Engineering a TRAIN to survive the frozen apocalypse!

[@ZipSeb]

Matt: "No scenic routes" Also Matt (but 5 seconds older): "We can go the scenic route."

[@petertrudelljr]

Let's do the scenic route in level 2 stink! That won't be a problem, right??

[@Gzussss]

​@@petertrudelljrI thought the same but lvl3 stink was coming anyways, so it was actually a good move

[@Joyful_Traitor]

This game gives me the same question I had for Snowpiercer who is maintaining the tracks from the freezing weather

[@domowomo2125]

Me

[@sky0kast0]

Rails heat up maybe a little with going as fast as possible

[@pollyjackson-dzacchaeus1342]

in snowpiercer no one the tracks are known to get rougher

[@pollyjackson-dzacchaeus1342]

and then that stupid wooden bridge in season 3 wtf was wilford thinking there

[@velarswood]

If marvel taught me anything... nanobots.

[@meatsword3544]

you should do an OF only showing your favorite bridges.

[@prajjawalgupta8613]

And the fact that people will actually buy it makes it so much better

[@bottleofcat]

@@prajjawalgupta8613i would 100% buy his OF

[@MultiKombo]

You should call it OnlyTrains and that you're trainsgender

[@lulpujin7713]

Daam

[@1DY.]

OnlySpans

[@jimmymcgoochie5363]

The one time Matt decides to take the scenic route and it’s in a zone where he’s losing 100 happiness per second. Are you *absolutely sure* you were a REAL civil engineer?

[@mattymerr701]

He could have been an uncivil engineer, you never know

[@thormalakowsky]

To be fair it was only -35 hps at that point. Still, a really bad time to sightsee.

[@lXlDarKSuoLlXl]

​@@mattymerr701or a very civil architect camouflaged, yeah, we'll _never_ know 😂

[@bartoszmeister6163]

he secretly wishes that he went with architecture:)

[@Slywyn]

Cycle time being shorter is actually one of the stronger effects in the game, it essentially means that your cars "tick" faster, so you gain happiness faster. The Fuel Brotherhood cars lose happiness for every car between them and the locomotive... So putting them in the back is a bad idea lol.

[@duythuchoang5095]

The funnier thing is that Matt literally just knew it a while ago as he put the Engine cart at the front, but then completely forget about it afterwards

[@Eversor86]

Matt simply becomes a complete idiot architect, the moment he starts up OBS or what ever he uses to record his gameplay. Cause if he was such a knob while actually working, then it could explain why he works on youtube now ;)

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

"Because we are stuck on a train people are miserable" So it's just like a normal British train then

[@lordofthe6string]

Just after new years I was on a train near Wales that got stuck between 2 floods so there was nowhere we could go for a few hours, and I tell you I would have formed a primitive tribe and stormed the engine if it laster much longer.

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

@@lordofthe6string For me it was always the number of people they'd cram in a train. 2 carriages to go from portsmouth to cardiff and the end of the educational year when all the students are returning every year when I was at uni.

[@TheHorzabora]

Hah! As if a British train could move with that much snow anywhere near it! If the UK had to survive a nuclear / environmental disaster by boarding trains, we’d be stuck at the first fallen leaf. Plus the toilets wouldn’t work, and there would be no announcements, ever.

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

Not really cos our trains just vanish when it snows

[@Vlad-1986]

I live in the north, so I get a bonus for that statement

[@Dominator_0211]

I just wanna take a second to point out how good the thumbnail artist’s work is. If you’re seeing this, just know that I think your art is amazing.

[@chrisakaschulbus4903]

02:40 The way this drone grew an extra rotor really reminds me of AI trying to generate humanoid hands. The whole artstyle is like that. You could dissect this pic alone. Look at the streets and houses... it makes no sense. (One house is on the road, etc)

[@Kplays1234]

I think it is AI

[@savannah9712]

​@@Kplays1234 that's disappointing

[@fonsu_asg]

especially non functional parts of drones, or assymetrical arms and perspective.

