Frostpunk 2 is hot off the presses, so I'm sinking my teeth right in, firstly with a runthrough of the whole story on "Officer" difficulty to feel out where the lore takes us, then jumping back into my old comfort zone of Endless Extreme on Captain difficulty. Many people are asking about my thoughts on the game so far. It's early days, but my impressions are positive. It's a mechanically different experience from the first game and the interactions are far less intimate when you're dealing with groups and districts as opposed to individuals, but the strong theming is still there and the battle against resource scarcity is still feeling good. Time will tell if this is a honeymoon period or lasting love.
***SPOILER ALERT*** Steward, I have played the prologue yesterday with a little more struggling than you did, and there was an event that might have repercussions in the future when I’ll find the dreadnought from New London! You did awesomely here, I struggled a little more with food than you did 😅 but maybe….I won’t find a graveyard in my oil! I’ll keep you updated
It's been... 5 to 7 years. Found you with the unexpected treat of Caesar, scrubbed my way over almost all of EU4 into all Frostpunk vids that came out. Then I got sucked into the most random games I've never imagined watching, like F1 manager, airlock simulator or cutting zombies towards Canada. I know we scrubs ain't the men the loyal twitch watchers are, but I have to say, glad to have you in the red here Jake, and it's a pleasure seeing Frostpunk 2 under your helm.
I AM SO HYPED! I found your channel because of the Frostpunk videos you uploaded years ago. Thanks to those videos, I started watching a majority of your longplays like creating the perfect Hansa in Patrician IV, many of your Caesar 3 videos, Xenonauts, Rance, OpenTTD, Avorion, The Long Dark, and plenty more. Thank you, Jake, for all of the many hours of entertainment and for the many more to come!
Insane to think that the kids that survived the old captains coal mines are now in their thirties with children of their own to work in the mines as well.
Faithkeepers seem one of the best factions from everything I’ve learned. Progress is about industry. Equality is about population support and more workforce. Tradition just seems more cost-effective.
Ye could be. I did order and it damn hard in chapter 1 on captain difficulty. I keep lacking either workforce or other resources. When i try reduce resources the sickness wil be a problem and I have like 1k sick eventually. if going for less workforce and more machinery the resources are problematic. Maybe chapter 1 just need all out explorers for the oil and coal when playing order. Anyways I am still learning everything. Cause there so much more to think about as in frostpunk 1 it seems.
@@purpledevilr7463 I like a challenge. But I think I overshot here XD Best i got in chapter one was like 200 days and having all resources and needs at 80% fulfilled.... Then temperature came ruin it all cause I had not enough coal income anymore. And I kinda screwed my frostland to get fuel income from their. Which seems to be a must at captain lvl XD
I love that you don t rush and you explain everything you do, very nice way of talking. i looked in other guys and they just supposed everyone should keep it up with him even though some are new to frostpunk
Most important things to prioritize in the first weeks of the main game. Without these your development is literally paralysed and you can't develop. 1) matierals 2) prefabs. 3) goods. These are literally more important than food cause if you don't develop those key industries early you literally can't develop, build, reserve, upgrade, anything. Treat these as your steel and wood. These are literally more important to get than food. Good luck all of you Stewards and may you use your inner machiavelli to become the leader New London needs, not the one it deserves. (P.S sometimes it's better to cause a little chaos in order to pass those....special bills that people won't normally vote for in a time of calm. The Austrian painter was given special powers when the reichstag was arsoned).
I discovered your channel trough Frostpunk. Your videos got me trough a very difficult period at school and now I finally get some more ddrjake Frostpunk action.
Oh thank god, i've been looking for Frostpunk 2 gameplay all day like a junkie desperate for a fix and Jake is here to save the day. God bless the captain DDRJake!!!!
@@LeonardTavast DLC that you have no idea about, so you are blindly paying for something without reviews or details. Special edition goodies has no real value anymore. Long are the days of getting swag, artwork, or booklets or whatever with a special edition game from the store. On top of that, the game is not even optimized. Steam doesn't allow reviews in this period. It's completely dishonest.
@45:22 new child born - population doesn't click to 8001 - am I to believe by some kind of a miracle someone dropped dead in the razor thin window of time that the population ticker updates?
Some of the channels I follow dropped Frostpunk 2 videos couple of days ago,tempting me to watch. But I know that there is only one Captain worth following. The one who would make sure the New London will survive.....no matter the cost.
