Becoming a MANOR LORD was not what I expected...

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Manor Lords is Steam's most wishlisted game, and today we check it out whilst finding out it's not what I expected...
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[@3626bajwa]

you should watch the movie (Click) its based around the idea of fast forwarding life. you won't be wanting a fast forward button after that for sure

[@dominotiger5726]

Stop it, get some help

[@SomethingFunny454]

Beavers>penguins

[@mr_gutsy5151]

Day 158 of asking Matt to play no man’s sky

[@AWanderingReaper9569]

I see matt has some smooth balls

[@swaynkson]

Imagine telling someone you enjoy Mountain Bread, them thinking that you're a lover of the outdoors and baking fresh bread on treks and hikes and what-not, but really you're just hollowing out baguettes and pouring in Mountain Dew as a snack. That's a prime Story Time with Matt inspired plot twist.

[@pranavghantasala6808]

Evil bread bowl

[@AWanderingReaper9569]

Why did I read this in a Scottish accent

[@tarrantwolf]

I'm pretty sure you belong in some kind of facility just for having that idea.

[@frankfuller975]

🤣

[@furryStartwigzJR]

​@@AWanderingReaper9569 Why not

[@Nick-hi9gx]

I've spoken to Slavic Magic a few times, he was the solo dev on the game for a long time (he's since gotten a little bit of help from Hooded Horse). The man is brilliant, and cares DEEPLY about making the game not feel like just Age of Empires meets Total War meets City Builder. Even down to the authenticity of the equipment and architecture, which is ~1370's-1400 in western Germany and along the Rhine. And it was done like 90% by a single person!

[@maxg2814]

It reminds me a lot of the Stronghold games

[@QueenMonny]

If there are defensive structures, it would be the perfect game.

[@Unmannedperson]

3:04: Technically, oxen are cows. At least as far as "cow" being the colloquial term for all cattle (the actual animal name). A "cow" is a female head of cattle, whereas a male is a "bull" if intact and a "steer" if castrated, and "oxen" are cattle that have been trained to work, or "ox" if just one. Fun fact: there is no universally agreed-upon singular for cattle, so "one head of cattle" is typically used as "one cattle" is grammatically incorrect. Or just "one cow" because we all call them all cows anyways. Point being that ox = cow. 🎶The More You Know🎶

[@scattyork4176]

Cuntz is probably a variation of Kunz (which is short for Konrad), which was such a common name in the medieval ages that "Hinz und Kunz" (Heinrich and Konrad) became a saying, meaning bascially everybody or any number of people. Kunz is actually still fairly common as a last name in Switzerland.

[@MichaelLong777]

So Hinz und Kunz is just the German equivalent of our Tom, Dick, and Harry. That's a nice fun fact you got there

[@josephharrison5639]

Matts editors seem to have been given near free reign, yknow except leaving the basement

[@bloodlove93]

like epsteins girls had to

[@majortritone]

@@bloodlove93 *spongebob disappointed sound*

[@mathewpoole3589]

Matt's such a generous overlord, he's even given them scenic pictures of bridges in lieu of actual windows.

[@mathewpoole3589]

​@@bloodlove93ah yes, the island life

[@cragonaut]

Free rein not reign. You know, like releasing the reins of a horse to allow it to do as it likes.

[@Muthoz_CottoncuddleRex]

Tip! (Just to give you anguish) You can rename just about almost everything, check it out! But for a real tip, Burgages(houses) are recommended to be built when thay have a little house marker with a +, that mean they can get addittions/upgrades, there should be an upgrade for them to have chickens, they produce food for your settlement?/village?/town?

[@gablog4022]

7:30 this story time with matt was just traumatizing because i am french.. I am just flabbaguettested

[@cldprv]

Idk where the guy got this dishonoring idea.

[@cbk-te7ru]

Besides English muffin... don't think they're to well known for good taste in food😏

[@leandroTRA]

I now understand why the 2 nations hate each other. one doesn't know how to cook, and the other reminds them of that flaw.

[@gamingwithorion9165]

7:00 yes, the chat is screaming at you. you have no families available to build anything.

[@BrotherAlpha]

This is hard to watch at times.

[@jpw547]

Triangular living plots is the most architect decision I’ve seen Matt make

[@davidharris1679]

"Where are all these bandits coming from!? I hate all these bandits. Oh a bandit camp was sighted! Let's leave them be. Anyway, let me disband this army."

