woops: no more serious stuff or fighting to save existence eutrope: fighting in the arcadion gave me soul cancer and the fighters all die horribly before they turn 20 metem: we also enslave your souls after you die I swear, the Warrior of Light has a GIFT for this sort of thing. Remember when a fun lil treasure map turned into thwarting a voidsent invasion?
Technically, this is the lowest possible stakes we’ve ever had in a raid series. Like, yeah, the wrestlers have soul cancer, but it doesn’t actively threaten populations or worlds. It’s just a shitty situation brought about by a shitty culture that we just do happen to be able to fix by having fun along the way.
Well, I mean the soul enslaving thing is consensual at least, and it’s not like the souls have still have the consciousness or memories left to even be aware that they are being enslaved in the first place. Better than being murdered and turned into a relic weapon I suppose.
@@RockR277Yeah, with a name like “Arcadion Ascension tournament” someone is 100% trying to become a god, and with a literal ascian gliph being used as the symbol for it, it’s not hard to guess who.
@@shawnscouten5184 it’s consensual but the fact is that it’s SUPER unsustainable. People will most likely, on average, die and revive more times than they’ll die and stay dead. At best, someone will never die early and die naturally, which is a gain of 1 soul to the storage. But as we’ve seen, people really do just do whatever the fuck without caring since they have extra lives. So I highly doubt people are super sparing with their souls like Wuk Lamat’s caretaker whose name I forgot was.
@@LiunUK But see thats the smart thing about promising us loot. The smol hatted one did not lie. We get loot no matter what we do... So he told us we get to engage in violence and entertain the masses all for free loot. Surprisingly honest for a potato.
@@VashimuXIVgod the mechanic of us needing to do quick alignment before being yeeted elsewhere or the abyss Is hilarious and terrifying if you were actually th
At least so far it's not near the scale of other raids. Really just a few living people and a repository of souls to save. But I'm sure it'll grow to planetary proportions again lol
its fucked up and evil on a realistic scale and also its a situation where its a awful but sustainable status quo. like yeah its fucked up and awful but nothing changes for the worse if we dont win, it just doesnt get better either
The real evil of the plot reveal at the end of the tier is that it all but eliminates all chances for the funniest head canon/future reveal: All the raid just being kayfabe-with or without the WoL's knowledge
The pokemon stadium like announcer and the M3 lariat / mid fight drink promo/contriband and fight with the ref make this my favorite Everything is just so good for a tournament
Thanks Woops, I usually experience a lot of the story through your readings too. As a parent I'm watching your videos while I'm cooking cleaning etc etc. Your humor speaks to me thankies.
22:15 In a bold move, the dev team have introduced "slowly losing your braincells while this music plays for 20 minutes" as a soft enrage mechanic. (also, it's just occured to me, but as a dragoon you're *kinda* using a feral soul already, if you think about it.)
@@Dreadnought_XIII Except for Machinist and Blue mage, those are actualy blanks yet to be filled with any memories. Which is kinda funny. Because that means, that especialy with Machinist, all the abilites and acrobatics are pure WoL expression.
gotta love the Commentator, Metem. if the commentary continues into savage he'll hopefully be a way to know if you actually did things. also his LB3 commentary does change based on the role LBing
My fellow FGC nerds will remember a fun little game called Bloody Roar. This whole raid tier is gonna feel like an indirect love letter to that series, and I'm all for it.
This is the best first tier they’ve made in a long time, I am utterly in love with it. None of the fights are dull, they’re all fantastic and I can’t wait to see you race world first Woops!
I can't believe you have to let the souls of your Static free each fight. Need a whole new static for every fight? These mechanics are getting ridiculous. Where am I going to find more than 7 people who put up with me
First raid: Persona ass music Second raid: Splatoon ass music Third raid: Metal rage for the cage Fourth raid: Hot horse women in your area (and more Persona ass music)
"Finally we can reuse some of the Copied Factory Assets." Honestly, I'm kinda wondering if this might not have been the shard that the androids were from originally. I mean its on par with YoRHa technologically as far as I can tell, so its entirely possible they're from the same version of reality.
