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In a franchise so reliant on time travel, save-scumming to get the result you want makes sense.

Rimmy gets the human resistence experience (getting railed by a superior foe)

"American Syrian Warfare" That is funny, because when this game was first announced it was being developed by CatsWhoPlay, who made Syrian Warfare, but I guess due to the events of the last two years there were some changes and stopped developing it.

I have to mention, that mission with all the legion tanks is balanced around having brought the M1 from the previous mission with you. It's out of fuel when you find it but the fuel truck on the same map has just enough fuel to get both itself and the tank to the extraction point. Still a hard mission, but less hard with a tank of your own.

Just from reading the title I am feeling some odd sense of nostalgia, and I miss the Terminator: Salvation gun cabinets now.

Unintentionally (maybe) realistic to how humanity does in the Terminator universe

you can tell by the savegame names how much mental torment this game inflicted on poor Rimmy

I can’t believe that this game was so accurate to the terminator lore that the only hope that humanity has is abusing time travel /j

I know someone has probably said this somewhere already, but the Cartel "Tank" at 32:32 is a Panhard ERC. It's actually an armoured car and mounts a CN90 90mm cannon.

Fun Fact: On the Fourth Mission, You can get a Stryker, Bradley and Abrams on the first mission and use the Bradley and Abrams to roll over the mines in the minefield to retrieve an M113 and Humvee... The tank is just bait with no traps which is kinda make sense since early terminator model don't lay traps... For the fifth, I just equipped my Rangers with c4 and plant those along the road so when the tank comes through, Instant death the whole line... Sixth, You can replace replenish your squad in the prison area as long you pay in the prison before you start the rebellion... Every gang you beat adds a weapons team when you start the rebellion and get rids of the special enemy squads like the ATGM team... I cheesed the mission by just using the militia engineers you can save and use their C4 and plant it to EVERY enemy vehicles and buildings and reload their C4 with supply vics...

Dang these automatons look weird hopefully we can keep em contained for democracy

Interesting that the integrators joined the cartel against you. In my playthrough they told the cartel to screw off. I guess because I actually bought the Legion Tank from them. If so, it makes buying that thing even more integral to the success of that mission. Gotta say having the Abrams helps a shit ton, but it's still brutally unforgiving. The sheer macro demanded by the scale mixed with the micro needed to have a degree of survivability and make any use of unit abilities is insane. I have no idea how in the world you're supposed to find the time to micro EMPing a terminator with one squad, to then have a specific technician squad you've spent resources to upgrade move up to sabotage it, to then run away and wait for more terminators to get near it and blow up it's reactor. The time spent investing mirco in that would result in 50 other guys dying every where else on the map, because if you don't fight everywhere on the map, you lose. Still, it does enough cool stuff that I just have to keep playing.

"With the French AMX I think it is" Me internally: Do you realize how little that narrows it down?

tbf, in terminator, the standard t units literally just walked at the humans firing, not caring about casualties, because it doesn't care. its just programmed to wipe out humans

I love the monologue at the end. You can tell he REALLY wants to see where the game goes but knows getting through it will be rough.

So the Abram’s you find in the first mission that’s a “trap” isn’t actually trapped it’s the vehicle and the rev 6s that are the trap so you can safely repair the Abram’s and it helps on the following mission also if you help the defending movement troops they eventually bring artillery to help with the convoy attacks you just need to keep them defended

49:37 in the tutorial it encourages you to loot buildings. You can find mounts, named characters, specialists, kiddos that boost loading gate.

Oh shit. Forty five seconds after release... That's a new record for me.

Game is fucken amazing. It starts as just basic strategy but once you get to “post base escape” missions its gold. Branching choices, extra units you can find, stealing vehicles, assembling a fucken convoy… Even retreating strategically after each mission is just… art.

The game encourages you to loot vehicle wrecks, you can find HE Landmines in the trunks of the wrecked Humvees. One shots the tanks. You get like three landmines per vehicle.

