Hello everyone, maggots people listening to the podcast. Welcome. We're here. It's fucking
warming here, isn't it? It is hot. I'm sweating. I put the heating on for about five minutes just
to take the chill out of the place and it's fucking sweated it out. It's the hottest it's ever been in
in the summer. I don't know why. It's because I thought, it's a little bit cold. We haven't
used this room for a couple of weeks. I was like, I'll blast some heat through it quick and then
just fucking for some reason it's a sweat box. We've shivered through the winter. Summer comes.
No, I'm sorry. It's because I had to day off. I had time to fucking put it on early doors
but no worries. I jumped straight into it. That fucking state of play, Prince, was fucking awful.
That was so shit. It was bad, yeah.
I did... Have I still got the list? I wonder if I do. Obviously a couple of episodes ago when I
text you that list when it was me and Steph and I'd like that list where I'd planned a load of shit
that we were going to talk about and we didn't actually end up talking about all of it because
it took up quite a lot of the podcasts with other subjects but on there was the state of play
that was rumored to be cracking on or whatever and I'm pretty sure I put on my lists...
No, I didn't. I just put PlayStation Showcase end of May so I didn't actually put anything
that was supposed to be popping on Horizon, Zero Dawn remake, blah blah blah. No, yeah,
there was nothing decent on there. Either way, there was nothing decent in that showcase either,
was there? I don't know. I like Monster Hunter so that was pleasing for me. Yeah, Monster Hunter's
not my cup of tea but I can see why people are happy about it. But that's not till 2025 anyway.
There's a couple of things on there that I thought looked all right to be fair but nothing that I've
heard of or know. I was very disappointed in the fucking space shooter thing. Oh, what? Fucking
Concord. I thought this looked sick. That trailer was so fucking good. And then there was like,
welcome to 5v5. Here's an Overwatch clone. I was like, oh. No, do you know what it is? It's
Overwatch Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah. And then a couple of games later there was another
Overwatch clone, Trivial or something like that. I was like, what the fuck? What is this?
See that you cannot cock tease with a trailer like that. So good. Like a two and a half minute
trailer of major Guardians of the Galaxy vibes. And I was like, there, these protagonists are
fucking, these are cool. I like these people. And then here's a first person shooter 5v5.
What the fuck? So what the fuck is that about? It was so random. The only thing I liked about it,
which I will give it was that they said like the content obviously is going to keep coming.
Yeah. And they're going to have like little storylines. So every time you log in,
there'll be like new things, which I think is cool watching it grow, but every week on it. Yeah.
It's just not what I was expecting. Doesn't mean it's going to be bad, but it's not what I was
hoping for. And I saw that trailer. But also the problem that you have with, with saying that you
bring out something every single week, that's such a broad scope because that could just be some
tiny fucking 30 second tip bit or whole five minutes cinematic for, I feel like when you,
when you've showed a trailer like that, the, the idea that you're going to have
law for each character just introduced by purely cinematic for this game. I just think that's so
whiff. I think that's such a slap in the face. It looks so good. I'm very disappointed.
There's nothing disappointed me more than whatever the fuck that that fat thing was,
it was taking pictures and floating around in the dresses and the other note. Oh, that, that game,
very Barbie. Yeah. Something like that. I have no idea. It didn't explain what it was. It didn't
say what you were going to be doing. I couldn't work out what they were doing other than taking
pictures. I never have. I've been more confused about a video game in my entire life. Even,
even the, even the name of the game didn't make sense. I can't even remember what it was.
Getting the list of everything that had, that had popped up. Here's every game shown off in the 20
24 may actually had Astro bot Concord, monster Hunter wilds, God of War, Ragnarok coming to PC.
That's very cool. Obviously we've spoken about that a hell of a lot. How we feel like Sony's going
onto that, just releasing everything onto PC and then eventually everything will be everything.
That's obviously where they're, where they seem to be heading because what was it? You had 2018,
God of War, and there was years before that was released to PC and now you've had what one year
of Ragnarok and then boom over to PC. So it'd be nice if the next iteration of God of War,
they're just straight up go here's his PlayStation, here's PC or like have a month interval and go
here's PlayStation, here's PC. That'd be quite decent. I think they'll only do them well.
Then you had Dynasty Warriors Origins, Infinity Nikki. That's the one you was on about.
Infinity Nikki. What is that? I don't know. I really, obviously it weren't hitting for us
and then it was Rivals. Marvel Rivals was the other one that was. I think that might be decent,
but that's that is solely because of the Marvel license, isn't it? Because you've got Marvel
characters you automatically have a winning formula as long as you do well with it. Alien
rogue incursion, Battle of Antara. It's odd man. You don't want to be those kinds of people where
you see a showcase like that and go there was nothing AAA that I know through and through so
it was shit because there's obviously these games will hit a certain market, but nothing in that
was remotely. I mean, but Path of Exile 2 maybe. Yeah, that looked good. That does look good. And
to be fair, I think people are very hyped for that might not necessarily be my cup of tea. I
say that I probably will buy it or play it or whatever it is you got to do, but
it's not there's a certain demographic of people that would be like that would mean everything to
them that that is even a thing much like the Monster Hunter. So if you're in one of them two
camps, you're very happy regardless of what else was shown there. Here's a summary of Infinity
Nikki. Infinity Nikki is a grand adventure in the glamorous dress up adventure game series.
For the first time ever Mirrorland is now an explorable open world. Nikki and Momo will set
off on another on another marvelous journey exploring the world discovering amazing landscapes
and collecting outfits. That means there's been another one of these. Yes, for the first time
ever. This is again world again, not our obviously not our fucking demographics. Not never come across
us ever. I mean, if you like it, I'm happy for you. Definitely doesn't look like the kind of game
that I'm interested in whatsoever. But I was hoping like when it goes to Sashima man, where's
the announcement for that or showing some of that Wukong? There was a there was a there was a Souls
like game that looked pretty good. Is that that's Dynasty Warriors origins? No, that was that not
it? No, that was the hack and slash one was it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um let's have a look. You had
been that Atlas something. Ballad of Antara. It might have been that one. Behemoth. Where Winds Meet.
