I’ve seen some comments and I have some corrections to make after a bit more research -Hilda berg’s brown UFOs actually do activate based on the players position, just right before the player makes contact with them -Ribby and croaks are not the only boss to be invulnerable during their transition state, when Hilda berg starts shaking during the moon transition, she is also invulnerable -while ribby and croaks have 2 hitboxes in the first phase, croak’s hitbox isn’t actually active until phase 2 starts
@TheNorfAndOnly6 ай бұрын
You can absolutely hit Croaks in Phase 1 with any shot, EX, or super that pierces. Converge, Roundabout’s EX, and the milk blast can all easily show that off. You’ll see Croaks’ sprite flashing white as he gets hit, meaning that he’s taking damage. I’ve been swearing by the Roundabout trick in Phase 1 myself, so I’m almost POSITIVE about Croaks’s hitbox being active.
@TheBones56 ай бұрын
Just because he's flashing doesn't mean the hitbox is active, you can look on a debug mod yourself, his hitbox only becomes active once the threshold for the second phase is triggered@@TheNorfAndOnly
@mzmizz82266 ай бұрын
It means you should save your roundabouts exs to phase to instead of spamming it on the first one (the hit box becomes active once you have dealt enough damage to start phase 2, not when the transition is over)
@pirateizzy5 ай бұрын
For the second point, Captain Brineybeard also becomes invulnerable when transitioning to the final boat phase.
@user-PIANO221105 ай бұрын
I came to comment on those so thabks
@Noobwitha_Hat6 ай бұрын
Now tell me how Cuphead's AI works I swear he moves by himself sometimes
@SillyTillar6 ай бұрын
Cuphead is being piloted by a far more complex AI trying to learn cuphead.
@diamondmemer97546 ай бұрын
@@SillyTillar Yeah it's called Mark Zuckerberg taking control of your computer
@sakabits_1322 ай бұрын
it's controller drift.
@RandomDude14872 ай бұрын
Cuphead simply realizes the player exists, then forces your controller to drift to annoy you
@sakabits_1322 ай бұрын
@@RandomDude1487 4th walling
@NotQuartz6 ай бұрын
As someone who doesn’t know how to datamine the code of cuphead and also doesn’t even own the game; I can safely say all the info in this video is factually correct
@diamondmemer97546 ай бұрын
I mean as long as it wasn't said by quartz I trust it
@duchoang54106 ай бұрын
Ribbie and Croaks CAN have the damage transfer from the first to the second stage, it’s just very finicky. You need to stop dealing damage just before you trigger the next stage, and you deal damage while they do the second round of attacks. If you can get enough damage in, you can skip the seconds phase entirely. There is also a spot at their feet where you can crouch and get hit them both at once. Also the brown ufos are triggered when you get close to them horizontally, not at random. There’s a speedrunner called Grondious who has an incredible intermediate speed running video with ton of information, all this info is in that video. This was a really cool breakdown, and it’s really neat that you were able to get so much out of just testing and collecting data without looking at the code.
@TheBones56 ай бұрын
Oh word thanks I’ll take a look at that
@exclamation_markyt28525 ай бұрын
hey, i'm a cuphead speedrunner with over 2.4k hours in this game, i wanted to point out some things i thought differently of (i may be wrong however) root pack's overall health is a "no overdamage" system, which means if you overdamaged let's say the potato by 40 damage, the boss will need to be at around -40 health for it to die, implying that damaging the onion early before the secret phase does not actually deal more damage. there's also something interesting in the potato. it doesn't actually take damage until the "WALLOP" screen goes away. goopy was done pretty well, but i want to add one really cool fact: goopy has a 6-or-so-frame sprite swap, where old goopy and new goopy are on the screen at the same time. if you hit this specific frame with something like a lobber ex (or any ex with splash damage) it will deal double damage not sure about this particular one, but i swear i've seen croaks spit more than 4 times on very rare 7-fly patterns. i will need to do more research on this myself, but just a note. the 577 damage threshold isn't exactly an always. the game assigns invincibility to the boss as soon as it sees it's at 577 health. however, if ribby is at 580 health and you finish them off with a lobber ex (28 damage), the overdamage will still count and THEN the game will assign them invincibility making them have 552 health. and unlike root pack, this will indeed help you kill them off quicker. regarding hilda, i can see your pinned comment so i won't mention anything else haha cagney was also done pretty well, so i want to add one interesting fact that when cagney shakes after doing his pollen (or spore as you called it) his hitbox shifts a little upwards
@TheBones55 ай бұрын
yo thanks for all the info!! Do you have a discord or anything that I can have for when I make the world 2 guide?
