Worst MMO Ever? - Life is Feudal: MMO

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[@AvengerAtIlipa]

Life is Feudal is incredibly realistic because the servers themselves are from 1097.

[@Soapy-chan_old]

Thanks for the laugh xD

[@ArmadilloJohn]

I mean you ain't wrong, just like in 1097, they don't exist.

[@vitreouspie12]

Dude. You should offer some complimentary ointment to go with that sick burn.

[@kurhooni5924]

lol

[@mattaffenit9898]

*_F A K T S_*

[@osopeluche5953]

I tried this game and I didn't know the medieval ages were so badly optimized.

[@GirlsLikeMe]

the computers were made of stone back then

[@Phantom_Zer0]

Their graphic cards where very bad.

[@Thor-Orion]

Never read any history book?

[@cornesalvo9366]

@@Thor-Orion Never got any jokes?

[@madphantompixels6478]

I'd never play any time period that doesn't have DLSS support.

[@thewise3551]

I played this once. Spent hours levelling a piece of ground then went to visit a well established neighbour. I fell down a hole in his garden and couldn't get back out. Ill never forget his silhouette looming over me as he peered into the hole I asked him what I should do and he just said "pray".

[@echtniemand4869]

he really helped u there and gave u the Right answer the Emote Pray is The teleport to get unstuck xD

[@fungisrock8955]

It puts the lotion on its body

[@herekongato]

@@echtniemand4869 lmao

[@kevinchappell7966]

@@fungisrock8955 Or it gets the hose again

[@blanknaemguy]

This sound incredibly realistic

[@rulfurus2162]

That one player who traded with you was asking for food lmao

[@sicksixgamer2694]

Damn the irony.

[@aleksitjvladica.]

Yes but why he did not understand? It's the most basic Russian possible.

[@dystrophic]

@@aleksitjvladica. You think everyone knows basic Russian?

[@Augoeides32]

@@dystrophic Most people don't even know basic English.

[@aleksitjvladica.]

No, but it's basic.

[@Hellhelpme]

Open world players when they get bored but don't want to stop playing: ....I'm gunna climb that fuckin' mountain.

[@troodon1096]

At that point it's not a defense of the game; it's Stockholm Syndrome.

[@tangyhyperspace2217]

Big mountain to throw the boredom off

[@-0rbital-]

Cause there’s nothing else to do.

[@nvfury13]

That is usually my first instinct, go and wander around, see what I can and can’t explore.

[@Phantom_Zer0]

See that mountain over there? it's sixteen times the detail and it just works.

[@vec1954]

As someone that fishes for recreational purposes, I can confirm that we indeed do look at the water to establish dominance over the fish.

[@wailmerwithinternetaccess7934]

Uh, yeah... kinda agree

[@justasimplenobody2666]

I have literally seen my fiance do the same thing so can confirm ☠

[@Phontoz]

The real MVP can hypnotize the fishies and catch them with their bare hands, it´s true my uncle works with fishsticks...

[@TheDroneZoneIRL]

@@Phontoz I tpose to establish dominance and say here fishy fishy and they jump outta the water.

[@PoptartParasol]

Not only the fish. But those stupid crabs too

[@andrewtennant1889]

Says it's a detailed and realistic simulation of Medieval Life. Contains potatoes, a plant that didn't exist in Europe until the second half of the 16th century, and wouldn't become a staple crop until the 19th century. Seems legit.

[@Whydoyoureadme]

In-game lore would have you believe you landed on some island, who knows where, where potatoes drifted ashore and sprouted into the one particular variant that the western world knows... I complained about it for years, that they should give us corn instead or at least introduce more vegetables so I wouldn't have to stare at the same graphic over and over again.

[@whssem4793]

Time travelling potatoes, just as God intended.

[@Rednecknerd_rob9634]

What are taters, Precious?

[@fedos]

@@Rednecknerd_rob9634 Boil em, mash em, stick em in an anachronistic stew.

[@Gamerkat10]

about as realistic as the ideas a 11 year old may have ldfjlshgjkl

[@thebadshave503]

I think my favorite part of any of these dead game expeditions is when you run across one person. This solitary soul in the vast empty expanse. It's such a strange melancholy thing.

[@DustinBarlow8P]

Like seriously once it gets to that point just add a fog asset, and a few eldritch cretures and you can re-release an Horror Medieval MMO. Call it Life was Feudal, but than Cthulhu happened, now life is a;rasd;gjras[....

[@silversjohn7363]

"Players don't want a second job" True, some players tend to make it their primary job (looking at you, Ark)

[@ctdaniels7049]

*looking up how the Titanosaurus tame is supposed to work* People DO this??? Apparently, they do!

[@actualcatfish6490]

As someone who has over 3000 hours on Ark's Xbox version, I can tell you that it is one of the worst games I've ever played

[@danielgiovanniello7217]

@@actualcatfish6490 My old roommate has summed up Ark perfectly: "if you ask someone who plays Ark what they think of it, they'll tell you 'Ark is one of the worst games I've ever played. I have 12,000 hours in it and it's one of my favorites".

[@ppsarrakis]

@@actualcatfish6490 you managed to get 3000 hours of ark in Xbox,what a hero.

[@laelaps5246]

I know, this review reminded me so much of Ark! And i can't stop playing Ark, for some reason!

[@frostreaper1607]

One of the many things that bothers me about this game is the lack of animals, and the very few there are look really bad. The forest are basically empty and if you had a farm then your animals only exist in a 2D menu.

[@Senbei01]

Well... there are horses too. I think. But, yeah. "Life is Feudal - Chicken Farmer"

[@frostreaper1607]

@@Senbei01 I've had a horse for a short time, sadly enough it only exist while you ride it, otherwise its a 2D sprite in an empty stable, lol.

[@eale1337]

It's not feasible to have hundreds of animals on every farm the performance would be horrific

[@cheesesniper473]

I played thousands of hours, the game couldnt handle 2 people in a fistfight. Sooo this is true lol.

[@fgaido6886]

welcome to real live.

