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Underrail | Review
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[@ChavsberryGaming]

Condoms are overrated. Anime is by far the best contraceptive on the market.

[@MikaelKKarlsson]

Waifu is safest.

[@SnakeTheHat]

This unironically. Both my father and grandfathers all had kids by my age. All I have is a anime girl body pillow.

[@looinrims]

@@SnakeTheHat don’t worry too much, I don’t watch or associate with anime at all, and I ain’t shit

[@LasherTimora]

You can combo anime and WoW for EXTRA virginity protection.

[@iamalpharius3959]

@@LasherTimora bahahahahahahahahahaha

[@TheOilyBean]

Please don't stop reviewing these fairly underground CRPG's. Love looking at them and exploring potential games to purchase

[@gabrieloliveiralima3772]

I'd say this one is EXTREMELY underground . . . Yes

[@JaelaOrdo]

I feel like oftentimes they’re some of the best games

[@elcidbob]

If you haven't checked them out, look up "sseth" and "mandalore gaming" for content in the same vein. There's also ross's gaming dungeon which is more adventure game, but still interesting, and civvie11 if you're into Doom.

[@SpecShadow]

This. Steam store is massive and a lot of good games goes missing because people can't reach them, and they don't have good source (review? they only do AAA garbage) that would point them to good stuff like UnderRail

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

@@elcidbob Also, Tehsnakerer if you like jank.

[@TheDrunkardHu]

I'm more of a Dark Souls kind of masochist, than an Underrail kind of masochist, I think. I'd rather a game tell me I'm fat, than tell me I'm an idiot.

[@kosenkovpeter5702]

​@Piss Harrison which one (among many)?

[@lagoonman427]

This is a great comment

[@kimhyunwoo8983]

Honestly this game made me realize why Dark souls was addictive. Dark Souls may have been difficult but it was still achievable things made sense if you had basic common sense then the games rules were apparent it didn’t have to teach you but UnderRail decides to drop you in a world that doesn’t make sense with no guide and a big black dude behind you getting ready to fuck you no condom, it’s plain humiliating, frustrating and just not a great experience for a casual fun experience.

[@kosenkovpeter5702]

@@kimhyunwoo8983 pfft. Casual

[@Frame_Late]

@@kimhyunwoo8983 the game had a lot of potential but fell short for a couple reasons. One was its short main story.

[@blackshadow518]

Mandaloregaming, Ssethtzeentach, and you. I am so happy I found you guys.

[@dangilboa6496]

try NeverKnowsBest as well

[@justthink124]

I’d add Joseph Anderson (who also has fun streams), Accursed Farms (particularly Ross’s Game Dungeon series), and Noah Caldwell-Gervais.

[@Bassist-Beneath]

If you guys don’t know Noah Caldwell-Gervais and NeverKnowsBest, you’re seriously missing out.

[@SahiPie]

@@justthink124 Whitelight and Shammy

[@dangilboa6496]

I intentionally did not mention Joseph Anderson as I think that he is on an entirely different league. His videos are almost documentaries about computer games. If you have the patience for videos that can easily take over an hour (his Witcher series 4-5 hours per game...) he is the best around. His Twitch stream is also excellent. No disrespect Strat-Edgy, I love you too! :)

[@stino9635]

I had this game on steam for a while since an African warlord recommended it but I was always too scared of fucking up my build to progress. This video is a lot more accurate to the experience of playing the game

[@AveSicarius]

You really don't need to be that afraid, even on Hard you can make hybrid builds that are less than stellar but can still easily finish the game. You just need to focus on one or two offensive skills (you can have two Psi skills on a hybrid build with guns or melee and still be fine) and then use crafting to buff your character because crafted items are RIDICULOUSLY powerful in this game. Unless you are wildly spreading your skillpoints in multiple different offensive skills to the point none of them keep up with the curve (you have enough skill points with a reasonable intelligence that you can keep three or four skills at max on every level up). Feat and specialization choice can be a little daunting, I get that, but as long as you focus on improving what you want your build to focus on (like doubling down on force user and specialization points that increase TKP damage or getting reduced cooldown on a skill you use constantly) you should be fine, especially on normal. I think a huge part of Underrail is actually learning the system, even with zero throwing investment grenade's, caltrops, and so on are super useful. Drug's and food can make or break a fight. Perception allows you to easily see most trap's and just plain avoid them if need be. Basically you should just jump in and as long as you follow a few basic rules you should be fine. Most combat encounter's can be forced into chokepoints and that alongside things like Molotovs and caltrops with some CC (something like the psychokinesis chain lightning is AMAZING when you group enemies up). I would also always take some Psi skills, Psi is super useful and always strong, even with a minor investment you can easily get some very useful CC (cryostasis, stasis, etc) or utility (like force field or limited temporal increment) without being your primary investment. As long as you have some may to diversify your damage or pierce resistance you should be fine.

[@moenibus]

@@AveSicarius I really despise all these (like you), no-life basement dwellers with this 40 page tesis on character creation. So much brain power invested in a game. This is sick and sad

[@steelytemplar]

​@AveSicarius So, would you say that a psi-heavy build would be viable for a first-time player?

[@edersonnico]

​​​@@steelytemplar Yes. Actually anything is viable for a first time player as long as you try to make sense out of it. For example, you won't make a psi character with no WILL as it is their main stat. If you are playing with cookie cutted character on normal, the game becomes extremely easy after a while. If you are playing with something logical but unoptmized, you will be able to finish the game but having to think before fights/challenges and adapting yourself but it is possible.

