DEFCON 6-CPU Player Simulation [HD]

DEFCON is an awesome PC, Mac, and Linux (yes, Linux!) game made by Introversion Software.
In this game, I pit 6 CPU-controlled players against each other to see who will lose the least.
You can buy DEFCON directly from the developers or on Steam.
www.introversion.co.uk/store/
store.steampowered.com/app/1520/

[@luislara9027]

In my opinion, this game is rather optimistic: it supposes every country has a fully functional and efective missile defense system. Things would be worse...

[@legionofmetal9968]

Luis Lara (I am aware your comment is three years old) no. That's the unrealistic side to this game. having a six player game. for example Africa having nukes? I think it's just the game compensating for extra players. but in theory. if every continent had nukes...mm...oh dear. things would be interesting.

[@privateger]

Comrade Dolman, South Africa is confirmed to have nukes.

[@jefftheriault7260]

Yes, it took a while to detect that, but yeah...scads of ABMs.

[@Adros2121]

It would be worse: no defence sistems, 15000 nukes in the world while this game has over 90 nukes per player and a predesigned nuking plan while this game improvise.

[@britishgamer666]

dontquestionmyactions South Africa, with the government it has? Oh lord....

[@TheExiledTexan]

This is the kind of game that needs to be played in a dark room with a loud surround sound system.

[@callofdeadly3]

Or in the Rift ;)

[@deathmire11]

Call Of Deadly TTGL is better than KLK.

[@callofdeadly3]

I gotta admit, you're right, the ending of TTGL was fucking badass, I mean, they were throwing fucking galaxies around lol But I just like the look of Ryuko on my thumbnail ^_^

[@deathmire11]

Call Of Deadly I will agree with you on that one. I preferred Ryuko over Yoko for some reason.

[@callofdeadly3]

I mean, Yoko was good, but had a lot less screen time then I thought she would have :/

[@AFGuidesHD]

Australia just sitting this one out.

[@andersonmendes6616]

Australia is background area for nuclear war in north hemisphere! Brazil is NATO 's background area and it's ready to supply ocidental efforts of war. Australia is background area for China! We will be slaves and will be hungry to support life in north hemisphere after the nuclear war! I would be not so happy if I were you!

[@bobu5213]

Oceania*

[@spikykitten3502]

Tie me kangaroo down, mate

[@andersonmendes6616]

Ya Mum Sorry, man. We are all at globalist's hands. You must be ready to fight alone or with too litttle help. You must have a great navy tô avoid landding of chinese trops.

[@SaMaknae]

Are you okay? Are you brainwashed?

[@glidershower]

_"We have reached and broken so many milestones, from taming fire to splitting the atom, that it seems so foolish that the only thing we haven't reached is an understanding."_

[@Avrelianvs]

- Sadaam Hussein

[@Dalgol21]

I know this is an old comment but where/who is this from? Shits deep

[@Mrfallouthero]

- the McFurher himself

[@toanomega]

Imagine seeing this unfold in the war room. Or being in the ISS and seeing constant flashes from continents

[@duomaxwell6523]

"You can't fight in here! This is the War Room"!

[@LInkinPark4life]

I guess both sintuations are the defcon game...

[@dsdy1205]

And then the life support shuts off when the EMPs fry the electronics

[@seantaggart7382]

Just the astronauts: well then Do we want to go back when we see no more flashes? Astronauts: maybe

[@radosawrudolf4931]

Well h-bombs can actually throw up atmosphere into space. Idk what the volume is but maybe it would just induce too much drag and take down the station with an unlucky hit.

[@m0cha.]

At 4:35 you can see the exact moment it goes from a large nuclear exchange to a full blown apocalypse. Everyone's fate was sealed after that.

[@veronwoon2892]

+rot0001 except the southeast asia and australlia (plus microindonesia,fiji and new zealand)

[@jacksonianmckee]

Haha something like this dude. The entire planet is fucked. Doesn't matter where you live. Everyone is going to die.

[@foxglow6798]

Jackson B. McKee also nuclear winter

[@slaycationnation]

Damn you player 4

[@justinbiggs1005]

It slowly went from limited nuclear war to a large exchange only to go full blown nuclear armageddon in a snap of the fingers. Fucking terrifying If you ask me. If a full scale nuclear war were to ever occur it wouldn't be caused by some disagreement. But by something very fundamentally wrong with us as a civilization.

[@cadoba1239]

**People in the ISS just watch**

[@AFGuidesHD]

+Cadoba123 Uhh Housten we have a problem

[@mattstorm360]

+AFGuidesHD Housten this, Housten that, don't you ever call just to say 'hi'?

[@Ohflipsnap]

+Matthew Pike That's a reference to the Fairly Oddparents!

[@AlterFoxEast]

+AFGuidesHD Europe got nuked

[@EnDSchultz1]

"YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!"

