Engineering a city AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA in Surviving the Abyss!

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Is this Atlantis better than my Cities Skylines version? Check out Surviving the Abyss here: play.paradoxinteractive.com/EngineerAbyss Thank you to Paradox Arc for sponsoring!

[@ultimatewill5283]

Question. Did you do a my uni life in 60 seconds thing cause I found one on Vimeo for a guy called matt

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

@Ultimate Will Counter question: Does he sound like me? 😂

[@ProfaneGod]

You can tell an architect designed those structures because animals in dark places like the abyss of the ocean are attracted by light so what do they do put as many powerful lights on the outside of the structures as possible lmao.

[@merafirewing6591]

Unfortunately Atlantis might be both an engineering and architectural achievement.

[@ccmhelfmann5113]

Matt this game looks awesome I hope the development team let's you test it more

[@AbsalomIndustries]

Matt: Builds a mine on an infinite coal deposit Also Matt: Pulls the worker off the mine because he "has enough coal" Also also Matt: Oh No, I'm running out of coal, where do I find more?!?!

[@martinlatorre5535]

I know it’s part of his charm but honestly RCE’s way of doing things really stresses me out skjfnsiefjn, i mean the tunnels were killing me

[@Bennicilline]

i know right, it really bugged the heck out of me

[@areyouateenager1040]

it's all fun and games until it becomes Infraspace all over again... we remember the endless traffic... the overpopulation... followed by underpopulation

[@thomasphillips885]

I think it's part of his plan, frustrate us so much we decide we can do a better job of the layout, and buy the game

[@randogrils]

Sameeee it feels so stressful looking at thoose tunnels 😂

[@ethansenter5298]

@@thomasphillips885 not gonna lie he’s pulled that off with me at least once already.

[@aerodynamance]

I just want to majorly shout out to your editors! They add so much detail to the videos that don't just make the video more entertaining, they make me feel like I am experiencing the game as Matt does. The close calls, the jokes, the true engineering ideas (and sometimes the architect level ideas tbh), I feel like I experienced these as RCE experienced them.

[@scottishduck88]

RCE during Timberborn: Let's fast forward through night time. No one likes to play a game with day/night cycles. RCE: Well, I guess that's one way to avoid the night cycle - just make it all night all the time.

[@squishninj7827]

Matt needs to play Subnautica I want to see the amazing bases he makes that are engineered to perfection 😂 Edit: so apparently he already has but it seems like everyone wants a season 2

[@jesseweber5318]

Shitting himself when he sees a leviathan may not be good for his current condition.

[@jmacku35]

He did this

[@Papershields001]

So strongly shaped…

[@youknowwhat3563]

I agree

[@youknowwhat3563]

Let's get this comment maxed likes so it can be seen

[@kaboom2k312]

Your tunnels are rather.... architectural

[@taylor....]

All that curved Glass & artistic layout

[@morgan0]

hopefully the devs update it to make adding tunnels like, require more energy or air or something so you have to actually make them efficient and as short as possible, or walking time reducing efficiency of stuff

[@MarImpObsc]

You know what you're implying right now-

[@German_New_State]

🤨

[@Bluewizard55]

You were ment to destroy the architects, not join them!

[@graham1034]

This is basically underwater Frostpunk with a bit of Surviving Mars tacked on, which makes sense given they're all Paradox games. Will definitely pick this up and fill in the time waiting for Frostpunk 2. Also I like how there is a coral reef nearby. You know those reefs that are kilometers deep in the ocean.

[@tarrantwolf]

They kinda built a shallow sea floor then put it a few thousand meters down didn't they

[@tanagerbirds]

cold reefs DO exist, and are frequently pretty deep down!... this doesn't look anything like one though lmao

[@graham1034]

@@tanagerbirds interesting. I can see cold water, but 7km deep is crazy

[@TheMajorStranger]

Last city at the bottom of the sea didn't end so good.

[@isturbo1984]

This just makes me want a Bioshock city builder

[@monad_tcp]

yes, it just need more art deco and bam

[@TheSmartboy64]

I thought the same thing. And with the boom of city/colony builders right now its the perfect time.

