ENDANGERED PANDAS AND EXPLODING COOKIES! - VAMPIRE SURVIVORS

[@TheHorzabora]

Tom: “I really should learn how the game works!” Every Fan: “Yes!” We

[@thilberton1337]

When it comes to buying power-ups between runs, it's always a good idea to refund all, and then start buying things you want starting with the most expensive ones first. This is because every purchase increases all prices by a percentage. If I buy everything starting with the cheapest stuff, I run out of money before I can max everything. If I buy everything starting with the most expensive stuff, I have like 60,000 gold to spare.

[@ToastedSynapseGaming]

If you google Vampire Survivors Power Ups you can find the wiki where it will tell you the optimal purchasing order.

[@TheToadroller]

This! I seen so many people on streams and the tubes not knowing this and it is so helpful knowing you can afford more if you buy the expensive things first!

[@BrutalFates]

I figured this out half way through playing, but then I realized that I didn't really care that it did that and gave me a reason to just be playing more Vampire survivor. Honestly not that much of a big deal.

[@zekanner]

KZbin's compression hates this game so much. Yay bitrate.

[@KiiDxLegacy]

Literally just left a comment saying it reminds me of the SlowMoGuys video on breaking the compression algorithm. lol

[@TheWOOFinator1337]

Doesn't help that it's only 720p.

[@MNewton]

This game looks great in 720p With my glasses off.

[@12thArchknight]

glad it wasnt just me

[@kittan13]

I think its to do with the video compression not handling all the little things flying round, I remmeber tom scot did a video about it.

[@barronvonboom1645]

@@12thArchknight okkkn

[@kamikazesopp]

@@kittan13 Maybe something along the lines of how the perforated tubes in the old GTA races got nicknamed "the bit-rate tubes", since they made any video process like it was in 360p.

[@PierceArner]

2:31 - It always makes me glad when Josh gets a perfect chance to add in a LotR edit.

[@ducky5945]

16:55 Nice, Josh~ 🤣 I thought it was my internet 💀

[@pokemonparty101]

Cavallo is my fave character in this game, love that he's a panda horse and love the petals thay come out of his bombs

[@Deppie_____]

He reminds me of panda from jujutsu kaisen

[@Petrslav]

I never thought I would love this game as much as I did. As always, Toms videos are a danger to my wallet. I can't help but buy the games he plays.

[@Deathbystrudel]

I'm in danger of failing a project in school because of how addictive this game is. I thought it would be easy to stop since there is literally a timer up top but 7.9 hours later...

[@LoldemortII]

This game is what? 2 bucks? If every game was like that your wallet would be fine :D

[@Alba_Longa]

@@LoldemortII Yep, I've had a cup of coffee more expensive and less satisfying than this game

[@Petrslav]

@@LoldemortII unfortunately every game he plays is not 2 bucks, I wish they were though.

[@rossirwin1115]

Cavallo is my favorite, especially when cooldown reduction and area of effect are selected. I find that the bombs pair really well with the knockback resistance debuff that garlic gives to protect him really well when the screen is covered with tightly packed enemies. He's a bit awkward to start with, but the bombs are a fantastic end-run weapon for keeping him alive while other weapons do the majority of the damage!

[@TheToadroller]

The Cherry bombs and the Bones are so good late game when you are completely surrounded by enemies and they just bounce around

[@devinpelech]

Thomas, when you read the rants in the comments about the Candleabrador being used to upgrade the Axes, not the Spinach, please use the Nubbins voice.

[@xxpiewizardxx]

i love watching you play this game, all 6 pixels of it.

[@I_THE_ME]

Imo decreasing the cooldown with the empty tome is easily the best upgrade in the game.

[@Lordborgman]

In pretty much any game ever, cooldown is a best in slot type of stat.

[@S4B3R117]

the reroll and skip are actually super good, it makes it so you almost always get the exact build you want

[@veryboredminecraft]

That spiderman clip was actually perfect.

[@Meister_Mogul]

Woah, this feels a lot like Neon Sundown!

[@jordan6508]

Love the fun videos, thank you for your work Tom and Josh.

