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02-17-2026 · 4h 35m
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I need my quarantine zone fix, Mr. Strimmer. Please, sir, I require more human juice to
be made. More acts to be shot. And more grenades being ripped from their butts, lol. Happy 10
month's PCW.
Sorry I'm late. I went downstairs and I realized Gost didn't need his pill this
morning so I was trying to give him to his pill but he's learned my trick so he
kept spitting it up
He just ain't used to got anxiety.
He's an anxious bug.
Well, I need two mits.
Sorry.
I
Missed the star stream yo can't be being a big rain appreciate you empathing the prime
Chloe thing the 15 months toxic thing was my three months. Tomo in five months simply David the 10 months
uh, chance of my viper league in 21 months, and Bofa.
Thank you for the fresh tier one chat.
I am in fact here, hello, hope y'all have been good.
We got a little bit to talk about, a little bit to chat about at the start of the streamer
ony, but I wanted to give people a few minutes and also want to like load in.
It seems that there may have been an emergency patch.
Come on, Riles, let's go.
Two cakes!
Two cakes!
Everyone's talking two cakes, I feel so much better seeing this, you know, not just in
the chat, but in general this week.
So much talk of two cakes again.
Dude, I felt so alone on my little island last year like last like April getting when our watch was on its come back like
Stadium and stuff and I was like guys two cakes. It's so great. It's suit. It's so great two cakes and everyone's like fuck you
I'll watch you like fuck you you're playing rivals
Rouse me like fuck you fuck over watch and I was just like what the fuck like this is the best case scenario for everybody and now
Here we are almost a year later and everyone's like hell. Yeah two cakes. Yeah
Yeah
It's it's so good life is good
That said chat that's a big news
Come on. I gotta start the talk
Forgot about their stupid asses
Oh, it's like every day is your birthday with two cakes
That's true
That's true
I'm leading 99% of creators this month inconsistency on tiktok
Guys hello my voice is bro. It's gone. Hello. Oh
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Guys, this isn't good. I can't do my yeah voice. I can't do the a voice it doesn't exist
guys help
Holy shits Jody with the 30 gifted
W Jody with the big 30 gifts. I appreciate you so much with a big gifted Jack gets a
me to say thank you. I saw a citizen on 69 and for a second nice appreciate you. I couldn't
think of the prime and ZG one with the prime W gives a Jody chat me should say thank you
so generous blue strike. Thank you. 11 months. Appreciate you as well. Guys, we got big news
today's hope you've been well man oh oh i oh i hit oh i hit wrong button
wrong i'm gonna replay that um we got we got big news today we got big news today
hope you've been well man appreciate you and your content always
d don't appreciate you appreciate you much like bush rake
ball like jay they either three months chat we got big news today because
Because there is a new patch that just dropped rivals we hear you patch 2019 will include
balance adjustments check out the full breakdown here and it is a link to this which is the
new balance patch sorry I just needed alerts you'll think of a big $20 super chat on the
YouTube side appreciate you much love man appreciate you appreciate you guys rivals
been loud and the devs have responded saying rivals loud and clear we hear you after weighing
community feedback and hero performance data we will bring some balance adjustments to
219 so basically February 19 two days from now I will not be here by the way when that
drops so I hope you guys have fun let me know how it is well I'm gone I'm going on my first
vacation since I started streaming six years ago actually six years yeah six years ago
And I actually it's probably longer than that.
I was, I did not take a vacation for very, very long time into like working corporate
life and then college stuff.
So, uh, yeah, I will be gone for a week, uh, with my first one.
So just so you know, I will not be here.
If you see where I'm going, I did not quit rivals.
I did not quit overwatch.
I did not quit streaming.
I am on vacation.
QC and six feeling stable for the entire season and sure that players can join in at any point
during these two months without compromising their consistent experience.
The 6.5 changes were designed to be restrained with a smaller impact on the overall meta
I actually understand what I understand what they're going for so
Basically, a lot of people came back with season 6.0 with Deadpool launch
You know people coming in and out probably not playing that often they didn't want to shake up the game too much
Actually weird weird conspiracy theory. I have a small one small conspiracy theory guys
season 1 and season 2 were the biggest meta change ever because we went from hardcore like
Hella Hawkeye poke meta to like the weird meta would remember. It was like fantastic iron fist
Right, do you remember it was fucking strange? It was all the shit heroes cap became good at the times
Like his first season being good and like everyone was thrown out of whack
And I feel like they're scared of doing that again because a lot of people quit when that happened
It was a cap iron fist and I'd come out, you know, mag wasn't very good strange wasn't very good
But, uh, Hala was not very good and we're getting dove, you know, it was the support strike.
There was a lot of things going on at the time, so maybe they were scared, I understand,
but they need to not be scared.
But no worries.
We're tracking your feedback as always and testing proposed changes internally.
Batch 219 will target a subset of high performing heroes that have drawn stronger feedback.
That more, that there are, sorry, there's more content coming your way and we'll roll
it out in season seven.
Please stay tuned.
So that last part I think is a small nod to everybody that's been talking about how
Overwatch had a big patch this week and you know, let me let me let me just speak to you if you're a rivals fan
And you're clamoring for like oh my god rivals fight back a brother
Overwatch was like kind of in like low key at a really bad state the last four months
Like they kind of like went silent like they had a hero release with Vendetta
And most people would consider that season a filler season and the season before Vendetta came out was also considered a filler season
So they went about four months with not having a big patch and then boom
They got everything dropped at once so of course you're not gonna be able to keep up with that amount of content getting dropped at once
I think rivals would be okay
But I mean hey
I like to see the competitor stepped up to the plate and I like that lead kind of nod to that a little bit
Because at the end of the day we all win two cakes. All right. All right balance adjustments first off. We've also bloodstone. Thank Christ
The huntress's alt is toned down guys who has the clip of me yesterday getting stuck in the ceiling with this thing
Now, Glartrox suppresses enemies for a shorter duration.
The bar for Elsa to release Glartrox is raised, and the monster becomes a little less unbreakable.
Reduce Glartrox's health from 500 to 400.
Reduce dash duration from 6 seconds to 3.5.
Adjust the enemy grab box from 6 meters L, 6 meters width, and 6 meters, 6, 3.5 meters
height to 5 meters in length, 5 meters in width, and still 3.5 meters height.
So less on the sides, but the height is still the same.
So it's still pretty big though.
I mean, it's still pretty big.
For those who didn't see, I wish someone had the clip on hand.
I know I'm asking for it really quickly.
I got pinned into the ceiling on my first day back yesterday, trying to play against
Elsa.
Like, they, Glartalks carried me to the Skybox and I just got stuck there and I died.
It was awful.
So yeah.
Um, yeah, 6.5 is 6 to 3.5 is massive, but I'm talking about the hit box.
The hit box is a small change.
The duration is big, but the hit box is a little bit small.
Oh, Hawkeye, the archer must now stay laser focused to deal meaningful damage reduces
piercing arrow based damage from 34 to 24.
Wait, is that the clip?
You'll think of the clip.
I'll show you guys it in half a second
Reduces piercing arrow base damage from 34 to 28
That is potentially potentially one of these biggest drop-offs in damage nerfs. I have seen rivals ever do
Like they always adjust by like one two three at most. That's a big drop
reduces the base damage a fully charged arrow from 85 to 70
And a 15 damage off of the fully charged base when both bolstered by archers focus the damage for a charged arrow is down from
175 to 160 dude. They actually took this guy out back and shot him in the head 16 times
Oh my Hawkeye went from like pretty damn good like consistently top of the chart to like he might suck fucking
complete balls
Like he he actually got executed in one singular patch
Moxies and shambles poor guy. Also. Let me show this clip real quick. This is from yesterday
It goes out it
Watch this watch this like just watch this. It's this was my second game back by the way yesterday playing against this shit
And then it hits the corner of the wall and
And just starts going up
Like my face came to me and she pulls it back and it gets caught on the corner
Are you fucking shitting me
That's what I play that's what happened yesterday my first game second game back
And then we just get absolutely fried up here
We all got stuck
So, glad that shit is fucking cocked.
Fuck that.
Next up is Hella.
Ooh, the Queen of Hell's threat now extends only to a limited extent.
Damage falloff of a Night Sword Thorn still starts at 18 meters.
At 30 meters, maximum falloff drops to 70% of the base, which used to be 80.
25 meters two critical hits will not KO a 250 HP target
So at long range hella is now significantly worse. You will no longer two tap. I
Don't know if that's enough to make hella not really strong. However hot take I think actually the stronger one was Phoenix. I
Thought Phoenix was actually scarier than hella
So no touch to Phoenix
Unfortunately, I don't think that changes things very much.
That just means Phoenix is still perma-band, Hala maybe will slip through the bands a little
more often, but that's not that much of a nerf, so I think she's going to still be okay.
And then last but not least, we're on to the strategists where Gambit's getting a nerf.
The King of Cards takes a slight hit to his survivability and damage, so first off they
reduces base health from 275 to 250 and they also said breaking spades now grants 10% damage
boost instead of 15. I don't think either of these actually targeted the core issues with the problem
of Gambit. They make them easier to dive and easier to punish but I think for player perception
they're not going to take this as enough because the big problem with Gambit is his alt. His alt
is so strong. They could have nerfed the ult in some way. I think that maybe the duration could
have been nerfed. They could have nerfed how much of a boost it gives you, nerfing the cleanse.
Maybe, but like health is probably is a decent nerf. The damage boost is really nothing.
So I don't think that changes gambit very much, but it's a it's a nerf. You know, it's at least
they're trying to it is what it is so he can die through alt yeah but gambit
the gambit all is so fucking good that you can just press the button and leave
like give your entire team gambit all just just peace just see you later just
leave just like you're gonna have to walk it with your team your team's like
walking on a point and you go get another falls it's just leave they got it
They got a 5v6. They're good. They got it. See you later. Oh, you're not the word, but you're not gonna die
We we're gonna run in with them. Fuck it. You got it. No no problem. It's whatever
So quad yeah
Probably probably I don't know. I think these is still gonna be around in time daredevil probably get played again, but
It's a good it's a good balance patch. I wish it was a little bit more
If I'm completely honest with you, I think it could have been a little bit more
But it's a start, and maybe they have more stuff planned soon, and I understand like
this point that they're right here, they're trying not to shake up the meta.
Too much for the game, like they're not trying to scare away players that are coming back.
I got something, I got something, so it is what it is.
Okay, cool.
cool cool cool I'm gonna let's
Dominion the two one aqueduct aquatic thing from three months got the two
things we six months code I think the eight months spectrum thing of the two
months chord do you think of her oh wait there was one more thing actually
there was this cock of the night or the blossom through spring embrace the
inescapable darkness of as moon nights eclipse night costume and brings the
flames with Phoenix's fiery seat of spring costume what the fuck was that so
like moon night costume and Phoenix costume not bad oh god the conspiracies
are gonna start they're not nerfing Phoenix cuz they need to sell the skin
moon night has a trailer really where is it oh it just oh it literally just
drop while I was watching the other stuff. We were given in the nightmares or you fight
back. He served as the moon light just justice, but the nightmare gnaws at him. With the fading
hope he calls to conch you calls to conch you, but it's conchal even there. When the night
takes over nothing is certain. Fight through the nightmares as moon nights eclipse night costume
first appearing in our rival season 6, available February 26th lock-in.
Yeah, that's actually kind of fire.
Also, he cheaked up as all hell, god damn!
Here we go.
This is why I don't like showing stuff on my screen to TikTok.
I got the fucking shadow ban, word notification for showing the skin because it's hot Twitter
for half a second.
Aw that platform is so dog shit.
That platform is fucking useless.
I did- I literally- I showed this screen right here for two seconds
because it shows the rest of Twitter, but Twitter- but TikTok's like
No! Don't you funnel people off my platform!
I don't know!
The AI gets mad, like, dude, it's fucking useless as platform.
Um...
Alright, cool.
Let's go.
Fucking...
ravaging animal fucking
oh yeah it's not the chatter is okay I'm not talking about the chatter, I'm talking about the platform itself
just figures since it's the cat might be worth watching Paul's channel
there's a jetpack cat's storytime trailer
storytime trailer isn't that gonna be super short
it's two minutes
Alright, I'll watch it because it's the cat.
I'll watch it because it's the cat.
Alright, what's up?
What do we got here?
Uh, Jetpack Cat's story time with Matilda Samitis.
Isn't that the Briggs voice actress?
Matilda's, uh, Briggs voice actress, right?
Alright, lock in.
...
Project log, Yetpack Cat. Entry one.
Yetpack Cat.
With no sector gone, the team has been sitting around Gibraltar without much to do.
I'd say I'm in the same boat, but to be honest
I've had my hands full.
Ever since I found this cute little stowaway, my mind has been racing with ideas.
For some reason when I rescued this-
Strap him to a Jetpack and make him fight.
Itty-citty, from in between some rocket parts in the main landing bay?
I thought back to some projects. I never got off the ground literally. I was so young when I drafted them up
And that lazy old mitzy wasn't much help either
But something about this stray got me thinking again. Maybe there's a way to make this work after all
Looking at my old sketches. I can tell I had a lot of hopes for this build
Guess it goes to show how far I've come that I can finally turn all those dreams into reality and
And Fika has been a surprising help. Oh, I named her Fika by the way, so she looks like a big candy elbule
There was a funny moment earlier today
I was so stuck on the schematics for the thrusters
But Fika not one of my old blueprints off the shelf and it actually clued me into the answer
I was looking for I can't help but think there's something special
I can't let it slide. What did they do to bring?
about this kitty I'm thinking over what material suits to jetpack best what
did they do carbon fiber frame would be nice and lightweight but aluminum would
be more resilient the weight distribution on a cat is pretty different
from a human not to mention the tail so for the stabilizers I'm thinking does
the harness need shock absorbers or will feet just furby enough big problem how
to make a joystick that doesn't require opposable thumbs. I have a few ideas for the motor, but
I'll need to be careful. I'm worried Fika might lose one of her nine lives if it's too loud on startup.
And for the healing projectiles? Actually, should they be projectiles? Oh, I bet Fika will love that.
Projectiles such an apartment.
except Blue, of course.
One is Svenskutiklulsbetsana.
And that's that!
Blue prints for Project Jetpack Cat are finally complete!
I wish my younger self could suggest how well this turned out.
To be honest, though,
I'm not sure I'll ever get the chance to build this for real.
I know Fika would be a great help,
but a cat in a jetpack seems crazy,
even by our team standards.
But who knows?
We keep saying the world could always use more heroes, and I think she might be just the hero the world needs right now.
That's how you do it. The story continues in Overwatch.
That's cool. I will say, those definitely don't hit the same as the full cinematics.
Without the full cinematics, I just can't get super into them, but...
I mean, it's a cool way of just telling the story, you know, and the cat is honestly a little bit more interesting than anything else.
By the way, I'm going to restart you guys because I showed Twitter on screen for like two seconds
and I got the Shuttle Band notification so I'm going to cleanse it by turning it off and turning it back on.
Bear back.
Okay, here we go.
Hello?
Hello? There we go.
Um, have you seen the Emile and Iron Man skins?
Are they out?
Or no?
Not yet.
Those are also on Twitter?
Okay, hold on.
Did I miss him?
Unfortunately, it takes time. I'm not showing you guys the skins, because the last time we did that, I got shuttleban and I turned it off and turned it back on. I don't know, I did that again.
Alright, what do we got?
First up, only one can rule the intergalactic seas. I upgraded your fancy yacht into a fully functional deep space transport.
Didn't I? Let's see what this one is. Lock in.
Okay, decent Iron Man skin.
Weirdly, I'm not crazy about it.
I don't know if that's just me.
Anyone say fireworks?
Maximum pulse!
I don't know, I'm not crazy about it.
It's cool, it's not me.
Alright, so that's the Iron Man skin and then this is the Emma one, right?
Uh, nothing promised. Everything is possible. Don't jinx the start, darling. After all, it's a long journey back to Krakowa. I lock it.
Wait, the Emma one's kind of fire. Wait, the Emma one's really good.
Wait, tell me I get the burn.
Oh, yeah, the other one kind of hits. I don't want that. I'm not kind of hits. All right, there you go. Who's just the skins for you?
Okay
We can't see anything blame your platform you're on
If I show any other platform at any other time it will shadow bad my account
I ain't doing that no more. I'm sick of it. So
Take it up with tiktok
I
Desire thing the prime Pluto leave the three months Goldie either thing
I don't know why that's 2026. What do you mean?
Me
All right yesterday games were kind of horrendous
Today is, what, Tuesday?
So people are back into school, back at work, so hopefully the children are no longer running
around fucking demonizing the queues?
Lock in.
Who the fuck is this on my friends list?
Who the fuck is Sabrina Carpetbomb?
What the fuck is that?
What the fuck is that?
That kind of does sound like Bulgur to be honest with you, you're right.
But Bulgur's not on though.
I doubt he's off stream grinding.
I was gonna say gaming and grinding and I put them together.
Riggsy?
Riggsy's not on either.
Right?
No, Riggsy's not on either.
Oh, it's Riggsy's alt?
What's he?
He's running off-street?
What's he?
He's running off-street?
