Before We Leave - Hexagon But Not Forgotten

[@BattleUnit3]

Jon walking around the house: you know what would be interesting? Post Apocalyptic exploration game centered around cats! The Totally Not a Mind reader Van outside: Write that down. WRITE THAT DOWN.

[@wolfiejacob]

its the same secret british vans that can tell if your stealing tv they multitask now

[@alexanderhammil6754]

Do you play AS a cat? Because I would absolutely play a game that mashed up Shelter with Fallout. Some sort of… Fallout Shelter.

[@TheGrinningViking]

@@wolfiejacob I thought the same thing!

[@roverfilho]

There's already a game like this coming out soon: Peace Island :)

[@TheGrinningViking]

"This house is producing music, not sure why." - Jon Ambience and world building my man. Environmental storytelling. Probably doesn't happen in unhappy houses. I need to play this game, it looks a delight.

[@silverswordsmith5424]

You know, talk of people forgetting about things after the apocalypse reminds me of the book City of Ember and the two books after. There were two groups of people that survived the war: Those that were sent into a subterranean city (the city of Ember) and those who survived on the surface and rebuilt towns. What's interesting is that those underground were unfamiliar with things like livestock, sunlight, or weather, whereas those on the surface did not remember anything regarding science, technology, and electricity. When the people of Ember came to the surface, the sunburned their pale skin and they were afraid of chickens, creatures they had never seen before. However, the people on the surface did not understand the value of lightbulbs and had forgotten how to read, and so they had a library full of books none of them could read, and so it was little more than a room where they had piled all of the books. It is interesting to see how the environment, and the fact that education becomes a limited resource, dictates what people forget.

[@penguinlordalan]

I remember reading city of embers its self but never knew there was other books!

[@Smitje_0]

1:04:55 Jon you should be one of the last people saying where breadmaking should be in a tech tree.. :p

[@farshnuke]

He's like Kong Rong. He knows he's terrible at some stuff but that's okay because he trusts that other people know how to do that stuff instead.

[@TheGrinningViking]

Jon does rush his bread 🍞

[@SimWolfHero]

*"This one just ticks all my boxes"* Please mark this on your MATN Bingo card

[@TheGrinningViking]

That ticked all my boxes! Bingo! 😉

[@allie-ontheweb]

*ticks "ticks boxes" box*

[@mrsoupsir7165]

Box ticked

[@AerondyteJudge]

Jon, with everything going on and the hecticness of the world, please make this a series! A nice relaxing series like this I believe would benefit us all. Keep up the great work!

[@nahco3994]

The geometry of that planet made me feel really uncomfortable in the beginning. It's impossible to evenly cover a sphere in regular hexagons! Go and ask Euler, he can explain why that is. Surely, there's some heretical trickery and black magic involved in this. Right? And then I spotted a pentagon. Everything's fine. Phew. They're probably covering them up with conveniently placed oceans. Clever.

[@asbestosfish_]

This reminds me of those obelisks in Georgia that have all the information that would theoretically be needed to rebuild society after an apocalyptic event. _The ones that we hope we never need, but know we eventually will._

[@Lady_Amelia-Eloise]

The Georgia guide stones?

[@uhhhscizo6531]

No dude they’re American stonehenge

[@JamieM20001996]

I too use reddit.

[@NightMind0]

Imagine Americans coloizing the new world of europe millenia after the Last Event

[@5Andysalive]

If our civilisation ends in an apocalypse, would you REALLY want to rebuild "our society"?

[@mushymcmushington7176]

This is one of the most gorgeous games I have ever seen in my life. Pure eye candy.

[@kokosan09]

right? it astounds me every time, it's just so unbelievably pleasing to look at.

[@metabots100]

John: "this is a peacefull game" Me remembering all the times he said "this is fine" just to say a second later "this is absolutely not fine" *sadistic grim intensifies*

[@wsconsn]

36:13. Island one needs to help out Island two...how very un British of you Jon. Island two needs to pay their due to the Crown!

[@BoomyWildchild]

John please do a mini series on this would love to see the other planets and the end game research.

[@MaSOneTwo]

I can't believe it. The game starts Jon out with a roundabout, and the first thing he does to it is tearing it down! And then immediately flipping up the street layout, well done Jon, true to form, love it!

[@RenmanNefferi]

Would love to see a full playthrough of this by you

[@Erebos1201]

Oil: "No pollution" Game sponsored by Shell?

[@Skyfox94]

I'd say BP

[@evanbradley6169]

More like sponsored by *shill* amirite?

[@Cole_42]

I wish I had a PC that could run this... or anything newer than 2016 lol... Never been this early!

[@zephaniahgreenwell8151]

It should be able to run on an i5 even with integrated graphics.

