@@blueflare3848he's more or so a slightly friendly rival, who rewards you for risking your life and makes it a bit more fair by adding items to the scheme, so it's not just luck and there can be actual strategy to it.
I love how the Dealer keeps making misplays even when odds are telling him to do the other. He's not a tryhard trying to win and that's that - he's a gambler just like you are and loves rolling a good dice, even if he ends up shooting himself in the face. It makes him very endearing in a weird way.
It’s 80% strategy. He makes the best play you could have in the scenario, with a few minor mistakes but bounces right back. And when he miscounts, strategy still comes in play, but also with his luck.
@@fatcat2532 Also 50% dealer being smart or dumb, if the dealer being dumb like how mark's video goes then it's very easy (The fact at the first round the dealer just choose to shot himself 3 times is just plain stupid.)
21:48 The "Oh Frick!" as the last blank is fired and all that is left is live rounds, followed by the dealer shooting themselves when they should know there are no blanks left, kills me.
The dealer doesn't actually count the rounds. Unless they use the magnifying glass or it's the final shell, the dealer just flips a coin to see who to shoot basically. So the player can count to keep track and give an advantage but the dealer can't.
@@graceswan4353 I don't remember that scene. Tell me, did the dealer use a beer after as that messes with his ai too. As if he uses the glass to see it's blank but uses beer to rack it and accidentally make it a live, he'll still shoot himself as the ai tells him it's blank.
@@TheKoriKasaiI believe the dealer has a 50/50 for the shots that he hasn’t seen EXCEPT for the last round in the chamber, which he’ll know what it is and always pick correctly
@@LucasMiddleNameandLastname22 The dealer is a sigma chad, always respectful and fair. He knows he won't die for good which explains his strange behaviors. Dude also knows you know what you're there for. So really... he's not an antagonist in the grand scheme of things.
@@rex4765 Exactly, i also like to think that if this game ever gets any updates that adds new strategies, characters or entities to play 'Buckshot Roulette' with, that there's a specific entity that tries to assumes the role of the Dealer, but throws all possible fairness out the window and is just constantly out to win no matter how much it cheats, i dunno, i like the juxtaposition between 'The Dealer' and 'The Cheater.' and if you mention that guy to the Dealer, he's just gonna be like 'Disgusting.' or maybe the Dealer and the Cheater have like a rivalry or some shit like that, this is complete headcanons btw but i'd like to see more stuff like this.
The AI has a 50/50 chance to shoot the player or himself every turn (unless he's used the magnifying glass) so that was just some wild luck. Funny thing about the magnifying glass as well- the dealer is programmed to try to use as many items as possible every turn, in the order he picked them up in, meaning he can use the magnifying glass then use a beer to rack it, but his AI still thinks he "knows" what it was from the glass, so you get some funny situations out of that.
21:50 "Well that's okay, he's really du-" Dealer: **picks up the shotgun** "......He might not be that dumb-" Dealer: _"You correctly estimated my stupidity"_
I love how Mark played with statistics and the coin toss mentality the dealer had. Makes Mark seem a long step ahead of anyone I've seen play this game
@@kidfury1114It’s with how the dealer AI works. The dealer has no idea what is in the chamber unless he uses the magnifying glass or it’s the last bullet in the chamber. When he doesn’t know what’s in there, he has a 50/50 chance to either shoot the player or shoot himself. Meaning it’s literally a coin flip.
I don't think he ever really played with the coin toss mentality. He just played the odds and when they didn't go his way he hoped, because it's all he could do, the dealer would shoot himself.
Reminds me of when I realized I forgot to put my parking pass on the car and I ran back to my car, declaring: "If I'm going to get a parking ticket, it will Not be because I didn't run!"
I love to see people playing this game while actually taking statistics into account. I see people struggle with this game all the time, but mark is super impressive.
That's just a truth right there! I was watching a RUclipsr Kubz Scouts play this + the bomb one, and he seemed only realize how crucial this was after. Atleast he knows.
I love the detail of the YES button for the double or nothing being significantly more smudged and worn. The NO button looks so clean and new in comparison. Edit: 8:15 for those who don’t understand what I’m talking about 👍
Love seeing the differences between Mark, whos making the Dealer have to take big risks to keep up, and other playthroughs where the Dealer's priority is stacking the odds in its favor and not taking risks
@mistywaterflower6065 I've seen like two playthroughs and I generalized the comparison. In Mark's the Dealer is taking a lot more big risks shooting itself to get Mark to skip a turn. The other playthrough I watched the Dealer was just mercilessly wombo comboing the guy with items to ensure obliteration
The reason the dealers actions can seem somewhat stupid at times is because the deciding factor in whether he shoots you or himself is a simply coin flip so 50/50
Yup. His AI is pretty simple. If he knows what shell is loaded, he will play perfectly. If it's a blank he'll always shoot himself, if it's a live round he'll use a saw if he has one, then shoot you. The way for him to know what shell he has is either using a magnifying glass, or if it's the last round in the chamber. He always uses items as soon as he can, though he does conserve items in some situations (he won't use a magnifying glass if he already knows what shell he has, and won't use the saw if he's decided to shoot himself, and only uses the saw once he's made his decision on who to shoot.) If he doesn't know what the round is, he'll do a coin flip to decide who he shoots. However there is a bug/oversight where the beer doesn't clear his memory of what shell he has, so he can identify a round, use a beer, and do the wrong play there (ie, he had a blank, drank beer, then shoots himself with a live round)
I've literally only seen one person consistently loose to this game and they were someone know for their self claimed incompetent understanding of games.
@@smortboi1320 While probability is still a big part of the game, the dealer is also incompetent. He pulled it on himself 4 times in a row, and used his items poorly. If a person can think, they're already a step above the dealer.
