The full loot vs rush was my biggest point of confusion learning consistency in the game. That video helped me a lot last year and I've lost very few runs on my eclipse climb because of it. I do think the rushing phase I had helped me to full loot more efficiently once I learned that full looting was better, but otherwise rushing never felt like a good strategy. Every run felt cope.
The red dots glimmering on the walls of stage 1 have me completely transfixed. Captured. To the point that I don't think I'm hearing words or looking at gameplay anymore lol. Like a cat.
I will say one thing about the False Son boss fight is that it's very intense with how punishing it is, which when combined with the emotionally highs and lows of Chris' music, makes for a very addicting climatic showdown. Which makes it suck more because the fight could be more engaging and most importantly a fair fight, hopefully the devs reworking the boss encounter help fully realise this wish of mine.
yeah its difficult, because the position of the fight (at the end of stage 3) makes it hard to make it hard and fair, i hope they redo that whole part of it so they can make something engaging
@RacesVideos it's like you're supposed to loop to fight him. Seems like a founding design principle for SotS is that looping is the main gameplay experience.
Stage 6 with soup is honestly the most balanced timing (as demonstrated by Mithrix). You get a functional build most of the time if you play well, without getting so strong you just ignore the fight mechanics
i find Lights Out a lot more fun because spamming r on every weak enemy like i'm on aimlabs is super satisfying. On the other hand, when i have desperado, my minmaxxer brain can't resist waiting to kill every enemy, making the fast-paced character feel very slow
6:33 lights out is only *really* fun when you get a backup mag printer, 'cause then you can just hemorage everything, otherwise it feels like a secondary
I remember when I was learning about this game and I came across disputeds’ video with your segment in it. And it made me feel so much better and made playing WAY easier to understand and grow at
The thing you mentioned about not being able to talk to someone and type at the same time is associated with something called Auditory Processing Disorder, it's very common for people with ADHD and/or Autism. I can't do that either and also if two people are speaking at the same time it just sounds garbled. Same if music has any lyrics in it, I struggle to understand most lyrics because of the stylization.
Ok, skipping blinds in balatro is incredibly strong once you hit whatever stake that makes the first blind not give you anything (unless you’re using yellow deck), and even if you don’t normally like skipping blinds because of money and the shop, there’s some very strong tags that can work with the deck that gives you double tags or specialized jokers like the root beer. It doesn’t really feel like that for most roguelites though.
So one deck sometimes and one joker out of 150 jokers lol. And then sometimes on one round at the start is what you’re saying. I dont think we need to list all the exceptions lol. You still mostly don’t skip, which is gold stake streaking advice
I still remember the first race video I watched. Double saw multi. I thought he was playing on rainstorm it looked so easy, but I noticed the 8 in the corner and was like WTF. Then someone brought up the 5 min rule of thumb and he was like "nah I'm taking my time and we're chilling". At that moment I thought to myself "fuck you Woolie, and fuck me for listening to you."
Hey race, love the videos and streams! quick question: lately when I've been playing, I've gotten a ton of lag on sky meadows. It starts off managable, but drops to around 10-15 fps during tp. My settings are pretty low, and this only happens on this stage. Is there a mod I could use to fix this?
I know lights out is objectively worse in just about every way, but it's just so fun to me to infinitely ladder off of one-shotting weak mobs and spamming shift. It just adds a little minigame to bandit's movement that (while entirely unnecessary) is more fun and interesting than just... the same thing but it deals progressively more damage with no tech, imo.
@@RacesVideos yeah, fell into the age old trap of "commenting before watching the whole video." TBF I also think it's kinda cool that it changes item prioritization since crit is generally pretty useless on bandit, but with some crit and a couple crowbars you can still do this in later stages since you can't really always be behind enemies while flying around. But yes this is just cope bc I find it fun and I do think design-wise desparado is pretty boring.
Would you like it if there was an equipment that worked exactly like Tricorn, but for elite aspects instead? I was trying to think of ideas for more macro items in ror2, and that's the only one that crossed my mind.
i do NOT like it when things that are cool due to being extremely rare are made more available just to fill in content. its special and cool only cause its rare and if you take it away its meaningless, its like making shiny pokemon something you can buy in a pokemart
Race , just curiously how many aspects do you think you've gotten . I've played the game for 700 hours and done e8 with every charecter except rex and chef and I've gotten I think around 10
Gotta ask, how does he still have access to host skip? Is it a mod I couldn't find, some downpatch shenanigan/workaround or did I just botch my last 20 attempts at it in some statistical anomaly?
