you
You
Oh my god, it's bright.
Alright, am I live?
Live.
Ah, there's no working.
Classic!
There he is!
God, it's round hands update.
Got hands.
My audio's not working.
Wait, the game defaulted Ray Reconstruction off.
With the new update, it turned off Ray Reconstruction.
I need to restart my audio, sorry I can't.
Got hands.
Hello? Okay, am I here now?
Thank you.
Alright.
So, remember when I said this?
What's the point of these legendary creatures?
There was like a bear.
There was like a wolf.
A deer.
I think I could ride them now.
But I already killed them so we'll see what happens.
What?
What is wrong with my game?
What is going on?
Uh...
Um...
hey what is wrong with my game
oh rewards have been granted based on your past game activities refinement tokens
the best artifacts a bunch of money camp funds holy and then snow white dear
antlers. Antlers are the snow white deer.
Infermont take those antlers to the
wishers are for crafting.
Okay what's wrong with my game though?
Any ideas?
What's wrong with my game though?
They did turn off Ray Recon by default.
I saw it when I opened my game, they turned Ray Reconstruction off.
They forced it off.
That why?
No?
Uh, guys, I might not be able to play anymore from the desert.
I don't think restarting is going to do anything.
I have a feeling I'm fucked.
See you though.
He opens pretty fast.
I
Can't see during this cutscene. We know it's broken still
Are there a hundred ninety people watching you're always on channel I don't get it
They're good afk well you were what you oh my games bug it's still broken
you earn free rewards for watching my 24 7 live channel
you get like free t-shirts and shit so maybe that's the answers I'm doing
uh so what do I do with this
any ideas? any ideas on how to fix this?
I guess I'll verify my steam files.
Maybe that'll
Maybe that'll do it, I don't know
So, okay, let's assume that this bug is permanent, and I can't play Crimson Desert anymore.
What do I do?
Marathon or Borderlands or I have a very strong feeling that this is going to be permanent,
but we'll see.
I just got a hunch.
Just gonna hunch
Well, I see fucks doing while I wait for this. Oh claims playing Greyzone. Oh, that's right 0.4 Greyzone fun
Oh, he's dead
We're patiently waiting for this to hopefully work.
I guess I could read the patch notes while I wait for my game to fix, add in 5 new mouths,
various containers, refinement tokens, added a make now which allows food and
items to be cooked immediately without having to select ingredients, improved
pets so they're not strayed excessively far away from combat. I wonder if that means
they fixed the fucking pets just not working. Made the abyss more convenient
to play? What does it even mean?
Made the abyss more convenient to play. That's the craziest wording in a patch. No, I don't even know what that means.
You can't do the stab tech.
I added a precise control feature for Axiom Force holding Q and the mouse back button
while moving the mouse allows the object to be moved more precisely.
Let's see if this fixed my game.
Alright, testing.
Testing.
Fuck. Okay. Any other ideas how to fix this? What else we got?
off. Verifying game files does not work. What else we got? What else we got? What else we got?
Why fix it?
If I update my driver, it will maybe restart shaders because it usually does.
There is a new driver update.
That's not a bad idea.
I guess I'll update the new drivers.
I usually don't do that, but it's fine.
This will hopefully fix it.
I promise you this is a fix, turn off smooth motion, I don't have smooth motion on.
I don't know if you guys realized but it was working yesterday so it's something related
to the new update and whatever my configuration is, I guess.
I guess I could try to load another save file.
load another save file
it could be my save file potentially
doubt it though, seems really unlikely
seems really unlikely
I think you actually have to do a backflip to fix it, it was in the patch notes.
I think I'd break my neck if I tried to hit a backflip.
I don't even know how to begin.
Dude, what's crazy is those people that hit backflips, like it's nothing, they just
fucking hit them
alright
All right, see what happens.
We're trying again.
All right, will it work, flip led?
Let's find out.
It's compiling shaders, so it's gotta be a good sign.
Hopefully.
I don't know what my game is capturing, though.
What, weird?
Maybe my game can't capture one of the compile shaders or something.
Oh, there we go.
All right, if this doesn't fix it, we're gonna have some serious problems.
Once the issue, no light, everything's pitch black, the whole game's pitch black.
I'm hoping the piling shaders will fix it.
I mean that has to fix it, right?
It has to be a shaders issue, right?
Let's see.
I feel like I see more light here, I don't think that matters.
next one that I have to see light on. Once I see my character, I have to see light, not darkness.
This is a really long loading screen.
I've never had this long loading screen.
Did she light? Oh, fuck.
Oh, no, gentlemen.
Might be the endocrine's a desert.
That might be it. That might be rats.
That might be rats.
Sad violin.
And...
We can't see anything.
Okay.
Another idea. What if it's my save file? I'm gonna reload another save file.
maybe my work might work I'm gonna load like this one let's see
I think that's it for us. I don't think I can fix this. I think that's a wrap. The
They broke my game
DLSS?
Wait, I can see without DLSS.
DLSS?
Bro, I may as well not play the game.
I can't use DLSS.
I may as well not even play the game.
I mean I may as well not work
You have to override it on the app so you're saying turn it off here
And then go to Nvidia and do some shit
There
How did this update have this happen that's so weird
What if I try the other dls s's what if I try like this one
No, what if I tried this one
No, what if I try to different presets?
Oh.
What?
That didn't make any sense.
Okay, so there's a certain preset that breaks the game.
Is it this one?
Or which one is it?
This one breaks the game.
This one.
works
Wait, you guys can't see so wait what?
Why guys why can't you guys see?
All right
Okay, okay, so certain DLSS presets break the game
Got it understood
good to know
that's really weird
that is really weird
but they you think they ever fixed the dls 4 5 bug being like broken and shit
Okay, all right well we know what the problem was I gotta turn ray recon on oh my god it's
gonna break.
Not break but run a little worse.
All right we're saved.
I said thank goodness.
Thank goodness.
Well, let's go ride a deer. We got a new mount.
From save? It's the same. It's like, I'm getting it apart.
Hell?
It says it's a copier.
Whoa, I just got it.
I just flew so much higher?
Wait, what in the fuck was that?
Wait, did they make this faster?
I think I fly faster.
I run faster?
What the fuck's going on?
Hold on, I have, um...
I don't know what to do.
I don't know.
Hold on, I have um...
I have a thing for you.
I have a deer head, lady.
What do I do with the deer head?
Use this material for crafting the snow deer at the witches' lair.
Oh, oh, oh, like here.
You'll find what you see here. I have been waiting for you
What's weird is we're all where are all my other legendary creatures why just the deal
It's a terrible time again pitch black, okay, so now do I have to go to a stable or something? How do I get my horse?
Oh, in your inventory, oh, that makes sense.
Cool!
What's up, cutie?
Cute little deer.
Can I put armor on him?
Or is that only for horses?
Can I put armor on him? Or is that only for horses?
Oh, he's slow. He's slow as hell.
Cute.
I wonder if they level up like my other horse.
He's kind of slow.
up like my other horse. He's kind of slow. Bruce the Booth! He's not a Booth, he's a
beer, a boost is bigger.
Cool. Alright.
Oh yeah, they nerfed the stab, let's see what that looks like.
I mean, whatever.
It's more stamina, like whatever.
It's not that big a deal.
Looks fucking cool.
It certainly looks cool.
The animation's good.
It's okay, it progressively is more stamina.
It seems like it keeps building up, so we do one stab and then the next one's a little
bit more and then the next one's a little bit more.
That's not that big a deal, because you could still, I mean you could still get
some distance.
Um, you obviously just can't get as much distance, so it's whatever.
And then flying is a little different, I think.
If flying uses less stamina, a lot less.
Holy, I could fly for a while.
Wow, okay.
they did some other shit too
so much spring
you just hold shift
that's nice
uh...
do anything else? Why is it dark? Switch on the light. Yeah, let me just turn on the sun.
Actually, hold on. Does this work like this? I think it's only for rain. Thank you. Sound
Does this work like this?
I think it's only for rain. Thank you.
Sound cool, done.
Now's where the shot.
Oh they improved thieving? Oh, finally. Okay, yeah, it's just weird that you would steal.
I wouldn't want to steal anything because you would just lose rep. And I thought it was
so silly. And I like earning rep with the factions. It felt like an MMO but like single
player, you know. Um, anything else? Did I do any other improvements that I could think
of off the top of my dome ski?
They added a bunch of chests or like loot chests, whatever that means. I don't know
Oh faster loading that's right
So what's weird is I killed at least I thought I killed the legendary wolf
Whoa, why does that look weird?
Why does what am I looking at why does it look like this?
Hello? Oh, they changed this entire menu. Oh, roll down. Okay, the UI is different here.
Ew. I killed this guy. I thought maybe he would be a mount, but I guess he's not. And
killed this tiger I thought maybe he'd be him out but I guess he's not either okay
this new UI is weird
this looks the same loading screen test I think I've already done loading
I don't think tension but luxury test
Jesus Christ, I could barely take a sip of my coffee. Oh my god, that's a lot faster
So I have a hundred and seventy three thousand coins here looking for someone to join my journey
I think I want to rebuild payloon
I think rebuilding payloon can be kind of sick. It's really expensive though like super super super expensive
Yeah, how many we have way too much like
Way too much or anything here
We're gonna cancel some of our men this guy this guy
Um, and then we're going to rebuild TeLune for fun, like, what else do you do with all
this money?
Besides be a good person, I guess.
TeLune.
A hundred and thirty two thousand coins.
It's pretty great.
Okay, bye bye coins.
nice to know, yeah. And then I wanted to do one more thing. I wanted to... Oh, I wanted
to do this thing for the cube. I want to see if there's chains in anything cool. What is
it. I'm worn, I'm worn ruins on a space in private storage. If you need a particular
someone on a range of few.
Yike! Wait, where's my storage chest?
Well, they moved it.
Uh, okay.
Where? Where did they put it?
Uh, here?
That makes more sense.
I'm 241 out of 240.
That's not good.
Holy tomatoes!
Oh my goodness.
I got much mercury.
Where'd I get that from?
This artifact in here. Hell yeah.
Wait, how did I get a biz artifact in my storage chest?
Wait, hold on.
I think you could dupe these.
I'm not getting hold on hold on hold on. I think this is I think you can dupe these.
Oh wait, no never mind. It was from me. No, it was from never mind.
I thought I duped it from the mission that I just did. I was curious.
Nope. It's not that. Alright. Um, I need space. Oh my god. Yikes. Yikes. Alright.
four four four four four four, I'm
and then just hit the quarry for fun
get that quarry for fun. okay. can I sleep? I probably can't sleep. there's more storage
somehow it's something about packaging items in the notes. oh, I don't have more space.
Let me sleep real quick though.
You could do something when your chest is 240 on 240 but I don't know what's new.
My storage chest is full.
So let's see if we can figure it out.
I don't know what I'm doing, I'm hitting shift.
I just take that diamond out.
Shift right click for sure you've selected items.
Don't fully know I don't know how you could increase your storage. I don't know
But they did say something about the storage. You're right. I just I just don't know what
Oh my god, it's so bad so much
I got this thing. Invincible, 10 seconds.
Blessing of the immortal.
So for 10 seconds, that's it, and it's gone.
I could be invincible.
What?
So weird.
So, is there anything else that they changed?
Did they change?
Hold on.
Did they change?
How you do this ability?
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
I remember reading this. Hold on.
Come on, that's still the same.
Why does my sword go on?
Oh, because I used it with the sword, got it, okay.
I was watching Grim's last night and his bar, his health bar is really small.
I think Grim's made his health bar small on purpose.
I think Grimmz is playing the game like I think he's using no pills to respawn and I think
he made his health bar really low on purpose.
I don't think his health bar is that low like by accident.
I think he just invested zero points into health to make the game harder.
I think that's the way Grimmz is playing it which is kind of fair I guess.
I saw him stuck on a boss for like ever and like if that's the way he wants to
I fuck yeah I wouldn't do that personally on my first playthrough if I was ever to
play through the game again then I would consider doing something like that
I usually make my gameplay harder on my second run through, rather than my first run through.
Wait, my pet is looting!
Holy shit!
I need to go back to my lightning skill.
I think my lightning skill is better than the fire one.
I think the fire one is kind of mid.
It looks cool.
But I think it's kind of mid.
Oh, they changed the mining with your drill! It instantly goes in your inventory! That's
a big one. Hold on. I'm gonna try to link.
There's a combo counter now, no, no, no, that's just my gem.
I do more damage the longer my combo is.
It was an Anvil AND a grindstone.
I think DLSO's 4-5 is still bugged, actually.
I wanted to try it really quick to see if it's any different, but I actually...
Actually, I actually think Geosuz-45 is still bugged. I do want to get on 4.
Ooooooh.
Don't ask I'm going here. Don't know why.
I see question mark I go.
So I'm about to be on a podcast with JP DATMOD's Ezekiel and such, I don't know.
Co's on vacation, so I'm taking his spot.
I'll be Co.
I'll be Co on the Drop Frames podcast today.
No big deal.
Take it over.
No big deal.
But anyway, my question was going to be, do I stream?
Do I stream?
So you can like, you can like take someone's feed and then restream that stream, right?
So like, you'd be watching the podcast, or do I just talk on the podcast and play the
game normally?
Like just sit here and play this game while I'm talking to people.
And then another question.
If I'm sitting here playing Crimson Desert while I'm on a podcast, is that rude?
They'd understand, right? I mean, I saw JP streaming for like 14 hours.
He'd understand. He'll probably be playing himself.
Bang, bang, bang.
Hold on. There's something over here.
Dude, the flying is so much better.
I don't think so much.
What the hell is this?
I'm too weak.
Okay this is a puzzle. It's a puzzle for a cube.
Still weapon, what the hell's T?
Huh.
you get when you do your fly ability now you get extra height you go you kind of
fly up a little bit like it gives you push upwards let's not do that before
Oh god the morning coffee's hidden.
I don't...
fully...
I'll come back to that we'll come back.
We'll come back to that.
Wait, is my is my is my is my fucking necklace?
Can I use it?
This is the perfect time.
Yo, this necklace goes on cooldown forever.
I got guns!
What's in here?
Oh god.
These ruins are another puzzle.
Maybe.
I don't know.
What does it say?
It says something.
It says, uh...
Ah!
Oh god, we already you guys real quick. Sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry
So sorry
This rain
Yeah, I used my anti-rain necklace earlier, so... yeah... there's still more mobs here.
I don't know where they are. I have 30% to clear.
Guys?
Where are the wolf trackers?
Guys!
You guys!
Hold on.
I want to make sure...
Oh yeah, you guys can help.
Six more percent somewhere this cave over there oh wait they respond no no no
I can't do that anymore.
Wait, my tag.
No, you can.
They're just near the angle.
Alright, defeated you guys.
How many achievements will unlock? I think I have two achievements.
Dude, the achievements of this game are pretty much do everything, which is extremely hard
to do. It's like do every puzzle. Like, okay, there's
like 400 of them. Alright, do every challenge. Okay, there's
like 600 of those sure I don't expect to get any more achievements than like four
to be honest with you right now that I claim this can I do anything
I think this was for my cam. I think I can now, just like I'm doing the excavation for
the cube, I think I can excavate. This is the same symbol. I'm pretty sure I can excavate
in here too. Oh, the cave. Hold on. Those cost 100 Samus that are 200 now? Oh shit. That's
nice flying is so much better holy shit that's not a cave I've been baited I've
been baited thank you
fast travel
There's a chance I hit 50% today.
There's a chance.
I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but in the knowledge department, it is.
My knowledge is...
Wait, how come it doesn't say...
Oh, right here, 42.
42%.
It might not sound like a lot, but it is.
It is.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Relax!
I'm like killing an elite with one burst.
I don't feel like I do more damage.
Did I change something?
I actually feel like I'm doing more damage for no reason.
If that's actually picking stuff up now, I know that's the best change.
I need to do the main quest for once in my life.
I need to stop.
I also need to figure out this puzzle, what the hell.
Okay, I just have to use this ability on these guys.
Damn, shoot me and shit.
Why do I feel like they made something with the tapping WASD different?
I don't know, I feel like my character might be insane placebo or something, but I swear
my character, like, when I tap WASD moves a little differently than they did.
Like sometimes I would tap my W and my character would just, they wouldn't do anything.
I would just fucking stand there like a dumbass.
I would hit my buttons and my character wouldn't move.
And I feel like my character moves a little bit now.
What the fuck do I do?
Something down here?
What if I have to like drop off weapons?
I unfortunately can't move this.
Maybe I punch it.
Nope.
No
You know how to move this thing. Oh wait, it does move wait, does it? Oh my god it moved to
Listen last time I was on it my guy wasn't moving shit. He was just standing there like it was too heavy
What are you attacking there for, what the hell?
way I have to use a bow for this right it's looking like I did but
can I cheese this shit hold on
Well, you guys get the idea, but I don't think it works.
Heh, heh.
I'll try it one more time, I don't think you could do this, but it would be good.
How many arrows do I have?
Oh, I didn't tell you the amount of arrows anymore?
Oh, I only have one.
I don't have any arrows.
I'm assuming I have to spin these so that the cymbals show up and axe a sword and
uh, and uh, and uh, and uh, shields? I guess? That's, I mean that seems logical.
Gonna shoot your damn bow.
All this for one cube.
Honest work. Honest work.
How can I actually claim the drops for PlayStation? I think if you just connect your PlayStation account to your...
I'm assuming if you connect your PlayStation account to Twitch, that should be enough.
I'm running a fucking arrows.
I'm not sure.
One cube, please!
Thank you.
My lyric dot treatment.
I'm not sure.
I don't have the answer to that question, I don't know.
I'm sorry.
They changed some of these symbols.
Isn't that crazy?
I don't really like remember being like this.
This shit.
I don't...
Where even is the main at this point?
I still don't know where it is, it took me there, and I don't know where it is still.
Main.
Okay, it's literally, okay, it's literally here. There's no marker.
Did you see any graphic improvements today? Graphic improvements? No.
However, these loading trains are fucking fast.
Oh my God.
I look so big on this little guy.
He's too small.
He's also very slow, easily.
I have to go back to my horse.
Why do I stop my guy from sprinting?
because now he's got these stamina lists. He's got no stamina.
I don't... can I?
Not like I can.
I feel like I'll go W maybe.
I'm gonna head there again. I don't know.
Alright.
Is the deer off or anything different than the horse?
I don't think so.
I mean they have abilities, but like it's not.
Like I think I could charge with my wards.
So that is vegetables are explicit. Take a look. Wait, is this my main plant? Fly infiltrate
the manner. Weird, it's not like tracking. Oh, you can stop running up the dodge key.
Ooh, okay.
That makes a whole lot of sense.
It does feel slightly better to move around, though.
Like those really small, at least on mouse and keyboard,
it might not feel that different on controller.
Or at least on mouse and keyboard those little small, um...
Small, like, micro adjustments.
Really soft, and they feel a little bit better.
Catch and carry five animals from the Weasel family.
coming in find the secret location without getting caught by the guard
I just fly it.
Hold on, I got this shit. They'll never see me coming.
They'll never see me. Oh my god, I think they're running at me.
I think they're running at me.
guys I think they saw me going nah they don't know they don't know oh oh it's okay
I haven't been caught yet
okay I'm a guy yet I'll find this maybe I just murder this guy
Oh, I don't murder I put him to sleep he's sleeping it's fine
Okay, all right secret locations downstairs
The guards down here no cool very cool
Bruce Wayne this shit here we go
What a bountiful harvest in lack of sparmice here.
Could we clear a corner of the kitchen to store the fruit this time?
The kitchen, well, you saw a different of food utensils.
You have combos now? No, that's my gem.
Townsend is seeking someone to build a window store force.
If we wait till it, there'll be a proper place to keep them.
Very well.
I only hope for them to arise swiftly.
What is that noise?
Oh
Hey go holy no, what I'm doing here
Oh
Didn't know that was the door outside
Oh
I'm going to jail
They'll never see me coming.
Dude, the shift to sprint is so nice.
Okay, so clearly it's in here.
Right?
Right? Cause the memories in here, there's a purple book in here, but like, wheeere.
I'll see you in no fucking book.
Hello?
It's not the second floor because it tells me to go down arrow.
Down arrow when I go up.
It's...
You go up and it'll be like down arrow, down arrow, down arrow.
Oh wait, maybe it's saying down arrow for my ping. Hold on.
It might be saying down arrow for my ping.
My ping might be down arrow.
In here?
This is a balcony.
Where's this vicious wall?
It also looks like a door.
I'm gonna punch this.
This wall seems...
suspicious!
I guess you're right, I should try to walk into it.
Oh my god, you're right.
Well, at least I was right on the wall being suspicious.
You're smart, nine-hour.
All that weed didn't get to your head, bro. You still got a braid on you
I know you get lit every single day, but you still got a braid on you, man. You're young though
Couple more years of that shit
No, we'll see we'll report back
He is good, Shroud. Yeah.
For sure. Really good for the brain.
Where did you come from?
Oh, she wants to bang for her.
I've heard how you chased a bear all the way to my fair city.
The bear?
I suspect our purposes may align.
Count Chase!
Leave us.
I shall speak with him privately.
I
Lady at least allow us to stand guard. I shunt see
Returns your posts. Oh posh
Now why all the effort to allude my guards and into my estate I meant no trouble I came seeking the information
Is that so you could have tried the front gate?
Are all Northerners this... impatient?
That's proven effective.
Yes. Allow me to introduce myself.
I am Colette Azarian.
Daughter of the late Lord Robert Azarian.
Pleasure.
Well met. You've come far.
But I am afraid I do not know the whereabouts of your nemesis
Fortunately, I do know those who look like a cop you have a suggestion
Isn't it said the enemy of my friend I
Suspect we could become very good friends. Would you like a drink?
Hmm
I have been searching for my sister Beatrice. The rightful heir to my title and estate. Her disappearance and the tragedy that befell your people. I believe the one who holds true power over this land is behind it all.
You mean the royal family?
No, one who sits higher still the man who purged the king's loyalists and seized the throne
Duke Caliburn
I believe that's what it is conducting an investigation into his affairs
We have had nothing from her since that
Bloody coronation
These days, I don't step foot beyond these walls.
Out there, a single misstep could spell my end.
Any nobles who oppose Caliburn fear befalling the same fate.
Only Countess Marshall and Count Byron seem unconcerned.
And you want me to see what they know?
Exactly. They're Caliburn's faithful hounds. They surely hold the answers we seek.
This is weird. The main story just got really like, the main story just got like really
political real quick. Like, we went from like, we went from clearing Calpheed into clearing
Payloon, murdering tons of fucking mobs, killing Ludwig in-game, chasing down Muradin,
like leadership and payloon finding a witch and now we're just going to meet a
royal family like what what the fuck's happening here
My game feels like it's running a lot worse, but now I'm starting to think...
Oh, now I'm starting to think...
I'm starting to think I never had ray reconstruction on in the first place.
Because I swear my game didn't run this bad.
Like I'm thinking I played this entire game so far with Ray Recon off.
I think I may have, to be honest.
I would have to check like a lot from a really long time ago,
before I go into my video settings, but yeah, there's a very good chance.
It's a very good chance I never had Ray Recon on.
Because I'm on 2x Framegen, Balanced, DLSS, and I have like 90 FPS.
I'm pretty sure I played with it off.
Definitely did.
Alright, I was sneaking those manners somehow.
Gotta be a sneaky way in.
Can I go through a window?
Oh
Those cards looking for me, I'll just go around
You know I'm gonna come in here okay, oh I'm gonna fall off the roof first and then I'll come in here
Hold on one sec.
You get to see any of Jinxie trying Apex yesterday?
No.
I had no time for anything yesterday.
We watched a little bit of the F1 race.
Um, and then it was too late.
It was gonna finish at like midnight, so then we went to bed.
What else do we do?
We watched tip to tip.
It's about all we have time for.
Watch tip to tip.
Alright, I'm just gonna have to kill you guys.
Here, come here.
the easiest way to infiltrating this bridge infiltrated totally infiltrated I
got this shit. Yeah, it's definitely a Ray Recon off angle, I think. It's just the game
runs so much better. And let me hold on, let me turn Ray Recon on one more time really
quick. They changed the wording, it says NVIDIA DLSS Ray Reconstruction. Yeah, it's
definitely a ray recon on our off angle for sure. For sure.
Gonna be boring here, Mercedes gonna win every time. Yeah, it's interesting
because like on one hand I don't mind how much people pass each other it makes it
was way more interesting to watch but on the other hand if the drivers are getting
pissed about it I feel like you got to do what's best for the drivers in that
sport
It appears...
It's with other drivers, that's what's known.
General Bastier himself?
I had planned to deliver her to him myself.
But it seems the way things were on his patience thin, now.
Oh, cool.
Another one for the tribe, you know.
Let's see if this one makes it two years, like his last toy.
We must keep on our toes.
There is telling other little birds to catch.
Yeah, I don't mind going Framegen 3x or 4x,
but I only mind going Framegen 3 or 4x if my frames are low,
because I don't know if you guys know, but...
like, the fake frames is cool,
but it's not so cool when your normal FPS is really, really low.
Your normal FPS is like, let's say your normal FPS is like 30 and then you fake frame that bitch to like 200
It's still gonna feel complete
Fucking dog ass, but if you have like a hundred FPS and then you framed in it to like 400 it'll feel
You know it feels somewhat better
Hey, just damn hell it off man
Well, let me, uh, we'll just be on this podcast here soon, hold on.
I was just setting up VMAX, hopefully, in there.
What am I doing here?
Read the memory.
I found her, me.
We almost lost track of the Barkside yesterday describing the staffing sensation.
By the way, chat, I'm gonna be on a Ground Frames podcast with JP and, um, J.P. Damod's
and T. Keele, and he, I'm taking co-spot, no big deal.
But I think I'm gonna just casually, I'm not gonna be paying attention to the team
as much as I'm gonna be paying attention to the podcast, but I will still be paying attention.
I mean, my stream is just gonna be this.
I'm not gonna do main quests or anything, because there's no way I could pay attention
to the main, but I'm probably just gonna like walk around and just, I don't know.
You basically be hearing a whole conversation while I run around and explore, I guess.
Trap carnage? Yeah, that's me.
Oh shit, wait, I think I have to read the...
I think I have to read- hold on, hold on, hold on, I picked the way on the right one.
Uh-oh.
Did I break my game?
When's that?
15 minutes.
I'm 15 minutes will be chatting be chatting about
Hello, oh my god, yeah, you're right that makes sense. You can't hear me though. That's good, right?
I should meet myself stupid
Oh
No, I have them I have that muted right now and some other pieces they can't hear you. You're just talking to me
There we go, yeah, I muted okay
What
We can definitely hear JP
What wait you guys can hear him?
How do you guys hear him what?
You hear him right now like this second
We can't hear you at all.
Do the mic or the...
Somehow, I hear you.
Now I'm even more...
I don't know.
are you guys lying to me are hold on you do you think it's picking up from my
Are you using Chrome Mods?
OK, you can hear him.
And I don't know why.
This is the problem.
Oh, man.
OK, do you see the little mic thing, the little camera
button in the address bar?
OK, should be able to see the mic there, then discuss it.
you
Let's play it.
You hear music?
What's music?
You hear music?
Yeah, sorry, I just you can hear me, right?
Okay, now they can't hear me now. This is a problem. And you guys hear JP?
Do you hear JP's dog barking right now and yelling Ollie?
Do you hear that at all or no?
No. Okay. So something was wrong with my mixer and I updated it. I think it fixed now.
They can't hear me now, which is a problem.
I don't know if my audio just stopped working.
I'm rejoining.
Can you hear me?
Hello?
Testing?
Yeah.
Do you hear me?
Oh, my God.
Okay.
Yeah.
Oh, thank god. Okay. Yeah. So that was a terrible time. I opened up a mixer and then it force restarted everything and then everything broke.
That was very unlucky, but I think we're good now.
No, I fixed that. I think the audio update, whatever mixer thing just magically fixed. I don't know what something broke, but it's fixed.
Okay
Cool it's fixed I fixed it I fixed it I fixed it
So, the JP, the JP, um, the JP
podcast is about to start. So this is gonna be weird.
Why I'm saying this is gonna be weird is because I'm gonna be playing the game
but like not really playing the game. I'm gonna be more focused on the
conversation so I'm gonna be doing a lot of procrastination I guess. I'm gonna
be like not really playing the game does that make sense I'm gonna be mainly
talking to these guys in like some of the videos. So I'm still gonna be on my
stream here you're still gonna be watching me play but I'm not really
gonna be playing like that I'm not gonna be really that focused on the
game because I'm having a whole conversation with people so yeah this
is gonna be an interesting one but you'll be able to see their
perspective on their streams if you want to see like the actual production but
I'm just gonna run around and do some stuff in my world while I put them to
the test conversation that came for the work
I'm
I have all my guys on my guys are dispatched home 27 hours nine hours rebuilding pay loon
is so long 45 hour if you need a particular someone all of the interview it's possible
to turn on the game some for the podcast yeah I mean
They're gonna be really loud.
You'll see.
I'll unmute them when they're ready.
The game is hella loud for us now.
Oh, did it?
Did my mixer.
Oh, my mixer must have changed something instead of like reset the audio. Interesting.
Um...
Is it too loud? My game? Hold on, let me...
What's the big idea?
That's my game.
Or is it still like okay? I don't know.
It's way too loud, okay?
That's so weird. I downloaded a mixer update and it just...
completely changed all of my setting everything change
let's turn it down a little bit then
your mic sounds quieter too does it
that's a mucky really if it's if that's the case that's a mucky
I don't know why that happened but just audio problems I guess. Just stream things.
Like what's some good side stuff while I crossbow?
Go fishing!
Your game stream is black. Okay, now we're just lying, I guess.
Oh my god, the movement is so much nicer with this patch.
Oh, what?
The heck?
It's cool.
It reminds me of Melania.
Oh.
Um.
Thor attack.
Um, Thor attack.
Have you gotten a dragon yet? No, I haven't progressed the main enough.
I've just been really busy with side stuff, but yeah for these next three hours you're
gonna hear me having a conversation with some peeps in the background while I, I guess,
I guess I'm just gonna like murder a bunch of bandits for the next couple hours.
Super simple, nothing too elaborate.
You don't need a shield to do that anymore?
Wait really?
Oh no, you need a sword.
Where we watch the podcast stream at I believe JP's streaming it
We could maybe change my title to something like that to like route people there potentially
Tell me if you can hear them in a second, chat.
You should hear one of them, or you should hear them talk soon.
I'm here.
There's a sniffle.
I'm here.
Is it a muted?
No, I think so.
more bad.
So is it a new year
about we can't even start to shut those gone for one week and Zeke you just let him run the show that is laughing during the answer what's going on he left.
No that Demons was like when you say like all right I'm on muting and he goes are we on muting.
I'm like exactly what he just said bro like he's
I'm just looking for a double check, you know, just making sure we're a lot live
They are P.G. Riverland, that's right. Yeah
I'm replacing up to the worst Disney I would say it is the worst
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's very bad.
That's very bad.
As someone who's been to both recently, I gotta say, like, they're, they both have their merits.
You know, like, you got Disney World, it's got Epcot, it's got, you know, lots of cool stuff.
But Anaheim is not in Florida.
So that's huge positive.
That is cool.
I live in Florida right by Disney World.
Yeah.
I take offense to that buddy.
Calm down.
Florida man is actually mods, believe it or not.
They're always just worried about mods.
I don't care.
You might have already heard the voices in her to say that we got Shroud and
I'm not sure how you're going to
fill in for the spots.
Shroud, you've decided to play video game while we talk.
So, to be honest, you're really fulfilling the code.
Because he does that every week. He just doesn't screen his game.
Yeah, yeah. I've seen, every time I watch,
I swear I see Ko's eyes dart around like he's gaming.
And now it's good to know that that's true.
Yeah, I'm replacing him right now.
Yep, you both have the attention span, young chop.
You have to have...it's not the Fiddlesticks, but it's...
What can you do?
Yeah.
What can you do?
Get it.
Uh, how's Crimson Desert?
What are you doing right now in Crimson Desert?
Uh, well, since I wanted to focus more on the conversation and not about actual Crimson
Desert, I'm gonna just kinda run around, kill some normal bandits, not do anything fun,
no bosses, no mains, no nothing.
So I'm just gonna run around on my...world and just do that, and just a little explore.
Maybe a puzzle or two?
I don't know.
Ooh.
help we got well we'll do a group puzzle solution yeah i don't know if you knew this but uh jpe
has an alter ego yeah i have multiple like like what's the alter ego like puzzle master well i've
got ej he comes out when i'm uh he's like that uh i've also got uh i've got the puzzler uh who's
What you're racist. No, I didn't.
I didn't say that. Oh, no.
No, no, no. When he's being competitive in a racing game.
Yeah. When you play when you play a racing game, you're racist.
Oh, yeah.
A wheel and stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, something I called me racist other day.
you know listen to Michael Jackson
so yeah
oh no yeah
he was just some guy folding up
it's witch chatter in a nutshell right there
yeah yeah so
I'm still trying to put that together but
yes
hey but how did you ask them like
on Rick side your racist
hahahaha
are you listening
to the songs last or why
I'm very
I don't know the logic behind it, but have me stomp for a while.
Time to keep the channel moving now whenever I listen to Michael Jackson.
Honestly, the more you start questioning to it, Shanners, the deeper the whole gets.
It's not worth it. You let them do their thing.
Well, we typically start with news here on the show.
on the show so I guess we can just slide into that.
We've got some really happy stuff here right at the start.
Epic games laying off a thousand workers.
Oh, you lied!
I thought I was gonna be happy, actually.
One of those people happened to be someone that I think
is a brain cancer patient, and now we know all about that.
Awful shit.
No longer as health care, just as egg stuff,
and all that whole thing.
Jason Schreier was the one to break it.
I think another person that was let go
was also the artist that made the main Fortnite character
design, a little Fortnite dude.
Thousand people though, that's kind of fucking insane.
The industry obviously, that's been the focus
of that past week or of the past week.
Yeah, Mr. Fortnite.
Mr. Fortnite John Fortnite, yeah.
Yeah, it's just not a good...
That's basically a thousand people who are just laid off.
Did it specify why they were laid off or just the generic...
Because Fortnite's not making as much money as it wants to.
Oh wait, did I actually said that?
Yeah, the company is spending significantly more than we're making and we have to make major cuts.
That's why everyone was talking about how there's a lot of controversy I saw with this exact conversation that people were upset at like the
Fortnite Crater program and all that because they pay out a lot to creators and map makers and all this stuff and just they give a lot back to the community.
I think I saw a lot of controversy about like why didn't you just cut some of that and keep the employees.
that kind of on my feed.
you know, lose employees that, you know, talked to the company for years and stuff like that.
Like that, that's what you want to see, right? That's what you want to see happen.
This is Merck, so like, sometimes you just need three yachts and some guy can't have his
health care during his canther treatment, you know, that's just how it goes here.
It's kind of sad to see, though, because something's been affecting the entire
in our game industry right now, even like AGS
with them laying off their MMO division,
which I kind of like, if it's right,
they just did another round of layoffs
and a lot of good people have lost their jobs
and less MMOs too, which is a bad thing.
I love MMOs.
Yeah, I saw a, and it's not like it was a unique take,
but Chet, Palisette used to work,
I think I'm saying it the same way.
He used to work at Valve, he's responsible for like
left the dead and left the dead too and worked on half life and all that stuff.
But he had a rather impassioned, I think it was like a TikTok work.
That's redundant.
I think he had a TikTok.
And he was basically saying like every time that they do this,
they're essentially firing what is important about video game and
video game developers and studios is that you keep your talent.
