The Final Mission of Act 1 (And Our Preview!) // CAPES

[@theyoutubehammer6530]

Sad we have to wait, I am looking forward to the rest of this game!

[@Wizard_Level_1]

Facets shield guard could have been really helpful. It can negate all the damage from one attack, so he could have just stood in front of Crashdamage and used the shield. If he cant use it on himself, an ally could essentially become a tank with shieldguard. Sheildguard + Fade should theoretically cancel out 2 attacks. In fact, Fade probably makes Rebound a better boss tank than Facet. All in all, I think I'd like to see Facet get a bit of a rework. With no way to regenerate health, and Crystalize only reducing damage a certain amount instead of negating it, and that he charges his ult by taking hits puts him in incredibly dangerous situations and creates more of a liability than an asset. He has to take so much damage before charging his ult, it just isn't worth it.

[@banaroklionrage9536]

I mean just crystalize on crashdamage and don't stand in a cardinal direction and he can't damage you and need to pick up a rock, so with 3 actions each turn you essentially stun him letting you use weatherwane, mindfire and facets other action to handle the mobs.

[@nicku1564]

I'm wondering if in main game you'll get a healer hero

[@Wizard_Level_1]

@@banaroklionrage9536 Crystalize is a defensive ability. If you're talking about the ability that prevents movement, Crashdamage is immune to those effects.

[@Kreence]

​@banaroklionrage9536 you probably should watch episode 1 again. Crashdamage is immune to those kinds of effects

[@evilbob840]

Facet can't shield guard himself, only allies.

[@evilbob840]

I noticed weathervane's push says it pushes enemies, but pull says it pulls anyone. He might have been able to pull the downed ally out of the way of the mob coming in.

[@SqueakingLion]

So, in regards to fire damage, there are two types: on fire, and standing in a fire. If a goon is simply on fire but isn't in the fire that set him on fire, he takes the normal burn damage of .5 damage. But if he's standing in the fire, the goon is both on fire and standing in the fire, so he takes full damage for both. Blowing up a fire barrel, shoving a bad guy into that fire, and then using Growth to stick him in place.... nasty combo there. :)

[@aaronudelhoven383]

Few things: 1) Don't thin out the mobs on Weathervane's side of the map. You should be able to chain lightning and ult every single turn. Every time you thin out the mobs, you are just slowing down his ult charging. You can tell the map is set up for this by virtue of the fire and number of mobs on that side. Lean into it. 2) Move your yellow hero to kill the mob who can't be backstabbed. Rebound should be able to backstab the other to death. That clears one whole side of the board. 3) Shield Shard Facet. He should have enough health then to keep tanking for longer.

[@PaulDozierZZoMBiE13]

Imagine you see a superpowered person, and decide to run at them with a pipe. lmao. Gotta love "goon" logic in game/comics/movies. I was gonna skip any more of these, but then I read that this is the end of your series for now. Eager to play this game! Thanks for showing it off. Love it

[@exequielgaleano9947]

I'm eager to watch the rest of this series, it's already proven to be awesome! Quite the challenge on that mission and they seem to keep on getting sweatier. Lots of thanks for this one, Odd!!! Congrats again for being the first to show this incredible game! 😁

[@cmike123]

For Weathervane's second turn, you push the one guy back, do chain lightning, then you should have enough charge to ult. They then have to all walk through fire to get to their targets... My dog thinks I'm crazy because I keep yelling "PUSH!!" lmao.

[@jakewilson5418]

That was great, looking forward to seeing more when this comes out. Congrats on the exclusive.

[@mattpenn9079]

Geninely sold me on the game! Wishlisted it and can't wait.

[@kellymurphy1098]

So, your mistake here was in the beginning stage. You kept putting Facet adjacent to Crashdamage because you figured he'd just charge anyway, but all you really had to do was hit him with growth and then step to a diagonal from him. At that point he can't move, and there's no one for him to charge at. The charge only worked because it's an attack, not technically a move, the growth was still taking his move action. By doing that, Facet would have the health to tank all the little guys, and you could keep disarming Crashdamage until you got the bonus objective, and cleaning up the mooks would be way easier because you have Facet still capable of tanking instead of being a sneeze away from death after taking two punches from Crashdamage. I mean, I could be wrong, but that seemed like the play.

[@kawapatch]

He's 50% immune to immobolise from growth so that wouldn't work. Odd found that out during his first encounter at the beginning of the game which is why he didn't even bother considering it.

[@kellymurphy1098]

@@kawapatch In that case you just have to put another hero in punch range and shield them each turn.

[@kawapatch]

@@kellymurphy1098 Yep that'd probably work

[@MrEkor69]

Facet should be consistently casting shield shard on himself. I'm not sure why you never use it that way.