I have a friend that hates the idea of scrappers and thinks it should have never been added because prefers to have more rng in his rogue likes. We always laugh at him since it's not a good mindset and nobody wants to hold onto 4 bison steak or wake of vultures on stage 5. The game wants to screw you over so having more control/options over a run is infinitely better and shouldn't make you feel forced to always gamble on losing a good item every run. Effective macro goes a long way :).
I started playing this game at the same time as one of my bros and I intuitively thought to myself, I'm SCOURING the map for all the loot I can get My bro keeps talking about going through maps faster and I'm just like.. nah
The full loot vs rush was my biggest point of confusion learning consistency in the game. That video helped me a lot last year and I've lost very few runs on my eclipse climb because of it. I do think the rushing phase I had helped me to full loot more efficiently once I learned that full looting was better, but otherwise rushing never felt like a good strategy. Every run felt cope.
THERE'S NO STOPPING THE RIZZONANCE DISK
The red dots glimmering on the walls of stage 1 have me completely transfixed. Captured.
To the point that I don't think I'm hearing words or looking at gameplay anymore lol.
Like a cat.
SAME
Do you know if it's coolerstages or stageaesthetic?
has to be coolerstages or a third, more terrifying mod
imagine if bandit's m2 was replaced with light's out, balancing the two revolvers during ur gameplay would be so cool!
I will say one thing about the False Son boss fight is that it's very intense with how punishing it is, which when combined with the emotionally highs and lows of Chris' music, makes for a very addicting climatic showdown. Which makes it suck more because the fight could be more engaging and most importantly a fair fight, hopefully the devs reworking the boss encounter help fully realise this wish of mine.
yeah its difficult, because the position of the fight (at the end of stage 3) makes it hard to make it hard and fair, i hope they redo that whole part of it so they can make something engaging
@RacesVideos it's like you're supposed to loop to fight him. Seems like a founding design principle for SotS is that looping is the main gameplay experience.
the problem with looping is that you one shot him which doesnt seem right either lol. i dont know, obviously its fucked up
Stage 6 with soup is honestly the most balanced timing (as demonstrated by Mithrix). You get a functional build most of the time if you play well, without getting so strong you just ignore the fight mechanics
Echo shows up for the frisbee build, coincidence?
It's so nice seeing cransion on an fmp build that doesn't turn everything into sawdust
i find Lights Out a lot more fun because spamming r on every weak enemy like i'm on aimlabs is super satisfying. On the other hand, when i have desperado, my minmaxxer brain can't resist waiting to kill every enemy, making the fast-paced character feel very slow
RES DISC APRECIATION RAHHHHH
The man has gotten his hat back!
DISC GOLFERS RISE UP 🗣🗣🗣
Bout made my brain bleed seeing this pop up in between two actual disc golf videos in my feed
6:33 lights out is only *really* fun when you get a backup mag printer, 'cause then you can just hemorage everything, otherwise it feels like a secondary
I remember when I was learning about this game and I came across disputeds’ video with your segment in it. And it made me feel so much better and made playing WAY easier to understand and grow at
glad to hear it Kyle :)
The thing you mentioned about not being able to talk to someone and type at the same time is associated with something called Auditory Processing Disorder, it's very common for people with ADHD and/or Autism. I can't do that either and also if two people are speaking at the same time it just sounds garbled. Same if music has any lyrics in it, I struggle to understand most lyrics because of the stylization.
26:50 You did actually get the text for the beads btw, it was off to the left. Also your health went up by like 300 health.
thank you for being the only one to pay attention lol
Ok, skipping blinds in balatro is incredibly strong once you hit whatever stake that makes the first blind not give you anything (unless you’re using yellow deck), and even if you don’t normally like skipping blinds because of money and the shop, there’s some very strong tags that can work with the deck that gives you double tags or specialized jokers like the root beer. It doesn’t really feel like that for most roguelites though.
So one deck sometimes and one joker out of 150 jokers lol. And then sometimes on one round at the start is what you’re saying. I dont think we need to list all the exceptions lol. You still mostly don’t skip, which is gold stake streaking advice
20:00 I never noticed that grandparents feet are just little hands
Cursed knowledge
Yoo. What if, lights out reset all cooldowns? Equipment, bands, everything?
then that's interesting
I still remember the first race video I watched. Double saw multi. I thought he was playing on rainstorm it looked so easy, but I noticed the 8 in the corner and was like WTF. Then someone brought up the 5 min rule of thumb and he was like "nah I'm taking my time and we're chilling". At that moment I thought to myself "fuck you Woolie, and fuck me for listening to you."
omg doggy bean bag instantly made my day
Finally, another good Echo video on youtube!
