I feel like the reason that the HoundMaster in the first dungeon went crazy was because he had a fear of beasts. Which is hilarious because he would be scarred of his own dog then.
+CptPeo It is of course a reference to the fact that TB does the occasional side-role in Genna's catoptional Nyan-content, Which frequently features their dogs as well.
+sander heutink No. During the hype-up for LotV, she was briefly interviews and accredited as "Totalbiscuit's wife" instead of "former manager of Axxiom Esports" or something along those lines.
+AngryAngry Ancom that seems like a move from someone who knows nothing about esports and just used total biscuit as a reference,seems like standard journalism laziness
+magicUse am I the only one thinking that his audio quality is lower? The compressor only affects the sound level, not the quality, and the audio quality seems lower to me. It's like his gain is set a bit high and the compressor is pushing it back down (which means higher noise).
+Karl Ramstedt honestly you're objectively wrong on some counts. Compressors do affect the audio quality, they each have their own unique sound that they bring to the table. This one in particular, being a "vintage-style" tube and valve compressor has a nice warmth to it. The input gain is set a bit high, you are correct there, that's causing the distortion and we can easily adjust that. The ratio is also a bit high, we're doing 6:1 right now whereas I think we should be doing 4:1. The audio doesn't need to be AS pancaked as it is. There's no way in hell you can believe the audio quality is worse though. Just compare previous stream vods. It's clearly superior and much closer to what my regular RUclips videos, which are all compressed, sound like.
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit I'm no audio wiz, I'm just calling it as I perceive it. And my perception may very well be colored by your normally stellar audio in your youtube videos. Keep up the good work, sir. Btw, will you be trying out Murloc Control/OTK Paladin in Hearthstone? It's a hilariously fun deck. Not super viable, but a lot better than most gimmick decks. I can throw together a decklist for you if you'd like.
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit In truth i think the new audio thing sounds fine, reminds me of your youtube vids so if that was to goal you got it. I do enjoy your products and i hope you enjoy the work. Thanks for helping the Wife and I have brighter days.
+Daniel Domeisen That was the goal. It's also why people saying they don't like compression are talking out of their arses, because they've been listening to compressed audio since 2011 on my RUclips channel.
Many people complaining about the audio but I actually find it great. I'm no audio expert but I really enjoy the thickness and cosyness of the voice. I still have my old Samson CO1U that I remember TB recommended many many years ago, It doesnt even cut close to TB's quality, comparitively it sounds like I'm recording from a bathroom.
Just want to say that whether I agree with you or not in regards to anything I do feel like your one of the few youtubers that truly has committed to this job seriously. The effort and heart you put into your work is clear, at least to me. Thanks man, I like the new audio setup personally. Consistency is awesome.
+Alexandru Sandulache Quite a few great quotes in that video. "Crendor is hopeless" has been said many times in many contexts, so it's nothing special. "I also like heart attacks" is quite nice. ;-)
It's interesting watching this having already seen the WTF is video, because I remember the roster he had before, and I'm seeing him name all these people, and knowing who dies and who does really well.
+HydraDaLittle well I do have a WTF is coming on the topic. There were some changes made during early access that were controversial. Corpses and Heartattacks were the main ones, plus they nerfed stalling as a tactic (but not by much, you can still do it to a degree). I don't mind either of those big mechanics, especially since they let you turn them off anyway. Not having corpses vastly decreased the need to play positionally and reduced the desire of players to use movement based mechanics since just nuking the front row and having the backrow enemies move forward as a result was more efficient. Now if you want those dangerous backrow guys at the front where they can do far less, you have to work for it and that to me is fine. The only annoyance I find is that blind-fire hits corpses, which makes no thematic sense. As for Heart Attacks, to me it adds to the "failure cataclysm" effect in which once things get bad past a certain point, it sets off a chain reaction of panic and death. I think that adds a nice element of tension to the game and certainly forces you to try and keep your stress managed, whereas prior to its implementation, just taking a ton of stress damage really only meant you had some minor inconvenience in the dungeon and expense afterwards to fix it. Anyway, you can turn both off if you want so its not a problem. The game is obviously more fleshed out than it was early on and I think its one of the best games of the year already.
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit Thanks for such a detailed response! Wow, can't believe optional features, that can be turned off, could cause such a mayhem. So there was no reason to be worried after all! Blimey, I thought there were some serious issues
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit Never played the game in Early Access, but both Heart Attack and (most) of the corpse mechanics seemed like such a natural fit to the game that I can't imagine playing with them disabled. I guess internet will rage over just about anything.
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit Hey TB, I don't know if you'll read my message, but there are actually people that are hell bent on undermining the success of the game and the reputation of the developers. Just so you don't think I am some sort of conspiratard, check out Jim's latest video on Darkest Dungeon, he talks about it at ~33:10, he sounds pretty sceptical. That's quite a long story that's been developing for months, but those people have a personal goal to smear the gams with wild baseless accusations. I am not saying to dismiss all criticism and negative reviews of the game, but just keep that in mind.
