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Hello
Welcome to episode 39. Mmm. What's the buttons podcast? I am your host Ashley
So Saturday so this feels fucking weird it's cold in here
I'm hungry
Let's
Think I'm dying what's that pain you get in the side. It's just like one of your organs is gonna shut down
Liver failure. Yeah, I think I got that one
One of the something hurts can have that one call an ambulance. Mmm. No, no, you're fine, bro
You got coffee. You got water. You got your vape juice
Your sweet is enough got that healthy shit. I got my fucking monster punch
We're all sorted. Mmm. We join you on a Saturday afternoon
Yeah, sorry about that. My brother selfishly decided to get married on a Friday motherfucker
which threw plans all over the place and obviously Steph was busy doing other more important things and
Here we are on Saturday. It's just how it be sometimes. Can't make it work. No one's gonna fucking notice. No
No one gives a fuck
Who cares who cares
But yeah, nevertheless here we are. So welcome back. Thank you
Welcome back. Thanks to all the patrons as usual
Thanks for your questions and messages and all your love so many messages is delightful
I really think I might die here. So you know, it's now you're right
Make it for the next hour and then you can die in peace. Okay, it'll be fine mission accepted
So let's kick shit off with
I don't know anything about it. So this is all on you Diablo for
You're assuming that I know anything about well, you've been playing
Did you buy the KFC I fucking pre-ordered it and I got I see that I
Knew it ages ago. If you pre-order Diablo for you got a cool mount in World of Warcraft and I see it flying around
I was like fuck it. I'll have some of that but I thought you had to
get like the the
The top tier edition to get hold of it, but you didn't it was any it was any addition
So I paid sixty quid got me all pre-order got me mount and then the beta went you get early access to the beta
If you pre-ordered it the beta for everyone else goes live on the 24th of this month
Until the 26th. So it's only two days. Whereas if you pre-ordered it you got it on the 17th
So yeah brings until the end or just it stops after the weekend I
Think that's it you 26th and that's it. No, so you can play it from 17th to 26th. Yeah. Yeah. Oh nice
I didn't realize I thought it was just the weekend then the weekend 17th to the 26th and then you can get up to level
25
You do the prologue and then act one
And that's that's the limitations of where you can go in terms of like exploration
I think you're still limited to certain zones
But I don't know if it's sort of like you hit level 25 and do act one and then it just can't do anymore
Like stops you from playing. I think you can just mooch about and do whatever you want to do
Obviously you can play you can play the different classes
So from if memory serves me correctly
You got barbarian
Necromancer the druid
sorcerer
fucking
Is it rogue? I think it might be rogue or hunter. Well, I can't remember what though what they're called
But I'm playing as a sorcerer the druid and the necromancer are locked off at the moment
You can't play them. So I'm gonna assume that they're still working on their more. They're just not required for the better
I don't know
But I logged in yesterday had to wait an hour and a half pretty much to get in because there's a massive massive queue
But once I got in it's decent man. I like it. It's good fun
I don't know what the fuck's going on. I won't lie. I have I have no clue. I
Don't know what gear is good. What gear isn't obviously I got some what a bit of knowledge from World of Warcraft in terms of stats
and shit like that, but
From the couple of hours that I've played so far seems very promising seems very very very fun
It basically you played Diablo immortal didn't you for a little bit? Yeah, I played Diablo 3 a lot more than
More. Yeah, it's very well, obviously it's it's similar
But just just very fun graphically. It looks really good. The character customizations are really fucking cool
All the different hairstyles and the the body tattoos you can get you can make your gaze look real fucking decent
So yeah, it's it's sort of I've got I got high hopes for this one it comes out on June 6th
I believe whether it gets delayed or not. I'm not 100% sure. I'm hoping that it doesn't so there's still a bit of a
Wait for it to fully release
But 100% I think it's it's decent man. It feels good. It feels good to play
Abilities feel fun. It looks fucking fun. Like I said, I don't really know what's going on though
Diablo 3 was a was a fun game, but I didn't really understand really what I was doing now
I'm more accustomed to them kind of games. I think I'll enjoy Diablo 4 a lot more
Yeah, cuz it's on console. Oh, yeah, it's on it's on
PlayStation it's on Xbox
It's not coming to switch or anything like that
but it
it definitely
feels like the kind of game where you can either
Put a shit ton of hours into it and be top tier or you can play it very casually if you wanted to
If that makes sense
Yeah, it just I I haven't felt a connection yet in turn like we're playing it like I don't feel I haven't been
Invested in the story or anything like that with cutscenes and stuff is as long dialogue
I found myself skipping through it because I'm just sort of not interested
But I don't know whether that's because of how I play games or if it's the game itself that just isn't intriguing me in that sense
The cutscenes are cool. Like the prologue the first opening scenes very gory very like yeah
It looks it looks very good
So yeah, I wish
I'd have a shit time more to talk about it, but you sort of caught me as I was playing it
So I've come off
So I'll have even more to talk about next week when I actually have hit the max level of it and shit like that
Yeah, I like Diablo 3. I like the look at Diablo 4
I'm hearing glowing reports from people that are playing it. So it looks very exciting
I love loot games. It's
Exactly why I love destiny too so much. So you still get that like cuz obviously is
Getting like a little like I've got a couple of pieces of legendary gear
I know that in like in World of Warcraft terms having legend having a piece of legendary gear was like
Oh fucking hell like the drop chance of it is so fucking low
Well, as I know on Diablo, it's different that you you get legendary gear as I'm wearing and it's quite more frequent than than anything else
And you can upgrade it easily and blah blah blah
But it still has that little zing to it when you get a decent drop out of nowhere
And I think because I don't really understand the game
I'm killing shit and I've got like two or three pieces of gear that are legendary and
Even though I don't really know what's going on just having that type of gear drop is still like oh fuck an arrow
This is cool and then upgrading it and I think the the the talent trees on it are very cool as well
I'd like I can't wait to delve into that because it seems like there's quite a lot of different builds that you could do and
different talents and
Different cut different play styles like defensively and you've got shit with shields or you've got shit where you can fucking smash into people
It seems quite interesting. So I know that when it fully releases there'll be guides on
What's the best fucking build for this and blah blah blah blah blah
Yeah, I can't wait for druid and necromancer to to unlock
I don't know whether they're actually unlocking in this beta or or or not
But I wanted to play as the druid because when you load it and you've got them all standing there and the druid standing there
We're two massive fucking wolf sitting next to it. I was I want that I want to I want that shit
I want that inside me looks very cool. So
I
Started off as a sorcerer because I always go for the melee class. I always go for the warrior the the warrior
why because it's fucks can't help it the warrior barbarian type fucking hack and slash geezer and
recently I've sort of tried to
steer away from that kind of play style and go more into the range type of thing and exactly the same as you any option where
They're like sword or magical bow sword, please sword
Oh my whole Wow career has been melee based whereas now
I'm going towards the the the range side of it just for a different feel
So I thought I'd do this on Diablo as well. So I picked the sorcerer
Very very very fun. And then I thought I'll fuck it
I'll make a barbarian as well just to see what they're like made him look like Thor
From Ragnarok and then even named him Thor which was crazy. I didn't realize you could fuck out for someone would have taken that by now
I didn't like it. I just didn't like it that hacking and slashing
I feel being a sorcerer just felt way more fun. It feels fucking overpowered being a sorcerer
I've got this ability like a lightning bolt thing, but it ricochets off of enemies and it just
Zing-zing-zing-zing just one shots things. I've got this ability where you can summon four fucking
Fire breathing dragon heads out the ground and they'll just spit fucking fire at things randomly
It just feels it feels good man
basically for Voldemort
pretty much yeah, because you can
Wear wear like if you looked at something like World of Warcraft to say a mage, which is a sorcerer on Diablo
You have your your talent tree. So in where you have arcane frost and fire you pick one of those trees
And that's what you are all your spells will orientate around that specific type of thing
Whereas what it seems like on Diablo you can mix and match it all so it has the fire frost and then lightning
But you can you can have like
Lightning bolt and then fire bolt if you wanted to and then it further down the tier
You can have a fucking frost shield if you wanted to all the fucking dragons that come out the ground
It seems very you haven't got to stick to that one
specific path
Which feels very cool?