[@iris4547]

being that rapture is like an early/mid 1900's new york style city under water, mostly skyscrapers and such (or being they are under water is it more accurate to call them surfacescrapers?) it wouldnt really work if every single function building was massive. could open up possibilities such as combining simtower elements where you place a skyscraper and then you construct the interior floor by floor like in simtower.

[@JanTuts]

My very first thought was that this game could just as easily have been called something like "BioShock: Raising Rapture".

[@erdojan13]

I like how the seamen move trough the most efficient tunnel network

[@Tyuf_]

the seamen seem to be quite experienced in traversing through tubes

[@queenthot1438]

i have severe thalassophobia and often have nightmares about cities on the ocean floor. i wasn’t expecting this game to be horror, but it certainly feels like it lol

[@John73John]

So you're burning coal... under water... before you have a source of oxygen... That's some architect-level reasoning if I ever heard of it.

[@Fjordur_]

This game shows the benefits when architects and engineers comes together for the greater good

[@monad_tcp]

that's basically the plot of Bioshock.

[@TheAquabears]

How did you run out of coal? I thought that the first thing you discovered was an infinite supply.

[@Boss_Man1371]

He pulled the worker and forgot about it

[@soral94]

Paddy's derp montage was something I needed today! Thank you editor 💜💜

[@jawsfishy22]

Matt couldve said a lobster but instead a scorpion under the sea

[@tarrantwolf]

So a... sea scorpion, a eurypterid.

[@sakura2646]

This reminds me of that one video where you made atlantis in Engitopia. Good times!

[@coreuped]

Welcome to this old abyss! Here we have the pilot-finale!

[@wilnagerber221]

We need more Paddy montages!

[@MattJDylan]

Matt: "we're learning how to survive in the water, 7000m down the surface" Timberborners on the custom flood map: 🗿

[@smilemore1997]

Matt, if the event ever rose, the "enemy" could easily map your base.. the entire thing is lit up, after all.. whether visually or with sonar, you aren't fooling them.. if the game allowed you to tunnel into the ground, and expand that way, then it would be an entirely different story. Bless your soul though hahaha I really can't blame you for trying. A+ for effort! :D

[@LegoDork]

You should play Command and Conquer : Tiberian Sun. Play as NOD and send waves of cyborgs and Engineers into the middle of GDI bases with those underground APCs from the TMNT cartoon. Engineers can be very OP properly applied.

[@cathygrandstaff1957]

I wonder if the lifespan thing means you would be better off sending clones with shorter lifespans on dangerous missions.

[@wm-nu1yf]

Really hope you continue this series. And just remember about the huge feet: the bigger the feet, the bigger the m..., um, the more efficient they are.

[@Chronix-]

I have to say, RCE is an excellent architect. 👌

[@ToddTevlin]

Dev after watching this video: "Oooooook, next update the tunnels will cost resources..."

[@valecasini]

0:48 may I suggest you another very nice game, that is similar to this one, of Paradox? I would love to see Matt play Surviving Mars! And to see the most strong looking Mars Colony ever made XD The only problem? The entire game is in grids (and I hate it some times)... But hey they are the strongest shape possible! (No not that one you are thinking) EXAGON! P.S. do it in live pls 25:58 SpongeBob be like:

[@chrism3562]

Those are some hearty plants to be living over 7000m down!

[@UtopssAKAPJ]

13:00 best part of the video 😍 How did you run out of coal when you have an infinite coal mine?

[@ckEagle165]

"... with a knick knack paddy pack, Give a dog a bone, R. C. E. Makes tunnels long!"

[@eckostate94]

as someone who has Thalassophobia, this absolutely horrified me. But i must watch for the futures of Engineers!

[@jacksonstarky8288]

I'm looking forward to seeing more of this now that Matt knows how *not* to build his tunnels.

[@NekoGatto]

I don't get the "super unique survival game" part in the beginning. But after the sponsor announcement, I understand 🤠

[@maxnaz47]

Props to the editor for the Paddy montage.

[@benlunaris]

Something tells me enemy forces are gonna have a really easy time finding Matt's base. Good thing it's tough to see through abyssal voids. Not sure if the population has to physically walk to buildings in this but if they do then the super tunnel might've actually screwed you over.