2:07:51- Let's see here:Absent of anything that would cause tension- hunger, disease, crime, etc.- housing needs met, surplus on food, materials and goods, and decent relations with both radical factions! You're killing it, Captain!
the intro makes me wonder if at some point there might be some kind of "steam zeppelin" which would be like a moving Housing District... that thing looked sick whatever it was, always to see some kind of a flying building like a Factory or Workshop from the first game... imagine one of them ODST dropping an Automation in your city... that'd make me so happy.
honestly, Jack lacey is pretty wise. "Trusts people with flaws". id personally trust someone who is honest about their flaws than someone who pretends to be perfect, whos hidden flaws are usually MUCH worse.
The changes are interesting, and it seems like there is a lot more possibilities. While i do prefere the "Building" Style of Frostpunk 1 over the "District" Style of Frostpunk 2, as well as seeing people go to work and back home, i'm sure there is a lot more possible strategies and tragedies now to keep the game interessting. However, seeing cookhouses that are constantly open and not half-dismantled for 2 of 3 days must be the biggest change for this new generation of Londoners "you mean... whenever we are hungry?" "Yes" "And it's not just sawdust?" "No"
@@DDRJake I have no doubt and eagerly await that. Taking it easy for the first pass on the story makes sense, too. But I will still glee in calling you Junior Detective until then. Cheers!
if you had someone die in the prologue you'd get to see their funeral rites. turns out they worship oil and bury their dead by committing them to the oil wells. which is the state you found the oil wells in. gotta be after the wanderers were gone, whether from all dying or moving on.
I remember back in spring when I started to devour all Jake's Frostpunk content, been binge watching it like crazy. Then I discovered his stream and left a message telling him if he gets the deluxe version he'd be able to play it early then for a weekend. He replied to me and did check it out only to play it that weekend. Now the game is here and normally I would start playing right away, got the game pre loaded and all. This man is so pleasant that I'd rather watch him play than start my own journey. Very well done my friend
Imagine a DLC like Winterhome or The Last Autumn, but you're the Prime Minister of Great Britain, governing London. The game mechanics could support it, since it's a much larger scale.
The last autumn, but the world is done being a snowball and starts heating up again, and we have to deal with heat stroke instead of frostbite because the generations have adapted to the cold, and can't stand the heat of 0°C
I'll say that after playing Ixion, I became a fan of the coinflip moments in FP1. Ixion showed me just how boring an entirely solvable system is, since the events in Ixion are purely deterministic with no random chance. In Frostpunk, your build order and overall build serves to not only solve the deterministic problems of your resource flows, but also to insulate you from stochastic problems like your scouts getting eaten by bears or Tesla's towers cooking them. It adds texture, and you recognize it for its absence.
I must say, I'm a bit disappointed that the scale has gotten so much bigger. Instead of handling single people, you handle districts. And instead of working with a time scale of days, you are working with a timescale of years. Maybe my opinion will change down the line, but FP1 felt 'cozier'.
lmao I actually lost the first vote. Things weren't even bad, I just didn't do the sweet talking game the first time around and they were like, "Nah, thanks for saving our lives Stuart but we're gonna pass."
Frostpunk 2 is hot off the presses, so I'm sinking my teeth right in, firstly with a runthrough of the whole story on "Officer" difficulty to feel out where the lore takes us, then jumping back into my old comfort zone of Endless Extreme on Captain difficulty.
Many people are asking about my thoughts on the game so far. It's early days, but my impressions are positive. It's a mechanically different experience from the first game and the interactions are far less intimate when you're dealing with groups and districts as opposed to individuals, but the strong theming is still there and the battle against resource scarcity is still feeling good. Time will tell if this is a honeymoon period or lasting love.
***SPOILER ALERT***
Steward, I have played the prologue yesterday with a little more struggling than you did, and there was an event that might have repercussions in the future when I’ll find the dreadnought from New London! You did awesomely here, I struggled a little more with food than you did 😅 but maybe….I won’t find a graveyard in my oil! I’ll keep you updated
No worries, those bodies will be there waiting for you no matter what…
I’m so glad you’re enjoying the sequel! I hope very much that the DLC and modding community keeps you busy with challenges for years to come.
I've been falling asleep to the same frostpunk ddrjake videos for years now. Glad there's more now
Thats bit rude
No, it's a compliment.
Me to, I watched them all awake in parts and then I use them to fall asleep on.
The voice is a soothing winter wind
Welcome to the club
Eyyy, the man, the myth, the legend! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
Praise Pravus!
