Austin does not recommend: Nightingale (Early Access Review)

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In its current form, Nightingale combines the arduousness of the survival materials grind with the unsatisfying gear-score chase of an out-dated MMO. Coupled with poor combat and storytelling, Nightingale has an immense uphill battle ahead of it if it's to earn its place in the highly competitive survival scene.
Video written, voiced and edited by Austin B.
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[@nicknevco215]

Knew this was about the grind work

[@willg3220]

Use timestamps in your reviews please 🙏

[@sleek86]

the crafting and upgrading process is exhausting and none of it gets explained very well. from accidentally using up high tier resources from auto filling to your survivor just being downright retarded. it can be quite frustrating to progress

[@sleek86]

it also runs like ass on my pc set up

[@crazykobold1644]

serious comment: guys, both you and ShillUp are mixing up the use of conceit vs. concept. It's been bothering me for years when you always say conceit when it sounds like you actually are talking about concepts...

[@goodtaste2185]

Oh boy, I cannot wait to raise my gear score in this early access open world survival crafting game!

[@j.d.4697]

"Isn't that what gamers want? I keep hearing gamers talking about gear score and MTX and battlepasses and how much they love them. At least that's what a friend told me who has an uncle who overheard someone talking about a gamer once..."

[@ArcaneAzmadi]

@@j.d.4697 "...on the other hand, the person may have said _'loathe',_ my friend's uncle is getting a bit deaf..."

[@hollylucianta6711]

stop doing RPG elements in action games! items were not supposed to be given numbers. *Years* of games yet no use ever found for 8% poison resistance. Wanted to do more damage? We had a tool for that. It was called levelling up. "Yes, please give me 2% armor piercing"--statement by the utterly deranged. "Hello, I would like 0.02% faster movespeed." they have played us for absolute fools

[@AnglophobiaIsevil7]

​@@j.d.4697and skins! Don't forget that! I heard they love them. Something about not really caring about finding items organically or something. Isnt it so cool that gamers just happen to want the one thing that makes us billions? Yay!

[@AnglophobiaIsevil7]

​@@hollylucianta6711someone showed me the diablo 4 stats and I busted out laughing. It has stuff like "+3% fire damage to ethically dubious nymphs no larger that 4ft on every 3rd and 10th lunar cycle that coincides with a Christian holiday(has no effect on Catholic holidays!)

[@felfit]

11:00 So turns out that the game does have a, loot all droppables in an area by holding E. But it took me 20 hours to find that. And 30 hours to find out that X opens the build mode to move objects and destroy structures while getting all resources back.

[@felfit]

13:30 You can also hold E to rename chests. But again, game doesn't tell you and it took me 15 hours to stumble across this.

[@SlightlySaici]

50 hours played, and you just saved me so much frustration. thank you

[@DevilRiku48]

@@IronSalamander8 It was maybe more important for the devs to explain that you need to cook meat in order to eat it.🤦‍♂

[@EnsignRedshirtRicky]

@@DevilRiku48Or to actually hire someone with the tiniest amount of education in actual game design.

[@SuperKendoman]

How is your finger or wrist doing? I'd definitely take breaks unless you want to speedrun to tendonitis 😢

[@vladdimitrov819]

I think this game is a good example of why Early Access can be detrimental. These issues shoud have been playtested privately and improved for a 1.0 release. Its going to be an uphill battle to change perception on this game even if things improve now that most reviews are not positive.

[@Razumen]

It's not EA's fault, these issues were pointed out to the devs by players, they just didn't care.

[@pogtuber5146]

it does seem like they went all-in on a system that at this point is not going to change regardless of when it hits 1.0. It's not trivial to just re-write crafting or a combat system or add effective AI

[@AraiiarA]

This is Ralph's payback for Austin reviewing Helldivers while he reviewed Suicide Squad. Now Austin reviews Nightingale while he reviewed Pacific Drive.

[@vystaz]

ralph had to deal with skull and bones too, though. so he's still got one to go

[@MrSmf500]

Ralph is reviewing FFVII Rebirth, so theyre even now​@@vystaz

[@legendduke7500]

Love the comment section has its own creator lore now

[@alau5643]

I was just thinkin that too hahaha wonder how it’ll shake out next

[@mylesyankees1996]

Really enjoying Austin assisting with reviews on the channels. Keeps the same script and production values of Ralph but adds his own tone and way of poking at games. Keep it up guys!

