The Day After Steam's Most Popular Fake Game Released

[@kirareacts]

They just announced they're closing the studio. Rip, longest lasting game ever. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoi3fJaifrWUpc0

[@cyh6092]

Lol. Love your stuff Kira.

[@keva94]

So this time, not only did they leave the game abandoned, but they also abandoned the studio.

[@khandimahn9687]

Wow. Knew they would abandon the game, just like they have all their previous games. Didn't expect them to abandon the studio.

[@rickybobby5153]

Must be a world record 😂

[@iloveanothermanswives4278]

@@khandimahn9687 They have lost customer's trust. Now, they can just runnaway with the money and probably gonna larp as another scam company.

[@themostbestwizard]

This makes me sad. So many people are pouring their heart and souls into passion projects that barely see the light of day and these people, with what was once the most wishlisted game on Steam, just exploit volunteers to make a placeholder.

[@MajorJefferson]

The community doesn't hold them accountable. Other devs should speak out against this but its basically industry norm, look at the state of AAA titles... noone is speaking up because money.

[@commanderwyro4204]

@@MajorJefferson money and the fear of losing a job. imagine if a dev at 343 spoke out and said halo infinite was gonna be a train wreck at launch. theyd most likely get black listed from the industry but how many people would have saved money by not buying the over priced campaign or MTX. same with dozens of games. if they started speaking out before release we would actually start to see a ton of change

[@Crazy_Neopolitan]

I'm starting to think the wish listing was curated or something.

[@Nerobyrne]

I don't believe in vigilante justice, but for some people I'd make an exception

[@MajorJefferson]

@@commanderwyro4204 and that's the problem. Oppression and a massive imbalance of power. But Americans are not fond of unions and laws to protect workers... so that won't change.

[@PaperNameless]

My favourite clip of this game thus far, is when that one streamer drove his car into another player, trying to run him over or to send him flying, but the car itself flipped into the sky like a ragdoll instead. So, the player who got hit by the car was perfectly fine, whilst the car flew, and the driver was hit with the "Death" screen. XD

[@caliginousmoira8565]

i wanna see that.... this game is good for laughs if nothing else

[@DavidKnowles0]

the fun of early access games.

[@stermyplatinum7870]

Gonna need a source.

[@supersmartguy23]

I need to see this.

[@rudeboyjohn3483]

Could have sworn I've seen this comment on Cyberpunk before

[@Manic.miner2077]

“The AI are alarmed to be in the game”😂 brilliant, maybe there will come a time when AI is capable of telling the dev “we ain’t participating in your shit game bro, come on lads, let’s go”🤣😂🤣

[@fellen_]

yeah i didn't know i needed the existential dread of imagining being an asset trapped in a bad game for eternity :)

[@Frostbytedigital]

Maybe them not being alerted by bullets is willful disobedience. Otherwise the devs missed one of the easiest things they could've implemented. Area triggers are the basics of game dev.

[@FreyjaYngling]

Juxtaposing this with Lethal Company is pretty funny. Both of them are indie titles, but one was anticipated before launch and turned out to be a scam whereas the other was pretty much unheard of and could realistically become the next Among Us. Pre-release "hype" should be seen as a massive red flag in the games industry at this point; all it does is promote pre-orders and launch day impulse buying.

[@Nerobyrne]

yeah, I've taken to pirating new games that come out with a lot of hype to see if I actually like them. I did it with Starfield and Baldur's Gate, and bought one of them ^^

[@zombiegodsire]

Nah people get hyped for games they are excited for. Simple as that. I'm beyond hyped for monster hunter wilds. Does that mean it's going to he bad? Highly unlikely

[@xeagaort]

⁠​⁠@@zombiegodsirelil bro could’ve picked any game to be hyped for and he picks MH wilds lmao

[@jakkandjing]

Anthem. Ten year plan. Imma leave it at that.

[@zombiegodsire]

@xeagaort yeah a sequel to a long list of incredible games. Crazy that someone who be hyped for that huh? Dumb ass. It's called an example. Plenty of games generate hype because they deserve it. Hype isn't a "red flag"

[@stephenn504]

Thanks to you I didn’t buy the game. Without knowing the background of what has happened prior to release, I could see people being sucked into purchasing the game. I appreciate the work you do man.

[@cheften2mk]

There were so many warning signs it is shocking so many actually bought it

[@Morgohrr]

Sould say Thanks to you and not because of you haha :P

[@KarizmaKai]

not shocking at all a lot are casuals who do not look into anything

[@stephenn504]

@@Morgohrr I fixed it just for you. Thank you for your service.

