Humankind The New 4X CIV Killer IS BROKEN! Is Humankind A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits?

Humankind is the new and upcoming entry to the grand strategy video game market! The folks over at amplitude have created a historical 4X game that is set to rival sid meiers civilization in terms of its impact in the genre. Naturally the devs wanted to give me early access to see if I could perfectly balance the game and see if this New Civ Killer is broken and if it contains any exploits! Long story short we found infinite money, immortal units, broken diplomacy mechanics and perfectly balanced and overpowered religion! Truly everything in this game is broken and that just makes it the perfect strategy game for me to cover! And guess what the devs decided to add me into the game too!!! Thats right you can even play against the spiffing brit in your game and cry as his unlimited army of immortal horse warriors melts its way through your empire and generates infinite cash!
So Is Humankind A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits? Well there is only one way to find out! Get ready for some funny humankind gameplay!
What you have seen here today is part of a fantastic perfectly balanced series on youtube where I go from game to game and break them with wacky exploits to gain things like unlimited gold. If you enjoyed this then be sure to check out more. The style is similar to RT game and callmekevin in parts. A large influence on this series has come from Valefisk and The Killian Experience.
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Title: Humankind The New 4X CIV Killer IS BROKEN! Is Humankind A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits?
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[@shadowfox8748]

“Someone who’s land that doesn’t belong to us ... meaning land that will soon belong to us” Ah yes...the British way

[@livedandletdie]

The Stick a Flag in it strategy.

[@superspicy8740]

*(GOD SAVE THE QUEEN INTENSIFIES)*

[@thescreemregular5168]

*sips tea*

[@OldJerzyDevil]

"It's like I've discovered Christmas, except the presents are Death!" That's one for this year's highlight reel!

[@ImperadorLucius]

More like the roman way. "Hi... we are your new neighbors, and tomorrow, your new lords".

[@rmehongo]

The Spiffing Brit is so British that he reads "Mausoleum" as "Museum"

[@ElLoboUK]

in England, your mausoleum IS our museum ;)

[@KorilD]

Hell of a Freudian slip.

[@amax1123]

Steeee

[@ToS42]

I love how this was originally going to be a pacifist run with culture bombs, but then he power leveled out of it and discovered unlimited horsey boys.

[@BeaverChainsaw]

In my first playthrough of humankind opendev I was originally a society with a minimal army doctrine.... until the Celts invaded.... then I quickly raised a powerful army, took his army and wiped his civ from existence, then we started vassalizing(making a puppet country) or conquering every one of our allies and neighbors(who totally betrayed me by the way) and began to militarily and economically dominate for the rest of the game! You know, its always that one civ in a game that pushes you over. Just one bad turn to reduce a peaceful civ to warmongering

[@NguyenPham-bl6qm]

It's like playing as Gandhi in Civ 6 and nuking everyone to oblivion matey, peace is never an option they say =)))

[@bielhelp]

@@NguyenPham-bl6qm It's like playing as Gandhi in any Civ** fix'd

[@iateyourdrywall297]

@@NguyenPham-bl6qm *Hello there.*

[@NguyenPham-bl6qm]

@@iateyourdrywall297 I take my words back ...

[@legomojo]

Game Developers: “Hey Spiff here’s our new game!” Spiff: *breaks game over his knee*

[@buchan448]

lol

[@mhfiver2441]

Devs: Thanks. We'll make sure your knee breaks next time you try this!

[@Ardith_Prime]

@@mhfiver2441 That's part of why he does it

[@bielhelp]

I was an Game Developer too, until i took an spiff in the knee.

[@user-jp2zw4kw3y]

Humankind sucks, try old world, that is a good game.

[@SomeGuy-ty7kr]

lol, the devs are learning. Have spiff break it *before* they release the game.

[@whackedoutpoobrain]

The most thorough, effective, and brutal form of quality control.

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

As a dev this is a great way to do things, it's like having an unpaid tester.

[@DanielsanBF]

I thought the same as well. Big brain move by the devs there.