[@lakdav]

After Europe was covered in a green mist and i still saw small white circles appearing i was like "Please, Stop! Its already dead!"

[@malgaines]

This was a machine acting too much like a human. AI is more dangerous than nukes. We will see it.

[@UncleMerlin]

cities still have high pop after one nuke, you have to nuke them like 3 times to kill the most amount of ppl

[@AshleyPomeroy]

@@UncleMerlin You are General Curtis LeMay and I claim my five pounds.

[@thangfahsavung9120]

It’s Africa releasing hell on Europe too. Payback from the colonization era.

[@vosle4518]

@@thangfahsavung9120 Oh, shut up please.

[@enigma4430]

I love how the soundtrack captures the cold calculated stillness of witnessing humanity obliterate itself on screen within some sort of creepy ungrounded command center.

[@bboi1489]

Agreed. The fact that the units themselves have no audio of any sort makes it seem like they're only reports you're getting in real time.

[@GamerGod-fp1tj]

⁠@@bboi1489I mean you can hear the sound of engines sometimes, and the distant rumble of bombs, or if they landed on your soul, the wind.

[@TheColdsuit]

The part where all the ground silos launched and seeing the launch icons flash across the screen gave me chills

[@TrueFlameslinger]

"This is no longer war. This is the end."

[@gabbyn.3049]

@@TrueFlameslinger "it was never a war, it was massacre."

[@seantaggart7382]

@@gabbyn.3049 *Its not a massacre* *its the thing my people fear* *TOTAL ARMAGEDDON*

[@onkelkleno5408]

An interesting game you have here. The only winning move... Is not to play.

[@telecomanda]

the fact that there is no more music or intense sounds after the game ended, just like the complete silence that would be after a nuclear war, is the scariest thing in this game in my opinion.

[@nofun121]

If you hear until the end you can hear a woman crying and someone screaming, that and the dead silence creeps me out the worst

[@Delta-007]

Yeah. There is no victory screen or anything. Just pure silence. You as the player are probably in some kind of bunker far away from the bombs. It just gives a sense of dread.

[@tomizatko3138]

@@Delta-007or nuclear submarine.

[@onkelkleno5408]

bro the coughs...💀

[@MobileTaskForceE11]

I remember doing the tutorial, I remember the final level and I won against China. It said I won and at first I was glad I won and completed the tutorial. Then I noticed something. The silence. I realized not only had I wiped out the entirety of Asia I had also wiped out myself and the entire world. The more cities you flatten and kill its entire population the more points grow on the board. I was horrified, this is the most terrifying game I have ever played. After Us, Silence -motto of the Russian Nuclear Program

[@Bixen_Bings]

You can never win, you just get better every time

[@GamerGod-fp1tj]

@@Bixen_Bingsthere is a way to win. Very hard, certainly impossible when there are other players out to kill, but basically a first strike and somehow managing to take out all or most of their nukes while keeping silos for defense to limit civilian loss of life

[@Avrelianvs]

@@GamerGod-fp1tj is that winning?

[@GamerGod-fp1tj]

@@Avrelianvs yep. If you avoid your population being lost while simultaneously destroying the opponents capability to strike your cities, thats a victory. Maybe not an ingame victory, but a realistic one

[@truearif6820]

Techically the motto is of the Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation. The guys who operate the Nukes.

[@pumpkinpie2987]

I like how South America just unleashed all hell on NA once DEFCON 1 hit.

[@TakedaS115]

Brazil's strength shines over all adversity!

[@vitorleite3095]

Mexicans hate Trump

[@user-zv9xy8rz4q]

im from south american and im not from mexishit and i vote for trump

[@vitorleite3095]

agair io diep.io

[@nmp8674]

TakedaShingen155 NewMapper aw fuck, my grandma is from Brasil, I live in America, this is tough...

[@Fusspilzsammler1]

I would say "Victory" is the wrong word...

[@thecreeperjack7696]

Fusspilzsammler aus Leidenschaft Continent with the least amount of dead people.

[@tacticalbondsh]

Pyrrhic victory

[@blacksun3884]

There is no winning this game. There is only losing the least.

[@user-bx1tu6le4v]

The nation that survived

[@twoeyedlibrarian]

The least casualties wins, unless team kills doesn't count, right?

[@AFGuidesHD]

That womans breathing is creepy

[@skurd721]

hi

[@warpey5632]

It's a reminder of the suffering your putting millions of survivors trough by nuking the crap out of the cities they live in.

[@skurd721]

@@warpey5632 why

[@ryanalving3785]

@@skurd721 The whole game is a commentary on the reality of nuclear war and mutually assured destruction. The UI setup puts you very uncannily in the shoes of someone set apart from the conflict in a secure bunker, the casualties no more than statistics rapidly climbing into the hundreds of millions. The background noises, coughs, creepy breathing, eerie reminders of the individual human cost those numbers ticking up really represent. I think it's a fairly brilliant artistic choice.

