ;)

[@drpyrobrine5864]

I like that the game allows and seemingly will encourage you to save civilians. It's nice to see that the devs haven't locked you into the stereotype of military in these games with you being sent to kill everything and everyone. Although it seems you can certainly do that.

[@matthewjones39]

You can kill civilians, but you get money for housing/evacuating them. They can get infected and turn, though.

[@NightsDecent]

Splattercat:Veterency is actually important. Also Splattercat: Only recruits greenhorns.

[@MJP_985]

0:44 worst part of my army career, filling hescos by hand in the desert

[@sdgamer1860]

I have seen youtuber Rimmy Downunder Gaming play this and a rather good tactic he has is blow up bridges with air strikes in order to control the direction the zombies will come from (the giant worm is still a issue given the nature of a worm). You would have to use Helicopters to get around but, that isn't an issue from what i have seen which i'm not joking when i say this, the fact you can use the heavier copters to put an IFV on a roof....... (yes you can do that unless the devs patched that)

[@lewisvargrson]

Tactical deployment of music was also a sound decision on Rimmy's part.

[@sdgamer1860]

@@lewisvargrson "Hoot Force playing in the distance"

[@derekdrake8706]

If this actually took place in San Francisco I'd expect the civilians to be protesting the military and marching for zombies rights.

[@jczerzzz]

I love coming back to the nerd castle after a while and check out all the indie games!

[@Ty-bz7zx]

Loved the 4+ minute "audio book" before seeing any game-play. Enjoy the first looks at these non-AAA titles, have bought a few after being introduced through your vids. GJ and keep it up =)

[@fezzverbal]

Damn this looks really cool! Definitely gonna follow the development now!!

[@Winstonatoor]

Jersey barricade sounds like what you call an overturned cop car

[@tuxuhds6955]

Well done Splat! I like games that allow transition between different layers of agency over the game world. I think I'll keep an eye on this one even though in general I don't really enjoy zombie games.

[@Raycheetah]

San Francisco? Just wall it off, like New York. Snake Plissken would agree. =9[.]9=

[@unarmored9973]

Game looks really cool. I really like the hybrid strategy/tactics gameplay. Low unit concentrations, with more focus on positioning seems to be what their going for, but since I haven't played it, I don't really know. I notice that with RTS games it can easily become the case that deathball unit strategies prevail over most other strategies unless you implement certain limitations like units being unable to fire through eachother, something I hope this game manages to avoid, because I like the large-scale "Doorkickers" style positioning gameplay feeling I'm getting from it, but that could all just be my interpretation.

[@honeybadger6275]

Yeah the hybrid between rts and direct control is a system used in the call to arms games and i think the steel division games might also have it.

[@matthewjones39]

There isn’t any deathwalling in this game. You can only select around 10 units at a time, and the zombies are so fast you can’t have them move while shooting or they won’t be able to kill the zombies fast enough.

[@LetsPlaymaker]

that switch to 3rd person was unexpectatly cool

[@lukashaug5107]

u immitating that one lonely horn in the background.. made me fall off my chair laughing....u nailed it.. made my day thx

[@TheNinthSpirit]

When Zero was on that little island with one bridge to it, you could have taken out that bridge, trapping her on that little island and letting you take a bit more of your time to play it.

[@Daergarz]

Bought it a while back, played for a few minutes, waiting on the full release once things are polished.

[@Utardiaresident]

This game is already pretty fun! Excited for the release, with factions and civilian management it will really add some depth.

[@Frithonor]

I bought this about...12-18 months ago? Was interesting, but could not play because the UI font was just atrociously small. I have a Samsung 34" curved panel defaulting to 3440x1410 and couldn;t read a thing.

[@K3end0]

Oh man, UI that doesn't scale to resolution is always a pain in the ass. Hopefully they have a fix

[@keimaegami]

@@K3end0 The UI is currently fully editable you can make it as big or as small as you want now.

[@Malikyte13]

The most unrealistic aspect of this game isn't the zombies, it's that anyone would even want to save SanFran. A zombie apocalypse would arguably be the best thing that could happen to that cesspool.

[@zerjager4340]

I'm fucking rolling xD

[@pacer2310]

I've owned this game for a long time. I remember trying to play it for the first time and really having no idea what the point or objective of the game was. Thanks for the video. I'll give it another shot.

