Ancient Cities | Ep. 2 | Hardcore Realistic Ancient City Building Simulator & Civilization Maker

[@delphicdescant]

I really appreciate when city-builder games try to take a more realistic approach like this. Sometimes games lose something important when they focus too much on balance, at the cost of realism. I also appreciate your channel for introducing me to so many city-builders. Thanks.

[@GhostInPajamas]

Love that you’re making these videos and helping the devs. So many people are bitching about scams like this game doesn’t say early access alpha everywhere. It’s a small team less than 10 people and they’ve built their own engine to make this game, that’s not a scam they’ve put 10x more effort in than scammers would have

[@stijnpoppe1562]

Why not for example use Unreal Engine and use their budget for more content instead of making their own engine? You can have mixed foliage and trees in Unreal Engine as well, most developers choose to not get such detailed, randomized mixture of foliage because in doesn't fit their game design.

[@Tazemi.]

@@stijnpoppe1562 2Things, Profits, if u decide to go with unreal engine then you have to pay a royalty for each sold copy. 2nd thing, by creating your very own engine u can make it do whatever u want it 2, like say dice engine is great for fps but is awful for rpgs

[@AntoniSchonken]

I think it's really great that you provide this gameplay with such a supportive attitude. I think the game has a lot of potential, and no doubt your videos will help the developers understand the needs of gamers better. Keep them coming!

[@spaceboyxyz]

They really should have talked with gamers and youtubers before releasing such a version....

[@davidzsigmondnagy815]

It feels so empty even now, i do not feel the urge to buy it at the moment. Hope they gonna expand it with much.. i mean MUCH more content. It looks pretty amazing tho.

[@ChrDen]

They have spent €350k and 3.5 years on this. I doubt it will be much better

[@PackaGame]

@@ChrDen SC has spent over $300 million over 10years and are still in what I'd consider alpha/beta. Whats your point? And minecraft was started by 1 dude until it took off a few years later into the most purchased video game of all time...

[@sirhostiile5144]

@@PackaGame SC?

[@PackaGame]

@@sirhostiile5144 Star Citizen, look it up. I dropped like $1000 on it but melted all my ships and refunded. Its basically been in beta for over 10yrs. Theyve had several hundred million infused into the company with little to show for it. The servers arent even PU and reset monthly, ever patch brings game breaking bugs and people spend thousands of $$$ on preordered jpg files of ships to be released in 1 - 2 yrs. Just stupid dedication...

[@threedroogs]

@@PackaGame They haven't even sniffed beta yet. It's pre-alpha for 10 years. They do seem to be working on it, though, rather than it being an outright scam. I always check in every few months see what's going on. They're at $350+ million now, which is insane. I am not an investor in SC, for the record. I am just a persistent observer of the trainwreck. Or is it amazing business skills? They found a fertile audience to milk and haven't looked back. I do hope a good game comes from it, but I am skeptical.

[@TyranyFighterPatriot]

I intensely want to see this succeed as I'm a extreme historical and science buff. They have so much potential and to this day they're short on funding they always have been. They almost died a few times and need more support. It doesn't help that they've kept everyone in the dark and banned a few folks on twitter. They need to know they can trust and listen to their base followers they just need to reach out with passionate sincerity and I'm sure folks will rally if we're informed on their Hope's and dreams with the game, and they take into consideration the criticisms in a constructive manner. I'm sticking with Dawn of Man FOR NOW, but I'm not going anywhere and will continue to encourage folks to understand Uncasual Games' dire position from lack of funding. They need to reach out and listen in return and we their following base need to be more considerate of their position and encourage them to improve rather than give up on a whim, telling them to screw off. It must be unanimous. We can succeed it's just a matter of endurance prudence and more ongoing innovation. Don't give up Uncasual Games.

[@ausbushman2347]

I literally payed $70 just to support the devs lol hope they get the job done, I reckon this looks to have better potential than Dawn of Man.

[@TyranyFighterPatriot]

@@ausbushman2347 Indeed. Hopefully things continue to develop over the next year like DOM. AC has a small team. Less than 8 people I think. I'm still optimistic as they did want to add more content and entertainment by the time AC came out but were between a rock and a hard place. You can see their funding page on their website with the different development goals.

[@evanfreudig3973]

OK, I noticed you have some mushroom gathering. I think that is only being done by people that are not in a work group, because you geared the mushroom collection basket. You should have around 100-200 mushrooms. Two options: 1)Remove more people from work groups so that you have 5 to 7 non-work group members OR 2) Set-up a second work group for gathering food only. You can have berries, rosehips, mushrooms, and hazel nuts (I think maybe you have to be in more mountainous regions for these). They food work group members will gather whatever is available. Cheers.