[@arecipeforhate193]

A useful tip for those who want to play the game: doors can only being opened by humanoid characters and it costs 25 ap to close or open a door. This applies to you AND the enemy.

[@KageRyuu6]

Traps and Doors, a match made in heaven.

[@tamasrehany6532]

@@KageRyuu6 *Begins to Quick tinker furiously*

[@johannaldbrecht1594]

The difference positioning makes in this game is amazing. I had a problem in the expansion with a couple colossal crabs and an electro crab, so I ran behind a doorway so only one melee crab could hit me at a time focused down the damn tazer crab while tanking the less than stellar melee crab. A DOORWAY helped me breeze through a fight that I had spent 30 min dieing to beforehand.

[@pantyeater-kun5788]

@Johann Aldbrecht positioning and setups are pretty much my sword and shield in this game. (and molotovs. never forget molotovs)

[@cypherusuh]

Another useful tips : Read the Geneva Convention laws. Do exactly what's in it. No one would sue you if they died. Slowly and painfully. Through the use of toxic fumed and acid entanglement.

[@Sabwones]

What's up baby, I'm that poor dude who wrote that first review. Turns out, another 40+ (whoops, make that 70) hours in, I fucking love this game and revised my review to boot. Exactly as you said, until you've cleared that specific point in Junkyard, the game really fucks you over. Then, once you get through all that, things get a lot better. Not perfect, but significantly better. I'm with you 100% on needing a guide for some of these missions, though I have found that once I stopped trying pre-builds and just sat down and figured out what I wanted to play (shotguns and explosives) I suddenly had a much better time in combat. Being able to shred whole crowds of bandits with 00 buck never gets old. Keep up the good work, my dude.

[@urdimsum7961]

R E F O R M E D

[@JT-ho6rp]

The hardest part of Underrail is the backtracking and having to min-max a character in order to kill anything. But other than that it's a transcendental experience.

[@esoopthederp7672]

Under rail go CHOO CHOO

[@TheFatMob]

I have never found an enemy with 100% physical resist in the game. There are some who are fairly resistant, but you have armour-piercing bullets for that. Thing is, resistance is in absolute numbers and an enemy can shrug off, say, 500 points of damage, while you with your melee build can inflict only 30 in one hit, meaning it will be soaked entirely. But me with a sniper build having several thousand damage per hit by the endgame can mostly one-shot these guys even with conventional bullets, provided I land a crit.

[@phantomoverlord9237]

He played with fist weapons, which are absolute trash. Even daggers, which are marginally better, will deal minimum damage to heavily armored enemies, even after you use expose weakness.

[@JeanLucPicard85]

You genuinely don't need to follow a guide to play Underrail on your own the first time on Normal but it does require a lot of patience, willingness to read a lot of tooltips and spend time on planning. The "secret" here is to click on the Show All button in the feat menu. Once you've chosen your combat style you can see which feats support it and what attributes they need. After that you just follow common sense. Your first character won't be perfect but on Normal you'll be more than fine. Traps skill isn't needed to detect traps, you just need either high Perception or Detection increasing goggles. Certain characters can even just walk over mines without taking much dmg though that's build specific.

[@Jannfndnanakid]

thanks jean luc picard captain of the federation starship enterprise d

[@saddemgargouri]

you certainly needs a guide to character making , at least the principle of it ( for instance you can't multi weapon unless both weapons rely on same attribute and stats ) For normal difficulty you just need to understand what stats a character needs , stick to one weapon , pick up skills that augment that weapon capability , and that's it you're good

[@Largentina.]

I can't even tell you how helpful this video was. I've been struggling with this game for a little while and you are a godsend. Also, have you ever played Invisible Inc?

[@StratEdgyProductions]

I own it, but haven't played it yet. Looking for the opportunity.

[@Wolfsheim23]

Invisible inc is an amazing game, it was my favorite game the year it came out.

[@nodrugar5248]

Huh....you know, I really don't know how to say this, but, hell, that won't stop me from trying. I am a teen from a certain country in the Balkans(a great place to live, I know, why do you think this ball torture comes from here). I spend my days in school, come home, pretend to learn the heaps of shit forced upon me, and then go on youtube, watching things that actually interest me, learning about the world through the eyes of others, the content they pour their time in to, those little passion projects that they use as ways to express themselves, but in the end, don't truly realize the true worth of. While admittedly I enjoy politics and channels that keep me informed about the world at large, something that I genuinely adore is art. Art embraces you in worlds that offer the purest insights into human existence, themes of purpose, joy, sadness, compassion, hate, life, and death, not to risk sounding too pompous, just, it lets you explore what it means to live. So I watch a lot of content talking about art, specifically movies, and games; looking at those channels I see something guiding me through this whole mess, I see people who think like me and who I can look up to as ones I understand, but then I look back at where I am. I see people who don't understand me, who I cant really connect with, and I wish to escape, to escape from a place that seems foreign, even if I am of birth from it. And now that you have some context, I would like to talk about your channel; here I get to see someone making truly excellent content, from your critics to your humor and down to earth demeanor, I get to enjoy myself while being educated on new and interesting topics, challenging myself, and growing, bit by bit. I can not really support you in any concrete way, being that I'm underage and live in less than ideal economic circumstances, but I at least wish to say, thank you. If you ever do stop making content, I just want you to know, if nothing else, you've consistently been making one's sole day, and nothing you have done has been in vain, so, since I really can't do anything else, Ill repeat: Thank you.

