+3k hours in WT. For your mental health I don't recommend it. Save yourself the tears and having to explain your parents why you are crying over a videogame.
Me and my buddies had just gone on a run to March It was foggy We all had radios, we were walking to the entrance together, and I fell into the big water pit right in front of the entrance I quickly turned on the radio and said, "Hello, I am under de water :)" and then died They were laughing so hard, cause apparently my voice actually sounded like I was under the water Such a beautiful game
This game somehow feels like the first to really take an honest shot at proximity chat. Poke holes in the graphics or animations or gameplay or programming, but the proximity chat in this game is the best I've ever seen.
I adore how Lethal Company looks. It has the look of older games with how it's stylized and honestly, I know more people who are scared of horror games with older gen graphics than uber realistic. It evokes a sense of nostalgia and adds to the horror while making it look more uncanny. It's great and you don't *try* as hard.
The aesthetic really does give a mix of analog horror and 90s movie vibes, so I think I know why I prefer it over the 4k graphics. Or maybe its just triple A games being kinda ass in the gameplay department? Or is it because I don’t like using 30% of my storage on downloading it, only to realize that I get lag spikes every 5 seconds.
@@goodboi1725 haha the storage is also apart of it for me. Having the game run actually smooth instead of someone going "bro I'm frozen what are you talking about?" Every 10 minutes.
One of the ways it looks old that I actually like is that dark areas _actually look dark,_ like games from 2004-2007. Raytracing might be more "realistic" but it's more of a reason to take fancy marketing screenshots than it is lighting as a gameplay mechanic you have to actually leverage from moment to moment. Reminds me of how Doom 3's flashlight was hated on launch but once we saw it with BFG Edition's "you can light and shoot at the same time now" we realized "oh wait we're fucking stupid, that's fucking stupid, go back to flashlight being a separate weapon, it was cooler and adds more to the gameplay."
I agree that older games can be more scary, however, hyper-realistic can be equally as scary. I think lethal company works better with older graphics, but I ca. See why people go for realistic stuff.
It feels like each year we get more and more indie hit games that takes on the whole internet, it's good. this game was made by 1 dude and sold for 10$ as well which tells a lot about how the industry think about games.
whenever a game like this comes along it really puts into perspective how awful it is that we are being sold single character skins for double/triple the price of this WHOLE game
@@kel_ski the worse part is that the whales keep that kind of practices alive by themselves, companies don't care about that one player who will spend 20€ one time and be it, they will continue to drip feed whales so they can buy more and continue the cycle.
inb4 AAA companies start accusing the developper of the game of employing a toxic business model like some other highly successful, D&D inspired release that came out this year
I was thinking the same thing with the skin walker-like enemy, but I think it should also LOOK like one of your teammates, and then suddenly deform themselves into something mortifying and starts chasing you
I love the idea of the skinwalker but this is too obvious... i think a better way of implementing it would be a creature that steals the body of your teammates to lure you and kill you. that would create a new gameplay loop around getting corpses back AND create paranoia around your friends
Yeah the Bracken does when he kills you, and hoarding buggs do reclaim your body to put in their nest. But that would be the contrary, a creature that brings the body closer to you, by wearing it@@rifqimaalik6927
@@rifqimaalik6927 yeah the bracken does but tbh, itd be so cool if the game managed to make a monster that are actually able to join the group for a little bit, before revealing themselve and starting to kill people
The style truly suits the game in a way that makes the horror just work. Probably because it doesn’t need super heavy amounts of gore, graphic textures, or grotesque imagery for the concept to instil fear.
I love the style a lot. The only gripe I have with it tho is when I’m trying to look at terminal codes for doors or sentry guns, I sometimes genuinely can’t tell what letter and number a door has because of the pixelation
@@agorman1341 randomly spawn a railgun that only has one shot. -ridiculously loud when shot -creates a burnt cheese hole through anything unfortunate enough to be standing in its way (fuck you jester) -too rare, you better bring it back if you see it -sold for 1 value because funny
There are some glitches that I hope they never fix because of how hilarious it is. Like getting struck by lightning so hard that it sends your body into orbit. That gets me in stitches every time, man.
So, fun fact about that idea for a monster that mimics voices, the developer has actually made a reddit post on the Phasmaphobia subreddit a long time ago asking the Phasmaphobia devs to take full advantage of the voice recognition software of Lethal Company and make a monster that plays voice clips from players back to them to lure them away... I think it's looking like Zeekerss might just add something like that.
I appreciate your reviews for not feeling like a carbon copy of Seth or a needlessly long review where they just tell you everything that happens in the game. Basically you get your points across concisely and in your own comedic way.
thank you for the kind words man 🙏 yeah i mostly hit the big points, share my personal thoughts, and show some nice example clips im just trynna have fun with it lol
As a more long time fan of Zeekers, I am absolutely overjoyed to say that I have a picture of a time where Lethal Company surpassed the Steam Deck in top sellers
I'm happy this game got so much recognition, it's so cool seeing a dev that i've been enjoying his stuff since day one (Zeekers have some amazing projects outside of this, like "It Steals" and "Upturned") and I hope it gets some much recognition later down the line
2:42 The game's voicechat cut-off feature doing its job nicely. 4:19 Laughing to screaming. 7:15 Voice is muffled by the giant Australian centipede. 9:11 The way that his call for Kel is so dramaticly cut-off, followed by laughter, followed by death is so perfect! 10:13 Death compilation. 12:49 Landmine jumpscare! 15:39 Only $9! 16:23 Elastic corpse. 18:20 Watching death through a screen.