[@zzurge1173]

I remember the first time you covered this game,they had my attention then,still have it now. I havent regretted the purchase yet so thanks

[@Earth_Alchemist]

Fun fact, with horde mode you can take out the places where the zombies spawn but they can come back and it makes the others harder to take out, also the other factions will do your job for you if you make the correct upgrades

[@jasonwright8546]

Looks like it is coming together pretty well now. I was waiting to make a purchase to see if the devs stuck with it, and this looks to be a good time.

[@vynashe4442]

i haven't looked at this game since i bought it after the last video you did, and I have to say its added so much it looks amazing. I can't wait for the coop.

[@ZMCFERON]

Oh... but who would wanna save San Francisco?

[@bobbobbington3615]

The way you say, "Barracks," is hilarious!

[@killakanzgaming]

You already can evacuate civilians. The helipad has a toggle evacuate mode button. Switch that on and a chinook will be sent to the helipad every so often. Just order the civvies to board it and they'll get evac'd.

[@matthewjones39]

With the latest experimental branch, you can press another button to automatically evac every civilian in the zone, meaning you can press a button and evac hundreds a day without needing to manage anything.

[@conorwilliam2558]

Legit just bought this seems like a good investment and with it being on a deal at £13.49 why not? The game is only going to improve with time. Though pathing issues on strat games really does break me inside aha. Great video, you just got another sub.

[@Wolfsheim23]

Does this game have an Active Pause for when things get insane? Like They Are Billions. That is the main reason I love TAB. The pause makes all the difference in weather I can really get into a RTS.

[@TotallyNotAFox]

There is a slow motion option by pressing space ingame, but no total pause function

[@Wolfsheim23]

@@TotallyNotAFox but how can you actively be issuing commands and things while holding space down?

[@TotallyNotAFox]

@@Wolfsheim23 It's a toggle key, you press it once to activate and again if you want normal speed again

[@Wolfsheim23]

@@TotallyNotAFox Nice thats all i need then cool. I'm really looking forward to this. Looks amazing!

[@mordreddelavirac]

Where do you find these games bro! This is such a cool concept, it's very close to what i was hoping for from the future when i was playing Red Alert as a kid.

[@andreas1337able]

I bought the game way back. Started playing the game but lost interest after 8 hours or so. I had chunks cut off, but they came with units that could go underground and place their bases behind my lines. I was done when that happend. Not even fun to play that. And yes, people told me how to counter that. But I was already done. However seeing your video, I will try it again.

[@Malikyte13]

To be fair, it's about as much cheese as blowing bridges to keep their army landlocked while you use helicopters to go everywhere. Theirs are just underground.

[@chrisstokoe3169]

This looks great got a good immersive 28 days vibe when's it coming out

[@etiennevanderkorput7151]

I am also OCD with placing buildings perfectly. It takes a bit to fully rotate the buildings around, but you can use R and T to rotate your stuff to the exact placement you want. (When you left click it will place them the way they are oriented, but you can press left shift to switch back to mouse based orientation) Edit: Also of you want to bypass the wall placement restrictions. If you start the wall on a buildable spot, you can connect it to another already placed wall despite if there are building restrictions. (Also there is a certain section of each bridge that doesn't allow wall placement. Usually a small horizontal section near the start and end of each bridge.)

[@bullronin1]

Splat: "It could be really bad, or it could be not quite so bad." Soldier: "I have a bad feeling about this."

[@47110815abc]

Interesting. Like the scenario and complexity. Being a turn-based player i have a personal make or break question: is there a pause button or even better: a commanding while paused option? Having a base, multiple squads, a helicopter, trucks, outposts, airstrikes, artillery, etc. at the same time this is my main concern.

[@MegaGrigou]

No active pause but you can slow down time (like really slow) with space bar.

[@jaydenshepard7928]

@@MegaGrigou Theres a super slow motion which is about as good as pause and you can give full orders during it.

[@jeremydorn1569]

i appreciate that CERC has straight up the same logo as GDI from command and conquer

[@adammenhennett]

great game! bought it yesterday thanks to this video (damnit!!) Can we eventually heal zombies and turn them human again? I am playing on the easiest settings and still getting smoked lol.