[@thegrandwombat8797]

Don't think you can, unfortunately

[@joshh7819]

​@thegrandwombat8797 but he could use fade to negate the attack from crash

[@jaywerner8415]

He can't, but Fade can become a "dodge" Tank.

[@joshh7819]

@jaywerner8415 if fade uses fade and facet used shield shard, would she be able to absorb 2 hits?

[@bralius]

Yikes! Thanks for the fun watch, I feel your pain with the difficulty and appreciate your stubbornness lol. I think the game is more designed for keeping Rebound and Mindfire close to Facet for the damage boosts which is multiplied by Vulnerable. Shield shard seems like it can be exploited to keep a squishy close and draw an attack from Facet. Loving the content, I think your XCOM fears are bleeding over to your superheroes ❤

[@wjwoodget01]

Loved this! Please play more of this!!!

[@meilinchan7314]

Hopefully it will prove to be more passable than Showgunners, which felt a bit of a rush job.

[@two2truths]

@@meilinchan7314 I thought Showgunners was pretty fun!

[@dachshund_gaming]

I wish tactical games like this had replay features that lets us see the battle play out in real time

[@GameOverV1]

1:02:55 Noticed a bit of *lore* scroll along the ticker during the "News" alert here. _"College football star still missing after freak thunderstorm during match."_ Clearly a line referring to recent addition Weathervane. Would be cool to see if more bits like that are sprinkled in for the others as the full game plays out.

[@RichieDcik]

You shouldn’t move facet into range of 2 enemies that won’t otherwise do anything turn 1 in an extended fight like this where every damage matters. Definitely think disarming the boss and kill the 2 henchmen near him is the play. Shard shield is a great skill, especially when facet’s other skills are lacklustre. 51:38 If you move facet a square right ult hits the guy with the gun you just disarmed, he will spend a turn getting out of facet ult and another picking up the gun, moving up hits no one else. Kill the ranged characters first as you have skills to Cc the melee guys

[@bastian_1991]

As far as I could see, you don't provoke Attacks of Opportunity if you're BEHIND the enemy directly, which you could have used in this fight before throwing Faucet's ultimate

[@bastian_1991]

Also I'm not sure Rebound provokes attacks of opportunity, does she?? she teleports too fast to get hit.

[@DrDirtyNoGood]

Awesome stuff Chris!! Can’t wait for launch!! Thank you for the content sir!!

[@PoeLemic]

Loved preview. I can't wait until game is released, because I plan to buy it now. Never heard of it, but you've sold it to me. This is a great game and very fun looking. Hope it's fair-priced.

[@Bearclaw27]

Odd, you've done it again! Thanks for building up my hype for a game I hadn't heard of before you. This looks like an awesome XCOM-like, and the UI reminds me a lot of Chimera Squad which is a good thing. The comic book dialogue boxes really sell the aesthetic, too.

[@ReinReads]

Can’t wait for this to come out to see you do a full play through.

[@PoeLemic]

Also, as I said below, because of watching your gameplay, I bought this game. And, I couldn't get through this level, so I am rewatching how you did it. This is the HARDEST LEVEL yet.

[@NeoN-PeoN]

Holy frick! Are you on like, UBER hard mode? That map is insane!!

[@letir7561]

Shield shard and Fade is much better trick than facetanking. You should wean off from always using Facet as facetank (pun intended), he has big arsenal of crowd control moves and shield which is extremly useful in 1 vs 1 situation. And you have Rebound to take care of gunners.

[@kolosmenus]

9:30 I'm pretty sure the burn damage gets applied instantly whenever you touch a space with fire, that's why they were hurt more. They moved through it. 0,5 damage is what you get when you're already burning and don't move through fire again.

[@pbsixgun6]

Yep, seems that way.

[@Frubs97]

What noooo! I hoped you had the whole game! So sad to have to wait this long

[@Oni1975]

Thanks for this series. Am I the only one who got a bit of satisfaction from the UI click sound effects? lol

[@jhandschin86]

I'm so excited to see the next episode when you read the release date, I thought "heck, I only have to wait a week", but it's May 29 😭

[@Rawmon94]

Great game! Would love to see more soon! You can use growth to block pathways as well, seemed to me you forgot that maybe, i think it could've had a lot of utility :)

[@raider363]

This is definitely a really cool game. I'm looking forward to release! I hope there's good replay value as well where you can maybe focus on different capes for different runs or something.

[@Killavolta]

For whoever people waiting for this game to release, just try another game "TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children" - this have been already very good TBS with super heroes and wonderful plot, very polished. You can easily spend there 500+ or even 1000 hours and have fun all the way. IDK why big youtubers like Odd pass on such game...

[@neojazex]

Will be interesting to see where this game lands in terms of replayability and tactical depth/builds. Hoping its closer to Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children than Xcom: Chimera squad

[@two2truths]

not even having ONE type of heal per mission is rough man! wow

[@PoeLemic]

Yeah, I was wondering why none of the characters can heal or will heal for you. Maybe, that's a future character.