18:27 Goes to show why clips keep saying this game turns you into a professional voice actor. This is such a damn funny game to watch. And the creator saying they want to add so much more has me excited. I *hate* playing horror games but this may be the one exception soon
The pixelation as a means of blurring distant things is really Iconic in Zeekerss' works, and I think it helps to sort of recognise his games. His other works like It Steals and The Upturned are both really good games (albeit in different ways) but are still recognisable as having been made by Zeekerss thanks to the way they look, even though most of It Steals is played in pitch black darkness. Zeekers also loves making enemies that, in the light, look really damn goofy (see Legs from It Steals or the coil-head from LC) but become incredibly creepy due to the fact that the places you see them in are almost completely devoid of light aside from your flashlights. It's a great way to make a monster design that for all intents and purposes should be silly or funny and make it come off as an actual threat.
Well said! I feel like such clever tricks of hiding the monster or giving it special ways to stick with you mentally are severely underappreciated. What you said is correct, and it reminds me of how Amnesia: the Dark Descent hides it's monsters from you behind gameplay mechanics and excellent buildup of tension and release. Spookys House of Jumpscares also comes to mind. Every monster has its own build-up, and even unique ways of starting their chase after you and different intros (attacking you from the side, from top, from behind, even just doing their introduction standing in front of you and waiting for you to turn away)
@ARStudios2000 I agree, it's really good game design. If I had to make another comparison, then the mask from LC and the Jacks from The Upturned are also great at playing their jobs of "the mimic" archetype. The mask is good at catching people off guard since you can use it to accomplish your goal, but if you aren't careful it turns into a threat that can potentially ruin your entire run. Meanwhile, in The Upturned, throwing items is your one and only way of defending yourself from the monsters that try to kill you, so having an enemy that not only disguises as the objects you need to defend yourself but also (again) hide in the dark, makes for really good design. Both enemies are great since if you know what you're doing you can deal with them relatively easily, but they can still catch people off guard and cause panic, at least in me.
24:04 oh god… there is a mimic creature that been released in the new patch. Literally converts/kills you and then hunts down the other players. It so scary.
Lethal company practically can't get boring. The gameplay itself is solid and definitely hooks you in, but the progression as you finish quotas makes it so replayable. The second you get enough money to afford some new, cool piece of equipment or goofy item you feel great, only to fail the next quota and end up at square one, yearning to get back to that point and truly experience whatever you barely managed to fit in your budget last time.
I've become addicted to watching people play this game for the first time. You just can't beat the shear terror of not knowing what is around the corner about to kill you.
What I like most about lethal company, is the creatures. They are so horrifying and so very creative, and they're so very well made, then you die, and like, your scared of a fucking mannequin with a damn coil neck, or a black guy covered in leaves, and look at that five head on that ghost, lookin like Wednesday. Like I never seen something switch from horrific to hilarious so fast, and like, seeing your friends panic seeing one of those things is the best thing ever.
Outside of your helldivers 2 video (praise managed democracy) this video is such a good ad for this game. I wish I had gotten into this game before we finally liberated malevalon creek. I have to be on the front lines, and snuff out the automaton menace. Definitely earned a sub though.
The item delivery ice cream music is kind of genius, It takes a completely entirely normal melody... and puts one of the most wacky background parts under it to make it feel tense and unsettling. while at the same time being ICE CREAM!
I really hope they will add a Mimic monster that could Mimic nearby player's voice to lure player and once someone died to your crew the Mimic will replicate that player and follow other players waiting to drop their guard down to eat em alive.
So today when I played it, we encountered a coil-head. For some reason I like those monsters because of the spring sound they make when they stop, so I walked up to it really close, looked it in the eyes and said "I like you". The next second it killed me, causing everone else to burst out laughing. Comedic timing indeed 😂.
With how well the gameplay is I feel zeekers either got a masters in game design or is just naturally gifted, or the experience given they made games before
24:01 give a monster voice recognition via neural networks, have it able to distinguish phrases and cries for help. Have it keep recordings and replay them. Imagine the terror of hearing your voice call for help
I can already see a mimic being added. You weigh the Pros and Cons every time you pick something up. But it being an extremely rare creature so it inflicts terror with almost never showing ip
Not sure if you already knew this, but there’s already a mod for a Fire Escape Mimic & a mod that makes the Bracken mimic voices using clips of what you’ve said in the round. The fire escape mimic eats you when you try to use it to leave & says “Feed” as it’s “E” prompt. The Item Mimic idea you proposed sounds like a fun idea though.
24:03 SCP Secret Lab did this, I'm not sure if it still does, but with 939 it'll record short segments of voice chat and whoever is playing that SCP can play it back to get people to open locked doors and lure them out. The problem was it would pick up on people screaming and no one would open that shit lol. It was still super fun tho imo
YESSSS i was STARVING both for kelski vids and also for more lethal company content (new favorite game, just don't have friends...) and this has a PERFECT timing with this beautiful high quality editing :D
After playing this game for quite a bit I can easily say it is amazing. Your first hours are always better as you're more scared and get less scared as you learn to deal with creatures. But stuff will always get you still. The limitless potential of updates that can be done and with such a vast amount of mods already you can only imagine how much bigger it can get. The voice chat alone makes this game worth the money. This game is also just stupidly comedic for a horror game. Like i have laughed harder at this game than I have at anything other game in so long
24:00 YES!!! I would be so cool to have a monster that mimics your friends voices after they die or a monster that after they kill your friends, takes over looking like AKA the thing.