The negative screeching is generally the result of about 5% of the early access players with an over developed sense of entitlement losing their minds over the developers improving the strategic depth of the game and nerfing exploits that circumvented the game's core gameplay and difficulty. Their favorite thing to cry about is that previously the best strategy for every situation was to completely ignore flexible characters with ranged abilities and instead run all front line heavy hitters because you can just hack down the enemy front line characters and the ranged backline enemies will just blindly charge forward and line up to get hacked down as well. Obviously this completely negates pretty much the entire point of differentiating between melee and ranged units and abilities that can alter both friendly and enemy positioning. So the developers decided to make it an actual disadvantage for the super heavy hitting close up fighters to not have long ranged attacks. They did this by letting the enemy ranged units hang back and keep firing from behind the piles of dead corpses. This forces melee units to basically take a round or two hacking their way through the pile of fallen foes that the enemy rangers are using as make shift cover. It was just a way to give ranged units and units that have abilities that can forcibly move foes around a real purpose. So yeah, these 1000 word walls of screeching text ranting about the end of the world and ruination of the game and the betrayal of the early supporters really comes down to few entitled twats losing their god damn minds over the developers actually developing their unfinished game and tweaked the combat system in relatively minor ways to enrich the strategic depth and variety of play while upping the difficulty level since you can't cheese the system anymore.
+Kar4ever3 I dont upload crappy stream VoDs to my main channel. I don't think it fits the look I'm going for with the brand. This channel reliably does and I have no problem with that. If you want to see it early, feel free to subscribe to the VoDs or tune into our 24/7 playlist on the Twitch channel, which includes all the latest streams on repeat.
Man I pay more in debts than on rent, so I do what I can. Well with 1/200'th of a cent, I guess Miracleofsound made a dollar off of me in Jan. It's something.
Technicalities aside (as I know little of them) I'm really enjoying the SOUND. Very warm and pleasant - perhaps not _quite_ on radio level yet but in the ballpark of it (can we still use that phrase unironically?). I'll get used to this fairly quickly. Besides that, I do certainly enjoy being able to comfortably put a video in the background while doing other things and not having to worry about sudden volume spikes (and by extension the bursting of my eardrums) whenever someone gets excited.
If you're trying to understand the change in his audio don't compare the mic sound to that on his main channel, (you'll just be comparing how strong his voice was on the day, and settings he's probably still messing with) instead: turn up your levels a bit, go back to video from a month ago 'on this channel' and listen to the audio change level 5 times in his opening sentence, then come back here and listen to how that doesn't happen
I honestly like the non compressed audio more. It feels more natural. However I guess this is what TB wants and it is what we get. Sad to see the more natural sounding audio go but whatever. TB is TB. Compressed or uncompressed, we are still gonna watch.
I saw this game being played a while back and immediately like the artistic style and gameplay, but I never got around to playing it. Maybe with the new additions I'll finally have enough reason to get it for myself. Also, the sound quality is good and the compressor seems to be working well, some people just aren't used to the change, which is a bit odd because I believe your videos have the same kind of sound compression. Btw, keep up the good work and all the best for the future.
At first I was like .. eh, I dont hear much difference... then I realised that I dont watch streams that much, so I am used to regular videos, that are compressed. So I went and checked a bit of old streams.. and unless my hearing is completely off the difference is actually pretty big. NIce.
+Jordan Linscheid This isn't TB's own YT channel, he most likely won't read your comment, so referring to him as "you" is kinda useless. You should go to his Reddit :)
+Jordan Linscheid You'll just have to get used to it. Compressors are used in every industry and for good reason. Vocals with wildly varying dynamics cause listeners to get "tired", not to mention in some cases cause physical pain due to very loud peaks (see RIP headphone users catchphrase). We havent got the settings quite dialed in. There's too much gain, the mic is coming in too hot, giving you a distorted effect and we flattened the audio a little too much, which is also an easy fix. It's here to stay. The reality is, you've been listening to compressed audio for years on my channel, you just didn't know it. I've been compressing my audio since 2011 in all my RUclips videos, I've only recently acquired the ability to do that live and am trying to create a sound that is similar to what I can achieve in post production (which runs 4 different modules in a chain to produce my "signature" sound). That will take a little time and adjustment. Whatever the case, it's here to stay. It's closer to the sound I want and compression is industry standard for a reason.
I'd be interested in learning how to set up my own audio like this too. I don't do this for a living so I get by doing streams and stuff for fun but it's a nice sound, whilst things seem a bit flat, I understand the need for compression, because the balance between game and microphone was really nice.
Maybe I'm just ignorant, but his voice has always been clear to me, I'v never had any problems with TB's audio, and I mean, besides that weird crackling some Co-Optional Podcasts have, which I'll assume has to do with how that audio set up is, I've never understood why he'd save this $400 when it's not really needed
+AFortifiedBatcave My audio is all over the place on live shows and thats not a good thing. Evening that out will make it easier for viewers to listen for long periods of time and make sure the game audio doesn't drown me out. In fact the game audio can now be louder because I can trust my compressor to bump me up if I get too quiet, whereas before I had to keep my game audio VERY low to avoid that problem.
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit Yeah whenever you mix 2 different audio sources, compressors make the magic happen. I've been watching you for years now and I've always appreciated the amount of work you put in the audio quality/balance. So keep it up! I can't wait till you have perfected your hardware compression so I can enjoy you fully on my active monitor speakerset like your videos. (not that I didnt enjoy this stream but as audiophile you know how it is)
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit Good Sir i don"t mind the audio , you are the best showman and i keep watching your videos whatever good or bad audio keep up with good work . (sorry for my bad eng.)