I accidentally opened my own stream when I was closing tabs, whoopsies.
He's on?
I was just checking, I just checked Twitter, I didn't see him on.
Looking again.
Just checking.
Where?
Oh, he is on!
Oh he is on, you're right!
Huh, I think I missed it.
What are you kids doing Mr. Shimmer?
if it isn't like children are a bunch of unruly self-centered monsters real
Why don't I have to deal with your spawn?
They must be paying him to play this dog shit and level game
You know, it's funny when I played overwatch this whole past week. Everyone kept spamming you must be getting paid
How much is the bag from Blizzard blah blah blah blah?
You guys need help
You guys are really need help someone needs help
Well, my clothes are in the wash machine.
All my clothes are in the wash machine.
I didn't do laundry till really late this week and then we're going away in a couple
days.
So I was like, well, I'm going to push it a little longer.
So I do all my laundry at once.
So I'm pretty much good to go.
So I ran out of shirts this morning.
I actually had a different shirt on, but it wasn't very comfy.
So I switched to this one.
This guy is trying to get his last couple games of Hawkeye in before he's dead in the
water.
What's up, Ghosty?
What else is?
Did you get shot?
Yo, they're in there 25 months, hello?
Uh, yeah, I mean, it's alright.
I'm just playing a little bit right now because I just want to play a couple games in, get
like a Williams and see how the new season really feels.
Maybe do my tier list tomorrow,
and then I'm off, then I'm gone.
Tomorrow's my last day here.
So then I gotta pack and hit the road.
No, that's crazy work.
Yo, why you ban Spidey?
Why Spidey?
He's broken.
Questionworks?
Uh, no, I'm not going to support jail again today.
No, we're not doing another day of support jail.
We ain't doing another day of support jail.
It's not happening.
We ain't doing another day of support jail.
I'm sick of the support jailbase.
I'm folding.
Wait, is Gambit banned actually?
Okay, no quarantine zone nosies no warframe
The real chain is our streamer not playing these games
True
Well, I was like half the stream like for like two hours and I'm going
I need to do is capture the mission area.
Got it?
The vendor may change.
This place is good for a lot of staff.
They're clear.
Let's get him!
Get him!
Yes, I got him.
They're just walking forward shotgunning.
We're gonna TP.
Dude that poor guy is solo-attanging on their team and not a single person even tried to
risk their asses to touch.
They were like, nah, get your ass back here. Touch the point, too, bitch.
Poor guy.
Um, dude, you're right, actually, it's been a long time since we did roll for sandwich.
Yeah, we do, uh, I don't know, what I wanted to do today, to be honest with you, I kind
of always didn't even hop on rivals right away, it's because the new patch and I was
like, oh, stuff and talk books.
Things can get happen.
That's not what I meant to grab.
I don't think I want to be here anymore.
I'm outta here.
I don't even clean up what's in the other bars.
So, first take 500 pounds of cottage cheese.
Dude, don't give me starving fucking cottage cheese, dude.
Don't give me starving fucking cottage cheese. Fuck cottage cheese, brother.
Fuck cottage cheese. I'm so sad. Cottage cheese, ass.
Oh
Oh
And he was in ways they just they just told us and no one can respect that
Wait, did she just get headshot? Is that what happened? Oh, the hot guy. Yeah, the hot
she wants you to watch out for hot the clock
holy shit
if he's not doing that shit where like he swings around a moth fucking tan and pulls you across the
will be like the other side of the map and he's bad I'll be sorry there's like
three good spider-man's outside of the three I was like every single game I play
I get fucked by him it's most annoying shit like the second step out of spawn
he went into a fucking get halfway across the map
If I just go in this I can just push him off here and he can't do none of that.
It's fine.
George taking 10 months to hit.
You just gotta be a branded support to not counter that, you know?
30 seconds before you attack.
I guess I can just want to get through some more.
Yeah, let's drop a bit more trouble from up there then.
Don't mind me playing my bot healer.
You're doing pretty good, sir.
Are you doing that? It's all red.
I'm not really sure how to have one response to that but you know what that's fair I respect it
it's like paying like homage to the elders you know like
of
Why am I now playing Deadpool Tank?
Because I've been having fun on Rogue.
And so I show them this map Rogue is really strong in attack and their team kind of suck
So I just picked it on defense too
It's interesting
My emma is throwing it back, my Hawkeye is trying to carry the whole lobby right now.
What the fuck is happening?
Guys, rival's players might be in trouble.
I've already done damage.
I haven't seen them in this much shambles in a long time.
I missed my grab.
I thought he was going to die and I also thought he was going to just stay up.
Oh, no way, I died, no way.
I think we need to get the fucking wall and then he swung away before it actually made
the impact and killed him.
If I could just do it by the way, so like, you know.
Only 60 seconds left.
You can all if you need to, I mean it's literally free, entirely free.
You picked the wrong mo fucking to try to pull away bitch.
We got insta-ized. Oh, he's back.
He's touching me and losing.
Man, they said fuck his shit.
Yo, he's still trying, bruh. So crazy.
I think I just don't want to queue for a second, honestly I don't want any of those people
on my team.
They were all kind of butchies.
So they said report this guy, that's the guy who played low-key Hawkeye Deadpool Tank.
2200 whatever bundle size you get you get double-punch out. Oh, that's cool. Oh, yeah
And you guys I'm scared. I think I'm just not gonna queue for like two minutes
I don't think I want I don't think I want any of those people on my team again
Or sorry, I'm not my team again. I don't want anyone the enemy team in my lobby at all
I just want I just won't pretend that I never saw any of those people and just wait like three minutes
It's why you tried yeah, he's free try but he's fighting only they
the release everyone on their team have swapped a couple times trying to like make things work you know it's
yeah yeah also rest your by the way i'm sure you're doing the the patchness right now uh if you need
that there's this i did a couple skins at the end too it's not like all connected though i don't know
if you caught them
I think she's kind of busted, but they nerfed her pretty hard, but it's not going to be
for a couple of days, so we'll see how that goes.
We'll see Merchant's batch.
They just nerfed Hawkeye, Elsa, a couple of things, Gambit a little bit, but the Gambit
It's not really or represent very much Hawkeye. They shot him in the head 16 times
Oh, yeah after rivals today, um, I was gonna do quarantine zone, but I'm also a little tired
I'm a little low energy today to do quarantine zone
Um, I don't know how I want to do warframe
I think I want to do ZZC either
GGOs are seeing D.I. I actually know you from Instagram. Oh shit.
Yeah, I'm just, I'm straight up sitting here AFK for about three or four minutes.
I'm waiting for all those demons to, to queue. I don't want, there's not enough
avoid slots for that whole, whole team. So I'm just, I'm waiting.
I ain't got six slots. I got three. So I'm just going to wait them out.
Um, I could do that.
Catch up on hot topic videos for content while they're gone. Yeah, we actually could do that
I wouldn't be against it
Is there anything good in here?
Maybe we'll get hot topics for a second
What what the fuck is this hey?
What did you guys link the most popular gooning searches feature featuring
Saury what in the f- no dude you got okay all right next video death of an
overwatch player listen to the people flex we want roll for sandwich wait this
This came out 9 days ago.
Wait that probably aged terribly.
Wait this video came out 9 days ago.
I think we should watch it later.
That might have aged horribly.
It might not though.
It actually could be good.
This was my video flex. Same one you watched for hear me out. It's actually so funny, Keck.
Uh, what else is out there?
Skill issue.
Those are better written than that.
Um, I need to do a lot of things, to be honest with you, but I need to do a lot of supports.
Oh, RFS.
I talked to Ubisoft's devs, it's worse than we could imagine.
Wait, isn't this this guy?
I had many devs- Oh, it's this guy.
I've watched some of his stuff before.
Wait, is this guy who put me on Warframe, I think?
It's 22 minutes long.
All right, that's a good one. I'll put that in the things to watch.
Who linked a deep pocket monster video? Yo, you know ball.
It's an hour long though.
It was you, Fred?
Fred, you know Blal, but that's a long one.
What else have we got in here?
Hmm, there's an interesting one here asking Germans what they think of the U.S. currently.
Ooh.
That's a spooky one.
I don't want to watch that one.
Alright, I think I'm safe to Q.
I don't sound like you've heard some C feelings.
Yeah.
You know, I'm actually like half debating it, but half not.
I think I should just leave that one alone.
some frankfunk. I want to be honest with you, I actually did kind of want to play more frankfunk
again at some point. Like the last time I played before the last time I played, we did that like
prop hunt mode with a bunch of other creators. It was a good time. But like most recently I had a
sponsor to go play and they promised me it was going to be like a fun, goofy tournament where
I was just like not sweaty, it's going to be a good time. And then it was like literal 5v5 playing
like normal matches with like super experience like like like literally a dedicated streamer
to the game and then a bunch of people are joining that were like if you got the most
kills in the lobby you won money and then you're gonna stay in the lobby and keep trying
to win more money so obviously everyone's sweating their nuts off I was like dude where's the
sweaty not the non sweaty fun where is it I followed your base did on that one so I
I think I'm probably gonna be down with Fry Plunk for a while.
Another Kings Institution? No, I still got paid no matter what.
I was supposed as a sponsor to show up, maybe like, it's gonna be fun.
I was like, okay, sure, I'm down.
And then it wasn't fun for everyone else, they were all like sweating their nuts off.
So like, they were playing for money, and I was playing just to play for a good time.
And I'm like, wait, what?
Well, like, it wasn't like a team thing, it's like individualistic,
Cause whoever gets the most kills wins money.
So, no matter how much I suck at anything,
I'm the free kill of the rest of them.
What you do you think you wanna be today?
Oh, how? No, I go and support Jail.
Uh-uh, I ain't doing it.
Someone else can do it.
I ain't doing it.
I ain't doing it.
Oh, I got it.
Do you think this is- Wait, this is the same Spidey.
Wait, that's definitely him.
He had the Lord Portrait.
They're the same icon. It's him.
It's the guy from the last game.
I waited straight up five minutes to Q.
He had stream one.
That guy had stream one. I refused to believe he sat there and waited five minutes and Q'd again.
That's him. I guarantee it. I guarantee it. There's no way. There's no way, right?
Oh, Jesus.
Be avoid him? No, I avoided the other guy.
Because despite he at least kept trying to the end, I didn't avoid him. I was like, it's fine. Like, maybe he just had a bad game.
But like, I didn't want to play with anyone in that team again.
No, I ain't going in jail.
I ain't doing it.
No.
You can't make me.
I played support all day yesterday!
And when I won, I got plus 17!
And when I lost, it was my 24!
I ain't doing it again!
You can't make me!
You can't make me do it!
You didn't hover, you have to tell- you have to fill my nuts in your mouth, alright buddy?
I ain't doing shit.
Okay, I did it all day yesterday.
I did it all day yesterday.
I do it again.
I'm staying strong.
Jango's leaving the farm.
The sprites are fighting.
Wait, my sprites dipped him!
Wait, my sprites dipped him!
Wait, maybe it wasn't the same guy!
Unless it is him, then he was just having a bad game.
That's why he's back again.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
Uh oh.
Uh oh.
Uh oh.
Good job.
Wait, hi.
I
Everyone's dead. It's just me. I'm jumping off. Do they get me? They got me.
Flats? Yo, what's up, Flats?
What's up?
Damn, that streamer blocked.
Ah, yeah.
No, it's neither of them are. Oh my god, they just both have the icon of both Lord's
Plates. All the sweaty players are on today, JK. But that is him on the other team, though.
He's on Moon Knight though. Wait, it is him!
Oh my god, he's literally one HP.
We have no damage.
Wait, we don't have any follow-up damage.
Oh, we have no follow-up damage.
Oh my god, it's GR.
Oh, it's actually GR. We don't have any follow-up damage.
Oh, we have no follow-up damage.
That's bad.
I might have to like thaw or something. I don't have time
He killed him as I walked up on him
That's bad
Wait, that was actually a perfect spot to be in.
Okay, I'll just- I can't just see later what.
He's gone.
He's gone.
He's gone.
He's gone.
Alright.
We need a little more damage.
Pull him out.
I feel a dick kinship with the morpheus above.
On toothnash on toothgrinder we ride with you.
On toothnash on toothgrinder or is it fucking dasher and dancer of the phoronic world?
There's enough.
You get away from me. You get away from me. You get away from me.
the
I played it all week, I don't get time, I'll probably play a little more, at some point.
But I'm not gonna like, restrict myself to one game, you know?
Our enemies on here.
I don't want to be late for that answer.
Wait, my Spidey is absolutely tipping the fucking share of that guy.
Okay, fair enough, I guess.
Nah, he said I got this.
Also, I'm glad you guys told me about the shift now, or movement ability is not working
during Namor's ult.
Dude, I would have just got so confused when my shift wouldn't go off there.
Uh, nope.
I'm good.
if
if
if
if
if
if
if
the right gal for the job sugar
Yeah, our spotty is kind of cracked actually
But the real the real thing is I showed once I went to triple support one tank actually went back broke I didn't realize
and
smart as a hard question
fighting for second place, you know?
Okay, do that again, watch your habits.
I
Do my spotty is different the show
Oh, he's just dancing.
Nah, dude, you are actually insane.
despite if all games one thing taking time to fuck up the the Hulk to
Oh
So as long as our strange guys
Wait what?
What is that you're either you're like the best of all time holy shit
Do he actually somehow got the portal back to us
I should have stayed with the Hulk. I didn't know that's he at all. I saw a stranger at
59. I'm also just tired and also like, I mean, this game is, that didn't really change
So it moves kind of, you know, it's like playing last season.
That's exciting.
Oh
So they're back on double so I'm gonna go back
I need it, I need it.
I don't have TP, I don't need to follow up.
Oh we're dead.
I don't have tp, I need to parlo
Ummm...
Give one
Give me a bit
I can't
Give me a good one
They're talking, they're holding
I'm trying to stay on
Stay on
No, what a grab. Bro, my splatty might be that guy.
Look at this place hiding behind or something.
Bro, he might be that guy.
I
I can hold that, I can hold that.
There you go, there you go.
Got it, got it, got it!
He's 1 hp too.
Yeah, he's low.
You're actually insane, oh my god. Oh my god. Okay. I take it back. I take it back.
I take it back immediately.
I did it immediately, immediately, just instant regret.
Instant regret.
Um, okay.
I got two vids for the thing later. Okay, we got like another time for or time for at least like one or two more games
I'll kill us. Wait. Should I kill us? I kind of want to dodge
Like if we somehow got that the same group of spidey people again
But the guy who wasn't on so the guy who played last game on spidey played
Name more in this game and actually did pretty good then the other guy got spidey
who took it from the other Spidey guy and got diffed all game by my Spidey so I'm
confused on what to do I'm gonna be real I'm gonna go pee real quick and
hopefully that's enough to reset me
I
Oh
Okay, where you go
What you used it? Oh, like I I wanted to take it back immediately after I said it after the after the screaming
But you know what you're kind of gonna. That's jujitsu
Yeah, I saw the patch stuff, I don't know if it's up on flat suit Russia. Are you here? It's fast to get up yet
Probably not seems a little fast
No, I'm not.
Yeah, I can look in a little bit, I can look in a little bit.
Yeah, they have a group player, I don't think you're just banning that shit.
No not that guy, that guy plays deadpool, the f***ing padded fake us, he's a group player.
like tank pool in the back one?
have a dead pool?
um, i've done it, i'm gonna be honest that i couldn't tell we were losing a fucking game
oh
honestly?
like tank dead pool bro?
when he's just hopping on people's heads the whole time in your back one?
you just fucking lose the game bro
i'm not even gonna lie
oh my god last night
I literally met a fucking like
What the hell a lord Elsa bro?
This guy was absolutely cracked out as my bro was four in the morning. All right, and this guy was on
He might have been the best fucking Elsa I've ever seen in my life, dude
ruining people's lives
Okay
Gambit Loki is open. The worst sentence I could ever hear.
I mean I don't really play Loki or Gambit. I can run.
That guy's in my head. I don't want to mute him because he doesn't seem like a bad guy, but oh my god.
He does run Loki when he does run Gambit.
And then just go combos with it. Yeah, that works.
How do I turn him down?
You sure you want to go low but you can feel like something else to come with better?
Unless you have to move on that.
Is world bad here?
I'm talking about, yeah when Gambit and Loki does not have a talent, like you get someone
with more value on something else that comes with it as well.
Channel only seems to turn down specific people.
I can turn down all of way chat, but then everyone else is quieter.
I don't play Star Wars anymore.
My tool kit is very specific for us.
Wait, you don't have to go chat.
I can't believe Gambit's actually open right now.
This is going to be an interesting game.
They're matching fucking roads.
Can I get help?
Oh, I didn't...
You got to tell me when there's someone in the back line.
Then I can't put them.
Ah, who are these?
I'm going to use my ult.
I'm going to use my ult.
Holy damage from storm.
Grab some, some, some, some, some.
Oh my god!
and lose, so I'm okay with it.
And they wouldn't do the Ruggle first, now if she can still do that, we can just go for Gambits.
Yep, they're just doing that.
Honestly, like, four back uppercut.
Make good ammo.
They're over-adjusting.
Wait, no more, no more, no more!
You can do it!