It’s kinda cool how the concept of the game helps explain the way the AI acts, they push their luck too much sometimes and it bites their ass. Like a gambling addict
Well, a mix of him putting good thought into his decisions, the dealer being dumb, and lucky items. The game is also, truthfully, pretty easy as long as you're keeping track of the shells
The fact that the "Yes" button has been pressed by everyone because it has marks on it and the "No" button is clean is a very good and horrifying detail.
Me turning off the lights in the house to stand up against the demon: it’s really just a roll of the dice and how hefty your sack is in this particular day… my sack’s real hefty
I love the music in this game, even if it's repetitive and simple, the way its used is perfect, kicking up after a shot, speeding up after double or nothing, slowing down after a dealer death, with the second death making it go mute for a few moments, and with a slightly different track for each round. It works very well with the sound effects
22:09 "I ain't gonna go out pointing that at myself. If I lose here, it's because I pointed it at him." On god this is such a fucking banger line 🔥 Truly tho Mark fucking KILLED this game
26:59 - "𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼..." - Markiplier, while playing Russian roulette after consuming some random pills found in a nightclub bathroom 😂
@@makaron369the original commenter was more pointing out how Mark was being very carefully decisive after his first move in the game seemed really thoughtless (random pills in bathroom playing Russian Roulette) They weren’t talking about how Mark was speaking.
the dealer let's the player start every round even after shooting himself with a blank, which is more than fair, but he doesn't really seem to mind losing given how often he shoots himself.
I’m salty and coping because of how damn lucky Markiplier was with the AI. Everytime I play double or nothing, my Dealer keeps getting all the power ups and also keeps making the absolute perfect decisions every round. My Dealer definitely seems to mind losing.
He didn’t miscount, he just assumed odds were in his favour, as he knew it was a 50% chance of shooting a live round. Edit: most of the time, 50% usually means shooting a live round
The dealer tosses a coin if he doesn't know what the round is, always knows what it is when it's the last round, and uses items as soon as reasonable. There's one glitch I know of, where if he sees a blank with a magnifying glass and chugs a beer to clear it, he still thinks it's a blank in the chamber so will invariably shoot himself.
the dealer's AI works like this: 1. The dealer will always use any and all the items he can at any turn, he uses them in the order he gets them (which we can't see) 2. If he uses a magnifying glass, sees it's a blank, then uses a beer and racks the shotgun, he STILL thinks it's a blank and will shoot himself anyway (same with if it's a live, he'll shoot the player no matter what) 3. The dealer's AI DOES NOT KNOW STATISTICS! Every time it's his turn he flips a coin and shoots either himself or the player, he only knows what the very last shell is
I don't think it does know what the last shell is considering it was a live one of the rounds and he still shot himself. I don't believe this is how the AI works. Nice theory though.
@@KlausWayland there is a full AI breakdown video on delightful kissboy's channel, with another video on correcting the mistakes he makes explaining the ai (basically only the item usage order as in the original video, he says it's random when it's not), and it says the exact same thing this comment does
Mark is genuinely the most skilled person I've seen play this game, there were a few times where I thought he misplayed only to see he was thinking more moves ahead. He plays this game like chess.
8:50 "cause i knew that was gonna happen..well i didn't know that's gonna happen but i had a good feeling bout that's gonna happen and that's the same as knowing" That is actually smart
5:27 "TRY ME!" Famous last words 7:28 "i don't know what the wizdom of his maneuvers are because it doesn't seem like they're very wizdomated" Hmmm, very sentance
i rarely comment on youtube, but i have seen someone use “death” as a name, and when they played using that name, they had an easter egg when they lost all their lives. i won’t spoil it, but i think having the “easter egg names” are only triggered by death sequences or etc in the game as long as you’re using the name when you start. it doesn’t just automatically give you an easter egg, at least i don’t think it does
14:04 Starts out with 3/3, 3 live and 3 blanks First shot is blank, 3/2 Dealer racks out a live, 2/2 Dealer shoots himself, 1/2 Mark looks in and sees a blank, 1/1 Where Mark messed up is he thought the Dealer racked out a blank when it was actually a live
Lixian screwed up and said 2 lives one blank. It was 2 blanks one live. Where mark messed up wasn’t seeing the racked out shell but he said it wrong to himself when he checked the shell then acted on it without realising he said it wrong
@@grantzolldansuch as? I’m not trying to be a smarta** or anything lol I’m actually genuinely curious bcuz I like this game a lot and want to see more content added to it but other than endless mode I couldn’t think of anything else.
@WheresTheMoneyLebowski Obscuring one or more of the shells at the start of each round, reworking the AI a bit, making it a three-way shootout. There are a lot of little changes that you can make to the base game that make decisions less simple. Right now there's pretty much always a right decision based on probability and it's kind of easy to figure it out. Especially in the later rounds, it shouldn't be as easy to arrive at such certainty.
@@WheresTheMoneyLebowski- no extra chances given for shooting yourself with a blank. - don't reveal the no of live bullets and blanks unless the player wants too by using one of his energy. - A Rage mode
it's because The A.I. has no probability algorithms. it's programed to use all the items when it can and only knows what the last shell is. It will make a coin flip on any other shot with the exception if it used the magnifying glass. So if the dealer shoots itself when there are no blanks left, it's because it lost the coinflip. Also due to a bug, If the Dealer uses the magnifying glass and then drings beer, the dealer still things the next shell is the one it saw with the magnifying glass.
@@ninjahedgehog5 yeah i know how the ai works (I've seen kissboys video about it) but it's still funny when it just eats a live shell for no reason at all
22:12 The "tricky bit" is apparently counting that you've racked all the blanks and only have live rounds left. Inability to count is only rivaled by the AI being even worse than Mark, wild how often it shot itself when only live rounds remained
Yeah, the dealer's AI is really dumb, unless it's the LAST shell in the shotgun OR he used the magnifying glass, it's literally 50/50. the dealer also uses all items as soon as he can. So even if he knows it is a blank because he used a magnifying glass, if he has beer, he will use the beer instead, and since he doesn't know anymore, and it probably wasn't the last one in the gun, it's back to just being 50/50
@@timothyt666Actually, there’s a glitch with that. If he uses the magnifying glass and then the beer, his AI still thinks it’s a blank in the chamber. So even if he racked out the last blank, he’ll always shoot himself after that, unless it’s the last bullet in the chamber because that overrides the previous knowledge.