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1:30 Casual Rimmy Psyop against his own troops/j

I love rts where your units are valuable and can't be replaced. It's the main reason why i love Original War so much, trying to do deathless rts for the sake of everyone's survival will always be fun problem.

23:31 When scavenging in this mission, you can find a dragon stockpile. And then you meet the haulier faction. Which have semis with trailer mounted launchers which you gotta drive at the enemy to use. Which, the trucks are called DARKSTARS. From ducking twisted metal. Half the factions are references.

This game would so much better if the mission objectives prioritized survival over winning. Like you leave the mission at any time and it wouldn’t count as a defeat. Then when 3 tanks roll up on you it goes from, “that’s bullshit, I need to restart” to “oh shit, it’s time to leave.” Especially with the all the savaging and resource management mechanics you could potentially do an RTS war game version of FTL, which seems perfect for the Terminator setting. Not to belabor the point but imagine if each mission was a race against the ever encroaching Legion hordes and you the constant dilemma of staying on the map trying to be more material, resources, and manpower, or leaving and preserving the combat units you already have.

Pov: average robot mission in helldivers

I had a great time. It's one of the best RTS I've played in years. Alot of RTS players serve their ego and picked HARD (myself included). In this case, Hard lives up to its name, and REALISTIC is legit future war Armageddon. I, too, am an RTS fanatic, and this scratched an itch that's been around for years!!! you have to play this game like an actual commander. Every choice weighed against the potential costs and benefits. No one does things alone and all units require support. If you like organisation, have a rudimentary concept of military tactics (sector security, reserve cycling, fire team formation, kill team action, bounding infantry units in urban combat, intelligence and scout sorties etc.) Then this game will be right in your tool kit. Unfortunately, the game does not really explain the depth of thought required. So I would recommend any new players play on STORY or Medium.

23:46 Rimmy finding out that shooting tanks on side turret/armour is more effective than tryna pierce from the front

I like how rimmy started the video talking about how easy the game was, and then by the second mission of the actual game was wondering why the game was so hard. Wow that curve, but this game seems like a ton of fun for sure.

Is it just me, or does the Atlanta Pullback sound like something from urban dictionary?

As a bit of a Terminator fan, I’m really glad to see that Legion units are fucking hardened and take a shit ton of effort to put down. After all, Skynet designed most of it’s forces to be solid, cost effective, functional killing machines and this really give them a bit of the credit they deserve with the whole “You can stop them, it’s just really hard to stop them” aspect of Terminator

I agree that some balancing needs to be done with the game, but it's otherwise pretty fun. You should've yoinked that tank after killing the Revs guarding it, it's a great way to clear the other missions and give it a plasma cannon when you get to Talos.

I think it's cool how a lot of the units are also characters, and because there's no way to replace them, it kinda makes each lose hit heavier

Rimmy you could have taken the tank you see that the Rev6 drives you can take it back and post-battle I had that tank for that exact convoy mission you were struggling with.

"American Syrian Warfare" I like that, we need more of them.

Seeing the technical at 10:00 and the trailer vehicle system immediately reminded me of scrappy technical at the beginning of Terminator Less "might of the military industrial complex" and more "I hope this works 'cause it's all we got."

the abrupt ending screen coupled with the searge saying "they got us!" at 10:35 made me laugh idk why

32:30 -ish That there is a French-made ERC-90 by the looks of it. The Mexican military uses the Lynx variant, although that particular model looks like the Sagire variant. It's a neat little detail that implies the Cartel took them when shit hit the fan in Mexico. It even has what looks like a camo scheme styled after the Mexican digital camo pattern. EDIT: Timestamp edit

"Why are they coming from my rear lines??" Well, terminators are infiltration specialists.

This reminds me of Fallout Tactics in atmosphere, the long missions, the micromanagement, the killer robots.