[@0That_Guy0]

9:25 I used to have a lot more respect for hunters back in feudal times and their tracking abilities, before realizing all you needed to do when hunting is look for glowing footprints. This hardcore game sure teaches you a lot about the real world.

[@xchronox0]

That and I thought they only had one chance to make their shot count... Apparently birds just sit there and let you throw several rocks without ever flying away until they die.

[@CompressionPolice]

Just imagine spending time in a dying MMO and making sure you attack one of the only remaining players and probably making the game die faster.

[@woopy8]

the thing that attacked him was an NPC

[@webbie7503]

toxic behavior and people wonder why their MMO is dying.

[@TheAndorianWarrior]

"More people will watch this video then play the game" Never a truer statement about LiF

[@HenriqueRJchiki]

Than **

[@matthutt7697]

More people watched this video than he has subscribers...

[@tomkirk35]

Using "then", instead of "than", is a counter to the statement. "then" is saying "more people will play this game after watching the video" (the video will generate interest) As HenriqueRJchiki points out, "than" is the correct conjugation.

[@onionninja7580]

You’re are all spill goode

[@planescaped]

@@matthutt7697 That's uh... pretty much every single video on youtube there dumbass. XD Did you know that the sky is blue?

[@DainnGreywall]

I'm not gonna lie... I played Life is Feudal for a solid 5 months with a small group making a pretty neat little fishing/trade hub where the dominant clans of the world we were in came through from time to time, every one of us had specific jobs that we had to perform, from being the village lumberjack and woodcarver, village miner and blacksmith, horse breeder, hunter and leatherworker (me), fisherman, etc. We even had to defend ourselves in sieges a couple of times after our small village grew large enough to be considered a small town and we decided to put up stone walls in order to defend ourselves. Life is Feudal was absolutely not a single player experience game at all, trying to do anything solo would be the worst thing I could ever think of. The game was hella jank, but it was fun while it lasted. RIP you magnificent bastard game, you. I'm gonna miss spending an entire week literally mining a mountain all the way down to ground level for stone and iron.

[@las10plagas]

go play wurm unlimited. it's neat and gives you much freedom... and everything might take some time (depending on the server)

[@ripquake6970]

Life is feudal: Your Own is the same but only 64(people) per server

[@KrillixKai]

Life is Fuedal Your Own is definitely not the same game. I wish they would have axed that instead of the good one. The real hope is that we'll see a bigger production clone of the game.

[@syndrathedarksovereign1609]

I played this game for a solid year and a bit more. Yes, this game is definitely not for single player lol, it's basically impossible to do anything in solo. I had so much fun on this game, Rest in peace :pray: I'll miss the devs who released updates every half year to fix a single bug.

[@Warkillable]

If Life is Feudal - Your Own had more map selections i would of been happier with it. Any server i joined at the same map design and all the good spots where almost always claimed so you either had to join someone (which is fine if thats what you want) or build on some crazy hill that left you digging for days.

[@StandardGoose]

As a rock-climber myself, I can tell you that stopping for a rest is absolutely a thing. If you hang with your arms extended so your sinews are taking the strain instead of your muscles, you can take a break and recover some stamina.

[@AlexanderNash]

Yeah I've even seen climbers wedge their knees in a gap and rest like that.

[@StandardGoose]

​@@AlexanderNashThat's one way of doing it. But if you can't find a ledge or a handy crack, just hanging from a hand hold with straight arms is almost as good.

[@grr2966]

His interactions with players proves that there are really only two types of people in this world.

[@troodon1096]

OUTSIDE: The ultimate in realism in any MMO! Billions of NPCs, photorealistic graphics, and an unforgiving permadeath system.

[@luciandrakaris6603]

Only the story is sh*t xD

[@Girtharmstrong69]

People who want realism from a game are morons go play this thing called life if you want realism

[@dang.9209]

Still waiting for mod support.

[@KlaussMarcellus]

@@Girtharmstrong69 Some people would like to play a "simulation" of living in the woods, or fighting a war, etc - but it doens't mean that person wants to do it in real life. The idea its to experience something fully, and without the risks it would be to your safety.

[@Girtharmstrong69]

@@KlaussMarcellus that's my point here lol

[@youssefchaoui2940]

Looks like the whole budget was wasted on Sean

[@benwade7742]

Let's not be hasty about using the word wasted , it is sean bean after all

[@cheesesniper473]

Played for 3k hours. His voice and acting was perfect. The exact opposite of the game mechanics. I would have invited josh to a guild just to show him how broken the game was at this point.

[@user-oq2um2ux6z]

You know, that first traveler, trading you basic items, made me think... It is quite heartbreaking that there is people enjoying this shithole of a game. He might be disapointed about the games state of development too, but he plays it and is happy for everyone who joins. Imagine you love a game, no one plays.

[@Whydoyoureadme]

Since the game is dead now it's a moot point, however I'll say that the reason I played it was because it simply hit all my heartstrings - maybe that is not what most players want, and that's why it failed, but some few people really like it, and they are the 600 people playing.

[@afrog2666]

There *is* a person, there *are* people ;) Also, disappointed :)

[@GBEWgw2]

Then there's the second guy tryna PvP on a dead game.

[@hectordiaz8435]

@@GBEWgw2 the second guy was an npc :v I know it cause I played the game, for 1 week to try it and give a true chance, it was horrible, the skills take 30min, 1h, 1day, 3 day, 1week, 3month, 1 year, to learn per lvl, and you can lvl up it to lvl 90 If I remember it well

[@houndofculann1793]

Apparently that guy was asking for food in the trade, which is rather ironic for the situation

[@pskry]

Strife: "This is the worst inventory system I've ever played" Ultima Online: 🤫

[@rePAULsion]

Yeah, but there was actual strategy to Ultima Online's inventory... like hiding items under other ones so thieves couldn't steal them.

[@FredAureus]

Ultima VI, VII and VIII had these inventory mechanics too, if I remember correctly.