That and make sure that the odds are in our favour cause even in 50/50 scenario it can goofed us at anytime soon and even the small odds of getting live rounds can goofed us out
Mark's gambling with strong guess of possibilities, and honestly i like this game as you need to figure out every possibilities that may will occur, and you have to either take one of those and bet it, or let it slide.
Mark's got insane luck. Holy crap Edit: to all the comments about calculating odds, I get that he did so and well, however the amount of 50/50s he won was great. Plus, even if you calculate everything, sometimes the luck is just not in your favor
i don’t think it’s luck. mark thinks about his moves so well, he somehow knows the stats. especially in the first video you can hear him doing the math.
small tip, dealer always knows the last shell in the chamber, but otherwise he flips a coin to shoot you or himself, and he tries to use as many items as early as possible, while not being a waste, ie hw wont smoke on full health or use a saw when he shoots himself, tho there is a bug where he thinks he knows the round if he checks it and racks it before fireing.
Man, Mark has some insane rng to win on his first try and go through double or nothing without losing and deciding to stop at 200+k is absolutely amazing to me
I'm at the club, enjoying the company and the drinkns, vibin´ to the music and the shotgun shots upstairs. Nothing better for a saturday night, am I right?
The crazy thing is I've seen a few other people play this game and the Dealer was always way smarter with them than he is with Mark. For example, when watching 8-BitRyan play this game, the Dealer almost seemed like he was strategizing like Mark and only made a couple of bad calls when choosing to shoot himself.
13:46 for this round: the bullets start at 3 lives 3 blanks (3:3) mark shoots a blank (3:2) dealer racks a live (2:2) dealer shoots a live (1:2) mark shoots a blank (1:1) mark shoots a blank (1:0) dealer shoots a live (0:0) mark seems to have got confused and thought the dealer racked a blank
7:30 , there is a youtube video that goes into the deals AI more in-depth but the tl;dr is that it spams items (except knife which it only uses when it is going to try to shoot you) and chooses who to shoot with a 50/50 coin toss. The only times it doesn't shoot 50/50 is when it knows what the next bullet is, it only knows the next bullet when using the magnifying glass and when it's on the final bullet. There is also a funny bug he can do where he sees a blank with the magnifying glass and then drinks beer he will still think that the blank is the next bullet.
That's not a bug. If it isn't the last round, the dealer doesn't know. So it's just 50/50 to shoot the player or themself. Half of all shots after the dealer racks a blank will go to themself, unless there's only one shot left.
@@iamcxd9782 So can you confirm that the dealer does not always shoot himself after seeing a blank and drinking a beer? If he always shoots himself it's a bug but if it is 50/50 it isn't. As far as consensus goes people think it's a bug.
This video brought me back to simpler times... about 8 years ago I discovered Mark (I was 9 ~2016) The editing, the smiles and just a lot of this video reminded me of that. Thank you so much, Mark, for helping my parents to raise me. This was like visiting an uncle I haven't seen in a while, thank you so much. ❤
Hey Mark, Just wanted to drop a quick note to say thanks. I've been watching your videos for a solid ten years now, and honestly, they've been a lifeline. Your humour and authenticity got me through some tough times. Here's to the next decade of laughs and good vibes.
Mark at 14:48 be like: “Okay, so there’s 2 blanks.” *Checks next shell* “Okay, so that’s a blank.” *Shoots self* “Okay, so that’s all the blanks.” *Shoots blank at Dealer* “What, where’d that blank come from?”
Jack: Takes 8 tries to beat normal mode once
Mark: Casually beats normal and 3 hard modes in a single run
Right? Jacks dealer was on TOP of his game 😂
Jack's Dealer straight up COOKED his shit
Is build Different
Jack had the worst luck I've been seen with the round count. 1 live, 3 blanks, points it at himself and LOSES 😂
Tbh this game requires a bit of strategy. Jack didn’t really strategize and he didn’t t understand the mechanics yet.
ngl, out of all horror game villains, Dealer is actually a fair player. it earns my respect.
the dealer is more of an opponent than a villain but i see your point
*he not "it"
@@Cherryboddu There is literally zero way of knowing if *that* can be classed as male or female. It is akin to some eldritch horror
He’s not really a villain, though.
@@blueflare3848he's more or so a slightly friendly rival, who rewards you for risking your life and makes it a bit more fair by adding items to the scheme, so it's not just luck and there can be actual strategy to it.
I love how the Dealer keeps making misplays even when odds are telling him to do the other. He's not a tryhard trying to win and that's that - he's a gambler just like you are and loves rolling a good dice, even if he ends up shooting himself in the face. It makes him very endearing in a weird way.
Certainly does add an extra layer of suspense. 'I fucked up....lets hope he doesn't realize it.'
I was just thinking the dealer also took a bottle of queludes before playing
Bro in jacks playthrough he was playing like a mathematician
@@MisaPunchhonestly, the dealer is normally smart but in marks play through he just keeps shooting him self
meanwhile in jacks one the dealer is literally GOD
I swear to God, Mark literally has plot armour in this game. The man just CANNOT lose no matter what he does.
Mark became the protagonist himself
FR
It’s 80% strategy. He makes the best play you could have in the scenario, with a few minor mistakes but bounces right back. And when he miscounts, strategy still comes in play, but also with his luck.