Honestly, I can not tell a difference between how TB sounds in this video and how he sounds in any recent video. I tried really hard to tell a difference to justify his purchase, but it just sounds like the same high quality sound as usual..
+Meryle25 I'll take that over the jackasses claiming it sounds worse. What I spend my money on though shouldn't be anything for you to worry about. We are not hurting for it and audio equipment is a tax write-off.
+Meryle25 i dont know to much about audio. all i know is personally i can really tell a difference. if you go back and say watch the warframe streams then watch this. big improvement.
The only reason it sounds bad to me is because I need to lower the quality to 144p when I want to use the internet for more than just watching videos. Curse you slow internet!
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit its a little bit over compressed for me, losing a bit too much of your deep dulcet tones ;-).... try a ratio of about 3/1...
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit eh i noticed it and i think its pretty good for being done live... for a professional studio recording its a bit overdone imho but for live this is good ... because of different demands in different situations and stuff ;)
At the risk of being called an idiot who doesn't like change by TB, the compression needs to dialled back *juuuust* a tad. It's causing the tiniest bit of distortion (to my ears at least). Audio definitely improved overall, but there's this tiny hint of distortion on the speech.
+Peeled Apples Yeah, i hear the distortion too. But nonetheless, this is better audio quality than most of youtubes other content. And i prefer a compressed commentary over uncompressed shouting or hissing in my ears any time. I stopped watching some youtubers because of that problem.
rinserofwinds oh yeah, absolutely! The audio's definitely better overall and the levels are fantastic. I know some RUclipsrs can get a bit exuberant and the noise increase is just ludicrous so I love that TB thought to improve that. I'm just nitpicky =P
Well, the audio sounds the same as TB's normal videos sound, which I suppose that's what the intention was, so 10/10 in that. As for streams, despite being a musician, I can't really tell the difference between this live stream and previous live streams, unless I were to compare them side-by-side. But hey, in the end, it's the content creator who hears the difference the most, and if it sounds just like the normal videos we're used to, then that's all fine and dandy for me.
+dogishappy0 Although sometimes RNGesus simple says no to the stuns. Don't get me wrong, they can be clutch, but I just lost my best Hellion because everyone missed their stuns. Tis a sad day
The sound seems more level. Although TB has enough experience to not randomly yell and make the sound crackle (so the change is not drastic). I know nothing of sound but this will take getting used too.
+The Voivod yes it does need tweaking. I need to deal the input gain back a bit to deal with the distortion and pull back the compression ratio because 6:1 is too much. There's consistency and then there's complely pancaking the audio and we went too far down the pancake route.
>Entire party is broken and most are half dead >Two people are Abusive >Barely escapes battle alive >Starves and gets on Death's Door with one person >Purposefully goes into another room battle That's not "having balls" that's just being dumb. What'd you expect to happen, ya git? Should've ran. He had so much loot it wouldnt have even been a real loss if he just left. The fact that he only lost one person was him getting *lucky*.
I came from the WTF video... and now I know why it bugged me.... the mouse cursor was missing on his WTF video for some reason... or did I went insane?
I wonder if there will ever be modding support with this game after the final patch to give it more longevity. Or will it be further updated after release for a long time? I know its blasphemy but I'd sure love to coat the whole thing in pink if modding is a thing.
Quick question: how much is this game RNG based? Is it enough to spice up the game and, with the rare occurrence of it screwing you over/pushing you forward, have the dungeon runs be decided by your decisions overall, or is it just constant gambling like a slots game?
In my opinion, it's all the former. However, this only happens if you're willing to put effort into learning the game. A lot of people complain that RNG ruins the game as you had "no control", but your own mistakes always are the source of any bad occurences in the game. With skillful play, clever decisions, correct management of party, stress, hamlet, and such, you can suceed with a minimum amount of setbacks.
MomijiTho Ah, so it's like the Dark Souls effect, where it punishes you for making mistakes, bad management, and overall just playing dumb, but some people just take it as bad game design because they don't try to put in the effort to get better.
Anthony Smith That's my opinion of it at least! I'm slightly biased because I have around 145 hours in the game, but that's just because I took the time to accept the learning curve.
Anthony Smith Actually I do think dark souls is a designed poorly simply because there it fails to make me want to eat better and push through the difficulty, I simply don't find the games mechanics compelling, not because they're hard but because I think the general game mechanics are poorly designed.
I accidentally summoned a shambler on my first run against the necromancer. Had to abandon the quest but got an awesome trinket for my vestel, definitely worth it.
Audio feedback: After listing to several of the RUclips uploads of your stream side by side through both headsets (Audio-Technica M50x) and speakers (M-Audio BX5a) connected to a Steinberg UR22 here is my opinion. The difference is immediately noticeable and the audio is more balanced out and subjectively sounds better but I think the compression is a little bit too tight. Maybe loosen up the release and/or decrease the compression ratio making the sound of your voice more natural. I think that would resolve most of the (legitimate) complaints some people may have. Out of curiosity, what compressor are you using for your stream?
