We're back. Cracking on. Friday the 9th, January.
Prince Among Men's back. I'm back. I'm back.
Sorry for my absence. I have good reason. I had
some sad news in the family. One of my family
members, immediate family members, passed away.
So please forgive me for not being here. But
we're back and we're ready to go. 2026, the big
push to gain one more Patreon member. 2026. Mad,
isn't it? That's not nice. Yeah, one more Patreon
member, which is going to be even more tough
because I know how we should get the podcast
out there more and have more of a media presence
and stuff like that. I've stripped myself away
from all social media. Yes, sir. So we no longer
have a presence other than this podcast. No social
media is good for your health, though. I was
talking to Steph about it because it was Steph
that started the conversation and I'd never really
looked at my screen time until we had the conversation.
Oh, bad. But I'm talking like two, three, sometimes
four hours a day just on Instagram, just scrolling
through reels. It's like, fuck me. So now I've
replaced it with Fallout Shelter. Fair enough.
Fallout Shelter, reading books, Big into watching
YouTube at the moment. Love YouTube. I've become
an iPad kid. But watching, no surprise, World
of Warcraft. But watching the hardcore servers.
And they're just fucking brilliant, man. It's
basically like, wow, but if you die, you're dead.
That's it. And some of the content and stuff
that people do is just... But also some of the
trolling and griefing. I'm talking 40 -man raids
where one person gets pissed off, so they pull
an entire room and wipe everyone. And that's
like... Put it in perspective, right now, currently,
if you were to play Legion Remix... With all
of the XP buffs, you can get from 1 to 80 in
about an hour, two hours. Whereas to go from
1 to 60 in the Burning Crusade or on the hardcore
servers, you're talking easily a week. like a
genuine seven days worth of gameplay to to get
yourself there or like you can do it a bit quicker
but i think it's around like four to five whole
days of gameplay to get yourself to to max level
so to then just lose it like it's nothing that's
why that stuff's good to watch because it's high
stakes yeah very high stakes it's just mad to
see it from that perspective because like like
i i remember that sort of shit when it was current
and not hardcore so i like i know like oh that
quest is really tough and fucking that like um
that mob's really difficult other people go to
one extreme where they do a hardcore ultra which
is when they remove all health bars um the only
thing you can see is how much damage you're doing
to a target but you can't see its level you can't
see its health you can't see your health the
only thing that you've got that denotes if you're
near to death is the screen starts to go black
and starts to close in so if you're if you're
like right on the precipice of dying there's
like a peephole for fucking your character and
then if you heal up then you get to see the full
screen again that's the only thing that you've
got to know how much health you've got and people
are playing like that I love the fact that we've
started a new year. We haven't done podcasts
for a month and the first thing we talk about
is World of Warcraft. It's worth it. All day.
All day. Nothing to change. Pre -patch comes
out in next week. That's when all the class changes
happen. That's when the new class spec comes
out. Demon Hunter Devourer. And then midnight
in March. I think it's March. I keep seeing the
advert for it. The advert's cool. Yeah, I've
got it on pre -order. I'm ready to fucking rock
and roll. I can't wait. It's going to be sick.
Well, I've been playing many games. I've... God,
dare I even begin to talk about how many games
I now own. Because I went a bit buck wild, did
I? Let me just reel off some games that I've
bought since I lost. Risk of Rain 2, Tiny Rogues,
Nuclear Throne, Brotato, Dead Cells, He Is Coming,
Nudes Are Coming, Crab Champions, Cult of the
Lamb, Noita, Dun Jungle, Ori and the Blind Forest,
Absalom, Prince of Persia, The Lost Crown, Nessess,
Escape the Mad Empire, Monster Train 2, Drover,
Wizard of Legend, Baldur's Gate 1, Baldur's Gate
2, Divinity Original Sin 1, Divinity Original
Sin 2, Domekeeper, Icewind Dale, Mega Man 11,
Ori and the Blind Forest, or Ori and the Blind
and the Will -o' -Wisps, I forgot what I said
before. Planescape, Tormund, Songs of Conquest.
So I bought some games. I played like three of
them. I was going to say, have you played any
of them? Inundated with games. It's Steam, man.
Steam sales. Steam sales, baby. You know what
I mean? But yeah, so... I have this little Christmas
tradition that I do with Gem where I normally
buy her some vouchers, say like Primark vouchers,
and I'll buy like 10, 10 pound ones. And then
I'll just like hide them around the house and
stuff so she never really knows how much she's
got. That's cool. And she done that with me this
year. And she got me some fucking... I don't
know what they're called, like gamer cards or
something. And she put 15 quid on them and I
got 60 quids worth. So I got four of them and
she was like, oh, I'll just give them all to
you now because, you know, I feel bad for you
and stuff. Yeah, yeah. So I got them all and
I was like, great. And it was like, yeah, you
can use them on PlayStation, Xbox, Steam, blah,
blah, blah. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, but it's not
cool at all because you can only use them. So
they're like actual bank cards. So you have to
go on to like... steam say for example put your
name address in all that then put the account
number of the card and then it gives you a pin
that you have to put in and you can so the item
has to be 15 quid otherwise you lose the money
so you know you can't so i wanted something that's
20 pounds but i couldn't use two of the cards
To pay for it. Because it'd be 30 quid and you'd
lose. No, because I couldn't use two cards. Because
it's done as if you're paying on a bank card.