Praise Pravus!
What is this, a crossover episode?
Praise Pravus!
Cool to see you watch him too, we need a coop game
I saw the thumbnail, I saw the name, my mind immediately heard "Get back to work"
I heard "they're all sick and dying but it's their fault."
Good.
Long hours of get back to work
It's been... 5 to 7 years. Found you with the unexpected treat of Caesar, scrubbed my way over almost all of EU4 into all Frostpunk vids that came out. Then I got sucked into the most random games I've never imagined watching, like F1 manager, airlock simulator or cutting zombies towards Canada.
I know we scrubs ain't the men the loyal twitch watchers are, but I have to say, glad to have you in the red here Jake, and it's a pleasure seeing Frostpunk 2 under your helm.
It's happening, stay calm people. STAY FUCKING CALM!
NO. LET'S GO!!!
Remember, the city must survive.
Watch the all caps. It's not well received in the community. Yes, also to keep in mind even for us youtube scrubs.
@@sophiamarchildon3998NO
Stay calm and EAT YOUR SAWDUST.
Fianlly, the children yearn for the mines
“Segregation is good for most people.”
-DDRJake
9/10 people enjoy segregation
:3
he also loves the "the rise from the bottem to the top has to stop" quote as well.
I AM SO HYPED! I found your channel because of the Frostpunk videos you uploaded years ago. Thanks to those videos, I started watching a majority of your longplays like creating the perfect Hansa in Patrician IV, many of your Caesar 3 videos, Xenonauts, Rance, OpenTTD, Avorion, The Long Dark, and plenty more. Thank you, Jake, for all of the many hours of entertainment and for the many more to come!
"I am the miracle." The frost madness is already taking him.
Aww yes Frostpunk is back. The children yearn for the mines!
I haven't watch my boy DDRJake in a hot minute, but you KNOW I'm back for Frostpunk 2
Insane to think that the kids that survived the old captains coal mines are now in their thirties with children of their own to work in the mines as well.
Thx for upload immediately, i was 2 hours late for joining your stream.
Intentionally avoided ALL FrostPunk 2 videos awaiting Jake to get his hands on it.
I havent watched you in ages since i started the first game a couple years ago. Glad you popped back up in my feed.
Faithkeepers seem one of the best factions from everything I’ve learned.
Progress is about industry. Equality is about population support and more workforce. Tradition just seems more cost-effective.
Ye could be. I did order and it damn hard in chapter 1 on captain difficulty. I keep lacking either workforce or other resources. When i try reduce resources the sickness wil be a problem and I have like 1k sick eventually. if going for less workforce and more machinery the resources are problematic. Maybe chapter 1 just need all out explorers for the oil and coal when playing order.
Anyways I am still learning everything. Cause there so much more to think about as in frostpunk 1 it seems.
@@Syphirioth oh I am not even hoping to do Captain difficulty yet.
@@purpledevilr7463 I like a challenge. But I think I overshot here XD Best i got in chapter one was like 200 days and having all resources and needs at 80% fulfilled.... Then temperature came ruin it all cause I had not enough coal income anymore. And I kinda screwed my frostland to get fuel income from their. Which seems to be a must at captain lvl XD
I was looking for this video, it uploaded literally minutes after I went to bed.
I could’ve stayed up an extra 3 hours with this.
I love that you don t rush and you explain everything you do, very nice way of talking. i looked in other guys and they just supposed everyone should keep it up with him even though some are new to frostpunk
Most important things to prioritize in the first weeks of the main game. Without these your development is literally paralysed and you can't develop.
1) matierals
2) prefabs.
3) goods.
These are literally more important than food cause if you don't develop those key industries early you literally can't develop, build, reserve, upgrade, anything.
Treat these as your steel and wood. These are literally more important to get than food.
Good luck all of you Stewards and may you use your inner machiavelli to become the leader New London needs, not the one it deserves.
(P.S sometimes it's better to cause a little chaos in order to pass those....special bills that people won't normally vote for in a time of calm. The Austrian painter was given special powers when the reichstag was arsoned).
Words of wisdom here from start to finish.
I'm so excited to see you play this!! I've seen all your frostpunk 1 videos.
well it's GREAT to have you back, i'm hoping to learn a bit from you as I cant get past the first few months of chapter 3
Here comes the love back in Frostpunk 1. Watched all your challenges haha, I enjoyed them.
