DEFCON 5 -- Business as Usual DEFCON 4 -- Rise of Tensions DEFCON 3 -- End of Negotiations DEFCON 2 -- The Moment of Hesitation DEFCON 1 -- *ARMAGEDDON*
I'll always love the Shelter games for their atmospheres, soundtrack, and art styles. I hope Might and Delight can make another one in the future, but as of right now, the first two games are the best <3
what fascinates me is how we went from battles in plains with swords, to intercontinental front lines spanning thousands of kilometers. during the cuban missile crisis, kennedy and khruschev both thought of politics as a game of chess, only to realize later on that they were merely throwing dice with the amount of screw-ups that happened. october 27th 1962, nicknamed the "black saturday" is the single day the world came closest to nuclear annihilation with the US defense condition at DEFCON 2, the infamous doomsday clock could've nearly counted down to zero. the craziest part about this game is that the world map given to you is a featureless war room style map. you're hidden in a bunker, all the while not seeing what you're actually hitting in person. you get to see your country burn
What disturbs me like all we can see is just a digital screen of real time war but we would be always wondering what is actually going on in the actual war.
Every 6 months or so I will just no life the shit out of this game for a few weeks. Been playing since it was a free game on Linux on the old family pc 15 years ago. Probably have 1500 hours easily as well as several hundred on the steam version. Love this game.
"There are no winners in a war. There are only losers. At both sides. And those who live on, sometimes envying those who left. Because your body may remain intact, but your soul never. War spares no one. And leaves behind not winners, but ... survivors. Crushed. Crumpled. War is not the feats that are sung in songs. Not legendary heroes who are remembered forever, and not a beautiful dance with swords. It is fear, rot, emptiness and death. And victory is not a holiday, but a time when you can throw down your weapons and dismantle the ashes left in the place of flourishing cities. To clear the land from the remains of people, animals ... states. Trying to find and collect fragments of a former life, a peaceful life, and not being able to do it..." Ridge Gambit. - Evgenia Safonova
There is no victory here, there is no glory on this destruction, millions and millions of innocent souls blasted by one single impact, an entire planet rendered unhabitable, civilizations crumble, the legacy of our ancestors erased forever, our way of life, our families, everything we knew, gone.. Is this the price we are all so willingly to pay for a sake of ideologies, religion or resources?
A friend of mine played this game but after the game hes behavior changed sudennly. in 3 weeks became depressed and in 4 months he took his own life. THE CREATOPS OF THIS GAME ARE SATANIC PEOPLES. YOU STOLE MY BESTEFRIEND LIFE YOU F......NG CREATORS. YOU ARE THE MONSTERS. THE FUTURE HAS NOT BEEN YET WROTE. WE CAN CHANGE THE FUTURE. FIGHT THE FUTURE. STOP THE WAR BETWEN UCRAINE AND RUSSIA IN FACT ITS A NATO VS RUSSIA. STOP KILLINGS.
"A nuclear arms race is two men standing in a pool of gasoline, one holding three lit matches, the other holding five." This track goes well with a Girls und Panzer fanfiction on AO3. The Cold War goes hot. Nuclear exchanges everywhere, nuclear winter, everyone dies. Brutal, but worth a read
i just LOVE the bird's theme! i wish i could get it extended in a seperate video to listen to it in particular... but this game and its soundtrack are far too niche for that D:
21 Feb, Russian President Vladimir Putin has suspended Russia's participation in the New START Treaty signed with the US, the last major nuclear arms control agreement between the 2 nuclear powers. Ah shit.
