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Oh this video I made for so long time ago.. I should really get back to playing ONI sometime

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Thank you! I have the habit of buying way to many games during steamsales just because they are something like 50% or more off and got very good reviews. This game was one of those purchases. I have this huge backlog of games that I bought and haven't gotten around to play yet. Really glad I got around to play it eventually thought

Thank you! Not my usual style of video so might not get that many views. But I ended up writing a script after playing This War of Mine and really felt like making a video about it.

Oh. Good to know. I haven't played in a little while now so I guess they must have changed it in one of the later patches for some reason.

Oh thanks a lot for the kind words! Glad you enjoy the build. Right now during the summer I unfortunately don't have much time for videomaking and build videos takes quite a lot of time and preparation but I plan to return to Enshrouded after the summer with some more build videos.

The tech for leaving the robot is there. The rebuild is using the same codebase. They re used as much as they could so it is just a matter of if they want that to be a thing or not and if they can come up with gameplay ideas that makes leaving the robot a useful gameplay mechanic. Right now they seem to be very afraid to stray top far from the RC1 2015 something gameplay so I doubt it will happen. At least not anytime soon.

Made me lol. They went from trying everything new compared to old rc1. I mean the idea of original rc2 was to give players mapmaking tools and have tons of user creation. But since it ended they way it did they reverted to not daring to try anything new and just make something super close to old rc1. In their defense. That was what most of the bad reviews for the first rc2 was calling for. but yes. kind of sad considering what a good old version of rc2 could have been given a lot more dev time

Its that last part that worries me quite a bit. I really liked the original physics based RC2 and I have the feeling that maybe another developer could have actually pulled it of and made an amazing game out of that idea but FJ just made too many bad decisions along the way. The new RC2 is a lot simpler game so probably easier to pull off. But their track record after RC1 has not exactly been great.

@@Ketmo785 yeah. even the original game had telltale signs. like permadeath only leaves a lot of people left it because they die at the beginning of the match. but I enjoyed it. Tying colouring options and shield shapes to tiers was terrible and rigid. but I enjoyed it. Making it so that parts stick out so much and are so fragile that a few pot shots will immobilize anyone doesn't feel that great- oh... wait...

@@Mallchad lol

Thank you! Right now I have taken a bit of a break from Enshrouded but I will for sure be back later on with new builds.

This! The music is so on point. It is not background music but rather in interwoven part of the gameplay experience

Thank you!

I have not really made up my mind about shield on the blocks. I don't dislike it. That said I did like the old electro shields as a build feature

Hi. Unfortunately it would be a lot of work to make a schematic, time that I don't have right now. During the summer I have a lot less time for gaming and making videos so I will probably even struggle to get videos out at all until after summer. I have made a few videos about other games lately but I for sure will get back to Enshrouded and when I do I'll keep the suggestion of a build guide of the base house in mind. I'm sorry I can't make any promises. This is a late night hobby after my kids have gone to bed so time for gaming and videomaking can sometimes be very much lacking.

Thanks a lot. I took a little break from Enshrouded playing other games but I for sure will come back and make more builds. Especially after a bit more content releases as it approaches 1.0

Hi. First of all. Thank you! In regards to flower soil. Yes it does fix the annoying stones but it does not look the same as grass. I feel like the flowersoil is almost an unnatural green. I like the grass texture a lot more

Yep. Rosefall was really big in RC back then.

I feel like that won't happen. For that they need joints and it seems like they have gone back to the basics so I don't think they will really bring any thing from that version over. Unfortunately. Personally I would have liked them to not backtrack 100% but rather find a middle ground where some of the interesting things with building stayed but combat and damage system more like RC,1clientside and block by block damage.

​@@Ketmo785the compromise would have been saving primitives. Some players didn't like building suspension mechanisms? Turret assemblies? Saving primitives would mean you only have to design those parts once and you could use them ad infinitum in all of your subsequent builds. The Hello Neighbor racing game allows you to save primitives ffs. It's embarrassing that RC doesn't. It's ridiculous that RC2A added premade turrets instead of a system for saving primitive assemblies.

@@plasticfrank They actually did, they had the precon system. you could create pre cons (a copy of a section of you robot) to paste on to any of your new builds. The issue was that the game was changing so fast with every single update that the pre cons would be obsolete after just one update. But they had the system in place.

@@Ketmo785 I'm interested in when that was. But I guess it doesn't matter now 2A is forever gone. A new version of RC that is just as limited as the original doesn't seem like progress to me. I think a new RC needs deeper levels of creativity but I guess I'm not the demographic FreeJam is listening to.

I'm not really either. I like games like ONI and space engineers way to much to be part of the core demographics for the new version :)

Unfortunately I think you are right and the best we can hope for is maybe a new trailer and some more gameplay footage :( ...But one can always hope!

Yeah. I also really liked the old RC2 building system. I will miss it. This one, being true to old RC1, has rather boring building in opinion. And combat and health system is a lot better. For someone who do not care that much for building this version will most likely be a lot more fun than the previous. For those however who really like building, toying with logic and all that, then the building in this new version of RC2 will feel very much dumbed down.

Also they fill with bots so 95% of the players you face are bots and they are not very smart. They aim for the pilot seat, not the guns (that they actually do hit guns sometimes is not due to aiming at them but due to bullet spread). So if the pilot seat is well protected you always win against the bots by simply de gunning.