Oh, they're making a knot, but...
Yeah, they saw a gindle.
We can get a gindle first.
Yeah, I know.
Wait, thanks just leave.
No, no, no.
Triple.
What? Hello?
Hello?
What the fuck?
Yeah, I tried it's backing up when it happens
I am the true god of thunder
I'm going to use
the clock
the
the
the
the
Yeah, I'm waiting. We have both. They have both Gambits, but we almost have Loki again.
They're kind of just like, like playing them bad.
take damage for you dammit
oh I have to like grab my rod
one of them
the more might be a freaky one
the more it's gonna freak me out
I don't know
it looks like we're moving in the right side
wait
it looks like we're going to kill
I
Can't like this
There's the best games
Mm-hmm
Really? You like double gamut?
I'm not gonna lie, they're just bad things, they're not using it
I mean, most of the time they're using it
Oh shit, one at a time, please, holy fuck
Ha ha!
Like, do you want us to play against double gamut or double defend the wall from no one dies?
You know?
At least people die here
I mean, we just out-cycled them like three times
Like, I'm not gonna lie, I don't know how you guys are laughing, man
I like the fact that I don't know I feel like I shouldn't be able to play and learn this
plan.
I'm going to be in 10 months.
You guys should avoid the X-Files fight, guy.
I already avoided it.
I avoided it.
I was going to play in the game.
Avoid Akiko.
I'm telling you he's the worst group ever.
You got one person and three ults.
Sorry, four ults.
I know, we were in the same team, split and solo ult.
Yeah, right.
It was the worst shit I've ever seen.
A group solo ulted a cloak with ult.
Like, oh my god.
I've done that.
I don't know what to do as I've done that before, so I can't, I can't shut down.
He's so shit.
I don't know how to play it.
fuck oh my god dude it's too much that I'm in fact
um I'm gonna need a shield yeah unless you want to go back for us
I kind of want to I like the game of team up it's kind of kind of broken actually
okay okay
no I don't even know if we can touch this I'm gonna be so honest
He's going to get it.
I have a four souls.
I'm going to try.
Oh, that's the flop.
Oh boy.
I'm good.
I had to stop him to get the marker.
Oh, shit.
Right up there, I think I did it.
So there you go.
We can go around in a second. We're just going to walk them past, because we get the pump really hard.
Maybe we'll be fine in a second.
Well, they're playing Hawker. It's a carry.
It's not a counter when you're getting first put down.
I'm going to hold them down.
I really got stuck in between the two low-heeled and couldn't get out of all of that stuff.
And my game just crashed.
The double gambit ults and storm ult just crashed my game.
That was fun.
Hello?
Hello?
I
Why am I why am I in here? Oh my god, why am I in here yes too much damage or go triple so I gotta ride down to spawn cuz I'm
I'm gonna point because I had high DC'd and so I was stuck in spawn so long.
Yeah, you're good.
Just come back.
Holy shits.
I don't know.
I don't really know if I go against this.
We have ult for Rivia, okay?
I
Just see it me the whole time
Tray one for one.
They didn't ult anything.
Still in the hole.
No!
Oh my goodness, there's a pinata, bro.
We're dead.
Oh
That sucks
That sucks
Yeah, I mean our cops can be much better on attack and also like we got literally one and a half fights
Because I exploded at the start of second my PC crashed and then came back and I was stuck in spawn
Anyone play Venom, Shade them on your own ward, they got a lot of damage man.
Only die tank I play is Angela, I'm not gonna lie.
Because honestly there's really only two ways to compete this year, either out poke it or
dive the fuck out of him.
I don't know.
Do you guys want to go full thought?
I'm pretty countered on Storm, I don't know if it'll be different on its own.
I can't control his role, you want to go a dive character, then you can go higher,
long be there, that's all you want from me.
Like I can play Angela here but I don't really play dive.
I can see Apple support but I can't really play Gambit Rokey, I don't play him, you're
going to get really bad old time.
I don't play Manchester, but what do you play?
That's what I do, I don't have time for this one.
I can go to the second floor, then, sir.
They're on two tanks again, thank God.
It's kinda hard for me to push out though.
back to the dead
Yeah, I died walls suck in the man
I just rather backline
What do you want in the axe?
You gave it to me, you gave it to me, you gave it to me
You gave it to me, you gave it to me
You gave it to me, you gave it to me
You might get it
What do you play besides for start?
Well they're down there in your corner
There's no huger in your corner
That's a really cool weapon
I'll make the red shot make sure you can
I'm gonna stab it on the face to help me push please push off
Okay, I don't think we can't
Because the Loki's stopping
I need to get ult on this fight.
Which one did they both spawn?
No, the bottom one.
Which one did they spawn?
The bottom one.
The bottom one.
I don't know.
They're using it.
They're using it.
They're using it.
They're using it.
Oh, they used it, they used it.
It's not over.
Force the Loki out, force the runes, then you go back in with ult.
It's literally a science. I can't really like fault anyone so I'm just gonna try and pull something in and help them
I'm just gonna pick that's my only option
Yeah, I'll say I'll take someone early minute be better. Yeah
Well, I'm asking my friend
He was in here earlier
I'm confused what he's asking us.
Hopefully this is better than the storm, so just gotta run me down.
Stomp on my face.
I'm just getting a little stability.
Also, why are they still star names for me?
Do you guys see that? We're so deep into the game I still can't see their names.
I don't even know how we hold this.
I play too far off.
We honestly should be falling more off.
We're getting them all out of space.
And like, I can't really find lines.
I hold up behind the person that's down.
Maybe in the front there.
I think we kind of like hold under here,
waiting for them to turn the corner.
And then that gives me space to get behind them
that gives you guys like cover.
I'll just play this.
I'm playing all mean.
I'm going to the left, yeah.
Coming back.
He's low.
That's right.
Thanks for tanking.
I'm coming back.
Oh!
We didn't play underneath.
We played in.
That's still in hold, I mean.
They didn't listen. It was bad.
I can hold the next one. It's just come back.
I got the first. Yeah, I got it.
Your powers are mine!
Alright, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here.
Oh, no!
I don't have a shield. I want one.
Okay, let me follow this one.
and actually getting
Jesus Christ, bro, she's on cock in her backline
We're not holding
We're taking way too fucking long, so we're way too fucking long.
We've got one fight now.
We need to make sure we win this fight because there could be one more after it, so let's
not be afraid to ult early.
I'm good at that, I'm good at that.
Nice.
Help, help, help, please, please change.
Give it, give it one.
Oh, he got it, he got it on.
It's only four of them though.
Nice, nice.
I'm holding point, I'm holding point.
I'm never letting that through again, bro. I love you guys. You guys so much
Oh, that's what we ban his ass every game.
I don't know how they're again, but drop that, by the way, coming back with ult.
He must have had none of his cards, because I was able to pressure him into ulting really
badly, and then they just, I think he got one person with it.
Because, like, when I turned the corner and he ulted, I was like, oh, gg's, we lost.
I looked back and I was like, wait, only the mag has it.
No one else has it.
fuck. So he got panicked all day. Or they were all dead. Who knows? I don't know which
one it was. They could have been either one, to be fair. All right, play till we lose.
Play till we lose. GGs, GGs. We'll play till we lose. And then, um, I don't know, maybe
maybe quarantine zone. Actually, no, I don't think I want to play quarantine zone. What
I don't wanna play today.
I don't wanna play, I don't wanna play Quarantine Zone.
I could play Quarantine Zone.
Oh, we could do Hot Topic vids.
Yeah, Hot Topic vids actually wouldn't be a bad idea.
I had said I was gonna do that.
Okay, I lied.
All right, we have a plan.
J.K.
Play a rush now.
I played 85 hours of a watch this past week.
I'm all good.
I'm gonna probably play Ravals today.
I'll probably do my tier list for Ravals tomorrow
and then I'm on vacation.
So, I'll see you in a week after that.
But I probably wouldn't expect any more of Watch this week.
Can you just leave that game alone for a minute? I fit in there, I apologize.
Well, the emergency patch isn't out till Friday, or Thursday. It's the 19th.
So it's actually not out yet.
which to be fair I feel like they should just push that just a lot immediately but
anyway why not?
Go So Jen, thank you for the two months. Appreciate you saying thank you.
And Ghosty, thank you for the nine months. Hello?
Oh.
Oh, I've made a mistake.
shit
fuck, I made a mistake
I'm Philly
I can play anything in the game you can get
Oh my hello, I don't want to play this again, I won't play that again, I won't play that again, I'm not doing it.
I swear to God this wins and we have to play gambling when we crash out.
and
I
Oh
It is my destiny to lead you to victory, do not stand in my way.
What are you aiming at?
He's gonna die.
Checking.
I'm gonna give him a place to jump out to.
There's testing our luck and then there's whatever this is right now.
Okay, you know what?
Okay.
Hello?
Sorry, what?
Okay.
Oh, that guy's dead.
Is he alive?
I don't know how.
Oh, okay. Oh, that guy's dead.
Is he alive? I don't know how.
Am I gonna be the one that dies? No way.
I don't see an answer or something, I feel like. I'm scared.
Yep, there he is.
I
Oh, good retouch. That was a nice portal.
Why are you doing posting where I wasn't a legit, has still more active players than
a watch still? First off, we'll talk you time. Second off, stop the fucking camp, it
literally doesn't and I and I like rivals on a day they make it probably more than
I like overwatch these days stop the cap though
We're talking globally, it's legitimately not even...
Yo, ghosty thing, isn't this a big gift? Appreciate you, appreciate you.
It's still popular, yeah, of course it is.
to this like that was not what they said they said they said it's more that's more players
It's legitimately just not true.
Bravel says no presence in Asia.
It's huge in NA and huge in EU.
That's where it ends.
Thank you, Skulin, I understand that you don't probably get to appreciate it, dude.
Grimlockling the tier one.
Now the quack quack didn't pop off. We gotta give him credit.
That's the thing, if we're seven months...
Watch out. Appreciate you, appreciate you.
And that's still enough.
Wait, and that's enough?
And that's enough? Still has way more players than 10 minute criteria in Overwatch.
First off, I want you to show me a single screenshot of you playing Quick Play and getting a 10 minute queue.
You can.
Stop the cap.
I want you to take out your phone, or you want me to show you in windowed mode so I can see the date and time in the bottom right hand corner.
So, Quick Play, show me a single thing that is in the last week or two.
We're not getting a 10 minute queue of Quick Play.
Shut the fuck up.
off that doesn't mean that one game is better than the other you draw what you
want but be realistic be honest with yourself it doesn't have to be oh my
god we have to only be on this side ever you know not too much you don't get me
you're not getting close I bet you don't even get five I bet you don't even get a
five on a Q
Hello? What just happened to my...
Dash?
No, our Jeff is AFK!
Oh...
I think he's the limber.
Yeah!
Oh, he's back.
I think he's still in anyways.
Bad.
Flash just killed the back line, everyone run in.
I got some flats.
Oh, nice.
I'll take the chance.
Get back in there.
Oh my god, I actually comboed that guy.
I
Love you flat out love you flat
Yeah, we're still playing
Wait till we lose.
Wait till we lose.
I only complain because a few times this week Necros is the only stream I watch playing
rivals. Whoever was playing I'll watch new stuff. You know, like it's when there's new
content, people want to go play the new content. You know.
What's your, do you think you want to do today?
Y'all, they're in the super chat. I like Rogue. Honestly, the changes that they've made to
her make her feel really good.
They have a group player.
how'd you use it?
yeah that's a fair show
I'm not gonna lie
I'm an angelo player
can be like
like this is like the best angelo player
yeah if I do bad like I'll switch
but like
can I please go angelo?
I guess
this is gonna play for you
I don't mind
I just don't really want to
nah I understand
like
I don't know what we'll see
we'll see what the behinds are
I ain't doin' it
I ain't doing it. No, sir
They might be in Gambit though. I don't care. I'm not risking that shit
I'll just kind of fucking gambit Loki being that shit's hell
It is gambit. Just these paper bands. It was so ass
Yeah
And then they just keep nerfing his kid instead of nerfing his old. It's kind of much more even if I'd say it's kidney to
I don't know why they made it so like you can jump like every single effect in the game basically like every single like I don't know an effect that game it's old doesn't have
Like the only thing I might not have in chat we're winning every game forcing tank and telling everyone else to fuck off
I'm doing it again scrimp thing is humble months. I mean like they call me some Brady
I will I don't mind going any role. I just want to try going Angela because this is like
I mean as long as there's like two tanks you should be pretty good with four of them and so, you know, there's like one tank you might find a job.
I'm not too sure about our front line but we'll see. Hopefully we'll be fine.
I have no doubt I win these.
And then as long as you're able to come to the field you should be good.
Yeah.
You see, I'll keep her up on the deck.
I think we're just dead they walk back in a small one thing for and
and uh
it's not real bruh
it's genuinely not real
and you can get a fucking tank if you want
alright you have a lot of health
but this could only be worse
they have like a phoenix
oh it could play phoenix
i'm showing that support now
uh i can't get phoenix
bruh it can't be just retarded
uh-huh
i'm literally getting some worship
can you get a prime for 5 months
Oh god I got a lock, I got a lock in here for a second.
I was at 9!
CD 1, nice.
Yeah, we got it.
Yeah, we got it.
Yeah, we got it.
That grabbed me on the way back.
Um...
Yeah, I was gonna go Emma, but and it's fine. Yeah, you can do it, okay?
I mean, I could probably go Pondertear or something here, but then the Daredoth is gonna like fall.
You could match the thing
I'm gonna just bump into him
Blonnie Blonnie
Alright, well we got both of them
You go first
You're the one
Ah, no
Got him
Alright, you can find him while I can get him
Well, he's no better than first star
No better than first star
Alright, we'll keep you first, alright?
Me? Okay, I'll go first
I don't even know if it's like that, fucking, what about this thing, guys?
It's fine, it's gonna be that hard on some day, please.
I just can't do this, bro. What the fuck is this thing?
He almost is not gonna get any more kills.
Alright, some moment I should drop fucking Andrew on the other side.
Yeah, fuck this thing. Fuck. Fuck. Die.
Okay, and it's over. Yes, I'm gonna get him!
You can't do anything! There's no counter play!
We don't need to!
Wait, where am I going to get this?
I'm going to spawn.
I'm going to spawn.
You've been playing the characters.
You said what?
There is counter play to it.
Bro, what am I supposed to do?
You want to spread out, dog?
I can't do for you.
It just happens.
You're playing fantastic, dog.
I'm not even allowed.
Dude, he's almost done.
I still blow off the moon.
Just realized.
Holy fucking game
I might not be able to stay honest though, we're just stuck in the main defensive
I'm gonna swap
I'm gonna go for two
I'm gonna lose my fucking mind, bruh
I'm so on the other okay, I guess sure man
I
Have to help you think I'm back. Oh my goodness
We're dead
we're just gonna walk over it's crashing out we don't have the damage to
fight back it's just kind of g.r.
well I'm gonna back row
What do you play right?
I like to play mags and a lot of tanks.
I can go tank, I kinda like that.
I'll try.
I'm playing the mechanic game today, no I'm not today.
This is looking like it's going to be the last game though.
I might have to just do a quarantine zone.
I haven't thought about it. Maybe Corzine's gonna be the play.
Okay, double up live.
I dashed into it from behind?
No, no, no, no, don't.
Now much to the behind.
That was an interesting ult.
Oh, that's the guy who was crashing on DPS too.
That guy just so tilted, he's a kid. Thanks, Drake.
You can't melee it? Really?
I'm hitting every shot on him and he's not moving out.
I actually just didn't get the job, and then I didn't lose out. That's crazy.
Hmm.
I'm unsure on this one.
Stop it.
I got one, I got one.
I think he's on it.
I don't want to run in the back.
There were no movements.
You want to ult first when you get in.
Oh, we're dead there seems just a hundred times better than ours.
Alright, sounds good retro.
I thought I saw you in here earlier.
Am I crazy?
Oh.
You do? Oh, I'm gonna kill him.
Oh, put down the light.
Oh, man.
Oh, no. It's... I mean, you do. It's just un-wannable.
You're dead.
They're gonna wall just the way they are, that's good man.
How much are you doing that?
So good luck, next y'all.
Yeah, just remember to ban Elf the next match.
No, bro, learn.
Yeah.
Wow, you can't expect me to wall.
I got plus 17 the last three games absolutely rolling. I get a minus 20. Hi Gwon Gwon, you're
You're trying to piss me off dude.
He's starting to make me a little bit angry, go on, go on.
Okay.