[@westonbrousseau6208]

So hype for the full series!!

[@KizerMoore]

I don't get why Mercurial kept hiding instead of just running away lol. She so much faster than them, that's her whole thing, she coulda just left at the start lol

[@PoeLemic]

Agreed, but you gotta think like a kid and go back to "comic book" land -- that we all grew up in.

[@KizerMoore]

@@PoeLemic lol true. I kept trying to suspend my disbelief, then she ran to the other side of that wall and could have easily just kept running lol. When she started hiding I'm like Damn Mercurial do you wanna get caught???? 🤣🤣🤣

[@DParkerNunya]

We saw before that she can be cornered (the reason the fight at the gym even has her is because she can't just leave), so perhaps she was trying to find an opening to book it, and then CD just caught her off guard

[@Mrmastersterruser]

We have to wait a month until this continues? Oh but that wait will be great. Cant wait until then. I would highly appreciate if this continues as a full letsplay. This game and how you play it is great.

[@Mark-AnthonyJ]

Currently living for these episodes!

[@PoeLemic]

Same here. I hurried back to watch every one of them. To me, after watching this, this game is a definite buy. I've wanted something good like this after Xcom.

[@Kyravexa]

My suggestion: Knock out the two goons who attack Facet with before you attack the Big Man, so Facet doesn ´t have to take their hits, too.

[@cyansays13]

The game looks great. I loved the playthrough. It seems very Xcom - Chimera Squad based on the battle style. It’s more puzzle game than strategy game, imo.

[@Lyden.]

I think mindfires double ultimate focus thing is if you somehow manage to charge it to full again on that turn he could use it again. Just my thoughts

[@pbsixgun6]

Might be something he can do later when he has much more power?

[@gri22lybear]

I just pre-ordered the King City Edition for my PS5. 😃

[@kctheshadowman9651]

I know it’s already too late but bro they took extra damage because they were walking through the fire, the damage overtime plus, that was what was killing them

[@fencerdurandal1716]

The entire time I was screaming at the screen: use Rebound's combo with Mindfire! But nope. I don't even think Odd knows what it does. Literally front-stab people. Would have been perfect at 58:16, for example.

[@javiernovoa8756]

Can't to watch and play this at launch. It's got some hard objectives that I really enjoyed you previewing.

[@captainstroon1555]

The company just threw Crashdamage under the bus, huh? Or under the train in his case.

[@TANK1xEMK]

yea as soon as i saw the ninetndo switch thing i was more interested. this is a handheld game for sure

[@cmike123]

I hate to be negative nancy, but I can already tell Odd is not going to use teamwork (at the 4 minute mark).

[@Mythe88]

Very cool strategic game, it just needs a little more oomph in the music during missions. Also, facets really needs some healing option. He just tanks for the first part of evert mission then he's just gimped.

[@richardrobinson971]

This game looks great odd. Think you need to tank crash damage with either fade or shield. Rather than just taking it. Can fade be used on others?

[@banaroklionrage9536]

Fade is just her, honestly crystal shielding with facet and facetanking with a shielded mindfire is valid, while facet keeps the goons busy.

[@allanpeter7700]

Im not sure how Afro works but you should utilize shield shard or fade to decrease damage from crash damage to 0, at least that’s what it says in the description

[@blaked7532]

I might pick this up on switch for a strat game on the go.

[@busybard]

Great mission!

[@DSMTyralion]

Rebounds Disarm removes two, if I am not mistaken.

[@joshh7819]

Did you think to use fade as a way to soak the hit from crash? It negates an attack right?

[@banaroklionrage9536]

It does, but probably better to use facets shield ability on mindfire or something and block with that since that also absorb a hit, rebound kind of need to damage stuff or you'll get worn down.

[@joshh7819]

@@banaroklionrage9536 I get that. I'm talking about the initial instance to soak only crash. Save the hp of facet

[@keithandrewsfineart3417]

While this looks really cool, I’m disappointed it doesn’t seem to have as much replayability as an XCOM

[@jaywerner8415]

Well, once thing is for sure, Facet need some sort of Rework. Cus unless you get a HEALER hero, he can only TANK so much damage before dropping dead (which on this difficulty is a FAIL condition). Cus the thing is, Rebound once she gets "fade" she can effectively do the SAME THING Facet does but better long as you only do 1 attack then use "Fade". Their is a very obvious DAMAGE Combo on Facet, which is putting a Growth behind someone then Crystal Punching them into it. Odd, READ Mindfire's ability more CLEARLY! All Awareness does is give you ONE EXTRA ACTION, also allows you to use any ability AGAIN OR use your ULT with said action. You can NOT use the ULT twice because the ULT has to charge up by doing damage, it spends the energy when you use it the first time. Edit: the only other way to use Facet as a "defender" is to constantly pop his Shield Shard on his allies.

