Can I already bet that the question for the release date will be the highest?

If a warlord gets dark empire and then dies, do their regimes progress as normal? Like do they go back to the progression they had before dark empire, do they go to the next one, or do they stagnate

@@joelmcfly5172 could at least tell us if it will happen before summer 🙄

Cold: We don't know, so no we can't. We're not sitting on some secret info on release dates that we're hiding just to be dicks, we literally have no way of knowing.

Icicle: If you mean the original leader dying, that won't have any impact on further progression.

That’s why this mechanic was created!

Isard would've been beyond happy, I think. After all, she was still in mourning two years after Palpatine's "death" at Endor. Unless that was merely performative and she really was in it for herself, which is also perfectly possible.

yer Thrawn is the only hero i actually end up reaching the 60 day limit XD

@@dbzfanexwarbrady Same, his command bonus + special ability is just too good to let pass, even if that means conquering half of the galaxy just with him, lol

Command bonuses aside, I dislike forced progression, and now I no longer have to sacrifice my faction leader to progress. I may actually even try to finish a full playthrough this time!

I would also be interested in seeing the Sinister Triumvirate as an alternative regime.

With this in mind, permission to go full on unsanctioned Rogue/Wraith Squadron in defiance of his imbecilic authority?

Ye

Kinda a shame. I can't Fight the Dark Empire as Thrawn and get Pelleaon later.

The only RNG is the legitimacy groups you unlock, all of which are laid out in the government tab.

@@CoreyLoses would it be possible to add in a mechanic that allows you to choose one legitimacy group as they become available each tier from the ones available rather than RNG or would that be broken? In theory it would still follow the rules, ie only one SSD hero etc.

It would just be really cool to build out the Dark Empire with specific groups

Anything that involves a reward is going to have some element of snowballing when you're the faction getting that reward, but that's also why we have other places with anto-snowball mechanics. This specific change isn't any more of a snowball mechanic than integration was before, since it's just making things that were already available to the Empire available to the other Warlords as well.

I trust Corey's team is gonna test it properly. I think it's gonna affect Player's decision-making, deciding if they wanna attack New Republic or go for one of the imperial factions to possibly get that fresh supply of frozen Palpies

@@CoreyLoses hey I have complete faith in you guys on this, thanks for the reassurance can’t wait to give it a shot

When the Vong come around this kind of snowballed power might be completely necessary to have if you want to win.

@@miqvPL I do think winning against other, non-Imperial factions should offer a smaller legitimacy boost. As it is you can crush the entire New Republic, but can still be falling behind Maldrood owning Zsinj.

They already essentially are from a gameplay perspective, rich corporations that fund their defense/expansion by means of swarm fighter tactics and rely heavily upon battle droids/automated weaponry. What else would you want? All of the CIS heroes die either in Episode III or immediately after and their corporations are mostly dissolved by Palpatine.

@@chrismdb5686 fair enough. Maybe a few more ships and ground units from the CIS, or IG-series droids and Lucrehulk battleships? Idk, just spitballing.

Lore wise, I'm pretty sure the empire banned mass production of battle droids to "prevent a new clone wars". CIS ships are still around the black market, but the B series Battle Droids in general, just aren't designed to last.

@@chrismdb5686 That's only the CIS in terms of the corporate forces though, there's also all the Separatist movement itself. Frankly it's very hard to believe that many of the former Separatist planets rejoined the New Republic later.

@@RevanX77 No idea why when separatists would have been slaughtered once the Empire took over. They wouldn't have been around to make splinter factions, not to mention the fact that the New Republic functions nothing alike the Old Republic from a government perspective. Edit: also keep in that the entire separatist movement was engineered opposition that was set up with multiple points of immediate failure on purpose so Palpatine could be rid of them (and the war) as soon as the Jedi were dealt with. It was more of a coalition of system fed up with corruption (that ironically chose to follow corrupt corporate demagogues instead) than a faction with any clear goals/vision of their own beyond "corruption = bad." They essentially wanted the Republic to stick around but just be reformed, so the New Republic wouldn't even look bad to any hypothetical holdouts.

Maybe even 8, since the empire can get the Knight Hammer in era 6 and Rogris in the Megador(mandator III) in era 7.

The factions are meant to have different play styles. If we were going to lump everything together, we wouldn't have bothered making all the units we did in the first place, since the whole point is to make the factions unique.

@@CoreyLoses What do you think of using the influence mechanic or legitimacy mechanic to make it so you can get limited access to a small fraction of an integrated faction's units? What comes to my mind is how Crimson Command was historically in the ownership of several leaders. If you have control over a former capital, perhaps you can gain access, through influence, to a specific ground and space unit? For example, defeating the Greater Maldrood and having their capital world can give you the possibility of producing Crimson Command Victory Star Destroyer if you sink enough credits into influence. You will not gain complete ownership of a faction's roster, but you can access one or two units.

@@molotovfirebomb9881 You can get them just not rebuild them. I could mayve maybe see the chance to acquire blueprints if you get enough copies of a ship but that's a lot of work for something that dilutes the factions anyway.

@Corey Loses Please do let Pentastar get Gladiators, they pair so hilariously with their big brother the Praetor Carrier.

@@CoreyLoses I understand your point, but its super interissing to have one "special" unit from the faction you confederate to be add to your roster, like the crimson... i think you guys should think about it

Yes, though by the time the Empire has Thrawn he never goes back to the Hand anyways. If the Empire forms DE before Thrawn, then it means Thrawn never goes to the Empire and just stays with the Hand.