[@skurd721]

@@ryanalving3785 Okay. I'm just mourning the chain warpey absolutely obliterated. And yes, I am nine.

[@DrCoomer_1]

Meanwhile in Australia: *"Hmm winds a bit choppy."*

[@dorukayhanwastaken]

"And why is it so fucking cold and dark in the dead of summer?"

[@DrCoomer_1]

@@dorukayhanwastaken nah that's just Melbourne weather

[@goodmito]

And why is everyone growing a third arm

[@fruitwagon9275]

Miguel Is Miguel I’ll guess you’ve never been to Australia

[@warpey5632]

The nuclear winter made temperature more comfortable compared to the usual sunny scorch.

[@ThunderBow98]

The only winning move is not to play :)

[@pavannrakakutti1470]

***** Somebody has 'WarGames' the movie

[@TheFacelessStoryMaker]

+ThunderBow98 How about a nice game of chess? :)

[@ThunderBow98]

The AoC Gamer No. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War

[@Lancaster604]

+ThunderBow98 Or maybe just live in Australia.

[@pavannrakakutti1470]

Brian LO ROFL...DONT EVEN PARTICIPATE IN THE BATTLE EH xD

[@AFGuidesHD]

4:41 oh humanity i do despair

[@safaf112csafasf7]

All civilizations after nuclear war : America : Fallout Russia : Mетро 2033 Africa : Rust Japan : Fist of the North Star Korean : Sc2 T vs T (Nuke)

[@leelambert1559]

Australia: dying to venomous animals while the rest of the world is nuked so hard it is basically part of the ocean

[@amirmuzakkir3450]

Emu war 2

[@jacob_himilton]

the rest of southeast asia is having none of it

[@thegamingwolf371]

@@leelambert1559 Australia would be Mad Max my dude

[@Trigger_Sylv]

Europe?

[@MerchantIvoryfilms]

Australia is still like "WTF mate?"

[@FUKKENSTOOPID1]

Sniper is a good job mate!

[@WalkmanSilver]

But they'll be dead soon...apart from the kangaroos

[@user-bx1tu6le4v]

WalkmanSilver and Koala

[@yourneighbor6152]

I am le tired

[@Th3Siam]

Krikey

[@thorbjrn6939]

Oh God, that crying/coughing woman. This game is fucking disturbing.

[@deadwing7051]

I spent the video trying to work out what that noise was until at the end there. That's pretty sobering, to say the least.

[@GaylordCohen]

Filatus Wienerberg It sounds like a scene STRAIGHT FROM HELL itself! :-(

[@chasepereboom857]

That seems to be the point. It's a little surreal; in the default score system, you gain 2 points for every million people you kill and lose one for every million of your people who die (gives those scores a little perspective). So you'll catch yourself cheering when you hit, say, New York, because 5 million might die right away so that's 10 points. Then you realise you just got happy over killing millions of people. Weird

[@GaylordCohen]

JoHn DoE That DEFCON really IS a mighty SICKO game, isn't it?! :-o

[@chasepereboom857]

Gaylord Cohen Yeah, it is... oh, some of my nukes just hit London; yay!

[@colonelcoover]

see kids if you don't attack other people they will not attack back that's why Australia is still alive

[@ashtheangel2207]

But wouldn't the right wind conditions sweep the nuclear fallout and radiation towards Australia

[@vedsingh9785]

@@ashtheangel2207 Radiation doesn't kill nearly as many people as a hot fireball that shatters cities does. They would survive. And in 3 centuries, thrive

[@neutrino78x]

@@vedsingh9785 nope. in real life they would be a target. They are an ally of the three nuclear allies (USA, UK, France). Anybody who is allied with a decent military would be hit.

[@packerman7410]

They wont be for long

[@Dave-yl8rf]

so, are we gonna ignore that Latin America won the Nuclear War? Seems legit

[@mobius_1163]

It's just a game

[@conservativedemocracyenjoyer]

@@mobius_1163 and yet everyone gets so emotional about it

[@chicagobenjiyt5671]

LATIN AMERICA WON. YET FOR SOME REASON I DON'T THINK ENY HUMAN WON. I THINK THE A.I WON NO MATTER WHAT ENY ONE SAYS, AFTER ALL THE A.I DID SAY IT WAS GONNA EXTERMINATE ALL LIFE ON EARTH, WE ARE A.I BIGGEST THREAT.

[@CallMeAlphysVODS]

No real enemies as far as i know

[@justinbiggs1005]

Nobody won the nuclear war. Only losing the least. The only winning move is not to play.

[@Arachnalicious]

This is the most haunting game I think has ever been made. Crappy "horrors" have nothing on this. The sound that goes off each time a new Defcon level is reached really gets under your skin.