[@MakingUsThink]

Fun video as usual Raptor. From back in the day a pelt hut was usually more of a wind breaker and a temporary tent than a winter protection tent and great for a long journey for transporting in distances. Set up some long sticks, add pelt, pack up and move again kind of tent. Straw hut was good for the cold and more of a structure as the straw is good insulation but did not hold up against the wind. Makes me wonder if you can assign certain huts for certain types of conditions and weather in the future for certain leaders or people?

[@johnbarker3673]

Game has very little content wait for it to have a lower price. An early access title should probably be sold for around 30 not 50 USD. There's like maybe 10ish buildings atm, no farming, literally just make grps for ppl to do stuff and make storage containers, tents, fireplaces. Oven and mill(think it was the mill) are basically useless. Wait for this to have more before you buy it. Devs should never have released this yet.

[@papaechozulu3737]

Rose hip has a lot of vitamin C so might be essential to health or prevent scurvy

[@thaariqulakwa8834]

Lol, like our ancestor already know what vitamin c is😂😂

[@papaechozulu3737]

@@thaariqulakwa8834 Ha, no doubt, they could order a vitamin booster at the Neolithic juice bar.

[@thaariqulakwa8834]

Ahahahaha lol, a good one there😂😂

[@ausbushman2347]

@@thaariqulakwa8834 they may not have called it that, but no doubt they were aware of its benefits.

[@claymathews8814]

@@ausbushman2347 theres actually evidence of ‘cave-people’ eating bark from the plant that we use today for penicillin when they felt sick. Sorry, thats as detailed as i can be lol

[@MrSearching4thetruth]

Glory to Raptoria

[@vyl4650]

To make leather from hide you have to... well... tan it. Just drying will get you something closer to parchment. Back in those times they probably smoked the pelts over a fire from green leaves to get all that tasty formaldehyde to preserve the hide and turn it into leather

[@evanfreudig3973]

Could not help but notice that the basket containers have a gear on them when you set up what their individual inventories will be. Perhaps you need to hit that gear, just like you do on the storage zones to activate them. Looks like you have Rosehip plants merely a few meters from your tents. Hit that gear for the Rosehips basket and everything should be gravy---Also you are coming up on Autumn, I believe that mushrooms become available then, do the same for them as well. Love the series, thanks for doing this!!!

[@fedkat8821]

Nice mention of Townsends channel. Awesome history recreation channel.

[@aussiechris9111]

Wonder what the devs have been up to for the last 3 years? this is basically vapourware in this form.....all the promises they made. Certainly not worth $70 AUD. Nothing against you Raptor, you make it look much better than it is.

[@evanfreudig3973]

They made their own game engine. I was bitching at first but when you look at the forest and the so many of the plants vary, not just one thing repeated 1000s of times. The engine might have been necessary. We will have a better understanding when the animal herds are added with greater diversity and size to other similar games. They have said they have technologies but not a technology tree. I have a feeling that might be more of an Isaac Newton type thing, where a perfectly random occurrence leads to somebody getting an idea for a new tool or a fishing net.

[@spaceboyxyz]

@@evanfreudig3973 i think they should have invested their time and the backers money for developing the GAME and not wasting their time on their "engine"

[@GhostInPajamas]

@@spaceboyxyz it wasn’t a waste, the rest will come. If anything them choosing to spend so much time and money on building their own engine proves that they don’t intend to take profits and disappear like so many people are bitching about, the game isn’t a scam, it’s just a small indie dev of a few people

[@karabeep]

what threw up the massive red flag was me was that some one on steam did the math based on a slightly higher then base wage for IT and found that they ran out of money at the three year mark and most likely fell apart the development team shrunk to basically owner and a friend and then after half a year they panicked completely ran out of cash dumped it onto steam and slapped a ridiculously high price tag on it i smell a company thats gonna do a runner as soon as they can

[@GhostInPajamas]

@@karabeep lmao do you have any way to back up a story like that or are you spreading rumors? You can’t do the math unless you have all the variables and i doubt this person had inside knowledge like that. People are so mad they’re making up stories to make these devs look like scammers, if you’re that scared about it then don’t buy the guy and shut up. Until this company actually does something despicable like you just described, let them make their game

[@slackjackbeans]

Glory to Raptoria!!!