The art style looks fine and the AI of hostile entity's are some of the most interesting I've ever seen also when someone gets the girl and it being seen on the ship's outside camera is the most fun looking detail
my first experience on titan was so terrifying for me When i branched off too much the entrance i was told on the radio that there was a lot of loot by me and then next words a second after were "There's a jester" and i started panicking instantly. After everyone left the building i was panicking all over the place and eventually started hearing *it* and i started panicking more screaming into the radio for a flat minute to help. And then it was too late. I was trapped at the end of a long hallway and the jester activated and i heard its footsteps approaching, naturally as any other human, I started screaming and crying begging for mercy and having my prayers fall upon deaf ears. I saw it running towards me, faster and faster at the end of the hallway and the radio operator was just hearing me screaming and a red dot maul me on the map. 100/10 game i still have the clip and it is amazing
Games dont have better or worse graphics, other than those who aim for realism (like most AAA games), otherwise, it is called an artstyle, and the part that we love about it is how it substantially makes the experience from different games unique and fresh
Great video, the editing is amazing and your the smitty Russian badger and even the vanoss crew. You really are gonna be somebody childhood, including mine. I did have a question what microphone do you use it’s so good and bad at the same time it’s literally perfect.
What’s your headset if I don’t mind asking I’ve been needing to get one because my friends here my voice through my pc during lethal company sessions lol
And everyone has some kind of unique unofficial role in the team -The looter -the Explorer -the survivor /the fighter -the bait -the lost -the chairman And more
its the right amount of good game design, gameplay loop, cheap and silly that even if i only play it for 20ish hours with friends i feel like ive gotten my money's worth.
I remember first playing LC and thinking that it wouldn't be that scary and then I wandered out of earshot of my sibling and was suddenly, completely alone. It's easy to underestimate how valuable something as simple as communication is until you desperately need to tell someone something and you have no way of contacting them.
Imagine the developers somehow coded a mob that is basically a siphonophore (many organisms coming together to function as one). ...and they look like your ship and kill you if you try to start it.
Yes, I also saw the parallels to the following three games there: -Deeprock Galactic: 4p Squad gathering resources for a company on a stranger moon/planet -Phasmophobia: the fact that you are in grave danger plus the proxy voice chat -SCP secret lab: those anomalous monsters, SCP-173 is basically already in the game and I would welcome a 939 voice mimic to also be there, or something that works like 096, don’t look at its face or you‘ll die
A note on the "Mod" part, there are two videos I love on this platform by _Daszombes_ going over his concepts for Lethal Company creatures, items, and locales. The idea Lethal Company will be an SCP-like game but far more accessible to those wiithout prior lore info is actually really exciting, I can't wait to see what the full version will have.
The part with the soundless enemies is so freaking good because (I will be technical here and talk about predators) animals in the wild don't usually roar or howl at their prey, that alerts them, instead they stalk, quietly, silently and that is way better than any loud noise there is. A loud noise it scary in an instant, but being stalked it's a beast of it's own because you know there is something there but you don't know where is it or when will that thing attack. That is genius game and behaviour design.
What makes the proximity chat even better is the ghost girl muffles and fades away your friends voices almost like a ringing in your ear as the gongs and chimes of death start playing.
This... this is perfection, the game AND the video you made, Im telling you man, this one has something special in it, find the thing and I PROMISE you will get to 100B subs! Other than that, we need a gamenight out of this for the discord>:) Also, glad to see you keep on your end of the deal and gave us more dog photos, keep goin man! :D
The fact that dynamic items are a thing along with some of the things you said about helldivers, this has given me things to add in my game. Example about the randomly generated map, I have a map idea named Easter front. This means the map could be some random place in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, ect. This means playing the map eastern front can be completely different each time you play the same map. The proximity chat thing in Lethal company? Hell yeah!! The fact that, in helldivers, your charechter’s voice and emotions change from the peaceful beginning and the shell shock at the end? I’m adding something like that I call dynamic mood and reaction. If you aren’t shooting a lot and doing things that you do in combat, you are more calm and reload more deliberately. If you are in combat, you might reload the gun faster, in a different way, or if your soldier has a low experience level, might fuck up the reload and drop the mag. The fact that, aside from the first few updates, there are no trailers that helldivers does? I love that idea!! The feature in helldivers with the menue being visible to other players watching you find a place to drop? I was going to make it so you WALK around the menue. To get your load out, you walk over to the one side of the base camp where the truck full of guns, ammo, and boxes of attachments and make your load out. Not only that, but others can watch you put these attachments on, see which ones are available via watching the clipboard list (or tablet if you are playing in the modern war) and see you picking up the scope from the box. You also deploy via sign the waver, hopping into the truck, and then watching the truck arrive at the base to the map you are playing on. If you want to change load out, you have to go back to the base or find a supply vehicle and open up that box. If you are changing attachments in a WW-2 match, you will only WW-2 guns and attachments, plus anything from WW-1. If you are in a modern match, you will have access to everything. Respawning is a “wave” system, where every 5 seconds (if you are in arcade mode) to 5 minutes (if you are on simulator mode) you respawn. The scene for respawning is the truck you’re in, plus the trucks with everyone else respawning at the same time, driving to either the base camp or a forward base that your team controls. If at any point (as long as your in the map boundaries) you can just jump out of the truck. Thanks for making the video on helldivers and this one! It inspired me to improve my independent game project.
