X4 Ep6: The Grand Plan & Boarding Actions (Plus PowerPoint Slides & our New Organisation) 

For anyone that wants to skip the PPT/planning section, you can jump to 21:06 . Hope you enjoy.

THE PERUN CINEMATIC UNIVERSE CROSSOVER WE ALL WANTED!!! SLIIIIIIIIDDDDEEEESSSS

"...with slides." *CROWD CHEERS EXUBERANTLY*

"...with slides." - nearly fell of my chair laughing.

the sudden cut to the powerpoint slides in your typical style had me rolling. This is the same way I like to play games like these, and seeing it represented in such a way is amazing. Perun, keep going mate. the vids are amazing and entertaining

So now im my head canon the story is: Main chanel Perun was transported into the future as a pilot cadet and is now using his superior slide skills to save earth and find a way back into his timeline.

I love how your voice changed from gaming Perun to logistics Perun in a matter of seconds. It really helped take me into learning mode very quickly.

I believe that canonically Perun’s character called an all hands meeting and forced all people under their command to attend a in-universe version of this exact PowerPoint. People having to stop working at every station to tune in, gunners on the new capital ship being rounded up to watch. Boso tuning in. Beautiful.

0:00 - not slides 0:47 - slides 21:06 - not slides

Opening with a PP slide was an unexpected opener i didnt know i needed with my gameplay reviews😂😂

10 years ago I was laughing in IT classes about learning PowerPoint and how its useless for us. Yet Perun has showed me the folly of my thinking, he has shown me the greatness of the Slides medium. I'm astonished and humbled.

The cut to a Perun ppt presentation in a Perun Gaming video was just... glorious. Had to pause for a solid 10sec to get the gleeful laughter out of my system.

Me in high-school: OMG another powerpoint presentation... Me today, almost 20 years later: OMG another powerpoint presentation!!!

Taking break from making slides to be ambushed with slides have never made me happier!

Man, I can't believe Perun's colabing with Perun on this one!

20 minutes of PowerPoint presentation of how you'll fix the galaxy with defence economics. This is a man, who not only is great at what he does, he absolutely loves it that he puts it into BOTH his free time activities he makes videos about. I heard that there was presentation in main channel vid, so came here, and after I'm done I'm gonna binge whatever you already uploaded.

Video games with a power point presentation on military industrial priorities and geopolitics. This is truly the greatest of all RU-vid videos.

Dear sir Perun, you are perfect RU-vidr for me. Firstly, you are covering military economics in very interesting and engaging way. Secondly, you are precious supplier of 1 hour long gameplay videos. Please, keep this up for us!

I love the idea of you just becoming this Space Amazon, just a monolithic Corp who supply everything and are thusly relied upon severely. Then all you have to do to harm your enemy is stop working.

Surely watching this at 1:45 AM when I should be sleeping is a wise idea

I'm not sure if the cut into your main channel's presentation style being so dramatic was fully intentional, I saw you had the sound guy help here, regardless of that - it was 100% pure gold to do it this way. Outstanding. I felt like I jumped universes in real life. Edit- Oh and to be clear, you doing your primary presentation style on scifi/fantasy universes is basically a early Christmas gift. I'd pay good money to see a full hour presentation on the logistics of supplying a Emperor-Class battleship for long term engagements, or something like that. :)

So if I were to summarise Perun's goals here for a moment (in a non specific way) I would look something like this: 1. build up enough economic production and enough stations to support that production in order to singlehandedly supply a significant amount of the gate network's economic output. 2. build enough shipyards and supporting infrastructure in order to not only supply yourself with enough warships to build multiple fleets capable of holding back Xenon incursions, but also supply a significant shipbuilding capacity to the factions you like. 3. singlehandedly go to work mending diplomatic relations, build trust between nations and make it so that your vision of how the gate network should look comes to pass. 4. make a tidy profit while doing all of this. yeah, that should be pretty doable right. nothing out of the ordinary here, simply a man trying to singlehandedly rewrite the fate of potentially hundreds of billions of sapient individuals. all while prosecuting a war for the very survival of his species and the wider gate network.

I love how the sound quality gets 10 times better as soon as the slides appear

A perun gaming video WITH a powerpoint? The crossover we needed all along.

Mmmmmm, midweek slides, you spoil us, Perun! 😅 Really enjoying the series, it's put X4 back on my radar.