[@TrendingShortings]

They might find it but it is so extremely effcient that no weapon can harm them

[@TrendingShortings]

Edit i didn't finish the video before the tunnels

[@Buggsbenny000]

Matt. there is a game called “surviving Mars” it’s very similar to this game but it’s based on mars. you start off with drones and other things then once you make survival domes you can bring people into your engineering paradise on mars free from all architects. it’s also got calming music.

[@ohiosigmarizzler344]

I said "things don't have to look good it has to work well and reliably" -Untitled Airlines

[@Random_stuff_E]

Clap for the cameraman, who swam ,and videoed everything for our Content

[@danser_theplayer01]

A fish once decided to get out of the sea and boom - we got all the dry land animals, including humans. But these guys want to merge them back with fish?....

[@Yojibby]

7861m = 25,790ft = 4.88miles, which would be about 760atm of pressure, or over 11,000psi, or over 77MPa. That’s an insane amount of pressure.

[@nonna_sof5889]

Also way to dark for plants.

[@paddo05]

Fauna traps + Light = Strongest shape!

[@dominiclobocki1564]

Just in time for my daily anti-architect meditation

[@favouredjeans783]

For people interested in playing this gamej here is a tip for you. Those mining buoy that are place to get resources can be placed a further distance out past the light as long as your sonar has located them.

[@aidank6037]

That intro though. 10/10

[@bobbyfb1493]

Matt must do a sing along in his next city skylines video

[@tsukiyo22]

Been down with strep badly and rewatching all your videos makes it all much better I forget I have strep till I laugh. But I love your content!

[@TRAILLER]

the percentage of happiness at the upper left is *_NICE_*

[@tarrantwolf]

4:06 the reason the world will never have to fear engineer tyranny. With out someone like an architect to give them functional plans to build something useful you get this.

[@yogscastfan9876]

At 22:14 when he says “Separate Tunnel” all I could think of was the secret tunnel some from ATLA

[@ckEagle165]

Matt: Has a worker disassemble explosive mines. Also Matt: "Oh we did it! We got 90 steel for that! Bangin'!" No Matt! Not bangin'! That's EXACTLY what you don't want, and did successfully avoid! Bangin' = not good in this case.

[@Renagede77]

People like RCE are the reason paths and such shouldn't have zer0 cost to place.

[@Rikard_Nilsson]

I watched James Camerons "the abyss" and this is nothing like that AT ALL!

[@guillaumearnould7836]

Glad you can laugh again, always amusant to hear you laugh!

[@Viesta]

i would love a lets play of this tbh

[@erictorres9906]

Every RCE vid from here on out NEEDS a Paddy montage!

[@monad_tcp]

This game gives me bioshock feelings, I'm buying it.

[@GuillaumePerronNantel]

I have Frostpunk vibes

[@ezridonnangelo9412]

Intro: "Damn architects and their curved glass walls!" Video: *Literally building an underwater city out of curved glass walls*

[@asaturner4097]

In building your base you became what you swore to destroy

[@merafirewing6591]

Yeah, engineering and architecture goes hand in hand.

[@asaturner4097]

@@merafirewing6591 I was referring to long pointless corridors being really long and windy for no reason and inconveniencing the workers by them not having efficient routes to work

[@Doober117]

im always on the look out for the most efficient shapes when these vids come out

[@АртемАндреев-т3б]

Oh Matt you’re best EngiTuber ever. It’s indisputably

[@dotjackel]

No gods, no kings, no architects. Only Engineers.

[@greenaum]

I dunno, elaborate roads are only funny somehow when Josh does them, as part of a general plan of chaos.

[@Alfredeus55]

As soon as he said "efficient tunnel" I knew what that meant, the classic efficient shape. oh matt lol.

[@FriendlyKit]

GOT THAT 20 SECSONDS LMAO

[@DavidGuild]

Architects: Let's spend a bazillion dollars building a secret undersea cloning lab! Engineers: Let's spend like two dollars and build it in Wyoming.

[@tropicalvikingcreations]

Paddy montage was a great choice!

[@pixelnobs]

The beginning sounded like a movie trailer

[@DatsatoiletBoi]

Never thought i would see a grown man playing with seamen, but hare we are

[@RubberDonut]

Can I introduce you to the gays?