@exclamation_markyt28525 ай бұрын
@@TheBones5 i can join your server, you can find my by the same name
@TheBones55 ай бұрын
@@exclamation_markyt2852 got it, thanks
@shiruotakuno286 ай бұрын
I already knew some of these attack patterns while learning how to beat the bosses, so hearing them explained out loud is very validating
@omegaglitch17406 ай бұрын
i could've used this video YEARS ago for my boss recreations, amazing info!
@chobies53836 ай бұрын
How did I just now realize that "Hilda Berg" is a play on "Hindenburg". THIS GAME'S BEEN OUT FOR 7 YEARS AND I JUST NOTICED!! It should have been obvious considering she turns into a blimp.
@lunarla1236 ай бұрын
She doesn't turn, she IS a blimp 😂
@yeans3rdor4thchannelicantrembr5 ай бұрын
kinda like how i didn't realise that "this match will get red hot" is a pun too.
@BerdlyGaming5 ай бұрын
@@yeans3rdor4thchannelicantrembrI’ve played Cuphead since release and I never realized that wtf 😭
@ethanpoegamerpoe93465 ай бұрын
6 years
@nuclearwaffle36065 ай бұрын
Oh you should definitely do more! I am also very interested in a breakdown of the expert fights too!
@mrmouse94766 ай бұрын
Your ai breakdown videos are so fun to watch. I would love another cuphead one. Keep it up.
@LilLunacya6 ай бұрын
haven't played cuphead in years but still love breakdown videos like this one, they are so interesting
@bedmaxy6 ай бұрын
unoriginal comment (sorry), but you absolutely deserve more views than you get, i hope a large fanbase is soon in your future :3
@uncannyvalley31906 ай бұрын
I sometimes forget this channel only has 16k subscribers. The content is so well made that you'd think he'd at least have 250k+
@kingofcrap44143 ай бұрын
Here after 2 months. His sub count is rapidly increasing!! I bet he'll hit 50K pretty soon!!
@akarinaene5136Ай бұрын
Your propercy came true ❤
@Doggo4LifeАй бұрын
125k at this moment, hope he ll get 500k till january. He deserves this.
@Schyzzles6 ай бұрын
Your music for each and every video is so consistently on point, especially for me. You almost always include at least one track by Home, one of my favorite artists, and it genuinely never fails to make my day.
@gemstone42646 ай бұрын
Love to see you going into different games, I love these! Gonna go rewatch the FNAF ones after this :3
@rosestar13242 ай бұрын
I love watching your AI breakdowns. I gotta add all of them to a playlist so I can just watch all of them as I fall asleep cuz your voice sounds cool and relaxing. Plus learning how game AI works just intrests me
@ohwowitsme85486 ай бұрын
Oh uh uh im so early idk what to say awesome video likedi swear i watched the whole thing 💖 Also i absolutely love AI break downs
@RetroK20245 ай бұрын
I agree with a comment that I seen because they said you deserve more views and a much larger community.
@raindress6 ай бұрын
i legit went to your channel for the rest of the parts before realizing this was posted only a few hours ago... :,) subscribed now though, so i will keep notifs on for the next videos
@GadolElohai6 ай бұрын
Absolutely give us more. I loved this and hoped I was weeks late so I could watch the next one already
@dogemaster96766 ай бұрын
no views in 22 seconds? you fell off
@abdullahajeebi6 ай бұрын
780 views in 2 hours? you fell off.