I like that aspect and I'm sure it's the same with the barbarians as well. You think fucking like
Viking
Berserker type where it's two two axes and then that's it not fucking barbarians in this you can have two axes a massive fucking sledge
Hammer on your back and then another weapon
I think it's four weapons you can have on the go as a barbarian and you can swap between them all so they look fucking
cool
It's just a very I
Think everyone's gonna like it anyone that picks this game up is gonna enjoy it
With regards to the legendary gear about it being special in Wow in Diablo
It's different in it because you're not just searching for a very yeah, you're searching for legendary gear with whilst they might be more frequent
Yes, but you're looking for certain roles of equipment. You're looking for god roles. Yeah, you're not just looking for
Oh, yeah, I've got the legendary game
But I hasn't got the stats that I want and then deep into the end game where you can go into like I don't know
It's called chaos mode and endless mode and we have a
Torment mode or whatever you can change shit around where the real end game is you can use like rune words
And you've got affixes that you can equip to certain gear and things like that
The end game is not obviously where you're at now
But no, no, no about the gear about gear and then and then the minute details of each piece and what you're gonna do
With it, etc. Yeah, it's
The the gearing side of it is is completely different to what I'm used to and I think that's the bit that I will
Will somewhat struggle most with with getting to grips with
Because like you say World of Warcraft is very much there are certain bits of gear where the stats do change
But generally when you hit that that high end and end game
Gearing it is the gear that you're looking at the stats aren't changing
You can add shit to it, but that specific gear
It's not like you're gonna get one with I don't know
200 crit and then you can get the same thing drop and it'll have 200 haste instead. No, it's good
It's gonna be that is what it is
so yeah, like you say the the fact that you can have gear drop and it have different stats and you can change it all
Around and shit like that. It's gonna be quite a bit to get used to I'm fucking looking forward to the fact that you can
Do this and it's not gonna be fucking pay-to-win like Diablo immortal
You know, I think that's why I don't like I love spending money in computer games
I don't like spending money computer games to feel I have to or need to I like oh, there's a there's a wolf hat
I want it. Yeah. Yeah, that's good on that cosmetic. Yeah, I don't mind doing that
I like because it's gonna have I think he's gonna have battle passes or season passes. Yeah. Yeah, I'm all up for that
I love cosmetics. I love it
I love battle passes because I like grinding them and getting rewards and then then rewards won't come back again
So that FOMO effect of are you ain't gonna be able to ever get this?
Yeah, I like that but when it's like you say, yeah
You have to spend you know 50 quid to open these runes and see if you get a rare drop enough
I call that yeah
Yeah, you got to spend X amount of money to be able to upgrade your gear when you because I was explained to someone at work
who's
He's massively into Diablo
And
he
He like from Diablo one who you like Diablo free, but he says like Diablo one and two were like his top tier
he's quite a bit older than I am and
He was saying that he really liked Diablo immortal, but he never got to the end of it
And I think I had a hand in putting him off of it because obviously I double immortal
I hit max level and then I hit that paywall
Rather quickly and that just pissed me off man that you you did that usual well into it. Yeah
Yeah, we went to fucking Lanzarote and just stayed in the hotel playing Diablo immortal. We were so over it and
Just that that and it is it very it was pay to win because I said it is
It sucks the fun out of it when you know that you could get matched with someone
Who might not have the same skill level as you might be fucking worse at the game than you are?
But they've paid to have the better stats than you've got so they're gonna outperform you I don't like that shit
You shouldn't you shouldn't be able to in a competitive format
You shouldn't be able to pay to have better gear which which?
Creates a skill gap in favor of the person who's actually shitter than you are I don't like that sucks the fun out of it
It's very boring
And I bet they can't they're not doing that in Diablo 4 and they can't do that in Diablo 4 because there's a fucking 60
Quid price tag attached to the game. Could you imagine you pay 60 quid for the game and it's paid to win. Fuck me
You go mental with it. That's what happened to Star Wars Battlefront 2 and it died
It's bullshit. It's absolute bullshit that that pay to win stuff is a game killer 100%
Unless you release it for free then it's a different story. But even then I think people are over it
I think people are much more in my camp in terms of people don't mind spending money on optional things because also it's optional
You don't need to yeah
You want to you can and people like having cool looking stuff from people will yeah
You don't need to put on this pay to win stuff
And I don't think because obviously the pay to win aspect in a lot of mobile games and and other games similar. They're
Catered towards Wales what they call them. Well Wales. Yeah, spunk thousands of pounds and they could put 20 grand to get max level
I don't think catering to Wales for pay to win models is gonna
Gain you more money in the long run as opposed to just having
Cosmetics that people will buy for a long period of time over many years and just keep drip-feeding that
I don't think the way will spend in X amount because the Wales will get bored and move on to the next big thing
Of course there will whereas people like plodding along with games like this will just keep
If you've got if you've got one if you've got a if you've got something that's gonna cost
I know it isn't but if you've got something that cost say five grand and
There's only ten people that play your game that will be able to have that can afford to just spend five grand on something
but the other
fucking million people haven't got the funds to spat to pay that or
You have a cosmetic that's gonna cost a fiverr
Well that one million people chances are about half of them
Maybe more are gonna be able to spend the five quid on that cosmetic
So that yeah, you're right you you've then made more money by having something that's very small
But in a much larger quantity than this massive thing that only fucking a handful of people can buy and you'll get a lot more
People willing to carry on playing the game. You won't get this media backlash people just be happy to plod along
I mean if Diablo 4 comes out and it's
And it's sick and I love it and they'll basically become a subscription for me every time there's a season pass
I'll buy it. Yeah, and I just need to play and you got you got
You got company like Blizzard behind it that are extremely good at making
cosmetics they
They're their art department are fucking top-notch when it comes to design and stuff like that and Diablo is
It looks fucking incredible and they've always made decent outfits
so their capability to make cause like pay
Cosmetics is uncapped. They'll make some seriously cool looking shit and it and just from the little bits of gear that I've got already
My I think my guy looks sick. He's just wearing some random shit
But he's got a cape on a cool fucking like wolf on his head and all sorts of shit
He just he just looks fucking cool. So yeah 100% I'll be reviewing that one when it comes out. Yeah, you're damn, right
I'll be fucking paying for the season pass and all that shit and any other fucking cosmetic that comes out because I want to any
RPG fan knows that it doesn't matter what the stats are if it looks better is getting worn. I'm having it
Yeah, I'm not mixed matching with shit gear because it's got better stats
If if I can get like a black hood and cape and I'm aware it has it has a transmog system. Yeah
That's what you want exactly when that when because World of Warcraft never used to have transmogrification
it was it was it was a
couple of
expansions in is when they released it and it was such a game changer because
You you had people doing that they were wearing specific gear because it looked cool
rather than choosing the gear that looked fucking awful because the stats were higher and once you bring out the capability to
Change the appearance of your gear
then it makes the game so much more playable and enjoyable because your character looks fucking sick and you can have the best gear possible for
that character without
Suffering the fact that you might have I don't know. I don't fucking know like a helmet
But this is a top hat rather than like some fucking evil dragon skull
It's transmog is so cool. I'm glad that other games are starting to implement that into this
This one's like with Hogwarts legacy. Even Hogwarts has had it in it. So it's pretty much industry across the board now
It's a it's a smart idea one. I mean
we've like wow, so
I like I've spent quite a decent amount of money on on transmog like getting
Achievements and shit like that. I think one gripe I have when it comes to things like wow
And I think Diablo might do the same thing. I haven't checked it yet is charging you in-game currency to do a transmog
It's the same as destiny 2 but whilst
Whilst it's not the most ideal thing it also in a strange roundabout way for me adds more content because now
Something else to go out and do something else to go and grind for I want the resources
To change this stupid top hat into this skull mask
Yeah, so I'll go out and kill these bosses and collect these bits and go back and then I feel rewarded for my effort
Because now I don't have to wear that stupid top hat
I think my one with wow is that you can you can set you can save sets
So you can create little things and like little outfits and stuff like that and then you can save them and I've always felt
If I create a set
Transmog it I save that set so I paid the money to change into it
I shouldn't have to pay the money again to change into it if I had if I change my gear again because I've already fucking
Paid and saved it, but it's not mega expensive. It's fucking you're talking pennies
It's just a little gripe that I have I don't know whether Diablo does it like say
I know you can transmog on it because it even fucking tells you you can but I just haven't done it yet
I haven't I don't actually have any gear that I
I think I do now but when I first checked it like the wardrobe or whatever
I didn't have fucking there was nothing in there that I could I could transmog to if I get a car seat on the way
I'm can I get this Diablo better? I
Don't know. I think I don't know
Honestly, I haven't got a clue. I'm pretty sure you have to buy like a double down burger or something
Shit, it's something called like that and then you can get a code for the double down
Burger because I'm I will buy it. I like Diablo 3
I never played Diablo 2 but I like Diablo 3 now
I have an understanding of what that sort of game is because I was when I played Diablo 3
I was more like I don't know Skyrim and Mass Effect. I was more like story based and like you I was just like what is this?