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nah
they turned your sponsorship section into an ad lol
p.s. is there any way i can play with you? i have no friends...
+3k hours in WT.
For your mental health I don't recommend it. Save yourself the tears and having to explain your parents why you are crying over a videogame.
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Lethal Company: A game that turns us all in amazing voice actors
for real, i’m bouta start auditioning lmfao
indeed
it's all fun and games when you aren't acting anymore
Two other people: *presses the bell at the same time while I go to press it, leading to whoever the boss is to grab me and kill me.*
Me: AH-
Still watch the “She’s coming for me! WTF” clip of ghost girl 😂 Dudes need to get hired
"What happens when he's done with the music?"
"Ah it just walks away"
FUCKING GOT ME SO GOOD
Translate : "it runs at you and your teammates faster than asian parents with sandals on their hand"
@@quanlinglingdingle6122what the fuck
@@quanlinglingdingle6122partly because the Asian parents don’t move much in the first place, as the sandal transcends time and space to hit its target
Me and my buddies had just gone on a run to March
It was foggy
We all had radios, we were walking to the entrance together, and I fell into the big water pit right in front of the entrance
I quickly turned on the radio and said, "Hello, I am under de water :)" and then died
They were laughing so hard, cause apparently my voice actually sounded like I was under the water
Such a beautiful game
you can literally hear bubbles when talking underwater, it’s so good
@@kel_skitotally
One of my fav Memes
This game somehow feels like the first to really take an honest shot at proximity chat. Poke holes in the graphics or animations or gameplay or programming, but the proximity chat in this game is the best I've ever seen.
@@dogstomp yeah it can be horrifying and hilarious sometimes
I adore how Lethal Company looks. It has the look of older games with how it's stylized and honestly, I know more people who are scared of horror games with older gen graphics than uber realistic. It evokes a sense of nostalgia and adds to the horror while making it look more uncanny. It's great and you don't *try* as hard.
The aesthetic really does give a mix of analog horror and 90s movie vibes, so I think I know why I prefer it over the 4k graphics. Or maybe its just triple A games being kinda ass in the gameplay department? Or is it because I don’t like using 30% of my storage on downloading it, only to realize that I get lag spikes every 5 seconds.
@@goodboi1725 haha the storage is also apart of it for me. Having the game run actually smooth instead of someone going "bro I'm frozen what are you talking about?" Every 10 minutes.
One of the ways it looks old that I actually like is that dark areas _actually look dark,_ like games from 2004-2007. Raytracing might be more "realistic" but it's more of a reason to take fancy marketing screenshots than it is lighting as a gameplay mechanic you have to actually leverage from moment to moment.
Reminds me of how Doom 3's flashlight was hated on launch but once we saw it with BFG Edition's "you can light and shoot at the same time now" we realized "oh wait we're fucking stupid, that's fucking stupid, go back to flashlight being a separate weapon, it was cooler and adds more to the gameplay."
I agree that older games can be more scary, however, hyper-realistic can be equally as scary. I think lethal company works better with older graphics, but I ca. See why people go for realistic stuff.
@@_sleepyaisha_ this is probably why i am an ultrakill fan as well lmao
It feels like each year we get more and more indie hit games that takes on the whole internet, it's good. this game was made by 1 dude and sold for 10$ as well which tells a lot about how the industry think about games.
whenever a game like this comes along it really puts into perspective how awful it is that we are being sold single character skins for double/triple the price of this WHOLE game
@@kel_ski the worse part is that the whales keep that kind of practices alive by themselves, companies don't care about that one player who will spend 20€ one time and be it, they will continue to drip feed whales so they can buy more and continue the cycle.
@@kel_ski yea lmao, those cosmetics aren't even expensive because it's rare or something, the devs just charge that shit the same price as the game
AAA industry is dead. THey are just pretend they aren't
inb4 AAA companies start accusing the developper of the game of employing a toxic business model like some other highly successful, D&D inspired release that came out this year
Monster that records mic audio to lure people in is the holy grail of video game enemies, we NEED it
It Playbacks their final screams by chance
They were pretty close with the mimic
@@eqhy8836 the skinwalker mod does this
it exists with the skinwalker mod
crazy we got lethal copany to outperform cod
what a satisfying victory in the battle against AAA modern gaming
indeed
Not really. MW3 was shit.
@@redhood7778 i know but there is still lots of cod stans that buys it every year
That’s cause, it’s a better game. Activision should try to make one some time
I was thinking the same thing with the skin walker-like enemy, but I think it should also LOOK like one of your teammates, and then suddenly deform themselves into something mortifying and starts chasing you
I LOVE IT
I love the idea of the skinwalker but this is too obvious... i think a better way of implementing it would be a creature that steals the body of your teammates to lure you and kill you. that would create a new gameplay loop around getting corpses back AND create paranoia around your friends
@@spyegle i think there is 1 creature that drags your friend's body away(?)