[@StratEdgyProductions]

That means a lot to me. I really do appreciate it. It can be difficult to keep going on this platform with all the day to day stresses and a pandemic on top of it, but the occasional "you've made my day happier" is all I need to keep going. Thank you for being that person :)

[@nodrugar5248]

@@StratEdgyProductions :) No problem man, I really do mean it, keep going and keep being awesome. (:

[@nodrugar5248]

@@StratEdgyProductions Oh, and sorry, I was just wondering, have you ever heard of a game called Pathologic 2? It's quite an interesting game in which you find yourself as a young doctor revisiting his place of birth only to find it quickly devastated by a horrifying plague you know little about. You must make decisions that will decide who lives and who is left to suffer and die, and often forgo even that just to save your own life; it also asks you to make decisions not just who you will spend time on trying to treat, but also what methods you will use to prevent suffering, panic, spread... I mention the game because I was introduced to this channel with your review of tyranny, and it poses the same types of dilemmas, forcing you to chose and than face your consequences (just, it's first-person and not isometric)

[@Overphased]

This is a response to the 1st part of your comment. All I have to say is....no shit? Don't blame your fellow countrymen for behaving the way they do. Since you're from the balkans you (should) damn well know why barely anyone has any time for discussion about art and whatnot. Our countries are trying to fuck us in the ass all the time and we gotta keep our eyes peeled. The other thing is, usually when I hear people say stuff like "everyone around me doesn't understand me" or the way more common one "I can't make any friends" they themselves put 0 effort into understanding others or making friends. So I gotta ask, did you even try? Oh and online interactions don't count.

[@arrtemfly]

you're like a normal person that bought a game sseth once reviewed xd

[@StratEdgyProductions]

Yep. I'm a pretty normal person. :) Going slowly crazy in my home.

[@joeb2009]

Every Underrail playthrough is a monumental game-long struggle not to take Pack Rathound

[@Owch-]

And each time i lose the battle…..

[@nado1908]

For a game that prides itself on being hardcore and difficult, it's also extremely unbalanced with stealth, throwing, and traps.

[@eliran9231]

A game being unbalanced and having easy choices doesn't mean it can't be hard. you can have a build that is easy to pull off but that doesn't mean another build is not worthy of play because of it. trying different harder builds is part of the fun of choice in RPGs.

[@nado1908]

Yeah but with how the game is designed, it's nearly impossible without either of the three or psionics.

[@nado1908]

NEARLY impossible.

[@АлексейЮшков-р8п]

@@nado1908 SMG's

[@spencerkimllido7327]

Stealth? I just steam rolled the whole game using Opportunist + Spec0ps

[@XxMeatShakexX]

I feel like a lot of forum arguments preceded this video lol

[@StratEdgyProductions]

Mostly popcorn eating and watching.

[@VoytekPavlik]

I do not know why people trust forum's on how to play games.

[@silversilhouettes635]

You know, I've been struggling to play this game on and off for a while and this was really helpful. Saw the notification and knew all would be revealed lol

[@StratEdgyProductions]

I'm glad it helped. The game really needs a how to.

[@silversilhouettes635]

@@StratEdgyProductions I agree, it's an awesome game but does that kick teeth learning curve that turns most away

[@lavapanther]

Such a good game, but damn. Just about requires foreknowledge. (High Persuasion build)

[@kosenkovpeter5702]

pfft. A full-specced psion with 18 will may pass the hardest persuasion check in the game with just 17 points in persuasion (and about 80 in mercantile, but that's a whole other story)

[@Srksius2802]

I made a molotov slinging rapid fire blasting madman for my build and the game was going pretty well until the last section. FUCK YOU TCHORT!!!

[@esoopthederp7672]

@@Srksius2802 mutagen goes brrrrr

[@Kc40k]

Seems like my gut feeling to wait on your video was correct. You’ve probably saved me many hours. Thanks!

[@Spaceboyy95]

This game sounds like min-maxer heaven. Literal hell for everyone else.

[@wackboy793]

Definitely a fair review, i love the game with a passion, its niche but anyone who grabs a hold of it and understands it might not want to let go.

[@steppecist2928]

I hate you mak.

[@steppecist2928]

You're bad at Risk of rain 2

[@TheXXIJackpot]

This guy in the arena... "By azura, by azura, by azura"

[@dylantaylor603]

Loved this game. Fav isometric rpg since fallout 2

[@arsenii_yavorskyi]

hold on a second. this game's idea of difficulty is to obfuscate the information that the player needs to make informed decisions and base action success on RNG?

[@ownedmaxer607]

Sounds like it; Hard Pass. Xcom and Darkest Dungeon obscure information, but not to THIS extent.

[@nado1908]

60 hours in this game, it's 100% true. I just didn't realize it until later because of the glory that is grenade spam.