@MrMister11226 ай бұрын
@@abdullahajeebi 1012 views in 3 hours? you fell off
@jajaleco6 ай бұрын
@@MrMister11223.106 views in 17 hours? you fell off
@Haley._.Roseyt6 ай бұрын
@@jajaleco4,081 views in a day? You fell off
@AL4IGH56 ай бұрын
18765 views in 10 days? You fell off
@TrishpaytaxesАй бұрын
I had no idea what this was going to be once I clicked on it, but this video was way more interesting than I thought it was! I wish I could find this type of content more often Thank you!
@PokeMaster222225 ай бұрын
I'd love to see a follow up to this! I've always found this stuff quite interesting.
@ginger_queen81086 ай бұрын
love the vid! AI breakdowns are always so interesting because of just how complex some of the behaviors can be if you're playing the game without that knowledge. it helps bridge the gap between casual players and speedrunners so that they can follow along also good luck on beating cuphead no hit. that shit looks tough but i know u got this! :)
@AveryLovesGlitchcore6 ай бұрын
He sounds less dead inside this video its strangely uplifting
@srilathasunkari440Ай бұрын
i just started playing cuphead a week ago and i was really struggling with hilda berg but this video really helped me a lot thank you
@pepperonipizza82005 ай бұрын
How about the tutorial. That boss stumped me for 26 minutes.
@Kristofer3824 ай бұрын
Game journalist spotted
@standingbrick9245Ай бұрын
Something notable that I noticed while playing is that when Cagney is doing his seed attack a pink seed still drops even if the flower that spits pink seeds is already alive. That pink seed becomes one of the flying plants if this happens.
@TheNorfAndOnly6 ай бұрын
I think it would be really neat to see a version of this series on Expert mode! Once you’re done with the first pass-through on Regular, it’d be cool to see just how much Expert differentiates from Regular.
@Cozmo3365 ай бұрын
an amazing job thx for explaining how this game works
@0symandias5 ай бұрын
Great work man! I'd love to see you break down the other bosses.
@moew13166 ай бұрын
THIS IS SO GOOOOD!!! Keep making what you love and I’m sure you’ll do great!!!
@branchminer16 ай бұрын
Fantastic video as always! The fact that you couldn’t rely on the source code and had to decipher all this yourself is amazing.
@jcplays58316 ай бұрын
This is such an interesting, informative, and engaging video. I love learning about patterns in games, it’s something I do in hollow knight to pass some time if I’m bored, and I love hearing how these devs made their bosses work. Great video and I can’t wait for more
@bossome4days6 ай бұрын
Bros got an excel spreadsheet for vine attacks? 😭
@TheBones56 ай бұрын
Yeah it was 150 rows long
@voch1236 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for this guide! I love learning new things about this game and I’m looking forwards to more, I’d love to see Expert Mode and the run n guns. Liked and subbed!
@TheMistermastermario6 ай бұрын
i love super deep AI breakdowns like this, it's just really fun to learn about all the minutae.
@Lowpoly076 ай бұрын
another goated video
@ComicAuzi4 ай бұрын
In Hilda Berg, the Gemini's fireball is not actually a projectile as it doesn't have a hurtbox. It merely functions as a spawn point for the bullets.
@LimeTime696 ай бұрын
Holy hell, I was here around 3k, and now you have 16.2k subs, more than quintuple. Congratulations on your growth throughout this short period of time. 💪
@BrandongamesallАй бұрын
No lie, this was very informative. It wouldn't help me in my game play, but I truly do think it would help others
@cyberdaemonfive6 ай бұрын
Awesome breakdown! It's super cool to see the attack patterns explained.
@jajaleco6 ай бұрын
These AI breakdown videos are always so entertaining to watch. Please never stop!