@@fatcat2532 also the dealer bot was just dumb for almost every round
@@fatcat2532 Also 50% dealer being smart or dumb, if the dealer being dumb like how mark's video goes then it's very easy (The fact at the first round the dealer just choose to shot himself 3 times is just plain stupid.)
Easter eggs for the names are “God” can’t play them since they’ve played and lost. “Dealer” can’t be them since they’re already playing.
Didn't the game automatically put him in the second round when he put his name as Devil?
@@mistyarsonist4337he had 3 lives and only got 1 item but I think it was still round one and more bullets
So I'm confused a bit
@@gonfreecss1566 Oh okay, yeah nvm, I think my eyes just saw things wrong! You were right
no their right
Ye?
21:48 The "Oh Frick!" as the last blank is fired and all that is left is live rounds, followed by the dealer shooting themselves when they should know there are no blanks left, kills me.
The dealer doesn't actually count the rounds. Unless they use the magnifying glass or it's the final shell, the dealer just flips a coin to see who to shoot basically. So the player can count to keep track and give an advantage but the dealer can't.
@@TheKoriKasaiok but what about when the dealer shot themself after using the magnifying glass lmaoo
@@graceswan4353 I don't remember that scene. Tell me, did the dealer use a beer after as that messes with his ai too. As if he uses the glass to see it's blank but uses beer to rack it and accidentally make it a live, he'll still shoot himself as the ai tells him it's blank.
dont think the dealer counts
@@TheKoriKasaiI believe the dealer has a 50/50 for the shots that he hasn’t seen EXCEPT for the last round in the chamber, which he’ll know what it is and always pick correctly
22:16 "I'm not going to go out pointin' that at myself. If I die, it'll be because I pointed it at _him_ ."
This is the official coldest line of 2024.
Yesir
Unironically a savage line that fits quite well with the theme and tone of the game itself
thanks Rick Astley
Markiplier will talk about farts and boogers for an hour and then casually turn around and say the coolest shit a man has ever uttered
The funniest part, if you watch it back, there wasn’t even a blank in the gun. He counted wrong again 😭
this would be sick as a vr game. imagine physically smashing the magnifying glass or sawing the barrel
That would be awesome.
imagine physically getting shot
@@thetechw1z sounds like fun
kurt cobain simulator
Imagine viewing the gun barrel in VR and see the flash…
14:40 "This guy is bold. He's bold. He's not smart, but he's certainly bold."
This is pretty much the best way to describe the dealer lmao
I love how despite the Dealer seemingly being an antagonist he always plays fair, hell, he doesn't even make fun of you when you die.
New meme reddit
@@LucasMiddleNameandLastname22 The dealer is a sigma chad, always respectful and fair. He knows he won't die for good which explains his strange behaviors. Dude also knows you know what you're there for. So really... he's not an antagonist in the grand scheme of things.
Mark: “I think I was good at this game?”
Also Mark: beats the game first try without dying.
@@rex4765 Exactly, i also like to think that if this game ever gets any updates that adds new strategies, characters or entities to play 'Buckshot Roulette' with, that there's a specific entity that tries to assumes the role of the Dealer, but throws all possible fairness out the window and is just constantly out to win no matter how much it cheats, i dunno, i like the juxtaposition between 'The Dealer' and 'The Cheater.'
and if you mention that guy to the Dealer, he's just gonna be like 'Disgusting.' or maybe the Dealer and the Cheater have like a rivalry or some shit like that, this is complete headcanons btw but i'd like to see more stuff like this.
Mark: "Trust me, this is the right strategy..."
Also Mark: *Takes a smoke and proceeds to shoot self in the head a second time*
Aka pulled an ai
@@Paul20661 its big brain time
In true Markiplier fashion he still came out on top 😂
23:20 this guy is bold as hell doing it FOUR TIMES IN A ROW
Yes.
the fact he actually got so many in a row is so funny
The AI has a 50/50 chance to shoot the player or himself every turn (unless he's used the magnifying glass) so that was just some wild luck.
Funny thing about the magnifying glass as well- the dealer is programmed to try to use as many items as possible every turn, in the order he picked them up in, meaning he can use the magnifying glass then use a beer to rack it, but his AI still thinks he "knows" what it was from the glass, so you get some funny situations out of that.
To quote Adam smasher, “bold. Bold but stupid.”
i died of laughter in this part
21:50 "Well that's okay, he's really du-"
Dealer: **picks up the shotgun**
"......He might not be that dumb-"
Dealer: _"You correctly estimated my stupidity"_
Oml his face said it all😂
I was about to comment about this lol
I love how Mark played with statistics and the coin toss mentality the dealer had. Makes Mark seem a long step ahead of anyone I've seen play this game
What do you mean by coin toss mentality
@@kidfury1114It’s with how the dealer AI works. The dealer has no idea what is in the chamber unless he uses the magnifying glass or it’s the last bullet in the chamber. When he doesn’t know what’s in there, he has a 50/50 chance to either shoot the player or shoot himself. Meaning it’s literally a coin flip.
I don't think he ever really played with the coin toss mentality. He just played the odds and when they didn't go his way he hoped, because it's all he could do, the dealer would shoot himself.
I mean
he is an engineer
There’s videos out that say the dealer knows the last one, but doesn’t keep track of what’s left
22:19 "if I lose here, it's because I pointed it at HIM", oddly a very good quote
I was thinking the same thing. That was cold 🥶
Reminds me of when I realized I forgot to put my parking pass on the car and I ran back to my car, declaring:
"If I'm going to get a parking ticket, it will Not be because I didn't run!"