[@АлександрСудаков-с2и]

The game expects you to read the wiki. What's the big deal, you'll do it anyway

[@ownedmaxer607]

@@АлександрСудаков-с2и Then people should have never complained about Vanilla Destiny, since all the lore and potential story were In ThE gRiMoRe. I shouldn't HAVE to leave the game to learn how to play it and win if I don't want to spend 100 hours to learn. Games of a similar calibre have come out that can teach you quickly what works and what doesn't, instead of pulling you through a 20-hour primer to tell you "your build is trash"

[@АлександрСудаков-с2и]

@@ownedmaxer607 there is a difference between learn the lore on a wiki and learning mechanics on a wiki, so I would argue that your example doesn't work

[@Yurei83]

Gurgle back from waterboarding and ask... can I have a glass of water? xD

[@TheBirdThatWhistles]

Old Junkyard is the first level which really puts your build to test. It was a nightmare for me who is super into RP and who always go for pacifist decisions. These mutants were the object of my nightmares. I had to step away from the game for a few days because I was so invested in it. Walking away, in times when I'm idle, daydreaming and stuff, I started thinking about the game. The UI, the animations, the art - they would just appear in flashes in my mind. Then one day, as I was making a sandwich, bear traps start appearing in my mind. I had visions of the bear traps in my inventory. And THAT was the moment I knew the game was good. The only other things which get so much into my mind are Chess (as you mentioned) and Coding.

[@RASHIDOOOOO]

There's a few quest solutions not covered in the video (ie: It's possible to save the guy in Rail Crossing without persuasion but it basically requires foreknowledge about the game to follow a specific sequence of events) and some places you can get the information about the main quest (Usually Tanner, he'd tell you to go shack up with the Oligarchs) but otherwise it's pretty spot on. I have a lot of successful builds and playthroughs in this and while my first run was partially blind and my build was sort of bad, it was functional enough for me to beat the game. But it was mostly the combat and the wealth of options that drew me in. I love the fights.

[@jefglv]

When he was talking about going to an external site, building a character and doing beat by beat in game.... I came buckets dude. Obsessively min maxing is my jam and I will spend days on that shit bro.

[@Homiloko2]

The problem is you don't know what to build for before you play the game once with a premade... As he mentioned, you might make a build then 20 hours in you find out some enemies are immune to your weapon type and you're fucked. This kind of pitfall is stupid af.

[@АлександрСудаков-с2и]

@@Homiloko2 I don't understand. Just, instead of using the build of someone else, spend this time to learn the mechanics. Make the first character to see the stats you're dealing with, then read the wiki to learn what they are doing, then scrap the first character and make the second one with the knowledge you've gained. Should be enough to carry you until you get the full grasp of things without the need to start over the third time

[@steppecist2928]

@@Homiloko2 You dont need to use a premade build and you dont need to play on easy it just takes some sense and ingenuity. There are no enemies immune to a weapon type that you will find 20 hours in, GMS compound the first case of this is legit the first dungeon. You cant play underrail rigidly, case in point GMS compound has bots with heavy armour so return to the starter town and buy EMPs. Oh you keep dying to bursts from guns? Craft a vest and put kevlar in it. Grenades zoning you out? Buy a high velocity Shield Emitter, but it wont help you with sledgehammers to the spine. This game has no Pitfalls, it is a series of rock paper scissors situations that for some odd reason seem impossible to outsiders. Sseth Tzeentach better illustrates this in his review, go watch it, it covers the story, the expansion and is far funnier

[@destitute1331]

I totally agree with the statement that until you reach the moment when your build clicks, then it’s hell, and even then you still have to play smart.

[@skin3359]

I find the most efficient way to fight is to chuck as many grenades you have at the enemy or rush em down with a spear Also don't fall into the super steel trap, wasting 3k charons and 30 minutes to make a melee weapon with half the damage of a tungsten one sucks EDIT: NVM lmao super steel is good as hell, infused leathers are OP as hell

[@Rahnonymous]

You went from absolutely hating everything about the game and its' creators to loving everything but about 10% of it? My friend, that sounds like "Getting Over It" but actually good.

[@GhostOfSnuffles]

The key to surviving Underrail's combat is to never fight fair. You get no bonus points for giving a fair fight but you always walk away with more for fighting dirty.

[@DeltafangEX]

No joke, when I used to play Darks Souls 3 obsessively, I would definitely go to a 3rd party website to make builds and find all the equipment/spells/items I needed for my build long before I would actually use that character. Theorycrafting is just super fun for me - I must have had like 100+ builds through my 1000 hours.

[@Draclord35]

Sure. But you don't have to to complete the game. Hell, you can even respec quite easily.

[@DeltafangEX]

@@Draclord35 That is _exactly_ what happened for the longest time. It took me those hours to finally beat the game because I had gotten so adept at speedrunning it just up to Aldritch's Zone (the unofficial PvP capital) that I never beat Aldritch for a huge chunk of my game time. All because of PvP and build diversity.

[@33_Pebbles]

you attacked the faceless? oh no.. oh i feel bad for you man.. xD

[@bruhb7611]

Helping them in other encounters mitigate it easily.

[@OdinPerez]

Underrail broke my vasectomy

[@Maddin1313]

When I imagine using character build creators and guides to play a game, I might as well not play. PS I love this game

[@VoytekPavlik]

Never used character builds. Don't know why people do it. PS: I enjoy the game. See my other comment for reference.