@skeletized5 ай бұрын
oh my god i didn't know you could duck goopy's punch. i completely forgot that was a mechanic. i'm an idiot.
@danielbauer92756 ай бұрын
Love this under-the-hood type stuff. Just fascinating to me. Really appreciated the video's production too
@mellow_fren6 ай бұрын
I may be completely wrong here, but I can say that on Expert mode, Cagney's final phase vine attacks do seem to go in a pattern. I know this is Expert, but maybe it can give some insight on Regular??? Anyway, he will cover two platforms with his vines, leaving just one for you. He will do this two more times, with a different platform being uncovered until all three platofmrs have had a chance to be uncovered. From there, he repeats that same order. Occasionally, the vines will not appear at the same time, having a delay. I know he does the same pattern for a while, but he does switch it up after some time. That I don't know, as I usually end up defeating him before he can do that.
@thesillywizardf5 күн бұрын
exactly what I needed
@d4n7376 ай бұрын
Okay, this is probably my most PETTY and stupid pet peeve and it doesn't matter, but it irks me when people call the root pack "Potato, onion and carrot" ever since I learned that they have actual names. Art of Cuphead lists them as: Sal Spudder, Ollie Bulb and Chauncey Chantenay. Apparently the radish is also named Horace Radiche in other news, Wally Warbles' son is named Willy Warbles, which is adorable Baronesses royal court is as follows: Lord Gob Packer, Kernel Von pop, Sir Waffington III, Muffsky Chernikov, Sgt. Gumbo Gumbull. Djimmi's weird marionette is named Cuppet
@-wiseguy5 ай бұрын
Great video i love cuphead and fnaf so its really nice to see someone with good taste :)
@drakewahl76096 ай бұрын
I always thought the brown UFOs in Hilda's last phase always went off when you were right in front of them.
@jacobhdz1276 ай бұрын
Can’t wait for the rest of the game!! I’m also super interested un expert modes!!!
@-vira-64226 ай бұрын
another certified banger from Thebones5 youtube channel on youtube
@aseriesofletters63466 ай бұрын
okay, fine, I’m subbed, you’ve got me hostage at least until you do this for the entire game
@hackplayer71945 ай бұрын
No clue if this has been said yet, but I'll chime this in regardless: During his 1st and 2nd phase, Goopy can choose to either bounce the opposite way upon reaching the side of the screen or fall directly downwards upon reaching the side of the screen as well. Good video! Looking forward to more of it!
@TheBones55 ай бұрын
i couldn't tell if that was based on the distance between him and the wall or not, if it's random, then i didn't know that, thanks
@cordyceps75316 ай бұрын
I believe Brineybeard also takes no damage when transitioning into his last phase. As someone who has only been playing on expert mode for the past few months, it would be cool if we got a video explaining the subtle and sometimes very different changes from regular mode sometime in the future.
@bee54646 ай бұрын
Oh well, time to watch another video essay about a game I've never played.
@starmadmix90456 ай бұрын
Wow this is cool and amazing. Thank you legend
@CommanderVideo_6 ай бұрын
Somehow I never know that goopy's eating a pill duroing his phase 2 transition... I always thought he just did a thumbs up and looked at nothing for a second 😭😭
@DragonScythe646 ай бұрын
Did not know how the Cagney sub phases differ til now, also yeah gonna need that Expert mode video someday
@igniviscos6 ай бұрын
1. Great video, looks amazing and is a very good watch. 2. How the hell did you get the clean animations? Did you go into photoshop and clean each frame bc if so that’s incredible for how many you did. 3. If you do another cuphead video, I recommend watching Grondious’ recent series where he goes through the speedrun for each boss. Lots of info about each boss and their patterns in them to be sure of all the info you use. Again, great video! Edit: I saw someone else beat me to bringing up Grondious, so disregard that part
@TheBones56 ай бұрын
Thanks for the compliments, to get the animations is quite a long process, you have to go rip the sprites from the games, then put them together and cut them to match the 24fps look the game has, then render it out over a greenscreen and ultra key it, but it makes the vid look better so I say it's worth it
@intangiblematter_misc6 ай бұрын
This video made me redownload Cuphead just to open it with ILSpy so I can see how accurate this all is. 10/10 Would decompile again
@cyrix28916 ай бұрын
Please do an expert ai video! This was so nice to watch
@MusiciansRule076 ай бұрын
First, FNAF and now Cuphead??? Dude, you already had my subscription with the bell on! CHILL, LMAO. No, seriously, I love this game and if I have a huge project to do, I put on the whole OST to bump in the background. Again, I'm a Let's Play viewer but when I eventually get my PC (and learn how to Edit to start my path towards getting in front of the camera), Cuphead is on the list to play and I'll definitely be here to get the info I need to not Rage Quit. Keep doing what you're doing, man!