Yeah the Bracken does when he kills you, and hoarding buggs do reclaim your body to put in their nest. But that would be the contrary, a creature that brings the body closer to you, by wearing it@@rifqimaalik6927
@@rifqimaalik6927 yeah the bracken does
but tbh, itd be so cool if the game managed to make a monster that are actually able to join the group for a little bit, before revealing themselve and starting to kill people
this game is incredible and i dont think its gonna become annoying to look at because its really stylized
i love the way it looks, and i’ll stay on this hill forever
Yeah
The style truly suits the game in a way that makes the horror just work. Probably because it doesn’t need super heavy amounts of gore, graphic textures, or grotesque imagery for the concept to instil fear.
@@kel_ski Preach brother, the other day I saw a video on why Lethal company wasn't perfect because it looked bad 💀 and because it was a roguelike 💀
I love the style a lot. The only gripe I have with it tho is when I’m trying to look at terminal codes for doors or sentry guns, I sometimes genuinely can’t tell what letter and number a door has because of the pixelation
This game has infinite potential. You can just keep adding enemies, items, maps, there is no limit
Honestly they should also add bonus loot for not choosing the same moon for looting as well once we have a lot more maps to choose from
I hope they add full RNG moons someday. Randomly generated environment, ecosystem, name, difficulty, etc.
Don't forget
Guns
@@agorman1341 randomly spawn a railgun that only has one shot.
-ridiculously loud when shot
-creates a burnt cheese hole through anything unfortunate enough to be standing in its way (fuck you jester)
-too rare, you better bring it back if you see it
-sold for 1 value because funny
@@goodboi1725 or maybe some preserved Ak47, M4A1
The vc in this game is crazy. This game is so simple, yet so technical
those are the best kinds of games!
easy to pick up, but has tons of depth to play with
The VC mechanic is very tightly knit together
There are some glitches that I hope they never fix because of how hilarious it is. Like getting struck by lightning so hard that it sends your body into orbit. That gets me in stitches every time, man.
Not a bug, a ✨feature✨
No
15:43 I still remember when we sold everything but still needed more for the quota. After sacrificing eachother we were a single credit off.
this story has me dying 😭
Oof, the tragedy--
You can sell the clipboard
@@lebigfish9492 YOU CAN SELL THE CLIPBOARD?
@@dr.consumerock6798 yep, its worth 5 lmao
So, fun fact about that idea for a monster that mimics voices, the developer has actually made a reddit post on the Phasmaphobia subreddit a long time ago asking the Phasmaphobia devs to take full advantage of the voice recognition software of Lethal Company and make a monster that plays voice clips from players back to them to lure them away...
I think it's looking like Zeekerss might just add something like that.
I was the one who touched heavy's minigun in meet the heavy :10yearsinthejoint:
I appreciate your reviews for not feeling like a carbon copy of Seth or a needlessly long review where they just tell you everything that happens in the game. Basically you get your points across concisely and in your own comedic way.
thank you for the kind words man 🙏 yeah i mostly hit the big points, share my personal thoughts, and show some nice example clips
im just trynna have fun with it lol
Hey hey hey people. Today we are working for the merchants guild.
Man seth has achieved god status among us ngl..
And also not a max0r copy thank god.
Yeah I hate those YT channels that are essentially just glorified Wikipedia pages. Sadly rather common nowadays.
As a more long time fan of Zeekers, I am absolutely overjoyed to say that I have a picture of a time where Lethal Company surpassed the Steam Deck in top sellers
it has not surpassed steam deck, if it did it was only for a day lol.
@@Kalashboy420it did for a full weekend if memory serves
@@mobiusone6994 a whole two days wow
@@Kalashboy420it was for like 3 days
a whole three days wow@@corporatecapitalism
I'm happy this game got so much recognition, it's so cool seeing a dev that i've been enjoying his stuff since day one (Zeekers have some amazing projects outside of this, like "It Steals" and "Upturned") and I hope it gets some much recognition later down the line
Well goddamn, no wonder this game is so good at horror.
He's a master of this weird horror that keeps crossing back and forth between funny and terrifying.
WAAAIT, ZEEKERS IS IT STEALS DEV??? whaaaaaaaaaaaat
wait didn't it was the same guy that made it steals
Wait it was made by ZEEKERS !!?
I feel stupid because it should be so obvious (I mean have you played The Upturned ?).
The timing with the hoarding bug and the music box was just spot on 17:45
Bug transformed, he was done with the negotiations.
The fact that this game is also still in early access, means that we got many things about to come out for us, and I'm all for it.
2:42 The game's voicechat cut-off feature doing its job nicely.
4:19 Laughing to screaming.
7:15 Voice is muffled by the giant Australian centipede.
9:11 The way that his call for Kel is so dramaticly cut-off, followed by laughter, followed by death is so perfect!
10:13 Death compilation.
12:49 Landmine jumpscare!
15:39 Only $9!
16:23 Elastic corpse.
18:20 Watching death through a screen.
18:47 Hilarious betrayal "they didn't get my body, so I won't get theirs."
20:20 A cinematic roar, the like of which you would hete in the year 2020.
To me Lethal Company is like watching a game show with new content each episode. A+ game design.
11:30
Being silently stalked
That's Zeekers's secret recipe for a good horror game.