Fighting that giant at the end, would probably been better to keep hitting it and kill it asap, rather than spending turns shuffling guys around, healing, and debuffing for 1-2 damage. You can't really outheal him anyway, but he always goes last and it was a 4v1. *Doesn't leave at least 4 food before the final stretch, complains about Hunger hitting him. :P*
I might be deaf from all the various music ranging from dubstep, KPOP (and many other) to metal but i cant hear the difference. It seems as high quality as always.
Poor Crendor, he is always his own undoing. As for audio, first sentence TB says is "this is mostly for testing a new compressor" [SIC] and apparently everyone loses their shit at "bad audio quality". That compressor is doing a hell of a lot more good than people recall, it sounds awesome. My knowledge of compression is based on guitar compressors rather than microphone/post audio stuff (though I imagine they work mostly in the same way?)... TB's set up during this stream sounds like the gain might've been a tad high. But he'd only tested it for 2 hours, high end audio kit takes more than a few hours to get all the settings just right - and then EVEN MORE hours on top to get them aligned perfectly to your personal taste. But I'm just a dude on the internet, I know jack shit. TB, however, knows what he's doing. And it's awesome to see that some more professional sound quality is going to be gracing his live content. Good times.
+Aidan Hennessy Well it's hard when the internet has an obligatory troll response to everything. "I just got a new 150$ Sony PS4 headset and it's working great!" General response must be "that headset is shit, it will break fast and the quality of sound is trash".
Just can't wait for this to come out for the Nintendo Switch, iv never had the pleasure of playing it and I'm so soooo looking forward to this! Omg! Omg! I just peed a lil....
The sound quality improved, but to me the volume level feels a bit too smooth. I won't say I appreciate TB's voice like classical music (compression would be a cardinal sin then), but I wouldn't mind if the values were tweaked a bit. The lower limit is okay, but the voice could definitely be louder at times.
I feel like the reason that the HoundMaster in the first dungeon went crazy was because he had a fear of beasts.
Which is hilarious because he would be scarred of his own dog then.
+Vlad1m4ra Houndmaster's dog actually a human in a suit confirmed
+Vlad1m4ra Welcome to Darkest Dungeon! Reading gives you rabies!
+Punishthefalse *Welcome to Dankest Dungeon!
FTFY
+Punishthefalse And its a good thing.
+sfninaf123 Only if you are not a Leper with a minus-accuracy quirk.
"Retreating is for cowards", he says as he proceeds to get 4 heroes afflicted, on death's door, and then retreats. We miss you TB.
It's so nice to hear his voice after so many years..
Totalbiscuit screaming at Totalbiscuit to stop being a paranoid idiot! This is fun!
Darkest Dungeon : Ancestral Edition is $5.999 on the PSN End of Year Sale(2021). Going to get it. R.I.P. TB.
It took me a while before I realised that the "TotalBiscuit" houndmaster was refering to TB himself, because I only know him as Genna's husband. ;P
+CptPeo XD A joke that might be missed by some..
+CptPeo It is of course a reference to the fact that TB does the occasional side-role in Genna's catoptional Nyan-content, Which frequently features their dogs as well.
+sander heutink No. During the hype-up for LotV, she was briefly interviews and accredited as "Totalbiscuit's wife" instead of "former manager of Axxiom Esports" or something along those lines.
+AngryAngry Ancom that seems like a move from someone who knows nothing about esports and just used total biscuit as a reference,seems like standard journalism laziness
Audio is great 😊
+magicUse am I the only one thinking that his audio quality is lower? The compressor only affects the sound level, not the quality, and the audio quality seems lower to me. It's like his gain is set a bit high and the compressor is pushing it back down (which means higher noise).
+Karl Ramstedt honestly you're objectively wrong on some counts. Compressors do affect the audio quality, they each have their own unique sound that they bring to the table. This one in particular, being a "vintage-style" tube and valve compressor has a nice warmth to it. The input gain is set a bit high, you are correct there, that's causing the distortion and we can easily adjust that. The ratio is also a bit high, we're doing 6:1 right now whereas I think we should be doing 4:1. The audio doesn't need to be AS pancaked as it is. There's no way in hell you can believe the audio quality is worse though. Just compare previous stream vods. It's clearly superior and much closer to what my regular RUclips videos, which are all compressed, sound like.
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit I'm no audio wiz, I'm just calling it as I perceive it. And my perception may very well be colored by your normally stellar audio in your youtube videos. Keep up the good work, sir.
Btw, will you be trying out Murloc Control/OTK Paladin in Hearthstone? It's a hilariously fun deck. Not super viable, but a lot better than most gimmick decks. I can throw together a decklist for you if you'd like.
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit In truth i think the new audio thing sounds fine, reminds me of your youtube vids so if that was to goal you got it.
I do enjoy your products and i hope you enjoy the work. Thanks for helping the Wife and I have brighter days.
+Daniel Domeisen That was the goal. It's also why people saying they don't like compression are talking out of their arses, because they've been listening to compressed audio since 2011 on my RUclips channel.
TB: "I think corpses are fine, and I also like heart attacks" - TB 2016
Many people complaining about the audio but I actually find it great. I'm no audio expert but I really enjoy the thickness and cosyness of the voice. I still have my old Samson CO1U that I remember TB recommended many many years ago, It doesnt even cut close to TB's quality, comparitively it sounds like I'm recording from a bathroom.