[@moofy69]

@@savannah9712 Why? it looks great

[@Chronofrost001]

@@savannah9712 If I remember correctly, this is from a group of two or three people learning to make games and giving it away for free. Seems like the perfect target for AI art. No money coming in, no money going out. If they were charging for this game than I would have a huge issue with it.

[@carlanderson9068]

Hey Matt! If you like the idea of surviving in the snow, I'd like to recommend Frostpunk. It's a survival and town builder that is very fun. I think there might even be engineers

[@vinscorner]

The game definitely made me thought it was the same dev as frostpunk bec of the art style and the prompts

[@Miss_Trillium]

Low key Matt might be too much of an architect and could end up winterhome-ing himself

[@ReySilverskin]

Almost nobody succeeds at Frostpunk the first time they play it. That's part of the fun.

[@brendenhawley2225]

Also long dark has that same soul crushing cold vibe, it pretty slow paced through.

[@flimph]

Welcome back to snow piercer engineer edition

[@hanuchan]

Whatever happened to season 4 😢

[@csyeo8963]

Hi Matt, just wanted to let you know how bad better help is as a company. The “therapists” are all absolutely unaccredited, and there’s no proper standard for vetting them. online horror stories abound, from gay conversion therapy to gaslighting. Additionally, better help also underpays its workers, and packs their schedules so tight that they can’t provide good service, and has no support whatsoever in the UK. As a company they’ve had issues since way back in 2018, which they have not worked on fixing. The reason why better help has started a major marketing campaign recently (very good contracts for youtubers apparently) is because they received massive backlash for supporting Israel. They’ve offered free counselling to Israelis “affected by the events on the 7th of Oct”. Small wonder as better help is founded by a former IDF soldier (not conscript), and supports the zionist cause. Hope you would reject doing anymore better help videos, they really don’t need the ad. Your knob jokes probably do more for my mental health than better help anyways

[@RichardFleming]

Yep, Better Help is not a good company to advertise for.

[@MikMastenbroek-hu2me]

You could also just ignore it? Let that man get the bag

[@marcrubin9359]

Oh no they don't want to kill jews! They must really be bad people.

[@Religion0]

​@@MikMastenbroek-hu2me he should know what kind of company he's supporting. It's one thing to promote Raid, which is just a kinda bad game, and another thing to promote an actively harmful company pretending to do good.

[@yesyesseyes]

thank you!!!

[@chillaxter13]

Gotta go through more nodes early on, stretch things as long as possible before pollution zones... This will let you have way bigger numbers to work with at the end.

[@luckyno.9371]

"We're losing 35 happiness every second in the poluted zone, time for a scenic route"

[@PachezZ]

snowpiercer? maybe... but to it reminds me this saga a bit more: The Ice Company La Compagnie des glaces ("The Ice Company") is a series of 97 post-apocalyptic science fiction novels by the French writer Georges-Jean Arnaud, published between 1980 and 2005. Its setting is the Earth of the far future, covered by ice and governed dictatorially by railroad companies.

[@SephirothRyu]

The game seems to take inspiration from Frostpunk as well as Snowpiercer.

[@Wico90YT]

Snowpiercer: The Game

[@toxicbandit]

Someone really needs to make a full out Snowpiercer game. Not just 2D

[@marcinck9988]

Check Transarctica my dear younlings

[@SephirothRyu]

@@toxicbandit If you don't mind it not being a train, you could try Frostpunk.

[@MrImjustaminorthreat]

Hey Matt, not sure how much research you did on Better Help, I hope you did do some though. I know a while ago a lot of bad stuff came out about them. I don't know what the current situation is with them, but just thought I'd give you a heads up in case they haven't changed and you didn't know. Wishing you the best, thanks for the great videos!

[@dylandepetro4187]

18:19 lmao. Gotta love RCE’s editors. There are times where their little inputs are actually more entertaining than RCE.

