They have not come in peace - Terra Invicta

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[@Jenna_Talia]

I must say I haven't actually been eagerly waiting for new parts to a series in a while, this is great.

[@s.e.o.r5993]

This absolutely. I love it

[@supercow2391]

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[@hunterc7679]

Same it feels like no one’s playing this great game

[@Shane2020xxx]

“These dirty aliens are exploiting earth for resources!” “Hmm, I think I’ve exploited Africa enough. Time to abandon.”

[@PerunAU]

Such a sweet and harmless event

[@CesarAugustoRocabadoVillegas]

hey isnt there a mechanic that people can send "debris" to F up the station?

[@rayyanzubaid8423]

Just wanted to mention the great job you've done explaining a very complex game in a structured manner. You've explained the basics while hinting at the complexities in the in the perfect amount.

[@torgor_]

Man the level of depth in this game is almost meme worthy. Like I'm half-expecting an agent to get knocked out on a mission because they have an odd number of pores on their skin or something

[@shiningamaterasu2579]

this game is done by the group behind XCOM long war

[@kaymerillo8510]

"Unfortunately your character has not eaten a nutritious breakfast, and because of this was killed in an ambush. Diet must be a part of your strategy Commander !" something something pylons.

[@SotaPopable]

@@kaymerillo8510 "You must recruit additional corporations!"

[@ds2sofs]

What depth? What the fuck are you guys talking about lmfao, the only depth in the game is in space. Earth is bland as fuck and shallow like a puddle.

[@therexbellator]

You and I have two different definitions of what constitutes depth. All I see is a big complicated mess of a game, but complicated = / = depth. Complexity = the number of choices one can make in a game; depth is the significance of those choices (or how interesting those choices are). All I see is Potato chasing a bunch of boosts in order to speed up his research and production. This is such another Paradox-esque game where you chase some tiny 0.05 percentage to whatever currency you're chasing. That's not deep, that's just complexity masquerading as interesting choices. And all for what? The aliens and their threat are represented in a bunch of static screens or glowy orbs over a particular territory. This game is really lackluster in both gameplay and presentation, which is amazing since these people came over from XCOM a game that has plenty of both qualities.

[@ilovehumongoushonkers]

this is one of the 4x games which actually feels somewhat "real"

[@thebigchief6870]

It is "real".

[@ds2sofs]

It's bland. It's basically "what do the XCOM councilors do all day" the game, and the answer is unfortunately they do tons of boring shit. The game in it's current form is a huge unrewarding time sink and I hope for improvement but honestly I dont get the praise.

[@inredrustivel321]

@@ds2sofs average ds2 fan

[@stoopidapples1596]

I don’t think this is really 4X? Think it’s just regular grand strategy.

[@tevarinvagabond1192]

@@ds2sofs go play more Fortnite, more your speed

[@patrick_youtubing]

The aliens changing strategies at given points throughout the game in response to their own randomly generated domestic politics, such as from domination to cooperation, would be a nice addition.

[@Shane2020xxx]

Agreed, it would be even more intriguing if the aliens weren’t always malevolent and part of your mission was to figure out which aliens you were up against.

[@tristanhall7859]

I literally just found this channel last night and was watching this series I was pleasantly surprised because I had not finished the second video last night and when I woke up today I saw he released another video and I have to say I am very pleasantly surprised I'm enjoying the game and I hope that you make more videos please don't stop

[@verdiss7487]

Advantage in DnD (rolling the dice twice and taking the higher value) is hard to quantify because how much it helps depends on how likely success is without advantage. It is generally best if the chances would be around 50% without, in which case it improves the success rate by 25% percentage points to 75%. But it isn't very useful if the chance was all but guaranteed anyways, improving a 95% by only ~5% (to almost 100%, but the benefit is relatively and absolutely weaker), or if the chance was very unlikely either way, improving a 5% to a ~10%, which is relatively strong but absolutely weak.

[@nicholaspeterman9111]

Though, advantage can impart other benefits. Increased crit chance, sneak attacks for Rogues, etc.

[@ramonvdklooster9206]

This series is my way to postpone figuring out how to play the game myself

[@cptcatf1sh]

Yeah I bought bit after watching the first vid, after 2 hours I gave up and watch more potato man 🙃

[@petrimal]

...there is not enough hours in a day to watch all the terra invicta series I currently watch all over youtube.