[@nick0875]

One of my biggest gripes with the game is that it doesn't give you a big variety of weapons to use in the beginning, you are basically stuck with a pistol, crossbow, throwing, a cheap melee weapon, fists or psyonics, unless you wait a level and dump points into persuasion for the shotgun, but that leaves out SMGs, Assault Rifles, Sniper Rifles, Chemical and Energy Pistols. So new players will not be able to test out all of the combat options available to them in the beginning to limit how much time they have to spend figuring out a proper build. That is a problem is because standard shooty builds that are easy to use rely on the burst fire capability of SMGs and Assault Rifles or the massive damage potential of Snipers Rifles, Chemical and Energy Pistols, which you won't get for a while.

[@aSSGoblin1488]

super agree on the persuade skill. the flavor text was amazing persuading the free drones to leave the train alone in rail crossing. or at least it showed "who" the player character is.

[@highadmiralbittenfield9689]

Thanks Strat. You told me it was coming in a comment a while back, and you delivered

[@benwilliams3539]

Tip, traps are underwhelming but throw was both fun and useful. Throwing out nets and caltrops was awesome and effective. Locking yourself out of the perks you want is the real deal though. I cant remember which but I remember realising that by the time I could reach max level I wouldnt have the skill points invested in a tree to get the perk i eventually wanted, think it was the top diplomacy perk maybe, been a while. But was very dissapointing

[@andron7108]

Man, i went into this game completely blind doing the most strong build in any roleplayig game - the sniper stealth crit-based character. And surprisingly never went to forums at all. Reached Core and Helped Gorsky already, so i'm looking forward to challenges to overcome.

[@salveteinfernum]

Thanks strat, I've been binge watching your videos since being single. You have a whiskey smooth voice with a critically objective opinion, Keep up the good work

[@Sara.Space.H]

At about 5 minutes in; "..the forums want you to beat the game with someone else's character" No... no this is not for me. But I will watch the rest of this video to see how things shake out.

[@MrRobot-0]

Well i dint do nothing like he said and had a good time, i played this game just lile i aproached new vegas and turn put fine, the only thing i would agree with himis the games is verry much like Xcom.

[@andrewz6986]

I personally got bored once I got to core city the towns just seemed empty with little content and the dialogue was meh and all in all it got super repetitive it was quite the let down I was super excited at the start too

[@samyadassi8626]

10/10 for this game and got the expansion on GOG

[@Iyonmike28]

Yeah no. Someone is going have to pay me to play this again. The combat is fun. But the rage induced aneurysm isn't all that great for my heath.

[@StratEdgyProductions]

lol, good point. Game probably shaved a couple hitpoints off my life.

[@glixylpoussin]

its not that bad once you suffer for like 100 hours. bwaahahahahahah!!!!!!

[@NekotTheBrave]

My favorite build that I got far with, (before the expansion came out) was a sledgehammer build. This was the one I chose on the game's release, after having played it in early access for a long time and experimenting with various builds then. I didn't look at the forums or need to ask help, I just spent a lot of time looking at the character feats and understood what I needed to get the feats that I had wanted to get.

[@topsecreturl]

I just bought underrail last week and did the same. I'm now using light cryokenisis to help lock enemies down and it's working relatively well

[@jmarqeye1188]

overall amazing video, but id like to mention a few things that i think you got wrong 1) Traps. The higher the perception the easier it is to detect traps; ive played 300 hours without putting any points into Traps on multiple characters and as long as my perception is good you can see most traps coming 2) Statistics. Clicking C gives you the stats menu, these should give you detailed statistics about your whole build. This is something that I actually overlooked as a player starting out, not because it was out of the way, but because I was a dumb shit that couldnt read it properly.

[@rileybartnik775]

love the hell out of this game though sometimes the puzzles were incredibly obtuse, like the final quest requiring a laundry list of shit to fix a door, or the puzzle in expedition requiring understanding of music theory, which is randomized every playthrough.

[@gamer65688]

Welcome to Underrail, death is a learning experience and bugs will be the main cause of it in the beginning. Have fun.

[@MRwho35]

If there is one thing that kept me playing through this whole masochistic expirience is the story, specially side quests like Dude's Vision. Have to say the developers have a great sense of humor and boy do they know how to write a experience (given animation limitations). Can't recomend enough for those who want a true hardcore and sometimes hiularious experience. Also, you should've mentioned the puzzles, specially that one from the expansion, that one brain twisting.

[@jonne7725]

16:30 if anything I wish the game lead you towards rail crossing earlier, since it fills in a bit of faceless lore, and also gives you hints that it's a powerful object and therefore the core city elite will be likely wanting to get it

[@DSVlad]

tbh you get told to go there immediately after the drill parts quest

[@steppecist2928]

Dude. Game specifies that you shoulf go to rail crossing immediately, it just gives you the freedom to choose not to

[@AustinRBa]

Glad I watched this video. I had initially tried playing a normal/oddity difficulty Sledgehammer/Handgun/EveryFirearmIcouldCarry while also speccing into all kinds of shit, and got my ass handed to me throughout GSG, and after finally making it through there, couldn't progress through the Junkyard. Restarted to an easy/oddity sneak-esque Throw and Bow character and everything clicks now. Still difficult, but not having to save-scum my way through Every. Fucking. Encounter. is so much better for my patience and enjoyment. Much better in the Junkyard, and I'm getting started on the mid game now and having a blast.