Um...
you guys and I'm gonna ban that guy
Okay, I got a couple if you guys had cool videos fun videos stupid videos, whatever it is throwing hot topics
I'm gonna run that one real quick and then I was flip over just sharing we'll watch some chap vids for a little bit and
Then I'm probably gonna
Skid Addle, I'm gonna stay on too late today. I'll be back in two minutes
I
I
I need to go throw my clothes in the dryer, I don't have clothes in the wash machine
to cool all right so we're a swap over so here's the way it typically works we
do just chatting videos slash stuff chat sends in one I know sure we're on
tiktok this tiktok will flag it and it gets annoying so I appreciate it
won't take long for these are each one meter y'all think of the 10 months
appreciate a carry by the 14 months extended being the two one Elliot
think in the prime. So yeah, if you're on TikTok, your guys's stream actually just dies now. Because
otherwise, it's just causes me headaches. And I don't want to do the headache. So if you're on
TikTok, I'll see you later. All right. Have a good night. Goodbye over there. Those losers are
gone. The rest of us get to have a little fun. So the way this works is there's a channel in my
discord called hot topics hot topics is basically anything interesting you
think is going on right now from articles to videos a lot of times it ends up
being videos good stuff bad stuff whatever ends up being funny stuff throw
in there we'll just take a look and go from there we go from there so right now
I have two videos queued up normally I actually request no overwatch and I
request no rivals however there is a video in here that looks pretty damn good
for an overwatch video and I don't plan on watching over or I don't plan on
playing overwatch again until I'm back so yeah there's this one death of an
overwatch player that's there I've also got this one which is I talked to
Ubisoft devs it's worse than we can imagine from legendary drops and this is
the guy I think who got me into Warframe, I believe. I believe, there's another account,
maybe another account. I made a video forever ago about the Warframe dev team and I watched
it and I was like, holy shit, wait, I actually like that. So I haven't seen something from
for a while and then there was the honey video actually you know if you drop I'm
gonna be real with you drop gameplay IDs or try to get me to spectate your game
I'm gonna literally just ban you from the server so I'll give you about like two
minutes to delete that if you try to like you try to like circumvent the
chat fun fun day by being like spectate me I'm literally one tapping you because
you're just kind of an asshole and we call that the stupid text. So, yeah. Anyways, nice.
Good call. Good call on that one. Then we also have, what else have we got in here?
There's one or two like ones I'm not sure if I want to watch. But yeah, if you see anything you
want to watch, throw in hot topics, I'll look through it and we will go from there. But first off,
There's this video which normally I don't watch overwatch slash rival stuff during this section
But it's death of an overwatch player. It came out nine days ago February 7th now. I gotta check my my clock here
So Tuesday the 10th
The 10th is when they drop the big update for the new season stuff
This was post
Post
Spotlight though, so they should at least know about the big stuff. So I'm interested to see
Why why is it death of an overwatch player lock in?
There's this interesting phrase that I came when I still playing like I'm just trying to win
I can't count on one hand. How many can I my hit carry has hit?
LOL, of course I don't fuck LOL, I'm a restab and I see the other DPS with 230 damage.
I'm after I'm 50 to my second ult, it's all of you bro, can you ladder it's okay,
he just wants heads to roll.
You're okay, LOL, deep breaths, you're saying fuck me for, I'm chilling, this is just an
average Overwatch lobby.
I just think phrase that I occasionally see get thrown around by players of the not-happy variety.
It intrigues me because it seems to imply that there's-
Wait, just checking. I gotta make sure I went into just chatting.
I did, okay, we're good.
It's an otherwise productive use of your time on Overwatch to be add.
Actually, you know what I could have done, actually? Really quick.
Just for this section, I could have been Overwatch.
Hell yeah. That was an idea. Sorry. I'm sorry for pausing so much, my bad. I'm just gonna
go back to the beginning. I apologize. I got really distracted. I changed the Twitch category,
my bad.
There's this interesting phrase that I occasionally see get thrown around by players of the not
happy variety. It intrigues me because it seems to imply that there's an otherwise productive
use of your time on Overwatch to be add.
They're both my portion so I feel bad.
I almost feel bad.
It's coming to a fucking waste of my time!
So, what does that actual productivity look like then?
Okay.
Everything in three months.
Good job team.
Sorry y'all, I was off like two TSC guns.
Good job team.
I love all of you and I love Overwatch.
Good job.
Oh, so you're winning everything's good?
Oh god.
I don't think I should be proud of this one actually.
Five boy I guess are what the fuck.
Yeah I need you to shut the fuck up bro, you are doing that.
Leave me alone, I'm the end of this game bro, you are a dog shit everything.
I can't believe we lost this game dude, I hate all of you, and I hate over one.
Now I have to shut the fuck up you piece of shit, shut the fuck up!
is it this? well you'll have to forgive me if i don't see ranking up as the most glamorous
thing anymore. that is so real. oh my dude can i just say before this gets any further?
i went back i played 85 hours of a watch this week. there's a rank reset and i'm gonna be
honest with you. going from third person to first person i also not playing a watch that
much for the last 6 to 8 months. it's been a bit of a learning curve again. you gotta
We learned how to like do certain things.
And I swear all anyone cares about, especially on the viewership side is rank,
rank, rank, why aren't you rank one?
Why aren't you rank one must suck, must be washed, must be dog shit.
Right.
And I'm like, dude, I'm, I'm coming back and I'm still already like high masters
already like I played like three, I've played like a handful of games.
And I came, I came back two days early and I actually before that grabbed back up
GM before the rank reset and then got the rank reset and then I was like a couple of games off and then we
Stacked and trolled. I'm not gonna lie. We played as like a five-stack me emongering a couple of this
We trolled really hard
But I started getting it back anyways, but like dude, it was actually kind of miserable to stream that game
Like all anyone ever cared about was rank rank rank. What rank are you right now? Why are you not ranked wherever?
I it was so bad that I was playing quick play on
Valentine's with Shay and
And then Karky and his wife and like chatters were getting really getting upset that I wasn't killing the entire lobby on vendetta in quick play
It was really sad actually it genuinely made me a little sad to read cuz like it didn't bother me that much
I'm like what's wrong with you?
I'm working my ass off for this win
I could say that achievements like this always take honest work, but I'm also generally an honest person
Some of the best people I've ever played with
Papa, what'd you take? Last master?
Yeah?
Teach me, teach me how to play a thing.
I played Hazard when he fucking launched.
Ah, you're an asshole. You're a piece of shit.
He was fun, okay? I can't help it.
Ah, that's not true. Fuck Hazard.
But you see, there used to be a time when I wasn't so apathetic about my rank.
All the way back in 2016, I spent all winter break trying to get to Masters for the first time.
And then on my rank up game in full sky, I remember I completely locked it and just totally watched someone on the other team leave.
Yep, and then you get the win, and you went up.
Yep.
Well, I guess things haven't really changed at all, have they?
And in the aftermath of Reaching Masters, after all that grinding, I... I died.
Now, I got better after a while, because when I say die, I'm actually just talking about the phenomenon where an overwatch player simply stops playing the game.
RIP Super Gomez, May 16th of 2024, killed by Scuba-Steel on Bastion, now plays rivals instead.
And you know what funny thing is, Super Gomez was on Sentinels, right?
And they won a tournament too.
He probably made more money in his one or two tournament wins than he made his entire Overwatch career.
Game for however long and for whatever reason.
You see, recently I've been thinking about all the different ways an Overwatch player can die.
As for what did in 13-year-old me, it was probably the constant exposure to...
I remember this is all I was doing for the entire winter break day in day out
just to constantly find the competitive. So is it any wonder why once I actually got some masters?
College break? Yep. I had nothing else left to give. I think that's the likely outcome of vying for
productivity. Either that or you just end up sounding like this. Season 18 just died players into
Master not worth trying
If you continuously try to create hierarchies based on rank it won't pan out well
That is nothing everyone acts like they're goddamn GM this is it's actually crazy
That's because your rank is not your friend and paying attention to it doesn't help the world make more sense
Oh my goodness, I have never played with champion players before this is gonna be the hardest lobby of my life
And I say that you might say like oh you watch is why you don't care
But that's why when I play with like you mom and other people like we're much higher ranked than me currently
There's games where I'm hanging like we're all doing good. There's games where I fucking carry and then there's games
We get all dog walked
It happens, especially with how many alt accounts and Smurfs there are in Overwatch now.
Every time I play with E-Mong, he always tells me we're joking.
He's like, oh, that's someone on the other team.
They're really new to the game.
They're so good, though.
Remember when we played the other day, I was like, dude, what?
And I was like, how do you even know?
He's like, oh, when you die, check what their rank is.
You hit Alt or something, and you can see their player level.
And I'm like, oh, OK.
And I started doing that.
I was like, wow.
Wow, it really is a lot of them.
Holy shit.
People get up to the champ and then they make 19 accounts, you know?
Oh no.
I need to switch so fucking bad, man.
And I'm reminded of that game where that guy on our team left to go get Dordash and I got blamed.
He was literally AFK in the corner.
Our Mizuki was 1-8 and I'm 9-2 on Winston and I'm getting yelled at.
When we literally had him leave go get door-dash and our other support well
We have mercy and azuki. Mizuki's one and eight mercy's parking the ash. So it must be my fault
That was it like that genuinely tilted me and I know who that was like I know like I've seen him around overwatch for years
Like I didn't think he was like that type of guy like I was I was genuinely floored that genuinely bothered me how how annoying it was
8, was I 8 and 3? 8 and 3, 9 and 2? Same shit.
We got our Mizuki's 1 and 8, and it's my fault.
And the other guy left to go get Dornash. Like literally AFK.
I've got to prove myself!
Yes, I did it!
I mean, irony aside, this guy at least had a point about how we're not exactly investing
in the most stable currency with overwatch ranks.
True, they did change it.
Yeah, I saw this.
I want to flick Aaron Keller in the forehand.
Oh my goodness, another champion lobby!
Now this is going to be the hardest match of my life.
Oh yeah, the- Jesus.
That was this game.
And hey, I think striving to improve and ranking up is still a virtuous task on paper.
But in environments like this, you gotta have some other reason for being here too.
But I believe the truest test of will comes from when nothing happens at the end.
Are you the kind of player to just be content with existing?
I should've seen what's I get.
Or are you the kind that wants something more and ends up thinking...
I thought what a fucking waste of time.
What?
Dude.
What?
Did I say something wrong?
And don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating for the complete opposite of this competitive mentality.
Because that results in...
How's this even funny?
It's kind of foreign to experiment, that's what I wanna know.
What do you think, man? There's like, at least two things I could have reported for it.
Oh.
Yeah, I don't know what it is about the name system in Overwatch. When I went back, I saw a few fucking very questionable names.
Like, I was like, how the fuck did you guys get away with that? You know?
That complex issue to unravel but the actual problem is usually
Oh my god, thank you to play more for your life. I just the permahill unit's not enough and
Can we all have one target or something? We'll actually die in fights simple and unsolvable
You know here go. That's all really good thoughtful advice, but I think there's one problem. You might be overlooking right now
I've never felt more seen in my life
Thank you to play more for your life. You have a permit here. I'm healing you more. Can we all target one person blah blah blah blah
Tank it's your fault really good thoughtful advice, but I think there's one problem. You might be I feel so seen
Overlooking right now. I genuinely feel so fucking seen right now. I I oh
My god, I've did you as are you spying on my games? Are you spying on me?
It's us, we were the problem a year ago, I always still try to win though, even if
just by instinct.
I mean, what kind of teammates would I need to make me not want to win a match?
What the fuck, oh mother fucker, I didn't avoid him, fuck!
How the fuck am I supposed to win like this man?
No, I am NOT fucking accepting your friend request, you vile creature!
Get the fuck away from me!
Please!
Maybe just general passion is a more universal catalyst to this behavior than ranks, though.
Oh, buh-buh!
Ha!
Yeah?
Did he die?
Because this kind of thing can happen in modes outside of ranks, and I find that some of the happiest players also have the capacity to be the most upset.
Yeah, I do feel bad for him, I'd probably be mad as fuck too if I were him.
I think I'd take a...
Wait, hang on.
Was it that guy who said, oh my god, so good, that ending hit like crack, and then they
got reverse swept, 3-2, and so the person typed ggwellplay, that ending hit like crack
to shit top.
Yeah, I do feel bad for him. I'd probably be mad as fuck too if I were him.
I think I'd take a nice long break and just...
Oh my god, I should have something once I...
Totally detox myself from whatever I'm feeling in that moment.
Oh fuck, it's the same right, I didn't see you'd up for another game!
I get the vibe that some Overwatch players are reluctant to die though,
and that fact concerns me for several reasons.
First, there's times when continuing to play the game only does more harm to yourself than anything.
That's true. That's called tilt queuing. I've done it a million times. It hits...
It hits not well, but it hits. It hurts. It hits hard.
And secondly, I think some players should just stay dead for everyone's sake.
Leave it or not, there is such a thing as having an honorable death as an
overwatch playing I'm not gonna lie to you guys I'm really scared right now so my
friend I've been talking to you for like 11 years
I'm going over to her place in an hour I love how she's fine as hell and I don't
know how to feel but what do I do boys in an hour in an hour I'm playing an
overwatch game I don't like it alright so it looks like you got an handle
stop tweaking
No, no, no, no, you still go over but the power was like sorry can't talk
That's even more alpha you locked in bro, you're thinking no this this is like the blind leading the fucking blind. Oh Jesus christ
Oh fuck
Yeah, I think I'm hanging up the mouth after this one
More than three. I'm gonna go have a family
That's you know what?
It might just be better for
That's fucking real. I like basically
Bro actually said I'm gonna go have a family now
That's unbelievable. That is actual insanity, but I kind of respect it.
You're walking away from this game as the real winner. Go on, my son. Ever played this game again?
Not in a mean way, though. Not in a mean way, though.
Overwatch is almost a decade old at this point. Some of us have been playing for a long
It takes a special type of commitment and stupid to play Rhineto level 132 in a watch.
perspective
So I think it's perfectly reasonable that some overwatch players just
die
Dude, that's me. I died
Fletts, I just don't know if I got much left in the tank these days after so many years
It's okay, okay, he's not like done with overwatch, but you get what I mean June 17th 27 20 25
Wait, that's actually so true.
Wait, and I actually don't know if the date's right,
but that, dude, that's actually kind of true.
Dude, I was actually, the truth is I was done in 2023,
or actually, sorry, 2024, before rivals came out.
I was already checked out.
Like I was on my way out the door, I was going variety.
And then rivals came out and that kind of like,
that relit the fire, that was the embers
that were going out.
the, the, the like, my hero, my hero academia won for all, the embers were going out, I had
one last burst and that was rivals, and you know, and if the flame is still alive, just
less now than it used to be.
That's so fucking real.
Old age.
Now, you might be wondering, how has someone like me avoided such a fate?
The answer is simple, just have a comically small hero pool for the entirety of Overwatch
1's lifespan.
That means some old heroes are still new to me, so I still got a lot to learn.
There might be some growing things involved, but it's all worth it when it means I get
to have more-
Oh, how'd I fall to map?
What the fuck?
Completely new experiences.
You can't do the falling into the void bit again.
What?
You're already used to-
Yeah, it's a shribin' though, you're not allowed to do that.
Like, if you suck at something, then people get fucking really angie at you the entire
time and it's not fun.
That joke.
of last year 41 seconds into the video wait did we watch that I feel like I saw
that all right man also this is some fucking cinema I feel like I don't see
like good overwatch videos that often anymore you know like I just haven't
I just haven't been paying much attention but I don't see them come across my
feet or they don't get recommended me to be it that much so it overwatch is
almost a decade old at this point. Some of us have been playing for a long ass time, and
those scars are still visible in their own ways.
Okay, I'm not crazy. I thought I clicked away and moved the timer, but I didn't. It's different
footage.
Oh.
Oh.
Yeah, unfortunately, I don't have any sympathy for one-tricks.
Okay, I might have a little sympathy for one-tricks.
I hope at least one of the things you took away from the retelling of my brief death
in 2016 was that playing that much Overwatch in such a short span of time is probably not
that healthy.
However, with the advent of the whole challenger score system,
you have to now, yeah, I was going to say the rank system incentivizes you to play forever and also like
the speed at which the game has improved if you so like the two things are at odds, right?
Playing to improve and rank up and not playing too much to burn out and are completely at odds
because you need to play more to rank up to get better to improve.
But if you play too much, you're gonna burn out.
They're completely at odds with me.
Starting to think Overwatch doesn't agree with me.
They want you to play as much as possible.
But that doesn't matter to me.
I'm too busy learning Genji, remember?
And you see, I can tell I'm improving by measuring how angry the other team is at me.
Genji, I hope your pillow is uncomfortably hot tonight.
People just tell me to fall off a cliff in real life, in Minecraft.
That's kind of a decent point.
I was like the most planked toast insult I've ever heard dude, that sucks so bad.
And I did a nice damage with how not angry my own team is I think.
Introduction, you are fucking terrible.
You are fucking awful man.
What about me? Did I do well?
You're like okay.
Yes, I do, I know exactly what he means.
I know exactly what he means, like oh am I the one to get flamed?
Really?
NG, I help both sides of your pillar of warmth.
Wait, there's a different person? There's a different person?
Isn't there like the same exact insult?
What is happening?
Well, it's always nice to see the variety of ways that Overwatch players can rage at the game, you know?
You can't have a joke about someone smashing their keyboard and chat in rage footage.
You already used that in November 2023, 11 minutes and 15 seconds into the video.
Goddamnit, whatever. Okay, look, just stay away from me. Please. Jesus.
You can reuse the same bits again, and all of that.
Overwatch is almost it.
Somebody in YouTube chat said,
what's wrong with a warm pillow?
Everything.
You want a warm pillow?
I have a cooled mattress.
