Breaking the AI in Humankind for Infinite Gold

Humankind is the new and upcoming entry to the grand strategy video game market! The folks over at amplitude have created a historical 4X game that is set to rival sid meiers civilization in terms of its impact in the genre. Naturally the devs wanted to give me early access to see if I could perfectly balance the game and see if this New Civ Killer is broken and if it contains any exploits! Long story short we found infinite money, immortal units, broken diplomacy mechanics and perfectly balanced and overpowered religion! Truly everything in this game is broken and that just makes it the perfect strategy game for me to cover! And guess what the devs decided to add me into the game too!!! Thats right you can even play against the spiffing brit in your game and cry as his unlimited army of immortal horse warriors melts its way through your empire and generates infinite cash!
So Is Humankind A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits? Well there is only one way to find out! Get ready for some funny humankind gameplay which is guaranteed to be more than your average humankind let's play!
What you have seen here today is part of a fantastic perfectly balanced montage series on youtube where I go from game to game and break them with wacky exploits to gain things like unlimited gold. If you enjoyed this then be sure to check out more. The style is similar to RT game and callmekevin in parts. A large influence on this series has come from Valefisk and The Killian Experience.
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Title: BREAKING THE AI FOR INFINITE GOLD to exploit the game - Humankind Is Perfectly Balanced
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[@Wermhole]

Spiff evolved. Now he's breaking the game FROM THE INSIDE

[@EEEEEEEE]

@@thespiffingbrit Tea

[@salladre8585]

@@EEEEEEEE yes

[@MissOaky]

Takeeee everythinggg from the insideeee and throw it all awayyyyy

[@1173bigboy]

@@thespiffingbrit so when are phil spencer/todd howard inviting you to voice a starfield character

[@twothreebravo]

The Exploit is coming from INSIDE THE GAME!!!!!

[@caleb-eddrick]

The developers' thought process when making the game: "If we can't fight him, let's embrace him. What could possibly go wrong?"

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@electromonkeyt6885]

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[@balintx2980]

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[@chelyr5517]

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[@spoilers2199]

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[@Madmuli]

Oh Spiff, you think THIS is broken? Hear me out: You've probably experienced the enormous science boost when picking the Jeonsu faction, since all workable water tiles give +4 science; this power is limited by the restriction of building 1 harbor per territory. But you're actually not.. You see, when going into the classical era you can pick Carthage, who can build Cothons, their unique harbor. Then, in the medieval era, you can pick the Norsemen, who can build ANOTHER unique harbor. And then, when you can pick Jeonsu (in the industrial era, I believe?) you don't have access to those unique harbors anymore, but unlike Civ6, you can just build regular harbors with them, as the game doesn't seem to identify those uniques as harbors XD This basically means that you can nearly triple this science yield power... have fun with railroads and biplanes in the 12th century ;)

[@prplxdino]

We need people upvoting this so Spiff can see it and make a new Humankind video

[@Ratzo123ify]

The Phoenicians in the ancient era get a unique harbor as well.

[@gijskramer1702]

Tried this but the closed beta, well... closed... did kind of work tho

[@Madmuli]

@@gijskramer1702 I'm still able to play; only most sound-/musicfiles are missing

[@sr.lontra]

THIS IS CRAZY HE GOTTA DO IT

[@the_redpyro4906]

Spiff: Suddenly Starts Making Dad Jokes Mango: "Somethings wrong, I can feel it"

[@SephirothRyu]

Spiffing Brit's sense of humor is perfectly balanced!

[@lukmaanpratomo6866]

A whole new level of balance might I add.

[@falsehero2001]

Dad jokes are perfectly balanced (as all things should be).

[@errantthought3570]

Dad jokes made this even better

[@joshnabours9102]

Not sure if Father's day, baby on the way, or both......

[@mgunter]

"Look at that lovely voice." Not all of us can see soundwaves with tea based superpowers.