So the game starts off the wrong foot, then proceeds to do a brilliant 100m sprint and right at the end it trips and breaks its leg. It looks cool but it definitely has problems. Also reading some of the comments and seeing Rimmy slowly loose his patience with this guy called Arlindo as he leaves a comment on almost half of the comment section is quite entertaining possibly more than the game xD

I dont know why this is making me think of the Alien vs Predator RTS. Im remember that being pretty fun

My favorite part was when Rimmy actually started to feel like the humans in terminator. Hopeless

Pretty lore accurate game (Skynet kicking ass)

I will say from a similar experience with a dungeon crawler called Etrian Odyssey, the hardest difficulty being 100% damage might indicate that that is the intended difficulty/experience the game was designed around, with all the lower difficulties making it easier for accessibility. Which would make sense given this is supposed to be a game about humanity fighting a losing battle against machines

5:44 you can see that one of the regular infantry killed the spider as the Javelin hit it, so it kept going. It dodged a Javelin there XD

My personal opinion on this from what I've seen in the video and from some Steam reviews I've read is that the game is trying to do two entirely different things. The overall 'macro' of the game, I.E the unit management, persistent campaign mechanics, and having to keep as many people alive as possible, just doesn't mesh well with the 'micro' portion of things, I.E the actual in-mission gameplay, which seemingly encourages a gameplay style of having massive pitched battles with enemies that are either so incredibly overpowered compared to you (Legion/Skynet) or just have waaayyy more units than you do on highest difficulties (Human factions such as the Cartel), where success is seemingly determined by either some arbitrary side objective that either bugged out or you just didn't notice because you either assume it was completely optional (as it should be, mind you) or barely even knew existed, or because you didn't pick up some random vehicle that was also either bugged out or seemingly wasn't worth the effort to try to salvage and maintain. As with many other people, I want to love this game. A Terminator RTS game sounds like an amazing concept, and many of the ideas and concepts in this game seem amazing, but it just doesn't work the way it is designed right now. The two concepts of the overarching persistent campaign encouraging small armies and preserving units and the standard massive head-to-head, high casualties RTS gameplay where you have twenty different things you have to manage at the same time are just fundamentally antithetical to each other. If this game wants to work, something needs to change, preferably how the missions themselves actually work and interact with the persistent mechanics.

I think I get the verdict, I have a bunch of games in my library that are firmly in the 'I don't mind it, on some level I even enjoy it, I would not recommend buying it'. Hell, some of my favourite games are ones that I didn't regret purchasing and pouring hours into, but I absolutely would not recommend getting.

Seems like this is a game where the difficulty levels actually mean what they say and are not just 'the mode for people whose self respect doesn't hinge on what difficulty they play the game at', 'easy, but we call it normal so you can feel good about doing well without feeling ashamed you're playing on easy mode', 'normal, but for people who like to be told what a special boy they are' and 'We call it impossible, but it's only marginally more difficult than any of the other modes'.

Few things: 1. Explore the maps more. Particularly Nueva Torguga. Many times you missed things that make missions easier which has a compounding effect. 2. Turn down the difficulty. Clearly too many units to handle until you get used to the game. Medium spawns less enemy units. 3. Use tactical pause. I never once saw this feature being used. 4. Spend your goodwill points . Not taking advantage of all those units, guns, and armor is crippling. Applying armor to your vehicles helps massively even junk armor. You had 18k goodwill at the end that's so much power that could be used on the battlefield. 5. Push forward slowly and have mutlpe tools ready to deal with any opponent close by. 6. The ability to use your manpower during missions to reinfirce units would be awesome. Great idea! 7. At the end of missions take everything with you and you can sell what you don't want for goodwill.