[@Jig_up]

15:43 A quick caveat- I am not a botanist, nor a gardener, so take this with a pinch of salt! My understanding is limited, but I do know that being over-watered is definitely a thing- something about how plants need to respirate, just as humans/animals do, and that too high a water content effectively “drowns” them. I’m sure there are other reasons, too, particularly if that water were to carry away essential nutrients or minerals or something, but the “drowning” is usually the reason I see listed, and anything else I could say (as the mineral thing) would just be speculation

[@Sacharias1]

It's not necessarily the water content, depending on the soil composition you can practically submerge plants for periods of time without problems. This could be achieved with perlite and coconut fibre, where perlite is hydrophobic and constantly drip feeding oxygen stored inside them, and the coco coir is absorbing tons of water and drip feeding it out. Most of the time overwatering is only a problem if you let it deposit in the bottom of the pot, then the bottom of the roots all die from lack of oxygen, and the root rot starts spreading upwards. I mean oh yeah buddy yeah pal guy woo buddy oh yeah

[@Jig_up]

@@Sacharias1 Oh thanks! This has been quite informative I mean- Forsooth, affirmative, a positive indication to my acquaintance

[@Warbek]

This run seems specifically designed to break KZbin's compression

[@Alba_Longa]

Game: Do you want Wings or Empty Tome? Tom: I'll take wings pls I felt a great disturbance in the Force. As if millions of penises cried out in terror and are suddenly ripped.

[@okdanhe]

blue gem = 1xp , green gem = 5xp , if there is too much exp on the ground red gem will appear being the rest of the exp.

[@Deathbystrudel]

That's a smart way of reducing lag and avoiding object limits!

[@SpydrXIII]

this is my argument as to why garlic is good. yeah it's weak, but a swarm of bats is a good chunk of exp for zero effort. and you can bait-ball enemies up and shave the horde down with the garlic.

[@pervypanda9044]

Panda is best on the library level. Get some magic swords, some scythes and evolve the garlic, then you are set for a stand still run even at the 29 minute mark.

[@RoosterFloyd]

I had to go to a wiki to find out what the hell Cavallo is. I found this in the trivia. Cavallo, Italian for "horse", which sounds like "orso" which is Italian for "bear", hence this character's appearance. During the 80s and early 90s, the adaptation of the Japanese anime Yatterman was very popular among kids in Italy. Yatta Cavallo refers to the naming of the robots appearing in the anime witch was Yatta + Animal Name like Yatta-Pesce (fish), Yatta-Can (dog) and obviously Yatta-Panda. Me personally... I thought it was a man-badger at first glance but I'm just a fool, obviously.

[@lchaosgrimml]

Tom. Scythe + wings. You can keep up with a scythe, then keep stacking scythes on top of each other

[@darkelysium2187]

The flower plant people race from Starbound you're talking about is called the Florans

[@songofthieves]

Canada has Smarties, but the US already has a candy called Smarties. It's those little compressed sugar tablets. They're called Rockets up here. I think the UK might have them too

[@saxmannumba5]

The best part about when Tom gets to play the latest update is he will finally know what items actually evolve the weapons he has xD also guns. guns are cool

[@fredranzalot4849]

The combination of upgraded song of mana, death spiral, and upgraded book is so satisfying. At that point I think you can just go AFK

[@kalashnarkoff9341]

Had to get my old CRT out to watch this in 720p

[@hobanagerik]

Vampire Panda is a movie I would watch.

[@Sherwin657]

I like that the update added that it says if an item pairs for evolution I can never remember the combos

[@dannybrown4305]

Fun fact: Cavallo is Italian for horse, which sounds like orsa, which is Italian for bear

[@TheKomodian]

In the US Smarties are super tart fruit pellet candies

[@heymetwaly9235]

if you beat death, you can play as death you try to stay below level 2, then death has only thousands of points instead of millions of points after minute 30 you can level up, if you manage to freeze and lock him into a corner and spam him with the runetracer, you can actually defeat him.....check it out, cool stuff anyways, love seeing you play that game

[@zekanner]

Tom actually already has a video out of him playing as Mask of the Red Death.

[@heymetwaly9235]

@@zekanner wooow ok thank you

[@Wolf3685]

Anyone else having artifact and quality issues with Tom's Vampire Survivors videos? All his other videos have 1080

[@Deathbystrudel]

Can't wait to see you do a pugnala run, although you may need to put a seizure warning before the beginning of the video with how crazy it can get with her weapons.

[@Arzada]

We have the chocolate smarties here in Canada aswell. I thought we were the only ones

[@jacksoncook2380]

I have to say I kinda look forward to the point where you try to make a build to kill death at the end

[@dragonzord6615]

I lol'd at the joke at the end coz of what bad quality the video was turning into hahaha

[@Tsukuri123]

I'm still chuckling at it 5 minutes after the vid ended lol

[@okram2k]

New patch just came out with a new hero who has two guns, hope you enjoy 'em. Green gems are worth 5 times more than blue gems. Also if you get too many gems on the screen the game will spawn a red gem and dump all new xp into that gem which is what will give you that tons of levels at once.