@@carealoo744Yeahh...okay dude😐
@@z-trip5457 Lol, what?🙃
this shit had me dying LMAO. " Its okay hes really dumb everybody keep this in mind hes very dumb" the dealer shoots himself at 21:43
Love your pfp! 🙏
@@Juplyhate your pfp
I swear it was at 22:03
😂
@@rookapooka4873your pfp is a dead meme mine is an M cause I just got this account
Mark’s insane luck of the Dealer shooting himself like 5 times while Jack was playing with a Chess AI
Jack was playing Magnus Carlson mark was playing with the dumb ahh dealer
@@diego_ghost_psnwhy did u scream in the middle of saying dumb dealer
I love to see people playing this game while actually taking statistics into account.
I see people struggle with this game all the time, but mark is super impressive.
That's just a truth right there! I was watching a RUclipsr Kubz Scouts play this + the bomb one, and he seemed only realize how crucial this was after. Atleast he knows.
what? kubz scouts is that dude at this@@taggie_
Bruh rewatch the second half I was practically screaming at his dumb choices.
Idk how people can lose this game.
The ai is pretty bad, the items are very op. If someone somehow messrs up this game then they're just bad at math.
"Super impressive" while doing the dumbest decisions imaginable
“I like these odds!” *shoots himself in the face*
😂
"Nevermind"
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18:37
I love the detail of the YES button for the double or nothing being significantly more smudged and worn. The NO button looks so clean and new in comparison.
Edit: 8:15 for those who don’t understand what I’m talking about 👍
i legit dont see what ur talking about am i blind lmfao
thats a good observation
@@aren6986 the paint on the yes button is much darker in the middle suggesting it was worn down by many people pressing the yes button
I noticed that too ! Great lil detail
@@oigoaw8325 thank you for the explanation🙏
Love seeing the differences between Mark, whos making the Dealer have to take big risks to keep up, and other playthroughs where the Dealer's priority is stacking the odds in its favor and not taking risks
Hmm… Elaborate.
@mistywaterflower6065 I've seen like two playthroughs and I generalized the comparison. In Mark's the Dealer is taking a lot more big risks shooting itself to get Mark to skip a turn. The other playthrough I watched the Dealer was just mercilessly wombo comboing the guy with items to ensure obliteration
The reason the dealers actions can seem somewhat stupid at times is because the deciding factor in whether he shoots you or himself is a simply coin flip so 50/50
They should program a hard mode where the AI actually counts shots and calculates statistics.
@@darealshinji that would be cool
Yup. His AI is pretty simple.
If he knows what shell is loaded, he will play perfectly. If it's a blank he'll always shoot himself, if it's a live round he'll use a saw if he has one, then shoot you.
The way for him to know what shell he has is either using a magnifying glass, or if it's the last round in the chamber.
He always uses items as soon as he can, though he does conserve items in some situations (he won't use a magnifying glass if he already knows what shell he has, and won't use the saw if he's decided to shoot himself, and only uses the saw once he's made his decision on who to shoot.)
If he doesn't know what the round is, he'll do a coin flip to decide who he shoots.
However there is a bug/oversight where the beer doesn't clear his memory of what shell he has, so he can identify a round, use a beer, and do the wrong play there (ie, he had a blank, drank beer, then shoots himself with a live round)
@@darealshinji that would be cool hopefully it'd have like a machine that loads the shotgun for the dealer randomly rather than the dealer itself
Unless it's the last shot, he always knows the last shot.
How is Mark like the best guy at this game? Like, it's kind of crazy. He hasn't lost yet. He's gotten close, but he hasn't lost ONCE yet.
I've literally only seen one person consistently loose to this game and they were someone know for their self claimed incompetent understanding of games.
Because it's basic highschool level probability
@@Masala_Pizzaabro, rule one about probability is that it’s still luck
Jacksepticye too lmao @@elijahjohnson2055
@@smortboi1320 While probability is still a big part of the game, the dealer is also incompetent. He pulled it on himself 4 times in a row, and used his items poorly. If a person can think, they're already a step above the dealer.
The music paired with the falling of the shotgun shells is peak content.
@@EEEEEEEE E
When?🤔
i just love to hear Mark saying "TaKe oNe oF ThEEsE"
18:36 the flash on Marks face cam is too good though
I laughed really hard at this tbh
Reminds me of the end movie scene in Reck it Ralph: Ralph breaks the internet.
It’s kinda cool how the concept of the game helps explain the way the AI acts, they push their luck too much sometimes and it bites their ass. Like a gambling addict
Why is Mark like, god tier good at this game for zero reason?
Well, a mix of him putting good thought into his decisions, the dealer being dumb, and lucky items.
The game is also, truthfully, pretty easy as long as you're keeping track of the shells
He didn't even take the pills when we restarted
He did there was a cut but they gone (also you literally watched the video no pill no double or nothing)@@slicingonions4398
@@slicingonions4398 Yeah, he did.
@@slicingonions4398
He did, noticed that the pill disappear during the brief cut at 2:02
21:56 "okay maybe not that dumb"
**The Dealer then proceeded to do something others could only call dumb**
The fact that the "Yes" button has been pressed by everyone because it has marks on it and the "No" button is clean is a very good and horrifying detail.
"try me!"
"BANG!"
impeccable
Haha the fact that he still wins even when he lost count a few times, Mark the king of buckshot roulette. Mark owns the dealer
He’s so lucky it honestly hurts. Wade would love Mark’s luck for his Gacha games 😂
26:08 "well that didn't go according to plan, but that's ok, because plans were always made to fail" Truest statement I've ever heard
6:36 “it’s really just a roll of the dice and how hefty your sack is in this particular day… my sack’s real hefty” Markiplier 2024
lmao
last four words are enough for me
I would love to personally confirm the heftiness of Mark’s sack.
PLEASE DADDY IVE BEEN GOO-
Me turning off the lights in the house to stand up against the demon: it’s really just a roll of the dice and how hefty your sack is in this particular day… my sack’s real hefty
@@Fanboy_of_everything uhhhhhh. 🤣
I love the music in this game, even if it's repetitive and simple, the way its used is perfect, kicking up after a shot, speeding up after double or nothing, slowing down after a dealer death, with the second death making it go mute for a few moments, and with a slightly different track for each round. It works very well with the sound effects
No doubt the atmosphere in this game is spot on
Also the muffled sound of it making it feel even more like you‘re sitting in the backroom of some club doing weird shit.