​@@CoreyLoses interesting indeed. Should Thrawn be leader of the IR when it goes into Dark Empire, will there be a replacement for Thrawn in the Ascendancy? It would be a shame for them to take such a big hit without Thrawn's bonuses for the remainder of the game, especially when it's outside of their control whether he leads or not. I'm really stoked for this new release btw, any idea when it'll drop?

Zero Command as far as I know is only playable on the smaller/story based maps It would be cool to have a option to chose between him and Isard tho, and however you don't chose becomes independent

I think only as the Imperial Remnant in the Deep Core historical campaign.

I’m pretty sure that’s how he explained it in the 3.3 Empire Preview Playthrough

Theres not alot of changes till atleast era 3 thats when the imps really get most of thier big heros/buildable SSDs And as stated in the video there are conditions to reach each which im sure you are aware. They dont drop everything at once, i find once you hit late era 3 into 4 things kick off One more edit, just for reference right now in 3.2 in order to advance from 1 -2 pestage must die or be replaced through the build options same with eras 2 to 3 but with dala then you get thrawn^^^repeat

The big differences start appearing on Era 3 and onwards, era 1 - 2 are mostly just hero/leader changes (and the Executor SSD is only buildable on Eras 1, 2, 6 and 7)

OK thanks to you both

No, it’s a separate thing from Dark troopers. It’s stormtroopers that have been enhanced with Sith alchemy and cybernetics, if I’m remembering the little tooltip correctly. Either way, Dark Stormtroopers and Dark troopers are not the same thing

Dark Stormtroopers are a Dark Empire only unit, they are stormtroopers enchanced with dark Side energy, not to be confused with Dark Troopers from the base game

Damn shame. I'd love to see phase 3 dark troopers be added as a really expensive dark empire unit that you can only have a certain amount of at any given time

@@justintaylor1713 Fun fact: in the original Dark Empire comics, what we're calling Dark Stormtroopers were actually called Dark Troopers. But considering how the term got used later for unrelated battle droids, we figured this was not what they should be called in the mod.

@josiahshangrila7322 Neat, did not know that. Was definitely a good idea to prevent confusion.

NONE of the Imperial Eras will

As Dark Empire you get Dark stormptroopers so yeah PA would get them if they accepted Palpatine's offer

Stormtroopers are a legitimacy reward from the ""base"" Empire (ie. Imperial Remnant), and since the whole story progression (heroes, leaders, etc.) follows Dark Empire, it won't be as painful to take them out from the galaxy (they won't have access to their next leaders since you got them from DE)

You integrate them by taking out their leader/s and by taking most of their planets.

Yes, your core faction roster remains the same

Said condition usually is, Palpatine Dying or the regime changing (aka. Jax), other wise you'll be able to produce as many units as you want

​@@felps_4500 I'll rephrase. Can I stay with Palpatine forever?

@@RoyalMudcrab I don't know honestly, since they're changing how ""time"" works in the mod as well, my best bet would be: Probably not, it'll probably still have the 60 week limit (or whatever unit of time they'll be using now) so it automatically changes the regime

@@felps_4500 they're months now. Which seems very fucking fast to me.

They won't ever be included in legitimacy, but they will have their own government mechanics.

Yes, the DE and subsequent regimes go on top of your pre-existing leaders.

No release date or any estimates

@@irampagingrhin0399 ah thanks man

No, it depends on the research. Some stuff is tied to time, some is tied to regime, some to other events or mechanics. It depends on the faction and the tech.

Once the Chiss are actually in the game, maybe I guess...

Only Dark Empire and onwards, they cannot get Thrawn, Isard or Pestage

It is

Making a game is on a completely different level compared to making a mod, even for one as big as TR. It’s sort of like remodeling an old building vs constructing a new one, you already have a base to work off of for mods but for new games you have to create your base from scratch.

Such projects usually doesn't sell well. Part of old fans will treat it as abandonment of the project and cach grab and other will be not interested in indie game without IP, even if mechanics will be better overall.

That's not really possible. Integration happens when in the course of conquering them,.

This is a mod

@@CoreyLoses so i can download it?

This is a preview of an upcoming version. You can download the existing version on the steam workshop.

@@CoreyLoses thx

I wouldn't mind seeing Isard and Daala "getting it done" together.

When it's ready, no release date

You would have to beat the game in less than 60 weeks (in 3.3 until you get DE, but that's like 60% of the map in imperial control + 2 integrated factions), it is possible tho

The Hapans will probably end up interacting with Dathomir in the future. Like a bonus house for the faction.

I still don't get that ""Super Laser"" bug Both Eclipse and Sovereign work fine for me Also the Eclipse/Sovereign models are already on the works (according to Corey in the last TR Anniversary stream)

@@felps_4500 The game crashes when using a Superlaser and many people have this problem, you can look it up in the mods Steam Workshop Bug forum.

@@zharyel9890 I know about that bug, what I'm saying is that said bug never happened in my playthroughs, I can use both super ships like normal However a similar bug happened when I tried to use the force lightning ability, in which case I just avoid using the character with said ability (it's the guy we also get in DE, other chars like Sabaoh and Clone Palps works fine, proly cuz for them it's a normal attack instead of a ""clickable"" one) Don't know if I explained well, but will do

The models are being redone, but they depend on when the artists doing them can get them finished. Unfortunately the super laser bug is a base game issue with certain hardware, so there's not really much we can do there.

@@felps_4500 I think I had this bug too in some savegame, it's good that you could at least play around it. Maybe those type of bugs came after Petroglyph updated the game on Steam over a year ago.

Btw I love the fact that ur re adding the world devastator .

Yeah, you're basically always going to hit the 2 faction mark and the 60% mark at different times, though which comes first will vary by context.

The textures aren't finished.