This season was undeniably something special and unique and probably a personal highlight for 2024, a year that I feel like had only a handful of highlights for me. And it is one, I feel like I will return to to rewatch it from time to time, now that it is completed. I never figured that a Hardcore where I knew that it could only result in a loss could captivate me for 18 Episodes. You'd think a season that is doomed to fail would be kind of boring to watch, but my god was this the opposite of that. Zomboid has such a unique atmosphere and this cast of players knew how to play into that atmosphere so extremely well, that I wanted to see how and where these little made up arcs were going to go, and it never disappointed. What this season did better than any other Hardcore I've ever watched though was giving me that gaping pit in my stomach after someone died. Be that calculating just how close y'all actually were to finding Kat and Jackson all the way back in Episode 3 and 4, or later on when you all killed Fuzz, assuming he was infected, only for his body to not get back up. I can't even remember the last time any show made me feel that massive of a pit in my stomach. Maybe frickin Arcane did, but thats abt it LOL. And of course, I find it rather poetically fitting, that Bry, who's journey starts alone and unaware of where his team mates are, also has to end his journey alone and unaware of where his team mates are. Kinda went in a perfect circle LMAO. Him not even knowing that Lake fuckin died falling off the roof of the building just made that entire sequence so much better. Thats all I got for now, I bid adieu to Architects Zomboid! You did an incredible job with this season, Lake, and I look forward to whatever you may or may not have cooking next!
Believe it or not I had this title in mind *before* it took six months for the finale to come out... Here it is, sorry this thing took so damn long, going through school, life stuff, and massive swings in motivation, but honestly there are no good excuses for how badly this got delayed. I'm still not even super happy with aspects of this finale, but I realized that if I kept remaking the ending and being a perfectionist, then it would just never come out, and noone wants that. I decided after surgery I wanted to make sure this got out before the end of the year, pure coincidence build 42 happened to come out so soon after that decision lol. Either way thank you very much to everyone who stuck around for this, it really means a lot. Big thanks to my friends, especially the six you see in this video, none of this would have happened without them and I'm so glad we'll always have this silly little season to look back on. Love you guys
Words don't explain how happy I am to have accidentally come across this series late at night when I was ill a bit back. Whatever comes next I'm excited
This might very well be the first time a project has made me feel this way, and I say this as someone who gets very immersed into hardcores. I've felt the crushing dread of being completely overwhelmed at everything in front of me and I've felt the soaring highs of the ones where things go in my favor. But very few where it feels like I get the full extremes of both. I read the pinned comment remorsing about changes you still would have made, but there's a reason my draft feedback boiled down to "please include this one small moment" for this one. You knocked it out of the park and you should be proud, Lake.
OH GOD BRY HEARD LAKE'S LAST WORDS FOIJHAJKLFHJKSDLHGFJKSDHJKLF Incredible season, unironically I've analyzed every episode and have 18 pages of notes on the themes of life, loss, and mentorship displayed throughout the series. God this shit is so good I NEED to make a video essay on it. Congrats on finishing the editing! Lookin' forward to whatever y'all cook up next :D
I havent commented on any of the episodes yet, nor am I really that involved with the HC community, but I just want to say that since the trailer for this season came out I was eagerly awaiting to see what a Zomboid season would be like, and I must say that this has been an absolute pleasure to watch from the very beginning, all that time ago. This is one of, if not the best video series (hell, even counting non hc stuff) I have ever seen. I was hooked from the beginning, and somehow the drama and tension kept escalating!?!?! each episode!?! but despite that, there was still the sense of just pure fun and camaraderie between the cast (especially with that excellent ending sequence) which is something that i think draws myself and many others into hcs in the first place; its just fun to play games with your friends!! the balance of fun mixed with batshit insane thriller and drama moments (Fuzz's death absolutely fucking floored me) lead to this just being a complete joy to watch in every way. The editing was absolutely superb, genuinely fantastic job Lake, especially with a lot of phenomenal song choices! The time it took to come out was worth it. I enjoyed what everyone on the cast brought to the season, but Im giving a special shoutout to Fuzz. I was immediately rooting for his success, or at least the most success you can get in this game format, and I think he should absolutely be proud of himself, he did a wonderful job under the stress of both being new to the game, and the game itself. I found his death so so powerful with the insanity of every part surrounding it, and his comment under that episode was striking. you did great, Fuzz, that was a performance to be proud of
we got build 42 before the ahc finale I'm just playing, finally wrapping things up and getting a conclusion to the story that is Bryboner's is immensely satisfying, bringing this to a close once and for all. This is probably the most special Hardcore that's been released in a good while, being a truly unique take on the format. Absolutely wonderful, I haven't felt the emotional turmoil this season brought in years in a HC. Good job Lakey!