Hey Rimmy just a heads up I got this game today because of this video and the reason they don’t have medics is because in the second tutorial mission it tells u in very little brackets that units heal if they don’t (move,shoot or see enemy units)

One of the main issues I've found that this game suffers from is there's a very finicky 'balance' for the survivability of your battlegroup. Enemies such as Homunculi squads or Wolfpacks, regardless of their weapon loadout, can shred infantry squads very quickly if left unchecked, which mandates you bringing armored vehicles in as a sort of 'counterplay' to deal with them. At the same time, Legion forces have a variety of Hunter platform [weaponized carrier vehicles] and just designated vehicle killers [Legion tanks, AT-equipped Homunculi squads, REV-6s with plasma MGs, etc etc] that one misplay can result in you losing the majority of your armored firepower, and only having infantry squads against Legion terminators and Legion vehicles is a fast loss waiting to happen. The scaling of the fights is also grossly skewed against you, as you already pointed out. A friend of mine found the best way to beat Nueva Tortuga was to get a sniper team trained for stealth and movespeed, basically doomstack artillery equipped vehicles or gun platforms that can outrange the enemy, and then just slowly 'creep' your main force in but keep them far back enough the artillery can clear out most of the threats. The Cartel gets far too many infantry and AT-equipped vehicles or 'tanks' for you to reasonably be able to win a head-on fight against them. If one tank or RPG squad flanks you and takes out any of your main vehicles, you better be ready to reload the save. As somebody whose beaten the game myself on hard difficulty, the best way I could describe it is like needing the perfect roll of the dice every single time to make winning feasible. Otherwise every single mission is a crawl where you have to cherry pick every single fight with every single enemy group, pull back after each engagement to heal and re-arm, let allied units be bullet sponges so your own don't get lost, and abuse every potential trick in the book to keep your losses down against the magically replenishing hordes that Legion/Cartel/etc come up with to keep throwing at you. As an example, lategame a single Abrams equipped with a ceramic armor kit and certain lategame weapons is a monster on the battlefield that can solo a lot of smaller Legion battlegroups on its own. The only issue is, again, one bad mistake can result in you losing that Abrams, or in you having to sacrifice a lot of your combat group in order to save that Abrams from being destroyed, which means you won't have the troops available to do certain things later on. It all really just boils down to 'The AI gets far too many units while you get far too few, and you're expected to play far too carefully with your units while the AI gets to play far too recklessly'. I'm not joking when I say that not catching a single Legion squad of suicide drones can and will force you to restart a mission most of the time, and I don't think it's fair to the player that not perfectly reacting within a 2-3 second window means they lose an Abrams/Bradley or five infantry squads in a single explosion, especially when Legion keep spawning and sending said suicide drones at you. 100 soldiers and 10 vehicles versus 500 soldiers and 50 vehicles would be fun if you could replenish yours or yours were far better than that of your enemy. The fact that Legion both outnumbers and outperforms you by leaps and bounds while having nigh endless reserves to keep sending at your rapidly dwindling ones quickly turns anything fun into an exercise in masochistic futility, unfortunately. Matters get made worse by the fact that all losses on your end are permanent and will loiter for the rest of the game while those of your enemy don't ever carry over to the next engagement. They always enter the fight with a full army, a few mistakes on your end can mean you're facing down 10+ Legion tanks and hundreds of REV-1s and carriers with nothing but a bulldozer, two technicals, and two AT squads because all your actual armor got taken out last mission by a single suicide drone swarm.

5:00 - "The Atlanta Pullback" does sound like a weird sex move you can find on Urban Dictionary...

Dam , you could have refueled and re-supplied the abrams tank and used it for the rest of the campaign

I've got 22h in game so far, and have just finished the Cartel capitol mission, I can say this: The game is riddled with annoying small bugs and lacking programming, my biggest gripes are *Units will be above/below a ridge being shot at without being able to return fire unless they walk up/ down the hill until they're level with the enemy. *The behaviour in buildings is horrible, the units will physically run around in the building while being shot at, once they all settle down and return fire if one of my guys die, sometimes everyone will stop shooting and start repositioning WHILE being shot at and murdered. *Mission scripts will fail certain parts, seemingly randomly. e.g.: in the seconds mission(after tutorial) you're supposed to be allowed to scavenge the artillery guns used in the fight, but for some reason the crew of the heavy artillery refused to dismount. I could still tow it, but when reaching the exit zone it did not leave with the tractor it was hooked up to losing me a valuable piece of heavy weaponry... This happens every so often, most recently MY OWN crew dismounted in the exit zone leaving the vehicle behind and running out on foot even though the vehicle was in drivable.