Uh might have been that one actually. Where Winds Meet. That was a samurai one. That one. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It says create legends in a time of unrest in where winds meet is an interactive
open world game featuring action adventure and martial arts as a swordsman. You must face the
tough choices in a swordsman's dynasty as division and unrest are about to come to an end on the
stage of the northern song dynasty. Not a **** clue. No, it looked cooler. You hear more about these
things but I you know you're hoping for a big hitter to appear, aren't you? But then Summer
Game Fest is only around the corner so I'm sure there's plenty held back. Yeah, cuz it it's always
weird. Like the the state of plays are so they're so hit and miss. Um and yeah I just thought that
we was gonna see like you say Ghost of Tsushima two or for my own point see anything about the um
dark anthology series. Um well they showed the **** until dawn. Until dawn. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The
**** re-release or whatever. They showed that and I looked at that and thought yeah that looks exactly
the same. I didn't see any difference. Nope. Nothing whatsoever. No, no. I don't know if it's
just cuz I'm watching it on YouTube but it didn't look any better or any worse than it did previously
so I don't think it's what it did. But it never looked it never looked bad in the first place.
It's a **** stunning looking game. Yeah. There's no I don't I just do not understand. I just don't
get it at all. I never will understand that remake. Yeah. Alright and then you had the Silent Hill
two remake. Once again though that's another massive one for certain people like that game that is if
I had to name a game that scared me the most my entire life it's that one. I will never play that
because I watched my mate play it when I was really young and I couldn't even play it. I couldn't
even touch the controller. You'd like do you wanna go? It's terrifying. It's absolutely ****
terrifying. Acting like I'm decent with horror games. I'd terrify the **** out of it. It's haunted
me for the whole for my whole gaming career. It's probably why I don't play horror games really
because of Silent Hill. Maybe we'll buy it and play it together and brave it. If you're playing
it, yeah, I'll watch you but I'm not playing. I'm not **** playing it. If you ain't gonna jump in
and play it. You think I can handle it all tomorrow. Not a chance. It's **** It's such a
psychological **** **** mess. It's horrible and it's more like ah there's **** people with legs
for heads and arms for legs. It's horrible bro. Pyramid heads bowling around. He just wanders
about. It's nasty. It's a fantastic game. Yeah. One of the best games ever made really genuinely
is but uh yeah, I wouldn't. There's no way I'll play it and I won't be letting my wife know about
it because she'd 100% make me buy it just to watch me **** myself. You reckon? Yeah. Yeah,
she loves watching me panic. Bro, I'm so upset with Concord, you know? I'm so upset. I genuinely
thought that we were getting like another Apex Legends type **** gem coming out of nowhere.
Look at this **** BOOM releasing next week but speaking of Apex Legends, go on. We've been
playing Exdefiant. Is it decent? Yeah. It's actually pretty good. I tell you what this
ties in very well because um my mate Brandon um keeps asking me to to have a look at look at it
um and I was meant to download it the other day but busy got caught up doing other ****
apologies Brandon um but yeah he was he was talking to me about how because all I keep seeing on it
is that it's like the COD killer type **** because I'm right Ubisoft free to play so far. It's good.
However, little things, I say little things, things like aim assist doesn't work on console
at the moment if you ADS or some **** like that. That would make a lot of sense as to why it's so
hard. Yeah. It's really hard. Yeah. Apparently, yeah, the aim assist doesn't work if you ADS.
To be fair, I stopped using an assault rifle after the first game and then I just sniped and
I haven't used anything but a sniper. He Brandon also said to me that apparently sniping what did
he say it it mirror tracks or something it's something like that so it just means that
it more or less follows but that's why it feels quite good to to yeah to snipe because it's like
locking in at least I think that's what how what that means. Yeah but the interesting thing about
the snipers is there's two sniper rifles and to unlock the second one, you have to get 10
either one shot kills or headshot kills. I mean it says and then you unlock the
what is it **** called? I can't remember what the gun is now but nevertheless so I used it but the
first one is headshot only. He won't kill him. The second sniper you unlock, you can hit him anywhere
like in the or in the chest upwards one shot. Well, that will kill him. Yeah. So, I don't know why
on earth you would ever use that other one. What like a **** What was the gun? Was it the intervention
or no the fifty cow when that that was **** like one shot. Yeah, it's it's powerful and then you
unlock attachments and then it makes it better and stuff. It's pretty good. It's pretty cool. I like
what they I like the idea of it anyway. They've got all the Ubisoft games in there. So, you'll have
uh like a watch dogs team. You've got um the division team. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Splinter
cell team and they've all got so there'll be three different characters you can pick from
each group so to speak and then there's like two special uh L one abilities essentially that you
can use and choose between. So, the the class I play is Splinter cell class and it the two the two
uh abilities are um you can go invisible um for a little while or you can just send off like a
little sonar ping around you and then everyone just shows like red through the walls wherever they are
um their their abilities but then you also get like ultimates so shoulder buttons together.
I obviously do enough damage much like Overwatch. Yeah. Yeah. It's very similar to that and uh you
get like Sam Fisher's pistol and then everyone shows up in the map. You can just run around one
shot and it was like golden gun um and then I can't remember I think that I don't know if the
division ones I think the division ones might have shields. I can't remember but yeah they've
all got they've all got different abilities but the fact that they're all Ubisoft games is cool.
Our watch dogs are like hackers and stuff obviously. So, what's it what's it sitting like
um microtransaction wise? What's the what's the crack there because obviously they're getting
money somewhere. Yeah. I mean you can buy the game if you want and then get all the like because
have you played for honor before? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, I think they're going to go down the
for honor route where they'll just continuously add new groups in like they do in front and then
they add like new samurais or then they had pirates or like what they did with Rainbow Six and all.