The agony and joy I saw at seeing this is unparalleled. You’ve beaten me to posting a video again😫
sorry brotha 👀 i was in the zone haha
18:27 Goes to show why clips keep saying this game turns you into a professional voice actor. This is such a damn funny game to watch. And the creator saying they want to add so much more has me excited.
I *hate* playing horror games but this may be the one exception soon
This game can turn players to a Comedy or Horror voice actor and its Gold
The pixelation as a means of blurring distant things is really Iconic in Zeekerss' works, and I think it helps to sort of recognise his games. His other works like It Steals and The Upturned are both really good games (albeit in different ways) but are still recognisable as having been made by Zeekerss thanks to the way they look, even though most of It Steals is played in pitch black darkness.
Zeekers also loves making enemies that, in the light, look really damn goofy (see Legs from It Steals or the coil-head from LC) but become incredibly creepy due to the fact that the places you see them in are almost completely devoid of light aside from your flashlights. It's a great way to make a monster design that for all intents and purposes should be silly or funny and make it come off as an actual threat.
Well said!
I feel like such clever tricks of hiding the monster or giving it special ways to stick with you mentally are severely underappreciated. What you said is correct, and it reminds me of how Amnesia: the Dark Descent hides it's monsters from you behind gameplay mechanics and excellent buildup of tension and release.
Spookys House of Jumpscares also comes to mind. Every monster has its own build-up, and even unique ways of starting their chase after you and different intros (attacking you from the side, from top, from behind, even just doing their introduction standing in front of you and waiting for you to turn away)
@ARStudios2000 I agree, it's really good game design.
If I had to make another comparison, then the mask from LC and the Jacks from The Upturned are also great at playing their jobs of "the mimic" archetype. The mask is good at catching people off guard since you can use it to accomplish your goal, but if you aren't careful it turns into a threat that can potentially ruin your entire run. Meanwhile, in The Upturned, throwing items is your one and only way of defending yourself from the monsters that try to kill you, so having an enemy that not only disguises as the objects you need to defend yourself but also (again) hide in the dark, makes for really good design. Both enemies are great since if you know what you're doing you can deal with them relatively easily, but they can still catch people off guard and cause panic, at least in me.
10:45 i love this moment
12:50 and this lmao
15:59 oh my god
The company sure seems trusworthy! Surely nothing will go wrong! Right? Right…?
nope, go ahead and sign on the dotted line sir 🌚
@@kel_ski Sir, the company didn't tell me there'd be slimes in here- *absorbed*
@dr.consumerock6798
"And they ain't cute like the ones you see in your anime or Manga of any kind, ya damn weeaboo!"
@@trumediamix1 i thought boomboxes paralysed the slime
@@matteocdt5214 At that time, I knew you could lure them with music. For some reason, they loved boomboxes.
This is what we needed. A single guy who’s passionate about what he does. Happy for him!
I've said it once & I'll say it again, 2023 has been the greatest year for video games we gamers have ever gotten since 2008.
lol
2019 was great too
every year was great for games, cant think of a single year where a great game didnt come out. @@mrswag2866
portal 2:
2017 tho
18:49 that’s gold
I love that his character already looks the part
15:56 Fall For You is such a perfect song for this joke
24:04 oh god… there is a mimic creature that been released in the new patch. Literally converts/kills you and then hunts down the other players. It so scary.
Lethal company practically can't get boring. The gameplay itself is solid and definitely hooks you in, but the progression as you finish quotas makes it so replayable. The second you get enough money to afford some new, cool piece of equipment or goofy item you feel great, only to fail the next quota and end up at square one, yearning to get back to that point and truly experience whatever you barely managed to fit in your budget last time.
Didn’t expect this video to come out so quick. Nice job Mr. Kelski!
man i thought i took too long! thanks for waiting haha
My favorite part was when they said “Dang this company is pretty lethal.” And then they lethaled the company all over the place
This meme didn't die?
@@randomhooman1952 Apparently not.
@@Bone_Incidents evidently not 😂 truly one of the memes of time
@@randomhooman1952no and I wish it did. It wasn't funny when Morbius came out, and it hasn't been funny since
@@ARStudios2000 It Is one of the jokes of times
I've become addicted to watching people play this game for the first time. You just can't beat the shear terror of not knowing what is around the corner about to kill you.
What I like most about lethal company, is the creatures. They are so horrifying and so very creative, and they're so very well made, then you die, and like, your scared of a fucking mannequin with a damn coil neck, or a black guy covered in leaves, and look at that five head on that ghost, lookin like Wednesday. Like I never seen something switch from horrific to hilarious so fast, and like, seeing your friends panic seeing one of those things is the best thing ever.
He maybe not pregnant, but he always delivers.
bro 💀
I love these moments in gaming history, when a little indie title just becomes a phenomenon, like Among Us or FNAF.
Outside of your helldivers 2 video (praise managed democracy) this video is such a good ad for this game. I wish I had gotten into this game before we finally liberated malevalon creek. I have to be on the front lines, and snuff out the automaton menace. Definitely earned a sub though.
The item delivery ice cream music is kind of genius, It takes a completely entirely normal melody... and puts one of the most wacky background parts under it to make it feel tense and unsettling. while at the same time being ICE CREAM!
"no shop"
Terminal store: allow me to introduce myself.