Number one on the list of things I didnt know I needed in my life: PowerPoint presentation on objectives driven defense analytics within the exopolitcs of the X universe. Thank you.

I cannot express just how much my face stretched with glee the moment this cut to slides. He gives the people what they crave.

So I did the Dragonfyre mission in Timelines earlier today and there's a bit of a horrifying implication of just how bad the fight against the Terraformers actually was for Sol. In the final mission tally screen I got a slightly fully bar (a bit of orange on the end which also means that I was expected to save fewer people) for 2.1 billion people in Sol surviving. Considering this is meant to be 2099 or something and Earth's current population circa 2024 is about 7 billion it suddenly becomes shockingly clear why the Terrans now react so aggressively to attacks on Sol in general and the Xenon in particular.

Love it. Love the slides. Favourite let's play ever

The slides got me, well done.

I wouldn't mind if every episode started with a few slides, providing an update of the current state of the Terra Invicta conglomerate, the Terminus force composition, equipment losses and reserves, as well as short-to-medium term objectives...and maybe even a SWOT analysis here or there. ;-)

yay, Australian PowerPoint man also exists in the X universe now😍

What an incredible video. @PerunGamingAU I could watch this all day.... the style switchover to your primary channel style to sketch out the objectives, the tactical situation and your plan to furfill said objectives was just so damn engaging and interesting. Then the cut back to in game playthough was just **cheffs kiss** perfect. I was intrigued when I saw you picking up X4, but this series just ramped up to 11 and is gonna gown down as one of my all time favorite youtube series if you can keep up the pace. This is rapily supplanting my previously favorite series, beaglerush's XCOM ironman impossible.

powerpoint jumpscare was absolute Cinema

He made a fucking power point, def an ausy. next he'll be showing us his pool room.

Jack Harper (CEO of Cord-Hislop Aerospace): watches powerpoint *Slow clap intensifies*

Oh thank you! Ever since I retired I've suffered from a lack of power point and you have saved me from beseeching social services for aid!

Oh hell yeah, I FUCKING LOVE SLIDESHOWS YOUHOU !!!!!!!!!

I gotta say the PowerPoint was a brilliant idea. X4 is a game with a lot of stuff going on and it's easy to get lost in it. Its usually also hard to watch but since you set up objectives for yourself and what you want to show, it makes it easy to follow.

the absolute king, never seen a slideshow in a let’s play and never knew how much I wanted to see one I’d love to see this done for another let’s play of yours. The explicit thought process as you go into a strategy game would be fascinating

Construction tip - you can make large terran habitat around the large terran storage (any type) saves a lot of space if you put them around those storages and also looks cool.

I'm here for Perun. Perun got famous making slides. I'm here for the slides. I don't see the need to apologize for there being slides. You could technically make a Let's Play with using key slides and talking through the decisions made, the roleplay, the weighing of choices, the outcomes etc - and it WOULD WORK GREAT.

I wish my presentation skills were anywhere close to this absolute legend

I’m going to be honest I never thought you’d break out the ol PowerPoint for video games. But damn am I glad you did

That PowerPoint was everything I wanted it to be and more. It's fascinating to see what conclusions you're able to draw from a model universe like this.

All great military and economic projects can only ever begin one way... me: Invading Poland? Perun: With slides. me: ooooooh

simply amazing. it's so good to see you set objectives and execute them. thank you Perun! PS: thank you for helping the borons. they're too cute to collapse

Thanks for making this series , made me pick up x4 again after trying it out back when it first released! Having a great time with it now.

The excitement I felt when you pulled out the slide deck surprised me.

I literally started cackling when you hard cut to a PowerPoint presentation. 10/10

I hereby submit a motion for the episode to be retitled to 'When Peruns Collide'. I came for the real world in-depth defense analyses, and apparently have stayed long enough to enjoy the fictitious sci-fi defense analysis. What a time to be alive.

honestly, seeing X4 being rendered into a strategic situation to be planned over... is actually really educational about how to start doing this yourself (if only in pure basic principles) Thank you, I unironically, sincerely enjoyed and appreciated this!

I Can't tell you how joyful realising that I get a mini Perun Slide session as a bonus in this episode has made me

I have been asked to do a PPT presentation... I have a desire to re-pro the Perun layout just to try and flush out any other "powerpoint enthusiasts" who might be lurking lol Also great vid as always digs.