@lyndsaypeters59816 ай бұрын
13:26 I'm pretty sure the brown ones activate when they're close to being over you so they always activate in front of you
@cyrix61652 ай бұрын
I know I am 3 months late, considering I only found this channel relatively recently, but the Roundabout EX attack doesn’t just hit up to 4 times, it can hit up to 8. Also, a miscommunication about the EX attack, it will only disappear when one of two conditions are met, being that it hits something 8 times, or it returns to you.
@stephanie_jjb5 ай бұрын
Me: a complete deep dive? Wow this must be like a 3-hour long video. "18:11" Oh, I guess they're not that complicated then
@mayhewwright5 ай бұрын
I would love to see more
@octoanimationsalt4 ай бұрын
this is so underrated
@triskalii94276 ай бұрын
Engagement booster for the goat
@brennenspeal6 ай бұрын
Engagement booster #2
@GameAndKirby6 ай бұрын
this was needed
@airconditionedstudios10114 ай бұрын
once you can 300% this game including the achievements & all the S & P ranks without taking damage is when you truly master this game, so good luck, also thanks for making this series from both a wannabe game designer & gamer perspective edit: I should probably specify P+, it unofficial, & I just made it up, but it basically means don't take damage, parry 3 times, get all 5 coins, without hitting an enemy, all within 2 minutes, seems like a cool challenge once I'm better at games & want to invest that time into cuphead, but I'd rather just do everything in it then move on, then kill myself over a video game challenge
@eljaminlatour66336 ай бұрын
I didn't knew one of those phases of Hildaberg are from the Zodiac signs. That's some neat attention to detail.
@FreddyF4zbear6 ай бұрын
Hey I remember this game. Still on my toes for funny cat game tho
@mzmizz82266 ай бұрын
There is a certain pattern to cagey’s vines but one of them appears/disappears faster then the other so eventually you lose track of the pattern
@worthplayingfor21976 ай бұрын
great vid
@2fast4u236 ай бұрын
BABE WAKE UP NEW THEBONES5 UPLOAD
@atmatey6 ай бұрын
Nice video, for Isle 2 I would like to know how the Gumball miniboss (in Baroness von Bon Bon’s stage) attack rng is determined on Expert, and how the cloud placement rng works for Grim Matchstick. Both seem very rng-heavy.
@ghb3236 ай бұрын
6:20 seeing the older videos on cuphead with the health bar display, it is possible that these scripted bosses phases share the same health (one variable rather than multiple all adding to the total). It is shown with the one-hit KO cheat, even though there are multiple “characters” like Wally Warbles, by KOing ONE CHARACTER will end the stage immediately despite you not directly attacking the other characters (Willy Warbles, or vice versa). This is in contrast on non-scripted bosses that lets you defeat them in any order, such as the Tipsy Troop and the Pawns.