[@philip2.2.12]

I always judge my build by how they handle depot A and B. Pro tip, get leather siphoner armor

[@southernfriedmedia3968]

the Junkyard Depot A was a steep learning curve

[@HystericalHuntress]

Your review is solid but I feel you over-exaggerate a lot. The game's combat isn't hard. Not even on Dominating. Underrail is not a hard game, Underrail is a COMPLEX game with a lot of depth that takes time and/or research to understand properly. Once one DOES have that understanding, you see people rocking Pure Psi builds that are constantly at 1HP never taking a single hit. There are videos of people killing the final boss in a single turn. The shit you can do with traps is sometimes absurd. You can become a literal god inside of combat in Underrail, you just have to know what you're doing. XCOM is hard no matter how good at it you are, because so much of it can be pure luck that decides.. well, a lot. I'm not trying to cheapen the strategy or difficulty of Underrail, and you are correct in saying it's a lot harder than your typical RPG.. but you make the game out to be waaaay more intimidating than you needed to here and I feel that comes entirely from your personal frustrations with it earlier on. Unless you're running an incredibly specialized build, shit like messing up one feat with stat allocation is not going to handicap you as hard as you said it did you. That only happens on niche builds / higher difficulty levels. Shit you should be avoiding as a newer player. The game clearly isn't for everyone and I'm glad you like it, but I seriously think you could re-do this review with a cooler head and the review would be a lot better for it.

[@MrBubbabolly]

This is one of those games that you either break, or it breaks you. It's kill or be killed.

[@bruhb7611]

“95% to hit” All managed to miss somehow. This game reminds me of Arcanum where I hit the enemy with more than 30 attack and most misses.

[@VoytekPavlik]

Yes, it's more like Arcanum than Fallout. Had the same feeling about its mechanics, though the characters' animations are way better. In Underrail you can see them reload the shotgun!

[@bruhb7611]

@@VoytekPavlik sad that the persuasion and other social skills don’t do much with combat in Underrail other than just giving you a way to avoid conflict though. I want the same feeling of arcanum where a social skills only build can create a gang squad of destruction.

[@toolatetothestory]

I cheated and it was still hard. Also whoever came up with that MUSIC CIPHER I wish that person at least one lifelong sti The writing is really good tho.

[@hal900x]

I had a BLAST the first time I played, on normal, without build guides or forums, just winging it. I'm confused by how hard a time Strat seems to have had at first. Later I got deeper into it and now I can only play on hard. Dominating, on the other hand...

[@DudeWatIsThis]

I don't get this. I made a ghost on my first playthrough, and it worked. Like, a ghost, from Starcraft. I did minimal research, and I made a sniper, with some psi powers, with stealth and some trap skill. I insist: this is my FIRST playthrough. Of course, I threw like 60-70 skill points into the garbage on evasion and other shit which doesn't really serve any purpose. It's sub-optimal. And I'm still getting through the game on normal, and finding it to be one of the best RPG experiences I've had in years. Yes, the Junkyard was rough, but I did it. I've finished the Foundry, Rail Crossing and half of the stuff in Core City. The problem here is that people have grown accustomed to "not-RPGs" like the 3D Fallouts and Skyrim and The Witcher 3. That stuff is entry-level, like 90% of the mainstream games from the past 15 years. Underrail could have come out in the Baldur's Gate/Planescape/Arcanum era, and it would have been slightly more challenging than average, but that's it. You don't make a "6 on everything" character. Just as you don't spend charisma points on warriors, or strength on mages, or dexterity on armor-clad characters. This is CRPGs 101, people. I've even seen people on reddit complain about their 5-INT character not performing on PSI. Are you kidding me? That shit may work in those 80-IQ RPGs that sell well today, but this is a product for nerds. As games were 20 years ago. If you don't like it, that's totally fine. You're more than covered with dozens of shallow RPGs with pretty graphics. For some of us, this is what we want.

[@babygorilla4233]

Good to hear that grenades and stealth are your choices. Im on my secknd build im going pistols and grenades, i picture them as a prospector throwing sticks of dinamite with a huge revolver.

[@Auxxua]

Underrail is one of my favourite RPG games of all time. Read through some builds first time, but made my own for the first run. A shitty, but playable, full psi build. After that run, I've played as a chemical warcrimes unit, throwing gas grenades, napalm, nitrogen, and all others shit and more on my enemies, while blasting them all with acid for a good measure. A full blown duelist build was one of my favourites, but the best by far was my bleed stacking evicerate build. It takes some practice to get going, but after you know what you're doing, it's going to be a blast.

[@xzivriel]

I used to love this game then I met a Death Stalker please do age of decadence and/or dungeon rats next

[@АлександрСудаков-с2и]

This is my favourite fallout game... Maybe on par with kenshi. Just the experience of going down the caves and going... And going... And screaming "HELP ME I'M LOST WHERE AM I?!"... Nothing like it

[@Ineedgames]

Your rant about difficulty reminds me of the elitism in the Souls franchise. You can't even say you don't like aspects in those games without someone telling you to "Get Gud".

[@chrischickering1959]

Agreed

[@Bassist-Beneath]

Underrail is objectively harder than any souls game in my opinion. I fucking love it, but goddamn it’s brutal

[@armorparade]

the sad thing is that those types are the result of the series' shitty marketing. most people understood that the difficulty wasn't the key sell to demon's souls, the game was just willing to kill you, and the bosses were more about tricks and cool gimmicks than raw mechanical ability. but as the series progressed the marketing focused on "hard game get good" and now dark souls 3 really is a game where "get good" is correct. it sucks especially because dark souls already has an "easy mode". you can just farm souls and overlevel yourself. but in 3, most fights are so straightforward that you can't get by just on your wits or by grinding(at least not without a ton of levelling) you actually have to Get Good

[@peternystrom921]

The ending was The most funny thing i. Seen this week haha.