my initial impression of the opening cut-scene is that it looks like an unfinished ARMA machinima

From what I've seen from this video, this game tries to do what homeworld does with you keeping your forces Except in Homeworld, the TTK is quite long, it's not seconds, it's dozens of seconds, giving you time to react Scaling it down would help it, and the management of your forces seems incredible, if they weren't made of paper

Game is super good. It's got a really high difficulty ceiling due to the sheer difference in technological gap. It's also got a lot of puzzles like it's a god damn RPG game (Cause maybe it is?) It's one of those hybrid RTS-RPG game that you manage your army's equipment and supplies, it's also give you lots of options (through puzzle) to obtain high quality equipment early game, including the Tank which just shows up for free.

"This game is too easy. I'm going to play on hard mode" **proceeds to get obliterated 80 times** it heard you

I feel the pain this man is feeling, it took me almost 4 hours to beat this mission only because of the goddamn tanks, also don't know what difficulty your playing but if its realistic God bless your soul cause the amount of time I also exited the game to take a breather is amazing, almost lost my insanity in the 3rd mission and thats not even how much hope I lost in the 4th mission, in Oklahoma now and let me tell you thats gonna take days before I complete it so be prepared for the reckoning that lies there

There's actually more to this game than I believe. I like the idea customizing and equipping my units.

Check out the xp gamers playthrough of that mission, he uses the pausing function a lot more and he also uses unit abilities. It's kinda meant to be played like EAWFOC

Seems like a game with cool ideas and rough execution. Keep up the good vids.

Fair assessment. Its a pretty rough game, luckily Tortuga is the largest difficulty spike that ive seen. Also, something you can do for an easier time on tortuga is hack the spider droid in the arena after joining the cartel, it has a side objective to do it and it doesnt lock you out of anything. It sparks a war between cartel and intergrators, which lets you grab the tank controller off those pioneers you had a rough time not hitting, which lets you take control of the legion tank during the rebellion phase. You can if your lucky use the legion tank to clear the position where your guys come in from off the map, which should hopefully help some. I do hope after this mission you enjoy the game because its got quite fun storytelling. Im of the opinion that mission design is great for this game, but just not for *this* game. Like you said, its great, but cursed.

I purchased this game after watching this video, because while Rimmy showcased some negative aspects I was intrigued and it was discounted. As someone who is a certified RTS autist, I can say I recommend the game highly. While Rimmy had a very bad time, it is unfortunately his own fault. DO NOT pick Hard as a difficulty. "Story Mode" is ironically, perfectly balanced difficulty, challenging enough to not be game journalist mode, if you feel like its too easy, you can kick it up to medium which is just the edge of unfair and youre going to run into issues like Rimmy has, to a lesser extent. Hard is just unfair, I mean genuinely unfair. The enemy will always know your location, your troops get massacred in seconds, the enemy get WAY WAY more forces than you could ever field. Id rate Hard mode, to be akin to Insane or max difficulty for other RTS games, where the enemy just blatantly cheats. Hard mode in this game, is just the AI knowing where you are, all buffs are reduced, enemies dont suffer from the same mechanics you will, and dice rolls for damage like ATGMs and accuracy checks for fire are always weighted against you. It is not balanced at all. Story Mode difficulty is perfectly fine as an RTS veteran. The beginning missions are very easy on story mode, but the difficulty is balanced, and as you go forward it ramps up gracefully. Further Rimmy's issues with the demo missions, are honestly specifically because of the difficulty he picked. Story mode makes them much shorter and more coherent. Id give the game a 7/10 so far.