[@PoPoRybnik]

Classic Matt

[@mikesheahan6906]

Those triangle properties look like something an architect might find exciting.

[@mathewpoole3589]

Has Matt not taught you anything with Poly Bridge? Triangle's are the strongest shape, second only to pole on a bicycle of course. Which means that he will build the strongest community with these horrific plots.

[@mikesheahan6906]

@@mathewpoole3589 You're right! How could I forget?

[@mathewpoole3589]

@@mikesheahan6906 🤣

[@Vortex--Gaming]

An imposter is among us

[@Greatduck777]

Doesn’t engineering have a bit of architecture applied? Especially when building bridges.

[@samiraperi467]

The thumbnail looks like you became a Manure Lord.

[@symenbrug1992]

Dammit I thought I was witty and was gonna comment this😂😭

[@billionai4871]

I really thought I was smart for coming up with this on my own

[@thomasphillips885]

Only works in the American accent :-( thumbnail was very confusing until I saw this comment

[@Large_Sarge]

I hate to be that guy but Manscaped requires a subscription for blades refills to keep your warranty for the trimmers. If you cancel the subscription to their blades, they reduce your warranty to only 90 days versus a year. Just a heads up. Thanks for the content.

[@Not.Your.Business]

that sounds suspiciously illegal, at least in the EU

[@thomaspayne4090]

Ofc that subscription shit is SUS ... He's just doing it to get money, don't buy it.

[@racingraptor4758]

All of those YT sponsors are always scams and SUS. But he at least gets the money so they re kinda more scammed than we are

[@yeetjones927]

I'm pretty sure that's illegal, at least here in the UK

[@PheonixKnght]

I assume Matt gives his editors the same kind of priority list where everything is the highest priority.

[@Qantravon]

0:50 surprised Matt didn't go for the very strongest-shaped helmet he picked right at the beginning.

[@ashcadelanne8524]

Did you know: the terms underdog and top dog come from people working in a saw pit. The person on top of the log was top dog and the one in the pit was the underdog

[@LupoFCS04]

Is that also where updog comes from?

[@joshuabloemink7258]

​@@LupoFCS04what's updog?

[@LupoFCS04]

@@joshuabloemink7258 not much, you?

[@louieberg2942]

@@joshuabloemink7258 Thanks for playing :P

[@maisies515]

@@LupoFCS04a classic

[@droogkloot666]

Paddy with the zoomies in the background is amazing :)

[@darkgtprince]

those trees are amazing. love when devs put in details like that. great work dev!

[@kazcoat]

8:16 as a French man I am horrified. I'll be having nightmares for weeks I think

[@ScytheNoire]

13:29 Know how a lot of surnames were jobs people had or some trait about them? Smith were blacksmiths, Taylors were tailors, Pikes made pikes, and... "Who was that you were talking to?" "Oh, it was the c***s across the way."

[@RealAndySkibba]

Super happy you're playing this. Have really enjoyed CityPlannerPlays playing but wondered what you'd do!

[@gaysarahk]

Day 69 + 1 of notifying people that the Discord server's Suggestions forum is a better place to suggest new games to Matt. (Just don't ping him!)

[@simong2391]

Good job Matt for not calling the people Beavers yet like you did with the penguins !

[@opallise2605]

I swear I heard Biffa do that on his play through.

[@squallloire]

Biffa doing Timberborn, RCE doing Manor Lords. My whole world is upside-down 🤣

[@abcdefgcdefg5178]

"Sniff of a whistle" is definitely something I will be using in the future 😂

[@NimuehNeith]

Really cool to see you play this game, been waiting on it for ages! It's extra awesome as a historical reenactor to see games to take so much time to research and be as historically accurate as possible, and then succeed like this!

[@opallise2605]

Historical Reenactor sounds like an awesome job. How do you get a gig like that?

[@NimuehNeith]

Oh, I wish it was my job, it's just one of my hobbies. I just happened to find a society a few years ago and joined. Really is incredibly cool. I get to travel all over the UK and teach people about things I love, and spend lots of time around campfires with awesome people :D

[@Unknown-ne1lo]

Wow this game looks amazing you must make it a series!