[@GundamReviver]

@@matthewtalbot-paine7977 and PR too

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

@@GundamReviver A little although he is shining a light on the bugs as well which is not ideal

[@ladywaffle2210]

"The Huns are completely broken" No, they're historically accurate

[@nathanaelraynard2641]

They are the exception

[@JarodCain]

Roll the Mongoltage!

[@deejeh9494]

When one guy took over more than a third of the world.

[@ladywaffle2210]

@@JarodCain A man of culture, I see

[@Pistonrager]

It's like a gazelle going "Cheetahs are OP"

[@panszczur8087]

"Oh, I'm so excited to pillage this entire brand-new continent" is the most British thing I've ever heard. 21:50

[@joehemmann1156]

The joy in Spiff's voice when he says "it's like I've discovered Christmas again, except the presents are murder!" Full of childlike wonder, truly inspiring, better than Miracle on 34th Street!

[@igrim4777]

He says "death" not "murder", 21:50 or so

[@noneayourbusiness5149]

"I'm trying to find where the other AIs have settled." - Spiff confirms that he is an Artificial Intelligence.

[@christinebouzas3090]

Does that mean he’s a hunbot

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

More like britbot. An AI that runs on tea and has the prime goal to create the entire world into tea production.

[@Ze_Taco_Guy]

Spiff: Opens game AI: Why do I smell Tea?

[@FriedrichBarb]

*SET FOR SEA AND SOUND THE TRUMPETS, WERE GOING TO HAVE SOME TEA AND CRUMPETS.*

[@superspicy8740]

@@FriedrichBarb *EARLY IN THE MORNIN’*

[@jasonbelstone3427]

(God save the queen is heard faintly in the background)

[@Rexai89]

Stroke, probably

[@rachaelm7463]

The spy

[@zlorfik2428]

Watching this after the full release and I've got to say, the Huns & Mongols have been greatly nerfed and... they are still overpowered like crazy.

[@definitelynotanscp7273]

Historically accurate.

[@No-uc6fg]

2:15 Spiff is so powerful that he has a monocle and top hat in the neolithic era.

[@Artemitch]

Imagine somebody would actually remind Spiff in 27 years that he owes them a horse.

[@nienke7713]

more like 55 years, 14000 working days from now in the UK is Monday 25 November 2075

[@TheRevDel]

@@nienke7713 ah yes but he said between 10 and 14000 so I'm expecting mine to arrive the day before New Year's Eve

[@nienke7713]

@@TheRevDel That's the earliest you might get it, but it might take nearly 55 years as well; it may arrive anywhere within that timeframe, and is entirely up to spiff and any third parties he depends on to get the horse to you.

[@BUSHBOY]

Nienke Fleur Luchtmeijer pretty sure spiff will be dead by then. give or take

[@marcelocalucho1756]

@@nienke7713 cyberhorse 2075

[@Real7419]

Spiff: "we have vassaliced all other civilizations in the world" That Green one: "no one move, just keep sipping tea and he won't notice"

[@Otto_Von_Beansmarck]

I have mastered the art of being so insignificant that i have become invisible to the naked eye

[@ryomaanime4563]

@@Otto_Von_Beansmarck it's the way

[@slone679]

green doesnt exist. he eliminated them.

[@Ixarus6713]

@@Otto_Von_Beansmarck As should all of us, you see by being so insignificant we effectively dissappear in their mind's eye which creates an unquenchable amount of power in our hands. You see by pressing the crouch button with 100 sneak we disappear so quickly you'll leave the AI talking about the wind.

[@doubledouble4g379]

@@Otto_Von_Beansmarck So, Canada then?

[@nitroglycerin_3455]

"Classic humans." He has ascended beyond such petty creatures.

[@orarinnsnorrason4614]

"The AI is slowly catching up." Now there's an understatement if I've ever seen one lol

[@undeadgamer1701]

sorry to be nit picky but isn't it an overstatement? correction it can be both that's weird

[@pheonixshaman]

"This feels a LITTLE extreme." The people who were besieged and subjucated by the huns probably thought the same thing.

