Endless Mode Is EXTREMELY BROKEN! - Rack and Slay

Rack and Slay Part 3 - I was hopeful for an endless mode, and I figured runs like this would be why. Even then, I completely underestimated how insanely broken you can make yourself. Prepare yourselves for maximum buffoonery as we destroy this game.
Edited by: Dan White
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[@BananaWasTaken]

When Alexander looked upon the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.

[@venteo5472]

Yo why does that go so hard though

[@Geitungur]

​@@venteo5472Because it's (nearly) a quote from a Roman biography of Alexander the Great

[@joeflemo64]

imagine if alexander had domain expansion

[@mloxard]

Except this never happened It sounds cool because it was written to sound cool

[@Me12222]

@@mloxard i mean yeah no shit lol

[@lylelong3629]

"Phase one is complete. You survived phase 2 but can you survive phase 3." Bro became the boss

[@daniellaizekemoe1967]

45:21 timestamp

[@x3naurus]

Insane how I read this comment exactly as I got to that part too

[@anadvora]

At a certain point, it went from 'defeat the final boss' to 'you ARE the final boss' and I kind of love that for you. You even have combat phases for your opponents to survive. Incredible.

[@jo40p3dr0]

Not to mention the 28 extra lifes and the capacity of healing. Bro is playing a roguelike, but the enemies are playing a soulslike 😂

[@medic2310]

​@@jo40p3dr0 most underrated comment I've read in a long time! Bravo!

[@moslok4919]

​@@jo40p3dr0 I think it's more of a bullet hell than soulslike

[@Just_A_Dude]

Many years ago I coined the term "Soviet Boss Fight" to describe those situations... as in the old bit by the comedian Yakov Smirnoff "In Soviet Russia, Boss Fights You."

[@the_nick_knack]

I love when a roguelike's balancing is a little imperfect, so that it's technically possible to get a run where you cannot ever lose. It's fun stuff.

[@feha92]

you misspelled "perfect"

[@TheRealSkunch]

47:48 You can see the explosions on his webcam lmao

[@macmadness5932]

its beautiful

[@Opharg]

- 9:16 "This isn't going to be one of those busted builds" - Me, turning to my laptop, checking remaining time - Editor cutting to preview Comedy

[@maxbennett5412]

19:16 A great time for trench warfare.

[@jaredgaming5049]

Yes

[@jaredgaming5049]

46:58 Btd6 Reference🙀😱🙀😱🙀😱🙀😱😱🙀😱😱🙀🙀 Pop and Awe

[@Magenitech]

About 7:30: a circle’s radii are always perpindicular to the tangent line through them, so you don’t have to imagine the tangent line at all, rather you only need the line connecting the centers of the two balls, as that will automatically be perpendicular to the tangent between them.

[@itayvolk]

and people say we'll never use geometry after school

[@lukamiler5824]

Look at you, imagining balls instead of just looking at them and basking in their glory.

[@simonwillover4175]

I'm pretty sure everyone's brain interprets the perpendicular thing as just from 1 ball to the next. It also just makes sense if you imagine hitting something.

[@kiranaun9593]

Don't both these explanations imply that the direction of the player ball's momentum is irrelevant? I'm pretty sure collision point is only part of the equation, not to mention spin (although idk if this game has spin coded in)

[@kiranaun9593]

Scratch my last comment; it's occurred to me that this explanation is correct if and only if spin doesn't exist, and only for the second ball. It does work though.

[@gawain0]

The 7 ankhs also really ensured that you couldn't die.

[@thenumberpie314]

-- Roguelikes reunion -- Balatro (wearing a suit, very formal and everything) : to make sure my players keep their interest in me when playing endless mode, I make the requirement scale exponentially while the player can only scale linearly. Rack'n'slay (in a t-shirt, looks drunk and tired from last night) : This is cool and all, but uhh what if you kept the player interested by having THEM scale exponentially while the game barely scales linearly? Balatro (wondering who invited them) : This... doesn't make any sense. Rack'n'slay : CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

[@genio2509]

Balatro: and also let's add an end by limiting the integer capacity to 10^308 so players won't decide to spend 10 hours in one run and have fun in other areas Rack'n'slay:And the scaling of the game will work towards the players benefits as well, HAHAH isn't it funny? Balatro: awht

[@Tyranitar.]