[@Kakarot64.]

It sounds like someone is suffering from severe tea withdrawal someone hook them up to an IV drip of Yorkshire Tea!

[@nickelglasses700]

@@Kakarot64. The body is weak, but Yorkshire Tea is strong. Forget about superfoods, the tea will make them mighty.

[@elijahwatjen9839]

@@nickelglasses700 but he's a saiyan!

[@Gormathius]

On behalf of all tea drinkers I'd like to apologise, it's easy to take these things for granted.

[@survivalextraordinaire3572]

you can tell spiff has evolved to the dad stage in life as he is obsessed with making dad jokes.

[@mauro_carvajal]

i was thinking the same, so we are getting a little spiff heir?

[@B0tfather]

Exactly

[@Yoshatron]

We have freero rocher here in america

[@survivalextraordinaire3572]

@@Yoshatron do we tho? never seen one before.

[@Yoshatron]

Well here is the Carolinas we do

[@Trelior]

"This game is as balanced as a seesaw in an earthquake." Pure poetry.

[@KevVIII]

In retrospect, the devs got to not only get their game showcased as "beta" to the millions who watch Spiff, but also get the best bug test without paying for testers all for making some pixels look like Spiff. If that is not perfectly balanced with no exploits whatsoever I dont know what is!

[@caleb-eddrick]

When you break so many games you actually end up in one... Perfectly balances like no other

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@chelyr5517]

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[@JanWaltVesely]

He don't break them, developers did, he's just showing :-D

[@justjoe9070]

"I'm sorry, but no deal is better than a bad deal..." says E-Spiff. I'm definitely getting this game now!

[@ploptoken]

Developer: "If we put Spiff in the game, he'll be less likely to bash us on some of the unbalanced units. We can even have him voice his own character so maybe he will won't show off any exploits." Spiff: "Oh gawd this game is as balanced as a see-saw in an earthquake! Here is how to exploit it on the most difficult setting they have!"

[@user-bt7eo9kb9p]

pretty sure if got sponsored he'd exploit the company's game

[@redholm]

@@user-bt7eo9kb9p Paradox has basically been paying him to tear their games apart XD

[@user-bt7eo9kb9p]

@@redholm wow...

[@plasticexplosive]

It’s in beta so he’s just finding things for them to fix and make the game better when it comes out

[@Leyrann]

If anything the devs probably love this videos. They're of course entertaining, but they're also goldmines of information. What bugs exist? What exploits exist? Etc. Getting a professional game-breaker to play your game is the best way to find the issues.

[@harveydevenish-meares5470]

“No deal is better than a bad deal” Brexit flashbacks

[@ANunes06]

"We're reaching levels of oof previously thought to be impossible..."

[@UtopssAKAPJ]

Dam you got point

[@whoamitodisagree1217]

“We won’t be a part of the government’s majority, if we can’t follow all aims we have for the government.” Germany’s FDP flashbacks

[@HanSolo__]

@@whoamitodisagree1217 Random idiotic phrase with such an influence I had no idea about it, and Im from Prussia!

[@salted6422]

Schadenfreude - Europe in a nutshell.

[@KyleKazuma]

"No deal is better than a bad deal" British history in a nutshell.

[@nathanjora7627]

Funnily enough, « a bad deal is better than no deal » is French history in a nutshell XD

[@KyleKazuma]

@@nathanjora7627 Honestly, that's colonialism as well.

[@BurningFyre]

@@KyleKazuma yes, British history

[@KyleKazuma]

@@BurningFyre Don't forget King Leopold

[@nathanjora7627]

@@KyleKazuma Not really, I was referring to a series of really bad deals the French signed with the other European powers when they were actually victorious in the war, war mostly in Europe mind you so no colonization involved ^^

[@DillonHockett]

You know, I think I might actually kill for an episode where Spiff plays a game that he actually feels is perfectly balanced. I feel like the levels of reverse sarcasm would give me an aneurysm.