Yeah. I didn't really play that. Keep banging operators in. Yeah. Same sort of thing. So, I
think they're going to go down that route so you can buy like the super mega bundle or whatever
which actually what I sat down and worked it out value wise if you're going to continue to play
the game it's probably worth it. It's about fifty quid. You get like the battle pass. You get I
think it was like the first years for update packs or whatever it is might just be characters
or whatever you unlock the uh the watch dog class because they're not unlocked for me at the moment
and there's a couple other bits and some coins and stuff. So, value for money if you want to
do that it's probably worth it but yeah it's just you know you know the score. It's just a store
with skins in it and yeah yeah yeah the game's free so you can't mind um unless it becomes pay
to win which inevitably it will because they'll unleash a thing with great abilities and you start
banging in different operators and fucking classes and shit like that that you could have to pay
for them. Yeah. Eventually it does become pay to win don't it? Don't get me wrong. I don't think
it's incredible. I think it's it's very good though and I think if if they continue to make
this better it could be very very very very good but if they rest on it as it is then it won't last
I don't think. Yeah I reckon. It's good it's good I enjoy it and I like playing it but I don't think
they have to make it better. I don't like how like I don't know if I'm just used to Cod now like say
say this like some boxes or satin. I want to jump on top of them boxes but you can't. So it's like
that you know what I mean? You can either like peek around the side but you can't jump on top of the
boxes so it hasn't got that you just it which is why it's the Cod killer so to speak because
it's you remember the old Cod where it was lane one lane two lane three it's lanes. Yeah yeah the
old school shit. You got you can go up you can go you know down and round but then you can't jump
on top of shit. So what is it 5v5 v5 v5 or is it just what's? It's just two teams. Is it just two
teams? It's overwatch. Just two teams of five? It has it has capture the flag it has payloads or
whatever it's called. You push it you defend it you push it you defend it and it has like capture
points where each zone oh this is a capture point then it moves over here then it moves over there
and yeah it's just that. Yeah I will download it. It's definitely worth playing definitely worth
having a go of. After this pod I'll fucking I'll stick it on download like I was meant to do the
other day because they're like you say for the sake of it being free to play yeah. It definitely
makes sense about that aim assist though because I was trying to shoot people and I was like I
this is impossible. I don't know how you're shooting me and I'm not shooting you. I don't
know why that's not fixed. Yeah well it might be and I just might be bad but that's why I
suppose the sniper rifle felt good because I didn't need aim assist. I just I don't know
I wonder if that because it's all cross-play as well isn't it? Yeah yeah I hope I hope it has legs
because it is it does feel good I really like the idea because eventually I imagine when
Assassin's Creed shadows come out they're going to have an assassin's class. You reckon yeah? Yeah
well it's Ubisoft's biggest game isn't it? With fucking guns? Yeah but why not? They don't
necessarily need guns they could just be a melee class that can sneak up and stab you. Yeah I
suppose they at some point. Or they could throw throwing stars or something. I mean one fucking
runs around with a flamethrower so and they throw like drones with fire bombs on them so
it's not like all super realistic it's just silly good fun. What does Reddit say five days ago?
They nailed the balance of help and control of players without giving them an aim magnet.
It really is an assist in this game. Other devs need to take notes. Wiping out aim assist is a
bad idea with cross-play but it has been way too strong for years. Specifically the lower strength
and range cut off feel proper. Beaming people across the map is all skill now with chaotic
close-range encounters get a nice nudge to prevent totally missing. I agree at first I was struggling
um hoping the aim assist would lock on then as I started playing more I realized how to use the aim
assist more effectively when shooting and honestly I much prefer a weaker aim assist and more skill
than 80% aim assist 20% skill if that makes sense. Okay so it's just got a I don't know I
disagree with that. You reckon? I think aim assist needs to be on because I'm not being funny you
know we played Overwatch together you saw how impossible that was you you cannot I cannot play
against PC players if I have no aim assist you can't have that like ultimate movement with a mouse
you know I have to move my thumb and you know it just it doesn't work like that you can't
I want cross-play but then it should just be between consoles. Yeah I do agree anyone that's
like that person that's having a complaint of aim assist being overpowered when it comes to cross-play
with PC. PC definitely shits all over aim assist I'm sorry it it just does the exactly what you
said with Overwatch I was shitting all over it because I've got a mouse being able to lock on
with a mouse is far more intuitive than being able to do with a controller aim assist or not
it's far easier it it just is so yeah I mean I'll jump on it and and and see it's been such a long
time since I played a first person shooter properly. Mate the TTK on this is insane you will be dead
before you know as soon as you're shot you're dead it's not really you ain't getting around a
corner it's pretty much if you get caught you're dead and the best thing about it I think probably
which is why it's not rage inducing is there's no kill cam so you can't watch it back and be like
oh you're fucking nah I did not not kill you because you don't know you'll be like I don't know maybe
I wasn't around. Kind of like CSGO vibes. I've never really played I've never played it at all
but I've never played it but I've seen a lot of CSGO and people seem to die pretty fucking quick.