[@mattm7220]

The department of press giving happiness is the single most unrealistic thing about this game 😂

[@minnesotaball9792]

Ah yes, frozen apocalypse, sounds much like home this morning with a blistering -18 degrees ❄Perfect video to start my day!

[@ollivararriazola234]

At 18:13 I loved it😂😂😂😂

[@job8]

Quite interesting one. Consider doing more episodes!

[@hydrus6782]

5:45 : Sooo... presumably, that a negative effect. Yup. That's a certified Architect moment here.

[@ravenmouse2385]

SERIES! SERIES! SERIES! This is addictive game play I don't know why lol I'm so invested in THE TRAIN!

[@adambarron4015]

As RCE has played Frostrain, Wandering Village, and Bad North, it'd be interesting to see his play in Void Bastards. Essentially, pathed resource gathering as the previous 3 but FPS and item crafting.

[@Christian-jc6gf]

2:40 absolutely beautiful ai generated image there. Its a wonder how that drone is able to fly

[@essemeninodorio]

Wrong Frost, Matt. it's FrostPUNK. ❄❄️ hahahah

[@sintanan469]

Matt's never gonna try Frostpunk. That game requires engineering know-how. We all know Matt has devolved into an idle-game architect.

[@SephirothRyu]

@@sintanan469 It would still be fun to see him at least try.

[@petersmith5886]

21:27 -35 😛 “I love correcting spelling errors in games” -Matt

[@Iona_Roe_Deer]

To be honest, I don’t really like games where something can go wrong in 5 seconds, and you have no control over it. But I love trains, so I’ll probably try to play this game. ☺️

[@kellanb810]

The train doesnt have the last of humanity on board, there are also those living in the north around towering generators.

[@JallenMeodia]

So this is what happened to season four of Snowpiercer!

[@orangemonkeygaming2715]

This is the concept of snowpiercer essentially

[@katakimikusan]

Tbh wouldn’t it be safer to stay under the sea? Like the frost/snow storm is happening in the top above the water, so wouldn’t you be protected from it by staying underwater?? Sure the water may freeze but it all depends on how deep down the city is and how cold it is and other stuff

[@feha92]

Wish the editor didn't constantly crop out everything so aggressively. Could have done magnified portions, or just crop in slightly towards it to have the animated direction serve as hint for out eyes. But as is I keep on finding myself hard-pressed to see information I want to see, and get quite disoriented all the time as the stuff I am looking at moves around on the screen constantly.

[@Desgras]

Sound like a good pitch for a tv series

[@irididio]

Yeah man, and make the train 1001 cars long to make it more interesting

[@pollyjackson-dzacchaeus1342]

maybe a movie and some comics to

[@gnth9552]

True engineer. Discards culture to improve the train more 😂

[@RamesGamesLC]

Also, from a world building standpoint... You can either survive, OR be upset at the guy managing the train and everyone dies anyways. Just like snow piercer, a movie that may have theoretical ties to willy wonka/ charlie and the chocolate factory (not kidding). And perhaps I don't understand enough about the world itself, but I find it hard to believe that you'd go from completely frozen zones into progressively more radiated zones as a way to survive. I'm gonna have to watch this game in full to see what the zone progression is and end-game is because it doesn't make sense. Maybe you're going somewhere sooooo polluted and radiated it's hot? Idk. Who cares if your skin burns off as long as the city isn't frozen.

[@Ihavenooriginalideas]

"It's dark, cold, and you don't know where the tracks are gonna take you. That might be how you're feeling about your life right now." One of the quotes of all time

[@MagicKillerClub]

Really enjoyed this! Went to check it out and found that it was free to play, which I wasn't expecting. Looking forward to giving it a go myself!

