Great start to the game! Really looking forward tot this series, love the reaxed and thoughtfull tone.

@explorminate

3 жыл бұрын

I think I'm getting a bit better at my presentation now, but plenty of room for improvement. Thanks for the comment!

28:32 - Thank you for adding the space. :)

Making me want to get back into it. Awesome stuff.

Certainly a good game as I've dumped quite a few hours into it myself (with only moderate success...but hey...), but S.E. sure blurs the lines between play and work. I swear, every time I launch this game I have to ask myself, "Do you really feel like doing this to yourself right now?" And the answer is usually, "No, but I have to earn a living..................hey wait, no one pays me for this #$%!". All stupidity aside, thanks for the vid. Always helpful to see how other players approach this behemoth of a 4x.

I woudn't say 110 Structural Design is kinda good. I would say it's really good. :) Although the range is from 70 to 130, it seems to be slightly weighted down.

@Bill_Garthright

3 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking. I'm not sure I've _ever_ gotten a structural design score higher than 110. But I've certainly gotten some that were _terrible._ I'm always happy if I get anything at 100 or better.

@battlemode

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bill_Garthright You guys are right! 110 is good, I've had higher though, although I forget what the highest I've seen yet is. I will go through some of my better designs at some point before this series finishes (I'm about done now after 100 episodes)

25:18 - Wow, completely surrounded by a single Territory at start ?! ---- 39:53 - Hey, at least your infantry already has Envirosuits ! ;) ---- You forgot to move one unit : the giant head in the unit list ! :P

Great game.

I want a diplomatic approach! *creates a 3 skull flag* Honestly, it could only be worse if you marched under the banner of a rats anus

@explorminate

3 жыл бұрын

LOL and what a banner that'd be! To be fair the game only gave me the choice of three flags!

@henrikknudsen8125

3 жыл бұрын

@@explorminate I know I know, but I was rooting for the tree thingy - I always pick the tree thingy when doing flags. They're quite nice :) Anyway I've seen you mention you have a personal channel where you also play 4X - would you mind sharing it? When I search for "battlemode" I only get a whole lot of Doom stuff :)

@battlemode

3 жыл бұрын

@@henrikknudsen8125 click on my name here :)

@henrikknudsen8125

3 жыл бұрын

@@battlemode right, I'm such a derp sometimes haha :)

Thank you for this playthrough and going through everything. It really cleared some things up for me on stuff I had a ton of questions about. My new playthrough is going a lot more smoothly.

@explorminate

2 жыл бұрын

I'm really pleased to hear that! I've started a shorter playthrough on Impossible with a much tougher planet setup on my own BATTLEMODE channel if you're interested. It's not specifically a tutorial but it goes into some of the finer details I didn't really get chance to look at in this big game.

Sorry for my inability to read numbers when I'm doing planet generation: I've studied mathematics at university so I should be able to do this stuff but when I'm under pressure sometimes I struggle to read long strings of digits.

@uncletimo6059

3 жыл бұрын

weak! the penalty.. is deth!!!!! LOL, no worries, bro

@BlueTemplar15

3 жыл бұрын

@@uncletimo6059 you mean "the penalty.. is **S**eth!!!!!" ? :P

@uncletimo6059

3 жыл бұрын

@@BlueTemplar15 hmmmm?

@BlueTemplar15

3 жыл бұрын

@@uncletimo6059 the name of the planet type...

This planet kinda gives me vibe of lost planet games

At long last 🥳 Thank you for starting the new SE series! Your history class choices would definitely make the series interesting 👍 Please keep Ben floating head on. P.S. Why are you not playing the latest beta (v1.08.04b)? Besides different tweaks and tuning, it has a new feature of Customization formations (!!!) and the ability to scrap militia units.

@explorminate

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly I didn't know about it, although with betas there can often be bugs so for a Let's Play it's usually wiser to play the more stable version.

This was such a helpful video. I'm a brand new player and I keep getting my butt kicked by the early enemies. I'm still trying to figure out how to make the best use of my action points.

@explorminate

3 жыл бұрын

Keep at it! The game will eventually start to make sense. It is a wonderful game because it is remarkably friendly to beginners: it doesn't really require that you know all the many rules and systems it deals with, and you can learn them one at a time. You'll see that I'm still learning this as I go along, and I've been playing since before it was released. Thank you for the kind words!

Checking this game out after watching your ranking tier list video. Got me curious!

@explorminate

2 жыл бұрын

I'm interested to know how far you get with it. It's a long series as you can probably see! Thanks

@j_atkinson

2 жыл бұрын

@@explorminate I made it almost all the way through, but then skipped to the end :)

Finally someone with a brain playing this game!

@battlemode

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't go that far! I make plenty of mistakes in this series but it was a real learning experience :)

This game looks so interesting, but seems pretty intimidating at the same time.

@explorminate

3 жыл бұрын

I think the "interesting" eventually overrides the intimidation! At least for me it did... I got so excited because this initially looked like a wargame that wasn't just set in WW2, and that was a big thing for me. But on learning that it's not only a 4X game, but a damn good one, it really got me over that hurdle. Also, the game's design philosophy is that most of the complex stuff doesn't really need to be learned early on, you can play just fine by pushing counters around and letting the automation do the rest.