My dearest mister biscuit, I adore you as a gaming persona and your high quality (and well sounding) content!
The anti-stalling mechanic is that your heroes start to stress out if they stay in the same battle without ending it.
Just want to say that whether I agree with you or not in regards to anything I do feel like your one of the few youtubers that truly has committed to this job seriously. The effort and heart you put into your work is clear, at least to me. Thanks man, I like the new audio setup personally. Consistency is awesome.
"Force, go fuck something..." - TotalBiscuit, 2016 :))
+Alexandru Sandulache Quite a few great quotes in that video. "Crendor is hopeless" has been said many times in many contexts, so it's nothing special. "I also like heart attacks" is quite nice. ;-)
First TB gets me addicted to Warframe, and now he comes and shows us this gem. Goodbye, life.
I have more stress than his damn party after watching that. Jesus, that last fight was reckless.
We miss you buddy.
It's interesting watching this having already seen the WTF is video, because I remember the roster he had before, and I'm seeing him name all these people, and knowing who dies and who does really well.
I wanted to buy this game on sale but got scared away by so many recent negative reviews. This video changed my mind and alleviated those fears
+HydraDaLittle well I do have a WTF is coming on the topic. There were some changes made during early access that were controversial. Corpses and Heartattacks were the main ones, plus they nerfed stalling as a tactic (but not by much, you can still do it to a degree). I don't mind either of those big mechanics, especially since they let you turn them off anyway. Not having corpses vastly decreased the need to play positionally and reduced the desire of players to use movement based mechanics since just nuking the front row and having the backrow enemies move forward as a result was more efficient. Now if you want those dangerous backrow guys at the front where they can do far less, you have to work for it and that to me is fine. The only annoyance I find is that blind-fire hits corpses, which makes no thematic sense.
As for Heart Attacks, to me it adds to the "failure cataclysm" effect in which once things get bad past a certain point, it sets off a chain reaction of panic and death. I think that adds a nice element of tension to the game and certainly forces you to try and keep your stress managed, whereas prior to its implementation, just taking a ton of stress damage really only meant you had some minor inconvenience in the dungeon and expense afterwards to fix it.
Anyway, you can turn both off if you want so its not a problem. The game is obviously more fleshed out than it was early on and I think its one of the best games of the year already.
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit Thanks for such a detailed response! Wow, can't believe optional features, that can be turned off, could cause such a mayhem. So there was no reason to be worried after all! Blimey, I thought there were some serious issues
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit Never played the game in Early Access, but both Heart Attack and (most) of the corpse mechanics seemed like such a natural fit to the game that I can't imagine playing with them disabled. I guess internet will rage over just about anything.
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit Hey TB, I don't know if you'll read my message, but there are actually people that are hell bent on undermining the success of the game and the reputation of the developers. Just so you don't think I am some sort of conspiratard, check out Jim's latest video on Darkest Dungeon, he talks about it at ~33:10, he sounds pretty sceptical. That's quite a long story that's been developing for months, but those people have a personal goal to smear the gams with wild baseless accusations.
I am not saying to dismiss all criticism and negative reviews of the game, but just keep that in mind.
The negative screeching is generally the result of about 5% of the early access players with an over developed sense of entitlement losing their minds over the developers improving the strategic depth of the game and nerfing exploits that circumvented the game's core gameplay and difficulty.
Their favorite thing to cry about is that previously the best strategy for every situation was to completely ignore flexible characters with ranged abilities and instead run all front line heavy hitters because you can just hack down the enemy front line characters and the ranged backline enemies will just blindly charge forward and line up to get hacked down as well.
Obviously this completely negates pretty much the entire point of differentiating between melee and ranged units and abilities that can alter both friendly and enemy positioning. So the developers decided to make it an actual disadvantage for the super heavy hitting close up fighters to not have long ranged attacks. They did this by letting the enemy ranged units hang back and keep firing from behind the piles of dead corpses. This forces melee units to basically take a round or two hacking their way through the pile of fallen foes that the enemy rangers are using as make shift cover. It was just a way to give ranged units and units that have abilities that can forcibly move foes around a real purpose.
So yeah, these 1000 word walls of screeching text ranting about the end of the world and ruination of the game and the betrayal of the early supporters really comes down to few entitled twats losing their god damn minds over the developers actually developing their unfinished game and tweaked the combat system in relatively minor ways to enrich the strategic depth and variety of play while upping the difficulty level since you can't cheese the system anymore.
Been waiting for you to upload this, ever since TB said, he wouldn't upload any of it..... goddammit TB!
+Kar4ever3 I dont upload crappy stream VoDs to my main channel. I don't think it fits the look I'm going for with the brand. This channel reliably does and I have no problem with that. If you want to see it early, feel free to subscribe to the VoDs or tune into our 24/7 playlist on the Twitch channel, which includes all the latest streams on repeat.
I do, and I did. As for subbing... I'm just a poor boy, from a poor Family. I do disable adblock for you Guys. I guess it's something.
+Kar4ever3 Thank you for your 1/200th of a cent revenue XD Seriously though, not your fault ad rev sucks in January.
Man I pay more in debts than on rent, so I do what I can. Well with 1/200'th of a cent, I guess Miracleofsound made a dollar off of me in Jan. It's something.
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit ...