[@fingusa]

Yeah as a long time Avatar-wannabe, I felt like I got shot in the heart. If anything, more gams need inventories like this. There is never a good reason for an egg to take up as much space as a piece of armor, or a bow.

[@zachwalford5918]

Agreed! Back when I played Ultima Online I quite enjoyed this type of inventory system.

[@denormative]

Yeah, was thinking I miss that type of inventory. It allowed you to conceptionally store things into groups as you went along. Things you wanted to sell in one pile, plot specific items in another, situational armour in a different one and so on. And it was also always nice from environmental storytelling as well, opening up a random backpack and seeing it full of junk, then a pixel glitters behind it all and you quickly toss everything aside to pull out a magical sword or something. Modern RPGs really throw you out of feeling like you're living in their world with thair very "boxy things in boxes" inventory.

[@edgarallanpwned6666]

"Game Designers can't seem to grasp the idea that players dont want a second job, they want an adventure" Tooooooooo right mate.

[@trevorcroteau1253]

@devs

[@Epokh69]

Well the word "hardcore" idk what is means to you 😂

[@_mend4mad_11]

People dont get, that across mmo's your time is not valuable. Even if someone says otherwise, it doesnt change reality.

[@Epokh69]

@@_mend4mad_11 everybody spend the time how they want, is not valuable for you or for him, but yes for other ppls

[@_mend4mad_11]

@@Epokh69 so other ppl should avoid mmo, because being delusional about them at gameplay perspection only leads to broken/not working gameplay or unsatisfaction (pick your poison).

[@ZorotheGallade]

"Every character Sean Bean has ever been starts full of promise and then dies" And he didn't even get to turn into a dragon in this one.

[@Karagianis]

Not evey character Sean bean plays died. One survives the entire storyline, Sharpe.

[@lordinquisitorsec7532]

@@Karagianis And Odysseus from Troy. Ironically he was the only survivor of that film

[@user-et8vm9cc3t]

@@lordinquisitorsec7532 Not the only one. Helene and Briseis both survive. But ironically indeed, as many other guys died (also some who weren't supposed to, like Agamemnon or Menelaus), Sean Bean survived that movie. Incredible. Despite looking like a costume party Roman officer.

[@GramoChopin]

Silent Hill. He lives whole movie .

[@TheBonkleFox]

scuse me what?

[@AlgaeNymph]

"A promise of greatness, cut down at the last moment, that will leave many people disappointed." So like that _other_ thing Sean Bean was in...

[@TheBonkleFox]

???

[@koppsr]

@Ulven He means Game of Thrones. And he's absolutely right. F*CK season 8. Period.

[@LordSluggo]

@@koppsr show watchers think Season 8 ruined the show Book readers know it had been off the rails since Season 4

[@Deussol]

@@LordSluggo and people with brains know both where just soap operas for dudes.

[@LordSluggo]

@@Deussol OK

[@afrog2666]

I will never forget you, random traveller..

[@digitalshoes5520]

I love the interaction with the first player. He speaks in russian and you go "mountain" and "climb"

[@feardatd7961]

Imagine being such a horrible person you see a homeless half naked weaponless person in the middle of the woods and you're first instinct is to attack him? That's the type of people the game creates. Enough said.

[@Colouh]

hardcore pvp survival games are the perfect place for douchebags

[@ninja_tank25]

Why I never got into Rust in a nutshell. I was on the beach with just a rock and a dude shot me with a crossbow and left me to bleed out. I was done.

[@Arc115YT]

They like getting those good feeling chemicals in the brain that comes from dominating someone more helpless than them. It's disgusting human nature lol

[@ElementalLeaf]

@@Arc115YT You stepped into the pvp gauntlet wtf did you expect? Ppl to come hold your hand?

[@yurigagarine6998]

@@ElementalLeaf why, yes. Reality is also a pvp gauntlet and I don't see people backstabbing each other. Most of the time.

[@musingartisan]

I am guessing Josh missed Sean Bean's breakthrough roles in the Sharpe series. 16 episodes, each over an hour runtime each (no adverts thankyou BBC). In each episode he got shot, stabbed, skewered, drowned, or in some other way nearly mortally wounded, but not even the entire French Revolutionary Army was able to kill him.

[@BobMcBobJr]

He accumulated enough dying xp to gain the immortal perk

[@cheesesniper473]

"Worth it"

[@martinford4553]

Nor were the officers of the British army able to off him. Sharpe survived both the French and his own side trying to off him.

[@eloso2225]

10:14 I think its pretty cool that Josh finally got reunited with his dad thanks to this "amazing" game

[@smokeymacpot76]

lmao

[@humanoidpanic1]

Don't you remember history class? Medevil times was before the gravity update

[@Siegbert85]

Gotta say... the scale of the map is impressive. In a better game I would have loved to take my horse and travel for hours, having adventures on the way

[@JoshStrifeHayes]

Oh absolutely, the idea behind the game is incredible

[@Siegbert85]

@@JoshStrifeHayes have you looked into Gloria Victis? It's kinda similar when it comes to realism and combat but smaller and more enjoyable, I'd say. Also less hardcore/survival

[@JoshStrifeHayes]

@@Siegbert85 i have not, but ill give it a go!

[@Poisonjam7]

Yeah, I was about to say this as well. I was expecting him to hit an invisible wall or something at some point, but no. Credit where it’s due, the scale is impressive.

[@frostreaper1607]

Not to much of an adventure when there's noting to do tbh.

[@PlatonistAstronaut]

I'd probably watch a full series of you just walking towards mountains in that game lol. Weirdly compelling.

[@GeorgeMonet]

This always bothers me. How did you character live 20 years before the game began without any skills and in a world where just surviving for 10 seconds takes a lot of effort and luck? Or the game claims you are a trained soldier or wizard or priest but then starts you at level 1 without any skills or equipment or stats.

[@magesalmanac6424]

You’re looking way too deeply into it. It’s just a little story to get your game and character started.