You can't spread the payment over multiple cards.
Oh, it's an individual card each time. Fucking
hell. You can't just transfer it onto the Steam
account. No, that's what I wanted to do, just
put them on there. But no, you can't do that.
And I was like, this is just fucking ridiculous.
So what I ended up having to do, I wanted to
buy Steam vouchers. but they only go from like
£10 to £20. So it was like, well, I lose a fiver
on every single voucher. So I had to use these
cards, go onto Curry's website, individually
write all these different bank cards out, buy
four Curry's cards worth 15 quid each, then wait
for them to be sent over via email. Then I went
to Curry's to buy Steam. with my now Curry's
cards, but they didn't have any in stock. So
then I had to buy them online, wait for the Steam
cards to be delivered to Curry's, then go pick
them up. Just to get the value out of the cards.
Steam cards this year then? Next Christmas? Yeah,
that's what I said to her. She's like, I'll never
buy these ever again. I was like, mate, I can't
believe the hassle. I've never even heard of
them. They're not called game cards. They're
called something like that. Gamer cards, game...
Some fucking shite, mate. They're really shit.
Honestly, the worst Christmas present ever. I
love her, and I appreciate it, and I got what
I wanted in the end. I wanted to use them on
the day, man, and I was just like, I can't use
these. Yeah, you can't do it. Fucking shite.
Oh, you know, I've just realised, Because it's
been so much time has passed since our last episode.
With so much that's gone on, one of the great
things that has happened between our last episode
to now is your Baldur's Gate collection. Yep.
I got it. Collector's Edition. I got it. You
finally got it. I finally got it. I snapped on
it. Baldur's Gate 3 Collector's Edition. I snapped
on it. I'm not sure I should say the price on
it because Gem does listen to these. And she
doesn't listen to the Patreon because she's typed.
Well, with reason, considering how much that
was. I'm trying to find out how much it was.
I think I can remember somewhat near the ballpark
of it. She knows that it was expensive. So it
cost me £579. The worst thing is it's £463 before
that. Yeah, you got fucked with tax. How much
was the original when it first came out? I want
to say it was about 250 quid. So if I've paid
like 220 quid extra, I'm not overly fussed because
let's just have a look now because obviously
I don't look every day anymore. I find it so
mental that Connor could have got one and then
was just going to give you the fucking statue
and was like, nah. Well, look, there you go.
There's the statue there just for 524 pounds.
So it's a worth investment. I think so. It's
something that you've won. Looking around at
the collector's editions that are just in this
room, I'm not going to sell them unless something
dire happens. I'm not going to get rid of them.
So the cost is not a factor. As long as you're
happy as the individual to pay that for it, then
it's what it is. Even better if you pay... lot
of money for something and then it holds its
value and then increases its value which that
that addition definitely does oh mate i'm i it
turned up it actually annoyingly uh i was walking
a dog and my uncle rang me and i thought oh fuck
off i thought my nan was gonna be ill i really
don't need this as well yeah because he don't
ring me any other time other than tell me nan's
in hospital and he was like oh have you had a
parcel delivered to nan's i was like nah And
he was like, oh, massive boxes just turned up.
And I was like, what the fuck? And I looked on
eBay and it said it had been delivered. And it
just randomly delivered it to my nan's house.
I was like, what? Why has that happened? Well,
I don't know how that happened anyway. But I
was ill at the time. And I didn't want to make
my nan ill. So I had to wait another fucking
week before I even went around to bother picking
it up. But when I did pick it up, I brought it
home. And I put it on a table. And Gem was like,
what the fuck is that? And I was like, look,
you know I wanted it. i've got it all right let's
let's not beat around the bush so i got it out
the box and and i showed her everything in there
i was getting it all out and checking that everything
was in there and sealed and stuff like that and
um and she said to be honest with you i don't
care how much it was she said it could have been
10 grand to see that look on your face to see
you that happy i don't care what price it was
and i was like all right sweet it was 10 she
was like get out yeah we're now in serious debt
yeah I've lost the ass yeah I've done equity
release and this is this is it no she was chuffed
I'm chuffed so it was everything it's the full
full box it's only it's only been opened once
and that was to sell it because they wanted to
check that everything was in there it even came
in the box that they sent it to him in yeah yeah
so it comes it came in a box that they sent it
to him in and then obviously in the box so you
take the bowlers gate the big sleeve off it and
then the fucking packaging is unbelievable yeah
and then yeah there's statues in there it's got
the dice the big massive d20 it's mad to think
that a geezer's bought that obviously for the
pure purpose of i'm gonna sell this in however
long and then yeah sat on it and held it and
got a shit price for it really yeah 200 quid
for it it's like i'd rather keep it yeah yeah
unless you're desperate for the cash because
when did when the boulders get free come out
it was like two years ago not worth it in my
head no like saying this you're desperate for
the money but yeah i'm buzzing like say that
when i get the house and i get the um the cabinets
and stuff all that stuff will go out but at the
moment it's just pride of place on top of the
thing and i look at it every day i'm so happy
with it Just safe and knowing that it's mine.