@@Ketmo785 I figured that much out when you see 5 plus of the same build. though that's fine it helps with the wait times unfortunately freejam has to rebuild trust with this one. they forced to many changes on us in rc1 that people didn't want that's what ultimately led to it dieing to the point it's at now.

Right now there is only one type of weapon laser. I haven't done a lot of testing but the damage seems to be pretty straight forward so any type of damage routing is probably useless. That said, when they introduce new types of weapons with different ways of damaging robots that might of course change

it does, but it's pointless with how the laser works atm.

I haven't forgot about old RC2. But I think what I most likely will do at some point is a comparison video once this one is a bit further down into development or some other type of video focused on the topic of the old RC2 rather than trying to sneak it into every video about the new RC2. I also don't know how much content I will be doing on RC2. Probably some but I most likely do more mixed type of content with several different games and since I only have time for about 1 video per week that means it will be rather limited amount of RC2 content.

..again

@@Ketmo785 lol, yes XD

The decision to edit myself in not at the very start but like 1 sec into the video might not have been a wise one :)

We will see this time around. But yes. It is probably the last chance for them.

IT is most certainly a very close adaptation. There are some new stuff. Like having a variety of materials and not just robits but those are all minor things and not really core gameplay.

I'm still gonna play from the depths more than robocraft, since from the depths is an awesome game

I probably should try that game at some point. I have a feeling I might like it :)

Yeah I know.. there are a bunch of props/placeables , like the old iron stove that the devs have access to when creating the map that we don't :(

I think this is pretty much the last chance for FJ. They have to stick to this or it' over for RC. If they abandon this project too then they will lose the little trust they have left in the community. Also where do they go from here if this does not work? They already tried to do something different, something new, did not work out. This is the complete opposite. Keeping very close to the original RC. If this does not work out for them either I have a hard time to see a way forward for the franchise for FJ.

@@Ketmo785 I can't imagine they even have a chance. Sure there are people pining for old school RC. But I don't think the group is big enough to propell a game to success. And this group of people aren't going to be particularly forgiving of any problems. They're already jaded by years of putting up with years of FreeJam's nonsense.

I understand from a commercial perspective why they changed direction. That said I was also really sad to see the old version go. I think there could have been an audience for that game. But it needed a lot of work to get to be good enough and also that audience was probably for the most part very different from the audience it was marketed to, the RC1 audience.

@@Ketmo785 yea I guess so...either way I hope they stick with something this time and don't abandon the project

It's very obvious that you never played the original Robocraft then haha

I played RC back in 2015 and I prefer the old RC2. The idea that RC1 was objectively better is ridiculous.

​@@dukezero5074 And I'm getting sick of block based 90° grids being the only option.

I liked the old one as well, it had some problems that was probably hard to solve. But I liked it. Wish some other company would do a physics based arena fighter at some point. Despite being sad to see that version scrapped I do think that this version is probably more commercially viable so from a purely business point of view I understand the change

I prefer the RC1

So far it's just the basics and I guess they will start by adding obvious things like plasma, maybe mech legs, the question is where they go once they run out of content just replicating the stuff back from RC2015. Since it's free to play they can't just stop adding content. They will need to keep pushing stuff out.

I am not sure they will ad megas. It's not a pure replica more like a very close to re-build. So, especially since megas had some issues, they might decide to skip it. Will be interesting to see what stuff they will include and what they will leave out.

Funny you mention that. There actually was an Aus server but no one could connect to it because FJ’s matchmaking system was so dreadful. We told them about it and they seemed to insist on tweaking wait times instead of fixing it.

yep.. there was a lot of small stuff I skipped talking about because I wanted to keep the video rather short, so for example I didn't say much at all about the UI, but I think it's a lot better than in old RC2

It looks and plays like RC2015. I mean they went pretty all in in terms of making it close to the original. A few new ideas like variety of materials, not just robits and a bit different UI.. but like 99% the core gameplay and looks is RC2015/2014. ..so it looks like a 10 year opdl game I guess :)

Yeah lol It’s kind of cool how close it looks to an actual, modern RC 2015. But every time I see the block by block placement with the goofy, over-the-top placing and destroying animation (that the stans are probably eating up) I groan out loud. I also find it very amusing how it has autoheal. I wonder if they’ll remove that after adding nanos again. I can see it getting better with time, but I probably still won’t play it and it’s pretty gross what they had to sacrifice just to get less and satisfy a hoard of self righteous, insane bigots that can’t let go of the past. I don’t think it’ll take off even if everyone wants it to. As one last note. FreeJam have started muting anyone in their discord who says they don’t like the game, as well as people who mention their history with cancelling games. They absolutely seek to control as much information as possible and destroy any easily accessible evidence that any of this happened. I used to think FJ were the little guys but they somehow managed to make me feel smaller.

I'm not nearly a legend and I'm not sure I 'm really back either.. but I will follow the development at least by checking in once in a while at the current state of RC2. But this won't be an RC2 channel. I'm probably going to stick to more mixed content even inf youtube alogarithm hates when you mix content :)

I don't think they will make it possible to merge islands. But some islands are very very big so It's possible to grab one of those if you would like to build a big base. I think right now the things that the developers need to improve is the amount of content. A reason to keep going, and also more gameplay in between islands. In the demo, what is there is good but it is not that long before you run out of stuff to do that is not just keep building on your base. The demo is an early alpha build so hopefully there is a good chance that a lot of content will be added prior to release.

yep. I have edited the title to reflect that the cheese no longer works.