Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance

I don’t usually write reviews, but I saw a post from the devs on VK, and they asked nicely, so here we are. The game plays like any other title from the Warfare (2004) or Syrian Warfare (2016) series: same engine, same pros and cons. You still get pathfinding issues, weird armor and accuracy formulas, and those hilarious (or infuriating) one-shots where an HE rocket or ATGM wipes an entire squad or vehicle. But despite all that, the engine still holds up, even if it’s old as f*ck. Storytelling is much better than in Syrian Warfare, which mostly felt like Bashar Assad propaganda — no idea what happened there during development. Terminator: Dark Fate is closer to its ancestor Warfare (2004): a well-paced, engaging story that keeps pushing you from one mission to the next without making you want to murder every character you talk to. The voice acting is really good, not just for the main cast but almost everyone, with only a few exceptions. Gameplay-wise, it’s a tough strategy game, but in a good way. Recon still sucks (hello, 2004) and will be your main problem. You’ll often struggle to spot enemies before they start shooting at you. Most of your scouting will be recon by fire, but you’ll have enough resources to do that, even on the hardest difficulty. The main campaign will give you about 20–30 hours, and the DLC adds another 10–15 hours on top of that, which is a great deal if you’re craving a solid RTS/RTT. The progression of your army is pretty satisfying, you can scavenge and dakka everything on the map. It’s even better than stealing your first Leclerc in Warfare (2004), because now there’s an upgrade system. Your squads level up, gaining not just stat boosts but full skill trees, new weapons, utilities, and more. The DLCs are good too. “We Are Legion” is basically a glorious march of war with Terminators, and you’ll enjoy the late-game spamming. Uprising is… okay-ish. I don’t like skirmish modes in most games, and it’s the same here, but I can definitely see how some players would enjoy it.

Great Game, Quick save F5 will be your friend. So many frustrating moments. More sim like than game like. Extremely challenging campaign. Not your typical RTS.

Играю с модом Terminator Overhaul, Поставил отрицательный отзыв не потому, что игра - полное дерьмо, а потому, что в игре присутствуют недочеты, которые не просто доставляют тебе неудобство при игре, а в самом деле выбешивают. И деятельность разработчиков на данный момент я бы назвал халтурой. Начнем с плюсов, пройдусь очень кратко: - Это неплохая стратегия в реальном времени, мне она действительно нравится в плане взаимодействия с юнитами, возможностью кастомизации техники, прокачки отрядов. Чем-то напоминает Блицкриг, Sudden Strike. - Миссии не надоедают, хотя в них, по сути, одна цель - захватить/уничтожить и тд. Не могу сказать что-то более подробно про плюсы, эти два пункта - единственные, на которых я решил акцентировать анимание. Теперь насчет минусов, а их тут много: - Сюжет и персонажи. Это просто полная ♥♥♥♥♥: неинтересные диалоги, от которых тошно, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ мотивы ключевых персонажей и абсолютная инфантильность ГГ, который при невозможности спасения нескольких гражданских начинает плакать, мне кажется, что он готов пожертвовать всей своей армией ради парочки бомжей из подвалов баз Легиона. Я давно уже потерял нить повествования, кого-то спасаем, что-то взламываем, и конечно-же стараемся спасать гражданских. -Экономика. Я вообще не понимаю, для чего нужно было вводить ебанутый расход на обслуживание твоей армии, который, вообще-то, очень сильно зависит от сложности игры. Я люблю сложность и всегда играю на максимальной, но когда понимаешь, что на максимальной сложности твоя текущая армия с твоими ресурсами протянет еще 5 дней, а на легкой - 8, то рука сама тянется к настройкам. Пока-что никто так нагло не ограничивал мои права на владение большой армией в играх, как разработчики терминатора. Да и вообще, ♥♥♥♥♥ нужно такая неадекватная система ресурсов, когда в бой ты чисто физически не можешь взять ВСЕ свои отряды? Слоты под каждый класс техники и так ограничены. Конченная система, которая невероятно раздражает. - Приоритет целей у техники/использование техникой снарядов. Еще один ♥♥♥♥♥♥, который нагружает и так нагруженное обслуживание войск: твоему т 72 ♥♥♥♥♥, что перед ним всего-лишь стая бешеных собак, которые лягут с очереди пулемета на башне, он будет расходовать все свои фугасные снаряды, пока не уничтожит самого бомжатского юнита Легиона в игре. И так всегда, для всех типов техники и пеходы, аналогии можно приводить бесконечно. + все ваши отряды птурщиков без проблем будут запускать ракеты по ОДНОЙ цели. Просто потому, что им насрать на снабжение. приходится вручную отключать возможность стрельбы дорогостоящими снарядами. - Оптимизация. Это тоже ♥♥♥♥♥♥. на моей достаточно мощной сборке в 4к еле-еле идет в 70 фпс на средних настройках + при активных фазах боя фпс уменьшается еще сильнее. - Тупейший маршрут движения твоих войск. Вместо того, чтобы проехать по краткому марштуру от точки до точки, твои грузовики снабжения попрут по аккуратным асфальтированным дорогам и помрут от перекрёстного огня противника. - Точность юнитов. Это отдельный ♥♥♥♥♥♥, который бесит больше всего. Лазерные дальномеры? Современные СУО? Стабилизаторы орудий? Не, не слышали. За всю мою жизнь я обоссал ободок толчка меньше, чем т72 промахивался по технике противника на дистанции 100 метров. Это относится ко всем типам техники. Короче, решайте сами, покупать игру или нет.