6:41 Mark hand movement and the cig choice seems like he is fully immersed for a second.
OH MY GOSH xD
LOLL HOW DO YOU EVEN NOTICE THAT
HE EVEN INHALES
>me vaping when my character smokes
Now you mentioned it, it really is lol
22:09 "I ain't gonna go out pointing that at myself. If I lose here, it's because I pointed it at him."
On god this is such a fucking banger line 🔥
Truly tho Mark fucking KILLED this game
Mark has a handful of very epic lines.
"What if I want them to come, what if I want them to kill me? What if I want them to try!?"
For real. Equal parts skill and luck on his part and absolute stupidity on the Dealer's part.
9:03 The light flash on Marks face made me laugh so hard.
It's even better at 18:35
I like these odds
Fucking dies
@@Mustylounge This one was so GOOD 😂
26:59 - "𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼..."
- Markiplier, while playing Russian roulette after consuming some random pills found in a nightclub bathroom 😂
tbf when you're on drugs you literally have a voice that does this
@@makaron369 no clue what you mean by that
@@uncroppedsoop okay 👍
@@makaron369the original commenter was more pointing out how Mark was being very carefully decisive after his first move in the game seemed really thoughtless (random pills in bathroom playing Russian Roulette)
They weren’t talking about how Mark was speaking.
@@MageBurger yeah i know, im well aware
the dealer let's the player start every round even after shooting himself with a blank, which is more than fair, but he doesn't really seem to mind losing given how often he shoots himself.
I think the dealer just really enjoys a fair game
I’m salty and coping because of how damn lucky Markiplier was with the AI.
Everytime I play double or nothing, my Dealer keeps getting all the power ups and also keeps making the absolute perfect decisions every round.
My Dealer definitely seems to mind losing.
I have to say the sounds in this game are so satisfying. The clicking, glass breaking, the cans, idk why they just sound 👍
18:34 "i like these odds" *blasts himself*
The demon got demolished last time it looked at Mark like: “Oh god he’s back please no”
15:20 the utter confusion and disbelief after he miscounted and messed up is priceless
He didn’t miscount, he just assumed odds were in his favour, as he knew it was a 50% chance of shooting a live round.
Edit: most of the time, 50% usually means shooting a live round
@@michew5451 He did miscount though. He thought the dealer racked a blank, but it was actually a live.
he didn't really miscount, he just messed up and thought the live round the dealer racked out was a blank
21:58
Mark: "He might not be that dumn"
*Aims shotgun to himself*
Mark: 🤨
The dealer tosses a coin if he doesn't know what the round is, always knows what it is when it's the last round, and uses items as soon as reasonable. There's one glitch I know of, where if he sees a blank with a magnifying glass and chugs a beer to clear it, he still thinks it's a blank in the chamber so will invariably shoot himself.
not as soon as reasonable, but as soon as possible unless the item will do nothing.
@@snailofkale Right, that's what I meant by "as soon as reasonable".
@@MorningDusk7734 i figured but its not very reasonable to eject a bullet when you knew what it was lol
Alcohol makes you forget things. Seems about right.
"If I go out.. it's because I pointed it at him." Most quote of 2024
the dealer's AI works like this:
1. The dealer will always use any and all the items he can at any turn, he uses them in the order he gets them (which we can't see)
2. If he uses a magnifying glass, sees it's a blank, then uses a beer and racks the shotgun, he STILL thinks it's a blank and will shoot himself anyway (same with if it's a live, he'll shoot the player no matter what)
3. The dealer's AI DOES NOT KNOW STATISTICS! Every time it's his turn he flips a coin and shoots either himself or the player, he only knows what the very last shell is
It doesn't seem that he uses items in the order he gets them. He's an alcoholic and will use those all in a row.
thank you for this explanation! I honestly thought it was rigged to be easier for guys named "Mark" before reading this lol
I don't think it does know what the last shell is considering it was a live one of the rounds and he still shot himself. I don't believe this is how the AI works. Nice theory though.
@@KlausWayland there were 2 lives that round, so it didn't know what they were
@@KlausWayland there is a full AI breakdown video on delightful kissboy's channel, with another video on correcting the mistakes he makes explaining the ai (basically only the item usage order as in the original video, he says it's random when it's not), and it says the exact same thing this comment does
everytime i think "ok this is the best move" mark chooses to do the stupider option, AND STILL SUCCEEDS
why do i even try to be good at this game
"Hi! Welcome back to buckshot roulette, we're gonna take some pills!" - Mark Iplier 2:00
*Mark E Plier
marker pliers
Markiplier and Matpat posting minutes apart makes me soooo happy
Madkipkier
@@mattscoober4014 Ok
@@mattscoober4014 Madpat
Maybe the last time that ever happens lol
@@someguy8156The Mad Theorists
18:36 *"I like these odds."* -Famous last Words, Markiplier 2024
Both times he’s played this game, I misread it as “backshot roulette”
for all the old people
EWWWWW 😂😂😂
hmm😏
We're receiving backshots with this one
unfortunately no 😞
Mark is genuinely the most skilled person I've seen play this game, there were a few times where I thought he misplayed only to see he was thinking more moves ahead. He plays this game like chess.
Zip him up when ur done lil bro
@@g36c. Wrong app buddy 💀
@@g36c.Lmfao
@@g36c.come on man, it was a genuinely nice comment.
@@g36c. average commenter when any guy compliments another guy
20:30 The moment of realization after working the odds (plus his reaction) is perfect.