I don't need to look. Every day I get little
things. Oh, are you still looking for boulders?
No, I'm not. No, no, I've done it. But I'll look
at their prices because it makes me laugh. Laughing
rich man. Yeah, there you go. Fucking look at
you, idiots. But yeah, it's nice. It's something
that I've hunted for, for God knows how long.
And I nearly had it, didn't I? At 500 quid and
the geezer cancelled it. So to pay 70 quid more,
I was just like, it's new in the box. I don't
think that other one that... I don't think it
was, no. I think it was missing one or two bits.
So I'm just happy that it's there now and safe
in the knowledge that it belongs to me. That's
the thrill of the hunt, man. It is the thrill
of the hunt. The hunt's over. I need to turn
my attention to something else now. Yeah, it's
terrible. It's fucking awful. That's what I was
like with Funko Pops, with the lore books for
WoW, fucking Pokemon cards, just the constant
fucking hunt. And then you just stop. One day
you just go, no, I'm done. I've done everything
I want to do. I'm done. The tism has left. Yeah.
Well, I've put an ungodly amount of hours into
Divinity Original Sin 2, which is Larian's game
before Baldur's Gate 3, which I told Connor,
ironically, not long ago that I wanted to play
it. So I played it on PS5, but I've had the disc
for years. And I put it in and it was like 30
FPS and I was just like, I can't play this. It's
disgusting. So I wanted to buy it on Steam because
I know it plays at 60 FPS on Steam. So that was
what I was going to do, but I was waiting for
a sale of that because it was 30 quid and I've
already got the PlayStation version. And then,
was it the Game Awards? They announced Divinity.
Yeah. And then... Then they released a PS5 version
of Divinity Original Sin 2. So I just put my
disc back in and now it's fully upscaled and
stuff like that. Decent. And I'd played through
Act 1 of Divinity Original Sin 2 before. And
I don't know how I got through the first act,
to be honest with you. But now I know how them
games play after playing Baldur's Gate. I get
it. now it's like a whole different experience
because i remember me and clarky buying it and
he that is not his sort of game mate trust me
um and i loved it but i was shitty i just couldn't
get my head around how to play games like this
because i've never played like an isometric fucking
crpg blah blah but now oh mate i'm having like
a it's like fucking it's like rain all over again
i've got a brand new character he's a necromancer
he's an elf i sick he eats flesh It's madness.
But he's a good guy. Get that out, you fucking...
How do you feel about that? He's getting naughty
now, though. He's getting corrupted, like most
of my characters do. All of my characters do,
thinking about it. His name's Vianax. Vianax.
Vianax. He sounds... Vianax. V -I -A -N -A -X.
Vianax. He sounds like he'd be a cunt. I'll give
you a brief rundown of the story. So I don't
know what happens in Divinity 1 because I jumped
straight to 2. But I will play Divinity 1 because
I don't think... I don't know if it's on the
PlayStation, but I've got it on Steam now, so
I'll play that next. But... So basically there's
people in the world called sorcerers, finally.
So they do exactly what they say on the tin,
they're sorcerers. Sorcerer things. But the magic
pull that they pull from is... source so that
it's called the source essentially and you start
the game and you're shipped off to this place
called fort joy and you've all got these like
collars on which prevent you from using source
magic and powers and stuff like that so the first
act is essentially breaking out of this this
fort island prison thing um to you know escape
basically but the sheer amount of ways that you
can do it is just mind -boggling and it's like
it's so it's basically as good as boulders gate
like and then that's like a common theme people
say some people say it's better than boulders
gate free but it's better it's the same as boulders
gate but with less uh with less budget basically
so it hasn't got like when you talk to someone
it's not like an individual cut scene all the
time still got a narrator the way boulders gate
free as um still everything's still voiced and
stuff like that but yeah like the sheer amount
of stuff you can put in and it's like the same
level of um content it's just crazy it's so good
but i wanted to play them because especially
if divinity is going to come out and they say
it's going to be bigger A lot bigger than Baldur's
Gate and more in depth. So I think that's going
to be a madness. It'll be huge. Yeah, so I wanted
to actually understand the story of Divinity.
So yeah, it's fantastic, mate. It's really fucking
good. And I cannot get enough of it. And I can't
wait to play it tonight till like one o 'clock
in the morning. Have I spoken to you since I
finished Outer Worlds 2? Yes, I think you did.
You definitely told me you finished it. I don't
know if you told me on the pod or not. Because
you were rushing through it. You were trying
to get to the end for some reason. Was I rushing
it? Well, you were just saying you were just
putting so many hours in, it just doesn't seem
to end. I think I finished it, I think it was
like 63 hours. 63? I thought it was like 30 or
something. Nah. Rascal. Nah, I put some time
into it. I did everything. I did, I did. The
only, the only missions that I had outstanding
was two and they were collectible and even then
I'd done two thirds of them but I just googled
what the rewards were and they were absolute
shit. I thought, alright, well I'm not interested.