[@alendonvaldor5808]

Honestly, wanna see you and Morphologist Collab. He is an architect, but also an engineer... A Space Engineer XD But in all seriousness his architect reviews series focuses first and foremost on efficiency of design followed then by aesthetic design

[@mrtbts]

from the thumbnail i thought it was city skylines but i’ll still watch this anyway cus it looks cool

[@Argaitlam]

Please do a series of this game!

[@Tyrnak_Fenrir]

This looks interesting, definitely going to give it a look. Btw, you should check out Frostpunk, it's kinda like this, but winter and (possible) child labour.

[@sombodythatyouusedtoknow9046]

My papa is an architect, thanks for enlightening us, Dum bass! ( I changed a few words so Susan doesn’t delete it)

[@kingstonlynch5120]

Those tunnels use “curved glass” which is “architectural” so you are an architect

[@madsotzenandreasen7145]

this really gives me SOMA vibes, as in reaserching bace on the bottom of the ocean. Would actaly really like to see you play that, tho it isn't like the other games you play, because its a horror game. But its a REALLY good game with an incredible story.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

I recommend you play bioshock

[@madsotzenandreasen7145]

@@haruhisuzumiya6650 both the games have kinda the same vibe too

[@WV_Smoke]

I know it's an older game now but I'd love to see ya play suboptimal Matt.

[@daniel1998729]

RCE definitely has the best editor in the world🤠

[@a.l.brandt7063]

RCE does not edit his videos, he has someone else to do it. also what is with the cowboy emoji.

[@RevinFromSa]

@@a.l.brandt7063he said “has” not “is”

[@altreusplays]

Oh nice, it’s the prequel to SOMA

[@mme725]

19:00 >Fauna captured Not Ceres Fauna! Let her go you monster! 🤣

[@Karibanu]

Deep sea concrete mines, it's the future! sounds like an architect's udea if wherd stuff comes ftom...

[@andrewfromlinkin]

This is how the bioshock map is made

[@frogybot]

I hope you got better from your injury

[@kurtbada8920]

Ah, once more Matt has been drinking the Josh-Juice and turning his channel into 'Let's Engineer It Out'.

[@jongordon6892]

I'll add this to the growing list "games I wish my computer was powerful enough to run"

[@saulescolar333]

Espectacular intro. El mejor ingeniero de todo KZbin

[@Astropules]

@RCE I was just wondering do you know how to do electrical wiring as I'm building a small off grid house so she can travel Australia but I can't the the the lights heater ect to work it's all powered by solar panels which all together is around 800wats but just won't work and was wondering if you have any tips

[@th3f0rk]

I got a tietoa from this game. And I thought I could suggest this game for you. You read my mind

[@christopherg2347]

13:00 Will Paddy come down in a "Paddy Boat"?

[@mvinyesalumiluxcat]

the minute i saw him about to set up a tunnel.. I KNEW!! he would be able to do a proper straight line.. no.. instead... he had to make a looptiloop... this man HAHAHAAHH

[@tjgaming3247]

This game reminded me I should play bioshock

[@timvangrijs2095]

you have a coal extraction point, which gives you infinite coal. use it. create more Matts

[@tharunchandar7587]

11:38 we cannot run out of fuel end the video running out of fuel 😂😂

[@lordgenerias]

Those tunnels hurt me, RCE. They hurt my soul. I get it, confuse your enemies... But, and it pains me to say this, that's a very architect kind of mindset. I know, I KNOW! ... But... Sometimes, the truth hurts. Please... Don't become the thing you swore to defeat.

[@Wolfaloxp]

Little late.... but love the "engineering" perfection. As well as the bridge tunnels :)

[@Krizalid3YE]

Believe,guys...he's is a engineer. Those tunnels are not planned by architects.

[@charlietownsend4416]

Someone at Paradox must really like Bioshock huh

[@monad_tcp]

14:00 I thought you would have to build the "Cloning Vats".

[@The_trees_have_ears]

Charismatic? Have you met computer engineers? Lol Edit: ignore this if you give them alcohol, it’s like feeding a mogwai after dark! Lol

[@SierraGolfNiner]

+20 for Pup Montage. Should be required in all videos.