@dashiellgillingham4579

9 ай бұрын

If you've played Civilization you've played this level of complexity, it just presents itself more seriously.

Gotta wonder how wildlife survives -40 degree C temperatures.

Join us on the discord for a multiplayer game sometime :)

@explorminate

3 жыл бұрын

I've already got two on the go right now but I shall likely take you up on that sometime, thanks!

@trikkinikki970

3 жыл бұрын

@@explorminate Not just you, everyone. I thought single player was fun but hoo boy the banter between turns is delightful.

I don't agree that it's important to go for tanks right away. I don't think you even need to get tanks at all in every game. The game is designed to encourage the player to adapt to the situation at hand, and provides numerous different units that can get the job done. I do often like to get the Model Design Council early, sometimes first, but not for tanks. I do it because the Buggy can immediately be upgraded, either to use less fuel with a light engine, or to have 25mm armor plating with the existing medium engine. Your infantry start with Slugthrowers, but you start with the tech for Carbines, so you can immediately upgrade them. You can also get artillery going pretty early. Motorcycles are quite useful early on, being cheaper and more fuel efficient than trucks, and without requiring extra troops like the trucks do. They also have the best Recon rating. In the longer term, Mechanized Infantry, Mechanized MG Infantry, and Mechanized Heavy MG Infantry are very capable of mowing down enemy infantry as well as, and sometimes better than tanks. If you get the Mechanized Quad MGs, soft targets melt like butter. EDIT: That's not to say tanks aren't great fun when you can support them.

@Razzlion

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Art+inf and Mechanised combinations of them is fantastic. Getting in some air support or long range missile support is great too.

@explorminate

3 жыл бұрын

This is a very good point. I think that tanks are probably your best bet for early warfare and they remain valuable right through the game, especially if manpower is limited. But you do need a lot of metal and fuel, and for sure that they're not always the best, most viable option. If you have a lot of infantry and artillery you can certainly do a lot of work but it's slower and you'll take more losses if there are enemy vehicles. I also love motorcycles, you'll see that I use them a lot! They're pretty decent on the offensive as well, compared to regular infantrymen. Mechanized Infantry are excellent, and I think they're likely to get a lot of use in this map.

@Razzlion

3 жыл бұрын

​@@explorminate My biggest hope for the game right now is the AI being able to stop using free roads for logistics so it can't spam spiderwebs over the entire world xD But yea, More oil than manpower? Tanks are great. Low on oil or lots of bad terrain? A dude with a rifle is your friend!

@Trifler500

3 жыл бұрын

@@explorminate Another consideration is, looking at your planet, tanks will have issues with all the hills and mountains. You'll be forced to use foot infantry in the high mountains. At least until you get Walkers, but that's a long ways off.

@explorminate

3 жыл бұрын

There's a lot of open ground on this map actually but you were right, I've not ended up having the industry to build anything remotely resembling even buggies so far.

Hey, sorry to comment on such an old video, thanks for making this series on an outstanding game. I have been wandering through your Lets Play series, and learned a bit as to what the hell is going on, but i am still drowning in information. Do you have a series more educational on how to play, not just tips and tricks, more a tutorial type play through ? Thanks again :)

@explorminate

2 жыл бұрын

There's a Top 10 Hints for new players video I did here, failing that you could check out DasTactic's excellent tutorial series. Edmon from Slitherine did a good introduction video too.

Struggling to figure out if I should get it. The good sides are obvious, but two things are a really hard sale. First the price is quite steep, but mostly, I've read that the turns can take upward to 40 min of waiting... what is your opinion?

@explorminate

3 жыл бұрын

Never seen a 40 minute turn wait time but I have a very powerful PC, I expect that might be possible if you're playing on a very old computer. To put it into perspective, this is a large map with something like 160 AI players at the start of the game, and my turns are taking about ten minutes to process, which is about right for a big, complex wargame like this. The only other game I know that has large amounts of AI processing like that is Total War: Warhammer 2 Mortal Empires and although the turn processing there is very fast it doesn't simulate even 2% of what's going on in this game so you can't really compare them. On a small map with just a few AI, the game processing is pretty fast, maybe a minute or so. So if you're hoping to play on a big map like this, with loads of AI opponents, you have to be willing to go do something else for a bit after each turn, or just be patient. As for the price, if it turns out to be your kind of game it'll be well worth the money for you. I really don't think this is expensive for what you're getting for it.

@Rizoof1

3 жыл бұрын

@@explorminate Thank you for your answer. I have a good processor, I7, so I hope that is enough. About the price, well I recently got AoW Planetfall for about the same price, and it's well worth the money, just wondering if it is comparable. I'm saving up for Distant Worlds 2 and the new System Shock, so this game is kind of in competition with them for which one do I buy next.

Change your nation name to eXplomaspawn ?

Has Shadow Empire been updated? It needed one.

@explorminate

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it's still getting regular updates

I don't need to see the commentator, but if you get comments to the contrary then w/e. :)