[@soanywayistartedblastin8463]

It's so amazing how talanted all the people ralph has on this channel are, this feels like a wholesome IGN that isn't shit

[@MrValgard]

It's funny sometimes as he use same idioms/talking way as Ralph, and it makes it so good as he could be his brother, must talk a lot with each other

[@maegnificant]

Well he edits his videos so he heard it all a thousand times​@@MrValgard

[@AlekTrev006]

@@MrValgardDidn’t his bro used to actually appear w Ralph, in past years on some vids, or was that always Austin ? I am forgetting the details 😓

[@EjayT06]

I struggle to tell their voices apart sometimes 🤣

[@ewjiml]

Never in my life did I EVER think that the BioWare Brand would be unequivocally and utterly useless as a reference for videogames. Man times have changed.

[@TheMrDewil]

I don't get what's the big idea about BioWare. It's light was snuffed out the moment EA got their dirty hands on it, and now it's just a word that don't mean much, at least not to me when I hear it. And as for the people that worked there, they're just smeared too thinly across the industry now, to make any noticeable difference in anything. So wake up, bro. Wake up, and smell the ashes.

[@kharyrobertson3579]

Almost none of those systems that were described here sound like they would be any fun even if they were fully fleshed out and functional.

[@draw2death421]

Building seems like it could be someting but tbh Sons of the forest and even regular The Forest does it just way better.

[@AnglophobiaIsevil7]

Exactly.

[@Fink621]

The game flashes, EMPTY, above the crosshairs every time you shoot a single shot weapon. Yes game, we can count.

[@kaparkin]

I think Austin edited Ralph’s voice for so many years so now he is slowly becoming him lmao

[@MichaOstrowski]

truly a third brother by this point

[@Kasaaz]

He's listened to so many Ralph reviews while editing, I imagine it's just sunk in.

[@RGB_Toast]

Great video! I think it’s becoming increasingly common that devs/publishers advertise staff being ex-well known dev employees to the point where it should be more of a red flag than a commendation these days. Likely to see a lot more of this too with all the recent layoffs

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

Agreed. I don't care who you are, tbh, because you didn't make Mass Effect. You didn't make Morrowind. You didn't make The Last of Us. You may be a talented (insert job), but you were still one often very small part of an often very large team that came together to make a grand whole. When you bring a new team together, that's an entirely new situation with an untested dynamic. Your skill in isolation doesn't mean nothing, but it does mean very little.

[@Emma_Z1]

i think is funny they are mentioned like ex bioware devs and not ex Anthem and Mass Effect Andromeda devs lol

[@eon5323]

Their inflections are SO similiar... I straight up forgot this wasn't Ralph speaking half way through...

[@IamaQuadChannel]

been editing his vids for so long, makes sense he mimics his narration style, even if it isn't intentional

[@agromchung]

​@@IamaQuadChannelNah it's just a standard Sydney/Melbourne Aussie accent 😂

[@termi1085]

Wait, it wasn't ?

[@kredonystus7768]

It's called an accent. This in particular is a Sydney/Melbourne accent. It's like how all Scottish sound similar, with regional differences, and how all Americans sound similar, with regional differences.

[@kevinkusman9137]

@@kredonystus7768its a bit more than accent, its the way he turns a phrase that is strikingly similar as well. Almost as if Ralph is writing his script.

[@sioneris1545]

Gear score doesn't have its place in a survival, where the goal is to explore

[@ihatevnecks7015]

Unfortunately they'd have to add exploration to the game first.

[@PlatinumAltaria]

I'm half convinced that developers download a preset game where it has light RPG elements, looter shooter gear ranking, open world, crafting, and all the other stuff. Like... they are not developing this from scratch every time.