Peglin (being dragged into the situation by Rack ‘N Slay, barely awake, wearing goblin costume from drunk DnD session): Waiwaiwait hold on whazz scaling??? You guys go forever??? I mean I don’d get very balanzzzed either but… eh?????

[@JamesTDG]

@@Tyranitar. We need an endless mode in peglin. I want to do inflinite pegging!

[@Johnny-tw5pr]

@@JamesTDG get your freaky ahh outta here

[@jis11]

Risk of rain 2: Hello, what's enemy scaling?

[@idklol309]

When you got 70 kills before the round even started, I believe it happened because a bomb spawned on an enemy because there was no space, resulting in a chain reaction.

[@stefandempf818]

He didnt even waste a shot on this

[@ArrestedShoe]

This video is the definition of "any build can be a good build if you get 20 of every item!"

[@Jackaboy3695]

33:21 Guys in the top-right are just exchanging gold constantly

[@joseph2922]

Thank u

[@thegamesquad5133]

i find this quite funny, like they're gambling

[@rojandyyyyyyyyy]

38:43 40:44 same in the bottom right

[@macmadness5932]

theyre practicing the art of the trade

[@amberbeaver2094]

i live at 7:30 where hes like "construct a tangent line where the balls meet and the enemy will go perpendicular to that and your trajectory will reflect off of that line" caus honestly my geometrical self found that tip really helpful

[@jasonc7620]

Alternatively, find where the balls will be on impact, draw a line that passes through both of their centers, and that is the trajectory the ball will travel in. Draw a line perpendicular to that, which passes through the center of the cue ball, and that is the trajectory the cue ball will travel in after impact.

[@thenumberpie314]

@@jasonc7620 I don't think the second sentence is right, since it doesn't take into account the angle at which the cue ball comes, which is used in determining the exit angle. I think a better idea is "don't care, shoot 150 bombs in a random direction, call it done"

[@jasonc7620]

@@thenumberpie314 good catch, I wasn't thinking correctly. Actually, if you take that perpendicular that I incorrectly said would be the cue ball's trajectory, and have that perpendicular line pass through the intersection of the two balls (essentially, the tangent that Tyler was talking about in the video), you can treat that line like a wall, and find the angle of incidence, which will match the angle of reflection, which then lets you find the cue ball's rebound trajectory.

[@thegamesquad5133]

@@jasonc7620 this doesnt work for balls of different weights afaik

[@jasonc7620]

@@thegamesquad5133 it does not, but most balls are the same weight in the game afaik, and in a real game of pool, I think all the balls are the same weight.

[@phoonfrags8765]

20:38 the contrast between the mini balls being a donkey and the stars aligning for the impale kill was crazy

[@AubreyMK]

48:03 "wheres the boss?" sir, you ARE the boss 😂

[@trutwhut6550]

I want their to be an enemy boss in a souls like who's just confused why the enemies stopped, before crazily calling you "my final boss to this act" abd starting his boss fight.

[@joeflemo64]

6:58 he died becuase he was on the booster tile after it was used at the end of round, it is like the spike wall if you land on it

[@dzonynajedzony]

When you break a game, you play it until you encounter technical difficulties. It is THEN when you've won a game.

[@nex7662]

Yup that’s the rules

[@benanathegreatest710]

I mean he beat a round before it started

[@TlalocTemporal]

​@@benanathegreatest710-- Almost. One shot clears are possible, so I wonder if clearing a stage in the menu opens two menus or crashes the game.

[@haassteambraker9959]

*flicks a deeply concerned look towards Tetris*

[@JamesTDG]

@@TlalocTemporal We MUST see this!

