I Just HAD to Open My Mouth... - Terra Invicta (Part 12)

[@JackalMJ]

"I just wish the aliens would do something!" The monkey paw curls. "Wish granted." "Oh poo."

[@patrickmcclincy5125]

You will never know the animosity between the Japanese and the Irish.

[@JakobWasTaken__]

“Orion Drive” “Fission pulse drive” what beautiful euphemisms for nuking yourself to go faster

[@lordtvlor1298]

A DLC or something where you get to play as the aliens would be cool. Maybe you have to investigate the planet a little first to determine how its society works, and you can pick from a number of goals like subjugation, or annihilation, similar to the base game's factions.

[@zlac]

Someone will probably make a mod

[@The-Ent1ty]

"Hey so you blew up one of our ships so we had to investiga- why is there a needle firing too many rocket" -That alien ship

[@unknow11712]

you would need to put alot of restrictions to stop you from being too effective. I mean, in this game the aliens do nothing against the factions as long as they do things slowly. you would just rush to control Russia and just nuke spam for the lols .

[@samueltrusik3251]

In this episode of "Terra Invicta": Expansion opportunities! The wonder technology! ADVANCED expansion! You just had to say it... And a grand naval design!

[@SephirothRyu]

And being a bit of a chicken when it comes to the aliens. He has the space economy to basically build replacement stations faster than the aliens can deal with them right now.

[@matthewksiezak2752]

A semi cheesy way to get exotics is to allow the Servants to work their story line. As you can imagine that comes with a price tag to keep them in check. Once the Servants get far enough they can get an org that will allow them to build the Alien Administration which lets them build something to hand their control points off to the Hydra directly so that the Hydra can control human countris/armies. BUT as long as your fixer can assault the Alien Administration before it is fully built you can collect exotics. As you might imagine once you're done collecting exotics this way you need to lean HARD on the Servants and purge all Hydra from Earth.

[@Ridliman]

Your battlecruiser has more armor than a battleship? I think every naval engineer of old is now rolling on their tombs hard enough to give power to the Alien Mothership. Since the first time you said "pull the trigger" I was waiting for you pulling said trigger.

[@SummerPlays]

this is the best comment i had seen on the whole year, its great! haha

[@arkterminus9855]

Because of their slow speed and maneuverability, assault carriers and motherships are very vulnerable to massed railgun fire. The only issue is saturating them with enough to overwhelm their very good PD. Avoid the large 4 slot railgun batteries and stick to the 1 or 2 slot ones. 2 battleships with nothing but 1 slot/2 slot rail guns set to total offense(so they don't use their railguns to try and shoot down incoming missile or kinetic rounds) and another 2 monitor ships with 4 single slot lasers/point defense set to total defense are good enough to take out a single mothership/assault carrier as long as you keep all 4 ships very close during battle so the monitors can protect everyone. Plasma batteries are great end game weapons because they can't be deflected or blocked and each shot has a high speed so only very small agile ships are able to dodge and even then only at very long range. The problem with plasma batteries is that they can't do a lot of damage against more heavily armored ships like battleships, motherships and assault carriers. In time they can take them down, but it's going to be a back and forth slugging match. Your biggest issue is that your delta V is far too low to force them into a fight. Unless the aliens think they have clear superiority in combat strength they can just maneuver away when you try to engage them. They run you out of fuel and just a few hours later will be landing troops on earth while your ships are still trying to make their way back to refuel.

[@benjaminengslev4261]

This is by far my favorite series you have made in the past year,

[@awesomerthe2nd2]

Pravus, another thing: When Alien armies land, you have 30 days to use a assault alien asset mission, which if successful, will prevent the alien armies from totatily landing entirely meaning you don't have to use armies or nukes, but its very hard to land, so if you want to try this, use a councilor with high command Also, if Aliens are now building troup carriers, getting Trans-Interface Warfare might be a good top priority as it will grant you orbital defense from bombardment, but will also prevent aliens from landing in your nations if you build enough.

[@andrewyoung8550]

25 command councilor with 256 ops points dumped into it will barely get you to 20-30% success. Better to just use your armies. I’ve been holding the line with 6 US armies and 5 Eurasian armies (5.8 and 5.1) respectively.

[@shadowwarrior1003]

@@andrewyoung8550 I'm pretty easily able to hold the line with 6 US armies alone, disbanded all but 2 Eurasian armies for more development in the country. but my US armies have miltech of 6.5 and its only 2035... can boost that with councilors too though

[@sindurgoku8022]

There's nothing 12 7.5 armies can't solve; the glorious USA-Pan Asian Combine Alliance WILL grow stronger-

[@Ffourteen]

The phased array lasers by themselves are mediocre, but if you research visible lasers too then you can get green phasers which are great. If you go beyond that to UV lasers, you can get UV phasers which are a little better than green phasers at the cost of being unable to bombard through an atmosphere. Though honestly I never use bombard, if I want to bust an alien mine, I just landed marines.