[@user-vy9mk7um1b]

When text "PLAYER %num% LAUNCH DETECTED" is fuckton scarier than entire horror monsters roster...

[@pinochet3317]

4:38 “This twisted game needs to be reset” “We’ll start over from zero and entrust the future to the next generation”

[@CamaroZ-tc1ff]

"THAT'S WHAT V2 WAS FOR."

[@ninovalenzuela1019]

It's time for a perfect world without restrictions or wars V2 will erase the old one The world will change

[@mich4408]

An Ace combat refference, this is a rare phenomenon

[@wawan8759]

[@gustavorodriguez888]

[@paulhogarth6765]

This game ... ifs fucking unreal. You feel great when those bombs hit those enemy silos. You feel fantastic when a cadre of submarines narrowly avoid a carrier and battle ship group to position -just right- off Madagascar for a primo strike. You raise your fist up in the air as the missiles land and you see that carpet of bloom. And then you hear the cries in the background of distraught mothers. You realize the simple 2D graphics removed you from the personal horror you unleashed. Great game.

[@Im.European]

Fuck them mothers.

[@onkelkleno5408]

please tell me that was irony

[@Im.European]

@@onkelkleno5408 you sound like a female. Grow some balls.

[@the4armedmonk]

makes you almost want to live in austrailia

[@Doongie4ever]

+the4armedmonk Almost.....

[@chesvin1]

+Witch Hunter Saltzpyre NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

[@adamfreeksack0314]

Chad Thundercock so fallout?

[@DzinkyDzink]

got bitten by a venmous *insert-animal-here* the day before the nukes went off.

[@F5Storm1]

It's not included in the territory options

[@kingwabbajack5117]

Australia's just like sitting back watching the fireworks

[@lilwyvern4]

King Wabbajack So now we've got nuclear winter. Everyone's dead except Australia, and they're still like "WTF, mate?" But they'll be dead soon. Fucking kangaroos...

[@N1gHtStAlKeR726]

Torcularis Ahhhhh Motherland!!!!!

[@lilwyvern4]

AJZulu You kidding? You don't need nukes to make that place a hellhole.

[@AJZulu]

Torcularis True....it's already a fucking ass hellhole.

[@NotEvenDeathCanSaveU]

ahahah this got me :D

[@thepepper191]

4:41 that moment when the Ai launches all its silo nukes

[@perfectcell5613]

skynet!

[@bklynbroker]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipaamKKvdtOtd7M

[@RandomChelik0]

Pow: TNO HOI4 Burgundia/

[@AFGuidesHD]

Nuclear war.... "Yeah we won!" *Fists in the air*

[@Billy-I-Am-Not]

australia: oh no oh no oh no rest of the world: *shitstorm* australia: i'll just hide here for a while. rest of the world: *all dead* australia: wait... WAIT... i think i see the winner australia: ITS ME

[@wellsilver3972]

Billions of people in the background be like

[@Nnneemo]

​@@Billy-I-Am-NotNuclear Death lvl of nuclear fallout from north hemisphere will arive in mattter month's ... Nuclear winter lower global temperature to deep below zero... No nuclear power plant, no geotermal power plants, no equpt deep enough and hermetically sealed vault with life support recirculating system...

[@davidkelly4210]

@@Billy-I-Am-Not I saw that movie.

[@bruh8545]

​@@davidkelly4210name?

[@Daniel-od3xm]

I played the game on Genocide mode, and as soon as the world hit Defcon 1, ALL OF NORTH AMERICA AND CHINA WENT FUCKING BALLISTIC. THEY TEAMED UP AND WIPED OUT EUROPE AND RUSSIA. It was the most amazing thing I've seen in this game. And then when they ran out of nukes, I destroyed the Eastern Seaboard of America and then most of China. I was playing as Africa by the way.

[@nowanimportant8887]

This will probably not age well...

[@beaub152]

That was not the purpose of this game

[@beyondthegrave124]

​@@beaub152who tf cares, we should be allowed to have fun even in our darkest hours

[@beaub152]

@@beyondthegrave124 fair enough

[@snipa298]

I sure hope they have plenty of Rad-X and Rad-Away... They're gonna need it.

[@gonkdroid8391]

Lmao

[@facer3609]

GLORY TO THE CIVILIAN DEFENCE FRONT

[@YodrizzleMashizzle]

Who the hell gave Africa nuclear bombs!!??!!

[@Daniel-od3xm]

The Illuminati

[@Stakker]

South Africa developed and tested a nuclear bomb over the Indian Ocean in 1984. They are the only country to have gained and then given up the capability. The Nationlist Apartheid government got rid of the system just before power was handed over to the ANC in 1994 when Nelson Mandela came to power.