[@daaaah_whoosh]

I don't think gear score has a place anywhere, it's a lazy contrivance. But the 'survival' genre is definitely about personal growth, often through upgrading gear. And I'd say the 'survival' genre is more about surviving than exploring, though you are often pushed to explore either to find more diverse materials or because you've run out of resources close to home. Games like Breath of the Wild or early No Man's Sky were exploration games with survival elements, true survival games usually push you to create a home base and return to it often, limiting how much you can truly explore.

[@sirfeni]

I think it depends, V raising has a gear score system and it doesn't feel out of place or annoying. It should be integrated on a more organic way tho, here it just seems like they slapped the thing in.

[@uhurunuru6609]

You say that, but as someone that loves exploring in games, the last thing I ever want is to be forced to grind resources & craft crappy gear, over & over again, for many hours. That doesn't encourage me to explore, it stops me stone cold dead, "Survival" genre is all about surviving & you usually never have enough time to explore properly. Enshrouded for example actively discourages ANY exploration by killing you on a very short damn timer, or even immediately if you turn left instead of right. You're to busy trying to SURVIVE, to explore.

[@aBadWizard]

Game advertisement: 😎 Game quality: 🤡

[@RedBearNAaron]

Basically the entire gaming industry. Smh

[@SpudOfDoom]

I still don't think anyone has fallen as far in this regard as We Happy Few did. That first trailer was incredible, and then the game was a totally different genre, and a bad version of it at that.

[@DrRipper19]

To me this feels like the perfect cautionary tale against releasing your game to early access too early

[@connorwilcox146]

5:09 was listening at 1.5x speed and he sounds perfectly normal, if they just sped it up it would be fine, no re-recording required.

[@bbdawise]

"Former bioware devs" doesn't hold the same prestige it once did. For all we know these are the former devs who gave us Andromeda or Anthem...

[@Frank-yb2hw]

savage burn lol

[@illidoth]

lol 16:38 "You are on fire" "you are no longer on fire" "you are on fire" "you are no longer on fire"

[@Shadow_Play3r]

man I was really rooting for this game. Guess it can improve and evolve by 1.0 if they stick to it

[@CheatingZubat]

It's going to take a "No Man's Sky" level of turn around to salvage this.

[@sebarus8108]

​@@CheatingZubatIt really isn't. As someone who's been playing it it is nowhere close that bad. It has great potential. I really like this channel and Austin but this video is full of inaccuracies.

[@CheatingZubat]

@@sebarus8108 I have 20+ hours in the game. It is that bad. And lazy, and unremarkable

[@standylixgames7757]

​@@sebarus8108 like what, the layout of the dungeon are the same, lack of enemies types, and the combat is just not good.

[@sebarus8108]

@@standylixgames7757 Personally I like the combat. Impacts feel weighty, all the weapons feel different, and it's really satisfying to get a heartshot. And our group hasn't even gotten to magic yet. But I guess that's mostly personal opinion. In terms of dungeons and enemy variety, I mean a lot of the dungeon layouts are pretty different, but mechanically they're too similar, that's true. Between the two enemy factions I've seen (not counting animals), there's like 7-ish enemy types I've encountered, and I know I haven't seen all. In terms of other inaccuracies. There is a loot all. You can rename storage. You can move items and destroy them in the build menu to get your resources back. I'm not sure how Austin missed that because it is just in the build menu. Granted, the game could do a better job of tutorializing but a reviewer missing fundamentals like that feels like poor due diligence. It did not take me and my friends long to figure any of that out.

[@alesdrobek2512]

This would probably get solid audience 10 years ago but if you wanna shine in this ultra competitive market you have to be ultra good.

[@Handlesaredumbm8]

I mean, maybe it shouldn't have come out right after Palword and Enshrouded, because I guarantee, people compared it's clunky and boring combat compared to those two 😅

[@15thCrypt]

​@@Handlesaredumbm8Yeah that is partly what they mean. It just hit March and we already have quite a few survival games with many more planned for this year so you have to have something really good to shine through in the genre right now (which is why most of them typically die after like a month or 2)

[@goblin3810]

Or at least mediocre. Mediocrity sells wonders these days

[@pHixiq]

Even tho I was crazy excited for it, it genuinely doesn’t look that good.

[@LiraeNoir]

Even then, it has so many problems I'm not sure the audience would be called "solid".