[@drewferg9]

It's such a good game, major improvements from the demo version earlier this year. What no one watching realizes is that you're probably 8-10 hours in for 2 and a half hours of video...it's a massive time commitment of a game, but worth every minute. Props to you and your editor for going through all that footage to make a coherent story. Correct me if I'm wrong and you're just making decisions faster/not having to re-read everything from 6 months ago. As resistance it took me 12 hours to get to 2026, with 2 colonies mining on moon, 3 colonies with mining boosting their way to Mars. USA is very OP if you can get control of it as early as possible. Currently abandoning south america to get China as well...because controlling the two most powerful economies on the planet and ending their rivalry can't hurt, right?

[@TheSpookyTuna]

binged this series earlier today and then went to watch your recent stellaris toxic god playthrough. i'd literally just finished the last video from that and clicked on your channel thinking "man... i wish there was a new terra invicta video..." - so i was delighted to see this!!

[@t3ss33]

23:07 The joint probability distribution is usually less straightforward than the marginal distribution of each variable. However, with dice it becomes much easier as the dice rolls are independent. P(A) + P(B) is correct if the the event (A and B) is empty. If it is not empty it is still a good approximation if both of the probabilities are small. Simply speaking it holds: P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A and B) - imagine a Venn diagramm. If A and B are independent of each other, it is P(A and B) = P(A)*P(B). Thus, for a roll of two 20-sided dice the probability that you get at least one 20 is P(A or B) = 0.05 + 0.05 - 0.0025 = 0.0975 = 9.75%.

[@Littlebob1986]

Neeeeeeerrrrdd ;p

[@danzoom]

@@Littlebob1986 it's literally just a Venn diagram, wdym?

[@t3ss33]

@@danzoom try to understand. As a jock it is @Littlebob86 duty to give nerds a hard time.

[@t3ss33]

@@Littlebob1986 understandable sir, can I convince you to another package? Perhaps “the binomial distribution and independent binary variables" for 6.99 minutes? This offer applies only via comments and expires today!

[@CesarAugustoRocabadoVillegas]

you are talking about trying to do two different missions with low probability right?

[@tomassadil324]

Amazing gameplay. This game's RNG reminds me that of CK. Nothing better than having 1 heir, just to learn that he is a goddamn bastard, just for him to die 3 years later, smothered to death by pillow, which his mother held.

[@rasputin924]

Or nothing better for your character to die, get transfeted to your sole adolescent heir, and then the heir shortly dies from the plague.

[@tomassadil324]

@@rasputin924 Yeah, this game bends you over in a very similiar fashion. 🤣🤣🤣

[@toggerz7487]

Yeah, RNG is a funny thing where it's bad until there is so much of it that it becomes a tactic.

[@aesemon5392]

Or have the perfect heir and brother do well in education only for the brother to murder all the family including my husband and running off.

[@benjaminmiller80]

Or your king dies, then you are transferred control to your heir only to realized the heir killed the king and his brother takes control of the kingdom through a coup, then strips you of all your title... Which is what happened to me my first actual game...

[@akaviral5476]

This series has me excited. I love your explanations and how in depth it all is. This game might be something I check out soon, the endgame and midgame actually seem interesting to me

[@kevind8240]

Potato is really into this game. I can tell by the intensity in his speech. So many things to think about!

[@redmatador7595]

There is a huge learning curve and information overload, but I'm sure it's very satisfying to get it to work the way you want it too. Definitely not a game for everyone but I think strategy/4x players are going to have a lot of fun with this if the whole game is complete.

[@HoHhoch]

@@redmatador7595 In it's current state you can play every faction from start to finish.

[@goadfang]

One thing I notice you seem to do, which I avoid, is low chance crackdowns. It is absolutely worth it to do public relations for a few more turns to guarantee a high crackdown chance, rather than waste a turn on a fail at a low chance. The approval is always useful, even after you've taken control, and a failed crackdown is always a waste of time and resources. I've found that 75% approval is enough to usually give an 80%+ chance of crackdown success. So if you have two councilors running approval missions in the same place you can do that for 3 turns and hit that 75%, then have one of the councilors do a crackdown on a node (mass media or legislature is usually the best) and have the other councilors do a purge on that same node (even though it will tell you the purge's chance of success is practically zero). Crackdowns resolve before purges, so if the crackdown succeeds then the purge chance will jump up to maximum immediately and you take the node in the same turn. Then defend on that country with a 3rd councilor while your cracker and purger councilors repeat on the next mode. Can take down a large country in 4 turns with zero risk of having the nodes purged out from underneath you.