Did about 3 playthroughs of this game. I genuinely love how hard it is. One of my playthrough i had a blob of artillery just shelling everything even tho i was losing potential vehicles.

That's a first time of my experience of being subscribed when I can't agree with you, Rimmy. Because I've played the game a couple of days and I love it so much that I can't hold it. First of all, it sucks that bugs in the game are randomly appearing. I mean, in my game there was only one bug at all - the Field marauder in Bradley didn't leaved even if I did all the side quests and I had to blow it up, but the other stuff works as it is intended to. Second of all - the game mechanics in basics are awesome - hard to pull off, realistic of sort (UNFAIR AS FUCK), high risk - high reward gamble all the time. The game just INSISTS on being creative about your decisions and steal all the shit you could find around. Yes, it can make you savescam (like I did in New Tortuga, three fucking days of one to three hours of play just to pull it off as I wanted to). The missions are hard and resources are thin... until you acomplish the assault of New Tortuga and sell all the things you don't need, the mission that goes after that - protection of the bridges - is just walk in the park to chill, get free vehicles, Integrator weaponry and exp for your troops. And to test how Iroquez slaps the shit out of enemy with miniguns and rockets. After that you still have to be extra cautious, but your variety of tools to win is much wider. I guess I can compare the game to Dark Souls and until you throw tomatoes, hear me out - both games are hard to muster in their own genre, both challenges your skills and ability to think creativily, and both makes the win that level of relaxing, so you become addicted. I dropped the easiest Dark Souls game because I failed to beat the first boss, Judge Yada-yada or how does his name sounds, but you get the point. I hope that one day you'll give the game another chance and change your opinion.

Bro i love this game. Realistic is the only way to play. And rimmy just ignored the abrams that he couldve got and upgraded at taos

Low-key channeling Jagged Alliance 2 in that first post-intro mission

Respect your gumption to get past that mission... I would have quit after hour 2

the thing about the Terminators marching at you is that is just the sort of thing you'd expect from them or atleast that's what I remember

the game really forces one to be creative. like with the three tanks, yeah, straight forward shooting them might work but then how? ambush them? Multiple hit and run attempts? Or use an EMP device to knock them out? Airstrikes? SO MANY options. it's mad!

Homie is the only dude having issues with this game due to skill issues like leaving a fucking abrams behind blaming it on a bug but not reloading to fix the bug. Every other youtuber playing this is loving it.

Rimmy is the old dude in the futurewar dream of Terminator 1, siting under the rubble with the 100 yard stare as the soldiers of man fight in the ruins of our civilisation against the UNRELENTING machine slaughter.

this game is ridiculously hard if you dont use combined arms tactics. You dont even need the abrams for mission 3 like some are saying. You got a free guy with an emp grenade. When they send that tank swarm, they send only tanks. You can easily hide in the grass and just emp them. You can also just back up your bradly/load and pull back your atgms. Just make sure to have spotters. You dont have to hold the line. You are literally invincible if you do that. Also you tried to do everything at once, which really hurt you. For example, there was no rush on the minutemen. you literally couldve waited until the mission was complete there. It tells you if theres a rush. I beat those 3 tanks that suprised you (they suprised me to, i had all my tanks on the main line, and just my atmg squads on the flank, along with all my infantry) with just the snipers you get on mission 2s emp, and the rangers c4 skill while the rest of my units retreated. My only losses were to friendly artillery which was very annoying. Also, there are branching routes. You are doing the hard mode big army route that assumes you know what youre doing. That mission 3/4 you got wrecked on were the hard route. Retreat in mission 2 instead of fighting for the easy route. (in fact mission 4 you did was an entirely optional side mission) On mission 4, you can replenish squads. You can go to the prison and buy more guys to replenish your squads. Its clearly marked on your map and you go there during the story. Also again, you did mission 4 the hard way. There are multiple routes where you can take the hill before starting the rebellion, so you dont have to split task. Or you can get the tank controller by selling the guy and go up to the mayor that way, though i suspect you have to assault back down (i didnt try that). You can also freely aquire a guerrila guy on this map who has c4. And by using the apc that is also free once you join the cartel, pre place c4 everywhere to blow up all the cartel shit once the rebellion starts. You are literally bashing your head on a wall until it gives in, its super frustrating to watch. edit: also its pertty easy to get a cartel tank on mission 4. One is unmanned you can just get in. You can steal as many as you want, they just need driving skills if you burn em out. I left that mission with 4 tanks and a bradly more. Also, you can smoke the atgms. Bradlies have smoke. And most infantry has/can get smoke. Also on mission 3 you did was an active protection system for a tank you coulda got that just wrecks the atgms, or you could sell it to the integrators to get the rights to buy a bradley/some other nice stuff from their outpost and 3500 goodwill. double edit, also vehicles burning out doesnt mean they are destroyed. You can get back in when the fire goes away and repair them. Such as when your bradly got hit after you drove it into the enemy tanks gun range even when you saw it and were atgming it at 22:16 also snipers with 50 call easily kill rev sixes before they can shoot. 50 cals are all over the place, they arent hard to get. If you are properly screening your forces you wont even notice rev sixes.