Fellow Aussie here. Fantastic series, love the lore explanation &RP motive consideration. Nothing else like this, what a niche to corner. Subscribed. 😊

I have learned more about the political, economic, and military situation within the network than I was able to any of the three times I tried to play X4 and bounced off of it. Well done.

What a legend. The way you break situations down is inspiring.

I haven't been this engaged by a game series of YT vids in i don't know how long

Been loving this kind of content. The large scale planning is very exciting! I’m really looking forward to how the story of this run progresses.

It unreasonable how exited I got when you started the slideshow.

The PTT is a thing of beauty, sir, as a representative of the powers at be, admire your work. We will support you, here on the earth, and the inner rings from afar. keep up the good work, sir, we will be watching, Watcher of Down Out.

Beautiful insight on your power point. I did not expect you would actually made slides for this.

I love this Perun style and analysis of the series so much :D

Another great Perun X4 video! and this time with slides = 1000% more amazing.

This is glorious!

I thought the font change was an incredibly nice touch to distinguish the Perun Power Points from the Terran Information Display & Delivery Mechanism.

Duuude... This is another level of immersion. SLIDES.

I am so happy that we got a powerpoint in a gaming video. A sentance only perun can make me say

Very nice seeing the game on this channel. I do know some people wo developed (and/or are still developing) X4 and it's predecessors, so of course I had to try the game when it was released but didn't really get hooked. Perun starting this series inspired me to get the DLCs I was missing and start a Terran Playthrough myself. A similar thing happend with Terra Invicta. I already had that in my backlog for a while, but only really started getting into it until watching Perun showed me how some mechanics worked. Haven't played X4 in ages, so I'm basically re-learning, but I'm making progress. I watched the first two videos, saving the rest for later (don't want to spoil myself in terms of story). Hope there will be a lot more X4 content on this channel when I'm ready to catch up!

ah powerpoint, truly the pinnacle of modern military technology and the bane of every recruit's day

Oh heck yeah, slides crossed over into this world too. Also for some reason your voice is much clearer when you're doing the slides compared to the game.

Loved the PowerPoint presentation in the middle! Perfect for a game featuring so much defense-industrial planning!

Literally just finished the last episode and saw this posted 3 minutes ago lol Loving this series

Super amazing episode! Can‘t wait to see how the plan plays out! 😊

Sudden slides, with even the higher quality mic? Incredible, we must have more (please)!

I like the style you show off the game, very refreshing compared too other creators. The PowerPoint presentation was perfect to show off the vision you are heading to. 🎉

this is the Perun way possibly to do this

ahaha the only gaming channel where I'm actually looking forward to the slide section!

You know what, a rewatch of a Perun PowerPoint to ease me from Munji's collection of Controversies would be pleasant...

That sudden switch to the other Perun had me laughing quite loudly :D

Never looked forward to a slideshow in a gaming video before, bloody marvelous haha

You, sir, are a genius! Laughing hysterically rn

you have no idea how happy those slides made me

Dont underestimate the Split Dragon as a K killer. You have speed, firepower and handling to slip into the blind spots near the engines. Once the engines are out you can kill the XL shields and then the local forces can drop it like its hot.

I love this series, keep it coming!

Simply incredible

Super good series! Cant wait to see fleet battles.

This was the channel crossover we didn’t know we needed to have!

Just the highest caliber of analysis applied to everything

Absolutley loving this series!

I really didn’t think you had it in you. Not only the PP slides but the silky smooth voice. ❤️

Terra Invicta, let's goooooo!!!

I rarely comment on anything, but this episode needs a big thumbs up for the slides at the start explaining and summarising what must be done, and importantly, why it must be done and in what order. Keep up the good work.

Hours long content to get to the reveal of some slides. Perfection. I feel like this was made for me

If you want to board with Freighters, do not enter "Target Engines" in "Ship behaviour whil engaging the target", you should do "fly away" and just allow the Marines to do their stuff. You can do "Fly-by" boardings this way without shooting.

Moar X4!!! Really enjoying this playthrough

omg, that intro was 🔥🔥🔥

Yes. You understand exactly what I want. ^____^ Thank you for this gem ❤

8th August 2024: Peak RU-vid was achieved on the Perun Gaming channel with the greatest cut to a PowerPoint presentation ever