[@mikadsu]

Maybe you were accountant, clerk or something. So you didnt have survival skills. Anyway you did start with some crafting skills like making those first knifes etc... And you did have some combat skills to start. So you might have been a starting soldier of some sort before too.

[@WiseOwl_1408]

Kept in a shed.

[@teninoru]

Honestly, sounds like you had a fun little adventure here xD

[@ApocCalii]

*Gets attacked by a NPC, thinks its a player* lol

[@JoshStrifeHayes]

Ah true, i should have realised,there are no actual players in the game.

[@joshu4484]

ApocCali what a legend

[@janbudnick9128]

@@JoshStrifeHayes You know the same thing happend to me also and that guy chased me for an hour I got rly pissed and was like are ppl so bored they randomly chase ppl. forever only to find out it was an NPC, that was a fun start to thr game I must say.

[@Fanega70]

@@JoshStrifeHayes you didn't even join a guild or went near an active base, the map is really big so finding something is difficult.

[@JoshStrifeHayes]

@@Fanega70 so maybe the map should either be smaller, or have more game added to it.

[@talleyrandxlll7037]

This developer has a history of not finishing something and starting something else.

[@cloudchaser8650]

You mean like most mmo devs?

[@Crypted112]

didn't these guys also make starforge or was that another medieval MMO

[@talleyrandxlll7037]

@@Crypted112 they did Life is Feudal the non-mmo version and started the mmo before finishing the original.

[@eale1337]

@@talleyrandxlll7037 that's not accurate I believe your own was designed to give the players who wanted the MMO something to play while they worked on the MMO. It was always from conception designed to be an MMO.

[@WandererTheLost]

Doesn't that make anything they produce Feudal?

[@Aquelll]

You can actually move the tooltips, actually you can move and resize any UI elements. And you can add more action bars. It was absolutely joy when it still had the RP server. Some of the best RP moments I have ever had in an MMO. That was also the only place where the game worked because people were building things to look realistic instead of trying to cheese the system.

[@Dan-st6ct]

yea man, the social interaction was just fun and if u had a awesome guild u could create really big castles and have really awesome pvp fights! i miss this game so much :(

[@TheArnoldification]

I don't get these first impression channels that can't figure out basic shit like this. It's literally their job... I've never played this game but even I could immediately figure out the stat allocation meant the sum of all of the final attributes must not be greater than 75 and I just stayed out of morbid curiosity >_>

[@Unethical.Dodgson]

@@TheArnoldification It's not that it's hard to work out... it's just that it's shittily designed.

[@TheArnoldification]

@@Unethical.Dodgson tell me which part of adding 5 numbers up to 75 is bad design for Stat cap

[@SeisoYabai]

@@TheArnoldification Its the small bits and attention to detail that foreshadow the overall quality of the game. Josh doesn't point things like this out because they ruin the experience, he points them out because they are very simple, common sense things to add, and the lack of them shows a lack of care, a lack of funding, a lack of technical skill, or some combination.

[@zanderwhitcroft]

I had alot of fun playing this. If our kindom hadn't been attaked non stop 16 hours/per day 7 days a week for 8 months straight we wouldn't have quit. Eventually all the exploting and fighting exausted us. We ran outta ore and supplies, the enemy looked wierded out when we stopped playing. We said "we have nothing left to fight with and everyone quit". They said oh ok, then moved on to destroy another group...Still other than that I had a great time!

[@prophet_3692]

- Press F10 to adjust the UI and move the info box. - select repeat action instead of single action to keep cutting the tree until it falls. - you can press v to freelook - ok the waddle animation is more funny then anything else in combat. - ranged combat needs to be done in first person by pressing 'c' - granted annimals are wonky - swimming isn't great, that's true. But we put up with it. - no one actually plays the tutorial island. It is terrible lol. I could go on. The game isn't perfect but it is a niche game

[@prophet_3692]

There are actual bigger issues with the game, but those only become obvious the more you play.

[@MR250RGUY]

@@prophet_3692 yeah true. But this guy has no idea what he's doing... lol

[@unknowntincan1408]

why not play wurm online ? its much better more in depth and has so much to do !

[@MR250RGUY]

@@unknowntincan1408 worm online is so bad not even worth the time.

[@unknowntincan1408]

@@MR250RGUY it is actually really good and in depth it does anything this game promises about sandbox and realism the only bad thing about it is the graphics but i dont mind it if you have something to tell me for considering it bad go ahead

[@oxymoron02]

Dude shows his specs but omits the graphics card. You know, the one component dedicated to processing videogames.

[@NearioNL]

Graphics, not videogames.... For the problems he noted... the graphic card probaply means the least

[@oxymoron02]

@@NearioNL Thanks for chiming in with a redundant point, when you knew exactly what I meant but are just being pedantic to score points with... I'm not sure. Random strangers on the internet? Incidentally, he's done the same in other videos; talked about his PC components but never stated his graphics card. Videogames are rendered through the graphics card; or did you not know that? I'm sure Daddy will notice you soon.

[@darxrogue]

@@oxymoron02 Thanks for chiming in with a redundant point, when you knew exactly what I meant but are just being pedantic to score points with... I'm not sure. Random strangers on the internet? Incidentally, he's done the same in other videos; talked about his PC components but never stated his graphics card. Videogames are rendered through the graphics card; or did you not know that? I'm sure Daddy will notice you soon.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

We're talking f2p mmos here, for those it's always the cpu.

[@Senbei01]

I don't think it would have helped. Played what became LiF:YO for a while. There was always a glitch that caused player created mines to cause the server to lag horribly, even on small servers. One large mine could ruin the gameplay to the level that many servers banned mining and just added admin spawned resource piles to stop players from using the mining mechanics. The game had some good ideas - there were seasons, and you couldn't grow crops in the winter, but failed to balance them (apple trees supplied apples all year round so people just surrounded their homes with orchards). Combat (most specifically wolves) was always brutal for newbies though.

[@viniciuswatanabe5178]

I simply cracked at, "We have to clean some chicken poop from the chicken coop, cause apparently it's making the God angry"..