[@micheljolicoeur6094]

Nightingale needs a rework of some core systems. Simply adding the ability to craft from chests as the developer said they are working on is NOT enough to save the crafting in this game. Combat is attrocious.

[@AnglophobiaIsevil7]

"this game needs to be made into a good game" I mean...what if we just ignored it all together?

[@yinepuiwhite3955]

Man, a teleporter to go to different biomes just.... Takes all the appeal out for me. I love exploring and finding biomes, carving out the world and getting to know my surroundings and landmarks. Not menuing to get to new places and getting new maps every time. Also the fact they have such a good tree felling animation but literally no sleep animation is just ???? for immersion. The building blueprints thing is great though, Medieval Dynasty did it before this and it's great. Glad to see more games picking it up.

[@eliot7189]

Confirmed! The game I was playing right before I hopped on Nightingale was MD.

[@farli]

One small correction for Austin - you don’t have to manually destroy buildings! On keyboard, X brings up the quick menu for repair and destroy. You pick Destroy, then can target what you want to remove. It then returns your resources! I do like a grind, but Nightingale definitely needs clearer guidelines, and pull from storage needs to be added for sure. There’s also a lack of Fae interaction - so far. More of these entities please! I will say, they’ve been very receptive to feedback and I’m hoping QOL updates in future will address some of the pain points. I hope Austin will review the game again in a year or so when early access is further along, I’ve really appreciated his review here.

[@amduil8168]

What you said sums up one of my biggest complaints about the game. It barely tells you anything about how the game works. It took me 10 hours until I found the build mode. I didn't know about grindwheels increasing damage done by tools you craft until their own youtube video told me.

[@farli]

@@amduil8168 The glossary feels very unwieldy tbh, and I hope they can change the format a bit. I dont mind discovering a few things for myself, but obvious things need to be clearly accessable.

[@2guys1mic65]

To auto loot you can hold the interact button and it will pickup everything on the ground within 5m

[@2guys1mic65]

You can also inspect the storage to rename the storage boxes

[@Giliver]

That's not really auto loot but I get your meaning.

[@2guys1mic65]

@@Giliver I only mentioned it after he said have to pick up the logs 1 by 1 lol

[@nicknevco215]

yeah they told some streamers this

[@gregutz4284]

About the coolest thing in the game.

[@welcometothewraith1]

I like when Austin does reviews. Because 1) we get more content. and 2) we still get to hear an Australian accent. It's a win-win

[@Shinkajo]

Unless you hate Australian accents

[@Stunbunny]

This sounds like a Last Starfighter-type game designed to identify and recruit distribution warehouse middle managers in a far off galaxy.

[@kevinkusman9137]

One of my favorite movies. Great reference.

[@AnglophobiaIsevil7]

"Wait...we have crafting stuff...for real all along!?"

[@Asriel_Cypher]

It's nice to hear from you again Austin!

[@sirshmoopyfox]

With augmentation, I built shelves and put all the augs on it then moved the ones I needed to the station I was working on. Also you can rename the storages just hold e on them

[@mcgoose258]

regarding your comments on the voice actor, whoever wrote the script and did the casting saw that same actor in the BBC series "Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrel" where he played a very similar character with the exact same mode of speech, and they just had him do the same thing here. difference is, in the show he is laconic and not given to long talks.

[@Straggler8]

I really hope they will listen to community and work hard to improve it - this game has excellent fundaments to be great, but it really needs more time in the oven

[@TheMissing8]

They apparently did not listen at all in all their years of closed beta testing. The UI and tedium were some of the biggest issues brought up.

[@Emma_Z1]

you had to see what the tests were, literally no improvement and no change. They only just now say an offline mode is coming out because of the poor sales

[@Straggler8]

@@Emma_Z1 To be fair - I did not use a single offline mode in any game for like 20 years, why people are so mad about it?

[@MarigoldAW]

@@Straggler8 When always online video games cease to be supported you are no longer able to play said video game. it is effectively deleting the game. It is simply an awful decision 99% of the time.