I discovered your channel trough Frostpunk. Your videos got me trough a very difficult period at school and now I finally get some more ddrjake Frostpunk action.
perfect timing, was just in need of something to watch before bed 🙏🙌 really excited to see how this game differs from the first one
Ordered the standard edition and now waiting. I love your videos Jake. You made me love frostpunk even more.
As soon as you showed the captain's rule I knew we are in for good days ahead.
Oh thank god, i've been looking for Frostpunk 2 gameplay all day like a junkie desperate for a fix and Jake is here to save the day. God bless the captain DDRJake!!!!
Hi Jake! Thanks for posting this! I'm looking forward to seeing the series!
I love that it feels like a new game, but also familiar. Such as some sound effects and the ever lasting cold
Be honest Jake, they named the hardest difficulty after your Captaincy.
Lets Go!! Thank you for this vid!! being waiting long enough and i now get to see you play it!!!
I like 11 bit but man selling early release is a practice that needs to go
I don't think it's that bad in this case. It's 20€ for 72h early access, all future DLCs and some minor goodies.
@@LeonardTavast DLC that you have no idea about, so you are blindly paying for something without reviews or details. Special edition goodies has no real value anymore. Long are the days of getting swag, artwork, or booklets or whatever with a special edition game from the store. On top of that, the game is not even optimized. Steam doesn't allow reviews in this period. It's completely dishonest.
Woo haven't watched you in a while but when I heard about a frostpunk 2 I knew I'd be right back here!
Hey and Jakes here again. Long time man. Loved your frostpunk1 videos, two more days im gonna play second part too! Love it!
@45:22 new child born - population doesn't click to 8001 - am I to believe by some kind of a miracle someone dropped dead in the razor thin window of time that the population ticker updates?
yeaaasss frostpunk is back on the menu lads
Haven't pressed play yet but I can already feel the saw dust and neighbour running down my cheeks. PUMPED
one of the best city builder players I know hey man awesome video
Ive been waiting so long for this 🎉
that UI looks much sexier than it did 4 months ago
Some of the channels I follow dropped Frostpunk 2 videos couple of days ago,tempting me to watch. But I know that there is only one Captain worth following. The one who would make sure the New London will survive.....no matter the cost.
Here we go!
ayyy! was hoping this would appear.
i been waiting for this day =D
That opening cinematic with the old man, reminds me of Marius in Diablo 2.
Kino
Woooo Jake is back with some frost punk
I was wondering where I heard you before on RUclips.... then I heard you say "GET BACK TO WORK !!" and then I remembered 😄
Your video has helped me tons! I did so many things wrong on my first playthrough holy shit.
I'm watching out of curiosity. I can already tell I wouldn't enjoy playing this myself, but Jake is always entertaining. =^[.]^=
Thank you
2:07:51- Let's see here:Absent of anything that would cause tension- hunger, disease, crime, etc.- housing needs met, surplus on food, materials and goods, and decent relations with both radical factions! You're killing it, Captain!
oooh man ive been waiting for THIS
Fell asleep 2 times just today to this
IVE WAITED SO LONG FOR THIS
Finally bought the game and played though the campaign. Now I can watch withouth getting spoilers :D
Looking forward to follow the further adventures of captain Stewart.
Ay yay CAPTAIN, its time for Stewart to reign your throne
I might need to play this with my ski goggles on, that's a serious amount of huwhite.
I almost went blind opening research for the first time! Turn it dark please devs!
So given that Frostpunk 2 will have a modding toolkit, how long before the senate is flooded by Single Mothers and Nancy Drews?
Every day that passes is a day too long to wait for that.
Nancy Drew and the Children of Subzero, was not on my bingo card
Jake your replies to the comments are very funny ahaha, keep it up
Long Live The Captain!
Looking forward to the watch under our captain
the intro makes me wonder if at some point there might be some kind of "steam zeppelin" which would be like a moving Housing District... that thing looked sick whatever it was, always to see some kind of a flying building like a Factory or Workshop from the first game...
imagine one of them ODST dropping an Automation in your city... that'd make me so happy.
It seems you can have railroads and sky ways instead of just trails in frost land
I love this guy!
I’ve been waiting for this game just to watch a DDRJake playthrough. 🗣️ Freezing to death? Eating ppl, not my problem… Now get back to work! 😂
honestly, Jack lacey is pretty wise. "Trusts people with flaws". id personally trust someone who is honest about their flaws than someone who pretends to be perfect, whos hidden flaws are usually MUCH worse.