[@caliginousmoira8565]

...and people are defending this completely ignoring the reason most people are 'hating' the game...

[@MStreppelhoff]

So lets put this together: - Unpayed developers - Banned people ín TDB Discord - Bots for positive reviews on Steam - Overpriced 0.1 Alpha - Extraction Shooter, still listed as Open World MMO Holy crap...all they did is a total disaster. If Steam has guts...they should ban the developers and their games completely from the platform. And some people are still playing this... PS: I had really much hope till release that this game will be good. But its the complete opposite. Its just sad.

[@sihamhamda47]

They also removed everything but their recent announcement video on their own YT channel (however all previous TDB trailers are still up on IGN channel)

[@SobeCrunkMonster]

the volunteers were part of the scam you derps

[@tomasz9429]

"They're using volunteers as human shields." That's what you do with slaves when they're done working for you.

[@alphamuplays1669]

man i feel awful for those volunteers, guarantee they were told they were going to get paid in exposure or some BS. now what are they supposed to do? cant exactly put this on a resume as a passion project from an indie studio since its such a dumpster fire. itd be like saying you volunteered at fire festival as an event planner

[@CatFish107]

​@alphamuplays1669 yeah, the kind of people you do not want to work for would see that on the CV, and flag you as a mark. "Here's an applicant we can exploit".

[@LugftHuronAC]

They’re not slaves. They chose to be there and could also choose to not be there. They also helped create the game so they’re just as responsible.

[@xxkillbotxx7553]

@@LugftHuronAC Thank you for having a rational take. I swear that there has been a ridiculous amount of hyperbole with anything like that in the last few years. Last I recall the slaves didn't really have the option to leave. Absolutely ridiculous take from this guy.

[@D0NU75]

yeah that entire studio has a very CCP vibe to it, i wouldn't be surprised to learn they report back to Pooh

[@oxymoron02]

It's remarkable. People who bought the game had to actively avoid all the news about how shit it was going to be.

[@Ashley.D]

Most people aren't hooked into games discussions and are left with whatever first impression they got from the original trailers. My wife saw me watching one of Kira's videos a few weeks back and said "is that that zombie survival game, I wanted to play that". She had no idea of the shitshow of the past couple of years, she'd just seen the 2021 hype and maintained that impression right up to it almost releasing.

[@LunarKn1ght]

Until now I’ve never heard of this game.

[@InvincibleSol]

No, they didn't.

[@dakineprotoss]

@@Ashley.D thats not really true, most people have NEVER heard of a game at all, and ONLY have heard of the controversy. It happens much more often in this direction than the direction youre talking about, which certainly does happen also for instance, I and most people had never heard of "the day before" until the last couple days with all of social media shitting on it

[@georgen5882]

You might be surprised how out of touch a lot of gamers can be. When I first heard of this late last year, someone in the KZbin comment section remarked that it was odd for someone like me(an admittedly hardcore gamer - not competitive, just in that it’s my main hobby)would not know about the number one wish listed game on Steam. I found it an odd comment, as I don’t use Steam wish lists for anything. Let alone ideas on what to play. I have my ear to the ground on a lot of things game related, but this one had passed by somehow. There are plenty of people who wouldn’t have known about the game outside of the trailer and not known the controversy. That in itself is another issue: uninformed consumers. People see a bright, shiny trailer and buy the game based purely on that with no other research done. It’s the same people who buy CoD every year and then turn around and complain it’s the same as last year. I just hope something comes of this that shakes the industry up in a good way for the consumer. Because if this was almost any other product on the market it would be lawsuit city.

[@TheNightquaker]

The studio announced their closure about 20 minutes ago lol. I guess an update video is in order!

[@z33r0now3]

LOL no fkin way 😂😂 they ran for the hills with as much cash as they could get away with

[@MechMK1]

Very quick note: I think it would be more correct to say "bought assets", because stuff made in-house is just as much an asset. But yeah, absolutely nothing wrong with using bought assets. It matters what you *do* with them.

[@HiredGunGames]

as a person who creates assets for devs to use, using them is 100% fine. the problem lies in not at least changing them to look different so that each game that uses them isn't all the same game with the same assets. they are there for filler content and you can either remove them later once you get enough funding or change them to where they don't stand out as just assets you bought. Assets help individual artists and the devs who use them. but when you expect a game to put in as much effort as you have in making the assets and they don't, that's where the game becomes an "Asset flip".

