Liberty Defense Perimeter | Resistance 

"Fixed Fortifications are a Monument to the Stupidity of Mankind." -As a Stellaris Player never before have I heard something I completely agree with. -As a Hearts of Iron 4 Player never before have I heard something I completely disagree with.

“Liberty Defense Perimeter” has got to be the most American name ever.

You have to remember WWII never happened in this universe, meaning their weapon technology and fighting doctrines were still styled after WWI. Which as we know, saw the deadly effectiveness of static defense positions.

"Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of Man" *The sons of Dorn will forever remember this*

Resistance 2 had some great world building with its' Intel and viral marketing... and it's such a shame that almost none of it mattered when Resistance 3 came out.

Counter point. Although it didn’t save the United States as a country, it might have still saved mankind. The Chimeran fleet was devastated, which allowed Nathan Hale to destroy the remainder with a single crude atomic weapon. If the fleet had been intact by the time of Resistance 3 then the Chimeran death squads would been completely unstoppable, and there’s no way Joseph Capell would have succeeded in his mission to destroy the wormhole tower in New York. Personally, I think the attack on the Liberty Defence Perimeter is a case of winning the battle but losing the war. Thoughts?

Resistance lore is so fascinating. I hope they reboot or do a sequel at some point.

Resistance is imo the best depiction of the War of the Worlds scenario. The "aliens" are actually infected people (among other living things) from a near incurable virus; we never get to fight the actual "pure" Chimera so who knows how powerful they really are. Setting the game in a retro 1950s timeline creates a larger tech gap between humans and the aliens. Victories against the Chimera are only minor setbacks (ex: abandon angel command structure; conversion centers to spinners; building spaceships & drones). With most of humanity wiped out the survivors had to abandon "Resistance" and simply try to survive on a Earth controlled by the Chimera. Most games/movies that depict a war against aliens always showcase humanity having a stronger success when fighting back. Resistance on the other hand creates a situation in which the humanity's fight in utterly pointless.

Whenever I see anything about resistance I instantly click, it's one of the best franchises ever and I wish for it to come back.

The Chimera is up there with the Faro Plague for "Apocalyptic scenarios in which I will off myself in the opening hours".

Resistance is a fascinating setting, because it's post-apocalyptic but understands this doesn't necessarily have to mean "just dudes in biker gear running around innawoods with guns".

Resistance had such a deep lore.

The borders of this to anyone with even a passing understanding of US geography, distribution of industries, and resources, is laughable.

Always nice to see Resistance given love.

I hope resistance comes back, love the stormy and setting

I never really cared for the later Resistance games, but I still hold out hope that Fall Of Man will someday get a remaster. That was honestly one of the best shooter games I ever played as a kid, and a great example of quality worldbuilding.

It's sad that the Resistance series have been discontinued. Some of its lore have never fully explained, and there's lots of chances to create new stories and further explore the Resistance universe. This series could have been compete against Halo.

Resistance was my favourite game franchise with Killzone well at least until Killzone 3. It's sad seeing how forgotten the resistance games have been forgotten. The lore and stories was so great

If Rogal Dorn had been in charge of it the defense probably would have worked

Definitely needs a remake/soft reboot for all systems. Its time everyone gets a chance to experience the chimera

I'm quite confused why the U.S decided to go isolationist during A DAMN ALIEN INVASION!

I disagree with the statement "Fixed Defenses are a monument to the stupidity of Mankind" I would honestly say Fixed defenses are extremely useful, while not by themselves capable of stopping an attack, do provide enough of a speed bump and damage against an assaulting opponent that permit time and resources to counter attack the assaulting force. While a continuous defensive wall is impractical in most cases, the defense of strategic areas via fixed defenses coupled with localized independent unit to provide local and regional counter attacks is a highly effective strategy. As for the Liberty defense zone, if it was shrunk from it's initial plan, which the games seem to suggest. The strategists should have begun work on a defense in depth system, so that the breach of the "outer" defensive system does not mean the complete collapse of the entire defensive system. On top if that, resources permitting, compartmentalization of the entire defensive line would have been highly desirable. This method of having defensive compartments within the liberty zone would function akin to the compartmentaliztion of a warship, meaning that if one area was overrun by the Chimera would not have meant the entire zone be overrun, while also giving surviving generals in the Liberty zone the ability to properly judge and execute counter attacks by keeping all fighting within an overrun compartment, and "hopefully" when they fully retake the compartment they have a ready made defensive line in the previously overrun towers that can be refurbished and reequip, with the insight on the weak spots of the defensive line due to where they where broken prior.