Mate it is rapid you it's not yeah I had to get out of my head how I play Warzone and Call of Duty
and get back into like my Overwatch thinking where it's not all about kills and that you know like
uh because Clarky's never Clarky's the one that kept going on about it um and because he kept
going on about it I just said ah shit don't want to play it hadn't played it at all yeah then the
gaze at work was going on about it and I was like fucking hell I'm gonna have to check it out and I've told Clarky it's shit now
something looked like I can't if I download it I had to download it anyway or you downloaded it and
then deleted it no no I downloaded it and then said I said to Clark it was shit before I even
played it yeah yeah just because I thought it was gonna be for an opinion if I'm gonna be honest as
Ubisoft I've always been dead in the water yeah I didn't have a lot of hope for it um but yeah I put
it on and uh I can't remember what I was saying it was a struggle it's really difficult um you're
saying it's not rage inducing because no because there's no there's no kill cam it's just just good
old-fashioned shooting oh yeah and that's it Clarky Clark has never played Overwatch or anything
like that and if anything of its sort so he was like infatuated with the payload mode yeah payload
before he was like super in initiative intuitive yeah and I was like this is this is in every game
of this ilk like this is not just a standard tdm so I said I'll maybe check out Overwatch I haven't
spoke to him since but I he I said think of Overwatch as this but with apex characters
because they all just got different abilities so I was trying to get into that mentality of
it's not about no Clark is very good at it by the way this game um a lot better than me but you
trying to get into the mentality of it's not about running in shooting free people jumping and sliding
and you can't do that here you're not if you do that you're dead so it's more about just keeping
the enemies pinged back while you're trying to do the payload like I was saying if you die while
you're trying to push the payload and like three of you die there's no point you standing there on
your own you're better off running back waiting for your team to come running back then push
together this is my brain couldn't get into that for so long with Overwatch trying to make myself
learn that on extify and then I had a better time yeah this is it this is exactly how it was with
Overwatch too because I really really liked Overwatch too it was just the same with the
hype around it um died out quite a bit but um the that mentality of you are playing as a team
unless you're the tank you ain't going off on your own and just fucking battering everything
and you have to be more strategic especially with things like payload if everyone if the enemy if
the enemy is swarming that payload your aim isn't to kill all of that enemy it's to get
them off of that payload get them away from that hold them away and that but that was the same with
with battlefield with with um uh what was it what was it called conquest conquest and shit like that
where you you could you had to hold points it wasn't about just fucking getting as many kills
as possible it's about holding them and and and being a team and Overwatch was very much like
that if you went in guns blazing you were fucked just immediately you were done in unless you were
very very good but even then you have to run away and you have to come back it took me a long time
to realize that the trouble is with Overwatch ironically I did download that again after playing
extra time and I did and I did play it yesterday Overwatch is good man it's a good game I went back
to uh my boy Genji I was fighting them ninja stars off and then I was that bird as well you
know do you remember the bird that kept going invisible and then you could hack yeah yeah yeah
she's completely different now she's changed they've changed all her abilities she used to be able to
because what I used to do I remember only because I played as a in the training I thought this isn't
what she used to do because you used to be able to put a teleport place down run into someone start
shooting them if you're low on health teleport back to where he was yeah can't do that no more
it just wherever you throw it you'll instantly teleport there so it's more like a blink move now
so they've changed that because who was I I was playing the the paladin woman wasn't I the one
with the mace and the shield yeah she was a she was a healer and I used to I fucking banged with
her I used to get loads of kills I used most kills as the healer yeah yeah and and and carried on
healing I fucking loved it man I've I've realized that I like being a support healer I enjoy it I
enjoy it with wow I enjoy it with any other game that gives you that option for some reason I get
more of a buzz out of being able to fucking keep people alive and let them continue killing other
people and simultaneously killing people at the same time I love it it's fantastic I was playing
as Genji I was fighting him ninja stars I was doing really well I had the most kills on my team
I had the most damage on my team I had one healer that constantly stuck to me like glue so I knew
when to push back and then everyone dies so I run back the healer was coming back with me who was
waiting but even at the end of the game we lost you know easily but at the end of the game all
I'm getting in the chat not directed at me but just people just being knobs just like fucking
bots noobs useless cunts yeah it's just such a toxic community Overwatch is foul yeah and when
I was playing with headphones on back in the day when I was playing with you the shit that people
would say like screaming at each other on the mic like it's not we're not even playing ranked
yep it's casual yeah get over it people get angry about that kind of shit man they take it proper
fucking serious so yeah I think exdefiant sits somewhere like is it somewhere say like at the very
start of an Overwatch career but it could very well go down that path depends how successful it
is if it maintains a decent player base it's just the same as Ubisoft man because they're so
untrustworthy yeah that's the problem though but you look at their multiplayer games you look at
For Honor and you look at uh Rainbow Six Siege and the division as well but but them two in
particular I've said they're still going and they're still getting massive content updates
yeah but Rainbow Six Siege is under some fucking hot water at the moment but nevertheless how long
of them two games been out now I know I can appreciate they've been out a long time but also
For Honor took a while to find its legs definitely and then Rainbow Six Siege again was very popular
when it first come out dropped off like a fucking like an anchor off of a ship found its player base
and then kind of stuck to that to a point where now I feel like if you're brand new trying to get
into Rainbow Six Siege absolutely no point don't bother but also Rainbow Six Siege Ubisoft have now
shot themselves in the foot with that one because they've now they they've now announced a membership
a monthly membership for Rainbow Six Siege and they announced it at some event the other day
and fuck me people were angry man they were real angry I'll have to dig into it a little bit more
but it's some membership that gives you whatever shit and it's like I think I don't know if they
said how much it was going to cost a month but either way a membership for a game that you've
already paid for and shit like that like yeah that's crazy for Rainbow I'll have to I'll have
to look at it just to see because obviously I don't know how much you know but obviously with like the
do you know who Sketch and Jinxy are? No. They're um they they're YouTubers or or whatever um
Jinxy's like a pro Rainbow Six player like lives and breathes fucking Rainbow Six and has got a
massive following I think he's currently like number one Twitch streamer there is from Rainbow
Six Siege something like someone like 70% of the fucking viewership for Rainbow Six Siege is from
this one person um and because of that where he's getting so popular obviously people are
funneling into Rainbow Six because this guy's a fucking god of it um so the player base will