[@lordhelmchen3154]

Bombarding can be useful to help your troops on Earth or target a rampaging Megafauna, though you need to be pretty far down the tech tree and have a sizeable fleet to actually do helpful damage. When I only had a small fleet of a few Green Arc Laser ships one month-long bombardment run did like 5% damage to an Alien army so not really worth it (just nuke the Ayys if your armies can't handle them). Late game however with lots of Coilguns and a large fleet I could decimate a Megafauna in a matter of days and didn't need to try to send my troops into that unallied country.

[@malcolmduncan]

This lesson is a perfect example of hubris, also, I've never been so on the fence about buying a game as i have been with this one, in regards if Pravus's opinion.

[@lordhelmchen3154]

I bought it and absolutely love it, almost finished my first Resistance playthrough! :D What Pravus said here about the game dragging on in my opinion is only happening in that specific phase he is in in this video, around the mid 2030s, when you have secured your Earth powerbase and first space mining operations but are still trying to stay below the Mission Control limit to not trigger open war with the Aliens. After their first assault however things start to ramp up again and the game moves on from Geopolitics strategy game to 4X space warfare/strategy game. :D When you decide it is time to show the Aliens whose solar system they walked into and start building up your fleets, trying out different ship designs and expanding your space colonization further outwards, constantly moving fleets around to defend against or attack the Aliens you always have a ton of things to do, it's in my opinion more stressful than the early-to-mid-game. And the good thing is all the space action is actually "real-time" and not depending on the "once-per-month" assignments on Earth so you don't just wait until 30 days have passed. The game is not perfectly balanced yet and there are some quite important quality of life features missing (mainly regarding strategic and in-combat fleet managment) that make it kind of annoying from time to time but the devs know of these problems and they tend to get fixed slow but steady with every new patch that is released. So I can definitely recommend it! :)

[@Marioand64Luigi]

I will say even as someone who enjoys the game quite a bit, Pravus is absolutely correct in that the 2030's point of the game he is at things can get quite... slow. Mostly because you're trying to avoid pissing off the aliens while building up your tech and infrastructure, and at this point you're full on control points, so not much to do there either. After this it definitely ramps up but yeah, may be worth keeping an eye on and waiting for some content patches in a few months.

[@malcolmduncan]

@@Marioand64Luigi yeah either that and/ or a sale is where I've landed. Thanks for the opinions though guys.

[@percyjackson386]

proves: says wormhole Me: stargates

[@WassahDuude]

I’m loving this series. Takes a while between uploads but it’s worth it for alien rebellion epic-ness.

[@hariyantotri888]

Finally! Another terra invicta

[@VirulentGunk]

This is like the Fellowship in Moira... Drums... Drums in the deep They are coming.

[@TheButters5000]

Who's Moira? She sounds pissed. Good comparison though 👍

[@EazyGunnaGaming]

The aliens basically told Pravus to fuck around and find out this episode. I love the content 😂😂😂

[@MaleniaLi]

Game: "I heard you talking shit"

[@luigirota7964]

14:42 fiusch alien mother ship battle avoided 😮‍💨 19:39 o noo in back 22:57 well you spoke and this is happened, good luck now 24:38 ok now we are in serious trouble

[@LordDarkhelm]

Something I've often thought when watching Terra Invicta, since it's promo copies went out to content creators even, is that I think the Long War devs got too hyped up about their reputation as creators of the "long" XCOM experience. They got it in their heads that they were gonna make the "BIG" strategy game, the one you spend 100 hours on a single run or something like that, and didn't realize what that can do to pacing. I'm not saying they're bad, just inexperienced and overly excitable. They have a great chassis and concept though, which I hope to see refined over time into more interesting games.

[@The-Muslim-Samurai]

Next episode pls! I've been binge watching this hard. Love this series

[@brettspencer-curran8269]

Orion engines aren't good. Currently Daedalus engines are the best, followed by neutron flux torch (this is a pretty widely held consensus). Advanced antimatter engines are also ok. Everything else (in the late game) is a trap (I'm looking at you protium converter torch and firefly torch) or a expensive meme (pion torch). There is a really nice spread sheet online that can calculates the waste heat (and required heat sink mass) for all the drives along with giving their DV and thrust; it is super helpful. I'd work your way to neutron flux torch or Daedalus. Nice series Pravus!