[@ImKevin]

My eyebrows went up when I noticed Africa with those bombs lol .

[@Not_A_Female72]

***** Obama

[@doge205walker6]

Yodrizzle Mashizzle possible that obama did

[@ShadowGamingReviews]

Strange Game.... The only winning move is not to play... How about a nice game of chess...

[@aechpixel5690]

Or maybe some Global Thermonuclear Warfare?

[@ShadowGamingReviews]

AechPixel Lol

[@phelidaifrost6019]

Lol just what I was Thinking!

[@leonfathre1432]

WarGames!!

[@akkito1911]

Beat me to it.

[@leelambert1559]

People in the ISS watching this be like “Uh Houston... wait, there is no Houston.”

[@petepeterson5917]

I know it's a joke but fuck that's creepy.

[@ulysses9488]

Imagine that, sitting there and watching it all go in stunned silence, knowing that you might be the last of your country, the last American,Last Russian last Chinese etc.

[@Ad_Astraz]

"Uh, Houston..." ... "Houston?"

[@IAmAlpharius20]

"There is a problem on the horizon" "There is no horizon"

[@astrocosmicalDude]

1:36 One single sound, enough to send chills and fear to the player

[@MainForcePatrolKZ]

Thats one depressing game you have there i tell you what.

[@kunstsein]

- i tell you that - i guess, and yes, it is.

[@MainForcePatrolKZ]

'I tell you what' in the style of hank hill.

[@kunstsein]

MainForcePatrolKZ Aaah, gotcha.

[@BenChung78]

About a billion of us would wish it did not have to be this way.

[@lucas27kiko]

Specially depressing at 4:42

[@corporalsilver6981]

"I know not what weapons World War Three will be fought with, but I know that World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones..." - Albert Einstein

[@TheBlobik]

In my limited experience with the demo version, it is usually best to pay defensive and try to shoot down as many nukes targetting you as possibe, then go on the offensive once the enemy is spent. Ideally try to eliminate their silos with subs and bombers when they start launching, as payer with no silos is pretty much defenceless against your ICBMs

[@GamerGod-fp1tj]

In my limited experience in game, I was luckily playing with other newbies. Manages to barely take any loss to myself, tricking them into war with eachother, while making them ally with me, and then swooping in with the classic “oh my bombers are just passing over your airspace don’t worry” and then launching the nuke trick. Depending on what score mode is being used, either I attack their silos and other military buildings to destroy as many of their nukes as possible, or in genocide mode, I try to destroy as many of their cities in the exact same moment as possible. Have to make sure I leave the alliance a nanosecond before the nukes hit though, or I also lose points for collateral

[@emototheextremo5571]

This is the first video I saw where they don't just cut it as soon as the game is over and you can actually hear the silence and see the aftermath

[@TheEmeraldPixel]

"A STRANGE GAME" "THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY." "WOULDN'T YOU PREFER A NICE GAME OF CHESS?" - Joshua

[@ls200076]

Australia and New Zealand: We're safe. Nuclear winter: It's time to get chonk.

[@Nnneemo]

Nuclear fallout penetrates passate winds: Prepare to temporarily discomfort....

[@ricochet188]

This is depressing

[@macparoo]

The me about it

[@thegiddyjoy]

+ricochet188 Why? It's a strategy game.

[@macparoo]

My Friends Call me Coach well this game is made to make people sad the sad music and the fact that your killing millions is very sad and makes people depressed

[@thegiddyjoy]

Justin Glowala I guess. It's really more about the minimalistic aspect tho. The people who would make these decisions aren't looking at it emotionally, but strategically. So they tried to make the it realistic but also added the subtle depressing mood.

[@ricochet188]

My Friends Call me Coach Yeah. All that combined makes it fuckoff depressing

[@400TTP]

"They've really screwed the pooch here Sharon, take a look at this" "Oh my god, nuclear war?" "Yep, the dumbasses finally decided to bomb the shit out of each other." "Should we be worried?" "Sharon... We live in australia... The only thing we have to worry about is finding spiders in our shoes"

[@penguin.8603]

... and getting cancer

[@takebacktheholyland9306]

Spiders whose venom dosage far outscales the radiation required to kill a person

[@Unregistered.Hypercam.2.]

4:21: thats not so bad .. less dead than ww2 right? 4:30 : oh

[@deformeddoge4453]

This one made me laugh

[@minorcomet282]

At that point it went from an international nuclear hurdling competition to a full on apocalypse

[@packerman7410]

A few strikes surpassed the death toll of ww2

[@Yerflua]

About forty years before this match: "There was a nuclear war. A few years from now, all this, this whole place, everything, it’s gone. Just gone. There were survivors. Here, there. Nobody even knew who started it. It was the machines, Sarah. ... Defense network computers. New… powerful… hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination."