[@Entariiljc]

loving this so much tom! thanks bud :D

[@MrMrchatcity]

got kinda blurry there didn't it? Had me over here looking mad as hell from squinting so hard

[@zekanner]

Yeah, youtube's compression algorithm does not like when there's that much on the screen.

[@holger0207]

Tom uploaded this and the last video in 720p, it's very clear when you go back and watch the other Vampire videos that the quality has dropped off sharply

[@ProulxS]

@@zekanner Considering the editor made a joke about it being blury too I assume it was more the recording that got slowed down because there was too much stuff on it rather than KZbin's fault at first (even if KZbin prob didn't like it either :) )

[@HarrIock]

I love how you just got 21 levels at the 21 minute mark @14:00

[@isupposeiexist]

Carvallo and the cherry bombs are my favorite in the game. Though man, it IS visually busy

[@gwonbusH]

If you want to see uncut Tom playing Krochi on 0.3.2, he streamed it a couple days ago!

[@Kroncus]

Cool panda, keep it up!

[@xenomemphate]

15:30 Are you talking about the Florians Tom?

[@onix9818]

My favorite survivor is stinky old man Poe. He is great. Also thanks for getting me addicted to this game as well as warhammer, Tom. You might be a bad influence, but oh well.

[@SlycerZ]

I'm sure other people have said the proper explination but I think the exp gems are a range. blue is low range, green is medium range, and red is the highest range. Don't ask me what yellow orange and purple from the Gorgeous Moon give, I haven't reverse engineered the game.

[@cawlsthirdfoot1982]

i did enjoy this thank you 🎉

[@balinlesavage]

We've smarties in the US, but you would know them as rockets. We call those cookies m&m cookies.

[@okdanhe]

why is there a "let's play kingdom death monster - lantern year four" video in the playlist?

[@richardjones8846]

6:51 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@ir-star-dust1747]

Starbound’s plant people are called Florans :)

[@Magic__7]

I did enjoy the panda I still would like to know the lore behind what the heck is going on in this game

[@MNewton]

So I have a question, when I fist started the game the banging intro music played but since then it has never played again even when opening the game again... is it gone?

[@smeatar]

I love you Tom but when you picked movement speed instead of cooldown reduction I threw up in my mouth a little

[@Starmarack]

Just buy it y'all. I thought it wouldn't be as fun after watching Tom play....I already have 30 hours in it.

[@austin.....]

It got really repetitive for me after about 5 hours, but that's still pretty good value for a few bucks I suppose

[@MeHighLo]

Is there no 1080p Full HD version of this video, or is something wrong on my end?!?

[@kezmsfilms1300]

Daily reminder that Tom is an amazing person and to thank him for all he has done/will do - Day 851 OOO he is a pretty cool Panda indeed :D happy to see more of the game and hoping we do see more in the future as Tom said it was updated :D Cookie > Cherry Bomb God XD Tom being blind to the curse got me XD ha ha

[@justinlipkin]

Loving these!

[@theteadrinkingowl.2295]

A challenge for you. Destory KZbins compression thingy. Use the; Song of mana, Santa water, Rune tracer, Rainbow worrior wing thing or anything else with a lot of small particals, currently these videos are in "360p", but I beleive that you can do better Tom. My internet is still the weak point. Also, I like that 720p doesn't force HD. This video loads with no stuttering. :)

[@whyie]

The bitrate of this video is real man

[@zuerock4854]

Smarties are not a thing in the US. Smarties are a chalk candy here. M&Ms are the closest we have. They do have smarties in Canada

[@TheBeetrootman]

The compression. My eyes!

[@Krissi91z]

Refund your power-ups and then buy the most expensive things first, that lets you afford all/most of the stuff.

[@KiiDxLegacy]

The amount of compression KZbin is attempting, reminds me of the SlowMoGuys where he intentionally breaks the compression algorithm. So much shit happening, the algorithm doesn’t know how to handle it. xD

[@Khrayfish]

Starbound plant people are Florians I think.

[@KingBobbito]

Imagine a mode where the closer you get to 30 minutes the game gets progressively more compressed, and THEN imagine the bitrate death youtube gives it.

[@HarrIock]

It is really weird watching you play the older version of the game when you just played the updated version on stream the other day.

[@Buffdoggy]

I always thought they looked like basketballs there tom

[@spyrostsoum6874]

I always see Tom having somd different stuff than me, like in this epiaode he had thata exdash character. I have all the achievements and power ups but I don't have that character(and I play in the open beta). Anyone knows what's going on? Oh and I can't skip the chest animation?