Or Mumkhar from Xenoblade 1. I'll bet he's been waiting to bust it out again. My mind was blown once someone pointed that out on one of the music vids for his theme lol
So in end walker we fought against Nihilism. In the patches after we fought against Nihlism again but we hopecore'd an emo chick. In Dawntrail we fought imperialism. Finally in the patches we fight the horrid spectre of late stage capitalism. And in order we got into these situations by, going on a treasure hunt, going exploring in ruins, going on a summer vacation and going into a tournament arc. Y'know what, how about we sit home and do a puzzle?
At first, I thought I was seeing my character when Thunder showed up. I was like "when did I get blonde hair?" (my character has the same hairstyle, but dark blue with light blue highlights) But then on closer inspection I saw brownish-yellow eyes, and was like "oh that's not me." (my character has blue eyes) My mind didn't register that i don't have that outfit until much later in the video.
My friends made the same mistake with me, they saw Thunder and immediately asked if that was me (I had the same character model and hairstyle, but black in color with red eyes)
the move at the end of the 4th one was the answer to the healer strike, i seen multiple healer pairs fail to keep anyone alive during that multiple times
The third fight has some pretty hard heal checks too for casual content. It's kinda funny to see proof of why the devs refused to up the healing requirements for so long...😆
I think Savage is gonna be crazy!! Thanks for helping me experience this as a Dragoon. I can't afford Dawntrail right now so I'm living vicariously through RUclipss. I also think M4S the box is gonna open, it's going to be a power source and they'll merge with it. I'm thinking final form is some sort of angelic horse form.
the absolute Shock I had when I heard Honey B Lovely's JP VA after hearing her with the southern drawl for the 10 attempts my pug took to clear her threw me off so hard lol.
First time seeing this video and I was cracking up at you asking if little cat girl was Wicked Thunder. “She’s a witch of a new age! Small, but deadly! She’ll fry your ankles with magic and electrope! WICKED THUUUUUNDEEEEER!” *tiny girl walks out with a cube*
My prediction for next tier is that you’re gonna be going into the actual facility and end up having to put down some of the previous fighters. And also Metem will get soul-ified against his will and forced to fight you as AAC8, kinda like how Zoraal Ja lost control after absorbing too many souls
I have to point out that the Psychonecrosis that Wicked Thunder has and the soul disease that little boy Sphene was visiting both sound very similar to extreme levels of Tempering. Would be awfully nice if we had a cure for that.
Could also be connected with merging souls like with Ardbert. Because this seems more like the soul breaking down rather than be overpowered. That boy would also help with that anti-primal cute tho
Im really considering making this the first savage set I do while it's actually relevant instead of an expansion or 2 later. These were some fun normal fights
So, my predictions for the Arcadion. Either Kuja will be the president, with his iconic Trance form being his feral soul and then he becomes Necron is Savage, or the president just ends up being Necron, feeding off the souls of the former fighters.
I love the final fantasy series cause I have no idea how anything works or what not, I only know Clive and uhhh cloud?? Yuhh I just like watching this because funny
I need to share this story bc I still lose my shit thinking about it I was tanking for m4 on my first time, and the first time I saw the cannon mechanic where she destroys the floor, I was off to the side, saw the orange disappear, and hit my gap closer...right into the abyss LMAO
I don't think jumping across gaps is a technology thing, I think it's just the first time they haven't purposefully given us a debuff that turns jumping off.
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Honey B. Lovely's voice in the JP voiceover is incredibly, painfully cutesy to the point where it's obvious she's faking. It does make for a better contrast in the two lines where she breaks character though.
I’m just now realizing that the announcer isn’t wearing a regulator… And the art for this raid series has an ascian mask hiding in it… Conclusion; the announcer is an Ascian
woops: no more serious stuff or fighting to save existence
eutrope: fighting in the arcadion gave me soul cancer and the fighters all die horribly before they turn 20
metem: we also enslave your souls after you die
I swear, the Warrior of Light has a GIFT for this sort of thing. Remember when a fun lil treasure map turned into thwarting a voidsent invasion?