[@jadeamulet2339]

The scary thing about DEFCON is that it’s not machines running everything, the player pushes the buttons

[@n1thecaptain965]

288.1 million deaths in total. A real nuclear war would have deaths in the billions. However terrifying this game is, this is still a stubbornly optimistic best case scenario. So sleep well tonight.

[@awkwardcultism]

That's just the figure for the people who died in the first 24 hours. The radiation will finish off most of the rest of the species.

[@GamerGod-fp1tj]

To be fair, there are only 600 million people too: 100 million per person. So 48% of the worlds population was destroyed in about an hour or two.

[@meteorknight999]

China shot down almost all nukes, india did too so makes sense

[@jwhi419]

@@meteorknight999 still 1 billion in europe. Death rate too low

[@MegaSimmaster]

Nukes wouldn't be able to kill everyone, even in a continent as dense as Europe has too many hills, small towns, and potential survivors to completely obliterate a population. In fact, it's not the bombing itself that makes nuclear war so horrible. It's the billions of people left alive afterwards that have to face a world where the modern economy, major urban centers, and government power has been destroyed within minutes.

[@connorreynolds6302]

It's scary because the possibility of something like this happening is very real.

[@Dollarstore_Yuji]

And your goddamn right

[@GamerGod-fp1tj]

Not really. Despite nukes being a weapon of war, they have brought unprecedented peace

[@kristoffersonsilverfox3923]

​@GamerGod-fp1tj "Eventually the stockpiles got so big, and the weapons became so unimaginably *monstrous* that neither side could actually envision using them." -Dr. Primrose, SCP-6001

[@coolfaiq8057]

Nah,this ain't no 1945.

[@brasibrad3011]

4:49 nobody wins

[@wut2697]

Love this game it is the first ever strategic horror game absolutely terrifying

[@ChurchofScientology5]

i like how every single alliance launched missiles at europe

[@theinquisitor8112]

Even after all the missiles have flown, they’re still fighting. War really never changes, does it?

[@GamerGod-fp1tj]

Yep. Truth be told, even if nukes fell in real life, the fight would continue far past them. Infact, Russia has back up nukes in their submarines with rations to survive a year before launching nukes. This could mean a second wave, or holding the west hostage after the initial nuclear war. But either way it’s thankfully improbable for a nuclear war to start; despite nukes being a mass murder device, it’s brought unprecedented peace

[@soldat-flantier2542]

I like to think it is the few pilots in the air flying high in the atmosphere, they took off, watched the silos launch, missiles rising, all they could see when looking through their cockpit was a sea of them passing over, sealing their homes, their family's fate. Later on, flashes, the earth turning to a last bright light before darkness ensues. These pilots, they lost everything. Remnants of an old world. Their only wish now is for revenge on the enemy, on the people who they think pushed the button first, even though they were ordered to launch too in the first place. Fighting until the end for nothing is waiting for them. No salvation. Only them and the deafening silence ordered by faceless men, never to be remembered.

[@jackfinlander3359]

I feel bad for Europe

[@renaredalaster1375]

jack lind what Europe?

[@thesilverwolf4627]

You mean the many holes in the ground?

[@fruitwagon9275]

The Silver Wolf that’s the one

[@peoplesdemocraticrepublico4822]

@@thesilverwolf4627 you mean that glowing sea over there?

[@neutrino78x]

note that the UK and France have their own independent warheads (although they are allies of the USA and we work together).

[@Ferozdruida190]

Its so creepy because sometimes you can hear the distant rumbling of bombs landing...

[@Turtleproof]

That the interface is so cold makes it more poignant, this is how cold and lifeless it is to render the world cold and lifeless. Each detonation is megadeaths.

[@adman1381]

The only winning move is not to play.

[@GaylordCohen]

Adam Langfelder How about a nice game of CHESS? lol ;-)

[@Xurreal]

Adam Langfelder Nuclear War = Earth Loses.

[@TakedaS115]

+Xurreal Australia wins. OY! TOO RIGHT MATE! CROCKER! CROCKER! CROCKER! I don't even know what that means... Hmph. Back to watching the Fireworks.

[@nerd_nato564]

@@Commodore22345 I dunno, actually. No other extinction event has caused parts of the Earth to become radiated hellscapes. Maybe some creatures would live, but evolution would be set back eons.

[@nerd_nato564]

@@Commodore22345 Yeah, that's true. It would be a setback, but the Earth would recover, unlike humans.

[@spade3779]

“Some people just like to watch the world burn.”

[@RedCastle335]

I would really like it if this never happens in real life.

[@nmp8674]

johnathan sena it may, we are currently in DEFCON 3

[@jackwilliam8789]

+Pleiades Co. we are not In a fucking defcon

[@willferrous8677]

wrong, "defcon" doesn't mean war, defcon 5 for example means total tranquility.

