This is Fantasy Tarkov (Dark and Darker)

[@awesomeaartvark]

Ross just punching Smith in the head and Smith dying to a falling gate were definitely my favorite parts of this, haha

[@mat6732]

i fucking choked, right on the back of the fucking head

[@awesomeaartvark]

@@mat6732 XD XD

[@JonponMusic]

smit just meditating straight after as well lmao

[@happyhatebot]

"The shooting is very satisfying." "I have yet to kill a single thing with arrows alone." We have very different definitions, my dear Trottimus, on what qualifies as 'satisfying'.

[@__Albin__]

I hope this definition of yours does not apply in the bedroom.

[@Bishop1664]

He has a starter bow and the playtest takes place on 'level 2' (there are going to be 3 levels with increasing difficulty, thats why enemies look so tanky for noobs)

[@ollieambience]

"He's full Boromir" really got me 😂

[@savourydiamond3448]

This game looks like it might be fun if they increased the speed of basically every animation by about 200%

[@QaRajhCreations]

That might be a level 0/1 issue, but it is a bit jaring

[@feoleb]

yah it's like they creators of the game never played a game before...but they must have as this is similar to a lot of games, in a good way. I guess maybe it's meant to be more tactical for people who aren't great at fps. But I dunno. Maybe they could do an option for strategic speed and regular speed.

[@biliboyjenkins9064]

There's buffs, potions and stats on weapons to increase attack speed. There'd be no room for improvement if you gave it to lvl 0 noobs

[@Noobazzah]

Essentially, they probably want to increase the wind-up time and speed up the actual swinging animation. That is, if they want to stick with the level-up-to-attack-faster system etc., which I think is fair enough.

[@DaveYognaut01]

@@feoleb What are you on about? An option for different animation speeds in a multiplayer game? In a medieval game at that where the animation speeds actually matter compared to say Tarkov? Just think a little about that and how that would work.... Please you oh-so-experience player of many games since apparently the game developer hasn't played a game before in their life. Please share your divine knowledge of how this toggle would work in a game all about swinging heavy ass swords, halbards or spears slowly or shanking someone fast.

[@mikharohrs5046]

i really like how they spend minutes just to kill a single skeleton, just to be one-shot by a guy. This game seems unbalanced atm lol

[@tristansniadach5689]

That's because it is. In the playtest it said that the dungeon was purposely in a harder difficulty.

[@ethanruigrok7946]

it really is a skill issue. Me and my friends had no problems.

[@IndustrialBonecraft]

Jesus Christ, why do they attack like they're swinging in a vat of tar?

[@valteine]

One might say that it's like punchin in a dream

[@DaveYognaut01]

Because they're using heavy gear?? Grey gear that are awful stats at that?

[@__Albin__]

A part of it, I think, is that they aim for this to have a more slow, tactical and deliberate pace than that of many similar games. Another part is that their characters are supposed to be trash tier, they don't even own shoes. They are terrible at their job. Better gear, weapons, potions, magics and character leveling can use attack speed as a notable avenue of improvement. Also, the weapon we see most in the video is the slowest and biggest one.

[@leetri]

@@__Albin__ It just looks crazy unrealistic. It's literally not physically possible to swing an axe that slowly unless you're intentionally holding it back and resisting the force, but at that point you're just pushing with the axe instead of swinging it and won't cleave shit. Even the heaviest war axes only weigh about 3 kg, a small child can lift and swing that (and even some toddlers). If you want the game to feel like you're an untrained newbie, making the animations look and feel god-awful is not the way to do it.

[@__Albin__]

@@leetri The center of gravity in an axe is far from the hands, a 3kg axe takes significantly more strength to wield than it takes to lift 3kg. I've chopped down enough trees to know how unwieldy and tiring even just a standard wood axe is. And big war axes are much heavier, and longer. You are correct that the axe moves too slow in the downswing. The problem, I think, is that the game is in first person and they want the animation to be seen by the player. Much of the swing, (wind up, recovery, etc.) should realistically be off screen, and the portion seen should be the fast part. But that too would feel weird, there's a balance to be struck there and they certainly might not have done so yet.

[@echo5delta365]

“Spoiled orgasm, I’m down” classic smiffy. 10/10 boiks!! Get sips in this!