[@DistinguishedCat]

This game is awesomeee. Would love to see this as a series in this channel. It will be like the Age before Timberborners when mankind thrives 😆

[@RichardJr1134]

I am really looking forward to seeing Matt build this up and continue playing. This is looking extremely interesting & fun!!

[@LuaanTi]

I have to say, I absolutely love "infinite zoom". I know, it's a challenging thing to implement, but after Supreme Commander, every game (especially RTS) without it feels so constrained :D

[@brunoglopes]

Making irregular lots instead of functional square ones might be the most architect thing you’ve ever done

[@vs-iw6rc]

I think backyard development is a missed opportunity with how small some of the plots are

[@oopswrongplanet4964]

That was fun; it went by like a sniff of a whistle!

[@janithhennayaka5752]

this was amazing .... we neeeeeed a series of thisss plzz matt

[@mavrick45]

been playing this game all weekend. I love how roads are built instantly.

[@sixer__]

could be wrong but im pretty sure that if you have an active militia than bandits wont steel from you.

[@RichardJr1134]

This video deserves a "boosh" of the like button. Hoping Matt continues to play this. Keep it up Matt. You're doing a great job.

[@mpownage4806]

One of the very few games i’ve been waiting for, glad to see you in early access

[@MrThib45]

Great video matt! Would love to see a series on this game

[@MaierFlorian]

Matt: where are my builders, I set this to the highest priority. Everyone else in the universe: you always set everything to the highest priority... 🤣

[@sariph00]

Had this one wish listed since the open beta test, really looking forward to playing it when it comes out 😊

[@AdamHinckley]

you know that you can go to a overall map where you are and see where bandits are

[@QueenMonny]

Really looking forward to seeing more of this. I hope defensive structures are introduced later on.

[@deformercr6680]

please please please more of this, really need more of this

[@pulsefel9210]

the fanta bread reminds me of a thing i would do when i was young. chocolate milk in the bun of my spicy chicken sandwiches. not enough to make it soggy, but enough that it would be there. others couldnt stand to look at it, tasted pretty damn good. i understand why the original chocolate drink was spicy!

[@buttvillain]

I would like to see this game become a full series

[@tigrecito48]

20:56 ive got a weird feeling that (cos many games do this) the more you upgrade your village to bigger sizes, the more you will be attacked by bandits or other villages.. just a guess. but its probably better to get tons of resources and defences first before upgrading lots?

[@mattlievens3573]

From what I've seen a lot of the weapon making capabilities are locked behind higher tiered plots so you really have to add to your defenses as you go.

[@PIndyJones]

I saw someone else play this and thought you would like it. 10/10 would watch again

[@undeadOtter]

Age of empires games have come a seriously long way

[@undeadOtter]

Meaning the style of game that is

[@FlyingFox86]

@@undeadOtter Not sure if this was meant to be sarcastic, but Manor Lords is not an Age of Empires style game.

[@TheActualJae]

I love it when city builders conform plots of land to the roads (gives Cities Skylines a bit of a glare), I wish every game did this, it just looks better and, frankly, is more realistic.

[@eslachance]

Goddammit I missed the fact that triangle lots were the best way to make expandable burgages! Thanks for that trick :D

[@DUDE_OUTSIDE_THE_ROOM]

MOOORREEE! Absolutely want this to become a 7 season series 🥲

[@isaacgonzo]

cant wait to hear matt say 'welcome to timberborners' when starting one of these videos. this is timberborners but with people

[@christopherrock1982]

Games just need the default priority can be set to any particular spot, so always starts at lowest, can RCE can satisfy his need to tick up priority. Though a below normal priority is a step in the process!

[@ledtakeover7145]

This game seems amazing. I can't wait to play it. The fact you can go 3rd person crazy!

[@raylopez7992]

Need a series from this!

[@TiagoFreire]

THE MANURE LORD

[@jasperdehullu2755]

I definitely want more of this

[@superblahblah666]

been waiting for this one thanks RCE!

[@TheHorzabora]

Fanta bread is such a university idea.

[@denesfabian]

8:11 What's not to like? Bread? Good. Fanta? Good. Fanta bread? Gooooood! (Joey)

[@yuyuw8542]

please make it a series this game looks awsome

[@NineEyeRon]

"Boosh", yes, that seems appropriate to write as a comment here.