[@akocbibbo]

I was on the edge of my seat with this play through!

[@alexwindy3]

Love the subtle nods to our real geopolitical situation around the game

[@frostpaixao]

Amazing series, bro. Loving it. Portuguese here, living in Berlin, so I know German is difficult, but please: "Poli-t'zy" in Bundespolizei. just positive criticism. As I said, love this though I stayed for Civ VI (That I just purchased)

[@jefferybrown6473]

6:55 That operative went in with the pump action, while the pilot blasted "Rip and Tear" overhead.

[@CesarAugustoRocabadoVillegas]

dude i know people arent watching that much, BUT PLEASE KEEP UPLOADING MORE VIDEOS OF THIS PLZ.

[@gassmanet]

I'm super enjoying this game! Thanks for posting! Also, I unsarcastically love your mathematical insights in your videos, even if it's just spending a full minute trying to explain how rolling two dice is roughly *twice* as good as rolling one die. Keep it up!

[@funent9611]

When a soldier comes back from a mission he shouldn't. - "I'm genuinely impressed by that guy" 😂😂

[@Threesnap]

Loving this series. Keep it coming

[@pedrokreutzwerle9488]

This game is so fun to watch with your commentary and I'm glad you are posting these episodes so fast

[@jlmstreams8267]

Really appreciate your streams! Not only are they entertaining but also super informative. You're my main resource in getting into this great game. Keep it up!

[@bullronin1]

I'm surprised how much tension there can be in a game where the only visual combat so far is an animation of two tanks firing on each other

[@OrionZuyderhoffGray]

Mate! I’m loving this series. Great work!

[@emmancipations]

I stumbled across this series and I'm very sad that it's not a full series yet! I'm very much looking forward to Gigaeurope

[@Jaydee-wd7wr]

27:36, Me and my TOH mind did a double take at the GROM Organisation. “May I have this dance?”

[@petrimal]

with the way your alien-killer dude was rolling in the 2nd half of his clearing duty, I would investigate him if he's even loyal to you

[@karlbaker03]

Thanks for the great help with following the game with your helpful words.

[@erich6336]

You should go around the world a couple minutes or real short at the beginning of the episode to show the status of the world roughly and who is in control of what. I’d be interested to see how it changes

[@JPearcyful]

Damn this series is so good, I was keen to wake up this morning, grab brekky and watch the newest ep!

[@t_xxic8814]

I can't wait for each new video of this series!! I said it before, but I will say I it again: This game is great! I love it!! Nerd-heaven! 🥰

[@adamkoubeck]

This game's depth is insane. Love this content, Potato, keep it up!!

[@Andrew-Greene]

Already seen this video coming back to request more videos per day.

[@KeithSchumacherPortfolio]

Loving this playthrough. Please keep playing/recording at your current slow/deliberate pace!

[@Cosamaru]

Wow Meloni pulling a Ciaoxit right out of the gate this episode. Too real.

[@NotMe6044]

I'll be honest, I'm only here this early cause I was looking for this literal seconds before I got the notification

[@OrcCorp]

This is so interesting to watch and follow. I only wish you could play and upload these in 4k, so I could enjoy this better on my 55" 4k TV 👌🏼😄 Nonetheless, awesome series! Good work with it!

[@kristianpettersen3962]

The Sol System is not a «galaxy», boss. It’s a solar system. The solar system. Thank you.

[@AjLechtenberg]

Divakar is going to save the world single-handedly by destroying all these alien assets

[@CertifiedHuntingHornNoob]

I love these vids potato they're awesome! Can't wait for the next one!

[@mdtexeira]

This is making me want to play an Imperator Rome -> CK2 -> EU4 -> Vicky2 -> HoI4 -> Terra Invicta -> Stellaris game...alas...instead I must study maths and physics.