[@arnox4554]

What, you don't like Rohan 2: Theoden's Revenge?

[@rosehites3419]

Yup

[@Cbyneorne]

"We'll be converting all of their resources into horses." Spiff is a 10 year old girl, confirmed.

[@Force2reckonVods]

*OR* a 25+ year old guy.

[@LordNanfoodle]

@@Force2reckonVods If Spiff got a personal horse and named their personal horse something like Wind Chaser, then the former. If Spiff got a blonde coated horse and named it Applejack, then the latter. 😋

[@Force2reckonVods]

@@LordNanfoodle xD You, I like you.

[@adamdavenport8009]

"That is the end of science. Science is over." -Spiff, 2020

[@Sevness]

I like how Spiff sounds acutally so defeated, disappointed, and sad, that he finally achieved world domination, had all the money, all the science, everyone was a vasal of his. He literally achieved everything he could ever wanted in a game, and it made him sound so sad and defeated.

[@Haedox]

You and Lewis gotta play head to head with both your characters

[@pirrulove8353]

*yes*

[@yotuel9064]

@@thespiffingbrit who said anything about fairness?

[@doop4wow540]

@@thespiffingbrit you mean its the most balenced game ever

[@powerman92able]

Twinky boi haedox wheres your character neopets is a 4x you make great videos on that

[@5Andysalive]

Is Lewis in the game?

[@benoitrichard6831]

Spiff: "Oh boy, here I go destroying Civ6 again!" (love it)

[@ArchangelAzrael47]

This game looks great. I love how the avatars adopt the clothing for the time period and culture you chose I wished they did that in Civ through a mod or a feature. I always wanted to see George Washington wrapped in rags in the ancient era to him being a cyborg in the Future era.

[@grease7425]

This guy is every game developer's best friend and worst nightmare at the same time

[@GrundigPyth]

“Peoples who’s lands don’t belong to us meaning their lands will soon belong to us” is the most British empire era saying there is

[@anonymousme3632]

The best part about this channel is he plays strategy expansion games just like his ancestors would.

[@JoshWhitford91]

you mean the German castle Kardashians? 😂🤣

[@MagnaSonic3000]

This is just historical accuracy. The Huns love the snowball tactic.

[@christian9540]

"One exploid to rule them all... Oh no, that went to fast, I was not even use this one properly... ok, ok, wait, there are just too many, let's use one per era. Just because."

[@Shauma_llama]

Spore without evolving? That I'd like to see.

[@CollectedCow]

Bump

[@TheDainerss]

Double Bump!

[@legithopecrew]

Came here to say this so triple bump!

[@lesussie2237]

constantly being a sperm cell

[@thatlancer9419]

That’s actually a speed run category for the game.

[@justderp5713]

Civ killer? Civ is already killing itself with the DLC balancing...

[@Jokie155]

Civ has been killing itself for several games now. It needs some real competitors to kick the devs into actually fixing shit and doing it properly.

[@Force2reckonVods]

@@Jokie155 There's my big hope. That the Endless team jumping into the historical genre, as well as Old World (which is pretty good, look it up, peeeeerfectly balanced ~also I need people to play it with~) that they'll *hopefully* pull enough interest and pop enough competition into the niche that Civ will *do* something... Doubt it but.

[@PrettyNormous]

@@Jokie155 Such a terrible take.

[@GentlemanOrcus1]

@@PrettyNormous Competition is good

[@dubspool]

What you mean Babylon being two eras ahead in tech in a marathon game isn’t balanced?

[@fabf77]

Understandably, the Mongols were broken even in real life.

[@FrostbitexP]

But they also werent capable of holding all that land, so not that broken.

[@selonianth]

@@FrostbitexP They were capable, it was mostly just colossal mismanaging a few generations later that caused the collapse.