Technically, this is the lowest possible stakes we’ve ever had in a raid series. Like, yeah, the wrestlers have soul cancer, but it doesn’t actively threaten populations or worlds. It’s just a shitty situation brought about by a shitty culture that we just do happen to be able to fix by having fun along the way.
@@rext.b.4436 It doesn't actively threaten populations or worlds... _yet._
Well, I mean the soul enslaving thing is consensual at least, and it’s not like the souls have still have the consciousness or memories left to even be aware that they are being enslaved in the first place. Better than being murdered and turned into a relic weapon I suppose.
@@RockR277Yeah, with a name like “Arcadion Ascension tournament” someone is 100% trying to become a god, and with a literal ascian gliph being used as the symbol for it, it’s not hard to guess who.
@@shawnscouten5184 it’s consensual but the fact is that it’s SUPER unsustainable. People will most likely, on average, die and revive more times than they’ll die and stay dead. At best, someone will never die early and die naturally, which is a gain of 1 soul to the storage. But as we’ve seen, people really do just do whatever the fuck without caring since they have extra lives. So I highly doubt people are super sparing with their souls like Wuk Lamat’s caretaker whose name I forgot was.
"so what's in it for me?"
"loot"
"son of a bitch i'm in"
WoL is surprisingly easy to convince despite the amount of times they have been duped.
@@LiunUK Even if its a redesigned gear, lots of times out of ten the redesign looks better than the older one.
@@LiunUK But see thats the smart thing about promising us loot. The smol hatted one did not lie. We get loot no matter what we do... So he told us we get to engage in violence and entertain the masses all for free loot. Surprisingly honest for a potato.
This has gotta easily be one of the best normal raid series, I can't wait to see what hell the Savage versions are going to implement.
Best first tier they have made
@@VashimuXIVyeah that’s what I meant lol I just fully typed the wrong thing
@@BBrawler101 Oh no I was agreeing with you, I apologize if I gave any offense.
@@VashimuXIVgod the mechanic of us needing to do quick alignment before being yeeted elsewhere or the abyss
Is hilarious and terrifying if you were actually th
@@VashimuXIVYou mean, best furst tier?
"hopefully it doesn't get fucked up and evil"
That didn't last long lol
At least so far it's not near the scale of other raids. Really just a few living people and a repository of souls to save. But I'm sure it'll grow to planetary proportions again lol
its fucked up and evil on a realistic scale and also its a situation where its a awful but sustainable status quo. like yeah its fucked up and awful but nothing changes for the worse if we dont win, it just doesnt get better either
The real evil of the plot reveal at the end of the tier is that it all but eliminates all chances for the funniest head canon/future reveal: All the raid just being kayfabe-with or without the WoL's knowledge
That’s tournament arc tradition.
"I gotta set my static free!"
Jill being freed only to get stuck as his editor
43:40 "why does she have a gun?!" *Destroys 9/10 of the arena.*
'oh. That's why.'
42:10 "...I need her."
"Oh, me too. Me too! ME TOO!"
they matched each other's freak
They did their homework on pro wrestling for this raid series. I can't wait to see how it all plays out.
The bomb guy doing rebound lariats is a beautiful touch
@@SundayCatchy And the mysterious president's 'Interesting, I'll allow it!' from the booth.
@@SundayCatchyI am 100% sure his poison attack is the Great Muta "Green poison Mist" thing. I think he just retired this year.
Japan has a pretty big pro wrestling scene, so I'm sure they didn't have to look far for inspiration.
@@Umbral927 agreed Kenny omega, Antonio inoki, kota ibushi all great pro wrestlers in Japan. The kayfabe goes hard too
The pokemon stadium like announcer and the M3 lariat / mid fight drink promo/contriband and fight with the ref make this my favorite
Everything is just so good for a tournament
I mean it’s not a drink… but literal doping (name of the cast bar hahaha). It’s dramaaaa
16:53 An actual caterm face during a quest. What a time to be alive.