[@Jay-wo9vk]

I'd like to point out, unless you're running a low amount of RAM, the amount you have doesn't really affect your FPS. That's all down to the engine, your CPU and GPU.

[@ResilientME]

RAM speed & latency starts mattering over 60FPS especially on AMD systems. I mostly see it in VR experiences that are rather easy on the CPU & GPU.

[@WB_Mel]

RAM speed and quantity can and will improve FPS, frame stability as well as reducing micro stuttering all of which are prevalent issues in games such as LiF:MMO

[@TeemoTemosson]

@@WB_Mel True, but CPU and GPU play a much larger role. You can have all the RAM in the world, but a low quality CPU will still fuck you.

[@derekberry1399]

@@WB_Mel let's say you got a 1050ti and a dual core cpu the difference between 16 gigs of low 2800mhz ram and 64 gb of 3800mhz ram is gonna be negligible or most systems really when it comes to gaming as of now. Maybe in the future ram over 16gb will make a bigger difference for gaming.

[@rodturner6759]

What it will do is help you maintain a more consistent frames.

[@Milennin]

I remember playing the very first Life is Feudal game, the real-time strategy one from the 90's. It's so nice and colourful, with so much charm. What the hell is this lifeless abomination? What the hell happened to this series?

[@draconicfeline6177]

The realism bug hit.

[@mesothelimoa341]

Wasn't that the first The Settlers game?

[@Milennin]

@@mesothelimoa341 Yes.

[@icp7201]

@@draconicfeline6177 There was this period around 2008-2010, when movies and games thought that realistic medieval times = everything looks drab and non saturated, when the opposite was true. It was a very colorful period, with people dressing and painting their homes and clothes with vibrant colors.

[@YadonTheCat]

The first Settlers game was subtitled :Life is Feudal in English, but is an entirely different franchise

[@silvertheelf]

Ah yes, I read about floating logs in a history book, yes, 100% accurate to history... lol The real point of this game is truly climbing the tallest mountain.

[@WandererTheLost]

Okeh

[@eureka5701]

Honestly that traveler encounter was kinda amazing. even in the darkest of times and lands, man still extends a hand to one another.

[@KCDarkRanger]

I played this game when it first came out. I sank +300 hrs into it. It was actually quite good for what it was trying to be, and the players I met made the most of it. My contribution could actually be seen from space (world map), it was a thin line running N-S in the passage between mountains in the far Northeast of the map. It is not a glitch, but a 2m wide highway, sculpted perfectly so that one would never lose speed on cart, horse, or foot. It actually got a lot of people talking, and dozens came from across the continent literally just to admire the road. The work of one player, affectionately dubbed "ROAD BOI!" I pioneered a siege tactic in the game that actually changed warfare FOREVER, using movable stairs and planks of wood. It spread quickly, as we taught our allies... and enemies who had their walls reduced to a speed-bump. There would have been more roads, connecting every major hold... alas Uni took its tole on my free time, and I had to stop playing a few months afterwards. Road boi was never seen again, his road degrading to a gravel line in the snow, but his siege tactic continued on... until they added climbing :(

[@rebornpheonix1016]

ROAD BOI shall never be forgotten.

[@Azlorn]

shut up, meg

[@mawdeeps7691]

It spread quickly, as we taught our allies... and enemies who had their walls reduced to a speed-bump. see this is a problem kinda makes making them pointless

[@KCDarkRanger]

@@mawdeeps7691 the game didn't really have great seige warfare, ie no seige towers or ladders, no battering rams, etc. Walls were great to have, as they kept people out during every hour but the raid hour. Then people could destroy them... eventually... The stairs required materials to be carried by several players from wherever you started, with a carpenter of a certain level to turn the raw goods to stairs and planks about 300 yards outside the enemy claim. Each piece would then have to be carried slowly up to the enemy wall as you were being peppered by archers. It was common for carriers to die and respawn miles away, and the stairs had to be placed perfectly or else it would not work, and by that point you were in the enemies face fiddling with the pieces. A mote made it more difficult, but clever engineering and teamork could overcome any fortification. The gap between multiple walls would have to be spanned by dropping planks to make a continuous gangway that was incredibly exposed and narrow. It turned seiges from literally bashing your head against the gate into a game of chess where defenders had to manage their flanks and stop the attackers slow advance at any cost. A suicide drop over the walls was common where they would destroy/move the bottom stair, so the whole process could take several attempts to get in. All very Helms Deep.

[@IndyIndie59]

This video brought back fond memories of a time in LIF MMO when it was alive and vibrant with people. Where you came across people everywhere you went. Where we had clans and alliances, huge forts and townships, where rival clans and alliances raided and we spent hour upon hour upon hour digging snow and mud and rock to make a road up our mountain. Where the outer walls of the town took many people hours and weeks to build (because the building system was complex and because for every meter of wall people had to cut wood and transport it to the builders, and mine stone and iron and transport all of that to the town for processing into usable materials for the builders. Where foresters spent their days planting trees and harvesting other parts of their forests just to supply the builders with materials. Where fighters and archers train for hours in order to defend against the inevitable raids and where some of us just spent all our time growing food and cooking it into meals for the rest of the clan. Despite the odd glitches and frequent crashes it was a wonderful world and community for a brief period of time. And then slowly people stopped logging on every day, and eventually disappeared until those left were not enough in number to maintain the walls and gates, grow and cook food, provide all the wood and other raw materials. Our world died before our eyes until only echoes remained. The sad end of a once alive and vibrant community.

[@darianstarfrog]

Sagde :(

[@daltonsnow5855]

I refuse to believe anyone played this game for more than one session, and if they did, they don’t deserve a computer

[@shmootube5000]

It’s so sad because this game had so much potential. It had some unique aspects that made it an amazing game for groups of 20-ish people who have zero life. But there are a million problems other than it being currently dead and broken like you showcased. Dev’s were probably the biggest problem. They kept making changes to cater to a small group of players and ignored giant server and gameplay issues, bugs, exploits, etc.