[@Biodeamon]

there's a reason they needed to build a big fuckoff wall just to survive

[@Innengelaender]

@@Biodeamon Who is "they"? Are you talking about the Chinese big useless wall that didn't stop anyone?

[@badideagenerator2315]

The ancient mongols never washed themselves or their clothes for religious purposes.

[@zaretya9091]

"Make sure you have a nice big cup of tea in hand" *sips coffee*

[@zaretya9091]

@Kyan Nurse MWAHAHA

[@JohnBrown-tw2qi]

A full minute, you can’t get luckier than this

[@anonymousme3632]

Spiff: Opens Game AI: Why do I hear final boss music?

[@k3salieri]

Plot twist: Spif is actually the QA tester for this game and this is just one of his reports.

[@geegoflex6762]

"dup the horses"-Sun Tzu

[@bernardonegri5416]

I love how he just auto-resolves the battles. Imagine if he did them manually.

[@aleksjamnik5360]

Auto resolve could be broken

[@mxrider807]

If I don’t get my war horse in 55 years you’re going to have a revolt on your hands lord spiff.

[@jamalbogan7571]

The ad for humankind is pretty epic not gonna lie

[@didnt_ask_for_handle]

I enjoy how Spiff's character is all about being smart and posh yet he can't pronounce/read out correctly 50% of what's in front of him. Never change, just keep on crunching those numbers

[@chaz32]

Also has a vocab about as limited as the 13 year olds he's entertaining by winning half finished games on medium difficulty.

[@bohnzo473]

@@chaz32 do you realize that his videos concentrate on the exploit not the game difficulty. It's like saying that a challenge isn't challenging because the game difficulty isn't cranked up to it's maximum plus his is a caricature of old British conquerors mixed up with some insane quotes only he can imagine. So next time find real reasons to be salty 😉

[@Pizza7478]

@@bohnzo473 Since when did people ever need real reasons to be Salty? I thought that was just Humanity's Natural State of Being?

[@twistedtheorys9988]

Right, Spiff I want my battle horse or I'm coming to put coffee in your teabags...

[@erikblarg5498]

hold ya horses, he did say you would have to wait between 10 and 14k business days.. So believe it or not ya might be waitin for a minute or two.

[@faerylnhiikira1053]

@@erikblarg5498 But in order to hold their horses, they must first have horses *to* hold!

[@Renikal]

You may be waiting 38 years to get your horse just an fyi

[@erikblarg5498]

@@faerylnhiikira1053 XD nice one

[@TheRewasder97]

Option B! There can never be enough Spore!

[@frostydowns]

"The developers have put me in the game" That's awesome.

[@nathanthanatos3743]

I love how across the 26th minute the ambiance settles into Spiff's "putzing around" track

[@Spetsnaz121]

"We are in a brand new era as the Huns, and everyone around us is... NOT the Huns. And as you know, this means they are all going to die!" Total War: Attila anyone?

[@dylansmith129]

Here comes Attila the Spiff

[@jansenart0]

HUMANKIND DEVS: Fix these exploits EXCEPT for when Spiff is the leader!

[@jeremybdman]

I know that Spiff is a man of culture, refined tastes in tea, masterful strategist, however I did not know he exceeded pop culture mastery with the reference of Breakin' 2 - Electric Boogaloo. Consider me now a vassal lol!

[@ValentineC137]

I used to be straight but.. *_Looks at topless buff Spiff_*

[@grandmaashley]

grandma approved

[@pollishion8394]

@@thespiffingbrit xD

[@malhavoc431]

A: I will admit to being morbidly interested in a Cyberpunk Fortify Restoration loop. The fact it crashes the game isn't surprising, but I wasn't aware of items that allowed one to stack modifiers ala Skyrim.

[@igorporfiirio4915]

Spiffing Hun be like "Look at my horse My horse is amazing Give it a lick Mmmm, it tastes just like raisins"

[@corruptedplayer]

"It tastes like sh*t"

[@RevanTheUnholy]

Spiffing brit plays with himself and films it

[@andrewwallace9169]

"I'm going to ignore the fact I can change my religion and focus entirely on just raiding stuff down to the ground." I think the Mongol's in real life did the same strategy.