My fellow monster-girls enjoyers, rejoice!
Rejoice!
Thanks Woops, I usually experience a lot of the story through your readings too. As a parent I'm watching your videos while I'm cooking cleaning etc etc. Your humor speaks to me thankies.
43:34 I'm so glad Woops also immediately launched himself off the broken stage for melee uptime like I did lmfao
I did that too, the curse of a hungry melee and their addiction to uptime
5/8 of my first run did.
Same
I did the exactly same thing.
I'm pretty sure most of us melee's did just that LOL
"We have a cat girl, a banana and a angry guy from mad max." 💀💀💀😊
22:15 In a bold move, the dev team have introduced "slowly losing your braincells while this music plays for 20 minutes" as a soft enrage mechanic.
(also, it's just occured to me, but as a dragoon you're *kinda* using a feral soul already, if you think about it.)
I wonder how close Warrior and Reaper get to the feral soul business?
technically all jobs could count as using a regulator, job stones contain memories at the very least
@@Dreadnought_XIII Except for Machinist and Blue mage, those are actualy blanks yet to be filled with any memories. Which is kinda funny. Because that means, that especialy with Machinist, all the abilites and acrobatics are pure WoL expression.
gotta love the Commentator, Metem. if the commentary continues into savage he'll hopefully be a way to know if you actually did things. also his LB3 commentary does change based on the role LBing
Mechanics in these raids are nuts
If I even knew what these were 😭
savage is gonna be BRUTAL
I've been waiting for this, wasn't able to catch the stream but I really enjoy watching your reactions to new raids.
My fellow FGC nerds will remember a fun little game called Bloody Roar. This whole raid tier is gonna feel like an indirect love letter to that series, and I'm all for it.
Holy shit, I’d forgotten about Bloody Roar entirely.
i had that exact thought!
The plot of this raid is to stop Vince McMahon’s evil schemes.
The theme of the raid is “Would.”
'I NEED HER'
Not necessarily furries, but *fursonas*
This is the best first tier they’ve made in a long time, I am utterly in love with it. None of the fights are dull, they’re all fantastic and I can’t wait to see you race world first Woops!
the story went from WWE to Mortal Kombat i love it
So many wrestling tropes i love it from the lights out entrance, to the ref bumps to the over the top performers amazing stuff
I can't believe you have to let the souls of your Static free each fight. Need a whole new static for every fight? These mechanics are getting ridiculous. Where am I going to find more than 7 people who put up with me
In that case you just grab the giant bug net and get to work after each raid night so you can do pulls in the future XD
It’s more like making one time use copies
what he said, they give you 7 clean souls and you customize them to look like your static each time (or hit random for duty finder)
First raid: Persona ass music
Second raid: Splatoon ass music
Third raid: Metal rage for the cage
Fourth raid: Hot horse women in your area (and more Persona ass music)
M4 theme is straight out of The World Ends With You
watch as the sob story in the backroom is just more kayfabe and the whole thing is on camera
this would actually make it the greatest fucking raid tier ever
"Finally we can reuse some of the Copied Factory Assets."
Honestly, I'm kinda wondering if this might not have been the shard that the androids were from originally. I mean its on par with YoRHa technologically as far as I can tell, so its entirely possible they're from the same version of reality.
if the final raid tier doesn't end with us fighting Vince McMahon in a fucking suit, I'm out
considering his recent allegations, they might not use him. But any other wrestler I think would be good.
Vince McMilalan.
@@nybunny7867Hulk Hogan
I love love LOVE that every fight has its own music!
Brute Bomber thinks he’s Gurren Lagann having two faces smh
Vivi's reaction upon seeing Wicked Thunder was so real
I still think the ref-bot should have been dented when it called the KO in the third fight, just to be silly.
I'm happy and terrified at how challenging the fights are. Imagine the chaos in Savage!
Fun fact: Brute Bomber has Urianger's Voice Actor in English so I guess you can now imagine a buff Urianger
Or Mumkhar from Xenoblade 1. I'll bet he's been waiting to bust it out again.