The talent iterates on itself and constantly learns and evolves and grows.
And like, that's how you get a good game company.
It's not about like just having a thousand people
come in there and make shit and then letting them go.
You keep the good team, right?
In tact.
And that's, he commented like,
that's kind of how Valve does it.
I think he even made the comment like,
Gabe is a much better leader than you are.
Jesus.
It's just like when it is broken.
So, yeah, it's not wrong.
I agree with it wholeheartedly like,
I think the blizzard of old, right?
That was kind of what they did.
They had their team and, you know,
the people that made, wow,
the people that made Warcraft 3,
those are all kind of of the same belt.
They're all a part of the same company.
Not most of the people work there.
They've been let go or told like,
like Jeff Kaplan was that he has to make X amount of money
or we're gonna fire this many people.
That was a big podcast thing this past month.
Yeah, that was pretty wild to hear that.
The portion of the interview, man,
just holding that over his head.
Man, all those people's livelihood that you care about
relying on your product over there.
That's a big thing, hanging over your head all the time.
Well, it's like I said,
stems into like one,
you have a small independence to you then,
then when you go into public, be traded, right?
Because you're no longer just operating for yourself,
you're operating to serve your investors, right?
So that kind of changed the culture of the studio quite a bit, right?
It just, the suits could push and everything instead of just, you know,
people aspiring to create something.
Right.
Yeah.
That's exactly it.
Um, prior actually had a lot of, of articles this past week.
He also put out that, uh, exact budgets of video game productions
could be tough, McRober, right?
But the numbers he's heard floating around AAA game dev these days are
300 million dollars or more, sometimes much more.
Which he thinks can explain the current state of being just
Yeah, that's that's a lot of money make a thing
Like I'm you think we'll ever hear the number for how much he takes this costume. I
Feel like we will I feel like it was so crazy big that we will I mean, it's got to be a billion right?
I think it's over. I think I think people already know it's two billion and up
Right because Gta pretty sure GTA 5
I think I'm wrong, but they almost spent like a billion on just licensing
Right. Yeah, that's crazy. It's absolutely crazy
Maybe even crazier to think that they're gonna make that money back at least they're betting on it, right?
They're hoping that whenever that does come out there, they're gonna sell enough over X amount of years and sell
multiplayer coins or whatever the fuck the DTA
MTX is called but
They're gonna make it all back. Yeah, they're probably gonna be larger than the GDP of some small countries to be honest
Absolutely not wrong
The real question is well
Grant that bottle actually live up to people next week patient
I feel it's so high like if people were second to do the best they never had gaming it might be but I don't what even is the
expectation of GTA 6
everything yeah like if it's not the greatest fucking thing ever created it's
failure right like it's gonna be a weird conversation around that launch yeah I
had a conversation with with my stream about how like everyone that's
everyone's expectations now are super high and that's why we see so many games
instantly get review bombed because like they're just not perfect so what if
GTA 6 this game that's been worked in development for like a decade and two billion plus dollars
and counting isn't perfect.
Are they, is it also going to get review bombed or is it just going to be biased because
GTA, I'm really curious to see what happens if it even comes out.
It'll be a shit show regardless of what happens.
Unless it is 100% perfect and it fits everybody.
If I don't see it coming out like it might turn around like like like crimson is it like they might turn around eventually
But like or after a few weeks or whatever, but when it when it drops
for like
The commenters can be like two billion and eighty bucks out of my pocket for this. Yeah
Well that $80 confirmed price for GTA 6
I'll be right back.
No, no, no.
They could charge a hundred bucks for that.
Yeah.
I've seen some crazy take on that.
People are saying, oh, yeah, they'll do 200 bucks for the deluxe.
Sold out immediately.
That's still scheduled to come out this year at some point.
I guess we'll be a part of that sooner than later in terms of the conversation.
What else is happening in the world of video games? Oh, yeah, PlayStation. This is
her kind of all PC guys, but in the PlayStation world, in the console world,
they announced new prices, which is hitting on April the second a mere four
days from time of recording. The PS5, base PS5 is going up to
649.99, the PS5 Pro is going up to 899.99. I think if you want the vertical stand for
the PS5 Pro, it's a thousand, or no, no, no, it's if you want the disk drive for the PS5
Pro, it's a thousand bucks. So, because it doesn't come with the disk drive. It has
prices over in Europe as well, 100 euros in the UK at 789 pounds. They've also up the price on the
PlayStation portal, which is their little handheld remote thing that's 250. That's crazy. I guess
if you want a PlayStation, you got three days to try and go find one if they're not selling out.
Oh my god. That'd be insane. I think I also saw a report that were like
Like 2027 holiday season of 2027 is when the new consoles
are closed to hit from PlayStation and X.
So I don't know why the fuck you would spend 1,000 bucks on it.
I mean, I feel like if you, I don't know,
this might be a crazy take, but if you don't already
own a PlayStation 5, I feel like you're just not going
to buy one until the next one, right?
Like it's been a while.
People that have been like holding out
There's there's like, you know youths like back in my back in my youth
I was like, oh, I'm just gonna wait for the console price to go down and then I'll go get it
You know, it's going the other way like wait a minute. No, no, no, no, no
There's not the way it's supposed to go. It's not supposed to go up. It's supposed to go down
It's supposed to get cheaper as the longer. It's on the market, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I thought it used to be here
Yeah.
You just have to go back to like when you're a kid, just go to the other kid's house in
your neighborhood or well in this place that we're adults now, find other adults in neighborhood
and just go play video games on their CRT TV, you know, just do a little sharing, you know.
Oh, you got a dream house, I'm coming to your house, I got to the tendo.
Let's do a little game.
I'm gonna fucking date myself here, but the rich, I remember the rich kid in
our neighborhood or at least the spoiled kid in our neighborhood.
the first one to get a Nintendo Entertainment System and he had like at least 20 new friends.
Like yeah we're friends, we played at recess, we're good. Can we, can I come over and play
some Mario? And like he had crowds of people at his house for like two weeks until someone
else got a fucking Nintendo just sitting there like, and if I would have known back
then that people will sit there and watch you play a video game and I would have
invested. That's right.
Shit really early.
Yeah, I did the same.
But with with the 3D0, remember the 3D0?
Yeah, 3D0. Yeah, the original CD based game, Road Rash on there,
everything else like that.
But like early nineties, I think, when I originally came out now.
Yeah, that system was fucking crazy.
Yeah, I think it would like $700 on release.
Yep, we had that.
$649.
The same thing where there was kind of like, he was kind of the unpopular kid.
And then that came out and he got a 3DO for whatever reason.
And then he was like, Hey, you guys, we'll go and play 3DO.
And we all, all my friends were kind of like, ah, yeah, I guess so.
Reluctantly to see the 3DO and I thought I was the same thing happened with that.
What was that 3DO?
What's a 3DO is?
No.
I thought I was old, but apparently you guys are old school console. What do we what do you go to?
What what old school console for me? Yeah, you go to like 64. What do you go?
Yeah, all over the NES
Okay, I mean any ass. Yeah, and that's just to those two are probably the oldest that I could that I
You know Sega Saturn. No, no, I didn't know who
Did you know Sega made you know the Sega Dreamcast I know the name, but I think I was too young to actually like
Use it. I don't know. Wait, you guys can't be that much older than me like what like three four years. Is that the difference really?
I was born in 1980 homie. Oh
GG
GG. Oh, that hurts so much worse. Oh, that's, ugh.
I think you got the internet.
All right, that makes me miss them.
Reborn in the IZs. When were you born?
Yeah, 94. So that's why I feel like I was slightly, I slightly missed some of these.
Wait, how old is Mott? Mott's how old are you? When were you born?
I was born in 88, yeah.
Okay.
That's a 37.
That's the 37 oldest than Mott's.
Yeah.
yeah it's not my fault that we came around in my thirties man
like i don't know
i'm happy it's here but like man i wish i was ten years younger
gg
what else do we have
oh have you guys heard of this uh... pc gamer put this on my radar
we're always kind of thinking about the latest and greatest in games coming out
this uh... star wars zero company
basically star wars x com
is uh... it's really uh... this was announced i think it
uh... the game or
uh... most recent game or
uh... they went out and played it
a high shit out of it
it actually looks really really good
uh... you'd like to make a team and and choose who you want on your team in
terms of all the different
characters that exist uh... in are not character archetypes i should say
that exist in the star wars university like a pat on you can also make a
a full team of fucking little R2D2s running around, which sounds like it'd be a lot of
fun. There's a full story behind that. They put up a video about it, and it was great.
I don't know if we have a release date on that, but it definitely is on my radar after
that. Mods, do you guys play very many like XCOM-like? Is that something you're into?
No, yeah, no, I Baldur's Gate might be the only like turn based game I've really dived into.
Okay. All right. You've never played like an XCOM, either of you?
No. No. Man, every time I hear that.
XCOM's a good game, man. It's really good.
You might, you might, you're ever looking for something to play and, and honestly, it's a
which ad enjoys as well. They enjoy watching people fail when you put it up on like the
Harder difficult to play some XCOM, XCOM 2 specific.
It's just a like turn based game.
What are you doing it?
Like what the premise of it?
Well, it's like it's like a tactical or or if you ever heard of like
Final Fantasy tactics, have you seen that style of gameplay?
Oh, yeah, I played Final Fantasy tactics originally.
Yeah.
So it's it's that, but you have guns instead of like fantasy.
Oh, do you think?
Turn based, no, turn based grid base.
Oh, okay.
And they give you like, you know, so like just you move your guy
And then it gives you like a percentage.
It's like you have a 75% chance to hit this guy
or a 90% chance to hit this guy, you know,
based on your position, based on your cover,
based on, you know, all this kind of stuff.
And it's a lot less complex than like the early CD-ROM style
like fucking games they don't take.
It's easier to jump into.
But X-ROM, the series has been around
since the CD-ROM days, since the 90s.
It's an old IP.
It's like strategy and priorities and stuff like that.
They're like bosses in a tune.
Yep.
There's a boss level.
It's a challenging game, especially if you're gearing it.
Yeah.
Yeah, you can like, you can change the different weapons and stuff and you'll get drops that
will allow it.
Like you'll get scoped and stuff on your guns that up the like percentage and their
skills and stuff that you unlock for all the characters.
I can't believe you never played an X-com.
You should play that if you're looking for something to play in a dry spell one summer.
That's great.
I'll look into it.
If for nothing else, then you can commiserate with everyone who's played it when you have
a 97% chance and miss.
If you've ever heard someone say, like, you got X-coms, that's what they're talking about.
It means you have a 97% chance to hit and you miss.
Yeah, I think I've never said that to you before.
OK, well, yeah, X calm down.
You got to get some new people.
OK.
Hey, Mods, I saw you check this out.
Apparently it isn't winning over fans.
So we're going to cut you because you were sponsored.
Oh, it was a Borderlands 4 expansion pack mods.
Well, what was that? Oh, so I should play them boxy.
I haven't played in a while, right?
So I played Borderlands 4, right?
had like a sponsored stream for it. Yeah, two hours and a plane four hours on the plane
of Moxie's like he did that like borderland four stuff. It felt like borderland four.
It's kind of like what it was, right? I guess I bought the deluxe edition when originally
came out. So I don't have to buy it. Yeah, season pass or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The story was short, like, you know, decent dialogue, there's like a raid bosses challenging
A couple of times and then there's some side stuff and things like that.
And that is that kind of just felt like borderland for, you know?
Yeah.
They did.
So they didn't really add anything like groundbreaking that it's more borderlands,
right?
Yeah.
Apparently like a moxie heat, like really the like borderland guy is telling me
there's like a free update in like two months or something where there's an
actual like raid boss coming out.
So if you're like, if you're like gaming or whatever, and you're like
trying to like actually do harder content, that's when it's coming
but that's for free. I guess it doesn't cost money. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. This. So, uh, I was on, uh,
I was in a boxing. He had like the highest difficulty unlocked and, uh, my gear is old and crappy.
So he was like trying to make me solo the boss with him in the group. And dude, I was getting
my butt looked. I'm not like shroud over here. They had like good aim and stuff. I got ARPG
aim. I'm just like shooting at the sky and stuff, you know, I was struggling on for a while,
But I ended up killing it. It was fun. It was like the new boss and stuff. Yeah.
Yeah, but did they have like fancy new loot or anything like that? Like what all did the update add?
I know you probably stopped the cheat sheet open. Oh no. I had a moxie just showing there like
these new Pearl S and weapons are actually really, really good. Like he dropped one for me.
I'd like it like tripled my damage. It went insane. Yeah. This game kind of like fell
off. Everyone was super into Borderlands for like a week or two. And then I just
haven't heard anyone really talk about it after after the launch. I feel like
that's just how Borderlands is because it's not live service. True. Yeah.
And I was gonna say like the main thing I feel like this is it's a double edge
sword with Borderlands for me. And I just think the game itself is the fun
of Borderlands games is to power creep to one shot inevitably every boss and be like wow
that's so cool I could one shot everything but I think that is that's where the double
head sword is I actually think that that loop nowadays is not what people want I think people
want interesting boss fights they want mechanics they don't want to just power creep to one
shot every boss and do that forever and I think that personally is what I think hurt
the game. If they went the route of like, it would be very controversial, but if they
went the route of getting rid of that power creep and kind of maybe putting clamps on
or whatever to make mechanics actually interesting, then there's something to grind for and now
you're actually like having to learn mechanics and practice the game and stuff. So that's
why I think it kind of fell off. I mean, how long can you one-shot bosses over
and over and over and over again for what?
It does become uninteresting after the 100th time or the second time, even depending on the future.
It does feel like they're the void of the Luton Shooter World too right now, right?
So like, they're borderlands doing full live service and filling that void like a destiny division thing would be pretty cool.
I think I thought a lot of people wanted to know what Shouts talking about, evolution of borderlands into more like ongoing raids and progression.
There's still an audience there, right?
Like Division 2 still pulls pretty large numbers
from everything that I've heard.
So does Destiny, granted.
Everyone's looking at Steam concurrent,
but consoles are a massive player base for both.
So we aren't privy.
There's not a Steam DB for the Xbox
or the place that's connected.
I mean, not so much anymore.
Nowadays, we're getting tons of verified sources
and reports that Steam, when it comes
to these newer titles, is actually dominating.
it dominated in our terms of just in the lion's share
yeah i dominated in our creditors team was a higher percentage
and in marathon a game made by bungee
sixty percent of their players is on steam
and then the rest is split between xbox and playstation i think it's even higher
than sixty
uh... yeah i i'd not heard that
it's like a lot of games nowadays are
more players are on steam i would be surprised the crime deserts the same
way
Yeah, they actually just hit all the time high this morning.
Really? After the patch?
Yeah, I boosted it up even higher.
It's funny too, because I saw stream numbers like as well.
People's renewed interest after the patch.
For some reason, that's I think the second patch that hit on a weekend.
Last week was like mid-afternoon on a Sunday.
And then this patch hit like 10 or 11 p.m. Eastern.
So it's like, what's the, what's the difference?
I don't know what it is plus.
Yeah.
But it was the time of the release patch of the evening time at like seven in the morning
there and starting the work day.
Well, it's still on a Sunday.
Right.
Yeah.
I guess they were working weekends and working overtime.
Yeah.
They're like, the first, uh, the first like stream embargo was like, you know,
first, uh, the first like stream embargo was like, you know,
four PM or six PM Eastern, right? Six PM Eastern.
Oh, fuck. Yeah. It was a, it was a late night embargo.
So, my thumbs up, thumbs down on the board lands. Like why?
What do you, what do you, what's your take on that?
Oh man. So like fun with it, buddy. Yeah. It's like, if you don't like
borderland, I don't think it was something that would bring you back
It's basically the same loop and like a boss
and somebody geared a grind for it, right?
It's not like they're reinventing the wheel
of the new Borderlands 4 stuff.
Yeah, if you like Borderlands, you might like going in
and just doing the new stuff and getting geared up.
Did you, I'm reading into why people are not
super into it.
30 bucks, it was a two hour long story, is that right?
Did you finish the story in two hours?
Yeah, we finished the story in like two hours, yeah.
And the story was not too long and then I guess they have like the other zone stuff and other farmable stuff
But yeah, it wasn't a long story at all
Definitely on the expensive side for sure for if you're just a story mode player. Yeah, that's a lot
30 bucks for two hours is not
That's not it. I feel like maybe maybe you could say 15 like the $15 DLCs
Okay, sure two to three hours, whatever, but 30 is that's pushing it
Yeah. Oh, I guess. So it does come with a new character. Did you check out? I think his name's
funny enough. Ironically enough, his name's cash. Yeah. Yeah. No, I actually didn't play the new
character. I just play it like the tank guy. Amen. Whatever his name is, like my spirit animal.
He's like the old guy, the super tanky and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I played him too. I don't
know. Like maybe that's the thing. We play the guys that we hope we'd become or hope we
would be yeah it's all about the power thing right that's right uh what else do we got in the world of
oh uh just i'm just real quick i thought it was uh you can go ahead and anybody can go ahead and
look at uh game stops site but like the playstation stuff the playstation price hike
they are just taking the piss like the whole time like game stop is just saying like
hey you want to trade in your shit hey we got it we're gonna help you upgrade and like
they had they had a one that was like the jokes over talking about how the prices way too high
and uh we'll pay you $69 to trade teams and they have an Xbox like and a playstation in the same
graphic we'll pay you to switch sides yeah i thought it was pretty funny
there's like there's a few tweets if you want to look at them
games are kind of meat whatever the fuck they're called now these days for sure they gotta get
people in there somehow. I think you can check. Didn't they like diversify and you can actually go
and trade in like Pokemon cards that are rated at GameStop? I think we'll buy like rated.
I think they do it. I think they give you good value for it though. I think you basically,
it's like the pawn shop, right? Yeah, like you basically go there if you're desperate,
if you're trying to get ripped off. Okay, speaking of someone who worked in a pawn shop,
Yes. Yeah.
Yes, they want to sell it like if there anything like a pawn shop, they want to sell it for
double what they buy bought it for.
Yeah.
That makes it.
Thank you.
What else do we have video video CEO is out there with an interesting quote after
this past week's quote where he said something about like I think game he doesn't agree
with what gamers were saying regarding the DLSS-5. I came out and said, quote, I don't love AI slot
myself, which not not a hot cake. Yeah. But also, like, what the fuck? You debuted DLSS-5. What are
you doing? How can you say that? This is, I guess, on the Lex Friedman podcast.
I
Feel like
My my dls s5 take is is it just shouldn't have been named that I think it's really cool tech
And I think they're gonna continue to iterate on it and I I don't know. I think it's I think it's pretty cool
Like overall, I think that whole everything they showed was really really cool. I just think it being called dls s5 is really
confusing
Yeah, you think it's cool. You think it's cool. How dare you how dare you think it's cool?
On this podcast, we hate AI and DLSS5. We hate it. End of story. Period.
I do agree though. I don't know why they called it DLSS5.
If anything, that hurts what DLS5... I mean, I guess because it's kind of the same tech, right?
I guess that's why they did that.
But still, it definitely hurts them in the long run.
I don't know how you look at that as in video prior to the announcement and be like, yeah, this is the right
This is what we should
The hundred percent could have heard it
Studio is at full control over how it implemented though and what it actually does to the imagery right with that selected on so
Yes, uh, they didn't necessarily
Those companies didn't necessarily know that it was going to be showcased the way it was
It was kind of another part of the whole controversy at the osse 5. But yeah, you're right. They do
in the future with the LSS 5 they could have the ability to use it or not.
Now hold on.
The way you put that mods was it made me think of like
they can choose what DLSS 5 like
when it you know, you know the white graphic where it's like before DLSS 5 and after. So they can choose to be like
Like here's the character from Resident Evil with the LSS 5 on, you get to be SpongeBob!
Yeah, I guess, yeah, I guess they have full control over that, yeah.
They do?
Yeah.
They do anything.
I guess they control the impact of it, right?
If it wants to, like, yeah, how much do you want to maintain of the original imagery?
A thousand.
Yeah.
What else do we have?
We have what I saw this thing where on the topic of AI,
well, chat was talking about it was a kingdom come deliverance to
have was fired and straight up replaced by like AI.
You gotta find it was it. Oh, it was a translator. That's what
it was. They replaced a translator with AI.
for all localization. Yeah, check translator is fired from or horse studios replaced with AI and effort to save money.
Yeah, as someone who has a little bit of a little to a lot of experience with with AI translations being you know like indie games and stuff like that that translate from you know all myriad of different languages.
If you want it to be good, you can't the AI is not there yet.
If you wanted to be hilarious.
Oh, I is so, so good at like,
I think you meant this because it's a colloquialism in Korea,
but in it doesn't really translate into English.
So you just said, like, I want to ride a wet arm chair, like,
that that makes sense. Yeah.
Yeah, it was on Reddit from the post, he posted it in the Kingdom Come subreddit, quote yesterday,
March 27, 2026, before warning, I was invited to a meeting and probably told that, and never
to, quote, make the company more effective and, quote, save finances as of next month.
My position at the company would become, quote, obsolete in favor of using AI for
all translations going forward.
It was a huge shock to me as though the discussion about AI for translating had frequently
come up in the past, something I'd always strong land both the against but never to the
extent that it might actually cost me my job in the future. It had of course crossed my mind
many times but I naively thought my work at war horse work war horse student yeah war horse
student uh was valued enough that I might not be an immediate that might be this I'm gonna I'm
gonna hot take the fuck out of this hot take it out uh I just think in that exact scenario
So that is one of those situations where it is what it is and you're just it's like I
it makes sense. AI is just going to get better and trans translators are going to be obsolete
that job might not even exist. You could just click a button and it'll do it for you.
Like I get it when it comes to like generating an art and creativity but like translating
a language. I mean that might just be a dead that might be a dead craft in the
future. I don't know. That might be a hot take but I feel like there's just
gonna be some things that will just be obsolete while others will still continue on even with
the AI craze. Dude, that take was so hot, you're just holding the show. Oh, I broke the whole
frame. I'm so sorry. Oh, it's just, it's all right, guys. I thought it was a really hot
take, right? Like, how are you convinced large corporations to make less money, right?
That's how they view it as, right? They don't view it like people losing their job.
they go, well, we can make more money by just using AI
and these agents to do these tasks a lot more efficiently
than paying someone that incrafted their skill
over years and years, right?
Yes.
No, companies are good at company, right?
Yeah.
That's, put it all, boil it down into the base minimum.
The company is interested in making money, right?
Yeah.
And so new technology comes out,
They're going to find ways to catch up.
Definitely sucks 100% like feel bad.
I'm wondering the future, you know, there's like classic style diners.
Now they do you go to like, you go, oh, I want to go to a 50 style dye.
And there's people like dressed up in old school clothing and stuff
right now in the different atmosphere and music.
I wonder if that's how like a lot of things in the world are going to pivot to you.
You're going to have stuff that AI driven and or you're going to have
like a classic game studio where people actually do stuff by hand, right?
like a handcrafted studio, a vintage studio. I kind of feel like that's where the world's
going to end up at, right? Yeah. Yeah, we've had this discussion before,
like, like, I put it to the analogy of like being AI vegan. Like you're a vegan. You're
like, I don't want any AI in my game. Like I don't want any of it. Like is there is
there AI in this? Because I'm allergic. I can't have any AI in my game. I am AI
So it was it was there any like sort of like AI like adjacent things because no thank you
And also like it's it's that's been the way forever
So like you go into a grocery store and you pick up an item and it says no artificial place, right?
That's what we're gonna be with games like no artificial intelligence. Yeah, our tease no organic
Yes, exactly
Yeah, it's
I mean, to kind of dive into it, I saw both cats on the show discussing what Shroud said.
I think what Shroud said is more of the populist thing.
Not to say that's the right thing, but I think most people agree with kind of Shroud's
point of view on AI.
That's like the general consensus.
I mean, yeah, there's no, it's like, it's like, it's maybe not as crazy as the invention
the internet but like it's happening so we're just going to have to adapt I mean it is what it is
sucks for some people but yeah yeah I mean that's kind of like a modern age industrial
they're coming for our job too we're gonna have to be better i'm just gonna take this out
the modern day industrial revolution huh yeah there's always something new
Well, I mean like it's like the Industrial Revolution like
Like the old like one of the only options is to pivot into fixing those things those the thing that took your job
Like fixing it when it breaks
Yeah
Now we even have AI viewers. I don't think you guys can be replaced or you can't be replaced chat. All right
We can get 2,000 people right now like talking about that I actually have a viewer that the
twitch partner they used to chat normally and they use an AI agent on their account.
I always have to always have the band though because yeah like they're they basically
created a bot that interacts with chat and says them wild shit.
So how does he just there to be active when it says like AI agent?
Yeah, so yeah, it's like some partner Twitch streamer and he used to chat normally and it started like a week or two ago.
And yeah, he used like an AI agent to basically interact with chat, right?
And basically respond off what people play and act and time it out.
I just ban it all the time.
I'm like, is this guy ever actually going to come back and talk normally or is he just going
to use AI all the time on his account now?
Right.
So is the idea that because he has a partnered badge next to his name in chat and he's active
in another famous chat that people put on his name to go check out his screen?
I don't know.
I don't know what the logic is.
Yeah, it just randomly goes on like crazy stories and then just starts seeing some
wild stuff.
Like it's unhinged.
Yeah.
It's like actually on hand it says some wild wild stuff. Yeah
Yeah, I'm definitely like for a while there we had the Miami bots
You guys get those what people would just constantly join the chat talk about Miami
I had like a month straight
constant
constant Miami
bias
Yeah, they would close
Like Miami and then some palm trees and some other stuff
I think we had one you had like a AI agent last night.
I think you might have been from your stream mods.
You was talking about Diablo 3 now.
No one else was talking to him about Diablo 3.
Well Diablo 3 players are thin breed nowadays.
Well there doesn't even talk about Diablo 3 anymore.
I've got a lot of Diablo 2 and Diablo 4, and apparently some new Diablo stuff, yeah.
He just wanted to find someone to relate with.
I guess.
It was weird.
Yeah.
It was a weird thing.
What else?
I think that might be the thing.
It was the AI bots I get just talking about nonsense.
They're holding a conversation with someone who isn't there.
Right, yeah.
Yeah.
Which is so, it's just so strange.
I'm like, I'll glance over and read it and be like, and I'll even pause the
show and be like okay who the fuck could you possibly be talking for right now yeah and it's no but
i'm like okay i'm gonna wait and see if you're gonna and they post another thing talking to some
invisible like nobody it's like what the fuck is happening here shroud i'm curious with a stream
your size do you even notice anything like that oh for sure like i do the amount of people i mean
I've talked about it so many times before on my stream.
I've ranted about how it's just I swear half my chat's not real.
They're having their own conversation.
They're talking to themselves.
They're training their model.
I don't know.
And it's crazy.
Half my chat is not real.
Well, that's and when the realest time in chat is when it's the slowest.
And then that's when people come in and they're like, wait,
is this guy viewbotting?
And I'm like, oh, geez, well, it's always something.
It's always something.
Yeah, let's let's be fair. That's funny. If I was going to train a model, I'd go, I try and get lost in the weeds and just go to a huge like channel with lots of viewership 10k plus viewership.
So I could like test my model and maybe go unnoticed for sure. You just scout you just scout data from Twitch chat and like Reddit and 4chan and you just end up with a super unhinged comedy style.
like a lot of people. I was
like, Yeah, I'm a funny style.
Um, I can wild chatter. Yeah,
I bought practicing. It's type
five for fucking tonight show.
Yeah. You know, at one point I
thought there's some like
random bottom. I channel. I
was seeing someone hinched
stuff, but it was really
just a drunk German dude. So
sometimes you never know
it was actually like a bot or
just like someone that just
been drinking a lot because
Twitch chat. It's not really making any sense. And then he like asked me questions like, oh, man,
I'm just drunk in Germany. I'm okay. It's like a good time.
I'm like a fucking game show. It's like, I'm to play Drunk or AI. Here we go. Let's spin the wheel.
Yeah, we've definitely had the drunk. I guess to open us up to an LSF crowd, but
But there's a lot of talk amongst, I guess, streamers of your size and viewbots.
What's your take on it?
Is it more normal?
Is it more, I guess, apparent than a lot of us think?
Or is it just, you know, depending on the streamer, depending on the group, whatever?
I don't really understand this question.
Like, are you saying like...
Do you think it says like prevalent as people say, I guess, that they've borne down
the...
Oh, yeah, for sure.
100% I think
I
Think it's very very like happens frequently and I think it I
Think a lot of people are using it to fake it till you make it and then when they make it you kind of dial it down
I don't think it happens to any I
Don't think like larger critters that have been doing it for a very long time or doing it because that seems kind of risky and weird
but I absolutely think a lot of New Age,
TikTok, all sorts of stuff.
They're doing that at least a little bit.
I think everyone does.
I completely agree with Shroud.
There's no way someone who's been on the platform forever
is using a few bots to boost up their numbers.
Not someone like people who've been here since just to be,
they don't do that.
Wait, who did that?
Someone do that?
That was referring to me.
I was joking.
Yeah, it was making a sound.
to have like, I don't remember they said that Twitter tracker like back in the day and they
got banned where they used to post like the discrepancy and viewers and like streamers
like we're viewbotting or someone with viewbotting them, like the viewbotting tracker, but that's
not like a thing anymore.
But yeah.
I knew that account existed, but I didn't realize they got banned.
Yeah.
I don't think that's what I don't think I banned or it's not active anymore.
Yeah.
That's the part about it.
That's really tricky and kind of like you'll never, I feel like it'll be.
You'll never know because you never know if someone's actually doing it to their channel. And if it's them or not, right?
I think there's a lot of shady. I think there's a lot of shady people out there that are doing it to themselves or between their own org or whatever
But yeah, they might not even know they might be a part of an org and the org is doing it behind the scenes
They don't even know they have no clue. Yeah, and it's
Always alter your motives, right?
You don't have like an agency or something trying to boost you to like get like higher negotiable rates or something, right?
Or it's like a viewer trying to help you out, but then they realize that doesn't actually really help you out long term
It's like short-sighted
Yeah, that's what I'm doing or they get in with us. Yeah, yeah
Like not even just your body they get in with a like a sponsor and they embed you on their website or something
Yeah, like there's different ways. Oh
Oh, that's the weird one when I talk about view bots is there's been a lot of I'm not going to call anyone out because I don't actually know their names, but there has been a lot of view botters that have been getting sponsored deals.
I think it happened to PUBG, if I remember correctly, a couple weeks ago, and it happened literally like last week, and that's where it starts to get really, really murky because like it's one thing that just like have a view bot stream and you're just doing your own thing.
There's only 30 real viewers and like who cares you're not making any money off that. It's not really working
But once you start getting those sponsors from those big
Game company that's what it gets really really tricky because then that hurts everybody
That's not you know all the people that are just like doing it authentically are getting
Yeah, fx your life. I haven't seen that guy stream since
The award deal had the bigger one, yeah.
Yeah, it kind of blew him up.
Yeah.
His, like, he's still getting invited,
or the company is still getting invited,
I think, for a lot of events and working with groups.
And so that's like a functioning website
to get keys for games early as a resource, right?
So that portion of that company is still up and running
when it comes to game databases and stuff.
They also just control the SEO on shit.
So I think mapping me right now kind of dominates the SEO on Crimson Desert.
But there's a lot of games out there, maybe Elden Ring, for example, during its heyday.
If you just Google like, Elden Ring map, that's the life was the first thing to come up.
And so they had just SEO.
I was just going to say like how annoying that is.
Like when I'm looking for a tip on a game, like, how do I find this treasure or something like that?
And I'll like the first result that comes up.
I'm like, okay, let's see.
Damn you, actually, actually, yeah.
Well, in a lot of times, it's not even cat or something good info.
It's just like spam.
And out there to take you to a extra life page that says like, yep,
that's a candle.
Don't know what you're supposed to do with it.
I mean, like in any things that you get from just going to that website,
like, how do I find this?
It's like, here's a picture of it.
Yeah, thanks. Yeah, that's helpful. I think extra life is one of them. I think fandom as well as also another huge huge
conglomerate that has like a bunch of database.
Or things like like companies would be more more vocal about like
because if I okay if I was let's just say pubg since we brought it up
So if I was the the PR person or whichever for pubg like and I was getting a streamer
you would be able to tell by like if you gave because they usually give you a
link like a tracking link or whatever you'd be able to tell the people who are
view-bodding because if the streamer does their job and say like hey click this
link like they ask us to and you see it someone with 5,000 viewers to exact
streamer 5,000 viewers and one gets like you know this many and then one gets
way lower you'd be like this fuckers view-bodding or like his audience like
That would be something that I would be telling other companies, like, don't go with this person.
This person is definitely view-bottling because the click-through rate is just fucking abysmal compared to someone of a similar size.
I'm sure that there are conversations behind the scenes about that, but there's no way a company is ever going to come out vocally and publicly
and shame a streamer for view-bottling.
But the funniest thing you mentioned that I actually did a sponsorship probably a couple months ago
and I was talking to the guy working on activation and he asked me to look at the analytics of another streamer to sit looking
for the real or not. I had like twice my viewers, but they're unique viewers or chatters and like they're click-through rates
were like really low. So do you think this guy is like inorganic? I'm like, well, I don't know.
like it's hard to tell but you know they had a lot of viewers but not a lot of
flicks are not a lot of people chatting so yeah I didn't stitch or anything but
I definitely said either this look real or not I said oh I don't know I mean I
guess it makes sense right who's gonna know better about habits and and
viewership right yeah unless you're like really really ingrained in the
Yeah, you're not sure that
Any of us that have been around
Like for more than five six years you can go into a stream and you know like if they're having like without looking at their
Numbers you can you know if you if you're a regular in their stream or your own stream
By the number of chats that are happening like how good of a day or how many viewers they have you know
Like I can tell immediately like oh this game is not doing as well
numbers wise, I bet I can guess within a hundred people like how many people are here, right?
Yeah. It's also sometimes, honestly, if you've been streaming for a while and you do a sponsor
stream, people like you. They'll just sit around and watch, even though they don't like it at all,
or they'll just sit there and just keep you up, but they like you. But I think that, I don't
know, that's true for everybody like, Shabby, do you feel that way? You're like a pretty large
streamer, right? Like you do a sponsor stream and you're checking out the game. Do you feel
feel like people just stick around this because you're shrouded?
I actually think as weird as this, I've noticed there's a lot of
times where my viewers go up when I'm doing sponsored streams,
which is kind of backwards, because I think it's because I'm
in this this, I'm in a weird spot right now, because I'm
playing games that I want to play, not games that people
want me to play. So usually a sponsor ends up being the
game that people want me to play.
Does that make sense?
So then I jumped to the sponsor and everyone's like, oh, I'm interested now
because he's watching something that I want to see.
So it's just kind of backwards for me at this current state.
But earlier, like, you know, a couple of years ago, you'd absolutely be right.
Yeah.
I mean, I would also say too, once you take over a channel directory,
you're generally going to be in the top one or two slots, right?
Yeah.
So that, that'll build an audience on something that's new or something
that's pushing a new update or whatever.
For sure.
Probably as a fan.
And I just just want to say, check out this fucking nerd and his magic cards.
Oh, sorry. Yeah, that's sorry.
I know. I was I was a magic player for years.
So just I'm just I'm just giving you shit.
But I saw you like pick up and I was like, I know that card.
I know what that is.
I do that with league that a riff found bull shit.
What cards were those?
What set were those?
Riff bound?
I don't play the card.
The cards that you had in your hand.