[@Breton-J]

This whole thing does make me appreciate real game developers. Especially smaller ones who put years of love into a single game.

[@commanderwyro4204]

i think whats really gross about this game is that we all knew it was a scam. yet big game sites like gamespot and IGN promoted it. i feel like they should not be allowed to promote a game unless they have someone who can verify its real. as thats what somewhat sealed in it was "legit"

[@liberatumplox625]

They likely knew, or at least suspected (if they're at all good at their jobs) The problem is, that part of being good at your job (as a journalist) is building something or someone up, and then revelling in the drama when they fall. If that is the case, then you could say that they're complicit in the scam.

[@Three60Mafia]

Using assets is totally fine, if it helps you add other stuff into the game, like story, characters, other elements. Its fine to buy a mannequin first, before you craft custom clothes for it... but these guys just bought a mannequin and shipped it out without any other additions.

[@ectothermic]

Makes me think of all the NFT games that are just the Unreal Engine 5 demo with store assets stapled on top.

[@radio3499]

not just that, it was marketed as a completely different game with very little functionality. Definition of false advertising.

[@semmert]

People that call games "asset flips" just because it uses marketplace assets, makes me cringe. 1. not everyone is a 3D artist. 3D modeling is literally a specialization that takes artistic know-how, and not everyone can do it. 2. the marketplace assets literally exist for this reason, and is the EXACT SAME THING as hiring a contract worker to make the assets for you, except these are open to anyone to buy and use, so there's no exclusivity. 3. Assets don't make a game. You can't just buy assets from a marketplace, import them, package the project, and call it a game. Things in Unreal just simply don't work that way. There has to be some sort of coding / development done to make SOMETHING from those assets. Even the biggest "offender" of using assets, Only Up, had blueprints and development done under the hood to make it work the way it did. People seem to think that just using assets from the marketplace make it an "asset flip", and those people are morons.

[@ectothermic]

@@semmert Dude they just announced they're killing their studio after scamming people, shut up and sit down. lol There's nothing wrong with games using assets from the stores, they're there for a reason. What's bad is blatantly false advertising and hype and dumbasses following this game like it's the second coming of gamer Christ. Being 99% bought assets is not why people hated this but they've had a history of it, and of abandoning their projects, and it's entirely valid to put that on the list of offenses when they're that awful overall.

[@radio3499]

@@semmert using assets is not he problem. It is the way in which they did use them. literally dropped them in with no effort. The whole thing was a scam from the start. plenty of proof of that now.

[@Patryk-Sowinski]

Loved the take on the game assets - lots of people these days seem to misunderstand what an asset flip is. That being said I had a good laugh when you mentioned the "easiest" functionality to implement (door interaction) as any technical person can quickly tell you just how difficult it can be hahahaha. Regardless I'm still surprised by the sale numbers for this release, from the history of the "studio" to all of the "announcements" they've made over the years it was clear that this was garbage. Honestly seeing people reviews and posts all over the place crying how they've been lied to and how the game didn't deliver, baffles me - like have you not looked up the game at all? Pure ignorance and stupidity.

[@Alarios711]

"Regardless I'm still surprised by the sale numbers for this release," Countless people pre-ordered when first announced and just simply forgot the game ever existed...until release.

[@Patryk-Sowinski]

@@Alarios711 thats not possible, the game was never made available for pre order. Plus with its removal from Steam I think the wishlists might have been wiped so all those numbers are from last year (although I'm not 100% sure on this).

[@emackenzie]

​@@Alarios711 are you thinking of another game? Or about early access? Because there were no pre-orders

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@emackenzie it was wishlisted

[@roskelld]

I’ve seen senior programmers brought to tears over doors screwing up, desyncing, breaking, blocking navigation, screwing up AI. Became a fear feature that no one wanted to take on.

[@Thedownliner2015]

It's basically UEs American Cities pack and UE-Survival-Kit-V2 bundled together badly and sold at Triple A and this should really piss a lot of people off because if they get away with this every game will eventually resort to being made on assets and volunteers while the publishers rake in the cash.

[@nosauce5321]

Fntstic are truly some disgusting devs. I used to think they were just incompetent but im starting to think they are also malicious.

[@local9]

Don't forget, they have random big head mode too! which is what you get with asset flipping. I'd love to see the refund metrics.

[@dartz005]

The refund metrics are probably comparable to when people who bought Warcraft 3 Refunded jumped ship. You don't see a mass exodus of players that fast too often.

