This game seems to be doing one of the things I was always most fascinated about with Stellaris; the part of your nation's origin of how you started working to unify the planet and finally get your butts into space properly. All it took was some aliens.

6:40 As a self proclaimed geography nerd I can tell you that piece of land is called French Guiana (pronounced Gee-ah-nah) and has caused quite a few goofy statistics such as the fact that France's longest border is with brazil.

16:40 "we'll stick to the simple tech tree" *ungodly spiderweb of confusion*

The reasoning as to why the equator is better for Launch sites is because that is the point at which a planet rotates the fastest and it helps rockets scape Earth's gravitational pull. Most if not all of the EU's space launches are done from French Guiana for this reason. Just if you were wondering why that was the case after Potato mentioned it at the beginning. I also want to mention that I am liking this game, please make more videos about it.

Me: Well I think I’ve gotten over my 4x addiction and I’ve played all I can of Civ, Stellaris, and Humankind. Maybe I can get to those creative projects I’ve put off- Potato: what if crack was a 4x game?

The Quick Learner trait doesn't cause counselors to level up 20% faster. It reduces XP cost by 20%. This causes them to level up 25% faster. 100 / 80= 1.25 Maybe pedantic but this non-linear behavior looms larger when modifiers get larger (which they may not do in Terra Invicta).

The EU opening is so close to my heart - and even though it's harder than it once was (when it was horribly overpowered), you're right that it still gives you the ability to build quite the super-state and be a very strong opener. Hope you can hang on until the unification cooldown lapses!

I'm so happy to have found Perun. both of his channels are utterly great.

potatomcwhiskey: 'we're not gonna burn the netherlands economy in the ground' Dutch government: we did that

Can confirm it plays on the steam deck. I would also like to say the game has some great com chatter immersion when you zoom into the ISS with ground control.

Heads up, you need all 4 french CPs to form the EU and from the few attempts i've made (normal difficulty) it's almost impossible to get them all first. In fact it's not unusual to see one or two CPs taken in the first round.

Great to see you covering this! Hope it gets the attention it deserves. Looking forward to more TI content from you!

please continue this as a series and continue to explain everything the way you do I love it

Please do more video PotatoMcWhiskey!!! You are awesome at explaining this game out of everyone that is playing it. Definitely helping to understand how to play this game.

Gat dang, McWhiskey....you managed to break this game down so well, I'm nothing but excited to play it and immediately purchased it upon finishing the vid. I can't wait for this level of challenge, and thank you for being so in-depth and descriptive with some of the more confusing aspects of it. I feel like I'm actually set up to learn the mechanics first-hand, and plan on losing repeatedly until I can gain something resembling a kind of victory :D

This game makes Stellaris look like tic-tac-toe. It's two steps away from being a massive spreadsheet game.

When you started zooming out I was blown away by the scale I'm definitely going to check this game out

I've been watching for this game for a while, super stoked to see it come out!! Especially when that news comes in the form of another top-notch Potato video...

Your dialog got you a new subscriber, comedy and intelligence always wins me over.

this guy is really good youtuber explainer for strategy games, clear voice, good understanding of game, you earn my subs

It would be great if you played some more of this! Great video :)

Alot more of this please, tx :) Honestly though i heard of the game, searched for it on youtube and was very happy you apparently had interest in it, and saw you just had uploaded a fresh new video about this game. Been refreshing your page, to see if you uploaded a new video, hope it comes soon!

You gotta play more of this game, looks super cool and entertaining

Dude, this game is everything I've ever wanted in an alien invasion strategy game. Also you earned my subscription!! Good stuff, dude. Keep on doing the thing.

Looking forward to see you playing this. Bought it around release after having waiting for it for a VERY LONG TIME and I'm really happy with it. Could use a better looking and less clunky UI, some more varied music, and a bit more in-depth description on warfare and some things that the tooltips are missing. Otherwise a really nice game so far. Looking forward to getting my a** beat in my first space battle! :P

Really need more of this. I could watch a whole live stream really.

You never fail a control point. Incredible!

I love the fact that you are playing this game, I had it on the radar ever since the Long War devs announced it. Now it is everything I expected it to be.