start in the fucking beef out a little bit and then yeah sure enough here's a subscription
a membership yeah that's not cricket is it I mean that only benefits people
that haven't bought the game um because let's be real I don't know how it looks now but I imagine
if I bought Rainbow Six Siege box version or downloaded it whatever I'd open it and I'd have
about four characters to pick and there'd be like 50 that would cost me fucking hundreds of pounds
to unlock them all so if they unlock if they give you a membership for new players that unlocks all
the characters or something then that might be different but I don't know how I'd feel if I was
already a member playing that game says uh the monthly system offers uh exclusive content drops
every month and will launch just in time for year nine season two operation new blood the pass
includes a plethora of goodies including a time limited legendary item sometimes animated an epic
operator bundle full access to the premium battle pass 10 battle levels and the bravo pack which
values to over four and a half thousand credits players have a choice between paying monthly for
eight pounds a month or purchasing a 12 month plan for 60 pounds for a continuous stream of
premium content that keeps your opt equipped with the best exclusive gear in addition to the
membership perks there's also the option to enroll between june 11th and june 18th which will offer
up the one time early adopters bonus rewarding players with an ash epic bundle and 600 credits
um before the rainbow six membership rolls out on june 28th uh yeah but is that is that so is that
necessary is that optional because that's what's the difference in it because gta offers its monthly
bundle thing but do you need that to play it but you don't need it to play it and by the sounds of
it it's purely cosmetic well then i don't see the first thing a time limited legendary item
um sometimes animated an epic operator bundle and then i don't know about how about the operator
bundle whether that unlocks specific operators or if that means it unlocks specific skins for
the operators because i'm with you on if it's purely cosmetic who gives a fuck i mean i still
don't agree with having a membership for that that's why you've got a fucking battle pass
um but if you have to have it then fucking let's ignore that factor but if it's unlocking operators
that are only allowed to be unlocked through having a membership then i feel like that's unfair
yeah but then i suppose it's different because i imagine it was at launch but yeah i'm sure
there's people out there that play wow that bought the game and then had to pay a subscription to
just play the game that they've already paid for yeah you know so i don't i yeah it all depends
that i mean if if i am a rainbow six siege player which i'm not then i would either be very happy
that there's more stuff because let's have it right if they're planning on fucking doing a
yearly subscription they they've got years of content still left in them and that'd be my
mentality and i suppose if because i don't i haven't played rainbow six for fucking years
for fucking years if if the battle pass has operators in it that you can only get through
the battle pass then i suppose that's no different to if you can only get them through the membership
because either way you got to pay for one of them i find it so hard to it's so hard to to be fair
on both sides as a consumer and as the the creators right because look at rainbow six
siege right how long has that game been out long time so if you want this game that you love to
continue support it because how else this game is just a game you bought to play multiplayer right
the multiplayer is there if you want them to continue to support this product that you love
and add more stuff they need money coming in to support it right yeah because otherwise it's a
product that they're just piling money in and getting nothing in return where they could be
putting their resources in something else right that's that's the way i would look at that
because they've made a game it's like god of war they've made god of war right everyone's bought
it fantastic that's great all right well we're going to make a multiplayer mode now okay that's
fine fantastic they've got multiplayer god of war that's great then all right can we have some more
stuff well no because that's going to cost us loads of money if you want more stuff then buy
the battle pass buy a battle pass or subscription then we will pile money into it it has to be
if they want rainbow six seeds to continue they need to support it's a very very yeah because
live service games are not free this is exactly why wow has a subscription this is why final
fantasy has an has a subscription this is why things like this are are in in gaming is yeah
because that that money does have to come from somewhere um and normally what you end up finding
is that when you enter the the realm of memberships and battle passes and things like that you tend to
find at some point down the line the game itself becomes free because the money you're getting
from the battle passes and from memberships and shit like that outweighs the money that you'd get
from one-time purchases of the game it also makes it much more introductory friendly if rainbow
six siege costs you 60 quid and then there's a membership for 10 quid a month and then a
battle pass for whatever you might not look at and think oh that's a lot of money to spend for
something that i might not get along with you grow you have something like extifiant where or
fortnight apex legends any of them warzone where you go right this is free however here's a lot
of really cool cosmetics that pose no fucking bearing on the game whatsoever it just looks cool
and here's a battle pass here's a membership it's all optional but this is the stuff that
fucking looks decent and you sit there and you go oh why is there no cool stuff for the free
players i will because the game's free like you said you we need to entice you fortnight does it
very fucking well very well their art department of of making skins and weapons and shit like that
they are they are near the pinnacle of doing that because they do it so fucking well and all the
all the deals that they get with different like all the collabs and shit is crazy that's where
you want to be so they know what they're doing in that it's here's a lot of cool shit you got to
pay for it you're a fucking prime consumer of that with the star wars shit don't even play
fortnight anymore you just fucking logged in to buy that and then switch it off there was a star
wars thing recently and i googled all the stuff that was coming out i was like i've got most of
that and the stuff that's new i don't want otherwise i'd have done exactly that again
i'd have bought it just because i want it to keep it but the thing with rainbow six siege as well
say it's like eight pound a month right or something so if you're buying a battle pass anyway
and you're in that game you love that game you buy the battle pass well just pay the eight
pound a month and then you're going to get the battle pass anyway yeah i mean and loads of other
shit yeah i don't i just don't i don't i think that's just outrage for the sake of it i mean
initially the shock of ah fucking hell you bastards but at the same point look at it from outside and
zoom out and be like okay this game's been out fucking eight nine years we want it to continue
you know the money if we don't if they don't have a subscription or constant money flow coming in
and the game is going to die because naturally it will and then we won't have it anymore you know
the only argument to that would be all right don't do that and just make rainbow six seeds too
maybe they are who knows yeah but even then you fall short because of how many hours and shit
everything everyone's put into that game you then make another version you go well can all my shit
carry on over and you go well no because this is a this is a new iteration of the game you go right
well fuck you on the planet then something that is very cool i was told today it was uh that path
of exile 2 um all your skins from path of exile 1 can carry over to path of exile 2 and then if