First Battlebit Remastered, then Lethal Company. These indie games are really showing the power of implementing proxy chat.
The fact that so many people are on board with the VC gimmick and not just using Discord to cheese warms my heart :)
I really hope they will add a Mimic monster that could Mimic nearby player's voice to lure player and once someone died to your crew the Mimic will replicate that player and follow other players waiting to drop their guard down to eat em alive.
there is a mod for it but it cant detect the player's voice so it only takes their voice and replays it randomly
So today when I played it, we encountered a coil-head. For some reason I like those monsters because of the spring sound they make when they stop, so I walked up to it really close, looked it in the eyes and said "I like you". The next second it killed me, causing everone else to burst out laughing. Comedic timing indeed 😂.
With how well the gameplay is I feel zeekers either got a masters in game design or is just naturally gifted, or the experience given they made games before
21:40 I love that you actually put Ik's theme (the upturned) here
18:46 this the most hilarious moment I've ever seen in everything
16:00
Sauce music: Fall for you [ secondhand Serenade]
24:01 give a monster voice recognition via neural networks, have it able to distinguish phrases and cries for help. Have it keep recordings and replay them. Imagine the terror of hearing your voice call for help
I can already see a mimic being added. You weigh the Pros and Cons every time you pick something up. But it being an extremely rare creature so it inflicts terror with almost never showing ip
Not sure if you already knew this, but there’s already a mod for a Fire Escape Mimic & a mod that makes the Bracken mimic voices using clips of what you’ve said in the round.
The fire escape mimic eats you when you try to use it to leave & says “Feed” as it’s “E” prompt. The Item Mimic idea you proposed sounds like a fun idea though.
@@insertcreativename802 ya "mod" im not talking about mods
that intro actually could be the real trailer of this game, its uncanny but funny and fully fits with the games aesthetics
23:55 this aged well
24:03 SCP Secret Lab did this, I'm not sure if it still does, but with 939 it'll record short segments of voice chat and whoever is playing that SCP can play it back to get people to open locked doors and lure them out. The problem was it would pick up on people screaming and no one would open that shit lol. It was still super fun tho imo
939 still does this
"I don't know if it can see" No it can't, but it can definitely HEAR YOU
YESSSS i was STARVING both for kelski vids and also for more lethal company content (new favorite game, just don't have friends...) and this has a PERFECT timing with this beautiful high quality editing :D
15:29 "Is it gonna kill me?" *BONK* 🤣
I will never forget the first time I rang the company bell repeatedly. That was a learning experience
After playing this game for quite a bit I can easily say it is amazing. Your first hours are always better as you're more scared and get less scared as you learn to deal with creatures. But stuff will always get you still. The limitless potential of updates that can be done and with such a vast amount of mods already you can only imagine how much bigger it can get. The voice chat alone makes this game worth the money. This game is also just stupidly comedic for a horror game. Like i have laughed harder at this game than I have at anything other game in so long
8:25
"HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP!"
kelski: *laughing*
24:00 YES!!! I would be so cool to have a monster that mimics your friends voices after they die or a monster that after they kill your friends, takes over looking like AKA the thing.
18:28 pure bloody fucking murder
22:50 Oh hey, that's me
Yes
imagine lethal company while drunk/high, absolutely new dimension of fear and ✨silly✨
The art style looks fine and the AI of hostile entity's are some of the most interesting I've ever seen also when someone gets the girl and it being seen on the ship's outside camera is the most fun looking detail
Ive never played a game where watching gameplay is just as fun as actually playing the game. I love this game so much.
fun fact: coil heads can actually move whenever they want indicated by lore and at 11:02 I think I know why he chose to kill him.
Love your editing at the start of the video.
thank you! i had tons of fun making it haha
This editing is actually really good. Nice Job
The fact that they added the mask that does almost exactly what kelski asked for
my first experience on titan was so terrifying for me
When i branched off too much the entrance i was told on the radio that there was a lot of loot by me and then next words a second after were "There's a jester" and i started panicking instantly. After everyone left the building i was panicking all over the place and eventually started hearing *it* and i started panicking more screaming into the radio for a flat minute to help. And then it was too late. I was trapped at the end of a long hallway and the jester activated and i heard its footsteps approaching, naturally as any other human, I started screaming and crying begging for mercy and having my prayers fall upon deaf ears. I saw it running towards me, faster and faster at the end of the hallway and the radio operator was just hearing me screaming and a red dot maul me on the map.
100/10 game i still have the clip and it is amazing
Games dont have better or worse graphics, other than those who aim for realism (like most AAA games), otherwise, it is called an artstyle, and the part that we love about it is how it substantially makes the experience from different games unique and fresh
Great video, the editing is amazing and your the smitty Russian badger and even the vanoss crew. You really are gonna be somebody childhood, including mine. I did have a question what microphone do you use it’s so good and bad at the same time it’s literally perfect.
what immense praise, thank you so much 🙏 i use a blue snowball mic for the post commentary, and my headset mic for the live commentary haha
What’s your headset if I don’t mind asking I’ve been needing to get one because my friends here my voice through my pc during lethal company sessions lol
Sorry but I got another question do you have a discord server?