[@TobiasAlias]

NB// SOMEONE SHOULD BASE AN OPEN WORLD RPG GAME BASED ON THE SERIES OF HEROES!

[@darkfang347]

Can Facit sheild guard himself?

[@pbsixgun6]

Was it possible to pull Quicksilver away from the enemies?

[@pbsixgun6]

Shield sharding her was always an option but just moving her out of the way would have been interesting also.

[@PFCIceman]

I think the cinematics would’ve been better if they used the same cartoony style for them instead of the goofy one they chose.

[@PoeLemic]

Sorry but I don't get what you mean. I thought the cut-scenes and interactions were great, especially with the characters lit by a light. Very innovative and simple.

[@PFCIceman]

@@PoeLemic I mean the game would’ve looked better if they used the cartoony style for everything. The other style the use is weird and some of the characters don’t even look the same. It was a weird design choice to go with. That’s my opinion on the matter anyway, you can agree or disagree with it.

[@Wordgoblin]

I hope they improve on the impact of abilities and sound. Everything just seems so lifeless and unsatisfying.

[@acesburned]

Odd I love your content but seriously you need to play more defensive you are way too focused on DPS especially when two of your characters have an ability to take no damage from an attack and you just won't use it, between Shield shard and fade it really should have been a cakewalk.

[@argelfraster2]

I’ve been watching this dude since the beginning and it’s taken all this time to get him to actually do damage and not spend 10 mins agonizing before just clicking over watch. The last thing he needs it to play defensively. lol

[@acesburned]

@@argelfraster2 there's a difference between spamming OverWatch because you're too cautious and ignoring mechanics that are there to help your characters survive

[@MrCillaKam]

I will say this you played parts of the game a bit too cautious like an X-com game. This game doesn't have the 100 percent to hit and then flat-out miss. Also, I think you under utilize someone like Facet especially that growth ability. That has a lot of crowd control potential you missed. Otherwise fun series.

[@wyomingsioux]

Based on the early trailers, I was considering trying this game. I’ve long been partial to turn based tactical titles in the vein of X-Com and Jagged Alliance. And I don’t have anything against the superhero genre, saturated as it is. However, after watching actual gameplay, I think I’ll pass. The presentation just isn’t to my taste- not the art-style, not the writing, not the story, not the character design, and not even the powers. Rebound, in particular, looks like a pixie hobo ninja. Or is that a ninja hobo pixie? And the men, with their muted, bland-looking costumes, don’t fare any better. I get that the devs are going for a “low-rent”, urban look, but I personally prefer superhero attire to have some visual flair. Either way, Odd’s playthroughs are valuable-sometimes they unexpectedly sell me on a game (like Lamplighter’s League, which I ended up buying at full price despite the lukewarm reviews) and sometimes they save me a potential refund. That being said, I hope for the game to succeed and suspect that it will find an audience.

[@giampaolomannucci8281]

man, this fight is way too tight, seems like there's only a couple of ways to solve it they need to loosen up the difficulty a bit

[@gavinpowell4607]

I dont see a single cape.

[@BurakUeda]

Interesting concept but their skills and powers are a bit underwhelming. I mean, you have superpowers and a regular human thug kills you in two hits with a lead pipe.

[@jeremyfredenburg3827]

Game seems rather generic but that's not bad for me...I know you yourself aren't "anti innovation" but I have never seen u complain when a system is very similar to older games with older systems...I am ok with that when it's something that I like...I'm ok with just more of that...make it fluid clean and fun and I don't care if it is reinventing the wheel or not....

[@X13337X]

SBI Detected NO BUY

[@TobiasAlias]

NB// SO I FEEL LIKE YOU SHOULD STOP TALKING LIKE A LITTLE SCHOOL GIRL FROM TIME TO TIME! LMFAO!

[@trickygaming3211]

is it just me or these early videos defeats the purpose of promoting a game. If the game is already spoiled for me I won't buy it. Just something to think about?

[@mischaavros5444]

Complete opposite for me. The only games I buy are ones I've already had a chance to see. I insist on knowing what I'm getting.

[@Stefiou974]

Getting spoiled and getting a preview are two different things.

[@trickygaming3211]

@@Stefiou974 so which is this then? no offense to Odd but 6 videos the gameplay is already spoiled. "Act 1" is done. Why do i need to buy this game now?

[@Stefiou974]

@trickygaming3211 Is there someone pointing a gun at your face telling you to watch them all right now ? Blink twice for yes 💀

[@ludvigwatte4924]

For acts 2 and 3, duh!

[@rickk972]

stop talking mess around

[@jonathancatron5641]

The game is so dumb and unbalanced it makes no sense