Oh, no, this was this was I opened TMNT recently in a couple of lower winds
So it's just a couple packs that I opened and then you sit next to my desk and I shuffle them for some reason
I don't know why yeah
My fidget spinner I guess yeah, I was gonna say do you have like like let me show you my things
I have a little little chainmail cube. I have a little trick for my finger
I have a tech deck right here. I've got a little like fidgety thing
I'm a little bottle of the apple.
I got this one of these like ADHD management things.
Yes, a hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
Yeah. OK. Yeah.
You play ARPG, so you're fully stimulated all the time.
Yeah.
There's a lot of things without these things.
I would like I would have a pen collection that is just
like chewed down to the nub just destroyed because I just like I can't
I can't fucking help myself.
Yeah, I used to just click my pen all the time. When I was on my computer all the time,
I just clicked the thing, the spam it.
You do a lot of this now mods. That's your good.
Yeah. If my hands are busy, I do something with my hands. I'm just kind of moving all
the time.
Oh, JP, where's your mind at, bro?
I guess what the fuck you said.
This podcast matured with this PG. What the heck?
Oh yeah, every podcast I'm right-clicking left-dicking like it's
Right-clicking left
You know what I'm good. I was fine. That's really funny the little monkey
Self-servicing you do a little self self-checkout. You know you're talking about workers the York
Yeah, we do hiding inputs in my neck from the fighting game world because they used to put blankets over their fighting game pads to hide their in.
Yeah. Anyways, where was I going to go? I had a plan mentally and then mods completely
threw me off with his completely, you know, just really immature comment.
Well, I'm just like, I'm being dazzled right now. You're the one that brought it up and
now you're deflecting blame to me. Hey, I'm on the show every week. Welcome to my world.
Yeah, what are those? What are those streamers not taking accountability? What are those?
What are those? Come on now.
Well, let's see some personal growth here, JP. Take accountability for once.
I think some of the next thing you might find out.
Too real. Too real, Mark. Absolutely too real.
I guess we can jump into games that we've been playing. I don't know if there's too much stuff news-wise.
it is kind of uh we're starting to get to that deep breath before uh the summer game fest
kicked off here as we uh we head into april i guess tax season everyone's excited for taxes
yay tax leave why did you remind me god damn it i reminded you so you don't got a
fucking jailz you pay your tax you gotta send him out to that cpa immediately and get him done
It's important, okay?
You gotta pay the old government.
We're going to war soon.
Let's make this a political class cast.
crowd, what are your thoughts on war?
Jesus Christ.
Dude, that's the kind of push chat shit that I see in my stream all the time.
They're just like, so what do you think about this?
I'm like, oh my God, I don't want to talk about those right now.
I want a game.
Oh my God.
Too real.
Okay, so no on war. Let's talk about marathon. We haven't had anyone actually on the show
to comment on marathon because we're all bad at video games, right? And you happen to be
good at game. Well, okay. You're good at ARP.
I'll give you a word.
Marathon, I think it's pretty subjective here, but you know, I'll take it.
All right, you've played a ton of marathon crowd
I think you I would you would go as far as to say you enjoyed it and it's a good game
The thing where you said AI is good or whatever the fuck you were talking about earlier
That in my neck of the woods saying marathon is good gets me crucified. I need you to say that
Oh, I see I see yeah, well co-plated a lot too didn't he or am I crazy?
No, no
Most co-played was marathon the og that's where he stopped talking about
Like maybe play for like 30 minutes
Okay. Yeah. No, I think I just got confused with our creators for some reason. Yeah, I mean marathon is good, but the problem is
I don't think it's a problem actually, but it's a problem right now is it's too hard, I think.
I think it's just way too hard of a game. I think it's a very sweaty game, ranked, destiny raids,
super, super painful when you die, you lose your whole inventory on Arc Raiders.
I think that's a problem right now because obviously it's a game that needs to grow and has a lot of players
and first impressions are everything.
But I actually think it will end up
being a positive later on.
Once season two comes out, season three comes out,
it gets better and better, more people realize, like, wait,
this game is actually really, really good.
But I don't know, it has a really, maybe it
has a really bad onboarding process.
And maybe that's what they need to solve to help players
get into it, because it is sweaty, extremely sweaty.
It feels like I'm playing Apex a little bit.
Really?
So it's like Crimson Desert where you got to play like 10 hours
for it to feel a lot better?
Or, yeah, maybe, because if you play one game of Marathon
at first glance, you're going to be like,
okay, well, that wasn't very fun.
But then once you start playing
and you start learning the systems
and you start getting like upgrades
through all the factions
and you start getting rewarded for the knowledge
that you put into the map,
knowing where the good loot is,
knowing how to get it,
then it's like, oh, okay, I kind of understand it now.
it's weird because most extraction games
have this
they all work like this except for marathon in my eyes
you accumulate a stash
and your stash ends up getting so big that you don't know what to
do with it
and you're just done, you have infinite loot, you could die a bazillion times
and you're done
but marathon has like more of a progression based where
you're trying to chain together a bunch of raids, you hopefully get a little bit
better loot from one raid then you take that to the next one get a little bit
better loot take that the next one get a little bit better loot and then when you
die you lose all of those raids beforehand because like your fault space
and your stash doesn't have you just you can't accumulate that much over that
period of time because there's just so many items there's so many rare items
so I think that ends up hurting a lot of people because they play 10 games and
when they finally die they lose everything it's all gone it feels like
They've been a whole day and it was for nothing.
OK, that's like the major thing.
It does to differentiate itself from other games.
Not John or that never played it before.
I should like the art style, which is kind of weird to have like all the crazy
colors and stuff, but I don't mind it as well.
But again, that's and with those audience,
you're about to get crucified.
I'm sorry. It looks like the art style looks so good, too.
I think it's so clean.
I yeah, I will say it like there's like a digital vibrance. I guess is how I would describe it to a lot of things and sometimes when you walk in a room it can be a little overwhelming for sure have like that specifically the red
The emergency the emergency lights and low power areas that yeah red or tough. It can be a lot. It can be an app.
map. But apart from that, I like the look of everything. I do think, like, particularly
looking at your inventory here, that's crazy to look at. Like, there's so much information,
I think, being displayed there that you're talking about.
Yeah, that's the first glance thing, because it's really the simplest inventory ever.
Like, a lot of people, like, complain about the UI and marathon, and it's a first glance
thing. Like, once you under, just like any extraction shooter, once you understand
what the symbols mean. I mean, you'll pick it up pretty fast.
Right. It's not as busy than as I think.
No, not all.
It says that we'll play Tarkov. Yeah, Tarkov is busy as well.
There's a lot of information. I guess it's just not like the
bright colors that Parathom is.
Tarkov was sweaty, though. That game was fun, though. I
actually really liked playing Tarkov, but it's been a
while since I played it. Did you ever play Tarkov
Was he killed?
He's played, I thought you played before.
I thought you did like one or two rounds.
Nope, I did not play a single second of it.
Maybe I'm thinking of PUBG, maybe that's my story.
Yeah, no, I played PUBG a little bit
because PUBG had a, like games like that have an appeal
to someone like me who is not good at anything
and I can just hide and do okay.
And that's like how I got my my one PUBG victory was like I hit in a bush for like 30 minutes
And I just happened to be in the center circle
Like I picked the right bush to hide in and then one guy was left and he was out of ammo. I was like
Only when I ever got
Be competitive and shoot like shoot accurately and like, you know have good tactics and shit like I'll watch I won't
That's not for me. Oh
Uh, Shred, talk to me about this new map that Marathon had.
I'm going to listen on my phone and take my dog out.
Yeah, I was actually, I was going to bring it up anyway, just because the new map is
probably the coolest map to ever be made in an extraction game.
It's really elaborate.
You are, uh, I've heard a lot of people say that.
Please tell me why.
Yeah.
It is really, really elaborate because it's, I don't, it's, it's, it's
going to be a lot to explain, but let's see.
Let's see if I can shorten this a little bit.
The map is really really well thought out where every single person is behind like a
Chamber and they all have to figure out clearances to get out of the chamber
Which makes it a little bit of a race at the beginning who gets out first the whole map
It's kind of a race to be honest because the time crunch and there's so much to do on it
So you have to get it's kind of like it's not as complex as an escape room
I'm gonna be honest. It's really really simple
but the pacing is what's important here because it's a PvP game.
So it's really really simple. You're just collecting like you're hacking a data card and you're picking up
security clearances and killing a couple bots, getting more clearances, getting out of there.
And then the point is to get into the main area and it's a main like control center,
which does like a giant loop where all of the chambers connect to.
But if you're first people out, you get to kind of control that chamber,
which is really really important because obviously you get to,
that you want to take out as many teams as possible before you do your looting phase.
But that's not the part that's the most elaborate.
The most elaborate part is there's six vaults, a seventh hidden one.
You need a key card that you acquire from all of the other maps beforehand to open those vaults.
When you open the vaults, there's data cards.
You extract the data card. It's permanent DNA sequence on your character.
You collect six of them, once you've collected six of them, you have to go do a series of puzzles all across the map, matching symbols, matching letters, typing it out to make sure you remember what it is.
Go across the map, hit the button, do this, do that. Boom. You've gotten all those vaults open, you've gotten all the data sequences.
You can now open the seventh vault, the seventh vault ends up being a giant boss fight where you get super, super rare contraband loot.
And it's just honestly a pretty hard achievement to do in the first place where I think I mean I haven't even done it
Brant that I've been doing deserts of people that can do all that. It's very very small
It's an insane grind for example
Some of the hardest one of the hardest parts of it is these key cards are rare. You have to get key cards one through six
Can you drop or trade them or anything?
You can't they have anti-RMT mechanics and all of marathon
So it's not like Arc Raiders where people are selling blueprints and stuff. That's not how that works. You can't trade in.
There's no there's no there's no RMT. You can't do it. It's not gonna work. Wow
However, however, there could be just like Destiny. There could be runs and carries
Once you have the DNA sequences and you're a player that has it you technically can get into the vault for other people and
Hopefully carry them to a victory. You could do that if you wanted to sell carries. I guess there's probably some RMT there
Yeah, but it's it's like there's it's got to be like less than one percent of these people able to even complete this
Cryo archive loop and the kicker is
You could only do it on weekends for example today's the last day and now now after today you have to spend a week
Grinding the key cards on the normal maps. You cannot play cryo always
right
And I think that's actually really it sounds stupid where you can only play a certain map on a weekend
But I think it's really well-designed because the key cards are super super rare and you have to get them from the other maps
You have to get them through you have to get them every week
Or do you get them once? Oh, you do have to go and build well like once you've get once you've opened the vault and successfully
Extracted you're good. You've gotten the DNA sequence. You're chilling
But like not everyone that's why marathon is so polarizing. It's hard not I've seen tons of people who main that game
And they just die over and over and over and over again. Their their success rates got to be like 30%
It's one of the hardest
Success rate games. I've seen I think when it comes to extraction games
So like you're gonna get a key card. You're gonna go to cry archive for the weekend
Maybe you farm like three of them there during the week and then you just don't make it out of the raid
You ran out of time
Geez you died to a player. It's all gone. You got to do it again. So it's just super
super punishing
at all times
It sounds like it's set up for sweats. That's what it sounds like. Yeah
I mean it set up for sweats or people who really really are passionate and love the games a lot and even though they know
They're not good
It's the achievement that they want to be able to they want to be able to do it
That's their goal and then on top of that. I forgot. I thought that marathon wipes every three months
So if you don't get this stuff done
Well, you got to go again, you know season two now that's not an off in that's just
It's a perma-white for everyone.
It's not like Arc where, yeah, it's, it's...
I think all of these things are good things.
Everything that I'm saying sounds like I'm saying it,
like it's a burden and a bad thing,
but I actually think it's an extremely good thing,
but they just need to onboard.
They just need to keep spending time onboarding a little bit better
because people need to be shown that it is fun.
It is worth it.
But I don't know how to do it.
Not to put you in a box here or anything,
box or anything, but like you sound like a sub explaining a dom, like, no, no, no, no,
when they hit me, it's good. They hurt me and I like it. And they keep hurting me because
I asked them to, they keep asking, I asked them to hurt me and I like it. But I mean,
I don't know, I think I think Crimson Desert is a perfect example. I think this game
is really, really scuffed and you're constantly fighting the game more than playing the
game and yet it's still a lot of fun right you know no conflict is is another I
guess like a lighter way to say jank or whatever conflict is something that
people enjoy right the struggle is what always like extraction shooters are
they've they've always been about struggle once you start making them a
little bit too casual sure it's fun for a couple weeks or months or whatever
But at some point you got to make it harder like that's the that's the thrill a thrill of the loot
You know the thrill of the struggle ups and downs
Yeah, I was I was a little shocked to see
Reviews when they came out from marathon this past week because they were generally like across the board pretty positive pretty high
I mean I expected them to be the opposite because of how hard the fucking game
Oh, I see. Yeah, I was gonna ask why you would expect them to be negative
Yeah, the difficulty because I think in the extraction shooter world, Tarkov was obviously
one of the first, I guess Daisy was the one to do it in a lot of ways.
Then you had Tarkov come into the scene and people kind of bounced off that if you weren't
super hardcore.
I think is maybe the most approachable right because of how easy it is to like you know
go on boxchat and be friendly. If you say friendly in marathon from all accounts that I've heard
people still just fucking shoot you the second I'm gonna see. Yeah no I love it. There's no
friendly in marathon. I mean there definitely can be but there's something special about
Blasting someone that says friendly
We've all played days in here. Well, maybe maybe we
It's just it's it's awesome
Yeah, I was shocked to see those reviews so high granted it is bungee bungee knows how to fucking make a gun feel good to shoot
It's very satisfying for sure. Yeah, I mean
I'd like to think that the people that do reviews to I'm not sure
This is a guess, but I'd like to think that the people that are doing reviews at least have some idea of how the genre works
So maybe the people reviewing marathon rated it high because they may not have the time to play and go all the way
But they could see you know, they could see the vision
I'm not sure if reviewers have to know the game that they're playing or genre. I'm not sure how that works
But I mean it depends on their
Right and I just can't imagine someone who doesn't know an extraction shooter playing the game and going like yeah
as a sweet.
Yeah, for my first extraction shooter, it's a little bit of a rough
go, right? Yeah.
Kind of absolutely describe it. I would actually say, uh, you would
you recommend this game is like a, you know, a solo person, someone
that doesn't necessarily have a group of friends to jump in and
play. Do you have fun with marathon or do you need to have it
like two other people on comms, like teaming up with that
Energy and everything. Yeah, I think that's kind of one of the main problems actually is it's very trio oriented
Because for example on cryo archive, you can't go solo. It's a trio only man. Can't you so no?
and
It's so punishing and so difficult that I
If you're going true if you're going solo into a trio feel like you just get
It's tough you just get dominated because in games like apex, which is trio as well
I mean, it's what you lose 20 minutes of your time because you lost in about a round whatever
But when you lose in a game like this with Phil's you lose your whole inventory and you're like, oh, well that sucks
So it's death. I wouldn't say it's
I wouldn't say it's really solo friendly and I think that's kind of a problem
when you
You solo looking for matchmaking with the group does it tell you the value of the other two people's
They're bringing in are you privy to that information? No, you can only see their shields, which I guess is the only thing you kind of go off
Yeah
Yeah, I could see people briefing that right like someone brings them like a 20k
There's really no way to there's really no way to grief unless you want to well like you could grief for the
Luxury of griefing I guess right if you just want to do it just to do it, but you can't like take their stuff
That's not possible like ever but you could not shoot back and then camp
Yeah, but you still can't take there's you still can't take their stuff. I guess you would have to kill the people
Oh, yeah, loot from your friends
Because the game is like it's got the system where you can res somebody when they're out of the game
So if they're full killed you could still bring it back. So when you
And then it's got the borrow system too. So if you take someone's
You take someone on your team's loot, it'll go back to their stash
like it's not really worth it to let someone tie but you could grief for the
level of the griefing I guess right yeah it's kind of cool you know bungee I
guess seemingly thought about yeah there's a lot of those little weird
like nuances that they definitely did think would happen yeah well I guess the
the next thing I have regarding Ayrathon and maybe even the most talked about point around it
because it's fungy and because of Sony's mandate for live service games and what not is people are
I've seen entire subreddits threads whatever glitter and glomerates they just love talking
about the people playing the amount of the number of people playing at all times is more important
than the game and the quality of the game.
Do you think it has the legs to survive?
Are we going to hear about it shutting down six months
from now, two years from now?
I mean, it seems like if you go off the numbers,
it does seem like it's mostly stable.
So I think it'll be fine.
But I honestly think they invested too much.
My take on their game and Marathon the General
They've invested too much for it to die in six months
I can imagine it would have if you were to go on the steam charts of marathon
It would have a hundred people playing I would still think that they would try
Just because they've invested a lot of money and time into that game at least
At least see through like a year, you know
Yeah, it's not like a high guard situation where it's a new studio. They have no money like they have money
They could they could they got the hard part out of the way. They made the game
they pushed it out. Now it's just a matter of, you know, kind of
upkeeping it and providing little updates here and there, but the hard part is just
launching the thing. Right. Yeah, getting into it. I have also seen that word-of-mouth
like that game did the thing where it peaked as soon as it came out and then,
you know, it started to plounder a little bit, but the game's been out almost a
month now, I think, maybe a month in change. I have seen it through word-of-mouth,
Through reviews through people talking about it the sentiment on the internet is kind of changing around it where people are like
No, this game's actually fucking dope
It's really good. You should play marathon pretty positive. I feel like that's the the the I've seen only that people be positive
Yeah, I've only even right out of the gate you saw right out. Yeah, even right out of the gate
I mean it was like obviously every new game that comes out these days you get
like an overwhelming amount of negativity at first, but like it balances it out
normally like pretty like most games bounce out in like a week or two but I
think marathon bounced out like within like that day everyone's like yeah I know
it's good just not for me. I don't know why everyone's so adult about marathon
but they're not about all the other games it's kind of weird. Yeah yeah I
mean ARC is still you know pulling pretty considerable numbers even if
It's even if creators, I guess, are tired of playing the same arc, you know, like the
contents a little dry right now for that game.
What are your thoughts on like the delay slash the delay of Marathon and the release of arc?
Do you think that helped Marathon in the long run?
Do you think the delay was worth it?
Yeah, that's where I thought about that is like the delay probably made Marathon a better game.
But I really I said to my stream when I when I was grinding it like if
If marathon came out like a year ago
It would they would be completely different like there would be so many there'd be so many more people playing the game
Like for sure, but like how do you play?
How do you choose to play a marathon when you've already committed to a game like arc for six months, you know
But timing is so important in every game launch and and you just I don't he's
It is what it is. You can't really think about it. You can't control it. It's just yeah
Gotta do what you gotta do better do what you think is best and hope it works out
I feel like that's a lot of game launches right now is you just launch the thing and you're like, man
I hope this works and it sucks. I hope people like this thing. Yeah. Yeah
Expectation expectation creeps a lot with each subsequent gamer that you see like people's what people expect out a new release game now
that's what a lot of game built up over a decade,
especially in MMO space and ARPD space and stuff like that.
You can't release Diablo II and this era
and people would call it a good game, you know?
Even though historically it was like
one of the most innovative games of over time.
Yeah.
Right, you know?
Yeah, that is true.
I did have a question from my audience
and I don't know if it's relevant or not,
but they wanted to know when the wipe happens
for a marathon, does it, does it wipe everything
like you need unlocked skills again and shit?
Like it wipes everything but your codecs
and the codecs is like where you have your personal
like achievements, like, you know, get level 100
and acquire this thing.
Oh, so it's kind of destiny coded, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
The codecs is the one thing that is important
about the codecs that doesn't wipe is those DNA
subsequence things that I was talking about,
the DNA cards.
Once you've achieved one of the vaults,
it's on your codecs forever.
so you don't need to do that next season.
So that's nice at least.
But yeah, everything else wipes, everything.
Account level loot, factions, you got to do it all.
So I've never played Marathon,
I've played ever games with the genres.
You're really hardcore niche,
but I guess it's like one of the things
you have to actually play yourself
to see how it actually feels.
But it seems a lot more complex than,
yeah, like Arc Raiders, what I tried out.
It's not really dad gamer friendly, is it?
Like if you'd like five kids and two wives and 10 dogs, like it
the marathon I could play while drinking a couple of beers on the weekend.
Or am I just going to run into issues?
Probably be too hard for you.
Yeah, there hasn't been a wipe yet, right?
No, I think is the first one.
OK, OK, I'm just wondering, like as someone who, you know,
has some experience with the game, or do you do you look forward to that?
those wipes I mean personally yeah so one problem with one problem with uh
with the half wipe thing that arc raiders does it's cool at first and you're like oh cool I get
the white mic count to go again I get to do the grind again fun but that's just half of the that's
half of the solution to the problem the problem is there's too much loot in the whole the whole
The whole game is tons of loot, the economy is filled, everyone is juiced up.
It's really fun to reset with everybody.
Part of when Tarkov was at its absolute peak was when there was wipes.
And now that it's a little bit more of a, I don't know, Tarkov is a little bit confusing
now because I don't know what their plans are, but they don't really wipe anymore.
Apparently they're going to bring it back or something, but wipes keep games interesting,
extraction games.
They keep it fresh.
Every time you see a new economy, you're like, cool.
That feeling of picking up a rifle early game is amazing, but once you play a game for 100
hours, that picking up that rifle doesn't mean anything anymore.
It means nothing.
And that's the problem with the Arc Raiders, half wipes, is like, oh, you half wipe, and
then you take somebody out and they're fully geared, and you're like, okay, you're not
supposed to be this geared like, what do you mean?
It's supposed to be a fresh economy.
So I think everybody looks forward to wipes personally, even some of the casual players,
it just means you get to do it again, but better, but faster.
It's essentially the games coming out again. Yeah, people have
the knowledge of what do and how to do it. The same reason why
like we want me and moderate like so. Yeah. Yeah, I keep some
alive without without having that reset that new things to
aspire to the new things to grind for the new mechanics that
it just died out right? Yeah, keeps again interesting.
Exactly
I will say mud
Shroud sorry you said that you have not finished the raid in there
Yeah, I think I was watching as to cross and I think I got
Lucky and just tuned in one night last weekend the first weekend that the raid was out or that the map was out
And I saw his like winning run that shit was fucking crazy
It was it was insane. They had to wipe like five other teams
They had to do all of that crazy shit we're talking about and it came to unlocking all the different vaults and all that shit
I think they killed the boss. They had like two minutes left
So they had to run and go grab all the loot because you have to crack with it. It was insane
It was absolutely insane to watch that. Yeah, it's they give you 30 minutes and it doesn't it feels like oh
I could do everything in 30 minutes and
No, you can't sometimes like sometimes if one fight takes a little too long in that in that game that you watch the play
If one fight took a little bit too long, that's it. They don't get they don't get out
Yeah, they were at one point. I want to say they were down to just a single player with both of them dead
And they were in they were in like an air vent. I don't know what part of the map
But they seem very like it was a pretty
Relatively well-known thing and they were in this air vent fighting for their lives and as across was just like sitting there
watching waiting for the res and they ended up winning that fight and that's
what you know I think was the final fight before they could go do the whatever
the bosses if you and the skills the Seth forgot what his name is whatever that
final boss yeah the compiler or whatever yeah the compiler yeah it was it was
crazy it was awesome that what I would never be able to do that that's some of
the sweatiness of the game that like is either you're going to really love it or
you're you're not right you're gonna see that and be like oh that's way too much
for me or you're gonna see that and go I want to do that yeah well and the one
thing I will say is after they had they had done it and I watched a lot of
people kind of talk about the map after the event was over they all said it was
the phrase it was something that I didn't know that I wanted but now that
played it. It's like I'm going to be chasing that high forever. They loved the fact that they had to kill all these other teams and be the last team remaining and do all the like PvE aspect of it. And that made me interested to see that experience. There's no way like go back to what you were saying about the game. There's no way I'm going to fucking jump in there and be able to do that with all the fucking try hard cities.
I
You need like casual to you the dad gamer you are something
Yeah, I I don't know their their solution that the problem is
Ranked I guess and all of the sweaty players play ranked and then all the casuals will just continue to grind it out
Yeah
in the normal queue, but I don't know if that idea is really working out for them because
is ranked as only one map.
It's one map per week.
Like what if you just don't want to play that map?
You know what I mean?
You was on perimeter and you hate perimeter.
And now you're just like,
now you're gonna go bully the dads in casual queue?
I guess, like, I don't know, it's weird.
No, I was just thinking about that.
I was thinking about like,
how you would keep the sweats out of dad casual
by asking questions like, what's a mortgage?
You know how to change oil.
It's a capture but for old people, yeah, it's a capture but for old people, yeah, I guess
the other thing too is they might not be able to experience the raid, but if you take those
contraband items into this map that you're playing right now that we're watching footage
of, they can loot the weapon off of you, right?
And it gets put into, you know, the normal circulation.
Yeah, I think someone loots it off the map. Yeah, I think that's the kind of the hard part though is like this game is like
The skill like you can definitely be better or worse. You know, I mean, it's not very equally
It's not equal grounds and the gear matters too. So like someone that's lightly geared is not gonna beat somebody
That's purple or gold shields and implants and
Weapon disparities that large like they're just if the weapon disparity isn't that large
It's more so about the utility that everyone has like when you're really really geared you'll have good shields
You have good heels you'll have tons of those heels and you'll have tons of like grenades and equipment
Like how are you supposed to win against somebody that that it's not just somebody it's a whole team
Right, that's really hard
Yeah, you're not gonna bring that into a map if your teammates aren't here as well
The only the interesting thing is that people are starting to catch on and I think it's either gonna make marathon
have a worse meta or a better meta I guess would be as people are catching on how good melee is
so there's a lot of people that are just playing really ratty so they're just playing kind of in a
corner and then there's like a whole team waiting in a corner and they're playing a melee build and
they just sit there and then the really geared team is like you know they're just a bunch of
chads walking around they just rush everything so they rush in and then they all get stabbed
and then all the chads are pissed because like oh melee's broken or whatever but like that's like
the only way to win that's like the only way to win you can't beat these chads run around
when you're you have no gears or just have them. I think that they need to solve the games
for you. That's how I want to play. I don't want to be. Any of you stabbing people. Let's go. Dude,
get like matching leather jackets and shit and start snatching. Like you walked into the wrong
neighborhood, pal. I mean, the game has tons of like implants and builds and classes that
like you could you could play an in-viz stealth kind of assassin build and your goal is to
literally stab people and then you're you you don't even pick a fight at range. You see
somebody and you just try to bait them and that's that you sit in a corner and
you just stab them and literally kill them into a job.
As a player, I could see how fucking frustrating that would be.
But as someone, you know, thinking about the game and thinking about the, like,
roulette that happens in these style of games, I'm kind of glad that that exists.
You know, where someone could just rat the fuck out of the best-geared person in the lobby and...
Need it. Yeah, or else like there's no potential to do that that the chads win every single time they got to lose sometimes
Yeah, if too much gear anyway, like it's fine. They can handle a loss or two. They'll get it back
Yeah, that's always like the number one rule or the first thing you tell someone playing with traction shooter
Like you're gonna lose your gear, but your time with it was over. Yeah, it's someone else's time now
You had the fun. You're gonna have their fun. You'll find another gun here pretty
When do you go back to it when you finish up crimson desert? Yeah
I want like what's the plan? I wanted to go back to marathon this weekend to kill the compiler because I haven't done it yet
and then I don't know crimson desert just like I
Just want to keep exploring. It's weird because like it is kind of repetitive crimson desert
But like I just want to keep exploring it. I want to I want to know what like you're hoping for that
It's kind of an extraction shooter where you're kind of trying to chase that high like that's kind of what I'm doing with this game
I'm chasing the high hoping I find something that was really cool and worth the past like three or four hours of me
Kind of doing more mundane stuff
Yeah, I get that for sure
We're gonna edge people more on the Crimson Desert talk and jump over to mods mods. You've been obviously an ARPG land
We were talking about the marathon numbers and whatnot.
Last epoch launched the new, they don't call them seasons, right?
What are they?
Yeah, all the RPGs, they just have their unique naming schemes.
Seathons, leagues, they're just trying to be special.
But I think they just call them Seathons.
It's all the same thing.
On the side of the call, whenever I play PUE,
I call them Seathons and trigger the PUE people
because that's the Diablo lingo.
So whenever I played the obel, and it's called them leagues and all the devil
players, like, wait, that's not what they're called.
They're called season, by the way.
Uh, oh wait.
No, this is the cycle instead.
Right.
So yeah, you just, you just mix up the naming scene of the news.
The, the, oh, like boost the chat interaction a little bit.
Gotcha.
Well, last epoch had a new, uh, season cycle update expansion, whatever
you want to call it.
Uh, and it didn't like have the biggest turnout is what I
was called. No, no. What happened with, uh, with last epochs latest update or are we becoming
a steam chart Andy now?
I, I feel like an entire, I feel like this show, this, this, this, this is the route
we're going to.
The internet is all about numbers and I have X amount of players on steam as much as I,
uh,
in this Twitter accounts. Now what is going on over here?
I'm drawing.
I haven't been on the show since 2003.
This will all be low over here. This will all be low.
No, this is, this is the best app, man. You got it.
What I think JP is saying is that it's not getting the,
the player base that it deserves.
That's right. Oh, okay.
That's what you're looking to. Fair enough. Fair enough. Yeah.
Yeah. It dominates the conversation, right? The first thing I heard was like, oh,
this is not a new league for last epoch or what the new mechanic is, is it was,
yeah, this game's dead. It's got X players. This game's dying.
There's no way they make it to blah, blah, blah season.
Like it's annoying how much that dominates the conversation, but it,
you know, that's where the internet focus. Yeah. Well, like, yeah,
right now that we can talk about it. Yeah. So like right now,
the air, Pete genre, it's very oversaturated with really good games,
right? You got like Peely, Peely 2, just doing like really good seasons. Yeah,
before they do stuff, people hope that is good from time to time. They got like
a new expansion coming out, right? And like if people are like, they're going to
finally turn it around around expansion number two. And he got last epoch, right?
He was like the indie startup studio that started on Reddit. And obviously
they just work remotely, right? And they built the game with their
community and people loved that interaction, right? The small studio
that succeeded. And I guess they weren't too busy savvy. They were going through a bunch
of financial issues, right? They had a lot of players, but they just didn't know how
to monetize their game. So I guess it wasn't, wasn't selling. Yeah, they focused on developing
their game and not developing their monetization. So that was kind of like good, but bad because
hey, you need money to operate. So I guess they're like under financial strain and
they ended up having to like seek investors for the game.
So they had to sell the Krafton and then, well, Krafton,
now they kind of dicked over the Sibnautica devs.
And apparently the, I guess I don't know what happened
with the CEO, he'd like consulted a lawyer
and he'd like, I don't know if his lawyer was right.
Let me talk to this AI agent.
Now, you know, go forward with court case.
So yeah, basically, yeah, they went from basically
being at the small indie studio
and they're struggling financially.
And they had to sell the Krafton
going on a bunch of issues there and they had a promise from Kickstarter, right?
It was originally a Kickstarter game and their promise from original time at the
one-time purchase game, you never have to pay for any other additions. They said,
well, this is not financially viable anymore. When the new expansion comes out
it's free, but you got to pay for the new class and now people are like, oh
it's pay to win. So anyways, they have all this thing going on in the
background and the new season came out and the people said they weren't
going to play any more based off, you know, integrity or whatever. And, um, yeah,
just a lot lower player numbers. Yeah.
People are just like not buying it out of, uh, moral.
Yeah. Moral stance. Yeah.
People didn't even give it a chance and then also Kraft on said they're an AI
first company. So, you know, that's pretty, it's like, the vice of there.
Yeah. So yeah, basically, I played to see the season itself was a lot
better than last season.
It wasn't better than like their best season, but yeah, people are just strung up on other
issues that stopped them from playing the game.
And then, you know, Peewee had a really good season two right now in the league.
So the ARPD players, they do hop from game to game a lot, but if there is a good league,
you know, little stick on one, right, and they'll grind that out for a while and
they'll do like their challenges and earn their free cosmetics and everything else
like that.
But yeah, they definitely been going through the swings of trying to convince their
players that the company is still around and they're not changing up too much while no longer
being a small independent studio, right?
Kind of how it goes in this stage.
Yeah.
Sometimes I feel like people have excuses like that though, where they're like, oh, I'm
not playing because of this.
And they just really mean I don't really want to play right now.
And I feel like they should just say that.
I swear.
I swear a majority of people that are like, oh, I'm not playing because the steam
charts are. Oh, I'm not playing because they released a DLC class that I just I'm not down
with that. I just feel like it's okay to just say you're not that interested.
Yeah, but on the internet, you have to have a reason. You have to
give people agitate and get a response. I think that might be a lot.
But do you know, because like, unfortunately, people, people tell me I suck and they don't
say why? Oh, yeah. They don't give me reasons. It was like, you suck. You're an idiot. Why?
No response. Nothing. Oh, man. That is online hecklers, man. Gotta love. Um, but what was
that like? The update then? What was the big mechanic? Oh, so it's pretty traditional standard
ARPG they have a circle mechanic where mob spawn you kill them and then there's an elite and then
there's like new gear that drops and they added essentially the corruption mechanic from Path of
Exile which actually the corruption mechanics kind of cool it's just like gambling right you just
basically make an item you hit it with a piece of currency and then either gets a lot better a
lot worse or it just stayed like mid right so it essentially just added a gambling mechanic and
and then it could change like implicit base types.
Yeah, it actually had a lot of option there.
So the major focus was basically the ball mechanic,
adding all the different outcomes and stuff like that
and currency items, which a lot of ARPD players just love, right?
Either prolongs like the gear chase and that's really what we like, right?
We like min-maxing or build, just getting more powerful,
obtaining that power fantasy and kind of just going one-shotting stuff, right?
The quicker you get killed, the better.
Is the corruption like a last step to an item that they introduced for extra power?
Like where does it fall in the crafting hierarchy of last epoch?
Well, so actually like the outcomes are really, really strong.
So you can just start corrupting stuff as soon as you get it,
and it could make you like a really strong leveling item.
Or it could just break your leveling item,
and you're like, hey, now I don't have a chest piece anymore.
Can you still pick up later?
No, so once it's corrupted, you can no longer craft the boss.
That's the last epoch is known for.
Yeah, last epoch had the very intuitive crafting system, right?
And it's very deterministic and people love it.
It's like it's a middle ground between Diablo being like dad
gamer and PUE being physicists.
So yeah, you just like open up the window, right?
And you just apply your stuff to your little manipulations
and then that's it.
So yeah, last epoch is like the middle ground of ARPGs.
Very intuitive.
So the corruption uses the, what? Oh God, I haven't played last epoch in a season or two.
So like item, crafting power, I forgot the terminology point, what is the corruption using?
You're crafting potential, yeah. So yeah, consume, yeah, it crafts, yeah, consumed all
the potential on the item, right? So you know on craft on it once it's corrupted.
Got it. Okay.
Yeah. It felt forging potential.
Yeah, forging potential, there you go.
It had been a hot.
So people are what's like the craziest item you've seen that.
Oh man.
I don't know.
There's some pretty crazy like plus skill ones.
Yeah.
This will be like last see fuck it's all about getting like the exalted
affixes crafting and then you could like, it all depends on your build.
Right.
Yeah.
People are making some super insane items and those like war builds
where I'd like to discrepancy between life and like your equivalent
of energy shield in the game.
Yeah, just like normal traditional ARPG stuff
Yeah, the ARPG they're always sharing their mechanic every single time like one of them lands on a good one they go man
We got to do this too. That's good right be that evolves a genre this be the one game does something doesn't mean another game
Shouldn't do their own version of it. Yeah the iteration is important. Yeah
Yeah, I've never understood that mindset of some players where like if one game implements something good
No, studio should implement that again. It's like, you know, put it in just change a little bit
No artwork, it's true
You built off of last epoch I obviously made your shame a lot
Uh, even bounce off of it because you were tired of the game.