Cooled pillow?
We try to get cool sheets.
You want warm?
That's crazy.
I get old at this point.
Some of us have been playing for a long time.
What if you're hot?
I mean, I guess everyone can't have everything in life.
Oh, you mean cold? Oh, oh.
I just get warmer.
Long ass time.
And those scars are still visible in their own ways.
Oh, yeah, we're playing for Overwatch.
What the fuck is this?
What is Overwatch 2 gonna do?
Overwatch agents?
But there's two Overwatch 2s, hold on!
Okay, that means no one knows this game more
than literally Overwatch 2 itself, all right?
Their knowledge must be boundless.
And they're being toxic.
I mean, I don't get why the Challenger Score thing exists.
You don't want to-
You know, people who actually don't know the stream mode thing, actually, and they think
like, you know, those names are actually like, slipstream and stuff, or actually just, it's
hilarious.
How do you even play in this game for so long, you don't know what that is?
Too much rank camping, and hey, shouldn't the people that dedicate so much of their
life to a single video game get something in return?
Just think about it.
You could mug the shit out of proper if you just played it.
2016, you could have done just that.
Masters playing the game every waking moment
No, no, I'm supposed to be improving agg engine because it'll make overwatch fresh and exciting for me and
Probably no one else
Just think about how much worse I can chase to be like a year or two ago
It would take me more than two minutes just to finish a single fight on Gibraltar because I couldn't kill anything now though
I see the exact same situation
I'll be real with you. I'm pretty sure it was their attempt. Okay
How much could I say without without saying because like I
Still kind of at least know certain things and I feel like that was probably the remnants of
Conversations that were had with people like over the past few years
because like some of the larger conversations have always been like
Rank camping is a problem. You know rank camping is a problem
You know people go hop on then and then they get to like high rank and then they just hop on an altar
And then like there's tons of alts, right?
And then there's smarfs everywhere. So like that ruins matchmaking people abusing mid-maxing systems, right?
All of those are big problems and I think they wanted to tackle all of them at the same time
But the problem with Blizzard many times
God help them is Blizzard sometimes hears feedback and says we're gonna try to fix that and
And it'll be offered feedback in a way that it will likely finish or fix it, but maybe you need some tweaks and they say, no, we don't like that. We're going to do it our way and they do it their own way.
And then it's fucking butt cheeks.
That's happened for years. So I bet that it was probably the culmination of trying to listen to community feedback and they did it their own way and then they fucked the whole thing up.
And that's telling you to point it out again!
Hey, come up with some-
Just shut up, man!
Shut the fuck up!
Overwatch is almost a decade old at this point.
Some of us have been playing for a long ass time.
And those scars are still visible in their own ways.
Uh-huh.
Trying to see it become visible.
You know,
I'm a creature, Vavit.
I could be content with doing the same thing over and over again.
I should be afraid of that
So
Let's pick the same
Let's make the same jokes
And let's use the same
Let's pick the same maps let's make the same jokes and let's use the same
Let's pick the same maps.
Let's make the same choice.
I like where this is going.
And let's use the same insight.
I hope that your pillow is warm on both sides tonight.
Let's pick the same maps.
Let's make the same jokes.
And let's use the same insight.
Fucking tracer.
I hope that both sides of your pillow are warm tonight.
Oh my gosh, they actually see 9 again.
Yeah, sure man, I just want to see that.
I'll be a type of chat and everyone's gonna laugh.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Everyone's gonna laugh.
Uh oh.
What is he saying?
What the hell?
I don't care about anything else.
I just want to play on King tomorrow.
Hey, this will show you chasing asshole.
Oh, shit.
What are you doing out?
I won't vote.
Never voted Atlas.
Too dare, I don't know, I did, I kind of liked this system at first when I got into it where like one person's vote could be enough to swing it.
But over time, dude, nothing's worse than having nine votes on one map, one guy votes something else, and it's a lot.
Let's pick the same maps, let's make the same jokes.
That wasn't a C9 game.
And let's use the same insult.
I'm scared of this building up there.
I'm gonna pull aside so your pillow are fucking warm tonight.
I was gonna say that you fucking...
No, I wanted to call our pillow warm, you piece of shit!
It's my insult!
What the fuck is this?
What feedback?
I don't think I've seen anything like this in all my hours of playing Overwatch.
We want your feedback, and Zen...
How about I use Scanline and say fuck Zen?
Wait, get out of my way! I need a fucking G2!
Yes!
I didn't see that, it wasn't my fault!
I hope that, I hope that both fucking sides of your kill are warm at night, bitch!
Fuck you!
Fuck, I just wanted to sleep.
I love how every time it's in voice chat to their own teammates,
because they're always fighting with their own teammates more than the enemy team in Overwatch.
So fucking dead.
I don't care anymore if they can't.
I hope both sides of your kill are warm at night, bitch.
Albra, what?
What?
What?
We didn't, yo, we didn't catch the, we didn't catch the fucking...
Oh my god, he didn't do anything, he not catch the point.
Oh my god.
That's fucking funny, you shut up, man.
That's funny, you shut the fuck up.
He's dead.
Uh oh.
Because I have something I want to say about this, but I want him to fit in, I want him to make his point first before I say anything.
Yeah, it seems having too much fun to notice.
I don't think I want that, actually.
Why the hell am I having this dream again?
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Uh, sure, yeah.
Five heroes in a week? Are you insane?
What the hell is wrong with you, Aaron?
It's... it's a queen to me.
Oh, yeah, yeah, it's cool. I'm excited for it, but...
My video, man, it was...
It's gonna be outdated, and I'm...
I'm only, like, halfway done with it.
I guess I could just upload the first half of it right now,
and just do the rest later.
Yeah.
That could work.
You can't talk to our Lord and Savior every color about me, just like, God.
You already did that one year ago, 14 minutes and 13 seconds.
I hate you! I hate you so much!
Wait, now I wish that I got to see another half.
Wait, I'm so interested in what you wanted to say on part two,
because I have some stuff I want to say to that.
You know, I think there are a lot of people that are okay with doing that,
Like literally waking up and doing the same thing every day for years and never changing it.
I am not one of those people. I am not one of those people.
I think the thought of waking up every single day and doing the same thing and never experiencing anything else in a life that can be cut so short, so fast is terrifying.
Dude, imagine if tomorrow you've been playing Overwatch for the last eight years and that's all you've played.
every day, day, nights, go to work, come home,
go to school, come home, play Overwatch.
And then what happens if you get sick?
You get really sick and you've got nothing else.
Like you, let's say you get,
they tell you you got a year to live.
Are you happy that you've been playing Overwatch
for eight years straight every day?
Or are you gonna be wishing that you did other stuff?
You know?
Are you gonna be like, oh shit,
I wish I had tried these things.
I wish I had done these things.
You know, like I like is Overwatch ranked or any rank in any game that important to you that it's more important than doing other things, you know, because like I would love to grind and be good at things and I still do, but some at some point, I think there's just like, you know, you go.
There's just too much, you know?
Why are you making this about things like that?
Because that's what, okay, the point of what he was trying to say was like, people get
tired of doing the same thing over and over and like, how do you basically keep yourself
from doing that?
And we were talking about how the rank system in the game and the game literally incentivizes
you to play and literally the game at no life at all day, every day.
And also you have a game's community that really cares about being the highest rank
in making your entire personality around the rank.
And I'm basically telling you that I think that's crazy work
because something like that could happen tomorrow.
And it's like, well, now what?
You know, it's God forbid, so make a meaningful conversation.
I'm sorry that that's uncomfortable for you.
But maybe.
You should get that little bit of that, just so you know
that there is more to life sometimes, you know.
Fire video though, absolutely bang our video. That was a good one. That was a really good feels good man
all right, uh
We so put swap over do
Just chatting I put it in the overwatch categories. You get their jobs or we're watching a watch video
Also if you're looking for stuff or you're wondering where I'm pulling this stuff from
It's in my hot topic channel in discord. So if this cool videos stupid videos, whatever you might want me to watch
Things are in there. Okay
Yeah, I did watch it this morning Krusty
Okay
So yeah, you guys have recommendations throw them in there. All right
Chas this is this looks like a really good one. So actually if I remember correctly
I watched all these guys videos like a year and a half ago
I put me on a warframe when like warframe like talked about how good it was in the community and the devs
And I wanted to play the game. I didn't end up doing it to semi recently and he was goddamn right
But chat link this in the hot topics show on my discord where you guys throwing videos
You want me to watch and it says I talked to Ubisoft devs. It's worse than we could imagine
So if those who don't know Ubisoft isn't kind of in big trouble
Granted, I think that they're they're doing what they can to survive like they're not like gonna go under
I think if anything bungees in bigger trouble than
Ubisoft is because I think Bungie is basically hinging on Marathon. If Marathon's not a hit, they might be they might be kind of fucked
But yeah, I want to listen in what he hear how things going I
Had developers at Ubisoft reach out wanting to make sure that the right story is being told and these guys are running out of time
Well, the company has been trying to put on a strong face pretend like they have a plan moving forward
Well, things internally have been falling apart faster and faster every single day with and I think sees just had an update
right or an announcement where they finally are making their matchmaking rank link link to their
MMOR like the rank in the MMR will match
I saw like a jinksy clip and being super happy and it's like oh damn how long did it take you to fucking make that like hello
Any developers at the company now believing that this is just gonna be the end of Ubisoft and many of them are just
Preparing to leave they've been telling me that there is new leadership that's being put in place
It's completely unproven and never even worked on a game before they've allegedly been lying about their entire plans to be able
To save the company most of it's all just smoke and mirrors
They've been telling their employees to outright ignore player criticism because we don't know what we're talking about apparently it is yes
But it's not linked to Ubisoft play. What does that mean?
Ian these guys still somehow believed that they are the king of open-world games at least in their eyes
And they've even gone as far as to shut down any conversations at the company around expedition 33 or dispatch
games coming from former UB. So UB stuff said they're king of open world games. I say Bethesda
fucking would have more of a claim to that title than they do. And that's not even a good time.
Like they just happen to have the legacy of fall three new Vegas and Skyrim. That's what
they're in oblivion. That's what they're holding on to employees because well, they don't, you know,
really match up with the direction that the company is going in. And also those games are kind of
of flukes. Ubisoft isn't listening to reason. They're not listening to the players. They're
not listening to their developers. Hell, they just recently fired one for speaking out online.
And now the company is sitting at its lowest point in history. So we have the developers
coming out to set the record straight. Today's video is sponsored by displayed and this one
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Bad UB wait chat. I just heard my
Dryer go off. Would you guys be mad if I went through it in the basket?
So I can just throw my my laundry in real quick
Give me like two minutes. I gotta go throw it in the I gotta throw it in the dryer. I'm sorry
I got a lot of long
I like it was the washer the dryer is still going for another like 15 minutes JK got to
go back later all right lock it off used to be that publisher for the longest time you
didn't even question their releases because these guys just delivered the 2000s to the
early 2010s. It was a ridiculous one.
Three times Splinter Cell, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Rainbow Six, Vegas, Rayman,
Origins. Not all of these games were perfect.
But man, these guys had a grip on the industry.
Big franchises, real identity and some real production.
Also, they should remake Far Cry 3.
I plan.
Well, you just solid games all around.
I wonder if it would hold up though.
Then somewhere in the mid 2010s, the cracks started to show.
And it's not just being Ubisoft jank in some of their games.
It started just becoming the entire product.
Unity was a disaster.
Watchdogs felt like one of the first times that a ton of people got sold one thing and shipped another that game did not look anything like its trailers and
Yeah, these guys watch dog. Wait, we're the watchdog to I thought watchdog one was supposed to be good
Fun thing eight months. This is what a watchdog to
Or just watchdog in general. I didn't play the original way. I thought I heard it was good
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This change is part of the update coming year 11, which aims to enhance competitive play experience. Hope that helps.
Not being signed into that, is that a good thing or a bad thing? I don't know.
One was great, two was bad, so okay.
You had Siege and Origins, Far Cry 5, Wildlands and Division 2, but the rot was already spreading.
More formula, more padding, more copy pasted, open worlds full of a shitload of chores,
and monetization creeping into everything until single player just barely even meant anything anymore.
And that slow decay finally turned into what I view is now an active free fall years of fatigue caught up and now
It's just been miss after miss avatar skull and bones ex defiant star wars outlaws even assassins creed shadows ex defiant
I think had a chance they gave up too early like cod cod gamers
Had a horrible year that year like they do like they were there for like a month like the cod cycle lasted a month
I'm only last like three to six months most
most. It lasted a month. They had to hold on a little bit longer. I think they could
have made it. They gave up too early on next to find came and went from conversation like
it didn't even matter and none of these games were small bets. These are massive projects,
massive budgets and they didn't pay off. Not a single one of them. Now it's beauty. Oh,
skull and bones. Were you played skull and bones? You played the first quadruple title.
Oh man, I was being shuttered layoffs at massive in Stockholm leadership shakeups projects being
cancelled and delayed Prince of Persia being I'd rather play Atlas than Skull and
Bones. Nowhere's no one of them and actually in some of my conversations with
the devs they told me that they had heard internally that it was all tied up
in this training setup with students in India for cheaper labor and that game
was basically so mismanaged that it just became completely unsalvageable now
you have investors that are bailing out their stock has been in the dirt for
years and on the US stock exchanges is it that bad 91 cents hold on I'm gonna look this up
it's off stock price whoa wait it really is 97 cents
and that's that's up it's up in the last couple days
Wow
Wow
Not even a dollar
Sitting it under a dollar everything for this company. You can't you knew we saw can't even hold a dollar
Feels like it's getting worse day by day
So yeah, when I say that Ubisoft is out of time guys. I am not saying that for the title
I am saying that because that's what it all time to call
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Looks like from the outside and apparently...
Like there's games and companies that I think of,
like this is gonna sound horrible maybe,
but like as a kid, like I just, they were just staples,
you know, like Blizzard, Rockstar, Bungie, Activision,
Ubisoft, like all these are like too big to fail.
They would never go under.
Is there a chance they really do go under?
That's exactly what it looks like from the inside.
Following the recent reports of Ubisoft developers
updating their resumes while they're still employed
and also another developer that got fired for criticizing the company on
who's on fires dev who criticized the company's return to work mandate.
And Sasuke Shazlett will design a confirm she's been let go after from
Ubisoft after over a decade with the company, LinkedIn.
I had both former and current Ubisoft developers reach out to me.
Their identities will be kept secret for very obvious reasons, but they want
people to understand what is actually going on inside the studio and where
they think all of this is headed.
First, I simply asked, how does it feel working there right now?
They answered in one word depressing it feels like nothing can be done at our scale as employees and the future looks even worse
I asked do any of the developers see the light at the end of the tunnel or do they just feel like they're on the Titanic at this point
They come back to me. Maybe like some words of hope
To potential anyone. I don't know. I'm just speaking to the void. Maybe someone will see this someday. I
Remember talking over watch people playing like 23 23
And that was their sentiment. They were really sad. They were like we're fucked
It was around the time that the acquisition was starting, though, so like maybe they had
hope to look towards that.
So maybe you yourself can turn it back around.
You know, it doesn't like bad times don't always last for forever.
But man, I feel for them.
That's kind of sad.
But well, as far as I can see, there are three main views.
One, I have a family, so I can't really move.
So I just hope for the best.
Two, I'm preparing my resume and three, I'll probably just leave the industry.
I've been asked with everything that's happened with the company management and the overall
direction do you guys feel like you're even making games for players anymore they answered
most of the time it's hard to tell many just started working like it's a nine to five I
responded well is that the overall feeling right now most people have just checked out
where do you guys think this company is headed they respond I don't think it's everyone yet
but most people think that the direction is delusional and gripping to the hope of releasing
a bestseller like Valhalla at its peak at the pandemic or a fortnight like live service.
I think that while some dude, dude, I hope that we are we like games need to realize
that it's over for them. They've list they missed the live service boat. It's over.
GG. You missed it. You missed your opportunity. You can't catch it again. Unless your name
is Valorant, Overwatch, World of Warcraft, Marvel Rivals, Arc Raiders, which actually Arc Raiders
isn't free to play, so let's take Arc Raiders off there actually. Fortnite, obviously, you're
basically deadlock, hang on, deadlock's not out yet, deadlock's not out yet. Apex,
deadlock doesn't count because it's technically not out, so we were on the main monetization
model is so it's like not totally there apex for sure warframe actually as well um you you missed it
you missed the boat and i think high guard's a good example of that of a company coming in with
like an okay like good good roots game but it just isn't enough to to make people move and it's not
finished and so they drop a free to play game to try to finance it to get through get to the end
of the finish line people play it have a horrible first time experience it gets everybody like
really pissed off at it and goes, nah, I ain't trying that. Public opinion really shifts.
And then basically, people don't want to play because public opinion is super against it.
And then that's it, your GGs. And for free to play games, you even have like MMOs. Like,
there's almost no reason to play an MMO that's not like maybe old school Rinscape,
Final Fantasy, or Wow, because like, you might shut down any moment. New World shutting down.
What's the other one? There's another, there's another MMO that ran, we just shut down recently.
Uh, what was it called?
Do you guys know?
Ashes of creation.