[@Gallaelwyd]

The potential for this game feels like I could be brilliant. Not even a fan of Tarkov but I could get behind this. They need a tutorial area where it's just PvE

[@ItsMe-yn6ql]

One of the criminally underrated Hat Films series

[@nintandrew13]

Only now do I realize Trott reminds me a bit of Rincewind from Discworld XD

[@vgaportauthority9932]

There's huge potential in a game like this. The Mordhau and Mount & Blade people should look into this format.

[@danevetts681]

so infuriating seeing them not figure out that missile channels as long as they stand still

[@MetaDeviant]

Ah it's one of these games where the devs decided that "tactical" means "slow as fuck."

[@EthanDewberry]

This feels like it should have been a "Having a Bash" video

[@lliamdavis6950]

As someone who just got into Tarkov this looks great! Minus how slow everything is and the silly feet slapping sounds.

[@samjones3167]

21:40 was so funny when Trott got one shot

[@Mike-fh4fl]

Trott at half health: I've been one-shot!

[@foilikzswegger484]

played this alot with my friends and it was so fun, its just that small hurdle of getting out with some loot so you can get a better weapon, fortunately the barbarians starter weapon can be great with the abilities active. Cant wait for this game to finally release

[@TheGreyBaron]

Punching in a Dream Simulator. Seems like the way to go is stalk other players and wait for them to engage multiple npcs.

[@benjo562]

In genuine tears watching this. My partner walks in as soon as Smith is shouting “Ruined orgasm - Im down!”

[@phatfrankie]

Honestly this game has great potential, good vid boiks

[@Entariiljc]

yoooo hype to see the boiks playing this! had an absolute blast with both of the playtests that have happened so far - very excited to see where this game goes :D

[@Flashjackmak]

This game has an awesome Legend of Grimrock vibe. The general sense of slowness seems annoying but other than that it could be a laugh.

[@natalyst]

it looks like punching in a dream

[@Reddead0071]

16:24 that was brutal

[@unorthodoxbox]

I like the concept, think I'd like it more if it was a bit arcade-y? If that makes sense? At the moment it kinda seems a bit tedious.

[@humanwritescode]

It's like swinging an axe in a dream*. It wouldn't be so bad if the wind-up was slow AF but the swing had some speed and force to it. They could make it take the same time and damage overall but it would "feel" better. *Obligatory Hat Films "in a dream" reference. 🤌

[@SoulReaverVidView]

Pretty scuffed game right now, but has potential. Might be a cool game when it's done.

[@wren1084]

you guys should go back to Vermintide 2 there's so much content now

[@danielprosser7834]

I want to see you play more of this please!

[@Swatmat]

this games combat looks very unsatisfying tbh

[@didid0000]

This looks really good, reminds me of LAN party's would be fun to do

[@Mattym9287]

This game looks like the visualisation of what its like to go back to Dark Souls after playing Bloodborne.

[@LucasMadden]

Ross.... why no staff.... it hurts m- oh there we go buddy!

[@Deltaguy447]

Ross celebrating a new run by donkey punching Smaffy will never not be funny.

[@its_eis]

this was hilarious, please do more

[@dorodrew]

Please play more of the beta tests! was such a good video.

[@magpieblue]

Loved watching you play, and how you behave during - makes it fun even if the game ain't that good. This one looked like a nice idea but awful gameplay experience. I liked the skellies with many arrows in them but still coming after you; felt more realistic... As much as undead skeleton soldiers can be. But what an appalling combat experience for everything else. Thanks for bearing it long enough to give us a decent Hat Gaming video

[@anthonystead2207]

I just really enjoyed the chaos of this video and the farting zombies :P

[@jazzmazz9214]

Hat is good with horror games.

[@MH-hu5pi]

As a viewer - I'm a bit peaved that it's so dark

[@PaidHits]

12:01 and 16:25 best moments 😂😂

[@plainwritingpad]

This game man ... Why are the enemies so tanky and the animations so syrupy

[@XvShadowsvX]

The enemies are so tanky because they are literally using grey gear, the worst of the worst. The whole point is to survive and buy/find better gear and once you get some good stuff most mobs die in 1-2 hits. You get used to the speed after a while.

[@lazygit247]

Great potential of this game.

[@ModrunOfficial]

whatever those starting mobs were, they felt way too health spongy and i feel like they want to make more enemies with less health rather than whatever this is

[@Anarcho_slimer]

Good idea, but the Devs should either cut the PvP and and make a hardcore first-person dungeon crawler, or stop the PvE being a slow, constant resource drain that takes away from the PvP. It just seems a mess in its current state.