The moment potato zoomed out and showed the planets I was hooked

Really really cool game! Thanks for the intro, will look into getting it

PotatoMcWhiskey, I appreciate when you check out new games. It's exciting to see you engaged with unique themes and mechanisms in games that aren't in civ. And your genuine interest in them makes it worth watching.

This is so sick, I can just picture this game with some cinematics/news story cutscenes to paint the narrative on the ground.

Pollyana doesn't boost his Loyalty, it boosts his Apparent Loyalty. You need to investigate him with another Councilor to learn his actual Loyalty. Also, thanks for the video!

I've been very interested in this when i heard about it so i look forward to your videos on it.

Love the Terra invictus Potato! Keep it up man!

Bro I have to pause this every two minutes just to digest the information it’s so much. Thanks for going into detail though. I really do appreciate that

I never thought any game would replace the Civ series as my favorite 4X-only-one-more-turn addiction. This game has done it. I am completely obsessed. I've played 77 hours in nine days and would have played more if I could have. Astonishing game.

Great series..I own the game but learning how to play watching guys like you playing the game first.. 👍👍👍

Wow this looks even better than I had hoped, and I had some pretty high hopes!

Hahaha, you so should have sung that part. :) Glad your having fun. Looking forward to more.

Please give us more guides. I cant mine in space and i'm struggling. This video of yours is the best one for this game

I love this. Thank you for introducing it to me.

This was a great quick run down.. you did a better job explaining the game in this video than the in-game tutorial lol.

As a German I would never have thought to see east and west Germany split on a map with a timestamp that says 2022 on it but sure, here it is Edit: It just doesn't feel right to look at

I was hoping you'd do this one!

Glad to see that Paradox grand strategy games are finally getting some serious competition.

thank goodness potato is covering terra invicta, I really wanted to learn it but it’s just a bit too much for me atm. Thank you potato for pushing me with the training wheels.

I would highly recommend numbering these videos that are in a series. it let's a new channel viewer (like myself) know that there are future episode planned and this isn't a one off. (i don't want to watch some 40 min intro video then have the creator go "and thats the beginning of this game its great pick it up" like some youtubers do. showcase style i guess?) it also helps people find the next episode in their side bar as well as helps youtube know which is next. youtube suggested the 3rd in the series to me. it's algorithm can detect the order easier with numbers. it may not be as 'pretty' title wise but it does help allot.

Wasn't really interested in this game until I started watching your playthrough. Now I am probably going to buy it tomorrow

Glad I'm not the only one obsessed with this game. Its gotten to the point where I am strategizing while I'M TRYING TO SLEEP lmao.

I would love a playthrough on each faction! keep it up

I love that the agents look a bit like they're calling in the Eurovision votes.

Okay okay okay, I'm getting seriously hyped for this series

More please potato :) and fast before the hype ends. I think most of us will binge 2 or 3 episodes fast before taking a break.

Fun fact about Russia and Nuclear weapons in this game, at least my playthus, if you capture lands it sees as its own, it nukes said land. Happened every time to me at least.

Last recommendation I followed through from this channel was Against the Storm and it was amazing, so I'm looking forward to more hidden gems

"Every breath you take, I'll be teaching you". Brought back memories, now I have to find that song again.

Generally the easiest way to get someone's location is to simply get the location of their IP, which brings up the location of their ISP which can tell you either the city that they are in or a nearby city.

It's French Guiana, not New Guinea (which is above Australia)

Not even ten minutes in and I'm hooked. I'd love to see more of this game.

When i tested this game on steam a while ago i didnt pass the first hour but now seeing you playing it makes me giving another try , ill keep follow this series because i am interested how your plan turns out

every breath you take, every move you make, ill be watching you

First 30 seconds of what you said, I feel that way about RimWorld. That game, does and likely will forever occupy my mind for it's genre.

I saw this back when the kickstarter was up and was blown away. As a LW fan I knew it was gonna be good, and this became a good success story. Will gladly buy when I have a graphics card

Paradox: yeh our games have a huge learning curve Terra Invicta: Hold my 🍺

I'm from the Netherlands and i love how our little country is playing a role in this playthrough. I'll be watching through the whole thing and might even pick up Terra Invicta at some point. Although i don't know if Terra Invicta is a good "my first 4x" candidate. Please keep the Benelux in the series❤

OMG YES so glad you're doing Academy; it's not that hard, you just get the one disaster and if you know it's coming you can definitely work around it

I look forward to more invictus content!

