FLOOR CHICKEN IS DELICIOUS! - VAMPIRE SURVIVORS

[@jaysee17]

If exp is left offscreen for awhile the game condenses it down into a red gem. Sometimes it's only 10 blue gems worth, sometimes it's hundreds, just depends on how much you left behind.

[@WillKrause21]

Ya, I just occassionally will hit a red gem and get 10 levels at once, lol

[@zekanner]

Oh. That's actually a really clever bit of optimization. Also explains why it has only lagged if I've stood still near the end.

[@noah.2B]

Holy fuck that explains so much. bruh sometimes I'll pick up a random red gem and instantly level like, 7 times one after the other. Man that's really cool and reassuring to know.

[@Acnorix]

About the getting a billion levels at once every so often: To combat the insane amount of lag the billions of gems would have caused; once the amount of gems hit a threshold, overflow gems will combine into a single red gem off-screen. So the amount of levels you get is determined by how long you haven't picked up gems.

[@RDR911]

Huuuuhhhhhh cool.

[@yodamoda123]

I was like "Man, this game looks good, I hope t doesn't cost too much" It costs 2 pounds. I am very happy.

[@RahzZalinto]

Oh...well that changes things. Guess im getting it lol. Never bothered to look xD (and ive known of this for a few weeks now lol)

[@AndrewArmstrong]

Tom has once again convinced me to buy a game. Only played a few but already I am hooked!

[@chuchu9649]

i wanted to get it but i don’t own a computer ;( sadge

[@alexischoquard2965]

@@chuchu9649 They plan to do a mobile version

[@callumjames99]

@@chuchu9649 look up magic survival its an android mobile game (im not sure if its on ios, but it could be) released somewhere around 2019. Vampire Survivors seems to have been atleast somewhat inspired by it because the gameplay seems pretty similar from what ive seen, although Vampire Survivors is the better version IMO, Magic survival is free and worth looking at if you cant play VS because you dont have a computer or just dont want to pay

[@HmongHeroo]

I love how this game just has flash game energy especially when it just turns into a power point presentation for me. Nice reminder to check back in with this game as it's getting updates

[@Jokie155]

25:23 It's so dense, every single image has so many things going on

[@KuroShishi_Art]

All the times Tom skipped the chest opening animation were payed off when he got that Penta. I'm still in an endorphin rush!

[@LoadsOfMana]

the chest animations in this game are SO satisfying

[@kingkuma4112]

"Floor Chicken" has the same energy as Ben's "Toilet Cutlery"

[@Mediocresinger]

You may know this, but just in case, it is a reference to 'Wall chicken' from a Castlevania game. Break a wall, healing chicken appears. I remember it was also in some metroidvania game with lots of furry characters... I think it's name was Dust, but not sure. Of course, that was a Castlevania nod too, not the other way around.

[@gehyashgigzwerg]

Tom getting all those weapon-items comboed for evolution is either helluva lucky or he just knew about them beforehand... Also getting attractorb but ignoring santa water is criminal

[@humanwritescode]

In every game, Tom's only strategy is to build a glass cannon. Also, this game looks very fun.

[@RufusOmega]

The all strength, all the time life is the best life.

[@joshuapostill4952]

As someone who's clocked a few rougelikes I generally find DPS build way more efficient than HP builds, having a big health pool to be chipped away at is all very well and good, but enemies can't touch you if they're dead.

[@Taudlitz]

in this game its either glass cannon or death, only defense that work is to kill enemies faster

[@Alvsyn]

"The more weapons my guy gets the more projectiles each weapon uses" *picks up on maybe 4 weapons max*

[@cloudybrains]

That was one of the luckiest runs I've seen!

[@suicune1324]

He got lucky that he got the right passives and actives leveling up but you cant tell me he didnt deliberately take them. The bonuses he has on the left tell how much he has played this :D

[@cloudybrains]

@@suicune1324 True he did get the right things, but I was talking about how he got so many 5 and 3 item chests in a single run. I often have entire runs where I don't even get a single 3 item chest lol.

[@suicune1324]

@@cloudybrains Yeah you are right he got real lucky there :D

[@philswift1233]

So Tom, the XP gems are in tiers, blue gives the least XP, then green, then red. Additionally, what I can tell sometimes all the gems from offscreen seem to accumulate into a single red gem after a long enough amount of time (I may be wrong about that).

[@LaChouetteOrtho]

It's a matter of amount rather than time. Once a certain amount of gems on the floor is reached, the game will start fusing them.

[@SlycerZ]

I know other people have said it, but I feel like more people saying it gives it a higher chance of being seen. The massive level up spam is due to leaving EXP off screen, it will all congeal into a bigger EXP crystal (Red) to lower the number of entities the game needs to keep track of. The red crystals have no cap on their upper limit so they can drop any amount of EXP including multiple levels worth. Another hint: Frozen enemies can be walked through without taking damage so if you are mega surrounded with the clock lance you can follow the frozen trail to escape without taking damage.