[@Darknizl]

Please come back to this game. It really has potential. Try to work together, and you'll find it easier to survive

[@TheTwit1995]

Love this content so so good

[@steson]

Yeah it would be cool if the fighting was quicker like that other gamer that was medieval. Sorry I can't think of the name but it had Knights, Vikings and Samurai. Oh it was fore Honor. Right?

[@goblinphreak2132]

You know, I played hunt showdown. Before and after monitor upgrade. With a tn/ips/va monitor, that game is DARK. especially on night maps. turn around and i switched to OLED, and now it wasn't so dark. i could actually see the difference between players and blackness. its almost like cheating. I am wondering if the same will happen in this game, if OLED will give me advantage when it comes to seeing in the dark.

[@JennyxA]

oh man this video cracked me up.

[@Bashnag_gro-Dushnikh]

Delightful!

[@toddiscool11]

ignore their comments, they didnt read the abilitys, they had no idea how to play no idea on controls, if they read a bit about the game before trying then they wouldnt of died as much

[@GentleWruzzPuppet]

At first this looked really cool, then I realized it's another Battle Royal game... Fantastic, as if we didn't have enough of those.... Everything about this game looks really neat, the whole stay in the circle and fight other players in the dungeon absolutely kills it for me...

[@zomble_z]

It's a real shame this is a Tarkov style game. I looks it would be much more enjoyable as just a co-op experience.

[@Hosenhoffen]

Can't wait to see more!

[@mustbefitness8308]

BEST BOYS MAGIC BOYS!

[@HerzogZAK]

interesting game concept, but dam... i hope everything speeds up.

[@spectra20000]

This game actually looks really cool and I want to try it out, but the enemies being ridiculously hard to kill makes it so unappealing. The three of them barely took down a skeleton at the very beginning, I don’t think you’d be able to get anywhere playing alone. Not to mention the super slow melee attacks are super punishing.

[@Mr.AffaDavid]

Game time

[@acesnumber8]

cool game

[@scmansfield90]

This is NOT a good representation of this game. It's waaaaay faster paced once you have some gear built up. Can't WAIT for the next playtest. Ranger is so much fun

[@__Albin__]

I, for one, was quite intrigued by the slow, deliberate and tactical pace of the combat. But looking at the comments it seems many hate it. Not for everyone, I suppose. I personally feel like we have so many fast paces battle royals, this is an interesting approach to differentiate.

[@josephkelly4872]

Concept is cool but this needs a lot more development, like a lot more, making a class based game and releasing it without the level up mechanic being finished is just poor

[@Noobazzah]

They didn't release it, this was a limited-time playtest. It's going to be at least a year before it's publicly available, whatever type of release it'll be.

[@josephkelly4872]

@@Noobazzah ah okay fair enough then, thought this was one of those ‘early access not at all close to being finished’ things

[@MeisterReaper]

it was in Alpha Playtest #2 that basicly any could get in

[@DaveYognaut01]

Why do you think the level up mechanic isn't finished? Because they didn't level up in the video? They constantly swapped characters. Experience is tied to characters. You also don't get handouts of experience just for playing, you actually need to kill shit like it is in literally every single RPG to ever exist. So if you're dying to your incompetence, team killing, other players or by standing under doors as you close them, you're not getting experience. The game is completely fine. There's plenty of content there they literally haven't seen including becoming a trader, fighting elites / bosses, gold hoards, reviving alters, actually escaping a dungeon or going to an entirely new map. I've watched a lot of this game; so it's easier for to call it as it actually is; the boiks are just fucking awful at the game. The game is fine, it's entirely a skill issue.

[@josephkelly4872]

@@DaveYognaut01 if you look around 6:30 you can see the level up mechanics aren’t available. Like I said in my previous comment I think the concept of the game is good, and there has obviously been a lot of work put into it. But there are a ton of basic QoL things in this game that need improving, and the combat (especially melee) looks absolutely miserable to play. I think it’s a fair critique to say that the animations and pacing in this game needs a lot of improvement. Spellcasting looked to be very inconsistent and a bit janky (though this could’ve been down to Ross in all fairness). Difficulty seemed a tad extreme, I get that it’s supposed to be hard, and I’m sure the boiks made it harder for themselves than it had to be. But the creatures just felt like damage sponges they we’re having to kite around and wait to die. PvP seems like it would be pretty fun, especially in the tight corridors, but it seems hard to engage with it when the PvE is such a slog. Overall the game needs some work before I personally would ever consider touching it. But if the developers can pull it off I’d definitely drop money on this, can see it being an awesome game. I think the boiks saw that as well.