[@clintelkins9630]

Spiff: -exists- 99% of game devs: -screaming- These guys: Why not?

[@thetruegoldenknight]

Sounds like how I balance my tabletop RPGs. >:)

[@glacialimpala]

I'm still kind of wondering if it's just image manipulation and the Brit is not really in the game 😂

[@GMilkMan]

The person who Voiced Spiffing Brit in HumanKind should make a KZbin channel

[@TheBlueReverb]

Oh, of course, I feel like his content would focus around modding games and breaking them with several different kinds of exploits.

[@riskyworks]

@@TheBlueReverb And he should talk about Yorkshire tea a lot

[@hayokamikaze5896]

Hopefully Spiff makes another video on this game. It’s got DLC now so that’s probably Perfectly Balanced.

[@TerrakoFUN]

I feel that if Spif cann't break a game, it's no really a game xD

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@Sugondeese]

cann't

[@twothreebravo]

Spiff can break anything.

[@Sumirevins]

Yup that's why Brit can't Exploit *there is no game*

[@samuelastran6090]

Don't lose hope Spiff. There some of us non-brits who understood the Ferrero Rocher joke.

[@cooperp6429]

Since its not even a british thing, no wonder :D

[@CataStudies]

as long as you live in Europe you should easily get it.

[@Tasherenity]

@@CataStudies Not just Europe, we have them in Oz too

[@CataStudies]

@@Tasherenity Aussie are brits, but with a funkier accent.

[@Pigeonwhogotburnt]

@@CataStudies we got them here in the states

[@thetruegoldenknight]

They made you an ACTUAL CHARACTER IN THE VIDEO GAME?! Wow, that's some awesome dev recognition and it speaks to their ideals of "embracing" how "broken and unbalanced" their game is. I LOVE IT! Wish MORE devs, big AND small, would do this kind of awesomeness.

[@HarleyMaebry]

I’m not European, but I got that Pharerro Rocher joke. I’d suggest just calling it a Pharaoh Rocher, but doing so would imply I’m a coffee drinker who hates nice things, so I’ll remain quiet to avoid such scandal.

[@a.s3287]

Grüße aus Deutschland

[@HanSolo__]

Pozdrowienia z Polski.

[@senryokuu_yuno]

Im asian and i got it

[@PsydeON]

No sé qué dicen los comentarios de arriba pero la tuya por si acaso

[@HellsCaretaker]

@@a.s3287 Grüße aus Nordrhein-Westfalen 😉

[@bladecommando]

This many dad jokes sound like he's telling us he's having a kid.

[@aulvinduergard9952]

It's only a matter of time before "Human reproduction is perfectly balanced with no exploits."

[@dungeonmaster201]

@@aulvinduergard9952 Spiff: he son hear have some Yorkshire tea… Spiff Jr.. screw you dad with the power of delicious COFFEE I’ll show you how balanced life is.

[@ronantheunissen8233]

@@dungeonmaster201 the ultimate anime betrayal

[@riskyworks]

@@dungeonmaster201 balace is a perfectly balanced system with absolutely no exploits

[@Razbeariez]

The U.S. also has Ferrero Rocher so unfortunately, I also understood that joke. 😂

[@damirk3]

When you think game developer gives you to play closed beta because you are famous youtuber but in reality they use you to see all exploits

[@PhoenixofEclipse]

Before clicking the video: “I have no interest in this game but I’ll watch anything from spiff!” 30 seconds later: *sighs and pulls out wallet* “of course they put him in the game.”

[@corruptmfg5212]

I love that this is happening for you... I was on the fence about buying this but after seeing they gave you a spot in the game I absolutely have to buy

[@robertkirch4901]

I love the emphasis on terrible dad jokes. Simply spectacular.