[@katsukikubota7549]

This game helped me get over hoarditis.

[@zsewqthewolf1194]

Eh I still hoard but only for high trie parts and things that bring me real money

[@looinrims]

I got PTSD from the “it gives you the corn you desire when you PECK THAT FUCKING BUTTON”

[@ViceHacks]

I love that the last steam comment about the game is by driver nelphi

[@ClintEastwooodPS3]

Ive been studying Underrail for 5 years now. Gonna start my first playtrough the next few days. I hope not to fuck up already/totally on the first page of the character creation.

[@VariableRecall]

I had Underrail in my Steam recomends for years and finally got it thanks to the Polish Information Network. The game is Brutal, but the solution to that is the be more brutal and cheap than your enemies. The Expansion for Underrail in my opinion exceeds the Shivering Isles. Pro Tip: Invest in builds that can reliably deliver any type of damage you need to get the job done. Be it through traps, psi, bullets, or blades.

[@haha-pw7nv]

playthroughs are fucking brutal. i personally never used a premade build. j just used trial and error. once you find something that works ir just clicks and offers a rare satisfaction

[@MikaelKKarlsson]

Looks like heaven. I'm just 30 years too old for it.

[@elijah4168]

Nah, I'm 14 and I've had it for like 5 months and it's amazing.

[@elijah4168]

Nostalgia isn't necessary to enjoy it

[@KiltLeo]

Yöu äre never too öld for games. Cheers!

[@Largentina.]

@@elijah4168 You shouldn't be allowed to play games like this.

[@Biouke]

@@elijah4168 Nostalgia, no. Free time IS necessary thought :p Enjoy your teen years, lad. They pass quickly :)

[@Deioth]

You made me buy this. I hit level like 5 and scoured every possible explorable corner I could survive in Lower Underrail before I finally realized (because in traditional RPG fashion key information is sometimes said once and never again) "Wait, that guy wanted me down in caves... right?" And from there it was cakewalk... until it wasn't anymore. Because I picked first level available perks that were worthless without the gear. And the stuff I really needed was too many stat points away because I didn't realize I could subtract stats at creation let alone how important which stats were for someone who shuns psionics. Since then, I've one shot Super Slammed enemies with 250 HP, sitting at level 17. And if I am lucky enough, my louder-than-the-trains ass can set some traps, pop shot some asshole, and funnel the group, then toss out a grenade, so that a few swings later I'm cleaning the umpteenth piece of bone speckled offal off my shiny metal armor and moving on. And if I get in a bad spot, well, usually my nearly 600 HP and nearly 50% mechanical resist keeps me alive. I am become the Juggernaut, bitch. I am curious, though... How was YOUR first run with Dude and how did you manage to deal with the Gray Soldiers? Persuasion is useful in this game, I've discovered. And intimidation. Convincing everyone I have a sore throat as they spout cheeki breeki jive at me and then making a soldier nearly piss his pants was some good times.

[@Oliver-uh5ze]

You don't need points in Traps to detect traps. You need a high perception.

[@johnrockwell5834]

Underground Psychic Kenshiro. Nice.

[@tylerh2548]

Posh-Brit Text-to-Speech end credit commentary needs to be a regular feature 10/10

[@ФедяКрюков-в6ь]

This game is hardcore, but fair. It's great. Buy it.

[@nick0875]

9:05 I went for a low Constitution Stealth build for my first playthrough and once I realized the effectiveness of grenades and taking out a few enemies at a time in an area before retreating to reenter stealth it wasn't hard for me to progress through the story. Considering how many enemies the game throws at you, grenades are a good way to get out of some of those fights. This game forces you to prioritize on recognizing and killing the high priority targets, which is good if you go stealth because it will allow you to scout out the area and choose a course of action before combat begins. Nerd Command Games Studios is a youtuber who has put out a playlist on multiple viable builds where he goes into detail on which skills and feats are useful for which builds. I suggest those looking to play the game look them up before committing as similar to Morrowind, this game will take you from behind without lube if you don't pay attention.

[@danvgeg]

Hold on tight, brother. We're thinking of you.

[@gtrzmbe9390]

"Build fuckery." I love it

[@Diskhate]

Wait you use the Hexen/heretic bottombar as your twitch frame??? Love you more and more with each passing vid Btw:my first playthrough of this game was on a character with 4 constitution....... That used psionics (which sacrifices your health by a huge amount at the start of the game) ... Don't make this mistake, go with at least 6 or 7 CON on your first playthrough That said: one of the best crpgs period

[@xipietotec]

The One Turn Man pistol build is an excellent build for new players too, because you kill almost everything before it can attack you. It’s so good: I am using light armor with 0 in dodge and 0 in evasion.

[@shmow4716]

Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-ohhhhh, woah-oh-oh-oh-oh, story of UnderRail

[@strmtroopr9082]

This is basically the FTL of CRPGs. You start a game, play it how you want with no hand-holding, then screw up at some point and die. Welp, next playthrough.

[@MrGenoHydra]

My first playthrough on underrail i did it on Normal and without using psi at all since i'm an absolute potato and didn't know i could get it whenever i want, and i realized it when i finished expedition. Yes, my masochist powers are immense when it comes to vidya. This game is by definition a Serbian CBT session, and unless you *really* want a challenge plus have hairs to spare to shed off your skull i think this review is enough.