Yeah.
Ashes of creation.
Just fucking exploded GGs goodbye.
You know, it's like, how are you going to, how are you going to put any time
into these things and spend countless hours building up your character,
spending money, and it just disappears.
It's gone, you know, so it's like in a fly service game where you're spending
all these micro transactions, you want your money to be almost like an investment.
you want it to be safe.
Like if I'm investing money in a rough economy,
I'm probably way more secure investing in like Visa
or like Walmart maybe or something.
Like someone that's got like such a big company
and makes so much money and is like so valuable to society
that like they cannot fail no matter what.
Like they will hold on as opposed to random tech stock
or random like startup or whatever.
You know what I mean?
risky and there's more secured. And I think gamers now want to buy a finished product.
They don't want to buy a free or get something from free and then be expected to pay a bunch
of money to help push it across the finish line and get it finished. And I think that's
that's what the industry is showing. You know, like we can't do it anymore.
Don't really think about it. Many think that we're just going to end up bought by 10 set
for IPs. Whoa. I'm going to say it's no wonder that these developers feel defeated. They know
know the company is underperforming.
They're watching studios get shut down,
watching layoffs roll through,
hearing more about right sizing and reorganizing
like it's some sort of seasonal update for the company.
You would think at some point these guys
would see some real change,
something that actually addresses
why players have checked out,
why we stopped buying their games,
why their games pretty much across the board
are underperforming,
but instead they have management
that is clinging to the same idea over and over again
that they're somehow going to recreate
the success of Valhalla,
a game that blew up in a once in a lifetime moment
where the entire world was-
Yeah, I haven't put no, how should I play it?
It's locked inside their house.
Is that good?
Also chasing the live service dragon,
thinking that they're the ones that are going to be able to crack it,
even though publisher after publisher has tried really gotten humiliated for it.
And the crazy part is, is that we don't even have to guess if that's the mindset
because Ubisoft CEO basically said that outright in their investor briefing.
On one hand, the AAA industries become persistently more selective and competitive
with rising development costs and greater challenges in creating brands.
On the other hand, exceptional triple A games when successful have more financial potential than ever in this context today.
We are announcing a major reset build to create the conditions for a return to sustainable growth over time.
We are transforming Ubisoft's operating model to produce exceptional quality games on two core pillars of our strategy open world adventures and games as a service native experience.
They were kind of there in the first half, actually.
Wait, they thought, wait, this is classic CEO though.
Wait, this is, they're chasing the money because you're not going to beat them.
You're not going to be rivals.
You're not going to beat Overwatch.
You're not going to beat the Apex.
You're not going to beat Valorant.
You're not going to be Fortnite.
You're not beating them.
You're not beating them.
They're established.
You're never beating them.
It says, I cannot believe that this is coming from the same company that wrote one of their
villains saying, do you know the definition of insanity?
These guys are literally betting the house on doing the exact same thing that they've been doing for the past 10 years.
Exceptional AAA games are successful and they have more financial potential than ever.
Where? When? I haven't seen them. I don't think anybody else has because the last five years have been completely dominated
not by exceptional AAA games. No, it's been smaller games. Games that are actually-
Okay, those games dominate the headlines, but if you're talking about like, who makes big money?
I do think that's like the big- the big five of like, Fortnite.
Valorant apex rivals now overwatch maybe a couple others caught obviously but
caught actually paid wait well cause weird cuts paid and micro transactions
you know paid and Counter-Strike as well actually Counter-Strike Dota those
at league league league league you're right you're right that's say the ten
pillars okay the ten pillars of gaming right all of those make big money
Big, big, big money.
You guys think Madden?
I feel like Madden's kind of falling off.
Maybe right.
Like, you know, ball and gun gamers probably still buy him that shit like crazy, but at
least all my friends and me, like, none of us buy Madden anymore.
That shit's kind of like, kind of, kind of cooked now.
I used to love it.
I used to put the fuck out of it.
Just throwin' it out there.
Yeah, and then there's also then, I would say, like, a different pillar is like the,
the, uh, the Hoyover, Sten-Shin type games.
You know, those guys, oh, they print money.
print money. They all print money. You know, that's what I think they're talking about when
they say these live service games are making big money. But like, that's it, no one outside
of them are making it.
Focus games that are actually finished games made by people who actually know what they're
doing. And even when you're making your point that Oh, some of the biggest AAA games that
are out there are some of the biggest AAA money printing moments. Okay, yeah, you have Diablo
four. That's probably the only example that you're going to be able to use here. And look
where that game ended up. Meanwhile, Baldur's Gate 3 for all intents and purposes, that was
definitely a AAA sized cultural event, but it was something that was built closer to a AA budget,
single player, no microtransactions. Even the devs of Baldur's Gate have said they'll probably
never be another Baldur's Gate again, because like how hard they had to work on that game, but
yeah, even the developers are so anti that stuff that they put it in their damn FAQ.
So how do you hear players that have been complaining for years about bloated open
world games, about monetization that's infecting everything, about live service elements that
that are being folded into games
that they have no business being there.
And then go and look at the graveyard
of failed live service launches
with a couple of outliers
and think that you guys are the ones
that are headed in the right direction.
What is wrong with this company?
So I ended up asking the developers directly,
are they just flat out ignoring player feedback?
What has been their thoughts on how-
Should stop using Steam numbers or anything Blizzard?
Well, hold up, I agree with you
because I actually think that Blizzard,
most legacy players will use the launcher.
However, to say not use Steam at all is a little unfair,
because Steam is the only thing that gives us public knowledge.
A lot of these companies,
especially like Buzz is a good example,
will keep those numbers under wraps and will not report them.
And now the chances of you getting those reported
are almost zero because it's under the Microsoft umbrella.
So when they do earnings calls every quarter,
when it used to be Activision Blizzard,
they'd go through all their games.
Now it's Microsoft.
They can just do all the gaming department in one section.
So we're never gonna know console numbers.
We're never going to know China, Steam, US, et cetera.
But those numbers are correlative, I believe,
where if the game is released on Steam
somewhere around the same time of after it's released
on the Battle.net launcher,
I would say the majority of players for the game
probably are using the Battle.net launcher.
However, most gamers want to use Steam on PC.
Steam is an amazing service.
So I would say new players probably try to get into
through Steam.
And also if the Steam number's really low,
I would assume that the other platforms
aren't that much further away from it.
Like maybe two to three X at most, you know,
at most just to throw it out there.
Oh, players, think of them.
They responded, they are completely.
If they were more open about their numbers,
and it's like, well, you know.
The ignoring feedbacks,
they think that the silent majority
will keep buying games and microtransactions.
The issue is the leadership that they still think
that Ubisoft is leading the open world genre.
So quality is never questioned
despite the shortfalls of recent releases.
I then asked so management is flat out not learning their lessons and ignoring players and the teams they responded higher ups
Yes, lower management usually want to do something that are powerless. I
Hate how vindicating it is to hear something like that. Yeah, it definitely makes me feel justified
I'm sure it makes a lot of you guys feel justified too
But I can't imagine how miserable it must be to work inside of a company where you actually want to do something different
You have people that are there that want to fix it
Yeah, it's really
Really, but they get stung by leadership that pretends like nothing is wrong tells them to ignore feedback and just keeps forcing everything in the same direction
Now, I'm sure some of you guys are gonna say just leave
But you're up a bit with player counts on other platforms for existence is for instance OSRS has around
150 to 200k concurrent and only about 5k play on steam and the rest are through their own client
I'm gonna ask you this riddle me this
Do you think old-school runescape is pulling in a lot of brand new players today?
Or is it players that used to play whether they were 20 years ago or 10 15?
Well, how many years ago runescapes are not forever. Maybe it is closer to 20 years ago played at 20 years ago
Remember how they played it 20 years ago and come back
You know like do you think it's a lot of brand new players coming into the game?
Or is it like a lot of people that used to play and they come back and play it a ton because it's like it's a good game
I think it's way more
people who used to play that come back, you know, they're growing because of seasonal events like Lee's and dead man so both.
I think most people that are going to go back to runescape or people that have played it, whether it was like years ago or whatever I don't think runescape is at the forefront of brand new players coming in.
And there's nothing wrong with that. I think that maybe people from like wow or Final Fantasy might look towards it
And that's probably where your steam people are, you know, I think that's a good example
Maybe the 5k that you're seeing is is a lot of the newer people
Because it for the same reason why I pick the Blizzard launcher for Overwatch
Because it's what I've always played it on like it makes sense for me to do it
even though I like using Steam a lot, right?
Like I will use what I'm used to using.
And I think if you've played RuneScape at some point
over the last 20 years,
you probably are using the way that it used to be played,
right?
Like you say, again, it hits peak recently,
but that doesn't mean it's all new players playing the game.
It could be 20 years of players
that are starting to come back going,
oh shit, there's more and more content.
So like over a game that's been out for 20 years
and it has highs and lows that are going, right?
It's like there's probably millions of people that have played old school or
an escape and then went to go play other things.
And as games have just not been that interesting sometimes where like things
get a little boring, it's a good thing to go back to, you know, like, I, but then
again, you and I are both just speculating neither of us, we have no evidence.
Neither of us, it could be either of us, you know, well, some of these developers
are, but it's not that simple.
It's not like you have studios around every single corner for these guys to
be able to hop to, especially when you've got a family, mortgages,
visa situations or whatever else. So what happens instead is exactly what these guys
told me. It just turns into a nine to five. People check out. They just do what they're
told. They just put their head down. Hope everything turns out all right. They write
it out and hope that some other company. Well, I wonder why we're watching this or where
did I got this from? I got it from the Hot Topics channel on my discord. Keep shooting
cool videos to the videos, whatever articles, if there's stuff that's interesting to you,
throw them in there and I will take a look. He's going to come in and buy them before
it all collapses on top of them.
I think this is how we're getting a lot of what we're seeing from AAA right now.
Games that are launching painfully off the mark projects that feel like they're wearing
the skin of older franchises without any of the solid design decisions that feel like
they came straight out of a meeting because none of these games are actually being made
by the people who work there.
They're being made by the people who are telling them what to do.
And most of the people that want to try to do anything have already checked out.
I've spent a lot of time talking to AAA developers and I'm going to tell you guys right now.
This is a problem that these guys run into all the time.
They hear the players.
They know what we're complaining about.
They know that they can fix it.
They see the way to be able to fix it.
They want to fix it, but management steps in the way every single time.
These guys want to fix mechanics.
They want to fix.
I've got my years of being a streamer and playing and covering games.
I have had a few times where like a random dev like, well, like send me a message or
send me an email, send me whatever.
Um, and I typically check to see if they're legit, you know, look up, look up the name
that came with it or something like that. And a lot of times it's, I don't think there's been many
fakes, but a lot of times it's like either confirming a lot of things that I've thought of and like
they expand on it or like actually sometimes it's like actually I saw you stuck with this,
I just want to correct it a little bit because you're close but it's actually blah blah blah
and they like tell me what they've been having for their issue and I always look at that and
And I'm like, huh, oh, interesting.
Okay, that's actually good to know.
I appreciate that.
Hold on, I need to send something to Retro really quick.
And then I wanted to open up on stream.
There we go.
Did that send?
Yeah, it did.
So yeah, it's probably really painful.
Like just like in any job though,
where like you have upper management
and they're kind of morons,
but they're there because they've been there longer.
They know more people than you or whatever.
character designs, the direction of some of these games.
So these guys are even pushing back against live service,
but management says no.
They say that we are wrong,
that we're the ones that don't know what we want
and they do know what we want.
And then they force these developers to just press ahead.
I just, I don't understand how you manage a company
this poorly.
How do you not listen to your customers?
How do you not see these obvious mistakes?
How do you not recognize that you have hit an iceberg?
Some of these people have been working at this company forever.
Some of the guys with the people that owned it
and operated it and founded the company.
And they still don't see any of this stuff.
And you know, while I am all for Ubisoft cutting weight,
I've talked about that a ton of times.
They've way too many people that are working at that company.
There's still over 17,000 people.
None of these layouts mean a thing
if this company does not learn from any of its failures.
And they're not.
That's a lot of people actually.
Dryer, oh yeah, you're right.
But they're in the hallway right now.
So I'm gonna wait till they're gone.
At the end of the video, I'll go check.
I mean, the CEO actually believes that the only reason that Star Wars outlaws failed is because the Star Wars IP is bad because nobody likes Star Wars anymore, even though I'm pretty sure people really liked and or and there's a movie that came out that I think a lot of people like I didn't get to watch it.
I've been really star wars thing for a while. We also had Battlefront that saw a massive resurgence of players just before the launch of Star Wars outlaws. So how does that make sense?
Then none of us could play it because it was full of hackers and cheaters that would take over our stuff, you know
I was playing on a stream for a few days. I had a great time
And then I just got a hardcore stream snipe by cheaters the entire time
I literally couldn't play the game. So then I did an offline recording because everyone's like, oh, it's funny
It's funny. It's not cheaters every game. It's just you and so I did some offline recording and I played it one last time with
Zanny and Jev. It was actually wild. Then that was the last time I think I was last time was any of us played
Because it was impossible otherwise just with the cheating running around and whatnot, but the game was cool
It had it had it had the core. It really did how do lose anything with it
Well, apparently pretty damn delusional because it's going to get worse wait till you hear how these guys reacted to the success of expedition 33 and how
Their solution to their over management problem is more middle management
Over the past couple of months Ubisoft has basically delivered nothing but bad news
But in the middle of that they still took the time to hold an investor meeting for like the five investors
that these guys still have left giving their plans for 2026 and beyond more cuts more projects being shelved and the big headline that they
Really wanted everybody to focus on was a complete restructuring supposedly aimed at delivering higher quality games
They're carving the company up into five creative houses with Ubisoft HQ
Overseeing all of it and they're selling this as a new era of speed and discipline placing creative and financial
accountability closer to where value is created, simplifying the organization better deploying resources, all the usual bullshit.
So the obvious question is, what does this actually mean for the people that are making games?
Because Ubisoft loves announcing plans, but they don't really like following through on a lot of things.
What?
What I want to know is whether or not this is actually going to make anything better.
I asked the developers, I know that they had pivoted, reorganized, brought in some new leadership,
but my biggest worry, and probably the same worry a lot of other players is having right now,
Is this anything is this company being run by all those who will still report the same people at the top right like they still have to get stuff
Approved right yo rc thing of five gift on the other membership side on the YouTube appreciate you tagging something she's saying
You actually know how games are made. Are you running into that kind of problem?
They responded there are several issues to plague the company that pivot looks like fairy dust to be honest most leadership was already there
We used to have zones a year or two before creative houses, which did nothing but create a new layer of management
There are still some people at the head of the company that have been in game development at some point
But it's been years the way that games are made now is different. I also heard that most of them are just yes men now
Okay, so this is where things are getting really good. So basically what they're saying is the restructuring is just a smoke screen
It's the same people. Maybe a couple everyone loves Star Wars. It's still mega popular 100k plus people go to Star Wars of its celebration
Yeah, I don't know where they got the idea of people just don't like Star Wars anymore. That's crazy
That sounds like all new faces, but most of the leadership has been removed from the actual work for a year
So many of them don't even understand how games are made today, which is making things even more difficult for the developers
They're essentially being given new management that hasn't worked on games in years or have never personally worked on a game before
All while the company is placing another layer of management on top of all of that to make things worse
Unable to believe what I was hearing I asked them to clarify. Yeah, as I said right now
it's a bit chaotic. It feels not as planned as publicly showcased. Well, it wasn't really organized
into creative houses. Just there are now projects that belong into different ones
within the organization in the same building. What I responded that seems wildly disorganized.
So how many layers of management are there between the developer and the studio head?
They came back with depends on the game on a midsize project where the whole team is in one
studio. You could have six to seven layers between developer and the studio head. If it's a multi
studio collaboration, it gets worse. You can easily hit 10 or 11 layers because the team and even
sometimes the directors sit under a studio lead which has their own management chain under the
game producer. I then asked them, dude, we have, we have like small issues sometimes like not like
problems, but like, you know, like you're going to encounter issues on the level where
where there's three levels for my stream.
There's me, there's a crap and retro,
and then there's like the editors.
Sometimes we have miscommunications on that.
Imagine putting 12.
You're never gonna get anyone to agree.
Hello?
No one's gonna ever agree on anything.
Everyone has a different point of view.
Everyone has a different idea.
Someone like, you're gonna get your boss's,
boss's, boss's, boss's to approve something.
You're like, yes, let's go ahead.
And then a week later they go,
the boss's, boss's, boss's, boss's, boss's actually said no.
what about the boss of boss of boss of boss of boss of boss of boss of boss boss
Oh, they're actually kind of on board, but they want to talk to their boss. So
the boss of boss of boss of boss of boss of boss
Boss's boss actually was okay with it
But boss of Boss's boss. It didn't like that his boss's boss boss boss
went above him and
Approved it. So he actually just went above the bosses the bosses the bosses Valley boss bosses boss boss
To tell him that his underling just approved something and he should take a look at it
And then that guy is that normal
that feels like a lot of layers of management doesn't that cause issues no wonder developers don't and all of it was
What color do we make the grenades heard nobody can hear you they responded?