[@seanbutterfield1]

I'm super psyched to see what happens in this game, Potato! I'll take a swing at this once I see how you do with it. Good luck, Commander!

[@ItsXodious]

This game feels like its asking for a dlc that lets you play as the aliens.

[@BidnessGoose]

The only time aliens don't start with america apparently

[@NLTops]

I think you can use your councilors way more often. It says "ready for assignment" a lot of the time.

[@TrainmasterGT]

Please do more episodes!!!

[@electricVGC]

the pillaging of africa to invest in europe focused around france, the UK and the benelux... where have i heard that before?

[@mistergal3173]

i'm actually like really enjoying this series, it's actually exciting as i'm watching it

[@WilliamTehConqueror]

37:10 the Purple Curtain, more like Purple Rain

[@Kirkmaximus]

"The world is our oyster." Meanwhile, Iran and Russia gear up for a nuclear war against each other...

[@odmcclintic]

This game is so rad and I love this series!

[@ratbaby3107]

Potato out here starting the scramble for Africa 2: electric boogaloo

[@phoebebuggy815]

I think this playthrough is really funny because you're doing cold war 2 in europe

[@dansithlord]

Man. It's like The Three Body Problem as a 4x game.

[@0_Body]

Potato: When you roll 2 dice it doubles your chances of crit

[@princeofhumbugs6657]

Itexit? C'mon, you know it's Italeave

[@vdinh143]

When you said "We don't need Africa anymore; it provided us with a lot of money though," it gave me pause. There are probably people out there in the real world manipulating political intrigues like this with a noble goal and it's too hard both for us to see their big picture and for them to see the suffering of daily lives on an individual scale.

[@Kirkrrr]

@ video editors - guys, great job on the whole, but please please please start including the number of the video in the series. Otherwise, when watching a year later, finding the next episode is excruciatingly difficult. Yes, it's possible to try to find the playlist, but it's not always obvious which one it is.

[@alextopfer1068]

I'm glad you lampshaded the colonialism. It's an unfortunate problem with 4x games that they generally encourage that sort of play (see Errant Signal's critique of the civ series)

[@thevoxdeus]

Let's be real here: the game is about extra-terrestrials who have come to earth for the purpose of colonizing it, which is a much more significant statement about the subject.

[@alextopfer1068]

@@thevoxdeus yeah, it's better than EU4 in that regard. Although if we're over thinking things then there's the question of if it's dealing with colonialism, or white anxiety about being colonised? I haven't played it yet so can't say

[@10gamerguy]

Critique of the Civ series?? I feel like that's the least colony-focused of all the popular 4X games.

[@a.t.fa.t.f7031]

I try my best in games to not go to the "Evil overlord destroying countries in order to unite them under my iron fist" kind of thing, because I take a step back and just think, huh.... This is what some people would actually see as the right thing to do in this situation, and therefore (even though it is just a game) try to avoid that kind of play :P

[@aneru9396]

For anyone that wants to see the video Alex Topfer is talking about, it’s Errent signal - “keep politics out of videogames”

[@lordodin5755]

Was waiting on this one.

[@vincentsolus9227]

actually the chance of crit (with a nat 20) is 1 - 0.95² = 1 - 0.9025 = 0.09975, or 9.975% advantage work the better in the middle, like with 50%, with advantage is equivalent to 75%

[@shamgar348]

This is very remniscent of The Three Body Problem book series...

[@chetmcgovern9985]

Advantage in D&D is mathematically like adding a +5 to your number.

[@voxvictorum]

This game makes me want to play any of the XCOM games ^^

[@definitelynotadam]

17:49 If your agents / councillors can betray you, is it a smart move to add all these companies under one of them? I assume you do not lose companies.

[@SireBab]

I know this is a week after it was posted, but the German organization bundespolezei is pronounced like bun-des-pole-et-zi

[@MrMacMan23]

Really enjoying this series but please please put which Part this is in the description. YT has offered me the wrong next video twice

[@Voldotcom]

Advantage in dnd gives you about +5 on the roll. So i guess for a d100 roll it would give you a + 20. Something like that

[@combatscape2000]

this game is very cool, iam loving the playthrough

[@pavel1269]

A game that i felt that i will remove from wishlist almost got bought. Awesome series!