It's not really you're not playing that game for story. You're playing it for yeah backstory, but loot
I can slash and look I want loot. I want hard bosses. I want dungeon crawling. That's what the game is
So when I was playing it was like what and also didn't like the fact that I was changing my weapon every five minutes
But obviously knowing now when that's just the way it is until you get late game
And then you stick with the same way until you get that god roll and you know, oh my god
You know
So now I understand how that works and you can you can upgrade your weapon and your gear very early on like I've already
Upgraded a couple of bits because I didn't want to get rid of them
So it does seem like you won't be just constantly swapping out a lot of stuff
There's a there's not much more satisfying in gaming in general than smashing this boss for fucking 20 minutes
And then he just explodes into loot all over the place golden items inside
My bag yeah, man and going back and breaking them down for
Resources and selling them and basically what you're doing. That's just what I love
I just love that that loop of smashing a boss getting the loop going back
And dismantling stuff selling stuff and just keep I could just do that on games forever
And that's my love destiny the bit that I love about Diablo is that it's not sparse
So it's almost like every like fucking one in five mob that you kill you're getting something out of it
It might be a bit shit, but it's still the the the loot is plentiful
Which I quite like rather than it being something like World of Warcraft where it's only really like the bosses that will drop something
It's very rare that it dropped that shit drops from something else
So I do like that like that aspect of it
I think my plan going forward is to get a cap see on the way home
And if I don't get a beta code
Then I think I'm just gonna reinstall Diablo 3 because I need to get back into that
Access KFC's website open the official KFC app for Android or iOS
Order a double down fried chicken sandwich or look for other meals that have the label Diablo early access in their picture
After your order is finalized you'll receive an early access beta key for Diablo 4 in your email or in KFC's mobile app
There we go, so it's guaranteed there. We go what a decent way to get fucking pay a key. That's so I've spent fucking sixty quid
That's a very cool way to get to get a beta key unless it's handy cuz when I leave you I'm gonna be hungry
And I pass a KFC so winner winner, but I'm gonna be chicken dinner
Fuck
That's cool man, I like that I like that cuz I I
Wonder if they will reach limit because I swear there's only a certain amount of beta keys that you can have or
I suppose maybe not because it's now open beta
Well on the 24th, it'll be open beta rather than closed beta. It's the final stage of it
I mean, it's gonna be you watch you'll get a beta key. It will open up on the 24th
You won't be able to log in because there'll be so many fucking people trying to get on it. There'll be there'll be issues on top of issues
No, I think you can play now for the for the KFC thing
I was listening to a podcast on the way over in my destiny podcast and
The geezer got his beta code from KFC and he's been playing it
Maybe then that's yeah, but at least in your case, you've already got the game now. So when it comes you it's free
It'll feel free. Oh, yeah, it is. So yeah, so you are you're right
However, KFC is also giving out early access in a new promotion any customers who purchased blah blah blah blah
Oh
Oh dear what?
However, KFC is also giving out early access in a new promotion any customers who purchase a double down or any KFC sandwich
via the KFC app or website before March 18th
Will also get Diablo 4 beta early access
I mean is the 18th bear in mind that it is a limited time deal until March 18th and
is not available in restaurants or via third party platforms and
Though the offer is pushing the new double down sandwich according to the website a number of other options will also run access or any better
Hmm. So try your luck basically
well
If I don't get back at least I've had a delicious KFC. So
There is that I just see someone on reddit
I'm from the UK and surly the double down promotion is not being ran here brilliant
Fuck that then
Love KFC. No, yeah. Well try see see they could be wrong. This is just read it
It could be wrong. I don't know
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know
Here we go fellow UK. Here you go. There's a little hack for you fellow from one day ago
Fellow UK player here check the thread further up about pre-ordering on Amazon
De I don't know what D is
Probably a different country or something just did this got the code email to me instantly and then cancel the pre-order
Did it a few times to get my family some codes a little go a little bit ago the trouble is I ain't been
I ain't been spunky here. I'm gonna buy anyway, so it doesn't really matter
I can just buy the game and just be done with it. You know me. Mm-hmm
I don't know what dot de is though. I feel stupid for not knowing that dick ed with an e
Is federal Republic of Germany
So buy a buy it from Amazon in Germany and then you'll get the fucking code then just cancel it sounds like a ball
It does sound like a fucking ball like but what?
There's what what what?
What version did you buy
The standard version. Yeah, see that's the problem. My is I want to get the date the early access
Well, I did get the early access. No, I mean like
Come out days and days early
That's the version I'll be wanting. It's not there. That's not a thing
It is you don't get it days and days early you do
No, you get the beta access early early early, but not the fucking actual release date early
I think you'll find I think you'll find you don't I think you'll find you do four days early access to Diablo 4
With the digital deluxe edition, which is the beta. No, what four days early is that the first one the first one?
No, so there's open beta early access is
tick
Diablo 3 in areas wings and in areas murloc pet world of warcraft
Mount yes, I got Diablo immortal umber wing darkness cosmetic set and up to four days early
Access to Diablo 4 and a temptation mount and a hell-born
Carpets mounting mount armor and premium season battle pass unlock
You've got the normal edition which gives you open beta early access
I don't pan the fucking 80 odd quid for a bit that early. I can't bother
Yeah, but you know you're paying 20 quid for early access and a mount and a mount armor and a season pass
What's the force the addition? I got what do I get you got standard edition?
Yeah, Diablo 4 for battle dotnet. Yeah open beta early access light bear a mount
Diablo 3 in anorous wings and in anorous murloc pet world of warcraft
Warcraft Amalga of rage mount yeah and Diablo immortal umber wing darkness cosmetic set and
Edition also gives you all that plus four days early access to Diablo
I haven't come across my in-game mount for Diablo or that fucking cosmetic set it gives us
So I'm gonna assume I get that on release
Okay, not in the beta
Hold on look there's actual writing here
Which explains each edition comes with some set of bonuses both Diablo 4 and other games from Diablo franchises bladi bladi blah
They're also mega expensive those addition includes bait early access light bear a mount wings
Wings wings wings the digital deluxe of this thing includes everything in the standard as well as up to four days early access to the
Full release of Diablo 4 okay, Mount Hillborn Carpets Mount. Is that the one you're gonna go for them finally the priciest version
I don't know I've got the big balls. I might go for the big ball balls the big real balls
I've got big balls massive balls
Comes with everything listed above one difference instead of the premium season battle pass you'll get the accelerated seasonal battle pass
The only difference is we start with an extra tears
I'm not interested in that yeah
I think I'm gonna go for the middle version so I can play early because the only unfortunate thing with the beta is
None of it carries over which is sad
So it won't carry over to the main game the beta doesn't carry over does it not no I just looked into it
to be fair that does
Somewhat make sense because on the ptr realms for World of Warcraft which is public test realms, which is basically beta
Your progression doesn't carry over from there
You can carry you can copy characters on your main account onto the beta realms
but you can't any progression that's made on those realms cannot be transferred back over to
To wow but it makes sense I guess because then you're just gonna get people
Logging in that are already fucking level 25 and have all of this shit. They've already gone blah blah blah blah blah
So I mean a bait is a bait or in it you're getting a feel for what the game is all about
At least it gives you an idea so that when when the game does come out you already know what you're gonna play
What class this is true Jeff all of that type of shit, so?