I'm not going back to get that. Fair enough on
that, yeah. But yeah, I did. I did every fucking
quest, every dialogue. I killed everything. Every
door that could be opened, I opened it. I was
in love with that game. That was great. And I
died at the end. Brilliant. That's the ending
that I got. I love that. I sent myself into this
black hole pretty much, into this rift. stopped
all the other little riffs opening up and fucking
up the universe. So I martyred myself, more or
less. I just didn't have... Because obviously
I put everything into engineering, lockpicking
and guns. Guns. Guns. So when it comes to dialogue,
I wasn't too great on it. And obviously when
you're at the end, you've got the main... protagonist
is there and I'm sure you can talk him off of
a ledge or get him to send himself into this
rift which I just didn't have the means to do
it and I tried I save scummed it and tried every
possible way to see if I could have a different
outcome and I just couldn't so I just blew his
fucking head off when the dialogue it's a long
old dialogue and once I'd realised I couldn't
achieve any other way than the way of me putting
myself into the rift. I was like, all right,
fuck it. So just fucking skipped through the
dialogue for like the fifth time. And then, yeah,
I had this gun. Can't remember what it was called,
but basically it shot a mini black hole and just
one shot everything in its path. It was a mad,
mad gun. I got it sort of like... two thirds
of the way through the game. And when I got it,
I was like, well, the game's over then. You don't
give someone a gun. It's the mimic tier. It's
gun form. Yeah, you don't give someone a gun
this mad and then not have it be right near the
end. And it weren't. So yeah, when the dialogue
was done, he fucking jumps back and then pulls
out his gun. Just sent him into a million different
pieces and everyone around him. And then, yeah,
had this lovely chat with this, I can't remember
her fucking name. When the game first starts,
you're a captain of a ship and this woman's with
you and she's part of your crew and then she
double crosses you and she's actually the reason
why these rifts are fucking happening. So you
spend a lot of the game hunting her down because
you're like, I'm going to fucking kill you. That's
my only purpose. You fucked up my crew. I'm going
to kill you. And then when you do find her, you
have the option of... you can let her go and
blah, blah, blah. And I let her go because I
was like, I'm always interested. I never want
to, if I come to a junction at a storyline and
it's like, if you let them continue, there's
all this unknown or you can just kill them and
end it here. And I always go for the option of,
I want to let you crack on and see what happens.
And that's exactly what I did. And a couple of
my crew didn't like it. There's this one geezer,
again, forgot his name. I apologize. But he's
a wetty, man. Proper fucking, proper wetty, like,
abiding by the rules and all that shit, but like,
he abides by them, which is fine, but not in
like a, a justica sort of way. He's not, I had
a geezer with me that was basically like a paladin
and he was straight up, much like your guy on,
fucking, what was that game that you were just
playing that took a hundred and something hours?
Rogue Trader. Rogue Trader. You know how you
had that? What are you talking about, Corvus
Crowe? A .K .A. Crow Crow. Because Corvus means
crow in Latin. Was Corvus Crow the... No, Corvus
Crow was who you were, wasn't it? Yeah. No, I'm
talking about the geyser that you had with you
that you kept trying to turn. Heinrich. Heinrich.
I loved him. What was he? He was a... He was
an inquisitor. An inquisitor. So this geyser
that I had, not an inquisitor, but basically
like a paladin. So the order that he was a part
of, if people were misbehaving... He'd be the
geezer that'd be sent down and he'd go, you fucking
stop it, oh, I'm going to kill you. And yeah,
so I had him and he was who this other geezer
wanted to be. You know what I mean? He fucking
abided by the law and everyone abided by him.
I did slowly turn him, to be fair. I did get
him to do a couple of things that he didn't want
to do, which was nice. but yeah this other geezer
was just a proper wetty so once his storyline
was done because they've all got their own individual
storylines I was like you can fuck off I don't
like you you can go away but yeah I spent this
whole like half of the game trying to find this
woman found her let her go he didn't like it
so I was like sweet well I'm done with you anyway
he was like I can't believe you've done this
blah blah blah Miles was his name wet name no
offence Miles from Wow, I know that you listen
to this sometimes. I love you. But yeah, it was
just a great game. I really, really enjoyed it.
It sucked me in badly. I know you were looking
forward to that, so I'm glad you enjoyed it.
It held me badly. And all the perks are really,
really cool. I can't remember all of them, but
there's some really, really niche ones, like
the currency isn't caps. I can't credits. There
was one that popped up, sort of like... two -thirds
of the way through the game and basically said,
like, you're really shit with saving money. So
it was like, basically the perk was any credits
that you got, you kept 10 % of them and then
the other 90 % went into a savings account. And
then once the savings account reached a certain
amount, you'd get the money back plus interest.