[@bobmacbobby718]

I would like to see this become a season like timberborn

[@VisjesVanIetje1989]

Was looking yesterday if you hade played it yet, cant wait to see how you buikd on ML

[@seancampbell5751]

Matt clearly loves entropy whith how much he uses that fast forward button. I thought engineers were supposed to fight against entropy.

[@michaelbean8404]

Please we need more videos on this game.

[@Nemisary]

I’m so proud of you! Not just for playing Manor Lords and doing an entertaining job of it, not as duly (self)appointed Grammar Sheriff I can say they you are the first of a dozen content creators I’ve seen play this game to correctly identify the Single animal as an OX and not an OXEN! …of course you went on to ruin it be apologizing to the OXES

[@YoJesusMorales]

You need to make the plots of land larger for them to have backyard vegetable gardens, chicken coops, goats and later artisans, but you'll need money for it and the only money to gain is by raid!!

[@ryanfortune3252]

Did you work at Laycock Manor? I broke my coccyx there attempting a backflip

[@vorlonshadowgamer5453]

Please, please, please continue this game great video matt

[@xaronne7781]

As a french men, I do not recon the "Fanta bread" as something humanly made, only the mind of a demon could theorize about such insanity! BRING ME MY GUILOTINE

[@3DPDK]

For once, someone has taken bits and pieces of Banished, Life is Feudal, Foundation, Ostriv, and a few other primitive city builders and combined them into a decent looking game. The animation and model details are amazing. I vote: play this a few more times so we get a good idea of how things progress and at what point it becomes monotonous.

[@jessenthebenezer]

Matt please make more videos of yhis game this is amazing

[@tigrecito48]

i went to a place where they made a bowl out of really hard bread.. they basically bake a loaf but make it much tougher than normal and then they pour your soup or stew into the bread bowl and you eat it.. some of the bread melts into the stew as you eat it.. but the outer later is too tough to eat.. cant remember where i ate that.. might have been mongolia or nepal..or russia

[@MichaelLong777]

It's super common on the West Coast (US) to be able to get clam chowder in a bread bowl. Presumably soups in bread bowls is common everywhere

[@tigrecito48]

@@MichaelLong777 yeah its a cool idea.. saves doing washing up and isnt bad for the environment (unless u class growing wheat and cooking stuff as bad)

[@hibrydsart5403]

In Tonga we would hollow out a loaf of white bread and then fill it with a soft drink of some sort, then put ice cream on top like a spider. Delicious, but thoroughly artery clogging.

[@thejadeep5643]

We want this as series

[@steelratgoestogym]

Very cool game, would be nice to have a series, either on KZbin or Patreon!

[@pseudocoder78]

Thumbs up as soon as you made everything super high priority...classic RCE!

[@mikeroshier6560]

Yes please more of this!!!

[@Gwenx]

That, was a FANTASTIC story you had there, loved it ツ

[@DLC_3D]

Please keep playing this.I want to see more

[@PaulA-lo4ok]

DO MORE OF THIS GAME PLEASE

[@saramullins5210]

More more

[@gque1985]

You should make this a series

[@seanh8546]

What a good doggo you have!

[@JoeGillings]

Can we have a part 2

[@vmegan55]

More of this please!

[@user-cr9sy3qw7n]

Please make this a series

[@In.Gy.]

This is an awesome surprise! Manor Lords soap when???

[@PrinSipalFC]

Great game, please make it a series. Also, I thought you stopped putting everything on the highest priority. ;)

[@coco_O17]

What a professional lawn engineer

[@colossalcubes]

24:07 the smeary-ness of the trees when you pan is a side effect of DLSS. with a slower paced game like this you dont really need DLSS to boost framerate anyway. you might disable it for recording video quality.

[@Viertis]

If all buildings are high priority, no buildings are high priority

[@airiannawilliams3181]

I am surprised, when you made the first triangle, I thought you would duplicate it and make make a circle road around it. First roundabout.

[@adamneill3968]

Please make this a series.

[@Mets2015WorldSeries]

If you make this a series, try and put up a small guard against bandits, it seems like it’d stop them

[@xavmanisdabestest]

like tropico mixed with banished 2 games I love!

[@CatModder]

Polish game! In the Glory times of Poland we had nobility and peasents who worked for them for not money but for a Loaf of bread just to survive. Great times you know, Great times

[@mortuos557]

yap. Poland was so great back then people kept sharing it. 😂

[@Alucia89140]

This is Timberborners with humans! I love it.