[@dharshanbr1838]

I hope this game gets released on console, its really good

[@hothnogg]

That’s rose hips next to your camp,select them to harvest or set the storage on auto gather

[@Biomirth]

I wish the game was finished as I can see so much that could be done via modding and/or DLC. Can you imagine playing scenarios in different parts of the world where different technologies were important (thinking Assyrian canals and brick-making, or Mayan cave water systems, etc...)? I will check back in X years to see it complete. The pace of development is stultifying.

[@danielefabbro822]

I guess that initially a village could be little, small etc. For reasons of efficiency. But if you plan to develop a large city, then you really have to plan larger. It's a thing I learned playing Dawn of Man.

[@MohammedAzeroual]

Love the content discovered the great Raptoria back in dawn of men followed you since. Keep on the great work 💪

[@TylerButh]

So after 3 years it looks like it did in the original video... but I'm sure this next year all of a sudden they will get motivation to add content...

[@joaolucassimon5252]

Gloria to raptoria. cracked me up

[@hatchbackjack1755]

Glory To Raptoria!

[@WalkersRenos]

Just keep these episodes coming

[@nolanohora1084]

Glory to Raptoria!

[@Ancient_Souls]

I am descendant of the dinasty of the great raptor and i say: this is relaxing video

[@thefalloutphoenix]

Dynasty

[@Ancient_Souls]

@@thefalloutphoenix yes, in my language it is spelled with “I” . I accept the correction

[@UrMe666]

@@Ancient_Souls what language then cause I just look for 10 mins and couldn’t see any language that spells it like that you from Mars?

[@Ancient_Souls]

@@UrMe666 Династия ( pronounced: dɪ́nəstia)

[@UrMe666]

@@Ancient_Souls Aw very informative thank you

[@yourgameproductions3680]

I really love these type of games :D

[@jezlegend5927]

I think this game will go far in the future. Keep up the good work and I'm looking forward with the improvement of this game. 😊❤️🇵🇭

[@bigggames]

Hey Raptor great coverage of this game, do you know anything of the dev update roadmap?

[@SpikeyOfficial]

@@JakerTheSnake This is one of the big problems of youtubers getting it for free. I think most people can agree after seeing the expected footage of this game it is no where near what it could or should have been and to try and make this as a series is pretty pointless as it wont be going very far until they actually start working on the game which may be never at this rate

[@davidcanatella4279]

Id like a game where you unbuild cities

[@ruukaoz]

5:18 Fresh Fish

[@ah1rooivalk]

@31:25 Badger, Badger, Badger, Mushroom Mushroom, Oh its a snake!

[@gabriel_k06]

Finally new episode

[@105htetzarne2]

You should go to warmer & coastal (also near the river) regions for better survival and more food.

[@adiprabowo1784]

two rivers is the best start for me . but in my map 2 rivers dont connect just like this map . there is 2 map but there is little land separate 2 river . so i build in that land . tons of fish just from 6 village fishing all day with harpoon .

[@jonaslindesjo]

Awsom game love your comentary too! Keep upp the good work!

[@SVKTed]

That intersection looks damn similar to Dawn of Man.

[@gruesomedread7414]

yes i play dawn of man my village is on a crossing of two rivers

[@UrMe666]

It’s called rivers they exist😳 amazing right

[@gruesomedread7414]

@@UrMe666 yes i know but it looks similar

[@TheGogeta222]

In Germany we have a word for the intersection of two rivers it's called a Furth

[@evanfreudig3973]

It might be a bad idea to add stone collection to your food gathers group. I remember in those tutorial boxes that it said to keep food gatherers and material gatherers separate. I saw all your earlier videos and noticed you had a ton of material gathering, later adding berry collection to the materials group. I remember that you had tons of sticks, rocks, tools----but not one single unit of berry. Even though there were lots of berries in the surrounding forest. I am thinking that gathering a food unit in the materials gathering group somehow conflicts the game engine, and it does not know what to do with it, so it does nothing. Just an observation. Cheers!!!

[@evanfreudig3973]

Exactly, I remember the Dawn of Man animations for stone and log gatherers. I think they are painfully accurate. I am sure they were more physically adept than we are now, except the professional athletes a fitness enthusiasts. Looks like they accurate about the intellect as well. The episode from one of Raptor’s other video where there was one surviving male resident says it all: He was about 10 hours from starvation, he kept gathering materials to repair tents in a settlement where everybody else was dead. There was no food, and he was on a designated fishing group. Yikes! There is likely a bug with food regeneration when you start a new year. My thoughts are to migrate about two weeks before the beginning of spring so that you have fresh and untapped food sources. Cheers!