[@deejeh9494]

Imo the huns seemed to believe "Peace by Power"

[@mrbigglezworth42]

@@deejeh9494 No, they believed in horse power.

[@Force2reckonVods]

Hahaha, Spiff: "This seems a little bit insane!" while talking about stuff he's got from being a *whole era* ahead of the AI xD - totally perfectly balanced by the end though! I can't wait to see how Humankind (in general) handles in MP, that's gonna be the real trick

[@Force2reckonVods]

@Java Monsoon Pfff, excepting I never play random lobbies, usually just a handful of good friends chillin and experimenting xD

[@shawntune7704]

I absolutely LOVE watching your gameplay. I have no idea how I found you...but I am very happy that I did. :D

[@reighzhor1058]

"The battle horse arrives in 10-14,000 working days"...jokes on all those people, Spiff doesn't work...

[@g_oduofthenorth9618]

B. Ahh, spore and Yorkshire, what a great morning

[@lungfelix2000]

Huns: Sees Chinese Chinese: "Here we go again"

[@ladywaffle2210]

They're not broken They're *historically accurate*

[@TheArklyte]

Huns:"it's invasion time." Chinese:"it's assimilation time."

[@larsdelver385]

@@TheArklyte time to whoop your ass so much that your people will end up burning the western Roman Empire in the other side of the Afro Eurasian continent

[@zaretya9091]

"I have no idea what it means but basically this is what it means."

[@pillbox2079]

Thank you for the video, Spiff! Civ V is my favourite of the Civilization games. I would love to watch your video on it. ^.^

[@juances]

So this is from the devs that made endless legend? The UI was a giveaway.

[@satorudo]

Yep it’s from Amplitude

[@albertgranell7335]

I want Spore!! Great video, perfectly balanced as all things should be

[@Grayson.P]

"A" all the way. Prove that basing a videogame off a tabletop RPG will cause players to break the game like people do in Tabletop games.

[@jacobxiong2739]

Spiff youre great thanks and stay safde enjoyed your playthrough as the huns and mongols, keep content coming.

[@andreasottohansen7338]

"Museum of Halicarnassus"... Spiff, a Mausoleum is for dead people, not perfectly balanced artifact acquisition.

[@CrimWorld9]

Museums are full of stuff from dead people

[@andreasottohansen7338]

@@CrimWorld9 that as well. I only know a few that actually have dead people in them

[@Pistonrager]

Collect dead people and their art.

[@M.Ghilas]

when spiff puts everything is broken on the thumbnail rather than perfectly balanced, you have to realize that it's broken than you have ever imagined.

[@M.Ghilas]

@Dyanosis I'm so sorry for my English but knowing 5 languages at the same time makes it sometimes very hard to make a perfect sentence especially if they are from different family groups . plus my comment was just a joke .

[@zerwardzelaiine7622]

@@M.Ghilas oof, I'd believe it hard for me to learn a new language, much less 5 x.x

[@M.Ghilas]

@@zerwardzelaiine7622 it's just that I started from a small age

[@zerwardzelaiine7622]

@@M.Ghilas ah ok, so it just sorta comes naturally

[@M.Ghilas]

@@zerwardzelaiine7622 it's easier

[@poobz9097]

"It's like I've discovered Christmas again, except the presents are death." Spiff 2020

[@ThePotatoAddict]

I love how this video basically shows Spif becoming warhammer40k’s tryanids in Humankind

[@camerongunn7906]

Sniffing Brit: I broke a game. Me: hitting like before even watching. A

[@frosty133]

20:45 the most British thing I've ever heard.

[@brokenarrow7996]

I can never get enough of Spiff saying "horsie boys"

[@terra4686]

Spore without evolving sounds epic, especially as I just did it, and I recommend going social at the beginning of creature stage.

[@Fox124981]

Is Spiff a pre-order character or built in the base game?