You bounced off of it because you were tired of the chat.
Well, no, I was, uh, no, no, no.
So I was just going to play.
I feel like the Diablo three like reset every time on the pretty
much the only person that still plays Diablo three.
So, um, I actually got one shot.
I was playing hardcore and they put this new mob in and I
literally just got one shot.
Like, yeah, like my main character got one shot.
this decimated like it was like a brand new mob. They put in the game. I guess it's over
two. No excuses, but I just got blasted on my character out of existence. I got it humiliated
and then let's see. Yeah, I got absolutely man. Yeah, that's exclamation mark ripped.
Yeah, I just got decimated. You know, that's just how it is sometimes. Sometimes you got
to get good and my bill doesn't up the par.
So, was it just not fun enough to go again or you just made that agreement with yourself
like I'm doing a one shot kind of tell my character dies and then I'm done with Lassie
Park.
Well, I started another build I didn't really like the other builds so I was just like ah,
I want to go play like Diablo 3 like I normally do and then I'll go back to it probably
once I get done with finishing Diablo 3.
Diablo 3 is just like a couple day game for me right?
You did two like the max clear it's super quick nowadays.
Yeah, so wait you died from the mob spawning in it has like a damage radius or something when it crashes in
No, I had a
Slam but it's huge to notice I was like outside of hitbox. It's just a new mob that they put in yeah
Oh, oh, it wasn't the one that flew in it was the guy that had his like hammer up in there and slam
Yeah, the guy that was spinning around what I was moving Jesus. Yeah, okay. That's just a massive slam
Yeah, that sucks. Yeah. It's nice to get the killing blow damage though. You know, PLE could really use that at these devs.
Yeah, they have a nice death summer in the game. So when you die, you know, like, you know, how much you need to improve your build next time, yeah.
Yeah. Oh, your chat is begging to kill the second.
So technically I had a second death, but this didn't really influence my decision on last
epoch.
Uh, my dog with barking, I went to go feed him a treat when I was leveling up my new character
at that after that guy died and last epoch doesn't have, um, uh, pod mechanics.
So my character just sitting there.
You'd like low level.
Oh, oh, this is P O A. Wait, I got linked the wrong thing.
Oh, well, yeah, we'll see it on, uh, you can go watch it on.
They went back to Diabla 3. The old faithful. Diabla 3 is no longer being dabbed necessarily,
but they're redoing old season, right?
Yeah, so basically they do end of service, but they do reruns legacy seedings, so if you
ever like, they basically replay old seedings. So if you liked a seed that happened many
years ago, you could play again for like, how to play for the weekend, right? Like,
Like, oh, I really like this mechanic I play for a little bit.
Well, honestly, I've been thinking of Crimson Deather, man.
I was so addicted to Crimson Deather.
That's pretty good.
I think we'll talk about it.
Oh, you're playing a Frostster?
It's like Meteor or some shit?
Yeah, Meteor, Sword, yeah.
Yeah, the Ablatory still kind of a jump.
If you're just looking for something to kill things with.
I played it on the Switch.
You ever played it on the Switch mods?
Great.
I've never played...
don't really play handheld games.
You know, I spend so much time on my computer,
I just don't have time to play off-stream.
Yeah, I used to do handheld gaming
like when I was a kid and stuff,
but I don't really have a chance
to do handheld gaming anymore.
Yeah, it's wild how well it runs on the,
I guess it's an older game,
but still runs well on the Switch.
Kind of impressive how they translated the controls.
over the console. You just went AFK and a bunch of mob.
Yeah, my dog. Do you see my dog was here? Look at him. I'm just petting my dog.
Look at my bald spot. They all just decided to attack you at once.
Well, now that my character died, this is like just like an hour or two in out on the new character.
character. But hypothetically, I didn't like this bill. Chat says I intentionally killed
my character. I didn't like it, but they can't actually prove that. Right. All right. Yeah.
They're they're saying that I assassinated my character because I didn't like it. But
there's like, they can actually prove this. And I'm saying my dog took priority. You
needed treats. Yeah, I know. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Obviously what you've been playing, but crimson desert. We've talked about it multiple times.
Talked about last week. Hey, this game got better with time. Uh, Zeke, I would, I would honestly compel you to check it out again.
Check. Check crimson desert out again. I know. Yeah, no, no, I, I'd know. I didn't bounce off of it. It was, I knew that that there was
improvements going to be coming over time. And I was not wrong. Like there's two giant
improvements over shit. So I'm like, and I'm in no rush to play it because it's, it's,
uh, it's going to be an off stream game. It's going to be, you know, me like zoning out
by myself, you know, just, just, you know, like a slack job, like, like, it really is.
I mean, that's all I do on stream, but funny enough, I didn't expect it to resonate
with a streaming audience as well as it did.
I guess I kind of liken it to like Skyrim
when it comes to watching.
You want to see like what everyone else looks like
and what items they have.
And then when you see those items,
you want to go to wherever it is on the map
that they tell you or you Google where it's at,
yada yada yada.
And it kind of has like the gear chasing thing to it,
I suppose.
But yeah, you mentioned the patches last Sunday
that first patch hit, changed a ton of stuff for the better.
And then last night at like 10 o'clock to add another patch come in that I, you
know, MMO devs are on top of staying open and listening to the community.
Cause they are absolutely killing it.
They added some new mounts last night that you can keep permanently.
They changed the way gliding works.
Um, it gave you more stamina.
It's a little bit faster.
You can now steal things.
One of our biggest complaints on the show last week, you can walk
up and steal things and not get penalized. No one sees you.
Really? You got the way to get the beer mask on still because I haven't played
since any patch.
Yes, you have to put your mask on, but you don't get to contribute some
contribution law.
You just steal stealing as long as no one's there.
I always thought that was weird that you lost like five contribution every
single time you're going from stuff from people's manner.
You're like, oh, look at that shelf. Let me get that.
Yeah, it was.
What's in that box?
There's a pain in the ass. I hate it.
I don't know why it was there and it's like they listen to the community.
They did even some minor stuff.
Stealing is wrong JP.
Stealing is wrong.
But if no one sees you do it, are you really stealing or are you just doing something wrong?
You know?
You're just taking something home.
You're absolutely stealing if no one sees you.
Okay.
That just means you're good at being a thief and a bad guy.
I think the inspiration for the stamina change was a mod, right?
believe a modern made like a reduced stamina thing and the devs said hey this is actually played
better and they implement that so quickly. Like I'm actually impressed by it. Like if people are
like oh man you're really sucking off the crimson dether devs but it's admirable like they actually
are listening to the community and they're implementing fixes quickly right like they're
not like sitting on their high horse and be like we're right you guys are wrong.
Yeah they're actually making good changes like you're like the first patch like the responsiveness
of the game. Like it was a fun last night. Yeah, my fun levels went up. Yeah. The way that you run
now when you press shift, you're immediately at max speed. You don't have to constantly spam it like
Oh, yeah. So you're doing a double tap versus. Yeah. Okay. I like that. That now. Yeah,
it's a great fucking change. They made the character like span a little bit faster.
in the camp, they added or rather relocated the chest because it's a very minor thing.
First off, they added chest for personal inventory, which didn't exist last Sunday, which is awesome.
But the chest was behind an NPC and it was kind of awkward going to the chest every
time.
So they changed the position of that.
Chuck, Chuck, excuse me, Chuck, could you?
Why are you always standing there, Chuck?
It was annoying as shit and like, they just changed the position of it.
Now every time you go to campus right next to where you sleep, which maybe
should have been there for the, in the first place, but awesome change.
Like it's, it's a little things that make all the difference.
So I've gapped about the game.
I think we did for like two hours last week.
I want to, I want to go to mods and crowd.
Shroud, you're playing it right now.
You can't get enough.
Are you going to put the story?
Like where, where are you at?
I guess I'm on chapter 9. I believe yeah, I'm on chapter 9 halfway through it
I've just been I do this thing where I do a chapter and then I say okay, okay
I do this thing where I play an open-world game. I beat the main story
I stop so I'm trying to reverse
Psychology this I'm just like do it. I do a chapter and then I force myself. I'm like, okay go explore
That's really they mean that the game is huge. It's awesome to explore
but usually I do that as like a,
like, oh, do this so you can play the game longer,
but now I'm just doing it literally by choice.
It's not like I'm not forcing myself anymore.
Now I'm just exploring at all times.
And I feel like I haven't done the main story
in like three days.
Yeah.
Well, now I started speaking yesterday.
I was like, all right, we're doing story.
Literally seven hours later,
I'm like, first quest of the day.
Because you log in and there's so much.
You want to, you know, go get this thing going so you can research that thing and then do you, someone in chat drops by and they're like, Hey, have you seen this item in this place? And you're like, No, I've never been to that side of the map.
You just start wandering.
That's what I love about the game. You just like, you just so much unplanned stuff happened. You go in there with like a plan for that day and you just get sidetracked, but it's fun man.
It's slow fun and then you're like I want to go do some combat
Then suddenly you're like five hour the puddles like what are they puddle then?
Walking around the wood like what's this thing over your puddle? Okay. I'm time to go do some main story quests
You randomly up in the air and in the bicep puddle you jump down main story quest out the puddle one
Okay. Yeah, I do some combat now. I'm
It's weird to talk about the game because there's so much you see that is like unique
that you don't want to spoil it for people.
My favorite experience thus far, and I'm going to talk about it somewhat abstractly,
my favorite experience thus far is getting lost, not knowing where the fuck I'm at
in the like southeast portion of the map.
So for those that know, it's like dragon area essentially, it's like dragon isles
And there's a random thing that's toppled over in smash.
When you go in it and you like solve the puzzle,
and then all of a sudden the thing picks itself up
and just starts moving while you're inside of it.
And this thing goes all the way up into the sky.
You're riding and it's like shifting
and you're whirling around trying to stay inside.
and it started this whole like two to three hour thing
that I just happened to find.
No quest, there's nothing.
There's a random thing that you're gonna solve
and it's gonna open up in an entire area.
It has no, the only reason I went for it was the,
right?
And I don't think that-
Like the four or the four Pella area
with the dragon nest?
Yeah, yeah, like over in that area.
You're the big tree down there.
There's like a little I haven't gotten a JP you just ruin that for me.
I'll play later on today.
That's what they want to be.
What are these spoilers over here, man?
I was literally my gaming experience.
I was literally there like 30 or 40 minutes ago
and I saw the dragons flying around and then I kind of like not really paying
attention to the game.
I was like, OK, I'll come back at the end of the podcast
and then we could really dive into what's going to happen here.
Yeah. But yeah, yesterday, yesterday, I I wanted to do main yesterday
And I just I did literally six hours of the abyss puzzles.
It just doesn't end.
It's good.
I haven't really done too much of the abyss.
Not because what's your completion on it?
Oh, I don't.
Where do you completion on the whole game?
But what's that like on your abyss?
Like in your challenges, if you press Jane, you get her challenges.
Oh, it's probably I don't have the game open right now,
but it's probably super low.
As well.
The thing that I'm furthest along in is the base.
I'm like almost 90% done with the base in terms of getting the companions and upgrading
and all that stuff.
Are you though?
Yes, because I've started paying like $130,000 that they offer, where it's insane amounts
of uptrees.
And I have I think I have max inventory and stuff like that 240 slots personal slots
It's good, but there's
You can get lost doing one thing very easy
None of it has to do
So and that I'm still like what are what are your guys hours? I think I might have them
I'm 75 hours in, Trout, you're at 100 plus, right?
I'm close, I'm almost at 100.
I think after today, I'll be like 97.
Okay.
Mods, you're super far in the story,
but I think you haven't done a lot of the side stuff, right?
No, I have done a lot of side stuff,
but yeah, I focus on the story for like,
actually the story, I felt like it goes really quickly.
So I'm like 80 hours in the game.
I haven't played in a couple of days,
but yeah, like the first like 40 hours was me
just doing everything in the first town.
Like everyone's like, everyone's ahead of you.
Why are you so slow?
I'm like, well, well, I'm just kind of biving out
and doing all the stuff in the main town.
It's kind of fun and stuff.
But then I'm actually glad I did the main story
because I didn't realize they're nerfing the bosses, right?
So apparently I got to do some of the cool bosses
before the nerf.
And they're, they're fun.
They're, they're fun.
also five boss before the nerf the monkey guy he was the only one I got to experience everyone
else was nerd yeah that guy beat the shit out of me man I was like able to test him a food yeah
how do you guys feel about that the difficulty of the game is closely tied to how much food you
have on me I don't mind it because it's a little more sandboxy because it now you just like for
For example, I saw Grimms the other day playing,
and he is doing a no health and stamp upgrades,
plus no pills to revive himself.
So the food, it's up to you.
If you want to make it a little easier,
sure, grind 200 meals, and you could do any boss, whatever.
But if you want to make it a little harder,
you can play your way.
So I don't mind it.
I kind of like it.
Yeah.
Lodz, you got any thoughts on it?
I actually, I do not think they should have nerfed the boss.
It'd be the improvements to the controls and everything else like that, like made the game
feel a lot more responsive and better.
Right.
And it's like a grinding game, right?
You're supposed to upgrade your gear and you're supposed to do those mechanics, hit
your unlock.
So I kind of feel like they nerfed the boss a little bit too soon.
And then maybe they could have done like better onboarding, telling people to like
go grind stuff and do upgrades and get your earring slot and stuff.
I watched some streamers like do that monkey boss after I killed it and they weren't even
used an item slot. They didn't have all their items on you know they're just I think Anthony
Confit I want to call now I do that dude was stuck on that boss for 10 hours.
It was longer than that.
Yeah, you there just getting whoop for like 10 hours like why don't you just go farm
a little bit and then come back to the boss and then do it instead of just you know
just keep on throwing, throwing the body out until he gets it done.
But yeah, he is a persistence with admirable, you know, he, he did not give up.
Well, that's like the lever that you could play with, though.
Like you could make it that hard if you'd like.
Even now, even though it's super nerf, you could just choose to do it a little bit harder.
Like I enjoy this game so much that I think in the future,
I'm probably going to do a playthrough where just I purposefully make it harder.
And then I'll probably download a mod so I don't need to play Cliff.
I could play there's already mods like that that exist now where you can play
Yeah, you could do main story with the other characters
So like I'm probably gonna do a run like that. I'm gonna purposely make it a little bit harder
Maybe no pills. Maybe, you know, just limit yourself in certain ways
I I think I think it
Nerfing the main story bosses makes a lot of sense like I really do because some people
The dads and moms grandpa's grandma's like they got a game to you know, I mean sure
Yeah. Yeah. Z. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. We got a game too. Yeah. Maybe they could put
a make it. Maybe they could put a totem at the boss's entrance, right? And like make it
like a tie in the witches. The witches make the boss easier for like the dad gamers. So
like, you know, like how before like most bosses like an anvil or grindstone that
you like click to boost your gear. Maybe there's a little totem. You click it and
puts on dad game remote little nerf boss and they just have like the normal boss
for people. I don't want it.
The Crimson Desert would be to include that.
Not say any fucking thing about it.
No explanation.
It's just the tone of people like, what is this?
That's it.
That's how the game.
No, like, I honestly just pictured like, like the dad game mod totem,
whatever you hit it.
And instead of attacking the guy, you just break down their mental,
like you're just like, you're better than this.
I'm disappointed in you like all that shit in the boss is just like oh god it just leaves
just walks away. One thing that really fucked me up though by the way playing this game
I'm curious if Shroud or mods have done it or Zeke if you plan to. There's like obviously
map inies and things like that giant databases for the game. I've like been in an area
offline and been like I think I got everything. I think I like found generally everything in this
small little area. So I opened up that peony to look. There's so much hidden things in this game
that I would never have discovered if it wasn't for that website saying like there's five things
right around you that you never saw. Which I guess is great for repeat playthroughs but I feel
I have a lot of FOMO like not hitting everything for sensation. It's kind of like Elden Ring in
in the sense of like, there's quest lines that you could go on
that most people probably have never seen before.
They would have to search it up.
Yeah.
Let's go with exploration,
but no, you're right with the quest line stuff.
That stuff is very niche.
How have you been doing that?
Have you been looking up God's JP
or have you been doing like a godless playthrough?
So like, you've been using map genie for stuff.
Have you been doing?
I did it for one piece of gear
because I had the piece,
I had like the gear set of a certain gear set and I was like, man,
I really want to complete this gear set, but I have no idea where the fuck to go.
Yeah.
So I, I wouldn't like looked up where it was and then went over and got it.
And if I didn't, if I wouldn't have done that, I never would have found
because they hide the stuff so well because it's so plain,
I guess in terms of the world that it was a random cave.
uh at the bottom of like a massive mountain range that the only way you can see it is if you're looking
straight at it. If there's no there was nothing like a round bit to uh to see with your sword or
or anything like that it was just pure exploration. It's the only way I would have done it. Well one
of those caves on the block so after you do like a puzzle because a lot of the games like that
right you like do a certain puzzle and then like shows all the areas on the map of
interest without actually going to it. Oh, right. So it'll do that for like everything.
Because I know there's a lot of time stuff for that with the puddles. Yeah,
like some of the hidden caves and stuff. I don't think I don't think it's everything.
But yeah, a lot of points of interest are revealed with puddles and stuff and
side objectives and quests. Got it. Okay. Yeah, I didn't know that they seem to chain
together a lot. If you liberate one area, it'll chain to another liberation or another
other quest lines somewhere like it kind of has you doing everything.
Oh, Chats, I'm gonna give you a consumable, you have to use.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, that's so yeah, look at like the puddles.
That's like the
Go ahead, David.
There was talking to one.
What were you saying about it?
I'd not.
Just like the murals on the wall like those one puddles like we get to find
the orientation of the device friend that gives you consumable
and then it shows you like the point of interest on the map like gold
Beings and stuff and the caves and those things like that. Yeah
Do you know the public debt not to spoil that for you? I
Only have heard what you said
But I didn't really know that there were things in the game that unveiled other stuff
Yeah, I knew I've happened upon like maps where it'll be like, oh, here's all the blank
paves in this area or like the bells that you can find in towns that will show you the map,
but I didn't realize it would go from, it would go and show you all the different ways.
I actually don't like the bell because it revealed everything I don't know where I have or have not
gone. So you get like going like a, you'd like make a little grid pattern after you've clicked the
bell, you're okay, I want to go in North, South, back and forth, East, West and like cover
like an entire grid, but then it makes it harder to explore for me because
they want to make sure you get every square inch. Yeah.
They don't like like gray it out or whatever.
They have fog of war until you find the bell.
The bell reveals. That's what I'm saying. When you find the bell,
it reveals a lot of shit.
But once you go to that shit, it doesn't like gray it out to tell you
you've been there. No. No.
Yeah. The thing that it does do is when you look at a location in your map,
on the right hand side, there's two dots
And if both of those dots are filled, that means you've finished that area.
That's the only way I've seen completion.
Okay.
And I had to have chat tell me that because it's also there's no other way to know that
it means that it's also when you hover over a point of interest, the dot is either filled
or it's not meaning you've been there or you haven't.
Okay.
That's okay.
So it's you can just hover over it.
You don't have to get in the commandium.
Yeah, so like what do you get back in and plays as you go like when you go to the town
He's like you got to look up in the air like in the sound to find a bell
And they're just in different points or like in tower and stuff
And if you ring it then it reveals the area but then that also removes the fog of the war
So it kind of like a little bit in the first three hours I played I found a bell and like what is this?
And I climbed up on the belt turn and I rang it. I was like, oh shit
Okay, so this is like the the reveal the map
mechanic. Yeah, here's this is not really a spoiler, but I just
wanted to show chat. These are all of the things that are like
content within the game. It's fucking absurd. All of these are
like hidden caves or NPCs or items that you can loot or you
You know, it's insane and and you can zoom in like that far like that.
That's a small town.
So once you start to like, there's so much Christ.
Yeah.
Well, you just ran the game for me.
JPI just remembered every single one of these spots.
I can't believe you.
Luckily you're old.
So you're going to be forgetting about five minutes.
Stupid photographic memory.
Yeah, unless you have photographs.
I will also say the story gets better towards the back half.
The first four chapters are pretty fucking boring.
But the back half is like, I'm kind of interested. I'm around right where Shroud is chapter eight, chapter nine.
Yeah, mods are a little bit further than me, but I'm not sure about that.
Like I guess the end or the middle of the beginning of the end or whatever you want to call it, but
it's not as bad as they made it seem, I guess, and they opened up the game with very fucking
boring. I don't know. I didn't really thought it was that bad. I just think people associate
what the quest has you doing as good or bad and at the very beginning they have you doing
weird fetch quests and that's a little odd, you know what I mean? It's like once the fetch
quests stop and they feel more like mainline quests then you're like oh it's actually not that bad
but I feel like they just, I don't know, kind of troll. I kind of change from like
fetch quests and escort quests to like here is a massive battle and this battle is going to be
you know, a pretty large chunk of a chapter that have like,
they'll take this fucking pie to this guy.
Yeah, I thought that was a really weird design choice to make it.
So your first few chapters of your main game and main story is like,
oh, sweep up a chimney.
It's super weird.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's very, very.
people with all the pop-ups right here to introduce like the different tools and stuff that wasn't like the most exciting right it's like
giving you all the different things like in the game like when you like go to a puddle or whatever you're like what am I going to do to this like punch it like shine my laser on it right pull on it right you're
like you're just doing like some litmus test and stuff you're like what the puddle of different things what's going to work here yeah
Yeah.
Lop it.
Exactly.
It turns into one of those.
There was, I had the unfortunate incident of going back into one of the main towns and
the guy that Stranger runs up to you and hands you a little card or whatever.
And I think I was in chapter five.
He hands you a card and he's like, Hey, this is how stamina works.
I'm 40 hours in or some shit.
Why are you giving me a note card from some random character that I haven't met yet
about how stamina work.
There seems to be some interesting triggers
that might need to be finely tuned.
And then there's a lot of puzzles that just,
like a lot of people praise this game for no yellow paint,
which is cool, but then there's a lot of puzzles
that is very yellow paint.
It's like it was made by like two different people,
parts of this game.
That's what I feel like.
It's very segmented.
Trying to think, like give me an example
of a yellow repuzzle if you can
without, I guess, spoiling the, uh, I don't know, the, the oiling drill, the, the, the
chocolate factory, the potion making factory.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
A lot of the like main quest stuff, there is a lot of yellow.
Well, they're not even, they're not even main.
None of those are main.
I think one of them might be, but I've done like, there's a whole, I don't want to
spoil it, but yeah, that's, it's just, it's just side stuff.
It doesn't just get to like a little item, but it is for sure a puzzle, but it
just gives and that it gives you like the context with with the shining of the
lights and then the yellow paint and beard this is for damn trout have either
of you happened upon a puzzle that you weren't able to solve left no you could
always be like chat what's the answer but yeah people like I don't think
sometimes you'll spoil but be the puddle I had the hardest time on was this
thing we're gonna hold I go into his library and I smashed the desk I
I couldn't find this small object on the ground.
I literally walked around this place forever.
I feel like, okay, so like the premise of the puzzle
would be like put stuff in a pot, right?
And then I'm like, okay, there are different objects.
I literally just could not find the object on the ground.
And then once I finally found it, I'm like,
oh my goodness, this is what I was looking for
this entire time.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah.
I didn't, go ahead, Trump.
Also Sam, I've never really had one
that I haven't been able to solve
but I haven't been stuck on one for I think almost an hour.
Really?
I don't know about that.
Yeah, and it was, this isn't going to spoil the puzzle,
because it's like a sequence of if you go in the wrong order,
you mess up the mechanism.
So it's all scrambled.
So it's hard to bring it back to the original state.
But all you had to kind of do was fast travel,
reset the puzzle so that the state is the same,
the beginning state, and then solve it from there.
and then once I finally did that.
Oh, you're talking about the measurement ones.
It was one of the, it was one of the abyss ones.
I was going crazy.
I was just, I was turning stuff, moving stuff
and then I slightly misaligned it.
And then once it's slightly misaligned,
you can't bring it back until you fast travel.
That one drove me bad.
Yeah, I guess to clarify for last week,
I was talking about one puzzle that I spent
in the far west area near
Near like the college or the school whatever that place is called
There's a thing where you can like bring pillars to recover a pillar thing
Cover like this small area of the town that it triggers cuts into a boss spawns
Apparently you have to be further ahead in the story for that boss
So I did it so early that the boss didn't
school. I think there's a quest that leads to that. Or you have to have a certain amount
of rep with a package. I'll probably end up figuring out how to get that to trigger what
I mean, hooking it up. But the other thing is the internet's kind of been defeated at
the moment. A lot of the quests, you can't Google for them because people haven't figured
matter people haven't made a guide for them so fucking many you can't like to
straight up Google it was maybe the best time to play in terms of how to
figure that out I feel like that's why I'm partially why I'm grinding it so
much it's like this game seems like a game where you play it too late
everyone's gonna have the answer to everything and know everything so getting
ahead of it now while it's still fresh is good because I've I had that
problem with Elbin ring Elbin ring I actually refused to play on launch
because it ran so poorly and I kind of regret that because I played it a year and a half later
and I was like dude this is the best game I've ever played and I wish I got to experience it
when everyone else did yeah you're on the zeitgeist of it yeah finding out of everything
that's my favorite word by the way I can see Zeke smiling as soon as I said he
He loves that word, that zeitgeist word.
He uses it whenever he can.
It was his daily calendar ripoff page like a couple years ago and he just hasn't stopped
using it.
That's right.
I don't know if you're going to get that with this game.
I mean, maybe you will.
It's kind of different than Elden Ring, right?
Because Elden Ring, I felt like the exploration was, they didn't do the yellow paint
thing that much, I guess, but you kind of knew when you would look at an area that
There was going to be a cave or something in Elbin, right?
And this game, I think the terrain is deceptive enough
that that's not the case.
And until you kind of learn the different clues of like,
oh, that's a waterfall that I can go into,
plus you know that stuff, then you just
think it's a normal waterfall, like 100% of the time.
So I guess it isn't.
It isn't.
I just feel like playing before you get to this.
I feel like the sense of mystery and exploration,
like when you're, I guess this might be a streamer problem,
more so than like a normal.
It's definitely a streamer problem.
Yeah, it's a streamer problem, right?
Cause like later, a year and a half later
when I played Elden Ring during the DLC
and I was exploring it, everyone's like,
go here, do this boss, go here now, do this now.
But when I play this game,
every now and then someone goes like,
yeah, you should try to get this thing
that they saw on TikTok or whatever,
but it's not that relevant.
But in a year, if you play this game for the first time,
everyone's gonna know everything
and they'll just spam your chat where to go.
And that's what I'm saying.
Well, I'm sure you guys, if you're streaming it,
it's awesome when someone joins the stream,
it's like, oh man, your character looks so fucking cool.
Where is that blank?
Most of the time I can't tell them
because I don't, one, remember, or two,
I don't know how to adequately say where to go.
Yeah, I don't know.
I honestly just remember someone coming on my stream
and making fun of what my character looked like.
I don't know about this one clown show over here with them cowboy
frills on your you got to look you don't have that the fashion
you know, like my fashion expression. It's unique here.
Not everyone has to like, you know, pick up some generic
setup and look like a garden town.
You know, I've been watching the last 10 minutes mods
and I gotta say you look and get don't worry about it.
I think so too.
I think you do look good.
Everybody has this problem with this game where they all go get the big plated armor, and they all just look like a
generic armored soldier like okay
Yeah, like I like come on man like you're just looking like a soldier like get something a little creative like I'm wearing a cute little
Raccoon hat right now. I look adorable
J feel it's like his mom dressed him up for battle
I don't know why the whole thing looks like that.
How dare you?
Are you going to play with your friends?
You're wearing your dress armor.
You are not allowed to go outside in your dress armor.
How dare you?
I look, I'm on fleet, as the kids say.
That's right, that's still the hip language.
I look great.
I like that,
But one of the coolest things about the die merchant in this game is you can change the material finish on your armor sets and stuff.
I guess that's a carryover from BDO.
And they're MMO.
Like you can make yourself a fucking the mirror night.
Yeah, even souls are dark.
Some of the loves reflections.
I went all in on that.
Actually, like your current armor set, like the shoulder pad, like really cool in the helmet with the other wing and stuff.
Yeah, I'm I'm chromed out the fucking wazoo
Where'd she get that dude? Where'd you get that helmet the helmets from the southern steel mountain?
It's funny as you were actually in that area the last time I watched you and it was so hard not to type in champ
He'd like you should good
Because he walked by like ten times and I was like he has no fucking idea
Yeah, it's a game doesn't know now when I go back there. I'll be looking for it
But I don't know what I'm playing the game. I usually just I don't know you guys. I just have my sword out
I'm just always flashing looking for everything. You right be the reveal stuff. Yeah
Yeah, it doesn't tell you doesn't tell you that much though. It's just like the cubes and
The fast travels doesn't tell you like yeah puzzles or secret caves or bosses or anything. You still got to do that figure it out
I get annoyed by that because unless you have elevation, you can't see shit.
Like if you're in the middle of like a cannon or something,
and you try to shine your sword to go somewhere, you're not good, which I get.
Right. They don't want to have it be wall hack.
A lot of times you can't see shit.
Speaking of wall hack.
Uh, I'm a cheater.
No, um, yeah, no.
Whatever you're going to say is like,
shout this whole career.
No, the reason why I'm the reason why I'm the reason why I'm the reason why I'm the reason why I'm the reason why I'm the reason why I'm the reason why I'm the reason why I'm the reason why I'm the reason why I'm the reason why.
The reason I was pausing is because I didn't want to spoil something, but it got changed anyway.
There's a helmet in the game that made it so you could see every single chest.
It doesn't matter. Three three thousand meters away.
It all just little dots.
You could see little dots everywhere and they nerf that in today's patch.
Oh, I actually saw that on Twitter today.
It looked cool. So were you using that to explore?
I was not. I saw it through just a buddy of mine.
He showed me and I was like, well, that's really cool.
but that seems kind of broken.
But yeah, they'd nerfed it, so it's not that.
I think it still can look through walls and look at chests,
just not like that.
So I don't know what particular helmet is that was doing it,
but they did buff another helmet that shows you nearby things.
I don't know if they went a different route.
The pirate helmet or like the pirate helmet?
It's like the pirate and constellation helmet, yeah.
Yeah, apparently you can see things
kind of like in or 20 meters out which prior to the patch it was fucking
useful but I don't know if I want to mess with my drip game
wearing a goddamn pirate hat with my plate armor you know I don't want to
look like mods out here. I feel like you should just get a
pirate outfit going too you know. I don't know. Different outfits or
different occasions. Then they're gonna have to put loadouts in the game
okay at that point we need loadout where you just put on a whole slew of
armor. They should definitely have loadouts. There's a lot of
times I have to swap armors all the time for different scenarios.
Yeah. Are you talking about for like resistances or what what
scenario resistances and and depending on my like if I'm a gap
if I'm my gathering set versus my potential movement set versus
my
resistance set. Well, yeah, because like that you can get
stuff that gives you doubles and triples of mining and all
that. So I don't know. Either is just fun. Yeah, I think it's cool to make sales.
I agree. I want them to put in the idea of being able to hide different
armor pieces like they give you a. Is it is it? I don't know if this is a spoiler
mute. If you don't want to know about a thing that happens late in the game
that is only cosmetic, but you get a you unlock a barber like 60 hours in
to come to your camp. You can change like the haircut and stuff, but you never take off your fucking helmet.
The only time you ever see his face is when he's going to sleep.
And that's it.
So like make it so you can toggle helms or something. Does your helmet, does your visor go up on your helmet?
No, mine is full.
Unfortunately. I forgot that I had a porn staff.
I felt like a giant hornstash on my head.
And so every time he shows when I sleep,
it's just him doing this, like playing back.
Like a playgirl spread or something.
Stared at me.
I laughed every time.
It's really funny.
Also, yes, I did get, everyone's got the fat cat.
I know.
Mods, do you have the fat cat yet?
You gotta get a fat cat.
No, I've been feeding the cats and stuff like that,
but I've mostly been doing the dogs.
I felt like a husky tooth that I thought was really cool.
They're like, you know, like all your different breeds and stuff
that you can find in the world.
Yeah.
No, you can give them armor, which is also awesome.
So I've got like a fat cat and played armor that's walking around.
Yeah.
He's really cute.
I was watching yesterday.
It's really fun.
They like drop up on your shoulder or they pop up on your
shoulder and really just some shit that they add into the game for flavor.
in it. I don't think there's anything else. Oh, the big patch last night, one of the things
they added was new mounts. A lot of people are complaining that when you go and fight
an animal, you can ride or mount the animal mid-fight. It becomes a mount, but the second
that you demount, you never see that animal again. So now they added a bunch of different
ones where you can, uh, mount them and I think it's fucking awesome because I got, uh, we'll
say a bear mouth and in combat, when you deem out, he fights for you. That's cool. Yeah.
Because if you start calling on your companions and you have your companions with a giant
fucking bear. And then your little cat running from body to body like picking up.
That's funny. Yeah, that happened to me when I started the game. I encountered a bear right
in the woods right out of the tack in it. And it was like, I was pretty weak. And then
I mounted on it. I'm like, is the coolest thing ever. So I'm like, okay, in order to keep
this thing to bring to the stable. So I rode like across the map and I jump off the thing
and it started killing everybody.
I was like, wait, hold on.
The cow's being all like, don't do that to the cow.
Yeah, it was kind of close.
I keep putting this bear mount on, yeah.
What was that?
Was that easy?
I said, thus your legend was born,
like a lone rider came out of the woods on a bear.
He just murdered our entire village
by letting the bear eat us.
No, it like, look, I finished the fight
and the bear's like, I'm hungry.
Fucking chew it on people
Also the bear will feed on people. Yeah. Yeah, I
It's so awesome that that should exist in the game. I love
exists
I wonder if they'll ever put in like an animal husbandry mechanic like where you could like breach your mounts to like get better staff and stuff
Hey video. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah
They have like a farm. Yeah the farm fun
I don't really have anything useful. You have to go like grab the animals and bring them back a little bit of an annoyance
Yeah, a bunch of goats. You got a bunch of goats. I think you can buy you can buy like chickens from the vendor
Think they get the rare
Farm animals you have to rate raise your rep a lot of the other stable people
Yeah, rep is super important with a lot of vendors you'll find like that's why I find a lot of my legendary creatures and stuff is just
bribing people essentially by giving them gifts.
Yeah, they also fixed the bank speaking of bribes.
I wouldn't bribe the bankers, but when you would give
gold to the bank, if it dipped below the price of gold,
they would just eat your gold.
Yeah, that happened to me.
It was a bug.
And so there's a place where you can steal gold from people
and I went and did that quick, got a bunch of gold bars and then went and put it to the bank and now I've got like three or four thousand gold.
Three or four thousand silver just sitting there.
And it's good. It didn't bug on me.
And you can steal from them and not get yelled at.
Living a life at the Ever, I can't believe it.
This is a bit of a spoiler. You could actually make currency like in a lot of ways. There's a lot of gambling in the game.
and some of them literally gambling. Yeah. Yeah. Like this. Yeah.
I guess my chat, he was like, I'm just same scum of a thing.
He made like three million gold, like gold out of the guy.
He's got them gambling.
He did one hand back out and he just kept them same scum.
He's literally a millionaire in game.
Just never.
There's barely an item that helps you cheat
that those gambling things that I haven't seen anything.