you're unlocking path of exile 2 can be put in path of exile 1 that's cool that's fair enough
i would like more games to try and do that when they where they can obviously not everything's
possible but excuse me all that stuff from warzone that i lost made me not want to buy
stuff in warzone 2 or warzone 3 yeah i remember that fucking just like i spent loads of money on
warzone 1 and then warzone 2 come out and that didn't even last that long and now warzone 3 i'm
just like why would i buy anything because in a year maybe it's all gone yeah it's literally
pointless like i like playing the game but when it comes to buying skins and that the only reason
i've bought stuff on there as of now is because when i bought the super duper fucking edition of
whatever call of duty it was i got like 6 000 coins and i've i've only just finished spending
them you know i mean and most of that was buying the battle pass that seems so stupid when they
didn't allow it anything to carry over i understand because there's so much but at the same point there
has to be a all right well we'll give you like 5 000 coins then you have to give something these
people have spent i don't know how much i spent i must have spent at least 150 quid probably just
on skins and they're gone forever in the eco i mean i don't think you can play warzone 1 anymore
i think that's gone no it definitely is gone so you know i mean this that that that put me off
so they've lost the custom that in itself is even more bullshit the fact that you can
so you can warzone 1 make warzone 2 no none of the shit you bought is going to carry over sorry go
fuck yourself we're now going to switch off the servers to warzone 1 so you all that money you've
spent yummy yeah thank you you don't you don't you don't get any of that anymore
you're surely that's not right surely it was a big stink about it you can't do that surely there has
to be some legal repercussion for that one i know you could i know you get games where they come out
you pay the money and then they fucking shut down like evolve like anthem blah blah blah
is what it is shit happens it's very fucking annoying but you know i mean i know but it is a
but it is a very very fine line because you got gta 6 coming out how much money have people spent
in gta 5 online it's fucking criminal i myself have spent in the hundreds on that i haven't played
it for like the last three years all right but fuck me but the only difference i'd say with gta
is look at the length of time that shit's been out man like your warzone 1 you're talking it was out
for like a year year and a half something like that and then you've we've lost everything yeah
you know gta 5 you've had eight nine ten years of your stuff being you know you've used it
whereas warzone is just like a flash in the pan you've lost it all so there's a difference there
i think and and in gta 6 if you had your stuff carry over you'd just there'd be no point playing
it you'd be old not powerful so it's mental give me i'd like them to give you something returning
players here's fucking three million to get you started you know enjoy it or just a little bonus
if uh i mean who hasn't played it everyone would have fucking money yeah i mean yeah yeah but yeah
they should be a returning player thing where you've you've spent x amount or you get this for
the things that you have now lost yeah of course it should be man but yeah the fact that you get
nothing and warzone i think you got to keep your stuff from warzone 2 to warzone 3 that was because
it was more like a slight tweak on the game not the engine whereas warzone 1 was a warzone 2 was
a complete new engine and stuff like that so yeah i don't know i just it leaves a sour taste in my
mouth and it's they'd like say it lost the customer in terms of i would continuously spend money on
warzone i won't do it no more yeah and i don't blame it because it takes a piss i understand
it's not everything's possible but you do nothing you've done nothing to join be like oh well he's
a few thousand coins yeah because it's yeah because it's kind of unexcusable because the
currency costs you nothing you know i mean like it doesn't matter if if the first month of release
all the cosmetics essentially everyone's got them for free which they haven't because they spent a
load of money on the previous game but if you've given them the currency to be able to buy
everything that's on that fucking shop for the next month fair enough take that hit for the first
month to keep your player base but obviously it's worked because it's still got a massive player base
they pissed everyone off still not fucking tiny though is it they still have made a shit ton of
money and will continue on with it and i feel like that's where where that's where people get
the most annoyed about it because you get pissed off because you know that the company's taking
the piss out of you but at the same time you know full well i'm gonna play this you know you can
you can rip me a new one i'm still gonna play it world of warcraft can turn as shit as it wants
i'm still gonna buy the next expansion that comes out don't matter same as fifa same as fifa
still gonna happen you know i mean i nearly didn't buy the first fifa and it's such an awful and yet
fucking nice thing to be a part of it's such a guilt everyone's guilty of it man you got your
job pleasures isn't yeah i don't like cod i don't like fifa but yeah i buy them and play them
yeah is what it is bro it's more the social aspect with cod though i like jumping on with the lads
and just shooting and having a laugh just talking about and what you've been up to you know what
yeah don't take it seriously um but yeah there's times where you're just not right in the right
mood to play it and things piss you off more than they normally would and you rage quit and then
you're like why did i fucking buy this game but um yeah sorry bro can i just pause it quick
apologize sorry for ruining the flow just fucking house shit um yeah what was we saying
i don't know so it's something about just gaming companies taking the piss but we love it
and hate it at the same time we are victims how um how are you getting on with david diver
i haven't played it much more i played it for about an hour and a half or so it's a very fun
strange little game i don't really know what is going on i don't know if i love it or just think
it's stupid i don't really know i have mixed feelings but it's just full of price i mean
it's what it is and it's steam i've i've i've all like 13 games now you're in love with it
and i have i've only downloaded like three of them four of them something like that most of the games
just in my library because they were like three quid and they were on my wish list from like 25
quid down to about three quid i'll buy them then yeah man it's just i'm dreading the steam summer
sale because i know what i'm like i'll just buy it they do good sales as well man they like it's
not like this game's on sale here's three quid off it's normally like 75 off of this game for
fucking however long the other night i was sitting there and then the emails pinged through on my
phone this is on sale this is on sale so i bought all of them yeah is that what happens when you
wish list because i i don't wish list anything neither do i but all i ever see on twitter is i
wish listed it so when you wish list it it just pops up this is on sale and then i look at it
and it's like oh yeah it was 25 quid it's now 3.99 well i'll buy that then you know i mean you'd be
stupid not to yeah i might never play it is the problem i envision your phone pinging off at like
two in the morning you waking up and going i'll buy that quick the other day i bought what did i
buy i bought oh i bought dave the diver lamu lamu lana terraria yeah and wizard of legend just
because just because you can i now own wizard of legend valheim ashlands v rising terraria
stardew valley star wars the old republic no rest for the wicked lamu lana halls of torment hades
two hades one football manager david diver and chrono trigger and i've played like three of them
have you played football manager yet no because that's the old one all right when i used to play
you ain't fucking pulled the trigger on i'm not gonna because there'll be it i won't play again