[@garrettwilson4754]

It's weird that Russia has the most nukes in the game since we know for a fact that as of 2020, the United States had a stockpile of 3,750 active and inactive nuclear warheads plus approximately 2,000 warheads retired and awaiting dismantlement. Also, Lawrence Livermore works on them, so you'd think that the org would give a boost to that.

[@ErzengelDesLichtes]

5:08 Are you sure you’re Irish? You’re being very British right now. 😂

[@joecatterwell4299]

1:45 I feel like it would be exitaly

[@TheDzemtube]

Ngl, when you started exploiting Africa I was like "Here we go again"

[@urza374]

I love this game!

[@nekomakhea9440]

>this guy keeps failing all his missions all of a sudden ...you might want to do a loyalty check mission on him. Usually that means he got turned traitor by another faction, and they set his "fail missions on purpose" priority really high.

[@2Links]

This reminds me of influence in Victoria 2 lol, trying to discredit and ban the embassies of your rivals in minor powers

[@alexanderdubstepcek5479]

great series. try getting a hold of israel and focus it on 3 economy, 2 knowledge and 3 mission control. it can be your main MC producer and you can turn off MC in EU, freeing the resources for knowledge, economy and boost. also, check from time to time the french colony which gives boost, you don't want to loose that. long term goal suggestion -control eurasian union as well for additional boost :)

[@MrCopperCutters]

These are really great videos, yet I still have no idea what is going on...

[@jaksongraham9516]

Love to see more

[@jordanleighton6893]

5:27 Can’t have shit in ~~Detroit~~ Africa

[@mikkosaarinen3225]

Yeah, Europe is not good for an Academy start. Also you don't want to delay the crisis, you actually want to accelerate it. Personally I like China for Academy. I bee-line for Russia and use their control points and the minors around China to get one or two CP in China before the crackdown. Then even if you get the control points in China hit it doesn't matter, since no one will be able to touch them in time. Actually this way if you get your control points in China hit it's kind of beneficial, because they don't cost you cap. That way you can get all or most of China under your control and still be under cap. I. The meantime you get the next councilor as soon as possible. If you do it right and prioritize CP cap stats you should be able to take all of China (maybe excluding the executive) while keeping something like Pakistan or Russia. This way you can basically completely negate the crisis. Also personally I like the colony ship to Jupiter start for Academy. That way you don't need to take part in the starting rush for moon/mars. As long as you control one or two global slots you can get to Jupiter at about the same time the AI are really starting to exploit Mars. While you're behind for a bit you're able to exploit the Jupiter system completely uncontested, which lets you ramp up at insane speeds. Just remember to get enough MC for the expansion for when you reach Jupiter.

[@hesseldekraai]

>unification of Europe Mega based

[@definitelynotadam]

It only took an alien invasion for the UK to rejoin the EU XD

[@ThatAfricanMan-ne5gi]

This is the greatest game of risk ever!

[@mrbluebell2735]

Is this the UFP/Starfleet route? Scientists and diplomats at the fore, absolute Chad burning xeno hives on the quiet.

[@soyfya5396]

Turned councilors will autofail missions below a threshold... so if a dude is failing over and over again there's a chance that's why

[@giri1478]

Uh Some 1 call the Geneva - we got potato here drying up africa again :( :( :(

[@serenityindeed]

This game seems quite cool, but does anyone else really want to play as the aliens? Colonizing the outer system whilst influencing politics on Earth and slowing moving in seems pretty fun lol

[@willmakesfilms]

Really like this game its neat.

[@stephendodge2637]

Loving this

[@Baleur]

14:40 not gonna lie, seeing how the world is going now, i'd feel safer if the Aliens had the nukes rather than Russia..

[@viltur83]

Chance for multiple roles If there is 30% chance of success there is 70% fail chance Take charce to fail 0.7*0.7=0.49=49% or 51% chance to success DND advantage to hitt a Critical is 0.95*0.95=0.9025 or 9.75% chance of critical with 2 dice Simple math if you think opposite to the normal human thinking.

[@axxey]

There's some massively huge RNG in Traits and orgs you get. You have 25 Administration, in my game slightly later date I started with a Megastar and absolutely dominated influence but have only had a single org with + Administration show up at all.