[@purplehaze2358]

I love how he spoke about the deserted state of this game in an almost legendary, fantastical tone.

[@MarkCactus59]

21:08 you not gonna check out that tunnel!?

[@klyffjohnson]

Civ 6 stands as the best Sean Bean performance that doesn't result in a Sean Bean death.

[@Karagianis]

What about Sharpe?

[@klyffjohnson]

@@Karagianis Good one!...but no, Still Civ 6. You mean you'd pick a reasonably young Sean Bean as a soldier in a period piece over Sean Bean reading historical quotes? "Can you stand?" No, but tell me about the wheel for the 1000th time.

[@MrPooleish]

When I was in University, I wrote a dissertation on Medieval Log Floating styles, and how different groups would float their logs at different heights or angles to tell who's logs were who's.

[@esprit101]

I know this is a pedantic complaint but it's my pet peeve: 2:23 - the amount of RAM has next to no influence on your gaming performance as long as you are not actively running out of it. 16GB is plenty for any gaming machine and an upgrade to 32GB is fine if you use the machine for anything else that actually uses that much RAM. Otherwise use the money for a better GPU or CPU (in that order) or buy an SSD if you're still on a hard drive.

[@uncoverjapan]

Late to the party but just wanted to say, the inventory system is taken from (as the only other MMO i've seen it in) Darkfall, and it was an awesome system for its purpose as a full loot MMO. You could bury your good gear under a bunch of junk so that you and your friends had time to get back to your body before your killer had time to sort through your bags.

[@iamaunicorn1232]

"...dad!?" Dammit you won that chat

[@epitaph8704]

This video is a perfect analogy to life. It first begins with the tutorial, an allegory to childhood, where you are guided by the elders, sometimes they lead you into something you don't really want, sometime they teach you something important. But in the end you are on your own, you have one choice. You begin your ascent, you meet the good people and the bad people, people that want to kill you, people that want to help you. Fortresses of effort, musicians, scientists, thinkers. In the end however, it all goes downhill, the jaws of death catch up.

[@MyLPMaster001]

The game was really great when it first came out, at least for larger already existing communities. TheXPGamers played it with his community and they built cities, started guilds, and fought wars against other cities. Everyone had dedicated jobs and it was great. It's a really cool short series.

[@Marconius6]

Wait, potatoes? Potatoes were only brought to Europe after America was discovered, what are they doing in a medieval game?

[@littleknownperfection694]

I actually really enjoyed playing it, when it was popular it really promoted cooperation and my guild was able to build a rather large castle. It was really fun at the time, and the lore was interesting seeing as all the Chinese players were in the North and constantly raided the south so people had to essentially man castles in the North to keep them out.

[@jordirapper]

I am a historian expert and I can confirm that back the day, logs did float in the air. 100% accuracy.

[@katelynlamatry1025]

"Do you require anything? Water delivered or the roof fixed, perhaps? I must find something to do with my young man's strength!" good writing.

[@Chrisfragger1]

I always laughed when I tried to pick a flower in Oblivion and failed.

[@lulhighman3428]

This game gives me poor kid in a private school vibes

[@it_is_i_deo]

I really do hate it when games try to be "realistic" or at least have frustrating mechanics just because they're "realistic". Nothing breakers immersion like drawing attention to how immersed you're supposed to be.

[@perseusarkouda]

22:30 I was thinking it's like a remote former Soviet place and a Russian guy appeared! HAHAHA

[@ykalon]

There's a reason why most mmo games have instanced dungeons and player houses

[@Anna-md5nc]

This game series is making me feel better about all the trash mmos I dropped after the first hour sucked. Now I know I wasn't missing anything .

[@TheLazySamurai]

I remember geting the "Your Own" edition with a few friends... it was pretty much this experience, but no one else had touched the gamespace yet. We all forgot about the MMO part by the time it was made available, and now many years later I get to see that it didn't do too well, and was a good thing we missed it lol

[@Ponlets]

what GPU do you run? as thats quite important for gaming

[@psal8715]

This is that mmo that all those hardcore players always beg for, but will never play it because no one finds that fun.

[@0grilo0]

Nah men its shit mortal online 1 is also shit but its closest to whwt you talk about... Although mortal online 2 is almost out.... Already pre order and part of beta, cant wait

[@raernian6026]

I found it fun but had no time to grind to pay for land haha. Not nearly as hard when you have things up and running though, especially with more people.

[@alissonlares2926]

"Hardcore"

[@mengdong1909]

I don't know why but when I saw the title of the video, I literally thought the game was called Life is Funeral, which I thought was wired and later noticed that I was seeing the title wrong.

[@kobold1538]

I was really into this game with my friend and a small clan we met right around its peak. We had a whole castle/town and each person fulfilled the potential professions, feeding raw materials and advanced crafting items into one another's professions, basically endgame. The best part was we were decently surrounded by aggressive Chinese and Russian clans that were constantly trying to destroy our settlement so we got to experience pretty much the best the game had to offer imo. When it clicked it was very cool, we'd just play music and chat in discord, trolling each other with meme songs while harvesting wood to repair the damage done by rival clan last night. Combat was wonky and broken by a few metas, which was a bummer because i love off meta builds, but shit like spears and archers was intended for these grand battles that never happened. In reality it would be 1-5 players engaging on horseback, eventually knocking one another off and going into melee. I think if the devs had been more realistic and scaled the features back to what the game had evolved into, rather than what they wanted it to be, it would have been a lot more successful. I eventually got bored because endgame pretty much required leveling up an alt which I couldn't bring myself to stomach. Definitely got my money's worth though, but would never have the time for something like this again.

[@enigmaodell6806]

I know this might never get seen, but I have an idea Players claim land, and can upgrade the type of steucters that can be on it Then, when they reach a certain level, they get shifted to a different dimension leaving the old plot of land open Old players are rewarded with more space and freedom, and old players are given the chance to claim low level land

[@MrSimeonk]

Very amusing and keen observations of its issues. Project Entropia has been around nearly 20 years and has many of the same issues. But as my 1st mmorpg, i have a soft spot for it even though it cost me 10 quid/day!!!!