And I was like, I don't want to do that. I want
the money now. There was a couple where it would
actually give you a warning. Where it was like,
if you accept this perk, it has detrimental effects
to your gameplay. Do not do this if it's your
first play. Creaky knees and stuff. Well, creaky
knees I had. I had the old creaky knees. They
were a good crack. Until I realised... I wasn't
even trying to do that. Until I realised I wasn't
even... I didn't even spec into stealth. But
it was probably the first game that I played...
where I did play it extremely stealthy. So what
was the positive of creaky knees? It made you
walk 50 % faster when you were crouched, which
was good. Very, very early on, I got the pickpocket
skill, which was just incredible because any
person where I knew I needed to get something
off of them, I just cut out all the fucking aggro
and just stole it off of them. Did you hear the
cracking every time? Every time. I couldn't do
that because I can click all my own bones, but
anyone else's... Every time you crouch or stand
up... But then there was also a mechanic where
you could run and slide, but you could do it
repeatedly. It wouldn't run out, so you could
run, slide, cancel, run, slide, cancel, like
playing COD. But it did it every time you slid
as well, so it was just a constant me always
running, just running through the fucking game.
Yeah, really, really good game. Way better than
Outer Worlds 1. But they're not linked story
-wise anyway, so you can just jump. Maybe I'll
play it one day. When I get back on my space
hype, I'll probably jump on it. Yeah, I recommend
it. It did a lot. I mean, if you didn't like
Outer Worlds 1, then there's a high possibility
that Outer Worlds 2 just isn't for you. Yeah,
but I think Outer Worlds 1 was just very unpolished.
It had no light. It felt lifeless, like the NPCs
kind of just stood around and... I'd like to
think that they've fleshed it out a bit and it
runs a bit smoother because Outer Worlds 1 was
very jank. Yeah, I had no problems with it. I
really enjoyed it. The zones, all the different
worlds that you got to go to, there was a lot
going on. Don't get me wrong, there were some
areas where it was a bit barren, but some areas
were barren. That's what they were designed to
be. But overall, I'd say it was... Don't mind
barren, mate. I played Starfield. Come on. Yeah,
that's true. a no man's sky yeah that's true
yeah adept at that and daisy oh yeah exactly
so yeah it's good game i just when i stopped
when i finished that i didn't have the same feeling
as i did when i finished dying like the beast
where i was like thank god that was done i forgot
i even owned that shit man yeah yeah yeah play
that when i get back on my zombie hype yep Which
is a good game in itself. I said this in the
last podcast. That's the one you rushed through,
wasn't it? That's the one that I blitzed through.
But just because I liked it, but at the same
time, I was like, I'm scared. Get me out of here.
It's annoying because I only bought that for
FOMO because I weren't even interested. I knew
I'd play it because I loved the first one or
the second one. But yeah, I didn't want to play
it at that time. I was too busy playing whatever
I was playing then. It's good. You won't be disappointed
by it, especially when you first delve into the
night. I hate the night. Yeah, well, this night...
I know it forces you, doesn't it? But only for
a little bit, but the night mode in Dying Light
the Beast is like nothing I've ever experienced.
Take Dying Light 2, Dying Light 1, take the night
mode on that and crank it up by 100. It's fucking
madness. Your torch does nothing. don't fucking
do anything anyway no but this is even you can
see a side by side comparison of Dying Light
2 and The Beast to see the night modes and it's
ridiculous you know like how Lord of the Rings
filmed all their night scenes in blue light so
you can actually see what's going on Titanic
also did it and many other films and then you've
got things like Game of Thrones Where, you remember
that one Notorious episode where it was just
fucking pitch black throughout the whole thing?
What do you mean when you're just sitting there
watching the telly but you're just looking at
your reflection? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That
is what Dying Light the Beast is like in night
mode. You go, I cannot see a fucking thing here.
It's crazy. But yeah, that, I think that was
the last. I haven't spoke to you about... That
and Ark Raiders. Ark Raiders? Ark Raiders. You
was jamming on that, weren't you? Yeah. That's
a good game, man. That's a good game. I'm passive.
I won't lie to you. That's not like you. But
you're scared that you don't want to lose your
loot, so that's why. Yeah, what I did is... Don't
shoot! I was very... No, I used voice. Did you?
I speak. So my very first game, there was this
northern geezer. I say Northern. You told me
this story. Steph was telling you to shoot him.
I say Northern. He's from Liverpool. Yeah, that's
Northern, isn't it? Yeah, but I feel like they've
got their own demographic to be called Liverpudlians
rather than Northerners. They're not Northern.
They're not English. They're Scousers. Scousers.
And I was at the edge of the map and without
realising... I had the AI voice changer thing
on, so my voice was actually coming out as a
woman. How the fuck do you do that? It's got
AI voice changer on it, so there's like 10 different
voices that you can pick. Oh, that's mad. Yeah,
so it'll change your... That's hilarious that
you come out as a woman. So the geezer kept saying
I was coming out like a chipmunk, and he didn't
actually realise I was a geezer until I turned
it off, because me and him, he started shooting
me on sight, and we was in like this weird hut.
thing on a cliff face and where he shot me it
panicked me and I jumped out the window but where
I jumped I should have fallen to my death but
I didn't I landed on a little bit of this cliff
and was under the hut so he couldn't get to me
but obviously the voice chat is proximity so
he knows I'm there and can hear me And I'm kicking
off of him. I'm like, fucking, I was like, it's
my first fucking game. I was like, you just shoot
on sight. Obviously not realising that I've got
the voice changer on. So he, when he told me,
he's like, you sound like a chipmunk. So he's
just heard this high pitched woman's voice. You
fucking can't fucking kill me. So I'm kicking
off him. And I was like, what are you doing?
