Hello XD... my name is Rokkan and I've been lurking in this community since 2011. I never spoke or registered because I could not speak English, and today I can speak it almost fluently, and I can understand what all of you talk about here, for this I'm grateful that all of you have maintained this community for a long time and I find it very incredible that they have improved the game with much more technical contributions, is what impresses me most, I always wanted to contribute something to this community. I like Outpost 2 and it is one of my favorite games from my childhood, I have suffered and enjoyed in equal parts in this game with its great difficulty, I have hated its flaws but still, I have spent very good times playing Outpost 2.
When I was in elementary school, back home, the first thing I did was to play Outpost 2 and think of strategies to complete the campaigns, and incidentally, read the novel, which in itself motivated me enough to complete the campaign because for each level you passed, you unlocked one more episode. Even reading the novel was difficult, and at that time I was learning English thanks to the videogames XD. I can even tell you a very personal anecdote about how I met this game.
You see, I discovered this game thanks to my brothers, I remember I was about 8 years old and that, and I remember that one of my brothers played the Outpost 2 demo, and back then we all played Starcraft and other abandonware RTS like Alien Colony, Z, Atrox, etc. But Outpost 2 caught my attention because it had a lot of things to do in real time, and I was very dizzy with Master of Orion or Civilization XD, as a kid I really liked the action. A few years later, my brothers would gradually stop doing things together, they were family things but each one went his own way, so that I can play the video games they had without asking permission and stuff. Knowing this, I played the Outpost 2 demo (I didn't know they had the full game yet) and I played the Eden demo.
I was traumatized because in that demo there is a volcano that erupts and I didn't know what to do, I was very scared and I didn't want to play the game again, and I didn't want to see when the lava destroyed all my colony. Later, that same day, they announced on TV that a volcano (Ubinas) in my country (Peru) was about to erupt. I didn't want to know more about Outpost 2 and I was afraid to play that thing, that's how my fear of volcanoes arose, but I would overcome it years later.
Already in 2011 would be when I finished the game and the campaign, and I read the novel with the little English I mastered back then. Personally, I love the kinda terrifying plot it handles and I like that tone of desperation to have everything under control, which reflects the game itself. And that reflects very well the context that Outpost 2 has: Earth has been destroyed and only a few humans survived, and you have to manage a colony on a dead planet, and all with the few resources you have within reach. There's no turning back, and you're on a very bad situation between life or death, I remember when I overcame my fear of volcanoes, that game still made me despair, and always made me think that we were all going to die XD. But I was encouraged by the motto of the game which is, extinction is not an option. You have to fight for survive, neither more nor less. I got really upset when I couldn't get through the campaign, and I never gave up. In my opinion, Outpost 2 has the most difficult campaign of all RTS games, but it's a very good game, it's broken and have a few errors, but it has a very great potential to be one of the best RTS today.
Anyway, thanks for reading my story, I hope I didn't break any rules, but it's because I wanted to introduce myself. I've been lurking around this community like so many years and it's been a long time since I've taken a look at it. It's been a long time since I played Outpost 2, and I played it again because the pandemic also evokes the same emotions as when I played Outpost 2 for the first time, don't you feel it too? Extinction is not an option.