We need at the very least need a remastered trilogy. A remake would be ok too.

This was one of my favourite game series of all time. It was so underrated too, I've never met anyone who knows about it or played it.

I pray that you guys cover the war between Imperial Russia and the Chimera, the whole concept of them fortifying their borders to keep the Chimera locked in, the repeating radio broadcast, the disappearing villages and all the other messed up shit that went down before the first game even started.

Happy you liked my poster. Made one for United European Defense as well if you ever plan on doing a future Resistance video.

A cautionary tale about what the world would be like if America didn't finally join WW2.. love it

it makes me feel old knowing the resistance games came out when I just started highschool. I do hope y'all cover more of this universe.

in 2034 the United Earth Government listed several parts of the Liberty Defense Perimeter as 'a site of Historical importance' this decision was met with large amount of debate, as many historians viewed it as a wasted effect, when compared to other defensive plans and offensive operations that occurred during the Dark Decade. for example the operation to close the portal over New York wasn't included nor the Combine British, Irish and French operation to 'Cleanse ' southern Britain and northern France wasn't included in the short list.

The Chimera really said “Fuck New England, in particular” I don’t know if I should be flattered or insulted

When I was high school I wrote a short story that was set in the Resistance universe that basically predicted the LDP. Resistance was the only game out at the time. Mine though was a layered fortress that started in the ocean and worked back to the new capital of the US in Denver.

Who needs a liberty defence perimeter when you can just have a Baton Rouge protection camp?

I always enjoy the soundtrack you guys use for these kinda lore videos. Tyranids,zombies, Chimeras...love it. Fits the atmosphere.

Me, a Michigander, seeing how far the perimeter stretches: "Damn, y'all really just abandoned us. You do realize that the Great Lakes is one of the largest sources of freshwater, right? And that you basically abandoned that to the Chimera, right? Right?

This is one trilogy I wouldn't mind a remake on ps5 or pc.

I'd like to see a Resistance sequel where it's like a hundred years later and were getting ready to go into space.

Oh thank the maker, so happy you all are hopping on work of Resistance videos. Keep up the tremendous work folks!

Resistance fall of man Resistance 2 Resistance 3 Need remastered game in PS4 and PS5 The game is legendary

We need a collection of all the games for modern systems.

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60 percent of forces gone in the first 72 hours. That's not a battle, that's a slaughter. Talk about gettin your shit pushed in.

I would have liked it more if the LDP had held out longer, actually proved a major deterrent to the Chimaera, and we got to see some smart stuff, like espionage and sabotage, from their forces, or at least a massive dedication of force that might weaken them elsewhere, rather than just the effortless ease with which they annihilated it.

Among all the major FPS and TPS franchises that I ranted about undermined by trilogy format(Halo 3, Mass Effect 3, Gears of War 3, Killzone 3, Dead Space 3 and so on) I kind of forgot that Resistance also was left hanging:( To specify, most devs build up to massive conflict for two games, first one is introduction to setting, second one sets the stakes. But then they leave themselves with only a single game to show the peak of said conflict(and sometimes even its breakout) and conclude it all. Within single game! Usually the series outgrows that trilogy expectation and thus the developers have to return the same villain that they've just wiped out with coloured energy wave plot gun that kills all enemies everywhere(Halo, Crucible, Lightmass Machine, Helghast Bomb, Precursor Marker Weapon and so on). And I know that Halo 2 and 3 were planned as one game at first. I still thing that Halo 3 should have been split into trilogy of its own. Mass Effect should have ended Shepherd saga and just switch to new protagonist for Reaper War arc. It's hard to come with alternative for Gears. Killzone should have ended about 20 minutes earlier with Helghan general still surviving and the corporate executive escaping with a small fleet in unknown direction.

90mm main guns? Seems very small for its purpose

Eveyone loves to take a crap on fixed fortifications but the truth is they are extremely effective, even when breached they often delayed invasions by years or more.

02:19 “Ohio will be eliminated” - Chimera. Probably

I absolutely loved the lore and story stuff with this series. Dead space as well. Phenomenal. Great video.