@TheBones56 ай бұрын
interesting, it might account for phase transitions and how the hitbox for bosses wouldn't be active for the duration of the transition, like when wally warbles is falling out of his house but before the chicken little phase starts. Or it could just be segments that are added to the same large health bar
@ghb3236 ай бұрын
@@TheBones5 one nice thing is that using powerful SP attacks is that it isn’t wasted diring transition. Your damage isn’t nullified except Ribby and Croaks’s slot machine.
@ghb3236 ай бұрын
@@TheBones5 Also, it’s kinda strange the game stores health as floating point values that can be in fractional units instead of integers for bosses. Probably because the game scales your damage based on charms and multiplayer. But even then, they could’ve scale the HP and DMG to allow more hits on the smallest damage possible.
@EpicWolf316 ай бұрын
I'm pretty sure Hilda's brown UFO start when you right in front of him. But idk, great video tho!
@niblet83086 ай бұрын
If you have use a tool like ILSpy and have basic understanding of Unity code you might be able to directly look at the scripts for bosses and find out things like exact probabilities and determining factors from the lines of code
@Baznogrolies6 ай бұрын
Babe wake up there’s a new TheBones5 youtube video
@Mr.DongleАй бұрын
8:57 I got three snakes in a row one time 😭
@diggidyyo6226 ай бұрын
Finally, I can eat my food with this
@FREAKYBOBFENTPANTSАй бұрын
5:00 bros perc was laced 💀
@Rat302576 ай бұрын
13:20 I thought that for the brown ufos you just had to activate it and fall back
@The1Immortal6 ай бұрын
Another video of numbers galore
@RaisinHook6 ай бұрын
it would be funny if you did Poker Night at The Inventory & Poker Night at The Inventory 2 since it's just straight-up poker
@88guyАй бұрын
Brown ufos activate early, red ufos activate late
@omegaglitch17406 ай бұрын
did you notice how in goopy's second phase, the first time he punches he blinks a few times before throwing the punch?
@TheBones56 ай бұрын
yeah it's only for that specific punch, maybe it was intended by the devs to differentiate the first scripted punch from the actual random ones
@levgladishev11025 ай бұрын
so cool
@spyriskfazpillo80386 ай бұрын
I. Have a question, does hilda berg gains damage immunity when transitioning to her last phase? I've seen some bosses gain said immunity while transitioning but i don't know if it's true or not
@SonicYeet6 ай бұрын
I cant play cagney cuz it crashes when i pick it
@iBenjamin10005 ай бұрын
"Ha"-Hildaberg
@ponchoburrito7416 ай бұрын
next run is The One. trust
@jknifgijdfui6 ай бұрын
I find it funny that cuphead punch out and shadow of the colossus are very popular and yet boss rush games are still not truly a genre
@Mullkaw5 ай бұрын
commenting for algorithm and also 9:03 im pretty sure those are tigers, not leopards 🤓. every attack in this phase is an allusion to a character from street fighter II, and that slot machine attack pays homage to sagat's "tiger uppercut" and "tiger knee"
@isawawabubthediglett6 ай бұрын
Do people consider Root Pack as the first boss? Because in my experience I've only heard people refer to Goopy Le Grande as the first boss
@youraveragenoobGMG6 ай бұрын
never played cuphead but still a bones5 vid so -20 minutes of my time
@TheBones56 ай бұрын
people like you keep the channel running, literal goat
@youraveragenoobGMG6 ай бұрын
your my goat for posting vids I love
@Ouxoh6 ай бұрын
Ive had this game since 2017 and havent got past that fucking blue ball 😭😭
@AVeryCooIName6 ай бұрын
Skill issue
@conqueringfearswithcreatur96914 ай бұрын
I’m not sure if you took into consideration that after starting if someone did the 1st gun run then went to the get super1 then traveled to isle 4 and obtains the broken relic and use it on Hilda berg that player would be able to use bombs on that level making it a breeze to get through. Sorry I paused video to comment hopefully you took it into consideration if not could we get an update please
@ashykins4 ай бұрын
The one question i have is how does the ai decide when to attack?