i'm playing nothing else but this is why i think like and this is why the steam deck is genuinely
like the best thing i've ever bought is because it's not like i'm an anti-social person i am
so i don't know why i said i'm not i think we all are to agree but as i get older i want to interact
with people that i like less and i don't like less and less or don't know should i say so um
this weekend we've been asked on this weekend tomorrow been asked to dog sit for my father-in-law
or my wife and the children have and my wife asked me would i like to go along now 99 times
out of 100 the answer would be if i don't have to no thank you i don't want to stay around someone
else's house um and just do nothing yeah but now i have a steam deck i would absolutely come along
because all evening when the kids are in bed i can just sit there and play my games
because it's not weird to do that where it's weird to pack up your whole playstation 5 plug
it into someone else's telly yeah it feels intrusive yeah i know exactly what you mean
just plug my plug socket in and just plug my steam deck in your own little bubble i'm fine
i mean and that to me is worth every penny because my wife doesn't understand that that is the reason
why i've said yes she might do if her brother listens to this but do you know what i mean like
that is she doesn't she'll be like oh i didn't expect him to say yes but now because i'm going
to be entertained in the evening and i'm not just going to sit there and watch fucking country file
i'll actually be able to i'll actually be able to do something that i want to do
i think it's fantastic it really is and you've got games like path of exile 2 yesterday saying on the
on the showcase that one of the big headlines was cross progression now if i like path of exile
then that's fantastic if i want to play on the playstation and then also obviously i'd have to
buy it twice but if i get that into it then i can take it out with the steam deck it's just amazing
that is it's just it's the best thing i've ever bought and i just it blows my mind obviously i've
got the dock now yeah the dock's cool so seamless literally pop it in the dock pop a fucking wire in
the back hold two buttons on my playstation control bang and there's no setup for the
playstation because i goes oh you've got a playstation control all right we know how to work that
and then just the buttons that you would presume would do the things they would do yeah they do
they do you press the playstation button brings up the steam deck panel you press circle it goes
back you press x it goes forward you know i mean it's like it blows my mind i don't know how all
this stuff works but it just seems to just work i don't the only problem i've had is hades 2 looks
fantastic on the tv like immaculate perfect david diver likewise but v rising and no risk for the
wicked they look like a balloon has been blown up it's a fucking mess i can't i don't know what they
i don't know if they certain games have to be optimized to be stretched i don't understand
how that is supposed to work because these games i imagine could be played on big old tv monitors
yeah there's there's ratios and things that go into play you can't you can't just have any old
game going on to it but there's also stuff that you can roll into the settings yeah that's what
i mean i'm sure i could make it work but at the moment yeah just to play hades 2 and my my
favorite thing about it is you know how paranoid i am with the buttons so i don't give a fuck playing
hades 2 i'll smash that square button on the playstation all day all day but when it's the
steam i'll just lightly tap it i don't want to fuck my x button up bro yeah but you already know from
fucking reddit that if that thing breaks yeah i know amazing you can send that straight back to fucking
steam and then they'll send you a new one out they're incredible i was just saying a reseller
i was just reading a reddit post that um a guy was saying he's just had the best steam deck service
ever he's uh one of his buttons was getting stuck but it was a year out of warranty he contacted
steam they said don't worry about that send it in anyway son he sent it in they fixed the button
send it back a little bit more broken but still worked he's like ah i'm gonna have to let them know
let them know it was broken again there's like fuck that son here you go isn't with steam deck
bosh and then they send him another parcel he doesn't know what it is so steam just amazing
customer service we spoke about that before i just can't get over how good they are the fact that
they let you fucking play games for two hours and let you know if you don't like it just refund it
whatever it's it's a business model that works every single game is a demo without a demo you
know what's scary amazing is microsoft are trying to acquire them i read that the other day apparently
that is bullshit is it apparently that is absolute 16.5 billion yeah that's just not enough how much
did they pay for fucking buffezda i don't know oh sorry activision i don't know if i'm honest
like fucking 80 billion or something stupid you think steam are gonna go for 16 billion
is it is it is it bollocks in that it's just a rumor or is it they have offered that and no way
in hell steam's gonna entertain it i think it's more the fact that it's just never gonna happen
like steam have got no interest in selling they know that they're they know what they are well i
was the best at it because it was brandon that sent me the article about it and i said something i
said sort of along the same lines back to him in that steam know what they have and therefore
so say someone's offering you 16.5 billion for your company you turn around and you say no
well they obviously want your company so now they're gonna want it even more because you've
told them the fuck off because something like steam microsoft can't compete with that they just
can't microsoft is an absolute powerhouse one of the fucking top companies in the world however
when it comes to gaming and the platform that steam has built itself no one can compete with it
no one on this fucking earth can compete with that everybody's trying to do what steam does
look at fortnight they created uh epic games yeah so you have to have your own launcher right then
ubisoft they've got ubisoft uh connect yep it's got all the ubisoft games on they're all trying to
have their own launchers amazon have their own launch of that koa koga whatever it's goga cog
whatever it's fucking called it's shit they're all trying to do their own launchers exactly it's
it's not something that and all that happens is when you have so many different launchers
people find the one that they really like steam and then fuck off all the other ones it's the
same with internet browsers no one goes for bing no one wants to do bing anymore all right it's
not how it works i don't think anyone ever did bing exactly i'll tell you now if xbox can't
compete with steam so what's the only thing i think they can do buy them consume them eat them become
them so let's be honest i think if if xbox or microsoft bought steam and then steam became
integrated into xbox xbox win that's the end of it because them games all them games the
the vastness of the library is just too much to compete also you're having god of war spider
man all them games on steam are now playable on xbox because of steam it would also be a very very
sad day though because i would never want that to happen yeah i don't my steam deck it'd be useless
i don't want steam to be purchased by so enough of the buying shit sony and microsoft stop buying
everything yes stop leave everything alone stop doing it because all you're doing is buying these
studios and fucking them up and fucking us up because i don't want to have to buy all these
consoles for games for like one game yeah i i want to play old scroll six but i don't want an xbox
anymore i want to sell my xbox i really don't need it it's pointless to me i bought it for starfield
and starfield let me down it's i enjoyed it but it was not the game that i thought it was going to
be i thought it was going to be more it would be like my all-time game that i'd put thousands of
hours in it's just not it's just not and it might get better and you know get better like fine wine