3:15 was so comedic and funny lol. It's the like dealer was so confident the shot wouldn't go off but then it blasted
8:50 "cause i knew that was gonna happen..well i didn't know that's gonna happen but i had a good feeling bout that's gonna happen and that's the same as knowing"
That is actually smart
5:27 "TRY ME!" Famous last words
7:28 "i don't know what the wizdom of his maneuvers are because it doesn't seem like they're very wizdomated" Hmmm, very sentance
Wisdom*
Sentence*
@@xDigitaLxJedihe misspelled it on purpose
@@xDigitaLxJedi Thanks
@@xDigitaLxJedi thanks again
23:40 "Yeah, keep it up buddy"
Buddy is suicidal.
😂😂
You should play Titan Souls more🙂
i rarely comment on youtube, but i have seen someone use “death” as a name, and when they played using that name, they had an easter egg when they lost all their lives. i won’t spoil it, but i think having the “easter egg names” are only triggered by death sequences or etc in the game as long as you’re using the name when you start. it doesn’t just automatically give you an easter egg, at least i don’t think it does
Wait, now I'm curious, please tell me the Easter egg
It only works in normal mode I beleave and there are several, one of which I think is a jumpscare
It's amazing how the game technically rewards him for playing cleverly and gave him chances to avoid a straight game over though. Very well-played.
Mark before every turn: "I'm actually going to count this time."
Proceeds to not count
14:04 Starts out with 3/3, 3 live and 3 blanks
First shot is blank, 3/2
Dealer racks out a live, 2/2
Dealer shoots himself, 1/2
Mark looks in and sees a blank, 1/1
Where Mark messed up is he thought the Dealer racked out a blank when it was actually a live
dayum
Lixian screwed up and said 2 lives one blank. It was 2 blanks one live. Where mark messed up wasn’t seeing the racked out shell but he said it wrong to himself when he checked the shell then acted on it without realising he said it wrong
Though he counted the racked out shell when he was trying to make sense of it
@@primeknight4274no lixian meant two lives and one blank were used up so far which is correct
games like this are so satisfying to me i love the strategies sm
Honestly, I could watch a stream of this if there was more content.
There's a lot of potential for adding more nuance and strategy to the game as well.
@@grantzolldansuch as? I’m not trying to be a smarta** or anything lol I’m actually genuinely curious bcuz I like this game a lot and want to see more content added to it but other than endless mode I couldn’t think of anything else.
@WheresTheMoneyLebowski Obscuring one or more of the shells at the start of each round, reworking the AI a bit, making it a three-way shootout. There are a lot of little changes that you can make to the base game that make decisions less simple. Right now there's pretty much always a right decision based on probability and it's kind of easy to figure it out. Especially in the later rounds, it shouldn't be as easy to arrive at such certainty.
@@WheresTheMoneyLebowski- no extra chances given for shooting yourself with a blank.
- don't reveal the no of live bullets and blanks unless the player wants too by using one of his energy.
- A Rage mode
Love how he adds so much humor and comedy in a game meant to give you thrills (and maybe scare you)
Buckshot roulette is a game that anyone can enjoy, just like gambling in real life, to a sensible extent. I can’t wait to see how this plays out.
I wish someone would make this into a multiplayer game with real betting...that would certainly up the stakes!
@@livethefuture2492its gonna sound crazy what im bouta say...
@@livethefuture2492I would certainly try it out for fun
@@livethefuture249211 months later. Ur wish has been granted.
"Thank God you have a defibrillator for my face" made me actually laugh out loud, so, thank you.
the absolute stupidity of the dealer throughout the entire episode was just having me in tears bro
it's because The A.I. has no probability algorithms. it's programed to use all the items when it can and only knows what the last shell is. It will make a coin flip on any other shot with the exception if it used the magnifying glass.
So if the dealer shoots itself when there are no blanks left, it's because it lost the coinflip. Also due to a bug, If the Dealer uses the magnifying glass and then drings beer, the dealer still things the next shell is the one it saw with the magnifying glass.
@@ninjahedgehog5 yeah i know how the ai works (I've seen kissboys video about it)
but it's still funny when it just eats a live shell for no reason at all
*Plays hard mode for the first time*
*Instantly become a hard mode god*
This is Markiplier, this is Markiplier
“Why do you get a knife and I get a beer” 😂
Mark: "He might not be that dumb"
Dealer: "What did u say before?"😂😂
22:12 The "tricky bit" is apparently counting that you've racked all the blanks and only have live rounds left. Inability to count is only rivaled by the AI being even worse than Mark, wild how often it shot itself when only live rounds remained
Yeah, the dealer's AI is really dumb, unless it's the LAST shell in the shotgun OR he used the magnifying glass, it's literally 50/50. the dealer also uses all items as soon as he can. So even if he knows it is a blank because he used a magnifying glass, if he has beer, he will use the beer instead, and since he doesn't know anymore, and it probably wasn't the last one in the gun, it's back to just being 50/50
@@timothyt666Actually, there’s a glitch with that. If he uses the magnifying glass and then the beer, his AI still thinks it’s a blank in the chamber. So even if he racked out the last blank, he’ll always shoot himself after that, unless it’s the last bullet in the chamber because that overrides the previous knowledge.
Artificial Intelligence when Natural Stupidity walks in
That and make sure that the odds are in our favour cause even in 50/50 scenario it can goofed us at anytime soon and even the small odds of getting live rounds can goofed us out
Mark's gambling with strong guess of possibilities, and honestly i like this game as you need to figure out every possibilities that may will occur, and you have to either take one of those and bet it, or let it slide.
5:25 just the delayed flash on Mark’s face killed me
Mark's got insane luck. Holy crap
Edit: to all the comments about calculating odds, I get that he did so and well, however the amount of 50/50s he won was great. Plus, even if you calculate everything, sometimes the luck is just not in your favor
Odds had to turn in his favor sometime. He’s died a lot more often in other games over the years.
i don’t think it’s luck. mark thinks about his moves so well, he somehow knows the stats. especially in the first video you can hear him doing the math.