[@matthewjones39]

Why would you be able to do that, though? They’re already dead, it’s not like you can “cure” them.

[@ttuurrttlle]

This game reminds me of Creeper World but ower paced and with a focus on squad tactics. Seems pretty cool, I've always wanted to see something like that.

[@marltonmanks9891]

Funny that you mention C&C with that very GDI looking eagle insignia in the top left at the beginning of the video

[@postmortemgaming630]

if i remember correctly Scar-L means scar Light, which is the 5.56 variant. Scar-H is the Scar Heavy which is the 7.62x51 Nato your guys have the scar-L

[@scaleworksRC]

Has potential I'd say. It's like a C&C lite.

[@against1virus]

You had a golden opportunity to blow the bridge to the island chelsea was on to trap her there for the rest of the game

[@KyrosX27]

man, imagine you're part of a 2x5 man squad doing an orderly sweep of surroundings, covering each others' flanks, etc. - then this one guy shows up walking all wonky, shoots a couple zombies, aggros a bunch towards your group, then starts screaming in a high pitched voice lol

[@bandgeekforlife406]

:28 "...trying to save San Francisco from a zombie apocalypse..." I think we're already too late for that...

[@EndoScorpion]

Looks great. Worth keeping an eye on. Only thing putting me off so far is the silly seasonal hats. Hopefully it's a togglable option to turn off.

[@Sablesuit]

Can't wait for this game. It looks fun.

[@foobar1735]

it might be fun just for immersion if, when you called in resources like the capture vehicle, your guys marked the spot for the airdrop with some popped smoke.

[@SorenCicchini]

That was a really good demo. Thanks, Splat.

[@IRMentat]

really interesting to have control over a modern style "army " in an RTS. Tho looks more like a merc force given the pay-rates and equipment levels, with some tac-support from the navy/airforce. Central premise is decent, tho rushing seems the best strategy given infection rates vs unit buildup via income. No seeing any light-vehicles yet and trucks/humvees, etc would seem like the optimal thing for this setting rather than dismounted troops and 1 heli. Likewise I don't see the buildings being used as assets or risk-zones and that seems like a MASSIVE oversight all things considered, zombie nests, roof snipers, ferrying troops between rooftops while having specialists seal the building access points (at risk of being overwhelmed) would make for one hell of an interesting gameplay loop addition for both offence and defense.

[@matthewjones39]

You can actually drop units and vehicles onto roofs using helicopters, and with the latest updates you can evacuate or cleanse buildings.

[@thedarkblitz]

That logo they made, the eagle from the side, really looks like the CGI faction from C&C.

[@danrosenthal9231]

Splat: Builds a chokepoint. Proceeds to stand in front of it and not use the gates he just built.

[@LooNciFeRx]

Will buy this game definitely, seems like you can play tower defense mazing at the bridge! Would like to see the dev add some navy units

[@nobeldnoble7048]

Waaw....most realistic game in a while!!...saving humanity is on a budget!!

[@l0rf]

"Sure the whole West Coast is at stake but you want a new rifle? Does it look like I'm made out of money and guns?" The US department of defense, probably.

[@TotallyNotAFox]

@@l0rf "We don't hand out military grade weapons to just anybody, we still are in the USA here!"

[@Malikyte13]

@@l0rf If you knew anything about the waste, fraud, and abuse that goes on between the military and the defense contractors who build our junk, you'd realize it was the other way around. Look at the F35. Proof that they'll throw an endless stream of money into a black hole.

[@matthewjones39]

@@l0rf He’s just adding on to the joke.

[@l0rf]

@@matthewjones39 I think the comment I replied to got deleted. I got what TotallyNotAFox said.

[@Dannyyboyy05]

I'm five minutes in, this feel really akin to a book series called "Arisen" on kindle, fantastic zombie book series, where they operate out of an aircraft carrier performing missions around the world to try and fight the virus. A game with a similar concept would be amazing!

[@matthewjones39]

I know a mobile game exactly like this. It’s called “war of the zombie.”(yeah, I know it sounds dumb, but it’s actually really good, and it doesn’t have ads or micro-transactions.)

[@htf5555]

looks like a real passion project

[@UtopssAKAPJ]

29:13 "I love you Jenny" Forrest Gump reference nice

[@firestarter000001]

Looks really interesting. I like the realist art style.