My mind was blown once someone pointed that out on one of the music vids for his theme lol
Imagine Uri flexing, forever!
@@IKMcGwee Have you SEEN Urianger's arms?????
Once I heard him scream ‘DIE!’ just like Mumkar I was almost certain it was the same VA, and I’m so glad I got to hear him do this voice again
So in end walker we fought against Nihilism. In the patches after we fought against Nihlism again but we hopecore'd an emo chick. In Dawntrail we fought imperialism. Finally in the patches we fight the horrid spectre of late stage capitalism.
And in order we got into these situations by, going on a treasure hunt, going exploring in ruins, going on a summer vacation and going into a tournament arc. Y'know what, how about we sit home and do a puzzle?
At first, I thought I was seeing my character when Thunder showed up. I was like "when did I get blonde hair?" (my character has the same hairstyle, but dark blue with light blue highlights)
But then on closer inspection I saw brownish-yellow eyes, and was like "oh that's not me." (my character has blue eyes)
My mind didn't register that i don't have that outfit until much later in the video.
My friends made the same mistake with me, they saw Thunder and immediately asked if that was me (I had the same character model and hairstyle, but black in color with red eyes)
the move at the end of the 4th one was the answer to the healer strike, i seen multiple healer pairs fail to keep anyone alive during that multiple times
The third fight has some pretty hard heal checks too for casual content.
It's kinda funny to see proof of why the devs refused to up the healing requirements for so long...😆
I always enjoy hearing your perspective on new raids. Glad you also enjoyed them!
The normal raids were so difficult. Savage is going to be fantastic!
I'm so happy that they have a .hack style tournament arc.
REN
GEKI
Did I just hear someone call Soken's magic "Crush 40 buttrock" ?
His head, I want it now. Alternatively I'll take his EX wing mounts instead
The vibes were impeccable throughout!
I can't wait to watch your ream in world first. You guys hit that perfect balance of skill and entertainment. So excited for this tier!!!
this is not my race static lol
@@woops oh... still. you rock :p
I think Savage is gonna be crazy!! Thanks for helping me experience this as a Dragoon. I can't afford Dawntrail right now so I'm living vicariously through RUclipss.
I also think M4S the box is gonna open, it's going to be a power source and they'll merge with it. I'm thinking final form is some sort of angelic horse form.
the absolute Shock I had when I heard Honey B Lovely's JP VA after hearing her with the southern drawl for the 10 attempts my pug took to clear her threw me off so hard lol.
The joke I made to my FC when we finished all the fights: "100 Gil says the mysterious arena president's name is Vincentus McMahonus." haha
Peak raid tier!
We gotta let the devs know that they’re doing it right with the dawntrail fights!
I love the WWExFFXIV collaboration they did in this raid tier
watching woops play any game is so entertaining
There is indeed a unique announcer line for Healer LB3
First time seeing this video and I was cracking up at you asking if little cat girl was Wicked Thunder.
“She’s a witch of a new age! Small, but deadly! She’ll fry your ankles with magic and electrope! WICKED THUUUUUNDEEEEER!”
*tiny girl walks out with a cube*
Wicked thunder's design and color palette reminds me a lot of Kirin from monster hunter like even the designs on the legs match
well, ixion and kirin are both based on the same thing, but i do agree she's basically just wearing kirin armor lmao
Fight your way all the way up to management. Vince McMilalan
First boss: “People are gonna make art”
I can’t wait till they see the last boss.
I really hope those wings in M4 are the savage mount
Yaana is truly my favorite, good story for the raid too, just what we needed a tournament arc... on vacation :P
It’s the Glitz Pitz all over again!!!
You can tell Black Cat trained with Wicked Thunder. They use a lot of the same concepts. Half room cleaves, clones, clones doing half room cleaves.
Banger tier frfr
Good luck on world prog!
What do you think our arena would look like if we got to choose?
A bit on the nose with the first title there SE.
honey look new woops video dropped!