[@mrsmith2876]

the defcon system does exist and is in place the closest we ever came was defcon 2. all millitary forces we're ready to be mobilized, missiles ready to launch on detection and all our bombers we're armed and in the air

[@miniatureben3558]

Well after the recent heated confrontation with China and USA with Taiwan s independence I can't guarantee anymore if we would keep the peace let's just pray to God for peace and safety

[@lemonpie9761]

You know that sooner or later you’ll be watching a video of this kind on every screen around you.

[@GamerGod-fp1tj]

Eh nah, unfortunately just a solid screen saying emergency broadcast, please wait for a soldier to arrive to your door to escort you to a fallout shelter (if your country still has those) or you’ll be advised to hide in your basement

[@jacques4703]

My father introduced me to this game. Thanks pops, you have great taste

[@bobu5213]

This game makes me sad.

[@nmp8674]

BoBu aren't we currently in DEFCON 3?

[@bobu5213]

Pleiades Co. People who say that forget that most world leaders aren't stupid.

[@akbashnadir6135]

for me it looks like they are more then stupid, they are dangerous psychopaths !! And such games make me sad too, because its to low the minds of the peoples, that this all is not sooo dangerous, but ist deathly for us all. Why the so called elite build already finish cities deep under earth ??? They this they can go there and stay save in and after such a war you play as game. but after such a war, nothing remains like it was before and for how many years allover would be poisoned . Think please and do not support such sick mind fuck games

[@akbashnadir6135]

@Necrosis but you know who create such "games" and the reason why (to make the children, the youths ready for THERE wars) . I mean we the people should answer with peace and not welcome war in any way, because we will and would be the loser of the "real game". But yes, to understand, it need a open mind...

[@neutrino78x]

@@nmp8674 should be defcon 5. Although I don't have need to know anymore and if I still did I couldn't say what the defcon is.

[@badmoth242xl3]

4:44 one of the most chilling moments in all of gaming

[@lint9305]

1:37 ''Launch detection, we have a soviet launch detection!"

[@Screamingurchin]

Confidence is high I repeat confidence is high!

[@jcmchandsomeface2292]

"Victory timer started" What victory? Setting back or utterly annihilating your fellow man, for what gain? Power, prestige, oil or other resources? I view this game as a warning. Nobody wins in nuclear war

[@trashpanda5827]

But someone loses the least

[@pilotmanpaul]

The last nation standing is the winner. If there is still a nation.

[@neutrino78x]

we've known that for decades. Yet we can't disarm unless the other side also disarms. And we can't come off the hair trigger because then we can't respond in time if the other side launches. Personally I want all players to sit down and agree to get rid of all warheads, once and for all.

[@GamerGod-fp1tj]

@@neutrino78xno. As terrifying as nukes are, they kept the peace and still are. There’s a reason why WW3 didn’t happen soon after WW2. Despite the nuke being a weapon of mass murder, it has ironically brought an unprecedented period of peace for man-kind

[@neutrino78x]

@@GamerGod-fp1tj "no. As terrifying as nukes are, they kept the peace and still are. " As a Trident submarine veteran, I don't disagree. But it's not morally right for the world to live under that sword of Damocles. If I could get all five powers to the table and agree to disarm simultaneously, I would. And of course that's common sense and official policy, and that's why we keep having arms summits, and we've reduced the stockpiles by a huge amount. Hopefully someday we can negotiate it down to zero.

[@zman61997]

This is one of the most terrifying and disturbing games I have ever seen.

[@acerusea5156]

We about to role-play this game soon

[@royxeph_arcanex]

Living in Greenland must be fascinating in such event

[@samjohnson9862]

Fatin Marwat maybe Australia. Just maybe

[@privateger]

Sam Johnson No. Wind exists. It would blow the fallout straight into your face.

[@Huntooooo]

The entire earth would undergo a nuclear winter from so many bombs, so much debris would block out the sun . Fallout would cast the earth 10 times wrapping it in a radioactive blanket of death. Earth would be as desolate as mars. Or perhaps some smaller more resilient organisms would survive, but I don't know.

[@neutrino78x]

Greenland is a protectorate of Denmark, which is a member of NATO. At the very least I would expect Thule USAF Base to be hit.

[@neurogabu]

Meanwhile Australia is down there going "WTF, mate?"

[@gameboygamer6498]

But I'm le tired.

[@originalname28]

The most chilling part is when it says “VICTORY TO PLAYER 3” but the big red “GAME OVER” lingers on the screen 😟

[@Andrecio64]

4:30: when you see that the Silos tarts to change Icons, you know that some serius shit is about to happen

[@DusttheRegulus]

Defcon 3 is where things pick up. Defcon 1... nothing survives Defcon 1.

[@GamerGod-fp1tj]

Except for 52% of the humans.