You will eat the sawdust
the music is gorgeous!
I want to see the CAPTAIN'S AUTHORITY in f u l l effect. 😈 may the grip of iron never tire.
WOOOOOOOO🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I've never been happier to see Jake come BACK to the GOAT of games
The changes are interesting, and it seems like there is a lot more possibilities. While i do prefere the "Building" Style of Frostpunk 1 over the "District" Style of Frostpunk 2, as well as seeing people go to work and back home, i'm sure there is a lot more possible strategies and tragedies now to keep the game interessting.
However, seeing cookhouses that are constantly open and not half-dismantled for 2 of 3 days must be the biggest change for this new generation of Londoners
"you mean... whenever we are hungry?" "Yes" "And it's not just sawdust?" "No"
I never clicked a video so fast in my life.
Been waiting for Jake to buy and stream this for months! I’m tryin to survive winterhell whilst saving up for this game.
Wish I had been at the live stream of this. I was sat here saying council is available for soo long.
The legend returns
I do hate that more companies are doing the "pay extra to play on time" gimmick.
Jake about to single handledly save me from a 14 hour flight
God help you, I'm not sure I can.
2:12:22 significance of pins is that they are pins from the previous events
Oh my god, guess no sleeping today.
Playing as officer? Sounds like Junior Detective, Jake.
You're not wrong, the story is very easy. I look forward to ratcheting up to Captain level on Endless mode.
@@DDRJake I have no doubt and eagerly await that. Taking it easy for the first pass on the story makes sense, too.
But I will still glee in calling you Junior Detective until then. Cheers!
When I've seen the difficulty 'Captain' only one man came to mind for the job.
The little hands need something to do, let's give them work.
The captain has a prosthetic in the cinematic and there are references to frostpunk 1 dlc in the campaign map
Our glorious leader returns
The children yearn for the street fights!
if you had someone die in the prologue you'd get to see their funeral rites. turns out they worship oil and bury their dead by committing them to the oil wells. which is the state you found the oil wells in. gotta be after the wanderers were gone, whether from all dying or moving on.
Just getting the oil has kicked my ass in this so far
can't believe its actually here lmao
I remember back in spring when I started to devour all Jake's Frostpunk content, been binge watching it like crazy. Then I discovered his stream and left a message telling him if he gets the deluxe version he'd be able to play it early then for a weekend. He replied to me and did check it out only to play it that weekend.
Now the game is here and normally I would start playing right away, got the game pre loaded and all. This man is so pleasant that I'd rather watch him play than start my own journey. Very well done my friend
I appreciate it. Hope you enjoy the game too.
Finally. I'm like a kid in a candy store
I suffered through april fools stream for this.
Now i can see the suffering of others.
Imagine a DLC like Winterhome or The Last Autumn, but you're the Prime Minister of Great Britain, governing London. The game mechanics could support it, since it's a much larger scale.
The last autumn, but the world is done being a snowball and starts heating up again, and we have to deal with heat stroke instead of frostbite because the generations have adapted to the cold, and can't stand the heat of 0°C
THE CITY MUST NOT FALL!
I am so torn between bingeing this or holding out to the game comes out
I'll say that after playing Ixion, I became a fan of the coinflip moments in FP1. Ixion showed me just how boring an entirely solvable system is, since the events in Ixion are purely deterministic with no random chance. In Frostpunk, your build order and overall build serves to not only solve the deterministic problems of your resource flows, but also to insulate you from stochastic problems like your scouts getting eaten by bears or Tesla's towers cooking them. It adds texture, and you recognize it for its absence.
Ixion is one damn dull game.
I must say, I'm a bit disappointed that the scale has gotten so much bigger. Instead of handling single people, you handle districts. And instead of working with a time scale of days, you are working with a timescale of years. Maybe my opinion will change down the line, but FP1 felt 'cozier'.
This is Frostpunk 2. It's not meant to be a repeat of the first game.
I gotta wait till Friday on my long 12hr work weekend lol
I still laugh when Jake cherry picks all the invalids from the med tents to do Scouting in the waste lands in FP1
41:10 Jake: Stop calling calling me Stuart, it's steward, -d -d -d, ends in a d!
Some lady immediately: We're calling you Stuart!
lmao I actually lost the first vote. Things weren't even bad, I just didn't do the sweet talking game the first time around and they were like, "Nah, thanks for saving our lives Stuart but we're gonna pass."