[@pwnonator]

I'm glad you have common sense about the asset use. It's annoying when someone sees a asset and claim asset flip all of the time. In this case, it was used correctly.

[@TheGuyinShades]

If almost everything in the game are pre-made assets, then that kind of begs the question of what work have they actually been doing on this game for the past 2-3 years? I guess that's what happens when all your employees are "volunteers"...

[@xxkillbotxx7553]

Just goes to show how little the average person knows about the development cycle. Those assets don't come with the code, animations, shaders, or the other work that makes up 99% of making a game, let alone a multiplayer game. Also remember that their word for "volunteers" did include paid employees. Not justifying the fact they had a bunch of people working for essentially free but they did have full timers there, too.

[@toomanyaccounts]

because they weren't making a game. they were making pr to line up suckers

[@CainXVII]

​@@xxkillbotxx7553yes, because calling paid people "volunteers" is stupid. It is not what that word means. They are clearly trying to hide how few actually get paid by calling everyone a volunteer.

[@xxkillbotxx7553]

@@CainXVII Yeah I never said it wasn't stupid. What is stupid is saying things like "They are clearly" without any knowledge of what was going on internally within the company.

[@TheGuyinShades]

@@xxkillbotxx7553I'm pretty sure graphic design is a lot more than 1% of a game's development. I realize there's a lot more work that needs to be done, but considering how barebones the game is how much coding did they actually do? I know some of their "volunteers" are really paid employees, I was just making a joke about their ridiculous "culture of volunteering" or whatever they called it.

[@MedievalGenie]

I like how most of the things they'd like to put in this game... Already exist in Project Zomboid, which I'm playing while listening.

[@MortiXD09]

uff, this just gets better and better. i saw interview with wulf, and damn everyone got screwed by those two russian ghouls. also i love that smiling face, truly day before.

[@ShadowEnigmaTV]

This opens up a door now, looking at how many people wish listed this tells that there is a demand for this type of game. Problem we have now is that people are going to be skeptical moving forward

[@FEARSWTOR]

It is one of the most popular genres on Steam (the one it was marketed as, not the one it is). There are indie titles that come out all the time and almost all of them fail because they're either not as polished as existing titles or are cash grab scams that get abandoned. Only difference here is that this dev put more effort into their bait.

[@LeadHeadBOD]

The door has been open for years. Anyone remember when DayZ mod hit big to a point where people were buying ArmA 2 just for it? Then they announced a proper DayZ game, then H1Z1 was announced, then Infestation: Survivor Stories (formerly The War Z) and tons of ridiculous low-effort asset flips? The problem is that nobody seems to be willing to put any actual effort behind the projects, and the only reason why The Day Before was viewed differently because superficially it seemed as the first one to actually achieve what DayZ wanted to.

[@ShadowEnigmaTV]

Hopefully a big AAA company capitalises on this and develops something similar that this game couldn't deliver

[@RainbowRenegade]

Just play DayZ. It's literally the same game over and over again.

[@cleanerben9636]

God knows why survival games are unbelievably boring and clunky

[@TheJman669]

I love how for seemingly years you have told people the game didn't exist and how incompetent the creators are. And yet everyone is making surprised Pikachu face and excuses.

[@kenshinhimura9387]

They are the same people who buy Call of Duty and any other game that's always on the top sellers every week.

[@medea27]

Thanks for the update... as you said, it's incredibly important that these types of dodgy operators & shady practices are documented for future reference by both gamers & consumers in general. I've been checking in on the numbers & reviews on Steam as well as catching a few people streaming it in the days since launch, just to get a feel for the legitimacy of the game as a viable product... and it's been surprising to see how _little_ has happened from the developer's side. The silence from the Eff'n-tastic Twins is deafening. Streamers who are clearly trying to give the game a chance (even now) are barely progressing from what I saw on release day, and it seems pretty clear now this was always just intended to be Bait & Switch #3 for the brothers. I hope Steam steps in to refund the majority of players because there's plenty of evidence TDB doesn't fulfil the requirements of an Early Access release, and dodgy devs shouldn't be able to use EA to pocket money from players who couldn't be bothered to chase a refund.

[@ferdinand12390]

there have been many documented cases, thing is, people never learn, they see a shiny, very well polished trailer and they lose their minds, they don´t care if it´s a legit publisher or an shady indie that came form a gulag in siberia

[@jonathanwatkins6951]

They are paying some no name youtubers to play and promote the game.