[@rickyfilion5290]

That was the most exciting run of all time. You gotta love when you get so OP the game beats itself without your input.

[@mambodog5322]

My theory on the balls that are slightly larger than others is from when they pick up a healing item, since enemies don't really have more than 1 hp, they just get bigger.

[@ceej5690]

yeah you can see it whenever they pick it up they do that. especially later

[@TalkingHeadProductions]

1) the reason some enemies got bigger was because they were hitting the healing items, similar to how they transformed when hitting the dice 2) i got to true endless on difficulty 10 and decided to go for either level 100 or the game crashing, whichever happened first. several times it got to the stage of "not responding", but it always pulled through. at level 100 i had hundreds of power ups, with my highest being over 150 of the "whoops" power, over 200 shots (i stopped buying anything in the shop around level 60, btw), i maxed out the gold at 9999999, and i had over 1.2 million % shot power i look forward to the inevitable rebalance

[@nickd-s]

Incredible, 10/10 run. Laughed so hard it hurt at "But can you survive Phase 3??"

[@furbyfubar]

On the off chance that any dev is reading this: First off, good job, this game looks really fun! The multiple stacking items are cool and feeds the chaos, but I feel like having "Gain a random item" as a thing you can *always* buy takes away player agency. At the very least it should *show* the card for the random items you get so you don't have to scroll around trying to figure out what just happened. Probably more of an issue once endless is a thing, but making what you get clearer would be good. Bonus items you gain from duplicator and such should also show the cards for the bonus items, or at least say "+3 from Duplicators", "+2 from Trinity" and so on on the original card that was duplicated.

[@RainMarrlen]

thought I’d mention Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers got an update that massively improved presentation

[@colintabor5656]

i think what happened at 48:16 was that Tyler spawned so many bombs and dealt so much damage that he effectively triggered an overflow error, thus causing the leftover bombs to instantly collide with the spawned enemies, and completely break the entire game. i'm just a guy who likes watching broken builds on youtube. i don't know what happened, i'm just guessing

[@Mohenjo_Daro_]

My guess is an enemy spawned in the spike circle around Tyler and exploded for the chain reaction

[@TheLefty5o2]

A perfect ending to showcase how powerful the run became.

[@tachrayonic2982]

One thing this looks like it suffers from is that a good run like this will always end up with you getting every single item in large quantities. It doesn't look like there can be much difference between god runs, they'll all end up like this. (Especially with random items being so prevalent) However, it does take a while to reach this point, and there are interesting choices to make on the way there.

[@JeffMakesGames]

At 6:53 - The reason the enemy died is because they stopped on a speed booster/teleport pad. When those re-activate for the next shot, any enemy sitting on one will be instantly killed. Probably done so to avoid glitches.

[@draconian5414]

If I was in this situation, I'd keep going until the game crashes

[@floppabunger5705]

Bro the intro looked fucking crazy Edit: holy shit I got to the part in the intro and I fell like Dan should have put a flashing light warning

[@lorax2076]

It will go more wild, in endgame, there's 2 item called "magic fork" and "make it count", which make it absurbly broken in endless mode cause they give pernament item pick up, I reached a point of clean entire board of enemies with just 1 shot only

[@SirNikzu]

​@@lorax2076 I think tyler beat your 1-turn rounds by nearly beating the next round before it began :D

[@lorax2076]

@@SirNikzu It happens really often in endless run btw, also, I reached a point of buying anything give me more coin, shot power at 400k%

[@pizzabros-ym5lo]

It seems I am blind

[@PaulyPop]

Happy Canada Day 44:47 !

[@Elimino_P]

Really impressed that the game didn't crash in all of that.

[@moonlightlord6494]

The ending was truly a definition of clusterfuck

[@tallspy7150]

I have to wonder if endless mode wasnt in the og, because this is expected to happen every time.