And he was like, I'm going to kill you. I'm going
to kill you. I was like, don't. I said, I ain't
fucking got anything. And then. And then I said
to him, because I could hear his accent, I was
like, you're fucking Scouse, isn't you? I said,
you're dirty. So I started kicking off with him
about him being from fucking Liverpool. And then
he realised, he was like, you've got that voice
changer on, isn't you? He was like, you've got
it on. So I turned it off and then started talking.
He was like, ah, you're a fucking bloke. He was
like, I didn't realise. So I started saying to
him, I'm going to come up there and suck your
cock. So I went full ham. I was like, you're
going to be my boyfriend. I'm coming after you.
I was like, but at the same time, I was saying
to him, don't kill me. Please. And I basically,
he couldn't figure out how to get to me. He was
firing grenades, all sorts of shit. And I said
to him, I've got nothing. I said, you're wasting
your time. And then I managed to get myself to
another ledge where basically he was standing
at the doorway of this hut and I was down the
cliff. And it turns out I was millimeters away
from being out of bounds. So if I'd have like
stepped back a bit further, I'd have just been
dead. And he was like, he was like, how the fuck
have you got down there? And I was like, I don't
know. I was like, look, you can kill me. I was
like, but you're not going to be able to get
anything off of me. So I was like, let's get
to a truce here. I was like, I'm not going to
do anything to you because I can't. So I was
like, let's just fucking call it quits. I'll
stop saying I'm going to suck you off. And then
we can just go our separate ways. And he was
like, yeah, no fairs. I agree. Let's do that.
And while I'm trying to jump up to him, he's
aiming his gun at me. And I was like, don't do
it. I said, just don't do it. I said, this is
pointless. This is frivolous. Frivolous. And
then he didn't. But when I got up there, out
of nowhere, this fucking Greek geezer comes out
of nowhere, fucking just starts throwing stuff
at us and talking to us. He's like, I can't do
a Greek accent, so I won't bother. But he was
like, oh, do you need anything? And he gave me
a gun and a load of bullets. I was waiting for
that. That look. He gave me a gun and some bullets.
And yeah, Steph was sat next to me the whole
time. She was like, just shoot him. She was like,
just shoot him. And I was like, I can't do it.
I said, I can't do it. And I didn't. We went
our separate ways. I see the Greek geezer again
halfway through the game. Got some random bullshit.
I was learning. how the game works and now i
now i know um and then yeah fucking escaped evacuated
fucking whatever it's called um back to speranza
and uh played a couple of games with mark later
on um and that was fun because me and me and
mark playing together are very not passive number
one we saw a friendly fire was a thing it isn't
But when you shoot someone, it does still give
the blood splatters and stuff. So that's good
for us because it means that we can get through
as a full team. But what's funny is the proximity
chat. I've never really played a game where proximity
chat is there to that extent. You can get flutes
and guitars and shit. So I'm just walking around
with a flute, playing the flute with proximity
chat on. And yeah, the pair of us are just playing.
very passive and the matchmaking is very very
clever because it puts you with other passive
players so if you don't kill people it will matchmake
you with people who also are playing a similar
style I then played with Jay me, Jay and Mark
who isn't passive so he starts shooting people
by the way he doesn't listen to this he's fucking
useless dog shit Right? We'll ignore the fact
that it was a three -man squad. Me, Mark and
Jay. I died instantly when we come across another
team. Right? But that's by the by. Because when
I died, I started viewing Mark playing and he
was having a full -on gunfight with three people.
Like, full -on, what the fuck is going on? Holding
his own. I switched over to Jay. The cunt's looting
in a completely different room. Classic. Completely
different room. He's just looting. And I said
to him, I said, Jay, I said, fucking help him.
And he was like, oh, I just got to loot this
quick. And then he's standing there and he's
like, oh, I can't see him. Bearing in mind Mark's
name is fucking there in a different room. And
I was like, he's fucking in the other room. So
Jay's then. Done the most ridiculous thing ever,
and I've never seen someone be so fucking useless
in that Mark's in one room, right? Imagine he's
in this room, yeah, and the people that he's
shooting at are in the kitchen, right? So you've
got a doorway. So he's shooting at them. Jay's
come into the same room that Mark is in, right?
Takes one shot, so then goes, right, well, I'm
going to flank them. For reasons I don't know.
So then runs out of that room and then goes the
entire way round the building to the other side
of this room. Bearing in mind there was a corridor
right there so he could have just gone out, corridor,
boom, I'm with him. He's taken the fucking longest
way. Whilst he's doing that, Mark's getting absolutely
banged up. I think Mark managed to pop one of
them and then Jay's finally made it round. It's
in the other fucking doorway now with these other
people. They've pushed Mark, so we're now with
Mark. And all I've seen from Jay's angle is he's
looked down this corridor, seen Mark. Mark gets
shot in the face, drops down dead. And as he
drops down, the person that killed him is standing
there and is revealed as Mark drops down. Jay
turns around and carries on walking. He goes,
I can't find him. I'm shouting at him at this
point. I was like, what do you fucking mean?