[@Brian-tn4cd]

Spifftacular*

[@samwiseg9515]

F* yeah 10/10 for having you as a character, that made me so happy I just had to pause the video and let you know

[@ItsBofu]

They thought they might contain some of Spiff's power by imprisoning him within the game. How wrong they are, the fools. He's not trapped in your game. Your game is trapped with him.

[@ComXDude]

He's like a hydra that learned how to cut off its own heads.

[@connordarvall8482]

Humankind difficulty: The Spiff AI now exploits the game for infinite gold.

[@Neuroszima]

he DID NOT change the difficuly - 2:09

[@PentiSam]

Getting put into a game has gotta be one of the most satisfying things in the world to a gaming channel. I'm proud of Spiff!

[@mattensminger7539]

Spiff you are the reason I got this game. To just hear you when I need a good laugh through out my day!

[@nathangathercole6888]

The power of being in the game has gone to Spiff's head... he is making jokes with every other sentence...

[@isaacinsungjang2937]

Joseon is pronounced more like jo-sun and they are part of Korea's history FYI :) love your videos! Also will you be uploading a steam summer sale exploit soon? 👀🤩

[@J_dogV2]

Spiff that joke was not wonderful, it was perfectly balanced and exploited laughter for money

[@hayokamikaze5896]

There’s still fewer puns in this video than cups of tea Spiff drinks in an hour

[@eradian1]

Welp gg Amplitude you've officially sold at least one more copy with Spiff in the game

[@danielbroadhurst1319]

More Humankind videos please, is wonderful to see you break a game that you are in.

[@14tauscher]

I've been loving the "bad" jokes lately, it's a good brit.

[@teampigmen011]

Definitely more HUMANKIND videos. If this comes out on Xbox, I will play as spiff forever.

[@leshiq4214]

I didn't want to by that game & now I have to! Everyone needs a piece of Spiffing Brit :)

[@furrylunar2349]

"As balanced as a see-saw in the middle of an earthquake" ~Spiffing Brit 2021 The most hardest one liner this man has EVER said.

[@MedievalFolkDance]

One of the Huns most famous leaders was a farmer before his rise to power. He was Attila

[@chandlereasterday1396]

I really needed this today. Thanks for the laughter spiff

[@UtopssAKAPJ]

I'm thinking about buying the Perfectly Balanced mug just to drink coffee out of it 😈 Hardcore fans: "you monster"

[@Andreas_42]

I absolutely would if there were espresso sized mugs 😀

[@UtopssAKAPJ]

@@Andreas_42 🤣

[@PUREbecoming]

I already have. Hahaha

[@UtopssAKAPJ]

@@PUREbecoming Hahaha

[@jacob1983runner]

Spiff!!!! SAVE ME FROM THESE MONSTERS!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!

[@constc6721]

The Ferrero (Pharao) joke was realy brilliant 👌😂 greetings from Germany

[@jansenart0]

He who would pun would pick a pocket. * * clicks on Spiff's the Guild 3 video * *

[@TereusHecatonchires]

6:05 Yes Spiff! It was brilliant! I even actually laughed at that xD

[@albertgreene313]

we Yankees have farraro, but that pun was a something special.

[@jamesduncan5493]

Literally just heard that just before i scrolled and read your comment. Timing.

[@RovingTroll]

Dev 1:"Game's about to release. We need better QA testers." Dev 2: "I got just the guy..." Spiff: "You son of a bitch, I'M IN!"

[@mostdysfunctionalfamily2725]

I'm more amazed at the likeness of Lewis then anything else.. He looks a weird Moses version of himself and I'm mesmerised by it..

[@rhawkas2637]

4:27 Somehow "The Spiffing Egyptian" just doesn't have the same ring to it. XD

[@caveymoley]

"No deal is better than a bad deal" - *Excited Brexit noises*

[@xiaxiol4597]

Spiff are you becoming a father with all these dad jokes you've been throwing us

[@LukeJones-og5gw]

Spiff do you always play with your- oh sorry 'as' yourself when you play this game?