[@MrStegben]

A quick google search gave me the following results: To skip the chest animation press any of the following keys: 1. Press Esc. 2. Right click on the mouse. 3. Press the B/O button on a controller. And to get Exdash type "x-x1viiq" in the main menu or find a very VERY lucky clover.

[@spyrostsoum6874]

@@MrStegben ...yeah that was kinda stupid of me, thanks anyway

[@whyie]

how did you get the reaper character tom?

[@5500metalhead]

How do you get the death character ?

[@noah.2B]

Buying the upgrades you have to go most expensive -> least. Which means it's also better to upgrade something all the way, before starting the next one. If you upgrade in the optimal way it costs 203,150 to get everything. If you do it in the least optimal way, it costs over 480,000 coins. Try refunding all and then upgrading in this route, skipping stuff like revive if you don't want it: Revive -> Reroll -> Amount -> Curse -> Growth (XP) -> Cooldown -> Armor & Luck -> (Might, Recovery, Greed) -> (Area, Speed, Duration, MoveSpeed, Magnet) -> (Max Health, Skip, Banish). also I hate this system. wish it would either not scale prices, or just add a flat increase every purchase, so you wouldn't have to know this crap lol.

[@ButzPunk]

Holy shit, thank you!

[@noah.2B]

@@ButzPunk Glad to be helpful. :)

[@BrutalFates]

So you are trying to give me a reason to play less vampire survivor I see...

[@noah.2B]

@@BrutalFates Eh? Nothing of the sort. Just tryin to help people not get fucked over by a game mechanic that isn't explained at all in the game. The game has more possibilities the more upgrades you have 🤔

[@Groovewonder2]

holy bitrate batman

[@Darkflamecrusader]

We have smarties in America, but they're more like necco wafers than what y'all got.

[@ReunionMana]

Please do more Vampire Survivors!

[@susancronshaw4267]

you can help the bitrate by removing the numbers

[@electriccleric]

it's so weird to me how tom loves axes becuase when I play I never find them useful at all lol

[@putmeawayplease]

axes help kill big bois and thin out waves

[@pokemonparty101]

Yeah I found it funny when he rated the axes so much but didn't like the bones since the axes are a fairly mid weapon compared to how good the bones are

[@netyr4554]

Smarties cookies were the best, also smarties mcflurries. Smarties are so dissapointing now, the shells aren't crisp and glossy and the colours are pale (Vegetable dye, no Es, they don't even use cochineal for red). Don't even get the fun little cardboard tubes anymore.

[@rocktalon2]

Florans!

[@fishpop]

What's the name of the music Tom, or his editor, uses for the intro/timelapse/outro of these videos?

[@eshelynn]

Those smarties cookies look like M & M cookies, here in the US, unless your Smarties are different from M & Ms

[@ProulxS]

Different brands. Smarties are bigger than M&M and has thicker shell. Smarties shell is made with flour, cornstach and sugar while M&M is pure sugar.

[@eshelynn]

@@ProulxShere in the US, Smarties are a different candy altogether. Basically, a small pure sugar wafer. I imagine the chocolate in M&M is a lot more crap than UK Smarties, too But thank you for educating me.

[@nikeeweston]

He played Krochi twice on stream and died twice lol

[@bookboy6924]

Cavallo or cabayo ?

[@WoodlandDrake]

I forgot, did Tom ever evolve the Pentagram?

[@Loreroth]

the last 2? videos, yes

[@Kulabaluka]

Are they cookies or lanterns?

[@Loreroth]

Did the recording quality setting get changed the last 2 videos? 720p is not kind to this game

[@patmcgroin4me]

Wait the UK doesn't have M&Ms?

[@caseymauldin8396]

Tom, when are you going to make a video tutorial on making holy water?

[@CallumILJ]

I know you're probably thinking that there is no point uploading a low res game in 1080p, but I'm pretty sure KZbin likes to cuck the bit-rate on lower settings too, getting some blurring in the 720

[@inconspicuousjerry6660]

We want the whip tom

[@V1489Cygni]

You need to pad these ones so they'll be more than 30 min long, Tommy boy Edit: clever girl, time skips also work

[@MGriffoz]

Enjoy watching, but whatever youtube is doing to this footage makes it look like I'm watching it in 240p....

[@rocktalon2]

I'm not certain what a UK smartie is, but US smarties are kinda chalky? But still very good.

[@huemungus5535]

let's try and beat Death!

[@arthurcurry4941]

Why is it only 720p 😭 lol I love this series though

[@chuchu9649]

I wish this game was on console, even though its simple Also glad Tom warmed up to the Holy Bible.

[@monkaeyes]

Speed over firerate? What?

[@AlanW]

Ah, so the blurry not just me?