And you can also obviously catch people cheating, which is the best way because those games are pretty hard.
You think that they would just put like blackjack in it, but they made up different card games in here.
Oh, that doesn't surprise me for this game. It doesn't surprise me that they made up like a couple of different gambling-wise games.
There's like four or five different games that I've seen.
Um, it's like, I think it might be all the same type of game, uh, but they use different
symbology or something like a yet another reason why I won't stream it because that would be
the entire strength like one day it would just, would just be me like, all right, let's
reload.
We didn't win.
All right.
Next.
Let's see.
Let's see if we get some more money.
Very good.
Oh yeah.
You think gambling's a big thing now.
You can also, you can also go and play little children and rock,
I did that.
Yeah.
I found, I found kids at the corner and they were like, Hey,
you want to play rock, paper, scissors?
Like sure.
And I lost someone.
Yeah.
I went to RKO that's
who's rock now.
Who's a mouth out there?
Anyone I would get it immediately.
I would just be running through the towns RKO and everyone that
This is me off absolute clothes line again.
You're gonna choose again.
I don't think so.
Wow.
The clothes line is really good because that you can go from clothes line into like a Zengi
spin, I feel apparently there's an Arizona drop in the game, but I don't know where
it's at.
I don't know how you get it.
I might be on another.
I haven't.
It's good.
It's a it's a good, uh, a good game and it seems like they're updating it.
I think it's good enough.
Some legs on it for sure.
The CEO is also out there this past week saying that there's
potential they want to add co-op to it.
At that point, it's like, well, you're just
making the demo.
You're just going back on original plans.
Yeah.
I got excited when I saw that.
But I think they would do a different version, right?
It would be like GT online, so you'd
have the single player and then the co-op version.
I think it would be advice to separate entities.
Yeah, I could see that where they disable maybe main quest
or something to keep all the other stuff.
That would be kind of cool.
Just to go out and explore.
Elden Ring proved that that was a good thing
with that co-op.
Yeah.
One game I really liked that came out last year,
the free-to-play game, was Where Wins Meet.
The only thing I didn't like about it was the time gating.
The time gating was horrendous.
I hated that.
But on Legendary difficulty, the game
with really fun and it was kind of like the same premise of this game just go around and do everything.
It's like, well, we can't have everything.
Thanks for sponsoring me.
Wait, did you have a big sponsorship for JP?
They, I don't know why, but they come back to me every month.
I've got three more sponsored streams next week for it.
Is there really?
Yeah, that'll be like my, I want to save a sponsored me 20 plus three.
What?
That's insane.
Wait, tell the guy about me.
What am I, good name?
I don't know, I don't know.
I'm like max level and all that.
I played the shit out of it.
I kind of see similarities between this and everyone's
meet, in terms of desert and where everyone's meet.
Did you, by the way, see the newest update?
I'm about to get to the hashtag sell out.
It's completely different from the rest of the game.
I was talking about it on the show a while back,
but Zeke and Co don't play where everyone's at.
It was just lost on it's unlike anything else in the game that you've seen before.
You go to like a dream world.
No, I haven't seen that now.
Yeah, it's wild.
I did not expect that.
Anyways, I'll do my sponsored bit.
And then we're going to do we're making me play at 10 p.m.
on a Wednesday night.
That's what I'm doing.
It's called gamer hours.
What do you mean?
You're walking at five.
10 p.m. on a spot on a Wednesday night.
What else are you gonna be doing attemptional ones they watching anime no
I'd be playing Lee and watching probably your fucking dumb stream
Yeah, probably better. You don't play Lee. I think the toxicity has been coming out
Yeah
What else I guess the last thing you both skipped wow you guys are usually kind of
Our gamers what happened?
the whole expansion. Yeah, this is the first time I've ever not played a wild
expansion ever in my entire life. Yeah, I've played from close beta. Yeah, I am
okay. I think I feel liberated a little bit, but also I've been like watching
people, you know, I mean, like where you're watching through the window and
you're like touching the window. Like I kind of want to go in there, but I
I don't want to go in. So yeah, it's like, I don't know if you like to tell me it's like really good like that.
You like doing like the mythic plus and stuff like that. They're saying that that's good. And the other rate like pretty good.
Yeah. So it's easier this time around. I don't know why they skewed on like easier content.
But I don't necessarily mind that.
I did try, I bought it, I started leveling, um, but it just, I don't know, I don't know
if it's dude, it's so depressing seeing my bar and having like eight, not eight, more
like like 16, but still, like, that, dude, I was just doing two button rotations and
that made me so sad and I know you could just play a different class and probably,
There's probably a different class. That's a little bit more elaborate, but like
It would sit it just hit me that I just don't
Really want to level to max because when I was leveling it was just go go run over here
Talk to a few people then go pick up a few books then go talk to another person
Then go pick up a few more books and talk to another person
Go kill three things go pick up a few books and you level kind of fast boom you're 81 you're 82
You're 83 84, but you got to get all the way up to 90
Yeah, and I got and at that moment and I did that for a couple hours
And I was like, you know what? I don't I don't want to do this like it's like why why I'm not having fun leveling
And I know the game's gonna get better once I'm like at max, but
Maybe I'll do it when they have a boost and then I'll boost up tonight. I just I was so
Poor leveling I couldn't do it. I've never had that happen before. Wow. I don't know why
weird the last you played a lot of
Did you play a lot of burning crusade classic? Yeah, I was I was playing burning crusade at that time as well
And then I think that's kind of why I was like, okay
Well, I'm not gonna play two versions of wow, so then I was like all right
I'm gonna stop playing but burning crusade
So I made that and once I made that like agreement to myself that I'm done with burning crusade and not playing wow
I think that also reinforced the idea of like
You know, maybe my maybe my days a while or slowly ending. I don't know who knows. Maybe I'm looking for something new
I mean, you go in and out of it, definitely a sick little game like that.
Um, I had a great time using one.
I casual.
Fuck.
I was doing all the raids by holding one button.
You're the great party.
Yeah.
I was main tank.
So it didn't matter.
Like it was like damage.
I was just sitting there doing nothing.
Look at your tank.
You still have to try to pump damage.
That's the rule.
You're going to not do a lot of damage.
What we were, we were on the final boss of the newest rate final boss.
Yeah.
And what did you do?
Normal, heroic.
Yeah.
We were just normals for the first, uh, the first week, I get, maybe it was
second anyways, um, I had to go pick up my dog from daycare.
So I left to go pick up my dog.
And when I was gone, uh, one of the members of the raid was like
parsing and looking at all the parses, the boss skills that we've done
this far.
And so I got back and everyone on the raid was like
You have taunt on your bars
And I was like what do you mean?
Because you didn't taunt a single fucking time in the raid so far
And I was like, well, yeah, I've got like a vision shield I don't really need to taunt
I just like attack mob and I build threat like nearly you should be taunting on like first globally you fucking moron
I wasn't not the current state of World of Warcraft. I don't know
Yeah, you can fair a lot of people my family play World of Warcraft like a white play that her sister and her mom
And they've been loving the housing thing. They just all do the housing together. Yeah housing. Yeah
I'm sad. I figured you'd be super into the house
Yeah, no, that's right. I'd love. Yeah, I love the housing in like, for example, ESO I spent literally like three days on my house. Okay.
What happened? Well, I thought I would like it in. Wow. But I probably would. I just I'm midnight. I haven't really given a chance because I was so painstakingly bored of leveling. It was awful.
So maybe, like I said, maybe when the way me, maybe when there's a boost,
I'll, I'll boost up and then I'll do the content. But I also just feel like
at the end of the expansion, I guess.
Yeah, maybe, but I also feel like I'm looking for something new.
Maybe as I get older, I'm looking for newer things, you know?
It doesn't exist.
Like other MMOs or?
Yeah, maybe because other MMOs, I've played WoW for 20 years.
Maybe I'm just looking for something new.
Well, do you ever want to play Final Fantasy?
Let me know.
That's just it.
I think he said new JP.
After you get through 250 hours of story,
but you have to aim all the way up there.
You don't love that.
No, it would be cool if like a new modern MMO came out that just captivated everybody.
There's like a few like indie MMOs that are playtesting and stuff right now.
There's some larger ones, but I don't really know.
Like Chrono Odyssey, like those devs are trying to prove their game.
Actually, Shroud killed me in the game.
I was randomly at like a quest giver at the starting town.
Yeah.
And there's some maniac running around a bomb that's blowing up everybody.
I was there chilling, like crafting some gear, doing some questing stuff, and I just died.
I'm like in shock. I'm like, what the heck is this? And like everyone like,
Shroud killed GKW. Like, and I got Shroud. Like, the entirety of that playtest.
I just started a common line of explosives. I had all of my viewers and we just picked up
barrels and killed everybody. It was awesome. We were just blowing up everybody in town.
Yeah. I mean, I think in a lot of ways, I'm sitting this kind of like, right? Like there's no MMO component.
I at least have treated that game around the conversation with friends and everyone's jumping in, discovering things, talking about bells and all that stuff.
It's kind of the same. We're definitely not playing an MMO.
No, it definitely has MMO elements.
I mean, the knowledge system in general, how you're kind of like completing everything
and trying to pick stuff up and just make the knowledge go up reminds me of Lost Ark, Aeon
2 as well.
Yeah.
A lot of those Eastern MMOs do that kind of system where you do a lot of collecting
and then it increases your power.
Yep.
I don't know if we'll ever get like a new big, I guess, riot.
I don't know if it exists at this point.
You've got to be careful.
I don't really know of any other thing.
Kind of a dying genre has been committing a year.
Or did that riot MMO that might come out
that I don't know if it exists at this point.
I thought you said mods.
You gotta get attention mods.
You gotta get attention.
You're falling behind when you're in faster bedtime.
Well, I didn't wake up early.
Yeah.
I love this watching Shroud play Crimson Dethner.
There it is.
I'll stop there for a second.
I appreciate both of you because it's like
was here. He's playing again and he has no idea what the fuck to say at all times.
Yeah. Right. That was the first time it happened. I was actually just going to not watch in the
video. Oh, you're watching this. You're watching
Shroudstream or you're watching me just sitting here before this. No, I'm sitting.
No, yeah, I'm sitting. I'm watching that too. Yeah. I'm watching both things.
I'm gonna be passing video right now.
Yeah, he's very desperate.
Streamer Maxing.
Zee, I know you've been playing, um, oh god, now I'm fucking blanking on the thing.
It's all right.
Containment.
Yeah.
Quarantine.
Quarantine, there you go.
Yeah.
Do you ever find Dan?
An old Quarantine.
I did.
day he was the first he was the first uh... customer on the very last day
we finally found out that that you can running gag in our channel because it's
randomized
like there's but there's a ton of streamers in this
most of which i don't know but i think it was in it and there's a few other
ones in dan's gaming
and i saw every single ice where to go every single other like content
creator
and then dan very last i finally got him
I tested the theory, can you kill somebody in the game
while they're being quarantined
by hitting them in the balls enough times?
And the answer is, I don't think so.
As I hit Dan 10 times, right in the nads, and he didn't die.
So either he has iron balls or it doesn't work.
But yes, we finally found him.
He had, I don't know if he has more voice lines,
but he hit at least two.
And one of them was like,
can we hurry this up?
I got a stream to go to.
And I was like, oh yeah, okay, yeah, sure.
And then you send him along the other way,
either to the quarantine zone or to the firing squad
or to the survivors area.
And he's like, oh, is this a VIP area?
I think, oh, okay, thank you.
But I ended up, it was the final date
of the quarantine zone, like the end game.
and uh...
he was the last like
i'd i'd put him in the quarantine
and when you're in quarantine
you uh... the reason i put people in quarantine
is because they have
middling symptoms meaning there's green symptoms
uh... yellow orn symptoms or red symptoms red systems
is a death sentence insecure
uh... orn symptoms you wait to see if they get better or worse
uh... after a day
so i put him in the quarantine zone
and i and they give you uh... late game they give you this
like shot. It's a limited time you shot, but you can see if someone's infected or not without
doing any tests on him. And I did that. The very last, the very last thing I did in the
game was I went to the quarantine zone, see if Dan was infected and he was not, but he
was still very suspicious. So I, I turned on the burners in the chamber and there he
is.
Yeah.
There's Dan.
What if that dance gave him rolling on the ground?
Yeah.
Matt has hit him.
man. I struck him many, many
times. Just to see if it would
kill him, but it never did.
They have a great animation, but
I ended up burning it just because,
you know, just in case. Yeah,
you should always. Yeah. And then
only in an honestly like late
game, it costs you a thousand
bucks, which is like, man, what
happened? I literally did this
for like 40 minutes. What?
I'm telling you I just I told my chat I said I would continue to do it to see if someone could die from it and no
No, they can't
Yep
But uh, yeah quarantine zones fun game. Let's see how long did it take to reach and ending?
There's about I mean me
19 hours, but like for most people probably like
12, 13, something like that.
So the premise of the game, you just had to like kill off the people to win or like save
people.
Yeah.
You have to save people.
So the premise of the game is the zombie apocalypse is broken out.
You're on a checkpoint and you're the one who has to see if they're infected or not.
And you get different tools and progressive tools as you go on.
Like you start with with just like a visual examination.
Okay.
like meta progression with like yeah different like medical devices that you
unlock or whatever exactly like every every so many days you get like you get
like a temperature thermometer you get a x-ray you get a you know all kinds of
different tools the test and see if they're there's on the UV light so on
and so forth and yeah it's like it's like papers please button 3d and they
They also give you other like little side stuff that you can do.
It's very minor side stuff, but it's like at the beginning of the day, you look at there's
a bulletin board and it says like, look out for, you know, uh, Jack Johnson, look out
for Jack Johnson.
He has this and he has like a chainsaw and he has some zombie parts kill him immediately.
And they give you like little things to do every day, like the lookout for and
she like that.
And they give you a base to upgrade.
So like survivor beds, you get more survivor beds,
you get more medical, like the medical tent,
you get like more med kits, the food,
you have to regulate the food,
because if you have survivors, they eat every day
and you have to make sure it's restocked.
You know, it has a minor amount of base building.
It also has like this weird,
everybody who's played this game has like
the same kind of opinion about this weird
like shooter section of the game,
where you take control of like a drone
with like a machine gun,
and like there's a zombie horde coming
and it's just like totally different from the style of the game
the sale game is like
you know no no timers checkpoint
you check everybody and send them through and then there's like
you're a drone out blow up these fucking zombies you're like
it's it works but it's just like weird in the middle of the in the middle of
the you know checkpoint game action but
uh...
no it's really fun
and uh...
especially just like
I don't know if I would have nearly as much fun if I wasn't streaming it because
you, you know, you make fun of the people you talk about, like
the people that come through, you make comments on them.
You know, eventually you like you actually check inside their ass
to see if they're smuggling shit.
You know, I like that kind of stuff, please.
That's how I'm like me whenever I go to the airport, man.
That's exactly what really like me, man.
Exactly. Yeah.
Yeah, you like that right like it's just yes that genre a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so they have like twitch integration then
It does but only on endless mode. I was playing story mode. Oh, which integration hooray
Because then you you can have your audience make survivors for you
But in the core game or in the the campaign they are all kind of set because they're like certain
people have to be there. There are streamers in there like the content creators that are
in the game. There's crossover with Dead by Daylight. So you'll see some Dead by Daylight
people come in and stuff like that. So they can't do it then. But if you do end this mode,
apparently I didn't ever do it. But like your audience can make you know, survivors
and symptoms and all that kind of shit. And I think they're named after them
So there is twitch integration. I just never did it. I never used it. I'm cool
Yeah, would you call this?
What what type is yeah, someone did my chat said checkpoint. Are these yeah check point games?
There is there are several of them out there. There's like papers, please. There's little guard. There's like
Contraband police. Yeah, there's a bunch of those these kind of games
And I and I they're like, okay, you you like this one better than like paper space
Which is like the gold standard for like checkpoint games. I'm like, you know why I do it's because for two reasons one
It's in 3d
It's you know first person and two because they give you little like side shit to do
Like throughout like like one of them one of my favorite things was like if you get a
Zombie in your quarantine like if you wait enough time someone infected will turn into a zombie in your quarantine
You take them out and you make them like a pet like they sit in a cage and you feed them every day
And then at the end when the when the extraction happens like every five days
They have like a convoy come and get everybody they their zombies are worth 2,000 bucks
Yeah
So it behooves you to keep a zombie whenever you get one sure
Yeah, uh, i'm scanning your your indie day for those that don't know Zika's indie day every saturday
You went back to Helmart. Is that worth having about?
I didn't go back to it. I actually never played it.
Oh, in the two hours? Was it bugged or something?
I'm saying like yesterday in the VOD you played for two hours and then went back at the end for another hour.
Oh, went back at the... I see what you're saying. Yes, I did.
Sometimes if I have like half an hour or whatever left of the stream, I'll go back to a game I really enjoyed
from the first F or first part and that was one of them. It was like I left off
without uh...
getting to the seventh day which is kind of a uh... a mechanic in the game like
you're supposed to survive in the hallmark for seven days
and i was like you know what i'd go back let's get the seven-day
and we did it was worth it because there was a
an encounter that i really feel like it was freaky and
well done
but yeah this is one of those games it's
i don't know shops in checkout game but there's a bunch of these are a lot
of these all of us
yeah yeah and usually i don't care for them but this one was all right because
it was pretty streamlined and there was a day night cycle so it wasn't just
checking people out it was like during the day during shop hours you check
people out and you restock your shelves in the grocery store and then during
the night you fend off attacks from the hellish beasts that want to get in
and destroy your shop or destroy you so it had a good mix of of different
mechanics so like it doesn't the the checking out is i mean it's
TBS, but it's it doesn't get stale because
Eventually you go to the night cycle and that's where like, you know, you board up the doors and you have your axe out
And you're waiting for like shit to happen. Yeah, so it's got a good mix of of different actions that you do on the game
I'm always surprised when these type of games do so well on
You were bait point of view. Yeah, every time someone streams one of these people are like, I know man. It's so weird
It's so weird
There's like the anime simulator one. There was like the movie one that recently came out. I saw
Gass, you know, plan. I don't know what it is about. Yeah.
And then there was another game that was that's that I think is probably we're talking about
called Project Songbird that I might go back to because it had some it had some potential
to be something good it's it's a the premise of the game is you are a musician who has writer's block
and your agent is like hey there's this cabin in the woods uh way out in the middle of fucking
nowhere where i've sent many artists and they come back and they write the best music of their life
and they they bring the songs back so that's the premise of the game is like go out to this
cabin and get this inspiration and yada yada yada and then it turns into like
like trippy horror, like dream sequence, stuff like that, all the while you're trying to shake
it off going like, that's not real. No, I just need a bucket. I need a bucket for water.
And you go get the bucket for water. Like that kind of shit. So it has some, the voice
acting, it's really great. The environments in it is pretty cool and creepy. The music
it is actually not bad because it actually shows like you trying to put together a song
at the very beginning and it just sucks ass, it's so bad, like you make this song like
let's add some drums, here's a bass, let's put some guitar in, and without knowing it
you just make this like grungy awful crap, and then you explore the place a little
bit more and you get like, you go around and you collect sounds with you, you got
a recorder audio recorder and you go to like record the sound of a babbling bro
can you record the sound of a woodpecker and something that's like oh yeah it's
cool sound let's put it in the next next song we make whatever but I only
played it for a couple hours but it was intriguing enough that I might I might
go back to it and and check it out again how do you find these indie games
I play a lot of smaller games but it's mostly like roguelike games you
know sure how do you find these type of like indie games it's the best that's
best part I don't find them. I have a Discord channel for just indie game suggestions and
I get inundated with people like try this one, try this one, try this one, here's another
one, here's another one. And they just give them to me like I remind people throughout the
week like Indie Saturday give me your indie game suggestions and I have at least like
at the least I have like 15 at the most I have like 40 you know like to parse through
and I usually put up eight of them for people to vote on.
I look through them and go like,
there's a lot of games where I'm like,
this isn't for me, fuck this game.
I'll never play it.
But I'll pick eight of them out of the suggestions
for people to vote on during the day.
And that's how we go.
We just play it and tell, like Max,
usually Max two hours, we play the game.
And then we switch it up to whatever
the audience has voted for.
Okay. Last year, man, I got so addicted to Mega Bonk.
I play games like that all the time, but that one does like me like crack this.
Mega Bonk is good on, is it 10th or 11th?
Vampire crawlers can play that.
Yeah, I heard Chad was actually telling me about that. Vampire crawlers, yeah.
That game's gonna be super fun.
And it's gonna be this month of April.
Okay.
If you want if you want like I like games that are kind of addictive and low like low effort meaning like
There's not a bunch of story or anything like that
There's a couple games I can recommend to you that I've played recently talked about in the show already
scratchy scratchy, which is a lottery game
and
the coin game
And the coin game you can play it two ways one is like survival mode and one is like birthday mode
Survival mode means you have to eat and sleep and earn money and she like that birthday mode
They just give you all the money you want and you can play all these like
Kilt and Chuck E. Cheese like s carnival games or like that kind of shit like and there's a lot of them in there
So those are fun. Those both are pretty
Pretty fun little time wasters. Oh
Yeah, the scratchies
Yeah, it's an incremental progressive game where you scratch the lottery tickets and
it's fun.
You can't win real money though, can you just end game money?
No, no, thank God.
Thank God for that because because old Zeke used to have a problem with gambling.
No, I'm not. I'm I really have to relegate myself because in Montana, any bar you can
have like when I used to live in Montana, I live in Colorado now, but like in Montana,
any bar to have a casino machine could have a key or a poker machine in them. And it
was just everywhere. And yeah, daddy like, yeah, I used to live in Las Vegas and you'd
go to the grocery store and there's slot machine to app the grocery store, you know, you'd be
getting your chicken and rice and you're walking out and they just had all that just right there.
You're like, okay, this is different. Oh, yeah. People everywhere nonstop. Yeah. It was everywhere.
You go to the gas station, you know, you're filling up. They're there grocery store.
It's always hilarious when you, uh, at least when I would fly into Vegas,
they would always have the slots right there in the airport.
Yeah, the people like run to those machine
Yeah, they lose everything at Vegas and then on their way out they lose even more before they get on their plane. It's wonderful
It's he always seems so silly to me because they're not silly
But it seems so just devious to me like once you get out the plane
It's like I have like a lot of people will budget shit for Vegas and be like I got
$2,000 and then you leave the airports like I've got $20 left.
Yeah, it's a big biggest work.
That is one last question, Trout, for you only because I'm I'm
curious for myself. What what's like the next big FPS coming
out, looking forward to next big FPS. Oh man, I found myself
thinking about this and I don't know what it is.
I
Don't know there's a large arsenal of like single-player games that are coming out right you got like the new bond game fable
PTA supposedly
Kind of think kind of work my brain here to see if there's any first-person shooters
I did I don't know I don't think there is one right now
They kind of come out randomly and I feel like as time goes on these first-person shooter games
It's kind of sad. The high guard situation is a perfect example of it. Everybody wants big
Corpo to stop sucking. So then big Corpo people split off, they make their own company, get some
investments, they try to make their own game. It doesn't work. Those people go right back to
big Corpo and I feel like we're just in this loop because no one's giving these games enough
of a chance. So I don't know. I'm in a weird situation where I feel like multiplayer, first
person shooter, live service titles are going to be triple A devs, maybe like one tier under
that and nothing else. I feel like every time we see like a smaller studio try to make it,
it just doesn't work. It's tough.
They're at the, they're at the rumor of StarCraft doing some shooter.
Yeah, we'll start crab ghost, but I don't know. Yeah, there doesn't have an extraction shooter yet though. Yeah, we need one. Yeah, we need one.
Oh, yeah, we'll probably get something there. Hopefully, maybe it's going to happen. They've been talking about this extraction shooter survival game.
We've been talking about all sorts of genres that we've heard over the years.
Yeah.
What can I usually blither nowadays?
They look at the trends, and like three years later, they release a game within that trend.
So it kind of follows to you now.
Yeah.
Blizzard's been like that for a while.
Yeah, I feel like the only thing I could think of is keeping your eye on Arc Raiders,
keeping your eye on Marathon.
I think marathon's gonna have its biggest season two or three or four down the road not launch
I think that's gonna be a peak
So I think when it comes to first person shooters
Yeah, it's just owned by triple a or like double a or whatever you want to call them
Devs and we just have to wait patiently for really good updates
Where's where's the deadlock?
Meter at deadlock is gonna be insane, but I just we don't know because it's just we don't have a date
like if you were to tell me if that was coming out this year I would say yeah
everybody in the world is gonna play that game I think the game's gonna take
over literally everything
I'm a firm believer it makes sense the player that's on that game have been
going up like crazy right it's been in what a while and every
Yeah, they're doing like such sweeping changes. I guess they don't feel comfortable, you know.
They're not ready to monetize yet. Yeah, that game will definitely dominate.
Even without it being surely open, they're already averaging 150,000 to 1K numbers, Andy, again.
It's doing very very well. So people are chomping at the bit
What was the other thing oh yeah chat someone in chat would me to ask you about the recent counter strike
Arguably like one of the biggest changes to counter strike and the mag size. No, yeah with that with the reload
I think I don't know they explain it. I guess for those that don't know then your thoughts
Yeah, so the mags the mag size change and counter strike is really big one. So now you kind of
when you reload your gun rather than it going like into your arbitrary 120 reserve
bullets it just drops the mag like it's a tactical shooter the whole mag is gone
so if you shoot one bullet you lose 29 if your mag size is 30 so they did that on
all guns all the pistols everything so now if you reload early you drop all of
your bullets and you only get like three or four mags depending on the gun and I
I think it's kind of cool.
I think it's definitely a unnecessary change, I guess,
but it will lead to people spamming their weapons
through smokes and just shooting blindly through doors
or whatever, maybe a lot less frequently.
The one thing that is concerning about it is
it's harder for a new player.
A new player is gonna keep dumping all their mags
and then they're gonna get into an actual fight
and they're gonna have no bullets, but...
I've always been an advocate of counter strike,
adapting and changing and it never has.
So when they do stuff like that,
I think it's really cool, personally.
So is that already live?
Are tournaments already playing on like current patch?
Yeah, all that's life right now.
How is the pro scene taking that?
Are they all happy birds?
I haven't seen any complaints from the pro scene
because it doesn't really matter that much.
like we, why we hold on to 10 years old.
Not me anymore.
They, they, I would assume don't really care
because you're pretty conscious of your bullet count anyway.
You know, so it doesn't really matter that much.
You're not like, when you're shooting through smokes
or doors or shooting for whatever reason,
there's always intent when you're a professional player.
So like, it doesn't really matter, I feel like.
I don't think they're complaining at all.
I haven't seen any complaints.
And then last question, since everyone loves it,
in this current day and age, 2026, Valorant or CSGO?
CSGO.
Oh, oh God.
As someone who's honestly, for some dumb fucking reason,
keeps finding themselves playing CSGO and Valorant
each night, like I'm bouncing back and forth between the two
with friends casually.
I'm actually curious to undertake on this.
Or not CSGO, sorry CS2, yeah, I still see CS2.
Are you, so is this like a,
like you pick one game for the rest of your life situation
or what?
No, just like what, if someone wants to play,
you know, round-based competitive shooter,
What do you what are you talking about?
I would come in this is such a complicated question because I would tell them I would I would tell them not to
Tax shooters fucking suck
I would tell them Valorant in all honesty, but I would be the one that place he asked
Yes. Yeah. I think as a new player and a new gamer, zoomer, whatever you want to call them,
young kid, Valorant's probably way more up their speed, but I still would choose yes myself.
It's weird even though I'd go against my advice. I don't know.
Yeah. I will say it's been quite an adventure because my league games, I play probably four
four or five games a day. Completely toxicity free. No, there's zero toxicity. I don't understand
why, but my league games, there's like, people are super chill. Everyone's very nice. First
game of valorant last night, immediate and bomb immediate misogyny. Like I'm saying
the first words out of my before a bullet is even fired. People are just dropping the
work. And I walk, I swap over to CS go. My friend who happens to be a lady speaks.
There's a guy on the mic that comes over and was like, Why don't you accept my
friend request? I'll take you far away from here.
What is going on with these?
It sounds like online to me. That sounds like the internet to me.
Oh, yeah.
And I'm just like, should we go back to the league?
Like there's no Texas league.
And the beauty of league is there's no microphones, right?
Or is there no?
Yeah, there's no voice chat.
It really is just the voice chat angle.
That's really, really bad, honestly.
Yeah, you're probably right.
But the nice part, I will say about what you did experience
obviously sucks.
But the nice part about at least Riot Games
is that person probably got a timeout or a ban.
Oh, they get banned 100%.
Yeah, they get they get reported. They get banned. The downside of CS is nothing happens.
That's why I'll always that's why I'll always choose Valorant for a new player to play because
like dude, it's just a safer environment to play in. Like it really is.
Alright, let's wrap. Let's call it a show. Thank you guys for staying a little bit
later than what was good. It just be a three hour show.
start us off, do some shout outs, build the old shroud and mods, uh, an example.
Okay.
You bet.
What's up everybody?
Thank you guys for watching.
Thank you to shroud and dad mods for joining us today.
It was a informative and wonderful show.
Thank you guys for being here.
It's very, very cool.
Um, JP, thank you as well for whatever.
My name is E.
You can find me at our slash Ezekiel underscore I on twitch,
Twitter and YouTube and Ezekiel the third all spelled out on Instagram, TikTok and Blue Sky.
I take Mondays off, so I won't be on tomorrow. But on Tuesday, I think we're going to continue
System Shock 2. I've never played through it, so we fired it up on Thursday, so let's continue
it tomorrow. All right, Tuesday then. And then after that, I don't know what we're playing.
I guess we'll find out maybe more projects on Bird in the future. We'll see. But thank you
Thank you for watching.
I love you all.
Fantastic.
Mods, what do you got going on, Mark?
Check you out.
Oh, man.
So I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm not really talking about what games I'm playing,
but yeah, it was just fun to be on here.
JP just hit me up.
He didn't give me any info at all.
He's just like, hey, do you want to come on my podcast?
I'll go.
And I said, yeah, sure.
And then he just messaged me a link.
And that was basically the entire conversation.
Ezekiel, I was on him three years ago.
He forgot who I was.
Is that okay?
I'm not going to hold it again.
And then also, uh, shroud, uh, no legend, the gaming community.
Nice to finally talk to him too.
Other than that, yeah, the podcast with an absolute blast.
So thanks for having me on here.
If you ever need someone to not totally fill
co-carnage's shoes again, I'm always down to come on and just, uh, chat shop or whatever.
Yep.
Chat shop.
Yep.
Let me say appreciate it, uh, Brad, give, uh, the people some shout outs.
I guess talk to your stream some.
Is this weird doing shout outs while you're already live?
Yeah, that I actually when I when I was
Dan's game joining the podcast at the beginning.
I was like, oh, yeah, I'm doing a shout out then.
Fuck it.
Fuck your shut up, Dan.
Wait, yeah, a variety streamer dad jokes all around awesome guy.
That's me, by the way.
Yeah.
No, actually, this is ill.
You're an up and coming streamer.
Hashtag support small streamer.
Oh, OK.
Yes, yes, yes.
YouTube.com slash route up and coming streamer. I don't even include the twitch in there, but that's why it makes sense
We're all that's a couple. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
Um, I don't know no real shout out just thank you to the JP and Ezekiel. Thank you guys for putting on the show before
So thank you for inviting me again. I'm always down to the talk games because I love games
That's just what I do on my channel. No real schedule. No real plan. I just game
So you want to come over come over? Appreciate it
Fantastic. Thank you all
We're out of here.
I think we're all going to play Crimson Desert, or at least me and
Schrodoch.
Lot, are you back?
I'm still in Slade of the Spire, too.
Land.
Oh, I also plan that.
Yeah.
Lot's going to stay out of my family, but I just ignored them today.
But then I want to go play some video games.
Okay, there you go.
Ignore them up.
That's it.
We'll be back next week working on getting old Jeff Kapp
on the show.
Talk to him about his new game and all the overwatch stuff.
I used to have a saying with old Jeff Kaplan, and I want to see if you ever heard it back
in the Overwatch days.
I hope he hasn't.
I just say that.
If you know, you know.
We're out of here for now, though.
Coach will be back next week.
We'll see what he's been up to and see what everyone else can plan.
We're out.
Have a good one.
Bye.
W.
Cool guys.
Thank you guys so much for joining us.
Yeah, I don't have a problem at the time though.
Nice to meet you, mods.
Yeah, like WavVman.
GG's fellas, have a good one.
GG's, that'll sting forever, man.
Sorry.
No, it's good. It was so good. All right.
I'll talk to you guys later.
Later, later, later.
All right.
Okay, you can change to my title now, Hannah,
since the potty C is done.
That was JP's podcast in case you guys are running JP co-carnage Ezekiel. They do a podcast
They usually have a guest but co-carnage wasn't here this time. So I was co-carnage
We were just just I've been invited. I think I've been on their show several times at this point now. It's
And if they've been doing it for a while, it's fun. I like talking games
This one was a little different though because I was live the whole time. So it was a little bit odd that I was gaming
While potty seeing but I don't mind
Hopefully, they didn't mind either.
We're back. I don't know what we're back to, but we're back.
What chapter you on? I'm on chapter nine. I guess I didn't talk to you guys for three hours.
I didn't say a single thing directed to you guys, the chat. I was just talking to them,
so hey how are you guys doing for those of you that really wanted to watch me
lock in and play crimson desert I'm sorry but potty see-pride
it's fine we're used to it okay what what do you mean I talked to you guys
all the time
because usually gave me during the podcast to yes so I heard so I heard
and I'm not ready as being able to hear still should have been I still believe
that I'm still believe that to my to my to my fucking taint I'll take that to
the tank. I think Blacksmith Wukong got robbed by Astro Bot and I think Arc Raiders got robbed by EXP.
Dragon time? Oh yeah, I wanted to go explore what was over at the Dragon Isles or whatever. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, let me go over there. It's going to be a couple bosses. There was about four bosses
that I saw and I purposefully ignored because I wanted to do it with you guys kind of like
you know not doing a potty scene so let me go do some bosses
you're only incredibly biased towards shooters I'm not biased at all I think you misspelled
uh faced close though close I could see how you misspelled that
yeah I can see
This might be a hard boss. There's been a lot of health.
Do these fucking flamethrowers need a fuck off?
What is with the camera angle? What's happening?
Dude stop burning me fuck off life hours these camera angles are crazy
Oh my god
hit the anvil hit it why can't I hit the anvil this boss might be pretty tough
I
Know I can't use the sample though for all big PUBG 2.0. There'll be a thing
Dragons
There I go!
Whenever I'm in a PUBG extraction shooter, terrible. It's terrible.
They probably need to go back to the drawing board.
I think they know that though. I don't gotta tell them that, they know it.
And then they were then they were making that other game like a tactical shooter, but like
over the top, like nobody's asking for that man.
We're actually living in a meta right now.
We live in a meta of games where you kind of need to make games that people are asking
for.
Unless you're indie as fuck.
If you're a bigger studio, you kind of need to make games that people are asking for
you're not. I feel like that barrel was explosive under me. I thought it was just
a nice barrel. I didn't think it would kill me.
What are people asking for right now? Kind of what they're always asking for.
open-world RPGs, AI-generated worlds, AI-generated stories, you know, the normal.
First person shooters.
You see, because I can't.
You know, this kind of is tech.
Clearing this fort?
Um...
And dying is tech as well.
I wish BDO was a better game, because I would play the fuck out of it.
Did you get access to the Legend of California?
I don't know what that is.
Er, no, I do know what that is, but I don't want anything about it.