[@sk31370n]

now u are just using made up words

[@brettspencer-curran8269]

@@sk31370n lol don't blame me, blame the devs. Also, I cracked up reading your comment

[@Specialist0815]

I get your feeling that the game goes nowhere. I am currently in 2057 and have earth under control but cleaning up the aliens is hard. You need to win this game on a strategic level and the more mistakes you make early the harder it gets. Regarding the Troop Carriers: That are unbelievable sturdy ships.. shooting them down is a real hard task and takes a fleet of several thousand combat power. A single mother ship I find less threatening than 3 carriers surrounded by a small defensive fleet.

[@maxamil6282]

I really wanna get this game but I want to wait for it to have some more story to it. Maybe cutscenes and factions + side stories. I also hope they fix some things like making it more cear how mad the aliens are. Anyway loving the series ^^

[@luigirota7964]

25:17 this is a big one, very nice 👍

[@NON155]

PRAVUS SIR / YOUR A GREAT GUY / WITH GOOD FAITH / AND GOOD HEART / LETS BE REAL..

[@matthewksiezak2752]

So EU and the US both have super armies? I recommend once you’ve dealt with the THREE carrier situation that you pick 1 superstate to have the next age army and disband the other superstate army and Russian army. Disbanding the army will give you back points to use so you can jack up science from your state. You aren’t worried about human factions attacking you at this point unless you lean really hard on world conquest. So your new focus is on making a space fleet and building the space economy while building economy and science on earth. Z pinch techs are where it’s at for engines. Good job researching dimonoids earlier for adamantene armor. Good job going for phaser arrays. Do you have rail/coil guns yet? I think you got green phasers those are great to get your exotics.; mount it on the nose. Feel free to build PD boats as long as you keep formation tight so they can do their job.

[@MS.nkambule]

It's no longer undercover it's UNDERCRAVA. 😂love the content Overlord Pravus.

[@silvanelf1]

I'm more invested in this game than anything recently. It's guaranteed to be at the top of my list when you upload.

[@outland2874]

Praise supreme leader pravus of the resistance!

[@M4RSHMELLONINJA]

I want to see him play as the servants after this series.

[@Amelia_Scp_and_Halo_fan]

I love your terra invicta video every day i see if you get out a terra invicta video or a other video. And i love what you make continue like that.

[@themainc]

Really enjoying your Terra Invicta series Pravis. Thank you.

[@2514ben88]

thanks I'm really enjoying this series.

[@jkurratt]

part 12 is when Australia first time been mentioned xD

[@MrSHADOWANGEL999]

Back with a vengeance

[@dheiyomain6775]

The great jinx of pravus

[@kaveman5868]

I love the terra invicta series good work man

[@randallporter1404]

23:25 Or, or, or blow 'em up in space?!

[@Frenzybee0405]

My favorite series you've played so far! Keep up the amazing work!

[@hashyahan201]

Quite an exciting developments we are having here, I look forward to the battle and get that W for humanity dude 😎👍

[@danishhabibi950]

I miss this series

[@dr.paulwilliam7447]

Launch windows are a thing that is why your colony ship waited a bit for a good insertion orbit

[@scarythegastires5233]

Mm a fresh episode of Terra Invicta! I was waiting for it since i binged the rest! Also pravus charm working yet again making me buy new games. First was plague inc then rebel inc then timberborn and now Terra XD

[@matthewksiezak2752]

I gave the whole series a rewatch at episode 10 and probably will 2 or 3 times more before it’s over.

[@sword_god8438]

Exodus already has something on Jupiter

[@ogkillerboss55888]

prav feeds us more terra invicta, thankyou pravus

[@robertwiesner6825]

I really really like your videos on this game. I think I'll have to buy it.

[@alexanderiles4428]

I am very excited to see how this pans out.

[@UBik0013]

im very much enjoying your presentation, game is exactly to my liking too

[@zod2242]

@pravas thanks for the videos of Terra Invicta. i been playing on hard, and I have been struggling the whole way but it has been fun because the A.I. seems to use more of the different missions against me. the a.i. keep going back the whole game seems like a bug because I am not getting that in my game.

[@mikel1784]

expansion in the future as the other side, defiantly be a thing I go for they clearly are hashed out nicely and play differently.

[@AllenYCLau]

Praise karma and Praise Gimli!