[@Fox124981]

@@thespiffingbrit Neat

[@germanyballwork5301]

@@thespiffingbrit aww it would have been cool to have Spiff as an unlockable character when the player has a monopoly on tea

[@p_serdiuk]

The current requirement is to watch 2 hours of Humankind content (or at least to have it in the background) on Twitch with a connected Games2Gether account until December, 29th. 1st hour is going to drop the Lewis persona.

[@Fr0zenEagle]

@@thespiffingbrit The outbreak of the new variant, which spreads even faster from what I've seen and heard, might prevent you from voicing your own character unfortunately. I'm not letting myself get too excited at the moment, but Tea damn it I really want to get excited.

[@lordcray8052]

@@Fr0zenEagle did you not mean queen Elizabeth damn it?

[@gunslinger57]

Playing against Spiffing avatar: *His first move lasts 20 minutes, then he wins somehow.*

[@KuueenKumi]

0:48 Oh. I thought Spiff made his avatar. That's actually pretty awesome!

[@shantyr3323]

Would love another classic Civ V video! Spiff conquest is inevitable.

[@leafshinobi246]

C is my vote, your civ videos are always entertaining and of course perfectly balanced

[@RandomHobo4]

Aesthete telling people that their culture doesn't matter is truly the most British power in this game.

[@AspieMemoires]

So while watching you play this, I get an ad for this and if I hadn’t heard you explain the era mechanic, the ad would have confused the hell out of me at the start.

[@enoshade]

Love all the art in this game, I find myself constantly pausing to look closer.

[@genildomiranda1690]

Getting here early, and with a cup of tea? This is truly a blessed day

[@fakenname1942]

Spiff - you can't retreat from this bad boy. Ai - **laughs in French.**

[@purrnyan8108]

11:09 I'm going to build the "Museum" of Halicarnassus... Spiff, I thought you were supposed to be accurate? xD

[@wolfcommando8467]

Viewers: Wait, it's all horses? Spiff: Always has been. (horse noises are heard in the background)

[@mstrbritodstroy]

U know its not a spiffing brit episode without tea, especially within the first few seconds!

[@hayokamikaze5896]

I hope Spiff does another video on this game. The game almost seems balanced now.

[@7thsealord888]

Ghenghis Spiff? Great video. :)

[@wirrwarr7569]

The Spiffing Brit: "Do you wanna see next: A, B or C?" All of us: "Yes!" Seriously, pls do all of them!!! 😁

[@krystal_vector5412]

The last time I was this early the Mongols hadn’t attacked Vienna yet

[@alastor1776]

The best part of waking up is Yorkshire in your cup 🎵🎶

[@singletona082]

I love that they put you in the game spiff. Now... are you legally able to use that avatar in your videos royalty free?

[@Mujaki]

20:06 "And so naturally it only makes sense that I send out a whole bunch of floating horses into the ocean..." Come on, Spiff. Obviously, they're now SEA HORSES!

[@dylansmith129]

There will be one man who comes back in 38 years and asks where his horse is

[@ChromeDrakeGaming]

Alas even the mighty battle horse dies of old age in s 38 year transit

[@VladimirTrotsky]

You know, you didn't even use an exploit here, spiff. You just played the game well, lol.

[@lukaskindt2615]

He exploits the huns and other cultures abilities

[@bradleycalkins394]

Remember Spif, 14,000 days is only 38.37 years and you're on the hook for those horses.

[@jonassosing2028]

Your videos are so damn good i can't get enough of it

[@LeafSooup]

when there is tea, I must answer the call

[@PhoenixofEclipse]

I actually want all of those- in that order. So A B and C

[@becklarson8767]

More Cyberpunk Please! My buddy has it and we did the pc dupe glitch with the painting from the original video and I also learned that the sell and buyback glitch works on vendors, meaning you can basically rob them as long as you have the base cash and usually make money off of it lol! We love breaking that game and I would be very pleased to see it being cracked wide open!