[@noelherring9312]

Time lance is great and necessary for taking on Death at the end (Laurel is also good as it can buy you time to line up a time lance shot to hit him). Also, while enemies are frozen, you can walk right through them and push them out of the way without taking damage. Time lance is phenomenal for surviving crowds.

[@BalthorYT]

Wait, Death is killable now?

[@noelherring9312]

@@BalthorYT Well, Death does take damage. And if it bleeds, we can kill it. I've gotten to end game a lot with Laurel and Hardy-err, I mean, Laurel and Time Lance, and gotten the freeze off, and he's stuck in place as I keep doing damage to him from a distance and can line up the next Lance hit. I have gone on for quite a few minutes on a few occaisions, but after 35:00, the game starts to throw MORE Death baddies at you one by one every minute or two, and if you can't juggle freezing all of them, then they will still chew you up. My gf has even managed to sort of pin Death behind a bookshelf inlet in the library at the top of the screen. And Death gets stuck in place. She managed to get up to 9 minutes past but because of the position, she wasn't doing as much damage as she could to it despite her being rather safe. All the other Death spawns were coming in from above, and would get caught on the lip of bookshelves. Eventually, a Death joined the screen from below and got her. While we haven't killed a Death yet, I feel we have gotten super close to doing so. It isn't invincible, it can be damaged and affected by weapons, it just seems to be super ultra tanky.

[@BalthorYT]

@@noelherring9312 I don't think he's killable either way, and the damage numbers you get when hitting him are meaningless; I've thrown both a Pentagram hit (through pure luck, cause I hate that damned weapon and barely use it lol) and a rosary screen-wiping bomb on him, and neither have killed him. Haven't had much luck with managing to freeze him, but I've got a feeling that if he doesn't die after 5 minutes (per what you've said), he's not meant to die at all. Perhaps this'll change in future updates, but I don't think this is achievable right now, or only achievable through severe abuse of bugs & exploits. P.S: Love the Laurel & Hardy reference :)

[@noelherring9312]

@@BalthorYT I still have hope he can die. He may just be programmed to not be affected by insta-kill items, but is still affected by other weapons. Why would the programmer even allow the clock to continue past 30 minutes if you're just supposed to die right away? Why would the programmer have Death be affected by Time Lance and have to chew through your Laurel before he can damage you if the programmer wanted Death to just be the end all be all? Why not make Death behave like the Yeti in that old Ski Free windows pc game and just insta-kill you? Why would the programmer bother to add more Deaths to spawn in as time went on if one Death was all that was needed because it can't die? And even in the source material the programmer is drawing from, the Castlevania series, Death is a boss battle in nearly every game, and you gotta defeat Death before you can take on Dracula (or whoever has taken up the mantle of the Castle and is the big bad at the end.) The programmer didn't have to make Death affected by ANY weapon at all, and yet, the programmer chose to allow most weapons and items to still affect him, while a few specific others don't. All signs point to Yes, Death can be killed. It's just super freaking hard to. Why would the programmer put all this specific efforts programmed in here, if we weren't supposed to find a way to get past Death and defeat him?

[@BalthorYT]

@@noelherring9312 It's very simple; the answer to all of those questions is that it's much easier to just copy a 'default' enemy template (which entails all those things like seemingly getting hurt, being stopped by the lance, etc.) but make it invincible and have it home on you and kill you. Slap the sprite on it and bam, you're good. So it essentially is an 'enemy', not a separately coded game over screen or special entity. People think too much into stuff like this all the time - I get it, but the logic behind it is usually off the mark. I reckon at some point Death might become an actual enemy / boss, but it's not the case yet I don't think, for now he's just a fancy game over screen that can be messed around with a bit, with a backup plan of spawning more until it 'works'. Same thing goes for the clock: there's no point in programming in extra functions to make it 'stop' after a certain point if you're already forcing the game to stop through other means - in fact it's more likely for stuff to break if you try to do that.

[@PierceArner]

TIL Mummies, Vampires, and Triffids apparently have a secret weakness - meteors.

[@Lectrikfro]

Oh no, Knives. My one Weakness.... Argh... Meteors! I have discovered I have a second weakness

[@RufusOmega]

And dinosaurs, although they don't feature in this game.

[@PierceArner]

@@RufusOmega Hahaha. Excellent point.

[@EzekielHateable]

Love this game. So happy Tom is finally playing it. You should definitely play the new guy you just got in a video. You should try a Garlic run it's really fun having the force field that hurts anything that touches it and with Spinach it gets crazy good.