[@Cole_42]

Zephaniah Greenwell I’m still running a 2016 i7 Dual Core and 8gb. It just sounds like I’m in a runway and it’s at 99% on some 2013 games

[@omegawerewolf9320]

The computer I use can barely run anything newer than 2000

[@necromingo7073]

"so outside this vault we got ourselves a lone wanderer here" oooh jon you clever bastard

[@Skyfox94]

Definitly want to see more of this. It looks fun.

[@YT-bk9wr]

This game involves colonising and conquering the whole world from one small island, and it also has tea! How very appropriate :P.

[@DJ-sb6oh]

Oh I would definitely love to see a series on this, awesome game that checks all my boxes

[@TheMidgetNamedCat]

Would LOVE a live stream of this!

[@NightMind0]

46:40 And a tiny bit of veggies... But not tea, no-no-no, tea is for the main island!

[@JB-xl2jc]

This is kind of a relaxing Frostpunk, a city that spreads out slowly from a central point and in concentric (in this case concentric hexagonal building rather than circular, but, you know) tiers, with positioning being incredibly important. But without the, you know, horrific froststorms, political instability, and death death death. Sounds relaxing!

[@notapplicable7292]

very appropriate that they put the cotton production in the new world.

[@Foxtrot369]

9:50 - Those first two people going to destroy the woods were taking the piss! You can see them both slow right down after stepping off the road _(and yes the game said that travel is slower without roads)_ but then that third person zoomed right passed them like, *_"This isn't Baywatch guys, stop moving in slow motion."_* XD

[@NotFinnish]

Woodcutters need to be - WOOD you believe it next to forests.

[@AgentTasmania]

I love the look of this, so tactilely 3D

[@thumper8684]

Jon does not need a special van to read his thoughts. He is on live thought broadcast 24/7.

[@nicknevco215]

I like the art style claymation like detailed but still cartoony.

[@martinberlese]

Wouldn't mind more of this

[@2Cerealbox]

8:18 I somehow feel uncomfortable with a Brit declaring that the people under his control should only be allowed to farm potatoes and nothing else, what could go wrong...

[@Crazyneil1986]

"We've survived the apocalypse and now we have to rebuild the world, what institutions shall we re-instate from the before times?" _"How about polluting industry and colonialism?"_ "Sounds great!"

[@risinghonor7]

Plz do more of this series i love the look of this game

[@specjals]

And again.. you inspired me to try new game ;) thx Jon for wadting my free time xD

[@tibsie]

I'm intrigued by how they have made a sphere with only hexagons. That's not geometrically possible, you need pentagons too. They are probably hidden in strategic locations that you wouldn't be able to build on anyway like the oceans.

[@daxdax33]

Lovely game, I'd like to see more of it ^^

[@mbpoblet]

I wonder if you can get land on the pentagonal tiles (all I've managed to spot in the video had water on them), and, if that's the case, if you can build on them... 🤔

[@wojtek4p4]

I imagine placing those tiles on water is the devs' solution to them being distracting and potentially quite buggy. TBH I haven't noticed those tiles until you've pointed out that you've spotted them - I've assumed that the devs made the poles completely uninhabitable, and put all terrain deformations there.

[@mbpoblet]

@@wojtek4p4 There should be _twelve_ of them, I think, not only the poles... these fullerene shapes are basically dodecahedrons with hexagons between the pentagons...

[@wojtek4p4]

​@@mbpoblet I thought that it was a simple hexagonal grid, connected into a cylinder then simply squashed onto a sphere. But yeah, a dodecahedron or an icosahedron makes way more sense when it comes to limiting deformation. It probably is an icosahedron with faces made out of equilateral triangles, instead of being a dodecahedron (pentagonal faces with triangles would be iffy and the deformation would be more noticeable). It would mean that there are twelve pentagonal faces, however for a different reason.

[@tmfmxo]

Maybe I wasn't paying attention, but 50:26 blew my mind a little. I went from "hexagonal Anno" to "hexagonal INTERPLANETARY Anno!"

[@Sankey84Gaming]

Well thank you jon I now have a new game to look into buying for myself. I did look at it but I was on the fence about getting it but now you have made that decision for me.

[@bobbys332]

So Anno - Interplanetary right? Seems similar to the Anno series with island fertilization, trade to keep colonies alive, resource production chains and so on. Not a bad thing, seems competent enough, but I feel that the islands just seem so small. It seemed like you really had to focus on placement of buildings and island specializations (Island 1 is agricultural, 2 is manufacturing, 3 is i dunno space?) which moves it from a strategy to a puzzler too much for my liking but it definitely could be cool to see how crazy things get by the end of the tech tree.