[@ferdinand12390]

JFC@@jonathanwatkins6951

[@HarumiYu]

Steam need to curate their games better, it is unnaceptable that those type of "games" are being even able to be purchased.

[@Ebb0Productions]

What blows my mind is how this extremely generic looking game got any kind of attention at all. It looks aggressively average at best. If you asked an AI to generate "generic post apocalyptic video game", this is what it would spit out. I just don't get it man.

[@CaspianNomad]

Anybody who has studied or is studying game dev knows that what they have sold can be made in no time at all. To anybody saying it's just early access, that's some serious cope. Early Access games are never more than £20 unless backed by a big publisher. The Day Before was knocked up within a few weeks depending on the size of the team, you don't release something this basic as early access and expect to be taken seriously.

[@AndyLundell]

Even ignoring price. You can tell the difference between a game that is only partially finished but is the product of hard work and talent, and a cobbled together placeholder that was never intended to be anything more than cobbled together placeholder. Unfinished games sometimes fail, and sometimes become amazing. But I don't think I've ever seen this kind of low-effort placeholder enter Early Access and then later become something worth playing.

[@Lupus_Intus]

I always point to Phasmophobia: early access started with almost 100% store-bought assets…. But that game was GOOD. It was put together with clear vision and love by one guy and once it took off he immediately hired an artist to start replacing assets and add new models. And they never once posted trailers of cars and saunas claiming its the next greatest open-world survival mmo.

[@CainXVII]

Oh I forgot about all of the hot baths, I wonder where they went

[@ccloudleaf]

Astroturfing is out of control with this company. Good coverage as always.

[@DavefromWork]

This game had Sergey Titov vibes from the start. Have you seen the unprocessed copium being smoked and snorted wholesale on the steam forums? Apparently they've had a bunch of bots try to lift the review-score recently. Same as blizzard did for diablo 4.

[@JonBonZombie]

Everyone wants to make a game. FEW can make a great one

[@DruuzilTechGames]

It's amazing how much effort they put into things like botting reviews instead of making the actual game they promised.

[@carmuszx1351]

Gotta love the descriptions of the timeline for this one, I mean, maybe a week from now we can be talking how was the experience of the day after the launch of The Day Before.

[@samramtv]

They just announced that they’re closing the studio 😮

[@Manic.miner2077]

This is self regulation of an unregulated industry, it needs people like yourself to shine a light on the crap that gets pumped out by unscrupulous developers. 👍

[@maddogsteve5507]

I agree with this however I don't understand how none of this happened in the 90s with games in Shady game developers if it did that's news to me but I just can't remember myself personally knowing this was the case for PC gamers🤷‍♂️

[@ectothermic]

@@maddogsteve5507 In the 90s magazines would actively shit on bad games and bad developers and word of mouth would spread a lot more easily than people think even as far as the early 2000s. Nowadays the magazines and websites are all bought and lean on whatever opinion is popular, meanwhile youtubers and gamers alike are the ones managing the info better although those can be bought as well.

[@ekki1993]

​​@@maddogsteve5507Most people don't know this is happening. Right now. In the era of social media. We tend to overestimate how common the knowledge we have is and how rare the things we didn't know were.

[@xxkillbotxx7553]

The best self regulation that the games industry could really have is your average consumer doing their research on a product before buying it. You don't fix problems by introducing regulation, goober.

[@xxkillbotxx7553]

​@@ectothermic If you think KZbinrs and "Gamers" aren't managing info based on what is "popular", then I don't know what to tell you. I don't know if you know this but trend riding has been normal for actual decades, probably even longer. It's what generates clicks. People like Critikal can get millions of views despite having no personality because they can ride the trend of hating on things they know nothing about.

[@nightlord531]

Video not even a day old and they're closing the studio down. Wow the news cycle moves quickly!

[@mbarker_lng]

Thanks for clarifying about the assets situation. I've been dev-ing my indy game for the last 2 years but I am only a programmer. There is absolutely no way I could create some of the beautiful assets in my own game. Even if I knew how to use artists tools, I still don't have the artistic talent to create the things I am incorporating.

[@xxkillbotxx7553]

I think there is a lot of unnecessary hate for asset "flips". I get it when there's a game that has just a bunch of random crap they bought from the asset store and it doesn't match aesthetically, but at least from the footage of the game I've seen, they've at least made the assets mesh together pretty well. When I was developing a game for a bit there, I had to use the asset store because (1) no one wants to work with you for free unless you're a huge studio with name value, even if it's part time and (2) it's sometimes just easier. Most people don't realize how much work there actually is even when using purchased assets. The assets themselves are like 1% of the game.