[@infoseeker329]

omg i need a game to play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TheDcraft]

I think I'd have everyone gathering resources during spring and summer, when food and what not are widely available, and in winter and fall when food is scarce is that's when I'd have them do building projects.

[@toltekus]

pelt hut is PORTABLE, straw hut is better for sleep

[@ausbushman2347]

Clams are probably a coastal thing?

[@iced7838]

Man this game looks really fun :)

[@ItsthatGumBall]

Hello Did You Get The Game On Xbox Game Pass?

[@alexandrecaldeira7674]

easier and more featured Terraforming will be a thing the developers will dive into ?

[@lesliefulton9219]

It looks good, but Steam price for the game is like 69$ here in Australia, I will be waiting for it to go on special, I don't feel the urge to spend 70 dollars on an early release game. Looks good though, if it had been 40 i would have paid for it and bought it already.

[@ferndoggiedogg181]

Gives off dawn of man vibes

[@alexandrecaldeira7674]

how diferent is AC diferent from Dawn of Man ? besides the graphic .. feel more complex? one thing DofM had was an never ending conflict of tasks pending.. here it seems not so much.. rigth?

[@williampz]

Lol a game with no goal. It's a game to take a nap.

[@jonathanaldridge4114]

Marcus Perez, the goal is to survive and enter the Neolithic Age. Though I would agree that the game does need alot of work.

[@GhostInPajamas]

People really don’t get what early access alpha means huh

[@yoavmend1909]

@@GhostInPajamas mostly because it means nothing in the current way the gaming market is look at steam there are plenty of games that were started and never finished under early accses

[@muhdzulhilmi3115]

Wondering if I should buy a new laptop for this game. I already bought it on my current laptop but it’s almost two years old and only has the minimum specs to run games to begin with. AC runs pretty poorly with it. But I’m liking what I see so far in this vid.

[@spaceboyxyz]

It would be a super waste of your money to upgrade ur laptop for this crappy game. Better wait for full release and hope they improve

[@gurkaran_2534]

lets go a new vid

[@beni718]

raptor: not a settlement unless there's a fence

[@evanfreudig3973]

You have to be in coastal areas to gather clams.

[@TheDcraft]

The only thing I don't like about the graphics so far is too much green, and greens my favorite color. There should be more color from wild flowers, berries, and fruits.

[@mcbeafspiccillo6551]

I wish you did another one of these

[@teddykgb3865]

31:26 xD www.badgerbadgerbadger.com It's still up! You probably also remember zombo.com.

[@evanfreudig3973]

Congrats on the accusation of Rosehips, berries will be available next spring.

[@Sksk27547]

This game doesn't have regular traders that visit, unlike dawn of man.

[@n.v.9000]

you can make water?....dont you need electricity for that and a lab....to combine oxygen with 2 hydrogen atoms...damn, your civilization is advance for hunter gatherers

[@sporkboy3469]

one of the first

[@thibaultdeleu5412]

Amazing video KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

[@marcusababio9005]

There’s no need for a well there’s a literal river

[@johngreco8259]

sooo is this the demo version???

[@GamerKahn]

Im really confused with his videos. This wasnt the same one he was building at the 1st one right?

[@cpshirling]

The very first thing he said is this is a different city, one that he live streamed. Now, my question is where is he live streaming? Not Twitch.

[@tobiaswilhelmi4819]

@@cpshirling there are a couple of stream videos in the youtube video list on his channel, so i guess he streames here.

[@hansvanderbent5574]

rosehips next to your base, red bushes.....

[@leafesgreen1021]

Are there no animals in this game?

[@stuartrodden3009]

Nice one

[@thaariqulakwa8834]

I am glad in my country, this game only cost 15$,yeeaayyy

[@lewis123417]

We've got to have some trade offs for living some place decent in the world I suppose

[@thaariqulakwa8834]

@@lewis123417 ahahaha lol

[@csabavarga8273]

Great video, this game is rather unrealistic tho. Running around in pitch dark without any kind of light (like a burning stick at least? Without light pollution you can't see shit in the wild). Building a very basic hut takes more than 10 days. 30+ villagers just pop up at a place without absolutely anything (WTF? I mean you shouldn't go to a random place to build a town bare handed right?).

[@1bizkit88]

Mmm dried fish.