So, no.
I do not.
I don't mind the BDO endless power creep of just like running in circles and killing stuff
But it just feels like it's not for anything, you know what I mean?
I don't mind that at all
But I want it to be for something when I do it, you know what I mean?
Like in most MMOs you power creep for something right? In Lost Ark you power creep each week and do all your dailies
Try to get to the next grade, but like
What are you really doing for BDO? Like PvP? Well, let's just pay the win, because you know it is.
Fuck that, PvP sucks. Like what else?
The combat's good enough to make really engaging raid mechanics and like really dope shit, but I don't think it has that still.
It has bosses but they're ass.
Kind of like this game actually. This game has bosses but they're not great.
Jesus Christ, this place sucks.
I got to go fight the boss. Fuck all this. I got to go wherever the boss is, engage with me, engage with me. Okay, perfect.
Now, so this is the strat. You find the boss, you die to the boss. He drives a dragon? You find the boss, you die to the boss and then he puts you in the boss room, karma.
one rotation. That's fine too.
Pumpkin, run out of.
Why would Blasta?
I was doing a lot of damage because I had a 51 hit combo.
So that kind of makes sense.
I think that is the reason why bosses teleport by the way.
I think they teleport and they jump away because of that.
Because when your build is online,
Bosses get permanently stuck in an animation. So I think that that dragon's going backwards. I was sick. I
Think that's why that happens that's why they have so many boss mechanics that do that I
Don't mind though. I'm just
Was that boss hard?
I don't know.
I need to do another playthrough of this game where I actually make it hard, like purposefully.
I need to experience all these bosses when you're in pain and suffering.
Let's do this boss.
It could be hard, the Ironclad Warrior.
Whoa, look at his view.
Pretty, huh?
of
I'll see if this boss fucks.
Hello!
I'm here!
The feet mechanism.
I can't, I gotta turn him on first, I think.
There's no character creation on this right, you're always this guy, there's three characters.
There's Damien, she's awesome.
There's Ol' Guth, he's okay.
And then there's this guy, Cliff.
Surely I don't just like hit- what?
Okay.
He just teleports.
That's okay.
That's why I think he's too easy.
Annihilate them.
Come on.
Annihilates them.
The Marnie Tank Blaster.
I'm gonna have a full storage of extra items.
I need to start deleting them.
I have so many extra items, it's crazy.
I don't really know how to deal with these bees, to be honest with you.
And you can say arrows. There might be a mech. Hold on, there should be a mech here I think.
I'm getting stepped on, I'm getting stepped on.
I'm caught all walking through the wall.
Oh my.
That guy should have been the boss, those three of those guys.
Three at the same time?
I should have been the boss right there.
Ow, rude.
I didn't know where I was.
Where were they?
On the highlights them
Swarms will have a better. I feel like this is designed to use a neck
You guys are strong holy shit look at a real strong
what are you aiming at? what are you aiming at?
I could eat, but I won't.
I'll eat.
What's happening dude?
I can't fucking see him.
What are you doing?
He's still alive.
can't see anything. Where are you going? Aim at this guy. They need to do a fucking aim
pass in this game. They've done a bunch of passes on movement. The movement's fine
now. Let's just do an aim pass. Let's have our characters know what to aim at.
thoughts? comments? concerns. okay. that guy come from. he was on my ass.
I wonder what mechs are weak to.
Lightning?
Ice, probably.
I don't have any ice abilities.
I mean, I could use...
That's not what I wanted to do.
I'm totally fine with it.
I love when I could totally see what's happening.
I love it, I love it, I love it.
I love it, in fact.
I love it so much.
Uh-huh. Yeah.
Play.
Yeah.
What's happening? Where am I? Where am I? What's happening? What's happening? What's happening?
Okay. Alright.
Uh-huh.
He's about to blow up!
Is that a movement though?
Where are you going?
The fuck is happening? What are you aiming at?
Sorry.
I think he was aiming at one of these little guys.
Pretty cool.
I should have been wasting food here.
I can pick things up.
There's little rocks here. Oh, it's the small batteries, I think.
Well, that loot went by my... I don't know.
Liberated.
Yeah, it's just what I do.
Yeah, it's just what I do. Yeah, that's right.
I need more food, I think.
I need to do a meat run, I think. A little bit of a meat run.
What is this crowd rate this game now?
Still the same.
Like a 78.
Got any 8-ish?
Alright.
I need to fucking organize.
I have so many to my nips.
Oh shit.
Oh, I got money here.
Gave me my cash.
Aye.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Aye, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, we need to organize big time.
We need to take everything out that I don't need.
All of this extra gear, I'm definitely gonna have to delete.
And there's just no way I can hold on to this many abyss gems.
They're starting to take up too much space.
These tomatoes are a problem, clearly.
We're going to get rid of all these little fine details and cubes.
I need to turn all these abyss gems from attack 1s to 3s.
I need to just condense it.
Same with all my defense gems.
I need to do like a little inventory pass. I'll do that right now
All right, so we got a lot of bullshit here
I learned how to make a grand meal.
I think that's the best meal I've ever seen.
I want to see what it costs.
I cleared a lot of bounties while I was on the potty sea.
I have something that makes chocolates.
I don't know what that means.
We got a little bit more space let's take out some shit that I don't want
Actually, maybe let's um...
We're gonna take these out.
We're gonna have to do some condensing of all my bisqueers.
We're gonna have to take out all 18 of those.
That's, that's, that, uh, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that,
These are crit rate level 3's.
These are attack speed 2's and 3's.
Can't condense that.
That's that that's that
This is gonna take this is gonna take a fucking minute, I will be honest
I'm gonna be doing this for like 30 minutes probably
Tries they don't give you more than 240 storage and inventory crazy. He's a problem
Breath of the Wild controls way better. Oh for sure, but there's also less controls. So I think this game has more buttons to press.
I thought the inventory said they expanded to 240? I thought so too, but no. Unless I'm missing something, but I don't know.
I thought the same thing
I'm grabbing all my sockets out taking it all out of the gear and then I'm upping it
to a higher qual so that it takes up less space and then I could put it back in the gear to
fill some space.
In case you're wondering what I'm doing here, we're going to synthesize.
Put the size again, five of those, put the size again, again, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Oh, maybe that's what you're saying.
Oh, I think I understand what the patch is saying.
The notes on the storage.
It's saying if there was rewards that you would have gotten,
but you're full, it'll just go past 240.
That Reema's horn.
All right.
What are we looking like here?
How many do we got?
Do I not have destruction?
Oh my God, no wonder I have so many Attack 1s stacked.
I don't have the BP for Destruction.
That makes way more sense.
Well, gonna put in a bunch of sockets and whatever I can to take up some more space.
We'll save me a lot of room in the end, but I'll have to do it again.
something like doing inventory management you know what I'm saying
some people would see this shit and they would be like no fucking way I'm
playing this game they would not be down they would not be down with
Managing inventory at all.
Game has just so many items.
There's no way most folk will finish it.
I mean, they'll finish the main story, if anything.
You can just rush the main story and get that shit done and...
Probably be happy with your purchase.
Wait, what is this, did I just get that intro retribution, I don't remember seeing that.
Oh, oh, oh, yeah, yeah, no, this is just for my uncle builds. I was going to use that for my uncle builds
Morse character change is going to make folk quit. I mean you don't even have to do that unfortunately
I kind of wish you did have to change your character more
You don't really have to
All right, we're getting rid of all these fucking flowers like I just do not care
We're we're getting rid of acorns we're getting her cheese milk
Honey, honey's pretty good, but whatever I do not care
Beans
What are crottons
Why not cook them all into what
at first I thought I was gonna do that but it's definitely more efficient to just find
one meal and have that as your go-to and then only hold on to those because like hoarding
everything is just complicated.
I do want to see what the grand meal does, though.
Grand meal is a new recipe that I just got and it sounded fucking sick.
The feast.
Full health plus 600 over max.
Yo.
What does that mean?
Does that mean I get 600 extra health? It doesn't even say how for how long.
You need really good meat and fish skewers, normal fish skewers, pickled vegetables, and
braised ribs.
Oh, it's a temp shield. Oh. Like, I mean, that's really good, but like, bro, are you
really gonna go the distance of making these things like braised meat is pretty easy sure
that's why i have tomatoes i have tomatoes for braised meats but
make the other stuff that it needs is kind of like complicated pickled veggies meat skewers
that's not easy
I don't even, I don't even think I have some of those recipes.
I guess you could try to buy it.
Cooking needs a rework.
It definitely is overly complicated.
It's for sure overly complicated, I'll launch that.
Anyway, let's make some braised ribs with my tomatoes.
I don't mind me, you just have 800 tomatoes.
don't mind me. Yeah, don't mind me. I got a lot of tomatoes. I'm kind of the tomato
guy. I want to find a vendor that buys tomato and I want to sell them all my tomatoes.
Oh yeah, I never thought to improvise.
Oops, I'm not gonna do that.
Just like throw shit together and see what sticks.
Make a fucking tomato soup.
Just put like hundreds of tomatoes together.
Yeah
always defaults to the shitty one I need it so much meat to make so many of these
I don't have enough materials that people are asking for.
Unfortunately the most easy materials to get which is like packaged supply and stone and
armor, like if you look at the top of the screen, I have 300,000 food. Like that doesn't
matter. Packaging provisions, I haven't seen a single trade supply vendor that wants provisions.
I would love to do a supply run and dump my provisions somewhere. But unless I'm missing
it, I may not have found all of the stock markets, right? There's a market here. There's
There's a market right next to me.
You know, I don't think I've liberated Domenis, so I don't think I could do that one yet.
There's one here.
I think, I think you'll engage with the stock market and trading wagon goods when you beat
the game, personally.
I think that's when it's going to happen.
How many cubes do I have, do I see that correctly?
I have 25 fucking cubes!
All the goobs
All right, I know I said I wanted to clean up my inventory, but I don't I'm just gonna put these tomatoes away
I'm gonna sell all of this food
And then go from there
There's anything you need
All the goobs sell some of these
Like a hundred
No, all my cabbages sell all my corn less less less water. Okay, okay
Okay, okay
sure don't care okay okay okay okay
flames be a
I always sell these collectibles they might have purpose one day
So I could do something a little techie I
Could technically skip to level 10 max weapons in the game by finding another weapon
Bringing it to nine and then disenchanting it so both my weapons are nine right now in order to get 10
I think you need like a boss scale like a scale from a certain boss
I think you only do it once but if I just get the same weapon bring it up to nine combine it into two
I now have a ten. That's very min maxi for no literal reason, but I'm kind of tempted to do it
The last level can't be done with a dupe
Wow, they thought of it. Okay, never mind. Well, you just saved me a lot of time
You saved me a lot of time. So thank you
Because I was definitely gonna do it
You care to witness the iron arts, my hammock and forge?
Iron art, my hammock and forge.
I dare say iron art, my hammock and forge.
Oh, there's so much to do in this game. It's fucking insane.
It's just it's like it's it's this is what I want. MMO edition.
And the only game that does this that I know that's coming is Aon2.
But it's going to be so pay to win that no one's going to play it.
I'm praying that a on two
Reconsiders
It's NC soft, right? I'm praying that NC soft for reconsiderers
They're pay to win because that game is pretty fucking cool
In my opinion, I think it's pretty cool
I'm gonna go play some rock-paper-scissors
Wait, where's the rock-paper-scissors?
Did they die?
They won't, this game's not for our market.
If Chrono Odyssey could somehow make a recovery, that game was the biggest piece of shit I think I've ever played, ever.
But if they could somehow recover their game, it could be pretty sick.
It's a tie.
Rockbeat scissors. I win.
I won.
I'm out, kid.
I should get going, now.
I...
I kind of want to go rich and gamble, but, no.
Oh yeah, I was going to get the tannery.
Over here somewhere.
I think I don't get about pay to win games is like they'll make more money if they don't
do pay to win because they'll have more people playing for longer.
And a quest for this guy?
No.
I want for sale though. It's a little worn out. What do you say?
I'd be willing to let it go cheap. Let's give it a spin
These hides demand respect
And if you have quite the dessert fine, there's always something better coming in try the spinning wheel
Huh
What the fuck is this for?
Yeah, Aon2 is really cool for like a collectable situation because you have to
collect all these things on the map, but also when you... every monster you kill
has like essence and then you stack the essence and if you kill it enough times
you can mount it, so it'll become a mount, so any creature you see in the game will become a mount
And then if you kill it even more times it gives you like a little stat buff
Movement speed attack speed whatever which sounds really tedious
But some people that love like completionists that love to do everything that game is really cool for
Okay, did you just unlock new stuff
I'm happy to sell by these hides to expect even better leather on your next visit
Hey, what if I give a Tanner gifts? Oh, he takes iron
In a book
Honestly, I'm gonna I'm gonna give him some stuff. I want to see if I give a Tanner
gifts what do they give me anything cool or no that are like this wow nothing
it's time you need to find hide and to isn't that pay to win only pvp it's very
noticeable well yeah that's like a crucial part of the game though right
anyway I think that game is gonna be cool I look forward to it just like I
looked forward to throne throne pvp was like everything but that game being
being paid a win sucked but if a on two actually what the very do this thing on
two actually has like not just PvP which I know it has some stuff should be pretty
good the master of the anvil stands before you
it's a take to upgrade my necklace to max this is epidote silver epidote
silver necklace is garnet that's what I'm missing if you're welcome let me go
I'll just pick some up really quick.
Now I turned ray reconstruction off, actually.
I played around with it a lot in different scenarios, and yes, the lighting is better with it on, for sure.
right here I guess I could turn it on and you can see it's definitely better but
I'm just not it runs so bad Ray reconstruction runs so bad I can't
but like this scene right here I'm gonna be honest it looks better in Ray Recon
but like not enough for me to care
It's like so negligible.
It's so negligible.
It's certain environments that you're in with Ray Recon that makes it look really good.
And then most doesn't really matter.
But I just decided to not use it.
Don't judge a stone by its surface.
I need Garnet.
I need Keen Eye.
This.
I just buy everything.
I don't really need everything, just a problem.
Shit's really expensive.
This vendor owns the...
This vendor absolutely owns, but it's so expensive.
Okay, so now that I did that...
What did I want to do?
I got one more thing, um, Crescent Lake, here, or Crystal Lake, or whatever this place is
called.
You aren't playing with a controller?
Nah, mouse will keep yours way better.
I was trying to upgrade my necklace, but I'm getting much more ore.
This is a really good spot for a lot of ore.
Where's my drill?
I don't know where my drill is I
put in my sword I may have sold my drill
I love it, it's not that big a deal, but, just buy it back, I want to be really expensive.
I have it.
Okay, one more thing I want to see if I can upgrade my drill because once you get a t6 it's even more or
What's the cost oh, I can use my refinement tokens should I use my refinement tokens
May as well, right?
Yeah
I'm gonna upgrade my drill to six.
No, a max drill gives you 30% um.
Dude, these loading screens are incredible.
I feel like I wasted so much time on loading screens.
Grow yourself stacked.
I have a lot of shit.
Yeah, I mean, I've just been playing for a minute though.
Holy!
I just got so much garnet.
Oh my god.
Oh yeah, baby.
Oh, that was an unlucky hit.
Unlucky hits.
All good though.
Drill upgrade was worth, I think though.
Seems soup.
Oh my god.
This drill upgrade was so worth.
Oh my god.
Oh yeah.
Oh fuck yeah dude the dopamine I need to find more blessings where did I get my blessing
of the earth last time. I got it from a boss, I think. I need more mining gear. And up.
good call
Yeah, the drill the drill auto harvesting is so nice. It's so nice
Look how sore.
I will say, this is the most noticeable update of them all.
The movement actually feels different.
The small little movements were so bad before, and they're so just chill now.
Like the small incremental movements feel way better than they did before this update.
Dope, dope, dope, I mean, dope, dope, dope, I mean.
I need to um, I don't know, oh, I need to maybe do a gold run, I don't know if I care
though, do I care to do a gold run?
There's so many gold chests, or sorry gold ore, there's just so many of them though,
I'd have to fast travel and hit every single node, there's fucking like 15 gold caves,
I don't know if I care about that, it's a lot.
I don't really care too much about crafting gold bars.
I still need silver is the problem.
I don't think that these nodes here are nice, but there's no silver.
What the hell am I supposed to get that?
Oh, that's his.
Hey, it's nice that I can fucking sell all this.
I don't know where silver or is I kind of forgot
why did that auto pickup silver or is
is. Um, silver, silver, silver. I don't remember. There's one deposit that I found, and I just
I genuinely don't remember where.
There's so many question marks everywhere.
Holy fuck.
Everywhere.
Yeah, I don't know.
That's over?
Iron.
That's over.
I know I found some. I just don't really remember where mineral shop
I don't know
I guess I'll check the minerals. Wait, what's that?
Wait, can you sell wait
Can I do runs did this the trade goods guy I
I always think to do like trade supply runs to the gold leaf guys, but I feel in the black market
I don't know if I'm a black market tomato dealer
Kinda sick, no?
if
Yeah, black market man, oh no, it's just one of this it's just this shit
He has a quest for me
I have to make a delivery to the trading post
Lately counterfeit goods have been popping up far too often among the shipments. I
I heard the Guild House sent an investigator to the trading post to look into it.
I just happened to cut off the information I already wanted.
Oh god, so?
Are you the mist of everyone I've traded with?
Figured it might be useful for the investigation.
If you don't mind, could you take these straight to the investigator?
Okay, I do mind.
I'm gonna take their silver here.
time then. I'll grab my neck and then run. Another time.
I think there's a main story now. I'm going to do it now though, I think.
I think I'm going to do it now. Emphasis on think.
15 golds, crazy.
Let's go Hannah. Meenoms is back. Like what? What do you mean?
Yeah, I'm gatecapped on all my jewelry because the silver in.
My rings too.
Hmm.
Those load times are so much faster, holy...
yeah they're really quick
where the hell was the main?
here
I did not expect to go
How many hours do you have on the team now?
I have like 90.
I wish they fixed the Framegen input delay.
I mean, it's not really something they could fix.
The Framegen input delay is how bad, it's basically how bad a framerate do you get without Framegen, right?
So like, if you're getting like 120 FPS, you're not really going to feel Framegen, but if you're getting like, 30 FPS, then yeah, that input to land Framegen is going to feel kind of shitty.
So, if you want Framegen to feel a little bit better, um, just lower your settings a little bit so your base is a little higher, and then it'll be fine.
like frame gen is like not like a magic solution to make your game feel good you
still need to you still need to make sure your game is running like decently
before you turn it on if you have like five FPS and you turn frame gen on it's
like your problems are still gonna be there you know
Eliminate Count Byron without being detected.
Oh, Pshh.
Delft Mission?
So easy.
Watch this shit.
Turn off my lantern too, let's get immersive.
Whoa.
Where's the count?
Where is he?
Holy shit, fuck yeah.
Love that.
I think that should too.
What else you got?
I think that should too.
Anything else in here?
Fucking steal that shit too.
Okay fucked.
Does this guy also have a secret wall?
There's a book here, I don't have it, oh, hold on, okay, oh, it's one of these, oh,
this is the one that spins?
Okay, this is the one that spins, okay, I should be able to figure this out, so it
looks like, okay, it's a whale, I mean, if I can't figure this out, I got problems,
That's a frame, clearly, like that, one more, great, uh-huh.
Got him so smart puzzle master
Now I got it now I gotta get the awkward angle to steal this hold on this is the hardest part once you're in
He's got it. He's got a really finagled this
Really just
Hold on oh no, I'm gonna steal this guy's fucking jewelry box. Oh
What about backwards
It's like right there hold on I got it hold on hold on oh oh yo I just want your box man
Mark of dark ring.
Same as all the other rings, huh?
Yep, looks cool though.
You can get this for the drip.
Get it for the drip.
Get it for it.
Get it for the drip.
I really don't like that all of the items are the same.
It grinds my little tiny gears.
I wish they had some diversity, you know, I wish there was something interesting about the weapons and gear, but
Someone will make a mod that'll make it probably pretty interesting like this game will probably be replayed again
modded
Like crazy for a better experience
My standing yeah, I'm standing man
Do I sit ten hours a day you want me to fucking you want me to you want me to get?
asshole cancer
What's it called what happens when you sit too much?
Let me get a
Colon cancer, what do you get when you sit too much?
Oh, something like that.
DVT?
Yeah, there you go.
Being out of shape?
That's not happening to me so much.
Also, my ass has been getting flatter and I feel like over the years
I don't want my ass to be flat and I think it's because I sit so much and I have a really nice ass and I don't want to ruin it
You know, so I'm standing
Oh, there's Damien welcome back to Land of the Living
Damien, what are you doing here? Did your efforts bear fruit?
You look troubled
No good news. I take it.
Grand General Bastier.
He's imprisoned your sword master.
She might still be alive. One of my comrades is.
I'm going after her.
Damian!
Go find Naira. She can help you.
Please, tell me what you know.
It's as you said Byron and Marshal we're working for Calibur. No, you're dense clearly in liquid
That's all I learned
Pity what it was. It's still
You've achieved quite a victory
Well done. I too have news to share with you
Duke Wells is dealing with his own coup d'etat
No doubt
I'm afraid the rebels have resorted to using pay loonies prisoners as human shields
She was leading this
A man called 14
14
Lend your age to Duke Wells. He is one of the few allies. I gotta kill fountain. Yeah
I found new bound to get rocks on let me steal this real quick. There's a I think it's another little puzzle box
I think it's in this room. I just forgot to steal it
We'll see going in
Buzzer Master.
Is it another ring?
That's an earring.
Is it another ring that's an earring it's for the drip nothing more
Cool I
Do have to level these up though for my other characters, so I do have to have two or three sets of earrings
three sets of rings
And then obviously the weapons, the three sets of weapons, maybe six sets of weapons if you want to mix up your gameplay a little bit.
That is really important. Really important, Lav.
The other ring you got is the same. It's the same as my ring, man. They're all the same. They're all the exact same.
There's only two types of earrings, two types of rings, and two types of necklaces.
And they're all the same, all like 300 necklaces that you find, all the red jewels, purple
jewels, they all look, they just look different, right?
And you see it on your character too, so if you want to like drip out your character
with like black rings, they're going to have the same stats as other rings, so just
just like find a ring that you like and looks good on your guy and oh, that's it.
One thing's for sure though, there is a bug with a certain necklace.
If you want to do more damage, use it.
like not use whatever.
birds.
hey.
This kind of reminds me of Red Dead a little bit, to be honest.
Is that what you mean?
We finally got a good game as good as Red Dead?
I don't understand.
grace get us a moment seeing you turn up here is giving me is gonna make games
like this more strong words what's made to be able to create more content I was
away at general Bastier's requests on a training exercise and in that time my
fortress was overrun by rebels and taken quite the clever lot they must have
counted on me not being able to refuse the grand general as my microphone so
Quiet, what the fuck happened?
My microphone definitely got more quiet, right?
Like, something happened when I downloaded Mixer, my menu Mixer fucking bullshit.
Like it for sure got more quiet.
Let's see, is this... tell me if I'm getting louder, okay?
One, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one,
two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, nope.
Um, okay, that's a problem.
1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, am I getting louder?
I feel the same.
Okay, how about...
Oh, I see what happened.
what happens. Okay here we go. 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3. Now I'm actually
getting louder, right? That's what happened. Okay. I get it now. Sorry. My windows resets
in bullshit. Too loud? Oh fuck. My bad. Hold on. What about like, maybe here? Here?
Is that good? Right here? What do you think?
True left, true left, true left. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
Good!
Uh, I was making a dungeon with the quest, but it was... oopsies!
Uh, let's go see.
Uh, should I go this way? I'm gonna go this way.
This game PvP? Yeah, mad PvP.
Leaderboards, uh, ratings and everything.
Uh, pay to win, too, of course.
Ugh.
What are you snapping there for, huh?
What are you talking about?
Oh.
I was trying to turn my microphone up, and turn the game up at the same time, but I
Cuz my audio just dropped like 20 30% is one too loud now
I go in here and murder all these guys
And let me go in there, please go ahead
What's up bitches, how are you doing?
holy oh my god I could destroy it hold on that's crazy
can I destroy all of it or just some of it
Oh
Hell yeah, I'm sick
Hey my dog my kitty
Please don't get on this loon on the ground. Please. Please pick it up
Killing the horses and shit
You're gonna go AFK here to keep coming.
All my dog to lose, but I also want to get some water.
Oh, no, they keep spawning.
Damn it.
I wish I could summon my whole arsenal of pets to just loot everything.
There's so many bots.
Look at this.
Look at the mini-map.
There's a little fucking like 40 men.
Game's too loud now.
Uh...
Alright, what if I do this?
Hi?
I still too loud isn't it hold on hi
Why?
Come by here.
Where's the other towers?
I killed one tower.
Is the pop-up on the map?
No.
Maybe it's inside.
Over here?
Is it too quiet now or am I crazy?
No, that's probably, it's fine actually, it's fine, it's fine.
I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to be doing for this quest.
I don't know if it's murdering, I don't know if it's...
of the
I think I'm supposed to destroy these towers too, but I don't I don't
Blind I guess
Castle school dude. I wish I lived in a castle, man. Would you guys live in a castle if you could?
Like if your option was to live in a townhouse or like a cast and the sorry, hold on
Not a townhouse if your option was to live in like a mansion like fucking in the hills or something
We're on like water like a Malibu beach or something or a castle which one we can choose
Damn, nobody wants to live in a castle?
I don't know, you guys are so lame.
Well, I thought you guys were cool.
You're supposed to be better than me.
I ain't no Spiratsu.
What the fuck?
I guess we're just talking about the Black Dragon in light all of a sudden.
I'm just gonna murder all of them because I don't know where the siege towers are and
it doesn't give me any context clues.
Nothing on the map, so I guess I'm just gonna- oh, here's one.
There we go.
No Sriracha is not a dragon.
No?
That's not the infinite dragon fight?
Hey, it's Forton!
Forton!
What's up?
Come to me, Forton.
Come to me.
Oh, relax.
Actually relax.
Holy Forton show.
I'll fight you later.
Again.
I'll fight you later.
Oh my god, I'm gonna kill that boss so fast when I fight him at the end of the scenario.
Holy shit.
That man is going to get his E.P. Poli.
of
the
Why is this? Is it my quest bug out or something? Like, this is the first time I've ever done
a quest that's not telling me anything. Like, hello?
Oh. It wasn't tracking for some reason. Normally it auto-tracks. That's not on me.
I want it to be clear. That is not on me, okay? Normally it auto-tracks. All I'm
I think I'm gonna kill the story boss in like if he doesn't move around a lot I think I'm
I'm gonna kill him in like 5 seconds
The enemy is retreating.
Aye.
Crimson, does it worth it?
Looks for different end-use games.
Um, like I said, I would still recommend this to nobody, so...
You either like what you see or you don't, you know?
All right, we're fighting the curse knight fontal we're fighting fontal
I thought I heard a rat scarring about, so you've come here to meet your own enemy!
I'll be happy to oblige!
Well, a little bit more than 5 seconds to be honest.
If he, like I said, if he didn't jump up or teleport, I think I'd kill him in 5, I'm
not getting it.
That's not on me.
What was that guy that was cool the shackle of might what does it do all to
left-click commands a spectral knight to strike down the enemy that's pretty
pretty cool. Alt left click is a weird button though, like are you ever actually using this?
I don't know, definitely not, but...
Hi.
God, dammit, the Avengers do it again.
Incredible.
Yes.
I can hardly believe it.
I owe you a great debt.
Would you give us some moment?
Yes, of course.
Thanks to you.
The fortress is ours again.
You've been a great help.
Thank you.
the fortress is ours again. You've been a great help. Now, it would be dishonorable of me not to
help you, and to all you've done for me. So, is there anything I can assist you with? More
like someone. I hear Mjördyn is hiding in Daemonus. Mjördyn, the leader of the Black Bears.
Jordan. Hi. Jordan.
Have you any idea where he might be?
You like my raccoon hat? It's cute, right?
I'm going to indicate Duke Caliburn's bloody coronation.
But I did see a huge fellow there.
And I'm certain it was Jordan.
Jordan.
If he is in Deminus, as you say,
I bet he's teamed up with Caliburn.
Hmm. Let's see.
Hi.
And do you know where Caliburn is?
He's quite the cautious man.
Tracking his movements is no reason to ask.
But his old study at the castle would be a good place to start.
Cliff will appear in Doomsday.
Dude, I saw someone's Doomsday drip.
It actually looked so sick.
Or Doctor Doomdrip?
Doctor?
Yeah.
Yeah, he's a doctor right? Why did that sound so wrong when I when he came out of my
mouth? He a doctor? He is right? What does he do? He is...
Isn't he a scientist? Fuck.
What's his profession? What did he do? I actually don't know. What's funny is I have a
couple comics of doom but I have not read it so I don't know
I have a couple just sitting there I got I think uh the will of doom is one of them that I bought
and I just haven't cracked it open I wanted to know more about him actually you know what don't
tell me I'll read it and I'll learn more about him he checks your asshole what an
An optomodiatrist? Or whatever they're called?
Opti- Optodometries?
What are they called?
Eye doctors?
Or wait, what?
It's an eye doctor, you idiot.
I see it has a three, a three leap cap, huh?
Okay.
Learned something new today.
A three leap cap.
I gotta climb this, bitch?
Alright, maybe it doesn't have a three leap cap.
Maybe it, um, maybe it's just because I entered the zone and I can't do anything
in the zone.
Like, wherever I'm at is like not, it's like cucking me.
Bro has glasses and doesn't know the word optometrist.
Thank you.
Why did you just say that?
I'm going to the optometrist soon to probably get new glasses.
I like that you can use the key now.
It says like when you're going into a locked room, it says use key instead of just
like it opening.
Don't know how they're adding these mechanics by the way in like less than a week. I'm really shocked that they're like adding shit
There's like less than a week and they I know it's like simple
But like most studios don't do that add like weird shit like that. Oh, I
Could totally see this puzzle
For sure
I can't see the other thing I got it I think it's this one again okay that one's on island
those two are together they used to away wait no fuck I can't see I can't see the other
I think I got it. I think it's this one and then the one on the left.
That's fine. Ooh, I forgot which one moved the two. I think it was this one.
Nope, the other one. I've got to spin it all the way around.
And then this one, I think.
Let me guess, an earring. An ogre's ring. That's a necklace, man.
Oh, yippee! Same as all the other necklaces.
Arc Raiders update tomorrow. Are you playing?
I believe the new terminology for that game is uncraders?
So, I will not address your question until you refer to it as the proper game.
Funcorators.
Oh, that's what I was trying to do. Yeah, I forgot all about it.
I was trying my best.
You were holding out, I know.
I smelt it.
All right, ugh.
Anyway, what's the Arc Raiders update?
Sorry, fuck.
I already just flamed that guy for what?
I called it Arc Raiders.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Uncraders.
What is it?
Oh, it's a shitter.
Is this floating?
Hell yeah.
like to see new big arc I feel like if the new big arc like if the new big arc
is like a key to go somewhere special or do something special that not many
people can do, I'm down.
What the fuck is this guy's old office upstairs? Like a new big arc to fight is
cool but like if you just kill it like okay it was the queen right and then
you kill the other guy and the matriarch and it's just like the same thing but
like a different core used for a different legendary weapon that's complete
ass so like if this new boss or whatever they're adding is just a new arc but it
doesn't go anywhere you just kill it and then you move on with your life like I
don't care like it needs we need some like we need some we need some like a
keeping we need some like kill this boss gets you some key key takes you
do another place and only people who kill the boss can get you go in there it
gives you something unique that nobody else can get unless you killed the boss
and then maybe that takes you somewhere else like something we need something a
little bit need something a little bit more fun you know do what do what
Marathon does but like better
Wait this armor actually looks cool
Wait
Oh is this the armor that JP was running? I think it is. I think this is the
runner the armor that JP was running. Chelsea? Like really really armored and
He died it.
This is cool.
I like this armor.
This is probably my favorite plated armor.
Plus four.
That's weird, but...
It's really weird, actually.
But yeah, Arc Raiders is a great game, but they're going a little too far with a game
for everyone as a game for no one.
They're trying a little too hard to please everybody.
I want them to pick one, like please someone and go all the way with it, even if it's
It's not to my interest, right?
I take that back.
I actually take that back.
Because it's an extraction shooter, so you have to please the right people.
I take that back fully, actually.
Because if they please casuals too much, then it's gonna be shit.
Because it's an extraction game, it's not a casual game.
Right?
So I take that back.
I take that back.
I take back what I just said.
i thought i think about it for a second
where's this guy's old office where do you work
work here
looks like an office
is this an office?
read the memory on the blood coronation
what the
What does that mean?
I don't I don't know what that means
Read the memory on the blood coronation
Read
Oh
Hey, my helmet's got little zappies and hers in them before it's murdered
The finals update looks sick, I don't think I saw that that looks cool
They're trying something different
Well, fucky shitey's that.
He caught me all the way here to play Kedokieber.
How'd he tell me that to my face?
Savage beasts.
Pick your lives so meaningful.
If you don't matter, you never will.
If you quit today because of a bunch of stream sniper cheaters?
My Tifa was on today? Oh, he was.
It was on for five hours.
I should just mid-shoot into tiny pieces.
Oh, you're so eager to see the controller pay the loo!
Gah!
Fucking cunts!
Bloody hell, he's quite yet great with furrowing his name.
Enough.
Move ahead with the plan.
I'm sorry, I don't understand.
I'm kind of going to need this certificate.
His door is closed.
I mean you gotta do something about it right like that's crazy.
That's insane.
No, do I have to do this whole thing again?
I know how Ninja was very, um, adamant on the fact like, don't make updates and don't do things for streamers.
But like, they may have taken that a little too literally, like, I don't think Ninja meant...
I don't think Ninja meant that Ninja meant like, neglect stream snipers and cheaters.
They took his words a little too literally.
I don't know where this...
I think it's this noise that I'm hearing.
Did I bug my quest out by canceling or going the wrong way or something?
What am I- what's going on here?
I may have tweaked my quest out.
What do I do now?
Maybe I use it again?
Oh, wait, can I re-? Hold on. I could re-look at the memory. Hold on. Like this.
Okay.
Okay, and then it should restart.
I'm so smart.
No
Cappuccino break. Oh, I would love a cappuccino fuck. I'm so addicted to coffee problem
stream snipers and pubg and mason was one kind of ever so i guess sometimes it just depends
yeah but i wasn't getting cheated
having someone stream sniping run at you and just die is very different than someone
joining killing you joining killing you joining killing you joining you killing you that
didn't happen to me in pubg no one joined me to cheat that literally like never happened
And if it did, you know what I would do?
I would message my contact at PUBG and be like, hey, can you look at this guy's account?
Oh great, he's banned.
Ooh, you know what I mean?
His Majesty is resuming his royal duties today. At last, the realm will be set right.
Indeed, that inscrutable decaliburne should know when to step down.
I hear his reach extends to every corner of the continent.
So, I know stream sniping isn't cheating, but like I said, stream sniping is not cheating,
sorry.
I wasn't saying that, I was saying, obviously stream sniping isn't the same as cheating,
I was saying stream sniping AND cheating.
That's what I was referring to.
I think stream sniping should be a punishment too, but if people don't ban for it, I
get it obviously a little bit harder to do that
here's everybody definition is literally cheating what I mean it's not the
same you know it's like map hack versus aim hack kind of thing map hack wall
They're all tears to it.
Stream sniping is a little bit closer to, in my opinion, not so much as cheating, but closer
to harassment.
Which I think is also a serious thing.
If you...
I don't know if you guys know, but like, people get harassed all the time in games.
I don't know if you're familiar.