[@qirex3093]

We need a Bridge Review compilation 🌉

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

There's one on Patreon, it has my top 69 reviews in it 😅

[@qirex3093]

@@RealCivilEngineerGamingBut what about cheapskates like me😢

[@david2869]

This game is wild! You are in a post-apocalyptic world, but you are riding a train with the tracks intact. Your train is going through a tube under the ocean but you need to outrun a storm on the surface and still get deliveries of huge train cars by drone!

[@MichaelMoore99]

Matt: "We need to put the Department of Engine Control at the front." Also Matt: *puts Tier 2 Department of Engine Control at the back*

[@samthespiderman]

Omg Matt you have helped me so much since my dad has passed away I love the content you post sending hugs to you and patty

[@Fubarpenguin]

21:25 32….🤦‍♂️ how do you even miss read that 😂😂💀

[@zacksheets9726]

16:14 No schools? Then you have a train full of architects

[@michaelharvey7198]

You know I might know an architect you might actually like. They build their home in the strongest shape. They are known as Weaver Birds.

[@damiancowley5730]

Literally almost finished watching snowpiercer again and this pops up. Yes please

[@RookieGamingEngineer]

Ohhhh interesting game! Thanks for bring some spotlight on it. Might give it a shot myself. It looks good!

[@Josh.Proctor]

While you were going through describing the game's story a bit, I was like "This sounds like Snowpiercer" and then you said the same thing.

[@eziitis8]

From the amount of train games Matt has been playing recently, I'd say he's slowly becoming Sheldon Cooper

[@kylehouse1113]

that first bridge you reviewed was definatly made by an architech. an engineer wouldve been more efficient and had less spans

[@Lunarphoenix606]

At start you have to go past more towns / landmarks i dont know why but during the deep water part he didnt stay for extra cars he wasnt in any danger and whit that speed he could easly out run the storm (so he had to loot more early game when not in poluted zone or danger of storm )

[@johnperkey4407]

That start menu looks a lot like hollow knights.

[@GrimsFrost]

Wasn't the sponsor a giant scam? Sure... money is innocent and all that but I dunno how I feel about that Matt.

[@nazaxprime]

Indeed, that isbmy understanding, and no doubt they will shed their skin and keep on running their scam after the usual shell game antics. That said, I can't blame those who fell for it... Its hard to be so cynical that you expect grift from that particular vector. That said, its best we keep spreading the word so people dont unwitting accept sponsorships, marketing their trap. I'm usually pretty hardlined but I wont be blaming the messenger this time around. It is a bit too close to victim shaming for this instance. It really us too bad they're targeting people that need help the most though... It's a real shame.

[@lithuaniaball]

​@@nazaxprimeif someone tries to sell you *anything* on the internet and your first reaction is not "this is wholly inauthentic at best and probably the exact opposite at worst", you aren't cynical in the slightest.

[@FunckiBoy]

im right now sitting on my bed with a broken arm with 3 breaks and your videos are the thing that keeps me happy and the videos you make are the best and funniest videos of the games you play i got a game you can play and its name is ''island saver'' :)

[@Feylynn-e1x]

My cat has been focused watching this video for the past 7 minutes. 10/10 never seen my cat so keyed into a video

[@Barrel_Of_Lube]

Snowpiercier + Frostpunk = FrostTrain

[@Snowpiercer-forever42]

This reminds me of Snowpiercer

[@happyman4854]

This game was awesome! Please do another episode

[@RemyXAnarchy]

The first 5:10 of this video I was trying to remember the name of this movie 😂

[@SkyScorpions]

I laughed way too hard at that opening joke.

[@Yellowbob1]

I'd say probably the goal for this game is getting over to the Sahara, because like that place gets over a 100°F .Every single day or like Death Valley like both of them would probably work, but yeah, they would probably Last warm.Places on earth in the scenario

[@fredashay]

Snowpiercer!!!

[@fentonbarnett8940]

Love this game! I hope you do more of it

[@nicknevco215]

The art is so good I like them

[@60NineK]

You don’t sound sick, was this an earlier recording Matt?