Words fail to match the game's excellence, You have the squad-level management of syrian warfare game, Broken Arrow's Level of detail, And unlimited fun, Skirmish, Deck Management rich with various units, You also have great 2 DLCs that extend the campaign and adds a dynamic regional map, requires planning for supplies, manpower, Trading, And i love how every squad you have is able to be customized from their M4s to Tank & IFV modules. It's just a wow, Nothing really can best a wow when describing this game, Can't believe i never saw it before, Glad to have it.

[h3] The developers confused strategy games with orienteering race. [/h3] [h1] Gameplay: [/h1] There is no strategy in this game; the developers have made all the strategic choices for the players. We obediently follow completely stupid instructions like idiots without ever making a single choice. The management of keys and bunkers, weapons, and combat techniques is a copy-paste of everything that already exists, but only the poorly done stuff. The only way to succeed in a mission is to save and restart every 30 seconds, with each new set of instructions, because if you don't know the orders before they come in, you're already dead before they've finished giving them. In this game, we are supposed to play humans, but we are not humans, we are ♥♥♥♥ terminators "T-001". We advance like idiots, strictly forbidden from thinking or implementing any defense or attack strategy. The dumbest soldiers on earth, just like the developers who created this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. And worst of all in this crappy game is this studio... They take big movie sagas they haven't even watched, like their Starship Troopers game, where we fight only against humans. There are no Terminators in the game; they're just part of the scenery, weak and useless, we fight humans with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ strategy, never choice. This is a studio and publisher to avoid. Their crappy launcher... when will these idiots understand that all their crappy launchers piss off players? How can people give positive reviews to this kind of crap? They're happy to eat ♥♥♥♥ because they've never tasted caviar. Too young to be able to tell the difference. [h1] Graphic design: [/h1] It's the worst movie I've ever seen. [h3] A game with no strategy, an ultra-badass Terminator versus a cardboard soldiers, the worst movie in the entire series. [/h3] [h1] [h1] If you like Strategy, Tactics, tower defence games, come and discover what's available on steam. [/h1] https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45245664-Seni-Gaming-Strategy-Tactics-TD/ [/h1]

Online Co-op Campaign please for the love of all that is holy, extend this games life. It is amazing.

Does not feel like a Terminator game at all but great RTS military game love it.

TLDR: Only purchase is less than $5 on sale This is a buggy, unoptimized mess, even in 2026, 2 years after launch. My poor rig, even with a 5070 TI would chug at times. And the bugs... sooooo many bugs! Yet the developers have the balls to continue to release paid-for DLC addons. I really cannot overstate how disappointing my experience with Dark Fate has been. Let's talk mechanics. You've got meta resources for the overland map. Goodwill points, Supplies, Pesos (for the Cartel missions), and finally Manpower. Makes sense so far? Cool. Now, supplies, the entire system of supplies, it totally unbalanced. The system is meant to make you feel restricted so you can't keep every group of fighters, vehicle, or tank that you find. That makes sense, however in reality the system is pretty much telling a starving child from TV that all he can have is a single Saltine Cracker. Basically, if you have an unlucky run, or make a single bad call, your entire campaign will become crippled (Yes, even on the easiest setting). Next mechanic, every single mission, save for the last one, forces you to march all your units across the map to leave the zone. Why? Because that's the game and it makes the rule. The enemies are dead, your people are bleeding fuel and low on ammo, but they want you to waste 5-7 more real-life minutes marching your people across large maps. Rubber-banding. This game works based on squads. Squads are idiots with pathfinding. Expect to find random squads stuck on buildings, vehicles and other fun obstacles because the squad split up to go around a building or obstacle and then got stuck and are then rubber-banding back and forth. This is a Macro game for the most part with micro-elements in tactical combat. Instead, you babysit your people because AI pathfinding rides the short-bus. Instant-fail mechanics. There's a lot of them. You can trigger them accidently. Your troops can trigger them due to short-bus AI pathfinding. You've been warned. Plot-armor, Lawful-stupid hero MC. Yup. The dude isn't giga-chad. He isn't a leader. He just has good intentions and keeps getting screwed over by everyone. We get it, it's a grimdark world... so why is the hero so rainbow and unicorn farts? Expect to eye roll. A lot. I REALLY wanted to like this game. I love the premise. I love strategy games. I adore the universe. While this wasn't a cash-grab, it felt like a gut punch either way. There was no way that anyone from the publisher ever played this game from start to finish before giving it the okay to launch. And now, other then milking players for paid DLC, the devs have abandoned the game with all its bugs and sailed off to never-neverland while keeping their jobs. To me, that's extremely annoying. Good people, tens of thousands of good game devs every year are laid off by massive companies. Yet these devs are lazy, content to move on, and unsupportive of their product. I'm even more surprised by the publisher, as they usually have a solid reputation and was the entire reason I picked up a movie-title game. Lesson learned. This game is honestly worth $5 and not a single penny more. I hate to say that. I really, really do. Strategy needs a new infusion, but this isn't the game to do it.