Hey race, love the videos and streams!
quick question: lately when I've been playing, I've gotten a ton of lag on sky meadows. It starts off managable, but drops to around 10-15 fps during tp. My settings are pretty low, and this only happens on this stage. Is there a mod I could use to fix this?
this may be a mod, ive heard that wloopweather can lag you out a bit? otherwise i dont have any guesses.
@@RacesVideos i'm just using some basic skin mods, nothing that would do this much. Thanks for your help, I'll keep testing
lights out could be cool if it had 6 charges like an actual revolver
My dream build is real
I know lights out is objectively worse in just about every way, but it's just so fun to me to infinitely ladder off of one-shotting weak mobs and spamming shift. It just adds a little minigame to bandit's movement that (while entirely unnecessary) is more fun and interesting than just... the same thing but it deals progressively more damage with no tech, imo.
youre the exact comment i foresaw in this video lol, im glad you enjoy it
@@RacesVideos yeah, fell into the age old trap of "commenting before watching the whole video." TBF I also think it's kinda cool that it changes item prioritization since crit is generally pretty useless on bandit, but with some crit and a couple crowbars you can still do this in later stages since you can't really always be behind enemies while flying around. But yes this is just cope bc I find it fun and I do think design-wise desparado is pretty boring.
Hell yeah!
Would you like it if there was an equipment that worked exactly like Tricorn, but for elite aspects instead? I was trying to think of ideas for more macro items in ror2, and that's the only one that crossed my mind.
i do NOT like it when things that are cool due to being extremely rare are made more available just to fill in content. its special and cool only cause its rare and if you take it away its meaningless, its like making shiny pokemon something you can buy in a pokemart
@@RacesVideos 1 free shiny with every 10 masterballs purchased.
YO RACE HOW DID YOU DO THE HOST SKIP POST DLC?
Yea I never skip on balatro anymore, slowly getting up on each deck💪 also Rez disc carry
1:15 whats a true death?
Race , just curiously how many aspects do you think you've gotten . I've played the game for 700 hours and done e8 with every charecter except rex and chef and I've gotten I think around 10
Too many to count, I wouldn’t say hundreds but definitely enough to feel like that many
What mod do you use that brings back host skip?
kcc downpatcher
Gotta ask, how does he still have access to host skip?
Is it a mod I couldn't find, some downpatch shenanigan/workaround or did I just botch my last 20 attempts at it in some statistical anomaly?
KCCDownpatcher is what you are looking for
kccdownpatcher is the mod
He uses kccdownpatcher which allows him to use the old physics while accessing the new content.
Do u still have item blacklist with the new changes?
Nope
Is there a mod that makes any boss spawn on any stage? If so would love to see that.
there is actually i think, probably an old nuxlar mod
@ if possible. Perhaps combine it with multitudes to make it a really unpredictable TP😯
WAIT THIS IS A MINTUE AGO?
Hot take, I like blast, I just wish the bloom wasnt so shit and like maybe had an extra 2 bullets
so basically you dont like it for the same reasons as everyone else lol, which is not a hot take lol
26:48 bead text did come up but you were too fast lol
How can you get harpoon boost durring pizza, excluding the doll?
killing something!
@@RacesVideos but there are no enemies durring this phase
in vanilla?
@@RacesVideos I have like ~40 mods, mostly cosmetic/ones that were recomended by you, but i`m sure there are none that would change Mithrix fight
wait wait wait is h0st skip still a thing after sots?
kcc downpatcher mod
Oof mb, didn't check description. Thamks Race
I have a friend that hates the idea of scrappers and thinks it should have never been added because prefers to have more rng in his rogue likes. We always laugh at him since it's not a good mindset and nobody wants to hold onto 4 bison steak or wake of vultures on stage 5.
The game wants to screw you over so having more control/options over a run is infinitely better and shouldn't make you feel forced to always gamble on losing a good item every run. Effective macro goes a long way :).
I started playing this game at the same time as one of my bros and I intuitively thought to myself, I'm SCOURING the map for all the loot I can get
My bro keeps talking about going through maps faster and I'm just like.. nah
i know who's better (✿◡‿◡)
I thought this wasnt possible
Ive been playing marvel rivals lately, and watched bunch of content creator and realized. Ur voice is similar to Zbra
the echo cam is a LIE! dont trust big streamer he is lying to us!