[@obomonus]

I also find it funny that the USA and Russia had so few launch points. There were 2 right up the street from my house that they filled in with concrete in the 70's. There's thousands.

[@GamerGod-fp1tj]

Almost a decade late, but this is because the game wants to balance all sides

[@alwenke212]

when I was in middle school, the first silo in a string of 10 minute mans was a short bike ride outside town...duck and cover... my a$$..

[@krustygaming5887]

It’s interesting seeing the arcs of the strikes when there are particularly large launches, knowing that it is (in theory) the final days of humanity.

[@LeetleToady7]

I love how player 3 (the yellow one) did not hesitate a second to launch all of their submarine nukes

[@pabloleon9884]

Everybody dies... I get it now.

[@tombarge1809]

>africa >nukes lets be real here.

[@hristiyanangelov3610]

South Africa was speculated to have nuclear weapons

[@alexanderrose1556]

Gen. Tullius not speculated they did actually have nuclear weapons...

[@vihannes3]

Not to mention that there's nothing worth wasting nukes on there

[@chubbycatfish4573]

I always imagined it would be Russia/US/China/etc having their own weapons stationed there.

[@DzinkyDzink]

Wakanda is da powah!

[@AINGELPROJECT667]

5:16 Imagine standing in front of a screen in front of a strategic command center somewhere. Stunned silence fills the room. Hundreds of personnel in the bunker, all seeing what you see, but nobody says a word. And then a single voice breaks the silence. "It's over. It's fucking over."

[@onkelkleno5408]

You bow your head and close your eyes. You feel everyone's eyes lasting upon your back, awaiting your reaction. "...for all of us" you whisper huskily, while a single tear, silver gleaming and burning for a billion souls, rolls out of your eye...

[@N1gHtStAlKeR726]

The end of the world started when defcon 1 appeared

[@bastardhyena7882]

This game should be remastered to become more atmospheric and highly detailed

[@QuasiTronOfficial]

The lack of detail I think is what gives it this type of atmosphere. Its already perfect.

[@unknown-ob4yn]

well you might consider trying defcon inspired and less dramatic game called ICBM (its fun)

[@BenjaminXV_L]

I think a remake with more features putting more emphasis on the original idea would be great!

[@doctorhonda111]

I remember the first time it asked me to launch a nuke at a city, and the population popped up. I froze and thought about it. Felt so real.

[@Guine523]

That game over screen gets me. No flashy lights or excited sounds to say you win or loose. It feels like it’s asking you more than telling you that it’s over and you won. Just an Erie silence with the sounds of the final wreckage and ashes burning away in the distance. You may have won the game, but nobody truly won here.

[@blacksun3884]

BTW I'd like to point out the shift of music when the first nuke is launched. It's a slow almost ethereal version of Adagio for Strings. Truly a fitting soundtrack for watching humanity rip itself apart.

[@pikachui2336]

literally my class with when there is no teacher 4:53

Australia is just like: aight m8 what's appening in oter countries ay?

[@SCP--106]

Yoooo he new sky net simulator looks sick

[@ColonelFrosting]

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

[@ryuzakiyagami1171]

like real war

[@SMGJohn]

Everyone is a loser in war.

[@brodiewilson6985]

***** all participants in war are losers

[@johnmccnj]

Hello... Joshua...

[@ColonelFrosting]

johnmccnj Oh my god, someone finally got the reference!

[@maxfaxdude]

Lightman: "Is this a game or is it real?" Joshua: "WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?"

[@jackdog06]

DEFCON 2 - basically the same as 3, except everyone knows what comes next

[@onkelkleno5408]

damn.

[@NikoFromOneshot91]

This would be a drastic change towards the fishing economy

[@LInkinPark4life]

Cant believe you'd forget the effects on the mobile gaming market

[@TheNathan8712]

I can't express how much i love this game!!!!

[@TheSealinBlack]

In another universe this did happen... that’s a scary thought

[@Dustiferr]

And awfully depressing.

[@ARG0T]

This universe is next.

[@onkelkleno5408]

*theoretically.

[@fpsgod3028]

Wow the new hoi4 update looks cool

[@MrTallformyheight]

I know, War Games was an amazing movie. It was in world history Freshman year that it was introduced to me, to show how high tensions were during the cold war.

[@onkelkleno5408]

- [A STRANGE GAME.]

[@heavymetal8180]

6:22 the low rumble of the bombs and the music just sends a chill i cant explain

[@NoName-hg6cc]

"Strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

[@ArkitectHaizara]

Latinoamerica! Baby!

[@AceStudios10]

I think I'd rather die in the initial exchange than live through the hellish aftermath of a nuclear winter.

[@Skaitania]

"Game Over" Truer words were never written.

[@prasasti23]

When you stop the video but the warning sound still can be heard

[@southtexasprepper1837]

In this type of game, no one wins.