[@claymathews8814]

Game looks very cool, but they need animals to hunt, and the pace is way too slow. I get they want to be immersive, but watching a tent get built for an hour is bad gameplay

[@patrickb.2441]

I feel the lightning in this game is really bad, its hard to see anything.

[@mohdamirsyafiq4822]

Game lagging?

[@guillermocuevas1306]

Cyberpunk 2077 or this game?

[@TonyDootjes]

Both bad

[@Scott_Burton]

I appreciate the detail, but the game seems to be stalled, it did receive an update in April of this year, though the details I'm not sure of. But for it to release into "Early Access" with a price tag of 50 USD and still be so underdeveloped, seems too much for me to invest in. I mean, if the devs just stop touching it, I'll have paid $50 for what is little more than what used to be given away as a "demo" version in years gone by. I've been burned by a couple "early access" games that good content creators (including you Raptor) made look good, which have failed to live up to the hope and promise. But at least those games came with a lower price tag. (one I got for $14.99 the other when it was on sale for $9.99)

[@halfsni6804]

40€ for a Early-Acces is way over. NOPE even ARK had a lower start. so many games wont be finished after earning a ton of money

[@jonathoneadie-simcock8095]

How can we get this game

[@luckyhead1179]

Why a stream???

[@collinspaul8030]

Yes

[@sashrill]

the river is too perpendicular to its tributary.

[@johnmorris5965]

me like, see more. ugh.

[@delaphonta2816]

This game is a disappointment. It has been delayed for years and the content available now is a joke. We have to be honest. Dawn of Man did a year ago so I dont really see anything groundbreaking at the moment. Part of this for me is that promises were made and missed. This should be a lot further along. They may have a good plan but it's a bad business model. That will kill a game. I don't think they deserve any praise for this.

[@GhostInPajamas]

They had to build their own engine and their team is less than 10 people

[@delaphonta2816]

@@GhostInPajamas Then they should have updated the people who supported them and hired someone who knew what they were doing. Now they have pissed off the people who funded this. They don't update the expectations or dates for years. Then release one of the most barebones versions available. Finally, charge $50. This is the equivalent to telling people your opening a buffet resturant next week. They purchase tickets to fund this. Then they don't open for months. Don't update patrons. And, when they do open the only thing on the menu is condiments. But they did build a state of the art dishwasher. That burger will be $40. You going back? I'm not going there ever again.

[@shayanali9141]

@@delaphonta2816 they continuously did on twitter its just people didnt check it

[@delaphonta2816]

@@shayanali9141 The product available is not worth the time and price. It's barebones and there is.not anything you can say that will make me feel different.

[@shayanali9141]

@@delaphonta2816 sure but the idea they didn’t keep people upto date with the project is just false. They definitely did underdeliver

[@trevorpitt5883]

Very Very disappointing. For three years I have supported this game and frankly, for $50 American I soon asked for a refund. I have personally supported Ostriv, Mashinsky and Airport CEO and all of those when they released had a game that had content. This game should have been an alpha free trial. If it,s taken them three years to get this far I will be dead before they finish it. I am 80 years old and if it takes three years to maybe get a boar or even a farm I have no chance. Raptor your enthusiasm to try and make this game look good should be applauded but you really should tell the devs what you really think. Someone needs too. Incidentally, Airport CEO is still improving and is now a GREAT game. So is Mashinsky, Both devs still working on them and improving every time..

[@livngain9074]

the badger badger meme is NOT a boomer meme wtf. It's a millennial meme.

[@Raptoria]

In 2020, anything ever before 2017 is boomer. Time is speeding up.

[@danstefanpopescu6808]

Safe to say that Dawn of Man is more good than this game. Like someone said before, you are doing an amazing job Raptor, but this game have gotten a lot people hyped up and they did not deliver, not even a tiny bit. Now it just feels that they stole everything from Dawn of Man. Graphics is nice though....

[@jeremybarretta5282]

"Shut up and take my money"

[@stephanvanniekerk3438]

The sound track is damn repetitive, wanted to kms lol

[@nicholaslawlor8623]

tbh, I wouldn't want these devs settling a new world, the settlers would bloody starve, there is no wildlife, what are they thinking,

[@BigfootsArmsRace]

Literally an alpha build, dude

[@LeanderMr]

14 Commercials, all 20 sec unskippable.. ALL THE SAME ABOUT A FCKING SUPER MARIO GAME. SRLY fck youtube, im downloading addblock

[@sonofcaliban457]

Glory to Raptoria!

[@heathervasquez4889]

Glory to Raptoria