[@abhinavjain8672]

​@@Straggler8it's not about using the "offline mode" Recent online only launches has taught us that their servers can't be trusted , payday 3, suicide squad and bunch of other games had broken online systems where you were not able to play the game you purchased because of bad servers

[@GuacJohnson]

I'm 60hrs in and my main thoughts/comments on this review as I follow: If they only did a better explaining a lot of the qol that IS in the game I feel the experience would be a lot better for people who aren't as inquisitive in figuring out that kinda stuff since he got so much wrong in this review that I figured out within my first few hours (hold e to grab all items nearbv, x engages build mode and you can reposition or delete anything youve built as well as quickly copy and make another, chests can be named by holding e on them). I actually quite enjoyed the augmentation system and had no problem getting all the bonuses and recipes, but there is also a minor realm card that remove's the placement requirements and massively boosts durability on all crafted tools and gear. Will agree the first gun did take too long to craft and felt like too much compounding tedium at once. Should state that recipes of equal tier are also unlocked when completing any of the random world events (which do increase in difficulty in the higher realms ex. 5 or 6 pillar tones to memorize the order for that are also hidde but 100% need more variety in their execution), and that doing a single fae portal will have you set for essence of the tier its at for quite a while (takes about 30min at most). You could have literally jumped over the gate and unlocked the next area still btw: gates are extremely easy to get around if you so wish and the gear score is mostly arbitrary so I havent thought about it at all and just look at stats. Those "Bosses" are just regular enemies placed as checks on your understanding of the basics: use bludgeoning instead of ranged as it gets decreased dmg making them look 500% tankier than they are but still agree they 100% need better AI or even just an actual boss type Bound enemy as when the game actually summons the full cast together the combat becomes quite enjoyable, obviously not game changing but better than I've seen in enshrouded with equal play time (mixes of fast rushers, slow heavy hitters, fire bois you wanna stay away from, and ranged miasma throwers you wanna shut up). 100% tho they need to add more variety and random effects to the realms you spawn as well as a major increase to the ai intelligence and a rebalancing of the "end game" to be properly threatening to warrant having other players around without ruining the combat experience

[@levisorenson7873]

Good comment. I agree.

[@GreatBeardofWisdom]

This screams We Happy Few to me. Potentially great and interesting world bogged down in hackneyed game design. Such a shame.

[@ntmetroid]

I was really hoping this one would be good. It sounded promising. I guess its a good thing Palworld scratched my Survival itch for awhile

[@thedudeabides3138]

If I can give you a steer, Enshrouded was a really pleasant surprise for me, there’s a LOT to love there…and for 27€ it was an absolute steal. The building your own base mechanic is very satisfying, unleashing your inner child / Lego builder. The various biomes are beautifully realised and wonderfully different. It’s early access, but you’d be hard pressed to see that. Enshrouded was going to take me GOTY award (for pure innovation and aesthetics)…..but then Helldivers came along….

[@Giliver]

​@@thedudeabides3138sadly Palworld cannibalized a boat load of potential Enshrouded sales, I for one have no interest in another survival game for a while thanks to Palworld.

[@kristakis]

There are 1 or 2 little things that I love about this game - the blueprint hologram building is really cool and you can load up you companion with tonnes of wood and stone and he'll put them into the building for you. The rest of the game is death by a thousand paper cuts and it's a real shame because it had so much potential. This is early access and I hope the devs see the feedback and improve the game.

[@Sinsanatis]

holy hell. props on trudging through all that to create a real fully experienced review

[@TylerMcCombs-avendi]

Not that it helps too much with the overall experience, but you can label containers by aiming at them and holding E then using the selection wheel for 'rename'. You'll then see the name by just looking at the container. I do wish these were external labels you can visibly see like small signs/labels physically on the containers so you can see them all at a glance.

[@joshuasmith6909]

Ah yes, a live service game where the goal is to GRIND forever. Where have I seen that before.

[@AscendantStoic]

Yeah, the gear score thing is utterly bizarre, why take a system from looter shooters and just plunge into a genre that already does the same thing but in a much more organic way, Valheim did this beautifully using the biome bosses, once you defeat a biome boss you gain access to a tool that unlocks the technology that allows you to brave the next biome. That said there is literally nothing stopping you from going to the next biome any way, I'm still at biome 3 (the swamp) and only defeated the first two bosses (Meadows and Black Forest bosses) but I went to the next biomes (Plains and Ice Mountains) explored a little, got some materials and ran back to my base in the Dark Forest (several times, lots of deaths involved but I was having fun with how dangerous it felt to explore those areas), there is no "gear score" that stopped me from doing that, what a baffling choice!!!