Yeah, and I mean I've played for
Fucking hell not long probably like do you know what the sad thing is tell me the initial release date for Diablo 4 was yesterday
Mm-hmm
Fucked up
It doesn't give me a I can confirm by the way because I listened to a
a podcast
Destiny podcast and a guy from IGN works there, and he does a lot of reviews
He's reviewing Diablo 4 and he did say that he can confirm that Diablo 4 will not be delayed because of
In the workings and stuff that he knows that is set in stone. They're really late
So don't you worry about that my little sweet prince unlike some previous Diablo games Diablo 4's cross multi cross play multiplayer
We'll let you team up with your friends even if you all play on different platforms. Yes, and we have the integration of
Discord into the PlayStation that's fabulous. I use that first time of day
I need to turn on my PlayStation to download that cuz I haven't actually done that yet. You don't need to it just works
No, there'll be an update for though. I don't know. I don't remember maybe I didn't even know it was a thing
Yeah, we spoke about yeah, I know
But I was playing destiny on that raid and there was a you got this school and I was like fucking hell
Don't know how to use it. I had it on my phone
Accepted it. They're all coming from a phone and there's a little button that just says switch to PS 5
Yeah, press that bang. It was all come from your phones. So is there an is there an app in?
The PS 5 so you got to do it on your phone and then swap it over on to the that's how I did it
I'm sure there's another way but either way the fact that they've implemented that it now means any cross
play
platformed game
You can speak to them but like but however you want. That's great
It's a game changer. I love that shit game change. It's almost like
Like when we we played
No-man's-sky with Connor and we were all on different shit
Well, no me and you were both on the PlayStation and he was on his fucking PC and we could all talk to each other
I found that crazy just use an in-game chat. I was like, this is fucking incredible might as well not bother
What's that brother Connie a fucking what I got the kind of voice that makes you want to put your head through a wall
Just for a bit of excitement
And I know he's gonna be listening to this and he won't argue because he would agree that he has a very
I'd say soothing but is boring at the same time same with mark very boring voice
Another thing that Diablo 4 does
Go away is um, if I remember correctly after watching some videos go on
Tell me is I don't know if it's in any of the other dad blows but PvP. So that could be tasty. Yeah
Yeah, that will be fucking unfair for people that are on a console like
When we played fucking overwatch
It's not fair whatsoever
I just want to play these fucking druids man. I really want to fucking play the druids. They look sick
They look fucking tasty tasty motherfuckers. Just seeing them wolves just standing next to you
Oh, I wonder if I can get your picture of it got away to the open beta for the jury the necro
It says it is is that is that one? Yeah, I
Thought so. I thought that might be the case, but they look fucking just are
fucking
Yeah, I got too many games man. I
Got get older Diablo. I've got get rid older Zelda. I've got get rid older than new Star Wars game and and now games cost fucking
60 70 80 quids do I mean it's such a clever business model, but scummy all this
Oh buy the extra special edition and get early access if there's an option for early access. I want to play it
I'm impatient
I want to and you think of all them people that do that and how much extra though they make it's genius
But fucking bastards. I know you can't really see the other the first wolf that well, but look
He's got another wolf sitting next to me. Just chill in there with a fucking wolf next to him. He looks hard
Oh, we need to move on so we're still on Diablo and that's we've been on it for so sorry. It's exciting though
Tamas if you're listening get it mate. It's fucking sick. There you go. There's half hour for you
It's up there chubby on the ones and twos. I really need a way have one
Okay
Well you this is your bit
oh
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doing the classic old boots and cats there.
If anyone wants to learn how to beatbox,
just start with boots and cats.
Boots and cats, boots and cats, boots and cats,
boots and cats, that's all I know how to do.
Always wanted to beatbox, can't do it.
Always wanted to juggle, can't do that either.
Some talents, man, some real cool talents.
How do people learn how to juggle?
I'm quite good with hand-eye coordination.
I can't do it for the life of me, not even close.
I can spin a ball on one finger.
I can't re-spin it, but I can spin it once,
quite substantially, and let it fling around on the axis.
Axis.
But yeah, so many cool tricks out there
that I will never be able to achieve,
because I'm just not cool enough.
Here he comes.
Hagrid has returned.
Sorry, sorry.
Valheim released on...
You literally could have spoken about this
whilst I was having a piss.
When you go to the toilet, I hold the fort down
and talk about relevant stuff.
I'm sitting there having a piss,
and all I can hear is you going,
boots and cats, boots and cats.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You need to practice, that was awful.
Well, because who fucking sits there and does that?
Boots and cats, boots and cats.
Shut up, man.
Right, I'm not being funny, but it's a talent.
I wish I could do it.
Anyway, Valheim came out.
I'm going to have Chinese tonight.
On Game Pass.
Mm, early access, I guess.
It's still not the 1.0 edition.
You're liking it, huh?
Been out on the PC for about a year, I think.
Came out to raving reviews,
although obviously not in full release yet, but still.
And yeah, I can safely say,
I can see what all the fuss was about.
I started off a little bit like, what's all the fuss about?
And now I'm like, oh, that's what all the fuss was about.
It is fucking lovely.
You like it, yeah?
I fucking love it.
I'm hooked.
What about it makes you love it?
Because I don't understand it.
But that's what I don't understand
about the fact that you don't understand.
Because it's basically No Man's Sky, but-
Take away all the ships.
Yeah, just World of Warcraft version.
It's collecting resources, it's putting them in places.
It's-
It's building though.
That's what puts me off.
You miss not though.
I don't know where you get this building from.
You can build things, of course you can.
But you don't have to build.
I saw a video of a guy that had built like a wall
with a slope on it.
And he was just sprinting up the slope, hitting this wall.
And it was getting his sprinting skill up.
And then he had built another bit of wood
that was sectioning off.
And it was just enough to stand under it.
And he was just jumping.
And it was leveling up his jumping skill.
Yeah.
Well, that's fucking stupid.
All right, okay.
That's your problem with Valheim, is it?
I just don't like games where you have to build.
Yeah, but you can say-
I don't like them.
But what you've just said is the same,
you could be said about No Man's Sky.
Yeah, but I didn't build in No Man's Sky.
I got my little fucking-
You did though.
Your little city that you had.
And then that was it.
You didn't build anything there.
You did build.
You built on your ships, you built rooms,
you built fucking different things to store stuff in.
That's exactly the same as Valheim.
Yeah, that's true.
You don't have to build like these extravagant things.
Oh, but you do though.
You don't.
I'll tell you what I've done, right?
Tell me, tell me now.
I started the game scared.
Alone.
Frightened.
A little bit frightened.
Horny.
No.
Not so much.
And yeah, it's very simple.
It's very like non-handholdy, which I like.
You have to just figure it out on your own.
It took me a long time to realize,
why can't I craft any of these cool shit?
It's cause I had to interact with the workbench.
I thought you just turn it through the build menu,
but there you go.
I digress.
All I've done is I've wandered around the island.
It's all procedural generated by the way,
so everyone's island's different.
And then-
Yeah, it's like Minecraft in it.
Fuck me, you think it's small, mate.
Zoom out.
Jesus Christ, that's big.
They've all got a seed.
Fuck me, it's massive.
Is it multiplayer?
Yeah, I told you this.
Yeah.
So what I did is I found myself a little place
next to a black forest, so different biomes.
The black forest is like the second zone.
So I found a place right there on a tiny little island
between the black forest, which is the second zone,
as I've just said.
And there's a river between it.
And I built a tiny little, tiny, tiny, tiny little house
next to the river so I can catch fish.
And I have, yeah, I built a tiny house.
I put loads of chests in there and a bed,
just so I can put all my items in there.
So if I die, it's not the end of world.
I've still got backup.
And that's essentially all I've done.
And I go out and I forage for wood.
So what is the point?
Is it like No Man's Sky where there is no point?
You just-
I miss No Man's Sky, I don't know why.
It's a bit of both, man, because there's like-
That's my base.
There's world bait, there's world bosses.
There's bosses that you need to kill.
For example, the boss in the first zone,
I think it's called the meadow,
is like a giant deer, essentially.
So there's a place where you have to summon it.
To get the boss to summon,
you have to collect deer trophies.
And it took me a long time to work that out,
because I didn't know.
It doesn't really tell you that.
It just says offer up a sacrifice,
but it doesn't tell you what you're sacrificing.
Oh, right, so you just gotta figure it out yourself.
Yeah, so I looked at the stone
and it realized that it was a deer.
So I figured it had to be something with a deer.
So I went and killed loads of deer.
Eventually I summoned,
I offered up the trophies of the deer heads,
and lo and behold, the deer fucking monster thing spawned.
Did you kill it?
No, I killed it, yeah.
Took me about 48 attempts.
What I liked was, I built a,
because you can set your own spawn point,
so there's loads of like pre-made little houses
you'll come across.
So I just popped a little bed in one of them
and then activated that as my spawn point.