Just started watching episode 4. Coming back to request more per day.

Same Here, cant stop playing.

Ooooh thanks to you knowing what the game is and explaining things more I finally understand how it's a space 4x game. All I could see was crusader kings with aliens and it looked super uninteresting to me but it definitely looks more involved now and it's clicked for me.

Somehow, I always thought you were Canadian... Now the potato and whiskey reference make more sense^^

After 10 years in game, I got a big crazy. In 2032, I controlled the entirety of the unified EU, and Russia, as the resistance (I think I can even merge the russian union into the EU as I could federate them to the EU). I had taken over 75% of the martian sites, so I had tons of minable materials, and could have a fleet around earth and another on mars. Those fleets had given me minor victories against the aliens... of course, said aliens were sole scouts, but still, that felt great. But on earth, my ennemies had taken over big nations. The servants, who want to collaborate with the aliens, controlled China, while the protectorate, which wants to surrender to the aliens, controlled the USA (I had signed a non-agression pact with "Humanity First", as like me they want to resist the aliens). So I though that the solution was to sacrifice Russia to shut down both USA and China in a big nuclear war. So it sent my agents to russia to tell the president to declare war on the US and China. And it worked very well. With Russia I atomized both nations, and russia got nuked during the exchange. After emptying my nuke stockpile (and getting russia flattened by nuclear fire), the war was over. But the world turned to chaos after that. All the economies fell appart, including the EU (which hadn't been damaged by the short war itself). The EU was 2000 billions economy. That is less than France at start alone. The EU had only 3 control points at that point. Russia, the US, and China only 2 control points. And the other factions seem to have declared a secret war on me, as they have started taking over my stations, and try to take my control points everywhere. Oh, and there is a nuclear winter and food shortage worldwide. I think I made the job easier for the aliens :/

I been eyeing this game for a hot minute

i'm getting it tomorrow, man it looks like it's going exactly the way i was hoping for, hooded horse seems to be very very smart guys.

I am so glad you covered this game. I picked it up and was.. well not completely lost, but very bewildered.

Yes. More please. I want to see the invasion and fighting.

Your video does the job that the tutorial should of. Thank you.

Really fascinating game, looking forward to full release

Love to see more

thanks for the review... next weekend I'm going to sink many hours into

My dude up in here making up genre's on the fly.

As soon as I’m done with my midterms ima buy this.

"This game will change the 4x Genre" Hmm, doesn't look like 4X to me, much more of a GS vibe-had to check if Paradox is the dev… it's not :)

Honestly, in any realistic scenario, "convince the aliens capable of interstellar travel not to kill us by accident or malice" seems like the far easier option compared to trying to fight them. Fighting someone who owns all travel around the solar system and can use relativistic weapons just by throwing out their garbage while on an approach vector is pretty much not doable as anything but an insurgency - and insurgency requires them to not just turn the planets surface into slag from orbit.

I’m watching Penton doing his humanity first and I’m excited to binge this

Love it! More more more!!!

I'm so confused yet excited lol!

This game is so cool please dont stop playing it

This game feels like part of the Disclosure process: alien life and activity ongoing on the planet, large amounts of corruption and institutional control and manipulation for wider strategies. It looks fantastic, and depressingly like a potential reality.

I've done 3 playthroughs now and never caught on that my first agent spawned in my home country, small but very cool feature

Hahaha, that intro police song quote got me good.

Not gonna lie I was struggling to stay interested... up until you zoomed out and showed the solar system. That really caught my attention.

"The UK... has a really really advanced military" *wheeze*

This game is dangerously addicting. They have done something pretty amazing.

Mcwhiskeys location unlocked

@PotatoMcWhiskey First youtuber that actually knows what he is doing.

Can’t wait to reunite yugoslavia

Yay, Potato knows Parun. Glad he's made a hit doing war commentary. Now to get Potato to play some Multiplayer Dominions 4 and make all of KZfaq suffer.

i am seriously a masochist for binging these games so hard lol