Finally over 100k subs, I guess Kelski will go for 200k then 500k next 😂
dude it's wild how far we've come already
And everyone has some kind of unique unofficial role in the team
-The looter
-the Explorer
-the survivor /the fighter
-the bait
-the lost
-the chairman
And more
DON'T THINK I MISSED THE FEMBOY FIRE ARMS POSTER AT 14:46
its the right amount of good game design, gameplay loop, cheap and silly that even if i only play it for 20ish hours with friends i feel like ive gotten my money's worth.
Honestly this deserves indie of the year. Or at least a nomination cuz it’s amaizng
That was single handily the funniest ad integration I've seen recently lmaaao
A monster that records and replays your voice to lure others is absolutely one of the best ideas I’ve ever heard.
Not sure if you already knew this, but there is a mod that makes the Bracken mimic voices using clips of what you’ve said in the round.
the voice mimic idea is so cool, i was thinking of something similar!
Not sure if you already knew this, but there is a mod that makes the Bracken mimic voices using clips of what you’ve said in the round.
I remember first playing LC and thinking that it wouldn't be that scary and then I wandered out of earshot of my sibling and was suddenly, completely alone. It's easy to underestimate how valuable something as simple as communication is until you desperately need to tell someone something and you have no way of contacting them.
Imagine the developers somehow coded a mob that is basically a siphonophore (many organisms coming together to function as one).
...and they look like your ship and kill you if you try to start it.
"~We love The Company!~"
“The Company!”
Yes, I also saw the parallels to the following three games there:
-Deeprock Galactic: 4p Squad gathering resources for a company on a stranger moon/planet
-Phasmophobia: the fact that you are in grave danger plus the proxy voice chat
-SCP secret lab: those anomalous monsters, SCP-173 is basically already in the game and I would welcome a 939 voice mimic to also be there, or something that works like 096, don’t look at its face or you‘ll die
God, i really hope at some point this game gets VR support (and i don't even own VR).
I hope it comes to PlayStation because I only have PlayStation VR... Then again though it would probably be PS5 only and I have the 4 :/
A note on the "Mod" part, there are two videos I love on this platform by _Daszombes_ going over his concepts for Lethal Company creatures, items, and locales. The idea Lethal Company will be an SCP-like game but far more accessible to those wiithout prior lore info is actually really exciting, I can't wait to see what the full version will have.
A VR version would go hard as hell. Also another W for indie games every where.
The part with the soundless enemies is so freaking good because (I will be technical here and talk about predators) animals in the wild don't usually roar or howl at their prey, that alerts them, instead they stalk, quietly, silently and that is way better than any loud noise there is. A loud noise it scary in an instant, but being stalked it's a beast of it's own because you know there is something there but you don't know where is it or when will that thing attack. That is genius game and behaviour design.
It's alway good to see good indie game being successful, lord knows we need more of them in this market nowaday.
What makes the proximity chat even better is the ghost girl muffles and fades away your friends voices almost like a ringing in your ear as the gongs and chimes of death start playing.
This... this is perfection, the game AND the video you made,
Im telling you man, this one has something special in it, find the thing and I PROMISE you will get to 100B subs!
Other than that, we need a gamenight out of this for the discord>:)
Also, glad to see you keep on your end of the deal and gave us more dog photos, keep goin man! :D
18:23 that shit made my week, i spit all my drink on the keyboard
11:21 PLEASE MAKE IT STOP IM NOT SAFE ANYWHERE 😭
😭🙏
The fact that dynamic items are a thing along with some of the things you said about helldivers, this has given me things to add in my game. Example about the randomly generated map, I have a map idea named Easter front. This means the map could be some random place in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, ect. This means playing the map eastern front can be completely different each time you play the same map. The proximity chat thing in Lethal company? Hell yeah!! The fact that, in helldivers, your charechter’s voice and emotions change from the peaceful beginning and the shell shock at the end? I’m adding something like that I call dynamic mood and reaction. If you aren’t shooting a lot and doing things that you do in combat, you are more calm and reload more deliberately. If you are in combat, you might reload the gun faster, in a different way, or if your soldier has a low experience level, might fuck up the reload and drop the mag. The fact that, aside from the first few updates, there are no trailers that helldivers does? I love that idea!! The feature in helldivers with the menue being visible to other players watching you find a place to drop? I was going to make it so you WALK around the menue. To get your load out, you walk over to the one side of the base camp where the truck full of guns, ammo, and boxes of attachments and make your load out. Not only that, but others can watch you put these attachments on, see which ones are available via watching the clipboard list (or tablet if you are playing in the modern war) and see you picking up the scope from the box. You also deploy via sign the waver, hopping into the truck, and then watching the truck arrive at the base to the map you are playing on. If you want to change load out, you have to go back to the base or find a supply vehicle and open up that box. If you are changing attachments in a WW-2 match, you will only WW-2 guns and attachments, plus anything from WW-1. If you are in a modern match, you will have access to everything. Respawning is a “wave” system, where every 5 seconds (if you are in arcade mode) to 5 minutes (if you are on simulator mode) you respawn. The scene for respawning is the truck you’re in, plus the trucks with everyone else respawning at the same time, driving to either the base camp or a forward base that your team controls. If at any point (as long as your in the map boundaries) you can just jump out of the truck.
Thanks for making the video on helldivers and this one! It inspired me to improve my independent game project.
When kelski uploads, I prepare to giggle and chuckle.
Bro dropped fathomless tomb and thought we wouldn't notice