Summoned the boss, got some of his health down.
He killed me, quickly spawned back
where I just put the bed, ran back.
His health doesn't regenerate.
He can just keep whacking, keep trying and trying.
Problem is with dying is you lose your skills,
your skill points level down.
Oh, you don't lose them all, they're just regressive.
No, yeah, so they punish you by a thing.
But if you die, and you can run back to your body
and get all your items back.
And if you die doing that, it doesn't reset him.
You can just go back and get him.
It doesn't matter, so there's no real like,
oh no, I've lost everything.
So yeah, I died so many times,
but I just kept running back and hitting him
a couple of times, dying, running back, hitting.
But now, I had him nailed down towards the end.
I knew exactly what his pattern was, where he was easy.
But yeah, so I killed the first boss
and now my plan is to go into the,
into Black Forest, which I have.
But there's massive trolls in there.
You're just going around, having a little mooch,
all of a sudden, there's trees falling down,
the screen shaking, there's a fucking giant
almost troll following you.
Nice.
And then you kill them,
and then I got some of his troll fat,
and I made some troll armor.
So now I'm like, armored up.
But what I didn't realize for a very long time
is you can repair items for free.
So I was, so I made, out of killing that first boss,
I got the ability to craft a antler pickaxe
so I could mine ore.
All right, so I was like,
finally I can make some fucking weaponry.
I broke my pickaxe very shortly after that,
and I was so angry, I just dashed it into the water.
What I didn't know is that I could have repaired that.
Now I don't know how to craft another pickaxe
because I don't have any more boss antlers.
So I'm just like, I don't really know what I'm doing now.
Great.
But yeah, so you can literally repair all your buildings,
all your weapons, all your armor at a workbench for free,
which is great.
I'll have to give it another crack
because obviously I tried to play it the other day, didn't I?
And it kept crashing on me.
I couldn't, it would not fucking load up.
It was doing my head in.
But just hearing you talk about it
is making me very much want to play No Man's Sky again.
That's what I mean.
That's what it's got is that really enjoyable thing of,
I don't know why, it's not for everyone,
but there's something really satisfying
about going out, mining a fucking rock,
taking all this fucking ore,
running home and sticking it in your chest
and being like, right, that's my ore chest.
I've got fucking, I've got tin in there.
Well, survival, that's the beauty of survival games
is the accumulation of valuable things.
It's lovely.
It's like DayZ.
There is no point to it, but you just like the fact that
you know that there's other people running around
with fuckholes in their name
and you've got all this weaponry, all this cool shit
and you could kill anyone you wanted.
Maybe I will jump on it.
The graphics look weird.
Yeah, I mean, they look a bit waffy.
Yeah, I don't mind the graphics.
I think they're fine.
But it's not a survival game in the sense of,
oh, I'm really hungry.
I need to eat.
So how that works is your base health will always be 25.
Okay.
But if you like eat cooked meat or something,
it will give you like plus 30 health.
You can eat three different things.
So you can't eat free bits of bacon, for example.
You'd have to eat a bit of bacon, a bit of fucking deer
and a bit of something else.
And it'll give you free buffs.
So your health could be like a hundred and something
depending on how good the meat is.
And then after 25 minutes or however long it lasts,
your health will go back to 25.
It's not like, oh, I'm hungry.
I need to eat.
I'm gonna die.
There ain't none of that.
If you're wet and or cold, it'll come up at the top.
That just means your stamina won't regenerate
really quickly, but there's no,
I'm gonna die of hyperthermia.
So it's not like major.
So it's just buffs and debuffs.
Yeah.
Which is exactly how it fucking should be.
Oh my God.
I hate that shit.
That's the one thing I don't like about No Man's Sky.
Even though by our point, you have an unlimited amount
of resources to the point where it's not an issue,
but that forced having to eat and drink and sleep
and all that bullshit.
Oh, I fucking hate it.
Are you talking about Daisy?
No Man's Sky's got none of that.
No Man's Sky's got that.
You must be playing on like.
No, no, no, no.
I'm not, you're thinking about genuine.
I'm thinking the shield and the,
I forget what it's called when you've got to constantly
recharge that in you and the fucking,
you laser beams and all that type of shit.
There's none of that.
But like, but this is what I mean.
For when you said you don't like building in games,
I'm exactly the same.
I hate building.
It fucking winds me up a boring, it's tedious.
There's something about this game
that makes me want to build.
So I've got my little house.
It's like a very tiny little house, right?
Very small, little fucking, literally it's wood
and then a thatched roof.
That's literally all it was.
That is literally it.
But as I've collected more and more things
and I'm understanding more and more about the game,
what's so funny about that?
Just doing your shitty little fucking wooden house
with your shitty chest filled with ore and broken pickaxes.
This is how dumb I am.
I put a fire indoors in the house
and I thought it's fine.
It's a computer game.
No, burnt that fucker down, did it?
No, it didn't burn it down.
It just smoked me out.
I started fucking dying of smoke inhalation.
It says fucking smoking.
There's just smoke everywhere.
You need like a chimney.
I didn't realize.
I was just like, what's, oh smoke.
And yeah, a couple of times,
because the room's so small,
I ran over the fire and set myself on fire and died.
Yes.
But there's something about the game.
So now for like, I've got loads of chests.
I've got every, I'm proper like meticulous
where I put this in this one, this in this one.
That's my food, that's my ore, that's my metals,
that's my valuables, all that sort of stuff.
But then I've built like spiked fence all round,
like out the front.
So no fucker can get in.
So no one can get in, but I've also got like,
I've got a fire out there with loads of like
things to cook food on.
And I've got log piles.
So if you've got like a stack of 50 log,
you can just turn it into a pile.
So I've got log piles out there.
I've got stone piles out there.
Last night I created a smelter and a forge
so I can now craft decent gear.
I've built little staircase.
I mean, when I say built,
I've literally gone into stairs and gone click, click, click.
So it's not like, it's not difficult.
I've created a little staircase
so I can go to the top of the spiked fence.
And if anyone comes, I've got the arrows.
I'm just pinging them off like,
I'm not talking about other players.
I'm talking about, because every now and again,
like I haven't experienced it, but I've watched videos
and your world can get raided by like enemies
who try and fucking break into your base.
So I've got some defense there.
But I built a boat.
Like I said, I was gonna.
I built a raft.
That took me a while to work out how to sail.
Very simple, but I made a right pig's ear of it
and just kept going around in circles.
I thought, what's going on here?
Am I fucking about with a wind?
I didn't know what was going on, but that's just the knob.
So what was the solution?
I just, I was rowing the wrong way, basically.
So there's, I said,
it doesn't really explain things very well.
But what, so you get on your boat
and you can like operate the back of it.
He was slamming it in reverse.
Yeah, so you can press down to go backwards
and there's a little arrow that comes out.
So you can press up once and it will, or,
so you can go slowly, which is good for turning.
Or you can press it up two more times
and it will get the sail out and you can go,
which is.
And you can really fucking speed it up.
Yeah, it's very obvious what you're doing.
So I had a little sail around on that and that sunk.
What do you mean it sunk?
I panicked and I fucking,
I was trying to get away from something.
You lit a fire.
Yeah, no, I fucking, I pushed it up on a beach
and then I got attacked.
So I ran, went to get back on my boat
and then these monsters came and smashed me up
while I was on the boat and the boat just fucking
disintegrated into a million pieces
and floated down the river.
But I say it weren't a boat, it was just a bit of wood.
It was not, it was just a raft.
There was no boat.
I've seen people with these massive long ships.
I made a raft.
That's great.
That is fan fucking-tastic.
I've seen people with like, and this is what I mean
when I say that makes you want to build
because I've seen people with like
their own little boat ramps and stuff.
So they can push their boat down.
And get it out and all that.
Yeah, and it's so cool.
And, but I thought, why?
I'm not gonna wanna stay here forever.
This is just the starter zone.
But then you, I don't know.
I've stayed away from spoilers cause I really like it.
I don't wanna, I like finding out new things as I'm playing
but I know you can make portals
so you can like transport gear through portals and stuff.
So put a portal in your house,
give it a keyword to the other portal
and you can just go straight into wherever you wanna be.
So it's easy to transfer gear across.
But yeah, you just run around.
There's little dungeons underground.
There's, and you put your own markers down.
Have you come across any other players yet?
No, because it's not, it's not like that.