[@Ludokultur]

Not every time but it's very possible. After all though, endless is there FOR the wacky chaos sandbox machine. If you're looking for tight challenge, just start the next run. :D

[@anorbinspace51]

This guy has a bigger library of games then I ever will

[@fibbdably6907]

Any roguelike that has an endless mode: "Either you die a protagonist, or you live long enough to see yourself become the boss."

[@snoopymccloud1875]

What a perfect ending!

[@mr.m.t.j.m6003]

48:17 ahem……..KABOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!😂😂😂 To be honest the developers did saw this and said,you know what I am sick of making games. Let’s make the player become the final boss. We will add endless mode to them to literally create their own final boss, because I am tired at my work😂😂😂

[@ben0329]

Would definitely love to see more of this game!

[@Nikkins]

just found you a couple days ago! your editing style is unique, clean, concise, and just plain wonderful. I look up to dan as an editor and you as a creator.

[@hologaster]

I like how everything thing is just gone the instant when he takes a shot.

[@goodie2goodie1]

24 red balls VS THE UNMATCHED POWER OF THE SUN BEGIN "PLEASE NO~" KAAABOOOM

[@lautarosilvapizzi8120]

It's been a while since I have laugh as hard as I laughed at the end of the video when all the chaos was happening. Absolutely hilarious

[@robloxianwasdude]

6:48 bro had enough 💀 The traumatization of the events and deaths occuring around him finally caught up 🙏😭

[@AlphactoryAT]

I would have watched a 4 hour vod of this lol - more please

[@KthW]

Whoever is responsible for the editing in this video: absolute congratulations

[@is_a_cool_guy]

He carpet bombed the intro

[@TheCat_3]

truly satisfying, thank you rack and slay

[@EvilDME]

In the end it straight up looked like a gamblecore edit

[@MaidenOfAir]

Hey tyler! A few years back you were sponsored to play a game called Nova Drift, and it's getting a 1.0 release real soon! Would highly recommend checking it out if you enjoyed the game, it got a *lot* of new content since you played, including a final boss in 1.0

[@thegamesquad5133]

I would enjoy watching that some more as well, since he stopped abruptly after a 3rd video but seemed to enjoy it.

[@MaidenOfAir]

@@thegamesquad5133i think that’s because it became a stream-only game (Tbh the format of the game is a lot better for streams). Anyway, as much as I want Tyler to play it, if you just want to see more nova drift gameplay, go to the channel Ultra C, they’ve done 2 nova drift videos every week since 2019

[@memesalldayjack3267]

when Tyler explained how to calculate the direction the enemy ball will go, i kinda got interested in knowing how to calculate where your ball will go

[@mrpurple3611]

so many peak references there, props to the editor

[@themanofquagga]

Oh my god, Tyler's editors are insane, the fuckjg. Teeth reference. Im both ashamed that I recognized it and in awe that they were brace enough to reference that on youtube.

[@P3an0t]

hell yeah, i love this game

[@mloxard]

20:58 WHAT A SHOT! damn 😅

[@christinafrazier1364]

Nice to see a return to blooms tower defense. Nothing like a screen of explosions.

[@superkiller5002]

I find it funny and a bit ironic that near the end Tyler calls his enemies "nerds"

[@conorgilligan8851]

"Bro stop it's forbidden" absolutely sent me.

[@connorrogerson7675]

I think they should increase the damage taken by falling in the pit and spikes in endless

[@ChristmasPterodactyl]

What does that improve?

[@icecream5125]

@@ChristmasPterodactylthe damage of pits and spikes in endless

[@Hexcede]

​@@ChristmasPterodactylthe damage taken by falling in the pit and spikes in endless

[@ronanh.9261]

This is the most insane thing I have ever seen.

[@happycryingcat3101]

what I would do is just go As long as you can, I would watch a 3-hour stream of just this chaos

[@jaykay1074]

Tyler was blinded and lining up a shot and I’m thinking where the heck is he aiming at that’s not gonna… and sinks it 😂 turns out he just had a different hole in mind.