[@mbarker_lng]

@@xxkillbotxx7553 Big respect; you are speaking the truth of someone that's been there. I tell some that "you might think I've given up because there has been no updates in 3 or 4 weeks, but that is because 90% of the work is stuff no one but the coders see. Whats on the screen is just the final product of that work"

[@xxkillbotxx7553]

@@mbarker_lng Exactly. "Yeah you guys want screenshots and stuff that's cool but if my only screenshots are C# code, are you still going to be interested?" lol.

[@elganzandere]

Unreal's *Play Sound at Location* node will take a Vector-input, so we need to help this studio create a new variable. *Get Location*

[@Mysti-Tsu]

They just announced the closure of the studio today as im watching this.

[@sulysan]

The fake guns noises to pretend there's actions is the icing on the icing on the cake.

[@xxkillbotxx7553]

Other games do that, too. It's not new.

[@kenshinhimura9387]

​@@xxkillbotxx7553no they don't. Not in an online multiplayer game where you actually need to listen for gunshots to find other players

[@AuroraDawnxx97]

​@@xxkillbotxx7553scam defender

[@tylerberg4832]

@@xxkillbotxx7553didn’t say it was new did he ?

[@xxkillbotxx7553]

@@tylerberg4832 No but it's not a valid criticism if it's a known tactic throughout the industry. I don't like the game, and I'm sure as hell not defending it, but the problem that people seem to have is, instead of criticizing the real problems, the focus on the really small parts of the game that anyone with half a brain knows is industry standard (or at least normalized) anyway.

[@PodRocker]

State of Decay 2 and Division are two of my favorite games, and I 100% would have taken the bait for this game if it weren't for your coverage. Great video, Kira!

[@unbearifiedbear1885]

So much potential with The Division; so poorly executed I still have faith they can really nail the formula if they give it another shot but I doubt we'll see a 3rd game tbh

[@AnimatronicBadgerlord]

@@unbearifiedbear1885 They are making a third one, but we won't see it for a while. They announced it a couple months ago :) Division 2 is one of my fav games. Not perfect or anything, but I love it.

[@hhholmes2010]

​@@unbearifiedbear1885Ubisoft announced back on 9/29 that Division 3 is being developed by Massive

[@jackblack375]

The fact that it's 2023 and people still blindly support and buy scams is mindblowing

[@slygamer01]

The asset issue is not shoveling out a bad game with them. It is using bought assets but claiming that they made everything. That is the asset issue.

[@Soapy-chan]

Unironically I can confirm the door thing, I did some level design with the hammer editor for garry's mod a few years ago and putting in a door into the level and right click on it to say in what directions it opens is easier than putting up the walls you put the door into.

[@charliefoxglove4471]

14:24 your laundry's ready!

[@GoogleMeAgain]

Class action lawsuit needed

[@voidboi0]

I'll be right back, about to go make a fake game and walk away with millions..

[@TheLizardKing752]

I feel a bit immunized against zombie survival games just because they seem to have such a long history of flops, asset flips, etc. And I'm not really into zombies as a concept. L4D was fun but that was the only zombie game I've gotten into.

[@khandimahn9687]

The funniest thing was clicking on that Community tab and looking at all the delusional people defending the game.

[@toadintheh0le]

Not sure if you’ve seen it but Scamtastic have just announced immediate closure of the ‘studio’ and no support going forward

[@2hundo68]

I'm on board with everything but opening and closing doors being one of the simplest things to program in a video game. Oh boy. Please try it

[@ilnastic]

Btw. The botted reviews interestingly enough say "Could have been better", which, is an amusing thing to say when giving a thumbs up and clearly botting. lol. Like... did the person executing the bot command also not get paid and was a volunteer and just didnt give a shit enough about doing his job right? lol

[@ssfbob456]

Well at least we're getting Ready or Not 1.0 in a couple days and it really looks like the team put a lot of time and passion into it, it honestly looks loke the antitesis of The Day Before.

[@eiriseven]

The studio just announced their closure. So yeah, this is it.

[@bzs187]

After playing some Snowrunner, those driving scenes feels so damn familiar. 🤔

[@KrucLeo]

"Programming doors is the simplest thing" - oh boy..