[@petrospetrakakis4762]

I honestly have to say when it comes to reviews I always look up to yours because you seem like the type of person able to see the whole picture and you always say your thoughts on things and your always on point as well so keep up the good work. And by the way I am expecting to see your review for final fantasy rebirth as well.

[@chazmaru9583]

5:06 didn’t expect a cameo from Buzz Killington in my survival game.

[@Pdasniper]

Austin writing is really-really good. It was a pleasure consuming this review, how well its written. Thanks Austin

[@SynthLizard8]

2 things that makes me crack a cheeky smile is that 1) You can tell that majority of this budget went to the art assets with dressing up the aesthetics of this game and 2) The UI is that bland generic monochromatic sterile template, there's no texture or whimsical font to it, just bland spreadsheet white against shaded black background.

[@JW-ub4oi]

This channel is on fire. Appreciate all four of you!!

[@JamesOKeefe-US]

You rock Austin, always appreciate your reviews! The idea of a 2x option for dialog is brilliant. Ain't nobody got time for grandiloquence! 😊

[@Senayoshy]

This is one of those games that look extremely different compared to the trailers... When playing it the game just kinda looks ugly and janky

[@tuna5618]

Finally some more austin, he's so much cooler than that other guy. Austin does the best reviews.

[@Nyoteng]

These jokes were funny the first few videos. Now they are probably aggravating to the team more than anything.

[@geometryfgcb]

Yeah it gets to a point where it's not banter and is just kinda tired and mean @@Nyoteng

[@temporarilydead3232]

​@@geometryfgcbI don't think its that deep tbh

[@BlackCat-tc2tv]

@@temporarilydead3232it is annoying though.

[@temporarilydead3232]

@@BlackCat-tc2tv yeah, fair enough

[@ian5756]

I sighted "OH no" as soon as I saw that stone axe.

[@Starpluckr]

As this channel approches the million sub milestone, I find myself reflecting on discovering Ralph's Nier Automata review around 2018 (I had a different acount back then). I was enthralled by his writing, narration, and production values. It felt like everything he said in that review was coming directly from the heart, and that passion has permiated almost everything I have seen this channel produce since then. Seeing this channel grow, try new things, and introduce new people has been a pleasure. I may not have been an OG fan since the Division days, but as long as these guys continue to be themselves, I'll stick around. Now the real question looms, will we finally get that 2hr Outer Wilds review at 1M subs, Ralph? ;)

[@dalenei6104]

You got sooooo much wrong.

[@maliciousism5917]

11:00 Hold E to auto loot the area 12:10 Press X to open the "build" menu which includes DESTROY for a full material refund, move and copy options

[@TheHotDogBuddy]

Love Austin reviews. Keep em coming!

[@Koustav_04]

Sad to hear 😢 I was looking forward to this.

[@AdamsRandomYTAccount]

Loving your reviews Austin. I'm glad you get some time in the spotlight as you seem to have quite a knack for this job. Keep up the great work mate!

[@Estaran]

13:19 Don't know when this was added, but you can label your containers and even your gates by holding the "E" key. This will bring up a menu to enter a new name. You can also auto-collect everything loose in a small radius by holding the "E" key, does work on logs and loose stone, but not rocks ("pebbles") or plants. To destroy buildings fast, you can use the build menu ("X) and press "V" to deconstruct those parts while getting all the resources back. 13:41 I totally agree, by far the worst part is that there is that T1 parts don't stack, because they are slightly different (stat wise) than other T1 parts that look identical but are e.g. either prey meat or predator meat. And not being able to search when searching through containers (the filtering is basically useless) and no crafting from containers is really awful in 2024. 15:24 That's why our new base does not look like a cosy cottage any more, but a structured modern warehouse. I hate it... Especially, since those augmentations also work against the build limit of 300 (whatever unit they use). 16:00 THIS! Also, that you can't queue the item (you can only pin the recipe to your journal) and then first have to craft all those other lower part components (which are listed in the in game glossary), physically transport those to another (augmented) station and so on. Really tedious in 2024. :( 21:35 This is why my male companion "Archie" now wears a dress (the one from the Twitch drop :D ). Because of an enormous boost to the gear score. I don't even care, because the friendly AI is even more stupid than all the modern Elder Scroll games. And that's quite a thing. 23:18 LOL. Same tactics I used for most of the bosses, I was slightly ill prepared for. :D I really hope there will be an overhaul to most of these things, but I guess some are far too deeply intertwined with the rest of the game systems.