*drops everything else to watch vodeo
Loved these fights, so awesome!;
13:22 It was also like that for the final fight in the story, in virtual shift :)
My prediction for next tier is that you’re gonna be going into the actual facility and end up having to put down some of the previous fighters. And also Metem will get soul-ified against his will and forced to fight you as AAC8, kinda like how Zoraal Ja lost control after absorbing too many souls
Calling it now, the President is an Ascian.
This tier was super fun. I'm interested to see how the story evolves.
Honey B's theme has serious Katamari music vibes!
Its a theory that the announcer is the shard of lolorito or that lalafell from the end of art that frames you
I love that this raid tier is just WWE.
But with monster girls!
I have to point out that the Psychonecrosis that Wicked Thunder has and the soul disease that little boy Sphene was visiting both sound very similar to extreme levels of Tempering. Would be awfully nice if we had a cure for that.
Could also be connected with merging souls like with Ardbert. Because this seems more like the soul breaking down rather than be overpowered. That boy would also help with that anti-primal cute tho
With the boy it sounds more like aetheric corruption, in smaller form than the Sin Eaters of the first, or at least the victims at the Hospital
Nidhogg comin' out of the ground like a damn Graboid. Where's Burt Gummer when you need him
That first boss tiles is giving me e9s flashbacks, thank god you can actually jump in this though
I too made a comment about the 3rd bosses likeness to Junkrat 😂
If the president isn't going to just straight-up be Vince McMahon I'll be very disappointed.
inb4 it's goddamn Don Corneo
Im really considering making this the first savage set I do while it's actually relevant instead of an expansion or 2 later. These were some fun normal fights
So, my predictions for the Arcadion. Either Kuja will be the president, with his iconic Trance form being his feral soul and then he becomes Necron is Savage, or the president just ends up being Necron, feeding off the souls of the former fighters.
the Athena raid, they didn't let you jump across the gap with a specific debuff, the technology has already exist ever since they made jumping puzzle
I love the final fantasy series cause I have no idea how anything works or what not, I only know Clive and uhhh cloud?? Yuhh I just like watching this because funny
Bro i'm so hyped for the savage
Wicked Thunder is gonna be so many people's Furry awakening I can already tell
This new raid tier looks so damn promising
Can't wait for the WoL to fight the greatest monster they've ever met: Vince McMahon
"You can jump across the gap?" XD I believe they including jumping in ARR. :3
I need to share this story bc I still lose my shit thinking about it
I was tanking for m4 on my first time, and the first time I saw the cannon mechanic where she destroys the floor, I was off to the side, saw the orange disappear, and hit my gap closer...right into the abyss LMAO
Once you hear the lyrics to R4N it hits even harder.
the bomber sound´s in german when he´s saying it´s lines like Arnould Schwarzenegger 🤣
Can't wait for last boss second phase where she becomes an electrope gundam
I don't think jumping across gaps is a technology thing, I think it's just the first time they haven't purposefully given us a debuff that turns jumping off.
31:02 ZAMN!!!
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hrothgal Jill!!!!
well this makes me want to play ffxiv again
50:57 - That's kind of the point of the WoL in _Dawntrail;_ nobody knows who you are or what you've been through.
Oh My God it's Kain!
I adore m4. Welcome back RWBY ost
Every Dawntrail enemies against the WoL:
Me: Who's gonna tell em?
Honey B. Lovely's voice in the JP voiceover is incredibly, painfully cutesy to the point where it's obvious she's faking. It does make for a better contrast in the two lines where she breaks character though.
"You can jump across the gap!"
Couldn't you do that in Shinryu?
What the fuck does shinryu have to do with anything
@@woopsI remember jumping across the gaps in his fight as well. Was just making an observation, don't have to go for my throat.
I’m just now realizing that the announcer isn’t wearing a regulator… And the art for this raid series has an ascian mask hiding in it…
Conclusion; the announcer is an Ascian
18:26 Did she just use AST’s victory pose but without AST weapon? 😮
She does!