[@Mr_KhaBoom]

Glad to see this game get some attention, really been enjoying the game myself

[@Frequenterable]

You did it! I reached out to you about this one on Twitter - thanks for responding, and so happy to see that you were keen to give it a go!

[@DoctorEth]

I figured it was only a matter of time until you played this, Tom!

[@Dragonmagus6]

I would absolutely love to see more of this! The potential weapon combos look super interesting!

[@rynslev]

i also loved day of the triffids as a kid haha

[@garethhughes7430]

In the Dresden Files books, a wizard drops a satellite on a vampire. In one of the other books, a bad luck curse causes a frozen turkey dropped by an airplane to just demolish ones head. Unexpected weaknesses indeed.

[@darthmortem993]

Tom mummification is dependent on the moisture in the air so an extremely cold location could still produce mummified remains. Love the indie Content

[@BigSadClownBoi]

Does Tom have the best taste and selection of new games? Absolutely, you've sold me on it.

[@rachelgarrett6126]

You and Simon need to play 12 minutes! We want some more spooky Tom and Simon!

[@noah.2B]

TOM! I love this game! Thanks so much for showing it off! It's super chill with controller as well. I'd love to watch you play more! Different areas, characters, builds? Amazing! :D

[@tenebraebr]

I've been playing this game for a while now and I have never seen such a lucky run. Impressive.

[@lpletch118]

Day of the Triffids is definitely one of my top five movies. It's a classic.

[@OnceandFutureSoph]

Speaking of films like Day of the Triffids, the classic that I always think of is Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, where people go weird and possessed by aliens when they fall asleep.

[@konomexplays]

Saw NorthernLion play this. Saw how cheap it was. Got addicted for a while. So happy Tom is playing it. It's just weird good fun

[@jordan6508]

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

[@kyler8494]

Your really are the best channel Tom, half of my Steam wishlist is games you play and I love each and everyone I get!

[@Xanthanarium]

It is essentially possible to survive forever with Clock Lancet (before 30m anyway, though it does work on the reaper) regardless of your damage per second, because if you constantly keep moving into the center of the most recently frozen enemies, they'll bodyblock all the moving enemies from reaching you.

[@evilgibson]

*That feel when you play a game before Tom does*

[@Knishook]

What a great run to have been recording for

[@padalan2504]

Glad to see this game getting even bigger.

[@jordanwantsasilvia]

i've been addicted to a mobile game just like this called magic survival. the roguelike, quick leveling is so endearing

[@fluxcutie4813]

the devs of this game list magic survival as a huge inspiration for the game

[@paulgonzales3723]

Finally Tom plays this one, was only a matter of time.

[@mpm165]

This was a super fun run to watch

[@phaolo6]

08:54 I don't have this game, but Tom not getting the Duplicator felt like a bad choice.. 15:22 Oh, he got it in the end anyway This run looked super lucky btw 👀

[@pagatryx5451]

The duplicator doesn't actually double projectiles. Just gives 1 extra one per level. Pretty important for most characters but the one he had gets a bunch of projectiles anyway.

[@xeoknight845]

Reminds me of a mobile game I played called Magic Survival. I love this mindless genre

[@Potato8884]

Love watching Tom play this for some reason hahaha

[@1000jlg]

glad tom found this, its real fun

[@stefz5955]

Moooooore tom! We need moooore of this!!!

[@banjowarrior365]

1:35 this is a Logen Nine-Fingers approved message

[@juliusblaze]

16:01 -Sun Tzu, The Art of War

[@FreebirthBoccara]

this is a great sit back and relax game 10/10 woudl slay again.

[@lavenderwalrus9875]

it was so rough watching tom skip santa water soo many times whilst having the attractorb, but still a great video

[@EO-fv3wc]

Love this game. Should’ve expected to see Tom playing it eventually!

[@CaperCafe_]

I saw someone stream this a few weeks ago and I KNEW it was a Tom game. It looks so cool!

[@PolyChromium]

Who needs ground beef when you’ve got ground chicken?

[@BlareWolfgang]

Would love to see more. This game is awesome

[@redv.7686]

So Castlevania, but from a bird's eye view shooter perspective. Feels weird to understand so many references in only one minute's worth of gameplay.

[@RubelliteFae]

Tom's so good about finding games with tons of builds-making me want to try a build 😖... stupid marketing genius... 😄

[@RufusOmega]

Finds games with tons of builds, and then always goes glass cannon. Tom is a refined man of exquisite culture.