[@illidoth]

"build whatever you want" ok show me treehouses

[@levisorenson7873]

You can kinda do it actually. It's not easy but it's possible. You can even build on some of the surrealist looking POIs in the sky.

[@CalixtoErico]

Thanks guys. Your reviews are second to none.

[@Dubstepconcept]

Puts in enough hours to give true feedback at all levels and very well done at that. Great review my friend, will let this one cook a little more for sure.

[@Strider_Shinryu]

Pretty much what I was expecting. I was really intrigued by this the first time they teased it as the world and creature design looked fantastic.. and then they revealed it to be a survival game.. and then they started doubling down on the Multiplayer aspects... There could have been a great game here but it lost all of it's appeal as soon as they left the concept stage.

[@OutHereOnThePerimeter]

The game has a literal, huge checklist on screen. Really redefines the term “checklist-y”.

[@AurioDK]

NIghtingale is just basically one big long grind with very little else to offer, exploration they say? After a trip to the three biomes you have seen most. The problem with this game is the lack of side activities and I am not talking about lining up 3 tones or helping some settler with 600 stone, that´s torture.

[@Proph3cy]

Skillup had to suffer in the Skull & Bones and now Austin with Nightingale.

[@mateofantasma]

The description of the "gear score" mechanics killed this game for me. Thanks a lot for this review

[@geraldturner4770]

Thanks for the quick take at the beginning.

[@thesixth2330]

I am so happy Austin started doing reviews!!! Great Work Austin.

[@ReaIistik]

What an absolute bummer because this game looked super interesting

[@cosmicchameleon]

12:15 You can go into the build menu (X on PC), and you can "Remove" building parts (etc) and receive ALL materials back!

[@Malotrix]

Well done Austin! I was interested in this Rourke a free months back and put it on my wishlist. Really glad I waited for reviews.

[@TristanMillz]

Great review as always Austin!

[@jamesodwyer4181]

Thank you for the review. Between it, and clarifying commenters re a couple of details missed (aoe pickup and storage renaming), I can save myself the money and see if the game is improved on in a year or so

[@mrburger]

Fingers crossed for a redemption arc. I want this one to succeed.

[@AFpaleoCon]

Whoever did the art on those inventory icons needs to reconsider their career.

[@CodexF0X]

Great review!

[@Ditiseenvis]

Wow can't believe you went through all of this, it all sounds horrible to me, but I did enjoy the video very much! Thank you for going through all of this and informing us.

[@Airoch4]

This just makes me think of We Happy Few with extra steps

[@RobVespa]

The game is beautiful and seems right up my alley. Hopefully, the dev team is able to course correct. Fingers crossed!

[@willg3220]

I still wish Australia had timestamps

[@cryptosporidiom]

Maybe they should have told you that you can hold E to pick up all nearby dropped items.

[@reubenpena9999]

I think it’s cool they sound so similar, but I’m also like… how?? Haha I forgot it was Austin for the first 5 minutes

[@johnotron604]

Hopefully they can adjust before release as I still see the potential here. I would like to see some more mechanics to combat such as: dodges, parries, blocks and telegraphs.

[@robinnouara3681]

16:00 that whole rant is the most Ralph you've sounded so far!

[@Kixolisjous]

Great video, and thank you for saving me some money! Had much higher hopes for Nightingale...

[@thatHARVguy]

*patiently waits for NightinPal mod*

[@nathanmitchell7961]

Such a great review !

[@chefnerd]

Let's wait and see then.