and have that scryum effect eventually but i don't see it happening um and that that's sad starfield
you can also play on steam deck yeah this is what i mean it's just nothing that that baby can't do
you know i mean you don't need it at all now i've even come to play again boulder's gate on there
i've contemplated getting the witcher three on there i love getting achievements on there the
little blue blue pops up at the bottom and i get a little dopamine here we don't want microsoft
buying fucking nor do i think it will happen i think steam steam are already a powerhouse in
themselves but with the steam deck they're entering into a world which they are dominating
at the moment and it's a brand new world to be a part of so they ain't gonna want to fucking
that's why microsoft want them you know i mean they want them because microsoft can't do what
they're doing i must mention this before we wrap this up anyway uh i'm not on the patreon because
of your time constraints which is fine but i did need to say i've been playing a lot of elden ring
in preparation for the dlc i think i'm i'm almost ready to be happy uh to go into the dlc however i
have a stumbling block what's up i can't beat moe i have fought that cunt i've got to afford him at
least 25 times you need help i can't do it i don't think you can't help me you're too far at high
level i won't be able to summon you of course you will well you can try leveling doesn't work i think
it does you're in you're in plus you're in like new game plus nine or something stupid yeah but i'm
pretty sure i can still join you i don't think the plus i think it does it used to i don't know if
it still does it used to in the older games so that summons are you using summons oh no there's no
summon signs i can't find anyone to help no no no no no no no no no are you using oh i've got the
mimic tear out are you using it for the first time ever all right useless it's not useless it is now
it's been nerf hammered no it got nerfed it got nerfed after when i was using it and it was still
slapping i'll tell you what though the only thing is that i forgot until right this second go on is
that you can upgrade them so i've been using the mimic tier with no upgrades jesus christ so no
wonder he's so shit you know you can also use that have you got the shackle yeah this is what i mean
you can use i've gone and got the shackle i've gone and got there's i don't know if you knew about
this there's a crystal tier that you can get yeah that you can put in your thingy wondrous flask of
physics yeah that you know when he does that whoa whoa and he puts in pulsing blood bits out and
you can't avoid it yeah well that stops it you don't have to heal it just negates it entirely
so i've got that i shackled a cunt i get him down to half health and then he does the fucking thing
i drink the flash and like yeah yeah and then he just flies about yeah he flies like just and he's
like and i'm i'm doing well and he's like thing around is is one hit and i'm like yeah all right
and then he does is another hit all right that's enough now i'll heal and then i'll be full health
and then go oh he's another hit and be like oh yeah that's the blood meter field that's you dead
and it's just like mate and i've also i'm not using a normal build that i would i'm like a
i'm like a sorcerer slash fucking melee kind of dude it's a bit of a mess but i followed a build
guide um and i've and i've done a lot i killed radan on my uh second attempt which is mental
by the way no help in that i'm a darned second attempt and um and the only reason i died the
first time was because i couldn't fucking them spears he froze before you even get to him they're
fast and they yeah so after i'd done that just run up there and bash that cunt up i was so sad
that when i did that was after the nerf come into effect yeah so i did it out of fucking because
all i had seen was videos and stories of people saying how fucking difficult it was still hard
though bro when i did him i think i hit him maybe like four times because their minion things you
summoned just did all the work for me i was like this was easy yeah but they're not doing your
work all they're doing is drawing his aggro and they attack him though yeah but they're not really
hurting him they're just they're more they just drawing well they fucking killed the cunt when i
was doing it maybe they over nerfed it as well i only found out the other day there's a dungeon
in that arena there is a fucking little catacomb in the corner of that arena yeah yeah there is
it's fucking mental yeah and then i see um i see a dragon boss the other day on tiktok oh yeah the
one where you have to hang like a bat yeah where you have to lay down and then it summons it yeah
completely hidden secret boss that i don't know about that actually lay down yeah yeah where the
you know when you go to the the temple or whatever and it's all windy and there's the dragons flying
everywhere oh and then you have that dragon boss the big fucking white thing that throws the red
lightning at you there's another boss in that area a secret one where you have to go to a specific
area lay down and then you go go to sleep and then you wake up and then there's another one of these
horrible dragon things just like hovering in a ball and then boom another boss out of nowhere i
i did fuck all in that area i hated it i hated that area that so much that and the tree area
where melania is yeah i just explored it yeah ran through that shit i found a guide youtube
quickest way to melania followed it to a t still got the stake of thingy so i had my summoning
point and then that was it it still blows my mind how much of that game i just never saw yeah and
and and could never see if i didn't know existed like moag i didn't even know that kind existed
to you was like did you kill moag i was like oh yeah who the prince of blood but i don't even know
that area even the doorways and shit they you know what i never even saw the fucking magma place
what the castle yeah i saw the castle but actually getting because i ended up getting being
teleported to the castle randomly so i actually skipped out the entire area of getting there
get captured by them things on wheels and that is exactly what happened then you just have to
escape because you can't teleport out yeah and that's exactly what happened you can go there if
you go up the mountain i think it's the mountain and then you go in the car yeah and i never
passively volcano manor yeah made my way there so i that was an entire area that i never saw
properly also they're all side quests in there that give you some fucking cool items i didn't
know existed they give you like little bounties to take out on people and if you do them you get
lower rewards i never knew that i just ignored that yeah i did a couple of them nothing crazy
that's what i mean it's just so much i'm so gassed for that dlc i've really sick do you know what i
read the other day that shit is going to be like 50 hours 60 hours 70 hours so big boy it's also
the only dlc they're doing yeah and they always hit big and he's also said this is the biggest
one they've ever done yeah i'm terrified but also super excited he said it's bigger than elden ring
and also old fucking matey bob the impaler the statue we're getting there's no way that
gives us the boss mesmer is not the main boss never will be he's not he never will be because
it's not they've put it out there too much yeah i read a thing um saying mesmer isn't he isn't the
main the main boss and everyone was like yeah they the statues are never the fucking main bosses
they never are so sick i'm so gassed for that bro you need to get back on and get some practice
i've still got it downloaded i still keep it updated it's still there i'm ready to go it took
me a while to get that rust off i'm telling you now yeah i'll jump in because i'm not going to
play i'm not going to start a new game i'm gonna have to look in to see if you can help me with
moat because if i can't i'll do moat i can't even get in a fucking dlc that i spent 240 quid on
so you know i'll help you if i can if i can help you right we gotta go because i'm time
time constrained but i need to poo really badly we'll um we'll speak to you later