[@christopherg2347]

11:35 You picked up a red one. Apparently enough XP for several levels. I think while offscreen, Gems are able to combine if near each other, creating gems that are worth a lot more than the average Red gem. # With trinket selection, try to focus on upgrades. There are some that are universally good like Spinach, but most of the time try to secure something that unlocks a upgrade. # I class weapons into 4 types: Directable, Random closerange, Near defense and siege breaker (stronger the fuller the screen). # Try to get the upgraded King Bible. It is basically a shredder surrounding you. I think it needs duration upgrade and it does benefit from extra projectiles

[@jswifty5889]

For the record the oldest mummy in the world was found underneath a glacier

[@Pangkatt]

This game is CRACK, can't wait for more stuff to be added. Finished it all as it is now

[@S4B3R117]

Cool game, I would watch more of this. I think the whip might be good

[@ComradeArthur]

Triffids! OF COURSE they're triffids!

[@KuroShishi_Art]

The multiple level ups are because the crystals stack to improve performance and you pick everything you haven't picked up for a while.

[@valkatra]

I've been waiting for Tom to play this :D

[@quadrofirehands3399]

wow, worth a buy and now tom must be good

[@Otto42]

MMMMM! DELICIOUS FLOOR CHICKEN!

[@munchymcmouthington298]

fun! It reminds me of the very very old games: Robotron (and Llamatron) Would like to see Angor have a go on those at some point!

[@rocktalon2]

Alright fine. I'm sold. I'll get the game

[@ratedinput1345]

I'd watch more of this tom

[@velocevisrin5060]

Death also triggers when you get to lvl 101

[@fluxcutie4813]

that is definitely incorrect

[@Echo_Joey]

Great stuff!

[@tropicalvikingcreations]

Currently there's no point in fighting death unless you're trying to get one more level or chest for coins. Because he just calls his cousins.... And they stomp you.

[@robertlinke2666]

i almost have every achievement other then the 5k gold in a single run. greatest weapons: magic wand fire wand garlic greatest items: Spinach Crown tome

[@MallKidSigma]

I played this for two hours immediately after watching this video. Pretty addictive stuff. For the price? Shit, why not??

[@MrPgunna]

Watch this video at .5 speed for a hilariously good time with drunken Tom.

[@kalashnarkoff9341]

I got to say for £2 is well worth the money, Thanks Tom for showing

[@danielgloyd4529]

So I have never played this but it looks interesting, is that mega boss thing that spawns at 30 minutes killable or is it just a way to end the game without a victory screen?

[@tadhgtwo]

Another cool GAME

[@brondwin]

YAAAASSS love this game and love Tom WIN WIN!

[@elizanix]

Been playing thi sfor a little while now; big fun. Ive only just gotten my second run longer than 20mins big fan

[@elizanix]

also; big fan of garlic as an answer to those bat swarms and just the GIANT hordes once you level itup a bit

[@TeamLarry]

WOOOOOO

[@lavenderwalrus9875]

was the lightning ring unable to evolve in this build of the game? because he had the duplicator

[@electricVGC]

Very good fun

[@kmaster30]

This reminds me of a phone game called magic survival and it's free and I bet just has fun, I have played this pc game to tell though but seems very similar

[@JDbradshaw89]

Looking like a Hammerdin build in D2 Cow level.

[@BM-yy8db]

16:18 It's never Lupus.

[@EnderCrypt]

i think faster attack is better than faster damage i mea, 10% increase in either is a 10% dps increase but with speed, you also knockback more something quite important in this game

[@pyroshaun1990]

the Red crystals are worth a load more exp

[@skyesfury8511]

I can never evolve more than two weapons, no matter how hard I try. I always run out of either time or chest bosses.

[@kezmsfilms1300]

Daily reminder that His Highness is an amazing person and to thank him for all he has done/will do - Day 809 Oh now this is a snazzy game :D loads of fun it seems Reminds me a rad of Asteroid I agree that I do must check out, plus you could really tell His Highness was enjoying it :D

[@yeahboy2k386]

Unlocked a new guy??? Sounds like we get one more video for this game Tom. Lol

[@11SimonS11]

More please! :D

[@jazzpants457]

Oh look Tom uploaded a new video for

[@Taudlitz]

I like to think that Tom picked this game after my recommendation on reddit. Unlikely but would be cool :-D

[@kingckfu]

This game is kicking my ass. Fun though

[@gyroscope915]

Tell me tom didn't paas up the garlic! That's the best upgrade in the game! It lets you just walk through the bat boards and suck up gems

[@DrFilch]

*A-Bam!*

[@squishypotatos9654]

More!

[@justinlipkin]

Great video !!!

[@justinlipkin]

Quite sure I commented on this first (with 15s of upload) but I believe that KZbin reorders comments now 🤔🤔🤔

[@fanis1414]

@@justinlipkin Wow that's crazy bro, who asked though?

[@Orochimaul]

awesome

[@divamon5602]

WOOO!

[@RIPDixie1865]

The wolf boss' name is Lupus? lmao

[@keithsomerville5387]

Seems like the kind of game you should be able to shoot in a different direction to the the one you're facing, Robotron-style.