[@Scuuurbs]

“By the power INvested in me” 😂

[@Smenchevieve]

44:46 Haha lol it actually is the 4th of july when Im watching this

[@soy1119]

lol i think this is the happiest ive seen tyler in awhile

[@CoolCheese372]

The begging: "I don't wanna get TOO much shot power." Now:

[@sitaandini8584]

42:30 yes you might be correct the same type of ball there is different sized

[@dshadows2966]

His shot power.... it's over 9000!

[@ReiTheSilly]

Don't you just love when the indie rougelike game is juuuuust imperfect enough with scaling so there's a point where you're just, UNABLE to lose even if you tried

[@thedarkshine4409]

Bro beat the game so hard that he beat a level on the menu

[@ericheft6184]

Endless mode added a lot to the game play. Games go from short 5-10 min things to 40+ minutes of lets see how long it takes me to kill everything in one shot.

[@PoneDtheGuy]

Buying more shots seems to just make endless unloseable

[@Just_A_Dude]

Fitting that you stopped it when your power was over 9000.

[@blahdishma8369]

this is cool

[@ananimateddinosaur6062]

I would keep going until my PC breaks

[@MrBlbll]

Avoiding "random item" modifiers could bring in "themed run"

[@art0007i]

You should maybe try this game called cube chaos. It's a pretty fun rougelike which also can allow for crazy builds like this

[@egg-1863]

Hi Tyler❤ I’m getting Inscryption later

[@jerecakes1]

rack and slay! :D really nice(to watch) the game especially seeing how different creators handle their shots and that endless run LMAO glad to see it also has its fun side

[@CrismonWissroben1227]

Okay... I feel like "That's" going to be the best Rack & Slay run ever! #ThanksDevs

[@biljanajaneva8019]

He became more of a boss than the actual bosses

[@Billi84-MaBoi]

48:19 My phone died right here, so it was like the game crashed my phone 😂

[@anotheramber7074]

I was really hoping the editors would make it so the explosions then happened on the end screen like they did in the menu

[@gingeral253]

Duplicator and other item giving items are crazy

[@omegahaxors3306]

It's fucking weird how pool balls have skeletons but snakes don't.

[@UltimatePerfection]

Rack and Slay is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits.

[@etmason]

what if the next natural disaster was me? -technoblade

[@cod-the-creator]

my dude is mathsplaining pool angles

[@whitericeallday]

we do a lil dopamine frying 😆

[@progmanrob]

Yeah, I quit after like 60-70 rounds. Shot speed of 3500% and everything just explodes in one flash of bright light. Sometimes, the enemies blew up on the next level while picking shop items, leaving an empty arena of blood. lol

[@supportive_comment]

This game would be cool if the map got bigger or if the design of the map changed. Like if there was an L shape map, or a map with a ladder to a balcony area, or a map separate in two by a signualar bridge, etc.

[@aboi6145]

Truly, the Oppenheimer class.

[@dennishara9641]

i would like to see team fight manager played by an intellectual like you please

[@somecompletemoron]

the Blackjack powerup seems easily abuseable, as it might work on bosses. That way, you could just straight-up eliminate the "kill this enemy last" mechanic

[@reinkdesigns]

its rare when endless mode makes a game easier not harder

[@wingman4008]

Maybe marking a new mode where it’s run by 9 ball rules would make it harder. Have x number of enemies (like how it is now) but now they are numbered themselves instead of just being the boss which is now a 9 instead of an 8. But everything marked as a lower number than the next has to be killed first like the boss, so you take down three 1s before getting to four 2s, etc. just an idea incase the dev looks at these vids and the comments ig

[@lordgenerias]

I'm gonna dub the final build "Super America".

[@akuraitanen]

I never wanted this run to end

[@akuraitanen]

Or "I wanted this run to never end". idk

[@cheeromatic]

When the patch arrived next week, we know who's responsible for all the nerf the dev made XD

[@Swrx_twix2]

A LITTLE TO THE LEFT HAS GOTTEN AN UNDATE

[@jaydenly8153]

What happen at the end there? How did a bomb go off in the shop