I’d like a return to this series. Maybe we’re the son of Joseph Capelli, we inherited a few Chimeran genes from him, so we can use their bacterial kits and things. Resistance 3 set up an atmosphere I personally couldn’t get enough of. The way the Chimera had lost by winning just gave me the chills. They’d always represented fascism, and them turning on each other while humanity endured in pockets of good and bad people, eventually destroying their supposed achievements due to the Chimera’s autophagia… god I want to see more of that.

This franchise doesn't get enough love. Thanks for this addition. Did you make up that stuff about the chemical weapons? It makes sense, and I'm not sure whether it's cooler if it's canon or something you added because it made sense in the lore.

I love alternate history scenarios and it’s a shame that Resistance went the direction it did

I love resistance series. Most people dismiss it as just another fps but Insomniac created a very interesting, bleak and compelling lore behind the game.

I'm very glad this channel still makes videos about Resistance... one of the best and most immersive stories I've ever delved into

I really wish this series would get remastered / rebooted on all platforms, I feel like the alt history genre is kind of underrappreciated with video games. Nowadays all we really have for that is wolfenstein, at least as far as shooter go

Why on earth would you not move the line down 40 miles to encompass Atlanta?? A major American metro area?? You could even incorporate the city into the perimeter wall... some sort of city-bastion within the defensive wall.. 40k esque

5:48 You should pick your words carefully, especially to one of my certain son who likes to build forts and fortify it to oblivion

We need a new game in the series!!!!

I'd argue that static defenses were warranted here. The goal was to hold a perimeter against sustained attacks while starving the Chimeras of fresh bodies. Could it have been done better, sooner, and in layers? yes, but using fixed defenses to anchor the border was absolutely called for here.

Nice to see Resistance videos here. Really hope this series is brought back someday.

Never forget Resistance ❤️

The chimera remind me of a mod for stellaris I think it's the hiveminds expanded mod. You can add a civic that allows you to repurpose the enemies pops into your own through purging. It is stupidly overpowered as you can literally go in and exterminate your enemy while growing your numbers. Hmmmm new playthrough time

Those anti-air defense are cool and all until those tunneler machines from the first game start burrowing under your defenses.

Love you guys' video on Resistance. That world needs more attention in the media. Its so good.

I mean it was the best chance they had. Chimera need a constant supply of freshly converted humans to maintain their numbers, a lot of the intel in Fall of Man, specifically the Gray Jacks, suggest that most Chimera, because of their high metabolism rapidly degrade, in a year or two at most. So if the US managed to stalemate the Chimera behind the Perimeter the Chimera, or at least the weaker strains, would eventually die off. A lot of the plan was wishful thinking but it did take the full might of the Chimera bringing everything they had to break the Liberty Defense Perimeter and at this late stage there weren't really whole lot of other options. Maybe if Noah Grace had used his, YEARS of advanced warning about the Chimera things would have been better, since the intel implies that FDR knew about the Chimera in the 1930s before Grace was elected in 1940.

It's such a shame what happened to this game series, I really loved the setting, lore and stories that came from it.

This game sounds dank af

This was a series with so much potential.

I really miss the resistance series

Such a kickass game series and lore. Wish they would reboot the series. It has a insane amount of potential.

Huh. Remembered the Patton quote in my head while watching this. Didn't expect them to use it. Nice.

Placing those towers every 50 feet sounds a bit much

Man SUCH a great series

Some of my favourite games universe wise

Man I wish Resistance has a RTS game

Okay, Y'all can get out of my brain now. I literally was watching your Resistance videos from 3-4 years ago yesterday.

Should probably have built the bunkers and walls BEFORE they had already started the glassing, but what does the US government know anyway?

The map reminds me of the one from Gotham were the gcpd was keeping track of the criminal elements in different territory in the city after the bridges were bombed and the citizens were cut off from the main land without outside help

Would love to see an investigation into the nations of Foxhole. An Atlas video on the great bulwark or a Dossier on Callahan or the Marrows would be awesome.

It's a weird quirk of territory that the trailing southwestern corner of Virginia goes just barely far enough west to brush up against the eastern edge of the Perimeter, while the entirety of West Virginia is further east.

I knew I'd played so much of the resistance games that all I saw was the start of the title and new it was Resistance 2. Such a good game, as was Fall of Man. 3 was okay but really didn't have the ending I was hoping for. I'd love if insomniac worked out a 4th or a reboot.