@@holdmyteaimbusyscreeching6135 true, but also a ton of 50/50s went in his favor
@@holdmyteaimbusyscreeching6135 it's not that hard to calculate the odds and Mark was an engineering student so it's not that surprising
@@solarcupid2583 true true but just really impressive on his part
Eddie:*constantly accidentally shooting himself*
Mark:*somehow an absolute pro*
(Holy shit posted this a day ago and already 1.3k likes holy fuck)
mark took all of his luck
Who's Eddie?
eddievr
@@WildPhoenix989 or special edd
@@SamCornick he's another RUclipsr I watch
Lol, just have to say it's disturbingly hilarious how casual mark sounds about pointing a (virtual) shotgun at his face. It got a chuckle from me
small tip, dealer always knows the last shell in the chamber, but otherwise he flips a coin to shoot you or himself, and he tries to use as many items as early as possible, while not being a waste, ie hw wont smoke on full health or use a saw when he shoots himself, tho there is a bug where he thinks he knows the round if he checks it and racks it before fireing.
5:25
Mark: Try me!
*Gets shot*
Mark:AUGGHHHHAHAOWWW
Famous last words
Mark: That's a lot of blood
Me and everyone else: Not as bloody as Iron Lung
Bro has nuts of pure titanium I have never seen such confidence exuded by someone, Mark ain't scared of SHIT lol
Man, Mark has some insane rng to win on his first try and go through double or nothing without losing and deciding to stop at 200+k is absolutely amazing to me
I'm at the club, enjoying the company and the drinkns, vibin´ to the music and the shotgun shots upstairs. Nothing better for a saturday night, am I right?
it would sound cool if canonically, you were the devil and you’re avenging God since the dealer purposefully put that contract of God in your item box
I feel like the contract is an allusion to the dealer being god, not god having lost. The contract being bloody to show that it's been in play before.
the shot at 22:03 was literally guaranteed to be live.. the dealer really is dumb
No, he’s just bold. Really, really bold
Nah, poor guy can't count. So he just flips coins each time
The crazy thing is I've seen a few other people play this game and the Dealer was always way smarter with them than he is with Mark. For example, when watching 8-BitRyan play this game, the Dealer almost seemed like he was strategizing like Mark and only made a couple of bad calls when choosing to shoot himself.
13:46 for this round:
the bullets start at 3 lives 3 blanks (3:3)
mark shoots a blank (3:2)
dealer racks a live (2:2)
dealer shoots a live (1:2)
mark shoots a blank (1:1)
mark shoots a blank (1:0)
dealer shoots a live (0:0)
mark seems to have got confused and thought the dealer racked a blank
I like how the yes button for the double or nothing is smudged, as if people double more but die
I love how whenever dealer shoots at you the light from the gun kinda burns his face into your retinas
7:30 , there is a youtube video that goes into the deals AI more in-depth but the tl;dr is that it spams items (except knife which it only uses when it is going to try to shoot you) and chooses who to shoot with a 50/50 coin toss. The only times it doesn't shoot 50/50 is when it knows what the next bullet is, it only knows the next bullet when using the magnifying glass and when it's on the final bullet. There is also a funny bug he can do where he sees a blank with the magnifying glass and then drinks beer he will still think that the blank is the next bullet.
I think that bug literally happened in Mark's video lmao
That's not a bug.
If it isn't the last round, the dealer doesn't know.
So it's just 50/50 to shoot the player or themself.
Half of all shots after the dealer racks a blank will go to themself, unless there's only one shot left.
@@iamcxd9782 So can you confirm that the dealer does not always shoot himself after seeing a blank and drinking a beer? If he always shoots himself it's a bug but if it is 50/50 it isn't. As far as consensus goes people think it's a bug.
26:15 " Plans were always meant to fail "
MARKIPLIER 2024
The fact that Mark is undefeated with the dealer is impressive
This video brought me back to simpler times... about 8 years ago I discovered Mark (I was 9 ~2016) The editing, the smiles and just a lot of this video reminded me of that. Thank you so much, Mark, for helping my parents to raise me. This was like visiting an uncle I haven't seen in a while, thank you so much. ❤
Hey Mark,
Just wanted to drop a quick note to say thanks. I've been watching your videos for a solid ten years now, and honestly, they've been a lifeline. Your humour and authenticity got me through some tough times. Here's to the next decade of laughs and good vibes.
here here
As a fellow Tristan I must agree! Mark has been a beacon since I was a kid.
Likewise glad to see we all love Markimoo
Markiplier literally hasn’t lost at this game and thats impressive.
3:06 love how he just kept shooting himself until he ate the bullet
Here is a sequel 23:20
Mark beat the dealer three times while Jack can barely beat him on the second round 😂😂😂
Banger music not missing🔥
fr tho it goes so hard
Reminds me of one song from ramstein
@@brokentoaster9995 which one? Doesn't sound like R+ at all imo
Sound design In this game is excellent, the atmosphere is so fitting
7:29, "I don't know what the wisdom of his maneuvers are, because it doesn't seem like there very wisdomated"- Mark
Fun fact, blanks could still potentially kill u or at least seriously injure u. Theyre still full of gun powder, just no projectile.
yeah if you’re really close to the barrel
I don’t think these blanks even have gunpowder in them
Yeah these aren't actually blanks, they're dummy rounds.
They could be Snap Caps. No powder or primer, just a piston on a spring.
Mark at 14:48 be like:
“Okay, so there’s 2 blanks.”
*Checks next shell*
“Okay, so that’s a blank.”
*Shoots self*
“Okay, so that’s all the blanks.”
*Shoots blank at Dealer*
“What, where’d that blank come from?”
18:39 this is so memeable I can’t wait to see it everywhere
new meaning to the term "fingergun"
18:37