That's not-
You gotta invite them into your world
or you gotta be invited to their world.
So you could come play in my,
so if I, if you invited me into your game,
I can come with my character
and all my stuff in my inventory.
And then whatever I collect,
say you're in a different biome to me
and I've not been there before.
And I start collecting things I've never collected before.
That all comes back with me.
So if, for example-
That makes sense.
That's how it should be.
So you're running around
and you find a bit of fucking amber on the floor.
You've never seen amber before.
How it works in this game,
you'll pick the amber up.
It'll come up at the top.
You've picked amber up for the first time.
You can now craft this, this, this and this.
That's how you unlock crafting.
For finding it in the open world.
So I was like running into the black forest
before I should be in there really,
trying to find new stuff that I've never found.
Plants and rocks and whatever else.
So I could learn new crafting recipes
just by picking them up.
So that's how it works.
So yeah, everyone's world's different.
There are public servers,
but I haven't obviously looked into going in any of them
because I'm still learning the game.
So I think it would be cool to go into a public server
and play against other people
and have your own little camps and stuff like that.
I'm still- Kind of like Rust.
Yeah, I've never played it,
but yeah, the Rust and Arc and all them ones like that.
But yeah, the general premise of it,
I think you'd like because it is No Man's Sky,
but in a medieval kind of setting, in a Viking setting.
And there is more of a goal in this than No Man's Sky
probably because there's like eight bosses or something
you can kill in each biome.
And there is a underlying story,
but yeah, there are actual bosses to summon and kill.
And yeah, it seems so light on the surface,
but it's so in depth.
And as I said, the biggest praise I can give it
exactly like you, I hate building in games,
but this game makes me want to build.
Not perfect structures, but just,
I wanna build a little boathouse.
I wanna build a little ramp.
I wanna have a big old ship that I can go out and sail on,
all that stuff.
But yeah, they're actual,
that's why I never played Minecraft
because I hate fucking building.
Yeah, my issue with building is that
I'm not artistically minded whatsoever.
I haven't got an eye for the arts.
I'm fucking awful with it.
So you tell me to build something,
well, just like you,
you tell me to build a house
and I'm gonna give you four balls and a roof.
Exactly what? And a door.
Other than that, I'm not gonna be able to give you,
some of the shit you see on No Man's Sky,
some of the bases and stuff on that
and the shit that we've seen and visited.
So I ain't gonna be able to give you that.
So when you say that there's building mechanics
in this game, as long as they're optional, fair play.
I might have a little dabble at it,
but even like the fucking,
the room of requirement in Hogwarts,
yes, I changed the skin of the place
and dotted some things about,
but the fucking like,
where you could put all your pets and shit
and how you could build a lot of stuff,
built fuck all in there, nothing.
Because I can't be bothered.
I'm not interested in it.
So-
But this game for some reason,
maybe it's just me,
but it makes me want to,
makes me wanna expand things and,
Yeah.
And like I say, cause you're unlocking more
and more things.
Obviously there is some elements of building
that you have to do.
For example, you have to have a roof over your bed.
So you have to build some sort of shelter for it.
Otherwise your bed won't work.
Yeah.
But like building forges and stuff is simple as,
oh, I've got enough material to build a forge.
Let me select it, rotate it where I want it
and click it and it's done.
You know what I mean?
Oh, it needs coal.
Okay, how do I get coal?
I overcook food or I put wood in this and it makes coal.
And it's just that constant, yesterday I had one machine,
I was putting wood in, it was giving me coal.
And then I was taking that coal
and putting it into the other machine
that I was putting my tin ore in to create tin.
And it was just like this little flow of my resources,
making something more valuable and useful.
And now I've got loads of tin and copper
to actually use to build.
That sounds interesting.
Maybe I'll give it another go.
It's just the resources.
I love resource management stuff and collecting.
I'm surprised you don't play more life simulators really.
Yeah, but I like, the trouble is
if there's one thing I could change about No Man's Sky
is I'd like there to be actual combat.
I wish there was like,
I wish I could shoot alien motherfuckers.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't like it, it's just all them fucking-
Sentinels.
Yeah, I want it to be aliens.
I want aliens to land on me and like-
No Man's Sky, obviously we've got some fucking cool shit
on there like the freighter and then you get the,
forgive me, I really can't remember the names of them,
but the one where, remember when I made that big
bionic suit thing.
Yeah, they were so meh.
Yeah, yeah, and then you can upgrade it to a point
where it will operate itself.
And if you have an upgrade for the freighter,
wherever your freighter is,
that thing you can fucking call it in and it will,
but the mechanics of it sort of didn't work
because I had a thing where it would protect you
and it would go out and it would mine itself
and do everything on its own accord
or you could fucking ride it if you wanted to.
And it just would never do anything of its own accord.
It would just follow me around and do fuck all,
but very, very cool.
This game's got that.
But yeah, I want the combat.
Plus it's got combat.
There's constant fucking annoying little gremlins
coming up to me.
There's trolls, there's skeletons,
and I've only seen like the most basic enemies,
like Shaman and shit.
And that's what you want, yeah, you want the combat
because with No Man's Sky, like we say,
you've got the Sentinels which is basically
like your wanted level, but they're not,
it's nothing incredible.
You can blow other people up.
You can start having dogfights with other actual players
and shit like that, but as far as jumping out your ship
and attacking shit that's attacking you,
it's just little fucking Daleks running around.
It ain't exciting.
I want to pull up on a base and see loads of aliens there
and just be like, oh, I'm gonna kill all these
and take all their stuff.
But there's not that where here is,
like I say, there's all that and more.
And I've looked on Reddit and people,
because obviously there's a lot of new players coming in
on the Xbox because it's only just come out on console.
And people saying, where do I start?
And people are like, mate, 200 hours in
and you ain't even scratching the surface.
This game is fucking something else.
Something else, you know what I mean?
It's essentially never ending
and you're just always discovering new stuff.
And a common meme I'm seeing is people saying,
if you come across a really sunny, beautiful looking biome,
100% go in there, there's definitely not something
that's gonna kill you instantly.
As soon as you walk in there and destroy everything
you've ever loved.
And yeah, I don't know what it is,
but I'm excited to find that biome
and have a look and see what this fucking monster is
that's gonna spawn.
So yeah, it's just a, if you like No Man's Sky,
I think it's right up your street
because obviously take away the space
and the ships and stuff, but you can make carts
to get to like push your gear along.
So if you've got loads of stone and rock
and whatever else you can like push it back.
I haven't done it, but I've seen the little raven turn up
and tell me, with little tooltips and stuff.
Yeah, I remember the ravens.
It's really good.
If you like recollecting things, hauling things
and just going about something very satisfying.
I turned it on yesterday and I was excited to play
just because before I went to bed the night before,
I went through all my chests and sorted everything out.
Whereas before it was just getting chucked
in any old chest.
So you are now ready.
Now everything. Organized.
I'm organized, man.
I've got all my fish in one box.
I've got all my food in one.
It's like living another life.
My uncooked food in that, my rocks in that,
my feathers in that, my leather.
Does the uncooked food and shit, does it go off?
No, none of that bothers.
You can just have it and it will be, yeah, I like that.
It's not, it's like I say, it's-
I'm not running around with a chicken fillet
and then getting infected
because it's fucking gone moldy in my pocket.
It's survival sin, but it's kind of light survival sin.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've got- Casual.
Yeah, and that's, but it's serious in terms of
I'm getting my ass kicked.
I've died probably 50 times in that game.
Yeah. I mean, I was learning, innit?
I didn't know how to eat food to get more health.
I thought I was leveling up my health and stuff.
So, you know, and it's unforgiving, man.
You get whacked up, you're in trouble.
If you're swimming across a lit-
You'd want to swim across this little river
that I fucking live near now.
If I run out of stamina halfway across,
I'm just going to drown, you know?
So it's very interesting.
I might build a bridge across there.
That might help.
And then I, cause I'm always going across there,
but I have to fucking swim and it's a cunt.
So yeah, the game is fantastic.
I'm having a lot of fun with that.
So Valheim, check that shit out.
We should speed this up.
We've been doing this for a while.
Next up.
Oh, we ain't got to fucking do it all.
Sadly, very sad in fact,
is the passing of Lance Reddick, found out yesterday.
I see all the TikTok tributes,
where all the guardians are standing around
doing whatever and saluting and very touching.