No, it causes a lot of issues meetings are bloated most people zone out information gets lost people work on things that are not up to
Date work that has already been done without consulting another team needs to be redone or patched feedback arrives late or not at all
Fixes often get delayed and pushed as much as possible. Yeah, that's door even put off until launch
Well, well, well, doesn't that explain all the issues that we see in games and why budgets
have ballooned to hundreds of millions of dollars when you have seven layers of people
between the ones doing the work and the ones that are steering the project?
Sometimes even 10 or 11 game development isn't even about making the game anymore.
It's playing a game of telephone.
You're just trying to push a message through a human maze and by the time it reaches the
other side, if it even does, you know, what's the chance is all of this is just to extract
as much wealth as possible, you know, because like,
Realistically, like there's a lot of people in these positions at companies that
Deadass have no game experience. They've lived there don't even play games. They don't even like them
But it pays well. It's not that difficult to do
And so they just want to get paid a fuck ton of money because the budget is a hundred million dollars
The CEO gets a million. Let's say
The the CFO gets half a mil, right and they do that every year
They do it for four years making the game that guy just made four million CFO just made two million, right?
And then the game fucking bombs. Oh, well, they got paid
It's gonna be watered down misunderstood outdated or it's just gonna collide with something that another already did
They go someone else doesn't just explain bugs that all work on the next project
quality drop the way that these franchises have slowly started to lose their identity and they've started to wear the skin of what they
Used to be because nothing is getting through cleanly proposed changes
Even simple ones are gonna take weeks or months for these guys to be able to move on and beyond that it also applies to the soul of the
project how clearly can a vision come through when someone who is writing the dialogue designing levels or trying to shape the
Narrative has to pass everything through layers of Dante's inferno just to try to get a straight answer
The only thing that's going to survive is gonna be the simplest version of everything possible safe choices
Formula stuff that is easy to justify and easy to track the only thing that you're ever so small small weird thing is like
There's actually sometimes you these outside stuff to to like power stuff through because like otherwise
they're too scared, you know, they're too scared to push things through and this is back in the day
it has been a while ago but like when I used to make a little like overwatch rant video stuff like
every once in a while I get around developer like dude thank you for talking about this finally
because like now I can go to my boss and be like I've been pushing for this thing internally for
six months and now you made a video about it now I can show them your video and now everyone's
gonna get on board and I remember reading that DM and I was like damn that's fucking sad that makes
me so sad because there's probably some poor guy in some of these fucking studios that knows
what to do and is trying to give people to listen but they won't listen because they
don't have anywhere to like, they're like, yeah, you're below us. Like you've only been
here for two years. I've been here for five years, you know, you don't, you don't know
shit.
And then then you can go to like an outside voice that's like respected or well known
and then they go, well, look at this and then they go, oh shit, yeah, okay, we can do that.
You know, really going to see change, especially from Ubisoft titles is going to be the monetization
because well, that's ironclad. That's a demand that's coming from the top with no mixed messaging.
probably a lot of stuff from their HR department too. I just don't get how you look at the past
couple of years and think the doubling down is the answer. The industry has been reporting the
opposite right now. Titer teams, tire scubs, lower budgets, games with real identity. And yeah,
AAA is still going to hit sometimes, but the conversation keeps getting swallowed by stuff
like Silk song or schedule one or expedition 33. How are you not going to learn from that?
Which then reminded me, you know, for how big expedition 33 got even the French prime minister
and shouted them out. Ubisoft was silent. So I asked the developers, what was the internal
reaction to sandfall success, especially with former Ubisoft developers on that team, and did
they learn anything from it? They responded, none, no reaction. They believe that Ubisoft isn't
doing the same scale of game and that this team size isn't fit for a project that the company
needs to make. As I said, they want to focus on live service and open world. What the fuck?
I had to pry further. So they just brushed it off. No internal discussion. They come back saying many of the developers are players too. People that love the game and they tried to bring it up to management saying why don't we have projects like this. And they found 10 bullshit excuses to showcase how unrealistic it is and how we should ignore it in an internal Q&A.
You know the famous It's an exception. Executive said there are tons of other indie games like this that fail.
Can you guys imagine what about the games that cost a hundred million still fail, you know, it's like anything can fail
In being in that building and hearing that you go and you play expedition 33 your height for the people that used to sit a
Couple of deaths away from you. You see the whole industry light up over it. You're thinking finally we have proof of this is an overwatch
I'm not in the watch category. I'm literally not so why would you think this is overwatch?
Double-checking no, I'm really not okay
your concept that the smaller focus actually creative approach can still work and your own executives look you in the face and go, nah, what is wrong with these people?
Not what we can learn, not why did this land, not how do we get some of that discipline back, just excuses, dismissal, a corporate coping mechanism.
We don't make games like that. It's an exception. Indie games fail all the time. We do live service.
It's just so gross. It's not even a disagreement about taste. It's just an admission that their model matters more than their own craft does.
The people inside are trying to do what they can and they're trying to fix games and make them better, but the leadership is basically saying, sorry, that's not the business that we're in.
I can't help but think that these guys, their executive staff had to have just been so salty about Expedition 33. That game had a little history.
Everybody was talking about they probably they probably don't follow after shit. They probably didn't even know about it
You have your own government talking about it. Yeah, I'd I'd imagine these guys were very happy
I mean every single headline every video every review made sure to make mention that a couple of their employees
It slipped out the back and made a better game without them
I can't imagine that these guys took it all that well
It is the exact same thing with this batch and you know
What's really funny is is that if I recall correctly there were developers that came out their reports were made that
Similar concepts were brought up to Ubisoft, but they had passed on. Oh, I actually saw that. I heard about that, too
I read that somewhere
There's a lot of companies that do that though where they get pitched up and they just say nah, we're good actually
Imagine being that blind to the own talent in your studios like full-on Netflix blockbuster type shit your own talent in your studios
Imagine being that blind to good ideas that you guys couldn't pick that stuff up
Imagine being so bitter that you can't even learn lessons from it
the CEO needs to resign.
It's the only way that I see this company finding any success.
Well, honestly, that doesn't do anything.
I feel like a lot of times, like,
CEO's just a figurehead.
Like a lot of that shit is run,
like the roots are much deeper.
You need to have like a straight up different philosophy
as a whole studio.
And how do you make that happen is very difficult.
Actually, potential idea of that is unionizing.
the devs need to have their own say.
So actually, you know, what's funny,
last time I watched one of these videos from this guy
was like 2023 when Overwatch was in the shitter.
I was talking about how good Warframe was
and I was like, oh, really?
I wanna try that and I ended up doing that.
But funny around that time, Overwatch was horrendous
and then they unionized and in the last year and a half,
they've really turned it back around
and it seems like they have a lot more power
in their own hands as opposed to upper management,
which though, I imagine,
probably still has a lot of just decision making power,
especially around things that are like money makers,
like skins and stuff like that.
However, they got to wrestle back
at least a little bit of power.
All of their bad decisions are coming from the top.
I know in a lot of cases,
people wanna point out the developers
and in some case it is the developers that are the problem.
That's not saying that Ubisoft
doesn't have any problem developers
or any other parts of leadership,
but a lot of this stuff is coming from the top.
And it's obvious that they're just, they're just ruining this entire company.
I mean, I'm of the mind that the only reason that Tencent is investing as
much money as they are is because they know they're investing into the Titanic
and they know that ship is going to sink right into their own pocket.
They're just going to take all of the IP and whether that actually needs a better
environment for the developers or them just shipping all those games off to be
developed in China or something like that.
Instead, I have no idea, but I will say this and I don't say very often, I feel
bad for these developers. What a hellish and blind environment to
work with. Yeah, I think a lot of places, a lot of people
misunderstand that developer versus company and they get really
mad at the developers, but it's not actually their fault. Don't
get me wrong. That's not always true. For the art of
game making. It does have no care for what the customers are
asking them to make. Did you know that the hires that they've
made to fix Assassin's Creed Far Cry and Rainbow One last point
And then I'm going to move on to the next one is the CEO's son and his cousin.
His son, by the way, is only experiences in NFT games and mobile games.
So, you know, that bodes well for those franchises.
I'm sure that I have a personal experience with that.
I don't know if I want to leave that one right where it is though.
That's going to go just fine.
I'll just say this.
I personally watched a scenario just like that happen with a company and with a
game and with a thing and a team and someone's dad was a very, very, probably tens to hundreds
of millions, very rich dad, hand his kid who was like 19 handed the keys to millions of
dollar company.
That shit got ran right in the fucking ground that that shit fell apart so generationally
fast.
you know it's one thing but yeah so all right it was a good video though really
good I think he's just rapping I'm basically talking about how it feels
bad for the developers but I haven't watched any of this guy's stuff in a
while that was pretty good I do feel bad for Ubisoft though they're kind of a
little bit cooked okay what else have you guys gotten hot topics for me what
is this one oh nice you've got a shirt that's not grey or blue 38 minutes I don't
I don't know if I want to watch the whole thing.
What the fuck is that?
Get the fuck out of here with a don't know.
Can you see my lights flicker?
Oh, I gotta check my dryer.
You're right, actually.
Hang on, let me go do that.
I want to check my dryer real quick.
I'll be back in two minutes.
All right, everybody, don't run away.
Goodbye.
you
you
All right, well, it is still in, it's, the dryer's not done, it said one minute and
I waited there for like two or three minutes, however long I was gone and it
still didn't turn off. So I'm like, all right, the timer on this thing is
definitely not the timer. It's like a sensor waiting for it to like cool down.
So we'll see. Look at my video. Would you send me?
Mr. Flats, I put a high guard video in hot topics, also made by the same guy we
just watched yet.
things I don't appreciate.
Oh, I see.
What is it? How long is it?
20 minutes long.
We'll see. We'll see. We'll see.
Look what Chase had me.
She wants to play this so bad.
And honestly, I'm kind of down.
It's a mix of Pokemon and Zs.
Animal? Okay, maybe with some months.
It's roadside research.
I did play a little bit of the demo, okay.
Oh, you can spin your sign now, like that's kind of far.
We'll play it.
We'll play it.
play it um let's see I kind of want to save that new one for a different day
because I don't like watching people's videos like like right after they came
out how long is this one because I said I was gonna watch this one oh my god it's
40 minutes long
What else have we got?
Saros Battlefront 2?
Kyber is finally here.
What is this?
Meow.
It's a Battlefront 2 video?
Yo, Moaz, I thought I was going to tell you once. Appreciate you. Thank you.
Let me see.
What else have we got?
Okay, sorry.
I want to do something a little bit shorter if I can.
Maybe like a nice like 10 15 minute banger.
The quest to beat the hopeless pursuit. How long is this?
Two and a half hours might be a little bit much for me today.
Reptile I think in 30 months.
What else we got in here?
I'm just curious how long this one is 26 minutes a little too long, okay
Someday you will surely watch the complete lore of Hollow Knight's copian
Yeah, that one's really too long note for today because we're we're going out to dinner with my mom soonish
I think
Meaning like I'll probably watch like one more and then I'm gonna get off and sort of get ready
I'm in why modern shooters feel wrong after this nice short time in a video. I'm in
Lock it up triple a games in 2026 feels less like doing it for fun for the demon
And also if you're wondering where I pull all these from uh, they're from the hot topic channel on my discord
You basically send me what you want me to watch different videos. This one's recommended
Um, I go through them see ones that look interesting and then we watch them
All right doing some kind of administrative work because before you can even see the main menu to press play
You are getting assaulted by the battle pass check out the item shop
you missed a winter event. Link your account to a third-party launcher you didn't ask for.
You sit down to relax, to escape, and instead you're given a checklist.
There's a lot of live service games. Like live service games put a bunch of things in your face
though because they want you to keep playing longer and so like the longer you play the
more money you'll spend and so they try to give you like a bunch of like you gotta get this challenge
get that challenge whatever else I want to come back down here because otherwise this looks a little awkward.
Yeah here we go. Okay.
We're told that your time is not your own. It belongs to an engagement algorithm.
We have become accustomed to this digital noise and we've forgotten what silence sounds like.
And then there is Space Marine 2. There is no store on the main menu.
There is no daily chat.
Why? Dude, Space Marine 2, I remember when that game came out, I remember I was super excited,
but I didn't have time for it and I was like, I'll just watch it a little bit.
I watched it a little bit, it looked fun, but I just never had time.
There are plenty of enemies with a pistol for the currency that doesn't matter.
There is no roadmap telling you that a real game will be released in the next six months.
There was just, well, wait. For the last 10 years, the industry has been trying to evolve the shooter.
They added RPG mechanics to games that didn't need them.
They added open worlds to the stories that needed focus.
They added crafting systems to action games because some-
If that's what R6 Siege did was remove the need for an Ubisoft launcher to play it.
Oh, they removed the need of the Ubisoft launcher entirely?
Oh, that's so gas.
The manager said that it increases the retention time.
They bloated it until it started to pop.
Space Marine 2 feels revolutionary,
not because it does something new,
but because it has the courage to do something old.
It looked at a decade of the modern design philosophy
of the loading, the leveling, the FOMO,
and it rejected all of it.
It is a-
I feel like there's a large audience of like older gamers,
especially who, by the way, have a lot of money
compared to like, you're going for Gen Alpha, Gen Z.
They rely on their kids, on their parents
to spend money for them to buy their skins. Older gamers got that that disposable income.
They'd want games that they feel like they're playing like when they were a kid again,
you know, like, or when they were younger. This looks like Gears of War to me.
And it has the same style. Like not just like like gameplay, but like just looking at it.
Exactly. I feel like I'm looking at Gears of War, which I play the fuck ton of.
It knows what it isn't. It isn't the second job. Same speed.
service and playing it feels like waking up from a 10-year coma but why is it
well to be fair but somewhere out in 2014 the gaming press decided that the
world linear was an insult if your game didn't have 100 hour open world 500
collectibles and the website that you might have a retina is right about a
trustee it was considered days we were told that we were told that play agency
meet being able to walk in any direction for an hour and find absolutely nothing of value.
So, I guess you sound more destiny a lot with that.
They destroyed the curated experience. They replaced pacing with padding. They gave us
oceans of content with the depth of a puddle. But how Space Marine 2 is different? Oh, Space
Marine 2 is a corridor shooter and it is glorious. Because it is linear, the developers control the
camera. They control the lighting. They control the pacing. They aren't worried about you wondering
off the edge of the map and glitch into a rock. They are worried about making sure that the
turret invasion happening in front of you looks like an end of the world. You can-
It may be a bit of a hot take, but I played Halo Infinite and I liked it. I liked it. Halo
is one of my favorite franchises, just like not to play like multiplayer, but like to play
story these days. And I think the thing that made Halo Infinite feel so weird to me, even though I
I enjoyed just playing Halo again was the fact that it was no longer a corridor shooter.
It was like you have to like explore the map and do all these like mini missions to unlock
more stuff and then you go to the next place and it's like, I felt like that just didn't
fit the style of what the game is, you know?
And if they had just stuck to what they were good at, I think they could have been great.
Like Reach I think is a good example of like stretching it where like the maps are big.
There is a good amount of exploration you can do, but it's still linear, y'know?
Call it an architecture of regression.
By going back to the corridor, the same architecture that came through the game, they focused it.
In an open world game, a hive city is just a skybox, or a low resolution background asset.
Here it is a cathedral of war.
You said, open world games are exhausting, even going back to oblivion, the master has
me hella overwhelmed.
Really?
Dude, honestly?
Dude, I kinda wanna go back a bit more oblivion.
I might just play it off stream.
I make this mistake sometimes where I play a game on stream and I feel really bad if I play it off stream and I don't
You guys don't get to see oblivion is one of those games
I feel like I should just go back and play off stream by myself through this because it's not a great on stream game
It doesn't make good content. Unfortunately, like you'll get bored, but like man is it fun scale of the universe pressing down on you?
You are not checking the minimap to see where the next outposting you are simply looking up and we actually
Forgot the value of director telling us look at this
We forgot the value of the game that respects your time enough to cut out the commute in space point you there is no
Downtime there is only the mission it respects the fact that you are an adult with life and when you give it 30 minutes
It gives you 30 minutes of spectacle not 20 minutes of walking in 10 minutes of inventory management
And modern shooters are obsessed with fluidity. You are a ninja
You are a percours expert you slide you double jump you wall run the goal is to never touch the ground
Your goal is to be the ghost in space mind you you're not a ghost
You are a tank when Titus takes a step the camera shakes when he spring in Southlake a car crash
The game conveys a physical reality that modern gaming has largely abandoned mass
You're wearing a ton of ceramic armor. You shouldn't be able to slide cancel
And I thought about that changes to find the mental psychosis like you who do enjoy that though
Like I think especially if like you're younger like you want to like show off like mechanics is like a big thing for games
Like this is like an older game or take of the combat in most shooters
When you take damage the instinct can be gone away to hide behind a waist high wall and to wait until your health
regenerate space meant to remove the safety net there is no cover system because you are the cover the
Contested health mechanics borrowed from a bloodborne, but perfected here in the shooter forces you forward if you get hit
the only way to get the hell back is to kill the thing that hits you or rather execute the thing that hits you
It turns the panic into aggression. It forces you to embrace the identity of a star days
You are not a soldier trying to survive the war
You are the weapon that ends it and speaking of weapons
We need to talk about the bolter in any yeah, honestly, I kind of see what he's saying now
I guess for everyone though, but I guess definitely get all things a hundred bits, but like
I'm not gonna look at the rework, I'm sorry.