[@NIHKEY1]

There’s some flat out wrong details in this review like area loot by holding E and hitting X while in base to destroy or move things. I think the game has a really good base for future content to be added. As an early access title I got my 30 bucks out of it.

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

That's still a fault with the game, if so. It means it failed to effectively communicate even very basic mechanics.

[@NIHKEY1]

@@ledumpsterfire6474 I don't disagree. It needs to be more clear. Its listed in the keybinds but should be more clear.

[@stitchup5637]

It's got potential in the narrative and art style (rich and colourful world). But it definitely needs work - more RPG and exploration elements outside of the crafting. Way more quality of life and way more voice acting.

[@ZeusTheGodSoA]

So sad too, cause I was excited for nightingale...

[@CJgamer129]

Am glad I watched this before trying Nightingale. With how this game was being hyped, I was expecting a much better experience. Instead, like how Anthem proved Bioware should NEVER touch a looter shooter, Nightingale proves ex-bioware devs should NEVER touch survival games. Like, just make a good RPG instead of failing at other genres.

[@txt5220]

Hearing Austin's criticisms of this game made me think to my favorite survival game, Subnautica, and how it avoided many of Nightingale's pitfalls. No annoying npcs, diverse biomes, finding recipes in the wild, no gear or leveling, and best of all, a world that you actually want to explore.

[@TaintedBlood30]

I remember when early access used to feel exclusive and cool. It used to be something to enjoy. Now it’s just….gaming. Now I have a steam library with a host of “early access” titles that have improved at a snail‘s pace. So slow that they’re just forgotten about and I’ve moved on to something else. I’m over it.

[@CaptainNamikaze]

4:05 George W. is that you? 😆 PS I've had Nightingale wishlisted for quite some time but now, hearing your review and hearing from a friend who played it, I think I'll wait. Also, nowadays when I hear MMO, I have the same reaction I have to live services in general, 'please, not another one'.

[@footthumb]

While I 100% agree with Austin’s recommendation and assessment I would point out a few things: 1) There is a mass pick up, you just hold down E and it’ll hoover up all loose items in a fairly large radius 2) There is a way to deconstruct building parts without manually tearing them down or destroying them and you will get all your resources back. 3) You don’t have to build new crafting stations when you run out of augment slots because everything (other than actual building pieces) can be moved around. Is it still unwieldy and overly complicated? Absolutely. But you can just move them in and out of range to get the augments you want activated. Other than those few small points I’m in 100% agreement with his opinion here. It’s copy/paste procedural boredom once the initial intrigue wears off and you realize the grind at the heart of a gameplay loop. And ‘suddenly MMO’ is a dealbreaker if you’re a solo survival crafting fan like myself.

[@Ivotas]

8:10 Man, I got some serious Christmas Maze vibes during this part. If you know, you know. ;)

[@marlowemuffingrab]

It is cool that they've got Bass Reeves in it. Very cool historical figure.

[@ihatevnecks7015]

One of the few good points I thought was the presence of so many literary and historical figures.. it's just too bad they all exist as the same text spam with no personality.

[@buyotterstonks]

You can re-name storages by holding E while looking at the storage, and selecting the bottom option.

[@edu5250]

the thing with early access is that we have reached a stage where studios make good little scenarios like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle (eye-catching ones) so the trailers can look good and make the sells but in reality we rarely get the big picture completed after years of waiting

[@artificialbox]

Austin needed to get humbled after that Helldivers review.

[@MattMcMatt]

A cloud/air biome with airships or a city in the sky would’ve been cool, bioshock infinite ish steampunk. You spend a while in hardship on the ground in order to literally ascend to a higher plane of existence in the air

[@Shroud83]

I saw something resembling an SMLE in one of the trailers. I was looking forward to this game just because of that, stupid yes. But I hoped it would be a game where shooting "old style" repeater rifles would be a thing. Sad to hear that it takes ages to come anywhere near guns etc.

[@ZachYoung626]

man the trailers did some fuckin heavy lifting for this one. Totally thought it was gonna be a 3rd person co-op adventure game with an actual ending. as soon as you said gear score I removed the game from my wishlist.