[@highadmiralbittenfield9689]

My pure psi build hit a wall because I sacrificed con. Most of my progress comes from replaying encounters in different ways. I ragequit, then start the game up again. This game just gets under your skin. I hate it and love it. Hurt me more, Underrail. Hurt me *harder*

[@highadmiralbittenfield9689]

@G59 // FLESHRIPPA I read things that caused me to drastically overestimate the powers of a cave wizard

[@MemeN210890]

Oh man oh man, I'm so excited to see this review. I fucking love this game, but the thing is I could not see it all the way through. Here's the thing. On my first playthrough I didn't know what I was getting into and kept dying on the first cave (fuckin' psybugs, man), so I said "fuck it" and stopped trying. Then I saw a review by some african warlord and decided to give this game a second try, this time loosely following a SMG/grenade guide, and boy did I have a blast! It wasn't easy, at all. I could spend a whole entire hour reloading a fight until I got it right. I found out that flashbangs and mines were my best friends, and went on dual weilding SMG until I got too cocky for my own good. Right before the fight in the Tchorist institute (spoilers I guess) I decided to try a new SMG I crafted. I didn't had many bullets for it, but decided that after the fight I would go for a shopping/crafting round and get all geared up, IF I liked the gun. Well, If you played the game you'll know what happened next. I fell into a fucking hole, crawling with faceless and nightcrawlers and that damned lovecraftian debuff. I went on for a few hours until I realised what had happened: I was underequipped, low on ammo and materials, crawling on a hole scavenging elevator parts to get out. Every time I had to fight the faceless I saw my ammunition dropping low, desperately realising that I wasn't gonna make it through. It was over. I put one last bullet in the chamber and tasted my cold steel for the last time. Well, I just stopped playing, but I like to think my guy just off'd himself out of frustration and desperation. Who knows, maybe after watching this review I'll give it a third try and go for a fistfighting psyonic shonen-anime kind of build.

[@vojtisekhovor]

African warlord huh

[@BobbyOxygen]

The absolute worst part of this game is having to constantly trek between all the merchants in the vain hope that they have decent crafting components for sale. Which they don't 99,5% of the time.

[@lordhumungus8720]

Taking the PSI pill during the introduction and then realising 20 hours later that I have my health reduced by 20% was really a big middle finger to my low constitution SMG build

[@Incrediblefatslug]

Glad i bought it on steam last week. 😭 But i can't play it. My African war prince Sseth has me hooked on Caves of Qud.

[@battles_varied_animator]

9 minutes in, you don't need points in Trapping to SEE traps, just to DISARM and USE traps. You need perception to spot things.

[@johannaldbrecht1594]

Trainshot and W2C rounds trivialize mechanical damage resist. There are workarounds for almost every damage resist in game. Shields? EMP. If you're fighting relies on fire/cold/electric you are not gonna have to fight something that resists all three.

[@OB.x]

I litterally got heavy armor within 30 minutes of the game... I didn't understand it, but my build was so crap that it allowed me to live. Basically, agility and dodge...oof. BUT that once piece of armor, got me through the opening areas, as the rats barely hurt me now. Then I found another heavy one, that protects from acid...and then a shield, etc. All really early because I went to the top station, not the lower one, where the main quest starts.

[@JohnDoe-bx1bw]

Well, in path of exile you only get to start making a build after you beat the game and farm a couple of dozens of hours. And after some other 100 hours you might complete it. I call it a terrible game design.

[@oldstoffire]

I had a COMPLTELY different experience with the game than you did. For some context: I have 250 hours, and have played multiple different characters, all on normal difficulty. I'm not an RPG god, nor did I do any amount of build-fuckery to live. I also didn't look at any of the discussion for it online, the most I ever googled was checking the wiki for quest shit when I got stuck. I assume I either A: blundered into viable builds for every playthrough, B: Lacked whatever preconceptions about RPGs you talked about getting over, or C: The level system forced me to invest into multiple skills rather than just dumping points into one (which is the bad habit that I usually have the worst time with). I'm not trying to tell you to git gud or whatever, I'm just kind of astounded that we've had almost polar opposite experiences with the same game. I think it's very well-tuned, and allows for a ton of open-ended solutions to problems. I never experienced that issue of playing for 20 hours and realizing your build doesn't work. If you ever give it another run, I think the most fun I had with a character was my pure stealth character, with sneak, traps, and throwing as the only combat skills. It is some serious pain in some sections, but it's really rewarding to build minefields around people while they're running around trying to find you.

[@urdimsum7961]

Jokes on you, I LOVE studying before I play a game!

[@johnskelington]

This game has traps? Consider me sold!

[@temba92]

Im not sure they are the kind of Traps you are interested in.

[@George-z3i]

Gah this video is so good. I always go back to it when I play Underrail, die for something (seeminly) out of my control and decide I hate the game. Then I remember what got me into the game. The SSeth video. However, that got me interested in Underrail, THIS video helped me truly love Underrail

[@jonathont5570]

I bought this game on day one and never regretted it, great game and very painful at times... DLC is brilliant.

[@aspitefulrose7001]

"Never before have I played a single player game that expected Path of Exile levels of build fuckery to play." So you're saying that I, a PoE diehard... really need to play this?