I guess you can handle comments again? or is the guy impersonating you doing a great job?
(I know you pay them)
I like the new mic. The auto-adjustment makes it easy on sensitive ears without having to constantly adjust the volume
Loving all these stream uploads, thanks a ton!
Thank you for uploading the stream! And thank you TB, for the dankest of streams
Technicalities aside (as I know little of them) I'm really enjoying the SOUND. Very warm and pleasant - perhaps not _quite_ on radio level yet but in the ballpark of it (can we still use that phrase unironically?). I'll get used to this fairly quickly.
Besides that, I do certainly enjoy being able to comfortably put a video in the background while doing other things and not having to worry about sudden volume spikes (and by extension the bursting of my eardrums) whenever someone gets excited.
8:12 I fell like being a hound master and having a fear of beasts is a bit strange it's like being a bee Keeper but being allergic to bees
My peasant ears can't tell if the audio is "better". I can hear a difference, though.
This game gets instantly more fun as soon as you rename your heros to people you know.
I love his constant reference to his "WTF is Rock of Ages" video. "Use the plaaaague!" xD
this was amazing! love to see more of this TB!
The recommended videos for this video are really not similar to this ta all haha.
+Nessevi
I'm getting what appears to be a whole lot of Islamic/Indian live action TV show clips. What?
+DigitalZ me too
Corey Ireland Oh, maybe they where Indian, it can get hard to distinguish sometimes.
+Nessevi mines warframe and vines.
youtubes weird.
I really like the fact that you can yell or whisper all you like without it affecting the quality of the audio.
Dem 2 hours, though.
If you're trying to understand the change in his audio don't compare the mic sound to that on his main channel, (you'll just be comparing how strong his voice was on the day, and settings he's probably still messing with)
instead:
turn up your levels a bit, go back to video from a month ago 'on this channel' and listen to the audio change level 5 times in his opening sentence, then come back here and listen to how that doesn't happen
GG Mr. $400 compressor. My ears are definitely not cut out to detect the difference you made!
I honestly like the non compressed audio more. It feels more natural. However I guess this is what TB wants and it is what we get. Sad to see the more natural sounding audio go but whatever. TB is TB. Compressed or uncompressed, we are still gonna watch.
I saw this game being played a while back and immediately like the artistic style and gameplay, but I never got around to playing it. Maybe with the new additions I'll finally have enough reason to get it for myself.
Also, the sound quality is good and the compressor seems to be working well, some people just aren't used to the change, which is a bit odd because I believe your videos have the same kind of sound compression.
Btw, keep up the good work and all the best for the future.
i swear to god TB is the most honest internet personalty out there
I like the compressor, it sounds very nice!
33:51 "Force, go fuck something."
Seems legit.
Dank: Unpleasantly damp and cold
It still fits.
If you'd had a leper, you ought to have called that JimSterling, since that's his favourite class. :)
44:56 JonTron lets out an inspiring ECH!
48:15 JonTron accuses the brigands of being "that guy"
Yes, excellent compression.
fucking hell...I miss you TB.
At first I was like .. eh, I dont hear much difference... then I realised that I dont watch streams that much, so I am used to regular videos, that are compressed. So I went and checked a bit of old streams.. and unless my hearing is completely off the difference is actually pretty big. NIce.
The salt is...making me grin.
>;I
Your compressor is certainly working well, but I'm not sure I like it.
+Jordan Linscheid This isn't TB's own YT channel, he most likely won't read your comment, so referring to him as "you" is kinda useless. You should go to his Reddit :)
+Atomic Ninja You're right, I forgot about that. I'll head over to his sub.
+Jordan Linscheid I know what you mean, takes a bit to get used to. To me sounds more professional and clear does it?
+Jordan Linscheid TB doesn't visit the sub-reddit anymore.
+Jordan Linscheid You'll just have to get used to it. Compressors are used in every industry and for good reason. Vocals with wildly varying dynamics cause listeners to get "tired", not to mention in some cases cause physical pain due to very loud peaks (see RIP headphone users catchphrase). We havent got the settings quite dialed in. There's too much gain, the mic is coming in too hot, giving you a distorted effect and we flattened the audio a little too much, which is also an easy fix.
It's here to stay. The reality is, you've been listening to compressed audio for years on my channel, you just didn't know it. I've been compressing my audio since 2011 in all my RUclips videos, I've only recently acquired the ability to do that live and am trying to create a sound that is similar to what I can achieve in post production (which runs 4 different modules in a chain to produce my "signature" sound). That will take a little time and adjustment.
Whatever the case, it's here to stay. It's closer to the sound I want and compression is industry standard for a reason.
33:07 - thank God for Jim Sterling?
My god I miss this guy. ;(
Your mistake was not pulling the drummer and get rid of him as fast as possible. He put 3-4 rounds of stress on your whole team.
I'd be interested in learning how to set up my own audio like this too. I don't do this for a living so I get by doing streams and stuff for fun but it's a nice sound, whilst things seem a bit flat, I understand the need for compression, because the balance between game and microphone was really nice.