[@itshunni8346]

Bro sells one of the best cars in the game that adds permanent happiness bonuses because he didn't get it. never change, never change.

[@Dead_Ringer]

From here forth as we travel on the last train to nowhere ,Matt our beloved (Real Civil) Engineer shall be named Wilford.... and let it be known NO architect shall ever travel on Snowpiercer, our savior in these icy times🥶 Long live Mr Wilford (formerly known as RCE)😝

[@Beodude123]

Man that looks intense!

[@Benjabub]

Controversial opinion: I'd have given that bridge a 8.9/10

[@Piranhamatt]

Snowpiercer the game? Oh you said that at 5:12

[@danfm1]

i reckon you should ask the thumbnail artist to revise the color pallete, every thumbnail keeps looking less and less like the game and more and more like youtube kids thumbnails

[@Trancos1202]

18:18 Mister editor, you are one of the reasons I remember to like these videos, so no need to be sorry. XDDDDD

[@MissKFOX]

[Rides up behind the train with a more fierce Maintenance Train]

[@terrablae2299]

Engineers Create. Architects Decimate. Anyway, always enjoy your videos :D Have a great day today!

[@RamenHutt]

This made me think of snow piercer. Since it takes one year to fully travle the track the track would have ro be atleast twenty times the diameter of earth and, would have to travel at a very sedate 57mph.

[@MocSomething]

Ooo its "Snowpiercer - the video game!"

[@QueenKitty08]

Looks really fun.

[@jynx2501]

This would make an interesting movie or tv show

[@amandaroberts6535]

The ever-encroaching storm is giving me FTL flashbacks

[@schuylerashton813]

Frodos Train looks neat. Did you ever come back to it?

[@doitean1342]

Sorry Matt, as an engineer, I could not watch this video. No disrespect to the Devs, but maybe they could have spent 5 minutes looking up what a train looks like and watched a 20 minute video on how trains actually work.

[@DeathLingers]

that was interesting and seems cool

[@RainyCarnival]

I find it weird that no-one is mentioning how this game is based on Frostpunk, a fantastic game that this gets a lot of its visual style and gameplay features from. All this to say, Matt, play Frostpunk.

[@stinbray1120]

may i suggest polytopia or civilization resolutions

[@Kalabajooie]

Frostpunk meets FTL on a train with cards? Yes, please!

[@V1UltrakilI]

Day 33 of asking for Anno 1800 content

[@RamesGamesLC]

That front car you "couldn't bother to read"... I'm glad your editor shows us your mistakes lol.

[@Alexanderrrrrrrrrrrrr]

Earliest I've been to an RCE video! Greetings! 👋

[@JuliusCaminus]

I just watched Snowpiercer for the first time only this past week, and now this... The engineer is watching me...😶 I shall have to send the architects to stop him.

[@ImmortalAbsol]

May I recommend 'Heat Death: Survival Train' for the channel, currently only a demo.

[@Zonkdonktonk]

You.. are so close.. to Frost Punk. Yet... you refuse to touch it.

[@minion2702]

Form the midlands here. Couldn't help to hear a proper gander station and thought what does he need a better look at?? Silly old me, thought you'd have a giggle

[@Braveplantt]

3:00 POV: Dr.beeching >:) 19:01 Matt trying to be american: (it's guard, not conductor!)

[@shivanSpS]

Matt lossing happinesx like crazy : "yeah lets do a loop".

[@matthumphrey4915]

Matt at start of video: its NOT called frost Rain. Matt ending video: That was Frost Rain, hope you enjoyed watching. XD

[@charzhugaming]

Snow piercer vibes

[@ragingfred]

Snowpiercer at home

[@Wanglo13]

Proper Gander Station.

[@Sour_lemon_gum]

I can't believe this puzzle game has a name that reminds me of Snow piercer

[@YourAverageDriller]

Same loo snow piercer was the first thing to come in my mind after seeing the vid

[@taylora9814]

Haha "No scenic routes on this tr- actually you know what."