[@ComXDude]

Also with.

[@natedawg6755]

The comedy continues to evolve, don't ascend too quickly there

[@Da_Shark]

I see spiff waltzing about ordering "interns" around laughing the whole time as he exploits a few loopholes in the world economy by just randomly making very expensive things free......

[@malthekjrbendtsen194]

Humankind: is still i beta, and not yet balanced. Spiff: your loss!

The best joke about the Huns? Please. What did his wife tell Attila on their wedding night? I love you, hunny.

[@custink22]

Dude caught an upload in the first 30 minutes? Holy crap thats awesome!

[@JimAdventures]

I'm an East Coast USA boy, and I LOVE Ferrero Rocher choclates.

[@thelastfireturtle1828]

Crab

[@12.7x99mm]

@@thelastfireturtle1828 crab

[@Christian_Luczejko]

1:05 it's the Bristol Pusher himself! Mr. Lewis Brindley!

[@OmegaReaver]

"I wonder who was doing that voice that day. They sound fantastic!" No, they sounded... *Spiffing* .

[@RockmanSolid]

5:57 As someone outside of Europe who just had a nice Ferrero Rocher I can safely say that made my day

[@Pheuri]

Spiff is the reason I spend more money on Steam then on food, shelter or sadly Tea!

[@wombatpandaa9774]

I was already convinced that I wanted the game. They didn't need to put Spiff in as a playable character. But they did. And I love them for it.

[@blessingplate6368]

Spiff: now trust me this is a joke no one outside of Europe is gonna understand Me, a Canadian: *Am i a joke to you?**

[@garethsentry]

South Africans too

[@monkeyton5]

Australians and New Zealanders too

[@barnacsikos7343]

I have a weird kink. The voice of Spiff is so calming, usually these are the last videos i watch in the day. I never get to the end, and fall asleep around the advert xD

[@razorbitor]

These terrible puns make me want to kick Spiff’s Egypt-shins. *ba-dum tsss*

[@CeilingNinja]

3:23 "I have no idea what it is but it's a fun rainbow mountain." - Yea, that's about right.

[@DauntlessAdonis]

*PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT* "Remember to be drinking your warm cups of Yorkshire Gold tea ladies and gentlemen! 🍵🇬🇧"

[@EEEEEEEE]

@@thespiffingbrit Tea

[@Urahara451]

We must know more about the Spiffing AI. Does it try to routinely offer horrible trades? Does it somehow create an infinite loop in one turn when you’re not expecting it? Does it simultaneously declare war and peace on you? There’s so much potential

[@egg-roll8968]

Not sure about the USA but in Canada we have Ferrero Rocher's. Or am I missing the job here? I know he said Pharaoh.

[@erikmerckx2958]

Here's a fun exploit: you can only set one harbor district per territory, however if you have a culture with a harbor replacement district and you had already set up a harbor, you can also place it, and each cultures with a special harbor can place their own harbor. So if you move from the Carthaginians to the Norsemen to the Joseon, you can exploit ALL of your coastal waters for that sweet, sweet Joseon coastal science. (Although realistically, you'll just want to set up harbors, get the Norsemen, set up their Nauth get their unique naval unit and completely conquer the other completely uninhabited continent, then move on to the Joseon and enjoy the ridiculous science.) And also, harbors tend to be really great districts with all the food produced, and the infrastructures which boost all of your harbors. Also, I will note that you can get considerably more fame just by sticking longer with a culture and collecting ALL of its stars. I had something like 12k, but well I was also playing on a slightly easier difficulty so I could afford spending time in an earlier era researching no technologies because I absolutely wanted to set up my special districts everywhere...

[@orobanche]

The is a whole new level of playing with myself.

[@spacefonz949]

6:05 Spiff, we have those in the States too.