Yeah. If you don't know,
Lance Reddick is the voice of commander Zavala in Destiny.
Guardians.
It's very good.
He's also in The Wire, which I've never seen.
He's also the villain from the Horizon games.
Funnily enough, when you think of Destiny,
he is always the voice that pops into my head
because you can just hear him saying guardians.
He's got the most iconic voice ever.
Yeah, yeah.
Very, very sad news.
I turned the PlayStation on this morning.
I let Jim have a lay in this morning,
but while the kids were playing,
I put the PlayStation on, I went to the tower
and I just stood in front of Zavala and saluted
and I just put the control up and just left it there.
And then when I went back,
because I put the telly back on for the kids,
when I went back, there was so many people there,
loaded in, people just like kneeling in front of him.
And I know it doesn't mean anything.
It's just a computer game, but there's something about that.
They're so lovely and just-
Yeah, but it's a sign of respect.
In my head, it's no different to if you have someone
buried in a grave and you go pay respects
at their tombstone.
Yeah.
It's, or headstone, is it tombstone, headstone?
Yeah, either of them.
Either of them.
It's, the person ain't there.
You know what I mean?
They're not, they're dead, but it's,
you're still showing that respect
and I think you don't have a connection
with this person on a physical level,
but you have a connection of them through the game.
So if your only way to really show respect to them
is through the fucking game, which they obviously love
because they voiced it for so many fucking years,
then I think it's cool, man.
Yeah, sure, people will look at it and go,
that's fucking stupid, but for the people
that are affected by it in terms of the game,
it isn't stupid.
That's very sad.
We're always talking to Zavala
because you go and get your bounties and stuff.
Everything from him, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's the main man and his voice is always in the trailers.
He's the one that voices over it.
He's got such an iconic voice.
He's been there through the whole thing
and yeah, just, that's all I can do.
It's all anyone can really do other than send a,
you know, condolences message on Twitter, et cetera,
but yeah, just to stand there, salute,
and when I turn it back on and saw,
because I only knew that that's what everyone was doing,
I saw it, I thought it's a great idea,
so I put it on this morning, went and done that,
and then yeah, when I looked back,
there was loads of people just doing the same thing
or different emotes in front of him
and I left it for about two hours, man.
I'm just not playing.
So I can say my TikTok's been flooded with,
whether that's because of the algorithm
because I keep liking it, but definitely
seeing a lot of montage and stuff like that
and it's nice, it's nice.
It's a nice little way of showing support, showing respect.
So rest in peace Lance and Commander Zavala.
Very sad, eyes up Guardian, as he would say, eh?
And then that's our little depressing segue
onto finishing this episode.
With Destiny, I guess I'll finish on my story of my raid,
shall I?
You enjoyed that, didn't you?
Oh, go on then.
That was funny.
I tried the day one raid, the new raid came out,
and yeah, it was a good time.
It was a good time.
I managed to find some players through the Destiny app
to play with, some like-minded fellows, if you will.
Okay.
We got through the first two encounters.
It took a long time, but we got there.
But yeah, it's hard, man.
It's hard to coordinate six people, five other people,
into doing specific tasks.
Basically, you're just trying to get everyone up to speed
until you can get that perfect run
where everything runs perfectly and smoothly,
and then you get through to an encounter.
And it's hard when you don't know any of these people
and they don't know any of you.
But we did it.
We got through it.
We banged our heads against the wall for many hours.
It was a long time for the first two encounters.
Long story short, got to the third encounter,
and I was on Discord with these people
because they wanted me in the Discord,
so that's what I was doing.
Then my Discord died, and it just said
I'd been removed from the Discord,
or my Discord server has gone down or whatever,
so I couldn't hear them.
So frantically, I messaged quickly,
because I was still in the game with them.
My voice chat's gone.
I don't know what's happening, or Discord's down or whatever,
instantly.
Straight after that.
It's bringing up the mess.
Straight after that, it said I'd been removed
from the game with them.
Yeah, motherfucker.
So I'd been playing with these people
for I don't know how many hours,
but a long time, building up friendships
that would last a lifetime.
But there you go.
That's how it goes.
And then I received this message
from one of the participants.
I'm so sorry, man.
My friend is such an asshole.
They're American in case you can't tell.
I said, what happened?
He said, since our other friend got online,
he wanted to ditch you.
I said, oh, fair enough.
I said, you should've just said, oh, they left.
Good playing with you guys, take care.
He said, okay, sorry again.
You take care, too.
It was great playing with you.
I said, good luck.
And that was the end of that.
Fu-min.
I was a little bit upset considering
we got through the first two encounters together.
That's a fucking dodgy one, man.
That's, there's an unwritten rule.
We call it pugging is when you make a group
from absolute random people.
I don't know why it's called a pug.
To be fair, they were all friends.
I was the only random.
Yeah, but they were still looking for a spot
that needed filling and you filled it.
So I feel if you make a group
and you'll normally say you're a group,
you are a friendship group of six people
and one of them isn't there,
so you have to fill their spot.
If they then come into the game halfway through a raid,
you shouldn't kick out the sixth person
that you've used to fill their spot
when they finally arrive.
It isn't fair.
Or you should at least tell that sixth person.
So they should have said to you,
Alamate, you can join us, but be aware.
We, there is a sixth person.
They're not here at the moment,
but they are due to come on in two hours.
So if they do come, we will like,
is it okay if we kick you out and then they replace you.
Like a heads up, because then you can turn around and go,
no, fuck that, I wanna do the whole thing.
You find someone else.
They should have, there ain't no way in hell,
they're doing a raid and their friend turns up
and then goes, oh, I'll join you.
That was that shit.
They already knew that that person was coming.
100%.
The writing was on the wall.
Silly cunts.
So why not fucking say it?
It's mean, it's evil.
A couple of minutes before that,
they were all talking, it was always fun.
We was bantering, I was the English guy.
They're great, they're American.
Everyone's like, oh, you sound funny
and you sound funny, we all sound funny.
It was great, we was laughing.
I was throwing in some classic English sarcasm.
He was loving it, not really understanding it,
but then he was loving it.
Bastards.
Yeah, you bloody sausages.
You bloody, I'm telling the queen about this.
Oh well, the king, sorry.
Yeah, exactly.
So it was like, we was all getting on.
It weren't awkward, I weren't in silence
or nothing like that.
Let's have it right.
We ain't getting through them first two encounters
if I ain't doing my job properly
because everyone needs to,
otherwise you ain't getting through.
And the second encounter was all me.
I managed to be able to do something
that takes two people on my own
and that freed up an extra person to do ad clear.
So essentially, I was doing more than enough.
Way more.
So yeah, when it come to that,
the writing was on the wall.
We was getting towards the third encounter
and someone said, oh, such and such is out of work.
They come online.
And then after they said that,
there was only two people left talking.
Everyone was just kind of muted.
So there was like, oh, such and such
and they weren't answering.
I was like, oh, where's he gone?
There was obviously a message in each other
and stuff like that.
So yeah, when it kicked me out of Discord,
they obviously wanted to kick me out of Discord first
because if they kicked me out of the game first,
I could still be hearing them.
So they did that first.
And then I was looking around
and they were like, teabagging or not.
I was like, what's going on?
So I wrote the message and then boom, I was out.
At least one of them had the decency to say,
oh, sorry about that.
He obviously was fighting my corner.
I didn't want that to happen.
But like I say, that's all well and good.
I'm kind of opposite to you.
If that's what you want to do, just tell me it's cool.
Just be like, oh, by the way, my power's come on.
Do you mind if, that's cool.
I get it.
I was filling in, but don't just boot me.
I don't agree with the whole booting someone.
Unless you're underperforming in a raid,
I don't feel, if you have to force someone to say
that, oh, sorry guys, I'll leave.
Then you shouldn't be doing that in the first place,
especially if that person's pulling their weight in a raid.
If your power turns up late and there's no spaces,
and then if it were me and I've run many a raid before
on like, wow, if it was ever I was in that situation
and one of my power's rocked up
and there was no space for him in the raid,
I'd just tell him straight, I'd go, there's no room.
There's no room.
You turn up late.
Everyone else signed on the calendar.
They signed that dotted line saying they'll be out
at this time and they turn up.
You'd have to wait for the next one.
Or if a spot opens up, I'll let you know
and you can join us.
Never, all right, random, who's sitting top of the DPS table,
you fuck off.
I'm going to get my mate in that I've known for six months.