[@hugmonger]

Jon jon jon! The Universim has apparently added Space Travel in it!

[@quincyjones7439]

good choice for today mate. it would be nice to rebuild the world we live in. hope alls well.

[@brycevo]

This looks like such a great game

[@otrovikbhorl9968]

NDA! NDA! NDA! NDA! NDA! NDA! ND-this is not the nda, I am sad :( still excited to watch! Edit: part two?

[@lukebater-watson1781]

nda?

[@shotgunshells2]

Non-disclosure agreement. I'm guessing OP was very excited for jon to talk about a game they're not allowed to talk about.

[@otrovikbhorl9968]

shotgunshells2 yeeesssssss

[@bengarcia496]

The NDA was about Jon going to play CK3 for the first time this weekend. But I didn't tell you that 😋

[@otrovikbhorl9968]

Ben Garcia source?

[@Ma_Zhongying]

God damn it, Jon, do you need to have puns in the titl- What am I saying, of course you do!

[@fishpop]

This game reminds me of the city stage of Spore.

[@ulch11]

"This game looks nice" *epic store exclusive* Oh, never mind then.

[@IAmGeeSnap]

25:50 i wonder how many of us paused the game and went to the kitchen to make tea in the proper matn manner ??? i did :@) tea really does make me feel much better smart game just what i needed right now

[@systemshocker7634]

Poseidon adventure coming!

[@darksuperganon]

Building spaceships before bread... Jon I think you've been playing as Kerbals this whole time.

[@viraldragonrider3096]

Saw this on the Epic store the other day and was like ohh that looks cool but ill hold off until MATN plays (cus i new he would at some point). This looks amazing and will be going on my wishlist for when i have some money haha

[@YiotisTheGnome]

This game looks really interesting! I'll be honest, At first i thought "Before we leave" referred to leaving the Shelter.

[@error-datalost7586]

Hey Jon, maybe this could be a little series for a while?

[@turgturg4479]

The mind reading van must come round my house as well as literally a week before mafia 1 remake was announced I was thinking how it would be cool to play that game.

[@disgruntledwelsh3817]

Jon. In all honesty how long does it take you to think of these puns? Do you just sit down for an hour and think things up?

[@tpbloomfield]

I firmly believe he only decides to showcase a game on the channel after he thinks up a pun for the video title. No pun, no game.

[@TheGrinningViking]

He does live with a Hugo award nominee, I'm sure she thinks of all the good puns 😉

[@TheMiddelvelder]

Is it on Steam. cant seem to find it

[@readamy64]

Was very disappointed when the video ended :( more please!

[@hopin8krzys]

At first I thought this world was literally shattered. Really weird way to make fog of war

[@morganjones4910]

Can we repair it? I’m sure we flipping can! ‘Jon the Builder!’

[@Xenotric]

it always annoys me that fallout is still in the "shabby just after the apocalypse" stage... like 200 years after the catastrophe there is basically no real reason for them to not have rebuilt and progressed, I mean the united states of america is barely older than 200 so according to fallout logic america should still be pilgrims and cowboys at best. Glad to see this game hasn't gone for that sort of nonsense for purely aesthetic reasons

[@ManyATrueNerd]

In their defence, a world full of giant mutated creatures, monsters, radiation, super mutants, and hostile robots has probably slightly slowed down the reconstruction efforts.

[@slamdaddyshapirowo9893]

Bethesda never understood Fallout.

[@LucyWest370]

Xenotric one time someone told me the people of the capital were just idiots who didn’t try rebuilding, but the place was ground zero for a nuclear bomb and sentry bots and bears were roaming the whole area. I’m sure that would’ve helped a lot.

[@LucyWest370]

SlamDaddy ShapirOwO fallout new Vegas 2: now with zero hostile creatures at all, and the only thing you get to do is be a politician making peace treaties!

[@johnsmith5669]

@@LucyWest370 Fallout: Miss Mary's Tea Party.

[@bibeau756]

I want a "didly didly dee" t-shirt.

[@Matkingos]

This seems like a watered down Anno, set in the post apocalypse

[@RufusOmega]

Was thinking much the same thing.

[@thumper8684]

Are there 12 pentagons? There should be 12 of those on a world hexmap.

[@thumper8684]

15:07 Spotted one!

[@owenhebda9083]

17:06 for the bookmark

[@MikeDaugherty445]

More please

[@samherring7850]

Could you make this a series and have this as episode 1

[@andykbarr7755]

Reminds me of populous if you ever played that and if anyone remembers it.

[@rob098890]

Someone tell Spiff his tea monopoly is being threatened!

[@hugmonger]

Anyone else here thinking of this game as link a natural extension of Line In Bunker?

[@JustinMcVicar]

The UI design looks like Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 lol.