[@FallenAcix]

"This game will be Revolutionary" - FNTASTIC "Revolutionarily Terrible" - REALITY

[@fuzzymctwitch1906]

Bro did you not see the nuke someone dropped in the steam community page? They put them on blast and posted links to the dozens and dozens of asset packs they used.. Also last night the head volunteer guy came clean and told all about everything they knew regarding the game.. It was all lies and a planned asset flip.. they made that initial trailer as a way to hype prop night not expecting it to blow up... it did and they were like fuck.. we have to actually make a game now... thats why it was delayed... they never planned on actually making this game... and when they had to they just made a cheap asset flip. Not a single line of code was made in this game.. it was all assets from unreal stuck together... NOTHING was coded in this game at all

[@linkslayer15]

You know what's funny. I saw one of your videos showing that NPCs body getting larger and flying away. I then watching a KZbinrs short, her name is HollyRex, and it was literally her who witnessed that happening

[@xxkillbotxx7553]

It was kinda crazy how a few big KZbinrs literally cut her out of her own short and included it in their video, without crediting her.

[@linkslayer15]

@@xxkillbotxx7553 I didn't think of that

[@xxkillbotxx7553]

@@linkslayer15 Yeah the two I can think of from the top of my head is Kira and BigFry. It was very strange. BigFry's was even more irritating because he overlayed his camera on top of Kira's, which was overlayed on top of Holly's. Honestly kind of disgusting. I'll give Kira the benefit of the doubt because he's a pretty rational guy, but BigFry was probably actively malicious about it.

[@maboilaurence8227]

I am giving this game my personal score of: The studio has announced it's closure two days after relase/10

[@crunchyfrog555]

You're absolutely right in that you MUST document stuff in a clear and timely fashion. Some won't learn from this, but others will and it really helps to be able to go to someone and say "check this video out that shows how this went". I was a little on the fence about them being scammers, thinking they were more just incompetent and delusional. Now this demonstrates absolutely they're scammers.

[@reaper_redcap]

Elevators do work but only 1 floor in each building. Also, can't see out windows due to curtains.

[@AlexValder]

Those Russian bot reviews are literally saying "Could be better". When even bots can't shamelessly praise the game.

[@Dennnny60]

this game reminds me on myself when i got a assignment for school, except that i was forced to do.

[@BrawndoQC]

Name of the game feels heavily inspired from Days Gone. The way the patina in the logo letters, zombies etc. Except that Days Gone is a great game.

[@DrFrogglePhD]

Look at Pantheon. They did the "scam company too incompetent to make a real game so its a Battle Royale now" thing. The reversed course on it, but its still obviously not a real game.

[@Shizaho]

I bet that the offroad driving segments are stolen from Snowrunner.

[@l-_-lForkBombl-_-l]

And they just announced they are shutting down the studio and are abandoning the game haha.

[@skylarkblue1]

I thank you for making it clear that using assets is not the bad part. I'm a solo dev trying to break into the industry and I suck at visuals, assets is basically all I can use for the visual half of things but I'm just so hesitent to do so because of how much hatred there is against people who use assets in games.

[@radio3499]

no problem with using the assets. it is HOW you use them and what you do with them. They literally did a drag and drop of everything. nothing actually works besides the most basics.

[@radio3499]

like those jrpg makers, its all assets but people put actual works into them to make a story and personalized textures etc and other stuff not a 100% asset drag n drop only.

[@skylarkblue1]

@@radio3499 I'm aware. I've been doing this long enough haha. Sadly though, if some people recognise even just 1 asset I've seen dogpiles just based on that alone. Even if the asset is used properly and all and the game is great.

[@VodkaVodoka]

I do appreciate you covering this game honestly, but when you do stuff like this where you look at stuff with your own cam visible, either crop your cam or make it smaller so that it doesn't cover up the content you are talking about.

[@Arcalite]

I wish instead of buying reviews they just put that money into the game

[@MrRandomTurboHDRemix]

They already rug pulled holy shit. Surprised they didn't try milking the EA release a little longer before doing it.

[@MaxxJagX]

The company behind the biggest bait and switch in recent gaming history, baits and switches again? No way!

[@xladycaosx]

do I have any interest in multiplayer games? absolutely not, zero interest in playing them. Have I been following this whole saga and watched a million videos on this debacle? you bet

[@Carnyzzle]

The funny thing is that with the game being mostly assets there's not even a reason to cut everything that was in the old trailers out unless they really cut down on everything because they had to rush something to launch

[@DanielMasterton]

They just announced they're shutting down 🤣

[@fredEVOIX]

even after all your warnings many people didn't know what this game was..they only saw it was wihslisted by many and that all the youtubers streamed it

[@mikeymy3042]

Just reading some of the negative reviews on steam and what a shock it was to see so many in the comments defending the game.