I don't have any desire to look at hypothetical reworks.
I'm sorry.
I appreciate it.
I appreciate the hunter bits, but that's just not something I ever do, ever.
And it's just, he'll always have their ideas and they want me to come bring their ideas
to me and then almost have me try to sometimes get behind it and it's like, I have no desire
in doing that.
of the game, this will be an assault rifle. It'll go spraying around shooting-
Wait, brother, get ready for the Pokemon Champions release soon. Might Shadow drop the 27th?
VGC? Gonna be there? Wait, what? You think it's gonna Shadow drop on the 27th?
Is it Marathon like the 27th? No way they dropped together. I would- I- If- If Pokemon
Champions drops at the same time, I'm playing that. I think everyone and everything, but here,
it sounds like a jackhammer. It kicks. It feels difficult to control, not because the camera
control they're bad but because you're firing a rocket propelled grenade launcher with one hand.
The clocking is that some people are complaining about isn't the flaw, it's an immersion. You
felt light, if you held agile the illusion would break. Season ends 31st would give us a month to
play before tournaments. The game demands you to feel the pleasure of your own power and here
even the executions serve the purpose beyond the gore. In Doom Eternal the glory kill was the
resource loop. You did it to get ammo. It was frantic. In Space Marine 2, the execution gives you
invincibility frames. It is a moment of breath. In the middle, you can't explore, you grab an enemy,
and for 3 seconds, the world stops. You lift them apart. You armor recharges, and you take
breath before diving back in. It is a rhythm. Attack, parry, execute, breathe. It is a vault of
violence that feels earned. Yeah, this also works great in a PvE though. Like, imagine a PvP
where like you constantly can just get a breath of like you can't do damage to someone for a few
seconds like that would be really annoying but like I think it's but what's nice for a pv game
the current era buying the game is rarely a transaction it is a wager you're betting 70
dollars that developers will eventually finish the product you just bought actually it's it's not
that it's you you actually wager your time a lot of times most games most fps games are free now
Because they want to compete with the other big boys other than cod the the only ones that have the the quote-unquote
Right to just make people spend their year because people will
Overwatch rivals cod technically valorant cs apex all of them are
completely and I mean completely
At the whims of free-to-play players coming in and playing the game constantly
and it gives them early easy access and especially younger gamers love that and so they can get in and they don't have to worry about their parents buying them a new game.
The problem though is if you get a new game that comes out, say X Defiance is a good example where there is no money to buy in,
the only way it's going to be funded is through transactions, the same way those other games are, but like, is it worth putting my time into this game?
Are people going to care about this game? Are my friends going to play this game?
Is there any prestige to being high rank in this game? Is there any reason for you to actually invest your time and money into it?
to it. And a lot of times the answer is no. So it doesn't even matter what the $70 price
pool is. It matters about whether it's worth your time and maybe buying things later.
We have normalized the idea of minimum viable product. We accept broken PC ports because
they'll patch it. We accept empty sand games. That's the other thing. He actually makes
a good point there is like people are sick of releasing a free to play game. High guard
is a good example. Release a free to play game. It comes out. Everyone tries it. It's
It's very clearly not fully done me and more time in the oven and people get non fucking
sick of this has a horrible first impression even though they made some changes they try
to fix it over the next week or so but like people were just not having it they're like
we're done it had almost 100,000 players it's first day now it has like less than 500 one
of the look real quick.
Today is also the 17th okay so it's actually a little higher because it's about peak hours
It's actually up to 1,000.
Last night, it dropped to 627.
So it's like, they're already struggling.
They laid off a bunch of staff.
Oh, he's just looking at it.
Thank you.
They lay off a bunch of staff.
And so they know that they're cooked.
They're kind of cooked now.
But people tried it, and they're like, this game isn't finished.
It's not that fun.
I'm not putting my money into it.
I'm not putting my time into it.
Boom, that was it.
Because season one is coming.
we accept that the game we paid for today is merely a down payment on a game we might get a year from now.
Space Marine 2 isn't anomaly because it launched when you bought the game in September you got a campaign.
You got a call-up operation. You got a PvP.
With a shutdown on our website, what do you mean?
What is the website just down today, or is it like been down all day and it's not coming back.
It's not 07 right it's not GGS is it GGS already.
I mean they're at the big big big they just passed their peak hours earlier
They're 1500 players where they're down at 600. I mean don't gonna be wrong though. They ain't looking too good for them
But damn are they actually GG's? I know they fired a bunch of their dev team
But like realistically does that not just show you that they were trying to rush this to market because they were running out of money
It was not fully finished it needed time in the oven
It had a chance, but they blew it because first impressions mean everything in gaming and whether or not it's actually worth
Investing your time and more importantly your money into a game
They wanted they released a game that was not finished
It didn't have a good reception
People didn't like it for various reasons and then once it was over and they actually did fix a lot of the shoes
They'd be like 55 or 66 I figured Jordan was and then they fixed a lot of the server issues
You blew it though like your your release was bad like the game didn't feel good
There was nothing interesting to it and that was it and clearly they didn't have the money to keep it floated
So if they couldn't even last a week and a half then it's probably they were running out of money at the end of this finish line
Anyways, and they're hoping by releasing it making it free to play
People were gonna come in and spend their money and keep the game afloat float till they fixed it and people are sick of it
People are sick of it. You don't want to do that anymore
The the times have changed there's too many other free-to-play games
Especially they're very good and worth your time and then you don't want another ashes of creation
You release put all this time into a game for all this money into a game. It just
You know, that's why people go always go back to their big boys of valorant CS apex overwatch rivals, you know
It's to it. That's it is what it is
Let's continue the video
It's an old war mode. You've got distinct classes with their own progression trees
You got a complete narrative arc with the beginning the middle and the end it sounds insane that I have to praise the product for simply
functioning
Rivals isn't a big boy. It isn't rivals literally dying. How's it a big boy? Yeah, you're rage-mitting
First off rivals is actually huge on console specifically
Right now during its mid-season week, which is actually not that exciting and it's way behind overwatch because overwatch
has just had its biggest patch ever in years, probably bigger than the launch of Overwatch
2.
In the same genre, people are going to go play it, it still holds peaking over 130,000
players on Steam alone every night.
Never mind earlier in the week, it was actually peaking around the 150s, we're talking the
weekend, and that doesn't even include console, which it's massive on.
Actual low tier bait.
As advertised, but that's how low the bar has sunk.
Interactive didn't ask us to wait for a call update six months down the line
They didn't lock the sniper class behind a pay box
They put it in the box with the game and this brings us to the tech firing update
In any other game used to be a desperate season 2 content drop designed to claw back players who left because the game was boring
Here it feels different
Yeah, it feels like a dessert of the full meal rather than a main course arriving three hours late and the community reaction to this update
proves the point. They're saying that now they have another reason to go back. That distinction is critical.
We're playing this content not because we're trapped on a Gino treadmill,
but because of the core room. The simple act of purging zenos is
satisfying enough to sustain us. This warm engine doesn't just put the thousands of enemies on the screen
for benchmark tests. It creates a dynamic,
tactical pressure cooker that makes every class feel necessary. Techmarine isn't just a new content.
It's a new key to solve this is crazy w blaze of
How much this will cost you
For if you want to get this game for as cheaply as possible
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I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
All right, sorry, I'll lean back up five seconds.
Alarm.
Publishers spend billions of dollars
trying to convince investors that players want infinite games.
They claim that we want massive, empty open worlds that
requires 200 hours.
Wait, remember the Ubisoft vid we just watched before this?
It's a complete.
Or else simply just to explore.
They claim that we want daily chores in our game.
They claim that if the game doesn't have a 10-year plan
for the future, it is a failure.
SpaceMine 2 proved that we just want to play the damn game.
It proved that TIGHT 12-
Well, it just refers to that people want, like, a finished product.
Our replayable campaign and the co-op operations with friends
is far more valuable than a hundred hour exploration of a slog quest.
Yeah, of course, but like, that's just like, the current markets change,
so now people just want, like, a finished game on release, full package,
not feel like they're supporting it.
Hell, I think actually we've had a kind of shift
where people are willing to pay a market price again.
Like people are willing to pay a box price
if they don't have to pay a bunch of micro transactions
as long as you're getting a finished product.
There is a specific feeling that you get
by completing space for you.
You put your controller down, or in my case,
my handheld down, you watch the credits roll
and you feel time.
You don't feel an itch to look back and maybe join
or maybe log in tomorrow for the day you log in reward.
You don't feel an anxiety that you missed the timed event.
You feel satisfied.
Yeah, I've started to understand what people mean with that with gotcha games and playing ZZZ and man
That game really does make you sign in get a lot get all the rewards
And now and now it's all the feeling the feeling the feeling of finite experience is one of the most
Dangerous things in the gaming today. We need to protect
We need to buy the games that are brave enough to the end because if we don't we're gonna spend the rest of our lives
Well, I'm not I'm not gonna say you should buy a game just because they do that
It should still be good games like I think the consumer today is more informed than ever
and they have a million ways to look at how they're informed, right and
Whether it's like a trusted streamer or trusted reviewer, right a lot of times that is like one of the first reliance that gets people
in and out of games
You know people people look at that and go whether or not if a bunch of you were playing it must be good
Right or they look to see if there's hashtag ads. It's a lot of hashtag ads. They're a little more suspicious
We're just smart. You should be a little more suspicious if there's a lot of hashtag ads that means they're getting paid
It doesn't always mean that the game is a good though
There's a lot of times where people are paid in the game. It is good. It's a double whammy
That said though
Just because like the game is you know like this
I mean like you should still buy and play what you want
You ever mean like the powers in your hands box is in the games
Now we should be whether we have fun or not as long as we're simply just logged in
Space Marine 2 remembers that it's a video game and for the few glorious hours it lets me remember too
And what do you think? Did you like Space Marine 2? Funny thing that after I started to prepare it for this video
They actually added the game to even game pass as well
So you can if you have a game pass you can actually try that game pool as cheaply as possible as well
Even though game pass got way too expensive
But so you can even get actually a game pass subscription on instant gaming as well
You probably know that and if you like
Like space for you. All right, I think that's part of that. I was actually good video though
Um, I don't agree with everything they said, but it was pretty pretty damn close on a lot of it. So I'll give you that
Good video. Good video. So at least very good video. Okay. All right chat real talk
I
Think it's probably GGs on the day
You know, actually, you know what I could do really quick if you guys want to hang out with me for a little bit longer
You got to hang on me for a little bit longer.
I want to do my ZZZ dailies.
You guys cool with that?
You guys want to hang on me while I do my ZZZ dailies?
I'm going to do them really quick and I'm going to leave.
You want me to do a monster or you want me to do a monster?
Ah, I'll do a monster then.
We'll do real quick because I got dinner with my mom tonight.
Let me actually text Shea.
We're at, I don't know, honestly, I haven't even asked, probably some local place.
I'm probably just a local place. I don't know where to go with like a chain or anything
like that.
Are you going to do void stuff at post-scot? I don't know. I'm going to do dailies. Draw
I think this bad isn't complete for sure 40 4 billion polychromes. Give me my give me my rewards
And that's it for once
Well, I literally have to sign every day to get stuff. Oh god, okay, what do you want?
Usually in the starlight nights, I think so.
I didn't realize there was so much like friend stuff in this.
Look at this.
Oh, I can do quality time now?
I don't want to do that.
I don't want to do that at all.
All right, what do I got actually before I do this let me go video store
Dude, is it like I did one with and be just to finish my thing like to get like my level up
Or whatever it's called under primer this thing. Is it like
like you want only fucking dates?
Like, what am I doing?
Wait, not quick dealies day, quick golden carrot day in game two?
What is, what the fuck is golden carrot day?
oh
nothing beats caffeine on a lazy afternoon
Time.
Alright, let's grab those and then... oh, this reset.
Is there any place to go take a photo?
Alright, let's go photo whatever this place is.
Golden Carrier is the Chinese New Year stuff.
Take a photo of the Dew Gardening Shop.
Oh, this place.
Okay, it's done.
Firework lanterns, Lucky Carps, and the Good Fortune.
Is it this?
Lucky Money Obtained?
Who the fuck is this?
Who the fuck are you?
We need partner of the frequent visitors you deserve the special treatment who the fuck
is this?
Go to care day for us in the business keeping in touch with important clientele.
Okay.
Sure.
Okay.
I just want free stuff.
Crystal steps and leaves of the gentle sway.
What kind of surprise?
She prepared.
is this? Wait I'm wearing something different. How do I get a different outfit on? Who are you?
Enter VIP room?
Wait I don't want to watch any of these because I don't want to get spoiled.
Isn't it gonna spoil stuff? I'm skipping.
I'm skipping it.
I just want my stuff.
Give me my stuff.
I want my rewards. Give me my rewards.
Oh, I got something. We're up that luck. You may have peace and joy. Okay, I got something.
is wise on a date
who are you I don't care just give me my stuff I want free stuff
children skipping
I'm skipping.
Just giving my rewards.
Oh, more stuff.
I'm gonna fuck his wines.
Well, he's back home.
Okay.
wait no no no wait wait what what what what what did I did I fuck did I fall
off the quest line what fucking happened I got it the last one's in ten hours
Oh, okay
What else have we got oh Intel board stuff post commissions. Yes, I need stuff wait, who do I need again though?
Agents
I need two of these things for the bunny and then I need
One of these things for
Okay, uh, Intel board.
Alright, let's do this one.
One, two, and then I need...
I think it's this thing.
Twin marionettes.
Oh
I can get more members in actually women coming here's
Trust reward oh doing
What else we got I just spend battery
Well, I wait what I gotta do for my weekly
Spend battery, holo zero.
Let's just go, let's just go, uh, let's go spend it at the HIA club.
Collect stuff in my mail?
What's in my mail?
Oh, a carrot!
A specious golden something.
Wait, what do I do with that?
You guys are already done, holy shit, hello?
Alright, I think Ash is all 60 now, yeah, so I need a Pioneer certificate to seal, right?
I can also use one for her too.
Let's hire it up!
He's gonna have one first.
Um, agent promotion, attacking drill, all 50.
Lock in.
Okay.
Looks good to me.
No, I'm just doing my dailies.
I was gonna leave, but I was like, oh fuck it, I'll do my dailies on stream instead.
Nuke. No, I'm not gonna do any sorry though. Not today.
Nuke.
Again.
Also, when I got M2 of this character by the way, chat, I don't know where it was, like
I thought my attacks felt different.
They don't feel different anymore.
Did I do something wrong to break her?
No rebium too.
She's holding the axe and her combo.
Dude, I feel like the basic attacks looked different last time
Also, I think I have upgrade. I'll look, I'll look.
I'll look too.
My mind state, each point of the teaming sword force grants one stack of culmination, EX special attack in light and mine,
Soaring Light and ultimate Cleaving Heavens damage ignore 40% of the targets defense
So now I just have nine stacks
That's them two
To battlefield gain 6 Kingming Sword Swords, this effect can trigger it.
Once every 180 seconds, in investigation zone mode, the unity effect and core passive burning
clarity increases damage dealt by 10% and make no trump senator's defense.
Who's M1? You can start off in Awakened mode.
Yeah, but I still haven't been though.
Like, her attacks look different.
I don't know how else to describe it to you.
Okay, let me do my upgrade. I'm not talent.
Done.
Uh...
Wait, let me look at...
Upgrade suggestions.
Can I go E? Or this thing?
I don't know what to do with it.
I shouldn't probably do that.
I don't know what to do with it.
Do one more.
Alright, I should be enough for my level up at least.
I'm going to do a level up further.
They're getting on tape though, that's nice.
Um, how do I get my rewards then for spending all my batteries?
Oh, draw.
Draw again.
Gilded back to back luck boo.
Didn't clean all of today's reward and scored an extra one bonus share.
Okay.
So I can do that every day for the rest of this week to get the maximum polycrumbs, huh?
Huh.
That's gonna be something.
What is this?
Popularity carrots obtained?
Oh, is this the- the- the- the fucking... event? The delusion?
Oh yeah, it's the fucking the...
Okay, I know what this is.
Daily first popularity boost. Okay, I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it.
I don't want to do those right now.
And then...
Got these cleans.
How many polycrumbs do I have actually?
You're gonna have the 24 I can buy, but put me up to 65?
Hey, not too bad.
And then I think we can pull, I think we can pull her.
Not today, but before it's over.
I think we can pull her before it's over.
Not today though.
Alright, I told you guys I was peacein' out.
I just was gonna do my dealies really quick, so I appreciate you guys for being here.
any time. I hope you guys enjoyed being here because I enjoyed having you that said I'm
out I'm gone I'm gonna go have dinner and yeah we'll be back in tomorrow probably for a little bit
of a stream I probably won't go super long tomorrow and I'll see you guys then all right
YouTube I got nowhere to send you have a good night just stay safe out there uh Twitch chat um
well I'm such a flat stew all right have a good night bye bye