[@divamon5602]

WOOOOOOOOO!

[@boffle744]

Much jank

[@Entariiljc]

Ah yes the classic “let’s jump in, not read anything about anything and then conclude that the game was “alright” after 30 mins of mindless running around” Haha a solid lark boiks - if you do consider playing next play test I would implore you to just slow down slightly. Patience and preparation are hella important in dark and darker. It’s not a fact paced game. Pve hurts and leaves you open to getting ganked. Play smarter not harder - shit is fun as hell once you start getting to grips with the mechanics and how combat flows

[@Lunch_Meat]

I think part of the fun of the hat films guys is that they aren't serious gamers and so their reviews of games like this appeal to other non serious gamers. If I want to watch a super nerd nerd it up over every single number in a game, there are thousands of channels to choose from. Three idiots screwing around like the three stooges of video games? Thats some fun shit right there.

[@Entariiljc]

@@Lunch_Meat oh for sure i totally agree - doesnt detract from the entertainment in the slightest. i genuinely think they'd have an absolute blast with the game should they actively want to play it is all - much like hunt showdown. they went from blundering around shooting horses and getting exploded on by zombies for the longest time but then developed and produced some pretty banger vids of them doing work.

[@Lunch_Meat]

@@Entariiljc oh totally, and that's the flip side. You get to watch the little guys grow!

[@Entariiljc]

@@Lunch_Meat haha that just reminded me of the "they grow up so fast" clip of trott riding the electric bike down the street xD

[@Lunch_Meat]

@@Entariiljc Truth!

[@RamesGamesLC]

This game looks like it could be fun in about 50 years. Good video, awfullll game.

[@thewizard9305]

The idea is great but the execution thus far seems pretty dreadful

[@AppleAirsoft]

good idea of a game but such jank.

[@rawr40k]

This game looks awful.

[@CarterArts]

These games are always so terrible lmao

[@DaveYognaut01]

A lot of sheep in the comments here shitting on the game just because the hats didn't like it. They barely scratched the surface, let alone understood the basic mechanics. Which is a shame. You guys need to keep in mind they're the bottom of the barrel; they're on shit level 1 characters, they're using grey gear which has awful stats (including spell casting speed, action speed, attack speed, etc), they're also noobs and don't know anything about the game. Of course they're not going to do well; they're not going to win. Hell, they didn't even have a good party composition for the entire video. They're barely understanding their class mechanics but they keep changing classes, resetting their experience gain. There's an entire town outside of this tavern for becoming a trader and getting better gear that they didn't even progress towards. They switched characters so often they didn't level a single time either. Which early on is your main goal imho. They haven't even seen how to 'extract' yet, let alone saw elite / boss enemies or an entire new map. (Albeit for better geared players) They've done the Tarkov equilavent of start a few runs, sprint everywhere and be one-shot after a few minutes of wandering around. Then gave up in frustration of not knowing how to avoid dying. It's a shame the Hats didn't enjoy it and didn't have the patience to stick to one character and learn. More dissapointed they didn't realise it's their own incompetence and not the game's fault as if it somehow needs more work for them to get beyond the literal minute 0 starting point. Oh well.... They can try again next playtest.

[@doubeld.7536]

Doesn't matter if they are shit tier 1. If the game isn't fun from the start, why bother playing it? They are better off playing something else instead.

[@leetri]

If you have to play a ton before a game actually reaches the base level of fun, it's a shit game. When making a game, you need to make sure that the very core of the game is enjoyable. For example, the 3D Mario games are still a very enjoyable experience even if you strip away all enemies, levels, powerups, etc and just place Mario in a sandbox with a couple of blocks to jump around on. The act of moving Mario around is enjoyable on its own, everything else just adds extra enjoyment. This game lacks that core. If the game revolves around combat, that combat on its own has to feel and look really good.

[@Lunch_Meat]

Thank you for proving once again that games built for nerds will never be as good as games built for fun