You might not because it doesn't happen to you, but people get harassed and followed even
though they're not streamers.
They're just completely normal people.
Why a lot of people are afraid of multiplayer games?
Because they will get harassed, followed, stalked by a simple interaction in a video
game.
So I think those people should also be punished, you know?
Not you?
I feel like you should.
I should
What am I looking for that which noble did I not listen to I listen to you I listen to you oh
That guy back there
It's a weird quest
of
the
I thought I heard Hannah, but it wasn't him, too real.
What a twist!
Wait, I know what this is!
This is the Disney ride, Haunted Mansion!
We see all the ghosts dancing?
These are the ghosts!
cool go caliburn flaking
You know what would be cool if one of these characters looked at me in the memory.
Like, I'm looking at a memory, I'm looking at the past and what happened, and imagine
one of the characters is doing something normal, and then they just snap, look at me.
Wait.
Oh.
Okay.
Not quite what I said, but close!
Hey!
That was cool!
It would have been way cooler if I was in the distance and he senses me and he snaps.
BAM!
It should have looked cooler than that, but almost, almost.
That's a really good guess for me, let's go.
We got this fucking quarter!
Dude!
Dude, such a piece of shit.
Just like not- let's not have minions.
You know?
What's up?
I just parried him accidentally.
Like what are we doing having minions?
Sleep, like just making a normal encounter, nobody.
Let's go.
Wait.
So why are they here?
Why are they here? I don't understand. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
This is a memory. How are- am I- am I fighting a memory? What's happening here?
Oh, here.
Huh?
Yes.
What's up with the lighting?
Come on here.
So I think I think I'm inside.
Oh, aura.
Lousa.
Use your magic on him.
I think she's going to pull me out of the memory right now. This is interesting.
Isn't this a class? Is it Wusa? A class? Or no, it's not Wusa. It's, um...
Moose?
No.
There's a mage class that they added many years ago now, and I thought it was something SAW.
Oh, they both are. Oh, that's fun.
I think I'll play her now.
It's the perfect time to slip in and get answers
Thank you. Don't mention it. I mean era when you're done. Okay now to spit it out
soppy lasses
I'm trying to say is you've always got a place with us
Okay, so you do chapter 8 you get unka and you have to play him for a mission
Do you how long do I have to play Damien?
Do I play Damien for longer than unka or is it about the same you just do a quick little mission and move on
The reason I will ask is because I might need to get her some jewelry, earrings, or like that.
I guess I have this, and this, and this.
There's the same, just one mission, okay.
Should I at least get her some gear?
Like, I do have gear at home base.
I definitely do oh man my raccoon helmet and
here I'll get her some gear I have some my camp is max level I just realized
The way they did characters in this game is not very convenient. It's not great.
Um, if, okay, what I think they should have done personally is they should have made Cliff's story cut in half,
And then those two halves gave it to Unka and gave it to Damien and then you just
Play those three stories instead of making cliff story really long and then their story is really short and
Then at the very end you play them like that's so
weird
I'm all four multiple characters and multiple stories if it makes sense, but
But it doesn't really make much sense.
Okay, so I have some cool gear for her.
I have like these sweet shoulder pads.
Hello, love.
Oh, wait, really?
Oh.
Hey, everything?
Everything?
Okay.
Thank you.
Alright, so I need to figure out what I use with her.
I know I'm only, I don't know I only do one mission or whatever but I still want to, I
still want to have some fun with her, you know.
So she has these cool helmets, she has this cool this thing.
I never got a cool chest piece for her.
I got her some cool thigh shoes.
I never got a cool chest piece which sucks because it's like the main piece that makes
the character look cool. I didn't get one. What weapon does she use? She's currently
using a white wind drape pierish shield. Is that what I want to use on her? I don't know.
However, we'll equip some headgear, equip that, equip some shoes, like Queen. Oh my
god that headpiece is so cute. It's so cute. Oh I need a better chess piece on her. Oh
Oh man, she could look so cool.
All right, we're probably gonna give her...
We're gonna make it at least,
we're gonna at least make this one mission fun for her.
You know what I'm saying?
We'll at least make it enjoyable.
Busket? What slot does that one?
Oh, that slot.
Yeah, we're gonna make it fun for her at the very least.
Fortunately, I don't have a pair of gloves that she can use.
Kind of stings.
Oh, she uses her own shields.
All right, we're going to grab an attack 2.
We're going to grab some gems that I think she might use.
I don't know any of her combat style.
I have no clue how she actually fights.
But we'll get an attack speed, we'll get two attack speed 3s.
We'll get her, maybe, um, I guess we could do an arrow rain finisher, I don't know,
Oh, she could use this.
Um, alright, I mean, sure, this is fine.
I'll figure it out.
I'll throw in some random abyss gems just for the vibes.
for the vibes. Alright. Min Maxing for the vibes. It's not really... I just want to give
her a little love, that's all. So I have fun on this one mission with her. Where's my
Oh, I put it all in these shields tonight.
Cool. Alright, let's go, let's go, press her up.
What are, what are her skills?
Her skills are...
Bamiatin.
Uh, muskets.
your strike and hold the strike super armor shift left click to dodge and
attack quickly that's pretty cool that's badass that's badass I put some
points into her. She could fly too. Oh she flies on an umbrella. Sweet.
An armed combat, charged shot, shield toss.
What, that's sick!
What the fuck?
That's badass!
There's F right click to wrap your legs around an enemy
and throw them.
Yo, he is cool.
I'll put some points in order.
If I respect a character, does it respect a character or does it respect literally
everything.
Character, okay.
Well then, maybe I'll just put in a bunch of cubes into her
and then I can use my respect cubes as this one, right? The 11 respect cubes.
I mean, yeah, eventually you could put everything into everything, for sure.
I just mean like, oh, she can imbue elements too.
V during smiting strike. It has V during shield toss. V during meteor kick. What the hell is meteor
meteor kick? I've never even seen that. This is smiting strike.
I'm putting all of my points into her. Holy shit.
We might need to respect her at some point.
What the fuck?
You could deploy a shield, Sentinel, that's badass.
I just spent everything, all my voice.
Oh, I didn't grab another ring, did I?
I did.
All right.
Where does her weapon go?
Where does her, like, two-handed weapon go?
take it out. I think I forgot to take it out. Man. Man. Man. Fuck it, she won't use
I wonder at your leisure see what calls to
go on bankrupt yeah all good
I don't really have any fucking gems here, I thought I had more gems, but I really don't,
i'm just putting in random shit
i don't think enough
Sure. I'm just putting random abyss gems that I found
essentially on the floor somewhere.
Windslash's melee weapons.
Alright, hold on.
Uh, in crack.
I'll just put Windslash in there just cause...
In bed.
Windslash, sure.
Throw in this here, sure.
And then I do have two extra gem slots, but I don't care.
I don't care.
Alright, what does she do?
Holy shit, her cape is long.
Okay, so she...
I
Will do
Actually, hold on I may as well I may as well fill in these two slots. I
Bought the sockets for it may as well grab it
I'm not using the great sword. I I forgot it. I forgot it. I'm using this little
Little little rapier in this that
It is what it is. I forgot. I forgot. I forgot. What can you do? What can you do?
Come sit yourself. Have a good.
May I see Boku?
I'm just gonna put one of these in there.
And...
One of these in there, call it a day.
Medici Boku.
Is this game AI generated?
All of it.
Yeah, literally everything.
It's crazy.
Future's looking bright.
I'm gonna see a bokeh.
Not about yet.
Come see, come stop.
Wonder at your leisure.
Wonder.
At your leisure.
Alright.
Even the streamers that I generated.
How do you say that about me?
All this to do one quest on her.
I just spent like 20 minutes.
I don't know, maybe it wasn't 20 minutes, maybe it was only like 10.
I'll tell you, I don't do a lot of damage, for sure.
But these weapons aren't upgraded, so it kind of makes sense.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm gonna hit this boss like a fucking wet noodle.
I'm going to pepper this boss.
Oh, I'm supposed to sneak in.
Oh, shit.
Hold on, hold on.
I want to try this.
If I even fight a boss, I don't even know.
little shield oh I can't do the thing that oh interesting wait Damian can't use
axiom poles that's just a cliff thing
crazy
It should definitely let you use it on all the characters so you can like freely do all the puzzles and shit.
What was the button for?
This one.
This bar, this bar is getting tighter, let me tell you.
One shot.
It's kinda weird not fucking blowing everything up in one shot.
Well then, it's a bit hard.
What's up, Shopkeep?
of
No, it's all, all the damage comes from your weapon upgrades.
My upgrades are level three, you know, so it makes sense.
My upgrades on my other character are nine.
literally all the damage comes from. Majority of it. Obviously the Abyssgears are important as
well, but you just want to pick the right Abyssgear for the right character, right?
Beatrice?
Nice.
That Beatrice?
Mom?
It's a new character.
It just forces you to play another character for a mission or two.
Every now and then
I'm on a 30 easy I getting 130 FPS and cinematic 4k games hell optimized that guy Natty runs at like 25 FPS for sure
Get up!
All right, voice acting is a side profession of mine.
What's up, man?
You're so good at many things.
Thank you.
Uh-oh.
Oh
This game is a lot more cinematic when you don't, you know, blow everything up in one
Where am I supposed to be going?
I don't think I just run away.
oh they're wasting my time just leave right
oh shit i'm supposed to defeat a boss i gotta defeat a boss like like this with her
oh this is gonna be hard as fuck
this is gonna be hard as
Uh-huh
Wait, she can't fast travel?
Or do I just not have any fast travels over there?
Oh, I guess I just don't have any. Oh
Official Knights plate armor. Oh, she gets a whole set of gear
This is gonna be tough. All right do it
I get a horse or not to run I gotta run
Oh, here we go.
Pinto beans.
That's some very sad music.
Also the new permanent mounts, they're cool.
I mean, there's extra stuff, why not?
Of course, there's still this, but still cool.
The bear is cool.
I wanna ride the wolf, but I don't know where he is.
The wolf would be my go-to.
I have to bribe some more people
to see
where he might be.
Oh, yeah.
Love that for me. Back on. On the road again.
I think the horse is always going to be the fastest mount out of all of them.
Normal.
I tried, you're so good at the game here everyone's idle I want to be as good as you.
Remember to omit this part of the message when sending it in the chat.
Oh.
My bad I shouldn't have read that part.
Dude my favorite summit one of my favorite summit clips. It wasn't even a clip. I just thought it was funny
One of my favorite summit moments was when he was doing a sponsored stream
It happens actually I think quite a lot, but he does a sponsored stream and he reads his
talking points and then in brackets it would say like you know
Leave this part out summit, you know, and he would read the whole sponsored trim
maybe like yeah you know this this game has this feature and this feature is
running at a lower FPS than possible but please leave this out of the and then I
love that that should cracks me up he's done a few times it's so funny it's so
funny
It would say like don't compare this game to this or something
just
When he sees the what he sees the dock of like your talking points my man just reads them full. I love it
When I do sponsors I do something a little different. I have Hannah
Strip all of the talking points only to the ones that we like and
Then we don't say the others unless they're like super important
Because a lot of the talking points on sponsors are so, like, not authentic.
It's like, the talking point of a sponsor would be like, hey, explain this, like, four-paragraph
story.
And in my head, I'm like, nobody cares about the story, I'm not going to explain that.
Damn, this guy looks sick.
Steal yourselves!
Don't fall back!
This guy is kind of hard.
Oh
Get up I don't have a spirit I can't dodge
Weird how that works!
Oh, this race now does it!
You don't get to decide that!
Behold, I am his chosen one!
Oh my god, let me up, man.
Let me up!
Please!
Let me stand up for one second!
Oh my god!
Hey
Hey, one second. Let me play the game one second. Let me play the game, please
I'll be able to I'll I'll I'll be able to fight back in a second. Don't you worry? Hey when I get up
you're gonna you're really gonna really gonna have a bad time when I could play
the game
oh I got a hit off I got a hit off
Why aren't you gobbling?
Okay, whatever.
Oh, why didn't she do the...
Ah, dang, whatever.
Why did you kill my sword master?
Why?
There's anyone need a reason to kill
That was a base dancer
Well
Wait, this is the guy you arm wrestle in the very first game.
first town I just realized this is the same guy he was the first character or
the first champion you arm wrestle
no he's not he is I promise you that is the same character the very first
champion you are muscles that guy go back in my blood I promise I X what
numbers that I don't know I don't know Roman numerals what number
Oh, it's 10.
Oh, 9.
Oh.
Oh, 9.
You're safe here, so just rest! I mean it! Don't even think!
You alone, Flay, while all else remains still, you can finally hear me.
Who are you?
One with words meant for your ears.
Wolves open the heart in ways words never could.
You've been watching me.
It matters not.
What is important is the path you walk and the one still ahead.
I promise I'm the first guy I arm wrestle.
I promise you.
I promise you that's the first guy I arm wrestle.
I promise I promise I promise I promise I promise
What are you doing there?
This will do I have places I must go please let my colleagues know
When will anyone ever listen to me
I'm gonna check right now. I'm gonna check my stream right now. I'm going back to my day one vaude. I promise you. I armwrestled that guy.
I promise I promise I promise I promise.
Holy shit, it's gonna take me so long to figure out where I arm wrestled.
Oh, shit.
Not amnesia or Alzheimer's for sure.
Bro, I promise you guys, I swear I armwrestled this guy.
I know I saw him.
I don't know if it was the first time I armwrestled or the second time, but I promise, I promise,
I promise.
It was the first champion I ever faced.
So in the first hour I did armwrestling, right?
I did the first, so here's the problem, here's the kicker, okay, here's my, here's
my vaude.
For the first hour of me playing the game, I did do an arm wrestle, but I didn't fight the champion.
It's the champion that looks like this guy.
It's the same guy, I promise.
I just have to fight it in the VOD somewhere.
Whenever I decided to arm wrestle...
Whenever I decided to arm wrestle three times...
Maybe he was in the second Vaude?
Maybe he was in this Vaude?
Holy shit, it's going to take forever to try to find this. I don't know.
I would need to input this data into AI and then it would give me an answer.
I don't know.
Man, I can't believe I've been playing this game for eight days.
That's pretty crazy, huh? Eight days. Eight fucking days.
How do you remember that one guy you armwrestled? The only reason I remember is because...
The only reason I remember is because he looks like this main character guy and I remember
seeing him.
I remember seeing him in my arm wrestle and go like, wow, this guy looks really cool.
I remember I said that out loud.
I promise you it's the same character.
I promise, I promise, I promise.
That's the one guy that hit you off the abyss tower?
I know.
That's the same.
When I- when I- when that guy punched me off the abyss tower, I said the same thing.
I said, hey, that's the guy that I arm-resulted.
I said the same thing, I promise.
Emery fragment for what?
It's about time we look big, stop grumbling at the jeers.
And remember, Calphe is next one to pay Lou he's taking care of her.
So the grey man's will be finished before long.
Wait, I haven't finished.
Don't try to order me around, we count.
What a wankoo fellow.
Why does anyone work those Murden guy?
Like, hello?
It seems like a cock.
2% critical rate against cloth armor.
That's the strangest abyss gem ever.
Okay.
What's up, witch sisters?
Play Queens.
I'm about to get the witch.
She's the witch of strength. She's the witch of strength. How about to get the witch?
Hey, don't worry. I've already been there. Don't worry. I already know where to go.
Cliff is like, I like you.
pie well so far from our posts we heard the witches here wield arts unknown to us
maintaining the balance is no small task so
pulling your craft wherever we must is I need a mod that mutues birds
She's surprised.
Shhh.
Jesus Christ.
Fucking dumbass Kiwi birds.
Does anyone like Kiwi birds?
Like really?
New Zealanders?
Do you guys even like Kiwis?
She said the name!
The same!
The trial ahead will not be gentle.
This is as far as we can go.
Thank you.
You'll overcome it. I've no doubt.
It's a path only you can walk.
I got a food.
That was the most food I had to eat.
Was on...
Lady friend
You playing at 1440p, you know I'm playing on 4k
The 4k is really more like 2.78k
Because you know DLSS I
Can use DLA DLA and then that's technically 4k
But I'm more so running at like...
Yeah, something less than 4k.
What's the puzzle?
What is this?
You have a 5090 and still use DLSS?
I mean you pretty much always use DLSS if the option's available in new games.
It runs way better.
i'm so sorry i didn't know
i didn't know those were good people
i thought those were bad people
i didn't know i had my mask on
what can you do
it is what it is, it happens
sorry guys
I killed a bunch of jewel hunters, that's fun.
That'll hold up in court.
I didn't know I had my mask on.
All good.
Hold on.
Gotta catch this.
Bang!
MADEEP!
One hour and two minutes into the first stream for arm wrestling champion.
Wait, did you find it?
I didn't see the chance.
I just saw some pleb.
Wait, did you actually find it?
Hold on.
two minutes
No, that's the normal guy that's what I'm saying and that you found the same thing that I found
Not the champ you found the normal guy
I'm talking about when I saw the champ. Good luck finding that
That's gonna be hard to find
I think that FES pretty low with frame gen.
What?
Oh, my frame?
I'm 2x frame gen.
I think 4x frame gen is...
What do I get with 4x frame gen?
This is...
280.
Maudib is a mouse, not a rabbit.
I mean, whatever, dude.
It looks like a rabbit.
Walks like a rabbit.
Talks like a rabbit.
It's a rabbit.
Maudib!
of
Wait, is this the cave I tried to go through?
Oh my god.
I tried to go through this cave like five days ago or something or four.
I tried to get in here.
Of course I did.
I'm fine. The main story's finally catching up to me.
That's fucking aura.
It sounds a little worse when you...
say aura like about yourself.
Sounds a little fringe, I'm not gonna lie, but...
You get the idea.
Purify the taint.
I will purify the taint, don't you worry.
What I do.
Oh, I gotta go up there.
Hey, your taint is about to be purified, buddy.
Watch this.
It's just what I do.
I don't know if I'm doing this right.
Uh.
Hold on.
Sometimes.
Um.
There we go.
I got it.
Purified.
Um.
I got it.
Purified.
There we go.
I got it.
Purified.
What is a taint really?
What does that mean?
Is it that Purify is a taint?
What does that mean?
ancient stone and let their power flow through you.
The paint is your butt. Eww.
Gross.
Bear within you the purpose to men balance that falter as true enlightenment shall begin
when the sanctum's order is restored.
Sure.
Why is it tracking the wrong fucking quest, man?
Like they broke the tracking.
In this game what's up, it's not tracking my shit anymore.
He meant the slang what is slang taint?
Yeah, like what does it mean when it said purify the taint?
Like not your asshole like I went up to the statue and I purified the taint
Which clearly wasn't at his butthole unless his butthole is his belly button. What does that mean?
Like a stain corruption
I
I see that's why taint is also butthole because your butthole is really the corruption of
man really and women we all have them. Corruption of humans I guess I should say is a butthole.
Honestly just an imperfection really.
Just an imperfection.
There any goodies in this cave now that I'm here?
You brought me jewels of your own free will.
Last time I killed you guys, I got minus rep.
I don't even, they're not even saying anything because their bug was fun.
Tain equal contamination.
Yeah, no, that makes sense.
I got it.
Believe me, I'm seeing what you're putting down.
Who the fuck are you, boss?
Alright.
Yours is a perfection... what?
Yours is a perfection shroud butt hashtag ad.
What the hell happened to you man?
I don't play a multiplayer game, you can't stream, what's that mean you're saying some
shit like that?
I was hoping there'd be a secret here, but I don't think there is.
I will, however.
Take this.
Oh.
Hey, there's a cube!
You don't find these cubes often.
Just laying on the table.
Why is the quest marker 1500 away?
I think it's just where I'm supposed to go.
looking around in this cool area yeah it's supposed to be you think the witch is
there yet or do you think this quest eventually gets to her because she's
right here you think she's there now let's take a peek
hey shroud regards approach report your goal I have a 5090 the game still
looks blurry sometimes you know there's a way to fix that the game looks blurry
sometimes
DLSS off I don't know quality
I'm unsure glass your DLSS is probably on like performance and I wouldn't I wouldn't
go as low as performance personally. The lowest I would go is balanced. That's the lowest I would
go with USS. Once you start going under that, it starts to get really ugly.
Oh, maybe you have depth of field on. So you might think it's blurry, but it's just DOF.
Actually, what does depth of field look like in this game? That was like the first thing that
turned off. Depth of Fields. On.
Um.
I'm not really seeing it to be honest with you.
Are we seeing a depth of fields in here? Because I'm not.
I don't know it's not even work okay let's try it let's try it off bro it
doesn't look any different okay I don't know weird oh wait where the fuck's the
witch. I want to see if she's here now.
I use path tracing. This game doesn't have path tracing.
Does it? It has Ray reconstruction. I don't think that's
path tracing. Is it? Is that a different word for it? I don't
think so. Where the hell is the witch?
Let's see if she's actually there.
She's not there yet, so I gotta progress the main a little bit more.
I'm assuming this quest is just gonna take me right to her then.
Alright, let's go.
I'm just going to fast travel actually, right on top of it.
I don't use ray reconstruction.
It only looks good in certain environments.
What?
Wait.
Is there two tablets?
Not at all?
What's happening here?
Tattled?
Not at all. What's happening here?
But yeah, I think
Ray Reconstruction does look better, but I don't care about that. The performance hit is way too high for certain scenarios.
There's only certain situations that I think Ray Recon
one
looks better
in
fire the sun
I know just what to do
I see a chest.
It's a mirror.
And it pushed me.
Okay, so I'm supposed to move a bunch of mirrors so that light beams in a certain direction.
Yeah?
All right, we should probably start, am I supposed to beam the light down on this
relic
and all right let's find the highest
okay
so
there's no mirror there the light is
so
a fucking high do I got to go
I don't understand why light is not shining on any of these mirrors, it doesn't really
make much sense to me. I'm supposed to shine the light and bounce it off the mirrors, but
not a single mirror actually has a light on it. Which is odd. When you wait for a certain
time of day, perhaps? So that the light perfectly bounces? What the f*** do I do? There's no
No way you have to wait for a certain time of day.
Heh.
I don't even go inside?
I do whatever this is.
Oh my god.
of
Hold on, hold on.
Okay.
Puzzled demon.
We're losing daylight boss. It's 3 p.m.
There's no way we got plenty of daylight. It's just raining.
Here, you want me to make the- you want me to make the rain go away? Watch this.
Watch this shit.
Ready?
Hey!
It's necklace fucking socks!
Ray, sunshine, sunshine, my, oh wait.
It worked.
Wow, very cool.
Never worked before I'm gonna be honest with you the first time it's worked
and
a
long year
this one maybe
and then
year
of
the
way
of the
I need it there so it goes there good good
Oh oh oh oh I see I see I see I see I see I see I see I see
And then it's supposed to go bang bang bang bang
Bang
Okay, I don't see but I'm gonna pull it back and then it'll give me a better idea because clearly this is not the right way
I thought I saw but I don't see
Okay
Just pulling it closer or do anything?
That makes sense.
A whole lot of sense.
Okay, and then bang.
Bang.
Bang?
No, no, no. Bang. Oh, that's right. Yeah, hold on. Bang.
Man, fuck you.
hh
bang, bang
eh?
am I some kind of stupid or something?
I'm not seeing the path here, okay?
This clearly has to be here, because if it's here it blocks that, so it has to be there.
But there only banks to that.
That banks to that.
I move that.
There's no banging.
Can I rotate these?
rotate these? Like are they on an axis? No. Can I rotate these? No.
Huh? Oh. Oh. Oh. I didn't see this one. Let's do something. Import.
Oh, oh, okay, oh, okay, okay, oh, I don't see how this still makes it there.
i'm not seeing how this makes it there
now we got a like a like a six-way
i don't understand
I actually don't I'm not I'm not seeing the potential here I can't go here right
this this can't go here because then that gets blocked so it has to be here so
that's right but then this can't move so it always bangs to that if it doesn't
bang to that it bangs nowhere let's obviously right but then that bangs to
that which is obviously right this bangs only one option to bang
Do I shorten this guy?
But then, if I shorten it, where's it going to bang to?
I don't understand.
So I put this one here, and then I put this one closer, it's going to bang to Laulaland.
It's going to go nowhere.
If I put this here, right, it's going to go nowhere.
This is just gonna go... gonna go nowhere, Land.
Oh, motherfucker!
This just goes nowhere, right?
Yeah.
That, thanks to this, thanks to that, that's right, thanks to that, that's right, thanks
to that, that's right.
So there's a problem here.
I'm not seeing it though.
That bangs to that.
There's no other...
Oh, wait.
It could bang here.
No, it's not going to change anything, though.
It bangs one step further, and don't matter.
I'm not seeing it.
That can't be touched.
If that bangs here, this goes to nowhere.
If it bangs here, it's fucking off to the moon.
I don't guys. I'm not seeing it. I'm not I'm not seeing the outcome
I'm here honest with you. I'm not seeing it
You might think I'm trolling but I'm I'm dead-ass not seeing it's something right here in these two or three
I guess it could be this one this one or this one because the rest can't they there's no
Changing on the right though. They're all right
These three, though, one of them's wrong.
Is it like an alignment issue?
Like, does this need to go like a slight...
change, like, the trajectory?
That doesn't make any sense.
I've already tried putting this one here, and it doesn't do anything, right?
How do I get the beam to bounce off this from there to go into there?
I might fast travel and reset this whole puzzle to start from the beginning, just so I get a better, see better eyes here.
Just so I get some better eyes here.
I really like the blue light though, it's really pretty.
You have it bro, you're looking at the answer.
I will hide, I don't know what you guys are seeing that I'm not.
Because if I move this, if I move this there, it goes nowhere.
If I move this here, it goes there.
If I move this there, it goes there to there to the moon.
So I can't move this one.
This one I move this way, it doesn't do anything.
This one doesn't do anything either unless I put it back here.
If I put it back here, it's still going to bounce the exact same.
I don't know.
You can move it.
No, no, no.
This one? Yeah, you could move this one, but if I move this one right here, it's just gonna
reflect that way. If I move it one more, it's gonna reflect into this mirror and go to La-La-Land.
You know? If I move it backwards, it's just gonna send the beam to fucking Narnia, like
that, right? So I move that shit backwards, it's gone.
I can't move this one if I move this one it breaks the chain.
Oh, I see.
Oh, I understand.
Oh, I understand!
Woo! That was a doozy!
That was a doozy!
My god!
You know the Pokemon game where you gotta slide on ice?
Or not the Pokemon game, but one of the Pokemons where you go in the cave, and there's one of the gins, and you gotta slide on ice?
Yeah, I never finished that one.
Woo! That took almost two hours in game.
That was a doozy!
And
for children and every puzzle for children
that's why they're called puzzles
you think you think adults made that up
Oh
Fuck applied
You should have seen me do Zelda puzzles.
Zelda puzzles are way harder than this.
I don't think I could do them.
I actually definitely couldn't do them.
They were way too hard.
These are harder than Delta puzzles?
Nah, no way.
Delta puzzles are crazy.
John Spillsbury was 21-27 and made the first puzzle, by the way.
Yeah, but let me guess, it was made for kids, right?
Okay.
Let's be real, none of us are smarter than 5th graders, you know?
So who are we to judge someone for not knowing a puzzle?
It is kind of weird.
Why is the smarter than a fifth grader questionnaire so difficult?
Like that shit surely is rigged, right?
There's no way any fifth grader knows any of that information.
Like when I was in the fifth grade, I knew nothing.
Literally nothing.
I barely knew how to have a conversation.
You're telling me they know how to fucking do,
like algebra? Come on.
Why, fuck, this is crazy.
You still know nothing.
Ignorance is bliss.
What can I say?
It's my motto.
This is a cool little temple.
This is kind of like equivalent to Zelda temples.
You have all these spires that you puzzle to open up and then when you go into them, there's
even more puzzles.
You go to the Abyss and there's, you just puzzle it up.
Demonstrates!
They give you the Five Gifted!
Ah!
W5er!
Someone give that guy a t-shirt.
Actually, we're making more t-shirts.
And we're kind of only, not only, but some of the reason why we're making more t-shirts is because
on Shrewd you could earn free t-shirts for watching my 24-7 channel.
And we're running out of t-shirts.
Part of the main reason why we're doing that.
Okay, I don't need to do this puzzle, right?
Which what is that that's a man oh god he's got my shield
huh you're finally here dad you were expecting me our steps have always
followed the same current I've watched your every choice unfold yo he looks
I
Dad so I will help you choose the path you must walk
What's this free t-shirt tech? I think it's just watching. I think it's watching many hours of shrewd and it's free tease
Well, I haven't sold my weapon yet hold on hold on hold on hold on man. I wasn't ready for a fight
asshole we're twinsies though magic shield
his name is Grayson oh no Gwen
oh blue shield
where are you going where are you going
Goyen. The chosen one.
Loha!
Racia!
Goyen is older self in Old Greek by the way.
Wait that's badass! That's me?
That's cool, that makes sense when you've got the attack.
in silence it must have been lonely and yet they never stopped moving forward
you were never wrong every path you choose was the right one so no matter
That's cool, man. He's me. The witches rang. Same as all the other rings.
Grayman's earring. Same as all the other earrings. Actually worse. Cool.
Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
I'm looking for his weapon.
Oh he's got his weapon in there.
Whoop- clothes.
I mean, it's probably ass, but.
I guess it could have a cool gem.
Aw, this is so sad.
Wait, please don't make me kill a flying dragon, because that means I'll have to use a bow
or something all right let me go get that ass weapon sorry I didn't I didn't
realize I didn't realize that there was a weapon there hold on let me pick it up
before you guys go today see before you guys go today see I'm sure the abyss
gear that it has is probably pretty cool
skill acquired back hang
I found the arm wrestling, no way did you actually find it.
The faded shadow.
The bat is it good?
and
all the sort of self is terrible but that's okay
is this cool?
oh yeah
oh ho ho ho ho ho
oh I'm going to do even more damage
oh mama mia
I don't know why I'm saying that like that, I'm so sorry.
Now that's pretty good.
That is going to be some damage.
Hey, I can't think of anything to get to, bro.
That's going to be some damage because that plays well into the build that I'm running
right now though. Which is honestly kind of bitch. Another gifted dub dub dub dub. Thank
you AKM. So I wonder how we're feeling about Spirit Siphon and Stamina Siphon. I'm feeling
like it's kind of ass. We're gonna try something. Spirit Siphon's good for AoE clear, like clearing
a bunch of mobs, I will say. Very good for that. But I'm gonna try to, I'm gonna try
to not, I'm gonna try to do this, and then, oh fuck. Okay, well I don't have my other
gem that I wanted to throw in here, but it's fine.
Now, I should.
Holy fuck. Okay, so my combo is going to look like when I'm right clicking.
I'm shooting these birds while right clicking, and then I always end with this.
And then that's a Earth Shatter, plus the Dark Abyss thing, plus the Dude.
And then you could also obviously enchant it with Lightning, but I don't have enough
spirit, so okay.
Cool.
Problem though, I have too much attack speed.
I think I always had too much attack speed though, never mind that's fine.
Okay, I gotta remove the spear from the dragon.
This guy gonna beat my ass?
Sorry, Mr. Dragon.
Were your axes implicit crit and attack speed?
Yeah.
And then I max their one twos.
So at 10 they're 1-2s with 2 attack speed 1 crit
Still didn't change your gloves. I just not really found anything dragon
Let me save you
Okay, I think I found this for you second stream three hours and 40 minutes for arm wrestling
There's no way...
Oh, my alt-tabbed and it made me jump.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
That's not what it looks like, okay?
Alt-tabbed and alt is dodged, so I dodged off.
Okay.
Three hours and 40 minutes.
He's saying he found it.
Oh my god.
It's not him.
But it's fucking close.
Look. Look. That's the guy I thought was the other guy. Doesn't it look exactly like him?
It's like a younger version of himself. See, look. This guy? That's the guy that looks
like this guy. I told you, dude. I told you. This guy's like 30 years younger, though.
But this guy's from, like, the future and shit. He could, like, bend time based off
of the story so it's very obvious that this guy is this guy and that's me it's
my old trip by the way god I used to look so good I used to look so good now
look at me anyway same guy different year
let's ride nobody's agreeing with you okay it's not what I'm saying but whatever
Sometimes I feel like you guys just make shit up, you know?
Climb up to the dragon's back.
You could ride a dragon with the aid of Axiom Force,
tab to grab Blackstar with Axiom Force, then mount him.
I'll mount him all right.
Not like that. He's a dragon. Don't be weird.
I know you guys were thinking it.
Where even is he?
He up here?
I don't see no dragon.
I'll have to wait.
I got the shit. I got the shit. Three. No. Let me, I might need a one-hander in this.
Alright. Three. Two. One. Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum. Holy shit he's fast!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Oh.
There.
That went well.
All right, I'm going to beat him there.
Three, two, wait.
Gracia.
And fall.
And...
Grab...
Holy...
Jesus!
My God!
This guy, he's coming in fuckin' hot!
Alright, I'm gonna land on him instead.
Much of the shit.
Ohhhh...
Solid execution.
And let go.
Ohhhh...
This is a lot harder to fucking land than I thought, Jesus Christ.
Don't worry, I'll get there.
Da-da-doo!
Why does an Axiom Force fucking work?
Like, just, the tutorial told me to use Axiom Force to grab him, and it doesn't
want to grab him.
Like what do we do?
What the fuck is happening?
What the fuck is going on?
one my chat said before I got here they said oh god this quest they clearly have gone through
this one before did you read the tutorial yeah man it fucking it's yeah dude took me 20 minutes I
could see that I could see how awkward the timing is this because when you hit spacebar when
When you axium force it like it's all weird and shit and that's I didn't grab that time
when you hit spacebar when you axium force it like throws you next to him but then throws
you away for him at the same time I don't know if I need to spam spacebar maybe so
like I grab on.
I'm saying it throws me off.
Oh, oh, I threw myself off.
Oh, I see what happened.
I was hitting spacebar releasing myself like a dumbass.
So you're saying it's a...
...skill issue?
This is not a AIB!
Where are we going?
So, is this all I'm supposed to do?
Just hold on.
kind of running out of stamina. Do I palm him? No, I just hold on I guess. Alright.
I feel like I'm supposed to do something.
This doesn't do anything though.
I can't...
I'm just gonna wait, because I can't do anything.
I can't move.
Oh!
Oh, I had to wait this long?
Holy shit.
Focus the mind, and purify the taint.
Can you stop flying around so much so I can focus my mind for a second?
Thank you.
I gotta purify your taint, buddy.
Can I ask you a question?
No, sorry, not your taint. Sorry.
Sorry. Purified the taint. Not his taint.
Listen, I got eeeeeeb!
Oh yeah, talk to me.
Mind control?
Mind power.
No?
He's happy though.
He's happy.
I pulled the spears out.
I'm a nice guy.
I don't even know why I look at these.
Yeah, yeah, it's very cool.
Is there someone over here?
Blackstar, the college acquired.
Honestly, I want to know the information.
I wonder if this is a game where when you finish the main, it, um, it like, breaks the game.
You know what I mean?
I wonder if it's one of those where you finish the last chapter and then the whole game just like implodes,
and then you can't really like play anymore.
I hope you can finish the game and still play the game.
You know what I'm saying?
Blackstar is...
a prominent resident.
One of two, in fact. He's one of two prominent residents here in the Great Expans.
They've been worshipping him since the ancient times.
Okay, must rise to set order right.
With how much size that you're doing, there won't be much else to do when you finish.