[@hugmonger]

omg this game looks so damned good.

[@DougieBoy]

Hey, Jon. How about you play some more! :) I'd watch it.

[@drakostarr1]

@manyatruenerd Of course there are no globes Jon, they were all scrapped for plastic...

[@treegiant7873]

More?

[@InconstantTryHard]

I keep hearing Fallout 4 / Fallout 76 turrets in this video.

[@polishenglish8356]

Such a wholesome and cute game :)

[@wopian_]

1:13 until the gigantic space whales stroll past your planet 👀

[@tokiri485]

37:00 "Trade ship Dragon" was Elon Musks lot in this bunker?

[@stylesrj]

I'm not seeing any catgirls, so probably not?

[@RufusOmega]

@@stylesrj That would improve things dramatically. Not that it's bad now, but catgirls make everything better.

[@tokiri485]

@@RufusOmega That's one of the space techs, rather than some super powered machine, it's just genetically engineered cat girls. I would approve of this greatly

[@stephanjuvik6266]

The fact that tea wasn't mentioned when the boxes were ticked in the beginning of the video kind of bothers me.

[@ewokYT117]

So this is our future..

[@zachariahbrown1339]

Hi Jon. This is a cool and interesting game. Also can’t wait for more Last of Us. Are you going to play any more Fallout other than 76

[@oneofmanyjames-es1643]

8/10 for the pun

[@ChevronTango]

Maths Nerds: You get Nerd points if you spot any of the 12 Pentagons hidden amongst the Hexagon map

[@Twistedcrescendo]

Found one on the starting island :)

[@ChevronTango]

I think they are all in the water so you cant build on them. One in the north lake of Island 1, another off the coast by the houses on the south of Island 1, another south coast of island 2 by the cotton farms

[@t4nkychannel921]

Is this game British? I'm not sure how many American games would include tea as a resource.

[@FoxDren]

did you say tea?

[@Smitje_0]

One way road system when?!

[@shotgunshells2]

I'm waiting for the kill everything run.

[@mbpoblet]

34:31

[@TheUltrahypnotoad]

The one-way-system WAS the apocalypse.

[@samreid6010]

Hypnofish everyone kept walking around in circles until they died

[@wow-roblox8370]

Yay I'm usually a year late!

[@ENTERtheCREATOR]

As you can see, you can do a lot with potatoes...

[@alexisauld7781]

Civ6's new update looks weird. :P

[@5Andysalive]

Reminds me quite a bit of Cliff Empire. But that wasn't an epic cash grabby thing. Also it seems to run out of content rather quickly. Or one playthrough. A somewhat stylised and limited version of Settlers.

[@ktaragorn]

Reminds me a bit of spore..

[@ancapftw9113]

Judging by the size of that world, you are on an asteroid.

[@Mik3Bravo]

Well based on this I was very tempted to get it for the £15.99 it is on Epic, but then I stumbled upon a £10 voucher which made it £5.99. Simples.

[@mudcrab3420]

Epic.

[@thumper8684]

1:00:00 I had some serious political point to make but I forgot what it was.

[@skylerthewise2156]

Stellaris 25x crisis strength!! Impossible run!!!

[@bemusedalligator]

how is that an impossible run? 25x is still too easy like 3/4 of the time unless you spawn it before like 2325

[@Silverhawk100]

So, post-apocalyptic Settlers of Catan city builder...

[@nerdtron3332]

JON TRY RIMWORLD AGAIN ITS IS SOOO SIMILAR TO THIA IF YOU WANT UT TO BE

[@romanw6636]

Too bad it's an Epic exclusive Windows exclusive title.

[@prof.dr.4277]

God damn it! This game looks lovely and I would love to play it. As soon as the first trade ship set sail I was instantly reminded of one of my favorite franchises. The Anno games. So naturally I went straight down to the description to put it on my wishlist to keep an eye on it for the next sale... EXEPT there is no wishlist I could put it on because this game is not on Steam but on fucking Epic Games! I am sick an tired of them grabbing games and making them exclusive on their half-assed platform! I am tired of Valve being so greedy with their outdated revenue cuts of 30 bloody percent that many developers are gladly changing ship to Epic Games, while they don't even give a damn because they are so confident with their market share. I am not a PC gamer to be forced to be part in a Exclusivity War of two platforms who each suck in their own way! Things were dumb enough with EA and Ubisoft and their fucked up idea of a platform but at least most of their games still kind of cooperated with Steam. Epic Games brings out ONE game the whole world looses their mind over and now I have to endure their fantasies of being relevant. God damn it.. I would have loved to play this game.. Get your shit together Steam.. You are not alone anymore.

[@tylerufen]

like the inverse of fallout shelter lol 😋 🤗