[@drunkenfox2519]

God this really puts this games problems into perspective I feel like they forgot they would have to polish the systems of the game and made systems that could have been simple unnecessarily complex systems for the sake of realism

[@fatrobin72]

1:06 "every character Sean Bean has ever played starts full of promise and then dies" ... except Sharpe... where he only dies inside (due to all his soldiers (friends) dying, women issues (they either keep dying or running away with his money))

[@Ukiby3000]

Game: Look for edibles! Me: =light chuckle= Game: =actually gives me "edibles"= Me: Oh...

[@raitheiceriver9828]

I played Life is Feudal 2 years ago (about 250 h). I agree with every criticism you pointed. Dispide that I must admit that I had one of the best MMO experiences ever in that game. I think I had a differnt approach and mid set when starting playing it. imo it is very important to joind a guild cause playing it solo is almost impossible.

[@mcmerry2846]

I bought jt and played like 1700hours

[@invictus84]

I agree Raithe

[@ReadyDaddy]

Hey Josh. I fully understand your frustration with this game. I used to be MAD addicted to the game. Played from alpha version (about 100hrs), played through beta (about 600hrs) and then to "full release" of LIF:YO where i started to lose interest, as i realized the game became even more unstable and some obvious flaws aren't getting patched. Then i just gave up and stopped... never step a foot in LIF:MMO it's been far too long since the game is out and it's still broken as all hell... I gotta give it to the content creator, the GENERAL IDEA was great. But the actual result is a dung pile.

[@SeisoYabai]

I really dont see anything wrong with the inventory system, functionally. Its a bit odd but if it does everything you need and has that sort feature to get items lined up neatly, what's the issue?

[@torgernoso4290]

Ive liked your series so much ive gone back to this episode to watch them all in order i will update when done

[@Robertata1]

Ah, yes, the two types of players you found in MMO: 1. The one who wants to trade and you don't understand anything and 2. The psycopath that wants to kill you for cross in their path.

[@Ventorath]

Given how dead the game seemed, I feel like there's probably some kind of map feature to point out players (or some 3rd party mod doing the same). The chances of running through empty fields toward a big mountain in a dead game and running into 2 different people seems unlikely.

[@Cyromantik]

This looks alpha, is the game still in "early access"? I'm not being facetious, I genuinely want to know. Oh I'll suppose I can just look at Steam... but It should be renamed "Life is Progress Bars".

[@scorpion07070]

That inventory works like Ultima 7, and yes, that game was known for game-killing issues like losing a tiny ring needed at the end of the game in your inventory because you just can't find it.

[@TrueInvisible]

you're still playing with these specs? did you build the PC or is it prebuilt? the specs you mentioned are good!

[@rasmusazu]

Funny thing is.. This started out as just a multiplayer game.. I bought the non-mmo version, and it was fun.. Tedius, but fun. You could change the server settings so it was a lot easier to do stuff, so that helped.. Then, one day, they changed the stand-alone game to include some of the mmo stuff.. Forcing you to play with others to actually do stuff. No longer could me and my friend do stuff on our own, we had to have at least 10 people around. I dont remember what the change was, I just remember being angry and upset that, suddenly, I could no longer just run around building shit, and no config files allowed me to remove the new setting.

[@magesalmanac6424]

“At least 10 people” huh? I play LIFYO solo all the time. It’s slow but you can get by with only a small group or solo.

[@berserkerciaran]

So, this is realistic in the same way FATAL is

[@Durlomthir]

You know the infamous RPG FATAL, I see you are a man of culture.

[@Mephilis78]

I remember doing the mountain climbing thing the first day I played. At the time I believe there was something of a tutorial island... without a tutorial.

[@MattnessLP]

I just recently discovered your channel and have been binging this series at every chance. I have actually tried quite a few of these bad MMOs, especially the medieval ones, and also have been eyeing the "Life is Feudal" trinity for years, but those don't seem to get anywhere good, ever. Now there is one game I would like you to make a video about, which is not classed as an MMO, but it's a multiplayer-only online RPG, so maybe it still counts? The Black Death, a game with a lot of potential that has apparently been abandoned over a year ago, with the main guy allegedly pocketing a whole lot of money and buying himself a new house. Might be an interesting video topic, especially since what you had to say about DreamWorld.

[@reidwallace4258]

I played this one at launch and frankly think I toughed it out longer than the majority... It was a rough ride, with JUST enough good that you could tell yourself it would smooth out and get worthwhile. It had so many things going for it, from a decent enough (when the lag wasn't awful) combat system that felt a bit like a better mount and blade, to good balance to the crafting, reasonable time sinks for reasonable rewards... Not two weeks after it dropped, they slowed mining down to 1/10th its previous speed, added piddly poorly thought out mini games to slow down gathering of most other resources, while at the same time spreading the 'special' resources (things you were meant to need to get from distant parts of the map, fueling trade and player interaction) evenly all over the map. In one patch it went from hopeful, with (attempted) trade caravans traveling to the south from our northern mountain base to trade for things and travel back, wars being fought and everyone learning the game together... to the MOST power-gamer rewarding MMO I've seen in years. Over night it went from a situation where I for instance could log in for 2-4 hours a day, train some skills do some hunting and some gathering and help out my small band of players.... to requiring at least 8 hours to accomplish the same thing, with CONSTANT input and attention. Couple this with the terribly handled PVP system as far as mechanics are concerned (basically you can't destroy or raid buildings outside a given weekly pvp window, encuraging random bands of assholes to wander the country side murdering loners and noobs because actual warfare wasn't allowed.), and server side issues that made the 'mmo' aspect kinda feel missing (you couldn't travel very far because every grid square on the map is its own server, and often your ENTIRE INVENTORY vanished when walking between them)... It just never came together. I'll still hold they were at their best day one, every change made since has been poorly planned and pandering to the 12 people playing the game 18 hours a day. On the plus side, the game once let me stand down a swarm of 30+ chinesse noobs in my plate armor with a battle axe and come out on top? That was fuckin fun.