Always wondered how it worked out with putting it in the middle of the United States. I'd think they would choose a coast since it has many more resources and people

Resistance was such a interesting game

If there will be any more videos about resistance series, I hope we can see a video about technology or European Trade Organisation

A shame the invasion didn't happen a century later, the Faro Plague from Horizon sounds pretty effective against this enemy!

Love the Channel and love Resistance, wish I had a PS just for it and Planetside

Yea!!!!! Its a good day to be in the army!! This game made me join the military because it so cool to me as a kid

I love these videos of resistance lore

We need a remastered reboot of this game.

I liked Res 2 because of coop mode and got to play with my brother throughout the game. Sad they didn't maintain that for resistance 3.

I enjoyed this series and thought the lore was fascinating, but the United States somehow keeping its citizens in the dark about the chimera always bothered me. It makes sense that Russia was able to keep them hidden as the chimera were only in their country at that point and I can see them doing something stupid like trying to fight it by themselves without any assistance. I also understand and even think it works that the U.S. tried to bury its head in the sand and hope the chimera would just stay in Europe as the U.S. was extremely isolationist before WW2, but what was even the point of lying and saying that it was some sort of plague that was decimating Europe instead of the chimera? Even if no forms of communications or survivors managed to make their way to the U.S. and alert everyone of what was really happening and the U.S. was able to completely block off all contact from the outside world initially, there is no way that would last. People would be wanting to know what the heck is going on and I doubt they would be fine with such extreme measures for long. Even a really dangerous plague wouldn't justify such restrictions as its not like such a thing could transmit over telegrams, radio, or phones. The U.S. would have had to turn into a totalitarian government to implement such control and there is nothing in the lore that says they magically did so at some point.

Fixed fortifications will never stop a determined enemy of equal or greater power.

Why not make the borders along natural barriers like the Rocky and Appalachian mountains? The area you chose seems arbitrary and uninteresting

More resistance video, the lore is is awesome

Man just loved all of the games story was so good

Fixed fortifications are moronic if you do NOT have an industry and civilian population under attack or to protect/ if they are mobile, if your main base is completely safe. Otherwise you NEED to play defensively. Static emplacements are commonly NEVER meant to be an effective defense line. They are meant to buy time to regroup and come up with a solution to the current situation. In resistance, the Liberty Defense Perimeter was ok. The problem was that it was used as a line of defense instead of stalling. It was also a single line, not layered. It would have been better to simply break up all necessary industrial and military elements for raiding ops and portability(make soldiers and civilians self-sufficient). I mean really, all of Europe, Asia and Africa fall and the Liberty wall was thought to hold the Chimera back and initiate a stalemate? Against billions of bodies in humans alone? Great breakdown as with every other video.

2:15 like if your home would be in the liberty defense perimeter

Whoever wrote this game layout was seriously underqualified. 90 mm sounds like a lot until you realize that a 50 caliber round and a 30 mm round are almost the same size. 90 mm is only about a 3.5 in Shell which is nowhere near what you would use on a defensive emplacement like they describe. For comparison Coast guard vessels will normally be equipped with this size of weapon on their smallest vessels. Standard US Navy weapons will be 5 in which is closer to 130 mm , and the sort of weapon that they are showing in the illustration would be a 9-in naval gun, or in excess of 200 mm. The idea that the central us could not provide sufficient food for the US population is also seriously an error, but unless you happen to work in agriculture you wouldn't know that.

Am I the only one who notices that the math for those gun emplacements doesn't add up? The towers are each MUCH wider than 50 feet, and building 38,000 steel skeleton towers over a thousand feet tall, and sturdy enough to support multiple automatic naval caliber guns in an insane manufacturing accomplishment. By comparison, WW2 mobilization cranked out 50,000 Sherman tanks and 3,000 liberty ships, both of which require a fraction of the amount of steel alone. My guess is somebody got their napkin math wrong when they wrote the document for the game. More likely, the towers would be spaced so each cluster could support the tower cluster to its left and right. So you're probably looking at between 300 and 500 towers if the space puts each tower within the firing of its neighboring strongpoints.

More Resistance lore videos please and thanks 👍🏾

My brother adored the first game in this series when it first came out 😊

Should do one on the Cloven in Resistance