I said, he's there. I was like, you just watched
him kill Mark. I was like, he's fucking there.
Didn't realise it turns out that once you're
dead, you can't talk to anyone. Like, it cuts
out your in -game voice thing. Or there's something
where you can't... I could be wrong, but... either
way he couldn't hear me for like half of what
was going on so I was basically shouting into
nothingness and then yeah he died and there we
go I think Jay's played it quite a lot more now
and has a load of cool loot and shit and that's
the problem with it is that you get some cool
shit and you go I don't want to use it I don't
want to use any of this and that's my problem
with it I've only been hostile once and I don't
know why I did it it was just me and Mark playing
duos and I saw this duo running off and I thought
I just want to kill them We was on three loadouts.
So that's fair game. I don't care. And I had
nothing at the time. So shot them. And then they
retaliated. And then we actually killed them.
And there's something primal because I'm playing
passive. I'll give people a fair chance. But
when they were crawling around on their knees,
helpless, knowing that we were the reason they
were downed. And the only fucking people that
could get them back up. All the power was in
our own hands. So we were awful to them. Awful.
Knocked them out, took their shit, and fucking
got out of there. But it's just something about
it. When, like, what's that fucking... There's
that clip on... pub g when that geezer's in in
in a room and there's another geezer runs in
and starts shooting him with a shotgun he's like
no no no please don't do it don't do it and then
kills him and then as he kills him someone else
jumps through a window and starts shooting him
and he spins around he's like no no no please
don't do it it's like he's doing exactly what's
just fucking happened to you um There's something
about it where I don't want people shooting me,
but I'm going to fucking shoot them. If you shoot
me, you're a dickhead. Why are you shooting?
Yeah, what are you doing that for? Fucking playing
a game like that. But I want to do it. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. I haven't done it a whole lot, if
I'm honest. I've also done it. Me and Clarkie
were running down in this building, went up some
stairs, and I opened this door, and the doors
slide open. But as my doors opened, at the end
of this really long corridor, them doors have
opened but mine opened first so i ducked in behind
like the side he obviously didn't see me so he's
just come there's two of them but the other geezer
was in another room further back i saw him run
past so this geezer's just sprinting down this
hallway and and we hadn't shot anyone at that
point we've been the same passive and i was just
like if i shoot this guy There's literally nowhere
he can go. And he doesn't know I'm here because
he's just, if he does, he's stupid because he's
just sprinting down this hallway. And it just
took over me. And I just come around the corner
like Bruce Willis in Die Hard. And you see him
like panic and just like run into a wall for
a second because he just doesn't know where he
is, where cover is, why, because he wasn't expecting
it. And yeah, I shot the shit out of him and
his mate. And yeah, and then I felt great. Yeah.
And then it happened again where we were on the
sandy map. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Buried city. Yeah,
and there was one of them massive fucking...
crawly tanky spidery things not the big fucking
tank but another one with like a shell on it
kind of thing like a crab thing yeah and we could
hear all the kerfuffle for ages and then we found
like two geezers up on a ledge in this building
with blown out windows just they obviously knew
what they were doing they were professionals
just fucking throwing grenades at them bang bang
bang not getting hit by this thing and Clark
was like should we help them I was like yeah
yeah let's help them And then I snuck up behind
them and they didn't know he was there and they
were like shooting down. And I was like, because
we were in party chat, I was like, I don't know
if I want to help them. What I think I want to
do is wait until they've killed this thing with
all their resources and then kill them. And then
kill them, yeah. So what happened was they blew
this thing up. One of them jumped down. And as
soon as he jumped down, we shot the shit out
of the one that was still standing there. He
went down, fell out the window. His mates just
fucking panicked and ran off. So we've shot the
geezer that was downed. Then two other people
came running up the stairs. And I was like, friendly,
friendly. And they was like, yeah, friendly,
friendly. Don't shoot. Yeah, don't shoot, don't
shoot. And they're like, yeah, yeah, no shooting,
no shooting. It's like, sweet. So then we've
jumped down and started looting. And then fucking
geezer's mate was obviously fuming. That he spent
an entire map with his mate shooting that thing
that I'm there cutting bits off this fucking
metal crab. It just popped me and just killed
me. That's the way it goes, man. It was devastating.
But I was so angry that he shot me. I was fuming.
I don't think I've played it since. I was so
angry. I was like, but I've got no right to be.
No. No right at all. I killed his mate. They
were probably friendly. They probably would have
shared some of the loot so I couldn't carry it
all. You know? But there I was, greedy, thinking,
no, I want all of this. That's how the world
works. And the matchmaking system puts all of
those people in the same fucking place and goes,
right, we'll have it out then. You want to be
like that, you have it out and see what happens.
Don't worry about the fucking robots running
around. You're going to tear each other apart
for a fucking bit of plastic and a tub of oil.
You crack on, mate. but the trouble is the robots
are fucking dangerous they're tough man them
rocketeers yeah yeah yeah rocketeers are absolute
me and Mark were in some weird little vault thing
and there was a rocketeer just minding its own
business and for whatever reason I shot it and
it come right for us and then did not leave us
alone and I was like I said to Mark I was like,
I forget that these are AI. Yeah, man. So they're
learning. And that's exactly what I did because
what happened was I kept, obviously it shoots
rockets at you and they fuck you up. But what
they don't do is shoot rockets through the door.