[@Ventorath]

That sounds awful, but honestly probably stems from the poor design idea of allowing players to permanently claim map tiles & resources. Probably thought that by slowing down gathering so dramatically, that the world wouldn't get totally exhausted by players as fast.

[@reidwallace4258]

@@Ventorath Oh no, the world would have never been exhausted! Your mine filled in and all the ore respawned every few days, that was one of the big time-sync changes! People had just spent 2 weeks digging deep mines to get iron and silver, only for their mines to fill themselves back in over night and the whole process to start over. The game's real problem was a poor method of scaling. The stand-alone server version was 100x better and more fun while it lasted, because it focused on the functional bits. They ruined those functional bits trying to scale it up to MMO size, then they ruined it even further trying to work around those problems. For instance. Players often lost items when traveling long distances and crossing server boundries. This caused problems with the idea of having like, good wood spawn in the mountains and rare ore spawn in the desert or what have you, the idea HAD been that past a certain early teir of building things would start to need resources from all over the map, meaning groups would be forced to trade... But with issues moving resources long distances, they decided to evenly distribute the items everywhere... But that made things way too easy, so they reduced the gathering times and upped the rarity of those items... So what had started as 'gather your local high tier resource and travel to distant lands and trade it for their resource, allowing both groups to advance' turned into, 'Spend 50 hours doing the same thing in the hopes you get the rare drop, then once you do go do that for the next gathering skill, and the next one.'. The tile claiming was actually handled fairly well, with clans able to claim large areas and then allow members or allies to claim their own personal lands inside that. The problem with the claim system was time zones. They rapidly realized that people didn't like waking up to find their two weeks of hard work burned to the ground by greifers while they slept... but they also didn't want to make destroying things too time consuming and boring... So instead they made a limited window every weekend for war, and the rest of the time you could only hurt/kill people and loot their bodies... This of course made traveling/trading even worse, combat boring, and meant if you worked on the weekends you may as well play another game. All in all, they had a really solid little game, but spent far too much time and energy on weapon skins and marketing, without ever ironing out the tech needed to make their game... actually work. Its called pulling a star citizen I think?

[@alistairwaterson3192]

Hey so I was the founder of the trade discord pheonix trade which is the games only trade discord. I played this game for years and the long and short of it is I felt such a big stress release when I left this game. The player base is super toxic and if even 1 player takes any dislike to another and spreads any rumour you can forget your gameplay. The entire work system is a pure job. You need a workforce to run your guild but theres no player base to recruit from.

[@Aurinkohirvi]

Did you spell Phoenix wrong for your discord channel, too?

[@alistairwaterson3192]

@@Aurinkohirvi yes I did it was intentional there was already 2 other guilds and discords useing the name

[@Aurinkohirvi]

@@alistairwaterson3192 Hah, hah, yeah. Like trying to use name "Legolas" in a MMO. Want it, gotta find a way to spell it wrong. And people were: "what, this isn't the channel I was looking for?"

[@alistairwaterson3192]

@@Aurinkohirvi more a marketing thing :) did alot of marketing on that thing working out how to attract people to the trade discord. How to make it better than others how to keep players and so forth. Even gave my own money to the devs so I could get codes as prizes for the community . But theres only so much a 3rd party discord can do to keep peeps involved with a dying game. Makes me sad the potential that's lost with this game

[@syndrathedarksovereign1609]

Hey it's you ! I always genuinely wondered, I don't know if you remember but I was the guild master of a guild in the south-east coast of the map and we were attacked by bandits. Some people attacked us and then bandits attacked us and they claimed you paid them to do it and I always wondered if t hat was true or not ! That happened more than a year ago

[@Kamakazy0789]

i see in the intro there is a clip from phantasy star online blue burst. has josh ever played that game ive been looking everywhere for it

[@covrmeporkins38]

Did you have a graphics card when you played this, or was it on your 4790's iGPU?

[@travellingslim]

RIP Life is Feudal MMO :( Aside from the new player experience of character creation, tutorial island, this game really shined when playing in a group and diving into the complex mechanics of crafting/fighting. It was a sandbox so the beginning tutorial "quests" were kind of an afterthought/poorly done just to get new players familiar with some mechanics but usually had the opposite effect. So many people had thousands and thousands of hours in the game and it was surely unique enough that we probably won't see anything like this game anytime soon

[@Mistabeasta]

Mortal online 2 is close

[@ItsDopeScope]

I made a thread in their forums about how buggy the game is and I got perma banned lol... anyone who said anything negative about the game got banned in their official and steam forums ahaha 🤣

[@TheDerpyDeed]

"I give live is feudal MMO - Wolf out of ten." Wolf: "Rrrrgffh!"

[@janz7494]

I know I am a bit late to the party here..Love watchings these older videos from time to time, keep up with the great content... One thing I just noticed or heard you saying.."because its there" when talking about climbing that mountain ingame.. is that a coinsidence or did you quote George Mallorys "because it is there" when he was asked why he wants to climb Mount Everest?

[@bronsonkonson5280]

i always appreciate that JSH goes the extra mile or couple hours to wring some kind of enjoyment or accomplishment out of a game. Really shows in the Otherland series.

[@E1m0ren]

"I recently upgraded my PC to 32 gig of ram, so we've got some serious power!" This will make absolutely zero difference in any gaming experience currently available unless you were playing with

[@HosKaetan]

stfu

[@E1m0ren]

@@HosKaetan found the trump supporter!

[@HosKaetan]

@@E1m0ren lol what

[@HosKaetan]

@@E1m0ren I don't live in or care for the USA, god you people are so self centered

[@E1m0ren]

@@HosKaetan Someone who can't cope with reality.

[@Lionheart-tu4zs]

"captain Kirk was climbing a mountain. Why was he climbing the mountain?"

[@ristopaasivirta9770]

Potatoes in medieval European setting? REEEEEEEEEEEE