As far as Legion's units being incredibly strong: I'd chalk that up to "Lore doesn't always mean good gameplay". Yeah, Terminators are supposed to be stupidly powerful, using sci-fi future technology in infantry meant to rip tanks apart and tanks meant to solo entire armored formations. But is fighting that overwhelmingly powerful an enemy fun? Maybe. Guerrilla warfare is interesting. X-Com's whole difficulty curve is, in theory, based on making you find ways to force unfair fights on the aliens because you can't win a slugfest, even with a numbers advantage. But if you get it wrong, like if the player can't figure out how the game's supposed to be controlled or handle constant micromanaging, then it's just a frustrating impenetrable wall. That's why I think a programmable "Auto-Behavior" button is so crucial to these high-detail games, like BfG:A. This just isn't the 80s and 90s where fussing over every shell and missile is the point or fighting the computer is the point. There has to be a gameplay flow, and at a certain point you just have to let the player give orders to some units, look away to deal with a problem, and come back to find the units did what they were supposed to do.

might be one of those games where the only way to experience the fun parts that you want to play, like customizing the army type thing, you just got to have the game on a difficulty that is too easy, because even if it feels to easy the moment you raise the difficulty it becomes an unfun slog

The grind in the game emulates the HOPELESSNESS of the setting beautifully.

I got this game on release day, and watching this video (which I'm happy to see a few people making videos on) I find myself looking through diffrent options like the Abrams he could have grabbed, game is quite difficult but I love the idea of having to bounce between multiple smaller battles on a grand scale! I'm an empire at war modded player, and the homewolrd aspect of all your troops have meaning is amazing to me, this game has so many diffrent options its like a teller tale games / rts / homeworld and It's such a cool and I'd day unique with how it plays

The key to the latter half of the Santa Fe mission is reloading 30 times so your air support can finally hit the largest target west of the Mississippi. That or cycling through fuel and supply trailers for 5 minutes to ready the free Abrams during the previous mission... or more like after it because refueling and resupplying it in the middle of the last frontline of that mission is virtually impossible. So you have to stay on the map for about 5-10 minutes after the fighting is done. This can be a beatable, enjoyable game... if you have the patience to go over every detail of the map with a fine toothed comb... several times over the course of no less than 5 reloads per mission. All that being said, having only beaten the Cartel Mission, so far, I like Terminator: Dark Fate, *Reload*

(Minor spoilers?) After beating the game myself.... Its alright. Keeping the heroes alive is hard but kind of(?) Rewarding, hell if big bob survives you can yoink a intergrator tank in a mission, and if kondo and the other hacker lives you can take control of legion units with em. Edit: also dont play on hard mode for your first playthrough like rimmy. Your just hurting yourself at that point. Also if you play realistic god save your soul that shit is impossible

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Im going to say this has been my favorite rts....probably of 2023 and 2024. Iv been having so much fun with it.