Maybe I'm just ignorant, but his voice has always been clear to me, I'v never had any problems with TB's audio, and I mean, besides that weird crackling some Co-Optional Podcasts have, which I'll assume has to do with how that audio set up is, I've never understood why he'd save this $400 when it's not really needed
+AFortifiedBatcave My audio is all over the place on live shows and thats not a good thing. Evening that out will make it easier for viewers to listen for long periods of time and make sure the game audio doesn't drown me out. In fact the game audio can now be louder because I can trust my compressor to bump me up if I get too quiet, whereas before I had to keep my game audio VERY low to avoid that problem.
+AFortifiedBatcave Do you realize how much money he makes?
I don't, but I assume it's a lot.
+Vlad1m4ra more than enough to make a $400 business-expense writeoff not at all risky. My PC cost $6000 in parts. $400 for audio equipment is nothing.
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit Yeah whenever you mix 2 different audio sources, compressors make the magic happen. I've been watching you for years now and I've always appreciated the amount of work you put in the audio quality/balance. So keep it up! I can't wait till you have perfected your hardware compression so I can enjoy you fully on my active monitor speakerset like your videos. (not that I didnt enjoy this stream but as audiophile you know how it is)
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit Good Sir i don"t mind the audio , you are the best showman and i keep watching your videos whatever good or bad audio keep up with good work . (sorry for my bad eng.)
So nice that these days, Arbalests don't actually Blindfire into corpses :D Thank you, TB!!
I miss your voice TB
It's funny because Styles did end up debuting at the royal rumble
Canker sores is like trying to eat broken glass.
48:26 god DAMN does TB take EVERYTHING in chat as a personal afront?
Honestly, I can not tell a difference between how TB sounds in this video and how he sounds in any recent video. I tried really hard to tell a difference to justify his purchase, but it just sounds like the same high quality sound as usual..
+Meryle25 I'll take that over the jackasses claiming it sounds worse. What I spend my money on though shouldn't be anything for you to worry about. We are not hurting for it and audio equipment is a tax write-off.
+Meryle25 i dont know to much about audio. all i know is personally i can really tell a difference. if you go back and say watch the warframe streams then watch this. big improvement.
The only reason it sounds bad to me is because I need to lower the quality to 144p when I want to use the internet for more than just watching videos. Curse you slow internet!
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit its a little bit over compressed for me, losing a bit too much of your deep dulcet tones ;-).... try a ratio of about 3/1...
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit eh i noticed it and i think its pretty good for being done live... for a professional studio recording its a bit overdone imho but for live this is good ... because of different demands in different situations and stuff ;)
I guess he just doesn't care that his party is as diseased as a septic tank.
1:49:10
Saw that coming 10 miles away
If you are still reading and nobody told you: The disarmchance is a stat in the statscreen of the heroes.
you missed a great chance to name your hound master, Total Dog Biscuit.
At the risk of being called an idiot who doesn't like change by TB, the compression needs to dialled back *juuuust* a tad. It's causing the tiniest bit of distortion (to my ears at least). Audio definitely improved overall, but there's this tiny hint of distortion on the speech.
+Peeled Apples also, this stream was fun! Fun enough to watch again on RUclips =P
+Peeled Apples Yeah, i hear the distortion too.
But nonetheless, this is better audio quality than most of youtubes other content.
And i prefer a compressed commentary over uncompressed shouting or hissing in my ears any time.
I stopped watching some youtubers because of that problem.
rinserofwinds oh yeah, absolutely! The audio's definitely better overall and the levels are fantastic. I know some RUclipsrs can get a bit exuberant and the noise increase is just ludicrous so I love that TB thought to improve that.
I'm just nitpicky =P
The audio sounds really.... Unusual
Crendor is way too stressed...just in dankest dungeon.
Well, the audio sounds the same as TB's normal videos sound, which I suppose that's what the intention was, so 10/10 in that.
As for streams, despite being a musician, I can't really tell the difference between this live stream and previous live streams, unless I were to compare them side-by-side. But hey, in the end, it's the content creator who hears the difference the most, and if it sounds just like the normal videos we're used to, then that's all fine and dandy for me.
You know I like my houndmaster. Buff his dodge a bit and give him guard dog? Makes it him a nice dodge tank.
Houndmaster: Fear of beasts.
Ok.
I'm a huge fan of stuns. A hit not taken is just as good as a heal IMO.
+dogishappy0 Although sometimes RNGesus simple says no to the stuns. Don't get me wrong, they can be clutch, but I just lost my best Hellion because everyone missed their stuns. Tis a sad day
I hope he keeps an eye on his dankness levels.
The sound seems more level. Although TB has enough experience to not randomly yell and make the sound crackle (so the change is not drastic). I know nothing of sound but this will take getting used too.
i miss him
The audio needs a little bit more tweaking, but it sounds good. The flatter balance is definitely an improvement.
+The Voivod yes it does need tweaking. I need to deal the input gain back a bit to deal with the distortion and pull back the compression ratio because 6:1 is too much. There's consistency and then there's complely pancaking the audio and we went too far down the pancake route.
>Entire party is broken and most are half dead
>Two people are Abusive
>Barely escapes battle alive
>Starves and gets on Death's Door with one person
>Purposefully goes into another room battle
That's not "having balls" that's just being dumb. What'd you expect to happen, ya git? Should've ran. He had so much loot it wouldnt have even been a real loss if he just left.
The fact that he only lost one person was him getting *lucky*.