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That was one of my favorite intros ever made for anything and it was for a RUclips series finale. Fantastic work as usual, Lake.
I just found this channel, I’ve always loved one life survival challenges and Zomboid is such a perfect game for them. Happy holidays, your present from me is a new subscriber
oh gosh. This feels like the end of...something. Yes, it's the finale of this season, but actually seeing the end...I don't know. Something about it hits different. Hits harder. It's kind of hard to explain I think. I think in a way I felt like I *was* Zomboid Kat, watching over my friends - watching their journeys and their struggles- rooting for them to live just one more day. Maybe that's why. Sometimes it's just hard for me to describe feelings in words. I try to let my actions speak, a lot of times. Since that first moment in 2018 when we started playing games together I have always cherished all of our times together. Not a single minute felt boring, or wasteful. All of the laughter, the yelling at each other, the explosions, the Hard Cores - I have always, always counted myself as lucky to be involved. I always will. I'm sure I've said all this before. Lake is incredibly talented and it shows more and more with every season and every episode - hell, all of the stuff he does. And all these guys - man, I cannot describe how much I wish I could give them all a big warm platonic hug. At least, the ones who would be okay with it. I would take a firm handshake as well. Or a knowing nod. y'know. (As the girl I feel predisposed to be the mushy one, I apologize) I could say lots more mushy stuff, but I've been crying this whole time and my nose won't stop running, so I'd better stop. T_T
This season was undeniably something special and unique and probably a personal highlight for 2024, a year that I feel like had only a handful of highlights for me. And it is one, I feel like I will return to to rewatch it from time to time, now that it is completed.
I never figured that a Hardcore where I knew that it could only result in a loss could captivate me for 18 Episodes. You'd think a season that is doomed to fail would be kind of boring to watch, but my god was this the opposite of that. Zomboid has such a unique atmosphere and this cast of players knew how to play into that atmosphere so extremely well, that I wanted to see how and where these little made up arcs were going to go, and it never disappointed.
What this season did better than any other Hardcore I've ever watched though was giving me that gaping pit in my stomach after someone died. Be that calculating just how close y'all actually were to finding Kat and Jackson all the way back in Episode 3 and 4, or later on when you all killed Fuzz, assuming he was infected, only for his body to not get back up. I can't even remember the last time any show made me feel that massive of a pit in my stomach. Maybe frickin Arcane did, but thats abt it LOL.
And of course, I find it rather poetically fitting, that Bry, who's journey starts alone and unaware of where his team mates are, also has to end his journey alone and unaware of where his team mates are. Kinda went in a perfect circle LMAO. Him not even knowing that Lake fuckin died falling off the roof of the building just made that entire sequence so much better.
Thats all I got for now, I bid adieu to Architects Zomboid! You did an incredible job with this season, Lake, and I look forward to whatever you may or may not have cooking next!
Believe it or not I had this title in mind *before* it took six months for the finale to come out...
Here it is, sorry this thing took so damn long, going through school, life stuff, and massive swings in motivation, but honestly there are no good excuses for how badly this got delayed. I'm still not even super happy with aspects of this finale, but I realized that if I kept remaking the ending and being a perfectionist, then it would just never come out, and noone wants that.
I decided after surgery I wanted to make sure this got out before the end of the year, pure coincidence build 42 happened to come out so soon after that decision lol. Either way thank you very much to everyone who stuck around for this, it really means a lot.
Big thanks to my friends, especially the six you see in this video, none of this would have happened without them and I'm so glad we'll always have this silly little season to look back on.
Love you guys
Words don't explain how happy I am to have accidentally come across this series late at night when I was ill a bit back.
Whatever comes next I'm excited
This might very well be the first time a project has made me feel this way, and I say this as someone who gets very immersed into hardcores. I've felt the crushing dread of being completely overwhelmed at everything in front of me and I've felt the soaring highs of the ones where things go in my favor.