Fuck off, man.
Fucking pricks.
Yeah, that is the sad part.
I want the viewers, the listeners to know
what Gemma's reaction was, please.
Oh, yeah.
So, yeah, so she was not happy.
I took my headphones off
and she was just on her phone on TikTok or whatnot.
And I said, because she knows what's going on.
She's been around me long enough to know
when I'm talking to friends or when I'm talking to randoms
and what I'm actually entailing,
what's actually entailing and what I'm doing.
And I was like, they kicked me out.
She's like, what do you mean?
I was like, they,
because this was, no, this was the next morning, I think.
Yeah, this was the next morning.
So she woke up and I said to her,
which I said, I'm glad you was asleep last night.
She's like, why?
I said, oh, I was playing,
you know them guys I was playing with,
they booted me out because their friend came online.
She was like, what?
I was like, it's all right, Dave.
I said, one of them messaged me.
What did she say?
Cause I messaged you telling it, didn't I?
Yeah, except with the voice though, wasn't it?
Well, it was, I can't remember what it was.
Yeah, I was like, yes, they booted me out.
I was playing with them for ages
and their friend came online.
And she's like, give me your phone.
No, you're not.
She was like, I'm going to message him.
Oh yeah.
And then she took my phone, didn't she?
That's it, that's it.
And I said, yes, give me your phone.
So I gave her my phone and I was like, don't write to him.
And I took my phone off her and she had written,
listen to you piece of shit.
That's it.
Listen to you piece of shit.
I was like, Jim, you can't say that.
I was like, he was the all right one.
He was the one that messaged me saying, sorry.
Listen to you piece of shit.
She was so angry.
She's so angry with them.
Cause I think she feels like a protective mother.
She feels like I've been a little bit bullied
on the school ground.
Yeah, yeah.
I was like, Jim, it's not that deep.
I just want to go sleep anyway.
You kicked my ass off of his game.
Yeah, basically that.
But it's not that deep.
I mean, it annoyed me cause we was getting
to the third encounter and there's only four encounters.
And I was halfway through the raid.
You'd already put hours into it.
Yeah. And it was like one or half one in the morning.
And I thought, fuck it.
I've come this, excuse me.
I've come this far.
I'm going to do it.
Yeah, let's do it.
If I'm up till five, six in the morning,
this don't happen very often, whatever.
I'm going to fucking do this raid.
And yeah, well, actually I've got a little bit of a...
So little do those Americans know
that they've made a solid enemy
in the land of the United Kingdom.
No, just in the world of Destiny.
I'll be flying my shit,
keep my eyes open for them motherfuckers.
I'll come across them in any LFGs.
I'll be sabotaging their games.
Yeah.
No, it's not that deep, man.
I wish them the best.
Cause it would be...
No, fuck them.
I would, I'd do that petty shit.
They can go fuck themselves.
I'd be sabotaging all types of shit.
When...
Oh man, they were cool, bro.
They were cool.
When, cause I had it not recent, not too long ago,
where I was removed from a group, wrongly.
And we was at the final boss of the raid.
And what happens is when you get removed from the group,
you have about 30 seconds and then it teleports you out
to the nearest graveyard.
Well, this boss, it's a big dragon thing.
And it's on a floating platform, basically.
And it's smack bang in the middle.
And everyone groups up on one of the edges of this platform.
And then there's a countdown for time on pause
and we all fucking go ham on it.
Well, basically they kicked me.
And with the last 30 seconds of my life,
when everyone was there,
there was 20 people that were standing there.
I pulled the fucking boss and then jumped off the platform.
I didn't give a fuck.
But it aggroed onto everyone else.
So everyone else died.
And that meant everyone else had to repair all of their gear
and it's expensive and it's time consuming.
And they've all got to go all the way through the raid
to get back to the last boss.
And there's my little petty way of going,
fuck you for kicking me.
You've now got a massive repair bill
and you've got to spend another 10 minutes
getting to the end of this boss.
You are scum.
I hate it, man.
I hate it.
I'm like you, just tell me.
If I got to go, then tell me that I got to go.
Don't just kick me on the sly.
If I've got to go and then I'm refusing to go,
then yeah, kick me.
If you're the raid leader, then get rid of me.
But I will always bow out graciously.
If you say, look, mate, you're doing a bit shitty.
You all right if you just go
because you're holding us back.
We'll go, all right, yeah, fair play, mate.
I'm gone.
Yeah, I feel that.
I feel that.
So yeah.
That's fair.
But yeah, at the end of the day,
I made it after that, the next day I played again
and made it to the last boss.
I got kicked again.
But there we go.
Like that's-
Have you done it yet?
No, I'm on the last boss.
That's so annoying.
I've done the first three encounters
and I've made it to the last boss.
I would imagine that surely there must be loads of people
that are looking for that for a,
just to join a raid where it's the last boss
so they can get whatever it is at the end and-
Of course, yeah.
And that's what I'll be looking to do.
But the-
A raid skip.
The only sad part of it is there's a thing
called contest mode when the raid first drops.
So you get 48 hours to do it and you get like an emblem
to say you've done it in front of you.
You've done it in 48 hours.
It's harder.
So when I was doing it, it was harder.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Definitely harder.
Everything you have to be doing quicker.
Yeah, yeah, hasn't been tuned or anything.
No, yeah, it's made for like the first runners basically.
Yeah, yeah.
And yeah, I was going to get my first ever, day one,
essentially is called like day one raid.
And they fucked it.
Yeah, and they just got screwed over
by not being able to do it.
The Americans fucked it for us as well on that one.
I feel bad because like 90% of our listenership
is from America.
It is what it is.
But come on guys, fuck's sake.
What are you doing?
It is what it is, but yeah, I just need to do the boss now.
But I don't know enough about the boss mechanics.
I'll have to jump in fairly blind.
It's YouTube, man.
It's quite tough.
Yeah, I know, but-
It's YouTube at all.
The thing is with Destiny,
you don't necessarily have the gear that they have.
You know what I mean?
You don't always have the same armor.
You don't have the same stat rolls.
Yeah.
It's not as simple.
Yeah, I suppose the gear makes way more difference
than it does on World of Warcraft
in terms of mechanics and shit like that.
You need different stat rolls.
Have you built into this?
Are you a, I haven't locked all the subclasses.
I only really play as a Titan.
So somebody, I'm using a warlock and all that.
You know what I mean?
So there's a lot to it as opposed to just doing it.
But yeah, the mechanics,
I know what I'm supposed to be doing,
but it's fucking hard that last boss,
or I think it is.
But once I've done that,
that'll be my second ever raid complete.
So hopefully next week when we do episode 40,
you would have done it.
Episode 40, that's nutty.
It's crazy, isn't it?
40 fucking weeks.
It's nearly a year.
Yeah, man.
We've plotted through.
Ain't going nowhere yet, bitch.
Do you know what I mean?
I got, I'm waiting for an email
from the guy for the t-shirts.
I've changed it from hoodies to t-shirts now.
I signed us up for some panels at Star Wars celebration.
So there's like-
What?
I signed us up for some panels
to go and look at the panels, the show basically.
Oh, oh, oh, I really, for a minute there,
I really thought that you had said
that you'd signed us up to be on a panel.
Oh no.
I can't do that.
This one about Darth Skywalker.
Good clue.
We're gonna go and watch some panels.
Yeah, well, hopefully.
So the way they do it is it's like a lottery system.
Obviously everyone wants to go and watch everything.
So I just put out-
So then we've got to take out a 25 year mortgage
to afford this one as well.
It's free, it's free.
But you just put yourself in the thing
and then if your name's drawn essentially,
then you can-
It'd be you motherfucker that gets it and not me.
I'd have to sit outside.
We go as a group, isn't it?
No, that's cool.
I don't know how it works, but if you-
When is this again?
May?
No.
April.
April the 7th.
Like two weeks.
Fuck.
Two, three weeks.
I've got to book that time off
because if you book it off, you get a load of days in it.
You don't need to book it off, it's a bank holiday.
No, I know, but if you book off,
I think it's like for four days,
you get nine days off or some shit like that.
I like to say, yeah, I feel you.
Oh, it's exciting.
Really not far.
Oops.
We made it to the end of the podcast
without any scummy burps or farts.
Yeah, motherfuckers.
Yeah, come on.
Get out.
More of this.
Don't pay rent, get out.
We're gonna fuck off.
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