[@polygondwanaland8390]

I personally really, really like coil cannons. They hit a lot harder than plasma and very quickly overwhelm PD. Plasma can't be targeted by PD but this can actually be negative, because it means all the alien lasers set to guardian fire at you instead of your barrage of steel slugs. Plus you can call your big coil battleships MAC daddies. I wouldn't mix plasma and coils though, because you need to saturate PD.

[@uros7759]

Finally, a new episode

[@AverageWarCrimeEnjoyer]

Glory to commander Pravus, may the aliens get what they deserve You sure hyped me up for the next episode

[@justinthompson6364]

I wonder how missiles would fare at the current stage? Being close to home offsets their ammo weakness, but alien PD on bigger ships is supposed to be pretty good...

[@luigirota7964]

0:20 o yessa more nukes 🚀 ☢️

[@Kazic5000]

Sad to hear you find the game tedious. I'm really enjoying this series.

[@zefflin1451]

I can't wait for the next episode, to see if you stop them in orbit or stop them on earth.

[@jameswg13]

Please build more military ships and start clearing out the survey ships. Please please you need too

[@darkgalaxy9998]

I would LOVE to play as the aliens

[@chrishutchins9384]

Maybe terra invicta is is different, but what about making a bunch of small missile ships like in stellaris.

[@lordhelmchen3154]

Early to mid game it's quite effective (in fact the earliest way you can destroy Alien ships is probably with missile spam), later on I'd say it's a bit suboptimal (Coilguns, Plasma and Phasers are more reliable) because you need a ton of missiles to get through enemy point defense. Those Point Defense lasers on Motherships and heavier battleships (and space stations) are no joke and will swat down dozens of missiles at once like it was nothing. I heard using a mix of normal multiple-missiles-per-salvo systems together with a few nuclear torpedos that hide inbetween the weaker but numerous normal missiles works but I haven't tried it out yet.

[@chrishutchins9384]

@@lordhelmchen3154 Yeah, I was thinking a combo system that doesn't just rely on missles. I don't know enough about the game to know if that's even possible. In my head it makes a lot of sense to make the enemy have to swat down a bunch of ships, potentially wasting shots due to firing more than what is necessary to destroy an individual ship. But! You have to be able attrition down the enemy before they shoot all your stuff down. But this is assuming the aliens have enough firepower to take down a battleship with ease. Also having enough time to actually build ships is another factor.

[@lordgong4980]

Honestly i think Pravus is over-obsessing about tech just build ships now

[@SummerPlays]

you asked for the aliens to do something, here they come now looks like its time to invest everything into military, and maybe try to intercept them before they land?

[@Followerofchrist221]

Yep military or keeping under the radar is the key or both when I say military I mean in tech terms along with power and armor with engines

[@emoryjmorrill]

Awesome

[@michealcorbett2240]

I wonder if the devs have plans to make a mode or DLC where you play as the aliens, i think that would be really cool. Similarly how plague inc. had the researcher modes.

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

You wait ages for a troop transport...

[@12vscience]

nice

[@kongking956]

WOOOO WARRRRR

[@Filli00]

ep. 13 soon pls

[@evanhunt1863]

0:51 So, it's basically Russia right now.

[@DarkDragon357]

Pravus should play more democracy 4. i would love to see a hardest difficulty america run. day 69 nice!

[@olivewooled1297]

Are we reaching the climax?

[@ZombiePete1]

OMG you have not gotten the cheap heavy rocketry. you can get like a 180% buff to your boost investments if you get the right techs and projects.

[@ShadowWolfRising]

You consider doing Pegasus Expedition?

[@swan248]

My doctor told me I should stop with the references but MORE GIVE ME MORE, crap REFERENCE

[@jovydaskniuipys3898]

Sacreficing democracy to a totalitarian state is kinda sad...

[@jms31896]

I feel like you need to focus more on your research than global research just to get through all the things you unlocked faster. If your already at tech that uses exotics then going higher level without getting some first won't do much.

[@IcePhoenixMusician]

This may be REALLY early, but after this campaign I was thinking… since you’ve really been hating on The Servants, you should do a The Servants campaign next.

[@enzuki]

Not sure if Pravus sabotaging the AI really did have an effect on the global research. But overall it seems like this game needs to be shortened as it takes too long for anything to happen.

[@brettspencer-curran8269]

It is definitely a really long game. If you make it to the early 2040s and are super fast I can see you easily spending around 50 hours. I'm not complaining though I really enjoy the depth and breadth of the game and I don't think you can have that while being fast paced.

[@Sherlock_XD]

name the series Terra Evicta pls

[@ImperatorPenguin]

Pravus, why is Japan at war with Ireland?

[@raquelarenl4735]

I’m first let’s gooo

[@darkflash6152]

Second