I mean, I'm kind of doing a little bit more of the main right now, you know
So I'm trying to do a little bit more of the main and then do the side after
But I worry that if the main just happens to end and
Then the whole world implodes that is that would be very very unfortunate
and
that it is for a quick
All right, so morning fog not to be confused with your mind.
of
the year
have you come seeking wisdom forgive my lack of a welcome an unfortunate affair
has left the temple in ruins I hope you understand the game so far 78% is there
anything I can do maybe 81 maybe this is endless but I'm concerned about the
expensive statues I
Know attachment to material things bring suffering
They represent something dear to us
Would you be so kind as to check if they remain untouched solid B-minus? I dig yeah
I would say like a B B-minus is pretty good for this game. Yeah
In order for it to be an a I think it would have had to be a little bit more
Or, um, I don't know, it just would have had to be a little bit more intuitive and, like, thoughtful with some of their design.
Some of their design feels really sloppy, lazy, like, patched together.
It doesn't feel very coherent, some of it.
But, shit. The world that they managed to stitch together.
together like it feels like this game was made by like six different like like
teams not like departments but like literal different functioning teams so
I feel like it's just like a little bit all over the place but if if it was all
like coherent together it would be insane it'd be insane
once more
I strange have do you see things as I do I do
the London's cast shadows
Not everything can be resolved. Hold on. I don't have my weapon out. Oh my god. Here we go
Well, man
the world listens only to the voices of the strong the words of the weak never carry
very far. You'd be wise to eat my words.
What do you mean coherent? I just mean like a lot of the mechanics. A lot of the systems
and mechanics in the game are like, um, like you could, when you're, when you're engaging
with them you could tell there's something missing. You know, whether they forgot to put
a piece somewhere, whether they forgot to move something around slightly, the pacing, organization.
repair the first pensive statue
so I gotta fucking...
do I gotta punch the taint again?
I'll do it
oh
repair it
why am I always out here at night?
repair the shattered
pensive
statue
oh yeah
oh wait, do I grab like a piece?
no
I don't know how else to explain what I mean unless you play the game yourself, right?
When you play the game, you'll understand what I mean more so.
You'll get the idea of what I'm saying, like how it's a little disjointed.
It's not a bad thing.
They managed to scrounge together a pretty good game with all the time that they spent.
It probably was a game that kept getting more and more scope and they kept getting
more complicated and then that made it even harder to make and then it probably
had to combine different teams and went through a little bit of development hell
and then they probably still got out of it you know what I mean games like that
often are not perfect so the fact that they still managed to make it this good
when that clearly happened pretty cool you know how like there's power
creeping a game that also applies for video games when you're making them
There could be like a creep, a development creep, that kind of just haunts you.
And then on top of that, like the politics that could happen too behind a development
team, whether it's like publisher deals or fucking shit falls apart or whatever, you
know, you gotta stitch it back together, save the game, whatever it might be.
I need to go so I can see.
Yeah, the best thing I can say with this game is if you like exploring, like Water said,
if you like exploring in games, you like walking around getting lost, going into a cave,
going up a mountain for the fuck of it, then you'll like this game.
Uh, I'm gonna really quickly sleep.
Can't see.
Okay, it could have all they could have embezzled a crowdfunded private investors then launch
and shut down.
I mean, it's a single player game, so that would never happen, but yeah, you know, yeah,
that's, it could have done that.
Why am I here?
Oh, I'm sleeping.
Uh, before I sleep though, are my dudes done working?
Like, how long have you guys been fucking building Paloon?
All they're finally done. We're trying to finish Pei Lun and all of its upgrades and I get an achievement for that
I'll be my third achievement ever
Sorry, Goosey, Scoosey
P for penis, where's it? Hey, then
I need one engineer guy
All right, I'm gonna take all of my guys off everything and I'm gonna split them in the money makers
How am I on this mission? Oh
Oh
Because you don't need the money makers on the mid the money making missions. They just provide a bonus. Oh
I see then that's okay. Hold on
I
The 5 to 7 5.3k reward. I know I don't have any men for this
Actually, I should probably split it up on a cancel my
8.8k reward one
There's too many on this one we're cancel this guy
and then we're just gonna have two on each
that I'm trying to make a lot of money at my camp so I can spend it
it worth it I don't know I have so much of the other shit doesn't matter like
I have 273,000 wood like what are we
or not wood, but actually I'm gonna need to get some wood.
All right, I'm gonna get some wood real quick, my last one. Two to four, that's fine.
Okay, now I'll be bringing in some serious cash
My camps got like 300k after spending on pay loon pay loons expensive if you haven't purchased if you haven't upgraded pay loon to the max
That's gonna cost you like a milli dude, but if you have 300k sitting around and you haven't started pay loon construction
I would start it now
I've already spent like 300,000 on pay loon itself
You have to do like eight upgrades and they're all like a hundred thousand each like a hundred fifty
All right, I think I'm on the last main quest. Can you finish it and tell me if the whole game breaks?
Because if the whole game breaks, I'm gonna stop doing the main you know I'm saying
When the hell can I get to this fucking witch?
Not letting me
I just don't want to be in a scenario.
I don't want to be in a scenario where you're on the main quest and all of a sudden like
you do it and then the world, like the game ends and then the world like it implodes and
then you don't have side quests available and then you're like well GG.
I guess I want to explore it.
I finished it today.
Okay and it didn't happen.
That's good.
Cool.
That's all I needed to know.
Not like Cyberpunk.
There's a double dispatch item or ward bug for you too?
Yeah, it doesn't actually give me double.
Ha ha ha ha.
It doesn't actually- Is that what you mean?
Like, it doesn't- It doesn't give me double.
Don't you know?
Pump it up.
It worked for me one time and then stopped after I slept.
Yeah.
That happened to me too.
I think it's just a bogged item, unfortunately.
What is this new precise control?
I don't know.
Ugh.
So close.
I think precise control just slows down your sensitivity.
Literally claim the stuff from the new update.
It said I was giving a 7500 Silver, but don't have it.
It's probably in your storage, Jess.
What did we get 7500 Silver for?
where the hell is this?
It's really far down there.
of
more players and current deserts and are
the ad and
the
yep that's
Next you're going to tell me there's more players than Slay the Spire.
never never never never never never never never ever marks been out for half a year and
put out maybe four updates with the content I mean I don't know I got one hand you can't
expect them to have that kind of cadence but on the other hand that game could have been
the next fortnight no it's it's hard right because you see so many companies like expand
And then by the end of the year, lay everybody off.
So like, on one hand it's respectable
that Arc Raiders didn't like mass hire
and try to become the next Fortnite
and then fire them all later, you know,
a couple of years down the line.
So it's like commendable that they didn't do that,
but at the same time,
it had potential to be the next Fortnite.
But unfortunately, I think that potential is now lost
because they're just, they're going the safe
and slow route, which
It's fine. It's obviously fine. Like, you're doing what's best for your company and your employees, which is commendable, but...
Yeah. I mean, you know, it is what it is. That's just that. I mean, there's not what you can say. It just is what it is.
I think it's unrealistic to make them...
It's unrealistic to let them, like...
to tell that whole studio that they should have grinded their ass off, you know, like
that's kind of an unfair thing to say.
It is, it is what it is.
However, I do think if they did decide to grind their ass off and not disappear for
four weeks, I think that would have been the right choice.
But there really is no right or wrong, there's just a choice.
You just make it.
Four weeks, more like two months.
Yeah, it's very unorthodox to have a game blow up and then everybody slow down, but
I respect it as a, that's a good thing, good on their boss man for their employees.
the
I can't.
Well, you should try out our training course.
Seek enlightenment and help us guide him back to the right path.
That is the opposite of what happened after he bought it and fired everybody.
The company went to shit.
It went to shit.
It's the direct opposite of what happened.
Visions!
Don't like free speech? No, I like real human beings, man.
Shatter the nested.
Nobody's real, dude.
Problem.
You know what you do when you have an influx of bots?
You don't come out with some fancy tech to try to stop it.
You use real fucking people.
To manually moderate.
Hire some people.
And all the bots.
Gonna be a lot of money.
But we just don't have the tech yet.
Apparently not. I mean, maybe we should have the tech, but Twitter does not have the tech. That should is all...
Kind of the same with cheating, right?
Like, cheating, you can't beat by just an anti-cheat.
You have to be cheating via real humans, for now, until something comes out.
Huh?
Where am I going?
Oh shit, was I supposed to pick that up?
I can recover I can recover I can recover I can recover
I got this I got this locket I was born for moments like this
Easy.
Wasn't worried for a second.
Not one.
Nope.
Not me.
No, you can walk on that rope.
I just figured it would take too long, so I did it my way.
Was it the right way?
Probably not.
walked on a rope but there's a shiny thing here somewhere
is it a fast travel or something? not... thing you get. there's something there though
whatever
uh
Huh? Is there a body there that I'm not seeing?
Where's the Buddha body?
It's not...
Is it higher?
I'm...
Is it lower?
I think it's lower.
Uh...
I think it's lower.
Uh...
This quest is fucking weird.
Oh fuck.
Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh that's a minor setback.
That, okay, alright.
No, I deserve that one. That's fine.
Can I still recover? We'll see.
Oh fuck.
Oh shit.
Oh, shit.
Yeah, we're fine.
I'm gonna cut these close.
So what's up with this Buddha thing?
What's it for?
Okay, no Buda.
Games beautiful.
It has its moments.
Then it also doesn't.
I would say it has more moments of looking good than looking bad though.
There's only a few instances in this game that look really scuffed.
I don't know what this boot is for, but I don't know, I'm not.
I don't even see it on the minimap anymore, I have no clue where it was.
How come you never run ads?
Oh I do, you're just using an adblock.
That's fine.
You do you, King.
You do you.
I can check how many ads I roll right now.
How many ads am I rolling? Oh, I'm falling. Okay. Okay, it's all good. I'm rolling
approximately two minutes, three minutes of ads an hour, I think. Or wait. Yeah, that's right.
I used to roll 10 and then I felt kind of bad when I lowered it and then I lowered it again
and now I kind of want to raise it again. I used to roll 10 minutes of ads.
I
Okay, I'm not gonna lie I roll okay. I have a strat
Not a good strat or maybe it is I don't know my strat is I roll ten minutes of ads
When I have a lot of viewers and then when I have less viewers I roll like three minutes of ads
So that the less viewers aren't
Like Fox
That's that's my usual strat. So like if I was playing like battlefield 7 and I had
40,000 viewers I
Would probably do 10 minutes of ads
But if I'm playing Crimson Desert here with I don't even know how many viewers we have I don't know 10,000
I'm guessing then I'll run like three
Sometimes sometimes five depends on the day
Basically I farmed the mob yeah pretty much and it's not really the mob it's more so farming
That's also kind of farming like Twitch drops really because usually the reason why you have so many viewers is Twitch drops
You still like money if we have turbo? Yeah turbo, if you're watching a stream and you have
turbo you still give that streamer revenue, yeah. It's pretty cool. I think that's pretty
cool.
What the fuck? Get there, get there, get there. It's okay, minor setback, minor setback.
minor setback
minor setback, it's okay lock it lock it lock it lock it lock it lock it lock it lock
How are you taking fall damage there it was a tiny fall you're a fucking king you are a king
You're a king fucking Slayer, what are you doing just taking a little fall damage?
Good good
I'm so upset guys the most time
Most big streamers nowadays definitely spam ads.
I wouldn't blame any big streamer for spamming ads, seriously.
Dude, think about how many people rose and fell.
Think about how volatile streaming is.
Think about how one either real thing can happen or one fake thing can happen to you.
And it could totally ruin everything.
whether it's a
whether it's a really big fuck-up in your life i mean that's on you i guess
sometimes it's not you know sometimes it's
just a bullshit something stupid
I wouldn't be surprised and this is kind of crazy to say it loud but I think we're all
thinking it.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of large streamers, especially newer ones that blew
up out of nowhere, have some skeletons in their closet and they're praying.
never gets out. So spam those ads, I guess. Like, I'm fortunate enough to, I guess, not
be a shitty person, but also I've been doing this so long that, like, what the hell's
gonna come out you know it's fucking been 15 years
okay I guess you could Tiger Woods Tiger Woods it if I had a license which I
No.
No one speak.
Bay fancies himself the same.
You stinking rats.
If you must persist with your wicked ways.
I will set you on a grind.
Wait, he's a homie?
Oh, fuck. Oh! Oh!
Damn!
Whoa!
Okay, so this game loves to just hit you.
Damn!
This monkey pumps!
That's King from Street Fighter.
Close!
Okay, close.
What the fuck?
What are we doing right now? This is the main story.
We're just killing like...
Like we're killing ancient tigers like what's happening
Troucans fighting spirits
That's a cool helmet I guess
That's for the girly with kinetic burst. Oh, do you think these stack? No way
This is for the monk builds kinetic burst
What was the other end of my found? How come I don't see it in this list?
So this, it was Max Spirit 20. Wow. That's huge. 20's a lot. It's like two extra abilities.
Look at my bar. I'm on medium. Yeah, there is a monk build in this game. You could go like full
unarmed monk monk build. It's pretty cool, I think. Oh, time to do the huge tower climb.
Look how slow my spirit goes up.
I just have such a huge bar
Too big my bar is too big
They improved the controls they made mouse and keyboard a little bit more fluid today. I didn't notice the last change
Like they made a pass last time
On mouse and keyboard to make it more fluid. I didn't personally notice that one
I thought that one was placebo, but this one definitely
Um
Help
Oh, wait the boot is up there
Marathon ranks, oh no, I ain't playing no marathon ranks. I'm gonna I
Don't know. I'm not a huge. I'm not huge ranked in extraction shooter guys
this is so much easier to climb this dude last time I was climbing this I
I literally, dude, I climbed this tower, day like three of the game, and last time I climbed it,
I didn't have any abilities, so I literally just whopped, like I just grappled all the way up.
I thought the patch made aerial thrust possible with all weapons.
Swords I think.
You just can't use a shield now or something.
Let me see actually.
I've never even tried out my axe, but I think it won't work.
Let me see.
Oh, it does work with all weapons. Oh, shit. W comms. I thought it was, um,
I thought it was, um, like you didn't need a shield anymore. You still need a sword. Hell yeah.
Sheave enlightenment. I could do that. I feel like I'm always enlightened.
I've never not been enlightened in my life.
Anyone else?
Or just me?
Last try, how does prime subs pay work for you?
Oh prime subs?
Depends on where you prime sub from so if you prime sub from like it's all equal to the value of like I
Don't know is it equal to the value of the dollar of your of your country's currency or something something like that
so like if a subscription is like
30 cents for you then
That is what
The prime sub will give
Am I saying that right?
That sounds right.
It's basically just regional pricing, right?
update for the game just drops? Does it fix the black screen? That happened to me?
What does it say?
What did I do?
I lift that and what did it do?
I think I didn't raise it high enough.
What's going to end?
Keep it going.
I'm going.
Um.
I'm not.
Maybe it's just maybe this was flooded and now it's not.
I don't know.
I mean, I was thinking that.
I'm sure whatever this update was was a bug fix update based off of what bugged out from
the last update.
That's probably what happened.
an issue where sprint cannot be used on the white bear.
Yeah.
I just want to, I'm gonna be honest, the main reason I'm doing the main right now is
because I just want to unlock the potential to upgrade my stamina and health and spirit even higher.
I've been capped on stamina, spirit, and health forever, and I'll really want to max it.
I just want to see how big my stand bar can get in my health bar can.
Also, I don't know if you guys know this game has items that you can
Claim like you could do a boss and you can use the item and it'll give you like permanent health and spirit and stamina
Shit like that. It's pretty cool
All right, did I achieve enlightenment with that puzzle? Have I been achieved?
Am I enlightened you can do that already? I mean I can't I need to
Not enough understanding about the power of life
Oh, that might not be the main story that might be the research center and
just Christ up here I think in Urdva
What do you mean achieve enlightenment am I not enlightened what are we doing
Well, I don't even know how to do research yet.
I actually haven't engaged with the research mechanic at all.
I found one research institute guy before and I didn't have anything for anything, so
i just walked away
this looks like a boss fight
or something
build when you beat a boss you get an extra heart kind of thing yeah there's
there's a lot of permanent buffs in the game when you kill bosses you get trade
good buffs you can get health buffs, spirit buffs, stamina buffs, camp buffs
That old man said you didn't he
Still going on about all this one and all that hogwash. I bet that old man. They're just children
Anyway getting here couldn't have been easy don't touch me child
I like his hat. I want that. Dude, please let me have that hat. It looks like a party hat.
I like you just the way you are, don't you?
I'm not sure.
Good or bad, life goes on, so it's best to just go with the flow.
Aye.
Try too hard and you'll just trip over your own feet.
Stop overthinking and just keep doing what you do.
Go help a few lost souls, and you'll see what I mean.
That'll teach you a real lesson.
the
I achieved enlightenment and there's a piece of paper here.
I can make the pills.
Wait, don't I already know how to do this?
Oh, this is making the gold pills, isn't it?
Herb plus leaf plus beetle plus water
Been something long
I have so many pills I could revive like 40 times in a fight
I don't know what i'm saving it for
But maybe if there's a boss out there that's like super hard maybe I'll die 40 times. Wow
You never know
Can I go in here?
I don't know if I want to do a bunch of abyss puzzles. I'm gonna go get the waypoint and then I'm gonna fuck off.
I don't know if I'm in an abyss puzzle kind of mood right now.
a
this puzzle might be tomorrow tomorrow at the start of the stream or something I like doing
them I just don't know if I want to do them right now
I'm actually almost done the abyss.
Believe it or not.
I don't have that much left.
Oh!
This is the cube!
that flies up in the air
all my god i did this puzzle ages ago
and i never finished it
this cube you started up and then it goes flying in the air
and then
uh... i don't know i'm interesting
i got to be really bad this is so old holy shit
How many did you do? I think I did about 30 abyss puzzle.
Oh.
do I do this puzzle right now? Or do I save it for later? It seems pretty important. Wait, does
that mean that's the end of one of the... I think that might be the end of one of the abyss puzzles,
because usually when they TP you down to the floor, that's like the finisher. How many abyss
puzzles have I done? Oh, I've only done 27, never mind. I thought I did 30. I mean, 27 out
of 40 of these puzzles ain't that bad. There's this one that I didn't check mark
because I think I just forgot to pick it up. The axiom archive I think this is
like one of the first puzzles in the game or the second puzzle and I just
didn't pick up the cube. I should do that before I forget. Where is that? This
is the first puzzle in the game. This is the second one. I forgot to pick up
piece where is it I don't know I have no clue I can't even begin to remember
where that where that was oh man but here
was it here this looks like the first puzzle in the game I don't remember it's
just one singular cube laying around somewhere the very first abyss place
yeah but I don't remember what it was I don't remember what the first abyss was
Do you? Because I don't.
Is it this? Oh, it's here. Oh, it's here.
Okay, it's in this building. This is where I met the Augustin or whatever.
Alice? Alice?
I think I just forgot to pick up the cube.
Wait, where is the cube?
Was it in here?
Huh?
I missed a cube in here?
Oh, did I miss this part maybe?
No, I'm confused.
I missed a cube here somewhere.
Oh, Axiom Archive, obtain the artifact, oof.
Does anyone know where this is?
Next to the fast travel?
Oh, is it?
How did I miss this?
I'll restart my game for the hotfix, yeah.
I don't know what it is.
I don't think it pertains to me, but the left of where you enter.
Oh my god, is that it right there?
Oh my god.
There you go. Now I'm 28, I think, out of 40. There you go. 28 out of 40.
That's a lot, man. 28 out of 40 of this puzzle is pretty good.
That is not bad.
You would think I wouldn't be that far, but turns out I actually really enjoy doing the puzzles,
so jokes on you.
We're almost done with this quest.
Oh, or what about to find the last fucking witch, or maybe not the last witch, but a
witch.
Oh, I forgot about the hotfix.
I don't need the hotfix badge, do I?
I don't need it.
What is it gonna...
What do I need it for?
seems like throwing liberty with a single player
Yeah, I mean kind of I guess
Hotfix
Rown in Liberty, but single player, huh? I guess
Those are the BDO
but a
All good
Someone asked subscribe. They said subscribe count. Are you asking me how many subscribers? I have I have 60 or
Or 60 I have sixty one hundred
Almost at sixty one thousand I have six thousand one hundred ninety five subscribers, which is actually kind of great
Like that that many of you guys subscribe to me is way too kind
It's probably just for the ads or to keep up a streak, but either way
Appreciate it. That shit's awesome
All right hotfix downloaded don't know what it was for but
We're gonna get this a witch and then we're gonna get off. We'll do this last witch quest
and then that'll probably be the end for me for the day.
Loading it up.
I
Did you ever do quests or just randomly run and find things?
Whatever your heart desires to be honest.
Like you can run around, do whatever you want man.
I like the game at your own pace!
You ever done a Fallout 4 playthrough? I was trying to find one earlier on YouTube, but no joy.
I've played Fallout 4 when it came out on stream.
Why did Fallout 4 come out, wasn't that like 11 years ago?
Holy fuck, I think Fallout 4 came out of 11 years ago.
Oh yeah, I played Fallout 4 when it came out on stream 11 years ago, I think it was 11.
But that was the last time I streamed it, so you're probably not gonna see it.
I wouldn't mind replaying Fallout 4 though, because that's the only Fallout game I've
only beat once.
All of the other Fallout games I've beat several times.
People at the Sorcerer.
What the hell is the Sorcerer?
Every paw?
you've come stranger oh boy what are you do not be alarmed I'm not a race no
corpse merely a sorcerer stripped of power bound to this frame you seek the
witch who would upset the balance of the world to you not I the said things bite
for their proper state hex summary is she in the painting as our bodies a little
left. Restore the sanctum of the mortification. The hex sanctuary. This sounds like a really
cool quest actually. A hex switch? Is she evil? How many questions? Does she help me?
Do I kill her? Does she kill me?
Why is this blue?
Yeah, whatever, I guess.
I don't know the fastest way of getting here.
Ex-a-mari.
This is a weird spot that I've definitely not been to.
I'll have forced the one of the greatest open world games ever made.
well it's a greed and disagree there I mean I like to fall on four but hey I
only beat it once and I love fallout so maybe I just haven't played in a while
Hex up, Maddie!
Maddie, yeah, Maddie, yeah!
Okay, I gotta kill these.
Oh, they're bone people!
Oh, very cool.
Are that bones?
Or are these the clay golems that I fought before?
Whoa, giga-chat.
That guy, Earthen being.
Hello.
I don't know the name of the dual axis he's using.
I'm using these, I think they're called Maeve axis?
Mae-A-V-E?
I think that's what they're called.
I was about to check and then I got in a cutscene, so.
Is she here? Hexa Marie?
They're called MAV-AX, yeah.
MAVE.
You don't really have to use them if you don't want to though.
They're the best one-hander that I've seen so far.
I haven't seen a single one-hander that's better than it yet.
I wouldn't be surprised if there is one though.
I would assume like there's like an end-game weapon that's probably better than these.
I don't know though, I haven't seen it.
I need to restore power to the sanctum.
I need a ball.
A ball touch.
Well...
I don't actually want one of those, but...
In-game, in-game, in-game.
The ball touches are not chill, those suck.
Oh wait, ball taps is what they're called.
Yeah, ball taps suck.
Fuck those.
you guys ever have friends that ball tap you fuck those guys anyone that does
that shit fuck them revoke their friendship status immediately
where's this cube am I blind unless you're into that and dude no one's into a
ball tap those suck oh but burn it or just walk through it I guess walk through
Oh god, I'm stuck.
Oh, it's more of a grab, a ball grab.
Ball grabs are chill.
I think I got to ride this one.
That's a bash bandit, it didn't prove anything.
The last one was good, yeah.
It's not a puzzle by the way, it's just a sanctum.
very easy
Oh, am I gonna see Hexa Marie she's gonna come out like all the witches do whenever you finish it come on talk to me
Where is she what does she look like final witch?
wait is she the white crow that makes sense
this place of X is those who hunger for chaos
oh wait, never mind
I sense her hiding within her own domain
during strength and darkness first
you must destroy the stone wall that masks her presence
it will not be an easy battle
I think she's an evil witch but I wonder if we got to cleanse her or fix her or something
I wonder if we make her good.
Now, controller people don't have to do it the way I do.
They can just keep it in the center, and then they can just hit one button.
I can't do it.
So my blinding light, because I changed my keybinds, works a little differently.
Players can activate and deactivate their light, but I can't.
It doesn't- I don't have the capabilities to activate and deactivate my light.
You see how- you see how this is just normal mode?
And then you hit the button for light?
I don't have a button to turn off the light.
There's not possible. I can't do it.
So I have to do this.
I have to aim- I have to aim away and then back on.
But yeah, controller players don't have that problem.
That's because I rebound my keys and then when I rebound my keys they just broke.
I don't know.
There's no...
Unless I like...
Unless I may be like, holy look at the, um, look at the, um, okay.
look at the ghosting of the shadow in front of me of my weapon this is crazy
look at these rocks right here are these bricks look at the ghosting
that's so weird the ghosting is on the shadow of the shadow that's being
casted that's trippy it's really weird I can't tell if that's like a DLSS frame
gen ghosting issue or if that's intended that looked really weird it
actually looks kind of cool like that could be a like a weird like bug but
It could also be intended, I don't know.
Press the bind for light, let go and press click.
No, I can't do it.
I just told you I can't do it, I have to change my keys. I have to use default keys for it.
I guess, yeah, you're right. I could have just tried to turn DLSS off and see if I'm not in the spot anymore, though.
What's up?
This makes a lot of sense.
I fought these guys about a week ago, a week ago.
And they were really hard.
And I said I'd come back later.
That makes a whole lot of sense. This is like...
Chapter fucking 10 or whatever. That makes a lot of sense.
if
you're not on 4.5L? No I was on 4. Well I guess I could be on it now.
It probably wouldn't be a problem because I'm not using ray recon
I don't think you could use ray recon plus or five and that's where the bugs start
Many chapters this game 12 I think
Let's get in there break that shit or what
I'm stuck, I'm stuck, I'm stuck.
Hexamarie, I don't know where you are, chill.
It's fucking so bright.
I'm just trying to break Hexamarie's totems.
I think I'm going to kill Hexamarie, and that's going to be the end of the stream.
It depends how long the squit goes.
If I break the totems and I don't kill her, then we got problems.
There's no banging of Hexa Maria, okay? You cannot bang the witchers.
How I did it.
Wifi-der now?
Exa Maria.
Duh-duh!
Dude, what's everyone's favorite bird?
I'll go first, the crow.
Or pigeon pigeons go kind of stupid too
Owl okay owls go hard. I think Hannah's bird Hannah's favorite bird is a woodpecker. I think that's a new tech that I just found out
A toucan, hell yeah.
Hummingbirds go hard.
Dude, a hummingbird slammed into my window and died.
I know it's really morbid, but also, dude, another thing, a hawk slammed into my window
And died
I'm not kidding
Hock it was like this big wingspan
If this big I can't even I can't even like stretch my arms enough
It was fucked up actually fucked up
I've had a lot of birds running to things and dying near me I guess I don't I don't know
or maybe it maybe it didn't I don't actually know to hit the window or if
it fell from the sky I didn't see it I just assumed it hit the window so it
could have died in the air and fell I don't know thank you don't know
I'll disappoint him, he couldn't even pull out your mother's command.
Never expected much from you, you've served your purpose, now I'll reclaim my power.
way this is mom this is the the crows mom are not the crows the boss the guy the
guy that killed
I killed her son, but she kinda sounds like it's cool.
God, are we really gonna do this teleport thing, man?
Oh my god, you got a lot of trash.
I can totally see.
I don't know where I am.
I killed your son I'm so sorry but you're gonna have to unfortunately bearish.
He won down? Okay.
Holy mommy.
I'm ready to be called my son!
I'll hunt them, my foes!
Consider it Greymane, ha ha ha ha, sorry, oh she's doing blues, she's doing blues, she's
doing blues.
classic blues
You're the one who twisted him!
Let's do this.
That was cool.
I will be my great man!
I'll be waiting until the time comes.
That was cool.
The black witch!
Oh my god, an earring that actually does something different?
Wow!
What's it do?
While equipped, it deals critical damage to...
It deals critical damage to nearby earthen warriors.
Has a 1 second cooldown.
Not very useful.
I mean, I guess if you want to farm...
Earth dudes.
Oh man, I was excited. I thought it'd be like, kinda sick.
The crow whisperer.
Shift, also the stab, unleashes a murder of crows in three directions and recalls them to deal additional damage.
That's pretty cool. If you do the stab ability a lot, that's pretty sweet.
Pretty sweet.
Alright, I mean, almost a cool piece of gear.
I guess if you want to farm Earth Warriors, you can use that earring and you can just spam kill them, which is kind of cool.
maybe you'll even need it for one of these fights like maybe when you go fight
Maybe when you go fight her
Again
She's gonna have an ad phase that'll be really crazy and you have to spam it and like start killing all the warriors with the ear
Just a thought that was a cool fight. That was really cool
Do you think they'll put instead effects to armors and accessories?
I doubt it, but I do think they should make it a little bit more interesting.
I mean, my hope is they at some point make a DLC for this game that adds some interesting
item diversity, because right now the items are very lame.
The loot in general in this game is super, super lame.
This is a puzzle.
Uh...
Um...
And the f-
And the-
And the what? That arm tan? I wish I had an arm tan, man. It's just a lighting. I really wish.
I don't go outside enough
Maybe I just slam it on the wall bang
Oh
Well that's it's hurting me
I think I need to be full health
Wait, if you don't have enough health upgrades, if you don't have enough health upgrades, you
can't get through there.
Unless it's percentage based, the reason I'm saying this is because Grimmz is doing
a run where he has no health upgrades at all.
health bar is tiny it's literally like really small but he might not be able to get through this
otherwise i couldn't eat while taking damage no it wasn't letting me i was trying to it was
trying to eat food while taking damage it was not working my spirit now it's gonna drain my spirit
Yeah, oh wow it's like a test. Oh yeah it's a test of your your stats demonstrating your spirit your health and probably your stamina
Yeah, you need to get skill points so else you can't progress this. Interesting.
I guess Grimm's could just respect his whole skill tree and then just respect back after he's done.
Oh, that's a big deal.
Stamina now?
That's cool.
Brogonna hell of stamina?
I have a lot of stamina, yeah.
I can't wait to unlock Morse health stamina and all that shit. I want to max it. I want to have a full bar full rack
Please don't be a boss fight it's been a harsh journey master do
A sword unrefined yet honing its edge
Let's see how your trials have temperature. I don't have enough food for a boss fight man. True
back understand you assume the stance of a student engage me
I'll engage you all right
here I am
shocker he tells forts
take that as you will
He's like Yoda.
You like that shit?
Master fucking poo.
Huh?
You like that shit, Master Poo?
Huh?
You see the clever wordplay?
Because your name is MasterDoo.
Yeah, you like that shit?
Huh?
I'll combo you out of the fuckin' map, buddy!
Come here.
Oh, still chasing what you see in your eyes.
Oh, my God, I shouldn't have laughed too.
I shouldn't have laughed.
I was adamant of fucking combo.
Ah then he fucking sniped me with dart.
Woah, woah, woah, he's doing blue shit. Blue shit, blue shit! Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah.
That was awesome.
What's up?
If I healed, I wouldn't have had to pop the pill but it's all good.
I can't finish him out here I think. I think he has to come in the arena. Come, come. Come
Come on buddy. Come on. Okay, there we go.
This guy could be thrown up in the air so easily. He did kill me twice. This is the
most I've died to a boss ever and yet he's really easy
the circus boss no the circus boss I didn't die once I did it you know
I died a lot, but I didn't die like in the fight, does that make sense?
Like I got all my practice reps on the circus boss, and then the circus boss would actually be a lot easier with the new update.
Because the micro movements are a little bit better with the new patch.
Because that was always the problem when this game is like your character moves like...
Sometimes they move too fast, and sometimes they move too slow, and their character just doesn't like...
The inertia and momentum was really scuffed, you know
But now with the new update it's actually quite nice
Anything here you think
I thought that guy for like an hour, I had level 4 gear.
Yeah, I mean my gear is level 9, bro.
Not my armor though, my weapons are level 9, that's why I do so much damage.
I put all my emphasis into my weapons.
My armor is okay, my helmet's four, my gloves are five, my shoes are nine, my back piece
is four, my chest piece is six, my earrings are five, which is pretty bad.
Same with my jewelry, my weapons I got to nine though, and my boots.
I upgraded both of the axes to nine.
There's a little bit of a grind, I'm not going to lie.
It's the combo of gems that I have that are really good, yeah.
The crow's per cert, ground surge,
and then like Grasile Howling and Wound of Darkness,
this is really nice.
I'm trying to get every, I'm trying to get six of them
that are left click, right click, left click, right click,
and right click as well.
That's like my hope.
My hope is I have like two or three for right clicks
and then two or three for left rights.
I already have three left rights, but.
Anyway, this seems like a decent stopping point.
I think the next thing I'm about to do is a bunch of puzzles, because it has me going
to the last spire that I've ever been to.
I think this is the very, very last spire in the game for me, the spire of the sun.
Actually, I've already been here.
Oh wait, no, no, no.
I don't know.
But this seems like a good stopping point.
And that's okay, I'll be on tomorrow. I'm fucking hooked, dude.
I'm hooked. I don't know why. Like, I'm trying to get this knowledge.
I'm at 45% knowledge of the entire game.
My goal is to end the game at, like, 60 or 70%.
That's a lot. I know that sounds like it's not a lot, but getting even just 45% is quite, it's quite a grind.
So this game is fucking huge.
But I'm enjoying it, so I'll be on tomorrow grinding it again at 8 in the morning
Probably more like 8 30 in the morning, but whatever
Appreciate you guys watching for today. I
Progressed the main story a little bit. We're on the very last bit of this chapter
I'm just I don't have time to finish it. I would finish it, but I just do not have time
So I'll finish chapter 9 tomorrow
Who knows if I'm feeling
Voluptious? I'm feeling voluptious. Who knows maybe I'll um
Maybe I'll finish the main game tomorrow, I mean there's not many chapters left
It's only gonna take like I don't know five hours. Maybe max these chapters are quick if you focus though
So who knows maybe I'll finish the game tomorrow. We'll see we'll see we'll see
Anyway GG's GG's GG's GG's
Thank you guys
Thank you guys for watching.
I'll be on tomorrow morning.
Enjoy your, uh, is voluptuous the wrong word?
Enjoy your Monday, ladies and gentlemen.
Enjoy your Monday.
Get back to work.
Enjoy your week, and before you know it, it'll be the weekend again, all right?
Maybe have me up on a second monitor at work, all good.
I appreciate it.
How many hours do you have in total?
I think I have 90?
No, 8086?
So we're a little shy of 90.
So tomorrow's stream, I'll be a 90 hour Andy.
That's pretty cool.
But yeah, I think to 100% this game,
like truly knowledge 100% it,
you're looking at at least like 200 hours.
At first I thought it would take more like 600,
but I actually think it would,
I actually think it would only take about 200 hours.
The problem is the closer you get to 100%,
the harder it gets,
because you're gonna be missing like nothing.
Like, you're gonna be missing like, like a butterfly in a region.
And you're just like, you're gonna need to find one butterfly somewhere.
That's your last percent. Like, you know what I mean? It could be fucking impossible.
I'm not gonna try to 100% it, cause that's crazy.
But I will play until I'm bored.
And I'm not bored yet.
So I'll play again tomorrow.
And if I start to even...
If I even start to get a hint of boredom, I'll let you guys know.
But...
I'm not bored yet, so I'll be on tomorrow.
Anyway, GG's. I gotta go. It's getting late.
Have a good night.
Thanks for watching.
Stay safe out there.
Happy Mondays.