Lore accurate terminators? Certain defeat is rare enough that I enjoy it.

Your supposed to have the tank for that mission, it makes it so much easier so thats kinda failure of looting, the Abrams can like triple tap tanks if your at a goid angle and can possibly punch through and get a double kill

I was debating getting this game, thank you Rimmy for saving me and my money, I will instead buy one of your plushies for about the same cost

Rimmy, you'll probably not see this, but I just wanna say you're one of my favourite youtubers to watch when I'm down. Just earlier I lost a pet and this is one of the first videos I'm watching to be a little cheered up

The terminator series really did release two bangers and then drives themselves into the ground for no reason for the rest of time

I was thinking about this game/video before bed last night, and I came to a realization. It's very telling about this game's design that you can leave the last tutorial mission with barely anyone alive, but skipping it gives you everybody automatically. And the first real mission has a tank you basically need to get, but you need a tank crew to do so, which you could have potentially lost in the tutorial. It feels like the game is designed around you doing the missions nearly perfectly, doing every "optional" objective, grabbing everything that's possible to grab, and leaving with everyone, or nearly everyone, alive. Or, like Rimmy said, it feels like the missions are designed for a more typical RTS, where you start with a specific set of units no matter what, but they're shoved in a game where the units you start with is based on your performance in previous missions.

The unit bark when they are on the last man is heartbreaking.

Bro, your points about "not recommended why" is actually a exactly best recommendation of opposite. Devs make you worry about your troops like its actual troops under your actual command

Forgetting the Abrams at Abiquiu will definitely make the next mission harder. Edit: And being so assured that the game is easy (because it is on Demo), then gets flabbergasted when the game decided to kick his ass on Hard difficulty is head shaking.

Theres a fine line to walk between "too hard to be fun" and "challanging enough to keep you going." Dark Souls and similar manage the latter. This game, I feel, pulls more to the former. I agree with the unconscious bit, and maybe a little bit of plot armor protection for people too.

I feel ya pain. Trial and error. I went mad at the end of my tortuga vid and decided to place music regardless of copyright because honestly it gets stale retrying over and over

"What happened to protect and serve?" The people who made this game apparently don't realize that's not an oath or anything, it's just the LAPD's ironic motto.

HOWS NOBODY NOTICING THE SIMILARITY BETWEEN THIS AND MEN OF WAR??

The game needs sort-of Hero+Commoner combination where you can get the detailed units/squads AND 'disposable' units/squads you get off a template build. So you get to keep the large scale action of the maps while not having to micro manage literally every single squad and depend on save scumming as a tactic. Like you can get infantry AT squad Cheek-Crushers 1, 2 and 3 which got RPG, ATGM and Plasma loadouts respectively into a mission you're told is going to have extensive enemy armor and you support them with 5 Infantry AT Squad(ATGM) out of your stockpile of 9 of those. Bit like Dawn of War, you got generic units and you got hero units or auxiliaries(commissars/psykers)though that comparison is a bit off since here you're able to field entire army of hero units/squads.

Hey Rimmy, I doubt you'll make a video out of this, in fact I don't expect it, but there's a few mods for Warhammer 40K Gladius that change/add new mechanics and units to the roster across the board such as CCO (Callipygian Complete Overhaul) adding more neutrals to discover in the wild like for example the Venus Mantraps along with having varies other pockets of neutrals from other factions such as Wild Kroot, Eldar Guardians and Dark Reapers protecting a giant Webway Gate, to Devian's entire collection of additional heroes for all the factions with their "Heroes of Legends" series like Jain-Zar for the Eldar, Gorgutz and Grimskull for the Orks, even bloody Sindri for Chaos, if there's a hero you might think of chances are Devian has them somewhere in that list.

53 min Rimmy video, I think im in heaven