[@whatisausername99]

I like how they embrace the completely broken side of Civ 6 and turn it into a game

[@Snickarz]

There's not many content creators that can make me watch for 20 to 30 minutes. Keep up the cheeky, Tea fueled madness!

[@thrupence2125]

Biffa also drinks "Yorkershire Tea" aswell, (and he has "Yorkshire Tea" lorries in his lastest CS ideos)

[@doozy5184]

Spiff is the reason most games have patches

[@nikelsad]

He and Josh from "Let's Game It Out" =)

[@thememe5133]

Spiff is now exploiting humankind itself. He’s truly ascended

[@bdawgrise6961]

So your telling me spiff voiced a character? I’m buying it.

[@sokare7877]

I am absolutely loving the puns. Keep them coming.

[@carto4028]

I hope the AI is good on this game when i comes out. I want a genuine intellectual challenge.

[@TheTuttle99]

Lol wow look at this smart guy

[@RK-cj4oc]

@@TheTuttle99 He is the kind of person you can never satisfy. Make the AI too hard his "intellect" gets insulted and he will call it a bs game.Make it too easy and he will bitch about that.

[@carto4028]

W-what? What i say? i just dont want the AI to be dumb. Did i say something wrong? Im kinda bummed out now like damn why???

[@carto4028]

I just wanted a challenge thats all, is that so wrong to ask?

[@figglebottom8820]

@@carto4028 ya I hate when games just give the ai blatant advantages instead of making them smarter.

[@zacharyharwell351]

I as an American who is also a purveyor of dad jokes, loved AND hated that Ferrero Rocher joke. Well played Sir Spiff, well played.

[@SirJorb]

I like how Lewis is in the game too and there's absolutely no acknowledgement of it

[@kelvin1316]

"Closed bay-ta" bay-ta?! And you call yourself a Brit! 🤣🤣🤣

[@karlhenke91]

Is there any way to get Yorkshire Gold teabags with the little branded tag on them? My friend has two Yorkshire terriers, and for her birthday I wanted to laminate one of those tags. She would then put it on the dog that was her favorite at that time, and could swap it as that changed. For the life of me, I can't find teabags of Yorkshire Gold! Living in Alaska is likely the cause of that, though.

[@Tester-sh1mn]

Spiff Brit @ 2:04 “our boffins at spiffco found such a way” In other words: “Many boffins died for this information”

[@dotEX3]

I forgot to like the video and went to play Humankind, now my PC is dead and leaking Yorkshire Gold out of the water cooler!

[@CthulhuianBunny]

When it comes to games like these Spiff only needs one X: *EXPLOIT*

[@curbyourshi1056]

I don't even like vidya but for some reason I can't stop watching Spiffing Brit videos. Absolutely splendid.

[@christophervaughan7416]

I'm a simple thing I see man in hat and monocle drinking tea Being spiffy and serving the queen I click like You should too!

[@joeshabado1431]

I was wondering why this game was taking so long. Now I understand.

[@Thurokiir1]

"Balancing" the game would make it worse, just make all the races good!

[@thetruegoldenknight]

Except for one "master race" just to piss on the SJWs for laughs and KZbin clicks. And I got the perfect title: "Racism is perfectly balanced with no exploits."

[@Ken_neThT]

Oh my, Spiff is full of jokes today. The Ferrero Rocher joke got me XD

[@stephenhuelsman7555]

Non-european, understood that ferrero rocher dad joke, the pain and humor.

[@JJPM2]

Best skip ad moment ever. "To shape the future, we need to..." 4:46 "completely and utterly rush them with all of our units." XD

[@ZoobieDoodie]

Infinite gold?? This is something Todd Howard would dream up!

[@kevinvanbeek9848]

And even in his dreams, it would be a buggy mess :D

[@albinmagnusson4165]

Mango: *enters the room* Spiff: Hay hun, any knight-mares recently? Mango: No. Spiff: Don't you mean neigh?