[@themessy001]

This looks really good. Is there a pause at all? So you can pause and issue orders or is it all in real time?

[@matthewjones39]

There’s no pause, but you can slow down time.

[@Kaiju-Driver]

Well I didn't want this at first...at the end thou... I'm 20 bucks more poor. Downloading now.

[@Oroberus]

I'm getting serious Xenonauts vibes combined with a bunch of Jagged Alliance vs Zombies Oo

[@tyutyu9331]

Visually it looks very similar to my favourite tactical strategy game called Warfare from the developer called GFI from 2007. I would love a review from you for that game.

[@EmptyWhiskey]

“Trying to save San Francisco…”. And I’m out.

[@richardvaldes3959]

Based

[@shipmcgree6367]

Based part 2

[@jackingwads7513]

@@richardvaldes3959 baste? Baste on what?

[@richardvaldes3959]

@@jackingwads7513 San Francisco is not worth saving

[@argmon9090]

lol 😂 not wrong

[@Jonchua1]

Thanks for this video so I know to watch this game. Looks really fun so far.

[@GRIZEH]

Hey! A little tip. You can repair the bridges now with and engineer

[@lorddrew599]

With a couple changes i think this could be the game . Maybe little more focus on the third person gameplay if they can improve that , then add in some simple follow commands for troops when you switch over then improved allied ai . Could see playing games with others surviving hordes of zombies while me and my friends command our troops defend to the death . I find an open world zombie survival where you are fighting against a self building ai fun as fuck.

[@BraveKnight_]

The construction N.I or template reminds me of the old method of placing structures from WW2 Panzer Claws

[@midknightgeek6629]

Been watching and waiting for this game. Might be time to jump in to the "Early Access" and play around some 👍

[@honeybadger6275]

Yeah the devs seem pretty consistent with communication which is always a good thing.

[@ChristopherFranklinSr]

Looks fun! Thanks for the preview.

[@Moredakka123]

I bought this game years ago after watching your first review. Great game and concept but more polish needed

[@danielduncan6806]

If you don't have a military presence, you don't own jack. And, believe it or not real life works like that too; if you cannot defend a thing, you cannot own a thing.

[@Nekoyashiki-san]

Thanks for showcasing! ^^

[@N1ghtR1der666]

this is one to put on the radar, some more polish and this will be a lot of fun

[@Dayemon]

Trying to save San Francisco from zombies?? Ehh... maybe just let them have that one city.

[@thisiscompletelyreta]

I am very interested. I’ll wait for full release and reviews, but definitely up my alley

[@gangsterHOTLINE]

Looks pretty interesting! Is the game really supposed to take place in SF/Bay Area? I could see it being like an alternate version or maybe future depiction of the city, but otherwise that definitely isn't SF or Treasure Island or the Bay Area at all.

[@Salz1usTox1cus]

Thank you for cover this game, im interested and now i can watch and decide!

[@kindasupersonic7114]

the whole time im watching this, im like... you need some M56 Smart Gunners! that would lock down the bridge really good lol.

[@Evidect]

Oh hey we're back at Cepheus

[@MyrdinAnnoth]

This looks like an interesting title. I wonder if there is gonna be campaign mode with mutiple maps and different patients 0 to track down each time. When this was last shown on this channel I was like "eh ok" but looking at it now I could see myself giving it a go.

[@StuartRobertM]

THIS game would great as a Long Play. Ah, I miss the old days.

[@tenaccarli171]

Still on my wishlist since your last video about it xD

[@rustyshackleford6077]

Liked the premise until you said it's about saving San Francisco. Now I don't even want to play, let the zombies have it - they already do.

[@Betaziod]

I can't wait for the co-op mode

[@EzekielHateable]

Great video as always.

[@Anzeljaeg]

I got this game almost 7yr.ago and its getting amazing, totally wort it

[@MrUself]

Yes i like the game and i think game features with mechanic has lot of potential

[@Awesomelord101]

buh rocks. lmao its a Bear acks barracks where soliders and servicemen stay.

[@ice7997]

Hey Splatter! Thanks for all the good videos. Does the performance have improved in this one? In earlier versions of the game it was a problem for me. Also, placing buildings was a little bit "rusty".