Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance

I constantly find myself coming back to this game every so often, and that's not just because of nostalgia for the IP, it's the challenging and methodical gameplay that keeps me coming back. Good campaign, with a story that fits well within the Terminator Universe. The missions are all quite unique, with some hidden missions if you play your cards right (or wrong). There are some really challenging mission scenarios that can be kind of frustrating for a first playthrough. The enemy variety is kind of staggering but it eventually boils down to "Rock, Paper, Shotgun." Tank does in fact, beat everything. But the tank is still a paper tiger when it comes to ATGMs. There are a few moments in a playthrough that you'll make decisions that affect the rest of your run, but you will be adequately warned of said choices. If you really wanted to, you can fight everyone. There is a surprising level of depth present in the game, sort of gets tarnished by RNG at times, but in my opinion, that just adds another layer of realism. DLCs are good additions that add decent levels of content and story progression. One DLC (Uprising) adds a conquest mode, where you and four other factions compete for control of the world map. There are even mods for it that enable you to play as the other factions. Very few bugs, even fewer related to crashing, which I have experienced, but never on this set-up. Mod manager was added a ~3 months ago, I finally gave that a shot, and uh, yea its awesome, there are already quite a few mods, some of them drastically change unit variation and even rebalance some missions which was pretty awesome. There is honestly so much going on here its hard to cover it all in a review, your best bet is too look up videos and watch gameplay of both in mission content, and the meta progression bits (supply management; which can end runs if careless, unit loadout management; which determines how you intend to approach missions, trading. replenishing, etc..) Overall, well worth my time, and my frustration with its difficulty. If you are someone who enjoy games that require true strategy, this is for you. If you are someone who is impatient and frustrates easily, maybe take a look at Starship Troopers: Terran Command, much more forgiving, gets you right into the action, and requires much more straight forward strategy. If I was to compare this game to others, I would compare it to Red Dragon, or Warno-esque games, far more RTT the RTS.

The game is fun and good. It is not perfectly balanced, as each faction has its pros and cons. The combat feels like two blind guys firing at each other. This can be a problem and a source of disappointment. Units here take a lot of damage, and to counter that, the devs made all units miss a lot. It doesn't feel natural or logical, but that's the way the game was designed. Putting that aside, the story is good, and the campaign is well done. It feels like an RTS game from the 2000s. There are persistent units and heroes, as well as choice-based missions. This means you can take a unit from mission 1 to the final mission, and what you choose in mission 2 will impact the ending. Spoilers about factions: There is Skynet. There is the US military—or what the US military that survived Judgment Day would look like. There are the Tech-Com units from the Resistance movies and what they would look like in a game. You have bandit survivors, and two other factions which are interesting: one is a group of people that mixes Skynet tech with civilian and military vehicles (they are independent and can be made an ally or an enemy), and the other is a Skynet-allied human faction. These factions enrich the lore in a way that the movies and comics don't. They also kind of answer the question of how the world survives in the Terminator universe. This blend of RTS, RPG, and a persistent campaign is a nice touch. If you can work around the "blind man's" combat, you will have fun and enjoy this game, even if the movie was not well-received by most people. I highly recommend it for Terminator fans.

Стратегия с очень странным балансом. С другой стороны, вроде и понятно почему баланс такой в сторону Терминаторов, но всё равно странно. С другом играть интересно.

I've got some time in this game and while I wish there was more of a "Conquest" styled mode like that of GOH (Gates of Hell) The multi-choice campaign in still fun enough that I've played through multiple times to see each outcome and even to see if you can beat the campaign with ONLY faction specific units that you as the player have access to thought the game; Which has offered enough of a challenge in itself. Overall not hard to learn as its basically rock-paper-scissors...well rock-paper-scissors-Tank as Tank beats everything, and Higher difficulties do make combat more challenging Infantry die easy if not in cover, and tanks unsupported are just deer on the Interstate while the hidden AT Spider is a speeding Semi, solid game, easy Controls, Decent Mechanics, Decent Story, Nice atmosphere, good sound design the Basic rifles could sound a bit better and the shotguns for the engineers and Guerillas. 7.8/10 seems fair enough. *SPOILER ALERT* If we had access to the Integrator Infantry units Id gladly say 8.5/10...also if in the final mission the EMP/Truck thing actually made legion fight themselves like Fin says he can make them do, or maybe it was Kondo I don't remember, and if its a distance thing that should be explained or have a radius marker.

They went way harder then they needed to making a movie tie in game. Dynamic RTS combat with persistent units is awesome. This game should be a reference point for new developers on how to make an RTS.

这游戏发布这么长时间了，居然连稳定地正常运行都做不到吗？玩了20个小时至少坏档5次了，在加载存档的时候会因为不知名原因报错停止运行 另外这个寻路系统真的蠢死了，你甚至能看到同一个移动命令会导致一个小队兵分三路，送死的送死，卡死的卡死，有一关我都撤离了等了半天也没动静，把地图扫了一整圈才发现有一个小兵，对，一个，在法路灯 还会有莫名其妙的bug导致卡关,我打了一个小时的关卡最后任务是守住某个地方，按理说就是等待胜利等待游戏结束了，但不知从哪冒出来一个飞机只是掠过了那个地方，我就输了？甚至在这个时候我的存档炸了，自动存档炸了，我主动存档也炸了，也就是说完全白打，浪费时间，现在游戏打不开了，我不知道我是不是得从战役第一关开始打，但是我也不想玩了

好玩，少有让我入迷的RTT游戏，20多个小时主线通关，剧情留下的伏笔还没填，希望后续DLC能把剧情上的坑填上。

Fun RTS campaign