But very few where it feels like I get the full extremes of both.
I read the pinned comment remorsing about changes you still would have made, but there's a reason my draft feedback boiled down to "please include this one small moment" for this one. You knocked it out of the park and you should be proud, Lake.
OH GOD BRY HEARD LAKE'S LAST WORDS FOIJHAJKLFHJKSDLHGFJKSDHJKLF
Incredible season, unironically I've analyzed every episode and have 18 pages of notes on the themes of life, loss, and mentorship displayed throughout the series. God this shit is so good I NEED to make a video essay on it. Congrats on finishing the editing!
Lookin' forward to whatever y'all cook up next :D
I would watch the shit of that video essay
I havent commented on any of the episodes yet, nor am I really that involved with the HC community, but I just want to say that since the trailer for this season came out I was eagerly awaiting to see what a Zomboid season would be like, and I must say that this has been an absolute pleasure to watch from the very beginning, all that time ago.
This is one of, if not the best video series (hell, even counting non hc stuff) I have ever seen. I was hooked from the beginning, and somehow the drama and tension kept escalating!?!?! each episode!?! but despite that, there was still the sense of just pure fun and camaraderie between the cast (especially with that excellent ending sequence) which is something that i think draws myself and many others into hcs in the first place; its just fun to play games with your friends!!
the balance of fun mixed with batshit insane thriller and drama moments (Fuzz's death absolutely fucking floored me) lead to this just being a complete joy to watch in every way.
The editing was absolutely superb, genuinely fantastic job Lake, especially with a lot of phenomenal song choices! The time it took to come out was worth it. I enjoyed what everyone on the cast brought to the season, but Im giving a special shoutout to Fuzz. I was immediately rooting for his success, or at least the most success you can get in this game format, and I think he should absolutely be proud of himself, he did a wonderful job under the stress of both being new to the game, and the game itself. I found his death so so powerful with the insanity of every part surrounding it, and his comment under that episode was striking. you did great, Fuzz, that was a performance to be proud of
I really appreciate this comment, genuinely. Glad 2024 was a good one 🤝
I'm glad I randomly stumbled upon y'all this season. It was a really enjoyable series. I'm excited to see what you do next, whatever that is!
Ty for the early christmas present
we got build 42 before the ahc finale
I'm just playing, finally wrapping things up and getting a conclusion to the story that is Bryboner's is immensely satisfying, bringing this to a close once and for all. This is probably the most special Hardcore that's been released in a good while, being a truly unique take on the format. Absolutely wonderful, I haven't felt the emotional turmoil this season brought in years in a HC. Good job Lakey!
That was one of my favorite intros ever made for anything and it was for a RUclips series finale. Fantastic work as usual, Lake.
I just found this channel, I’ve always loved one life survival challenges and Zomboid is such a perfect game for them. Happy holidays, your present from me is a new subscriber
Just great, nuthin else, just great, wonderful, perfect work on this series Mr Archi of the tect (Lake).
Fantastic all around, always a joy to be part of these masterpieces and this one tops the cake….for now
oh gosh. This feels like the end of...something. Yes, it's the finale of this season, but actually seeing the end...I don't know. Something about it hits different. Hits harder.
It's kind of hard to explain I think. I think in a way I felt like I *was* Zomboid Kat, watching over my friends - watching their journeys and their struggles- rooting for them to live just one more day. Maybe that's why.
Sometimes it's just hard for me to describe feelings in words. I try to let my actions speak, a lot of times.
Since that first moment in 2018 when we started playing games together I have always cherished all of our times together. Not a single minute felt boring, or wasteful. All of the laughter, the yelling at each other, the explosions, the Hard Cores - I have always, always counted myself as lucky to be involved. I always will.
I'm sure I've said all this before.
Lake is incredibly talented and it shows more and more with every season and every episode - hell, all of the stuff he does.
And all these guys - man, I cannot describe how much I wish I could give them all a big warm platonic hug. At least, the ones who would be okay with it. I would take a firm handshake as well. Or a knowing nod. y'know.
(As the girl I feel predisposed to be the mushy one, I apologize)
I could say lots more mushy stuff, but I've been crying this whole time and my nose won't stop running, so I'd better stop. T_T
This season was perfect.
Thank you, Lake.
Fuck yea