[@vallejomach6721]

There are many stupid people.

[@ItsMeMattCarter]

People on Steam said the Discord is gone and Steam still has it listed to buy.

[@Marmalade_]

Because the studio has shut down and ran off with any money they still have, fk knows why people had faith in them still.

[@Sigillimus]

The official Discord is still up but it's basically just a massive venting session for people right now, kinda hilarious to watch

[@Marmalade_]

@@Sigillimus I'm loving the server atm 🤣🤣

[@alexkarassavidis3023]

And now they've shuttered the whole studio. What a surprise!

[@GageOnFire]

They dropped this game faster than their others, and that's astonishing

[@mikekuzmicz8408]

I will correct you on only 1 thing, you mean "store-bought" assets, not assets. Just thought i would clarify that, as assets (the word not the thing) is used commonly in games development, so just saying assets in the wrong situation sounds like using any game assets is bad 😂

[@jamesd2021]

The funny thing is Zero Sievert has shown extraction shooters CAN be very good. If they had designed it that way from the start, advertised it that way and didn't lie, it might have been good. But they promised an MMO and open world and didnt have the budget and screwed themselves. Assuming any of it was ever intended to be playable.

[@arkosilaura]

Kira, i don't think you have the right to criticize this game without playing AT LEAST 500 hours first. And after you did that, you clearly like the game. Why else would someone play it for 500 hours? Glowing recommendation right there! Get got, scrub.

[@Ixnatifual]

Classic.

[@phosspatharios9680]

Perfect, ironclad response. Imma stealing this

[@kirareacts]

True

[@endymallorn]

The word for what they’ve done is fraud. They literally defrauded everyone who gave them pre-release money for a game of a specific genre, and then released a vastly different product. Unfortunately, the fraud laws that I know would look at it and say, “you paid for a video game, you got a video game, fair’s fair.”

[@avendurree]

I wonder if the reason why the game has been "5 years in development" is because they tried to do what CoE tried to do, which is show some potential game footage to get investors to finish the game. Maybe thats why at the end, they just used all store assets to deliver the game, because no one even thought of funding them.

[@boozypixels]

Takes a special talent to have a more disastrous launch than Dead Matter

[@Krexel]

I'm one of the thousands that wishlisted this game when it was first listed on steam with the TBA release date. Wondered where it went when it suddenly disappeared. Then it all came to light

[@REfan2002]

Jesus, it's as almost as if we all this coming. From the multiple delays and "press conferences" and lo and behold

[@Dwarfurious]

i dont understand people hoping it becomes good, why do people want a scam to work even more? Lets not encourage an industry of lying to succeed

[@rogofos]

the positive reviews in russian say "could be better" which is so funny even their botted reviews are not positive on the game

[@AndyLundell]

How good is that translation? In english, "Could be better" is a mild insult, but could this be a translation mistake for a sentence expressing that the game is going to get better in early-access?

[@rogofos]

@@AndyLundell it doesn't mean anything beyond "could be better" I am russian I would know I guess more accurate translation would be "could have been better" its even more damning

[@SevKast_7]

THEIR STUDIO IS SHUTTING DOWN AND RUNNING AWAY WITH THE MONEY LMAOO

[@robertcochrane2671]

It won't be long until steam delete this game due to the scam. It's just an asset flip.... When the game crashes it literally says UE survival game xD.

[@Darkfyyre]

you don't need me to tell you this, but you were god damn right when you said "this game is never coming out" in all your older videos. a game called "The Day Before" released, but it wasn't the game promised, promoted, and teased all this time leading up to the release, so in my opinion, that means you were right all along. it never came out. it will never come out. it was never a real game. the thing fntastic squeezed out the ol' brown eye is hardly even a shell of the game it promised to be, any resemblance is entirely superficial, and at the end of the day it's just a scam. calling it a game is an insult to shovelware, that's how bad it is. great coverage as always! the fact that the whole studio called it quits mere hours after thsi vid dropped is hilarious. it's about damn time...

[@Evilshtt353]

Studio is already closing down lol

[@PhantomHalf]

Lmao the studio just announced that it closed.

[@goblin3810]

I wonder if this became an extraction shooter when they changed engines. Who knows if they ever did any work on an older engine, you can't belive anything these devs have said.

[@brynadone5651]

14:25 Your wash is done Kira. I have the same brand washer and I thought it was mine.