The rockets hit the door and you're sweet. So
every time it was fucking sending its laser at
me getting ready to shoot a rocket, I was just
shutting the door. But what I didn't realise
is that the other door was open. So after about
a solid minute of doing this and every time it
would shoot me, it'd like shoot a rocket. I'd
open the door and fucking shoot it and then close
the door. It fucked off and just went to the
other door and just started shooting at me from
the other door. So now I've got two doors that
I've got to deal with. I was like, you smug little
bastard. Same with the leapers. Mark see a leaper
around the corner and I didn't see it. I see
him run around the corner and then just instantly
sprint back and he was like, nope. He was like,
there's a fucking leaper there. And I was like,
where? And he was like, on the side of the building.
The fucking thing had learnt to walk up the buildings.
Oh, mate. I was like, nah. They're scary enough.
These are like spiders. What do you call two
leapers together? Duo leapers. Yeah. Just made
that up. Good, innit? You got it. Ruined it a
little bit. Sorry. They're awful things. Yeah,
they are terrifying. Great game, though. Really,
really good. Have you been in any of the keycarded
areas and stuff? Yeah. Me and Clark, he got keycarded
by YouTube where it was. Went up this fucking
lift shaft. Got shot the shit out of fucking
one of these turrets. But on the way in the building,
these guys were like, don't shoot, don't shoot.
And then they're talking. They're like, oh, do
you know? No, they were at their door. That's
what they were doing. They were like, oh, do
you know where the key card is? Obviously, they
were new as well. I just used the in -game chat.
No, no. See you later, guys. And then they ran
off. I was like, sweet. Opened the door. As soon
as I opened it and went in there, they fucking
sprinted back. I was so angry that they were
using my key card to loot. And I'd never been
in there before, so I was fuming. I got nothing
out of there, just shite. I was pissed. It was
a great game. But I didn't have confidence in
my ability to shoot them and get away with it.
I've got no confidence. I've got none. I can
barely take out a fucking... I can barely do
anything with them. The only gun I can use is
the Rattler. I hate the Rattler. It's the only
gun I can use. The rest I'm so bad with. I quite
like the Faro. Is that the one shot? Yeah, yeah.
You've got to reload after every shot, but I
like it. It's decent. It takes too long, man.
Yeah, I haven't really come across all the guns
yet. I've got a sniper rifle. Yeah, I've got
a sniper. I haven't used it. I just can't. I'm
a shit sniper. I just get the cool stuff and
then just go, right, well, I'm never using this.
Yeah, I know. Which is terrible because I always
have a go at Steph for hoarding stuff. But now
that I know that it can be taken away, this isn't
like the dark zone. This is a little bit more
than the dark zone because this isn't just purely
gear. This is materials. This is valuables that
I need to sell to increase my stack. The amount
of shit I've got in my stash, but I'm like, I
need it. At some point, I'm going to need all
this plastic. I've got like 200 bits of plastic.
I'm not going to need them, but I will. And you're
like, I've got no space left. Yeah. Mark. Yeah,
I've got nothing left. And you go, I ain't got
enough space for a free loadout because I've
fucking filled mine up with all sorts of shit.
All the ducks and fucking random stuff. I know
how Jay was sweating it because he sent a picture
through of all of his gear and the cunt had like
220 spaces in his stash. I went, you fucking
sweat. I was like, it's going to cost me 90 grand.
I'm not even at 200 yet. And you're fucking sat
there at 220, you greedy little bastard. that's
good though that's what you need to spend it
on just filled with shit I had one of my other
mates Owen he got the what gun did he get it's
one where it only works on AI the hole cracker
and it just fires explosive projectiles that
only detonate when hitting arc yeah and that's
a purple gun it just looks fucking hard yeah
sick I'd be like that's great but I'll never
use it yeah because I'm either going to die to
the robots or someone's going to shoot me I can
understand Before playing the game, when people
were whinging saying they wanted a PVE mode,
and I was like, it's an extraction shooter, that's
part of it. And I still stand by that, but I
do understand where people were coming from,
where they say, oh, just make it PVE only. I
do get that because it is a hell of a lot of
fun, but I feel like the reason why it is so
fun is because you've got that danger of this
can be stripped from me by someone else. It's
just through pure... Pure... niceness that that
I'm not having to battle people I've never seen
a community do that I've never seen a community
of players be like a majority passive and kind
I think it's because they've got stuff to lose
too it's like a bunch of it's like it's like
a load of homeless people have all been given
a loaf of bread and then someone's walked in
the middle without a loaf and everyone's all
huddling away going no no no no leave my loaf
alone please but I don't want to attack you for
it Yeah. I don't know why I've gone with homeless
people and loaves of bread. I could have picked
that with anything. Yeah. To be fair, you could.
Good game. We'll leave it there because I need
a piss. Yeah, I need a piss. Right. See you later,
everyone. Ooroo. Ooroo.