I came from the WTF video... and now I know why it bugged me.... the mouse cursor was missing on his WTF video for some reason... or did I went insane?
I wonder if there will ever be modding support with this game after the final patch to give it more longevity. Or will it be further updated after release for a long time?
I know its blasphemy but I'd sure love to coat the whole thing in pink if modding is a thing.
The sound of your voice was a bit weird in the beginning but halfway through the video I started loving it keep it up 👍🏻
Quick question: how much is this game RNG based? Is it enough to spice up the game and, with the rare occurrence of it screwing you over/pushing you forward, have the dungeon runs be decided by your decisions overall, or is it just constant gambling like a slots game?
In my opinion, it's all the former. However, this only happens if you're willing to put effort into learning the game. A lot of people complain that RNG ruins the game as you had "no control", but your own mistakes always are the source of any bad occurences in the game. With skillful play, clever decisions, correct management of party, stress, hamlet, and such, you can suceed with a minimum amount of setbacks.
MomijiTho Ah, so it's like the Dark Souls effect, where it punishes you for making mistakes, bad management, and overall just playing dumb, but some people just take it as bad game design because they don't try to put in the effort to get better.
Anthony Smith That's my opinion of it at least! I'm slightly biased because I have around 145 hours in the game, but that's just because I took the time to accept the learning curve.
Anthony Smith Actually I do think dark souls is a designed poorly simply because there it fails to make me want to eat better and push through the difficulty, I simply don't find the games mechanics compelling, not because they're hard but because I think the general game mechanics are poorly designed.
I accidentally summoned a shambler on my first run against the necromancer. Had to abandon the quest but got an awesome trinket for my vestel, definitely worth it.
Audio feedback:
After listing to several of the RUclips uploads of your stream side by side through both headsets (Audio-Technica M50x) and speakers (M-Audio BX5a) connected to a Steinberg UR22 here is my opinion.
The difference is immediately noticeable and the audio is more balanced out and subjectively sounds better but I think the compression is a little bit too tight. Maybe loosen up the release and/or decrease the compression ratio making the sound of your voice more natural.
I think that would resolve most of the (legitimate) complaints some people may have.
Out of curiosity, what compressor are you using for your stream?
Wonder what JonTron zealously accusing someone would actually sound like
Fighting that giant at the end, would probably been better to keep hitting it and kill it asap, rather than spending turns shuffling guys around, healing, and debuffing for 1-2 damage. You can't really outheal him anyway, but he always goes last and it was a 4v1.
*Doesn't leave at least 4 food before the final stretch, complains about Hunger hitting him. :P*
I might be deaf from all the various music ranging from dubstep, KPOP (and many other) to metal but i cant hear the difference. It seems as high quality as always.
Biscuit we have similar tastes...I alternate between Elite:Dangerous and Dark Dungeon also. Great taste sir!
When TB was wondering who to name for the "Master of Dogs" title, was anybody else yelling: "Husky"?! :\
Brilliant stream!! I was laughing all the way through haha
Poor Crendor, he is always his own undoing.
As for audio, first sentence TB says is "this is mostly for testing a new compressor" [SIC] and apparently everyone loses their shit at "bad audio quality". That compressor is doing a hell of a lot more good than people recall, it sounds awesome. My knowledge of compression is based on guitar compressors rather than microphone/post audio stuff (though I imagine they work mostly in the same way?)... TB's set up during this stream sounds like the gain might've been a tad high. But he'd only tested it for 2 hours, high end audio kit takes more than a few hours to get all the settings just right - and then EVEN MORE hours on top to get them aligned perfectly to your personal taste.
But I'm just a dude on the internet, I know jack shit. TB, however, knows what he's doing. And it's awesome to see that some more professional sound quality is going to be gracing his live content. Good times.
All the salt...it's too funny to watch TB play this game
Canker sores on the tongue, jeepers
yea I use the wiki to for the curios as well
TB's been active in the comments today (notice me senpai)
+NuclearUnicorn7 Try criticizing the sound, that should work. :D
+Aidan Hennessy Well it's hard when the internet has an obligatory troll response to everything. "I just got a new 150$ Sony PS4 headset and it's working great!" General response must be "that headset is shit, it will break fast and the quality of sound is trash".
crendor with a triple pass. yep, sounds right
hey, your channel is being recognized and linked by TB. gratz
Leave it to Crendor to mess it up.
Just can't wait for this to come out for the Nintendo Switch, iv never had the pleasure of playing it and I'm so soooo looking forward to this! Omg! Omg! I just peed a lil....
TB has the most antagonistic relation to his chat of any streamer I've seen.
+Damp Lightwell then you have never watched a Hearthstone streamer.
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit twitch chat can be the worst, as are youtube comments. i love the honesty and they get exactly what they deserve
+TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit boom, gottem
and crendor is.... hopeless
The sound quality improved, but to me the volume level feels a bit too smooth. I won't say I appreciate TB's voice like classical music (compression would be a cardinal sin then), but I wouldn't mind if the values were tweaked a bit. The lower limit is okay, but the voice could definitely be louder at times.
Freaking hilarious! :-D At least watching it.... playing it myself, that is another story. I was ready to throw my computer out of the window :D.
Oh if he thinks apprentice level is hard, there is no way he's making it through the Veteran difficulty
Will there be another part?