Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm Lynn. I'm your host. I'm here with John Bolding.

Howdy.

And this was originally going to be our Terra Invicta episode, but a funny thing happened, which is that I went back and listened to our Terra Invicta episode from 2022, which was the same panel.

It was the two of us.

And I don't feel like my feelings on Terra and Victa have changed.

It's like just go back and listen to that.

They didn't change.

The game didn't change.

It's the same game pretty much.

I mean, they made some marginal improvements, but most of my thoughts from that previous

episode still stand.

I know you kind of, I think your opinion of it went down a little bit even after early access.

Yeah, in my opinion, I'd say significantly soured when like,

when it launched with many of the same issues that it still has.

Like, it launched with them in early access and it launched with them as a full game.

And it's just not all there to me.

It's, uh, it's definitely one of those things I've, I've noticed more recently with a lot

of early access strategy games is where it's like, yeah, I can let this go because I'm

assuming that, you know, it's going to get addressed down the line, of course. And then sometimes

it doesn't, um, it won't spend too much time on it. But yeah, I think the big pain point we both agreed on is

kind of like the pacing. Yeah, the pacing is rough. For me, the sticking point where I was like,

yeah, I think my opinion hasn't changed at all was when I recognized that of all the nuclear

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